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^•X ' .w If'*„ 4 1 t"S: *1®H? a#»i i. '-;•<.* - ,* 4 ^ - $ iM~| 1 ^f; "in •^S! V «i-*'l -31 •.' i'-'i M| ;̂ '|- •«.# SlbwNSEND f BRADY UusTMMwfcyMriF.} **>". >w. ;; - SYNOPSIS. _ j "~ •"'m. yauam woasc.it cast utu»* OB % leas ly iBl&nd, finds a solitary inhabitant, a Vfrong *hlt$ "»«•• Jrsssd llks S SSTSSS and unaMe to apeak in any known lan- (utee She decides to educate uuu &•»« mold Ms mind to her own ideate. She flnds a human skeleton, the skeleton of & dog, a Bible and a sliver box, which Ie#d her to the conclusion th$ut her com­ panion was cast ashore on the island when St C!i!!S, Wttd tiiat. IS#3 uaui6 *i Revell Char nock of Virginia. Near the skeleton she ftndt two woman's rings, one of which beam an inscription *J. ft. €. to M. P. T. Sept. 10, MM." Katharine . BWsr.ton was a highly specialised product. Of-.a, leading university, Mer writfnfas oa itea sex profeSena had attracted wide at­ tention. The eon of a multi-millionaire becomes infatuated with' her, and they dfcalfie to put her theories into pt actio® With no other ceremony than a "!«!!'" they "so away together. A few days oa hie yccnt shows >vr that the nmn only p?of*sse<5 Jofty ideals f.o possess her. Katharine dlrcoverc that the ir,un l~ mar- fled, 'White drunk he attempts to kiss h»r, .She knocks fcfra down and leaves him unconscious and aqcapss In th® • 40fkn(im In a gtiaoUa* launch. ^ r •«.t -- : ,"• ' CHAPTER VIII.--C«ntfsii#d ̂ • 'fi cfS -V f ' 1 f ;:*fe '. - ? Vs '• Her training had not been manual, -fctft she was bright enough to supple­ ment her lack of skill and after some hours of hard work she actually got OH© oar in an upright position and se­ curely lashed. Out of the heavy cloak --Oiore a huge circular than anything else--sho imoroviRAd a unit with the other oar as a boom thrust across the beat between the mast and the little forward deck. The coat had been heavily braided. She ripped the silk braid from the edge, cut off the hood Of the cloak and managed a triangular Mil laced by the silk braid to mast and boom. ' The boom was Immobile and the otHy tvay she c6tfld Bit! Vhe -straight before the wind. If the wind shifted, ate would shift with It She had some alight control over the vessel with the halm, but that was all. It was noon when she finished her labors, but she wfcs more than satisfied with what she bad accomplished, for the cloak was Wf enough to give an appreciable way to the boat. She guessed it might be three or four knots an hour. That would be nearly 100 miles a day. She could eke out her provisions and water for five or six days longer and aha could go without for two or three days after the last drop and mors**! Ittd vanished." Ferhape she might tun Hewn a habitable island in that time. Feasibly, although this possibility was more faint than the other, £he might be seen by some vessel and picked up. At aci? rate, all the could do was done. She felt better, too, because she had made a human contribution to the de- teB»te8ti@*» of her late.-- She was no a* the play of ch|Rce. For five days she sailed ste&dily on,th#brees!e remaining even and holding unvaryingly true for that period. She learned the trick of lash lag the wheel at night and so was able to take as much rest as her tired, worn and racked body permitted In confinement of*the little boat.] She . had abundance of time* for thought Time was when she had rev­ eled in such opportunities, but there was less enjoyment in the changes af­ forded her now. That she who had lived in the high realm of speculation ahouid suddenly become a woman of t*$ion, fighting tor life, struck her as a strange thing. Insensibly the condi­ tions of her present existence modi­ fied her pholosophy. it seemed differ- smaller thing. She was less a^ife and confident of herself alone *« -.ititi great immensity than in the c^pwded city. There were no applaud­ ing thousands. She breathed no air of adulation. She was alode with her aoul. The man who Is alone Is always face to face with God, though his eyes may hidden so that he cannot see tha Dlviae. - lt« was so with this woman. Kever had she so 4fa?ed other companionship. She would have been bappy if she could have believed that there was a God, for had there been a God she would not have felt so de­ serted. So she fought on against her foul and her circumstances--a losing battle., The sixtfc .day, $pened d*rk and *toomy. The wind had risen during the night The day brokf heavily overcast. UVen to her inexperience ahe could realize that a storm was at hand. She had seen nothing during the period; that ta, nothing of which Mm could avail herself. Twice, oace to starboard and another time to port, aha had passed low lying islands, dim on the horigon. She had no way of checking the boat oi of changing Its course to run down either of them. She had to g& on just as she was. She realized that she could never land un­ less She Were driven directly upon some Island that might lie in h^t course. She knew, too, that the chances that might happen were very remote. She had daily diminished the portion of food and drink she al­ lotted to herself. SLe had husbanded everything with the utmost care. On the sixth day they were gone. She awoke with a frightful craving which tatensifled as the day drew on. She was thankful ior one thing that the sun was veiled, although she heat In the humid, heavy, overcast air was eomething almost unbearable. Under the freshening breeze the boat went much more swiftly than heretofore. She had that satisfaction, but She had the apprehension that if the wiuu grew any stronger her sail, service­ able as it had proved and stout it was, would be torn to pieces. The aUk braid had done splendid service, but she marked that it was now Strained to the breaking point Attain the helplessness of her position came * upon her. She could not take down the sail. In the first place she was afraid to leave the helm and in the aeoond pl*ce she realised that If she started to furl it she could only #» it by cutting the lashing and at the first cut the whole thlaf would blow away. So she held o£ yfaw* else to do. • /ijhe night fell In a^burst oC raia ^ - \ which was most grateful to her, but which was a forecast of a fiercer blow, and at midnight the hurricane broke in full force upon the little boat The first blast torn the sail from the lash­ ing*; By a lightning flash she caught a glimpse nf it for a second, whirled aws^ ltfcp a great bird,. For some rea­ son, perhaps because one or two shreds oi cloth sun clung to the mast*, and perhaps because the broad blade of the oar offered some surface for lls« thrust oi th« "wlad, shs v?s.s able by die exercise of constant vigilance and all the strength of which slwrwas capable, to keep the boat before tha wind. " Hitherto she had had ao Idea of the violence of the wave motion. It was with difficulty that she kept her­ self from- being dashed to pieces was aa abdication of aome of her su­ premacy. Every new knowledge he ac­ quired v*a an Inspiration to her high level. Tlstree yetxre Is a short time in the educational tife of a human fccisg, but she brought to btt aide ui what was slowly developing Into an equa­ tion the highest traini*»5r • natural ability to impart what she knew, an Ahanlute devoUcn is ths eadoavor and an entire freedom from other Interests. Se tzmipMIn* h&h tha iixneriment been that she had scarcely missed the rest of the world. I wonder If he had a woman isstsaS of a Jf that absorption would have resulted from their intercourse? On his part, he brought to bear upon the problem of le»i*rt|n!?» It wm agfffiiftt the fides or hurled overboard I develo^ped, an intellect which although in the mad whirling and plunging to which the launch was suddenly suk jected. It was caught wp bjT oa© wave afwsF ituuvoer uid driven on tor noun;, She could not tell how long. She lost all consciousness of time arid of every­ thing else oxcept that she mustellng to the helm. The boat was stJll hurled forward. One great wave after an­ other would seize her, uplift her and bear her on. The strain upon her arms was terrific. She locked her teeth and hung on, breathless, exhausted, yet de­ termined. But there was a limit to her powers and she felt that It had been reached. Yet she did not deliberately let go. One final and terrific heave jerked her away from the wheel. She fell sprawling In the bottom of the boat, but had sense enough to lock her hands around a thwart and lie there. The launch broached-to In an instant. She was turned broadside to th® waves. Fortunately she did not cap­ size instantly and the next --breaker filled her. She lay, her gunwales Hush with the water. Her motion was still violent, but less jerky. She was swept ever onward by the vast undulations. The indomitable woman clinging to the thwart managed to keep her head out of the water. SJCte realized that that was the end and yet while she had a remainder of strength, while she could draw a flickering breath, she would not give up. The boat, be­ ing water-logged, did not. pitch so much as before and she was able to maintain her hold, although every wave that broke over her drenched her again and again. She wondered why the boat did net sink and then she realised that the piripty gasoline tanks ^vhich jho closed and locked, prevented the final catastrophe; that the boat was In a certain sense a life boat; that it would float so long as the water pressure did not succeed In opening the tanks. Therefore, she was for the moment safe. The only immediate danger would be the capsising of the boat which would throw her out Since the launch was already full of water the woman did not think this was likely to happen. , She held on, her vitality gradually growing weakert hoping for the morn­ ing and an abatement of the storm. She had no idea of time, of course. She could net tell what the hour was. It was still dark, however, when al strange sound smote her ear. She heard It above the wild scream of the wind and the awful of the waves. It was a crashing sound, a battering sound, a fearful, protentous sound. The boat ran forward more swiftly now. She wondered the reason. Tak­ ing advantage of a brief lull, she abandoned her grip on the thwart and rose to her knees. Immediately in front of her she saw a white wail dis­ closed to her by the lightning flashe?. She did not linovr wLal U was.- Tne roaring sound came from thence. She was being borne rapidly toward It. She was nearlng it with astonishing swiftness. The boat was-moving more quickly now than at any time since she had been in It. At last it broke upon her consciousness that the white wall was a mass of foam; that the sea was crashing against some hidden shore and that great breakers were there. The laitd that she had longed ftur Indeed lay athwart Tier course. In another moment she would be in that mass of boiling foam. Well, she had fought a good fight The end was at hand. With some instinct of the heroic, death would not find her lying down. Xtesperatdly she struggle! to her feet and stood, balancing h jrself to the wild on ward rush of the boat. The wall of foam was close at hand. For one second she threw out her arms and the next moment, with a crash which she could feel if not bear, the boat beneath her feet was lifted up and hurled en something fearfully solid. She was thrown through the air like a bolt from a cat­ apult A wave struck her In the back and beat her almost into Insensibility. She was * tossed and driven half un­ conscious over the space of shallow water and rolling sea upon a sandy shore. Blindly she crawled on. The waves seemed suddenly to have loat their power. She did not know that she had been thrown past a barrier reef and carried over a lagoon and dropped on a sea beach; that only the most unusual and "gigantic waves could reach her, but she knew that they had little power to harm her. And so she crept desperately and <|oggedly on un­ til she fell forward in the warm sand and lasped into absorate and total Oft* consciousness. entirely untrained was unusually acute, a faculty of acquiring knowl­ edge as grwat as was her ahiHJy to im­ part it and & reasoning capacity which kept pace with his other qualities. In­ deed, th® main thing with which she had, to contend at first was his lack of application. But so soon as he had learned enough to enable him to rea­ lise the Importance of learning more she had no trouble on that score. It was as if a mature mind had been brought to bear upon the problems of adolescence. He grappled with things in that way. Whatever she taught him, he learned, he mastered all; and the mastery inspired him to learn more. His mnemonic ability was prodigious; for all the years of his life he had not been storing up the Insignificant, the Immaterial, the unnecessary, in his brain cells. He remembered all that she taught him with unvarying accu­ racy. His wais a powerful, vigorous mentality which had known nothing and upon which she wrote what she pleased. To the judgment of a man he added the receptivity and ductility of a child. She had taught him first at all to speak and then to read; then rudl- God whom she had learned to fear, not In the eyes that Christ whom she had learned to love, bnt in the eyes of men; yet she was a woman who was pure in heart Perhaps these thoughts and tuts consciousness bad mure 10 do with keeping her content even that her Intense pre-occupatlon iaS. u»au and her work, for she rea- Il«ed what she would Have to face If sue wen* hack to the world which had mocked her while it applauded her. That world, fJierefore, she now began to fear. The one $e!ng upon sarth with whoa she could be associated, who toew uolhing about It, who could cast no ston© -at her, sh® realized was the man who® she had made, and this maa looked to her almost as men look to the Bivfirp, Y«A she felt that some day he would have to know. Some day she would have to toll him. What theaf That feeling was ever w i t h h e r . 3 s i e - » w » self that e&ftsfctaa and found no an­ swer. Indeed, It was he who had taught her the troth of Christ She had. uot been able, she had felt a strange un­ willingness, if indeed it were possible, to break down the lingering remains of faith In that man. That babble of childish prayer had, in some strange way, caught her heart strings. It wa« the one memoiy of Intelligence that had remained to him. Now that he was capable of expression, again and again he had told her oi the dim recol­ lection of a long voyage in an open boat iritis, a <>ud «ume animal, which she knew must be the dog. He could remember nothing of the Inter­ course between him and that woman except that she had been good to him--sometimes that is as much as the wisest recall of a mother---and that she had taught him and made Mm say always that prayer whose co­ herency wsd meaning to her intense surprise she found herself Imparting to him. And she could not mail up her mind to take from him the reality III' Latent Passions. three years which had elapeed had made a vast change in the rela- tions between the man and the woman. In the beginning and for a long time hers had been the dominant position. So absolutely had she ruled that to him she had been as a god. So en­ tirely had he obeyed that to her he had been a devotee. Once she discov­ ered his ductility and had begun to teach him, the relationships had com­ menced to change. Gradually each had recognized the humanity of the other. Together tLCJ" !wu umtuau; approached a common level. Every new knowledge ahe Imparted, to Orlven On for Houre. could do in his head. There was nothing that she could devise that was prac­ ticable for writing. There was no slate on the island, the rock was not suitable. Therefore he had never learned to write, although he knew what writing was, for she had ex­ plained It to him, and had made shift to" teach him the Arabic letters. She also taught him geography, astronomy, natural sciences, and above all, his­ tory. She unfolded the kingdoms of this world and the glory of them be­ fore his vision, touching lightly, as has been the fashion of such unfolders, upon the misery and the shams. His was a singular knowledge indeed. There were some things about which she was reticent, being a woman, and some things she could not tell him at all; but being a man, with imagina­ tion quickened, he thought of these things the more--for these were some of the deeper things oC life and na­ ture! But the change 1st the retplieoa be- tween the two were not greater than the change in the woman herself. She was no longer a philosopher. That which she had disdained, she admired; that which she had abhorred, she loved; that which she had refused, she ac­ cepted. She was a Christian in belief as last Alone, or practically so, face to face with God In his world, God In His Book, God in humanity, her spe­ cious ideas of life and her relationship to it had broken down. She had learned to kneel beside that man and pray. She bad learned to seek else­ where than in herself for power to enable her to live her life and fulfill her tasks. She had not wished to be a Chris­ tian. Sh6 had fought against it, strug­ gled with it, agonized over it but a compelling necessity was upon her. The convictions of her conversion tore the veil from before her face, dispelled the mist that hung about her. She sa*w herself as she was, a woman who uuun the Itjuucuw u£ wruug ideas, false conceptions, had branded herself forever. gat** the ayee ot that of-the to, him. Her hew belief, as has been said, was both Joy and sorrow to her Save for her experience in the ship she had been happier in her philosophy. She had suffered grievously through her trust In It and in man, but her con­ sciousness that she was fundamentally right in her beliefs had consoled her. Now to feel that she had been wrong ; that she had thrown away under the leading of a false light what she could never agaln-*Ah, no Magdalene ever wept bitterer tears at the feet of Jesus than this woman In her hours of solitude over her mistaken past her loss and shame. She had hours of solitude, too. Early In the life they lived, she had laid down certain regulations. He was in the formative period then and had unhesitatingly acquiesced in them. So far those regulations had neither been abrogated by her n«r broken by him. A cave upon the farther side of the island had been found add that was his home. They breakfasted together at a certain hour, which he told by means of the sun and she by her faithful watch. The morning was spent in study. In the afternoon they sep­ arated, each passing It In accordance with individual preference, . but he rigorously kept to his side and she to her side of the island during the period. Certain dividing lines clearly established and understood marked which was his and which was hers. At supper time they met again and passed the time together in conversa­ tion until the rest period arrived. Things had to be this way else life would have been unendurable. They lived on the natural products of the island which were varied and suffi­ ciently abundant to fulfill all dietetic requirements. She had also taught him things not learned from book*. Among them, truth, honor, duty and dignity--all the virtues. Her instruction had been-- nrst, that wnicn was natural--ethical merely, but afterward It had grown spiritual. r tfaepoctet trom the world he, and she washed White she hoped anl prayed In spite of spots, they lived a Ufe of Idyllic innocence. Yet be­ cause he was a man and she was a woman, strange fires glowed beneath the outward calm, strange ideas and desires and thoughts rose from both h»nr*« u This s nsz Ilei original relation to the man Mad been one of so great superiority as to be fatal to the early development of any feeling but the maternal. Even now she possessed the superiority which association with her kind, her longer training and h«r greater opportunities, had given her. And yet she could only recogrJ.ste that to the Impartial view considering his abilities aad oppor­ tunities be stood Quito on a level with hef. Perhaps tod he enjoyed her chances he might have Uood higher. She began to Idealize him, to dream afcsWt him, to' wemder. Sh* oa the verge of passion. She knew his so be a brilliant mind. She divined his to be a knightly souL P.byslcallyf in, face ai«d figure, no more splendid man, uatrammeled by base convention, ever stood upon the earth's surface. Grace and strength mingled in har­ mony that was as striking as It was full of charm. She had no opportune ty to test his courage,, for no pbysleal. danger ever menaced them. But she believed In his manhood thoroughly. The woman had had bitter experi­ ence with love. Following what she believed to be the highest inspiration she had wrecked her iife &aS brought herself to this pass. The revolt In her soul at the thought of the man who had so degraded her, or who had so taken advantage of her ignorance and Innocence--the more complete since they were covered by a confi­ dence of knowledge and sophistication --as to allow her to degrade herself, convinced her that what she had mis­ taken for divine light was only a false fire, an Ignis fatuus which had led her into the marsh and slough of slime and shame. She loathed the thought of that man. She had loathed, when she had been thrown upon that island, the thought of all men. This one had given back her confidence In her kind. Yet sometimes she wondered whether that confidence were war­ ranted or not because of him. Sup­ pose he should come In touch with the world, what would happen? Was he, too, capable of breaking a wo­ man's heart? Would he do it? Was tier's the heart? What would the soil­ ing touch of the sordid conditions un­ der which Ufe was lived, as she had known it, do for him? Would he still be unspotted? Would he think her the same? She had taught him many things. But how should he learn to fight temptations, temptations with which he bed no, experience, which never came to him, she ..fondly dreamed. - ' , Yet she had confidence In him. She had confidence in God, and we cannot have confidence In God without some confidence in man. The converse, too, M true. Therefore she believed. She confident that he would rise su­ preme in the face of every test. She Wondered If the test would ever be ap­ plied to him, if she would be there to see. She found herself praying for affirmation in both matters. Her be­ lief in him would only be belief founded upon hope until he had been tried. There was a doubt about him that must be resolved; she must re­ solve It She could never be satisfied, in spite of her belief, until she had done so. The very fact that she thought so keenly upon the subject; that she was so Interested and en­ grossed In the situation was evidence to her ihai sue uuneu uiuio for the man than she had dreamed it possible. And what of him? For once her in­ tuition failed h^r. She wanted to see him tested and tried; she wanted to see him tempted and triumphant, but he was all of that In those very hours In which she fancied him so unthink­ ing. It never occurred to her that he migtyt ̂ entertain an earthly passion for her. She still, from ancient habit, be­ lieved herself so far above him that such an ambition would have been lit­ tle less than sacrilege to him. She lulled herself to sleep with that Idea. She believed, she knew, of course, that all that was needed was a sug­ gestion from her. To love is the lot of num. This man had seen no other than her. U she said the word, it would jbe accomplished. She held the>l&fr key to his heart; her hand could unlock It on the instant Sks forg&C the master key and toe Master Hand. , ' He had coafrettarf gtflbige tumbling that need to take him when­ ever he touched her, but she could feel his pulse beat and throb when by chanoe there was any contact even of the casual between them. Some­ times he had asked her strange ques­ tions which she had put byr and some- ) times she caught him looking at her | in strange ways that sect the blood io j her skin, and sometimes turned her i pale. Yet she lived In the fool's pat*- ' dise.. She did not awake to .the posei- ; biiitlea of that which she had made j him because her apprehension of him j had -act key? pae* with- his a$pii«hen;! sfcrn of her, To.'-her he was ;st$l - i» \ some degree the creature that fee tod j been and sometimes »he thought apox= . her growing tove for him with s feel ! tag of shame as if it were a ctfnde • seenslon, a derogation. j She did not know what blood Was leaping in the wins of.the man and | how he taught himself, because she j had instilled In him honor and <tie- | cency and Christlike self control/ to ] repress these things. She did not j know how much faster he had learned I certain things than she had Intended •, She did not know how instinctively } hs had leaped to conclusion she imagined were still latent In his mind. This was a good man, this was an honest man, this was a gen­ tleman, this was a Christian man. There was no question about his faith. It was as simple and abiding as it was sincere. The early Christians who had been brought ill personal touch with the Master and his men were not more faithful, acceptant and de­ voted. Yet this was a very human man in spite ot all these things, a man of splendid vigor and health with all a man's impulses, hopes, dreams and aspirations. And he loved her. He, too, sat upon the white sands of the gemlike island and looked out BeesfggB the aiaasst caie is taken by Life's Ghfr to select onlythechdcest materials and prepare them in the same careful manner every time. You am thus assured of uni­ form goodness, and this is the reason that tbeuwi of ybby'n gives inch general satisfaction. to even? housaWffie. r-S T.yUbiy WthniBmi JbsiL^al CUMiOni " • For luncheon, spreads or everyday meals they are just the thing.' Keep a supply faf the house. You new can whftti •!will "xzzz in handy. Ask for Labl̂ s and be sure yon getii%V 13*7, IWW 7' ' m She Had Confidence In God £ CARTERS UTVUI UVERMUMW into the far blue of the Pacific wash? tng the distant shores and lands peo­ pled with strange creatures of history. and romance and he, too, wondered. He had had no experience with men. and th^ world and he longed to get away and to take her away. She bad long since discovered that he was a gentleman, an innate gentle­ man; that he had been well born, and she had seen to it ueraeii that he naa been well bred. Yet no mortal man ever went through greater fires of unknown and mysterious temptations tban he. He forced himself not to speak words that burned. He checked the free course of thoughts that bub­ bled and seethed within his brain, and the relationship between them re­ mained that of mistress and man, teacher and taught, friend and friend. It was he who so maintained it, though of this she was unaware. (TO BE CONTINUED.) beared to 8hock Daughter, "Your honor," said the attorney for the lady, "I ask the court to have the plaintiff's daughter removed from the courtroom." "And why do you prefer this ex­ traordinary request, Mr. Cooke?" the Judge inquired. "Because," said the lawyer, "I am about to ask my client to atattf her ags.H--Cleveland Plain Deaeler. fHiwa jafwewi As enoal Ibmeye* SmBMUMBI UENU1NE mud bear Very Fishy. : She was a fisherman's daughter, sfe# wore her hair In a net, and ahe pfw ferred love la a piscatorial war. ' '*¥ "My love," he whispered, "you MM£! first 'place* in my heart! Although I 'flounder* about In expressing myMlfc my 'sole' wish is that you #111 **f» me from becoming a 'crabbed' elS bachelor. 1 shall stick to you closj** than a limpet/ from you a be the road to guide me. we will 'skate' over life's 'rocks,* gat; when 1 look at your hand beaM^ Vpf- I shall say to myself: "Fortune Wgg mine when 1 put "herring* there!" And then the lady dropped her eye#* In sweet confusion, and murmured; ' ' ;"f*s» the salt" • ; ' • s.» •* ' They Surely Would. A little American boy with lit Sir ther was visiting a market in * lean city. He saw a little native gM with a small basketful of red pm«rv of which she was eating one. Brai llap ther was about to say: "SIM thialm she is very smart," as the aoa ipWff.. his attention to It The boy spobe u£ quickly, knowing what was to be said: ' "Pa, would those red peppers make you smart if you eat all of t&sssr'-HiS*- father replied: "Yea, so®/*--. >--v ' Uinii i i ii . ,.v .'v V? * hit. •High' Finance* •. " Knlcker --Why did you pay tor that hat? : , Mrs. Knlckar--I had . to do make my cfceck book balanaa. Equality. . Doc|#r (politely)---<lood Hr. Schmidt. - . • Janitor--Howdy, Doc.--Hf«L * * 4 a ?$!' •*£ 3 ̂ '•-V - '4 Owl Houses Without Lining Al- One Peculiarity of Slrd That Loeks to Be the Wisest of the Featte Tribe. ' Owls' houses are for the most part quite without lining. Whether from design or pure laziness, the bones and skulls of small animals which they have killed are left scattered about the floor. Grewsome playthings for the owl children! But one can scarce­ ly imagine even a baby owl being anything but wise and dignified. It is easier to picture them apparently gravely musing on these skuUs like monks ta their dark cells. Since so many of the owls have their homes in hollow trees, we might expect some of their near relatives, the hawks, to be inclined to live in the same way.. On* of ilieui, the lit- the sparrow hawk, does u«st la the flicker's abandoned home and In com- tonaixe snot notes, unce l round mm quartered snugly In a branch which • . • • . . . . . ' I . 1 , " : I '• .. • , t -T . . . . . . j .. •» 'i > .... . \ , had been broken off. This Med. too, Is satisfied with perfectly bare wails «gnd floor, though the floor consists of small chips left by the decaying wood or by some woodpecker .--St Nicholas Magazine. Where the Emeralds Ceme From. Colombia, South America, controls the world's market for emeralds as completely as the South African syn­ dicate does for diamonds. It is from the mines high up in the Colombian Andes that most ot the emeralds come. The Colombian government has teased its most valuable mines io an English syndicate, with the un­ derstanding that It is to sell at least »a,2&0.000 in emeralds a year for M years, giving th® Boverutuenc a per* centsge. .The largest and most valu­ able emerald in the world belongs to tne qus« of «« <a • pea* fact six-sided crystal and eeigta nine A Breakfast * ,r¥'. -v; 4: -*V?V\3 Vi«3 VJ "5 If. 5. Golden«Brown f ' •> .si"-A 1 's ;* <**- Ready to server from the package with crc3®no cooking necessary* Memory Lingers* flu. 10e sad IH. .M CERBAi. CO. I*** '. 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