NO MAN’S v
LAND*
LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
^lUUSTRATIONS BY tonsM/natS
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SYKOPSIS
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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.)
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V. • ought to pick up ?!.a! i-Ojr belore
‘ -i - -wti‘1 bt- ttn • t‘!| | jet It."
Vi t !«■ rare about ;hi» thing?” i
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her- t.'iy The other s*enied to un
trr'-ad six. a. ae the lr»
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*—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.