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r- |,;." •; . .•ferV*; fe6V $V'V ' : VFJ^v * .r ^ i;* j? Kr'vr, THE McHENRY PLAINDE&LER, MCHENRY, ILL. iii Tillf i i in 'f- jfet-v ' 4 '*'•;. Vt . i-i lift THE HEART OF NIGHT Wl f ^ J ' x } ' ' v ,K A STORY OF THE GftCAT NORTH WEST ^VINGIEE.AOE ILLUSTRATIONS by CÔ rsfc&J QQPY/?JC/iT OY £>OD2. rt£AD AND COClPAfiY :>#• **\,C N.v • • h'c ;&• SYNOPSIS. --9-- Slletz of Daily's lumber camp directs • stranger to the camp. Walter Sanrtry totroduces himself to John Dally, fore- Man, ns "the Dilllngrworth Lumber Co.. or most of It." He makes acquaintance With tiie camp and the work. In an.em- •rgenr-y he proves to the foreman that he does rot lack judgment. Siletz tells him of the Preacher. He discovers that 0^1 ft as bears the »ign of the Siletz tribe otT In- dfens and wonders what her surname Is. lir the flush of a tender mpment he calls her '"tlte Night Wind In the Pines." and Jclsaws her. Poppy Ordway. a magazine Writer from New York, comes to Daily's <o get material for a romance of the lum­ ber region. Hampden of the Yellow Pines Co. wants Sandry to keep off a tract of Stunrpage he claims title to and Sandry ha« bought as the East Belt. Hampden Set* Up a cabin on the East Holt and warns trespassers off. Sandry's men pull down the cabin. Sandry compares Slletz arjii Poppy. Sandry's and Hampden's mon Hfrht over the disputed tract. The Prracher stops the fight. Sandry finds thnt fhe deed to the East Belt has never been fecorded. H«s decides to get out his CcriTract first and fight for the stumpage afterward. Poppy scents trickery and flirts with Hampden to gain his confi­ dence. She tells Sandry that Hampderyls crooked and that nhe'11 get him. Poppy g""*ss to Salem In search of evidence affainst Hampden. Sandry and Siletz ride to the seashore and Siletz sees the ocean for th-> first time. Sandry's men desert him for Hampden, who lias offered more money. Siletz gees to her friends the 8lwashes and persuades them to work for Sandry to save his contract. Poppy tells Sandry that she han proof of Hamp­ den's filine bogus entries in collusion with th« CDmroissioner. She' sees Siletz and Sandry talking together and becomes je&ious. The big timber raft Is started on Its way. But Is blown up and Sandry is dangerously injured. Poppy Insists on taking car* of Sarjdry and says she Is his promise 1 Wife. "No," cries Siletz. "he kissed me %nd I am his woman." CHAPTER XVII--Continued. - "The Preacher!" she gasped aloud, "oh, father 1 What have I done! I have Bhut my ears to the winds of Ood!" When, an hoar later, she came up on the cook-shack porch and sto6d loaning in the doorway, spent with her wild paPsion, Ma Daily primly fed tbe fire in the range, setting about tin supper tor the men left at camp. "Mother," said Siletz dully, "she liefl." "Yes--I know it But what you goln' to do, child? You love him an' you're right--so would I ef I was thirty year /uiui^ru, 1U1 uc B a uiau, uaat ui uu East." The general turned to her work and a sigh heaved her ample breast. "It's all in the day's work," she thought, "an' you had to take your chanct. Johnny--but you're strong, my iaon. you're a strong man--like yer daddy." So began a strange time in camp. 'Daily came home in three days, eager land grim-lipped, and in the pocket of l^lis flannel shirt he carried the big fcheck for which Sandry had worked and struggled. He had delivered the raft in safety, along with the scaler's report, receiving the payment which 'had been ready in the hands of a thin, gray m^n who leaned from the steamer's rail to exchange a few curt ;Words. Ma Daily c(.«v»red him in the kitch­ en late in tbe night as he finished his careful riuiflfla of the camp "Son," she said gently, "they's a hard knock coiftln' to you an' I want 'to give you warnin', though I know lyou'll take it etandin', Johnny, as yer daddy took all o' his, an' I've seen Jhim take soma corkers. "I know what you've always thought to' S'letz, son, sence she was a teeuey chap--I've watched her quiet ways open yer heart an' seen her walk in j ,an' I've hoped myself some day it d 'all work out.-fer she's always turned t o y o u i n t r o u b l e . I t ' s i n s t i n c t . B u t •son--son, haven't you seen nothin 'sence Sandry come among us? Hain't ye read the sigtis?" The foreman had stopped at the sink and lifted a tin ^dipper of water for a drink. At the last wonls he put the vessel slowly down untouched and turned an amazed face toward the old lady. His blue eyes were wide, and the mother glo­ ried like a girl in the good man- strength of him--the broad shoulders, the muscled arms, bare to the elbow, nhapely hark and the straight hips of the hill-climber. ; "What you talkin' of, ma?" he asked. "Jest this. S'letz lai4 out her heart fer all to see when they brought Sandry home an' that--that Jezebel woman shamed her before us all. She said, on the heels o' th' child's cry of lgve, that she was Sandry's promised wife. I think she lied--but S'letz is breakln' her heart fer the Easterner." t Here, withcut another word. Ma Daily opened a door behind her and creaked through, closing it softly. Of such inherent tact was she. she did not wish even his mother to see big John Daily take his hard knock, even though he "took it standin'," with only a tremor of tt"1 hand that held the dipper. When he met Siletz in the morning he jooked at her with eyes a little more haggard--there was a deeper line at the corners of his mouth. The girl bore traces of the first an­ guish she ha4 ever known in the pal­ lor of her face, the dull look of smol­ dering flame under the daze of help­ lessness. There was no one in the eating ro<?m besides themselves. ColUmn was out in the hills with the crew, for at the first sight of Sandry still alive. Daily had given orders to go on with the work and Siletz had stopped between the tables at supper time. "Will the Siletz stay?" she had asked simply and it had taken no more than that. The camp went ahead in­ definitely. Now Daily stopped her with a great hand on her shoulder and looked hun­ grily into her face. "S'letz," he said softly, "is it true?" She raised her eyes to his and an­ swered as simply, "Vas." There was no need of many words among these people of strong lives, of straightforward principles. The big man straightened up a bit and shut his lips hard, as if he bit upon pain, looked after the vanishing figments of all his dreams that had peopled the hills of the future. His mother had seen that look in the eyes of John Daily the first--who had "took his hard knocks standin'"--that look of patient strength. For it she had followed him into the hard life of a lumber camp and never regret­ ted it. Now it spent itself on the rising hill, visible through the open door across Siletz' dark head, and John Dally the Second was ready to face his loss. "Siletz," > he said gently, "always re­ member that I'm the best friend you got on earth--I'll be waitin' all my life to help you ef you ever need me." And he smoothed his hard hands easily down her arms, lingering a mnmnnt with h«r hands folded in his palms. Then he turned away to the day's work. There was a small un­ dertone of softness in his voice at the last words that was never to leave it again. Calmlj of t#e E CHAPTER XVIII. "Say •Sandry'!" ly Poppy Ordway took charge stricken man in the pine of­ fice. All of the day and as much of the night as her strength would per­ mit she was beside him, soothing his restlessness, tending him with a skill that showed intelligent training Outwardly she was as quiet as the spring days. Inwardly she panted and "The Preacherl" She Gasped Aloud. suffered with the abandon of the pas­ sionate nature which sees its desires in danger. More and more she grew to fear and hate the silent, soft-footed girl whose face between its dark braids was a mask of tragedy. With ber woman's instinct and her almost unnatural cleverness she knew that way lay danger. Selfishly, in self- centered passion, this woman loved, and to gain the object of that love she felt within her heart that she could wreck the universe. And its object was in twofold danger--from Sandty's death and from Silets. Therefore she began to watch Siletz with catlike glances from under her lashes, and to think with all her bril­ liant brain of some way to eliminate her from the question, of some bond stronger than her work with Hamp­ den to bind herself into Sandry's lifei should he recover. As for Sandry himself, he was far on that road which has no turning. For a day or two he had lain in tor­ por. to rouse at last, as a high fever set in, to delirium. He began to talk, first in a rambling, reminiscent whis­ per of his early life. He was a charm­ ing, eager, high-souled boy again, and the woman beside him saw clearly into the clean depths of his life. But on the second day of his de­ lirium something seemed to fall upon him from the past that drew a line of trouble around his lips and set some great, hard question in the hot. blue eyes. For long intervals he lay silent, as if the tired mind were turning and returning some important thing, to break out suddenly in excited speech. "No!" he cried out suddenly; "no, by heaven! Mot while I'm alive to right it!" And again: "Legitimate! My God, it's done le­ gitimately!" This was as the sun, a soft, golden, benign sun of early spring, dropped over the western ridge, sending long, blue shadows across the narrow val­ ley. As the shadows darkened into twilight Ma Daily, bearing some strengthening brew, loomed hugely in the office door. "I'll take watch now," she said, "you ben on guard a long while. Bet­ ter go get some rest." But Poppy Ordway, who was bend­ ing closely over the cot, sprang sud­ denly erect. Her cheeks were flushed, and in her face was a strange excite­ ment. "No," she said firmly, "I sV ill stay the night out. He is delirious still and I cannot leave him." Ma Daily, that shrewd old general of men and meals, took keen note of every small thing in the hushed room, set clown the broth and turned away, her whole kindly heart filled with sus­ picion. Outside in the darkness Siletz stood a little later and looked through the open window at the figure on the white cot, and the watcher beside it. Her hands were clasped tightly to­ gether and her dark eyes were heavy with unshed tears. "If he--dies," she gasped dryly be­ tween her parted lips, "I'll kill her and go with him' to hell, for he has no God!" But Sandry did not die. For a week he traveled on strange paths of mem­ ory. calling on Ruth to come out of the gloaming of a far land, standing aside to watch Naomi send back the ones she loved, and sometimes crying out sharply, "Oh, Absalom! My son, my son!'1' Again he laughed bitterly and spoke of lost faith in men. Throughout the week Poppy Ordway stood such a vigil as only a woman who loves, be she good or bad, can stand. With a clever jealousy she kept everything under her own capable hands, only giving grudging place to Ma Daily when she could no longer command her overtaxed strength. One night she refused to leave San­ dry at all, firmly dismissing Ma. who raged inwardly but was no match for her in the open ways of bluff. At mid­ night the owner of the Dillingworth suddenly openod his eyes, wealc and tired, but sane. He saw, on the dim background of faint light from a shad­ ed candle, the transfigured face of the watcher, and with a feeble smile of utter content dropped back to ob­ livion--this time the oblivion of heal­ ing sleep. With that look, that weak smile, the woman knew that he had turned his face toward life and would Journey back to it, and the surge and sway of passionate Joy rocked her soul in a storm of emotion. She stepped lightly and restlessly about, straightening a cloth on a table, tipping the candle shade at a better angle, for she felt imperatively the need of action. She picked up an empty pitcher and in the starlit dark­ ness went up the path to the cook- shack, still with that bounding, light step of victory, and entered the porch where the pump stood. There, alone in the night, leaning against a post of the porch, a slim little figure kept also a midnight vigil. The woman looked at her and all the danger that lay that way arose sud­ denly before her, rousing her hatred swiftly, and something ugly and cat­ like prompted her to strike. She laughed, a little, low, musical laugh, and spoke in a caressing tone. "Congratulate me," she said softly "the fever has left him. I'll have him up before the first flowers bloom in the valleys. Dear boy--dear Walt!" Siletz. a moment before drooping, whirled upon her like a fury. Even In the dusk Miss Ordway saw the hid­ den fire leap up uncovered in her eyes and heard priqial danger whimper in her voice. "Walt!" she cried, springing toward her and lifting a hand whose slim fin­ gers threatened her throat, "say San­ dry!" Mtss Ordway In her broadcloth sprang back against the rough planks of the cook-shack wall, her face gone white in the shadows and sudden, grip­ ping, choking fear in her throat. She put up a useless hand--a trembling hand, palm outward--and strove to speak--once, twice; Then, "Saildry," she faltered like a craven. She was whipped, scared, her power gone. But the wild thing died In Siletz a & it had lived, on the turn of a moment, and she let out a great breath and covered her face with her hands after a fashion she had. "No," she whispered in her palms, "he kissed me and I am his woman! Oh, I am unworthy! ' What would I have done?" And she shuddered, as if in fear. So the camp went forward. John and his silent crew cut steadily Into the timber at the north and sent the logs down to the backwater. Here he kept a guard, for although there was nothing of Importance that Hampden could do since J»e had played for the Dillingworth contract and failed, still he could steal the logs which lay all too close to the mill at the mouth of the slough--and John Daily was strung to a higher pitch than he had ever been in all his lifelong timber war with the Yellow Pines. As soon as Sandry was able to bear it, Daily told him of the safe delivery of the raft, of his trip home In the Indians' sling, of his subsequent de­ lirium, and at last showed him the big check. At sight of the paper, sweated and creased from pocket-wear, the sick man's face' flushed and his eyes sparkled with blue flame. "We won, John," he said, "we all won--you, I, Miss Ordway and-- S'letz." There was a little pause before the last word and then he went on. "I want to shake hands with us all when I'm able. We're a Winning bunch." As Boon as Daily had gone Poppy Ordway leaned so close that the subtle perfume of her garments intoxicated him strangely, and said exultantly. "And now for Hampden, Walter-- I'm ready to go after him right." Sandry looked up at her from his pillow and then out along the spring- tinted hills, and drew his brows to­ gether in thought. Presently he spoke. "You've been BO good to me--I can't say how good, how much you have stood for to me here--but--but, if you please. Miss Ordway--Poppy, my friend--I'd rather you'd let Hampden alone." "What?" cried Poppy aloud, while all her instincts were clamoring for adjustment. "What do you mean, Walter Sandry?" "Can't you see, you clever woman, that I must get Hampden myself? That this score must be settled first­ hand?" And Ma Daily, coming softly along the grass to the door, heard the words. "Knowed it," she said with a sharp satisfaction, "he's a man an' I knowed it from th' start." velous beauty--and she, too, of her open word was "his woman!" "Little S'letz," he said, though he had meant to use her name alone, "Little S'ieti--" But what he would haye said was left unspoken, for Ma Daily creaked in the doorway with a bowl cf broth. "My goodness, ma," he said whim­ sically, "if you don't stop filling me with broth I'll refuse to eat at all. I want a slice of ham and some of your incomparable rice pudding." "You want what you get. You alp this all." As Sandry obediently finished the last drop, the general reachcd in the capacious pocket of her dish apron. "Here," she said, "see what I found." She held squarely before his eyes a little red morocco notebook, opened at a page far to the back. "Miss Ordway dropped it as she rode off on the bay this mornin' an' I picked it up." Without volition, Sandry glanced at the white page, which held a few -flteatly tabulated notes. "We ought not to read it, ma," he was saying, "it may be private--" Then a change came over his fea­ tures and involuntarily he peered closer. Ma's keen, old eyes were upon his face and she saw it slowly lose what little color returning liCe had given It. DOG'S CHARACTER A MYSTERY it 8*'.' , Owner* Unable to Determine Whether He Is a Detective or Inclined • to Kleptomania. The Newlyweds out in Crescent Hill are wondering if Rex is a thief or a detective. Rex is a dog, a white, woolly dog. who 15 minutes after having his bath looks as if he hadn't had a bath for a week. Rex is not a hunter. He doesn't know what game looks like. He doesn't even chasu cats. He is afrsid of other dogs. He is so tractable that he makes friends with anybody who pays him the slightest attention. He would be on terms cf Intimacy with a burglar in two minutes. So it can be seen that Rex's owners had good reason for thinldng him good for nothing, even if they did love him. Now they are wondeii'o wheth­ er he is worse than good for nothing or a valuable retriever. i' A few weeks ago Mrs. Newlywed lost a purse containing $16 in caBh. A long search failed to revua* it, %ud j ttjffft* given '»» frtr lost Last Sunday Rex walked into the house with ..omething in his mouth. He laid his quarry on the Joor. It was the purse and the $16 were in­ tact. Now the juestion at the home of the Newlyweds is: Did Rex play de­ tective and md that money for Its legitimate owners, or did ho return it after carrying it away himself? Rex's real character promises to remain a mystery for a long time.--Louisville Times. Our Able Citizen. Hudson Maxim is best known for his work in high explosives and their application to modern ordnance. It was In 1890 that he developed and manufactured the first Bmokeiess pow­ der to be adopted by the United States government. Following ex­ haustive experiments at Sandy Hook, he sold our government in 1901 the secret of his high explosive maxlmite. He has been president of the Aero­ nautical Society of America, tbe so­ ciety which is doing so much toward awakening the country to tbe need or an increase <n r\r aerial detenu*. DIVIDED INTO SIX RACES Differences in Branches of Mankind Are Marked--Origin of the Semitic Peoples. Sanskrit is the language- which was spoken by tbe easternmost branch of the Indo-Uermanic or Aryan race. It cannot, therefore, be said whether tbe race or the language peculiar to that race is the elder, probably the former. The advent of the Celtic Aryan Into Europe is shrouded in mystery. There are apparently not even traditions of their time of emigration. The Semitic race is one of the six races of man­ kind, and Is distinct from the Aryan. The races are lndo-Uermanlc or Ar­ yan, w!iite, of Europe, America. Per­ sia. Incfia and Australia. The Mongo­ lian or Turanian, yellow and brown. Asia. The Semitic, white, Africa. Arabia, etc. Tbe npgro, black. Af­ rica. The Malay or Polynesian, brown. Australasia. Tbe American Indian, red. North and South America. The Semites are supposed to be the descendants of Shem--that is. the name originated In thU wav. The term CHAPTER XIX. A Lie and a Theft. Sandry recovered rapidly. His youth and lithe strength were powerful aids and the broken Bones Inside the plas­ ter casts knitted busily. With his re­ turn to consciousness, Miss Ordway relaxed her vigilance. She gave up her place without protest to Ma Dally and began to spend a part of her days in the little room. This had been San­ dry's urgent request. "See what you've lost already in time and. strength and energy," be pleaded, "please go to your own work." On one of the first days of Ma Daily's attendance, he asked to see Siletz. The general was wise and she sent the girl alone. Sandry closed his eyes and lay waiting for the light step that alwaysj*emlnded him of wild things in the forest--)so slipping, soft and hushed was it. Presently he heard it coming down the slope. It slowed as it neared the office and for a long time stopped al­ together outside the door. His heart leaped uncontrollably and conflicting emotions flushed his face aa^he called her softly. "Come here, S'letz," he heard him­ self saying, though for his life it was not what he wished to say, and she came and dropped on her knees beside him, clasping her handB on the sheet at his side. There was nothing of the conscious avowal of Poppy's words in her look and attitude, only the simple "betrayal of a nature, open as the day. The shining light of joy in her face, the hushed acknowledgment of God's sparing of his life, was all-suffi­ cient. In a flash he heard the words of Kolawmie's half-breed: "--fqr S'letz is your woman." And he knew they were true. By every sign of her soul and body they were true, as simply as the flower wor­ ships the sun all day. And there in the little south room, from whose open window he could hear the click of a typewriter, was the most brilliant woman of his own Sworld whom he had ever known, a woman soon to be fa­ mous for her great gift and her mar- was not In general use until the first quarter of this century, though it was used in Germany as early as 1781. It is applied to the races akin to the He­ brew, such as Arabian, or Assyrian. Some authority consider the primi­ tive Beat o the race to be Africa, others Arabia, still others the lower Euphrates. The languages form an important family, and are divided into two principal branches, the northern and southern. To the northern branch belong the Assyrian and Aramean (or Syrian). and tbe Palestinian, (Hebrew and Phoenician). To the Southern belong the Arabic and the Ethtoplc. Saved prom the Enemy. Bar Harbor. Me., is fearfully and wonderfully protected. In Spanish war times its residents protested against the danger, and the humorous war de­ partment s*nt them four antiquated muzzle-loadrag cannon, relics of the Clvi\ war. The much-relieved summer folks-itook the cannon to their hearts with kll sincerity, however, and posted thenj at excellent points of vantage, wbtfe they may still be seeu anc smwd at. He Stared at the Few Scant Notes. saw a look of beT?&d«rment, of amaze and something very like fear settle down upon it, drawing the features, tightening the skin. He stared hard at the few scant notes, then raised dilated eyes to her. "Are you sure. ma. sure--?" he asked in a strangely altered voice. "Sure? Ever know me to speak when 1 wa'nbssure, son?" said the gen­ eral grimly. For, though the notes on the page were so few and so meaningless to an outsider, it was plain that they had fallen under the one pair of eyes whose owner they most vitally con­ cerned. This was what Walter Sandry read: Tuesday night: Ruined! Ruined! Help­ less, and he does not know 1 Wednesday: Scoundrels all--James B. Whitby--Musseldorn--Copper and Zinc, Consolidated. Legitimate! My God, it's done legitimately! Within the law! M*y such law be damned, James B. Whitby-- 1 am the law this night. . . . Thursday: Dad, old chap! When he had finished, his weak hands trembled on the sheet and there was the look of a cornered animal in the bright, blue eyes that sought the old woman's pleadingly. "Ma," said Sandry hoarsely, "take it back and put it where Miss Ordway will casually find it, and don't say i saw it." Without a word, Ma Daily picked up her bowl, put the little red book in her pocket and took Siletz away to the noon work, leaving the man for the first time alone. Of a wide and cun­ ning knowledge was this old handler of men. She knew that he would think best in solitude. "Mother," said Siletz as they passed up the path, "she never dropped that." "Course not. I lied an' stole both, but it's worth while. There's some- thin' threatenin' Sandry, an' though he's pretty weak to be worried. It's best he should know." And in the meantime Poppy Ordway was talking to Hampden on the Silets road. The man was passionate, force­ ful, a little worried by her long ab­ sence from their rides, and he used every persuasion at his command to win her from tbe Dally camp. "What for do you want to stay there?" he begged. "Don't you know I am writing a lum­ ber story?" "Sure. But why cant you come to the Yella Pines?" "And have the country talking? I ride with you too much 2or I have a reputation in the great worla that I can't afford to lose id thd little one." (TO BE CONTINUES! What V*e Duke 8al£. The duke of Wellington, of course never said "Up, guards, and at 'em!" at Waterloo, but 1» it TBnerally know* bow near be came to saying It? Sb Herbert Maxwell, in his biography ol the duke, points out what is the pro^ able origin of the pleasing legend. Lata on the afternoon of that memorable June 18 the First and Second Battal­ ions of the Third Chasseurs wers foremost in the attack on Mont Saint Jean. They had reached a crossroad, unaware that the British troops were lying behind the wayside banks, ao cording to orders, to remain prone when under tire, but not actually en­ gaged. Then, at the proper moment, Wellington's voice was heard, "clea? above the storm," "Stand up, guards!" It was Maltlaad's brigade of Uusrda that thus "stood up." and, with a vie torious rush, swept th« chasseurs ouA of the combat.--Manchester Guardian MOHGQPSE JS A PEST . », v' < ; ' WEST INDIES SEEKING PLAN TO GET RID t>F IT. Government Rewards Have Only Had the Effect of Adding to Their Number, and the Problem Has ' Become Serious. "The mongoose pest Is becoming really serious; it is worse than ever," writes a Trinidad correspondent to a British paper. Formerly, he says, the government gave a substantial reward for each body or tail produced, but no sub­ stantial reduction resulted. Some en­ terprising peasants were suspected of making a successful minor Industry by breeding the mongoose, and in one ward it was established that an inno­ cent warden had paid for the same tails over and over again. As soon as bought they were buried, only to be dug up and sold agaiiL in the morn­ ing. Another amusing, if expensive, thing occurred In this connection. In two ad­ joining wards an experiment was tried. At one they gave a flat rate-- 75 cents each--male or female. At another the price was $1 for the fe­ male and 50 cents for the male. After some time It dawned on the official purchasers that there was a great preponderance of females in the latter ward. The simple peasant had again proved one too many for the au­ thorities. Inquiry proved that all the females caught in both wards were sold in the one where the price was raised, and (.11 the males vice versa. Then the government got tired of It, and no further reward was given. The mongoose, it may be recalled, was Imported into the West Indies in the seventies of last century, to ex­ terminate the rats which ravaged the cane fields. They did this most ef­ fectually, but, having destroyed the rats, they turned their attention to poultry and birds. Then lizards fell a prey to their voracioul appetites, with the result that the insects in­ creased in an alarming extent. Final­ ly the mongoose became as great a pest there as rabbits are in Australia. National Debt of France. The national debt of France listed before the outbreak of war was $6,- 436,129,000, (American Whitaker, 1915, latest figures available, 1913). Assum­ ing that subscriptions to the French loan of victory reach a total of $4,000,- 000,000, the total debt of France at the present time would, according to the h«nt RHtlmat« available at the mo­ ment, be in the neighborhood of $16,- 800,000,000. By the listing before the war, which Is chiefly for the fiscal year ended in October, 1913, the larg­ est national debt was that of France, With Russia second, the United King­ dom third, Italy fourth, and Spain fifth. From the outbreak of war until October of this year Germany had been the largest borrower, Great Brit­ ain the second, Russia third, France fourth, and Austria fifth. Germany's debt has increased by more than 500 per cent, Great Britain's by about 160 per cent, Russia's by about 50 per cent, while that of France has In­ creased by less than one-third. This does not, however, include the "loan of victory." Kipling No Lover of Cats. Rudyard Kipling, says the London Chronicle, Is evidently no lover of cats, for the tale of "The Cat Who Walked by Himself is based on the latest hostility between the cat and the man. He describes how the dog, the horse and the cat in turn are at­ tracted to the cave of our ancestors and become domesticated, but the cat still retains his freedom. Even though he has fallen a victim to the seduc tlons of the fireside, and agreed to ac­ cept the terms imposed by the man and the dog, he never becomes really friendly. You remember the lines: "He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just as long as they don't pull his tail too hard. But . . . when night comes he is the cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to* him. Then he goes out to the wet, wild woods, up the wet, wild trees, or on the wet, wild roofs waving his wild tail and walking by his wild love." Different Fish 8tory. J. Clarence Harvey, the Lambs' ch'h jsvit, is telling this story about elimi­ nation: The proprietor of a fish store had a new sign. "Fresh Fish for Sale Here." "Why say 'here'?" said the first customer. "It's unnecesary." He painted "here" out. Said the second customer, "Why 'for sale?' Of course they're for sale."' He painted out two words more. "Why 'fresh ?' " said a third customer. "You wouldn't sell them if they weren't fresh, would you?" At last the sign read just "Fish." Along came a fourth cus­ tomer. *What*s the use of having that sign," he asked, "when you can smell them a block away?"--New York World. Why He Came. Landlady (delightedly)--And so D« Curem advised you to cone here? New Boarder--Yes; I'm under tret* ment and he said i mart avoid eating. Leech Trade Killed by War. The war in Europe has killed the business of catching and selling leecfaes. France used to be the great market for these blood-sucking worms, but in recent years most of them have come from Hungary, Croatia, Dalma- tia and Turkey. The greatest consum­ ers were America and England. Now leeches can no longer be shipped from these places, and England is getting leeches from India. At the same time doctors are using more modern meth­ ods of drawing blood from inflamed parts of the body. The Germ Peril. "We knqw a great deal more about germs nowadays than we» used to know." "Quite true. And I think the knowledge has made the average per­ son less courageous than formerly." "How so?" "For instance, by merely shaking your handkerchief in a man's fact these days you can alarm him almost as much as if th^tt&ndkerchief were a 'six-shooter/" If cross, feverish, constipated, give "California Syrup of Figs." A laxative today saves a sick child tomorrow. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their bowels, which become clogged up with waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach •our. Look at the tongue, mother! If coat­ ed, or your child is listless, cross, fev­ erish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat heartily, full of cold or has sore throat or any other children's ailment, give a teaspoonful of "California Syrup of Figs," then don't worry, because it Is perfectly harmless, and in a few hours all this constipation poison, sour bile and fermenting waste will gently move out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. A thor­ ough "inside cleansing" is ofttimes all that is necessary. It should be the first treatment given in any sickness. Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle of "California. Syrup of Figs," which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Adv. Careless. "What brought you here, my poor man?" asked the prison visitor. "Just plain absent-mindedness," re­ plied the prisoner. "Why, how coaid that be?" "I forgot to scratch the monogram off a watch before I pawned it." Piles Relieved by First Application And cured In 6 to 14 days by PAZO OINTMHNT. t)w •niversal remedy for all forma of Piles. DraggUtt Mfand money If It falli. 60c. On the Roof Garden. Jlggs--My half brother is engaged to my wife's half sister. Jaggs--When will they be made one? Dr. Pierce's Pellets are best for liver, bowels and stomach. One little Pellet fof a laxative--three for a cathartic.--Adv. A lawyer doesn't know everything but he thinks a client thinks he does. When Housework Drags Keeping house is hard enough when well. The woman who has a bad back, blue, nervous spells, and dizzy headaches, has a hard lot, for the family tasks never let t>mhohw thn mntiit nf kid­ ney trouble and not the much-feared "woman's weakness." 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