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POVERTY VS. WEALTH

One day recently two widely dis similar items appeared in New York newspaper. The first told of a 15- year old girl working in a department store for S11 per week, on which she was attempting to support herself, a consumptive father, blind mother and four younger brothers and sisters. The other told of the rise in stocks which had increased the wealth of John D. Rockefeller fifty million dollars with in a few days. Isn't civilization won- derful?
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WOULD PROHIBIT GUN TOYING

4 bill is before congfess designed to prohibit the shipment of pistols by mail or express, with indications that it will pass. The bill is being bitterly fought by Americans who believe they have constitutional right to own and carry pistols for protection.
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were killed outright was 2S,363, while 12,101 died of their wounds later. What is the distance that search lights in the United States navy will carry while in use for all practical purposes. Ans. Thirty-fve to forty miles. At distance of twenty miles on a dark night with no fog, a newspaper may be read with their light.
 Was John l.. Sullivan ever cham pion prizefghter of the world.
 Ans Not officially recognized as such
 What was the actual time that hos tilities ceased in the World War?
 Ans. Fighting ceased at exactly Ii o'clock on Nov II, 1918, when the whole German army was in retreat
 Can you tell what the word "Bol- .sheviki" means?
 Ans. It is a Russian word meaning majority"
 Can man be judged by the dollars in his pocket?
 Ans. No, by the sense in his head.
 Can you please answer what is the fourth wedding anniversary?
 Ans. Leather.
 What is the largest island in the world?
 Ans. With the exception of Austra- l1a, which is now listed as conti- Inent, Greenland is the largest island, containing S27,O00 square miles.
 How many American nurses were overseas?
 Ans. There were 17,000 actually overseas, with 13,000 enrolled await ing transportation to Europe when the armistice was signed.
 Is radium the most precious min eral in the world? How is it devel- oped? Whats the price? Is any found in the United States.
 Ans. Yes; radium is worth about $150,000 a grain. It is smelted from ore which will yield about one grain to every one hundred tons. In 1913 radium bearing ore was found in Col orado
 Who was the strongest man in the world besides Sampson Ans. Jonah, we should judge The whale could not keep him down
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Who was the strongest man in the world besides Sampson.
 Ans. Jonah, we should judge. The whale could not keep him down.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Editor Gateway I wish to know the exact number of United States soldiers that lost their lives in ac- tion during the world war?
 Ans. The number of our boys that were killed outright was 28,363, while 12,101 died of their wounds later.
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Snow Shoes, s9,50 per pair, at Graef's. If
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Nice job, tackling the Free
Traders camp all alone! But
does he find the girI.2
tTo BE CONTINUED,
Fine Mahogany Trees

A recently discovered species of ma
hogany Of gigantic size exists on the
western coast of Panama at the San
Lorenzo river, and the American mu-
scum bird-hunting expedition of Lud-
low Griscom and three assistants
found it to be one of The commonest
trees of the primeyal forest Of that
little-known region, according to the
Baltimore Sun.
One superb specimen proved to be
Z feet in diameter, 6 feet from the
ground and to measure 1852 feet from
the base to the first limb. The per-
fectly symmetrical trunk, which is H.
Illustrated in natural history, had all
the grandeur of cathedral column.
Though less shapely, other trees were
even larger and one had O. diameter OF
IS feet at 6 feet from the ground. The
forest abounded in wild life, at least
200 species of birds occurring in the
vicinity.
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and in planning to see them some day
If they were right around the corner?
Cor when thinking of their great
and enormous country would people
like it if they could see 1t all in days
ride?
II don't believe they would. It's an
event to go from one part of the coun-
try to another.
Maybe they dream for years of the
time when they'll see what the West
looks like If they happen to live East
or what the East looks like If they
happen to live West--or they may
want to see it further North or down
South or along the Middle states
"The country is generous. There is
lots of it. Lots and lots to see.
$50 is the ocean generous. may
not have all the different sights that
the land has-I may not have different
views every time you look out at me
from ship as you would have if you
looked out from a train window going
across the country-but | have size.
Everything that is body Of water
cannot be the ocean. have really ac-
complished something.
81 have done what only few others
have done-and they are all of my
own Ocean family.
ooh, Mr.. Sun, when you go to sleep
tonight think perhaps you may dream
Of the miles and miles and miles and
miles and miles Of ocean you've seen
and you'll think how beautiful 1t is to
see me In the morning when you get
up and in the evening when you go to
bed.
"Of course many travellers have said
they would never know which was
east and which was west when travel.
ing on the ocean unless they saw you,
for they know you rise In the east and
go to bed in the west bedroom.
YES. you have an east morning
dressing room, and west bedroom for
sleeping.
Its Of particular help to ocean
travellers.
But oh, Mr.. Sun. no one has any
idea of the oceans generosity until
they come and take trip upon me
and then they see how enormous am
how perfectly enormously enormous /
That's the only way in which I can
describe my size. And | call ii gen
erous to spread ones self out as do.
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Girl, IL. Clubs Wolf Dead
in Battle With Pair

Wilkesbarre, Pa.-Out of the waQd-
ed Businesses of Wayne county, 70
miles from here, came a description of
death battle Of a twelve-year-old girl
and her dog with two huge timber
wolves, one of which was killed and
the other driven to cover.
Details were contained in letter re-
ceived by Prof. and Mrs. Fred Regain,
former superintendent of the Plymouth
township schools. The heroine is their
granddaughter, Alice McDermott,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
McDermott, who make their home on
farm near Pleasant Mount.
Alice was on her way to store a
mile from her home, when the attack
was made. While the dog engaged
both animals, she seized club. One
of the wolves managed to dart past
the defense of the dog while the latter
was engaged with the other assailant
Alice met the onrush with her club.
Her weapon felled him. The pelt is a
cherished family possession. The first
wolf retreated to the woods when its
companion was dropped.
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Nerve Provides Flapper
Auto for Three Months

Partisan ingenious little Paris
aapper Is not in police tolls because of
sheer flapper audacity. Noting that
wealthy French business man left his
automobile at the curb precisely at 2
p. m. daily and drove home precisely
at 6, the fiapper appropriated the
voiture during off hours.
She succeeded, during three months,
in repairing the vehicle at the exact
spot few moments before the owner
appeared.
The fiapper's downfall is due to the
increasing congestion of the central
thoroughfare of the city. Police regu.
lation holds the general flow of traffic
until the cross-stream has thinned. II
was in this situation the flapper found
herself at 5:55 p. N.
The owner missed his car, told tina
police and the f1apper was arrested.
She smiled and explained the case to
the owner and berated the regulation
of street traffic. The business man
smiled.
Fifteen minutes later the complaint
against TX" the auto thief, was ex-
plunged from the record at the commits
saire de police.
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BUYS $50, 900 PEARL
NECKLACE FOR SIS
Ne.D York JeweierN Makes
Startling Discovery.

New York.-Some time ago womafc'
bought in one of New York's largest
jewelers. an imitation pearl necklace
for SIS. She wore it several weeks
until one day it broke and the pearls
were scattered. She found all but one
and took them to the jeweler to have
them restrung.
"What will the job cost, together
with replacing the lost bead?" asked
the careful customer.
The salesman did not reply immedi,
ately. He was too busy examining
each of the beads. After what seemed
a very critical examination, he, said:
81 will have to get further expert
opinion, madam, but l estimate to re-
place the pearl and restring these It
will cost In the neighborhoOd of ST.
500"
But l bought the beads here for
$15," said the astonished client.
'Tais is a real pearl necklace and it
is worth at least $50,000," was the an
swer.
1t developed that owing to the care
lessness of a green salesman who as q
result had been discharged under
cloud, the real pearls had somehow
been sold for imitation.
The woman refused to keep the
pearls, although the officials of the jew
elry establishment assured her that she
was thoroughly entitled to them. She
returned them on the understanding
that the clerk who made the mistake
should be reinstated and that she be
given a SIS imitation necklace This
was done. But delighted firm could
not let it stop at this. A beautiful
piece of valuable diamond jewelry soon
afterwards was delivered to her with
the compliments Of the house.
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swered and she fixed her eyes on his
face with her peculiar scrutiny for a
few moments, and then started her
horse.
The afternoon began to wear away.
They were slowly descending toward
the northern pass of the range, beyond
which lay the immense territories
that they had seen. They began to
traverse precarious defiles, overhung
by huge boulders, prismatic from the
corrosion of the season. Underneath
them, at the bottom of a long descent,
in places nearly perpendicular, the tor
rent raced among the rocks.
1t was so still upon those heights
that the rush of the torrent far under
meath them sounded thunderous; and
the air was so calm, the sky SO blue,
that it might have been an Italian
summer, rather than a Canadian au-
tumn. An eagle, floating motionless,
high overhead, seemed to have been
pinned against the background of the
blue void
The girl reined in and waited for
Lee to ride up to her.
BE very careful with that horse of
yours he said. There's difficult bit
little distance ahead, but it's the
last, and then Wen have an easy jour
ney down through the pass
She started off again, Lee following
some twenty PAGES behind her. But of
sudden Lees horse baked, laid back
his ears and snorted, planted his fore
feet firmly and refused to move.
1t was almost impossible to dis
mount and lead him, for at that point,
the narrowest part of the trail, there
was hardly standing room for man and
beast together. Lee held in the ami
NAL with tight rein, and patted his
quivering TANKS.
He could not understand what had
alarmed it, but now some instinct, per-
haps communicated from the beasts
brain to his, seemed to tell of danger
threatening.
He glanced at the girl. and saw that
she was almost across the danger
zone. He dared not call to her, for
fear of startling her. And, indeed,
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CHAPTER Nv
The Trap Is Sprung

In the morning she greeted him with
forced gaiety. She nodded and smiled
when she came out Of her tent.
well, we shall ride on together to-
day, suppose" she said. 81 have told
you that l do not desire your com
pany, and that your enterprise is prob
ably 8 dangerous one. You have taken
the responsibility upon yourself. With
the understanding, we go as COM
panions instead of enemies. Is that
not so?'
And this time 1t was the girl who
extended her hand Lee took Ii and
held it for a moment in his own.
That's the understanding" he an
swered Il intend to see you to your
destination, wherever that is, and
after that you need not be afraid of
my troubling you any more"
And as for yesterday" said the
girl, "you will forget that was little
hysterical and upset? You see, it is
quite an ordeal, going ON so long a
journey, and was tired and said
foolish things that had no meaning in
them at ALL"
She watched Lees face closely as
she said this. But Lee did not reply.
They mounted and continued the
Journey 1t was about ten o'clock
when they heard two or three full
reverberations in the distance. The
girl who was riding few yards ahead
of Lee, refined in and stood her horse
upon turfy hillock, waiting for him
to catch up with her.
what was fhat?' she asked. look
ing at him with startled eyes.
Dynamite" Lee responded.
Dynamite? Why--who WOULD"
"Some prospector blasting rock on
his claim. no doubt" answered Lee,
and again there sounded defamation.
She seemed to muse moment or
Two. 1T rather startled me-" she
said. II have been afraid since those
two men left us-afraid some harm
may come to you from them. You will
be on your guard, won't your"
Yes, | promise you that" Lee an
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there was no reason to call, although
that baseless Instinct was now becom-
ing so strong that it almost amounted
to conviction.
He could not see the least cause for
apprehension anywhere His fears APP
peared absurd; and yet that electric
message of warning went flashing back
and forth between his mind and that
of his frightened mount.
Then suddenly there came the roar
of an explosion, muffied underground !;
the next the rocks over his head
seemed to upheave. An enormous
crack appeared in the face of the wall
of solid rock, which trembled and APP
peared to move toward him. as If
pushed by gigantic hand; and before
the reverberations had died away Lee
heard faint, crepitating sound, like
the rustling Of paper--the sliding of
the interior strata, one upon another.
A little avalanche of stones dis
lodged from the surface, came rush
ing down the face of the cliff midway
between the girl and himself. Had
Lees horse not stopped, it must have
been swept over the edge Of the preci-
pice.
Another roar, and huge rock top
pied and fell, this time behind. and
smashed into score of fragments
which went rolling into the chasm be-
low, waking hundred reverberations
among the hills.
And with that Lee understood the
devilish scheme that was in the work
ing. The dynamiting which he had
heard that afternoon was the prelimi-
nary work of the two men in prepar-
ing their trap; now they had set fuses
among the rocks at the narrowest point
of the trail, with the purpose of blow
| ing him to destruction.
And 1t was murder plan that
would leave no evidence behind 1t,
surer and safer than rifle shot.
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Ddd(lyS
Evening"
Fairy Tale
~MARY GRAHAM BONNER
OCEANS GENEROSITY
81 NARY GRAHAM BONNER
- coeTaoHT ss WfsItNn nfvsAsta ufpon

81 wonder If they thought was sell
fish before" said Mother Ocean.
Mr.. Sun was looking down upon her
and was saying polite goodnight
before he went to sleep.
He was wearing very handsome
suit of gold and red and he had cast
beautiful band of color right straight
around the rim of the world, it seemed.
Il am sure no one ever has thought
you were selfish" said Mr.. Sun.
We'll" said Mother Ocean, II heard
very curious thing today. Some peo-
pie were travelling on one of the great
big boats allow to pass over me.
ut was the first trip they had ever
made upon the ocean, so they said.
They needn't have said that, for
could realize from the speeches they
made that they had not travelled on
the ocean before.
Doubtless they knew about coasts
and rocks and of how look near
the land when talk to my shore
the others.
'sBut they said:
Goodness, but there is lot OF
ocean. We've been out now for three
days, and we have been going steadily
all the time and still we are not near
land. And not another boat to be seen.
We never knew the ocean was so enor-
NOUS
"Ah, Mr. Sun. they had no idea OF
my generosity. I'm not one of your
mean little bodies of water.
"I'm generous. I'm very generous
with myself.
II spread myself over so much dis
lance and say to all who cross me:
"'Here / am. Lots and lots of me.
When you come for an ocean voyage
you get an ocean voyage-you don't
get little bit of a boat ride and then
home in time for supper.
"'Oh, no, I'm your generous ocean
"Of course" Mother Ocean con-
tinued, II don't know that they always
care for so much generosity on my
part. Perhaps they would like me to
be smaller so they could travel all
about the world and get everywhere in
quick time.
But they'd soon weary of that.
'What would be the fun in thinking
of strange places all over the world
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AZ - = il
Another explosion; and between the
sound of the dull roar and the up
heavaI, Lee, seeing the girl apparently
trying to urge her plunging animal
back toward him, stood up in his stir
rups and waved his hand frantically
toward her.
go back Go back y he shouted
But the girl seemed bewildered. and
only chung to her plunging, snorting
beast, over which she had lost con-
troll, the while it paved the air and
danced desperately upon the narrow
way.
Lee vaulted from his horse, strug-
gled upon the edge of the preeipice, re
gained his footing, and ran toward
her. He caught at her horses bride.
Jump! Jumpi" he shouted, holding
out his arms.
And the few following seconds
seemed to extend through all eternity.
Another roar, and the whole face Of
the mountain wall appeared to crum-
pie into landslide. AS in a help
less dream Lee saw the falling wall
strike the girls horse in the flank and
sent it screaming into the chasm.
And, as he vainly grasped at her an
impact shot him over the precipice as
if he had been hurled from the mouth
of cannon.
He felt himself HURTING into space,
he grasped at emptiness and went
fumhlinq far down into unconscious
ness.
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pitched their tents again for the night,
did she refer to the men who had
threatened her.
"Will you be frank with me?" she
asked. "Will you tell me what you
are doing in the ranger"
81 am not free to do So"
"And am free? Is any one of us
free?" she cried mo, it's impossible.
must just go ON and ask God to give
me strength to bear it Don't speak
to me for few moments-there, I'm
sorry made such fool of myself"
She smiled Sat any rate, we are
gong to acknowledge each others
existence, aren't WEI" she said. "And
if you insist on riding with newell,
can't help it. Only, l warn you, you
are going into danger-grave danger.
Those two men--I am afraid they may
be planning to do you some injury"
Il don't think they are likely to try
very hard" answered Lee.
"But-but others" she whispered.
1T is not only they!
you begged me to trust you. You
said that you would do anything to
serve and help me. Did you mean
that?'
Anything that is possible"
"Anything?" she persisted.
IF it lies in my power"
"Then would you-would you kill a
man for me? A human wolf, one of
those devil creatures that does not de-
serve to live? Would you kill him to
serve me?
'Wait before you answer. He is
man who has betrayed those who
have trusted him, made humanity a
mockery; he is the foulest thing that
creeps upon the earth. Earth should
be rid of him. If l help you, will you
shoot him down like the savage dog
that he is, in cold blood, without dan
ger to yourself, while he is sleeping?
If l help your"
"No," answered Lee quietly.
She laughed in hooking scorn. $50
supposed" she answered. You men,
with your professions of loyalty and
service-you're all the same when it
comes TO the test"
81 won't commit murder in cold
blood and without provocation."
mo, of course not. You see, there
might be just little danger in it. He
is very crafty, and your offer of sery-
ice didn't include personal risk"
Lees fingers closed on her arm.
chats not the way" he said. "One
doesn't right wrongs with wrongs, or
even up scores by murder. Tell me
everything, and l pledge myself to see
that whatever wrong you have suf-
fered shall be redressed."
"Oh, I've heard that before, and
when l put you to the test ! found
just what those words were worth"
she answered lightly. mo, please for
get what / have just said to you. /
didn't mean it, anyway. There is no
such man as spoke of. There couldn't
be, for he would have been killed long
ago. l was just wondering whether ]
was to take you seriously or not-and
| found we were both playing game.
Goodnight"
She moved away abruptly and went
into her tent.
And all that night he lay, hardly
doing, his automatic beside his hand,
waiting and wondering.
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sPRlNeINe THE TRAP

SYNOPSIS.-Lee Anderson, Roy
al Canadian Mounted Police SER
geant, is sent to Stony range to
arrest man named Pelly for
murder He is also instructed to
look after Jim Railway, reputed
head of the Free Traders Illicit
liquor runners. At Little Falls
he finds Pelly is credited with
having found a gold mine, and
is missing. At the hotel appears
n girl, obviously out of place in
the rough surroundings. A half
breed, Pierre, and a companion.
Shorty" annoy the girl. An
derson interferes in her behalf.
The girl sets out for Siston Lake,
which is also Anderson's objec-
tive. He overtakes her and the
two men with whom he had trou-
BILE the night before. She is sus-
picious of him and the two men
are hostile.
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Why He Bifed Her

Newark, N. J.-When Judge Grice
OF Newark asked William Brennan.
safe owner, why he had given his wife
a sinner, Brennan explained that he
had delivered the punch after his wife
had permitted her pet poodle to sleep
In his bed. and used the silver-mounted
comb and brush presented him by the
club TO beautify the dog. He was held
for hearing
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Fifty-Fifty

Mrs. LateleighJust remember, you
can't get in late without my hearing
you
Mr.. Lateleigh- No. and l cant get
in late without my hearing you. either.
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Wed Is Times at IS,
Wins Her 18th Divorce

East st. Louis, Ill.-The thir-
teenth marital venture OF Mrs.
Henry LaForge went on the
rocks when she obtained a di-
vorce from her latest husband
on the ground Of cruelty.
Mrs. LaForge said her f1rst
! choice was Joseph Truxler,
whom she married 81 years ago,
when she was fourteen. Since
then she had one marriage an
raulled, obtained eleven divorces,
nine on the ground of cruelty
and two for infidelity, and was
divorced once on the ground OF
deseftion.
One of the objects Of Mrs. La
Forge'S affections entered into
three marriages with her, each
ending inN the divorce court.
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"What are the mountains forY
asked the teacher of the Juvenile geog
raphy class.
"For summer resorts" answered tbt
bow at the foot Of the class
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