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SUSAN'S JiUTTEHFLY. /Uuv-Kynl BLian llvfcd on the* odjfe of a deep forest that was to thick •ood gloomy and black that even in the middle of die brightest day of ail tbe bright days of the year there waa nothing except twllignt to be seen in It So arbat it was on the d&rkoat days you can Imagine Hlue-Eytd Susan often longed to go Into the foraat and roe wh*t might be bidden in ft; but her father and brothers, who were huntsmen to the king, warned her that 1t was full of monsters and witches and erfl apir- Ms, and that not even the deer would - go into U far. Howorer, Slue Eyed Busan, al though she dared not go In, et.ll walked along its margin every day •And peered, half frightened and half curious, into the mysterious green darkness. One day When she was thus stroll ing along the saw a strange thing lunging to a tree. It was black and «Ukan and as big as she was herself. . At first the thought that It was a bag with some proclous things In It But when she approached she discovered that.lt was not a bag, but something dse. ^t*f soon* Blue-Eyed Hums »u fs- miller .with all torts of thing, that an- found In the wood, and fields, «o tfhr a aw Immediately that till, groat Leg waa nothing except a cocoon—but -.ouch a grant cocoon a» waa never 1 wees in rhr world before. She examined It for a long while, and thru ran home to (cJl her father vuid brothers all al>out it. They went with her, and when they aaw the vaat cocoon they were for hurling their apeara Into It at once, "for," aald they -Where ran be do doubt that thla enor- nr ala cecum la the cocoon of a drag* on or other terrible monster that dwell, in tha woods." • No, no!" rrlad Mur Eyed Buxan, “I don't believe that dragon, grow In cocoons 1 am cure that tome dear, bevntlful butterfly la hidden In that, and Imagine what a aln It would be If jam w*oe to deatroy It!" "WeiJ, all right." aald the old hunts man, who could refuse Ida daughter nothing "We will let It 11,nx there and aec what cornea of It." EJun-Byrd Busan wax so Interested In the rwxwn that she went to see it every day. Once, when the wlnda blew M end threatened to tear It down, she built a shelter for If of lWig,. And once when the aun threatened to bum It up she made a thatched roof of ■notat grasses for IL She was fortunate enouifh to be present on the day when the cocoon " tea an to bunt. She waa not a bit -afraid of what might come out. for >ahc waa aura that only beautiful thing! are re born In cocoons. Bo she waa not aurprlaed at all when she saw a won derful butterfly creep out—a butterfly With wings big enough to cover Susan, and with colors so splendid that It *ntii as U all the gems of the deep- •rat earth had bean rained on It. Tha grant butterfly, rocking from wide to alda In tha air Mka a ahlp, fluttered softly around her head, flniabed bar faco with Its silken wings, mad then flaw away Into tha foraeL Blue-Eyed Busan waa sorry to see St bo. and for weeks thereafter aha watched eagerly to saa If ot would not wwappear. But It did not One day whan aha was standing many tha dark entrance to the forest -■hr heart a roles calling—calling far SB tha wood. Tha voice waa too far -dUstant for Susan to ba able to uader- wfand tha worts, bat aba could tall ■ftrum the manner that it was somebody who was lost la the forest calling for Aalp. At first aba tbonghl that she would run homo and get her father and Brothers, nut aha noticed that tha wvfioe was getting farther and farther ssway each time It called, so she knew dhat by the time she returned with Beip the lort person would be far In She middle of the forest where ha would not be found. Then she called out with all her anight, bat bar voire waa too weak. 80 die plunged Into the secret wilderness Wo try and approach the tost perron ■closely enough to make him haar. But .Slue-Eyed Susan waa tost herself. However, she had found tha tost Sanaa and It turned out to be no -nthsr than the king himself. He bad •Stowed la parrttt of a black bear, wad. without aoUflac It. be had been .M Into the wild forest Ton may Imagine if the king was rfttefi see Bluo-Eyed Busan. And ■Sit . you may ba sura, was glad •enough to think that it was tha king wrhren she kad saw to help. Ott king's neat find their way out •Of magic forests any more than com- ■mo persons can. And Blue-Eyed dSUaaa and the king stumbled and mnmnhlid and tore through briars and Thom* and fell In and out of deep Boles aad slipped over mossy rooks tin vain. Tbs more they Med tbs ■sag path (hey did And. Just when they were going to giro •t up and at down la the forest to die, ss large butterfly floated down tram flfce tops of the trees. U came fear- . kaaaly toward Busan, and she saw that <M was aha my same butterfly that Bad noma oat of tha mighty cocoon. B rocked itself for a moment on ■Ba glorious wings. Then H began m Butter away slowly. Bmm aad tha king tooksd after it >Bdly. Tkay wars sarprtesd to are 1 woofer oaa it i toe way out ot the futest?” said Blew Eyed Busan. "Let ui; sec," said the IC-ng. Bo they followed It and, sure enough, it led them straight out of the forest and right to the king's palace. Susan bowed to the king in front of Lis palace and tried to leave him. "No, Indeed," sanl the king. "You aavod my life and 1 wish you to live In the palace henceforth. 1 will send for your father and brothers and then, my dearest Blue-Eyed Busan, l wont you to marry me It you will." So they were married. And at the wedding feast a mighty butterfly float ed through one of the windows. It flew stra-ght to Blue-Eyed Susan and shook Its wings over her till she was all covered with the reallest kind of real sapphires and rubles and emer alds and diamonds. Then all at once the butterfly van ished and a beautiful fairy pr.ncess appeared In Us place. "You saved my Ufo," she said to Blue-Eyed Susan, "when you begged your father and brothers not to hurl their spears Into the cocoon. I was put into It by enchantment, but now the spell is broken, and In gratitude to you 1 shall make the black forest safe for all." And that Is Just wfial she did. Blue- Eyed Susan and the king built s hunting lodge In the mlddlest middle of it, aad If you ever happen to go that way. Just turn to thu left when you see throe giant oak trees. Follow a gravelly path w.th a brook by Its side till you reach a sign that says "Automobiles and peddlers nut ad mitted." lung the bell there and men tion this paper, and the king and hts Blue-Eyed Busan will come to meet you and make you stay over night, and entertain you with ginger ale and marshmallows and chocolate cream drops.—Pittsburg header. Coupon Collector's Runabout. Edward E. Loo of Baltimore, man* ager at a well known wtekerware house, Is a fiend after coupon collect ing. He had been collecting all kind, at tag, and coupons bearing premium, fur some time, when he one day no ticed an advertisement of a New Jer sey Arm that upon receipt of fifteen of their tags they would forward one chance for a series ot prize,, the first prize being a horse and a runabout Mr. Lee began Industriously to get all the tags he could find until he had the requisite number, which he for. warded. A few day, later he was notified that he had won the first prize. Immediately following this let ter came a tiny rocking horse. He sat down and wrote a sarcastic totter to the Ann: "1 beg to acknowledge receipt of the horse, he wrote, “but you felled to enclose the runabout." In an early mall he received this letter: "Dear SIP—We have your letter ac knowledging receipt of the horao. As for the runabout, go chase yourself. Your, truly. Llpplncott's Minute Msisuremente. Because the balance wheels of watchoa expand and contract with changes of temperature, they ran slower or faster, according to circum stances. By making them ot different kinds ot metals having different de grees of aspansdoB with lucres# of temperature, the effect of the changes on the running ot watches may be al most entirely ollmtnoted. But In deal ing with each n problem It Is neces sary to know tbs expansibility ot the metal emptafed. A naans at measur ing It Is furnished by an Instrument called a Alstometer, In which a sys tem ot delicate levers, or a chain ot gear wheels magnifies the motion ot a pointer aver a graduated scale hun dreds of times. At a meeting of the Physical Society In London lately a dllatotnoter was exhibited which bad a magnification of 1,600 times, an that the change tn the length of a piece of steel caused by a single degree of rise or fall ot temperature was clean ly measured by It Osrrymtndsr. Gerrymander ts a wort meaning to divide a state into districts for the choice ot representatives In inch a way as to give the political party in power as advantage over the other, even though the latter hare a majop tty ot voua tn the stage. The term originated In Massachusetts In MIX, when the deooeratlMspabllezss so arranged the senatorial districts as to control mote of them, and thus se cure the election ot a V. ti. Senator. The wort te derived from Ethridge Gerry, who was governor of the state at the time, and approved Ot the ap portionment. It Is raid that one at the euoatostel districts was so dis torted la shape as to raaemble a sala mander. whereupon the federalists called (t a "gerrymander," from ths The Rye of the Submarine, The periscope, which Is the eye ot a submerged beet, each as the uadep water torpedo craft now being built by nearly all tha leading maritime powers, la e combination ot ieaeee and reflectors which throw upon a small screen of ground glees, at the bottom ot a tube leading down Into the vessel, a view of whatever would come art thin tha range at a human eye where the periscope te fixed, whloh U usually about three feet above tha water. This covers ths sea THE GOLDEN SNAICESKIN. He lived on the slope of Pedrtr tallagalla, in the depths ot the forest far from the habitations of man. To protoct himself from prowling wild beasts he had built hie but In the top of a leafy, moss covered tree. Many year, before he had owned a large piece of land, which yielded him bis dally bread. One fine day, however, a Bittlrb merchant bought his property as an addition to a tea plantation, and paid the purchase money in spark- Hoc new rupees. What -was Mahlndo to dor Should he go and live as a rich man? Should he venture Into one of the black Iron snake, of the Europeans and be ear- fled off. or board one of thtfr "not ing houses and go far. far away, to the place where the snn rises and where the most beautiful ooustrles of the earth must bet No, he dare.: rot do it! Ho had a wife, a son sod & daughter whom he could not desert. The weeks passed In half bllss.-al. h*4f uneasy hesitation. For fear of loc'ng the money, he finally bulled it In the forest, under a tree, which he merited. Boon afterward he wns taken in. Some time passed before hs recovery, but as soon as hi, strength permitted, ho dragged himself to the place where he had hidden hla treasure. He did not find tt. Several tree, had been felled, and the one with the mark on It lay on the ground among the others. To his despair he did not know where to look for his treasure. He nearly lost his reason through grief and rage. His eon died at this time of tifal; he also lost hi, wife, but he did not care. His soul was full of misery and Borrow, bat It was all on account of the loet rupees. At last he fled from people and their maMelous Joy. and went to live at Pedrotatlagilla. He had lived there for years with his daughter Rarnwarau. They led a miserable, Joyless existence on spring water and wild fruit. He roamed the forest for hours at a time searching for his lost treasure, and paid no at tention to Sarawamm His only thought was hla misfortune, and he did not notice how beautiful hi, daugh ter grew, bow her eyee glowed like the tropic sun, bow slender and sup ple she was, and how her skin shone like a warm topaz. Others saw IL however. Laborers from the coffee and tea plantations, roaming about In the forest, discover ed ths beautiful gjT, and without many preliminaries, several of them asked the father to give her to them In marriage; but Mshlndo Invariably answered, “My child will not marry untl I find the money, but then we’U have a line wedding. They would curse him for a tool and go sway; Sarawamu smiled. Bhe did not care for any man. The life tn the woods, among bracken and rho dodendron. pleased her. At last, how ever. her time came. An Intrepid ele- phsnt hunter saw the beautiful wild thing, and she was caught by the sparking eyes of the youth, ss surely as the birds by hts snare. When he spoke to her father he at once re ed veil the same answer as the rest Ttsiu amtled. "Mahlndo, don't be a tool," hs said. "Give me your dough- ter. and com* with us to ths valley among the people. Leave the rupees to the evil spirits and tot us five!” But Mahlndo was obdurate. "Then the money must be found, old man. By the head of Buddha, why don’t you seek help from others when your own wisdom Is not suffi cient? In the village there ts a wizard of a good reputation, by the namo of Loano. Go to him." Matendo liked the Idea, and depart ed with Barewamu tor the village- Loano wns a short, thickset man. with projecting eyes and matted beard sad hair. The wizard shook seme powder Into a brass dish, and soon a blue smoke enveloped him. He mumbled incanta tions, took a palm leaf and an Cron style, and began to dance. At late he toll to ths ground In con Tuitions, while bis hand was scratching with tha pen on the leaf. Rising, hs said. “Here are the mysterious words. Whit arm yon flvo for them?" Mahlndo turned pale; he bed no money. Seeing how the wizard', eyre hunt on the gtii. he zhoutod: "I prom, lee you my daughter. If you will hare bar: but glre me the leaf." The wtsart smiled contentedly. tad handed him the leaf, sajtag. “Before next moon I expect my pay—money out of roar treasure, or the girl.' hte.MJ.ndo- -Let him On the skin of a golden snake about hla right toot, aad go to the tenet where Me money te hidden. The spirit of the rathe trill steal Into Its old home, end with a light pres sure lead Urn to the piece where the treasure Use hurled. If the preerare SfOa, lei fcto stop anJ befln to dig" Prom that da? Ushtnjo ipert hit days In hunting tor a golden task*- ■Ittn. hut In rein. Tired to death and 111, he came home one evening aad tree unable to climb the tree. Tbul peon found him. "Bring me a golden enskeekln. and Serawamo will he your*” Mahlndo called out So the young man. Ttesu had teamed with coosurew _ob Che agrotmrat with Loano; hot this premise giro him new event* end ho treat oat to hunt ter cult* Animate. When, a tow days before ten now ranon, he she handed to him. > snakeskin— guldenAhinmg. "X lousa it on an anuhiil. Co to lather sou esy tha. you Jound :t." it Is not easy to say who was mad dest with Joy. Tuzu or the oia mau. But the girl was quite cam;, aad only said: "You have prot-.sod toe w Tizzu; I am hi,." The ola man agreed to everything and the hunter earned him to that pan of the toreat where the money was hidden. With toe golden skin tied about ot, loo,, ho waited lull ot expectation—but the wonder did not happen. He telt no promt ure from the skin. Then ne waa seized with fury, and, a. If all deftness had gone from him. he rushed to Luuno's hut. "Your wisdom did no good, old vil lain! Your writing was a lie, your trance a fraud!" he cried flinging the snake, kin la the face of the wizard, who could scarcely believe hi, eyes when he say the sldn. "You have not done as I said," Loano replied, shrugging Us shoul ders; “go yuur way. L 1, not my fault." Mahlndo was foaming with rage. Just then Barewamu, Tiizu and a brown policeman, brought by the hun ter, came Cuto the hut. The police man heard both part.ej, and decided the case In favor ot .Mahindo. la tho valley, on the other side of Fedrotallagall* Tlszu and Barewamu soon built their buL and Mablndo came to lire with them. One evening, when tbe young couple were sitting In the moonlight before their huL Tlszu remarked: "Strange that the wizard's formula did not help your father.” 1C, young wife smiled. "It was not a real snake,kin, beloved. I imped ed Loano, and feared that there wa, no such skin to be found. So I dyed tbe skins you brought me In the Juices of plants until 1 get tbe right color." Tlszu shook bis head and aald. ,mU- Ing, "Love 1, and ever will be ths greatest wizard!"—N. Y. Bun. Had Substitute. The late Dr. Otto Avery, of Hone*, dale, Pa., was tho oldest dentist In America, and be wa, also tbe first American ever to receive a dentist s certificate. Dr. Avery was talking one afternoon to e reporter about the earlier, unen lightened days of Honesdalc. "We had not then,” he said, “as much religious feeling as we have now. I remember a revival service, very poorly attended, that was held during a certain winter. The revival- IsL since the people would not come to him. went to them, and oh the street corners ho would halt and question them concerning thar relig ious beliefs. "I haven't seen you at our revival," he sold to one vory old, bent man. "What would 1 be doin' there?" tho other answered. "Don't you ever pray?" slid the re- vlvaUsL Tho old man shook his head. "‘No.’ he raid; 'I carry a rabbit’s toot' ''—Chicago Record-Herald. Chief of the Uklahs. Charles Pcnlo. the oldest chief of the Ukiah tribe, died at Cox Ranchero recently, and the Indians are now celebrating a death feast Pcnlo was 107 yearn old and ruled the Uklahs long before the white settlers arrived, and the death of many whites lies at Us door. He was Judge and Jury for the tribe, but was deposed about twenty-live years ago for killing Bam Warden. Warden and another Indian hid quarrelled over a game of carte and the other Indian was killed. Paulo was tent tor and bad War den tied to a tree to bo shot Hs dodged the first bnllsL which so In furiated the chief that he seised an txe and chopped off Warden's head. Paolo was held In Jfll for several month* bat none of the lad line could be Induced to testify against him. Pento had always resented the en croachment of the whites and was considered dangerous. He tree buried In Indian style, with his pony and war implements.—Sacramento Be* How Two Missouri Towns Got Their Name* Nearly eighty years ego, when the Presidential straggle between City aad Jackson wa, at Its hclghL K U related that a band of emigrants from Kentucky, and the then other West, era State* commenced to tattle on the north tide of the Mlaaourl River and railed their county Clay aad the county sent Liberty. At the earn time another lot of emigrants from Vlrtfnta end othar Southern States pitched their tents on tee noth tide of the Big Muddy and aetna to tife day. Cky stood (or lib erty end Jackson tor independent* The Cert oj Mining theft* Bren ee far heck as aMEty-flvw yean the ante of stoking coal mine Malts In England varied from (60.000 to (75.000. WKh tee greeter depth reqnlrid ad te* «PPW «* «■* were worked ottL the cost increased. In 1867 (200.000 was spent in sinking e shaft at the Hnewtll Colliery In Dur ham. end e quicksand that road no* be conquered with the appliances and methods of that day. finally caused the iSfedrewnwlt Of th# hOTO. A( Unrtoo Colliery, not tar from (to* well. (L600000 was spent in ateKag LITTLE BLUE CAPES. Those little capes did make a differ ence. As lor.g as Stella wore tho black Jacket everything went on Just tne time. Then the happened to get the Blue coat with rapes. It was a velvet affair with long, affectionate streamers of soft silk that had n way ot float ing on the breeze when they were walking and then curling round Phil's neck with a sudden swish. Before be could defend himself a gust of wind would leap around a corner, seize the capes—there were three—and slap them against Stella's face. Platonic conversation bad to be suspended, then, while, with one arm through Stella's to steady her. Phil used Ms free hand’ to put those capes where they belonged. First, the deepest one—end her eyes smiled over the next; down that went, and now only her laughing lips were hidden; then the Impertinent, tiniest cape of all—and there was an azure sparkle In her eye, and a new pink !■ her cheeks that nothing could account tor except the peculiar shade of blue of that new coat. Then they went back to their discussion of ques tions or the universe. But tt was different—end it kept being different. For the wind blew every day and they were very old friends by the time Fbll made up his mind to accept a good business offer In Pittsburg last fall. They had phi losophised over outgrown tore affairs and bed told each other why they were never going to hare any more, with the frankness of good comrades, but not a shadow of sentimentality htd ever fallen acrora their path until the very last minute ot the night when Phil said good-by. Even then, it wasn't much. Phil finished hie farewell In a businesslike manner and went down the steps; then suddenly came back to where she stood and caught her hands In hi* “Good-by, Itttle blue rapes." he whis pered. That was all—end as tor their letters since then, anybody might read them. Oh, It was platonic, no doubt! Per haps the surest sign was the fact that, after Phil was gone, Stella actually took a little adventure they had htd together and wove It Into a love story, which she had the luck to sell In an obscure quarter for a small sum of filthy lucre. When ft came back to her In print sbe wished she hadn't been so lucky, for the possibility of Phil's ever reading the words she hid made him say In that stcyy gave her a sudden shock. She shuddered as she remembered the copied wander ings of certain foolish stories she bad read, but os the weeks went by and Phil’s matter-of-fact letters Jtept com ing she forgot to worry about IL Then, last week, Phil came back. The first evening he called he Inquired tor the little blue capes. "That coat's in the hall," laughed Stoll* "Want to see It?" He did—and In a spirit ot mischief she slipped into It and stood smiling np Into his face. She knew In a min- ntc what was coming. It was all In hit eyes—poor fellow! For there was not a shadow ot a chance tor him—not one. She was trying to think bow she could say It to the gentlest, kindest way when he began to speak. Suddenly her complacent face turn ed scarlet and the rat weakly down on the couch. The awltal love story! Phil was declaring himself In tbe lan guage of Its hero! Down went her head Into a pillow tnd op went ths little blot capes over ths flaming cheek,. That wss exactly what the girl te the story had done—only she had been In a hammock! Stalls remembered It too late, Phil bad taken bit cue. •DesresL" he murmured, folding his hand over the little, nervous one that vu duping and unclasping Itself against the skirt There wu a silence —then a stirring under the cape* tnd, te spits ot hie daring, Phil trembled before the wrath that might he com ing. Then another little hind, all wet with tear* stole from beneith ths capes tnd went to find Its mate. It had been the only way Stella could think of to end the story whan ths wrote IL and, to her overwhelm ing surprise. It was the only ending she could think ot now! Rev. Dr. Hale’s Mltteka Ths Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hal* recently appointed chaplain of ths Beast* Is famed for hla absent-mind- edset* Not long ago he visited the New York State Reformatory at Eh mlr* where he wu raked to occnpy th* yulptt of the chapel and addrora tbe eoavtct* When he arose he found every seat occupied. Beaming with pleasure, he astonished hit hearers by saying: *1 (■ pleased end gratified to ran On Engine go Yearn—Na Accident Probably the moat remarkable en gine driver te this coon try is Mr. Robert Maybsnk. who has Just te- tired, tnd Is Bring at Twickenham. Daring mom thu half n century's service on the London sad Sooth Western Railway hs has traveled Quito L000,000 miles; not once has be hen lata (or duty, end no accident of the slightest character has hap pened to a train In his charge.—Lon don Express Many Tongues In One Country. Tho diversity of tongues to bo (mod tn oat country te attaa e matter "They are very peculiar people next door," s-ild tbe woman with the ex pansive society smile. "I am sure that I have done all I could to be neighborly ever since they took the house—lot me see—two years ago It ts now, nearly. | railed on them in the first place, although I really don’t believe tn bring too Intimate with people Just because they happen to rent a house next door to one: but In this cose Mrs. Olenwood spoke to me about them. She said they were really very nice people and so f railed. "They are very nice people In some respects—at least Mrs. Parks is —but very peculiar, my dear. As I say. I did my best to be nice to them and when they were in their moving mod ills l told them If there was any thing that I could do for them to be sure and let me know. Well, they didn’t happen to want anything. 1 sup pose, for they didn’t say so then, hut less than three weeks after that Mr. Parks came to the door and wanted to borrow my step ladder You know t always keep my step-’ ■- it down (n the basement end It was quite a lot ot trouble to go down and get It, but Mr. Peabody happened to be at home and ho brought It up and gave It to Ur. Parks. I don’t mind raying that I was annoyed, but I am sure that I didn’t show IL And. my dear, they kept that ladder over a day before they brought- It hick and then there was a speck of whitewash on It that t am sure wasn't there when I lest It to them. I’m sure I would have no ticed if there had been. Mr. Pea body always tolls me 1 am so partic ular about my things, but good grac ious! If people didn't take rare of things they never would bare things, would they? “Then there was the lawn mower. I was out mowing the lawn one morn ing. You know Mr. Peabody isn't home once a month hardly and I have to mow It myself or else get a man to do It and that Is so expensive, you know. And then men ore careless with things Well, Mr. Parks was sitting on bis front steps and he volunteered to do It tor me. ’I need tho exercise, anyway,’ he aald. But do you know, as soon as he got through with my lawn he wheeled the mover acrora the walk and mowed his own. Just as coolly! And as If that wasn’t enough, he took It on to the Weepers', next door to him and mowed theirs. ‘May as well trim up the neighborhood while we ere about IL' be said, laugh- lng as if tt waa a good Joke. Of course the lawns aren't large, but Just think! “And then I recommended a laun dress to them and went In to give them her addrees, and one time when they were out 1 let tne express people leave a package for them and took it in to them myself I toured them that tt wasn't any trouble—and It re ally wasn't eo very much, you know— only It might occur too often. “But It was about the telephone I was going to toll you. They didn’t have a telephone put in. Ur. Parks said hs didn’t care to have one until he made up hie mind whether he want- ed to take the house tor a year, and I told them, of oouree, that they were very welcome to use mine at any time. They said It was very kind ot me, aad so ft wa* I think, but I didn’t think they would be making a public convenience ot my tous* They came In—oh. several time* They always apologized, but that didn't make It any more convenient tor me to be an swering the door and letting them In and letting them out again. Once or twice I was clear up to the top ot the house and tout to go clear down- etalr* I was always Just as pleasant as could be, but I think they under stood that I didn't ears much about IL and they stopped coming until Mrs. Parks’ illness and that Mr. Parks be- ■gain—to call the doctor. ied to dm, Chough, that ho needn’t have always left Jt and! tt be- come an emergency. Of oouree. In n case ot Mcknera I wouldn’t think of refusing anybody and I like to be neighborly. Bat aren't people pecu liar sometimes? , “Well thank goodness, they bad •boot stewed bothering me until test week, when there came a ring at tbe ‘phone gad somebody said: “It this Mr* Peabody? I said Tra.’ and theo ths woman—tt was a women- raid: Tm very sorry to tenable you. bat could yon get Mr* and Mr. Parka to tbe ’phone, ire Important.’ . ■ .igia "Tuouflbt that wee about the Unfit I aald: “No, I don’t see how I oea. nn vary busy and I would bare to dreaa and—no, im sorry, but I out do tt.’ — - •'Oh, very well; excuse me tor troubling you,' aba aald la a sarcastic voice end the receiver was abut off. “NOW, would you believe ttf After all the pates Pvt been to to be nice to them those people ere Just ee cool as can be since then. I suppoce they I •re offsnfed, but I don’t know what they could lavs expected me to do."— British Army Temporaries. There are now ((,171 total abstain ers In the army tn England end 14.- M0 tn India, which, with tbs honor ary member* give n total ot (7J04— L Mb.