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"Olit through that window, three years ago, they went off for a day's § shooting... They never came back." 1 ; ~~ "My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel," said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen; "in the mean- time, you must try and put up with me." Framton Nuttel endeavored to say the correct something which should duly flat e niece of the moment | without wu scounting the aunt that was to c Privately he doubt- | ed more than whether these for- mal visits on a succeSision of total | strangers would do much to help the nerve cure he was supposed to be un- dergoing. "I know how it will be," his sister | had said when he was preparing to migrate to this rural retreat; "you! will bury yourself down there and not | speak to a living soul, and your nerves will be worse than ever from moping. I shall just give you letters 6f intro- duction to all the people I know there, Some of them, as far as I can remem- ber, were quite nice." Framton wondered whether Mrs, Sappleton, the lady to whom he was presenting one of the letters of intro- duction, came into the nice division. | "Do you know many of the people round here?" asked the tlece, when! she judged that they had had sufficient silent communion. i "Hardly a souf," sail Framton. "My sister was staying here, at the rectory, you know, some four years ago, and she gave me letters of introduction to, some of the people here." He made the last stat tone of distinct regret. "Then you know practically nothing about my aunt?" pursued the self-pos- sessed young lady. ment in a ad- | "Only her name and adlress," mitted the caller, He was wonjlering whether Mrs, Sappleion was in the! mais.cd or widowed state. An indefin- able something about the room seemed to suggest masculine habitationg, "Her gre=t tragedy happened just three years ago," said the child; "that | would be since your sister's time." "Her tragedy?" -asked I'ramton; somehow in this restful country spot tragedies seemed out of place. "You may wonder why we keep that window wide open on an October af- ternoon," said the niece; indicating a large French window that opened on to a lawn. . "It is quite warm for the time o year,' said Framton; "but has that win- dow got anything to do with the tragedy?" "Out through that window, three years ago to a day, her husband and her two young brothers went off for their day's shooting. They never came back. In crossing the moor to their favorite snipe-shooting ground, they were all three engulfed in a treacherous piece of bog. It had been that dreadful wet summer, you know, and places that wer2 safe in other years gave way suddenly without warning. Their bodies were never re- covered. That was the dreadful part of : it. * * * Here the child's voice lost its self- {fortunate coindicence that he should | said, 'Bertie, why do you bound'?"" {A cyclist coming along the road had ito run into the hedge to avoid immin- ¢ ent collision, | "Here we are, my dear," said the said Framton. window,' said Mrs. Sappleton briskly; "my busband and brothers will be home directly from shooting, and they always come in that way. They've been out for snipe in the marshes to- day, so they'll make a fine mess over my poor carpets. So like you men- folk, isn't it?" i She rattled on cheerfully about the shooting and the scarcity of birds, and the prospects for duck in the winter. He made a desperate but only partial- ly successful effort to turn the talk on to a less ghastly topic; he was con- scious that his hostess was giving him only a fragment of her attention, and her eyes were constantly straying past him to the open window and the lawn beyond. It was certainly an un- have paid his visit on that tragic an- niversary. "The doctors agree in ordering me complete rest, an absence of mental excitement, and avoidance of any- thing in the nature of violent physical exercise," announced Framton, who labored 'under the tolerably wide- spread delusion that total strangers and chance acquaintances are hungry for the least detail of one's ailments and infirmities, their cause and cure. "On.the matter of diet they are not so much in agreement," he continued. "No?" said Mrs. Sappleton, in a voice which only replaced a yawn at the last moment. Then she suddenly brightened into alert attention--but not to /hat Framton was saying. "Here they are at last!" she cried. "Just in time for tea, and don't they look as if they were muddy up to their eyes!" . Framton shivered slightly and turn- éd towards the niece with a look In- tended to convey sympathetic compre- hension. The child wag staring out through tho open window with dazed horror in hor eyes. In a chill of name- less fear Framton swung round in his seat and looked in the same direction, Ih tlie deepering twilight three fig- ures were walking across the lawn to- wards the window; they all carried guns under their arms, and one of them wag additionally burdened with a white coat hung over his shoulders. A tired, brown spanie! kept c!sce at their heels. Noiselessly they neared the house, and then a hoare2 young voice chanted out of the dusk: "I Framton grabbed wildly at his stick and hat; the hall door, the gravel drive, and the front gate were dimly- noted stages in his headlong retreat. bearer of the white mackintosh, com- ing in through the window; fairly muddy, but most of it's dry. Who was that who bolted out as we came up?" "A most extraordinary man, a Mr, Nuttel," said Mrs. Sappleton; "could only talk about his illness, and dashed oft without a word of good-bye or apology when you arrived. One would think he had seen a ghost." "I expect it was the spaniel," said the niece calmly; 'he told me he had a horror of dogs. He was once hunt- ed into a cemetery somewhere on the banks of the Ganges by a pack of pariah dogs, and had to spend the night in a newly-dug grave with the possessed note and became faltering- lr human. "Poor aunt always thinks that they will come back some day, they and the little brown spaniel that was lost with them, and walk jn at that window just as they used to do. the window is kept open every even- ing until it is quite dusk. "Poor dear aunt, she has often told me how they went out, her husband with his white waterproof coat over his arm, and Ronnie, her youngest brother, singing 'Bertie, why do you bound?" as he always did to tease her, because she said it got on her nerves. Do you know, sometimes on stiff, quiet evenings like this, I almost get a Mereepy feeling that they will all walk in through that window " . . - She broke off with a little shudder. It was a relief to Framton when the aunt bustled into the room with a whirl of apologies for being late in making her appearance. > "I hope Vera has been amusing you?" she said, That is why | THE MOONLIGHT ~ T GOT THE DISPOSITION § creatures snarling and grinning and foaming just above him. Enough to make anyone lose their nerve." | Romance at short notice was her specialty.--Pearson's Weekly. { \ Rabbit--*"I understand Mr. Pos- | sum has a case on you." | Miss Porcupine--""Yes, he's badly stuck on me." i fp 2 "Phyllis has brains enough for two." "She has been very interesting," "I hope you don't mind the open| \| which touched him had healing power. woric out-of-doors. The above picture shows some of the pupils busily attacking their crackers and milk. ' - _.- ed them publicly, vs. 17-19. They not only removed temptation from their own way; they removed it from others also, When the church members puri- fied their own lives "that word of grew r.ightily, and prevailed, v. 20. III. THE"BEGINNING OF THE END, Acts 19: 21-41. Verse 21 marks the beginning of the end of Acts. The keynote is struck in "I must also see Rome." Rome had long been Paul's goal. Now we are to read how he attained it. His desire for Rome was God's will, but he learn: ed like others that: "Twas he who taught me thus to pray, Afid he I know has answered prayer, Ants But it Las been in such a way Sunday School Lesson FOP C OOP ICIOPOTTL TIE Oes So November 8. Ephesus--Acts 19: 8-20. Text--Have no fellowship with the unfruithful works of darkness, but Lesson VI--Paui In Golden rather 5: reprove them.--Ephesians 1". | I. THE FULL GOSPEL, Acts 19: 1-7, II. SUPERSTITION IN RELIGION, 19: 8-20. As almost drove me to despair. III. THE SECINNING OF THE END, Acts ule Jas ho Bo have 3. quiet oxi, Xr N 19: 21-41, | versaries" (1 Cor. 16: 9) suddenly . PAGAN vices AND CHRISTIANITY, emerged in the person of Demetrius, Eph. 5: 5-11. v. 24, Christianity was ruining his business. The turning from idolatry and magic in v. 18 was evidently real. He saw a serious falling-off in trade. INTRODUCTION --Paul was permitted to leave Corinth in peace and quiet. After a visit to Jerusalem, Anitoch 3 : and the Galatian churches, he came! The preaching that interfered with to Ephesus, Acts 18: 18-23, | profits had to be stopped. Ephesus, a more populous, wealthy IV. PAGAN VICES AND CHRISTIANITY, and important city than Corinth, was | Eph. 5:.5-11. capital of the province of "Asia." Not only against superstition had "Asia" means not the modern contin- | Paul to wage war, hut against sin, ent of Asia, but that western part! personal and social. The letter "t» of it with which the Romans first the Ephesians," which was probably came into contact. Ephesus also had meant for more than one church, deals a great religious attraction in its fa-| among other matters, with the temp- mous Temple of Diana, Paul, ac- tations which surround Christians in cording to his custom, settled in this' a pagan society. In the "kingdom »f strategic situation and began to teach God and of Christ," v. 15, that is, the the new religion. { Christian Brotherhood, Shere 1s 20 ! rcom for the "covetons" man. ve! I. THE FULL GOSPEL, Acts 19: 1-7. | ousnes.," the used here, means morc Among the believers whom Paul than mere avarice. It stands for hat «+ und in Ephesus, one group was spe-. attitude of life which makes one's own cially interesting, v. Finding these ' gqvaniage and pleasure the sole ob- men in that fringe of partial converts ject. The impulse which leads on: which surrounded eve:y synagogue, man to covet another's share of this and knowing nothing about them ex- world's goods drives ancther man into cept their evident sincerity, Paul ac- impurity. This motive of self-gratifi- cepted thum as disciples. Soon, How- 'cs tion, wherever it may lead one, is ever, he discovered ha! they lacked | go alien to the Christian spirit that it that peculiar enthusiasm which jg not even to be mentioned, v. 3. marked the "Spirit filled" believers. ~The way to "reprove" these "works "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when' of darkness" is to live a life so un- you believed?" he asked. { questionably pure and right that it Coming into a modern church,' will reveal the heathen vices as they would he see a similar dullness and' gre. It is still the "Royal Way." absence of Christian joy? The "joy" in believing is too oftefi absent. Such PE joy as the average Christian possesses A Rising Scale is frequently attributed to a dutiful family, good health, or a satisfactory income. i II. SUPERSTITION IN RELIGION, Arts 19: The deaf man stepped down from ; the dentist's chair after the operation. "How much do I owe you for that?" he asked. Aftes three months' preaching in| The dentist looked thoughtful. the synagogue, Paul found it neces-| Three guineas," he replied. sary, as in other places, to withdraw.| "Five guineas?" asked the deaf He secured the Jecture reom of Tyran- man uncertainly. : 2 nus--vacant daily from 11 to 4 and; "No," put in the dentist quickly; there preached for two years. So deep | "nine guineas." was the impression which Paul made that his superstitious converts believ- ed that even an article of clothing Unknown to Paul, who certainly would have discouraged such magical practices, zealous admirers would' bring to the sick various articles, which had been in contact with his person. Certain physical and mental conditions were cured. It was "faith healing." Not the articles of course, no more than the relics of St. Anne ae Beaupre, wrought the cures--but the faith in them. The sons of Sceva, pagan magicians, saw in these cures possibilities for themselves. They would use this nama "Jesus" which they th>vght Paul ased as a sort of charm. The demented fellow on whom they tried it saw the deception and assaulted them with such fury that they barely escaped with their lives, v. 16. The incident resulted in many converts, Christians who had been practising the magic arts in secret, confessed and brought "My poor man, all the way from Chicago! Didn't you find it very hot traveling?" : "Not at all, madam, 1 always take a refrigerator car in the sum- mer." rte pi Hope for the best, prepare for the "Then why don't you marry her?" T GOT THE BAWO, T 60T THE VOICE, T GOT | their books--very valuable--and burn-| WOrst: and take what comes. Best of all, it is accessible, So when I learned that the climb could be made between the time the Siberia Maru arrived at Yokohama and sailed from Kobe I resolved that Fujf's summit would be my first des- tination after presenting some let- { n at Tokyo. With- in twenty-four hours of landing I would be on my way to get a bird's- eye view of Japan from its very top. "Americans are certainly ener- getic," remarked the Foreign Office official fn Tokyo upon whom I called that afternoon. "I have been plan- ning to climb Fjui myself for the past twenty years. Somehow I have never got around to doinz it. Yet here you come along from America and within a few hours are on your way. Well, I hope you enjoy the climb and get a clear view. Our rainy season has been lasting a little longer than usual. . . ." A youthful member of a Tokyo hiking club who spoke some English and better German was soon on his way with the American editor to Amusing ; Anecdotes Some racy anecdotes of John W. ("Betcha-a-Million") Gates, capitalist and gambler, are told by Albert Ste- vens Crockett (in "Peacocks on Par- ade," a chronicle of New York in the "Naughty Nineties.") Gates acquired his nickname, "Betcha-a-Million," from 'his habit of using that form of wager upon the slightest provocation. He would bet on anything. One after- noon a heavy rainstorm came up. The pelting of raindrops on the window- panes made Gates's eyes brighten. "Say, John," he suddenly remarked to John Drake, "see them two 1ain- drops? I'll bet that fellow on this side reaches the bottom before that one over there," S * * Ten dollars was the first stake, and then this jumped to one hundred. It was a new sport and it became live'y. For some minutes, at least, they stak- ed hundred-dollar bills on the course and speed of raindrops chasing down a window-page, just as if they were at some race.track, playing the pon- ies, says Crockett. * - - * Often what to an ordinary man change hands among Gates's "crowd" during a few hours' play at poker or bridge. At one of these games a prom- inent New York politician was invit- ed to "make a fourth" at bridge. 'By no means wealthy, caution made him inquire as he sat down: "By the -way, what are we playing for?" "One a point, Gates answered tersely. = 3 The game began and ended, The New Yorker finished 330 points ahead. "You'll get your cheque tomorrow," Gates's secretary--who attended to such matters--+told the winner, * * * * When it arrived, the New Yorker fell back in astonishment. It was for $33,000! From Gates's secretary he learned that the game was for $100 a point, not $1, as he had imagined. So he sought out Gates. "Mr. Gates," he protested, "I don't feel right in taking this money le- cause, in a sense, L got it under false pretences." He went on to explain the situation, when Gates broke in with: 'Cut it out. We had the game, didn't we? You won didn't you? You forget about it. - * LJ LJ Writing to Austin Dobson just after he had finished his Life of the poet Gray (of Elegy fame), Sir Ed- mund Gosse said--the létter is quoted in Evan Charteris' Life of Gosse: "I am in a state of agitation; [ have just written the death of Gray, with inexpressible excitement: I have been crying so that my tears blinded the page--how ridiculous--tears for would represent a huge fortune would got the cheque, didn't you? Well, let's' n vege- tation and red volcanic soil. After a little = distance had been traversed wild flowers and anemones abounded on the mosses under: the fragrant fir trees. In the open spaces we heard the distant song of larks and in the wood nightingales chanted melodiously and even responded when my young companion whistled the notes of their song. . . When our eyes turned in the di- rection from which we had come they beheld one of the world's love- liest mountain views. Fog and mists were fleeing in every direction be- fore the piercing rays of the late af- ternoon sun. As their gray curtains swept away, one low mountain range after another came into the were beautiful lakes surrounded ' by sloping green flelds.--From "We Look at the Wold," by H. V. Kal tenborn. a little 'man who died more than a hundred years ago--how ridiculous!" * * * * Which reminds me that some auta- ors do suffer horribly when a work on a story with tragedy "stalking through it. I recall, for instance, that wher A. S. M. Hutchinson was writing "This Freedom"--which fol- lowed "If Winter Comes" he became a wreck while working on the chapter dealing with the suicide of a young girl. He was haggard and "all in" and you could see in his face that it was taking hold of him terribly, He would stay up all night with his char- acters and suffer excruciating agony in their company. Curious, isn't it? * * * * Hamlin Garlaad--in his new book, "Companions on the Trail"--quotes Edward W. Bok as telling him this story about Rudyard Kipling with whom Bok once crossed. the ocean. Said Bok: "One day as 1 was lying in my steamer chair reading "The Brush- wood Boy,' Rudyard came up behind me with a roll of wet newspaper and gave me a fearful swat. 'Put that book down,' he said.. I was hurt and , disgusted. 'That was a bad boy's tritk," I remarked. * "% * * "I was hot, and when he saw that I meant it hLe sat down beside me and tried to make me forget it, He apologizel and then explained the genesis of the book. 'I was seen years writing that story,' he said; 'and it represents my own life--in a way. He offered to read it aloud to me as compensation for his crudl swat, and in the end I forgave him. I loved him." | oa * * * Another of Mr. Garland's stories is about Bret Harte. Garland heard it from the lips of William Dean Howells. "Bret was a careless vagabond," said Howells "improvident but highiy amusing, and we all liked him. He was always in debt. It fell to me on one occasion to present him as a lec- turer to an audience in Tremont Tem- ple (Boston), and when I called at his house to escort him to the hall, I found him in the custody of a con. stable. - * . "Harte explained, without apparent concern, that his tailor had sent the (officer to collect payment for a suit of clothes and the constable, said to me: 'This man shall not give his lec- ture 'without handing over his fee. Thereupon Harte invited him to ride with us to the hall and sit on the plat- form. 3 ; "This. he did," continued Howells, "and so, as T rose to present the speaker, I had on my right hand a distinguished novelist, and on my left the constable--Harte being the least - line of vision. Between the slopes] Are you in a hurry? Do you find rubber boots, gaiters and hip waders cumbersome? Try these. They're zipper-equipped and guar- anteed not to stall. As seen at London, England, fair. > Ten Winter Rules Listed For Children's Health "Foo, The Teeth and Health' is the title of a booklet which was pre- pared under the auspices of the U.S. Health Department and the Board of Education with the aid of leading scientists, medical experts, and health leaders. "The basic rule for the mother to follow, as always in the case of diet," the booklet says, "is to practice olde fashioned common sense. Food fade dists may obscure the issue with theie ever-changing * theories couched im high-sounding phrases. But in actual practice common sense remains our most reliable guide." The ten rules for children's health und for growing sound teeth, listed in the booklet which is dedicated to school children, follow: Plenty of vegetables, both raw and cooked Ample supply of fruits, esp:cially citrus kind. Y One quart of milk every day. Bread one day old, to exercise jaws. Brush 'teeth, night and morning. Play in the open air, - Frequent exposure to the sun's rays. Less candy and fewer colored drinks. - Wider use of cod-liver oil (in Win= ter). Pericdic visits to the dentist. --_-- Only One Roquefort The cheese makers of Roquefort "are proud of their cheese, and both the Ministry of Agrictulre and courts of law have come to their aid ia protecting them against rivals. There are ten Roqueforts in France, but the Roquefort where the cheeses are made is in south central France im' the Department of Aveyron. Cheese has been manufactured there from time immemorial, and placed in the - town's cellars in order that it may become "good and savory," to use the expression employed by King Charles VII in a charter granted in 1457, Not long ago, a cheese maker in another Roquefort had the temerity to call his product "Roquefort cheese," but was restrained by a court order from doing 'so. There are other towns near Roquefort which make cheese of 'turdled ewe's milk in the same way! and put it in the same kind of cele lars, but a court ruled in 1922 that 'their cheese could not be called Roquefort cheese. So the townsmem '| of Roquefort can rest assured that they will be well protected against illicit use of their "trade-mark." fn Coffee Houses Date from 1652 The coffee house as a rendezvous for famous clubs of 'thé eighteenth century was introduced into Londom In 1652 by Pasqua Rosee, Mr. Ed wards, a merchant, having acqu