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The
DESTROYER
By BURTON E. STEVENSON
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CHAPTER SEVEN (Continued.)
“There is some doubt on that
point/’ answered Crochard slow
ly. “That little road is used but
seldom, for a better one now leads
around the base of the hill; and
few people ever have occasion to
enter the grove. It was, of course,
for this very reason that the hut
was chosen for this installation.
1 have found no one who saw any
man at work there. On the other
hand, a friend of mine, who has a
cabaret on the main road just out
side the eity gate, has seen pass a
number of times within the past
week a man who, from his face and
dress, wuis evidently not a French
man, and whose actions appeared
to my friend to be suspicious. ’ ’
Deleasse smiled.
“You seem to have many
friends,” he remarked; “and un
usually observant ones.”
“Yes,” agreed Crochard; “I
arn fortunate in my friends; and
they find it greatly to their in
terest to keep their eyes open. ’ ’
“Did you secure a description
of this stranger?”
“Yes; but there should have
been much more than a mere de
scription. Some of my friends are
more intelligent than others. Still,
it may be of service. This stranger
was a small man, slightly built,
with grey hair and bright, dark
eyes. His complexion was also
rather dark, and my friend
hazarded the guess that he was a
Spaniard. He was dressed in
dark clothes, cut after a fashion
not French, and wore a soft, dark
hat.”
“But that is a splendid descrip
tion!” cried Delcasse. “What
more did yon want ! ’ ’
“Ah, sir,” replied Crochard, ”if
it had been some of my friends,
they would have managed to meet
this man; they would have en
gaged him in conversation, have
discovered his business and place
of abode; instead of which, this
friend in question merely sits, at
the door of his cabaret and
watches the man pass! He was not
doing his duty—but he will not
make such a mistake again!”
“His duty!” echoed Delcasse.
“His duty to whom!”
“His duty to me,” replied Cro
chard.
‘ ‘ But I do not understand, ’ ’ said
the minister, more and more
amazed. “Why should your
friends have any such duty to
you!”
Crochard hesitated. Lepine's
face was fairly saturnine.
“I cannot explain that to you
now, sir,” said Crochard, finally.
“I can only say that it is part of a
system which lias existed; for a
very long time, and of which I
now happen to be the head.”
Delcasse pondered this for a mo
ment, his eyes on Crochard’s face.
. Then he turned to Lepine.
“You must learn more of this
stranger, Lepine,” he said. “You,
also, are at the head of a system—
and a very expensive one.”
“Yes, and a good one, sir,” said
Lepine. quickly. “One which is
worth all it costs. But men will
not work for money as they do for
self interest; and, then, my sys
tem is a mere infant beside that of
our friend here, which must be at
last 200 years old. ’ ’
“Oh, much more than that!”
said Crochard, quickly, and smiled
at Delcasse’s astounded face.
“Please understand,” he added,
that I do not assert that this is
the man we want. There is as yet
n« absolute proof, though T hope
soon to have it. But. there is one
significant, fact: when going from
the eity he frequently carried <1
heavy bundle, but never when re
turning.”
‘That is indeed significant,’
agreed Delcasse. “But it indicate?
another thing which astonishes me
If he did all this alone, it was be
cause he had no one to assist him
Bnt if he had no accomplice, win
were the two men who watcher
the destruction of La Liberte
And, above all, who is this mm
who plans, alone and unaided, tin
destruction of our navy? Wha
is his pin-pose? Whence did In
come? Whither has he gone? I
he a madman—an anarchist?'
Delcasse ran his fingers throng]
his fingers through his hair witl
, a despairing gesture. “He as
founds roe 1” he added. “My brai
fahers at thought of such a man !'
But Marbeau, to whom much o
this talk had been incomprehens
ibte, began at last to understand
»
and shook his head in violent, pro
test.
“Whoever the man may have
been,'’ he broke out, “or whatever
hi.i business, it could have had
nothing to do with the destruc
tion of La Liberte.”
Deleasse whceeled upon him.
“ Why do you say that?" he de
manded.
“Because, sir, it is absurd to
suppose that the magazines of the
ship could be exploded by wire
less. Wireless lias no such power.
And, in this instance, it is quite
easy to prove that they were not
so exploded.”
“Prove it, then,” said the min
ister, impatiently.
“In the first, place, the signal,
Which we now know came from
that hut up yonder, were first
noted on Saturday. They con
tinued for half an hour, and yet
no explosion occurred. In the sec
ond place, we caused them to be
repeated today, and again there
was no explosion.”
“La Liberte was no longer
there to explode,” Deleasse ob
jected grimly.
“True; but there were other
ships near by—La Patrie, La Re
publique, La Verite. These ships
and others were also there at the
time of the explosion, yet they
were not affected, although all of
them had precisely the same sort
of powder in their magazines that
La Liberte had in hers. ’ ’
“But you have already said that
the waves could be intensified in a
certain direction,” Deleasse
pointed out.
“So they can; but they cannot
be confined tb a channel nor di
rected at a mark, as a bullet it.
The hut in the grove is fully three
miles away from the harbor, and I
assert that, every ship in the har
bor felt the waves with the same
intensity as La Liberte.”
“And what is your deduction
from all this?” inquired Deleasse.
“My deduction is that those
signals did not and could not
cause the explosion.”
J hen what was their purpose?
How do you explain them?”
Marbeau made a gesture of
helplessness. t
“I do not know what their pur
pose was: I cannot exphiin them,”
lie said; “but I am confident that
they could not have destroyed La
Liberto.”
”1 agree with General Mar
beau,” said Croehard suddenly.
They all stared at him. aston
ished that he should admit himself
defeated.
“But I would add one word to
his deduction,” he added. “The
word ‘alone.’ ”
“ ‘Alone’?” echoed Delcasse.
“I would make the statement
thus: ‘Those signals alone did not
and could not cause the explo
sion.’ "
Delcasse looked at him with
puzzled eyes, and again ran his
fingers impatiently through his
hair.
“I do not understand,” he said.
“You are getting beyond me.
What is your theory, then?”
The line in Croehard‘s brow
deepened.
“It is a thing, sir,” he answered
slowly, “which I find difficult to
express in words. There is. at the
back of my mind, an idea, vague,
misty, of which as yet 1 catch only
the dim outlines. My process of
reasoning is this: it is certain, as
General Marbeau says, that the
signals from the hut were, in them
selves, harmless, or there would
have been other explosions than
that'on board La Liberte. Wire
less waves can be directed and con
centrated only to a very limited
extent. They can be made a little
[stronger in one general direction
than in others, that is all. And, in
this ease, that general direction
would have embraced all the ship?
at anchor in the harbor,
i “There must, then, have been
i some other force which, at the ap
’ pointed time, struck from this
i stream of signals a spark, so tc
speak, into the magazines of Ls
„1 L>berte, one after the other. Thai
‘ there was an appointed time w<
; cannot doubt—wo know that i1
was the moment of sunrise vester
i day. That the magazines wen
i fired one at a time, and a spacer
- intervals wo also know. That the?
l could not explode of themselves ii
’ that way seems certain.
f “You will remember that tb
- signals l>egnn more than an hon
>A before sunrise, and continued fa
at lor d half an hour afterwards.
Wo know that the signals were
ert automatically. Why? Partly,
no doubt, because it was necessary
that they he absolutely regular:
but also because the man who did
this thing—who is himself, per
haps, the inventor of the method—
< hr> e to make no confidants, to
have no accomplices, and he could
not himself he iu the hut-to send
the signals. Again you ask why.
Not because the danger of discov
ery, since there was no such dan
ger. 1 believe it was because it
was necessary that he be some
where else, directing from an
angle, perhaps, that other force,
so mysterious and so deadly. I
seem to see two forces, traveling
in converging lines, as two bullets
might travel, their point of meet
ing the magazines of La Liberte.
At the instant of their meeting,
there is a shock, a spark — as
though flint and steel met—and
the magazine explodes—first the
forward magazine, then the after
magazine, then the main maga
zine—one, two, three! This is all
mere guesswork, you under
stand, sir,” Crochard added, in an
other tone, “but so I see it. And,
after all, it is susceptible of
proof.”
“What proof?” demanded Del
oassc.
“If my theory is the true one,”
Crochard explained, “there must
have been, somewhere, another in
stallation to create the intercept
ing force, which, of course, must
also be transmitted by ether waves
as wireless is, if it is to penetrate
wood and steel. It must have
been within an hour’s walk —
probably half an hour’s walk—of
the hut in the grove. For remem
ber, the mechani ; n there was set
going an hour belore sunrise, and
the man had tl n to reach his
other mechanist.',' and have it
ready t.o start at unrise. It is for
us to discover the place where this
second mechanism was installed—
and where it probably still re
mains.”
“Yes, that would be proof,”
agreed Dele: v;e thoughtfully;
“and for my elf, I will say that!
believe your • heory the right one.
But you have not yet explained
the part plu.> ed by the two watch
ers on the ( ay.
“Their p;: : was that of watch
ers merely.' said Crochard. ‘ ‘ They
were sent 1 *re to observe and to
report to tueir masters—as they
did.”
“As they did?”
‘ * Surely it is evident,” Crochard
explained, "that, if our theory is
true, they would hasten to report.
Imagine their master's anxiety un
til he heard from them! As a mat
ter of fact, their report was filed
within lb minutes after the ex
plosion. M. Lepine has it in his
pocket.”
IJeleasse stared, uncomprehend
ing; but I.epine, Iiis face, suddenly
illumined, snatched out his pocket
book and produced the sheets of
yellow tissue.
“Ah, yes, certainly!” he cried.
”1 was blind not. to see it! The
i report was in form'agreed upon:
• We continued our trip as planned.
All well.' You wjll understand
now, sir,” he added, to Delcasee,
“the reason for the high opinion 1
entertain of this gentleman!”
“But that message was sent to
Brussels,” objected the minister.
‘ ‘ ft. was sent ‘ rcataute. ’ A man
was waiting at the poatoffiee to
receive it and forward it instantly
to Berlin.”.
Delcasse's face was a study, as
he turned this over in his mind.
“ What is your reading of the
other message f“ he asked, at last.
“My reading," answered Cro
chanf, slowly, “is that, at the last
moment, the emperor, appalled at
the possible consequences, de
cided to forbid the atrocity, to
which he had, perhaj>s, been per
suaded against his better judg
ment, or in a moment of passion.”
“And if the message had not
been delayed, La Libert* would
! have been saved?”
“Precisely that, sir.”
j Delcasse's lips were twitching.
| "You may be right,” he said
j thickly: “you may be right; but
| it seems incredible. After all, it is
j merely guesswork ! ’'
; “You will pardon me, sir, but
it is not guesswork.” protested
iCrochard. “M. Lepino will tell
I you that, in a case of this kind, it
, must be all or nothing. Every de
I tail, even to the slightest, the most
i significant, innst fit perfectly, ot
I they are all worthless. If 1 aw
j wrong in this detail, I am wrong
jin all the others; if I am right ir
[the others. 1 am also right in this
1 They stand or fall together. Anc
1 believe they will stand!”
The great minister was gazitq
[ fascinated at the speaker; for th<
■! first time, he caught a real glitnpsi
[; of his tremendous personality.
| “You mean, then,” he said
. finally, “that if any details w
- may discover hereafter fail to fi
r, this theory, the theory must be dia
! carded V
“Discarded utterly and without
! hesitation, ” agreed Croehard.
|“More than that—”
A tap at the door interrupted
him.
“Come in,” said Deleasse.
His secretary entered, followed
I by a courier, carrying a portfolio.
“From Paris, sir,” said the sec
retary, and the courier, with a
how, laid the portfolio on the min
ister’s desk.
Deleasse took from his pocket, a
tiny key, unlocked the portfolio,
drew out a package and glanced1
at the superscription.
“Ah.” he said; “the photo
graphs!" and ripped the package,
open.
There were some two dozen of
them, together with a long type
written report, which Deleasse
glanced through rapidly.
“These are the result of the
first report from Berlin,” he said,(
“of officers who are absent from
their commands and whose present
whereabouts is not definitely
known. A supplementary report
will follow.”
“We can begin with these,”
said Lepine, and looked them
over.
Croehard had risen and was
looking at the photographs over
the detective’s shoulder.
“ We shall have to "shave them
first,” he remarked.
“Shave them?”
“Divest them of those orna
ments, ’ ’ and he indicated the up
turned moustaches, a la kaiser,
with which nearly all the pictured
faces were adorned. “A brush and
tablet of water color will do it.”1
M. Delcasse arose.
“I will leave that in your hands,
gentlemen,” he said. “1 must
meet the board of inquiry almost
at once. General Marbeau, l think
you for your assistance. You will,
of course, say nothing of all this
to any one. As for you, sir,” he
added to Croehard, “1 shall think
you better another day. Till this
evening. M. Lepine,” and he
bowed the three men out.
Half an hour later. Lepine and
Croehard were eioseted with
Monsieur and Madame Brisson in
the former's bureau at the du
Nord. The little inn keeper and
his wife were inarticulate with ex
citement, for they had guessed Re
pine s identity from his resem
blance to the pictures which every
illustrated paper published at fre
quent intervals, and they sus
pected, from his bearing, that Cro
ehard was a person of even greater
importance. Their faces were
glowing with pride, too, for their
proffered refreshment had not
been decliued. In after days, when
the sentence of silence had been
lifted, they would tell the story to
their admiring friends:
“Imagine it. Here we sat, l
here. Gabrielle there; in that chair
M. l epine, prefect of the Paris
service du surete, a little thin man
with eyes oh. so bright: and*in th>
| fourth chair, with eyes still bright
er and an air distinguished which
! there could be no mistaking—
: whom do you think? None other
! tban the line de-B-or th >
■Prince de R —, or the Marquis
I de C.—; that was a detail to he
titled in later: but a great liigli
{ ness, rest assured ,of that! And
j the way that both M. Lupine ffnd
I the unknown highness relished
their.Chateau Yquent was a great
compliment to the house.
After these amenities, Lepine
produced the demoustaehed pho
tographs.
“Look well at these,” he said:
j“have care—do n<Jt speak unless
iyon arc very sure,” and he passed
| the photographs one by one to
j Madame Gabrielle, who handed
| them on to her husband. Some 1(1
or 1” were examined without com
ment. and then Madame uttered u
sudden exclamation.
“It is he!” she cried. “It is ons
of them!”
“One ef whom?” asked Lepine.
J “One of those men. Behold,
Aristide!”
Brisson took the card and
| looked at it.
: “Sacred heart! But .von an*
right, Gabrielle!”
"You are sure?” persisted Le
i pine.
“Sure! But of a certainty! T
; would swear to him !”
I Lepine put thi photograph iri ins
j pocket, and turned to the others
1 But there was no second reeogni
! tion. Brisson and his wife went
| through them twice, until they had
j eohvineed themselves that their
| other guest was not among them.
I Finally Lepine gathered the pho
j tographs together.
| (CONTINUED NEXT WEEKJ
——
Peace With Justice.
I From the New Haven Journal-Courier.
Notnlnn will satisfy this free republic
' hut the definite assurance that democracy
hae been made safe. In the meantime
thoee whn permit themselves to be de
, netted by the rumors of restlessness and
reeee yeerelnica in Germany are weaken
i"i» Atr.eriea'e pewere of resistance. It b-«
t beemHe necessary to teaeh Germany a
ieei'.rn elm will hoed. Pease with Justice
-; <xu» alone be oonatdarad.
♦ NEW3 OF NEWSPAPERS. ♦
♦ -1- ♦
>■ Journalism the Chief Weapon ♦
+ of Democracy. ♦
From an address by Walter Williams,
dean of the school of journalism of the
University of Missouri.
The service of constructive criticism
falls within the province of the press.
Mistakes will be made fn the conduct of
the war—mistakes have been made in the
conduct of the war. If is the duty t.f the
press, freed from the meshes of partisan
ship and without thought of selfish ad
vantage, to point out in the broadest way
such mistakes and thereby to guard as
far as may he possible against their re
currence. Individuals temporarily holding
public office—clothed with a little brief
authority or large—will wish to b*» free of
publicity and of criticism. The pre-s must
hot grant them this freedom. It will r»ot
grant it. Methods of taxation, of the dele
gation of power, of the raising of revenue
and of its disbursement, questions as to
the aim and purpose of the war and *>f its
continuance are of vital Interest aim! im
portance to the American people.
Supreme Task of Press.
Here again the press has a plain duty
to perform. Publicity will cure evil* in
war time no less than in the pipit g days
of peace.' A single example—in the en
forcement of the selective draft measure
young men within the draft age* were
asked to answer a question regarding ex
emption. a question unfortunately ex
pressed and which at the last tt wat
.sought to withdraw' or explain awry.
'When the question was honestly answered
In accordance with the registration blanks,
•we were gravely told that reply thereto
constituted cowardice on the part of those
who replied. Again, statements sent out
from Washington blundered into tire
bureaucratic error of announcing that
registration totals should equal certain
census figures. These figures however
were estimates made on the census of
1910, pure guess work as to the probable
growth of states in population from 1910
to 1917, an estimate manifestly impossible
to make with any degree of accuracy. On
such census bureau estimates charges of
slacker, states and slacker communities*
were unwarrantedly made. It is in con
nection with such practices as these and
matters of much larger consequences, in
volving property ami life and liberty itself,
that the press of the country must do the
service of constructive criticism. Bureau
cracy as wrell as autocracy Is the enemy
of democracy.
No more important battle in behalf of
democracy has been waged in recent years
than the struggle in congress against the
enactment of the censorship provision of 1
the espionage hill. As members of the
profession of journalism, charged with
solemn responsibilities in this grave hour,
we may not congratulate ourselves upon a
complete and well reasoned victory. Un
fortunately the victory was not won upon
the plain issue of the freedom of the press
—fundamental to a democracy—hut was
in some measure the result of the desire
of certain members of congress to oppose
a bill presented by one of the agents of
the people in office In Washington. Vic
tory did not come upon the broad ground
of the constitutional prerogative of the
press, but to a degree upon clouded and
partisan issues. Fortunately, however.
w*e have a constitutional provision upon
which the press may stand. T.ot me quote
from an old document which * still the
supreme law in the United States. made
for times of war, as for times of peace.
“Congress shall have no power.” soys the
constitution of the United States, “to pass
.Taws abridging the freedom of speech or
,of the press.”
“The people of this republic, it may be |
paid in passing, declined to ratify the con- ‘
stitution until this addition thereto wa'j
agreed upon.
Publicity Aid in War Time.
Back even to the constitution is the
fundamental right and necessity of pub
lic opinion to express itself—without which
there is no democracy. We come here to
the ulterior power. The statement of its
sovereignty needs no apology. Not only
the honor and dignity but the very exis
tence of a democratic state depend upon
it. To preserve and promote them, by
the ere at’on of a sound and wholesome
public opinion, is the supreme task to
which the press must summon its every
resource. Bet no so-called necessity of
war be permitted to be a cover for re
actionary measures. Tt hath not yet been
jproved that a republic armed to the teeth
and bent only upon material things shall
endure. It is the spirit of nations, as of
men. that keepeth alive.
Would Hove Prevented War.
If the press of Europe had been for a
century free to print the news uncolored
by government influence, if it had been
free to discuss in public the machinations
of diplomats, this hideous war would not
h. \ e come. Certainly national antugon
i-n** wore Increased and racial hatreds j
embittered by the international news
served out by official or semi-official j
Sources, the Wolff agency in Germany,
Reuter's* in England, the Havas in France, i
the Correnpondenz Wilhelm in Austria, j
the Stefwtle in Italy, the Ministry of the i
Telegraph — frankly official — in Russia. ,
and others in other lands. The news as j
thus circulated was seldom the actual
truth — it was what the govem^ier.ts
wished the people of their own nations
and the governments and people of other
nations to think was the truth, l^et us
permit no such frightful blunder to be j
mace—even under the specious plea of
military necessity—in this republic. Many
others than Bismarck manipulated the
news. War took pla<*e in the open be
cause—thanks to nn enslaved and compla
cent pres*—the preparations therefore
were carried on in secret. Censorship waa
an accessory before the colossal crime of
war oven if it w-a* not a principal iht
bringing it about.
Private Property of Autocrats..
From the Omaha World-Herald;
I’ow t’-e autocrat* of Russia robbed: the
people '«* very plainly shown by the
anwint -»f prnpetiy the czar and the
p»i »t *nVes Iw?M In their own names. It
la Hst ed thnt the provisional Russian
Rwcrnmenr has se'zcd property valued ut
$;a>/A)/Ai from which the former fkftr
VI eh*'as enjoyed a life revenoCi Solanr«
of ether properties voiced at JttSvhGO.OOO
an.* rtf properties *f Rrend fhfibas ami
d trcbeve-s haloed at $210.000 000 is heiwR
considered. The exar still has $S5.tW»,d00
on <!ep«*s5t In the Bar#k of Rn^htnd ami
' tike Alexis left $M.0no,O0O 'it the
Bank of France. The e»ar’8 »boito! In
come nt the time he was deposed is esti
mated at I65.A-0 000.
As yet po Inventory of the kaiser's pri
vate property has been pijhttehed. but
«ft*r the wu*, when It '.* made, it Is n«t
in-f’v lhi*t :t will he fa** below that of
the exar. lie ami tlie empress also have
lnr^e deposits in other countries, ft ho*
b'pn puarp^stM that If Germany Is itr
*'-s*,ed with damages done in Bdg.um that
«v‘e property of the aristocrats be f k**n
f.*,r nn Indemnity instead of.placing t? m*on
tl e rommm people by a pot eminent tax.
Th^r- s re other sntoenats in Kurope who
hoVl imrr-et'se amounts of property ,;n their
own n-im***' thi't. r*i?htfn!‘y belongs V» the
people. n’hey hnve rll ra**t an anchor to
lee-ward however, by ronhfra: larpy de
posits ,r ether rr*n»tdc*. to wnrd r -r-**ns*t
a day when they m^y be toim-ed off their
thrones. There are n>l!Ti*»i * of e*»- h <]**
t»nsi‘t* >* New Vork and perKrrr* also in
the baiks of other cities ‘n th<« oonrlry.
Mnnd TRat Rocks the Rost.
From (he N?ew' Republic.
The underlying phoh.sophy of moat bd
tcr criticism Is this: The hnrtd that *• ck*
the boat rules the wo-Id. rt is not an Ir
• xcuaable ba*t* for eritirKm ervmsMe-1nx
the stupidity and folly of the particular
wvfkl adrn.nisi ration arc have inne itisl
but It ha* the diaadv-intaye of tn*beat,i«* '
a whole class and may J>iet cs wet; use
reed from that irascibility which a
•nan * ertt'e in the ffrat place. e«
ui7 eader #r reasonable toMidoMdon
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HOW TO CONQUER THE CRAMP
Worst Effect Is Panic, Which Causes
the Swimmer to.Let All the Air
Out of His Lungs.
A cramp is merely a contraction of
the muscles caused by the penetration
of the cold. Obviously, it could not of
Itself cause firowning. Its effect, ac
cording to Popular Science Monthly, is
to cause a panic which throws the
swimmer off Ms guard, causing him
to let the air ourt of his lungs and thus
allow the air passages to become filled
with water. The safeguard against
such a panic Is absolute confidence in ■*
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, the
swimmer should turn on his hack and
begin to gulp the air, making no effort
to keep himself from sinking. As he
sinks he slowly exhales tinder water,
through the mouth, with the lips puck
ered as for whistling. If it is a stom
ach. cramp the knees will he drawn up
against the abdomen, hut the swim
mer should force them out. pushing on
them with hotli hands and using all
his strength until they are fully ex
tended. This will no doubt cause great
ituln for a few seconds, but ns soon as
he legs are straightened out the
cramp will vanish, and the body, buoy
ed tip by the air in the lungs, will shoot
iip to the surface. There still inhaling
In great gulps and exhaling through
puckered Ups. the swimmer may float
until lie regains his strength or is
picked up. i
In case of cramp in the leg or arm f
the same system of breathing is fol
lowed and the affected part is straight
ened out by sheer strength.
Plumbers.
Whenever you Invite the plumbers
In to spend the week and fix the kitch
en faucet you should plan ahead. Have
everything in readiness.
Plumbers are often a little hurt to
see*that there have been no prepara
tions. Plumbers take these things very
keenly.
If a pipe is leaking nnd you are go
ing to have the plumbers come, move
everything out of the kitchen so- they
will have room for their tools. With
good weather and no mishaps they
may get all of their tools uround! tW
first day.
(letting all! the tools around ks a
good day’s work for two- plumbers and
a boy. On the second day they exam
ine the leak and make notes thou, get
busy planning the week’s work on. it
If the leak is a: plain hole then the
tiling is simple and they finish it lift
in smart shape within the week.
It is best to sen it the children! tio» the
country when the plumbers come. Put
a lid over the goldfish bowl. If you
haven’t a spare- room or a stable you
might arrange to have them hoard
with the neighbor)*.-—Illinois Statu
Register.
Had Good Reason.
Bystander —You have certainly
shown great bravery in saving that
man’s life.. Is he a relative of yours?
11'To—Relative-?. Oh, no r Kut tie
owes nie $21)0..
’ rnwrftfeU' poems and tmprmted
son:'--! make life endurable.
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A Perfect Day
should end—as well as
begin—with a perfect
food, say—
Grape-Nuts
with cream.
A crisp, delicious food,
containing the entire
nutriment of whole wheat
and barley, including the
vital mineral elements,
so richly provided by
Nature in these grains.
Every table should
have its daily ration of
Grape>Nuts,
“There's a Reason"
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