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M,vn APTps HERAT D. ROANOKE RAPIDS. N C n -V0 n nn n LJU OF PETER kiiL COPYRIGHT, Fi A BLACKBERRY PIE. 8ynn ! s -V'ior.oor in T 1 nut ie,ivn,,l reKicn. .I.i.i!) l tor:y sr en. is (tie u a, of S ', lul l. owner m and many a- r, s of taut, ivv-r n!r Uiree veil's . life, ami itt'ier el lv s. slop-,. a vvi.l t" m.one.i -.lav o M P-rvtv lar.lt in At fol.rle, mikes 1 1 n- ;e ,iiaintat'.e Muinn.-r a visam- at So.u i Hryiv Siarlev tt. an, I Im te,...,? lv a lew v.. us Te-alier M-.ev visit .r '.,!vv of Mi.- (liatits. fen-red to J.e,n l'u:tisai at. I !ns son as III, liana! p! i, e of la v a' - ni"!f.fr, ai:. -atl with noU'ul re Kru Wide Hi v . , ,s at , ,.UeK. John Car.iisan meets w it l I t-ava business, ls's and t'..r the rtrst 1 1 n it views the future with um-er-lainty. After graduation from col. lege, and a trip abroad. Hryce Car digan comes home. On ttietlumhe meets Shirley Sumner, on her way to Sequoia to make tier home tlieri with tier untie. Oil. Pennington. Hryct? learns that his father's eye siKttt has failet ami that y'ol. Pen nington is seeking to take advan tage of the old man's business mis fortunes. CHAPTER V Continued. "Certainly tlicv rim. P.tit I sltal! nvo tn -,ilt mill! they nrp 'o;!ipott'l nuilnrol iiiid I have liocotiio ioniilotol bliml; tlifti n spooialist will porfnrni Jin iiporalioti on my I'vrs, mul in all jiroliuliility my iylit will lie reston-il for a few yoni'-i. Ilowovof. 1 liayon'i piven tho itriiicr a ."voat iloai of con ii!rfa!ion. Ami I am iilaml roady to quit now. I'll lil.:o to. in I'm i ; I'm tintl." "(Hi. lint xoii can't iiiit imlil you've sHn your reilwoods auain." Hrvco re inlndoil liini. "I siiipipso"it'.s lifcn a loiiK linn" sinco you've visited the Valley of the (Hants: your Ion; ei!e from the v.ood-jolilins has made you a ti'ille Klootiiy. I'm afraid." Julio Cai'dif-'an nodded. "I liaun't , wn llieni iii a year and a half. I'.ryce. Last time 1 ans up, 1 slipped hotuoen tlio lo's in that old skid-fond and like to broke my old fool neck." Tul, it wasn't fair of you tn make sn stay away so Ions:. Tf I had only known if I hud remotely suspected "You'd have spoiled everything of rourse. T'on't scold me, son. You're all I have now, mid I couldn't hear to tteixl for you until you'd had your ttinK." Ilis tremhllii; old hand crept ver and closed upon his boy's hand, . Ilrm but free from siyns of toil. "It was my pleasure. I'.ryce," lie con tinued, "and you wouldn't deny tne fnjr choice of sport, would you? lie meinher. lad, ! never had it boyhood; never bad u college education, and Ihe only real travel I have ever had was when I worked my way around Cnpp Horn as a foremast hand, find nil I saw then was water and hard jliips; all I've seen since is my little irorld here In SerpKiia and In San Francisco." "You've sacrificed enough too nmcli for me. Dad." "It pleased me fo give you all the advnntaj-'Ps I wanted and couldn't af ford until I was too old and loo busy tit consider them. ?!csliles. It was jour mother's wish. Ami yon have ijnyed your little run, haven't you?" he concluded wistfully. "I have. Pari." T.ryce's creat hand rinsed over the back of his father's neck; he shook the nbl man with mock ferocity. "Stnbbon old lumber jack !" he cliidetl. John Cardigan shook with an In ward chuckle, for the lovinz abuse his buy had formed a habit of heaping on Mm never failed to thrill him. In stinctlvely Itryce had realized that hinlsht obviin s sympathy copiously expressed was not the medicine for Sis father's bruised spirit.; hence hi elected to regard the hitler's blindness as e mere temporary annoyance, some thing to bp considered lightly, If ai ri; and It was typical of him now flint the subject had been discussed briefly, to resolve never to refer to it again. "Tomorrow morning I'm going to put ft pair of overalls on you, arm yon with a tin can and a swab, and et you to greasing the skldways. I'artner, you ve deceived me." "Oli. nonsense. If I had whimpered, fhrtt would i ily have spoiled every thing." "Nevertheless, you were forced to CMoie me lo hurry lioint." "1 Nunmioned you' the Instant I rmllr.ed I was going to need you." "No, yott didn't, John Cardigan. You fnmmoned me because, for the first time In your life, you were panicky nil let yourself get out of hand." His father nodded slowly. "And yon aren't over It yet," Ilryce con tinued, his voice no longer bantering hut lowered affectionately. "What's the trouble, Pad? Trot out your old panic mid let me Inspect It. Trouble atnst be very real hen It gets my father on the run." "It Is, liryce, very real Indeed. As 1 remarked before, I've lost your keiltage for you." He lghed. "I wttlted til! you would be able to come koine and settle down to business; now you're heme; and there Isn't uny busi ness to settle rown to." Eryce chuckled, for he was Indeed fa, from helng worried over business natters, his consideration now being entirely for his father's pence of mind. "All right," he retorted, "Father has Just tils money end we'll hrtve to let tbe servants go end give" tr the old aam. That purt of It Is settle ; and I,, f IF T 3 ri j.'T ''''' li. I.'i- THE 5 D.KYNE C ) TTTF.R F .KYN1T J. : $ weak, tiller, h". tenderly tmrttirt(l litt'e Bryce Cnrd'gan must it;t his tuih,v (i Ills hack and go into the wmi.: I'l'kmy !T h ns a lii'ii'u't j.iok. . . I'.IIMcl, lh I'l.l I or iliil I Hot Ileal' tin- . i n'. I.M'k !!i-;li' lil.iv at tin nil!!? I'rl ym a doilar 1 V" "Oil. I liaio tillo lo (' ci iliitii: '!." "lloiy I linn, to How s ' 1 lion i( a'ars fo i.- I o s;:ll iaw tna nlui.js business; icd,v have a business, f..r the ei I ,it H al it l toiiis I ii' to 'i .pule i: .no implies H doul.l as to its n:i;i;ia:o departure mid perhaps we may yet si homo a way to relain it. If we can save enough out of the wreck to insure .- u your c tisroaia.y home coi.iforis. I shan't ci. partner. I have a proles sion to fall buck on. Yes, sirrie. 1 own a sheepskin, an! it says I'm it it electrical and civil engineer." "What:" "I said It. An electrical and civil engineer. Slipped one over on you at college. John Cardigan, when all the time you thought 1 was having u good time." "P.u-hu but " "It drives me wl'd to spuitc:- at mi. I'm an nil engine 'i'. I toll ou. have a man l.-.-t i-i. al and and my to years of iniw! have been itig the install;!! ion an . -pent study const ruction o.' big plains abroad." 'My iior In,)! And jou've got your iii'j'ir?" 'Taiihoi', I l ine a string of letter: after n:) nam,- like i in tail :' a comet." "i ou comfort .no." the old aiisueied simply. "1 have repro in.'ih .ho.-, myself with the thought thai 1 n-areo you with the sole thought of makinu a lumberman out ol ymt and when I saw your lumber business slipping through in) lingers " "You were sorry 1 didn't have a profession Hi fall back on. eh? ill were you fearful lest you btid raised the usual rich man's son' If the latter, you did not compliment tne. pal. I've never forgoiten how hard you nl was strove lo impress me with a sense of the exact weight of my responsibility as your successor." "How big are you now ?" his tather queried suddenly. "Well, sir," liryce answered, for his father's pleasure putting aside his normal modesty, "I'm six feet two inches tall, and I neigh two hundred pounds In the pink of condition. 1 have a forty -eight inch chest, with five and a half inches chest-expansion, ami a reach as long as a gorilla's. My underpinning is good, too; I'm not one of these fellows with spidery legs and a barrel-chest. I can do a hundred yards in ten seconds; I'm no slouch of a swimmer; and at Princeton they say 1 made football history." "That is very encouraging, my buy very. Kver do any boxing?" "Quite a little. I'm fairly up In the manly art of self-defense." The old man wagged his bead ap provingly, and they bad reached the gate of the Cardigan home before he spoke again. "There's u big buck woods-boss tip in Pennington's camp," he remarked Irrelevantly. "He's a French Canadian Imported from north ern Michigan by Colonel Pennington. I dare say he's the only man in this country who measures up to you phys ically. He can tight with his lists and wrestle quite cleverly, I'm told. His name is Jules Pomdeau, ami he's top dog among the lumberjacks. They say he's the strongest man In the county." lie unlatched the gate. ''I'olks used to say that about me on.-e." he continued wistfully. "Ah, if I could have my eyes to see you meet Jules Koiidenu !" The front portal of the quaint old Cardigan residence opened, and a silver-haired lady came out on the porch and hailed P.ryce. She was Mrs. Tully, John Cardigan's old house keeper, and almost a mother to liryce. "Oh, here's my boy!" she cried, and a moment later found tnvself encircled by P.ryip's anus and saluted with n hearty kiss. As he stepped Into the familiar entrance-hull, liryce paused, raised his h.'ad and sniffed suspiciously, like a bird-dog. Mrs. Tully, anus nkimho. watched him p''"s'nral)ly. "I smell something," lip declareri. and advanced . step down the hall for another sniff; tben, in ornct im!tft!n of n fnrhottnd, he gave tongue mwl started for the kitchen. .Mrs. Tully. waddling after, found him "pointing" two hot black berry pies which had a few minutes previously been taken from tbe oven. He was bnyitig lugubriously. "I'm still a pie-hound, Mrs. Tul'y, and you're still the samp tlenr, thought ful soul. How many did you make?" "Two." I "May I have one all for myself, Mrs. Tully?" "Indeed yon may, my dear." "Thank you, but I do not want It for myself. Mrs. Tully, will you please wrap one of those wonderful pies In a napkin and the Instant George Sen Otter comes in with the car, tell hltn to take the pie over to Colonel Penn ington's house and deliver It to Miss Sumner? There's a girl who doubtless thinks she has tasted pie In her day, and I want to prove to her that she hasn't" He selected a card from Ms card-ense, sat down and wrote; "Dear Miss Sumner: "Here la a priceless hot wild-black-berry pie, eapeclully manufactured In my honor. It is so good I wanted '. I .! .!?.. It. .; I ..iir ! ',. v, ! ... o ; , , r lasted H ) '' I . 1 ke 1'. ' it., re v. "I'fy.e '.,:-.! g,.c." S .tee twi-'.ty !' tiittes b;'.r 1 is j,i. ,',s ;a; v.e.vo oiTot ng was ,!, ii , t ,s y Coige S. a otter to Colonel lYiiimg toi.'s Swedish thaal. who prompt !y . it"i;! ! it in to the Colonel and ; S!:;: Y Mni..ier. Alio weto even then at ilii.i'or in the Colonel's tine loir! i'. atw,.,. I paneled dining room. Mix Sumner's ainn.otiient was so profound 1 1 ... t for fiiliy a minute she was mute, ivtitei.tit g herself with ritiui7.iig al ternately the pie and tbe card Hut l , c oiopaiiiisl it. Presently she handed the curd I, i her uncle. ii- affixed bis pm. -etc?, and read the epistle with .!. bi.erai ion. "Isn't this young Cardigan a truly remarkable oung man. Shirley ?" he declared. "Why, I have never heard of anything like Ids astounding action. If he bad sent you over mi armful of American peaiily roses from his lather's ohl-fasliioned garden. 1 could umlcttaml !t. but an internal black lurry pie! t loo.! heavens'" "I told you he was different," she replied. To the Colon, I's itiu.i.'oiooni she did not appear at all amused. "Ilrjce Cardigan is a man Willi tbe heart and soul of a boy. and I think It was mighty sweet of lii'u to share I Is pie wltli me. If be bad sent roses. 1 should have suspe, toil him of tning t 'rush' tne. but the fuel that he sent a hin.'khoiTv pie proves that he's just a natural, simple, salie. original citt zoii- iust the kind of person a tiil can have for a dear tilen.l wilbout incurring ihe risk of Inning to marry him." ' i , The Colonel noticed a calm little smile fringing her generous mouth, j lie wished he could tell, by intuition, what she was thinking about and what effect a hot wild blackberry pie was ultimately to have upon the value: of his minority holding in the l.agunn Crande I. umber company. I !' Not until dinner was finished nnd ! father ami son bad repaired to the' library for their coffee and cigars did I'.ryce Cardigan advert to the subject of his father's business affairs. , 'Well, John Cardigan," he declared comfortably. "Suppose yott start at 'he beginning mid tell me everything I': till to ihe end. Coot-go Sea litter, informed me that you've been having trie. bl,. vviih this Johnny-come lately, . Colonel Pennington. Is he the man who has us whore the hair is short?" The old ii an nodded. "Tin Sipt.iw creek timber deal, eh?" I'.l.yoe suggested. Again tfte old mail nodded. "You , wrote me all about that," liryce con tinued. "You had him blocked which cve. way h. turned so effectually ' blocked, in fact, that the only pleas ure he has derived from his Invest- 1 nient since is the knowledge that be owns two thousand acres of limber with the exclusive right to pay taxi's i ou it, walk In it, look at it and admire ; It In fuel, do everything except fug it. mill it. and realize on his Invest j ment. It must make bin; feel like a bally jackass." "On the oilier hand," his father re- i j tn luiied him, "no matter what thei Colonel's feeling on that score may be. 1 "I Told You He Was Different." misery loves company, and not until I had pulled out of the Squaw creek country and started logging in the San Hedrin watershed, did 1 realize that I i had been considerable of a jackass j myself." j "Yes," Hrycp admitted, "there ran : be no doubt but that you cut oft your nose to spite your face." His thoughts harked hack to that first season of logging In the San Hedrin, when the cloud-hurst had caught the river filled with Cardigan logs and whirled them down to the hay. to crash through the log-boom at tidewater and continue out to the open sea. The old man appeared to divine the ! (lend of Ion soo'o tooiighU, "Yes, liryce, that was a disastrous year," he declared. "The mere loss of the logs was , severe blow, hut In addi tion I had' to pity out qtil'e a little money to settle with my customers. I was loaded up with low-priced orders that year, although I didn't ex-pect to mnke any money. The orders were merely to keep the men employed. Yen understand, liryce! I had a good crew, the finest In the country; and If I had shut down, my men would have scattered and well, you know how hard It Is to get that kind of a crew together again. Besides, I had never failed my boys before, and I couldn't bear the thought of falling them then. Half the mills In the country were shut down at the time, and there was a lot of distress among the unemployed. I couldn't do It, Bryce." Bryce nodded. "And when you lost the logs, you conldn't fill those low priced orders. Then the market com menced to Jump and advanced three dollars In three months " "Exactly, my son. And my cus tomers negnn to crowa me to nil those i rtiol tor.-.-l ',. b-.y e;- tbe .' -fore;,, e b I pa; ! m coiupet iti : .'.- I , I is-li The J'i : s ni.. I the at wh;. b he) oru.ll.'i'y piaced tl .Iocs vv ith me. Ami 'he do' 1) them fin tber loss." lie smosed if,e.!i!;!tie;y :or lite. "I've always been land p tnin " be expla.n had idi d n'-oi 'gon.-niiy. "'Ah, -never I n, on, y. 1 pnl it lilo limber in the San Hedrin watei'sled. because I rvuhed thai some day the railroad would build ill from the south, tap that timber t,. double its value. I've not as vet f.-. nd reason to doubt Un wisdom of n v course; bill" he siglnnl "the railroad is a long time iota St.g "' John Cnnllgiin hen spoke of a most Important la. tor in the situation. The crvitig need of the country wn ll feeder to sonic transcontinental railroad. By reason of natural barriers, llnmbol.lt enmity was l.. t easily n. . essible to the eiitsnle world ex.-ept from the si a. mid even tins avenue of Ingress and egress would be cloel for days sireich when tie harbor bar vv: a rampage. With the exception strip of level, fertile land, perhap at a s on of ll i live miles wide and thirty miles long and contiguous to t.n sea-'oast, the heavily Ctn'a'nil moiiii'a'its the noi'li. east, mi, I south rendered the buiblln-g of a railroad that would connect lliiniboblt county with He outside world n pro foundly difficult and expensive task. "I'on't worry. Pad. It will come." Bryce assured his father. "It's bound to." "Yes, but not In my day. And when It comes, a stranger may own your San Hislrin timber and reap the re ward of my lifetime of labor." Again a silence fell between them, broken presently by the old man. "That was a mistake logging In the San Hedrin," he observed. "1 had my lesson that first year, but I didn't heed It. If I had abandoned my (.imps there, pocketed my pride, paid Colonel Pennington two dollars for his Squaw creek timber, and rebuilt my old logging road. I would have boon safe to-niiy. But I was stubborn; I'd plsiyeif the game so long, you know I didn't want to let that man Pennington oiitgatne inc. It's bard to tench an old dog new tricks, and I,, siih s, I was obsessed with the need of protecting your heritage from at tack in any direction." John Cardigan straightened up in his chair iiuil laid the tip of his right index finger in the center of the palm of his left hand. "Here was the sit uation, liryce: The center of my palm represents Sequoia ; the, ends of n. y lingers represent the San Hedrin timber twenty miles south. Now. If the railroad huil' in from the south, you would win. But If It built in from ('.rant's Pass, Oregon, on the north from the base of my band, the terminus of the line would be Sequoia, twenty miles from your timber in tbe San Hedrin wntersbed !" Bryce nodded. "Ill which event," be replied, "we would be In much the same position with our San Hedrin timber as Colonel Pennington Is with 'lis Squaw creek timber. We would lave the comforting knowledge that we owned It and paid taxes on It but ouldn't do a dad-burned thing with it '" - "Bight you are! The tiling to do, then, us I viewed the situation. Ilryce, y as to acquire a body of timber north of Sequoia and be prepared for either eventuality. And this I did." Silence again descended upon them; nnd Bryce, gazing into tl e open tire place, recalled n:i event in that period of his father's activities: Old Bill Henderson had come up to their house to dinner one night, and quite sud denly, In the midst of his soup, the old fox had glared across at his host and bellowed: "John, I hear you've bought six thousand acres up In Township nine, fining to log It or hold It for Invest ment?" "It was a good buy." Cardigan had replied enigmatically: "so I thought I'd better take It nt the price. I sup pose Bryce will log II some day." "Then I wish Bryce wasn't such a boy, John. See here, tuiw, neighbor. I'll 'fess up. I took that money Pen nington gave me for my Squaw creek timber and put It back Into redwood In Township nine, slam-bang up against your holdings there. John. I'd build a mill on tidewater If you'd sell me a site, and I'd log my timber "I'll sell you n mill site. Bill, and 1 won't stab yen to the heart, either. Consider that, settled." "That's bully, John; hut still, you only dispose of part of my troubles. There's twelve miles of logging-road to build to get my logs to the mill, nnd I haven't enough ready money to make the grade. Better throw In with me. John,' and we'll build the road and operate It for our joint Interest." "I'll not throw in with you, Bill, at my time of life. I don't want to have the worry of building, maintaining, nnd operating twelve miles of private railroad. But I'll loan you tbe money you n"cd to build and equip the road. In return you are to shoulder all Ihe grief and worry of the road and give me a ten-year con tract at a dollar and a half per thous and feet, to haul my logs down to tidewater with your own. My mini mum haul will be twenty-tive million feet annually, and my maximum fifty million " ' "Sold !" cried Henderson. And It was even so. Bryce came out of his reverie. "And now?" he queried of his father. "I mortgaged the San Hedrin tim ber In the south to buy the timber In the north, my son; then after I com menced logging In my new holdings, came several long, lean years of famine, the market drngged In the doldrums, and Bill Henderson died, and his boys got discouraged, and " . A sudden flash of Inspiration lllr.nil nated Bryce Cardigan's brain. "And th"y sold out to Colonel Pennington," he cried. "Kxactly. The Colonel took over my contract with Henderson's com pany, along with the othei assets, and 1 was Incumbent upon him. as aa- s gl : '.,!,; i e , ,,. n.,. t. r !tt- ;., v ; ;s j .. , . for r.- ! Ins . . ., e v ., g mi, I' 1 ,...'' oily b.; v e l."cc a la X .'"Ml , - ;;. of ..gs . v - i l' .' , ! k r-'.V. I have v .,; , 1 it ol t e boie ! ,,t " "He ii, at, ,g, s ,, I,,,!, y, .it ! :i lu'to mum annii.ii ha-d of tvn f.ve .t.Ulbm 1 fe, . . I; '" .1. ':,H'gH lie, hie, I ' lli claims he's short ,.f ro'l , .. s'.h k--that w r--I s and tiros have o.i'.ri r, assed the road. He can aiwavs I'm! e- ": for fading o s.,,; in logging m, ! f ir Cj-'gsa's lots." "Wl at does OoNi'ie! 1V',;1 ttr-t.'O want, pard?" "He wains." said John fV.-'igai slowly, "mv Valley of the Ciaitts m. ! a right of way through my lend from the valley to a ,.g dump oi" tit, water." "And you refused bint?" "Natural!). Yoii know my Idens en that big tiudier." His old bead sank low on his breast. "Polks call them Carditan's i, dvvoods now." I.e mur mured, "t'nrd'gan's redwoods and Penning', ,n world cut them! fdi. Brvce, ihe man hasn't a soul!" "Bui 1 fail to s,e what tbe loss of Cr nil grin's redwoods las to do with the Impending n.in of the Cardigiin , Bedwood Lumber coinontiv ." bis s,,, reminded aim. "We have all the tim ber we want." j "My ten year contract has but h'i" more vear to run. and recently I trie i to gel Pennington to renew It. II" whs very nice and sociable, but be named me n freight-rate for a renewal I of the contract for five years, of throe dollars pe,- thousand feet. That rate Is prohibitive nnd puts us out of bus!- ' ness." "Then." said Bryce calmly, "we'll ! shut the mill down when Ihe log- hauling contract expires, hold our tltn , ber as an investment, and live the ! simple life tin. II we can sell It or a j transcontinental road builds Into Hum j boldt county and enables us to start I up the mill again." "An enemy has done this thing and over her grave!" (TO 1110 I'llNTIM KH.) PICTURESQUE IM THEIR RUIN Famous Old Abbeys and Priories Abound in the English County of Yorkshire. When It comes to selecting the re gion of abbeys and priories In l'nglatid there is but one county tn think of. That county Is Yorkshire, which has "no less than 2." famous abbeys and priories within Its boundaries, several of them renowned all over Ihe world lis being the finest ami most beautiful ruins and scenes one can possibly ex pect to view In this connection. Twenty-five, at least of thee beauty spots, the ancient founders of religious houses selected In Yorkshire centuries ago. Of course not nil those 1!.", In their ruins nnd environment, are so amazingly beautiful and pb'turesqtte today. Kirkstall abbey, charming as It still appears In certain ways. Is too much overshadowed by the smoke of Leeds nnd the murky, evil-smelling water of the Aire. But when the old monks first came to this abbey, the vale where it rested was almost snrelv as delightful as Fountains' wondrous scene Is today! However, most of the Yorkshire abbeys even yet retain their pristine delightful surroundings, their fairylike loveliness, and have thus won a world-wide renown, and are visited hy tens of thousands of folk front every quarter of the globe year by year. Showing Rattlesnake's Age. Another undent belief Is shattered by sdence. The number of rattles a rat tlesnake his Is octet mined not by his nge. hut by tl e number of times he sheds his s'n. is the decision given out by the curator In charge of ibc reptiles In the New York zoo. A baby rattler Is born with only a button, but soon ifterwa i. he sheds his skin and has a rattle. 'Cvery time he sheds his skin he gains mother, and he usual ly docs this three times a year, al though seasonal or food conditions may vary this "The ivtule 's rather a delicate or gan," writes the eerator. "The snake wears out the older rings dragging them around over rough, rockj ground. A rattle seldom nftnlns a length of more than 10 or It rings, a when Hint number has been acquired the vibration at Ihe tip. when the or gan Is used, Is so pronounced that ad ditional segments are soon worn,, bro ken, or lost." Genius. The book reviewer of Kveryhody's Magazine drops, somewhat unac countably, into these rhapsodical re flK'tions on genius: "It ts Ihe queer (:t thing In the world, the most un explnlnahle. It burns now In the mind of a tax-collector's son in ancient Rome, now in n tent-maker of Persia, now In a livery keeper's son in Lon don, now In a mixer of pills in a dreary Nnrv,rg!:in tmvii. L!!;r the wind, It 'bloweth whither It llsteth,' It Is a lire that may not be quenched, either by failure or success. And whether we know it or not. its raya light the paths of nil of us.' Rejecting a Compl ment. A well known member of thf stock exchange, who Is now givln. up the close of n stn mous life tc philanthropic efforts, was In his hey day a tremendous gambler in stocks, and, Incidentally, he and his partner were rather expert In the gentle art of making enemies. One of these ac costed him with the pleasant remark: "Look here, you are the biggest thief on the stock exchange." "Ah." wns the answer, "It is evident you do not know my partner." London Tlt-Blts When Production Ceased. "I thought everybody la a soviet was supposed to work." "Of course." "But not one of you is working." , "Naturally. We worked a . little while and now we've all been promoted to be overseer;," :mouD rvrosi mmcr'a'-At. SOIISOIOOL iHy 1! V I ii l I I W A i t it D O-. lev-,, ef Kiktst, I, I . la . V.,oJ? I i, v .'.'ioi, . f f ' I, -is',' i ,-,. ,--., Wr-lT., N,::-i l--vl LESSON FOR MARCH 23 REVIEW: THE LIFE -AORK OF , PETER AND JOHN. SKI Ki Tb'N Pull Kltll' N: ' :1 lloi.l'FX TIAT-,1 ,f f " t a , a, I 11 , l 1 1 ns. lao. es" I',"' :', I i.,e , ,., , e r 'lei, ..1 ; t s r,. n'i ot it- tit.;, ,;,,- t. ,o . o ; t!e:,i la ve ,,, t i, k wl its, ever I ' l in I".,' ve , .oni !e. ! a v,-l , ai .. e.a, unto 11 i l .! of I'"' M nt ; I'M n,'N VI. V V Tt'Kl vl J ' n 1 tJ. : . i i.-i... i i j,, ., n I k;m vi;v t. ! t st.-,. At m I'm.t i v is t i ;: i : i JI M. Mi f"l'l--i'- ,i -'',. VVi- r.la; -, .,.;, t,, I'Mis: .a t.e-ial of la1 ,, i .11. , , I N ! l if t lit'! VTK V !' " . X ,, nt Ti'l'IO - Ivor ..! .1 C n V- i . I .ia I l'"it- t! nil, i ! ',1 !'! ''fit-' " V ' !'I ! T, (fir -i ,., i- a, ,(,.,- , r '. -e- a , Jet n la ; :.! .'., II ) rv 'I tie rev lev of I1', .;" 1" r s lesson CI'! be pro'-', m ..!,. t , ' 'er itl the sen i, e ,a V. r nt, I J -I n r per l.'ins betior. the ii '.v'tv o , mi er ol the risen i;n.I use, n.'ed Cbt -t m-mi , fest in the serv .e ,f P, r ami John. Lessen 1. Peter Pr, a !. at I'etita ' cost (Acts 'J). I Peicr proves ti nt ,Ies ;s Chris arose from the dead, as.vr.e.s! ,,,) high and ' poured forth the lb:y s- rn ir on the ; church : the ev:,l, '. e of it was the . , unusual behavior of ;!:. ' sc. .ev Lesson 2. I'e-rr nrd J. t.n Ileal a j Lame Man (Acts "). This remark::!'',' ry ; '. wrought in j I the name of .!,- s i" , ;-,,v,,l that though the Jews ' : ' '.! him. be was now al've ; :. .! b s work through lie i!s ; Lesson 3. I',',- ' J '.n Witness- , lllg of tic It's. " I "; - - p.. :' ,:e tia Sall liedrin (Acts 41. As a !'esr,: :! .. s ,! , irin took knowledge that !!., y ?..! ! u with Jesus, that Is, bis ;f.. ;, -, a.or1 were h, Ing rept odu.-e l in ...) :l;r. ugh ihem. Being w ith Christ w ill : 1. ; vi an experimental kiam I. dgo of h;tn. sr, thai the life will rcinltid ere , f Jesus. ". Take away the fear of man. Pe ter, who a little while ago quail",! before i. Jewish timid. Is l.mbiuilted before .he august sanhedrim ".. open a man's lips. Peter said: We can no! but speak the things which we have seen and heard." What the heart feels, the mouth must speak nil. Lesson 4. The Bison Christ Vindlcat ' Ing His Church (Acts 1 :."-l(',). lie passed judgment upon Ana ; Idas nnd Sapphirn for their hypocriti cal pretense of generosity. The living Christ knows the Intents of the heart; nothing can be concealed from him. Lesson 5. The Living Christ Saving Men nnd Wctuen in Samaria (Acts R :-)-'2.). Ills sanctfcm of the preach ing of the Gospel by Philip In Sa ' marl a Is shown by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Peter and John were sent hy the mother church In confirm the work. Leson 6. The Living Christ Healing the Sick and liaising the IVnil (Acts 0:.VM.T). That Christ Is alive Is proved hy the j vanquishing of the dreadful malady of palsy and the releiintiting of n corpse by the departed soul. Nothing like . this had been known since the days ! of Christ. ! Les3on 7. The Risen Christ Iteveal i Ing Himself to a C.entile (Acts 10). Peter testlfips to Cornelius tht ' Jesus Christ died for slii and is to f, ' the judge of the quick htitl the dent?, I and that everyone who lieAi'vex on hl'ft I will receive remission of sins. Leson 8. Peter Is Delivered From Trison Through the Living Christ ; Sending Ills Angel to Open the Doors : (Acts 12:1-19). The church prayed for Peter's dellv ; prance and the prison was opened. All power Is given him In heaven and In earth; there Is nothing too hard for the living Christ. Lesson 9. Peter Shows the ljesur rected Christ as the Head of the Church (I Peter 2:1.1; 11-2."). i Because Christ Is alive, those who are Joined to him by faith grow. Be- cause of the contact with him they are able to maintain seemly behavior In j the various relations of life, j Lesson 10. Christ Is the Iievenler of God s Love (1 John 4:7-21). The proof thnt Christ Is alive Is the love of (iod In the hearts of those who have been horn again. Lesson 11. Christ Is Alive Becau'te He Is Walking In the Midst of the Churches (liev. 1 :41S). Lesson 12. In heaven, the cruclflel, risen and glorified Christ will he tbe center of woriUp. All glory and hon or are ascribed to hlni because of his marvelous work of redemption. i Llfa'i Reward. I The more I know Intimately ihe lives of other men, the more obvious it Is j to me thnt the wicked does not fbvtir'sh nor Is the righteous punished. But for this to he clear we must bear In mind what almost all forget, that the rewards of life are contingent itpan obedience to the whole law physical as well as moral rind thnt moral obedience will not atone for physical sin or otherwise. I.lfe cannot exlsl wlihotit n certain conformity to tbe surrounding unlverse that conformity Involves a certain aniount of happiness In excess of pain. In short, as we five we are pfdd for living. T. H. Huxley. It Shall Not Fall. Let ns comfort and strengthen our selves with the knowledge that the worK which wss begun by Jesus of Nazareth shall not fall, and therefore let no man who Is striving to do the will of Ood he discouraged. Jesus has said concerning Ms church: "The gates of hell shall not prevail against It." Its faults ar of human origin; Its perfections anl powers are from Its Divine Founder, and It shall not falL LUUI13 tVthlhVI a mv v Air MUM ii ill I rniivi 'inLt THE BALTIMORE ORiOLES. "Ai." said one of tbe mng I'.altt- inote ,.t s. ",l wont vl long now bet,, r it is spring hint ill the spring everv'I.Ing so tine tmpn. "We choose our mates ami our unites take us after a long while." "es, I heard my father was ever s.i b i g waiting for my mother. Tiny said that sometimes he'd nsk her a hundred t'.in,s it dav lo marry him." "That was what they said of my father," smd m,. fust young !'.,.. more et whose inline was Jackie 1'rio!,'. wi de the sis oi.d speaker WHS name I I'.rm-ie ( irtofe. It Is what tin) said of my father, to,." s.,i, nnoib'T oriole, "and that i v leoiii- r kept my father wailing the kalne vvav " -.li st vvliat liappem,! In our family," sa d vet another. "i ,l In ours," said still another. "It's the way of the Baltimore orl O'os " s,ii, Jackie. "Bill I'll keep nf l. r li e one I cure for until I win her," he said. king bis bend on one Klde, "So will I." Mild Bnide. "I don't want lo lake Ihe wrong one. No In- ,1 1. I'd rather wait for the right one. I would." "But dear me," sold Jackie, "how the little dears will keep us waiting." "It won't be long now before we be gin our courtship," said Brticle. "And we'll go North again," said Jackie "When did your parents leave for the South?" asked Brucle. "The third week In September," said Jackie. "Mine left the fourth week," said Brucle. "We leave about the same time, don't we? Our great family Is much alike every Baltimore oriole la much alike." "It's very sensible." said Jackie. "Il's nice to think of being further North when they have their beauMflll summer. In fact, we go ahead of tbo summer. We go North, so I've beard, for last year I wasn't around in the early spring, when Ibings are begin ning to cine cut. "That's very sensible. We see tbe lovely spring and the summer, and we leave when everything is starting to go, the leaves, tbe summer birds, and the midsummer flowers." "My father Is so handsome," said Brucle. "that it Is no wonder my moth er loved 1 1 i i ii." "Ah. you're handsome, too." said Jackie, "and your turn will come soon." "Ah," said Brucle. 'T don't want to lie so handsome as I do want to ho Birds Like CrumbS." loved and to have a happy time. Oh, happiness, that's the finest thing In the w hole world !" "It Is." agreed .Tackle, "and it Is Just what my family have brought me up to believe." "Same with me," said Brucle. "My mother was such a good home maker," said Jackie. "Ah, yes," said Brucle, "our home life was very lovely. That's the way It should be. What's the use In hav ing a home life if It Isn't happy and nice and comfy nn.l cozy and cheery with each trying to make It so nice for the oilier. "That's the nice part of a home nnd a home life that it can be made so Jolly nnd nice. "Why, where my family lived last summer there was the nicest family. i They lived In their garden and on i their hack porch so much of the time I ami without any visitors around I'd hoar them laughing and Joking nnd j doing things for each other and hav I lug such a fine time. And when birth days came! Well, such celebrations j as they used to have. I "And they never forgot that birds .liked crumbs of birthday cake, too!" I "Well." the Master Orioles all said, j "we must be moving North soon. It's almost springtime again." j "And in the meantime," said anoth er, "let as not waste too much time In talking, but let us rat lots of grubs and worms before we go, for that helps along nice people." Po the happy, cli. or fill, -jay B;i!!I more oriole fann;')- o'it;i'( hard eat ing and desi roving bad Insects and bugs nnd chirping ail the time, say ing. "Wp like people and we try in help them! Let's allheal yet aimther bu?:" "And." added Brucle, "lfg a very pleasant thing to do, tool" No Longer Curious. The older a man grows the less he la disposed to see how near he can skate to a danger sign. Boston Tran script. To Restore Faded Ink. When the Ink of old documents haa faded and It Is desired to restore It, this can be done by washing with any of the substances that blacken on mix ing with Iron infusion of nutgalla, sodlnm-sulphlde or acetic ferrocyanlda of potassium, for instance. . Canine Characteristic. Once In a while you meet a man who is like a dog. He wunld rather stand still and shiver than to get out and hustle and keep warm. Cluclav cat! Enquirer. r-- e -. ;V 1 1 I if, I I Si -ft -