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f J ^ s i e r y S t o r y m m toy vts * * * . - < • - ••• • -V' •-'• ••' • • McHBJTRY FtiAnrDBAXEB. N •'" • >" f -•• /'a: Mii If- ,;vi V M . w " f Friends, if you enjoy queer tales this one is sure to satisfy your biggest expectation. We consider it the best piece of work Mrs. Rinehart has done for a long time. She is the highest paid woman fiction writer in the world today because her writing makes a universal appeal. THE EDITOR. CHAPTER I. Hilary Kingston had be£n shot. Old Hilary had been a familiar figi vre In the village of WofHngham for years. The eccentricity of his gray derby hat, his beetling gray brows, his always fresh gray gloves, his erect, rather heavy old figure, singled him out from the mass of commuters that thronged the city trains. The gray derby was a part of old Hilary. Ex­ cept on those rare occaslohs when he {Attended service at Saint JudVs he 'was never seen without it. He lived on the hill above the vil­ lage, with his daughter--had lived there for ten years. The hall was beautiful, but old Hilary received no visttorsj, returned no advances. Visit­ ors thought this curious. The villagers, prosperous business men with smart w!t%s, shrugged their shoulders. The man's house was his own. * If he found that he could do without the town, the town could get along without him. There was no mystery about the halt, and little curiosity. Cars going to the country club passed under the brick wall of its Italian garden. Their occupants sometimes caught a glimpse of Elinor Kingston there, reading in k rose arbor, wandering among peonies and iris In the spring, or cut* ting sprays of phlox in midsummer. The men thought her rather lovely; the women, odd, with her blond hair and dark eyes. The assistant rector of Saint Jude's, newly come to the vil­ lage, met her face to face on one of his long country walks, a month or so before old Hilary's death, and could not forget her. He led the conversation to her that night at a dinner. "An exquisite face,** he^ desctfhed her, "but sad, almost tragically sad." "Blond?" The lady on his right was • Mrs. Bryant. In honor of the new assistant rector, who came of fine fam­ ily and was a distinct ncquialtinn to the village, she wore the Bryant pear- shaped pearl. She spoke rather curt­ ly. ,HI should not call her exquisite-- . but you probably met Elinor Kingston. Her sadness is a pose, I believe; she fu>« everything she wants." The assistant rector was young, bat very wise. So he spoke no more of Elinor until the women had left the table. Then he ventured again. "Don't Join the army of those of us who worship from afar," advised the foftth who had moved up beside him. "She's the loveliest thing in this part of the country. But, except our sainted rector, no one ever gets to put a foot on the place. It's exclusiveness to the lith power, and then some. There's a lot of talk, of course, or used to be. Old Kingston brings his servants from New York, and except ah elderly housekeeper, none of them speak Eng­ lish. They used to say around here that he was a refugee, but that's all rot. He's a stingy old dotard, affrald some handsome youth like myself will captivate the girt. That's all there la to it." The assistant rector, whose name was Ward, smiled perfunctorily. In­ stead of the gleaming table, spread with flowers and candles, with the gay colors of cordials and liqueurs, he was seeing a girl standing at the turn of a country road and- gazing down into the valley and the distant village with s o m b e r e y e s . . . . Faith, hope and charity, and the greatest of these Is faith. Faith in our­ selves, faith In those around us, and that sublimest faith of all which trusts In something beyond. To all men is given such faith at the begin­ ning of life, and some'keep It to the end. But here and there Is one who has lost it, who cannot turn his eyes tip and say "Lord. Lord." Old Hilary had not kept the faith. Years ago he had not been evil. He had gone from philosophy Into unbe­ lief, that route which all must travel. But, unlike the many, he had not come back. He hint started with socialism, but socialism must be founded on the Christ, and him he scorned. So from socialism ho had drifted to anarchy. To rob the rich and give to the poor, at first. Later on, to rob the rich, to incite seditions, to arm the rebellious-- oh, It was comprehensive enough, vast­ ly wicked with that most terrible luw- ^ tessness of all, that believes itself law. ^ To pit his wits against the world pud win--that had been old Hilary's i creed. "For the oppressed" had been 'I;,' At first the slogan of the band he gath- #red around him. "Against the op- •" pressor" it became later on. Vastly different the two. Most of human Charity and kindliness lay crushed >' |lown and trampled underfoot during .fid Hilary's progress from Christ to Antichrist. The band had been gathered with much care. Respectability, order, de­ corum--these spelled safety to old Hilary's astute mind. Most of thefh liven* younger sons of English landed families, with a sprinkling of other na- \gp fionatitles. Young Huff was an Aus- tralian, for instance, the son of a ' wealthy sheep-owner. Boroday the " Jtussiun--implicated0 in the bomb- •V; throwing that destroyed the minister war--was a nobleman. Old Hilary If lhad got him out of Siberia during t Jth >se early days when he righted what, {> , TikV fto his crooked mind, were wrongs. •""*f" T>fi were twelve te the band attfas beginning, and for five years there were no changes. Then came the kid­ napping and holding for ransom of. Mackintosh the banker In Iowa, and the unexpected calling out of the state militia. The band had hidden Mack­ intosh In a deserted mine and three of the band went down in the shooting that followed his discovery. In the looting of Tiffany's vaults, which has never been published, a Frenchman named Dupres was killed; and only recently a tire had burst after the holding up of the car of the governor of Delaware, and their car, overturn­ ing, had crushed Jerrold, the mechanic of the band and old Hilary's chauffeur. One way and another, there were only five left: Talbot and Lethbrldge the Englishmen, Boroday, Huff and old Hilary himself. And old Hilary's hour was almost come. Old Hilary lived well, as he might. His foreign servants were artists. He liked good food, good wines, good books. He even had a few pictures-- from the leading galleries of Europe. He hung them In the house at Wofflng- ham, with a cynical smile. "Safest place In the world," he said to old Henrietta whq protested. "The village has never even heard of them!" And so In this atmosphere with which be surrounded himself, of fine living and wrong thinking, of atheism raised almost to religion, of no law and no Christ, old Hilary had brought up his daughter. He had been proud of her in his way; absolutely selfish, too. She had had no other compan­ ion. He taught her his unbelief, point­ ing out the churchgoers, as they drove together on Sunday mornings, as slaves to a myth. Also, he taught her to hate * lie, and to give alms. Early in her life their drives together had been punctured with questions. "But if my mother Is dead, where is she?" asked Elinor on one of them, Old Hilary had eyed her from under eyebrows that were already grqy,, "She Uvea in the meniorfes'of those that knew and loved her." "But I never knew her. Then for me site doesn't live I But Mademoiselle--" she checked herself. Suspicion had been dawning in old Hilary's eyes. "Death is the end," he said tersely, and quoted Darwin and Haeckel to her.__ But &t th% ead of the drive be nlflcance of the meeting she was not so much ignorant of as profoundly in­ different to. If her father did a thing, it took on order, became a law. There were present Talbot and Leth­ brldge, the Englishmen; Boroday, whose rescue from Siberia had made him old Hilary's henchman; and young Huff. Huff was the mechani­ cian. He had been trained in the Blerlot works; airplanes to wireless, automobiles to automatic pistols, he knew them--all makes, all grades. If old Hilary was the brains. Huff was the hands of the band. He sat beside Elinor, and watched her with worshiping eyes. Perhaps It was as well that old Hilary was Intent on his food and on the business in hand. The routine of the annual dinner seldom varied. Five of them then, that last dinner around the table, 1c evening clothes,, well set up, spare, three of them young, all temperate, honorable about women--as polished, as harmless In appearance, as death-, dealing, as the gleaming projectile of a twelve-inch gun! First old Hilary went over the books. It might have been the board meeting of some respectable bank. He stood at his end of the table, and the light from the chandelier fell full on him. "I have to report, gentlemen," he would say, "a fairly successful year.* This is where it differed from a bank. The association had had no bad years, "While our expenses have been heavy, returns have been correspondingly so." And so on, careful lines of figures, out­ lays and returns, to the end. For old Hilary was secretary and treasurer as well as president. This time, when be had reached the end of what was to be his last report, he paused and cleared his throat. "Unfortunately, that is not all, gen­ tlemen. 'Nothing can we call our own but death.' And It is my sad duty to report, this last year, the loss of three of our number. A calamitous year, gentlemen." He might have been a trustee, la­ menting the loss of valued supporters to a hospital! Afterward, in the library, with El' tnor embroidering by the fire, they cashed In. They dealt only in cash. Securities were dangerous. Once or twice Boroday had successfully nego­ tiated with a fence in Paris, but al­ ways under old Hilary's protest. Fruit* That Ar» Best Suited for This Some new and fascinating secrets about Old Hilary's past come to light in the next installment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) MAY FOUND JEWISH REPUBLIC To Pit His Wits Against the World and Win--That Had Been Old Hi­ lary's Creed. interviewed Mademoiselle, and sent her flying to her chamber, where from under the carpet beneath her bureau, she got her rosary and wept over it. Itflinor was twenty the year her fa­ ther died, a slender girl, fond of flow­ ers, rather a dreamer. Well educated, too. Old Hilary had seen to that; she knew Malato, Haeckel, Bakunln; spoke French and Spanish--Hilary had spent much time in Central America helping the insurgents; it was he who financed the insurrection in northern Mexico--and wrote fluently the form of shorthand that her father had de­ vised as a means of communication be­ tween the leader of the band. A keen- eyed, wistful-mouthed slip of a girl, shut off in the great house on the hill above Woflingham; living her life of big theories and small duties, cal­ loused to robbery and violent deeds, and viewing wistfully from her win­ dows the little children in the road he- low. England, France and United States to . Exercise Joint Protectorate After War, Is Report. Palestine is to become a Jewish re­ public at the end of the war, accord­ ing to a recent report that appeared simultaneously in London and Wash­ ington. It is thought possible that the disposition of the Holy Land was one of the subjects discussed by the Brit­ ish and French envoys with President Wilson and Secretary Lansing at Washington. That the United States would favor such a plan is considered certain. According to the report the Jewish republic, known as Judea, would be a protectorate of England, France and the United States acting Jointly. Je­ rusalem would be the capital of the new republic, which would have local government. Should this plan be car­ ried into operation a great migration of the Jews back to their ancient land will likely take place. Not a great many are expected to leave the United States, but the several million more or less persecuted ^embers of the race In Roumania, Serbia, Austria- Hungary and Germany, along with some from Russia, no doubt will take advantage of the chance to live in s state where they will have equal op­ portunity as well as the right to wor­ ship in their old temples. Jerusalem, under such a condition, would become again a city of millions and the great spaces of BOW arid lands in Palestine would be reclaimed. • is. CHAPTER II. Once a year the association closed its books. During all of the June be­ fore old Hilary's sudden death, Elinor had been busy arranging figures, col­ lecting data in the cryptic shorthand she knew. Then, on the first of July, Hilary gave his annual dinner. The band, from twelve, was down to five. Boroday, the Russian, glancing around the table, shrugged his shoul­ ders. It was the chance of the game they played, and percentages would be larger. Nevertheless there was a weight of depression over them all." Elinor was at her fa Iher's right, simply dressed. The dinners were al­ ways a trial to her. She was palpitat­ ingly anxious that the papers before old Hilary be In order and accurate. Theywere her work. The deeper *g- Growing in the Mind. It 4s said that Coleridge once ex­ claimed to Charles Lamb: "I could write plays just as well as Shake­ speare, If I had a mind to!" "Yes," said Lamb, "that Is just what you lack." It Is a blessing, however, that even though we may not be able , to do the work of a great genius, we may count upon growth in strength and breadth of mind. You can do with your mind today what you could not do five years ago. If you will give your mind an opportunity to grow by hard, honest, faithful, severe work, you will be able to do much more five years from now thah you are able to do today.' If your mind becomes poisoned with low Ideals, with poor literature, with wrong con­ ceptions of life, you may as well ex­ pect it to grow, as to expect a plant to grow in your garden when yot have allowed every sort of plant en einy to burrow about the roots and feed on the stalks and leaves. Amount ofSugar Can Be oMiliM by the Alcohol Test--Mistakes «#.*»• Avoided . ^ Housewife. •*>', (Prepared by the United States Depart­ ment of Agriculture.) A good Jelly should be bright, of good color, and clear. When removed from the glass It should retain the shape of the mold. Good Jelly can be cut with a distinct cleavage, retaining the angles where cut. It should sparkle and be tender enough to quiver without break­ ing. Fruit for Jelly Making*--The Juice from certain fruits, such as grape, apple, crabapple, orange, kumquat and currant, is better suited for making a natural fruit Jelly than Juices ffom other fruits. The juices from these fruits contain the properties necessary for jelly making. The best fruits for #lly making contain pectin and acid. Pectin, the fundamental jelly-making substance, does not exist in some fruits 10 sufficient amount to make jelly with­ out the addition of pectin from some other source. The peach, strawberry and cherry are examples of fruits which contain acid but are lacking In pectin. Pear, guava and quince con­ tain pectin but are deficient In acid. If the missing property be added to each of these fruits, a jelly with the color and flavor of the fruit selected can be made. Extracting the Juice.--Wash such fruit as berries,, grapes and currants In running water and add one cupful of water for each pound of fruit. For apples, quinces, guavas and such hard fruits, wash, slice and add three cup- fuls water to each pound of fruit. The fruit should be cooked until tender, a small quantity of water being added to help extract the juice. The fruit ^ulce will flow more freely when heat­ ed than when cold, and the cooking develops the pectin. As soon as the. fruit Is tender the liquid should be squeezed through a cheesecloth and theq be allowed to drip, without pres­ sure through a flannel Jelly bag (Illus­ trated). Overcooking of the fruit is apt to result In a cloudy Jelly. After cool­ ing the juice to room temperature test it to determine the amount of pectin present. This test gives some idea of the proper proportion of sugar to juice. Add one tablespoonful 95 per cent grain alcohol to agu equal volume of cooled fruit Juice and shake gently. The effect of the alcohol Is to bring together the pectin In a Jellylike mass. If a large quantity of pectin is present It will appear in one mass or clot when poured from the glass. This Indicates that equal quantities of sugar and Juice may be used. If the pectin does not slip from the glass in one mass,* less sugar will be required. A fair Fooling One'a Wife. No man ever succeeded in foollnf his wife as to his capabilities verj long. Better take her into partnershlj in everything. Several Degrees Wens. Hank--A quitter is one who qui; bat a slacker is one who doesn't ba§/ Buffalo Times* A Drip or Drain Bag for Uss In Jelly Msking (Above) and • Jelly Bag With Rack (Below). proportion is three-fourths cupful of $ugar to one cupful of juice. If the pectin Is thin and much separated, one- half cupful of sugar allowed for each capful of juice will be sufficient. Quantity of Julee to Cook.--The quantity of juice to be cooked at one time will depend upon the size of the vessel and the methods of heating available. The capacity of the vessel used, should be four times as great as the volume of juice to be cooked. If the attempt Is made to cook a large quantity of juice at one time over a slow flame, there will be a loss of color and a decrease In the yield, partly due to the destruction of the pectin. When to Add Sugar.--When the pro­ portion of sugar to juice has been de­ termined, measure the fruit juice and place over the fire to cook. When the juice begins to boil, add the sugar Im­ mediately and stir until the sugar is dissolved. By adding the sugar whet! the juice begins to boll, more time ts Blackberry Jelly.--Four pounds blackberries, one pound water. Select three pounds of ripe fruit and one jxrond of underripe fruit, wash by run- j filng water over them, cap, crush, and add one pint of water and boll 15 min­ utes. Press the pulp and strain the juice through a , flannel bag. Deter­ mine the correct' amount of sugar to i>e added by the use of the alcohol test. Bring the Juice to a boil, add sugar, and stir until the sugar is dis­ solved. Continue the boiling until the " lollv nr.'at la rearhad. Remove gh*#' fto* tlri^hivsfSfon of the sugar by the acids of the fruit and there Is less danger of crystallisation. Cooking the Jetiy.--After the ingar has dissolved* the cooking should be si rapid as possible. Finished Jelly can be obtained more quickly by rapid cooking. I*mg cooking will tend to darken the nroduct and destroy the pectin, which will cause the finished Jelly to be less firm. Since no definite temperature can b« given for the finished jelly, the most1 convenient means of determining when it is finished is to test it with a spoou or paddle. Dip a spoon or wooden paddle in the boiling mass. Remove and cool by moving It back and forth for a few seconds and then allow the jelly to drop from it. As long as there is sirup present it will run or drop from the spoon. When the jellying point Is reached, it will break from the spoon in flakes or sheets. When this jelly stage Is reached, remove from the fire immediately and skim. Summing at this point saves waste. Filling Glasses.--After skimming the Jelly, pour at once Into hot sterilised glasses and set aside-to cool. Cooling and Sealing.--Cool as rapid­ ly as possible, avoiding dust which will give contamination with mold. When the jell/ Is cold cover it with melted paraffin. By running a pointed stick around the edge of the glass while the paraffin is still hot, a better seal can be obtained. Storing.--Jelly should be stored in a cool, dark, dry place. If Jelly is stored for a long period of time, It wljl de­ teriorate in texture, color and flavor. Mistakes to Avoid.---Soft Jelly.--Jel­ lies sometimes are sirupy because more sugar has been used than the fruit juices require or because boiling after the addition of sugar was not con­ tinued long enoughto drive off exces­ sive water. Tough Jelly.--Jelly is tough or stringy because too small an amount' of sugar was used for the quantity of fruit Juice taken or because the boil­ ing was continued after the jellying point had been reached. Crystals in Jelly.--Crystals appear throughout the jelly because of an ex­ cess of sugar. When sugar is boiled with an acid for a sufficient length of time, it is changed into a form which does not crystallize. Crystals are found in Jelly sometimes because the Juice is boiled to too great a concentration before the addition of sugar, or In boil­ ing the^slrup spatters on the side of the pan, dries, and in pouring the fin­ ished product these crystals are car­ ried into the glasses of jelly, and in that way the jelly becomes seeded with crystals. Cloudy Jelly.--This nay be due to having cooked the fru|t too long be­ fore straining off the juice or to not having used sufficient care In strain­ ing the juice.. Sometimes it is noticed In apple and crabapple jelly that al­ though it is clear when first made, the Jelly becomes cloudy after a time. In these cases It usually is due to the use of partly green fruit, the starch in this fruit probably causing the cloudy ap­ pearance. >•; |d Soldier Goes Home liarns to Dt Things. JfLLIES FROM PECTIN. Pectin, the essential jelly-making substance, may be extracted from fruits rich In it, and this concentrated product used with ' the juices of fruits deficient in pectin, for the making of excellent jellies. Apple Pectin--One pound apple pulp (or skins and cores), juice of one lemon, four pounds water. Boil for half to three-quarters hour, press, the juice through a cloth bag, then al­ low this Juice to drain without ^pres­ sure through a heavy flannel or nalr- cloth jelly bag. ' This juice when cold should be tested with alcohol to deter­ mine the proportion of sugar to add to a volume of juice. Pectin can be bot­ tled, processed for 15 minutes In a wa­ ter bath at boiling, and kept until needed for jelly making. Orange Pectin.--Cut or scrape the yellow rind from the peel of the or­ ange, the white portion remaining be­ ing passed through the food chopper and weighed. For each pound of this prepared peel add two pounds of wa­ ter and four tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, mix thoroughly, and allow to stand 15 minutes. Then add two pounds water, .boil ten minutes, let stand overnight. Next morning boll ten minutes, allow to cool, press to re­ move juice and then drain juice through a flannel bag. If not desired for immediate use, bottle and process as for apple pectin. Mint and Orange (or Apple) Peetln Jelly.--One pint concentrated orange (or apple) pectin Juice, one pound sugar, two drops oil of peppermint, two drops green vegetable coloring. Bring the orange or apple pectin juice to boiling, add sugar, and boil rapidly until the jellying point is reached. At this point two drops of green vegeta­ ble coloring matter Is added, together with two drops of oil of peppermint. Stir thoroughly, and pour while hot Into clean, sterilized jelly glasses. 8trawberry and Orange (or Apple) Pectin Jelly.--One-half pint concen­ trated orange (or apple) pectin, one- half pound sugar, one-half pint straw­ berry juice. Mix orange (or apple) pectin Juice and the strawberry juice, bring to a boil and add sugar. Con­ tinue boiling until the jellying point is reached. Pour Immediately Into hot sterilized jelly glasses and skim. When cold, pour hot paraffin over the Jelly. Pineapple and Orange (or Apple) Pectin Jelly.--Add one pint orange (or apple) pectin juice to one pint pineap­ ple juice which has been boiled for ten minutes, add one pound sugar and continue boiling until the jellying point Is reached. Pour immediately into hot sterilized Jelly glasses and skim. When cold, pour hot paraffin over the Jelly. the fire and skim. Pour ftitd hot ster­ ilized glasses, seal and store. Apple Jelly.--One pound fruit, two pounds water. Boll together for one- half to three-fourths hour, and strain. One pint stral&ed Juice--determine amount of sugar to be added by the use of alcohol test previously given-- bring the Juice to a boil, add the sugar ytftpidly as possible until irt is reached. Remove skim, pour Into hot ses, and when cold Designs and Manufactures Apparatus Which Enable Him Almost Ignore His Mutilation. " One French farm is being cultivated by a former soldier who lost both hands In the war. Jean Baptlste Led- rans is the man who has overcome ,this handicap. When war was declared Ledrans was a young handy mechanic, accustomed to repairing plows and reapers. At the call to arms he re­ joined. his battery as a cavalry ser­ geant. He distinguished himself by manning a bomb mortar and advancing with the infantry "to the attack of a strong redoubt. This exploit earned him the rank of underlleutenant. After fighting safely through many battles, Ledrans was wounded near Ar­ ras and upon his recovery was trans* ferred to the infantry, says a corre­ spondent of the Chicago News. In his new position the young underofficer, because of his mechanical ability, was assigned to the grenade section; where he soon became proficient. Finally he became an Instructor. It was while instructing some young soldiers, about to leave for the front, that Ledrans received his terrible wounds. A new recruit produced an experimental grenade from his pocket and gave It to Ledrans. The instructor began his lesson, releasing the fuse lighter which, unfortunately, was con­ nected with -a loaded grenade, and not one as used in practice. The grenade exploded, killing six men and wound­ ing several others. Ledrans was wounded in five places; a rib,broken, right eye put out, one eardrum pierced and his two hands carried away. This was in 1916. In spite of his In­ juries, Ledrans' fiancee remained faith­ ful, and two months later received a letter written by her future husband. In January, 1917, they were married and Ledrans is now cultivating his father-in-law's farm. Putting his ingenuity to practical use, the former soldier has been able to design and build apparatus which en­ able him almost to Ignore his mutila­ tion. He can hitch up hnd drive a horse, driving by sitting on the loop of the-lines and guiding with his ar­ ranged forearms. He can load and unload the wagon, care for the horse and manage a team as well. The whip passes through a ring in.th^ right arm equipment By means of a special harness Led­ rans can work in the fields as well as anyone. A steel plate strapped on the body, and supplemented with leathers for the arms, support the interchange­ able tools which are needed to per­ form various operations of farm work. On the left arm is carried a ring through which the handle of the rake or shovel slides like through the hand. The right arm is equipped with a sock­ et and set screws In which the tools can be placed and fixed. There is a complete assortment of farm tools and special hooks. The farm work done, the brave ex- soldier takes off his ,4working arms," and his wife adjusts a pair of elastic gloves which accommodate the smaller articles of dally use. With these gloves Ledrans can write, shave, eat and dress himself. He drinks by taking the cup between the two elastic gloves. Combing his hair, brushing his teeth and adjusting his collar become simple operations to this Injured man, who him solved, for himself, one of the great problems of the war. f ^ • • ir« * i • n • i Novel Recruiting Signs. In a recruiting station In lower Broadway in New York is a device to show passersby how they look in uni­ form. It is a figure In khaki, stuffed with excelsior and set up to stand at "attention." Between the collar and cup is placed an oval shaving mirror, the size and general shape of yoor face. By peering Into it you will see yourself clad In good, honest khaki, Except for a wholesome tan and a more determined expression, that Is the way you would look In uniform. On the figure Is hung this placard: "Our hat's in the ring. Come In and put one on." Another poster urges the necessity of enllsttng. It reads: "Come across, or Germany will." Still another contains this blithe call to arms: "What Burns said In 1782 is good for 1917; Oh, why the deuce should I repine, and be an ill forboder? Am twenty-three and 5 feet 9--I'll go and be a sodger." Why Our Eyes Sparkle. If you should watch very closely the eyes of a merry person when you see them sparkle, you would probably no­ tice that the eyelids move up and down more" often under such condi­ tions than ordinarily and If you know what moving the eyelids up and down In front of the pupil of the eye does you will have your answer, says the Book of Wonders. Every time the eyelid comes down it releases a little tear, which spreads over the eyeball and washes it clean and bright. It does this every time the eyelid comes down. Now, there is something about being merry which has the effect of making the ^eyelids dance up and down, and thus every Hmo the lid comes down the ball of the eye is washed clean and bright and gives it the appearance of spark­ ling, as we say.---Brooklyn Eagle. Japan's Shipbuilding. Nowhere, perhaps, is the effect Of the war upon Japan more patent than in her great naval yards at Yokosuka; nowhere does the strength and magni­ tude of her ambitions find more cogent demonstration. The possessors of an island empire, the statesmen of Japan have not been slow to recognize the value of a strong navy and a powerful and numerous mercantile marine. Un­ der a system of shipbuilding and ship- running bounties, her merchant ship­ ping has made huge strides; and the advocates of state aid, In return under certain circumstances for state con­ trol, may point confidently to the suc­ cessful transportation of troops in time of war in Justification of their if University of Notre Dime NOTRE DAME, INDIANA Offers Complete Course In Agrkukwrs Full courses Also In Letters, Journalism, Library Science, Chemiatry, Pharmacy, Medi­ cine, Architecture, Commerce aad Law. LOSES ttKLY MEIBIlfV ivmnrs suckles mis WL Rbiii! 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Its effect, ac­ cording to Popular Science Monthly, is to cause a panic tyhich throws the swimmer off his guard, causing him to let the air out of his lungs and thus allow the air passages to become filled wtth water. The safeguard against such a-panic is absolute confidence lj» the floating power of the body and a demonstrable knowledge of the proper way. to quickly fill the lungs to utmost capacity with air. The moment a cramp is felt, thS swimmer should turn on his back and begin to gulp the air, making no effort to keep himself from sinking. As he sinks he slowly exhales under water, through the mouth, with the lipe puck­ ered as for whistling. If It Is a stom­ ach cramp the knees will be drawn up against the abdomen, but the swim­ mer should force them out, pushing on them with both hands and using all his strength until they are fully In­ tended. This will no doubt cause great pain for a few seconds, but as soon as the legs are straightened out the cramp will vanish, and the body, buoy­ ed up by the air in the lungs, will shoot up to the surface. There still Inhaling in great gulps and exhaling through puckered lips, the swimmer may float until he regains his strength or is picked up. In case of cramp in the leg or arm the same system of breathing Is fol­ lowed and the affected part is straight­ ened ont by sheer strength. . Explosion Averted. "I hear you have been a' very sick man," said the manager of the garage, y "Yas sur," replied Mr. Erastus Pink-'" ley. "Dey mos' despaired of my recov­ ery. But I never had no doubt about It myself. I jes' had to get well." "Why?" "Well, suh, I knowed I wasn' food, enough to go to heaven. An' workln' In dls garage has got me soaked so chock-full o'. gasoline dar wasn' a chance of deir wantln' me aroun' d# other place." f • Try This on Chiggers. Collodion is said to give relief from the IrrltatleiL^aused by the bites of chiggers. Collodion Is a solution of gun cotton In alcohol and ether. When It is applied to the skin, the alcohol and ether evaporate, leaving a color­ less film which adheres to the skin. An application of collodion is excel­ lent treatment for hang nails. " The bottle should be kept tightly corked. Hat«ft to Play With Him. At the club Thompson and Taylor were discussing the peculiarities of certain of the card players when Thompson said: "There are two men here--Parker and Perkins--I surely hate to play with. "Oh," said Taylor. "I know Parker's always a hard loser, but what's wrong with Perkins?" "He," said Thompson, "is always aa «U9 winner."1--Puck. Longevity. Mr. Pipple--Thls Is a very healthy town. Mr. Ripple--I must say this town holds the record for health. Mr. Plpple--My father died here at eighty-four, and my grandfather died at one hundred and forty. Mr. Ripple--One hundred and forty? Mr. Plpple--Broad street. No Police Record. "Have you ever been arrested f* "No, sir. I've never owned MM* mobile." A financial note says that money Is easier. Perhaps It goes that way, but it comes about as usual. ^ and e from steril Gpver mm. SAYS Try a dish of PostToasties with cream for lunch _ .onJhot dara