Pi ------ 2 Dr, Grenfell's 'Reindeer 1 | -- Drive Out The Dogs dea Is Likely To <meta One of the most original projects 3 much attention throughout has devoted his life, ~ of Dr, Wilfred T. Grenfell, whose work among the destitute fishermen if the frozen ceasts of Labrador and foundland has -attracted so the world in recent years, has as its aim the substitution of reindeer for dog teams as a means of. hauling and travel in the country to. which he ; This strikes a blow at one of the most cherished institutions of the north, It points the way to the 'passing of the, picturesque dog team with which story books have made ous all familiar. : ' Perhaps no.man's field of labor eyer covered so wide a stretch of land or such bleak, inhospitable territory. About 450 miles of coast his parish. in Newfoundland and about 2,000 miles of Labrador coast comprise 'coasts are the villages and stations which he or his assistants must visit to earry on the work of the mission whose moving spirit he is. Frozen wp for a great part of the year, these points can at certain times be visited by launches or steamers, but most often they must be approached by land. It is to improve this latter communication that Dr. Grenfell is experimenting with reindeer, - _ When Pr. Grenfell first began his work in Labrador the chief means of conveyance was the dog team. . Strung ina line, six or mere of the savage dogs of this country haul a sled, or komatik, which will carry a man, some provisions and some inetruments. The dogs have no great amount of endurance, and un- exs they are fed heartily will weak- en and perish onthe route, if it be a long journey, leaving the traveler i _to get-in as best he may. They are greedy, treacherous, dirty and re- quire a good deal of attention, Reindeer, on the - contrary, are strong, fast, hardy and tractable when properly broken, One rein- gleer can pull as great a load as six aogs, and he can ferage food for himself. His diet consists of rein- deer, or caribou moss, which he ob- tains by scraping away the snow from the rocks on which it grows in reat abundance in this country. te thus costs nothing to keep. In addition, the doe gives milk many times richer than cow's milk, and the flesh of the reindeer, when the herds have increased sufficiently to use it for fOod, ix very palatable and strengthening, especially in a coun- try where, during the winter months, fresh meat is very scarce. A herd of reindeer, does and stags, will double its numbers by natural inerease in about three years. Tt was not long after Dr. Gren- fell took charge of the work whieh Scattered along these' barriers, the mission employs herd- ers, who camp where the reindeer are and keep them from straying too far or becoming separated, Onee a day the herders are sup- posed to_bring all the reindeer to- gether, and this is bitter work when: the thermometer registers 30 de- grees below zero and there is a: damp, keen wind, herders depends upon the seasons, During the winter the herd is al- mountains, about five miles from Saint Anthony. In the spring, when the does are fawning, the camp is moyed down toward the sea, as the expectant mothers restlessly make for the land-wash, or sea-coast, at this time of their year, stays here through the summer, and in the fall it is driven into corral at the fall camp near Saint Anthony feast), where count is taken, where such atimals as are needed for draught purposes are picked out and made ready for breaking to har- ness and where a general overhaul- ing is done, Certain does are se- lected to provide milk for the mis- sion's winter headquarters at Saint Anthony. The young does are able to shift for themselves after they are about five months old, but it is not the policy of the mission to wean them from their mothers too soon, This would tend to reduce the size of the animals and it has been the desire of the mission to breed them up as wuch as possible. While the dots do sot give a great quantity of milk, their product has been des- scribed as "rich as cow's cream."' The does' motto seems to be "qual- ity, nob quantity." Butter can be made from this milk and it can, for all purposes, be used just as the ordinary lacteal fluid of our hum- drum civilization. Moreover, it is very palatable. A natural question that will come into the reader's mind is, 'Just what do these reindeer look like?' We all have our ideas of reindeer, gleaned chiefly, no doubt, from pic- tures of Santa Claus. He is, -in | these pictures (the reindeer, not Santa Claus), a royal, spreading animal, with a magnificent set of horns. He varies somewhat in size between a horse and a freight loco- motive, - Alas for our dream! This rein- deer of actual fact in Newfoundland is not quite as tall as we are. The horns of a good-sized reindeer will about come to the shoulder of a man of average height. To increase the stature of the deer, Dr. Grenfell once tried the experiment of breed- ing them with the native caribou of his vigorous personality i made | the northland, which reach a con- ae that he became ¢ ge? 'e"| siderable size ; but he has come to with the slovenly dog teams, For a 'the conclusion now that it is better cui of ngs however, he had 4, keep the deer at the size they .~ to put up with them. _ With the aid of the Canadian: Nature to make them government and various kindly-dis- posed men and women of his own --aequaintance, he bought a herd of deer from Norway about five years ago and began his work of breeding «© yeindeer for use-in Newfoundland «and Labrader and of supplanting the old-time dog teams which story - heoks and pictures have endeared : to most of us in our childhood. This starter, for the great herd of nearly 1,000 deer which Dr. Gren- fell now has mumbered about 250. This included about 25 stags, ten ox'? deer--as the animals are call- 'ed which have been broken imto harness--and the remainder does. Of these beasts, 50, including a pro- portion of each sex, were sent to a jumber eamp in central Newfound- land, where most of them were al- lowed to die or fall into such poor physical condition that they were not fit for use through lack of know- ledge in that camp as to how to care for them. Eventually, the remain- der of this 50 wandered back to Dr. Grenfell. Along with thie herd came three families ef Laplands to instruct Dr. Grenfell's official family how to use and care for reindeer. This latter is a sample of the care and compre- hensiveness with which Dr. Gren. fell carries out his plans, The original herd of reindeer cost about #50 a head. Of this, $5,000 was subscribed by the Canadian government, $5,000 was donated by a wealthy Bostonian, and the re- mainder was made wp by small sub- -seriptions solicited by Dr. Grenfell. - he three families of Lapps stayed es : > of: for three years at the mission and then returned te their native coun- try, having taught all they knew. 'or the first three years of the experiment the work was in charge Mr. Lindsay, a soldier of for- tune, who has visited many lands d encountered many adventures. FE last two years the work has heen controlled by various members of the mission, under Dr. Grenfell's supervision, of course ; year the charge of the reindeer and this important part of the mis- sion's. work will be in the hands of John J. H. Evans of Germantown, »a., who has volunteered his ser- vices and who has spent the last two winters in Labrador, hunting, ing and assisting the mission rd was first brought it was turned out hills of north and next. {sleds and sledges have in themselves than to assist larger, as 'they are' perfectly capable and hardy as they are, and if they were larger and wilder they would be 'much more diffieult to herd, | When it is decided to make a beast of burden of a young stag, he is taken from the herd and his horns --the spreading trophies on which we hang our hats in neighbors' hall- waye--are removed. Then ¢om- mences the process of breaking in. This is a very exciting part of his traiming. The young deer, while not being actually vicious, is quite wild and can inflict a good deal of damage with his broad, sharp forefeet, if he gets the opportunity. The first thing, then, is to hitch him up with- out giving him a chance to dig your solar plexus out with the long, keen shovel he has for a forefoot. To accomplish this, the young stag is separated from the rest of the herd. Then he is eaught with a Norwegian lasso. This lasso differs from that of the wild west shows in that it is looser.and has a larger loop. The artists of Saint Anthony eare not which part of the deer's anatomy they eatch him by. They simply throw out this loop, which is large enough for a ferryboat to go through, and then, when the deer walks into it and gets tangled, they draw it tight. - Having caught the deer and shorn him of his horns, they put the harness upon him. This con- sists of a strong collar with a sin- gle trace at the bottom leading be- tween the legs, and a halter placed around the neck just above the col- | Jar, with a single rein fastened to the right side. When the driver The location of the camps of the : lowed fo roam in the foothills of the | The herd} (a set institution and not a meyable}- wishes the deer to go to the right, he pulls the rein. When he wishes | him to g6 to the left, he slings the; rein over the left shoulder of the. deer. Since the Laplanders depart- ed, the missionaries at Saint An-; thony have invented a method of driving the deer in double harness, but the seheme is practically the same. In the first harness the trace is) made yery loose for the newly-! caught deer, and after the collar! has been affixed and the halter put on it is attached to a polka or sled with a keel-like bottom. The deer is then turned loose and allowed to run much frightened, 'of course, by the sled thing dangling behind him. He runs around and around until he drops from exhaustion, and then his first lesson is considered com- plete. It is not hard after this to make him familiar with the various used for travel equaint sees $1,500,000 a year ago. indication, however, that] NEWESEL TYPES OF BRITISH WARSHIPS NOW BEING LAID DOWN. Navy now being carried out is illustrated here by a drawing of each of the The programme for the new types, as follows (left to. right): Destroyers, 20; scout and four eruisers, 5; battleships, 4 (26,400 tons); submarines, E class, 12; battle-cruiser, 1 (82,000 tons). manage than a good herse. His powers of travel and of endurance are marvelous and he finds his-own food wherever he happens to finish his day's travel. It is not always possible to find a mate with whom a deer will work in harness, but after one is discovered the pair get along with the greatest coneord and unanimity, After a pair has once been made, it is on no acount bre- ken. A deer works either by him- self or with his affinity. He will not work with any other. In accordance with his custom, Dr. Grenfell is making haste slowly in introducing reindeer into service in Newfoundland and Labrador. He does not wish to outrage the feelings of the natives of: these coasts, These people are most of them descendants of Scotch-English or Scotch-Irish and hold on as ten- aciously to their customs and ways of living as their. cousins in the Old Country. They have always used dogs, so haye no desire to change from them, despite the manifest ad- vantage of reindeer, In Dr. Grenfell's own experience, however, he has obtained a great deal of satisfaction with the deer, though he still retains dogs for use, too. One of his staff, a physician, last winter made two trips with deer, on one ocasion covering 150 miles and on the other 300 miles. Each time he took an unusually heavy sledge containing, in addition to himself, a great many supplies. The whole weighed over 350 pounds and was a burden that the usual dog 'team would not have, been able to draw. Yet the two deer that this emissary of medicine used drew the sledge and its burden easily and swiftly, finishing the trips much sooner than had been schedule time theretofore. It is evident that Dr. Grenfell's idea of replacing dog teams with reindeer is practical and it seems assured of snecess. Bets re eet CHINESE QUEUES NOP SOLD. Those Cut are Kept te be Buried With Their Owners. Experts in the human hair trade in Hongkong say that if buyers of human hair in the United States expect a great oversupply as a re- sult of queue cutting in China they are likely to be disappointed. In- stead of an oversupply the changes now. going on are cutting off the chief sources of supply in China, and there is likely soon to be a de- cided falling away. Contrary to the general impres- | sion the queues when cut are not sold. This is an absolute rule, so far as South China is concerned, says Consular and Trade, Reports, and it is the custom all over those portions of China from which the writer has been able to secure re- liable data on this subject. The queues, when cut, are preserved, according to general statement, for burial with the owner. The chief supply has come from Chinese barber shops where, in the course of shaving portions of the heads of customers, long hair is accidentally removed. Now that queues are cut, however, Chinese, barbers have no more long hair to dispose of than barbers in the United States. A contraction of the supply in Hongkong already is apparent, and but for the hesi- | taney of foreigr buyers to meet the market here the prices for supplies locally would have gone up. As it is, prices here are remaining firm in spite of an indisposition on the part of foreign buyers to them. The declared value of exports of human hair from Hongkong to the | United States in 1911 was $292,758, | ted as compared with $695,137 in 1910, $327,559 in 1909, and $92,209 1908. Shipments from the Hong- kong market in 1911 to all countries were much larger in volume than the year before, aggregating 1,759,- 833. pounds in contrast to about 1,200,000 pounds in 1910. A great proportion of the, ship- ments, however, was of low grade hair, used for various purposes other than for false hair--fox ex- ample, a new haireloth, mattress filling and the like. It is doubtful if the total value of the season's shipments will exceed $900,000 gold, as compared with an aggregate of There is every priges will range much higher for LOI M ese pee = WE'VE HEARD THEM. - 'Has she entirely recovered from the effects of her operation?' he's still-talkin i considerable | meet } CLEVERNESS OF ANIMALS. Stories Which Indicate That They Possess the Pow er to Reason, "Cats seem to know what dogs they can frighten and drive off, as well as those from. which they would do well to steer clear," says a writer in St. Nicholas. "I have of- ten seen a pet cat of ours drive a big dog away from her dish on the back poreh, causing him to set up such a howl that one might suppose a catamount were after him; and again 1 have seen a fox terrier send the same cat flying up a tree as fast as she could climb it, without any questioning as to whether it were hest to go or not. "Nearly every one has noticed the remarkable knowing quality devel- oped in all shepherd dogs. Accord- ing to my own personal observation these dogs help to keep the herds in the road and drive them in the right direction ! they knew their master's sheep and cattle; they can separate one herd from another; they can keep each in its own special pas- ture; they can prevent their mas- ter's sheep from mingling with his neighbor's -- especially' when the flock cames to a break in the wall or fence or hedge, through which the sheep seem to have an almost irre- sistible tendency to pass--and on account of their great intelligence shepherd dogs are an almost indis- pensable aid to these who have to manage sheep or cattle. "The eattle dogs of Cuba are, but little Jess intelligent in their man- agement of these animals as they are landed from the live stock ves- sels in some of the ports of that countyy. Two dogs swim beside each steer, for each steer is thrown into the water to find its own way ashore, and these dogs guide it by the ears until the animal's feet touch bottom, when: they immedi- ately let go and return to the ship to assist another steer in reaching Jand in the same manner. "Darwin describes a trick played on a monkey to show its intelli- gence. Lumps of sugar wrapped in paper were first given to him. Then for sugar a live wasp was substituted, but after meeting with an unpleasant experience from the wasp the monkey put the next pack- age to his ear to learn if it might be safely opened. This action showed that the monkey had memory and considerable wisdom and had dis- covered that a wasp buzzes when wrapped in paper. "The elephant looks -- stupid enough, but his intelligence is de- veloped to a marked degree. Dr. Romanes tells several interesting stories showing the almost human instinct of these animals. A man was one day feeding a tame ele- phant with potatoes which the ele- phant took. from his hand. A small round potato fell on the ground just out of reach, 'After several unsuecessful at- tempts to get it the, animal blew so strong a blast of breath against it that it was dashed against a wall, from which it rebounded so far that he easily reaehed it. It is said that an elephant will often blow just be- yond small objects out of reach so that the reflected current of air will drive them toward him. "Dr. Roemanes repeats the story of an elephant that was chained to ia tree near a little oven in which | his driver had just bakes some, rice ; cakes, When the driver went away, \leaving his eakes to cool, the ele-| | phant unfastened the chain from his and stones as he had He then returned to his with earth found it. | his leg as it was before, although he * in! 'eould not fasten it. The driver, on [his return, found the elephant with his back toward the oven and look- ing innocent. but the cakes completely disappeared.' Ne asc abs Tae careie QUITE SAFE. Officer (to new reéruit doing "sentry go" for the first time)-- "Now, mind you let no ene go by without challenging him."' Reeruit--"That's all right, guv- nor. Don't worry. The slightest noise wakes me up!" ; RA Immigrants into the United States of America are mostly gom- us- posed of people from Italy, tria-Hungary, and Russia. -Egbert--"Would you" marry: a one-eyed man?' Gwendoline -- "Good gracious, no!" Egbert-- ENS. JAPANESE TEMPLE GARD Pine Tree Trained in the Shape of a Junk. The Golden Temple, one of: the most famous Japanese shrines, is not only 500 years old itself, but is surrounded by a garden which also has been growing for centuries. So carefully and artistically has the work been performed that the arti- fices of the gardener are not very pronounced, with the noticeable ex- ception of the great old pine tree, which grows in a court surrounded an three sides by monastery build- ings. It is trained in the shape of a junk; hull, mast and sail being per- feetly reproduced. For centuries the patient priests have bent, pruned, pried, tied and prepped up the limbs and twigs of this tree. And as in Japan a tree is consid- ered chiefly for its age, form and tint, and net for use, this is vener- ated as a beautiful and sacred ob- ject. In the centre ef the garden, is a lake with pine clad shores and pine eovered islets. Each tree in a Ja- panese garden has its special land- scape name, according to its posi- tion and purpose in the ecombina- tion. Pines are, always used for @ framework in working out a foliage design, says Country Life in Amer- ica. It is symbolical of unflinching purpose, and its spiny leaves are supposed to he endowed with the power of driving demons away. The pavilion is a three-storied, unpainted wooden building, with projecting roofs and galleries. There are no nails visible, its beams leg, uncovered the oven, opened it, | ate the cakes, and covered the oven | place, and wound the chain about; haal: "Then you had better let me carry 'your umbrel) and posts being jointed or fastened with wooden pegs. Tt derives its name from the. room iin the third story whose walls and ceiling and floor in haleyon days 'were coated with gold; even the mes of the sliding screens, the jira | railing of the balcony, and the small |projecting rafters which form the! j roof of the baleony, were, as care- | ful examination shows, guvered with | a lacquer of the precicus metal. On j top of the, roof stands a bronze [phoents, or Ho-wo bird, about | three feet high, with uplifted wings, jan attitude of great significance. ie RE CS, | AMREN ROE Se REWARDS OF A DRESSMAKER. Mme. Paquin Draws a $60.000 a Year. Salary of which fashions in dress are imposed upon the world it must be the head of the Parisian house of Paquin in the Rue de Ja Paix," says the Wo- man's Home Companion, There is no doubt of the efficieney with which she dominates the great- est dressmaking establishment in the world. Mme. Paquin assumed "the dictatorship of the realm of Fashion,' as the phrase makers will have it in December, 1907, upon the death of her husband. dor Paquin was decorated by the Minister of Commerce for his ser- vices to France through his pre- eminent genius in his art. He. was an unknown clerk of the Paris Bourse, and his bride was an equal- ly obseure little dressmaker at the time of their marriage, about 1891, But shortly after they set up house- keeping a wealthy patron estab- lished them in a dressmaking busi- | ness, smal] but in an excellent loca- | tion. 5; At that time the great artists of fashion were wont to hold them- selves coldly and mysteriously aloof from their patrons. The newcomers {in the field adopted an opposite policy. Monsieur, a born diplomat and a far-sighted business man, young, handsome, and suaye, madame, charming and courteous. Such qualities, supplementing un- quest'oned taste proved so compelling that by the come of the house of Paquin was about $400,000. To-day it is proba- bly far in excess of that figure. Aside from her interest in the es- tablishment, Mme. Paquin draws a salary of $60,000. The detail of business is enor- mous. A small army is employed not only in designing, experiment- ing and making, but.also in segut- ing for new ideas to be modified or exaggerated. Then there are the mannequins, who exhibit the' cos- tumes fn the showrooms, not to speak of persons of far more conse- quence who wear the latest crea- tions on the stage cr at the races. + Adam. yr : ? 2 ; You go instead, Eva. If anybody is qualified to ex- | plain the mysterious processes by! M: Isa-} : ther end they were talking togethey | rin a privacy which Francis empha_| and reen | tactful, | were always accessible and always. 'ing the door behind hin. and originality, | to fout, end of a dozen years the annual in- | 'the, big old-fashion be reasonable. Francis weusrsws, . + + - + + geegesetetet x rom town th lazy Fh ea tt oer The young man down ; " eat his surroundings sone appreciation. His host - ie on the master of Homerton nh - : puffing contentedly at his ee a ponderous, taciturn figure. Bes corner of the great Roper eg the half-witted sen of the ee squatted on a wooden bate h ze vacant eyes' fixed on the ibe flames. The two $ rls had Late appeared from the ack: Phen . ed kitchen, 3a t work of the even- ing made shor ? é k in honor of the un ing's housewor -onted visitor... sae Gussie an autumn sterm of y ee and 'rain rattled the wooden ne ters, and stripped the leaves fee the trees in the garden tye the apples lay, picked and stacked, 1 » lush, green grass. | se wild, het night, but indoors ail was comfort... And when his ee Daisy sat down on the settle beside him the young man from Saawie asked nothing more. Daisy, a8ee twenty, was as pretty and fresh as her namesake flower. It was ae cult to believe that the ungainly youth in the corner could be hex twin brother. Shy, eighteen-year~ old Eva shared Adam's bench and knitted demurely. .She was not | pretty. No one would give her .@ second glance when Daisy was near. The farmer snored, Eva knitted, Adam glowered into the fire, and Daisy labored to convince the visl- tor that life on a Yorkshire farm had its festive moments. "There's a lot going on down to Littleburgh, Cousin Francis," she j said, "Why, they've a concert In the parish-room this evening, and Gearge March wanted to take me----"' "George March, indeed! I hope you made him-----mareh i Daisy giggled. '¥ou mustn't be wo hard on poor old George,' she said. '"You're as bad as Adam. There----' For at the sound of the name the half-wit- ted youth raised his head with an inarticulate snarl. "George got across Adam ance; and Adam never forgets or forgives. Poor old, George!" : "Tt strikes me you are a lot tao | fond of poor old George." Francis | remarked jocosely. But there was | a suggestion of annoyance in his; yoiee, which Daisy was quick to note. t "He's an old dear," she said, | knitting fast and 'speaking under} her breath. "'Dad would like us to); make it up together, because the | farm-lands join, you know, so per-!} haps----"' Eva's big, grey eyes, her one re-} deeming feature, gleamed up under | their long lashes. She dropped: three stitches; and then she inter- eepted the glance that passed be-| tween the cousins, and she grew hot! all ever with mingled rage, anid re-| lief. : "Perhaps, aud perhaps!": Fran-| cis whispered. "Daisy, I wonder | what you'd think of London ?"' 'The shops!" Daisy clasped her; hands and drew a long breath. | "There's beautiful sheps down to} Ralford," she. said. "Ralford! You wait a bit, Daisy. i Ralford, indeed! My werd, you'll! open your pretty eyes when [ get: you up there !" "When you----Oh!" a start that was not feigned and began to talk very| fast. "Goodness, how the shutters! clatter!' she cried. "Or is it some- | one at the door? Go and see, } Or wait! It may be George. It doesn't do; to put George in Adam's way. Now | Adam, hold your tongue--bad hoy! Gracious, George, is that really | you! Pid you come across the | brook? You'll do that ence too of- | ten and get a wetting one of these! days. You have met my cousin| Francis before?' | Daisy gave! altogether | i | } Yes; George had met. Francis be- fore. He was a big, clumsily-made! young fellow, with a red foolish | face and an unready tongue. The. dapper Londoner made him so con-} scious of his shortcomings that he: forgot to~shake hands with Eva 4 She went humbly back to her bench! and took up her knitting again. | abont the brook. 'There is a short cut between the | farms across the meadow," she ex- plained. "Father had a plank! thrown over the water, but there's | no rail; and after a storm like this! if is just madness to cross it in the! dark."' | "T conld find my way here blind-| folded,"' George assured her, find-! ing his tongue at last, but she did. not hear him. She sat down on the! settle again; and Francis went back | to his:place. It was a wide, high-' backed settle; and when they had! manoeuvred themselves to the 'fur-_ s'zed by bending forward to screen: his. companion from the world, Adam had left the kitchen. "ha ng outer | Low ron | stood near Eva, chiftine Ro She pulled her ckirt aside! onee, without looking up, as if to} -- ti ee Was room for two on the bench; it acti r 8 tp ne ut the action was "Dad"--Daisy's vay yoi , out through the Kitchen "Pian says I must go back with him and see what London is like. Aunt Mary'll be ever so pleased to have me on a visit. Oh, dad, wake up and say I may go!" George dithiod to the door. "What, George, off already? Good-night. Now, dad, you must sa > ae A "Let me epen.it for oa Era | hearsely. ; question. i matter J whispered. : See latch. His rough hand Httle fingers aside. A gu: blew into the kitchen. sone. ; : © ops pity's sake shut Daisy cried, and Eva obey. But she shut herself outs stood in the porch with outs arms, Staring into the blael the night. "George, George, back!' she wailed. -- "Ohjef Jet: you go like this! I cant Rain, wind, caught a yan. Her hair tore loos across her face; her sho 'so. and more than missed a turn in the nari 3 -and came into sharp con a bush or the bough of a George had taken the sho No matter, she must overt before he reached his solita She must tell him--what more, no matter. Some mde: instinet urged her on. He the garden gate into the n open. Poor George! The win the rain were sharper, butt ing blackness grew a shade | fling as she passed from the « ed garden into the meadow sloped sharply down to the s Something came towards" of the darkness, a grotesque ing figure--Adam. He passe sister unheeding and vanis the direction of the farm. _ Adam! <5 The indefinable instinct had fied itself.| A ery. broke. fre girl's panting lips, and then gathered up. her wet, clingi and yan on blindly ever the y ground: = The roar of the swollen st chafing between its steep banks moist. red earth, grew louder, paused for an instant, baffled clamor and the wind. 'Help !"? : A man's voice--his voice! -- cried out shrilly in response was off again straight as an ar from the bow. No noise or ness could bewilder her now. cry was still ringing in his -- when he felt his hands clutehimj his outstretched arms, with desperate fingers ping. bank. "The plank--gone! Didn't. --fell--ean't get up any fu slipping--slipping back! Who Help?"' ; Eva set her teeth. She could the pale blur of his face looking at her. There was something ¥ on 'in the blackness of the. gulf be the foam eon the rushing stream, "T can't hold on much longe "No; but you ean climb." voice rang out clear and dee ' 'Give me your hand; I will l you. And if we beth go do will be together," she theught, a strange wild triumph, as her fingers caught ab the groping h She was on her knees. Her arm encircled a small thorn ithat grew on the edge of the hb |The thorns bit. into her arm ay breast. The earth was going aw: under her. A leaden weight on i right arm seemed dragging- | down! es The weight relaxed, and she backward, shrieking, but ihad found a footpath at last an was climbing over the edge. "Phat was a near go!" he § Then he dropped on _ knees beside the girl. "Eya!-- Eva? But what----" 5A "Don't ask me!' she eried wild Georgielyweeyw dkket wshrdlann lye Never -- never ~ ask George!' And then, woman- proceeded to answer the unui "Oh, I ecame--t follo you -- because I was so sorry cause | have always been so sorry because she never cared, and f always Joved you, George !" "Hittle Eva!" he repeated. "¥ saved my life, and you--you--} little Eva! Dear Eva!" 5 He kissed her.--C. Robins, People's Friend. Re ee FORK AND SPOON PERTE More Attention Should be. Pai Cleaning Table Utensil: In view of the recent passa, the law prohibiting the use of lie drinking cups, a suggestion Prof. A. Ritschl of Friedburg, @ many, is of timely interest. He he just called attention to a pes 'factor in the spread of infeet conditions of the mouth, nose pharynx, which he believes to- sufficiently recognized in» it : households--vyiz., the table. ufensl such as the forks, spoons and g! es which come inte contaet with mouth. He points out that th are usually washed altogether, ten very perfunetorily, and dried on the same. cloth, so that i ;18 not surprising if the infe agents gets distributed by -- means. Prof. Ritsechl states that his own family the utensils used any member suffering from a' feetious condition are sep sterilized in boiling water. - his children having eontra communicating the disease te other member of the family. Ritseh] insists upon the. impor of strict measures in regard t r in restaurants, hotels hoarding houses: and he is af lon that if these precautions mdopted it would he less") than at present. for people ta plain of "catching cold?' _ The Lancet says: that pree in regard to this matter are ally adopted at sanatorium 'fo treatment of pulmonary tul losis, where this danger i nized; and at hospitals a: Institutions; but Prof. _ note may serve to draw the tion of the publie to this q Since there can be little dou the ordinary process of -y unless carried out 'thoroughly very hot water, is not. caleul: destroy infective organisms, ; mumps at school recovered without es