{| 4 i} 9 | LOVE AND ND FORTUNE Young Bank Clerk Saved Employ- er’s Money and Wins Daugh- | ter for Bride. 1 f AHA By GEORGE ELMER COBB. When John White, the banker of :Scottboro, anrounced that he had dis- pensed with the services of Ned Wal- iters, people were a good deal sur- rised. The young man was a general {favorite in the town. He had been in- tdustrious in his province of cashier and had helped upbuild the bank. Mr. White had persuaded him to give up promising position to come to Scotts- thoro, and Ned had every reason to be- Aieve that he had been awarded a permanent position. Suddenly, at a way’s notice, he had been asked to ‘arn over his books to a new cashier. | “Relative of mine, this new official,” {the bank president rather lamely ex- plained. “Walters was all right—fine iyoung fellow, and all that—but I had ito make a place for my dead sister’s (boy. Sorry, but it couldn't be avoid- ed” 4 “Rubbish!” commented Mrs. Bunsby, ‘head gossip of the place. ‘Mr. Wal- ters presumed to lift his eyes to EIl- oise White. That was enough for the old man, who wouldn’t look at a son- jin-law with less than a million.” { Mrs. Bunsby had read the situation aright, and no one knew it better than the sadly disconsolate Ned himself. Of course he looked around for a new ‘position. Meantime, awaiting a deci- gion on some of his applications, he had a dull time of it in Scottboro. Mr. White had put his foot down firm- iy, forbade him the house, and Eloise was a dutiful daughter. She had met her lover just once since her father had dismissed him from his service. “It is the last time, Ned,” she said, like the brave, sensible little woman she was. “Until I am of age I shall feel that I belong to papa. You have told me that you love me. Now I am going to tell you that I return that love, and always shall. You must go away and make a name and position, and when I am eighteen we will meet again.” “A whole year to give her father a chance to marry her off!” refiected Ned dismally after that. But there seemed to be no use bat- #ling the inevitable. He wrote a final Jetter to Eloise. It breathed undying fidelity, and as well restored faith in Two Stealthy Figures Were Entering the Rear Door. his ability to win for himself a place among men for her dear sake. The bank in another city where he first hdd been employed offered him a sub- ordinate position. This was humiliat- ing, but it was a start. Ned decided io accept the position. It was his last night in Scottboro. With the morning he planned to go to his new place of employment. He was nnder promise not to see nor write to Eloise. It was nearly midnight, and he felt that he could not sleep, and feft his room bent on a restless stroll. As a magnet, the home which held his one cherished treasure attracted him. He passed its palatial front. All was dark, and the household apparently wrapt in slumber. Mournfully Ned passed the house. Then he started down a narrow lane. This was a short cut to the bank, which fronted on the next street. As he reached the point where it merged into an alley that ran directly behind the bank, Ned was surprised to notice, standing in the vacant space at the rear of the institution, a wagon. In an instant Ned glided down the alley. Then curiosity and wonder gave way to rapid excitement. The ‘wagon was a covengd box vehicle, with hinged doors closing tightly at its back. These were open. Two stealthy fig- ures were just entering the rear door of the bank. A metallic glint inside of the vehicle caused Ned to gaze more closely. Deeply stirred at an ex- traordinary discovery, he gasped out: , “The small safe from the bank vault!” ’ Then robbery, burglary, was afoot! Whoever had entered the institution must have penetrated to its most se- cret vault, to thus secure the little safe which was in fact John White's real , run and sound an nain and face the raiders, a precious one. A sound at the year of the bank attracted Ned’s at- gfention. Two men were coming Et ct gold from bags of coin they carried. Acting on a quick impulse, Ned gave a spring and landed in the wagon. The next instant he regretted it. The men slammed shut the two rear doors of the vehicle. “Let’s hurry,” he heard a gruff voice speak. “We've got about all there is worth taking—whoa!” Something had startled the horse. So suddenly did the animal start up that Ned was flung flat, striking the edge of the steel safe. He realized that the horse had run away. He stead- ied himself as he comprehended that the animal was dashing down the long incline sweeping to the river. The wagon swung about like the tail of a kite. It struck one of the bridge pillars, the horse tore loose, and the wagon crashed through the railing and went over into the river. Ned's head was bleeding from a se- vere wound. He felt the swift cur- rent swirling the wrecked vehicle about. He tore at the shattered side of the box, squeezed through the aper- ture, the water all but engulfing him, and reached the shore, how, he never knew. Ned must have been in a kind of de- lirium after that. When he was again restored to reason it was two days later. He lay on a couch in a strange room. A man, a farmer, sat by his side. “Keep still, stranger,” he urged. “You are all right, but the doctor says you must rest. You kept calling for some one so-‘-much,” added the man, “that when my wife found a photo- graph in your pocket with a name un- der it, Miss Nellie White, she went to town and saw the young lady. She’s here now, in the next room.” “Who is?” almost shouted Ned, springing up on his couch. “Easy, friend, easy,” soothed the farmer. ‘“She’s a grand girl, let me tell you. When she learned you was hurt, she gave up home, father, every- thing to come and nurse you. I know the old miser—man of means, and mean, too. He's down grade now, though—bank robbed, everything gone. Now, then, say, I'm curious te know how you ever got into this fix. Ned told. The farmer evinced the greatest excitement as his patient spoke of the wagon box that went into the river. “Why,” he exclaimed, “I noticed the battered wreck of just such a contrap- tion floated into the cut-off on my land. Thought I'd fish it out for kindling wood some time.” “If it is the one I was in,” declared Ned excitedly, “it holds the safe stolen from the bank.” It did, as they soon ascertained. Old John White had felt badly at losing his daughter; he had felt worse at los- ing his fortune. Now, with a chance to get both back, he graciously ac- cepted Ned as a son-in-law. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) GET ALONG WITHOUT WATER Rabbits and Other Animals on the Southwestern Desert Have Never Been Known to Drink. A curious fact in connection with animal ‘life on the deserts of the southwest is that rabbits, quail, squir- rels, deer, antelope, the mountain sheep, and any number of reptiles and insects, live at great distances from visible water. The jack rabbit is spe- cially notable in this respect; and, moreover, flourishes in regions with- out a particle of green food in sight for miles and miles. Westerners assert that the jack rab- bit may be found, happy and fat, spending the day under a scrap of bush that makes little more shade than a fishnet. His skin is as porous as a piece of buckskin, and the heat is sufficient to evaporate every drop of bloed in his body; yet he seems to get on very nicely. Californians aver ‘that no ope. has ever seen a jack rabbit drink. Those who have camped for days on the deserts in vicinities where the only water for miles. round was to be found, and with rabbits everywhere, declare that never does one of the little fellows come to the springs to drink. Men have even gone so far as to examine the margins of water- holes in those districts, with never a track of the rabbit disclosed be- yond where the grass grew. One man tells of a raid of rabbits one summer that was beyond all con- ception by an eastener. The animals were so bold that they would come in before sundown. The irrigation ditches maintained by this man con- tained the only water to be found for leagues. He was irrigating sixty acres alone, and was up at daylight and on the ground till dark, when rabbits by the dozen were trying to get at the alfalfa; but, during the three months of extreme heat that then prevailed, when rabbits poured in on him from the dry hills, he de- clares that never was one of them seen to touch the watér.—The Sun- day Magazine. Photographic Power of Wocod. Experiments recently made have shown that a section of a tree trunk, or of a branch, cut across the grain, possesses the power to impress upon a photographic plate in the dark a dis- tinct image of itself, plainly showing the rings of growth. There is a great difference in the intensity of this pow- er among different kinds of wood. The ‘conifers (pines and firs) possess it in The wood is placed eith- ct with the pate or at a from it, and the ex- high deg 1n co f an hour to 18 wood from a stump, and even bog- wood, have been found still photo-| graphically active. EE ————" sot. on mr = 1 thence, poking their pockets full of ASSIGNEE’S SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE The undersigned assignee of S. D. Livengood, will offer for sale at public outcry, at the Court House in the Borough of Somerset, Pennsylvania,on Wednesday, Nov. 26th, ’13 AT 1 OCLOCK P. M. all the right, title and interest of S.D. Livengood in and to the following de- scribed tracts of land situated in Som- erset and Stonycreek Townships, Som- erset County: No. 1 Comprising ten parts, as follows: Site uate in Somerset ‘Township, adjoining lands now or formerly of the George -eiiz estate, Joan L. Saylor, John Mowry, Annie M. Schrock, John C. Miller. and others, containing two hua dred forty five 1245) acres, be the same more or less, and being more fully described in a deed by Georze E. Reitz to W. J. Baer, dated Sep tember 8, 1894, and recoraed at Somerset, Penn sylvania. in tne office for recording decds, in Deed Book, Vol. 84, Page 107. Situate in Somerset Townsuin, aforesaid, ad joining lands now or formerly df Mrs. Reitz Annie M. Schrock, J.J. Weigle, C. #isher James S. Trent, J. C Miller and others, coa raining tifty (50) acres, be the same more or 1288. and being more fully des:ribed in deed from J. 3. Trent and wite to W. J Baer, dated 14th of July, 1893, aad recorded as aforesaid, in Deed Book, Vol. 81, Page 291. Situate in Somerset Township, Somerset County. Pa., adjoining Nos. one and two above lands now or formsrly of Cyrus Rayman, Jacob Rayman, Noah Rayman, and others, coatain- ng two hundred twenty-eight (228) acres. be ihe same more or less, and being more fully escribed in d2ed from Anna H. Schrock and husband to W. J. Baer dated 14th of July. 18983, ‘ecord~d as aforesaid, in Deed Book, Vol 81, Page 203 Nituate in the township aforesaid. adjoini g lasndsnow or furmeri, of J >. Trent, C Kisaer. J Weigle and others, containing 10% acres. neing more fully described in deed from Jonn G. Fisher and wite to W J. Baer, dated 23 d of October, 1893, recorded as aforesaia, in D:ed Book, Vol. 82, Page 396. Situate in the township aforesaid, and Stony- «reek Township. acjoin.ng Nos. t avove 1.0d8 now or ‘formerly of Jacob G Rayman, Noah Rayman. W S. Beabpett, Jerome t'ritz, Catherire Fisher, and others, containing on« bundred for y six (146) acres. being toe same more or less, being more fully described in deed f:om Jacob J. Weigle and wife to W. J Baer, dated Novem er 4th, 1893, recorded as aforesaia, in Deed Book Vol, 82, Page 408 Situate in Stonycreek Township aforesaid, adjoining No 5 above lwnds now or formerly ot Noah Ravman A (. Rayman, Benedict (oder. and others, containing forty seven (47) acres, be the sam= more or less, and being more fully describzd in deed from S. S. Benaoett and wife to W J. Baer, dated 4th of Novemoer 1893, recorded as aforesaid, 1n Decd Record Vol. 82, Page 420 Situate in Stonyereek Township, aforsaid ad joining No 6-above lands now or formerly of Benedict Yoder No+h Raymond and othets,con aning sixty seven (67) acres be the same more or less, aad being more fully described in deed from A. E. Rayman and wife to W. J. Baer, dated 29tn of August, 1894, in Deed Book Vol 84, Page 110 Situate in Stonycreek Township, aforesaid, adjoining Nos. 56 7 ubove, lands no # or former iy of J. G. Rayman an others. Containing one vunured seventy six (176 uscres: and one hun: dred forty four (144) perches, be the same more or J+83. neing more fully described in dazed from Nnih Riyman to W. J. Baer dated 29th, August 1894, recorded us aforesaid, in Deed Book, Vol. 84, page 114 Situate in Stonvereek Township afor said, Bajgimng Nos. 5 8 above 11nds now or furmerly f Cyrus Rayman and others. containinZ one SAL twenly 2igut (128) acres, he ih-= same more or less, bzing more (ully described in teed from Jacob Rivman ana wife to W. J. Baer, in deed dated 29tn Auzast 1894 and as aforesaid; in De2d Bro Vol. 84 Page 112.