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"I d it," he sald, frowning. this sort_of thing if 'my' absence from the | know what to make of | frgers through his and stared hard at buf he sald, after a long Ou Lertain no stranger during the rush today, in the store; and If pifare of the business glieve you have, you ally permit yourself S anyone object? n it. 'of course, but innocent to submit grace- fer that the gullty may be trust. no ohe objects?" eyes' rapidly scanned thelr {tell-tale expression of was. po sign of eoncern ures of any of his on the face of Des ject to being searched," ba salg and sharply. 08 wer turned on him, and od ut him. Despard reddened, thea led, 4 Lg ery: well," sald the jeweler stiffly, ith a bint of threatening In his voice. trust you know what is best for You must' see that such an tls time I will ask merely wih of a ! commonplace three-dol- ppsmetal watch, + Wallenstein nodded. "Very "he said, curtly, and turned-te others, vin's watch was. a common: gold- ted one; Brown's was a ten-dollar 'model, pretty well worn ;-Galyin's huge silver monstrosity, a hun- 'years old (so he said), and once Ap property, of his great-grandfather ; fkwith's was the humblest of them nickel timepiece that had been pped on the floor niore 'than once 3 still kept fair time, That Will do," sald Mr, Wallen- © "You may go, But, gentlemen, nt you to. ubderstand that I shutl jpen you, Ww hen necessary, to sub isibla: for the goods placed lnyour and gou have got to account for 1 mike no charges, but some fist be done in the matter and 15t be permitted fo do it inmy own i Bleasout or mppleasent." 8 empl Jose In had gone home, lenstéfn, left afone, searched 0d the two rooms above. It, to celling; in, quest of hid- "| relief 8s seu) Americans his episode is of "I'éspecinl nterest, ince 1t came as the | 'climax of perhaps the ost pleturesque of all the many services that have been rendered by the allied nations; t and to-humanity generally, by individ. No. 3; Shaw proved the merit of ina and wrote this letter in Is other fring Wome may find jhaia ails not ig 8 Tong I dro sping as she woe to da) root dia E. Pinkham's Ve; go trial. For special advicein rd tosuch ellments write | to Lydia 2. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, The result of its forty years | is at your service. Perh rem tabla | Alm to wnom he gave it, and what they sald, This 1s important; will you do 1?" "Sure," »eald Brown, : wanderingly. "What's. the matter? If you look like that, you'll have the detective come over and sit on you" Beckwith, hevried upstairs without replying, and Brown's voice promptly called out: "Hello there, Galvin!" Galvin 'was drying his face as Beck- with reaéhied His'sl "Hello!" answered Galvin, crossing the room and standing just out of Beckwith's sight, at the head of the stairs. In an fostant Beckwith had Galvin's huge, great-grandfather's watch out of the pucket of the suspended waistcoat. The first thing he noticed was that one of the hinds had fallen off. "The: thing: 1sn't going," he sald to himself. He placed.it to his ear, "Ah, ha!" He gaid no more; Hit: hasty gntes. watch 'into lily ek m Galvin od Ry the the head of the stairs, "Sure I dil. . D'yer. think I swiped the package?' he demanded Ine digndntly. "What d'yer take me for, anyway?' "All. right, Galvin," "My mistake, that's all.' "I: ain't no thief," growled Galvin, entering the room. "That Brown gives me a pain in the neck." Without staying to turn off the run- ning water, Beckwith hurried down the stairs. As he entered the store, Mr. Wallenstein, who was counting some gold watches in a tray prior to placing them in the big safe for the night, ut- tered a 'trenicndous oath, Everyane in the-store turned to him In startled amazement, and the detec-, tive hurried over to his side. "There's a sixty-dollar gold Elgin missing here!" cried Mr. Wallenstein. A couple of customers, not liking the look of things, made a move to go. "Lock the door," ordered: the detec tive. "Everybody stay where they are." Beckwith; with conflicting emotions of doubt andl' assurance warring with- in him, went op to his employer and 'whispered to Eagerly Mr, eaten held out his hadd, and Beckwith handed Galvin's huge Watch to him. Without a word, the Jeweler quickly | opened thé back of the watch, and then | the inner cover, All eyes were fixed, on him, and heads were craned forwards ug He revealed the loterior of the un- couth. timepigce, An exclamation of wonder broke ! from the group of watchers, for there, in place of wheels and springs, was snugly ensconced. the missing gold El- gin, It, fitted into the larger watch with some room to spare, and a little cotton wool had: been hastily sald Brown. uhl Aiierieans, from Gerard und Brand Whitlock down, since the beginning of the war. For nearly three years, or from early In" 1915 until 'the deliverance of Jerusaleny dn: December, 1917; one of the oldest and most famous of British organizations 'remained in unblissfal ignorance as to what had become of | its "depot" in the Holy City.. This or- 'ganization is the British and Foreign ! Bible society, which Ike Its great' sls- | ter organization in the United States, exists for the purpose of distributing the Good Book among Christians in every part of the world. In February, 1915, or soon after Turkey threw In her lot with the cen tral powers, thé Bible society's depot Jn 'Jerusalem, which contained many | thousands of volumes, had to be aban» ! doned hastfly, The workers there : were brought to Egypt on an American warship. From that day witli) quite res cently nething whatever was known re- garding the fate of the depot or its contents , It was assumed that both | had probably been destroyed by the Turks. But then came a letter from the 'society's secretary at Port Said in- closing one from the commander of the London Scottish, the first British regiment to enter the Holy City. In this officer's letter the striking story was told of how a venerable American | resident of Jerusalem, by name M. AL Whelan, came terward spontaneously after the abandonment of the Bible society's depot, took up his residence therein nnd courageously "carriel on" as its custodian. officer wrote, "that as I entered Jeru- salem with the first troops, I was met by a quaint old American, named Whe- lan, 'seventy years of age, who told me | he represented the Bible soclety, and presented me with a beautiful copy of the Scriptures, Beyond the fact that MM. M, Whelan {s a naturalized Irish citizen of the | Unitea States, and that he had been living In Jerusalém for severul years before the war, little is known by the Bible society at present regarding the picturesque character to whom it owes go greut a debt of gratitude. It Is not even. known from what part'of the | United States he comes, The society has, however, recelved a photograph of its venerable American benefactor, which shows him to be a truly patri- archal type. Germany Has: Lest Mexican Trade, All. the drinking glasses and most of the jewelry sold in the Salinas Crus district of Mexico are of American manufacture, according to ¢ recent re- | port from Norton F. Brand, United States consul at Selinas Cruz. Prior to the war all the jewelry and glass- 'ware: were Imported from Germany and Spain. The war has eliminated | Germany entirely from the Mexican ' markets and the activity of American business men has been so great that | imports from Spain have been mate- rially reduced. But Mr. Brand warns American manufacturers that the goblets and tumplers they ship to Mexico are too small: The tropics are a thirsty clime | and Mexicans drink deeply. Mr. Brand ; declares If Awerican merchants do not send fn larger glasses, their wares will {be driven from the fleld when Buro- I pean supplies are agalfi avallable aft- er the war, lle urges upon American business men the necessity of studying the pecds of the Mexican trade. particular. It's this: 1 think she isn't paying tention to what I'm reading catch her. Fil quit all of as sy, what's the use, word of what TI'in blamed If she don't call me and come back with the graph, almost word for word: me Ar all do it." The Horseshoes Won. Tho print of a horseshoe In soft earth will always Have the power to stir a young Missouri soldier, even If he lives long enough to forget. the sounds of war, ; "I don't know yet how: E went through a shelling on Friday, the without getting hit," writes Lieut. Ta rence Settles: of Fayette, with an arti Jery cotapany of the Bightysninth: divi sion, "The Boches had been putting over a lot of high explosives. We hind been digging in at night, keeping in shelters all day and trusting fo Tack. § know one thing, however--a about the superstition of. the old, a shoe saved my life once on that day, anyhow. "My sergeant and I picked out's low fold In the ground fur temporary shel. ter and were proceeding toward It when I saw the print of a borssshod fn ¢ a shell bole, a "ivéll,' 1 sald, 'as this is and the 13th, sergeant, lot's sit on old horseshoe, "We crept in pnd a minute later the low fold we hud first started for was blown to Ati winds, That was one Art to Be Recoveredi © One of the arts which must be res paired after the war Is the art of cons versation. A subcommittee in the mine istry of reconstruction might look into it. It will be to small purpose that we have reclaimed thousands of acres, achieved the elitizenship of wonien, improved the art of cooking and pers formed many other unexpected fests, If the gonial reflection of all this, and {ndeed the very stimulus to action, is dried up or muddy. The link between cookery and conversation Isa and not a fremkish one, It i§ the . chef's alm to set us free for fdeal . pleasures. We must talk at mesls,. but we need mot talk about our food. We have all been doing that too long. --London Times, : ¥ Furs From the Arctic. 2 Capt. Louls L. Lane, a veteraniof - the Arctic trader and miner, is on his, way to northern Canada as an ad-. vance 'scout for a vast chain of fue» supply stations to be operated by. my Boston firm. More than $1,000,000 , worth of choice furs annually will be. shipped to Seattle, Wash., from the company's stations and then dis- . tributed throughout the country. "We have 28 fur stations along the . Athabaska, Peace and Mackenzie hv. ers and expect to establish 25 more," sald Lane whep he deparfed. "From the mouth of the Mackenzie the furm . will be shipped around Peint Barrow, to Seattle, a distance of 3,500 miles. [ The Long Arm. ! The war has furnished many strange. coincidences, Here "Is another, AL young officer came home on brought 'his fiancee a plece of a fired by the Germans, evidently been among a tured from us.: He Interest her..and & Aid fo able to