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"D wight,1" cxclajmed the gfrk hardly believing her eyes. "Present," he answered, "Shalt we go back for your father or go on to the minister's house?" "Y.ou seem to be doing the driving," she answered demure ly, and he could not resist the temptation to draw her to him and kiss her. v "It was certainly lucky," he said, after the girl had taken her place by his side and the car had started forward, "that Williams was not at the garage and that I was when your father phoned for his machine in a hurryj" d o BIGGEST MINE EVER. . "Scotty" was a mystery. Every once in a while he emerged from Death Valley, in the desert re gion at the back of the Sierras, with a bag of gold. Once he hired a special train, made a spectacu lar tour across the continent and spent money with the prodigality of a prince in the t metropolitan . hotels of the effete east, All the time "Scotty" refused to drop the slightest hint about the location of the fabulous mine. Nothing- was known except that he disappeared in the desert, came back with the yellow gold, "blew himself" for a riotous good time, then did it all over again. , At length "Scotty" was incor porated, capitalized and put in the market. He sold like hot cakes. But luck turned. "Scotty" re ceived $25,000 one day, was sued for a doctor's bill of $1,000, couldn't explain what he had done with his latest "roll' (which he really neyer got), wag jailed for contempt and then the mine was discovered. It was the biggest, deepest; most' inexhaustible mine the world has ever known the pock etbook of the credulous public "Scotty" had been the tool of a bunch of shrewd promoters, who first exploited him, then sold stock on the strength of luVmys tery." It is a,n old saying that a "sucker is born every minute.' But that is a back number. We live faster nowadays. A sucker is born every second at least, and. occasionally the. sucker trap works overtime. POSITION IN SLEEP Be careful ahout forming' bad sleeping habits. Don't allow, yourself to become addicted to sleeping in one position or you will soon find that you can't feel comfortable in any (other, And one sleeping position, long kejJt, is bound to have a bad effect on the health. Sleep on one side and then the other. Switch to sleeping on your stomach occasionally, If sleeping on your back doesn't seem to induce nightmareSj don't: be afraid to sleep that' way once in a while. Don't curl up" with your hands on your knees. And don't sleep on a thick pillow, o o Now approacbeth the period when we try to inculcate national spirit into our 10-year-old by sub stituting soda crackers for the fir ing kind, j