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ae struct iiuui mrum on fiddlers alley there had settled a hushed expectancy shades were drawn windows closed against neat and noise the only sound was the the department ts still running id better get back to my desk j she pulled herself out of her chair as if the going meant untold etort j the superintendent watched her with 1 an ominous shaking of the hear look here he shouted after her goose or no goose if that young woman ever j i does turn up and shes what you want i 111 fight timothy gallagher to blazes and back for her part i th courthouse slept in the heat midaugust once in a while i sleep was broken by some straggler w st7v7 i panting up the two flights of broad sweep them all off the sate and as 0m m a great visible hand boyd- granite steps leading to law and jus- franklin to pick out the best one he ca in with records to file and re- tice or slipping shadowlike down to from his list of state workers you ported a storm going to be a the street floor where charity ruled know it always makes trouble to im- cracker she said and before she had vj oottlwl i port strangers for county jobs gone tlie rain was flicking sharply i dont care the commissioner on the windows said it doggedly l records to verify adoption papers nu u all right dont care but get to look over lettors from foster par- monotonous buzzing of electric fans ready or another fight nalagher ents to read and answer in the midst along the corridor the alloy stretch- yesterday that hed picked his 0 the routine work a boy from the ed from the offices of the county sup- a for deputy commissioner as good orphanage who had been bonded out crintendent of the poor to the offico of promised her the appointment and f the summer came in to make his the commissioner for placing depenj kmg to see eha got it i monthly report he carried a great dent children and all day and every feckon you know timothy gahariier bunch of flaming marigolds which he day moved a slow but inevitable pro- has gotten pretty nearly everything h out to the commissioner with cession of humanity coming to pay the fiddler in one coin or another the big clock over the superinten dents desk pointed to twoftfteon both the superintendent and commis sioner eyed it with a special interest give boyd ten minutes moro and shell have the new deputy here it was the commissioner who spoke and for all her sixty years sho put as much eagerness into the words as any youngster counting off tha days before county fair day for the commissioner this was a big moment for twenty years she had worked binglehanded worked and fought to make the department what she knew it ought to be and for the first tlmo she felt old and play ed out as if the department had turn ed about and knocked her over for her trouble she wanted someone to come in as sho had gone in twenty years ago reasonably young fresh in out look and enthusiasm someono who would take up the work when she must let it drop and carry on farther and better than she had been able to do the commissioner mopped her fore head weakly with a wad of a hand kerchief and smiled at the superin tendent you dont know what this means to me to have a deputy com missioner after all these years of working alone 1 the superintendent grunted ha had been on his job longer than the commissioner and if anybody knew he should small wiry as a terrier crabbed outside and mellow in like hes gone after since hes been chair man of the board the commissioners cheeks flamed this is one thing hell never get i spent a half hour interviewing his niece j bashful eagerness thank you johnny liko the farm how do the folks treat youj swell tho boy grinned a round- 1 faced freckled grin him and her and shes made of the same kind j couldnt treat me better if i was of timber he is hard crossgrained i theirs and full of knot holes merciful god i wouldnt trust her with a dead baby with this unusual vent of feelings tho commissioner wilted into her chair again the excitement of the new deputys arrival had made her forget how tired she was and now if the superintendent was right and he generally was right here was an other ugly fight ahead sho caught hard at what philosophy the heat had left her hor work had been a series of fights one after another as long as she stayed there always would be a battle for something in the offing she had fought for the control of her department for proper nursing homes for her babies for rigid requirements for adoption and the careful super vision of the homes that took children twenty years ago any person who would tako a castoff baby could have it for the asking no matter how illy fitted and untrustworthy that person might be all the law demanded was actual housing and food if the baby lived and christian burial if it died every time the commissioner look ed backwards she shuddered at the toll those years had taken diminutive human wrecks who had gone to fill state institutions for feeble-minded- tnecvnunisrioner he worked for the 1 nes tuberculosis and potential crim- iv inals and yet they had gone into the making of a monument to the fact fine from what ive heard youve been treating them tho same way isnh thnt so to bo continued sake of the work and not for the money the county paid him he was a man hard to fool easy to trust and appreciated by few the commission er was one of these few and if they had been asked apart to nam the best friend in the world they had each would have named the other look here the superintendent jerked himself erect i hate a woman who begins by changing her mind franklin wrote she wouldrit come until october needed a vacation as if any young thing really needed a va cation after six months now she wires she doesnt need a vacation shell arrive city twoten today probably when she gets here and has one day in this sulphuric heat shell change her mind again he picked up the open telegram that lay on the desk and read aloud the signature signed sara goslin why not goose jumping jupiter what a name for a woman that fighting paid well she could fight again this time for the right woman to share her work and fill her place when sho was too old and worn out to find another homo for one of her bnbies above the fans buzzing sounded the sharp staccato clickclick of heels against the alleys flagging the com missioner stiffened in her chair and 8hot a look of challenge at the super intendent there they are ill know two minutes affer ive set eyes on her if shes tho right one and if she is jim barnard the door flew open and over tho threshold stepped a single figure tall flat and leaden it was boyd the department secretary hmm didnt come hah there was triumph in the superintendents final explosion what did i tell you shes changed her mind again the commissioner felt dazed and the commissioner closed her eyes from utter weariness and smiled to t herself how the superintendent dis- acutely hurt it was as if county sand nlstrusted everything new fair day had come and the fair new people new laws new methods grounds had been found empty a he was and immovable dozen questions stirred in herimd as the eternal hills and yet once con- j she asked but one oi them whats u ule eii lit anno iii j- vv vinced he had always proven her most i na loyal supporter and he would fight ask the court the secretarys shoulder to shoulder with her when voice was as flat and thin as the rest she had made him understand that of her the superintendent had once she must have what she was fighting i said that he guessed the lord al- for it had taken so long to make mighty must have hewn her out of him see she needed a deputy and now hickory and planed her down as much it would take months to convince him as he dared in her three years of this one was the right one very service she had never shown emotion probably he was sitting now all knuck- of any sort or interest in any human ed in with lips twisted and jaw swing- i being she was more akin to the of- ing looking ready to spring and de- ace furniture than its personnel vour her tho instant sho stepped foot turning back to the door she stopped over tho threshold long enough to give the minimum of the commissioner opened her eyes information met the twoten train and laughed outright at what she and that was all ii did meet the saw jim barnard you look as oung things nrobaby gone off look carnivorous as a crocodile what do ing f or something more exciting than i care about a name its the view- j ba 0 jij n t tv the superintendent did not allow point i care for it means everything m chuck to c8cape untn tno door to mo to have my first deputy com- u hut af bovd then it ftfritzjz 5r ismbis i frth 1 uundi otot alfpro- i t jss ll potion to thosizo of the little man wknljs 1 s 2w made it gosh how boyd does just to learn tho ropes i tcl you it s hatc babie9 dont miove vo t 8 bahltw btooms its the end- with tongs ing i care about ever since franklin iie looked to tho commissioner for wrote ive had my mind mado up an answering laugh but none came shed turn out one of these hard- for tho first time that day ho studied bolted looseclothed f reetongued her carefully and saw how close sho young women that america is special- j was to the breaking point heat an izing in just now i read franklins unbroken summer of overwork with letter over again ten minutes ago and j all the years of strain back of thoso i tell you i like it less than when i had written their mark on a faco that read it first he picked up a sheet showed unnaturally white and drawn that lay under tho telegram and read i look here tho superintendent it partly to himself and partly in go out of his chair and came over to audible outbursts born in so- her his face scrowed up into what clety twentyfive serious the commissioner knew to bo an ox- minded nnd executive great per- pression of sympathy but which for sonal charm bah i say it again the world looked as if ho had bit- arid ho slnmmcd the letter back on tho ten into sour fruit youve got to desk who wants a deputy commis- qu ive seen it coming but ive held sioner of twentyfivo with personal tongue knowing how you hato por- charm i toll you gallagher- got his sonal remarks but youve got to quit talons in her before she s been a week 0 tho lordll mnko you in that linnl on her job j 0 his tako a vacation get this time it was the commissioner j twenty deputies nnd put cm right on who straightened m her chair for the job leave tho babies in tho nurs- tho moment she forgot how hot and t home for a couple of months- tired out she fot i thought wo had wo hurt em and lot boyd take settled that wheni sent inmy report caro 0 the new ones do anything his majestys hobby the finest collection of british empire stamp in the world is kept in an upper roo m in buckingham palace it was built up by its royal owner h m kins cfsjrgo takes stamp-col- is an early mauritius etamp which bet for l00 and lectins very seriously and when one i bought years ago of the finest collections of postage wbtcn j woi 4000 gulneaaj twmps in the world came under the 1 iueuoneera hammer recently it was only natural thst his majesty should be represented at the eele this remarkable collection whose i disposal drew philatelists from all j parts of the world to london was dls- covered in the attic of a mayfalr man sion the stamps were bought in the sixties for lesa than 40 and when put up for auction brought in no less than 5353 empire stamps figured largely in the collection prominent among them be ing a block ot stamps from ceylon which cost the original collector 5s and which realized 650 a block or unbroken shbet of damps pre served intact ts much more valuable than tho same number of single stamps doubtless it was the empire stamps which interested the king though he has often been described aa a col lector of foreign stamps you could look through all the 300 leatherbound volumes that hold his collection wlth- t crpatriit in hfiitfttr out flndlng a single stamp of a toreign- the straight silhobltte 1 countrv hts majesty actuauy a this charming onepieco frock of co 0 stamps and his black crepesatm is particuary de- stamp library j regarded as the flneet signed for the woman of large propor- of its kw1 in mo wo tions the wide underpanel is of con- j trasting color crepe this same color among the kings treasuree makes the collar and the full length at times parties of philatelists have rovers at each side which emphasize visited the palace to see this wonder- tho front closing in coat effect two ful collection which is kept in an up- largo buttons nro placed at the low per room of buckingham palace waistline in front and a narrow bolt when they have done so the king has holds the easy fulness at tire back been there seeking for fresh lnformaf the revers and collarmay be omitted i tlon on the subject of which bo is al and short sleeves used to fashion a ready a master trim house dress no 1101 is in sizes j so keen is the king on philately that ca i k si if he is missing during any residence eay he is sure to be in the stamp- o x1ux is 111013 1 42 44 46 48 and 50 inches bust sizo if he is missing during any of his rare 46 bust requires 3 yards of 36 or hours of leisure when in reslf 40inch material with 1 yards add- some member of his family will tional contrasting material for panel he is sure to be in the i revers and collar width of dress room around the bottom about im yards one of the kings greatest bargains price 20 cents home sawing brings nice clothes within the reach of all and to follow it is a relic ot the days when an oldi watchmaker struck the stamp o mauritius singly with a handdie hts majesty is very proud ot a sec tion devoted to errors and curiost ties typical ot this section is a stamp on which pence is spelt penoe royalty leads tho way the collection also includes relics of days vten small outlying parts ot the empire ran out of stamps ot a par- ucular value in such circumstances is was the custom to use a stamp of the next highest value printing the new value over it in black in one case this overprinted value was put on upside down making the specimen a curli oslly and error in one many of the curiosities and errora relate to stamps ot current issue and bearing the kings own head one might mistakenly imagine that ex amples of such mistakes would be ot tered to his majesty but it la the duty of the examiners to destroy everyi stamp that is not entirely correct and only thoso that have escaped their vigilance got on the market even if such stamps were offered to the king it is certain that he would refuse them he prefers to- get his specimens as other people get theirs by purchase and exchange it was the king who srvifiisp fashion that has- wjevnov popular every- srethat of collecting in blocks of four when he can do so his majesty always buys in this way a block of four is four stamps torn oft tho sheet not in strip fashion but so that they are two wide and two deep they are rare because in the old days it was the custom of post- offices to servo quantities of stamps in strips n the mode is delightful when it can be done so easily and economically by hon cecil forester i following the styles pictured in our who has inherited the unique right of new fashion book a chart ac keeping hts hat on in the presence of eacl w hows tha ma the english king this privilege f as g when cut out comes down to him from the time of e tajl is explained so that the henry viii the amusing part of the h sew can to with- story is that young forester cares not difficu an attractive dres3 a whit for this hatright and says that p f th fcook 1q cents m victors all the only time ho ever was in the pre sence of the king was in a ballroom and then he wasnt wearlnga hat six weeks ago every local applicant was gono ovor carefully and every one found unfitted for tho position tho commissioner stressed tho last words intentionally maybe they were but that doesnt make gallagher any more likoly to be pleasant seeing his niece was ono of the appliianta hero wo aro with tho first good appointment open to a wo man in the county for years and along come threo members of tho board of sipcrrfjors wanting tho job only quit this time tho commissioner inugh- ed ill quit when my now deputy gets trained in you neednt scowl jim barnard im still holding faith with sara goslin i know you think franklins a sentimental old fogy but i dont i have absolute confidence in tho girl ho picked out somethings happened to her shoil havo a good reason for missing that trrin see if sho doesnt well hear something be fore the days out in tho meantime diary in cipher just a lundred years ago was pub lished the worlds most extraordinary work it was by a great public figure named pepys pronounced peeps half of each night ho sat up writ ing till he almost went blind writing the queerest work that has ever oc curred to man this was a diary of the real truth about himself and everyone else but written in cipher so that nobody could read it pepys tells us how he bribed and took bribes how he got drunk and was sorry next morning how he once struck his wife and then kissed her and made it up mixed with tho bad there is a lot ot good we read how really fond he was of his wife and how it troubled him to grieve her when he had been found out we read also how he set out to reform this and that scandal for thinking that the diary could never be read pepys put down the truth that long after his death somebody would patiently work out the cipher was th3 last thing pepys expected still it gave us in a way the worlds most human book a hobo what is a hobo tho popular ans wer would probably be a tramp not so thoro are certain nice distinc tions to bo observed a hobo is a migratory worker a man liko the harvest hand in tho west or the lum berjack in tho north woods who moves from place to place as work offers a tramp on the other hand is a migratory loafer anj a liuni a sta tionary loafor one should ba careful in such matters how to order patterns write your name and address plain iy giving number and size of such the two greatest poisons in life are fear and worry if these could bo eradicated and thoy can then never once need we falter these poisons affect tho blood dim our outlook hasten death and disease forbuccess we heed to enter into relationship with all conquerors and conquering things things that pro mote uplifting thoughts and noies that patterns as you want encose 20c in tt con will bring us to the stamps or com coin preferred wrap fuve princlp which defy wary- it carefully for each number and th that lsj qeatructlve address your order to pattern dept wilson publishing co 73 west ade laide st toronto patterns sent by returnimail the challenge is always there and we ought to accept it and win through itls always true thatlove isstrong- er than hatred and goodwill is always a stimulating factor malice will cor- jrode and tear down whilst love is al ways a savour to life meet hatred with hatred and you will degrade your self meet it with kindness and you become elevated and also the one who bears you hatred it is a wonderful faot but it is real within never mind whether you have tried and failed try again you were not ablo to walk the first time you put your foot to the ground and you had not conquered the winged nrt when you learned the shorthand alphabet you had to try much and often andltono will determine that he will beautify his corner of the world by his kindness and sympathy he will do it psychologists say that if we larn to concentrate on anything we shall attract that thing tp us whether it be werlth health beauy power or god- and these things speirvictory if you are passed in the race dont givo up running for you are not beaten whilst life courses in your veins you are not on the losing side the old book says all things are possible to him that believothi then what- ever your task whether it be learning a language or pursuing business or domestic worries believe that you can and you will the invertedjar trick lay a lemonon tho table and place a jar upside down over it tho prob- a j3rave soldier jackinthebox thats a fine speclmenof a soldier i must say ive scared all tho sawdust out of him gloves in baseball gloves wcro used in baseball first in 1875 ancient yet modern foot corns are so called because ol a roseiublanco to a corn or barloy that can bo picked out throe hundred years ago corns were treated precisely as they are today and a recipe of 1620 says corns on the feot are to bo wet or soaked and rubbed with a pen cil of caustic every evening upon re tiring if large corns should bo cut out or at least pared with a sharp knife if n corn hangs by a small neck it should bo tied with a silk string and it will come away to 6top the pains of a corn cover the corn with a pleco ot adhesivo plaster with a holo cut through it so that tho corn may be pressed and as the corn rises add more adhesive plasters cut like the first men who have thought in all age3 i vi lorn te to pick up the jar and pliee it and climes have come to know this vuth there is a persian sage who tablerwith the lemon still said always meet petulance with p who attempt to perfcutn this gentleness and orvorsoness with kindnss a gentle hand can lead even an elephant by a hair reply to thine be enemy with gentleness o p pos u on to rea mothod of to s ttl tj trick requires a little practice but the foolishly does me wrong i will return k him the protection ol gg take hold of the jar and whirl it love tho more evil comes from him nb ho more good shau go from me around insido the jar and assoonla chinese have this proverb the wise trnve man avenges injuries by benefits ijm other tebio wn all the time sot it down and the lemoni will still be inside whilst tho hindu belloves return good for evil overcome anger by love hatred never ceases by hatred but by love now tho question is can thlb bo practised in a workjjiko ours i can imagine someone saying ys this la all very well in theory but it you had to llvo where i do and among tho peo ple i havo to meet you would say less about love and moro about holding your own and getting your own back m j but wo wore talking about success and the successful and if one is to re- turn evil for evil and railing for rait ing he is not successful neither is he trying tp win success every man can decide for hlmsolf the wood of the red or norway pino j is heavier harder and more resinous things and if a man will win than white pine but it is used for h can in anyt and everything the same purpose u his p and the power is ijjtji jhrafil- v p kfrj jji true in their case hubby complainlngly women seem to think theyrehead and should- ore above men wifio shortly well times quite true its some- a famous hymn the hymn from greenlands icy mountains was composed at wrex ham in 1819 on whitsunday in that year dr shipley dean of st asaph and vicar of wroxham preached a eer- nion inhls church on behalf ot tho so ciety for the propagation ot tho gos pel heber was soninlaw to dr shim ley and was on a visit thedoctor on the previous saturday asked heber tp write something forthom to sing ln tho morning and la a few minutes heber produced tho hymn now sowell known all over the world tho canadianenglish cemotory at salonlkl is shown above in a recent photograph indias industry growth india is now tho eighth largest in- dustrlal country in the world record ing to reports presented at a recent meeting of the east fndla assulaffon in london