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By VICTOR RADCLIFFE (Copyright, 1925, 'oy W. G, Chapman.) "Six hundred dollars." "No.M "Five hundred. It's my last offer and. it's the biggest bargain on the market. Cost eleven hundred. And say you've got three hundred dollars

cash. Good, pay that down and the lovai Purest on any kind of installments. See?" Then once, they came along with Mark Bartlett gazed admiringly and old Dobbin just in time to haul Nat longingly at the really handsome auto- and Nellie back to town four miles to mobile that a professional salesman have a broken steering gear fixed, and iiad just driven into the farmyard. It at another time they pulled a touring had of course been especially burn- party of four friends out of a ditch and ished up for the occasion, but the won meek, shamed thanks from formake was standard, and there was no mer deriders. doubt that the price named was ex- One afternoon old Dobbin was takjceedingly low. ing them over to Gayville, where a Nearly all the young farmer friends county fair was in progress. There of Mark had machines. Most of them was a short cut possible by crossing were courting, or engaged, just as a narrow bridge, used rarely except Mark was to pretty Mary Dowe. Mark by teams. At either approach the road had felt for some time that it gave curved, and it was customary for anydistinction to a man to own one of the one crossing in a vehicle to halt and handsome fiyc-rs, and show his adored see that the way was clear, as two one how fast it could run. In fact, teams could not pass at one time on the agent had appeared because Mark the bridge structure, had been making inquiries about a "Nothing coming. Get up, .Dobbin," machine. ordered Mark, after peering ahead, but "Not now," finally decided Mark, as they got half way up the approach ills lips setting resolutely as if it was a clatter caused him to turn the horse hard work to say it. "Next season, sharply, hoping to be able to get out maybe. Gome and see me then." 0f the way.

The agent got back Into his machine and returned townwards disappointed. Mark's uncle, sharpening a scytho on a bench near by, looked up and addressed his nephew. "Wanted it bad, didn't you, Mark?" he suggested. "I did that for Mary's sake," replied Mark, frankly, "and because I It Struck the Wagon. see a good deal of pleasure for a hard worker like myself. It's better to Avait, though," he added consolingly, though with a sigh. "Think that, eh?" "Tell you, uncle," explained Mark; "yesterday I would have taken the machine, for I could pay half for it and I'm not afraid that there will bo no surplus when 1 get rid of my two

crops this fall. You see. though, our gQt away with aU that moneyf now neighbor, Mr. Warner, came to me gladly would we have paid five thouthis morning. His wife is very ill and d dollars for its return. You come

the doctor says that all that will save firn in til UtJl lO Uli L'Al.U01VO UVlttHU" " K.w . T- TTT TT.I. J ,1 I. 1City, roor warner. ne s m ueut, tu bank won't loan him and well, I'm going to let him have the money." "Why. Mark!" exclaimed his prudont, far-seeing uncle, "Warner is in a pretty risky fix. He's got his place mortgaged and can hardly pay the interest." "It's life or death to him," answered Mark. "If he never pays me, I shall have the satisfaction of knowing I tried to help an honest worthy man in his darkest hour.' 'Good boy!" muttered the uncle, but to himself, as Mark turned away. "Bless me! if taters go up and I sell that corner ten acres, if I don't give him a lift on the automobile myself! And if Mary Dowe sets up any pouting m,R w ton rnofl for her. that's But Mary did not. A sensible, truly loving girl, she rewarded Mark with a sweeter smile than ever when he told her of his decision. "Why Mark." she cried brightly, and with a spice of mischief, "wo cfin't sit half as close together in one of those big. sprawling machines as in the cozv, comfortable farm wagon! And 1 don't care one bit for whizzing through the air, and getting my hair out of order, and scared to death at everv narrow road. And you'-c to help poor Mr. Warner-you dear, good fellow! It shows your noble, unselfish heart, and I'm prouder of you than "Mrv vnu arft n. ifwel!,, enthused - ' Mark. "No more than that, an angel! I know you are hiding a disapjointment,;for nearly all your girl friend., have auto rides innumerable, but- we'll have our own machine vfit " "Ours!- felicitated Mary, beaming with huppiness. "How nice that ounda!"

So Mrs. Warner went to the city and returned with a new lease of life and Mark worked harder than ever. He did not like it particularly when Nat Brown railed at him from his elegant roadster, because he did not join "the real set" and take pleasure flying. Mary, too, for a moment was glum as Nellie Blair flaibed by, proud and contemptuous, in a dainty outing gear that enhanced her youth and beauty. In fact, Mary and Mark were in a measure ignored by former friends because "they did not keep up with the procession' But all this was forgotten as, returning from some show at a neighboring town, they let old Dobbin pick his way along the moonlit river road, while the night birds lulled them to serenity in warbling harmony, and the clear stars twinkled as if smiling

upon the happy, contented faces of the An automobile!" exclaimed Mary in surprise. "Jump!" suddenly shouted Ned. He spoke just in time. Mary leaped lightly to the ground and ran a few yards doVn the side of the incline. Mark sprang to the head of the horse, saw that he could not. turn in time, and also sprang out of the way. Crash! What happened came with the rapidity of a swift movies picture. An automobile came flying down the incline. It held two men. As it struck the wagon it splintered it to a thou sand nieces. The machine cave a Inrrli nnrl throw nnr mnr, nror into the river. The other jumped. As the man in the water swam for the shore and the other made for some underhrnch Mnrir onw lmif n Ho norsnns hnndnd hv the villaee marshal, come dashing over the bridge to the spot where the disabled machine lav. a .1.. i(.Vrii I Old Dnhhin wis rmininir affriehted .1 ÄLr hT Th. in the direction of home. The vehicle had been ton bodily from him and he was imhtirt. Some of the newcomers started to search for the two men who had been .1 n , .!.! ,,! if ,i Mark that they had entered the bank and had secured a portfolio containing r fifHr tVirmconrl in hnnrlc nttH Vmnlr "I:: "rr. r ZZ: "Is this it?" snoke the fluttering tones of Mary, as she extended the nortfolio in question. It had fallen at her feet, flung from the grasp of the thief who held it when the collision came. The president of the bank, coming up imtiess and paler grasped the hand of Mark in wild fervor as he learned that the robbers had been bafiled. "Reckon I'll have to send in a bill for that wrecked wagon," intimated Mark. "We'll call it eighty dollars.' "We'll call it one thousand dollars. mv friend!" suddenly shouted the b k "Why, if those fellows had right up tQ the bank and get your I ... . QUgQk I Marv." whispered Mark, as quite willingly they followed the oanker, hugging closely his recovered money "we'll buy an auto for cash now all cash!" Work of Earthworms. The soil in which plants take root and grow is the product, not of inoramc disintegration but ot continual Hllnp-P hv inniimprflhl? mimitfi nreranisms. Attention was first called to the work performed by earthworms in the production of humus by Charles Dar win in 1SS1. Darwin demonstrated that, earthworms regularly eat earth, assimilate the digestible organic const!tuents and deposit the residue as excrement in little heans on the ground. In ihis way they .incessantly till the superficial stratum of soil and carry downward stones and other coarse parts. All of the soil passes through their bodies every two years, and it is thus loosened, fertilized and prepared for the growth of plants better than can be done by human agency. Earthworms improve the soil also by bury1"ö eaten by the worms, H earthworms are among the most valuable of animals and they s"ld never b llled; but ir enemies, moles, held mice and the large running beetles and millipedes, should oe aesiroyea. r i I t" i Uw tri t niro' ih The dirigible torpedo of a New York inventor is propelled electrically, guided by a single insulated wire, and kept at the required distance below the surface by an automatic depth regulator. At the will of the operator, a jet of water or a beam of light can bo 4 thrown up from the torpedo.

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EW YORK. "There are many queer uses for the taxi since they have become popular," said an old jehu while waiting for a prospective fare.

"Of course, 1 have carried dogs before, but they were always chaperoned. The lady in 23, down the street, sends DELETED BY" out her poodle every day, sometimes

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have knocked me over with a spark plug. I started off for the park in a sort o' daze, with that kyoodle settin' inside starin' out as sassy as brass. The foist friend I met, who's drivin' private, almost fell out of his seat when he saw me, and asked me if 1 was drivin' for the S. P. C. A. We git a lot of queer business, anyway. There's a lot of business drivin' swell kids to school, especially on rainy days. You see, the kids are put wise to the taximeter works and keep tab on it, so they won't be overcharged. Then we often gets a call from a jewelry store and have to drive a well-dressed young fellow from the shop to some swell house on Fifth avenue. That means that a big diamond tiara or something worth a lot of dough is being deliveredto some dame in the millionaire belt. "Another lot of folks who have got the taxi habit are the auction cranks. They are mostly women, and they buy a lot of stuff and use the taxi for a truck. Say, Do, I have carried everything in this machine but a piano The milliners are on to the game, too, and call for us to carry one of their girls with a fancy hatbox as big as a millstone. I suppose wiien they are sending a regular lallapaloosa bonnet they don't dare take a chance in a crowded street car. The taxi is used by the banks to cart money a lot, too. Only the other day I took two fellows with two grips from an uptown bank to a

Wall street bank. After they had delivered the grips and started uptown

one of the fellows said: 'Do you know what was in those grips?' No,' says I, 'A million he says. Tm glad I didn't know it before,' says I, 'or I'd been

likely to bust into a lamp post from excitement.' "

Merrill Trained Bear Qualifies as a Chauffeur

MERRILL, WIS. John Akey's bear, Ifl lized. Some time ago Alice took bores her and she is learning to operate mav be seen whirling through the streets in a machine Merrill inhabitants who are forced to use their legs in getting from place tO place are Voicing StrenUOUS ObjeC tlons mowing at tu wueei. claiming the bear has not been proper- & instructed in rules of the road and they are in danger of being run down. Tnus far n0 formal Protest has been filed. Those who are in favor of curoing uie joynumg acuviueb in Alice have not yet been able to cite ......... m ,

any statute tliat is uemg violated, xne law contains provisions imenaeu 10 top any person or persons from reckless driving, but Alice does not claim

to be a person. Some say there is a ing a car, but there, again, her identity vet taken to drinking. Some of the legislation will be necessary if Alice is expert at guiding the machine and is

controlling the gears and speeds. In time her owner hopes he can train Alice i i i 1 L . l, ,'r. nfnoid f r lrif riicf flue foci' T llPf TAaT-

to mena punctures, uui ju.l uu u lug tlie etteCtS Ot tier ClaWS. When Alice comes honking down goggles ana linen auster strangers in zens long ago gave up m uebpau at tu

Philadelphia's Snake Market Is Affected by War

P HILADELPHIA It now comes to the regular catalogued alibi for tremulous days, has put a crimp in the sections since the war began," he said,

business with our domestic and South American varieties. "it can De seen readily that the war has helped to increase the consump

tion of our home-grown snakes, the other commercial lines. "Some people have an idea that

that's a mistake. I started in the show business with old Adam Forepaugh

in the seventies, and I've been in this ears. Right here in Philadelphia, )edl' This snake-distributing game is

Cash in advance is the universal rule. The snake man showed a telegram from New York. It read: "Send a nice assortment of snakes, about $15

worth, C. O. D."

Ferocious Automobile Runs Amuck in Hammond

HAMMOND. A ferocious little runabout spread panic in the streets of Hammond recently. The machine was a new one, afresh from the factory, and

belonged to John Arthur of Gary. it was a little skittish, he attributed this to lack of exerciso or overfeeding. Arthur drove che car through Hammond at a fast clip, and was going at a good rate when the machine shied at a new-style tox-trot skirt and backed into a water plug. The plug snapped off, and a stream of water shot into the air and descended on Arthur's head. Just then the machine balked and refused to move until Arthur, half drowned, escaped

from the driver's seat. Then, snorting and chugging, the car gallopea wildly up the street, swaying trom side to side. Several pedestrians ran out and waved their hats in an attempt co "shoo" it oack, but the rear-crazed mechanism was beyond control. Finally, worn out from its exertions, the motor came to a halt. Fred Grady, a garage man, started to tow it to nis automobile sanitarium. This enraged the motor. After bucking and kicking tor a rew moments it crashed violently into the rear 01 Grady s saddle-Droke machine, snapped the tow -line, and again started away at 50 miles an hour, chasing Grady, who nad leaped from nis machine and tied for his life. A telenhone nole and several rods of fence that carelessly neglected to

get out or the way were ripped down and fell on its side.

Odd Uses for the Taxi with herself, sometimes with a nrettv French maid. But yesterday morning when I called the old lady comes out herself with the barker done up in all sorts of baby clothes, ana says: 'Fluffle will go out for a ride all alone today, and you'll take good care of her, won't you? Good-by, Sweetums!' and then she tucks the mut in as if it was the queen of England. Say, you could Alice Teddy, is rapidly becoming civi up roller skating, but this sport now an automobile. Almost any day Alice , . a i a . law against intoxicated persons operat saves her, and besides she has not more interested persons claim special to be kept off the road. ast matering the complicated pedals - . the street in her nooby motor cap, me cay btup aim uul weinn v,itidiu. .a,c. pass that the European war, which is anything and everything during these world's output of long and vicious and poisonous snakes. This information is given chiefly for the benefit of persons who may not be aware that Philadel phia leads the United States in the importation of snakes, which the blonde ladies in the tent shows swing around like so many sawdust dolls. The snake man said that his firm has sold some 8,000 reptiles this sea son, and that the firm's cash business will hit around the $60,000 mark. "We have had nothing from Af rica or the so-called mysterious Asia "but we have been doing a whopper

same as it has aided home production m

the snake business is dying out, but wholesale snake game for the last 28 too, and the business holds up every conducted on a purely business basis. He took it out for an airing. Although oy the angry auto, which then slipped

D Canned Salmon or Sardines Useful as Bait. Expert Gives Some Hints That May Lead to the Capture of This Delight of the Southern Darky Fur of Little Value. It is usually easier to take a couple of good dogs into the country, especially that country below the MfiSon and Dixon line, to secure opossums, than it is to bother trapping them. But this does not mean that Mr. 'Possum is difficult to lure into a trap. For bait, use canned salmon or sardinesIt will bring every opossum within smelling distance. Set the traps near any thick woods, or in shallow ditches. The best method for water sets is to stake a fish just above the surface of the water and surround A Happy Darky. it with traps. Some prefer to build pens of brush with only one entrance to each and place baits in them. The entrances, of course, are guarded with traps. In weeds, place a bait upon a stick about a foot and a half from the ground. Under this place a trap, carefully concealed. One can always recognize the presence of the opossum by the sharp claw-like marks it makes in the mud. Search about until you find a small tree whose roots are above the ground and come together in the shape of a sharp angle. In the back part place a fish. Arrange the pen of sticks about the bait so that it cannot be approached except from one direc tion, and have the only entrance guarded with traps. Leaves make an excellent covering for sets of this kind. Sets may also be made at the entrances to dens. These, however, must be placed with extreme care. otherwise they will not prove success ful. The opossum is known to the trade as a "cheap fur." The reason is that most of the pelts secured are not prime. The skin, too, is of little value, and it was not until lately that there was much demand for it at all. After a pelt is dried, one can tell whether it is prime or not by examining it closely. If black spots are found near the throat, especially the hide is not first class. The larger the spots the less the value. Great Mushroom. A mushroom weighing more than thirty pounds and measuring three and one-half feet in diameter, was found in Beverly by Mrs. Alice Wool of Boston, according to the Tran script. It was like two great roses of cream fawn color, waxy white and full of irregular holes on the underside. A litter of boughs and paste board boxes had to be made, two men carried it to the station and placed it in a baggage car on a Boston-bound train. It could not be taken into a street car or a taxi, and Mrs. Wool hired an automobile for its transportation to Horticultural hall for the Mycological club exhibition. The members tasted it and pronounced it good. Four years ago at this time Mrs. Wool found a smaller specimen in the same spot on the North shore. She has gone there every season since, but failed to see anything which looked like a polyporus. This leads her to conclude that it takes four seasons for the spawn to form a plant growth and produce a flower. Riches Found Through Dream. Acting on impressions received in a dream, which was repeated four njghts, always indicating the location o faDui0us wealth, Andrew Nelson, an old-time prospector of Anaconda, Mont., struck a ledge rich in virgin gold. The news of the strange find created a stir in Anaconda, and a rush of prospectors to the cliff above Flint creek started. Religious Belief Causes Trouble. Admiral Li of the Chinese navy is a Christian, and his firm adherence to his principles has of late months made his official life unpleasant. He incurred the displeasure of President Yuan by refusing to obey the order that all officials connected with the boards of the army and navy should go to the temple of the war god to worship in the old Confucian manner. Easily Explained. "Why did that young man look so cross when Mrs. Smith told him she heard he had such killing ways?" "She told him that? Great Scott! He's a doctor." , . .

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y i t i.'fi ti x i a - i. I wuen you oena or nit. it s imra to iuöi, !iuiu iis.vt. utt) it a biic ctiiiiu uiu aiui. Pn?n in ihn Knnlr ia Tiatiir'! -warnincr o kidney ills. Neglect may pave the way to dropsy, gravel, or other serious kidney sickness. Don't delay begin using Doan's Kidney Pills the remedy that has been curing Kickache and kidney trouble for over fifty years. An Indiana Case Mrs. Ts ham Thür- "Errrv man. Sixth and Lo- cure cust Sts.. BoonvIUe. Ind says: "I was laid up in bed all one winter with kidney complaint. There was a constant ache in my hack and I had hemorrhages of the kidneys. My feet and ankles were so badly swollen, I couldn't w a 1' k. Teds a Storv" Doar.'s Kldnoy Pills removed every sign of the trouble." Get Doan's at Any Store. 50c a Bx DOAN'S ?jjy FOSTER-MILB URN CO.. BUFFALO. N. Y. The Army of Constipation Is Growing Smaller Every Dferp CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS are responsible they not only give relief Carter's they perma nentlycure Con ITTLE !VER PILLS. stipation. Mil lions use them for BHioHsness. Indigestion, Sick Headache, Sallow Skia SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE, Genuine must bear Signature USXO-TONINE THE KEY TO HEÄLTH Corrects ailnionts of tho stomach. Hvor,kIdnoTsa.Dd bowols. Sond twonty-tlve couts for ono month trial treatment, BooXlot, 13 LIFK WORTH LIVING, InOlndod FRUUL Dr. V. K. rluaaer Ca., BeltefeaUl O. Salmon Thrive in Maine. Success has been met by the bureau of fisheries in establishing humpback salmon on the Maine coast, according to reports from, that territory. The fish were planted in February, 1914. Many fish weighing fiveto seven and a half pounds have been taken or seen in Penobscot river, Me:, and twenty were captured alive by agents of the bureau near Bangor and. held in an effort to obtain ripe eggs. From two of these fish 3,000 eggs weretaken September 6, and, after fertilization, sent to the Craig Brook hatchery for incubation. Local fishermencaught and ate large numbers, and an. employee of the Green Lake hatchery took fifteen fish last week. These had1 passed through the fishways in dams in Dennys river and were dropping down stream in a spent condition; at the same time both live and dead fish were observed below the dams. She Knew. Olive, aged four years, went for a walk with her father one June morning. Hearing a bird singing by the roadside, she stopped to admire his beautiful black-and-white coat. "Oh, papa!" she exclaimed, "see this bobolink!" "How do you know it's a bobolink?" asked her father. " 'Cause I 'stinctly heard it bobble," was the reply. And Lots of Them. "I see where the Russian cavalry rode down the Germans in the trenches where they were digging in themselves for the winter." "See, that was a horse on them!" TURN OVER TIME When Nature Hints About the Food; When there's no relish to food and all that one eats doesn't seem to 'do any good then is the time to make a turn-over in the diet, for that's Nature's way of dropping a hint that the food isn't the kind required. "For a number of years I followed railroad work, much of it being office work of a trying nature. Meal times were our busiest; and eating too much and too quickly of food such as is commonly served in hotels and restaurants, together with the sedentary habits, were not long in giving me dyspepsia and stomach trouble which reduced my weight from 205 to 160 pounds. "There was little relish in any food and none of it seemed to do me any good. It seemed the more I ate the poorer I got and was always hungry before another meal, no matter how much I had eaten. "Then I commenced a trial of GrapeNuts food, and was surprised how a small saucer of it would carry me along, strong, and with satisfied appetite., until the next meal, with no sensations of hunger, weakness or distress as before. "I have been following this diet now for several months and my Improvement lias been so great all the otkwa in my family have taken up the use of Grape-Nuts with complete satisfaction and much improvement in health. "Most peoplo eat hurriedly, have lots of worry, thus hindering digestion and therefore need a food that is predigested and concentrated in nourishment." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battlt Creek, Mich. Erer read the afceve letter? A ef tic appears from time tm tlate. Tacj are ;eamla true, am mil ! Mai

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