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FIRST DWELLING PLACE
Scientists Claim That the Desert of
Cobb Must for Natural Reasons
Be he Spot.

The desert of Cobb, which is the
summit of the central steppe in Asia.
is the most elevated region on the
globe. and it is here. scientists claim.
man first lived. arguing that this point
of earth must have been the first to
emerge from the universal sea, and
that as the subsiding waters gradually
gave up lower regions of earth to
man he was able to descend and
spread himself progressively over new
acquisitions.
It is from this region that the great
rivers of Asia also take their rise
and flow toward the four cardinal
points. On the declivities of these
highlands are the plains of Tibet,
lower than the frozen regions Of Cobb.
Here are found not only the vine, the
olive. rice, the legumina. and other
plants on which man has depended
for sustenance, but also those animals
which he has tanned and led with him
over the earth, as the OK. the horse.
the ass. the sheep. the goat. the camel,
the hog. the dog, and even the rein
deer, run wild upon these mountains.
On the mountains of Cashmire. in
Tibet. and in the north of China, grain
has been found to be growing wild for
years without ever being sown or
titled, and here also wild animals that
have lived there while man has tanned
others of the same species, are numer-
ous.-Exchange
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ANSWERS CALL OF FRIEND
Who Had Cared for 1t In Its
Helplessness.

A two-pronged buck deer answers
the calls of Jerry Shine, employed by
the municipal water district at Alpine
dam, near San Raphael, Cal.
Long ago Shine one day came upon
a dead doe in the trail Of the forest,
and standing beside the mother was q
fawn. 1t was miles to Shines cabin,
but he carried the fawn home with
him, fed it aud gave it the name of
Billy. After time Shine left the dis
trict. He returned several days ago
and asked his fellow workers the
whereabouts of his deer. They laughed
at him; the deer had gone back to ma
ture. they said.
Shine mounted the parapet of the
dam and called for Billy. The deer,
now the proud possessor of two
pronged horns, bounded out of the for
est. A photograph was taken Of the
man and the animal, as the latter rest
ed his forefeet on the shoulder OF
Shine.
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MOTOR FAULTS

4 WIFE? She isn't in it-not with
\ man and his machine. The di-
vine harmony OF married bliss, the
gentle concord of lifelong companion
ship, the passionate prelude to life
itself, are as dust before the hypnotic
bonds of mechanism.
Observe the chief electrician on
watch. About him hum and roar and
thump and purr the million parts of a
monster man-Of-war. Overhead may
flash great teams of heavy guns and
hurl their steel death into the enemy
Men may be dying up there. Or a
twelve-tOn brOadSide may this moment
be in flight toward the heart of the
dynamo room itself.
de Is watching his motor. Four fat
turbo generators are sucking juice
out OF the air-Or wherever juice comes
from-and feeding it through the ship
Part of it feeds the spinning motor
And an invisible man-magnetism in the
process has seized the chief and drawn
quintessence of interest from his mind
and body.
Suddenly electric lamps about grow
brighter. Rather pleasant, one would
think, to have more light. Not so the
chief. To him one bit of unusual bril-
l1ancy means turbine speed too high.
Too much current is squirting through
the cupric nerves of his paramount
With practiSed hand he shifts
valve. Steam drops the fraction of a
pound and lamps come natural again.
Eyes bright from concentration shift
F(a fF1o
current. Its feathered needle moves
with the motors pulse, a pulse Of
blood more strange than space, twice
as Invisible, yet potent beyond mans
puny measurements.
NOitmeter gives him the pressure of
this blood. CrackIe of tiny sparks here
and there point to many leaks in the
tender skin of insulation. Perhaps q
slight fever warns the sturdy mag
nets at the motors forehead-an over
load or short in the circuit would do
it. So the chief does this and that
with his switches, and his armature
brushes. and his resisting rheOstat, IN
til his loved one rests more easily.
A1ayhap a burst Of binding flame
stuns him. He may finch IN the heat
OF it. Ffve-hundred volts leap short
gaps with almost volcanic Intensity.
But the chief leaps to his circuit
breaker with a ferocity of defense. His
own body is nothing. IT'S the motor he
would save.
No misOgynist is this-not with a
love like thatI Bachelor at forty; call
him celibate if you please. But the
motors faults are not the fOllies of a
woman. They are the weak points In
the chiefs electrical efficiency.
He knows this. The clean truth Of
it holds him. He sticks to the navy,
to his motor; and his love is very
genuine.
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SUBMARINE BELL

4" HERE is a certain WarShiD skin
L per who calls attention to the
spreading gray about his temples. Not
that he is proud of this mark of age,
but because, it runs no further than
his ears. My gray hairs stop" he ex-
plains, because 1 always know Just
when to stop worrying
His friends, however, "have one on
him." Twas the submarine bell that
got the placid shippers goat.
This gadget-as we say in the navy,
meaning thingambOb-iS q device for
transmitting sound signals under wa
ter. Large hghtShips such as Nam
tucket have a heavy bell suspended
deep in the water. By an automatic
device clappeF strikes at regular in
tervals. Each bell along the coast has
its characteristic interval and number
of strokes.
All large ships and men-of-war are
fitted with receivers for capturing the
sound waves set up under water by
these bells. In the outer bottom is a
small box filed with water and con-
tanning . very sensitive diaphragm
which vibrateS in tune with the bell.
Through telephone connection one
may catch the signals from the bridge
or any other part Of the ship.
Since the receivers are on each side
sound comes most distinctly when the
bell is nearly on the beam. From four
to five miles is the average limit Of
range.
One thick March morning our self
contained friend was approaching New
York. Though he was well Off-shOre
the soupy fog made him anxious about
his landfaII. Putting his submarine
telephone to his ear he suddenly heard
the clear note of a bell. That's queer. -
he exclaimed, I'VE Oughn't to be any
where near the Iightship yet
He swung the battleship about in
order to find which heading bIotted
out the sound In this way he could
obtain an approximate bearing of the
Iightship.
But the bell kept on. It played reg
ular chimes. increasing and decreas-
ing. To the CONSERVATION of the skip
per he was unable to determine either
the distance, direction, or character OF
the crazy thing. "Can it be some new
kind OF enemy Internal machine?" he
wondered.
He became frantic. He cursed the
navigator. the lightship. the officer-of-
the-deck; and then all ships and bells
and officers. In a final paroxysm Of
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MACHINERY INSPECTOR

4 n EXPLORER will return to the
N drear loneliness of the wilder.
ness. A convict free will find himself
strangely longing for the bitterness of
captivity So strong is the hold en-
vironment can take on the soul of a
man.
On ship in the fleet served a good
seagoing chief engineer. But he had
been at sea too long. He was growing
stale. So he asked for shore duty.
He was transferred to a huge steel
mill where government contracts were
filed. For two years he was to hear
the hum of lathe and Scraper instead
of the pound and the wheeze Of his
own engines. Instead of the 1ntermit-
tent roar Of the turreted guns he was
TO be half-deafened by the more steady
belching of gigantic blast furnaces.
His title was Naval Inspector of Ma
chinery.
A superdreadnaught was launched
The inspector supervised the installa-
ton of her mighty engines His re
sponsibility Increased up to the day OF
her trials.
On this day a board OF inspection
and survey came down in full regaha
to hold official tests of the new war
baby. The inspector met the big bugs
in proper form, but he didn't look
happy
Perhaps it was the sheaf Of papers
and records he produced that filed him
full of gloom. For instance there were
the weight tables for parts and fittings
and auxiIaries and full boilers as well
as empty ones; it may have been his
long monotonous report comparing the
finished product to the original speci-
ficatiOns.
The machinery inspector was gray
and weary. Facts and figures had be-
gun to get on his nerves. Indoor work
had stolen his tan. And when he
guided the trial board through their
duties in trying out the newest OF our
men-of-war he realized he'd had
enough shore duty. "Guess I'll put in
for the fleet again." ne declared. 81
don't seem to do so well here"
He was wrong. Few inspectors be
fore him had been his equal The truth
was the old, old truth: He was home
sick for the heave OF q plated deck.
the swish of oily bilges, and a salt
breath out of the starboard hatch
So "siaYe of the sea" is the right
name after all.
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CHAPTER !.
The Beck of Fortune.

The last congratulations had been
offered; the last good wishes. some
what mixed with tears. had been ex-
pressed. The bride. glowing in the
happy consciousness of her own beau
ty. and deified by the great tenderness
that enveloped her new estate Ike a
golden mist, said her farewelIs with
steady voice and undergoing eyes.
1t had been a busy winter for John
Harris, and this. although the con-
summation of his great desire. was
but the threshold to new activities and
new outlets for his intense energies.
Since the face and form of Nary Allan
had first enraptured him In his little
backwoOds school district. vast am
bition had possessed his soul. and to-
day, which had seemed to be its end.
he now knew to be but its beginning.
The ready consent of his betrothed to
share his life in the unknown wilder
ness between the Red river and the
Rocky mountains had been tide
which. taken at. its food, might we'll
lead him on to fortune. At the con-
clusion of his fall term he had re-
signed his position as teacher, and
with his small savings had set about
accommodating equipment essential to
the homesteader. Because his effects
were not enough to fill a car he had
doubled up" with Tom Morrison, q
fine farmer whose worldly success had
been somewhat less than his deserts,
and who bravely hoped to mend his
broken fortunes where land might be
had for the taking.
So John Harris and his bride took
the passenger train from her city
home, while their goods and chattels
save for their personal baggage, rum.
bled on IN box-car or crowded stoI.
idly into congested side-tracks as the
exigeneies of traffic required.
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SEA OUTEIT

T n MOMENTS OF great stress we are
L very human; also genuine. We tend
to reveal that which is most character
iStic of our whole makeup.
Take the case of a certain cOmman-
der who received orders at sea. Such
a change means little to the bluejack-
eft. He is younger and more tempo
rary In the service. When Uncle Sam
lobs him from beach 70 battlebOat, '1
Should Worry is the tune to which he
marches. For the "gob''-lucky dog
takes a turn round ditty box and bag
with hammock furled beside, and beats
it
But commander doesn't swing In a
hammock; and a dozen ditty boxes
and bags wouldn't hold the mess Of
uniforms he must have. Also there are
his civilian toys, and swords, and
books, and filing cases, and a multi
tude of other belongings.
Yet he has cut to bare necessities.
mo, my dear" to his fearful wife
says he, ST cannot take those sofa pif-
lows for my bunk. But I need the
sheets and pillowcases. Four blankets
will be more than enough. And don't
forget the towels and a sewing kit"
She doesn't Nor does she overlook
his winter underwear and sweaters for
sudden northern cruise. When he
isn't watching she darns up all his
socks and his whites. Knowing his
observation-disclosures she tucks in odd
corners of his sea chest small pack
ages of pins and pipes and spare shaw
ing gear and shOestrings and mittens
and mufflers and wooden socks, and
an old panama hat for Cuban waters.
She insists on including an alcohol
stove for a midnight mug up on the
gale-cut bridge. She gets ready his sea
diary and has his binoculars cleaned.
She finds has epaulettes need new
straps and puts in a mean half-hour
splicing up his sword knot
Finally, if she's wise, she sends in
a subscription for her commanders
favorite magazine and arranges to
have fresh fruit sent him when in port.
As a last touch with bags and boxes
packed and ready she slips in a little
picture of herself. Hell probably
miss 1t when he gets there she muir
murs
Months later he's home again, and
he talks a bit. "Oh yes" says he off,
handedly, "just as the old tub was
about to break up I slipped into my
room and got your picture"
Whereupon he hauls out and hands
her the most important item of a COM
mander's sea outfit.
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Ho.v AIrmen uss oxyaen.

When an airman aseends to heights
greater than 10000 feet, he is sure
TO use oxygen. He carries II In liquid
form In a vacuum tank provided with
a mechanism TO control the evapora-
ton
The liquid may be electrically heat
ed to accelerate evaporation; or g
heated rod of copper or aluminium in
the liquid may be used; or the liquid
may be siphoned out into an evapOrat-
ing chamber from which the gas is
conducted through tubes to the air
mans mouth. = Popular Science
Monthly.
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! on her finger. This still stands at
par. doesn't it?''
Yes. DEAR" he answered, raising
the ring to his lips. 'You know IL
does. But to venture into that wilder
ness means-you see. it means so
much more to a woman than to u
man."
mot so much as staying at home
alone. You didn't really think would
do that?"
mo, not exactly that. Let US sit
down and 1 will tell you what l
thought. Here. let me get the cush-
ion.. :. There, that is better"
They sat for some minutes. gazing
dreamiIy across the broad sheet OF
silver.
And so you are going to Man.
itOba?" she said at length.
Yes. There are possibilities there.
It's a gamble. and that is why 1 didn't
want to share it with yOu-at first
thought l would spend a year; locate
homestead; get some kind OF house
built; perhaps break some land. Then
l would come back"
And you weren't going to give me
word in all those preparations for
our future? You have a lot to learn
yet. John. You won't find it in that
folder, either
She had snatched his confession at
an unguarded moment. He had not
meant to tell her so much-so soon.
AS he thought over the wheels he had
set in motion their possible course
staggered him. and he found himself
arguing against the step he contem-
plated.
"It's a gamble" he repeated. ''The
agricultural possibilities of the cOun-
try have not been established. 1t may
be adapted only to buffalo and Indi-
ans. We may be far hack from civili-
zatfon. far from neighbors. or doctors.
or churches, or any of those things
which we take as a matter of
course"
''Then you will need me with you.
John, and I am going"
In crimson glory the sun had sunk
behind the black forest across the
lake. The silver waters had draped
in mist their fringe of inverted trees
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I At junction point they we're trans
ferred from the regular passenger ser
vice TO an immigrant train.
One or two of the passengers haC
already made the trip to Manitoba
and were now on the journey a second
time, accompanied by their wives ane
Families. These men were soon notet
as individuals of some moment; they
became the center of little knots OF
conversation, and their fellow-immi-
grants hung in reverent attention upon
every word from their lips.
Tell US about the crops" said one
or the men passengers. What Ike
wheat can We grown
Like corn" said the narrator, with
great elaboration. Heads like ears
corn Wheat that grows so fast ye
can hear it. NOthin' uncommon to
walk into wheat fields when they's
knee-high, an have to fight yer way
out like a jungle"
Is the Injuns VERY big?" piped a
little voice. MY pas go'n' to make
me bOne-arrow so can kill 'em all
up.'
That's brave soldier" said the
man, drawing the child to his knee.
But An know a better way to fight
Indians than with bows an arrows.
An tights 'em with flour an blankets
an badger-meat, an it's a long way
better"
The child climbed up on the friend
iy knee and interested himself in the
great silver watch-chain that Iooped
convenient fn
your story, man." he said. FPS listen
in"
And big Aleck McCrae forgot the i'm
migrants crowded around, forgot the
Iurch of the train and the window
glimpse of forests heavy-bIanketed
with snow. as he ploWed his fertile
imagination and spread a sudden har-
vest Of wOnderment before the little
soul that chung to his great watch
chain.
And so the journey wore on. AS day
succeeded day to the monotonous rum
bic of the car wheels the immigrants
became better acquainted and friend
ships took root that in after years
were to brave every storm of adver-
sity and bloom forth in the splendid
community of spirit and sacrifice
which particularly distinguished the
pioneers.
In the cold gray of a March mcrn-
ing, when the sun had not vet dis
PEELED the mists of night, and the
fringing woods back from the Red
river doomed white and spectral
through the frost, they re-entered the
empire, and in few minutes were de-
training at Emerson, the boundary
town and gateway to the prairies
which for 1000 miles stretched into
the mysteries of the unknown.
Emerson was the gateway of the
great invasion. The "farthest vest
OF rail communication, on the thresh-
old of the prairie country. it seemed
the strategical point for the great city
which must arise with the settlement
and development of the fertile king
dom of territory lying between the
Lake of the Woods and the Rocky
mountains. and between the forty
ninth parallel and the unknown north
ern limit of agriculture.
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ALASKA APPEALS TO YOUTH
Newspaper in Great Northern Terri
tory Promises Fortune to the
Young and Adventurous.

The sage advice of Greeley was new
er more applicable than it is today in
Alaska, observes the Alaska capital.
What the country needs is the op-
fimisms of youth, coupled with an adj
herence to the advice of Dr. Kilgor of
Trinity college, North Carolina, when
he said: Young man, the sages will
tell you to be prudent; prudence be-
longs to the daring Of yOuth-the spirit
Of adventure that viii develop in
dividuality."
Reduce this philosophy to Alaskan
terms. and we find that the territory
Just now needs youth to finish the
structure upon the foundation laid by
those wonderful pioneers whom we
reverence and admire. The raw ma
terials are here, materially and ethical
" ali that is needed is for the next
generation succeeding the pioneers to
step into the trails blazed for them
and finish the work.
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SWAMP-ROOT FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS

There is only one medicine that really
stands out pre-eminent as a medicine for
durable ailments OF the kidneys, liver and
bladder.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root stands the
highest for the reason that it has proven
to be just the remedy needed in thousands
upon thousands of distressing cases.
Swamp-Root makes friends quickly be
cause its mild and immediate effect Is soon
realized in most cases. 1t is q gentle,
healing vegetable compound.
Start treatment at once. Sold at ali
drug stores IN bottles OF two sizes, medi-
UNI and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Klmer & Co., Binghamton, n. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-AdT-
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along the shore and lay, passive and
breathing, and very still, beneath the
smoOth-cutting canoe.
And we shall build our own home,
and live our own lives, and love each
other always-only, for ever and
ever?" she breathed
For ever and ever" he answered.
The last white simmer Of daylight
faded from the surface of the lake
The lovers floated on. gently, jOyously,
into their ocean of hope and happi-
ness.
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Lot of Them-

First Movie Director (watching the
director of another company at work.
That's a cOrking mob scene. There
must be two hundred men trying to
break into the front door OF that
house, and fully two hundred at the
back door. 1t must have cost you
something for all those extras.
Second Director-Only a couple of
dollars. 1 put two ads in the paper:
Wanted fer the movies, a man that
looks like George Washington; apply
at front door," WANTED for the
movies. a man who looks like Ma
poIeon; apply at back door''-F1Im
Fun.
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|CutiCma Soap
Compilations
Are Healthy
Poor Shooting.
Soap ZSe. 0atBsat Is aad Soc, TaIe1 zSe.

This story Of a dear old lady who
was watching a match at Wimbledon
is from Mrs. Lambet Chambers book
on tennis:
One player had been showing re-
markedly fine form He had ''got
over" all his first services for several
games when-bangi His judgment
erred, and the bali landed In the net
There !" said the old lady. That's
the very first time that man has hit
the net with the ball, and he has had
hundreds OF tries !"
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SAME THOUGHT IN GREAT MINDS.

Carlyle wrote of ~One Iife-a little
CLEAN Of time between two eternitieS."
Marcus AureiiUs had written, Deem
not life a thing of consequence. for
look at the yawning void OF the future
and at that other limitIess space. the
past" The old Saxon, Bede. Hkened
man IN his earthly life to a sparrow
flying out OF the dark night into the
lighted banquet hall for q moment
only, and then cut again into the black
and unknown night.
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No statue Of eeornlan.

Tho secretary of the statuary hall
in the capitol says that there is no
of Georgia in the Hall
OF Fame. Each state may contribute
two statues OF deceased citizens of
the state, who ''for historical renown
or for civil or military services" are
considered by the state as worthy Of
such commemoratiOn.
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CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

Those that are quick to decide are
unsafe.-Greek Proverb.
It's poor article that can't get a
testimonial Of some kind.
A lot Of unciyfI men hold ofice under
civil service appointments.
Many a brave man has lost his
nerve In a dentists chair.
About the only sure way to keep
secret is net TO have a secret.
It is not good for a man to live
alone-unless he wants to save money.
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Improbable.

TOmmy-Out of a jOb7
Jimmy-Yes. The boss said he was
Iosin' money on the things 1 was max
ing.
Tommy Wasn't there anything else
you could do around the place?
JIMMY think not. Anyhow. he
said, I didn't seem to be able TO do
anything else.
TOmmy-And what was you maxim?
Jimmy-Mistakes
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anxiety he sent someone to investigate
his receiving box in the double bot
toms.
Which disclosed a single happy
whistling busy bluejacket, chipping
paint And every time the sailor struck
the bulkhead his signal carried direct
to the perplexed bridge gang.
So even the skipper had his OF day.
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Reason for Gratitude.

Little Edna was visiting the museum
with her aunt In the Egyptian room
the child saw the desiccated remains
Of an ancient queen and asked what
II was.
THAT is someone's mummy, dear"
replied auntie.
Goodness - said Edna, I'm glad
my mummy doesn't look like that
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