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DAKOTA COUNTY HERvAtD ' .1 S tfitfl I I l IWTII I an To His Mate Q "MEBBE A QUEEN!" Synopsis. Loitering on tho ban Francisco water front, John Hal- ncy, newspaper reporter, Is accost ed by a giant blind man, who asks Italnay to lead lilm aboard tho scaling schooner Karluk. In tho cabin they rind Captain Slmms and a man named Carlson. Slmtns rec ognizee tho blind man, calling him Jim Lund. Lund accuses Slmms of abandoning him, blind, on an Ice floo; and denounces him, Slmms denies tho charge, but Lund re ruses to bo pacified, tlo declares lila Intention of accompanying the Karluk on Its expedition north, where It Is going In quest of a gold Hell which Lund has discovered. Peggy, Slmms' daughter, Is aboard, and defends her father. Carlson, who Is a phj "Iclan, as well ag llrst mate, drugs Ilnlney. Awaking from his stupor, Ralney finds himself at sea. Carlsen Informs him ho has been kidnaped. Ho offers Rnlney a share of tho gold, and Ralney la forced to declare himself satisfied. Lund gives him a brief account of a former expedition of tho Karluk. tells him ho dlstru-sts Carlsen, and suggests a "partnership," .Ralney to act as Lund's "eye3." Ralney Is mndo second mate. Captain Slmms Is ill and tho navigation 13 entirely In tho hands of Carlsen. At tho latter's suggestion a shoot ing match is staged and tho seal hunters exhaust their ammunition. Carlsen shows his skill with the pistol and Lund does somo aston ishing shooting "by sound." Sandy the shop's boy, la swept overboard and Is rescued by Ralney, who thus wins Peggy's admiration, The captain gets worse. Sandy tells how Carlsen Is stirring up trouble over tho division of the gold. Carl son draws a gun on Ralney, who overpowers him. Tamada, the mys terious Japanese cook, declares himself neutral. Lund, his sight restored, kills Carlsen. Captain Slmms dies. Tho hunters 'attack Lund, who has taken charge of the Karluk. They aro beaten after a fierce fight. I CHAPTER X Continued. 10 Ralney was a little surprised at this thow of thoughtfulness, but he did not remark on it. He was beginning to think pretty constantly of late that he had underestimated Lund. The giant's ' hand dropped auto matically to the handle as If to assure himself of the door being fast. Sud denly It opened wide, a black gap, with only tho gray eye of the porthole facing them. Lund had brought up the muzzle of his pistol to the height of a man's chest, but there was noth ing to oppose It. "Ilidln', the d n fool! Whnt kind of n game Is this,? Come out o' there." Something scuttled on the floor of tho room then darted swiftly out be tween tho legs of Lund nnd Ralney, on all fours, like a great dog. Cur llko, It sprawled on the floor with a white face and pop-eyes, with hnnds outstretched In pleading, knees drawn up In sonle ludicrous attempt nt pro tection, cnlllng shrilly, in the voice of Sandy : "Don't shoot, sir! Please don't shoot !" Lund reached down and Jerked the roustabout to his feet, half strangling tolm with his grip on the collnr of the lad's shirt, and flung him Into a chair. "What were you doln' In there?" Sandy gulped convulsively, feeling at bis scraggy throat, where an Adam's apple was working up'nnd down. Speech wns scared out of him, and ho could only roll his eyes at them. "You d d young traitor 1" said Lund. "I'll have you keelhauled for this! Out with It, now. Who sent ye? Demlng?" "You've got him frightened half to, death," Intervened Ralney. "They probably scared him Into doing this. Didn't they, Snndy?" The lad blinked, nnd tears of self pity rolled down his sxltuy cheeks. Tho relief of them seemed to unstop per his voice. That, and the kinder quality of Ralney's questioning. "Demlng! He said he'd cut my bloody heart out if I didn't do It. Him an' Beale. Looklt." Ho plucked aside tho front of his almost buttonless shirt and worn tin ilcrvest nnd showed them on his left breast the scoring where n shnrp blade bad marked an Irregular circle on his skin. "Beale did that," ho whined. "Dem lug said they'd finish tho job if I come back without 'em." "Without the. shells?" "Xes. sir. Yes, Mr. Ralney. Oh, Gord, they'll kill me sure! Oh, my Cordl" Ills staring eyes nnd loose Forceful Evidence, A lawyer was once, nt short riotlco, called upon to defend n horso thief. Ho did not know that tho thief had pleaded guilty and made un Impas sioned speech in tho man's defense. Ho believed ho had made an Imprcs Blon nnd the man would be acquitted. But tho Judgo's summing up disil lusioned fclm. "Gentlemen," said the Judge, "you hnvo hoard his counsel. Only, remember thlr the prisoner was there when the horse was stolen and tho learned counsel was not." A M s y "I J J. ALLEN DUNN I Illustrations by I Irwin Myers I Copyright Dobbs Merrill Co. inutitlt, working In. fear, lniula him look like u fresh-landed cod. "You ulii't much use tillvo," said Lund. "Mebbe I ain't," returned the lad, with the desperation of a cornered rat. "Hut I got a right to live. And I've lived worsc'n r. dorg on this bloody schooner. I'm fair striped an' biulscd T boots an' knuckles an' ends o' rope. I'd 'avo chucked myself over long ago If" "If whnt?" The lad turned sullen. "Never mind," he said, - and glared almost defiantly nt Lund. "Is that door shut?" tho giant asked Rnlney. "Some of 'em might be Iinngln' 'round." Ralney went to the corridor and closed nnd locked the en trance. "Now then, you young devil," said Lund. "What they did to you for'ard ain't n marker on what I'll do to you If you don't speak up an' answer when I talk. If what?" Sandy turned to Ralney. "They said they was goln' to give me somo of the gold," he said. "They said all along I was to have tho bat go 'round for me. I told you I was dragged up, but there's there's an old woman who was good to mo. She's up ag'In It for fair. I told her I'd bring her back somo dough an' If I enn hang on an' git It, I'll hang on. Rut they'll do me up, now, for keeps." Rnlney heard Lund's chuckle ripen to n quiet laugh. "I'm d d If they ain't some guts to tho lierrln' after all," he'snld. "Hang In on to take some dough back to an old woman who ain't even his mother. Who'd have thoiight It? Look here, my lad. I was dragged up tho same way, I was. An I hung on. But you'll never git a cunt out of that bunch. I don't know as they'll have enny to give you." Ills face hardened. "But you come through, an' I'll see you git somethln' for tho old woman. An' yoresclf, to. What's more, you can stny aft an' o5$ 1 1 nil ' Ih iIbEE5,!,M NhhB "That's a Man's Life," Went on Lund. wait on cabin. If they lay a finger on you, I'll lay a fist on them, an' worse." "You ain't klddln' me?" "I don't kid, my lad.- I don't wnste time that way." Sandy stood up, his face lighting. He began to empty his pockets, laying shells nnd shotgun cartridges upon the tnble. "I couldn't begin to git hnrf of 'em," he said. "The rest's under the mat tresses. They said they on'y needed a few. I thought you was both turned In. When you come out of the corri dor I was scared nutty." Between the mnttresses, as Lund bad guessed, they found the re3t of the shells, laid out In orderly rows save whore the lad's scrambling fin gers hnd disturbed them. Lund stripped off a plllow-caso nnd dumped them In, together with those on tho tnble. "You can bunk here," ho told the grateful Sandy. "Now I'll have n few words with Doming, Beale and com pany. Want tocome along, Ralney?" Lund strode down tho corridor, bng In one hand, his gun In the other. Ralney threw open the door of tho hunters' quarters and discovered them like a lot of conspirators. Demlng wns In his bunk; nlso another man, whose ribs Lund had cracked when he hnd kicked him along tho deck out of his way. The bruised faces of the rest showed their effects from the light. As Lund entered, covering hem with tho gun, while he swung down the henvy slip on the table with a clat ter, their looks changed from eager expectation to constcrnntlon, "Caught with the goods!" said Lund. "Two tries at mutiny In one day, my lads. You want to git It Into your honehends that I'm runnhi' this ship from now on. I can sail It with- WAS HANDICAPPED FOR LIFE Circumstances Over Which He Had No Control Certainly Had Made Life Hard for Boy. Tho youngster wns sitting on a pllo of bricks at tho edgo of a vacant lot. At tho other end of tho lot wns n group of boys playing as only n lot of healthy boys can. "What's the matter, sonny?" a pass erby asked the lad who was sitting out ye and, by Clod, I'll set tho bunch of ye ashore snme's you flggered on doln' with mo If you don't sit up an' take notlcol Tho rifles an' guivs" ho glanced nt tho orderly display of weapons In racks on the wall "are to valuable to chuck over, but hero go tho shells, ev'ry last one of them. So thnt nips that lltMo plan, Dem Ing." He turned bnck tho slip to display the contents. "Open a port, Ralney, an' henvc tho lot out." Ralney did so while the hunters gazed on In silent chagrin. "There's one thing more," laid Lund, gt Inning nt them.. "If enny of you saw n man hurtln' a dog, you'd probably fetch him n wallop. But you don't think ennytl-.lng of scnrln tho life out of n ha'l-bnked kid an' mark- W up his hide like a patchwork quilt. 1 Tht't kid's stayln' aft after this. One of you monkey with him, an' you'll do Jest what bo's bin doln', wish you was dead an' ovorboard." He turned on nls heel and walked to tho door, Ralney following. Tho girl kept below nnd seldom enrae out of her cabin, Tamada serv ing her meals In there. Rnlney could see Lund's resentment growing at this attitude that seemed to him normal enough, though It might present dlfll culty later If persisted In. But tho morning thnt they headed up through Sequam pass between tho spouting reefs of Sequnm and Amlln Islands, she came on deck and went forward to tho bows, taking In deep breaths of the bracing air and gazing north to the free expanse of Bering strait. Ralney left her alone, but Lund wel comed her as she came back aft. "Glad to sec you on deck ngaln, Miss 1'cggy," ho said. "You need sun nnd air to git you In shape again." "How far have wo yet to go?" she asked. "A'most a thousan' miles to tho strait proper," said Lund. "The Nome Unalaska steamer lane lies to the east. Runs 'close to the I'rlbllofs, three hundred miles north, with Hall an' St. Matthew three hundred further. Then comes St. Lawrence Isle, plumb In the middle of tho strait, with Siberia an' Alaska closln' In." Ho wns keen to hold her In conver sation, nnd she willing to listen, as senting almost eagerly when he of fered to point out their position on the chart, spread on the cabin table. Lund talked well, for all his limited and nt times luridly Inclined vocabu lary, whenever he talked of the sea and of his own adventures, stntlng them without brng, but bringlug up striking pictures of nctlon, full of color and savor of life In the raw. From that time on Peggy Slmms enmo to the tnble and talked freely with Lund, more conservatively with Ralney. The girl, Rnlney decided, wns hu moring Lund, seeking to know how with her feminfuo methods slio might control 1dm, keep him within bounds. Her coldness, It seemed, she hnd oast asldo us an expedient that might prove too provoking nnd worthless. And Ralney's vnluatlon of her re-4 sources lncrensed. She was hnndllng her woman's weapons ndmirably, yet when he sometimes, at night, under tho cabin Inmp, snw the smoldering light glowing In Lund's agate eyes, he knew that she wns plnylng a danger ous game. "What d'ye figgcr on doln' with yore share, Ralney?" Lund asked him the night that they passed Nome. It wns stormy weather In tlie strait, and the Karluk was snugged down under treble reefs, fighting her way north. The cnbln wns cozy, with a stove go ing. Peggy Slmms wns busied with somo sewing, tho canary and tho plants gave the place a domestic nt mosphere, nnd Lund, smoking com fortably, wns eminently nt ease. "'Cordln to tho wny tho men flg gered It out," ho went on, "though I reckon they're under the mark moro'n over It, you'll have forty thousan' dol lars. That's quite a windfall, though nothln' to Miss Peggy, here, or me, for that matter. I s'pose you got It nil spent already." "I don't know thnt I have," said Ralney. "But I think, If all goes well, I'll get a place, up In the Coast Range, In tho redwoods looking over the sen, and write. Not newspaper stuff, but what -I've always wanted ,to. Stories. Ynrris of adventure I" "Goln' to wiito second-hand stuff?" asked Lund. "Why don't you live what you write? I don't seo how yo're goln to git under n mnn's skin by squuttln' in a bungalow with a Jap servant, a porcelain bnthtub, an' breakfast In bed. Why don't you travel an' seo stuff as It Is? How" In blazes aro you goln' to write adven ture Jf you don't live It? "Me, I'm goln' to git n schooner built nccordln' to my own Ideas. Have a kicker engine In It, mebbe, nn go round the world. Whnt'a the use of llvln' on It nn' not kuowin' It by sight? Books and pictures are all right In their way, I reckon, but, while my riggin holds up, I'm for travel. Mebbe I'll tnko u group of Islands down In (he South seas after a bit an' miikc somethln' out of 'em. Not Jest copra an pearl-Ahull, but cotton an' rubber," "A king and his kingdom," suggest ed the girl. nil alone. "Why don't you piny with tho rest of tho bovs?" "They don't 'want me to play with cm," ho replied bitterly. "Aro you sure of that?" ho was asked. no nodded his head despairingly. "Whnt's tho troublo that the other boys don't want to play with you?" tho stranger persisted. "They found out sumpthln' bout "Aye, an' mebbe n queen to go with It," replied Lund, his eyes wide open In a look that made the girl flush nut' Rnlney foci tho hidden Issue Hint Ik felt was bound to conic, rising to the surface. "That's a man's life," went on Lund. "Travel's all right, but a man's got to do somethln', buck somethln', sturt somethln. An' n red-blooded mnn wants tho right kind of n womnn to play mate. Polish oft his rough edges, mebbe. I'd rather bo n rough castln' thnt could stand filln n bit, than smooth an plated. An', when I And the right woman, one of my own breed, I'm goln to tie to her an' her to mo. "I'm goln' to bo rich. They've cleaned up the sands of Nome, but there's others'U bo found ylt between Capo Hope an' Capo Barry. Mean time, we'v6 got a placer of our own. With plenty of gold they ain't much limit to what a man can do. I've roughed It all my life, an I'm not lookln' for ease. It makes a man soft. But" Ho swept the figure of the girl In a pauso thnt was eloquent of his lino of thought. She grew uneasy of It, but Lund maintained It until she raised her eyes from her work nnd chal lenged his. Rnlney saw her 'breast heave, saw her struggle to hold the gaze, turn red, then pnlo. He thought her eyes showed fear, and then she stiffened. Almost unconsciously she raised her hand to whero Ralney wns sure she kept tho llttlo pistol, touched something ns though to assure herself of Its presence, nnd went on sewing. Lund chuckled, but shifted his eyes to Rnlney. "Why don't you write up this v'yngc? When It's nil over? There's adventure for you, nn' we ain't ha'f through with It. An' romance, too, mebbe. We ain't developed much of a Ibvc-story as ylt, but you never can tell." Ho laughed, and Peggy Slmms got up quietly, folded her sewing, and snld "Good night" composedly before she went to her room. "How about it, Ralney?" quizzed Lund. "How nbout tho love pnrt of It? She's n beauty, an' she'll he nn heiress. Ain't you got enny red blood In yore veins? Don't you wnnt her? You won't find mnny to hold n candle to her. Looks, built like a rncln' yacht, smooth nn' speedy. Smnrt, an rich Into the bargain. Why don't you make love to her?" Ralney felt tho burning blooQ mounting to his fnco and brnln. "I nm not In love with Miss Slmms,'1 he snld. "If I was I should not try to make love to her under the clrcum stnnces. She's alone, and she's father less. I do not enro to discuss her." "She's a womnn," said Lund. "And yo're n d d prig! You'd like to bust mo In tho Jnw, but you know I'm stronger. You've got somo guts, Rnliioy, but yo'ro hidebound. You ain't got hn'f tho glt-up-nn'-go to ye that sbe has. She's a woman, I tell you, an she's to be won. It you wnnt her-, why don't you stand up an try to git her 'stead of Blttln' nrouud like n sick cnt whenever r happen to ad mire her looks? "I've seen you. I nln't blind enny longer, you know. She's n woman nn' I'm a mnn. I thought you was one. But you nln't. Yore Iden of makln' love Is to send tho gal a box of cmidy an' walk pussy-footed an' write poem to her, You want to write life an' I want to live It. So docs a gal like that. She's more.my breed thnn yores, If she hns got .eddlcntlon. An' she's flesh nnd blood., Same as I am. Yo're half sawdust. Yo're stuffed." nc went on deck laughing, lentfng Rnlney rnglng but helpless. Lund np peared to think the situation obvious. Two men, and a woman who wns at tractive in mnny ways. Tho only woman while they were aboard the schooner, fheroforo the more to bo de sired, admlre1 by men cut off from tho rest of tho world. "Thnt't a patrol boat, Japa rese, for & million!" ITO llli (.OKT1NUKD.) Chaleur Bay's "Flro 8hlp." According to Investigations of Pro fessor Gnnong, tho traditional "lira ship" of Chaleur hay, New Brunswick, appearing usually before a storm, hns n basis of fact. It Is a hemispherical light, with tho flat side toward tho water, . glowing sometimes without much change of form, but nt other times rising into slender, moving col urnus, In which an excited Imagination might recognize the llnming rigging of a ship. Tho general explanation offered Is that this object Is n manifestation 6f St. Elmo's lire, an electrical phe nomenon, but the reason for Its np pearauce only on or near Chaleur bay Is not known. Letter Box Novelist's Invention. The letter box was Invented by Anthony Trollope, tho novelist, who wns n surveyor of the post office In Kngland from 18-11 to his retirement from the servlco In 1807. if In (Joubt about an experiment got some other fellow to try It llrst. me," tho lad answered, trying hard to keep back tho tears. "Was It something bad?" "They think sY. But but I enn't help UP tho boy defended himself. "Come oo, tell mo nil about It," ho was urged. "Maybo I con help you." "Naw, you can't help me none." "Well, tell mo about It, anyway." TIip boy hesitated for n moment, but decided to coKfldo. "Well, mister, these fellows any I'm n sissy 'cause I'm," and ho gulped, hard, "I'm twins with a girl I" MARKET REVIEW Compiled by the Nebraska State Bureau. GRAIN REACHES NEW LEVEL Live Stock Strong. Hogs Nearlng 10c Lamba up 25c. LIVESTOCK. Cattle: Receipts of cnttlo nt Om nlm Included a larger pcrccntngo of good to choice beef steers. Buyers wanted well-llnjshed beeves and tho better grades sold at prices fully steady. Plain, short-foil and medium grades sold on a quiet mnrkct. A small lot of clv)lco heavy beeves made a top of ?S.25 Wednesday anil there wero other snips of full cnrlots nt $S to .$8.20. Medium to good yearlings sold around ?0.75Q7.50. Tho bulk of medium beef steers sold nt $0.15007.00. Choice beef cows changed hnndu up to $5.75 with several lota moving nt $5.25 05.5O, Choice fat" heifers, $0.40. Choice light veals, to packers, up to ?9,00. Shippers top, $0.50. Heavy veals, $7.75 and down. Hogs: Receipts of hogs wero nor mal. The market was featured by strong outside demand and n broad local packer outlet. Prices advanced 2540c getting pretty closo to tho ?10 mark tho middle of tho week. Light butchers sold Thursday at $0.75jQ0.03. Packing grades mostly $S8.50. Sheep: Receipts of sheep and lnnibs were liberal and with somo Inquiry from shippers nnd favorablo reports from outside nmrkcts, prices held steady to strong. For the week, lambs mndo a gain of 25c. Top Thursday, !?14.45. Ewu top, .$7.05; Feeder lambs, $13.50. GRAIN. Wheat: Prices trnnded steadily up ward, both May and July whent selling nt now high levels on tho crop. Un favorable crop reports from tho South west nnd Argentine, high foreign markets, Improved milling demand nnd confirmation of closo adjustment of world whent supply to demand wero Influencing factors. For tho week, Chi cago May wheat advanced 10c. Vis lblo supply, 2,117,000 bushels, n do creaso of 103,000 bushels for tho week. Corn: Tho visible supply of corn was 34,772,000 bushels, an Increase of 2,091,000 bushels for tho week., Prices advanced with wheat and markets were active. Generally speakings, coun try offerings wero reported lighter with farmers showing n disposition to hold for higher prices. Locally, tho move ment wns heavy. Potatoes: Movement wns steady and supplies wero liberal nt nil mark ets. Northern stock, No. 1 sacked, sold In Chicago at $1.05D0. Omaha: sacked Early Ohlos U. S. No. 2, .$1.00 05. Western Nebraska, Irrigated District: Caiiots f. o. b. rocked No. 1 while varieties, $1.30. Total ship ments of western Nebraska to Febru ary 13 Inclusive, 3,587 cars compared with 2,258 cars to tho same dnto last year. POULTRY. Receipts of poultry wero lighter and prices ndvnnced slightly. Springs, 18 20c; Stngs, 1510c; Hens (light) 10 20c, (heavy) 21(S)23c; Old Roosters, 12c; Ducks, 1018c; Geese, 1020c. For tho week, eggs wero about steady In New York and Ho lower In Chicago. Local prices wero also about 2c lower at 28030c. DAIRY. Production was slightly lower for tho week but still considerably In excess of Inst year. Markets wero steady to strong at the closo of tho week hut slightly lower than tho previous week. 02 scoro sold In Chicago nt SGMc. Local prices, country butter, 22c. World's Future Lumber Producer. South Africa Is now pointed out by a leading authority as one of tho world's best flolds for timber growing. Tho work, ho says, must be done on n largo scalo by tho government, as Individuals cunnot wait for the returns. Various kinds of plno nro dcclnred to bo tho trees most suitable Tho variable winds exert such n twisting upon growing trees thnt straight-grained timber of certain kinds Is difllcult to obtain. Pine seems to withstand tho contorlng Influence inoro effective ly thnn other kinds, nnd very fine, straight-grained timber of this sort is produced. Overdoing It. The man who lays by n borrowed umbrella for a rainy day Is altogether too thrifty. Boston Transcript. Mammoth OrganB. Amongst tho largest organs In the world are the Haarlem Instrument, which possesses sixty stops nnd 8,000 pipes; tlie Albert Hall organ, with 125 stops; tho organ In St. George's Hall, Liverpool, with 110 stops; one at St. Louis, which boasls 150 stops; and ono In Sydney Town Hall with 120 stops. London Tit-Bits. Therefore Avoid Mean Actions. Ono grcnt trouble In doing a mean action Is that ypur nro compelled to assoclato with yourself afterward. If you could only have nothing to do with u man who wns guilty of such mean ness, It would be a relief, Punched Time Clock. "Did the ear-major go this wny, sen- i try?" "I don't know corporal" "Well, keep your eyes open. What do you think you're hero for?" "Hero for? Two perishing hours !"- Calcuttu I Lookcr-On. llom Town TIfelpsT NEW IDEA IN HOUSE BUILDING Claim Made That by This Method Un skilled Labor Can Be Put to Practical Use.- j Axel Wedbcrg, Floral Park, L. I., has mndo nn Invention thnt Is said to be of great Importance In house build ing, snys Foreign Language Informa tion Service. Mr. Wedberg's Iden Is to build houses with cast concrete, wnlla made In molds, which can easily bo Joined by menus of hooks nnd props. Tho concrete blocks nre then put together In the corners by dovetailing. The roof and the sldewnlls nro joined In the. same way. One outstanding advantage In this method Is thnt houses can be built by almost unskilled laborers, as most bf the cast concrete blocks nre made to lit exactly where they belong before, being erected, Another feature Is tho easy way a damaged building can bo repaired, the defective block only being replaced by a new one. Wall paper and paint nro easily applied. Tho blocks aro not solid, but arc provided with a four Inch nlr and Insulating hole. The Inventor came over to this coun try In 1003, nnd has since been study ing and working. For tho Inst twelve years ho has been connected with sev eral house-bulldlng concerns. HAVING SHOP WINDOWS CLEAR No Need to Lose Effect of Display Be cause Jack Frost Raises Seem ingly Effective Barrier. During cold weather mnny retnil merchants lose the effect of their win dow display by allowing their shop windows to become covered with frost. The covering of frost Is duo to tho change In temperature In tho window space. The remedy lies In having tho space Inside the windows cold all day. Back windows which partition tho window spneo from tho storo Itself help, but nro not suflkient. Several small holes should bo drilled In tho top and floor of tho window I" HOLES PWLUEO THROUGH WOOD FRAME c. The Ventilators Should Be Hooded to Shed Rain and Snow. spneo to connect It with tho outside. About three holes, each one Inch In diameter, aro nitfuolcnt for a window of average size. These holes allow tho outsldo cold to penetrate, and equalize Insldo and outside temper utures. Populnr Science Monthly. Few New Yorkers Own Homes. Fewer JNcw Yorkers own their own homes than do Inhabitants of any large city in America. There aro J278',341 homos In New York and Only one-eighth nre owned by the oc cupants. This Is revealed In ,n study mndo by tho division of building .and housing of the federal bureau of stand ards, which Included cities of tho United States having a population ot over one hundred thousand. Dcs Moines, In., with over half, or B1.1 per cent of Its 31,044 homes owned by their occupants, has tho best record. Obnoxious Advertising Signs. Eliminating the signs from stnto ronds should provldo n good example for other roads, and In time It should hnvo Its effect upon thb cities, where tho citizens are obliged to wago a con tinuous battle to keep obnoxious ad vertising signs from parks and boule vards. The argument that In some cases the signs nro better than tho unimproved tracts of lunci which they hide carries somo weight, but It mere ly Invites uttentlon to bad housekeep ing methods. Kxchnngo. Home Ownership. Tlie more homo nnd farm owners the country hns tho better. Men who own their homes are likely to bo good citizens. They respect property rights. They tnko an Interest In government because they havo something at stake. They Increase tho production of wenlth. They bear responsibilities. The Days Gone By. "Don't you long for the good, old fashioned days?" "Sometimes," replied Miss Cayenne, "when I seo pictures otgowns thnt cove the knees, But never when I think of n man with side whiskers." That's Not a Sure Sign. Dadd -Why do you say that . Mr. Hypp Is not a good man? He gees to church inoro often than any man I know. KeaneYes; ho devotes all his te nsion to going to cUurcli.-'-Answers. , ' ll2. -T5 ki -r C,"fQ ' . 'jt f.il tWhI PH i-.