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x ne ie eye." pathetical "To bo perfectly Housety Mr. Law * ghe sald, "I'm not yet very ef-| 'But I am keen to gt job, "a faint wave of color: "touched her cheeks -- James Marsh had promised to Stach me it you'll give me a trial" ; . "Indeed!" 'My tone was rather storn, " "Indeed! Now lot me give you to ficient, a word of advice on the brink of your |, business career, Miss Heather. Don't be too ready to accept these offers of help from male clerks. Men are-- er--that is, they're- not--er--I mean you've got to be careful." An expression of the prettiest hor ror touched her sweet little face. * 'Careful of Mri Marsh?" ghe falter- a bif-of-a woman-hateri. You not £9 falling in love wi i him, Miss ly: mean." | passed. before he "Mornin', Ma "I've been woman you. yécommended as book- She does not pretend to be Jimmy 1s thirty-five, looks young for his age. His black Sp EEm natural wave; the sort of thing a girl might admire. ssemed even younger than usual to- { "Miss Heather 1s a straightforward girl" 'he sdldl" "That's why he told 'you the trutlr. .I'll undertake to make, her efficient enough by théstime ou Man; comes back." rath A" twinkle of wmuse However, | he answered enough: Te ould not dream of such a thing, 'office. r caston aes Jast JX. pack d up to go home th desk' sat though he th Hel nt flickered | necessary to stay away a Should We of [nights do so, I shall understand." . He appeared a trifle taken aback. 'This the kind of job I usually; liked 'totake on myself. The day seemed uncommoily long, 7 Bene p of new sevens?" iy figures with closes at- are less like nines," But what about a little. bses? This is what I ¥ Gover hers and guided ought you preferred Mr. Lawton?" A tip-tiltea wose for ".1.declared, with veil: swopt her smobth aghout dinner-time. L ; arning went to the office ng of relief, Jimmy would hi Derbyshire. him to say he was re- Well, this meant "vith Daphne, and per- 1 screw up my cour- given né ne. bo hesit entered eau heart, thelr gave 4 gasp of dismay': The 100 kza. were al closed, and one 'of OUR, was shoving them into p strong-room. Daphng had slipped frhm her. stool "and 'tarned. towarde' the door. «I hurried -after her.' "Miss Heather, what about pou er--tuition?" "© "It you please, Mr. Lawton; : pat ticularly want to get away tomight." The bine eyes he pleading. : "means, | Miss Heather. . y 1 pulled up r Then I found |' Muasenmrof: the Universi "Thanks over so much, Tmrengaged aight, Mr. 'Lawton. she left the 'office; a horrid sus- pleion gripped me. - Jimmy's train would reach St. Pancras at 6.45. 1 decided to meet: him, | I reached the station just on-time, and--yes, there she was! While I| hesitated at the barrier (the. train rolled up. Jimmy jumped out and | ran to her. Next moment they were in each' other's arms, I dashed out of the station and took the first bus home. Next morning Jin the Bevan business x) he had finished 1 tol Daphne along. She as lovely as ever, "You won't want to stay at the of- fice. much longer?" 1 suggested.® "Oh, yes, 1 do-it you'll let me?" she contradicted. "But look here," I argued, 'Marsh earns a good salary; he has a comfort. able flat,;and no relations to.support" * "Well?" she breathed. I ¥Well, you--er--you love him, don't you?" "Yes, of course I do!" "Then I'm sure he won't wait you d that Tooling {to go on working here." "But 1 want to, and that's enough for him. . He's always been most frightfully kind ever since 1 can re- member." . "You've known him all that Umer " wot 'course! Oh, but yen know: We thought it wonl 'or fun not to tell" . Shi broke off, bubbling with laughter. oy 've 'been engaged § "And I'm "tif baby of the family 1 fairly ledpt frefa' my chair, "Do you mean," I demanded, tiyin to keep: my. voice rsteady, "that Jim: my. is. yowr half-brother?" Id She gave a demure little nod. She But possible of other-peopla's. oy moment she was' in his arms. "You precious sweet!" 1 stammer: ed; med will not: want :this job!" And fx the tip of her dear little tilt- nose ~~(Answers.) LL mre Arde The way to get rich fs to lay up part of' your income and' as mughy tyf passed, on, swans are Tovels geese White in a greensward, dreaming on a stream, On whose calm surface might seem. I have seen geese in proud proces sion: gleam Bright as high salling clouds, whiter than fleece Or crested seas, white as the soft In crease of i snowfall and as filled with ence; Thefr bens i lovely, too, are lilies' they is like beauty in a I have seen them, when summer's heat. brings rain In driving gusts, stand with thelr heads held high Facing the downpour--O, before vou e, Would yon might see them when the sun again Shines oni their dazzling + whitness, and they faln, V Impelled by some wild egstasy, would --Chjprles Winks. rmigration ter (Ind.): From the 5 pohit of view, the im- port 'solley, 'tor of the joint expedition. of th ty of -Penneyl vania'and the British' museum in Ur, the 'treasutes found in the 'tomb were | the richest ever unearthed in Ur, The tomb of the queen was found abutting the king's burial vault which had been robbed of its treasures, and in the centre was a burial pit con- taining the bodies of more than 50 men and women, the warders of the tomb. A sloping ramp led down into the pit, the report stated and on the]. slope lay the bodies of six soldiers of the guard, their crushed skulls en- cased in copper helmets and>their spears shouldered. They been killed In their places to remain as sentinels of the dead. Part of Grave is Shambles "The rest of the grave area was a shambles," Mr, Woolley sald, "for in the narrow space were strewn 50 bod- ies of those sacrified to the spirit of the dead. Along one side were men, their daggers on their hips; against | the foot' of the tomb lay the chief ladles of the harem, eleven of them { Wearing what must have been full court regalia, consisting of elaborate head dress of gold ribbon; wreaths of gold mulberry leaves hung from strings of lapis lazuli and Cornelian beads, sliver pins with lapis 'heads and great gold earrings. "Above the hair'of each wontan was a silver palm with long point ending lapis and beside each lay cackleshells containing face paint and little ala- baster ungent vases," rns fpr. Returned' With Thanks. As he was passing beneath a ladder reaching up to the windows of a re- cently built house the iraseible colonel was struck on the head by a large jeston can be summed up Free ctizens should not rd seeking to improve bu by emgrating from ! jo another, provded thelr © the other country does | an economic danger to | at country. It should | Lwith all possible ac. indugtry can absorb | itioial hands with- ng existing conditions 3 soon as this point; balance 1s broken and e surplus labor hedomes a menace not only to the countmy's workers but | hadnt time for more, because next te thedmmigrant workers themselves, | ship? " who are' compelled By he force of*cir- cumstances to accept' lower wages and are thus prevented from adopting our standard of living, parialis who cannot be assimilated. + With Mr. Coolidge positively out of the running, we make. a bid for the goncesgion of checking hats at the gside. becoming plece of putty. He seized the putty | and, ! in one hand racing up the staricase of tho { house, 'entered the room' from which ! it had been thrown. He was con- fronted by three stalwart men. | "Who threw this?" he cried, an- terily. F-1 ad," retorted the biggest of the { three. "What are ye 'goin' to do { bout it, ch?" | After a moment's sober reflection the colonel murmured: 'Oh, I just thought I'd return your Hy, 2 ! eet 'Could 1 see the captain of this "He's forward, miss." "I'm not afraid; I'm-used to men." | Medical science, we read, is still 'hunting for the cold germ, hoping, we présume, if it is found, to make things hot for it, rte A i Soclety pays for its sins. It once {made Willie speak pieces on #riday afternoon, and now it must listen to his afterdinner speeches. of 'the Chaldaes: Mr. Woolley said In solid rosettes of gold, shell and' ese Governor-General sent a pair of (such celestial birds the head-huntors. nest of explosive eggs--and the head- hunters are now as quiet as a dud (shell. 1 'When the gulf of Finland froze over | and 'the sallors on thirty-eight ships ack | fast in the ice soomed in dan- great machine lay in th , Jungle some settlers found 'themselves in need of a club bullding, They made birds over mo while Then there was the Silver Queen, flown by the South African airmen, Van Rynevely and Brand, from Cairo a forced landing near Bula- of starving, Finnish army air planes carried food to the beleaguered ibe work with whalers in the | North Pacific in discovering leviathans of the deep. Norse fis) for. "spotting" shoals. The forests of Alsace-Lorraine are from the air to kill plagues of caterpillars. In woods, near Berlin, poison-gas bombs have been dropped from airplanes for the same purpose. In south Russia airplanes scouted for hosts of locusts. One such host was found five miles long by three miles wide. Troops made all human beings and cattle evacuate the territory, and the alrmen then flew at night over the locusts, spraying them with poison gas. The seaplane of the Dutch-American party which explered Western New Guinea was of great uso, particularly in overawing the fierce Papuan tribes- men, The tribesmen on being asked if they liad seen the plane ran up 'and down in great glee, with arms out- stretched, as if playing at a child's game. Hydroplanes are surveying proto- graphically the 'Great Barrier Reef, off Australia, The same 'method is being used to survey the great jungle of Borneo aud the delta o file Irra- wad, in Burma. In. Eastetrn Siberia the Russians | have been using airplanes to connect! {their remotely situated gold-fields in 'the Aldan territory. The planes car- ry the gold in'five hours, whereas formerly ' the journey by horses, the Lg en) oft Stavanger use the airplane + { To-day the petrol tanks are nged The rae mower h# rudder and tail-planes hang rid relics in the drill hall at e8 Venerate Instruments Just after the war the Belgians ff the Congo started an air mail service between Kinshasa and Stanleyville, All the machines were wrecked. In a little riverside village along the Congo recently a visitor saw the graves of two of the aviators, marked with propellers. There was a juju i house close by where the witch-doe- tor made magic with queer charms. The place of honor was devoted to the Instrument board of the old plane, the altimeter, pressure gauges and compass being regarded as worthy objects of veneration by these Cofigo savages. Alrplanes were used hy the French during' the invasion of the German | colony of Togoland in West Africa in 1914, The conquest was soon com- plete, and several machines were left lying 'about in sheds at coast. ports. After the war a young French trader - found one of these machines on his firm's premises. © The wings were warped 'during: the tropical summers, and the engine was rusty. But the trader had. been an airman, and he overhauled the old "bus" secretly. To the astonishment of every one, the antiquated machine--a rickety Bleriot monoplane---~was seen 'on aftornoon staggering about the sk" {through almost' impenetrable forests, required thirty-five Saye. Like the "Pidgys" Londoners Help Pigeons Es- cape City's Pied Piper at St. Paul's London. -- While London, disap. | proves and bystanders do all they can | to hinder the work of the city's offl-| celal Pied Piper, eome 2,000 pigeons of | St. Paul's are finding they way into pigeon pies. The London City Corporation having | deereed that 2,000 of the pigeons | which cluster before the steps and | pillars of St: Pauls as an item of ev ory | { tourist's London program must go, it became the duty of ono Dalton, the city's rat-catcher, to trap them. He first built a wire cage measuring | 14 by G feet. and provided himself with corps of "expert trappers." His first day, however, was like the first bag of a hunter with a bent shot- gun. He caught, all told, twelve, The crowd that gathered was wholeheart- edly on the side of the pigeons. They fed the pigeons so that the grain trails which led into the trap would not al lure them. And they engineered noiges and movements to scare the pigeons away from the trap. Trapper Dalton thereupon resorted | to subterfuge. First, he came back early Sunday morning while most peo- ple were abed. Secondly, his assist ants had for hours the night before been sweeping away the crumbs and bread which good-hearted people had strewn before the pigeons. Thirdly, the assistants stood in such a way as to hide the standards of the cage from the birds. He netted 260 birds in one catch. The pigeons are being sold wv a poultry dealer. a ] Windfall. An honest speeder-had just hit a dog and had returned to Jette Lg damages, if ible. He lool a the dog a A and addressed the man with a gun, "Looks as it I'd Killed yer dog: " "Certainly looks that way." 'Very valuable dog?" "Not very." "Will five dollars be enough?" CAWell--1 Jhichs so oF a have broken up your ie bn id the motorist pleasantly as. o shoo the dow. going over the town. The old engine g-ve out after a short time, and the airman landed neatly among the palin trees in the garden of the Governor. That machine made no more flights, lane Found on Roof The war no doubt explained the presence of an abandoned, hroken- down airplane In the remote' desert of South West Africa, found by the camel police patrol recently. Some wandering band of awe-struck Bush- men had evidently come across it pre- viosuly, for when the sand had been cleared away it was seen that the ma- | chine had been ringed in with stones and boulders, placed there in definife paterns. They evidently regarded the strange, dead "fire bird" as sacred. In Johannesburg' the other-dex. the was found on the high roof of a city building, No one knew how it cama there, though it was obvious that ft had been taken up there in parts and assembled. The roof had no been visited for years and the owner of the building had never suspected that the napa was there, Farming B By Balloon If a new Italian ve invention is adopted farmers may do thelr plowing follow- ed across the fields by a balloon as observation balloons hovered over the armies during the war, according to Dr. E. E. Free's Week's Science (New York). We read: The new device is an attaflpt to or around what has always been a geri- ous difficulty In plowing or reaping or doing olher farm work by, electricity. In many modern countries the elec tricity is available at low cost, and electric motors will pull the plows. The difficulty 1s that the plow must drag along behind it the cabla through which the electric current is supplied It is seldom possible to criss-cross ( fleld with trolley wires, like ghost which take the current-to street ca and to provide electric plows wil storage batteries 'is toe costly ani adds too much weight to the plow To meet this situation Italian invent. ors have devised the expedient of sup: porting the necessary electric cable on a small balloon filled with gas. This is expected to plow as it moves along and to poly it with current, the other ii 'of the ed sthe Wer a crisp five<dol- |. ; rotting framework of an old airpland ~~.