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World's Greatest Troopship.
One of the devoted women who have
not spared themselves at the emer
gency aid rooms told this story among
the flying needles the other day to
her co-workers. A letter from the
front has brought the Intelligence:
A pompous German major had fallen
Into the hands of our valorous Penn
sylvania troops, and after they had
questioned him, he ventured to ask
them for Information.
"How many meu have you on this
side of the water?" he inquired.
"Two million," answered a young
lieutenant.
"How did you get them over?" was
the Incredulous query of the Hun.
"One boat brought them all over,"
was the answer.
The German stared. "How so?
What boat was that?"
The American gave the German a
searching look. "The Lusltanla." he
answered, quietly.—Philadelphia Lead
er.
Tallow Dips In Denmark.
Denmark has a lighting problem so
serious that the Danish government re
cently purchased 400 tone of tallow
from which to make candles. Com
mercial Ageut Normal Anderson re
ports from Copenhagen.
"There Is a scarcity of kerosene also,
and electricity Is, of course, not avail
able to the Isolated farmhouse," says
Mr. Anderson, who quotes from the
Tldsskrlft for Industrt, which, In dis
cussing the possibilities of acetylene
and alcohol Illumination, states:
"Acetylene may now legally be used
and may be Included In Are Insurance
rinks. As a result the manufacture
of acetylene lamps has flourished great
ly and at the end of the year ISO
types had been put on the market"—
Exchange.
Yperite, New Poison Gas.
J. Bandaline and J. de Pollakoff
(Bulletin de l'Academle de Medicine)
call the reader's attention to the effi
ciency of hot air In the treatment of
burns caused by yperite. a gas used
by the Germans In their offensive of
March. 1918. These burns, even when
very sxrall, cause extremely sharp pain
and sleeplessness. A number of cases
were rapidly healed by hot air after
various treatments had failed.
Oh, Boyl
The war department recently Invited
bld3 for the following to supply 125
regiment®: Seventeen thousand five
hundred sets of boxing gloves, T.000
baseball bats, 21,100 baseballs, 85,000
playground balls, 3,000 rugby footballs,
7.000 soccer footballs, 830 volley balls
and 1,750 medicine balls.
Portugal and Her Colonies.
The population of Portugal num
bers 5,957,985 and the area of the
country Is 35,490 square miles. Her
dependencies are Cape Verde islands,
Guinea, Principe and St. Thomas is
lands. Angola Mozambique. Her pos
session in China is Macao and her
Indian possession is Goa. The popu
lation of the colonies Is 8,735,554. Ll».
bon is the capital of Portugal.
Keller Brohters have received a
Shipment of Fl^h Light Batteries.
Ttlt LIGHT
INDIE HEARING
A TALE OF THE NORTH: COUNTRY
IN THE TIME OF SILAS WIGHT *
IRVING DACHELLERw
AUTHC* or v
(SEN HOLDER D'RI AND I. DARREL Of THE UESSED ISLES,
MBMD UT VITH UZZIE, ETC, ETC
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8YN0PSI8.
CHAPTER I—Barton Baynes, orphan. !
la taken to live with hla uncle. Pea body
Baynes, and hla Aunt Deel on a farm on
Rattleroad In a neighborhood called Lick- I
ltyspllt, about the year 1S24. Barton meeta
Sally Dunkelberc. about hla own ace. but
socially of a clans above the Bayneses,
and la fascinated by the pretty face
and fine clothes.
I _ *
"You sit there and I'll have a fire
going in a minute and get you warm- !
ed up."
He wrapped me in his coat and went
Into the back room and built a fire
in a small stove and brought me in
and set me down beside it. He made
some porridge in a kettle while I sat
holding my little hands over the tstove
to warm them, and a sense of com
fort grew in me.
He aippeu some yurriuse iuw uvms •
and put them on a small table. My 1
eyes had watched him with growing
Interest and I got to the table about
as soon as the porridge and mounted ■
a chair and seized a spoon. I
"One moment, Bart," said my
host "By Jingo! We've forgotten to
wash and you're face looks like the
dry bed of a river. Come here a mln
ate."
He led me out of the back door,
where there were a wash-stand and a
pail and tin basin and a dish of soft
soap. He dipped the pall in a rain
barrel and filled the basin, and I
I washed myself and waited not upon
my host, but made for the table and
began to eat, being very hungry, af
ter hastily drying my face on a toweL
In a minute he came and eat down
to his own porridge and bread and
butter.
When he had finished eating he set
iside the dishes and I asked:
"Now could I go and see Sally Dun
kelberg?"
"What In the world do you want
ot Sally Dunkelberg?" he asked.
"Oh, Just to play with her," I said
is I showed him how X could sit on
ny hands and raise myself from the
ihair bottom.
"Haven't you any one to play with I
Jinmp?"
•"Only my Uncle Peabody."
"Don't you like to play with him?"
"Oh, some, but he can't stand me
any longer. He's all tired out, and
uy Aunt Deel, too. I've tipped over
jvery single thing on that place. I
tipped over the honey yesterday—
*pllt it all over everything and
rooend my clothes. I'm a reg'ler pest.
5o I want to play with Sally Dunkel
i>erg. I want to play with her a lit
tle while—just a wee little while."
"Forward, march!" 6aid he and
away we started for the home of the
Dunk^ioergs. The village Interested
aie Immensely. I had seen It only
twice before. People were moving
about In the streets. One thing I
did not fall to notice. Every man
ive met touched his hat as he greeted
ny friend.
It was a square, frame house—that
of the Dunkelbergs—large for that
rlllage. and had a big dooryard with
trees in it. As we came near the gate
[ saw Sally Dunkelberg playing with
>ther children among the trees. Sud
lenly I was afraid and began to hang
jack. I looked down at my bare feet
and my clothes, both of which were
iirty. Sally and her friends had
itopped their play and were standing
^n a group looking at us. I heard
Sally whisper:
"It's that Baynes boy. Don't he I
look dirty?"
I stopped and withdrew my Hand
from that of my guide.
"Come on, Bart," he said.
I shook my head and stood looking
Dver at that little, hostile tribe near
me.
"Go and play with them vrhile I step
Into the house," he urged.
Again I shook my head.
"Well, then, you wait here a mo
ment." eald my new-found friend.
He left me and I sat down upon
the ground, thoughtful and silent.
In a moment my friend came out
with Mrs. Dunkelberg, who kissed me,
and asked me to tell how I happened
to be there.
"I just thought I would come," I said
as I twisted a button on my coat,
and would say no more to her.
"Mr. Wright, you're going to take
him home, are you?" Mrs. Dunkel
berg asked.
"Yes. ril start off with him In an
hour or so," eald my friend. "I am
Interested In this boy and I want ta
see his aunt and uncle."
"Well, Sally, you go down to the of
fice and stay with Bart until they go."
"You'd like that, wouldn't you?" the
man asked of me.
"I don't know," I said.
"That means yes," eald the man.
Sally and another little girl came
with us and passing a store I held
back to look at many beautiful things
to a big window.
"is. there amrthinz von'd like there.
conranT NiNirnjwjv3<TB* avoia U3CUE
Bart?" the man asked.
"I wlsht I had a pair o' them shiny
shoes with buttons on," I answered
In a low, confidential tone, afraid to
express, openly, a wish so extrava
gant.
"Come right In," he said, and I re
member that when we entered the
store I could hear my heart beating.
He bought a pair of shoes for me
and I would have them on at once,
and made it necessary for him to
buy a pair of socks also. After the
shoes were buttoned on my feet I saw
little of Sally Punkelberg or the other
people of the village, my eyes being
on my feet most of the time.
The man took us into his office and
told us to sit down until he could
write a letter.
Soou a horse and buggy came for
us and I brieily answered Sally's good
bye before the man drove away with
me. I remember telling him as we
went on over the rough road, between
fields of ripened grain, of my water
melon and my dog and my little pet
hen.
I shall not try to describe that home
coming. We found Aunt Deel in the
roud live miles from home. She had j
been calling aud traveling from house
to house most of the night, and I
have never forgotten her Joy at seeing
me and her tender greetiug. She got
Into the buggy and rode home with I
us, holding me in her tap. Uncle Pea
body and one of our neighbors had
been out in the woods all night witlf
pine torches. I recall how, although
excited by my return, he took off
his hat at the sight of my new friend
and said:
"Mr. Wright, I never wished that
I lived in a palace until now,"
lie didn't notice me until I held up
both feet and called: "Look a' there,
Uncle Peabody."
Then he came and took me out of
the buggy nnd I saw the tears In his
eyes when he kissed me.
The man told of finding me on his
little veranda, and I told of my ride
with Dug Draper, after which Uncle
Peabody said:
"I'm goin' to put in your hoss and
feed him, Comptroller."
"And I'm goin' to cook the best
dinner I ever cooked in my life," said
Aunt Deel.
When the great man had gone Uncle j
Peabedy took me in bis lap and said J
very gently and with a serious look: I
"You didn't think I meant It, did I
ye?—that you would have to go 'way '
from here?"
"I don't know," was my answer.
" 'Course I didn't mean that. I just
wanted ye to see that it wa'n't going
to do for you to keep on tippin' things
over so."
That evening as I was about to go
up-stairs to bed. Aunt Deel said to j
my uncle:
"Do you remember what ol* Kate
wrote down about him? This Is his
first peril an' he has met his first
great man an' I can see that Sile
Wright is kiml o' fond o' him."
I went to sleep that night thinking
of the strange, old, ragged, silent
woman.
CHAPTER III.
We Go to Meetfng and See Mr. Wright
Again.
I had a chili that night and In the
weeks that followed I was nearly
burned up with lung fever. Doctor
Clark came from Canton to see me
every other any for a time and one
evening Mr. Wright came with him
and watched all night near my bed
side.
In the morning he said that he
could come the nest Tuesday moming
if we needed him and set out right
after breakfast, in the dim dawn light,
to walk to Canton.
"Peabody Baynes," said my Aunt J
Deel as she stood looking out of the I
window at Mr. Wright, "that is one
of the grandest, spleudidest men that
I ever see or heard of. He's an awful
smart man, an' a day o' his time is
worth more'n a month of our'n, but
he comes away off here to set up
with a sick young one and walks
back. Does beat all—don't It?—
ayes!"
"If any one needs help Sile Wright
is always on hand," said Uncle Pea
body.
I was soon oat of bed and he came
no more to sit up with me.
Wten I was well again, Aunt Deel
said one day: "Peabody Baynes, I
ain't t«»«rd no preachin' since Mr.
Pangborn died. I guess we better
go down to Canton to meetln' soma
Sunday. If there ain't no minister
Sile Wright always reads a sermon,
If he's home, and the paper says he
don't go 'way for a month yit, I
kind o' feel the need of a good sermon
•^-ayes 1"
"AJ^ijght. ,ni hitch up Jfce hosped
ana well go. We can start at eight
o'clock and take a bite with us an'
git back here by three."
I hnd told Aunt Deel what Sally
had said of ray personal appearance.
"Your coat Is good enough for any
body—ayes!" said she. Til make
you a pair o' breeiTies an' then I guess
you won't have to be 'shamed no
more."
She had spent several evenings mak
ing them out of an old gray flannel
petticoat of hers and had put two
She Had Spent Several Evenings
Making Them Out of an Old Gray
Flannel Petticoat
pockets in them of which I was very
proud. They came just to the tops
of my shoes, which pleased me, for
thereby the glory of my new shoes
Buffered no encroachment.
The next Sunday after they were
finished we had preaching in the
schoolhouse and I was euger to go
and wear my wonderful trousers. Un
cle Peabody said that he didn't know
whether his leg would hold out or
not "through a whole rneetln'." His
left leg was lame from a wrench and
pained him if he sat long in one po
sition. I greatly enjoyed this first
public exhibition of my new trous
ers. I remember praying in silence,
as we sat down, that Uncle Peabody's
leg would hold out. Later, when the
long sermon had begun to weary me,
I prayed that it would not.
It was a beautiful summer morning
as we drove down the hills and from
the summit of the last high ridge we
could see the smoke of a steamer
looming over the St. Lawrence and
the big buildings of Canton on the
distant flats below us. My heart beat
fast when I reflected that I should
soon see Mr. Wright and the Dunkel
bergs. I had lost a little of my inter
est in Sally. Still I felt sure that
when she saw my new breeches she
would conclude that I was a person
not to be trifled with.
When we got to Canton people were
flocking to the big stone Presbyterian
church. It was what they called a
"deacon's meeting." I remember that
Mr. Wright read from the Scriptures,
and having explained that there was
no minister in the village, read one
of Mr. Edwards' sermons, In the
course of which I went to sleep on
the arm of my aunt. She awoke me
when the service had ended, and
whispered:
"Come, we're goin' down to speak
to Mr. Wright."
I remember Mr. Wright kissed me
and said:
"Hello! Here's my boy In a new
pair o' trousers!"
"Put yer hand In there," I said
proudly, as I took my own hand out
of one of my pockets, and pointed
the way.
He did not accept the invitation, but
laughed heartily and gave me a little
hug.
When we went out of the church
there stood Mr. and Mrs. Horace Dun
kelberg, and Sally and some other
children. It \yas a tragic moment for
me when Sally laughed and ran be
hind her mother. Still "worse was it
when a couple of boys ran away cry
ing, "Look at the breeches!"
I looked down at my breeches and
wondered what was wrong with them.
They seemed very splendid to me and
yet I saw at once that they were not
popular. I went close to my Aunt
Deel and partly hid myself In her
cloak. I heard Mrs. Dunkelberg say:
"Of course you'll come to dinner
with us?"
For a sccond my hopes leaped high.
I was hungry and visions of jelly
cake and preserves rose before me. Of
course there were the trousers, but
perhaps Sally would get used to the
trousers and ask me to play with her.
"Thank ye, but we've ^ot a good
ways to go and we fetched a bite
with us—ayes!" said Aunt Deel.
Eagerly I awaited an invitation from
the great Mrs. Dunkelberg that should
be decisively urgent, but she only
said:
"I'm very sorry you can't stay."
My hopes fell like bricks and van
ished like bubbles.
The Dunkelbergs left us with pleas
ant words. They had asked me to
shake hands with Sally, but I had
clung to my aunt's cloak and firmly
refused to make any advances. Slow
ly and without a word we walked
across the park toward the tavern
Bheds.
We had started away up the South
r«ad when, to my surprise. Aunt Deal
mildly attacked .the .Dnnfrplhprra. ..
'These here village folks like tn
be waited on—ayes!—an' they're ar
ful anxious you should corae to so*
'ein when ye can't—ayes!—but wher
ye git to the village they ain't nigh
so anxious—no they ain't!"
In the middle of the great cedar
swamp near Little River Auut D«:
got out the lunch basket and I su(
down on the buggy bottom between
their legs and leaning against the
dash. So disposed we ate our luncheon
of fried cakes and bread and butter
and maple sugar and cheese. What
an efficient cure for good health wera
the doughnuts and cheese and sugar,
especially If they were mixed with
the Idleness of a Sunday. I had u
headache also and soon fell asleep.
The sun was low when they awoke
me In our dooryard.
I soon discovered that the DunkeJ
bergs had fallen from their high es
tate In our home and that Slla?
Wright, Jr., had taken their place io
the conversation of Aunt Deel.
(Continue*} on Tuesday)
Material for Explosive.
As to the source of the toluol need
ed for explosives, It Is pointed out that
there has been recently a great In
crease in the number of by-product
coke ovens In this country. However,
says the Scientific American, if 20,000,
000 tons of coke are made in these
ovens during the present year we shall
get from this source only 10,000,000
gallons of toluol, which Is about one
fourth as much as the government es
timated it would need for munitions.
Another promising measure recently
Inaugurated is the stripping of city
gas of this material, which can be
spared without any serious detriment
to the gas, and amounts to about .04
gallon for each 1,000 feet of gas. It
Is estimated thnt ten of the largest
city gas plants of the country will
yield about 10,000,000 gallons o"
toluol.
Talked Too Much.
Joe had been Instructed thnt If h(»
<#d not stop running away he could not
go to the movies. Supposing the day'3
slate was clean, Joe's mother was tak
ing him to a show. As the two reach
ed the door Joe said: "Just running to
the bridge wasn't far, was It, mother?"
Joe was turned homeward, and put to
bed. Hearing the little fellow talking
to himself a few moments later, moth
er eaves-dropped: "There's one time,
old man, you talked too much."
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