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I -..at, H. ri*. * f i»w ! 1 W m .* n.:ai A r*t»l**v »r»l k *» •* U ' ;. a* !*j»twl * **t mart* out to «rat f!#r |n -'-r asw# r t:a*-* r {MMR »omi* <Jh* fc-■:t-„ 1 Hr 4.iw-«*rr-r* a man -4r-,a*l I*;.*; ji :t*4K (an ««r «uml ai»f*iro*Mrh t a * • lo- k .I1..: r.*w Tt *U-r. v‘* * tt.a* It. »• l ii. th<t. i!v*« r tine ’**»■ * HUel L - i r‘.T t\«- t^ienA. U,v! a »«fr■-■*» f a*4 has *t - «t» «: f*- €’ »a»* «*tfi»rsis b«-r that — *: 4#ki « .1 ! .1 v.»- T-.l 4-osst j *Kr^*S !tl:* - *.*,!•* k »*i t * n** run it!wn hanint^c a «r .*% T* v f.r. at t»!m. hut hr ** iv* **ii"' Af*#* ■ ” SINK. a! -t ©rit» 1J:n tm ft * Ik-W 'Iff -:r, to the railroad through any number ol small harbors—a trunkful here, a tnmkful there, all disguised as pas senger baggage; and these waters are so thick with small craft that their coming* and goings attract practically ro ait utlon . . Plausible, tea sibie—yes?" ■'Ingenious, cert..ic!y." "To (.it it short, I finally satlstled myself that the schooner employed tor the trans-shipment v.as the fisher man that, as you raw. pielerred my room to my company. I took a chance there, like a fool—lucky to get off with a whole skin. Put by the time I hit the water I le!t pretty sure they had some sure-enough good reason ;or not wanting any strangers hang lug round.” "I'd think yo'i justified la assuming That much." "The worst of it was, that mishap made nic a marked man; I'd been a v.' «* tnlte too indiscreet. For a while I thought I'd have to fade into the background and !”t one of ray brother s!< uths polish oil the job. You can fancy how that would have galled. Fortunately > ou offe red yourself—" "1 like that." Coast commented. “Anyway r.y u:agi.i!lcrnt Imagine Hon offered you to me." Appleyard r? ut d w. 'ht :: loss of countenance. CHAPTER XI—(Certimied.) ~A ' is- ’ tiu> rt tse i vor s pint : « *. cream yes: Ari-» = rd IB- j q tr- \ lki |. -d on ttiS nu • »•<« .r.: ■ !i ti maki «t»*- »k:c» seem | Hjt r \u! that at t-*-. us* to affect ] •it* ceatht-r any it * t!i ck a* curds V. • ought to pick up ?!.a! i-Ojr belore ‘ -i - -wti‘1 bt- ttn • t‘!| | jet It." Vi t !«■ rare about ;hi» thing?” i -*■ ! * t - i f -rasp* r t quae co- 1 her- t.'iy The other s*enied to un trr'-ad six. a. ae the lr» s* Iv L-*- return'd “I *: •* »t. , tr r.. ,.::d uttat ■»• - ai* t g t« -. *ji.* :» a perfectly ct" - ‘•0P15 * :.c you k<-«p It :* * flag a *:i Ik- coll: and I re *—d* allemance lor m I—-tiue You ~a*rb'“ * ? Jl dOAtr * •Veil?” be said. ‘ "a tt~ a.r of cue bo larger to le 1c: el •' - I ..ul the little r an re £!!>-. • a you Bunt knew all < u ' ret* veil an -mused • .user “I read the paper*/* W hat’s that co to do—” So. »b*-n you here kind enough to tell u.e your real name, alter your —II—t rescue yesterday morning. I kn k ut uuce fust a ho and what you were:** tf said Coast, a thought blankly. Iu> t a It t. ur occurred to you *bat »ou wrrr a public character, tn 4 - way? I noticed that And your lack • 1 t-eif-con < -ustirss interested me. •l*o the aroma of mystery you ex Lai*, ietrtguled ill I may coin the • '•-dt m> romantic itnagiratk:n.~ Co&*t dashed "The deuce tt did!” he exclaimed a: crlly. “Don't e - yeur temjier—please. I In- - 1 a ..A in.penitent, tat 1 - -i t mean to be so; it's just my *-• 'tpryrneat makes me such a cut up When I rtktd up before you ltd yesterday. I tnought it ail out. sod I set to myself, set I: 'His btog ain't hall written yet. and un less l a a- ken toui-'blr g grievous, Kawtsi r l» a: adia of him by the hand, lik- a Inti- ct« Id If 1 can work :t I’m goin' to stick round and * tv. huj-pen* next You see. It's i ’ i-->u to go about nosisg loio ether 1*1154*1' “I »«*,' taW Comm curtly. with a jr i? .'•aft'BijK which be took no unable to -It.gs.s* V«.' aen*wted Appleyard serene "I trait* my lit lug that wav. «. remrw-nt pay* cat* a hands-ome sal ary Cor doing It ' tt tut’" A t :i fit was beginning to to da * o upon Coast. Tt-- . uu:. nodded gravely “The I S S *rvtre.* be affirmed Let us bt s-t at the beginning. lot r! .r*-r uf drs-standlng." Appleyard • 4»tl “I b bcx here Cor toy a-alth—Is on the yob; and things bar* fki ; -l round m that I want >o*-r t*ip lamp .warily—sbil* you cor te-J trine That'> why Ira let :: g you in by the b;;M :ent door and step • »ti If perm You get u • * V, hat I ts telling you is to be kept under your bat-’* “Certainly; that "a understood.” "iligb you are . • . Now. the ; articular phase of lawless Industry at present encasing ray distinruishc-d yn^twkoai ir^itloa In'—h* allowt-a ntmscll tb* dramatic pause—"smug Slit* for some time the Treasury In-panar at hue been as are that a »*r> considers bio quantity ej highly dt.be goods sas finding Its nay into lbe aouatry —main)} for tbe New York mart eta— without paying toll A synd-cate of UiWrr Luce jeweler* has been reaping most of tbe profit, although other goods have been com sug through, but that's by tbe way. No* the Customs net a fine er.ougb to assure us that no such hoary tin povtatiwas could bare be. o sneaked •a through any regular port of entry. Ail *e were eeitatn of was that It naa getting in duty free—though we eocidnt prne ere* that- ... So the*. I was turned loose on the prob irtu. ard l'»e been puzzling over It Cor slz months " He was briefly silent apparently in reminiscent mood. “Early in tbe gam- h* resumed. "I bad cause to be*, te that moat of the stuff was seep .eg i* through New England So I sat me dow n and tried to figure tt out fr :s the other aide s point of »ww—suiposlrg | wanted to turn the trick un tty oti account. See?” “Clearly. tio os' TMt| a product of this neck o' th* woods made It some easier; I know tbs coast pretty thoroughly. It •truck me bow all fired easy It would be to establish a depot for the rw ceptiua of goods oa one of those little islands ber«-abo..<a—or eren at some retired point on the mainland. Then on* could ship the stuff orer by any oM uattkeiy tramp, trans-ship It to a «n»n«f vessel at some agreed point utr tbe roast, and stow It sway lor diauttotloa practically at ones own 1 began to s> e how easy It would be to snoop along the coast as your crew —Inconspicuous, unsuspected. You eemed to have only the vaguest Idea of what you wanted to do. where you •••anted to cruise. And I'd begin to - ispect myself of failure of the parts <T speech if 1 couldn't insidiously talk you Into going where I wanted to— No Man's Land. Muskeget, Tucker cuck. Chappaquiddlck. or wherever." Tin ready to certify you're quail Bed to talk the hind legs off the do ,:<stlc mule," Coast averred with en husiasm. "Don’t worry; I'm a merciful man. . . Rather cheap, that—what?’ "Extremely." "Your lault: you fed It to me. I'm beginning to think you must he the only original. perfectly-pasteurised mascot- Since we met the very stars have seemed to battle in their course 'or me. Even the fog helped—shunt r.g us off to No Man's Land.” Yes—?" "I had no particular notion of In vestigating that island first of ail; but a number of circumstances made me suspect we were In its neighborhood. 1 had figured it out that the variation of the magnetised compass must have carried us sou'west, for one thing; and the absence of- fog signals made me think we must have got well south ot the main traveled routes; finally, 1 knew that, once south of Devil's Bridge. the set of the tide would nake us out toward No Man's Land So. when we ran aground and I went j ashore, leaving you asleep. I wasn't ! surprised to recognize the place.” "You could—in that fog?" "I've* an excellent memory, and bad vis-lted the island a good many times on fishing trips when 1 was a boy in these parts. That abandoned fishing village made me sure of my ground; I in the days when the bluefisb ran in these waters there used to be quite a settlement there. . . . However. I'm fortunate in the possession of a sense of locality something above the average, and though it was pitch dark, at first, and thick as mud, t wasn't afraid of losing myself. So I struck out boldly, and by daylight had made a number of interesting discoveries. . . . Hello! . . . Good morning. Twenty-seven!” The little man got up and bowed profoundly, as to a valued acquain tance, to a black can buoy conspicu ously numbered ”27.” swimming past in a grey wash of seas to starboard. "Some navigatin', that!” Appieyard observed complacently. Coasf watched Appieyard shift the spokes until the Echo swung upon a course at a salient angle to that which she had been bolding. "And now where 7” "We Ought Pick Up That Buoy Before Long—” Appleyard locked up from toe Bin nacle. "N'o’th by east,” be said ab stractedly; then, rousing: "guide's Hole, and It please you. 1 venture to recommend the spot It's quiet, re tired. charmingly salubrious: quite a tosy corner for a day’s loaf.” "Loat!” exclaimed Coast in exas peration. "Tut,” said the little man in a tone of mild reproof; "and again tut. Eft soons I will a tale unfold that'll shed a heap cf light upon the plot oi mis j issue of the Half-Dime Library. Know 1 you not that Desmond the Dachshund Detective is on the scent? . . . Le's see: where'd 1 get off?” "You were on the point of making | some interesting discoveries," Coast 1 prompted patiently. "To te sure. ... As 1 was | about to say, 1 felt my way along, lost it, and presently stumbled onto what seemed a pretty raw slice ot | melodrama. . . . The first thing 1 ' struck tor was the farmhouse. Last 1 heard of the island. It was Inhabited | by a single family, a farmer, his wtfe and a couple of kids. Must’ve been ! a tit lonesome, but they didn't seem i to mind. They do say the man once petitioned the State Legislature to build a school house on the island to 1 educate his offspring, on the ground that as a taxpayer he was entitled to ! their schooling at the expense of the 1 Commonwealth. Shrewd customer: ] as I recall it he nominated himself tor the job of janitor and his wife to be school-mistress, both on salary! . ., 1 had it in mind to pump him. you see, but somehow I missed the farm house, the first cast. And when 1 pulled up to take soundings I heard a j curious sort of noise—singular in i that locality, at least: one of those ! noises that, once heard, is never tor I gotten: as nearly as 1 can describe it,. a sort of ripping crash—very irregular in duration and much muffled by dis tance and fog. I picked up my ears and tried to mark down the quarter it came from. Then I followed it up as best I could. After two or three false turns 1 fell over what seemed to be a wire stay, groped round and found a mast. The noise had stopped by this time, but I knew what had made it without doubt; that mast was an aerial, and I'd been listening to some body operating a wireless station. Next thing. I made out a glow of tight that led me to a window. By now l was interested and laying very low. (TO BE CONTINUED.) WINDMILL AS MOTIVE POWER French Invention Applies the Princi ple to Vehicles Which Move at High Speed. Long ago the patent offices of the world came to the conclusion through experts that few basic principles are embodied in new inventions. Adapta tions of old and well known laws of physics merely are applied in a new form in mechanical contrivances. What shall be said of M. Constantin, I a French inventor who has applied a windmill wheel to the front of ve hicles which move at high speed, or which have to move against heavy head winds? To the end, too, of con serving the energies which drive the vehicle. As we understand it. the inventor J lias gone no further than the build ; ing of a small model wagon. The | wagon is of aluminum and weighs about four pounds. But with its wind wheel mounted in front and turned toward the air-driven from an ordinary electric fan, the vehicle talies a shoot into the wind. With a large fan of the general office or res taurant type, the small wagon takes a 6 per cent grade with a load of 20 pounds in the wagon box. The principle of the invention takes for granted that the wheel mounted in front of a huge ran imposes a mini mum of additional wind pressure. But as the wind blows strong, or as the movement of a power driven vehicle creates its own head pressure, the axis of the wind wheel, engaging gear ed wheels through a spiral groove in the axle, returns from air friction a marked quantity of energy which may be of great value in automobiles, motor trucks, electric cars, and rail road trains. Beer Saloons for Women Only. In some parts of Berlin there are beer saloons which are patronised only by women. Matrimonial Tangle That Might Puzzle Solomon to Unravel Dan Hanna Is Responsible for This Problem: If a Man Has Children by Three Wives Are the Children of His First Wife and Children of His Third Wife Half-Sisters and Half Brothers “Once Removed?” ©AM I HAMMA I Atri /X Ar/ro., »• tin. "■*» mu t/n Oa^.A^mn. <Mw Stt-m A', J Dan Hanna, millionaire coal opera tor and business man of Cleveland. Ohio, has been married three times, a not unusual record in these days of quick divorce. However, he has had children by each of his three wives, three sons by tbe first wife, a daugh ter by the second wife and two daugh ters by the present Mrs. Hanna, who is known as Mrs. Dan Hanna No. 3. Jungle of Relationships. The complications resulting from this one-sided yet triple matrimonial feat would not be difficult for the veri est layman to figure out bad not two of Hanna's wives been married before he married them, two married since he divorced them and several children had resulted from their various unions. But even with all this clear in one's mind there are other complications that have to be taken into considera tion in this veritable jungle of rela tionships. The two husbands whom the two di vorced wives of Hanna married had children by previous marriages, so the family tree and all its branches takes on the aspect of a Chinese puzzle. It was In the summer of 1887 that Dan Hanna, then a young man. mar ried Miss May Harrington, the daughter of a prominent Cleveland family. Three sons were born to them. Mark, named after his famous grandfather, Carl and Dan. Jr. How ever, the marriage did not turn out happily, and in 1S97 Mrs. Hanna ob tained a divorce from him. First—Dan Hanna married May Harrington. They had three sons. After a divorce the first Mrs. Dan Hanna mar ried Edmund K. Stallo, who has two daughters. She has now sued him for divorce. Second—Dan Hanna mar ried Mrs. Walter de S. Maud, formerly Daisy Gordon. They had one daughter. This Mrs. Hanna, after a divorce, mar ried Frank D. Pelton, who had a son by a previous marriage. Third—Dan Hanna married Mrs. Frank E. Skciiy, former ly Marie Stuart. They have two daughters. While this Mrs. Hanna was Mrs. Skelly she had a daughter. Now, what relation are the Stallo girls to Dan Hanna’s three sets of children. What relation is the Pelton boy to the Stallo girls? What rela tion are the Skelly girls to the Stallos and the Peltons? NEW YORK.—To the marital mix-ups that have made the Hanna family tree dif ficult for even expert ge nealogists to climb must be added a new chapter. For with the filing of a suit for absolute divorce against Edmund K. Stallo, the New York lawyer, by his wife, formerly the first wife of Dan R. Han na, only son of the late Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, the relations of the various members of the Hanna family and its offshoots are further compli cated. Before another twelvemonth, unless the suit is withdrawn, Mrs. Stallo may be free to wed again, and as she is still an attractive woman with a large income in her own right, a third dip in the matrimonial surf is not im probable. But even should she remain unmar ried. there are enough puzzling rela tonships in the Hanna famiy to make it unnecessary to speculate what rela tions her children by a third husband would be to the daughters of Dan Han na by his second and third wives. Hanna’s Second Plunge. The following year he married Mrs. Walter de S. Maud, the divorced wife of Captain Maud, an Englishman. Be fore her marriage to Maud she was Miss Daisy Gordon, the daughter of W. J. Gordon, one of Cleveland's wealthiest citizens and an intimate friend of Dan Hanna’s first wife. She had obtained a divorce from Maud in Akron, Ohio, but after her marriage to Dan Hanna Captain Maud obtained a divorce from her in Eng land on the grounds that her second marriage was bigamous. They had no children, but she and Dan Hanna had a daughter. Elizabetb. This , second marriage of Hanna’s was no more fortunate than the first. In 1906 Mrs. Hanna No. 2 sued him WONDERS OF THE DEAD SEA Kotor Boat Exploration by Member of American Colony in Jerusalem Is Interesting. An Interesting trip around the Dead ?ea was made In a motor boat by Jacob E. Spaflord, a member of the American colony In Jerusalem. In circumnavigating the take four or five very fertile plains or ghors were met with. "These plains." writes Mr. Spafford. "naturally bring to mind the connection of the Dead Sea with Sodom and Gomorrah, the ‘cities of the plain,' that were overthrown. They have been variously placed on every side of the sea. "These plains and the small oasis at Engedl are the only points where life of any kind and water are to be found. Engedl. our first stopping place, is the only spot on the west side where fresh water Is to be had. This evidently was a little paradise in the time of Solomon and Is frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. "The cliffs on the west side of the sea which form an almost unbroken wall, excepting for the rugged torrent beds, and which vary from SOU to 1. 900 feet in height, are all or lime stone, whereas on the east side ot the lake the formation is entirely sand stone of exquisite hues. The abun dance of water on this side as com pared with the other is very striking too. "About ten miles from Kngedi lies the peerless natural fortress of Masa da (Sebbeh), first fortified by the Maccabees, then used sb a place of refuge by Herod. At the foot of the tableland can be seen the Roman wall of clrcumvallatlon and the two Ro man camps on either side of the small ravine. "The fortress, which Is 1,700 feet above the sea. has steep sides at about an angle of 76 degrees and cannot be approached, except from a connecting neck called the Serpentine. A more Inhospitable place or one more disad vantageous to besiegers could not be Imagined. "Eight miles away Is Jebel Usdum, a mountain of rock salt rising to a for divorce In Cleveland and won the suit. And wthln 48 hours Dan Hanna mar rled for a third time, taking Mrs. Frank E. Skelly, the divorced wife of a Waldorf-Astoria hotel clerk for his bride. Mrs. Skelly was Miss Marie Stuart before her first marriage. She was the mother of a daughter, Eliza beth by name, by her first husband. Mrs. Hanna Takes Second Husband. Before Dan Hanna married for the third time Mrs. Hanna No. 1 had tak en a second husband. Edmund K. Stallo. the New York lawyer, was her choice. He had previously been mar ried to Miss Laura McDonald, the daughter of Alexander McDonald, one of the original Standard Oil million aires. By her he had two daughters. Laura and Elizabeth. These two girls recenty came into prominence as great heiresses on the death of their grandfather, but it has since devel oped the the enormous estate which was supposed to be held in trust for them had dwindled down to a few ! thousand dollars. When Mrs. Hanna No. 1 became Mrs. Edmund K. Stallo she took up her residence at the Waldorf-Astoria with her husband and his two daugh ters. Her three sons were in school, but during the holidays they divided their time between visiting her and their father out in Cleveland. Mrs. Dan Hanna No. 2 did not re main single very long. She moved to New York immediately after her divorce In 1206. She married Frank lin D. Pelton. a New York business man. She was awarded the custody of her daughter Elizabeth, whom she breught east with her. Additions to Mixup. Franklin D. Pelton had been di vorced from his wife, who was Miss Lucy Carter, only a short time before he married Mrs. Dan Hanna No. 2. He was the father of a son by his first marriage. Of course he was Mrs. Dan Hanna's third husband and she is his second wife. After his third marriage Dan Hanna moved from Cleveland to Ravenna, Ohio, where he has since become the father of two little girls, who, of course, are half-sisters to Mrs. Ed mund K. Stallo's three sons and Mrs Franklin D. Pelton’s daughter. Eliza beth Skelly, the daughter of Mrs. Dan Hanna No. 3, by her first husband, is naturally Dan Hanna’s stepdaughter and half-sister to his two little girls, but what relation is she to Mrs. Stal lo’s three sons or to Mrs. Pelton’s daughter? A dozen other questions of relation ship present themselves. If a man has children by three wives are the children of his first wife half-sisters and half-brothers “once removed?" Not even De Wolf Hopper or Nat Goodwin, who married four wives, has bad the experience of living under the same roof and dining in the same ho tel dining room with three wives at the same time. But. such an experi ence has comd to Dan Hanna on more than one occasion. Until the Stallos separated they made their home at the Waldorf-Astoria, as do Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Pelton in the winter months. Rather Uncongenial Party. Dan Hanna on his frequent visits to New York usually steps at the Wal dorf-Astoria, and on one of his recent visits with his third wife he entered the rose room and was shown to a table in close proximity to one where Mr. and Mrs. Stallo were dining. On their way to the table they passed J Mr. and Mrs. Pelton, who were dining with Mrs. Pelton’s daughter, Eliza beth. “Oh, papa!” she cried, springing up from the table and rushing to his arms. Carl Hanna, Mrs. Stallo’s second son, was married about two years ago, and it is not unlikely that Dan Hanna will become a grandfather before long. And then there will be another problem in the relationships in this much-married and mixed-up Hanna family. Early Days of Ballooning. The first balloon to carry living freight was in September, 1783, when Joseph Montgolfier sent up a sheep, a duck and a cock, all of which land ed safely. The first human being to ascend in a balloon was a young French naturalist, M. Francois Pilatre de Rozier, who used a captive bal loon for his first attempts. Then, on November 21, 1783, he and the Mar quis d’Arlandes made the first trip in a free balloon. This was made in a he* air balloon, and fire was kept burning in a brazier suspended be- i neath while up in the air. German Officer to Drill Turks. According to the Vienna Neue j Presse. Gen. Colmar von der Goltz is about to retire from the German army on full pension, which means with j the emperor’s approbation, in order to enter definitely the Turkish mili- j tary service, which he reorganized in the years 1883-1895 for Abdul Hamid II., who recognized his efficient work, seen in the brief Graeco-Turkish war, j by making him a marshal of the Ot-: toman army. This news item is of importance as throwing light on the state of European policies in the near east Sleight of 500 feet. In this mountain is a large cave which was explored to the extent of about 200 yards, at which point a tapering cylindrical shaft of about 20 feet tn diameter was discovered, piercing the solid rock salt 80 feet high, as though through polished marble, evidently the effects of the rain. “Great snow white stalactites hung from the ceiling. The approach to this mountain presents most fantas tic appearances of walls, buttresses, parapets, projecting towers, etc., caused by the stratification and lay of the salt boulders. “A little south of Masada lies the rich Ghor-el-Mlzra. Here and else where abound the apple of Sodom de scribed by Josephus.”—Geographical Journal. Surely Not. Bacon—Don’t you believe that a lit tle learning Is a dangerous thing? Egbert—It may be, but the man who has a little learning I do not think as dangerous as the one who thinks 1m knows It all." Doctors Said Health Gone Suffered with Throat Trouble Mr. B. W. T>. Bar nes, ex - Sheriff of Warren County, T e nnessee, in a letter from Mc M i nnville, I T e nnessee, | writes: “1 h a d | t h r o a t j trouble and had t h r ee doc tors treating m e. All failed to do me any i d o o d, and p r enounced my health ponr. 1 con- Mr. B. W. D. Berne*. c ] u ded to try Peruna, and after using four bottles can say I was entirely cured.” Unable to Work. Mr. Gustav Ilimmelreich, Hochheim, I Texas, writes: “For a number of years I suffered when ever I took cold, with severe attacks of asthma, which usually yielded to the com mon home remedies. “Last year, however, I suffered f jr eight months without interruption so that I could not do any work at all. The va rious medicines that were prescribed brought me no relief. "After taking six bottles of Peruna, two of Lacupia and two of JIanalin, I am free of my trouble so that I can do all my farm work again. I can heart ily recommend this medicine to any one who suffers with this annoying complaint and l>elieve that they will obtain good results.” THE USUAL WAY. ******_ Mrs. Brown—Where did Mrs. Close wad go for her new suit? Mrs. Jones—Through her husband’s pockets. Quite So. The teacher in the primary depart , ment of a Philadelphia school had been holding forth at some length with ref erence to the three grand divisions of nature—the animal, the vegetable and the mineral. When she had finished she put this question: "Who can tell me what the highest form of animal life is?" Whereupon the pupil nearest her hastened to supply the answer as fol lows: “The giraffe.”—Lippincott's. Deep-Sea Version. Tommy Cod—What is it they call a pessimist, pa? Pa Cod—A pessimist, my son. is a fish who thinks there is a hook in ev ery worm!—Puck. A Possibility. “He’s gone to that meeting, full of fire.” “Then he had better be careful or they will put him out.” If a leap year girl has money to burn it isn’t difficult for her to find a young man willing to furnish a match. It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to believe as he hopes. r Like a Pleasant Thought of an old friend— Post Toasties Sweet, crisp bits of white Indian corn, toasted to an appetizing, golden brown. A delightful food for break fast, lunch or supper—always ready to serve instantly from the package. “The Memory Lingers” For a pleasing variation sprinkle some Grape-Nuts over a saucer of Post Toast ies, then add cream. The combined flavour is some thing to remember. Fortum Cereal Company, Limited Battle Creek, Michigan with cream.