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#: X' 2tt A PERFECT PEACH Or Love Among the Ledgers Br J. P. Lonshnan She had » fasclnatlns little nose. . thought better of It, got up, bade us Just turned up a trifle at the tip In a good-night, and went away. r ivtiy which seemed to give her mouth \ I seated myself beside the girl, and more perfect shape. As she stood be- we both went over the open leds«si. j side my desk in the private olBce, all A tiny frown lined her white fore- the questions I had meant to ask her head as she stared at the rows of went clean out of my head. ' So, in- ; figures from under her curly black stead of asking if she knew how to lashes. "Better put a straight nose on your sevens," I advised softly. "Otherwiae jthey loo!i rather like nines. This Is ; what I mean." I laid my hand over hers and guided the pen. i "Yes, that is a plainer seven," she ; agreed, and gently disengaged her enter up a ledger, I said: "Do sit down," 'and placed a chair for her near my own. "I see your name 4s Daphne Heath- er," 1 went on, consulting the note Jimmy Marsh, our head clerk, bad given me. "Yes, sir." ! band. She 'spoke timidly, but her ' voice j Well, we mide quite good progress was musical. *^*' evening with the ledgSr. After- "Well," I told her, "my name's Bill i wards I asked her to dine with me. Lawton. I'm looking after the firm She heslUted. But when she realized because my uncle'^ on the Continent for a month. That's why you're inter- viewing me." "I see, sir," she said, with Just the faintest smile which made her lips curve adorably. "Please don't call me 'sir.' Now, about this job you want. Miss Heath- er, Here's the difficulty. My uncle's not very Iteen about lady book-keep- er?; in fact, he's rather prejudiced against them. Still, if you're very ef- ficient, tftat might alter the case." The large blue eyes regarded me rather pathetically. ••To be perfertl.v honest, Mr. Law- ton." she said. "I'm not yet very ef- Cclent. Bnt 1 am keen to get a job. andâ€" and" â€" a faint wave of color tnu<-li'>(l licr cUeek.'* â€" "Mr. James i Mitrsih ha.H promi.<ed to coach me If that I W8.nted to discuss the theory of book-keeping, all was well. We dined at a quiet little restaurant I know, in the light of a pink-shaded lamp. On second thought, I post- poned the book-keeping discussion. Next morning a letter turned up from one of our clients in Derbyshire raising many important questions. I sent for Jimmy. "Marsh." I said briskly, "you must run down and see old Bevan at once. I'll wire and say you're coming. Here's his letter. You'll have to stay the night in Derby, so cut along home Sumemian Queen Owned Vanity Case 5000 Years Ago Strange Ui For the^AirpIana Passlnc atrange are sonu of tM .uses to whldt the atrptaaa Is Excavations at Ur by Joint |^5_,^*_*°_f*r?!" f**! '"'"^J'i Expe<lition of U.S. and British Elxplorers Dis- Richest Trea*- Ever Found in Tomb cover ures Philadelphiaâ€" Queen Shnb-Ad, Sonor eralan ruler of approximately 6,000 years ago, wore go.Jen garters, golden ear rings, a wig su> mounted by a golden ornament resembling & la; je Spanish comb, a heavily beaded cloak world, w read In an Assoelatad dispatch form Croydoa. Kn gtmmA^ tSMi great aviation center in Great Brftakij Of coursa we are taalUar with OMi use of airplanes for destroylnx 4al^' terioua insects by Bcatterln« clooda ot poison, and with t!ia use of the ait» plane in mapping localities otherwiM' difficult of access. It la mora a aij;i >» ing to hear that â€" In Formosa, airplanes have played the part of messensars from the goda. Head-hunters were in the habit at and carried her rouge in vanltff casea a-nbushlng lumbermen In the junglea. of the perlod--cockle ehella. i ""'''"^ ^"* circuhited a report that Discovery of the queen's body near i «"Pendo"a bird creatures of Formosa , that of Iter king was announced In '"y'hology were soon to be dispatched MAURITANIA'S PROPELLER The world's fastest ocean liner is undergoing a thorougfh overhaaItn» In the floating dock at Southampton. I and pack your bag. If it should be ! pldon gripped me. Jimmy's train I say, what about the spot of dinner I ' presently?" | "Thanks ever so much. I'm engaged j to-night, Mr. Lawton. As she left the office, a horrid bus- | necessary to stay away a couple of nights do so. I shall understand." He appeared a trifle taken aback. iThis was the kind of job I usually 6.45. I you'U ?i>e me a trial. •Indeeti:' Mr tone was rather ,jq,^ responsfble for Jimmy's work, I rtern. "Indeed! N'ovr let me give you | ^j^j^g^ jijg general office and saw a word of advice on the brink of yottrjyjg^ ^n ^^^ Daphne, entrenched be- ba.^iaesrt career. Miss Heather Don't jji^j ledgers, hesitated. I pulled up be too ready to accept these offers ot would reach St. Pancras at decided to meet him. I reached the station just on time, and â€" yes, there she was! While I ! liked to take on myself. I hesitated at the barrier the train I The day seemed uncommonly long, rolled up. Jimmy jumped out and but at last came closing-time. Being | ran to her. Next moment they were help from male clerks. Men are â€" erâ€" that Is. they're not â€" er â€" 1 mean you've got to be careful." An e::pre"»''ion of the prettiest hor- ror touched her sweet ilttle face. •Cii-efui of ilr. Marsh?" she falter- ed. "Oil. J!nim;.''.^ a!! r'sht in his wa.v." 1 admitted, "if yau understand his point iif view. He'a kind and all that. > It a bit of a womauhater. You must not go falling in love with him. Miss Heatiier. That's what I really mean." 1 looked at. her \:i a paternal sort •f 'way. but she only laughed. "Then you will give me a trial, Mr. Lawton?" "I'll give you a month's trial. Whether or not you get the- job then will depend i)art!y on yourself, partly 01 my uUcle. When he comes back Im 111' longer la charge. You see?" •â- Qu:t». Tbank you ve'ry much in- deed May 1 start at ouce?' "You may. Mr. Marsh will set Vou going. Please say 1 want to see him wiieu he has a moment to spare." Asa'n she thanked me prettily and tni>:>?d out of tUo room. I tried to cosceutrate oa biisjinesi. but fouud it difficult. Ami a full twenty minutes passed before he came to see me. -Morulu'. Marah!" I said dryly. "I've been interviewing that young woman you recommended as book- keener. Sho does not pretend to be very eSciut." Jiiumy is thlrty-flve. though he ioo'is yoiitjg for his age. His black hair hxi a silly natural wave, the sort of thing u girl might admire. He seemed eveu youuger than usual to- day. "Mlw Heather Is a stialghtforward girl." he 8al<1. 'That's why she told joQ the truth. I'll undertake to make her efflcleut enough by the time the Old Man cornea back." *'Seera3 rather like turning the of- flee into a kindergarten," I grumbled. "My own fault for glrlos her a trial. Mow look here, Marah, understand Ihla right away. There's to bo no flirtation." A twinkle of amusameat flickered ta hlj er9. HoweTer, ha answered gravely enough: "1 should not dream of such a thing, Mr. William." The day.i which followed were try- las ones tor me. Often I stayed a bit late at the ofBce. On every oc- casion when at last I packed up to go home there at the ledger-desk sat Jimmy close beside Daphne Heather. It was impossible for me to flnd fault because he was always explaining â- â€¢ma bookkeeping rule when I ap- peared. But the strain was awful. So at last I determined to put down my foot. It was on a Monda/, when she'd been at the ofllca a week. When clos- ftag-tlme came I stayed on, although I bad nothing to do. For twenty mtn- â- tes I waited, then jumped up and en- tared the book-keeper's room. Yes, )tl»re they weret "Marsh." I exclaimed severely, •Vkla won'tvdo. Yoa can't bum tbe oaadle at both ends. Tou'ra a hard- worktnfl. efllclent. reliable m a na fl tn g elark; foa do floite enoagh work In a Oar without bavlnc the extra strain ot tkto oTWtlaw toitloa. Oo home at "I asaora you, Mr. WtlUam. it's aa tiniM '* "Don't arg««. Oo h^al" "But I proBlMd to coaoh Ml« HMthar." "Marsh." t latd lolamaly, "MlM Heather shall not anter throogb lack at tuition. Take your hat aad coat and go home at onoe. I will coaoh Miss Heather! " For a moMaat ha seemad iacilaad a stool and joined her. "Do you approve of new sevens?" she asked shyly. 1 studied the figures with close at- tention. "They certainly are less like nines," I admitted. "But what about a little tilt to their noses? This is what I mean." I laid a hand over hers and guided the peu. •But I thought you preferred straight noses, Mr. Lawton?" "Oh, no-o-o! A tip-tilted uose for me every time!" I declared, with veil- ed enthusiasm, looking deep into her big blue eyes. Down came the Qjirly lashes, while a delicious blush swept her smooth cheeks. It was just about dinner-time when the ledgers were finally posted. We got the same table. She looked lovelier than ever under the pink lamp. Next morning 1 went to the office with a feeling of relief. Jimmy would still be In Derbyshire. Then I found a letter from him to say he was re- turning that night. Well, this meant another dinner with Daphne, and per- liapa Could I screw up my cour- age? She had given me no reason to hope. But he who hesitates is lost. That evening I entered the general office with a beating heart. The clerks shoved away their books briskly. Then I gave a gasp ot dismay. The ledgers were al closed, and one of our fellows was shoving them into the strong-room. Daphne had slipped from her stool and turned towards the door. I hurried after her. "Miss Heather, what about pour â€" erâ€" tulUon?" "It you please, Mr. Lawton, I par- ticularly want to get away to-night." The blue eyes were pleading. "By all means. Miss Heather. But dream. in each other's arms. I dashed out of the station and took the first bus home. j peace ; Next morning Jimmy reported that Their beauty the Bevan business was O.K. Wlien he had finished I told him to send Daphne along. She came in looking as lovely as ever. "'ifou won't want to stay at the of- fice much longer?" I suggested. "Oh, yes, I do â€" if you'll let me?" she contradicted. "But look here," I argued. 'Marsh earns a good salary, he has a comfort- able flat, and no relations to support" "Well?" she breathed. "Well, you â€" er â€" you love him. don't you?" "Yes, of course I do!" "Then I'm sure he won't want yon to go on working here." "But I want to, and that's enough for him. He's always been most frightfully kind ever since I can re- member." . "You've known him all that time?" "Of course! Oh. but you don't know. 'W^e thought it wotild be rath- er fun not to tell you " She Geese Oh, swans are lovely; lovely, too. are geese 'White in a greensward, dreamtog on a stream. On whose calm surface llliee they might seem. I have seen geese in proud proce*- sion gleam Bright as high sallhig clouds, w<biter than fleece Or crested seas, white as the soft In- crease Of tranquil snowfal; and as filled with is like beauty in summers with their before you I have seen them, when heat brings rain In driving gusts, stand heads held hieh Facing the downpoj.- â€" O die. 'Wotild you might see them whan the sun again Shines on their dazzling whltness, and ttiey fain. Impelled by some wild ecstasv, would fly. â€" Charles 'WTaka. a report from Leonard Woolley, direc- tor of the joint expedition ot the Museum of the University of Pennsyl- vania and the British masenm in Ur. of the Chaldees. Mr. 'Woolley said the treasures found in the tomb were the richest ever naearthed in Ur. Tbe tomb of the queen was found abutting the king's iMrial vault which I bad been robbed of its treasures, and { in the centre was a burial pit con- taining the bodies of more than 50 I men and women, the warders ot tbe â-  tomb. A sloping ranrp led down into the pit, th« report stated and on the •lope lay the bodies of six soldiers of j the gnard. their crashed skulls en- ' cased in copper helmets and their spears shouldered. Th«y been killed in their places to remain as sentinels of the dead. Part of Grave Is Shambles i "The rest of the grave area was a ' shambles. " Mr. WooUey said, "for In I the narrow space were strewn 50 bod- ies of those sacrlfled to the spirit of ! tile dead. Along one side were men, ' their daggers on their hips; against * the foot of the tomb lay the chief , ' ladies of the harem, eleven of them ) wearing what must have been full court regalia, consisting of elaborate head dress of gold rlbl>on, wreaohs of gold mulberry leaves hung from strings of lapis lazuli and Cornelian beads, silver pins with lapis heads and great gold earrings. "Atrave the hair of each woman was a silver palm with long point ending In solid rosettes of gold, shell and lapis and beside each lay cackleshells containing face paint and little ala- baster uageat vases." Labor and Immigrmtion Le monde Ourrler (Ind.): From the strictly labor point of view, the tm- _ _ _ migration qtiaaton can be summed uP I piece of l>utty. aa follows: Free ctl««w rtiould not He seized' the puttv be hindered from seeking to improve Returned With Thanks. Aa he was passing beneath a ladder reaching up to the windows of a re- cently built bouse the imscfbls colonel was struck on the bead by a large broke off, bubbling with laughter. "You mean you've been engaged to Jimmy all along?" "No. I mean his mother married twice." "Well?" "And I'm tha baby of the family." I fairly leapt from my chair. "Do you mean," I demanded, trying to keep my voice steady, "that Jim- my is your half-brother?" She gave a demure little nod. She hadn't time for more, because next moment she was in his arms. "You precious sweet!" I stammer- ed, "you will not want this Job!" And I kissed the tip ot her dear little tilt- ed nose. â€" (Answers.) The way to get rich is to lay up part of your income and as much as I>ossible of other people's. in one hand and. racing up the starlcase of the house, entered the room from which It had been thrown. He was con- thelr condition by emgratlng from one ootmtny to another, provded their _ transference to the other country Ooea ' fronted br three stalwart men not consUtttte an economic danger to "-w-ho tiirew thisT he cried the worker of that country. It should ' grily. an- be eatablisSied with all possible a«- ctiracy what each industry can absorb In the way of additional hands with- out compromlalog existing condltlona of industry. As soon, as this point Is passed, the balance Is broken and the surplus labor becomes a menace not only to the country's workers but to the Immigrant workers themselves. who are compelled by he force of cir- cumstances to accept lower wages and are thus prevented from adopting "I did," retorted the biggest ot the three. "WTiat are ye goln' to do about it, eh? ' After a moment's sober reflection the colonel murmured: "Oh, 1 just though; I'd retvirn your putty." « 'Could 1 see the captain ot ship'.'" "He's forward, miss." not afraid. I'm used to men." by the gods aa a warning, the Japan* ese Govemor-Geaeral sent a pair at such celestial birds OTer the haunta at tha head-hnntera. They dropped a nest of explosivs sgg* â€" and tha Iieaa> ; hunters are now aa aulet as a dud I shell. When the gulf of Finland froze over and the sailors on thirty-eight ship* locked fast in the ice seemed in dan- ; ger of starving, Finnish army air- planes carried food to the beleaguered , craft. I Airplanes work with whalers (« the North Pacific in discovering tha leviathans of the deep. Norse bBher , men off Stavaoger use the alrptana for "spotting" shoals. The forests ot Alsace-Lorraine are sprayed from the air to kill plai;u"a of caterpillars. la woods, nnar Berlin, â-  poison-gas bombs have been di-opp^^d from airplanes for the saiae puruuse. In south Russia airplanes .--couiea for hosts of locusts. One su< b iiobi wii.< found five miles long by three milus wide. Troops made all hiician bein^ and cattle e>'acuaie llie terr.tory. and tile airmen then tlew at uisUt over the locU5L.<. t praying liit-m wUb poiaoo gas. The seaplane of the Diitch-Amerlcao party which eiploiou Wesieru New Guinea was of great use, particularly in overawing the ilerco i'aimau iribt* men. The tribesmen ou being c»ok<Hl if they had seen tha plane ran up au.I â-  down in great glee, with arms out- Btreti'hed, as if pUiylng at a ch;iU i game. Hydroplanes are surveying proio- graphicaUy the Great Bai-rier Ret-t off Australia. The same method is I being used to survey tha great Jungle j of Borneo aud the delta o fihe Irra- {Wadl, In Burma. In Eastetru Siberia the Russians have been using alrplanos to connect their remotely situated gold-fields in the Aldan territory. The planes car j ry the gold in five hours, wnereas ; formerly the journey by horses, ' through almost Impenetrable forests, re<iuired thirty-flv^ day.?. Likelhe^idgys" Londoners Help Pigeons Els- cape City's Pied Piper at St. Paul's «- I lledicai science, we read 13 London. â€" - While Loudon disai>- â-  proves and bystanders do all they ca.T this ! to hinder the work of the city'.-; offl- â- I-ju cial Pied Pipar. somo 2,000 pigeons of i St. Paul's are finding they way into : pigeon pies. still 1 The London City Corporation havias standard ot living, ijecomingj'^''""'^ '"â- " '*^^ '^"''^ S^""â„¢' *"'P'°S, we , decreed that 2.000 of the piccons our pariahs who cannot be assimilated. .J With Mr. Coolidge positively cut of the running, we make a bid for the concession of checking hats at the ringside. presume, if it is found, to make things hot for it. 9 Society pays for its sins. It once made 'WiUie speak pieces oa Friday afternoon, and now it must listen to his after-dinner speeches. Replacing Canada's Navy ' "â-  WkTRICIAN AND PATWIOT GO TO THfe WRECKtnd Ai OSSOLSTe With obsolete vessels being scrapped and replaced, Canada's navy Is being brought up to date. The first picture in the .VBOVE layci'.t shows H.M.3. VanoouTsr. one of a pair of destroyers which are being loaned to Canada for the time, between the scrapping of old vessels aud the bi-.ilding of new ones. The other destroyer of the pair is t'Je Champlaln. They were formerly the Toreador and the Toibay. Picture No, 2 shows the new British destroyer Amaion, a type which is being suggested as possible for Canada's replacements. A desticycr cf tiiii type takes 21 mouths to build, and is of more complicated construction than the battleships. No. 3 shows a Canadian destroyer which is row ueeticg t''e uusratcful fate of age, H.M.C.S. Patrician. called after Canada's royal princess, this gallant vessel has outlived its usefulness aad is now b?!r.s ftiipred of guns and equipment to be sold as Juak. A •Ign^ fata Mu orartakaa the destroyer Patriot. No, 4 shows the light cruiser Raiubovr, Canada's first naval unit. which cluster before the cteps and ; pillars of St. Pauls as an item of every I tourist's London progrram must go, it 1 became tha duty of one Dalton, tha I city's rat-catcher, to trap them. I He first built a wii^ cage measuring I U by 6 feet and provided himself with corps of "expert trappers." His first day, however, was like the first bag of a hunter with a bent shot- gun, lie caught, all told, twelve. Tha crowd that gathered was wholeheart- edly on tha side of the pigeons. They fed the pigeons so that the grain trails which led Into the trap would not al-^*' lure them. And they engineered noises aad movements to scare the pigeons away from the trap. Trappor Dalton thereupon resorted to subterfuge. First, he came back oarly Sunday morning while most peo- ple were abed. Secondly, his assist- ants had tor hours the night betors been sweeping away the crumbs and bread v.hich good-hearted people had strewn before ths pigeons. Thirdly, the assistants stood In such a way aa to hide the standards ot tho cage frotn the birds. He netted 250 birds in one catch. The pigeons ars being sold to a poultry dealer. â-  •> Windfall. All honest speeder had just hit a dog and had returned to settle his damages, if possible. He looked at tho dog a moment and addressed the man with a gun. "Looks as It I'd killed yer dog." "CerUlnly looks that way." . • 'Very valuable dbg?" "Not very." "Will flvo dollars be enough?' "Wei! â€" I guess to" "Sorry to have broken up hunt," said tha motorist pleasantly as he banded the owner a crisp dre-dol- '*• bllL "^'I Tasn't gelof huniingâ€" -Jest going out in the liroodfl to ahoot the dog." your â-  Motor 'War on Hand."â€" Head-llaa. But that doesn't make It any safer for those oa foot. « The rumble seat ot a aoupe la beV ter than the grumU* M^ oC a }lmo«> t