The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1909, Page 23

™@The Eveni eH ng World Daily Magazine, Thursday, January —_—-——~ HE rl By Martin Green. {In the Board of Aldermen. | fs | HB lordly Board of Aldermen are met in fine array, | Gpenoel A city hangs {n breathless awe upon thelr acts | i to-day; Ten thousand projects bend their minds, the need | for speed !s great, | A million dollars to be spent upon thelr wills must walt. An Alderman from Brooklyn rises in his seat to say | ‘That a colleague from Manhattan wears his forehead; stuffed with hay. | IL 'Tis known that many miles of streets form one continuous | rut, | ‘There's a leakage jn the Water Board that should be plas- tered shut; A legislative sleuthing band is knocking at the door, | But an Alderman from Harlem has the vrivilege of the floor; And in quiet, simplo language, framed to bilster and to cut, He proclaims a fellow member as a “flea-Infested mutt.” It. A delegation from the Bronx begs Aldermante §) And asks for action on a scheme the treasury to mace; ‘A crowd of men who pay their taxes clamor for a boon, And fn their optimism figure they may get it soon; The while a portly Alderman projects himself through space And lands with deco rative force upon another's face, ins ‘The city’s mighty Aldermen are in the City Hall, They are on the city’s business and must stand or fall, According to‘their industry, their wisdom and their wit, But that don’t irk the Aldermen the very slightest bit, Ag they watch a learned solon use his right fist as a mau! | In an earnes to spread a rival's visage on the wall. The Bread Line. UT of the shadows they shuffle and sneak, amefaced and doggedly, hungry and cold, Each to his place {n the mendicants’ row— Most of them middle-aged, some of them old \ Failures and derelicts, weak In defeat, Living examples of hopes that have died. What right have those to whom fate has been kind \ Their burden to question, thelr woe to deride? OOOO The Manhattan Primer, ‘weather? When he has care-fully mapped Its | | future course ho or-ders storm sig- rn Quite the contrary. He tells us what| But the bliz-zard af-ter com-Ing as | we may expect. }tar as Sche-nec-ta-dy gets a trans-fer ‘The Weather Man, Alphonse, has evy-, And the next day the warm sur ery ad-van-tage that Science can afford, )shine makes the trees in the park pu When a bilz-zard starts from Med-\-|up a bluff. cine Hat, bound east, he ts tm-me-di-| Don't the Weath. ate-ly in-formed | bell? Foot by foot he traces the howl-Ing Oc-casion-al bilz-sard on !ts course. dicts a cald tn Jan-uary or He gets tele-graph-ic re-ports from,warm day in Ju-ly and gets his wis’ every point {t touches How does he hold his job? He acts as tho bilz-zard's ad-vance a-| He works for the Goy-ern-ment. ND who might this stu-dlous high-brow be? That, Al-phonse, {8 the/set and pre-dicts a hard snow with-in Weather Man. twenty-four hours. Does he give us our) Tim-or-ous-ly city pre-pares for the shock. er Man ey-er ring the Al-phonse, he pre- ay ! Betty Vincent’s Advice on Courtship and Marriage rene how ts the carriage expense di- Stamp Flirtation. HAZY Dear Betty scmesh ncrenit ress tta tee OULD you be so kind as to give mae uit ua r the op eant » stamp of thie ¢ the decorations, the me the meaning of the stamp (EO Ue Cl SUAU ODT pense of the bride's bo T do not know the meaning of what you call the stamp flirtation, nor would matd's bouquet, the ¢ 1} the carriages for the bride and brides MT give It to my readers if F did, if aj Mids wan wishes to say pretty things to a A License Necessary, dirk he will find some way of dolng ar Betty AM twenty-two and am engaged to @ young lady of twenty-three. We would like to get married, but we do jnot like to go through the trouble of Expenses of the Bridegroom. j sett ng @ marriage license, Please give a lashes us some advice as to how we can get | married without procuring a license? | @o without resorting to the stamp fir: tation, and if he does use this form of | flirting she should consider it anything but a compliment. DODDDDDG dd3O004 _ The N lewlyweds? Their Baby-t-! By ede Mat | DON'T GRY SNOOKIE | PAPA Get NASTY INK OFF BABY, BEFORE nama comeset bi“ } Guard said he couldn't wake! about twenty on the car, Is the highest-)get off at Grand Central and have a jan Alaska bear, a at Fourteenth street,’’ sald life suit of evening clothes ever 1 saw; |drink? (Gee, but I'm democratic when) “'Mr. Walkerby, sir?” says the the Conductor, shaking the there must have been an acre of shirt) I'm soused.) ‘Thank you, very much, | chauffeur, ‘Yes,’ says my friend of the shoulder of the front alone. Now tf I wandered into the | no,’ says he, and moves across the aisle. glad rags, ‘I'm Mr. Walkerby.’ ‘Mrs. in that rig I'd feel like the out-| But he can’t lose me—not that way, side bally-hoo of an all-night dentist | ‘Did you leave ‘em with the barkeep?’ parlor. But this guy looks around much || ask, tactful-lke, ‘or don't you remem as to say, ‘I've never yet bothered what| per?’ ‘How?! says he, a bit puzzled. Subw Bun at | Floyd-Anson the West station, thought we might subwa here, air,’ says the Ij says she understood perfectly “That's yawned the y Bun. “Didn't get home at all last Made twelve trips, Be going | yet ff it wasn't that I saw a clock In the Boerum place station, over {n Brook-| Ivn, pointing to 10 A. M., and realized that tt was tiine for me to have some 000 Subs your pardon, air, that {t was quite absurd for you to go out into the cold ple and says: ‘It 1s a nice evening, tsn’t | It, really?’ and turns away as though| second, where he gets up to go. I that would hold me, But I want to| naturally think my cordial hospitallty| without your hat and coat, no matter know where he got it, So I says:|has won him at last and follow, At! what the circumstances were, air.’ ‘How'd you mix ‘em to get one lket the street door of the station he pulls|‘Why, {t was nothing, nothing,’ saya pal?) Champagne ale, like the col-| hig coat together over as much of that | the glad rags man, ‘only a, step each ‘lege boys, or what ‘Really,’ says he,| shirt front as he can and bolts out| Way to and from the subway and the |not at all unpleasantly, ‘I don’t think Tinto the snow and runs plump Into ajcars were quite warm, But Mrs, eta clean collar and get! know you,’ ‘Well, then,’ 1 say, ‘will you chauffeur with enough fur on him for | Floyd-Anson |s very kind.’ He slips on pease he overcoat and silps out a $5 bill to “So It goes all the way to Seventy- the office.” Bad night, eh?” sald the Conductor, | ww ena he chauffeur. Now TI know, ‘Bad? Listen!” commanded the sub- “I'm always handing out five dollar way Bun, “L wake at Thirty-third | Jottings From the Jokers, | bills when I'm soused, and I know how Observing that I have, as usual ACHER—What do you understand by the word * denial It feels the next morning. So I butt father Pupil—It is when some one comes to borrow mone} and he says he |s not at home—Filegende Blaetter, . . . Fourteenth, and that I'm ¢ 8 to getting off a Grand Cen tral and I take a look around Right opposite is a real live member of e of our t farilies hind that you see In the framed pictures |}, on the walls of tallor shops. Only this guy's rig {somewhat weird, consider- [ In to tell him he's giving the man too |muchy at the same time the man Is saying, ‘Anything else, sir? Thank you, “THOSE two girls are devoted to each other.” air “So {t appears." | "Then what do you suppose the glad “And yet, they love the same man.” |rags guy does? “Oh, Impossible!” says: ‘Yes, there is. Kindly take this t at all; the man {s thelr father."—B |{ntoxicated person to some place quite |remote from here and dispose of him One of the Ingham Age-Herai! ' (Copyright, 1998, by Harper & Bros.) | “The woman sent for the other man} latter that, for he had been living HCEDING CHAPTERS. | | ‘er at Flambeau, on the | l0nels, loving her all the time, and wife, Alluna, and | you'd better believe he went. epee (dE Dat's fine! Dat's dam’ fine!" 'y commander, ‘falls i3| sald the other. Teclprocates his aftes- | don wat? Gale's young French “Yes, there was a kind of reckoning.” BYNOPSIS OF John Gale, post Do partner, sescr: feeccretly loves Necla, ‘Burrell learna with horror that Necia ls a half-breed In- Gian, Runnion, a desperado, whom Burrell | |The old man lapsed into moody silence, ‘d f Flambeau, returns, has ordered, out obeotesstonal, ‘Sad aan |th® younger one walting eagerly for ‘No Creek Lee,” a prospector, him to continue, but there came the Flambeau, He rt thither with S0Und of voices down the trail, and) n us.” Necla tells Hurrell the | they looked up. | ret and persuades him to gv there wii a her by-& short cut, hoping to arrive on tka “Here comes Lee," sald Gale, acano of the gold arike in time to stake out’ “WW'at happen’ den? I'm got great lor claims. As Gale and Poleon are on, i ‘ els way to the ‘strike’ Poleon hints of interest ‘bout dis woman,” insisted for Neca, Gale tells bim a story | p, it Who was loved by an honest man, | Poleon. ho married « scoundrel, i “It's a long story, and'I Just told you | |this much to show what I sald was true about a good girl and a bad man, | and to show why I want Necla to get! A good one. The sooner it happens the A Story Is Begun. better {t will suit me.” Agni akenquleuuar® asia lee CLA 1 Reiter wer wrong fr Neither man had ever spoken thus quit Mma aes jopenly to the other about Necia be kid. They had a youngster. Then, | 4) iv Rt J ne nr. || too, she had ideas of her own; so she; ousht. But there was no time for | stood {t for three years, ving worse | *UTther talk now, for the others were than a dog, till she saw it wasn’t any | love Upon them. As they came Into use—till she saw that he would make | ‘iC0" ha heirs & bad woman of hi sure as he| OND ‘@ hasn't brought Runnton CHAPTER V. (Continued.) would make one of the kid—till he got *l0"S reat | “Humphi" grunted Doret. "1 don't | “No! No! You don't mean dat? No|t'ink much of dat feller, W'at's de mat- ‘man don’ hurt no woman," interjected |ter wit’ ‘No Creek,’ anyhow?" Doret. ¢ | ‘The three new arrivals dropped down “By God! That's Just what I mean," | upon the moss to rest, for the up-tyadi | @ trader answered, while his face had | was heavy and the alr sultry insi OWN so gray as to match his brows, | forest. Lee was the frst to speak. Te beat her.” “Did you get away without bein’ | Poleon broke into French words that | seen?” he asked. 4 corded well with the trader's harsh| “Sure,” answered Gale. voice, mmoyreerergermd BACN here two hourr” i “Poleon has teen: VSS peecaainsi Ns ™ taggin’ along.” had seen you two they would have “I'M bet there's hell to} pected somet oaths at the mosquitoes and at his pack- |plied the miner.‘ | wide pastures of “nigger-head: HAT part of the expense of a) Bet eer ees sina ial C.D. AND A. Ing that there {s snow outside and . De 0 2D) jas you see fit.” Which samo the chaut- hureliameddtnudothers (hen sthe ay ir a wetan ito retiinarried Rien ee | COMITEL (come NOMHatlandMniautiain “THEIR honeymoon {s about over.” |teur certainly does, For he drops me clergyman's feo and the pelea POR STATES SOU Mil HaventaceraauEs j Parted and siicked down as though two “What's the matter?” |down the downtown Subway entrance flowers {8 borne by the bridegroom? | iicenge ag a marrage 1s hot legal in thie | Valets hiad been on the Job; no overcod ‘He's come to the conctuston that {t really Isn't fun to help her wash the} [St Ninetyosizth street: Aandi was Who pays for the ope: of th e | State without one. In New Jersey mar-| nd exposed to the naked eyes of all/| }dishes."—Detroit Free Press. long after dayllght, as I told you, be- church, the organist, canopies, &c.? ‘rhage Hee are not ni ry. jus common people, of which there are'® «fore I knew where I was,’ be : ninleleteteieietei-s & T h e 5 a r ri A Delightful Romance of Gold Hinting in the Klondike. an ; } The Love of a Kentucky Soldier for a Daughter of the Frozen Wilderness. f i I don't want nobody yally they came upon the stream, and | found easier going along {ts gravel bars, “We cama right through the town till a bend thraw them again Into the boldly,” announced Stark; “but If they |meadows and mesas on either hand. ‘allow there's any use to fret ourselves.” -|Thelr course led them far up the big! They went on their way, valley to another stream that entered jeletrely, until late evening, Runnion volunteered nothing except |from the right, bearing backward In a/camped at the mouth of the valley up (Uist as Lee had Intended; and now, great bow towards the Yukon, and al-jwhtch the miner's cabin lay. They |when the cool evening fell and the were dense clouds of mos- | chose a long gravel bar, that curved Iike|draught quickened, {t became possible ‘At one point|@ scimitar, and made down upon its|to lay off gloves and headgear; so they ence was offered, neither the trader nor | Stark, hot and irritable, remarked: Outer tip where the breeze tended to sat about the fire, talking, smoking and Doret made any comment then, but it| “There must be @ shorter cut than/thin the plague of insects, They were | rubbing their tired feet. ; came out later when the old miner] this, Lee?’ \all old-stagers In the ways of camp life, It {s at such times that men’s gar- dropped far enough behind the others to| _‘“L teckon there ls,” the miner replied, }#0 there was no lost motion or bickering | rullty asser{a itself, for the barriers render conversation possible. | “but U've always had a pack to carry,;a3 to thelr respective duties, Thelr of caution are let down, as are the “You decided to take In another one, | 1 choose the level ground rather than | Preparations were simple. gates of remembrance, and it {s then htt dale asked Les. "! climb the dividds.”” First they built a circle of smudges that friends and enemies are made, for a iF We “S'pose does people at camp hear Out of wet driftwood, and inside this there are those who cannot listen and eee esac beat us in?” sug-| Lee kindled a camp fire of dry sticks, others who cannot under AAS CLS tat) upon which he cooked, protected by the| "No Creek” Lee, the one-eyed miner “That's good; Creek, and there ain't a half-dozen men} sects gathered on his wrinkled, halr- much less over the divide, #o I don’t, choly disgust and fly to other and fuller- blooded feeding-grounds. Camp had travelling been made early, at Gale’ when they , Instead of pushing on a few miles fur- jg, sure.” which were new and cut him) Ways there As no explanation of his pres \quitoes above their heads. my dotn's,” re-| ‘ "bout dis strike an gested Poleon, ae Pana come a ene BER ee Mt wouldn't be easy going for them |#moke of the others, while Gale went who had made this lucky strike, told ho set on it that T ackeressed, You | after they got thers," Stark said sourly, {back to the edge of the forest and in simple words of his long and soll- , Tso St : for one, wouldn't atand for tt, ite a dozen small firs, the branches tary quest, when f!ll-luck had risen see, it's the first chance I ever had to pay him back for a favor he done me} in the Cassiar country. There's plenty | of land to go around. of which he clipped. These Poleon and wi Gunnton bore down to the end of the |e for bedding, while Stark chopped m at the dawn ahd misfortune nad stalked beside him as he drifted and drank from camp to camp, while ‘or I," agreed Runnion. “I don’t see how you'd help yourselt, the trader remarked. “One man's got a pile of dry wood for the night. the gloom of a settled pessimis:n Tt was Lee's affair, thought the as good rae tt a note . | Gale Roted that the new man awung soured him, and men began to shun trader, and he might tell whom he, “I guess I'd help myself, all right," | Wale Malet’ tiat vie neh Milt RallOm itm because of the evil that seemed | Nked, so he sald no more, but fell to/Stark laughed significantly, a8 did) i) iin te root was familiar, also that | to follow in his ateps studying the back of the man next in| Runnion, who added he never made @ alip nor dulled {t on rainbow-chasin’ forty front, who happened to be Stark, ob-| "ee is entitled to put In anybody he (he gravel of the bar, displaying an alle “and never caught serving every move and trick of him, | wants on his own discovery, and tf any-| oy coniotoness and a knack of do- 8 and epidemics ar and, during the frequent pauses, mak- | body tries to get ahead of us there's (ng things efficiently that won reluct- I'm the only miner tn Ing @ polnt of listening and watching |Ilable to be trouble.” RAC RBBFOVAI/ZFOM Una tendon datalialthe never) madabal discovery ulm guardedly “T reckon if I don't know no short cut, | unreasontng dislike he had taken to him r had a creek named All through the afternoon the five men | nobody else does,” Les remarked, where-| Lea was ready for them by the time wound up the valley, following one! upon Doret spoke up reassuringly ithey had finished thelr tasks, and, you got your name? another's footsteps, emerging from. ‘“Dere's no use gettin’ scare’ lak’ dat, | fanned by tle breeze that s 1 up the biccause nobody knows w'ere Les's| stream and lulled by the waters, they was no good te mbre thickets of fir to flounder across I just o mituge apper worse'n that that cheek she’s locate’ but John an’ me, an’) ate their scanty supp wobbled and wriggled and bowed be-|dere’s nobody w'at knows he mak’ « had WM no long an ix of the neath thelr fest, until at cost of much |atrike but us f toes and had/ become’ so inoculated wiih | bey politic; Ivet bei nd profanity they gained the} ‘That's right,” sald Gale; “the only} their polson that he was in a measure |an appendix with a seed in ii, I ting of the forest. Occasion- other way across ig ty Black Bear ' oes to their sting, hence the in- " mmyselt sore, and everybody around me, space, Their one-eyed | The Subway Buns 233 Gav iis ‘Aerosiae Seorsnea *By Lindsay Denison | * fo] sent me up In her egy with your hat and coat to catch you chauffeur, ‘She you had as well bring you anybody thought about what I was] indicate the hat and coat that ain't! to be at the Eastman’s at one o'clock, through, and let doing, why should [ begin now? [/ there, Ho stiffens some ‘I remember | and that you had to leave promptly, you get a good can't help warming to him, the way I] very well where I left them,’ he says, sleep, I'll come | always do to a fellow- ‘speclally | «inte mad, are you?! 1. ‘Not at|not wanting to stir up the people on back myself and! when I discover a new bre all, not at all, he says. ‘Then will you|the stairs and disturb the ladies which attend to your get-| “so T cross over and ny him and| get off at Times Square and have a| was singing by golng to the coat room. ting off at Four-\ cay: ‘It’s great! Where'd you get tt?’! drink?’ 1 say. ank you very}And the man at the door told her teenth on the trip) Meaning, of cou where did he get} much,’ he eaya, ‘but really you are very | about your not finding your carriage, down |the souse. He looks around sweet as | amusing.’ sir, And she told me to say, begging | He points at me and | ever been up to the head of that stream, (grown hide only to give up in melan- | ggestion, | 14, 1909: SECOND LESSON, Figure. By Mrs, Brown Potter, en of to-day Is to be formed a ja Directolre, and tt nature has not en- dowed you with the long slender lines of this latest fashion tt 19 nec- essary to begin at onea to remodel MRS. BREWSTER your unfashion- able figure The skin tight fitting gown whtch sharply defines the curves, or rather, ick of them, of the wearer's figure are a trial and tribulation to the stubby 8 scales at the one ‘To lok graceful {n these gowns she | must take off flesh and acquire the tube" figure, but to accomplish the de- sired effect It will take time, attention | to {nstructions and a pattence which | unluckily few women possess. he average American woman's ten- deney to eat too much will be her great- est obstacle in the forming of a Direc- tolra figure. While her breakfast {9 isually a small one, she commences to engage herself at the noon hour, The sidered something of a banquet over tn | Mngland, where we consider a chop and | ‘pudding quite a suffieleney, At dinner there ts even more to eat, with the con- (Copyrighted by False P who believe blindly as they are told, ROM the moment when a man lls Inner voice, but according How to Acquire the Directoire| F course the O destra of! every wom- normal Yankee luncheon would be con: | My “Cycle of Readings. By Count Tolstoy. ~~—~Translated by Herman Bernstein,~~~~ ‘ right to decide for others their relation to God and to the world, and there are people, an enor: mous majority, toho give away this right to others and Par are people who take unto themselves the Beauty een & Prepared Especially for The Evening World OOOO DDO CD 0000 0000 0000000000000) sequence that the American woman In- variably tends to embonpoint. If you wish to acquire the Directolre figure, as of course every up-to-date woman does, diet yourself, eliminating all starchy foods, pastries and sweets |from your meals, My next advice to those who wish to become slender though fat Is to tub dally. 1 am a great bellever in the morning bath, not cold but tepid, for though tt tn Itself will not reduce flesh dalig bathing tends to strengthen the consti |tutton, and this {s most desirable when trying to take off fat. When the clr culation has been stimulated by the bath throw a warm dressing gown around yourself, stand In @ welleaired room and go through these exerclses: Draw in the muscles of the abdomen, inhale a deep breath and raise your arms above your head until the thumbe meet, bending body backward as far as possible. Recover pose, and as you ex- hale bring the arms down in a sweep- ing curve forward until the finger tips | touch the floor, Repeat six times, | With arms hanging Mmply from the shoulders bend the body sideways as far as possible, first to left and then to the right, repeat ten times, With arms in the same position, feet planted firmly on the floor, ‘twist the body as far as you can, turn {t from ‘rteht to left and vice versa, ‘This is ew peclal'y good for reducing the hips. Re» peat twenty times, | [le lat on your back, elther on floor [or couch; without bending knees Mft the jlegs Ul the feet are straight up, ratsing jarms at the same time. Do this with the breath exhaled and inhale deeply |as you lower then. Repeat six times. ‘There exercites, tf consistently done |both morning and evening, will help jany woman in acquiring the fashionable Directolre figure, 2 the Press Publishing Company, the *rork World, 1008, bad (Copyrighted by Herman Bernstein.) The Italicized paragraphs are Count Tolstoy’s orig. inal comments on the subject, L) rophets. waives his moral independence; from the moment when a man begins to define his duty, not according to to the interests of a certain class or jand she apprectated very much your| party; from the moment when a man shakes off his personal responsibility because he is only one out of milllons—from that moment he {3 divested of ‘his moral power; he expects already from people that which can be done | only by God; | bower.— Channing. he sets up the crude tools of human wisdom tn place of divine WV E are all like children, who first repeat the irrefutable truths of our grandmothers, then those of our teachers, and as we grow older those of other remarkable people who cross our way. With what pain we are trying to learn by heart the words we hear! But when we reach that stage upon which these predecessors had stood, and we understand the meaning of these words, our disillusion {s so strong that we would gladly like to forget all that we had heard from them.—Emerson. Bowe of false prophets, which come to you im sheep's clothing, but fawardly they are ravening w frults Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? olves, Ye shall know them by their Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring trea bring forth good frult. * * * know them.—St. Matthew, vil., 15-20, forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt Wherefore by thelr fruits ye shall MAN may make use of the tradition tohich came down to him from the wise and holy people of the past, but he should verify by his reason | that which is tranamitied to him and should discard certain things and select other: Every man should establish for himself his relation to the world and ito God. | i {but I'm at the bat now, and don’t yqu never let that fact escape you.” | “How are you going to spend your money?" Inquired Stark. “I'm goin’ to eat It up! I've fed on | dried and desiccated and other disas- ‘trous and dissatisfactory diets till I'm all shrivelled up inalde like a dead puft- ball; now it's me for the big feed and the long drink. get full of wasteful and exorbitant grub, of one kind and another, Itke tomatters | and French vicious water Poleon Doret laughed with the others; he was bubbling with the spirits of a boy whose life ts clean, for whom there are no eyes In the black dark that les beyond a camp fire, and for whom there are no unforgettable faces In {ts smoke, When Lea fell silent the trader and Stark resumed thelr talk, which was mainly of Callfornta, {t seemed to the Frenchman, who also noted that {t was his friend who subtly shaped the toptcs. | In time thelr stories revived his mem- | ory of the conversation tn the birch grove that morning, and when there oo- curred a lapse In the talk he sald: Say, John, wat happen’ to dat gat we was talkin’ ‘bout dis morntn'?” Gale shook his head and turned again to hls companion, but the young man's Dat was strange tale, for sure." ‘How's that tousty 1po! the old man knocked the ashes from replled “Oh, it's a long story—happened when By Rex Beach, @& Author of “The Spoilers,” T'm goin’ to ‘Frisco and | id was bent on Its quest, and he con- | his pipe and}! 1 was in Washington Gtate.” _ emvaymrene i. Poleon was about to correct him— {t was California, he had safd—when Gale arose, remarking sleeplly that it | was time to turn In !f they wished to got any rest before the mosquitoes gut dad again, then sauntered awav from the fire and spread his blanket. The rest followed and made down their beds; then, drawing on gloves and hat nets, and rolling themselves up in thelr coveringa, fell to snoring. All except the trader, who lay for hours on his back etaring up at the stars, as if try- ing to solve some riddle that affied hin, They awoke early, and {n half an hour had eaten, remade thelr packs, and were ready to resume thelr march, As they were about to start, Gale sald: “I reckon we'd better settle right now who has the chotce of locations when we [wet up yonder, I've been on mpedes | where it saved a heap of hard feeling. I'm agreeable,” sald Stark Then there won't be any misunderstanding.” “TN hold the straws," aid Lee, “and levery feller will have an even brea’ Turning hia back on the others, he cut fo: splinters of var larranging them so that the evenly from his big K ing len lone tongest one t and 80 on," he said Gale, who prompt |the four. He turne Frenchman waved | both Stark, and when ‘de Ins’ phot she's They took up their burdens oga filed toward narrow. w va [neil away into the hazy (To Be Continued.) _ y