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It appears they are en Intimate terms, having met previously in a touring party In Europe. The Gilberts Invite Gloria to stay with them pending the refurnishing of the Kerr home. Wright begins his flght against the proposed franchise in the col­ umns of his paper, the Belmont News. Kerr, through his henchmen, exerts ev­ ery influence to hamper Wright In the publication of his paper. Gloria realises •he is not being received by the best so­ ciety and la unhappy. She takes up set­ tlement work. Kerr and his lieutenants decide to buy Kerr's paper and ask the •ditor to meet them at Gilbert's office. Calling at Gilbert's office to solicit a do­ nation Gloria meets Wright. He proposes and is accepted while waiting to be called Into the conference. Wright refuses to •ell his paper and declares he will flght to a finish. The Belmont News appears with a bitter attack on Kerr. Gloria calls Wright a coward and refuses to listen to any explanation from him. Broken-heart- •d. Gloria decides to plunge more deeply Into settlement work. She calls on a sick 0rl of the underworld, named Ella. She learns for the first time that her father Is the head of a notorious gang of political grafters. Sounds of a conflict are heard la the room over Ella's. Glo- 1 Sf CHAPTER XIX.--Continued must know what's going on," via eried. She rushed across the room and Drenched open the door. * At the foot •f the stairway Just before her was the body of a man, limp and motion­ less.. "It's a man. He's hart," she called back to the sick woman as she knelt to examine him. - He had fallen so that she could not get a good look at him In the dark hallway, and she rolled him toward the door to get him on his back and see his face. As she gazed upon his countenance the fingers of death itself seemed to seize her by the throat. Her heart gave one great leap and then stood still. On the %or before her lay the body of the man she loved. "Joe!" she screamed. "What are you doing here? Joe, Joe, speak to me!" But there was no answer. His eyes were closed, and the pallor of death •earned to be upon his face. With strength beyond what she had «rer known herself to possess, Gloria seised the motionless form and dragged and rolled the man into Little Ella's room. Before she turned to him again She closed and bolted the door. Then SOS Iftsui Over uikii aiiU ucggeu uilii to speak to her, to open his eyes and iknow that she was with him. "Joe, don't you know me?" she tfcaded. Then to, ^Little EIJa, "He's dead, he's dead. See, he doesn't move." *Yes, he does," answered the other woman. She had been sitting up in t>ed, an excited spectator of all that had transpired. "He's breathln'. Tear open his shirt and feel his heart heat." Wright was a pitiable object as he lay on the floor like one dead. His coat and waistcoat were gone, and his collar and cravat had been torn away. On his white shirt were bloody stains. Gloria felt bis heart and was rewarded t>y its feeble beat. She next dashed water from the pitcher over his face, tout without avail. He showed no signs •t returning consciousness. From a wound just above his temple on the Tight side of his head the blood began to trickle down over his face, making Its pallor all the more ghastly. She had no means of knowing how serious this was, and uaturally came to the Felt ftfeHls Heart. Little Ella, in the same low toa«. "this fact was obvious. "They cant come In," Gloria eoatin- aed. Again came the knocking, louder and more insistent. "I can't let anything happen to him," murmured the unhappy girl in agony, remembering how the day before she had demanded that he be punished. "Joe, Joe, what does it all mean?" But Wright made no answer. He lay like a log as the girl he had loved bent over him, wiped the blood from his face, and brushed back his disheveled hair. With the next knock came the voice of a man demanding entrance. * j "Ella, Ella, open this door." '* ' Gloria rushed over to the bed. ' "Tell him you can't get out of bed," she implored In a whisper. "Tell him there's nobody here." "1 can't git out o' bed. There's no­ body here," Little Ella called. This answer did not pacify the man. "That's a lie," he shouted. "There's somebody in there or the door wouldn't be locked. Open this door, do you hear me, or I'll bust It down." The tone of his voice made Gloria feel that he would make good his threat. There In the center w0f the room in full view lay the man whom they were seeking. Once they burst the single barrier they would be upon him, to do what further harm she knew not. It might be that he was now already beyond all human aid. He still breathed, however, and Gloria was willing to flght if there was even only one chance in his favor.' Hence it would not do for them to find him the minute they broke down the door. She must hide him somewhere to give her time to parley with bis assailants. She looked vainly about for some place to put him. t » "For God's sake, help iqe hide him," she beseeched. 'T 'can't give him up. Where does that door lead to?" She pointed to the door close by the one which led into the hall. "That's only a closet under the stairway," was Little Ella's whispered explanation. "They'd find him there in a minute." "You wouldn't let them kill him, would you?" / "I can't help you. Fm so weak I can hardly turn over in bed." "Open this door, I say," came from the, man without as he pounded ,on the door ominously^ "or 111 Chick you over the head." Gloria understood thatf there was no time vG tCaipGiiic. Sue do something and that quickly. Close by where she stood next the bed, and on the side away from the door, was Little Ella's trunk. Behind It on hooks hung a\timber of garments, and on a chair were more clothes. . It was the only chance and Gloria took it. How she ever managed to get him, a dead weight, across the intervening space and safely stowed behind the trunk she never knew. She dragged, she hauled, she pulled, she rolled, and the forlorn hope that she would save him yet gave her strength. As she snatched skirts from the hooks and all the clothing from the chair to pile upon him, the pounding upon the door became more and more vindictive. The girl was out of breath, but as she bent over the prostrate form of the man she loved, she managed to gasp: "Joe, listen to me. If you can hear me, dear, listen. Don't stir, don't you hear me, Joe?" But he was deaf to all entreaties. Seeing this was so, she turned to Little Ella: "Get him to go away. Offer him anything, prom­ ise him anything. I'll do it; only keep that man on the other side, of that door." "There's at least two of 'eth." \ "That doesn't matter--a thousand-- U's all the same. Get them to go /away." This was easier said than done but Little Ella was willing to make the effort. , _ . • < • "You git away from that door, an' leave me alone." "Open this door, you she-devil," threatened the besieger, "or I'll--" And then interrupted another voice with a suggestion that made Gloria grow faint. "Aw! Let's bust it in. He's in there all right." "Let 'er go," answered the first one. Then came the heavy thuds as the men threw themselves against the door. The knocking at the gate in 'Macbeth" had no more portentious sound' in the play than had this at­ tack upon her stronghold Jto. Gloria. She felt all the nervousness of troops uritfcr fire that must remain inactive bwait[ipg orders. There was nothing "Now, dama Ifaran ba«an savagely. • •* "Stop!" Gloria commanded. "What s(r« you doing here?" - Until she spoke they had not seen her, and both men were taken much aback. To" find a lady there was something they had not expected. "What the--"Ryan gasped, but checked himself and then continued in a slightly more respectful tone. "I begs ye? pardon, miss, but whSt are you doln' here?" "That's none of your trasinesa.., $ou clear out, both of you." ' This -encouraged Little Ella to take her part in the discussion, which she did with her most strident tones. "What do youse mean, buttin' into here? Beat it, you two. I'm a lady, an' when I have a lady frien* avisitin' me they ain't no place tor bums. t>n yer way." It was not this tirade which had the most effect upon them. Both quailed before Gloria, who stood eyeing them sternly. Then they looked at each other, and without a word of apology shambled out into the hall. • ;;,H^j4APTER BTHENRY PLAINDEALER, 4U Ryan's Injunction to stiok by him. Little Ella seemed to waver. "Don't you fergit who yer friends are. Who keeps you frpm beln' jugged? Mike Noonaa. Who lets you stay here when you can't pay, an' feeds you? Mike Noonan." "That's so. He has bean good to me." Gloria was fulck to catch the note of indecision. "But now I'm going to; take care of you." "Yes, goln* to, goin' to," sneered Kelly. "You know what church prom­ isee is, Don' you fergit we gotta, Stan-' together down here, ail oi us." Jt v/as the old, old appeal of class Unserve a selfish end. "Yes, that's true. I don' want to say anything, but--" Ryan immediately pressed the ad­ vantage he thought he had gained. "This is yer chanct, Ella. You know what she'd say to you if you was in her house. Are you with us? Ill see you git yours." It was a moment when a man's life wan at stake. Gloria believed that if the woman told and they tore Wright from her she might never see him alive again. She had prayed si­ lently for help to come, but she was still alone. Already she was giving up hope from that quarter and was conscious that upon her own efforts in all probability the very life of the man she ioved would depend. To add to her anguish was the fear that he might regain consciousness and he* tray himself by a moan. N6w it all depended upon Little Ella. It had been a clever stroke, that of Ryan's, asking her how she would be treated in this woman's home. Against this appeal to class prejudice Gloria had not scored. "I'll t§ll," said the woman. The two men looked at each other and smiled. "Stop!" cried Gloria, looking not at the men, but at the girl who lay pale and trembling upon the bed. "Do jtoaclusion that it waa a death-woihuL nrnere was ouiy W« iiuut U> <!u. gef 1 A physician. |. As she started to her feet she heard ii two men running doWn the stairs and - Staking a search from roora to room on her floor. These must be the men Who had attacked hita. She could not let him fall into their hands, and there- p' fore she could not leave him to go for sdd. The impotence of her position made her feel like screaming to relieve the nervQUts btrain. "\ , ' "What'do you knqw, about- this? Kr did he come here? Wha\ pened to him?" ^ "I dunno," answered tile woman,, • ^There's somethin* doln' ail thujfimft* ,* jhl this dump." ' -• $ » ' ; A sudden knock at the' bolted jfoor V L ^billed Gloria with terror. "V 13' ^ ' "What's that?" she wh&perea^ * "Somebody's at lb» di - " W K tefT' % Mil the If Gloria believed that toe had put to flight for all time such gentlemanly assassins as Mr. Kelly and Mr. Ryaife her feeling of triumph did not last long. As the door into the hall was Btill open she did not dare make a move in Wright's direction. She de­ termined to close the door and pull the washstand in front of It, wedging it under the knob, before trying fur­ ther to succor the injured man. When she walked toward the door, it again framed the forms of Ryan and Kelly. As a result of a short conference lust out of earshot, they had decided to return and get their man. "What do you want?" Her heart sank. "We're lookln' fer a man," Kelly snarled. "And he come, into this room, too," Ryan added doggedly. "We dont want to make you uncomftable, lady, but we gotta git that man." The way he said it made Gloria feel that he meant business. AH she could do was play for time and pray for Mrs. Hayes to return. "There's no man here," She ex­ plained in her most winning manner. "You can Bee that plainly for yourself. I came over from the mission to take care of this sick woman. You are only making her worse by bursting Into her room in such a rude fashion. Please go out gently; she must have it perfectly quiet." \ Turkey Ryan so far forgot himself in the presence of his betters as to grin at this explanation. "We don't want to have to make you «iye 'im up." This threat had an unpleasant sound. Hitherto the girl had not feared for her own safety, but his surly remark frightened her. The one thing that kept her steadfast was the thought that she was protecting the man she had loved; yes, the man she now loved more than she ever had. She did not know how he happened to be there; she did not know how he regarded her; she only knew that she loved him, that she would give her life a -sacrifice to save him. Ryan next appealed to Little Ella. "Ella, that guy come in here. Where is he? .We ain't goin' to be scared by any fool girl. She don't know who wants him. Now give '1m up."* "Don't say a word," Gloria told her. "You*gotta stick by us, Ella. This ain't no ordinary Job." STHENRY, "You Cant Pool Us With That Salt* •oap Talk." you remember what you said a while: ago? What you accused me of? You swore that I hadn't'loved. Even to my sorrow you shall have proof of It now that I do. The Very man whom I'm defending from these bullies is the one man on earth I love." Ryan and Kelly looked at each other in amazement. "You shall see If you loved more than I. You'vs gons through fire and storm for a man? I'll do no less. If need be, I'll die for this man--here and now--because I love him." The fire died out of her eyes. She stretched out her hands to Ella pathetically and begged hum1 bly, "My whole heart's happiness is here. Are you going to help them try to take him from me?" The woman, a creature of impulse, was moved. "You'd better give it up, Turkey. I ain't goln' to let you touch that man." "Ah, you're a woman," sighed Glo­ ria. "You know a woman's heart" "Nix on that love spiel, Ella," com­ manded Ryan. "This ain't no valen­ tine party, lady. You can't fool us with that soft-soap talk. We gotta carry out the boss' orders. Buck, look In that closet." (TO BBS CONTINUED.) Is He Sure? Cairo tells us that one of the khe- dive's wives is missing. How long since he took a census of the ladies? DOC v--I SLOW DECISION A FAILING Id do but wait until attei ed'down. waa not long In happening iud iu fruai ut iue tiuuk twisting her handkerchief in her hands, at one lfst mighty effort the bolt yielded, the door flew open and two men stumbled into the room. Little Ella recognized them both In­ stantly. They were Buck Kelly and Turkey Ryan, notorious denizens of the underworld. If ever there were two vicious-looking cutthroats, these men answered their descriptions. To make their ruffianly appearance worse they bore the marks of their recent encounter. Kelly's left eye * had led almost closed, and Ryan had a long "Cut across his cheek where Wright's ring had left Its mark with a slashing blow. He had done even more damage than this, but these showed the plainest. Needless to. say, their tempers had not beea sweetened by the episode. Too Many Allow Doubts and Dlffl- iMltief te Hamper Them In Dobm Good Work. "1 have often noticed," Bismarck once said, "that my will had decided before my thinking was finished." It may be as wrong to think too much as to think too little. When there Is need for Instant decision and quick action he who hesitates is lost--and loses. The "malady of indecision" is rec­ ognized by neurologists. Its victims need to have their minds made up for them. Left to themselves, they would never choose. They would continue to weigh pros and cons, to raise ridi­ culous objections, to conjure up bogles, to be assailed by doubty and years veiry real and painful to them­ selves, though laughed to scprn by ethers. If are phy»»ipjiily and nervously "below par" our minds seem to take a fiend's delight in playing tricks we are ashamed to confess to anybody, lest we be considered crazy. We think how fortunate is every one else we meet who is not so plagued and harassed. If we could look into their minds we should be astonished to find in many cases a chaotic dis* array rivaling the confusion that pre­ vails in our own storehouse of fact and fancy. Much is said today of the control of the mind over the body. Many persons hold that the body has no rights in the pay of disease and de­ crepitude which the mind is bound to respect Along with a deal of mife chief much undeniable good, is done by those who hold to this theory. It often does the recalcitrant body good to be told that there is nothing the matter with It, complaint must ceaBe and It must now be up and stirring courageously. If the mind is to read a salutary lecture now and then to the body the mind in turn needs occa­ sionally to be reminded of a few things by the "unconquerable soul." The mind Itself, paradoxically enough, needs minding. ^ Convict ttadfe Pets of Mice. An interesting story of a convict and his two pet mice is told in the report of Captain HanBon, the prison commissioner of London. Captain Hanson said the con­ vict, who was imprisoned at Park- hurst, had two pet mice, but was or­ dered to another prison, where he was unable to take his pets. Cap­ tain Hanson promised to have them cared for, and himself went to the cell for the mice. "Never shall I* lorget the parting scene," continued the officer. "The man took each of the mice, calling them by name, kissed them, and then put them in a little box he had lined with flannel, and with, them a piece of bread and a piece oi. ofeeeee fee had saved.". ' -5•••**.•• Snubbed. Several medical men and a newspa­ per man were visiting au insane asy­ lum. The employe who was showing thera about pointed out a man who considered himself the Lord. The newspaper man, true to his in­ stincts, seeking to have an • interview, asked the insane one whether he real ly made the earth in seven days. The latter gave him a look of uttei. contempt, and said as he passed ant "I'm not in the mood to talk shopl" INVENTORS BUSY suGftErridfte LOW RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. Form rJt Crank Oqmea Forward With Ideas, Me** of Them Laughable and All Absolutely impractical. No sooner do we have a deplorable catastrophe on the line than scores of inventors--from all parts of the WAflH AMI -nil UU " CUUUO U1 DUUCUIOB to prevent railroad accidents, said an English patent agent in the course of a recent conversation. One man came to me with a smil­ ing face and stated that he had hit upon a scheme whereby railway col­ lisions, the penalty we have to pay for the benefits of steam locomotion and fast travel, would become a thing of the past. He suggested that huge magnets of Immense power Bhould be attached to tie fronts of all locom- tlves. He was confident that the polarizing action of the magnets of two trains, dashing together?, would repel each other and prevent actual contact of the engines. Another gentleman of an Inventive tarn of mind wanted to have all loco­ motives fitted with several Immense clutching devices, built on the lines of the ice-clutch. These were to be worked by a lever in the cab of the engine. All the driver had to do when his locomotive became unmanageable and was oareerlng up the line at break-neck speed was to pull down^the lever. This would put the clutches into action. They would hold firm, and eventually bring the heavy mass of iron and steel to a standstill. It never seemed to occur to him that the clutches would probably tear up the ties and the rails as well, and he had given no thought of the probable fate of the carriage behind the en­ gine. One member of the female persua­ sion thought it a happy inspiration to suspend large indiarubber air-cham­ bers between the carriages to deaden the concussion; while a young girl who had been in a railway accident thought it would be a splendid idea if carriages, instead of being made of metal and wood, were constructed of hardened rubber or leather, but suffi­ ciently pliable to "give" at a shock. At a railway company's meeting some time ago a gentleman thought It would be a good thing if every loco­ motive carried an outlook man. This servant, he said, should be supplied wtyh a pair of powerful binoculars, by means of which he could detect at a considerable distance any obstruction or defect on the iron road, and, by signaling to the driver to shut off steam and apply the brikes, thus avoid an accident or a collision. Bat rail­ roads do not always run in a straight line, and what would be the use of an outlook man and his glasses during the night or a day of dense fog? H'- ' Interrogation Poifljk',' A Philadelphia reporter was ques­ tioning Treasurer Fahnestock over- zealously about the mooted billion- dollar blanket mortgage of the Penn­ sylvania railroad. 'Some of your questions," Mr. Fahne­ stock said, with a smile, "remind me in their zeal of the new flagman. "A new flagman, the first week of his job, was much exercised on ac­ count of the delay of the Green Bullet, the mlle-a-minute flyer. "Finally, 40 minutes late, the Green Bullet came tearing along at 80 miles an hour. "The flagman rushed out frith a red flag. The Grene Bullet stopped with a grinding of brakes and a .tearing up of ties and roadbed. The conductor leaped down excitedly, and the new flagman said: '"Yer late. What kept ye?"* MOVE RIGHT DIRECTION Careless Engineers in Peril of Ja!l< in England, where the absolute block system is practically universal on railroads, engineers rarely run past a danger signal. Still, some have been known to do it. As is well known, the engineer endangers his own life every time he passes a stop signal, and he is well aware of what may be the conse­ quences. The Engineering News re­ marks that what actually causes the engineer's wrong act is "some slip of the attention or temporary failure of co-operation between the observing senses and the brain," and adds that it is now proposed to "apply a greater stimulant toward the prevention of eudh slips, or failures of co-ordination, by adding to the threat of death the further threat-of jail." In other words, it is proposed to make it a penal of­ fense for an engineer to run past a atop signaL Railroad Suppllea Toys. Playthings are supplied free by the London & Northwestern railroad to all children who are traveling first class and have a long journey before them. These playthings consist of miniature locomotives, cars, and other railroad equipment, which are delivered to the children without the making of any record, but with the understanding that they are to be left in the car at the and of the journey.--Popular Maga- ,!n*W . United 8tates, as Usual, Leads. Statistics issued by the bureau of railway news and statistics shows that the United States led In the matter of total amount of railroad construction during the year 1911, when the total amount of new railroads constructed in the world was 17,151 miles, of which 6,394 miles were built in the United States. China's Few ffoilroads. China proper has less than 0.4 mile of open railroad to eevry 100 square miles of territory, and, estimating the population at 827,000,000, there is 0.18 mile-of line to every 10,000 inhabitants. Friendly Suggestion. "I'll give you something to eat if you'll chop wood for it," said the wom­ an positively. "Yes, lady," replied Plodding Pete. "Only it will be cheaper to feed me in ad voire. Chnnrln' W<»0d glVjBa More Safety, Even at the Expense of 8peed, Has become Increasing Aim of the Rallroada* "Safety first" has been adopted as a slogan by another eastern railroad. This moves the Manchester (N. H.) Union to say: "It is an addition to cur­ rent indications that the, get-there-on- time-at-any-cost policy which has dashed out so many lives in recent years on American .railroads is pass­ ing. It iB one of the Bigiiu which af­ ford new promise of a general policy in roalroading whereby the safety of life a ml limb of passengers and sst ployes shall be of prime consideration, even though it may involve some sac­ rifice of speed. "The important thing now is that all train dispatchers, engineers, "firemen, conductors, train crews and others di­ rectly or Indirectly employed in the promotion of traffic shall be made to feel this shibboleth means precisely what it says, without equivocal string or mental reservation. Once let it be understod, or let there remain even a suspicion that the 'safety first' propa­ ganda Is adopted merely for advertis­ ing effect, and that dismissal or repri­ mand awaits those who sacrijlee schedule time or mistaken economy for the sake of safety, and the entire force of the slogan would be lost Raiffynir and Ita Manufacture, Althoigfc until recently the maMK facture of radium baa been carried on almost wholly In ffeance and Ger­ many, there appeara to be no good reason why our American Carnotite should not be treated at home, saya a writer. Carnotite is much more eas­ ily treated than pitchblende and the essential features of methods for its chemical treatment are well known, although much of the mechanical d^ tail of operation has been kept secret. Ah the mechanical requirement, how-. *.i*'" ' AUTOMATIC AIR COUPLING The object here is to provide an air- coupling supported by the car trucks, and in position to be automatically en­ gaged when the cars are coupled and automatically disengaged when the cars are uncoupled, and wherein means Automatic Car Air Coupling. are provided for insuring a correct con­ nection, whether the cars be on straight, curved or uneven track, which, when attached to a car, does not hinder the air-coupling of such car with cars not so provided.--Scien­ tific American. ,;V'V ever, are those which any well ground- ea chemical engineer should be able to solve, there seems to be no good reason why any of our carontite ores should bo shipped abroad, eves Sit two or three tome the present nuuK ket price of the material. Important to Mothers _ '?•; Bxamine carefully every bottle CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy tor Infanta and children, and see that It Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 80 Years. Children Ory for fletcherti Cutoff#' WWMl 7 V* is? . Familiar. "Does h® know her very well?" "He must. I overheard him telling, her that she is getting fat."--Detroit Free Press. . : 1 iimhujs WwqkMagM'ficenl WmM Crops in a/> Western JTAll parts of the Prorincee of 7 Manitoba, Saskatchewan aod Albarta. bava produced won­ derful yields of Wheat, Oats, Barley and Flax. Wheat graded "from Contract to No. 1 Hard, weighed heavy and yiaMad trmm 20 to 48 boahals per acre; 22 bushels was about the total averag*. Miiad Farm-1 inc may be considered fully as profit-1 able an industry as grain raising. The ' excellent grasses full of nutrition, are , the only food required either for beef" or dairy purposes. In 1912. and again in 1913, at Chicago, Manitoba carried off 1 the Chnmpionship for baaf steer. Good schools, markets convenient.climate ex­ cellent. For the homesteader, the mart who wishes to farm extensively, or the) investor. Canada ofiera the biggest op­ portunity of any place on the continent. Apply for descriptive li | reduced railway rates to Superintendent of Immigration,.. . Ottasnu Canada. orto : o. j. STMAMM, m bmSMH L. A *. Sldg. ,CMls«.a.T.*«la. •«,1M Mkm Ant, B•*»»!> Canadian I Government Agent I . •- -->v' Wid • v>.-- i'm 1ft" ' •••• k'., - '.:-W •%$V m Vfl-V {; Pioneer of 8teel Car#f> "The demand for the substitution of Bteel for wood in the construction of railway cars, reminds me that some 25 years ago there came to Washington an enthusiastic old gentleman from California with a model of a steel car," observed Beach Taylor of Omaha, for­ mer secretary to the late John A. Lo> gan, at Washington. "This old gen­ tleman tried year after year to get recognition, and to induce congress to require that all passenger cars be built of steel. The model he had was a fine piece of mechanical work, and plainly showed, ae proved by subsequent events, th^t *• he was 20 years ahead of his generation. It was his custom to put up in a boarding house on G street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, and to invite sena­ tors and members of the house and other public officials to look over hia invention. "The ateel car of today lit practical­ ly identical with that of the old gen­ tleman from California, whose name has escaped me. There were certain patents on his car that probably pre­ vented the railroads from adopting it. My information is that he is dead, and that his patents died before he did. To­ day we know that the steel cars are used on one of the great railroad sys* tems almost exclusively. The columns of the Post a few days ago, showed that steel cars were responsible for saving the lives of more than a score of persons who were injured, and who would probably not be alive today had it not been for the protection afforded tay ihe steel cars." "Ready-to-Farm" Farms With Your Home Already Buj$L IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI^ (70 miW firm tboCalf Coast) 'l laaff fmoed and cleared rarity tar the plow, a *WT Cheap Traveling. It costs an Englishman more In the matter of fares when taking a jour­ ney In England than anywhere on the continent For instance, the railway fares in England are nearly twice as much as those obtaining in Belgium, for the latter is accounted the cheapfest country in Europe in which to travel, both speed and accommodation con­ sidered. The charges in Russia are a trifle er than those in Belgium. But ause the trains there go at such a slow rate, and the third-class car­ riages are scarcely habitable, the fares in the czar's domain may be said to be more expensive. Cheaper again than England Is Ger­ many, where luxurious accommodation can be obtained at low rates. But even less expensive is traveling to France, after which comes Italy. low* bees terrible appetite* *•'hi? Austrian Railroad Lines. 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