HER CHAUFFEUR. How a Girl Worried Her Family by Loving an Auto Driver. By F. A MITCH EL. {Copyright. 1910. b. v American Press Asso ciation.] "Cab!" called a young girl standing on u curb on P street. Washington. A chauffeur sitting in an auto on •the other side of the street caught her eye. She was very stylishly dressed, very pretty, and, although attractive, the chauffeur looked at her for a mo ment without replying to her sum mons. then, as if obeying an impulse, drove his auto to the curb on which the young lady was standing. "Are you engaged?" she asked. *'No'tn." "1 thought you were from your not answering my call at once." She step ped into the auto. "Take me to Massachusetts avenue." "Yes'm." Formerly all the unfortunate love af fairs and misalliances with manserv ants occurred between the pretty daughter of the house and the family coachman. In these days of motors the coachman has given place to the chauffeur. From the moment Miss l'io /ft sfe Wffl mmf % 6 HE WAS SITTING IN HIS SEAT, UNCON SCIOUS, ra Denton, the daughter of n rich con gressman who had recently been elect ed from the middle west, set eyes on the chauffeur there was trouble In store for her. "1 presume you know all about; Washington." she said, leaning for- J ward on her seat. "I don't know my i way anywhere. We came only yester-j day." "I'm pretty familiar with the streets.! I have to be to drive an auto." "What i rich, deep voice!" said Miss Denton to herself, then aloud: "I want some one 1 can trust to take me about. | If you will tell me where I can call on 1 you I'll have you regularly." The chauffeur did not reply at once, j When he did he said: "Call up telephone No. C 542." Miss Denton took a pocketbook from ; t little bag hanging to her wrist, from , which she drew a card and on the j card wrote the telephone number. "Who II 1 ask for?" she said. "I suppose the! • are other autos there." "Say yi u would like to speak to Drake." "Very well: here we are—the dark stone hou: e over there. What's the fare'/" she added as she alighted. "11' I'm to drivi? you regularly you i might pay at the end of the month," ; replied tin obliging chauffeur. "That'll <;■> very well, if you're sat-j isfied. Perhaps you'd better come to- j morrow afternoon at .'5 o'clock to take me for a tide." "All right, ma'am." When a o'clock the next afternoon came Miss Denton was at a front win- i dow in auto costume, drawing on her j gloves while waiting for the chauf- | feur. lie drove up punctually and. j not knowing that the lady was looking j at him. stepped out of his machine I and, walking up to the door. rang. "Well, 1 never!" exclaimed Miss Den- i ton. "He walks like a ramrod. I be lieve he was a soldier before he be- j came a cab driver. Just look at those ! shoulders! It's a wonder they don't ■ pull him over backward." She met him at the door with a smile. ! but suddenly repressed it, remember- j Ing his station. She asked him to take j her across the Potomac. He did so, J and once away from the city they spun i along merrily. Reaching an old bridge | over a shallow creek, lie said: "If I could trust that bridge I would take you back by way of Arlington." j "Cross it. I'll take the'rlsk." "I doubt if it will hold under the weight of this machine. It's off the' main road and not intended for pen- i eral use." "Try it." "I think I'd belter not." Mis- Denton sniffed the air. "i had an Idea that you were a soldier before v< ii lier- no a chauffeur. I'm surpris ed at y< :r timidity." Ho to:: le a dash at the bridge, hop- i itig for safety in speed. They had j got neai ly over when It broke under them and down they went Fortunately the distance to fall was not great, and the machine remained right side up. But a falling beam struck the chauffeur on the head, and when Miss Denton, who had scram bled out onto dry land, turned to look at him ho was sitting in his seat unconscious, with blood streaming down over his face. At the moment there came the honk of an auto horn, and Miss Denton ran to the main road ana signaled tor th# driver to stop, and two men who were in the machine came to her assist ance. They got the chauffeur out, brought him back to consciousness and kindly offered to take both back to the city. As for the auto, it was not to be moved at once. When they reached the city the chauffeur was about to tell them where to take him when he was forestalled by Miss Denton, who Insisted that, the accident having been her own fault, he should goto her own home. He demurred at this, saying tney would go there first: then he wished to be left •! 11l- loom When they reached I Massachusetts avenue the lady's father, seeing from a window that I something was wrong, went out and ! when Informed of the facts directed I that the chauffeur come inside, at any ' rate temporarily So the man walked In, refusing support, and was placed In an easy chair and given a stimu lant. lie declined to have a physician called. A week later Mr. Denton said to his daughter: "I'ussy, I think its time that your chauffeur go back to his parage. lie's all right and by hang ing around here is losing money every day.l had his auto sent for, and it has been putin order. The bill will cotue to me." Miss Denton told the chauffeur what her father had said, softening the in vitation to depart as well as she could. The young man bade her goodby, look ing longingly into her eyes, while her hand lingered In his. and said: "If I weren't only a chauffeur!" He stopped and. turning away, left the house. The father of Miss Flora Denton, be ing a shrewd observer of what was going on about him. saw very plainly that his daughter was in danger of a complication that would wreck the peace and comfort of the family. He gave her orders that when she wished an auto she should call him up on the telephone and he would send her one. The girl must either obey or admit that she was desirous of riding with an especial chauffeur, which would be giving away her case. She longed for a spin with the driver of her choice and since ie couid not ride with him would not ride at all. llut she went often to the business portion of the city ai d kept a sharp eye open for a familiar fa-e belonging to her own especial chauffeur. Then came the first Important social i function since Congressman Denton i had taken his seat in the house of rep- I resontative". The president was to ! give a recei Hon. and the Denton fami ly were to attend. Mrs. Denton, who i was greatly worried about the chauf feur episode, was anxious that her daughter should go about, hoping that the Impression made by a common cab driver might be eradicated by some young man of prominence. Washing ton was full of officials, some of whom were quite young enough for her daughter to marry, and the place liter ally swarmed with army and navy offi cers. Mrs. Denton, therefore, got out Miss Flora'* most becoming costume and endeavored to excite an interest on the part of her daughter in this hei first appearance in Washington public social life. Hut the girl was languid and listless. In vain her mother told her of the great people she would meet—young | men some of whom were already po j litieal leaders, the generals, the admi ! rals and the junior officers near her | own age. Flora made no objection to I going among all these people, but there j was none of that enthusiasm to be ex j peeled in a young girl ou whom for tune had bestowed such advantages. | Finally the mother, losing patience, ex | ploded: 1 "I do believe you're gone on that cab , driver!" , This was the feather that broke the camel's back. Flora burst into tears j and.going to her room, locked herself in. | However, when the time came lo ' dress for the president's reception she I permitted her maid, her mother super | vising, to arrange her costume, and It must be confessed that she looked 1 ravishing. Kven the tinge of melan < holy in her eyes was becoming. A throng of people in evening dress i were at the White House waiting the ' ..trauce of the president. There were | i . inbers of the cabinet, senators, gen ! i .als and admirals—indeed, thegovern : i; "'lit a I magnates of tin' nation. Their ! v Ives and daughters, dressed in silks : ! satins, in l.ircs and feathers, stood : \ .ill them, forming lines on either side S of a passageway along which the president was to proceed to the posl i ii m in which he would receive his guests. Congressman Denton, his wife and daughter stood among the rest. J Presently there was a flourish of mu ! sical instruments, and two young army j officers marching abreast led the pro i cession escorting the chief magistrate. J "Pussy," said Mr. Denton, "that of | ficer on the right looks for all the { world like your chauffeur." | Feeling his daughter's hand clutch- I ing his arm, he turned and saw her In j a fever of excitement. Wheu she | could catch her breath and articulate ; she whispered: | "Oh, papa, he is my chauffeur!" j "lie isn't," protested Mrs. Denton. | who had noticed the young man and | overheard what her husband and J daughter had said. But when the young man passed j within a few feet of them and gave j them a smile in which was expressed his satisfaction at having duped them j there was no further doubt as to his | identity. When a few minutes later j lie joined them and Flora asked re- I proachfully. "Why did you do it?" he | replied, "I didn't: you took me for a cabman, and I didn't tell you I wasn't j one." j Mrs. Lieutenant Drake of the ar tilery is now stationed at one of the . southern farts. The Dog Question In Nazareth, j Among many Incidents of his wan derings through Palestine, recounted i by Harry Franek in t lie Century, is tills: "An American who was In Nazareth long ago," said a native, "told me a strange story. I did not believe him, for It cannot be true. He said that In America people buy dogs." And the mere suggestion of so ludicrous a transaction sent the assembled group Into paroxysms of laughter. "They do," 1 replied. The pompous ex-mayor fell into such convulsions of merriment that his ro tund face grew the color of burnished copper. "Buy dogs?" roared his sons in a chorus of several languages. "But what for?" Never having settled that question entirely to my own satisfaction, I par ried It with another, "How do you get a dog if you waut one?" "W-w-w-why," answered the eldest son, wljiiug the tears from his eyes, "If any one wants a dog lie tells some one else, a': i they give him oue. But whoever wants a dog?" They are never alone that are accom panied by noble thoughts.-sir Philip Sidney. THE SUFFRAGETTE, An Event That Took Away Her Interest In the Cause. By KATHLEEN J. M'CURDY. [Copyright, 1910. by American Press Asso ciation.] She was standing on the curb selling pamphlets, while beside her a box was used to display a large handbill on which was printed "Votes For Worn en!" If it be asserted that only the angular old maids or fat married wom en are to be found In the ranks of the suffragettes this young lady proved the contrary. She was very pretty. At any rate, Feter Thompson stopped to look at her and by way of an ex cuse to speak to her bought a pamphlet "Bead It," she said, "and you will be with us." "I'm with you already," Thompson replied. "Then help us." "I meant that I was with you person all j*." At this the girl looked a trifle dis pleased. "There are certain qualities," Thomp son added, "that are required In those who are given citizenship. Oue of these"— "I am quite sure women possess those qualities." snapped the girl. "What qualities?" "Those to which you refer." "1 haven't yet named them." "Well, do so." "Women are not good listeners." | "I deny the fact." I'y tills time several people had stopped to listen, and Thompson, not j caring to amuse a crowd, passed on. i j He had no opinions as to whether | women are entitled to the suffrage or | not. The subject did not interest him. 1 But one thing did interest him very much—the pretty suffragette. He was | a philosophic chap, always looking for | reasons for things, and a problem oc | cupied ills thoughts froiu the moment he saw the suffragette—namely, what t there was about her that caused her to | remain a fixture in his mind. : While Thompson was walking along, I thii.king about the suffragette and why she had lodged herself within that [ combination of matter and forces 1 which he considered himself to be and |l||| 71 | ; Kmr'' 1 ! «•?'• si'BMTIT Tllfr® ' t P ; -4 ] U\ "I SUAl.ti DO NO SI'CU TUINO." . | to which had been given the name of . j Thompson, he passed a woman wheel ! ing a baby carriage. A little boy aged • j about fifteen months sitting in the car i | riage looked tip at him and smiled. 1 Thompson was fond of children. lie • I put out his hand, which was clutched ? I by the tiny pink tipped lingers, the , boy's eyes being fixed on Thompson as i ■ though he had found his hist and best • j friend. . | "What a beautiful boy!" he ex - j claimed. The mother looked happy, as moth | ers do when they hear their children . j praised. A sudden Idea struck the philoso • I pher. "Madam," pursued Thompson mus - i lngiy, his eyes still on the boy, who i continued to clutch his hand. "I wish ■ the loan of your clil!d for awhile. 1 > will pay you a big interest." The mother looked surprised. To shorten the story, Thompson liar gained with tile woman that she I should wheel her boy up in front ! uome," suggested Thompson. j "I shall dj uo such thing!" replied | the girl, firing up. "Poor, dear little i ! fellow! Mamma will come back soon, . precious! Don't cry any more. That's I a dear." "If his mother doesn't return," said i ] Thompson, "1 don't see but you'll have t | to take him home with you." | "I will," said the girl as Thompson i ; walked away. - j Another hour passed, during which t j the suffragette neglected to sell pam j plilets, devoting herself to the child. : | Thompson after awhile returned and, i j expressing surprise that the woman • | had not come back, told the girl that : if she would take the boy home with lier ho would do tiie work of hunting . for the mother. , ! She accepted the proposition, and he | walked beside her, carrying lier unsold #>W "r - pa IUJ 1,11 ' ' 1-1 while wheel • i 'it- . i. ivn iiis ai Iruiie her ■ i d i i I l»-ii : rii in .. ci:illie ilj : c : " i 'ii.v. e\<■' iliing about liH> ii> .. •• -peaking re titll'llll'llt of « III' i;,HIHtS Sill' ll'l'l lli.n t ill I s!i:' will'..l'll wtlll I 111' su!i';.i getti'.s slmpiy In rat; i' IHT heart was lu llii'lr cau-e. "mi. l." sin- mliiiil "it nlvi'B iiu» something to iutoivsi myself in so I'm in>t dependant upon balls, parties and dress to occupy m.v tnlnd." Slit l asked 'riiuiiipsou to come in. lie said lie liadu't time just then, but would enil just as soon as he had se cured any Information concerning the child and would keep her advised of his efforts to tind bis mother "1 suppose," he said. "I shall see you every day at your accustomed place selling pamphlets." "Certainly." she replied. "I shall not neglect my work." But when Thompson passed her stand again and again the next day he saw nothing of her. lie reported the present home of the child to the moth er and left a check for a substantial amount with her as earnest of his honest iutentlons. Then he went to call on the suffragette to tell her that he had learned nothing as to the iden tity of the mother since the deser tion of the child, which was perfectly true. Miss Kditb Coleman, the suffragette, 1 did uot seem to worry much over his ill success. She told Thompson that the boy was the dearest little fellow I in the world, and she was in uo hurry to part with him. Thompson remark ! Ed that it was unfortunate that she ! should ho kept away from her legiti mate work, to which she replied that [ administering to a child whose In i human mother bad left him was just I as Important sis the cause of votes for j women. Thompson looked surprised. | but said uothing. j The next day, however, he called ■ and said that his sister had offered to take charge of the deserted boy in order that Miss Coleman might pur ; sue her greater work. "Please tell your sister to mind her , own bus—l mean that the precious : darling has fallen to me, anil I shall keep liini till he is claimed by his own i j kin." Then Thompson went to the liead , ! quarters of the suffragettes and by di ■ j plomacy secured the sending of a note : | to Miss Coleman assigning her a very i : Important duty Uiat would take up all I her tltne for a week. lie called at the i headquarters the neyt day and learn ; ed that Miss Coleman had perernp ! torily declined to serve. ! Thompsou continued reporting no i progress, meanwhile keeping the foundling's mother content by an oe j cusioual check. Miss Coleman ap j peared more and more pleased at his coming and always had the child beau tifully dressed and his hair curled | when he came. One day Thompson ! announced that he had found a clew | to the identity of the child's mother. I Miss Coleman turned pale, j "You will now be able to return to your valuable work lu securing votes for women." "I don't wish to return to that work, and 1 don't know if I shall give my precious up any way." "But supposing tliat Ills mother claims him. You wouldn't refuse to restore him to his natural parent, would you?" "You mean his unnatural parent." "The law would compel you." ! "I would contest the case." "And you really feel that to give him up would be a privation." ! "I couldn t endure it." "Well, then, 1 suppose for your sake I'd better not try to tind his mother." ! "Don't!" "I'm sorry I wasn't aware before how attached you have become to the child. I I.now who his mother is, and I suppose it is my duty to inform her that you have her boy." I Miss Coleman looked aghast. "Is there any way," she asked, "by which I can keep him in spite of her?" . "Would that be Justice?" i "Justice! Humbug! What do I care about justice if It takes my darling j from me?" -- . . ! Thompson burst into a laugh. , "What are you laughing at?" she ! asked, irritated. | "You remember that I demonstrated j that there were faculties you did not ! possess which I consider important , ! for citizenship." , | "Well, what's that got to do with 1 It?" j "And now you hare confessed a ! third. You care nothing for justice." - I "That's a man's view of it." • ! "To tell the truth, I dou't think that 112 you are fitted for a reformer. There i | is another field in which you can con - I fer more benefit on mankind." i ! "What's that?" ' j "You wcild make a splendid wife ( | and mother." ' j lie was looking straight into her eyes when he said this, and she knew ! what he meant She waited for what i was to come. Then he told her the whole story. When he hul finished it was agreed that the child's mother should come ; for him. The ex-suffragette was still 1 loath to part with her boy, but his ' place was partly supplied by another. " She was engaged to marry Thompson. • ROSES FOR PORTLAND. Many Nations Will Send Shrubs For the Planting Fete, i Japanese roses are to blossom In 1 | Portland (Ore.) parks and squares. I Under the shadow of Mouut Ilood j they will thrive as they do In their , | own Islands, with stately Fujiyama I looking down upon them. I j The Japanese people of Yokohama • ! recently presented Portland with 170 ■ rosebushes of native Japanese growth ' j that were sent to Portland for the an i nual rose planting fete on Feb. 22. ' , The roses will be set out In the public • squares^ Many nations will bo represented In 1 the rose planting exercises. Holland has sent an orange rose emblematic 1 of the domination of the house of Orange In national affairs. France j and Germany will be represented by ■ i splendid plants that will show the 1 | pre-eminence of those countries lu - j rose culture, and it is hoped to get a 1 j bush from Persia, where old Omar so : I long ago sang the beauties of the i queen (lower. Other nations, through j resident con.-uls, will present the city I with the flowering shrubs. .sastc i \ Villi.i; Hundreds of columns 1 have been published about the great disaster in France from floods, the illustrations | nn« reselling this country give one, of course, a far better Idea of the ap palling conditions over there when the Seine and other rivers overflowed their banks. The scenes during the calani lty were startling, to say the least, especially in the lower sections, where the water rose above the roofs of houses in some places, drowning hun dreds and destroying millions of dol lars' worth of property. The scenes at night In Paris during the disaster presented a weird spec tacle, soldiers, sailors, firemen and po lice working by the light of camp tires and torches constructing tempo- CARRYING MADAME ACROSS A FLOODED STREET IN PARIS. rary walls to keep out the invading floods, while pickets patrolled the sec tions of the city in darkness. in the outskirts nud in the inundated i regions above and below the city the greatest distress still prevails, despite the efforts toward relief and the prod igal distribution of food supplies. Hundreds of persons are found on the verge of starvation, and thousands who lost everything must be aided for months. It is estimated that more than 250.000 persons have been affect ed by the floods. Freezing tempera ture adds to the misery of the unfor tunates. Every civilized country In the world has offered aid for the victims, and France has appropriated large sums for the sufferers. The relief fund raised in this country, which amounts to a large sum, comes from every sec tion of America, the French colonies 1 pp 7 : I V ' *■ M r i I LADDERS USED TO I.EACH fITTR STORIES. * lu the large cities subscribing liber ally. lu Paris, in addition to the regu lar establishment of the lied Cross and ; other relief societies, public spirited 9 | citizens have thrown open their bulld * lngs and upou their own Initiative transformedl themjuto hospitals. Many ; seminaries left vacant since the prop e j ertles passed to the state have been I equipped as hospitals and temporary i | homes for refugees. In some cases beds t | being set up in the cellars of the t | churches. -—~ -y I President Fulllercs has given a largo 1 ■ sum for the relief fund, and Marquis ile Vogue. Count d'llaussonville. the [i j Duke do Caniastra. Count d'Harcourt i and other representatives of the no •! ® iff"" ii i-J'• ■' it; pi % I* j * * I m / « OFFICIALS INSPECTING FLOODED RTKEEf. , bllity of Franco are devoting all of ! their time to the work of relief. The | women of the Soclete dca Femmes do France, which is a Republican orgaul ration as distinguished from the So clete des Dames Francaises, have en tered the hospitals as nurses. Mgr. Amette, archbishop of Paris, Is per sonally directing the work of the Cath olic clergy and charitable orders. The municipal council has adopted the suggestion of presenting medals to those who have been conspicuous in tho rescue work. A Test of Friendship. A gentleman tried the following pe culiar way of probing the ties of friendship. He sent letters to twenty four Intimate friends asking for a loan of a pound. Thirteen of the two dozen friends did uot reply at all. five de clined to lend the money, two prom ised to send it on tho next day and did not do It, one sent his "last 10 shil lings," and only three sent the full sum asked for. The supplicant and all the "friends" ho had written to are well off.—London Mall. Common sense Is Instinct, and enout,i. Df It Is genius.—ll W Shaw. | £•' 'f I I I'j j I' ■ -- , <3 Dy LULU JO. ~o.\ O 0 Copyrighted, ICO9, by Associated S | l.liorary li«stv CCXXX/0»->Cr_.OGGw—C J^wUOwCOwCO Strang, sitting in his big touri.ig watched with lazy Interest the tiny figure of the child toiling up the hill. He was fond of children, all sorts and varieties, but there was an elfin dainti ness about this independent young wayfarer that appealed most particu larly to him. She could not be more than five, yet she carried herself with a knowing lit tle air that belted her timid eyes and her rosy, quivering mouth, while her smart frock and fetching hat Indicated comfortable circumstances. lie forgot that Danvers was half an hour late for their appointment. lie even neglected to think about a certain girl whose image for the past week had filled Ills thoughts almost con stantly. To his dismay, as the child was op posite him she sat down upon the steps of a high stooped house and be gan to cry, not loudly and with a wild display of grief, but quietly, as if she sought to keep back the tears that trickled down her cheeks. In an instant Strang was out of the car and knelt on the stoop beside her, seeking to learn the cause of her griof. "I guess I'm lostcd." was the plain tive reply, "an' there isn't any poli e ruan to find me." "Perhaps I'm as good as a police man,"he suggested as, with a shud der, lie thought of this dainty child's spending the day in some dingy police fetation. "llow were you lost, and where do you live?" "I was wl* muvver," was the halting explanation. "She coined in on the trolley, an' when we changed I was lostcd, an* then I tried to find Aunt Mollie's, an* I guess she's losted too. I can't find her either." "Where do you live? In the coun try?" he asked hopefully. If they used any particular trolley It might be easy to trace her people. "On the gween trolley," assented the child. "We live way out, most to where they stop." "I guess we can find you then," de clared Sidney cheerfully. "You jump into my car and I'll take you out I I KIDNEY DKCIDTU) TIIAT SUE WAS Til ' "AVST MOLLIE." 1 along the line. We're sure to see lie 1 ? ' place then. Is your house right on the . j line of the cars?" I "No, we Ims to walk a dood lot," said | the child. . j "But you'll remember the corner . where you took the car?" urged , ! Strang. And tills time she nodded an ' I - - "• - - - ; I 'nlj one suburban line boasted . ) green cars. These ran out to Mount . Holly, a distance of eighteen miles. . By following along the road, which . for the greater part of the way paral leled the tracks, he probably would enable the child to get her bearings. She was old enough to recognize a familiar neighborhood even if she was too young to be able to call the suburb by name. lie made her comfortable in the seat beside him, and presently they were i whizzing through the side streets to- I ward the open country. Sidney forgot ! all about the belated Danvers, but he could not quite forget about the girl j who had been haunting his memory, i As they rushed along her image came back afresh to him. | Somehow the child with her flower- I like face reminded him tantallziugly of that older girl whom lie bad seen sitting in a box at the theater a week before. Strang had questioned several of his friends between acts, but 110 one seem , 1 cd to know her, and he had spent bis j leisure time since then in trying to find some trace of her. He was not permitted to enjoy his thoughts long, for the child soon for got her troubles In tho delight of rid ing, and her very evident pleasure de lighted Sidney, who even dared arrest to let the speed out another not* h when the child begged togo faster. But when they had come to the end of thu line and she had not recognized any familiar landmark the situation turned serious. Perhaps oven now • hysterical mother might be clamoring at the po • Uce station for her child, and a gen eral alarm sent out at once might cause him to be apprehended. With an anxious face he turned to the child for a suggestion, and the self pos sessed little one promptly replied: "We might look for Aunt Mollle. She lives close where you found me. She can tell where 1 live. If you stop where the cars stop you can get to her place from there." Sidney Strang accepted the sugges tion thankfully, and after treating the shivering child to hot soda he headed the car for towu. *3* ~mm. 11 ii 11 ■■■ I ,-ent il along ut the best speed it ..uudei-iug how he would ex -1 inis bemiabduction should tho P uave beeu warned. reathed more freely when the,, 1 . the city again, and presently t were at the transfer point for in in trolleys. From her seat la t i .iV the child seemed able to pick ; i., landmarks, and presently, jl. >vich regret, she pointed to a bouss ' v a she declared to be her I . drew 18 the curb and alighted I to .. . the little traveler down. w as a terrible nice ride," she de cl. u. "I wisht 1 lived miles an' mi.es an' miles away." Sidney scarcely echoed the wish, but he putted the cheek that was offered for his caress and turned to climb into the car. At this instant he heard an exclama tion of surprise and turned to look into, the glowing eyes of the rosy girl ho. wanted to know, the girl of the bo*t party. She had caught the child up in hsr> arms, laughing and crying simultane ously. Sidney decided that she waat the "Aunt Mollle" for whom they hadl. searched and raised his hat. * "The kiddle lost licr way," he ex plained. "1 ran out to Mount 11 oily lal the hope that she might be able to lg-i cate her home, but the effort was un-t availing, and at last she remembered! that she could find her way from tiiqf transfer station to your house." "Lost!" The j ill laughed nervyusly, "Betty," she added, "do you mean to eay that you made this gentleman take you out to Mount II HyV" The child nodded her head and look ed fearlessly at the other girl. "Betty has a pas-don for autom-ibll j lng." she added. ' Father lu.s an ii.ex -1 plicable fear of It and v.i'l mth ive n' car, so 1 suppose 1 t'-it !i" took this I means of obtaining a ride, the seh lng little puss S! shall b> punl died' j and put to bed. She doesn't live In the i country. Ot;r home is just around thO' j corner. ' "Betty went out to play wiili a Uttlt* | friend, and not until the other little girl came to ask where she was did we realize that she was not safe at tha Itawllngs home. "Jlmmie l'awlings?" asked Sidney quickly. "Jim and 1 are great friends. May I ask him to bring me to call some time? Then I might have an ex -1 cuse for taking Hetty for a ride with out tempting her to get lost Vr ••"sulfation. V 1 T t The Order Pleased tHe Cook. , The follow 11.u story is told ou a mis . slonary of the 1 iiina inland mission, a 1 bachelor keeping house tor himself Irv* the southern p;.. t of China: One morn-g t lng In ordering his dinner he s to tell his cook to buy a chicUen. In-' , stead of saying "ye" for chicken ho aspirated the word, saying, "litiy tue a 1 'che.'" Ills cook thought that was aitf eminently proper command and went about his marketing in high good tin t mor. At 110011 the missionary found , no chicken cooked—in fact, no dinner. I at all, for his cook had not returned. About dark the man came back, say-, , lng: "This was not a good day for buy-t lng wives, and I have been all day looking for one, hut at last I found one for you. She is rather old and not t pretty, but \ 11 can have her cheap. I • . ba\e promised "to for her." ir : mmwi 1 A Rellalble TIN SHOP i i ror all kind of Tin Roorlnft Spoutlne nnd Canoral Job Work. 1 i Stoves, Heaters, Rangoo, Fumacaa. ato. i PRICES™LOWEST! QUALITY TDK BUST! JOHN HIXSOiS no. Ut E. FBQNT *T,