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In reality Kingston was head of an anarchist band, composed of Half, Boroday, Talbot and Lethbrldge, that robbed the rich and gave to the poor and oppressed. One day Old Hilary was shot dead, and the course of life changed abruptly for his daughter. The Rev. Mr. Ward, a young bachelor, began to take an uncommon interest in Elinor. Young Walter Huff of the gang confessed his love for her and she accepted It. Then Boroday was arrested on suspicion and his companions perpetrated a country club hold-up to get funds for his legal defense, but were sadly disappointed in the amount se­ cured. Pf CHAPTER V--Continued. "An audacious piece of work. Half U»e women in this vicinity suffered. Most of them are my parishioners." "Ah!" breathed Elinor, "I am sorry.** Ward shrugged his shoulders rueful­ ly. "It means, I dare say, that the poor of the parish will get le£s than ever this year. Mrs. Bryant, for instance, .who has always been generous, lost a .pearl necklace and a wonderful pear- shaped pink pearl." "Is she--a wealthy woman?" "Very, I believe." "Then is It such a terrible thing for iher to lose the pearl? Perhaps these •bandits, as you call them, think they could use these things better than the ^people who owned them." Ward smiled. "I daresay we all think we could use the other fellow's •possessions better than he does." Elinor persisted, frowning a little. "Things are so terribly mixed up," Mile said. "If you could know the things •that I krfow"--Ward looked faintly amused--"the people who are fighting for a principle, and have nothing to {light with, fighting for life sometimes! !a good half of the world, you know, Just struggles along, and the other half lis so smug, so satisfied; Ifs--it's hor­ rible." Mr. Ward stared at her. "How in the world do yon come by <SBch thoughts?" he demanded. • "I've never known anything else; I tiros brought up on the Injustice of things. You have your poor here in, 'tile parish, but you see I was brought Up with the poor of all the world. I am afraid I'm always for the under •dog." ** .Rather startled was Rev. Mr. Ward that summer afternoon on the terrace «t the Hall, startled and puzzled. ' "Down in our hearts," he said, "per­ haps we are all of us for the under ;dog. But how does that excuse my 'bandits?" '"This Mrs. Bryant--how much do tpou suppose you are going to lose for . ijpsur poor by her loss?" "Not so much, but enough. She had (promised a lot of things. She called Hp this morning to say that It was all joff." He started to say that all bets •were off, but decided that It was un- tderical and changed It "But I didn't •come here to worry you about myself ' >or the parish. I think you should not fee here alone." . Elinor looked down over the village. "Then perhaps, after all. It would be * Hotter if I married at once." ,* *\ ,MAh! You are to be married?" 4 "Now that my father Is gone," said -Mttlnor wistfully, -it seems the best •thing. And--I should like children. I ihave no friends, except perhaps you." Ward strove to keep his voice steady, -and matter-of-fact. ••jw "Marriage is so serious--so vital a tilling." He was trying to be calm and iJudicial. But his voice sounded far ; <nfi; his heart pounded in his ears. "To -jnarry because one is alone, or needs JHends--Is a flimsy foundation to build on." Once again Elinor surprised him. "There have been few really great .passions In the world," she said. "I aould almost count them on my fingers. !the rest of us seem to get along with­ out." "Perhaps there are more than .we hear about. Every now and then, In my work, I come across something so much greater than I had expected, self- sacrifice, love, charity, as to Justify my faith in mankind." "Your faith!" Elinor said - softly. "That Is what I envy you--your faith. Kot only your faith In your kind, but--, the other sort." * '» Faith, hope and charity--and the #eatest of these Is faith. Alas for old ilary, who had not kept his! "I had a governess once who had that sort of faith; it was a great com­ fort to her. But I sit here on my hill- 'side, and it seems to me that spread out at my feet is all the injustice and cruelty and hatred in the world. And your God allows it all. My father tried to believe--tried hard, but he said that when he asked for bread they gave him •a stone." "Do you know who said that?" "My father," said Elinor. Bather surprised, he let it go at that. , CHAPTER VI. ft', , _ kgf ®° great had the urgency of Boro- ^ da?'8 Position , become that the band 5 s met at the hall on Thursday of the : week after the country-club affair, i Lethbrldge was to get his instructions; v, Talbot wished to discuss his prospect. After dinner, the night being warm, C": they had their coffee on the terrace. '0} •• A summer storm had come up. All at. once a fldsb threatened Saint Jude'rfjJ Huff leaped to his feef, "I've got It1" 'he said. "What is it JV,UU they c«U bnlldihg bade of the I chain!"along church*" ' None of the men knew. It was, as a matter of fact, the parish house. Leth­ brldge, however, knew its function. "Fine prospect that!" he drawled. "That's where the Sunday school Is held, and where they keep the plated knives and forks for the church sup­ pers." "ft's a darned fine building," said Huff. "What would they do If it burned down?" They' wens too unfamiliar with church affairs.,to hazard a guess. Eli­ nor, who had been sitting silent,, sud­ denly voiced an objection to Huff's un­ spoken plan. "There must be some other way," she said. "The children--they have sewing classes and entertainments for the children there. It's the parish house." "If lightning struck the parish house tonight--" Huff said quite eagerly. "This is Thursday. By Sunday morn­ ing they would be taking up a whack­ ing big collection to rebuild It." The idea had taken hold of his imagi­ nation. Even the suggestion that a large part of the offertory might be in checks mattered not. But Elinor was obdurate. "You can do It some place else," she said. "Not here. They struggled very hard to build the church and they need money now. Mr. Ward told me--" Huff turned on her jealously. "Ward--that's the preacher chap?" "He is the assistant rector," Elinor replied with dignity. "He's been coming here, then?" "Twice. Once when father died, and once to warn me against all of you." Not that she had forgotten that few minutes in the garden, under the moon; but that had been'an accident--hardly a call. Talbot chuckled. But Huff was thinking hard. Elinor had been differ­ ent lately, a little softer. Ward rep­ resented all that the men Elinor knew were not--law to their violence, order to their disorder. There was almost a snarl in his voice. "He'd better stay down in his valley with his old women," he said, "and leave you alone. You don't need him." Tm not so sure of that," Eli not re­ plied quietly, and left him staring. . . . Huff burned the parish house the next night. He did it himself, without the assistance of the band. Into it he put not only the devilish Ingenuity of long experience, but his new hatred of Ward. Church property is always easy of access. It was the work of five min­ utes to crawl through a basement win­ dow and of half an hour to make his preparations. He looked at his watch when he had finished. It was just midnight. In two hours, or before the fire began, he would be back in the city, establishing his alibi. The fire-whistles In the village wakened Elinor at something after three o'clock. All of her room was filled with the red glare of the burn­ ing parish house. Old Henriette knocked at her door. "The church is burning down In the valley," She called. "It's a grand sight." Elinor was throwing on her clothing. She must see Ward. She would sell her pearls. She would build a new parish house. She said this over and over to herself as she struggled down the hill. A new parish house, better than the old, with plenty of room for the chil­ dren to play in! At least It was night, and the children safe, in their beds; th&nk God for that! She was too dis­ turbed to notice that she had thanked the God in whom she did not believe. The fire had gained too much head­ way to be checked. All the efforts of the volunteer department and the small engine «were directed toward saving the church. For a time it seemed as if Saint Jude's must go. Elinor watched the destruction. It seemed as though a band had fastened itBelf around her chest. Then she saw Ward. lie was on the ridge-pole of the church roof with a hatchet. The ridge­ pole was burning slowly. 8he could see him chopping. From that time she never took her eyes away from him. Other men were there. She did not see them. She saw only Ward battling on the ridge-pole, and high above on the steeple the sturdy cross of his faith. Once the men on the street below turned the full force of the hose on him. She saw him reel, saw hl»w re­ cover himself by a miracle. The fire glare died into the dawn. Saint Jude's was saved. Behind it in Its park the charred skeleton of the parish house, showed how thoroughly young Huff had done his work. Not until Ward had descended safely to the street did Elinor relax. Ward found her sitting In one of the the pavement, her hair into slippers, her eyes red from long staring. \ The fire engine was being dragged away. The crowd had dispersed. Ward, blackened and depressed, was surveying the ruins with a heavy heart He turned and saw the girl. Just at first he was not sure of her. He was always seeing her, mentally- Then he went toward her, his hand out "You see*" he said, "what an hour may bring forth!" And then, "You reckless child, here In slippers!" "I saw you on the roof," said Elinor, barely able to articulate. "Once I thought you had fallen." "They nearly got me. It's rather sad. Isn't It?" He stood, bareheaded in the cool dawn, and surveyed the ruin. People meet great crises simply. . She tried to find some word of sym­ pathy to say, but what was there, poor child? She knew the true inwardness of that disastrous night. So, with pa­ thetic eyes, she turned away. 'Til go home now," she said. "I saw the glare--I--" Quite suddenly her lips trembled. "I should like to help you with the new building/" "Fine!" said Ward heartily. "We'll get to that before long." "If you had fallen--" He was not listening. It came to her then how far apart they were. To her his falling would have been an end of all things; to him, it would have meant the beginning of a useful eternity. "If you wait a little, I'll run around and get my car and take you up." She sat down again, obediently. She was glad to be with him a little longer. Until recently, the work of the band had always seemed a vague abstrac­ tion. Now one of its results lay before her. And there were other things fresh in her mind--old Hilary, dead of his revolt against law, and lying in state before an altar erected to a God he had not recognized. And Ward, watching her windows and thinking her the em­ bodiment of what a woman should be. Over her bitterness rose a hot wave of anger against Walter Huff. She had forbidden this thing and he had done it Of course there is a sharp dis­ agreement among the gang over Huff's arson and things come to a crisis quickly with the possi­ bility that all will go to Jail. The next Installment brings a revela­ tion. (TO BE CONTINUED.) PROVIDED FOOD FOR LIONS Farmer's Family Nag Was Sold to tha Circus But Was Billed to Make Only One Appearance. y -- Edward Jones, now a farmer in Orange county, but formerly n resident of this city, was visited by his brother, Benjamin F. Jones of North Pennsyl­ vania street. Desiring to show the city brother tM beautiful scenery of Orange county, the country brother hitched up the family nag and invited the city brother to get into the spring wagon. The city brother firmly declined. "No, Edward," said Benjamin, i"not be­ hind that stack of bones. That's the worst specimen of horseflesh I ever saw In my life." Some time later the Indianapolis brother paid another visit to the Orange county farmer. "Where," he asked, "is that stack of bones you called a horse?" he asked. "Dead, I suppose." ^ "I--I sold him," said the country brother. "You sold him! For goodness sake, how much did you get for him? A dol­ lar and a half * would have been a big price." "I got $20 for him. I sold him to a circus." "To a circus! Well, he'll make a fine performer." • "He was only on for one evening," said Edward. "For one evening?" "Yes, they bought him to feed the lions."--Indianapolis News. I still in its long braid, her feet thrust Making the Potato Popular. There is a touch of humor In the method employed by the famous French chemist Parmentler to over­ come the prejudices against the po­ tato of the peasantry on the conti­ nent. He cultivated potatoes in th< open fields, in places very much fre­ quented. He guarded them carefully during the day only, and was happy wvhen he had excited so much curios­ ity as to induce people to steal some of them during the night. Then he persuaded Louis XV to wear a bunch of potato flowers at his buttonhole In the midst of the court on a festal day. Nothing more was wanting to Induce great lords to plant them. Women have made fc splendid start In various branches of railroad work, to make up war-time deficiencies of men, according to reports of the New York Central railroad, whose presi­ dent Alfred H. Smith, has ordered the employment and training of femi­ nine workers wherever possible in all departments. A gang of SO women, under direction of a woman bookkeeper, is employed by the New York Central at Collin- wood, O., In sorting 3,000 tons of scrap, nuts, steel plates, spikes, bolts, brake shoes--practically every part of a su­ perannuated engine or a broken-down car. These women examine and sort every piece of scrap; they do the work as well as men and appear to like it Training of Women. A, T. Hardin, senior vice president in charge of operation of the New York Central, who promulgated an or­ der to all officers to "begin the em­ ployment and training of women for the various branches of the service which they can perform, beginning at first with the least laborious work," concerning progress of the movement said: "The first rule we laid down about the increased employment of women, made necessary by the war, was this : The woman who'does the same work physical strength. Women could not lay railway ties. They should not be called upon to do work which would overtax their strength. • We are not used to the Idea of the performance of manual labor by women in this country. We don't like to see women do hard work. But there is nothing about railroad work requiring skill or accuracy which women cannot do. We have had one woman watcher at a rail­ road crossing up the. state for the last ten years. "Our present work is centered large­ ly in the organization and training of women for employment by the rail­ roads. We cannot tell how long the war will last nor how many men we may lose by the draft. We want to be ready. The women we are training are in many instances relatives of our employees. They have talsen up rail­ road work eagerly and energetically. Their contribution to the Industrial welfare of the country will be of tre­ mendous benefit to women. Many women have extraordinary energy and power for constructive work which has never been put to practical use. The war „ gives them an opportunity to serve their country and themselves. Do Work of Men. \ "In Europe women have proved their capacity to do the work of men and DON'T MIND GREASE AND GRIME OF SHOP. as a man will get the same pay as a man. Those women who are sorting scrap get an average of $2.50 a day-- just what a man would receive for sim­ ilar work. "We have increased greatly the num­ ber of women employed in our audit­ ing department. We have women in our car department to keep track of. the movements of 240,000 cars. They keep a record of where each car goes and what it does every day. We have put women to work in our purchasing departments. We are training women to sell tickets, to act as watchmen at railroad crossings. In our shops wom­ en are learning to run lathes, drills and other small tools, and we expect to employ women as assistants in sta­ tions. Can Do Any Work. "There ia no work on railroads which a woman cannot do, except the heaviest manual labor requiring great NEW LOCOMOTIVE IS LARGE Elevators of Ancient Days. The earliest mention of a device la any way resembling the modern el«h vator or "lift" may be read in Vltru- vlus, who describes a hoisting machine which was Invented by Archimedes. This elevator of the second century B. C. was worked by ropes which were colled upon a winding drum by a cap­ stan and levers. The same writer re­ fers to another similar machine which was made to rotate by a man who walked Inside the capstan. Such a primitive elevator Is still In use to lift passengers and freight from the first to the second story of a convent 00 Mount Sinai. Greatest 8team Engine in World Just ^ Put Into Service--Has 24 Driving Wheels. The greatest locomQtive in the world has been put into service by the Bald­ win Locomotive works. It is so gigan­ tic, says Popular Science Monthly, that Its boiler had to be made flexible at three different Joints so that the lo­ comotive could turn around a curve. It is over 100 feet long and weighs 420 tons. Twenty-four driving wheels, each standing as high as an average- size man, afford it traction. The driv­ ing wheels are distributed along the length of the locomotive in sets of four pairs, the wheels of each being coupled together and driven by two giant steam cylinders. Under full steam, the locomotive can exert an 83-ton pull on the cars behind It-- which means that it can easily haul a freight train two miles long and 23,000 tons In weight, over an ordinarily good roadbed at an average rate of 14 miles an hour, and possibly more. Taking Lessons From 8avage. "We need not be savages to be he&lthy; but we should make sure the air we breathe, the food we e»t, ant' the water we drink are as put* ENGINEER FIFTY-TWQ YEARS W. E. Miller, Seventy Years Old, Placed on Pension List by Vandalla, Enjoys Unique Record. z W. E. Miller, seventy years Old, who went on the pension list of the Van­ dalla railroad July 1, was the oldest engineer In point of service in the middle West having run an engine 52 years. Moreover, his father before him ran an engine, the first on the Vandalla, which was made In Boston, came to Buffalo by rail, to Toledo by lake and to Terre Haute by the Wabash and Erie canal. At that time, In the early fifties, the Pennsylvania system, of which the Vandalla is a part had no road across Ohio. 4 Oxygen for Passengers. The railroad connecting Chile and Bolivia, which crosses the Andes 14,- 105 feet above sea level, provides oxy­ gen chambers in which passengers can get relief from the rarlfied air of the high altitudes. American women are demonstrating equal efficiency in every field they have entered. "Sir Robert Borden, premier of Can­ ada, was anti-suffrage and opposed generally to the work of women in the fields pre-empted by men until the war sent men to the front and put women at work in their places. Today Can­ ada Is in a better position financially than at the outbreak of the war. And in a speech recently Sir Robert Bor­ den said: 'Canada owes her salvation to her women.' "The New York Central has about 85,000 employees, but many of them through the nature of their work are exempt from the draft. Many railroad men have volunteered, however. Two hundred of our finest mechanics have volunteered in engineering regiments which will work on the railways of France. Other railroads have given their best men." Miller had only one bad accldept and he was the only one seriously in­ jured In it. All passengers escaped In­ jury. He was laid up many months when this happened in 1905. For the last 25 years he has made a dally run from Terre Haute to Indianapolis and back. SEEDY HOBO IS ELIMINATED Stringent War Regulations Causa Him to Disappear From Rail­ road Right of Way. What no amount of legislation and no number of warning signs could ac­ complish in years has been accom­ plished in a few brief weeks by the entry of the United States Into the world war--the railroad hobo has magically disappeared, says Oakland (Cal.) Tribune. No more are his breakfast fires to be seen burning un­ der bridges or beneath overhanging branches in the creek beds beside the track. There are no more "hangouts" at the entrances to tunnels, and the "side-door Pullmans" are no logger tenanted by unshaven and ragged spe­ cimens of humanity1. The disappearance of the hobo from the railroads was brought about by the stationing of soldier guards at all ap­ proaches to bridges, tunnels and termi­ nals. Any person walking on a rail­ road right of way these days must have means to prove instantly that he is an individual above suspicion. The hobo carries no bankbook, calling cards, business correspondence or other papers to prove his respectabil­ ity. With the increase of ammunition trains and the movement of troops to mobilization camps the strictest of vig­ ilance will be exercised by the military authorities, and it will be dangerous for unauthorized persons to venture upon a railroad right of way except at such crossings as are recognized as public highways. Woman Workers In Prussia. In Prussia 30,000 women are work­ ing In mines. Some 50,000 are at work on state-owned railways and thout sands are working in munition facto­ ries. All are at work under govern- pwntni orders and military rules. rnmrn MOTH ET LOST CRIPPLED BOY Wiping Out Grade Crossings. Since 1902, In the Interests of safety, the Pennsylvania railroad has spent more than $40,000,000 In dispensing with grade crossings on Its Unas east of Pittsburgh. Road Building at Nlgh*». Hailroad building at night has been made possible in South Africa by equipping a freight car with a lighting pliant and mounting- searchlights on projecting arms. Brooklyn Woman l» Accused & Court of Abandoning Four- Year-Old Son. K«r York.--Before Magistrate Doyle In Yorkviile court were brought two persons. One was Mrs. Agnes Cusick, twenty-four years old, of No. 225 Eighth street Brooklyn, charged with abandonment of her four-year- old son. The other was the little boy, a victim of last year's Infantile paraly­ sis epidemic and still hobbling about on a leg brace. It was his picture, which was published in a newspaper DIP PMi III did uHiirc 1 .1 * ̂ 8<r«f Yields of Wheat, Splem Production of Pork, Beef, Mutton and W00L "Did You Make Any Effort to Find This Boy?" June 26, which led to the discovery of the mother by an agent of the Chil­ dren's society. The only information which the boy could give when found en June 21 was that his name was "Jimmy," and that he Is a "very, very good boy." "Did you make any effort to find this boy?" Magistrate Doyle asked the mother. "I looked about the neighborhood where I lost him," she said. It was her story that she lost him in a crowd and did not abandon him. "A dumb animal would have done more than that" exclaimed the mag­ istrate. "A dumb beast would have looked everywhere for her lost. Here Is a cripple that requires a mother's care nnd love, and you made no ef­ fort to go to a police station or to make inquiries for him." "I did all I could," sobbed the woman. Upon testimony; however, tlxa.t when first shown the photograph of the iittle boy she had denied being his mother, the woman was held in ball for trial. WONT LET HIM BE EXEMPTED New York Woman Writes to Authori­ ties That She Is Not Dependent on Husband. Albany, N. Y.--Not all women in New York state want their hubbies kept off the firing line. Mrs. Mildred L Mount, postmistress o* Olcott, Niagara county, doesn't, for one. The adjutant general's office has re­ ceived a comrajunlcation from Mrs. Mount in which she takes issue with her husband, Harry Blosser Mount, on the matter of dependency. Postmis­ tress Mount declares that her husband registered on June 5 and claimed ex­ emption from military service on the grounds that he was an assistant post­ master In the service of his wife. This, Mrs. Mount says, doesn't jibe with the facts. Her husband, according to the letter, has been employed on the Inter­ national railway for about two months prior to registration and had in no way assisted her In the office. "I am perfectly capable of caring for my two children and myself," the post­ mistress wrote, and to clinch the case added "and am In no way dependent upon him." MOTHER STOLE TO AID BABIES; FINED 1 CENT New York.--The lowest fine In the history of the Brooklyn federal court was imposed by Judge Chatfleld in the case of Jirs. Mary Purcell, on trial for forging a pension voucher that had come to her home In the name of her mother after, her paaent had died. She took the money, she told the Judge, for her babies, for they had no food. When the fine of 1 cent was Imposed she was unable to pay it. Attaches of the court not only handed over the cent necessary to keep her from Jail but made up a good-sized purse for her. Meet After Forty Years. Mahanoy City, Pa.--Separated forty years ago when young and moving to different parts of the country, Patrick Hyland of this city a,nd his sister, Mrs. Jane Young, now of Shipsburg, Mass., met at the railroad station here for the first time the other night, when there was an affecting reunion. , Change Street's German Name. Dallas, Tex.--What used to be Oer- manla street East Dallas, is wearing a new niime. Tired, they said, of liv­ ing on a street utterly un-American In designation patriotic residents took stepladdera and paintbrushes and made a swift and busy trip from one end of the thoroughfare to the other. When the journey was over the street Rlgns all read "American street." Now the city council Is up against the ques-, tion of deciding whether "American street" shall have official ratification. file latest reports give an isstifti- " ance of good grain crops throughout most of Western Canada, where th£:' c' wheat, oats and barley are now being harvested, about ten days earlier thaif.,":^ last year, Manitoba, Saskatchewan ! and Alberta are all "doing their bit'te'" In a noble way towards furnishing 'I,: food for the allies. While the total yield of wheat wll% not be as heavy as in 1915, thera." are Indications that it will be an aver+ * age crop in most of the districts^ A letter received at the St. Paul offlc# - of the Canadian Government, from a'/ farmer near Delia, Alberta, says har4>H , vest in that district is one montif^ earlier than last year. His wheat croppy is estimated at 35 bushels per acre,1 •< while some of his neighbors will have . ^ more. The average in the district will * be about 30 bushels per acre. Now^>i with the price of wheat in the neigh*V borhood of $2 per bushel, it is safe td^t s say that there will be very few farm­ ers but will be able to bank from for­ ty to fifty dollars per acre after pay­ ing all expenses of seeding, harvest­ ing and threshing, as well as taxes. The price of land in this district Is from $25 to $30 per acre. What may. be said of this district will apply to almost any other in Manitoba, Sas­ katchewan or Alberta. Many farmers have gone to Western Canada from the United States in the past three or four years, who having purchased lands, had the pleasure of completing the payments before they were due. They have made the money out of their crops during the past couple of years, and if they are as successful In the future a£ In the past they, will •have put themselves and their families beyond all possibility of lack of money for the rest of their lives. It Is not only In wheat that the farmers of Western Canada are making money. Their hogs have brought them wealth, and hogs are easy to raise there--bar­ ley is plentiful and grass abundant, and the climate just the kkid that hogs glory In. The price is good and likely to remain so for a long time. A few days .since a farmer from Daysland, Alberta, shipped a carload of hogs to the St. Paul market and got a higher price than was ever be­ fore paid on that market. Two mil­ lion three hundred and seventy-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dol­ lars was received at Winnipeg for Western hogs during the first six months of this year. 181,575 hogs were sold at an average price of $15' per cwt., and had an average weight of 200 pounds each. The raising of hogs is a profitable and continually growing Industry of Western Canada, and this class of stock Is raised as economically here as anywhere on the North American continent. There is practically no hog disease, and im> mense quantities of food can be pro­ duced cheaply. It has been told for years that the grasses of Western Canada supply to both beef and milk producers the nu- - tritive properties that go to the devel­ opment of both branches. The stories that are now being published by dairymen and beef cattle men verify all the predictions that have ever been made regarding the country's im­ portance in the raising of both beef and dairy cattle. The sheep Industry is developing rapidly. At a sale at Calgary 151,453 pounds of wool were disposed of at sixty cents a pound. At a sale at Edmonton 60,000 pounds Were sold at even better prices than those paid at Calgary. The total clip this season will probably approximate two million pounds. Many reports are to hand showing from six to eight pounds per fleece. t 35 carloads were sent to the Toronto market alone.-- * Advertisement. SMALL BOY HAD NOTICED That He Knew Man In. Khaki as Marine Did Credit to His Powers of Observation. A group of youngsters was playing on Riverside drive, says the New , York Times. A military man, dressed in khaki and accompanied by a young lady, approached the group. The boys* stopped their playing and, with nudges and gesticulation, were evidently try­ ing to Identify the man In khaki. As the young lady and her escort drew nearer, one youngster with an air of superior knowledge Informed his companions: "He's a United States marine." Overhearing the remark, the young lady questioned the small boy: "How do you know he Is a marine?" •'Why, lady," exclaimed the young-, ster, "he wears an ornament on his hat showing an eagle, globe and anchor, but doesn't wear any hat cord." The colored hat cords, yellow, bine and red, help many civilians to recog­ nize at once a cavalryman, an infan­ tryman or artilleryman. However, the United States marine dressed In khaki is still an enigma tov many persons who lack the powers of observation displayed by the small boy on River­ side drive. , Not What She Thought. Horace--There is something I've been trying to tell you for a long time, but-- Marie--Oh, Horace, hot here before all these people. Wait Come this evening. Horace--It's merely that you have a streak of dirt down the middle 6f your nose, but I couldn't for the life of me get a word in till Just now." * Might Work. are extending too many Speeches in the Congressional Record." "What's the remedy, senator?" "When a member gets tired 1ft htm continue his speech by means ft a' graphophone." Afi'iHsIL A good start has all the, refu^re- floents of a bad finish. sM ^4,