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r p-rtf 6 By Louis Joseph Vane* 3:' r1P» ^wfir.-^wf fj 4 I ̂ HOW THE STORY GOE ^ ' .' v -^-- • Hugh Whitaker is told, after • diagnosis by eminent surgeons, that he cannot live longer than six months. Hit sweetheart jilts him. The double blow stuns him. Peter Stark, his friend, proposes a South sea voyage on Stark's yacht. Whitaker consents, but runs away to a country hotel with the intention of committing suicide. He surprises Mary Ladislas, daughter of a rich and hard New Yorker, lh tHe act of drinking poison and stops her. She has been deserted by the man with whom she had planned a clandestine marriage. Whitaker marries the girl to save her good name, gives her money and immediately puts her on a train for home. He turns--and walks into Peter Stark's arms. "No more foolishness," says Stark., "You've got to go sailing with me." The sick man shrugged wearily: "All right," he replies. "Have your own way." What happen* next Is told in this installment. You'll find It mighty interesting. ' '«V,' >?* • m CHAPTER IV--Continued. . " --4-- Beyond drawing heavily on his bank and sending Bruminond a brief note, Whitaker failed to renew communica­ tion with his home. He sank into a state of semi-apathetic content, The Adventuress was five months out of port before he began to be conscious that he was truly accursed. There cams a gradual thickening of the shadows that threatened to eclipse his existence. And then", one day as they dined with the lonely trader of an isolated station in the D'Entrecasteaux • Islands, he fell from his chair as if poleaxed. He regained consciousness only to shiver with the chill of the 4 wind that's fanned by the wings of : death. It was impossible to move him. The agonies of the damned were his when, with exquisite gentleness, they * lifted him to a bed. ... Stark sailed la the Adventuress be- tore sundown of the same day, purpos­ ing to fetch a surgeon from Port Moresby. Whitaker said a last farewell - to his friend, knowing in his soul that they would never meet again. Then be composed himself to die quietly. But the following morning brought a hap- j chance trading schooner to the Island, 'i and with it, in the estate of super- F, jtargo, a crapulous Scotch gentleman f who had been a famous specialist of s London before drink laid him by the i heels. He performed a heroic oper­ ation upon Whitaker within an hour, announced by nightfall that the pa­ ri tient would recover, and the next day '•< sailed with his ship to end his days in w some abandoned Australian boozlng- l k«n--as Whitaker learned la Sydney several months later. * Id the same place, and at the same tUtoe, he received his first authentic news of the fate of the Adventuress. f The yacht had struck on an uncharted reef, in heavy weather, and had foun­ dered almost immediately. Of her entire company, a solitary, sailor man­ aged toweling to a life-raft until picked up, a week after the wreck, by a tramp * _T_ ... , .. _ j Bieuuisuip on wIiuse ueens ue out his news and his life in the same < breaths. Whitaker hunted up an account of : tiie disaster in the files of a local news­ paper. He read that the owner, Peter Stark, Esq., and his guest, H. M. Whit­ aker, Esq., both of New York, had gone down with the vessel. There was also a cable dispatch from New York detailing Peter Stark's social a and financial prominence--evidence that the news had been cabled home. To all who knew him Whitaker was as dead as Peter Stark. *There is a world outside the one you •S-",; v know I ' To which for eurtoasness HIT can't ^ ; compare; Is It Is the place where wilful missings ' *<>. ;.r£" As we can testify, for we are there." •* . " * 4' Kipling's lines buzzed through his head more than once in the course of the next few years; for he was "there." They were years of such - - vagabondage as only the South Seas j countenance; neither unhappy nor *: ' very strenuous, nor yet scarred by the tooth of poverty. Whitaker had be- i- tWtea four afrd five thousand dollars la traveller's checks which he convert­ ed into cash while In Sydney. Me- aaory of the wreck of the Adventuress was already fading from the Australian *u#nd; no one dreamed of challenging the signature of a man seven months dead. And as certainly and as quietly as the memory, Whitaker faded away; Hugh Morten took his place, and Syd­ ney knew no more, nor did any other parts wherein he had answered to his rightful name. 4 The money stayed by him handsome- _ rly. Thanks to a strong constitution in i /ft tough body (now that its malignant i demon was exorcised) he found it easy to pick up a living by one means or ' another. Indeed, be played many parts in as many fields before joining hands Nslth a young Englishman he had , grown to like and entering upon what seemed a forlorn bid for fortune. Thereafter he prospered amazingly, w*: "When at length he did make up his v-J.8ttnd to go home, he was lu Melbourne With Lynch, his partner. Whitaker passed old friends In the street. They Were George Presbury and his wife-- Vthne Forsythe that was--self-evident tourists, looking the town over between > gteamers. Presbury, with no thought In his bumptious head of meeting Hugh Whitaker before the day of judg *B«nt, looked at and through him with­ out a hint of recognition; but his wife J".'Wis another person altogether. Whlt- HBser could not be blind to the surprise perlexlty that shone In her eyes, -"liven though be pretended to be biind ! her uncertain nod; long after his ; back alone was visible to her he could j..Jfeel her inquiring stare boring Into ten while he prowled around the city and found himself. Now and again in the course of his wanderings he en­ countered well-remembered faces, but always without eliciting the slightest gleam of recognition; circumstances that only went to prove how thor­ oughly dead and burled he was in the estimation of his day and generation. Nothing, indeed, seemed as he re­ membered it. But his ultimate and ut­ ter awakening to the truth that his home had outgrown him fell upon the fourth afternoon following his return, when a total but most affable gentle­ man presented himself to Whitaker'a consideration with a bogus name and a genuine offer to purchase him a drink, and promptly attempted to en­ mesh him in a confidence game that had degenerated Into a vaudeville joke in the days when both of them had worn knickerbockers. Whitaker pri­ vately admitted that he was out­ classed, that it' was time for him to seek the protection of his friends. • He began with Drummond. The lat­ ter, of course, had moved his offices. Whitaker found him independently es­ tablished in an Imposing suite in the Woolworth Building--found him an ashenfaced man of thirty-five, who clutched the side of his roll-top desk as if to save himself from falling. "Whitaker!" he gasped. "My God!" "Flattered," said Whitaker, "I'm sure. He derived considerable mischievous amusement from Drummond's patent stupefaction. It was all so right and proper--as it should have been. He considered his a highly satisfactory resurrection. Seldom does a scene pass off as one plana It; but Drummond played up his part in a most public- spirited fashion--gratifying, to say the least. It took him some minutes to recov­ er, Whitaker standing by and beaming. He remarked changes, changes as striking as the improvement in Drum­ mond's fortunes. Physically his ex- partner had gone off a bit; the seden­ tary life led by the average successful man of business in New York had marked his person unmistakably. Only his face seemed as it had always been --sharply handsome and strong. Whit­ aker remembered that he had always somewhat meanly envied Drummond his good looks; he himself had been fashioned after the new order of archi­ tecture--with a steel frame. He discovered that they were both talking at once--furiously--and, not 1 ance out of my money--Ave hundred a month ought to be enough. I shall Intestate, and she'll go*, everything then of course. She has your« address and wir communicate with you as soon as eh# gets settled down In town. Faithfully, Hugh Morten Whitaker. "If it hadn 't been so much in char­ acter," commented Drummond, "I'd've thought the thing a forgery^-or a poor joke. Knowing you as well as I did, however * . , I lust sat back to wait for word from Mrs. Whitaker." , "And you never heard, except that once!" said Whitaker thoughtfully. "Here's the sole and only evidence I ever got to prove that you had told the truth." Drummond handed Whitaker a sin­ gle, folded sheet of note-paper stamped with the name of the Waldorf-Astoria. Dear Sir: I inclose herewith a bank­ note for t600, which you will be kind enough to credit to the estate of yout late partner and my late husband, Mr. Hugh Morten Whitaker. Very truly yours, Mary Udlilai Whitaker. "Dated, you see, the dny after the report of your death was published here," "But why?" demanded Whitaker, dumfounded. "Why?" "Mrs. Whitaker may have'desired to marry again Immediately. If I'm any judge of human nature, she argued that repayment of the loan wiped out every obligation. Fetbinine logic, per­ haps, but--" ^ Whitaker nodded in somber abstrac­ tion. . "You may not," continued Drum­ mond with light malice, "have been so generous, so considerate ' and chivalrlc, after all." "Oh, cut that !" growled Whitaker, unhappily, "I never meant to come back." "Then why did you?" , "Oh ... I don't know. Chiefly becuuse I caught Anne Presbury's sharp eyes on me in Melbourne--as I said a while ago. At the worst--If what you suggest has really happened --it's an open-and-shut/ case; no one's going to blame the woman; and • it ought to be easy enough to secure a separation or divorce--" "You'd consent to that?" Inquired Drummond intently. "It's the only decent thing I can do." Drummond laughed quietly. c "If that's how you feel," he said, "I can only give you one piece of professional advice." . "What's that?" "Find your wife." After a moment of puzzled thought, Whitaker admitted ruefully: "You're right. There's the rub." "I'm afraid you won't find It an easy job. I did my best without uncov­ ering a trace of her." "Did you try old Thurlow?" "Her father died within eight weeks from the time you ran away. He left verything to charity, by the way. Unforgiving blighter." "Well, there's her sister, Mrs. Pettit." "Address," observed Drummond. dryly; "the American Embassy, Ber­ lin. ... Pettit's got some sort of • minor diplomatic berth over there." "O the devil I . . . But, anyway, I can write." " ' He moved to a window and stared rudely at the Post Office Building for a time. "I'm going to find her just the same--if she still lives,** he announced, turning back. < "Whitaker!* Ma Gasped.. "My God I" :./>• JEhe incident made hUnJthtok; and f t I* remembered that he was now a • Sum of independent fortune and of fdfle hands as well. After prolonged S Consideration he suddenly decided, ;• §*°ld Lynch to »uok out for his inter- fsts and expect him back* when he tld see him, and booked for London a Royal Mail boat--all in half a y. From London Mr. Hugh Morten 4 grossed immediately to New York on the Olympic, landing in the month of .,'ijjLpril--nearly six yetirv to a day from ie time he had left his native land. without surprise, that he had a great deal more enlightenment to Impart to Drummond than he had foreseen. "You've got aa economical streak in you when it comes to correspondence," Drummond commented, offering Whit­ aker a sheet of paper he had just taken from a tin document-box. That's Exhibit A" » Whitaker read aloud: Dear D.: I'm not feeling wf|L so off for a vacation. Burke has just been In and paid $1,500 In settlement of our claim. I'm enclosing herewith my check for your •hare. Tours, . . • • - a . M. w "Tar be ft frtrii me to cast up." said Drummond; "but I'd like to knew why the deuce you couldn't let m fellow know how ill you were." ""That's so. And you never heard--T' "Merely a rumor ran round; More than that nothing--until we heard that the. Adventuress had been lost, half, a /ear later.' "fm sorry," sai<f Whitaker qdhtritely "It was thoughtless "But that isn't all," Drummond ob­ jected, flourishing another .paper. "See here--Exhibit B--came in a. day or so later." "Yes." Whitaker recognised the document. "1 remember Insisting on writing to* you before we turned In •hat night." *le run through the following munication: * 4 And when Whitaker does find her, what do you suppose hap­ pens?---considering that she may have remarried. (TO BE CONTINUED.) SEEK GOLD IN CEMETERY Murderer Believed to Have, Hidden 1 M • £ t: ^ • \» *< >? •Homemade" Locomotive, Made Entirety of Parts Found About s Plant in Canton, O., Many ©f Which Had Beafr- Discarded. ' MADEFR8M SCRAPS SERVICEABLE LOCOMOTIVE PUt TOGETHER IN ODD WAY. #- Canton (O.) Man Has Shown Great Ingenuity in Construction of En­ gine That Does Its Work With 8atiefaetion. A strange-appearing locomotive, but one that is very serviceable neverthe1 less, has been constructed by an em­ ployee of a plant in Canton, O., from various odds and ends which he found about the establishment. The whole contrivance was built without pur­ chasing a part. A boiler and an old engine were mounted on a small flat car and properly connected. One of the axles of the car was extended and a pulley rigidly fastened to it. An endless steel cable transmits poiwer to two car wheels through this pulley from a similar pulley mounted on the engine. The cable is wound around each pulley two or three times to In­ crease its friction, and is held taut by means of two other pulleys which draw it to either side. One' of these auxiliary pulleys is held. in place by a long coll spring. The other has been drawn into position by a turnbuckle, evidently once used on much heavier work. The locomotive is employed to haul dump cars loaded with dirt, and does it as satisfactorily as an ordi­ nary engine would.--Popular Mechan­ ics Magazine. Autos and Railroada. ,1B a considerable number of annual reports of railroad presidents in the last two years mention has been made of inroads which automobiles are making on railroad passenger busi­ ness. There is another aspect, how­ ever, of the development of the auto­ mobile and automobile truck which may turn out to be of considerable ad­ vantage to railroad development. The use of the automobile and th$ auto­ mobile truck Is acting as a preventive of branch line railroad building, thus conserving capital for betterments to existing lines. A good road is built by the state or county, and this road, with the development of the automobile truck, acts as a feeder for the railroads which it crosses and, moreover, a feed­ er built with the public's capital and not the railroad company's capital. Unprofitable branch line mileage has been the old man of the sea ou the hack of many a railroad, in this coun­ try. A good state or county road crossing a railroad will be a feeder to It for forty to fifty miles on either side of the track. At the present time there are many rural communities which are sending freight and passen­ gers over forty miles or more of good road to the nearest railroad by auto- fcpoblle--as much traffic as the railroad could hope to get over a branch line, the interest charges on which would be great enough to eat up nearly all the profit on the line haul.--Railway Ga­ zette. / Large 8um in Burial Ground at Pomona, Cal. One morning recently there was found a hole in the ground under a gigantic sycamore tree In the east end of the Pomona (Cal.) cemetery. The Incident reopens a mystery which puzzled the people of this community ten years ago and was never solved. The mystery seems deeper than ever. One morning about ten years ago the cemetery caretaker discovered that somebody had dug a hole .4}ye feet long and two feet deep underik huge limb of the sycamore. When live In­ cident was ihvestlgated It was tenoned that a man who had 'just • tinl^ed serving 30 years-, in. the penitentiary had been seen strolling/througn thu cemetery a few <lays earlier. His Ifls- tory was traced and was liarned that the ex-conv<cf^ao serveti time for killing an old miner, rrom whom, it is. alleged, he had stolen $50,000 in gold. The incident caused great excite ment. During the next few weeks the cemetery was honeycombed with holes which were dug by treasure seekers Gasoline Switching Locomotive. The gasoline switching locomotive designed for an Erie railroad freight yard in Chicago has a hauling capacity of 500 tons, parrying 35 gallons of gas­ oline, and weighs 44,000 pounds In working condition. It has a total ltngth of 18 2-3 feet, with a wheel base of mk feet. Its four cylinders are 9 Inches In diameter with 16-lnch stroke and the driving wheels are 42 Inches in diameter. Both magnets and battery ignition are provided. It has chain drive, speeds of three and one-eighth and eight miles an hour, and uses mul­ tiple disks for the main clutch and jaw clutches for the transmission. The lo­ comotive has electric self-starter and headlight, and various safety devices. •--'--* - 1, 1 QUEER OLD-TIME RAILROADS One Used Oxen Motive Power Up Hill and Gravity Down Hill, and thtt Owner Made Money. The history of railroad construction and operation in this country offers many curious and interesting details. Among these none is more curioys than that pertaining to a line which was operated between Marshall, Tex., and Shreveport, La., during the Civil war. The owner of this road made money, and he eventually sold It to the Texas & Pacific company! The owner's name was John Hig- glnson. He had many titles--chair­ man of the board, president, vice pres­ ident, superintendent, trainmaster, roadmaster, freight and passenger agent, fireman, conductor and master mechanic. His road was knowu ar {he Memphis, El Paso & Pacific and was 40 miles in length. On leaving Marshall there was a long grade, to say nothing of the grades els'ewhere on the line. During the war the soldiers "took" the great­ er part of the rolling stock, leaving but three box cars. These box cars represented the rolling stock of the system until it passed into other hands. The motive power was of the best in those days, and consisted' of several. yokes of oxen, commonly- known as "hayburners." The oxen were, it is said, generally on time. Mr. Hlgglnson's train was operated on the triweekly plan. When a "car­ go" was gathered up and everything ready for the trip the oxen were load­ ed into the first box car in the train. The next car was loaded with freight and passengers, and the third was occupied by the "management." The cars were started down the steep grade out of Marshall, and after rolling as far as they would the brakes were sew the oxen unloaded and hitched to the coupling of the cars. The brakes were released and the train -started up the gradd until the tbp was reached, when the oxen were again loaded Into their car and an­ other start was made down hill. This operation was repeated until Shreve­ port was reached. On a level the oxen pulled the train, but on down grades the sole power was the natural momen­ tum of the rolling stoc^. On the Marshall and Shreveport line the passenger rate was 25 cents a person. Freight charges were any­ thing the owner of the line could get. "Is It Safe?* The Oreat Western railroad, as part of its "safety" movement for the pre­ vention of accidents to Its employees, has Issued a token which it Is hoped will remind railroad servants to think before taking action." The token, which is of brass and the size of a penny, bears the wordis, "In every ac­ tion ask yourself, 'Is it safe?' This will disclose unseen dangers, Inspire fofethTiught, induce care, and prevent accidents." On the reverse side of the token Is the inscription, "A charm a gainst accidents. 'Is it safe V n--I*>n- don MaiL Monkey Held Up a Train. Because a large monkey of Bishop, Colo., was not served breakfast at the usual hour the other morning he went on a widespread rampage and bit a young lady in the ankle, but could not make a meal of it; climbed all over a man he disliked, and finally held up a passenger train. The train engineer and fireman were astonished and frightened when the monkey, half standing in the middle of the narrow-gauge track and grimacing horribly, confronted the locomotive. The face was too much for them, and the engineer shut the throttle and threw on the brakes. The startled passengers got off and helped chase the chattering monkey away. As a climax he got mixed up, scram­ bled-egg fashion, with a man named Monk, and scratched his face severely. .The two-legged Mr. Monk objected, and when he could find a gun ho pumped shot into the four-legged monk until he resembled a sieve and ceased to breathe. His mistress to disconsolate. Assortment Is the Greatest That Has Been Offered Purchasers lor Many Seasons. TOP COAT NOW A Unless a Woman Is Willing to Be Con­ tent With a Coat Blouse and Sep­ arate 8kirt She Must Indue That Article of Apparel in ^ Wardrobe This Winter. ^ New York.--The woman who goes hunting winter clothes cannot fall to be surprised, even though she thinks herself prepared for it, at the amazing assortment of indoor gowns offered. It is not possible to carry through the cold weather with any of the new clothes unless one adds a top coat to the Wardrobe, and a smartly-turned-out one at that. So, unless one is willing and able to buy a new coat--for it is improbable that an old one will do-- then it is safer and wiser to stick to the American uniform--a coat suit with a separate blouse. What appeals to the economy and satisfies the pride of being well dressed In a thin one-piece frock of satin or cloth is the fact that it serves for every occasion when one must enter into some form of gayety during the day. One woilld be exaggerating the truth to say that the coat and skirt, no matter how handsome, are entirely unsuitable this season for Indoor af­ fairs, but one must be reasonably cau­ tious about using them, for any hour but those spent in routine work. . Reason for Cloth Suits. It may be that, with this end in view, the tailors are turning out more cloth than velvet suits, using up that expensive 'material for top coats aqd evening frocks with trains. Velour Is evidently the first choice of those who cater to the women who are willing to put a goodly. sum of money Into the coat and skirt that, after all, dresses them most of the time for seven months of their year. The first utterance the average wom­ an makes when this material is ad- % ble, and the result Is There is one tailored suit called Charles the Sixth that is built of a wonderful shade of gray In velour, in which the half-long chemise coat Is girdled up below the hips in a medieval manner that Is new to interesting. It presents a ment of the coat for street wear and gives the dressmakers something to of­ fer that is quite out of the convention­ al. Bernard is responsible for it. Many Uke the Short Jacket. There are a few short (-oats in, ||p street suits, and it Is remarkable how rapidly they are picked up by the more exclusive class of women, showing, one thinks, that the trend of fashion may turn this way before the New Year. These jackets are not after the Eton model, rior do they have the least re­ lationship with the army jacket of the British soldiers. They have a tend­ ency to become basques under the slightest persuasion. The shoulders are fitted to the figure, there are darts In front, the fastening is negligible, with a button at one shoulder and an­ other at the waist. In order that a resemblance to a basque should be further extended, the darts pinch In whatever fullness might occur at the waistline, and the peplum < is cut in points. \ This is the idea of Mme. Paquln, and there are several variations of it. It Is quite natural th^t we should be a hit weary of the blouse of the peasant that has been with us for over three years, and as skirts are definitely long­ er, it is well to regard this shortening of the jacket as an augury of the near future. Glory of the Top Coat. So much for what has developed tiutrw In the matter of the most' substantial garment of our winter outfit, the cos­ tume to which the great majority pin h ; their faith "and on which they place the larger part of their 'dress allow­ ance. As to the top coat, the garment , that has seemingly reached its apex | this season, there is no method by which its variety could be boxed into ^ a small space of written matter. * In coloring, to begin with, it Is al- most exotic as the evening gowns which have borrowed dyes from the Velvet Coat With Trouser Effect.--It is of midnight blu* velvet, with red broadcloth collar and cuffs edged with fur. The hem Is turned undor to give the trouser effect. The wide girdle is embroidered iVt gold.. Evening Wrap Trimmed With Ermine.--It is in gold and black brocade, tlia deep cuffs, band at the bottom and coHar of ermfn«, Th« oollar crosses In front and fastens in back. How One Road 8avea Money. Economy and retrenchment is the watchword of a railroad company in the United States, which has recently Introduced the practice of using the same envelope several times. These receptacles for letters are ruled off Into 12 squares sufficient for name and address, and each square represents one use. Every time an envelope has. served Its purpose the last name and) address are crossed out and the next empty square is used for the ensuing .transaction. It Is claimed that dup­ ing the last two years 8,250,000 en­ velopes have been saved representing a value of nearly $2,000. Of course the vised for her winter suit is that she hates velour and never found It satis­ factory. She remember# It In Its initial stage, which was most Imperfect. Since then the greatest weavers have given the best of their time and thought to developing it Into some­ thing satisfying, and they have suc­ ceeded. The modern version of this old fabric is good to look at and good to wear, but It is costly. Many rea­ sons contribute to that fact. The price of labor, the price of the looms and the difficulty of procuring a large amount of perfect weaving. Artistic Colorings. TtVE colorings in. velour arg artistic. The threads take the deep rich dyes in a manner that pleases the heart of the dyer. Evidently, there is a plentiful supply of dyeing matter somewhere, not only In this country, but In France, for the season will be consplcubus for its brilliancy In color­ ing. Burgundy, bottle green, brown and copper, purple and gray have been tried out in several shades that were heretofore considered almost lmpossl- 1- palettes of the fifteenth-century paint­ ers. There is no hln* of the futurist school lu these colors. We are not listening to a call from the years to come; but harkening to the far call of the past, a seemingly fit thing to do In an epoch which has been turned backward five centuries in its method of exterminating mankind. Garments That Envelop. The top coat covers alL It has no half measures this season. The only ^ necessity for wearing a frock beneath £ it is that you may wish to take It off in a public place. It reaches to the ^ chin and falls to the ankles. It usual- J ly closes^ slo ths way dowa the- and the models that don't are not found y;' convenient. % Not only do they demand a skirt || beneath that harmonizes ih color If not ^ in fabric, but their hems fly out with ^ the wind in an exasperating way that leaves one's body exposed to the ele= fft ments from feet to waist. Nothing satisfying about that, is there? (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure N«W»-. paper Syndicate.) KEEPING THINGS IN ORDER Good Idea Is to Have Various Com­ partments In Which Articles Have Their Separate Places. "The woman with a will always finds a way." Thjs remark came from a ; He put up at the Ritz-Oarlton, pre-1'V„._ ^ w ' " # , , . . , i Iwar Orummorvd: 1 married hers, to- fclsely as any foreigner might he ex- j Mnry i.UrtiSift». runue look out for |>ected to do. and remained Jllugh M<»r-1 ll«' I'm away. Make her an allow- "Nelson Not to ^ On£& iiu old ludy wus being shown over Nelson's Rliip Victory. Ah the party approached the spot where Nel turn met his death, the attendant point­ ed to the brass plute Axed in Jut <i«ck and said: "That Is where Nelson fell." « Tbe old lady was impressed, but WH tn the right way. "No wonder!" she «uid. "1 aeaMp trilled over that thing myself." *' Locomotive Runs Amuck. 'jfal Idle locomotive on a switch out- Side a shop of the Ontario and West­ ern railroad at Middletown, N. Y., which had been left alone for some time, suddenly began to belch steam and the wheels began to turn. It brought down a scaffold on which three men were working. Domlnlco Tripo was Instantly killed, and the others received various injuries. The runaway crashed into another loco- " motive, pushed It the length of the envelopes are only employed in in- j j,ousewife who had just been compli- ter-departinental business, as* they would not be received by the post of­ fice except as regards "the first name and address. ' - . merited on having such neat drawers in her dressing table. Most of you wom­ en know how untidy these drawers can get in spite of all efforts to arrange ribbons, veils, gloves, etc., into neat piles. What this housewife did to fa­ cilitate the task of arrangiug her arti­ cles was to have a carpenter make strips of wood to fit In her drawer to form compartments. One was long enough to accommodate the comb and brush, another held handkerchiefs, an­ other ribbons, another veils and so on. Kach strip of wood was low enough to , , allow a tray, which was also divided Mistress "W hy did you leaVi yror j jQto compartments, for the purpose of last piaceT" Mary-"Well, you «e«S , hol(1|nR halrpin8 of various sizes. The „ -- ...... ,T'a"w 1 Jf°/°°d th" i tray could be lifted out on the table shop, through a set of heavy doors, when I opened the door people thought 1 w^iM) the owner was dressing her hair. and onto a sidetrack. f was ml8aua' I Another compartment Idea was suc- - y ; , • . {. 8alts In Ocean Vary. It Jjf jestimated that a ton of water from the Atlantic ocean, when evapor­ ated, yields 81 pounds of salt; a ton of Pacific water, f9 pounds; a ton of Arc­ tic or Antarctic water, 80 pounds; a ton of water from the Dead sea, 187 pounds. . ^ Jf-':" •. -1- , • |iry Annoying,. < % cessfully carried out by a woman who certain * was her own carpenter to a extent. She purchased a tin gem pan and filled the six compartments with the followtng articles: Screws, screw hooks, tacks, nails, thUmb tacks. When anything needs to be repaired she picks up her tray and a hammer, and Is equipped for work. . . M : • ?* ¥ « . Shetland Veils. •m Yells made of a finer, lighter quality of Shetland than sweaters are Intend­ ed for motoring and sport. In color ^ they usually' match or harmonise with ^ the sweater. Some are of creamy white made with delicate shaded bor- | ders or striped with two-tone baiifte. *$; . t Anent Collars. " ^ ^ ^ Hlg£ collars on blouses'̂ î : mm rarely, but when they are found there | Is usually an accompany lug jabot, lace 4 trimmed, and this. If for no other rea- J son, is feminine enough to lncreaa* It* v popularity. 1 pip V,4r ft *£. . j wA v.'. - V?