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Reparation Frederick dug a stubborn toe into the floor. His fat, limp hand held his pencil loathingly. His brow was bead ed with perspiration, born, not of la bor, but of obstinacy. "Now, Frederick,” began Miss Burke, with conscientious enthusiasm, sitting down at the desk across the aisle, "let’s draw a picture of a beau ti-ful big dog.” A few more beads of perspiration appeared upon Frederick’s flushed forehead and the hand that held the pencil became a shade more nerveless. It was at three o’clock that Miss Burke had suggested gayly that every body should draw the picture of an animal and let everybody else guess what it was. It was now a quarter past four. Each of the other children had executed the likeness of some chosen animal and then their short legs had trudged, trotted or skipped home with these treasures of art, but Frederick still sat before his small desk, mulishness enthroned upon his brow and no slightest hint of the coun terfeit presentment of any beast ap pearing upon the virgin surface of his paper. Miss Burke spoke again, ly. "I’m going up to the platform, now, Frederick, to arrange my desk all neatly for tomorrow, and when I oome back I just know I shall find a lovely picture of a dog. Now, shan’t I?” Frederick spoke not, nor did he move during the ten minutes Miss Burke passed in inventing small du ties in connection with the tidying up of her desk. When she came down from the plat form and stood before Frederick again, there was that in her voice which made him take his reluctant gaze from his paper and raise it to her facS. "Frederick Merriam,” said the hith erto persuasive tones, “I’m going to wash my hands and put on my wraps, and when I come back I expect to find a picture of a dog on that piece of paper.” She pointed a firm finger at the sheet before him and then turned away. When his teacher returned ten min utes later Frederick sat with his toe dug into the floor and his pencil limp ly grasped in his hand, but on the paper had appeared an outline in which an indulgent critic might have found a faint suggestion of a dog. “We’ll try to do better next time, Frederick,” said Miss Burke. "You may get your hat and go now.” Miss Burke, passing down the hall a few minutes later, overtook her small pupils. “Good night, Freddie,” she said with the magnanimous courtesy of the one who has had the best of it. Frederick stared fixedly at the wall until she had passed. Then he looked vindictively at her retreating ba.ck. “I’ll go and muss up her ol’ desk,” he thought. “Makin’ me draw a pitch er of a ol’ animal!” He turned back into the schoolroom and tiptoed up to Miss Burke’s desk. Everything was put away inside the drawers except a few pencils and a ruler. Fredrick threw the pencils on the floor, and then, taking the ruler between two chubby hands, he broke it across his fat knee. Then he tip toed to the door and sped down the hall. There was no rest for Frederick that night. His uneasy dreams were haunted by visions of angry Miss Burke threatening him with broken rulers and great paper dogs opening horrible mouths at him. Early in the morning he crept from his bed and ■went to the drawer where he kept his bank. He took the bank to the bed and shook it violently until he could hear nothing more rattling inside it. Three bright Lincoln pennies re warded his efforts. Eight o’clock found Frederick, a hur ried breakfast lying heavy upon his youthful stomach, standing before the showcase of the “school store,” ma king a careful survey of its contents. After due consideration he selected one stick of chewing gum, done up in a piece of sky-blue paper fringed at the ends, one taffy-on-a-broomstick and one all-day sucker. With these deposited in a paper bag striped with purple he hastened to school. Here he tore a sheet from his tab let and inscribed these words upon it: “Dear Miss Burke. Yours truly, Fred erick.” Attaching this with a decrepit pin to the paper bag, he laid it on Miss Burke’s desk and, returning to his seat, buried his nose in his lan guage book and awaited developments. “Well!” exclaimed Miss Burke. “Somebody has been giving me a pres ent. Frederick!” reading the name on the sheet of paper. "Why, how nice of you Frederick!” Did she, as she took up the bag, give a fleeting glance at the broken pieces of rules lying in a conspicuous spot on the desk, where the janitor had placed them? “Chewing gum! Dear me, what a gay paper! Taffy-on-the-broomstick— and an all-day sucker, too!” She care lessly, and apparently without glancing at them, brushed the pieces of the broken ruler into her waste basket, while she arranged the contents of the paper bag in a row on her desk. “1 love all-day suckers, Frederick.” Fredrick’s nose became firmly at tached to a page of his language book, but he could not conceal the grin of gratification and relief which promptly overspread his flushed countenance. ! “Gee; Ain’t I glad I got ’em for her?’ he thought. HAD NEVER BEEN TEMPTED Delegation of Citizens Looking for County Treasurer Decided Can didate Was Too Honest. Upon a certain occasion an emi nent citizen was approached by a delegation of other eminent citizens, the leader of whom proceeded to say: “Friend, it must be known to thee that we have had dishonest men in office and the taxpayers have suffered loss thereby?” “Truly, the facts have come to my ears,” was the reply. “We would further state that we are a delegation looking for a new man to fill the position of county treasurer.” “And in me you will find an hon est one.” “That is to say, thee wilt not graft?’ “Not the value of a cent.” “There wilt be much cash to handle.” “But it will be safe with me.” “And there will be constant tempta tions.” "But I shall withstand them all.” ‘ “Hast even handled public funds?” "No, but I again assure thee of my honesty.” "Friend,” continued the speaker for the delegation, “thou art honest be cause thou hast never been tempted. We are now losing about ten per cent, by graft. Let ’the office be given to an honest man and he’ll either take all or none, and the chances are about even up. We will pass on!” Moral —The honest man of today is the rascal of tomorrow. BEDOUIN IS SMALL EATER He Is Active and Martial, Yet He Subsists Easily on Very Little Food. The Bedouins are a most alert and military race, and yet it is an undoubt ed fact that the quantity of food usual ly consumed by the greater part of them does not exceed six ounces a day. Six or seven dates soaked in iftelted butter serve a man a whole day, and he esteems himself happy when he can add a small quantity of coarse flour or a little ball of rice. In 17?9 ?n Englishman describes the Russian grenadiers as follows: "They are the finest body of men I ever sa w Not a man is under six feet high. Their allowance consists of eight pounds of black bread, four pounds of oil, and one pound of salt per man for eight days.” In 1854, when the Russians surprised the world by stand ing against the attack of the Allies, On the bloody battlefield of Alma, were ‘ound dead Russians with their provisions in their knapsacks, and there provisions were "black bread crumbs in oil.” Dr. Hamlin, who has resided more than twenty years in Constantinople, says the Turkish porters in that city eat bread made -from flour scarcely bolted, fruits, curdled milk, of ■which they are very fond, rice cooked with some other vegetables, and about twice a week a little meat at dinner, which they eat soon after sunset. They never drink any sort of distilled or fer mented liquor. Onions and garlic are largely consumed by the Turks. An Immense Flower. The largest of all the flowers of the world is said to be the Rafflesia, a na tive of Sumatra, so called after Sir Stamford Raffles. This immense flow er is composed of five round petals of a brickish color, each measuring a foot across. These are covered with numerous irregular yellowish white swellings. The petals surround a cup nearly a foot wide, the margin of which bears the stamens. The cup of the Rafflesia is filled with a fleshy disk, the upper surface of which is covered with pro jections like miniature cows’ horns. The cup when free from its contents will hold about twelve pints. The flower weighs about fifteen pounds and is very thick, the petals being three-quarters of an inch.—Scientific American. Bismarck and Coffee. Among the coffee drinkers a high place must be given to Bismarck, says the London Chronicle. He liked coffee unadulterated. While ■with the Prussian army in France he one day entered a country inn and asked the host if he had any chiccory in the house. He had, Bis marck sail. “Well, bring it to me, all you have.” The man obeyed and handed Bismarck a canister full of chiccory. “Are you sure this is all you have?” demanded the chancellor. “Yes, my lord, every grain.” “Then,” said Bismarck, keeping the canister by him, “go now and make me a pot of coffee.” Mixed History. A university student who was be ing examined in history wrote: “Queen Elizabeth rode a white horse from Kenilworth through Coventry, with nothing on, and Raleigh offered her his cloak.” Another wrote: “The gods of the Indians are chiefly Mo hammed and Buddha, and in their spare time they do lots of carving.” The Difficulty. The First Worker —Manner born bf biowed! D'joo mean ter say if me an you come into a bit o’ splosh we couldn't keep our ends up with these ’ere docks and people?” His Doubling Friend —Oh, we should be orlright; but our missuses’d give game away, yer know. —Tiae 1 »teh GRANT COUNTV HERALD. LANCASTER WISCONSIN. AUGUST 2. U>ll. COMMON GOP NOT PROHIBITED Law Not intended to Interfere With Church Services. “PUBLIC BUILDINGS” ARE HIT Intention of the State Board of Health Was to Stop the Use of the "Death Cup” for Water Drink ing Purposes. Madison. —The use of the common communion cup in churches is not pro hibited by the new “death cup” rule adopted by the state board of health, according to Dr. C. A. Harper, secre tary of the board. The secretary said that he did not understand that the board meant to include churches when it some days ago extended the “death cup” prohibi tion so as to include “public build ings.” The rule will soon be officially pub lished and then the attorney general will be requested to determine whether churches come within the term “public buildings” as used there in. The members of many churches in Wisconsin using the common com munion cup have discussed the ques tion, but none of them has yet asked the board of health about it. If the question were put up to the board, the attorney general would at once be asked for an opinion regarding it, Sec retary Harper said. The intention of the board was sim ply to prohibit the use of the “death cup” for water drinking purposes in public places. Since the new rule was promulgated many congregations in the state have adopted individual com munion cups. Denies Fire Loss Has Been Reduced. “Any claim that the fire loss in this state has been reduced re cently is absolutely without founda tion,” is a statement made by Her man L. Ekern, commissioner of in surance, in the forty-second annual report of the state insurance depart ment submitted to Governor Mc- Govern. That a part of the excessive losses paid last year, which, according to the report, was $5,529,142.37, was due to the extremely dry season and that the element of arson was not a large fac tor are other points made. The conclusion reached is that the excessive loss is largely due to de fects in plans and construction and perhaps in a large part to a lack of recognition of duty and of informa tion in regard to the prevention of fires. Following are the amounts paid by each company licensed to transact business in Wisconsin for taxes and all other fees: Wisconsin stock fire companies, $15,740.04; Wisconsin mutual fire companies, $1,100.10; stock fire com panies of other states, $146,052.36; mutual fire companies of other states, $3,405.86; foreign fire companies, $37,- 052.36; foreign marine companies, sl,- 041.29; life insurance companies, $47,- 725.26; surety and casualty companies, $38,185.43; fraternal beneficial so cieties, $2,543; assessment accident companies, $307; assessment life com panies, $1,817; live stock companies, $181.64; hail and cyclone companies, $357; city and village companies, sl,- 463.86; miscellaneous companies, $324.94; miscellaneous cash, $240.59. Total, $788,142.75. Companies transacting business in the state in 1910 follow: Wisconsin stock fire companies, 6; Wisconsin mutual fire companies, 7; stock fire companies of other states, 118; mu tual fire companies of other states, 12; Lloyds company, 1; fire and ma rine insurance companies of foreign governments, 26; foreign marine com panies, 6; total, 171. Attacks Boy Scouts Again. Answering an interview in which Rev. Cheney criticized his attitude tow’ard the Boy Scout movement, Frank J. Weber said at the conclud ing session of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor: “I pay no attention to the theolog ical prostitutes who are trying to teach the Gospel from the altar of greed. I am opposed to educating childhood to violate God’s command, ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ ” Mr. Weber, in his annual address, severely condemned the movement. The public press, especially the Milwaukee papers, were denounced in bitter terms by a delegate from the Milwaukee “News Writers’ union.” The Milwaukee Trades school was scored. It was charged in a resolu tion that only seven per cent, of the students enrolled remain two years and graduate, and that it costs SIOO,- 000 annually to maintain an institu tion whose purpose is to supply cheap labor. To War on Short Weights. F. P. Downing, assistant chemist for the state dairy and food commis sion, has been transferred to the new position of chief superintendent * of weights and measures for Wisconsin. Under the new law Dairy and Food Commissioner J. Q. Emory is ex officio state superintendent. The new law already is in force, and assurance was given by Mr. Emory that it will be pushed vigorously. "The belief is warranted,’’ said Mr. Emory, “that a large percentage of weights and measures in the state are not ooerect.” Rosd Construction Allotments Made. The Wisconsin state highway com mission has announced the sums to which each county in the state is en titled for highway purposes under the new state aid highway law. The law is so drawn that state aid is available to those towns whicji have voted a tax to build roads in 1912 un der the county aid system, but those towns which have not so voted will have to vote a tax at a special meet ing held on or before September 1, 1911, if they wish to get state aid in 1912. The new highway commission has prepared a table showing what each county is entitled to receive from the . $350,000 state highway fund available for distribution for construction in 1912. Following are the allotments: Pctgs. Amts. | of tax. due. | Adams . .27 945| Ashland. .61 2,135 Barron . .80 2,800 Bayf’id . .58 2,030! Brown .. 2.02 7,0701 Buffalo . .67 2,345 Burne’t . .22 770’ Cal’met.. .93 3,255| Chip’wa. 1.07 3,7451 Clark ... 1.06 3,710! CTmbia. 1.64 5,740 Cra’f’rd. .50 1,750| Dane .... 4.63 16,205’ Dodge .. 2.75 9.625! Door 59 2,0651 D’ugl’s . 1.72 6,020| Dunn ... .85 2,975 E’u Cl’re 1.06 3,710! Fl’rence . 14 -490 Fd d’Lac 2.64 9,240! Forest .. .38 1,330| Grant ... 1.97 6,895! Green ... 1.54 5,390 G’n Lak’ .80 2,800! lowa .... 1.38 4,830’ Iron 25 875! Ja’ks’n . .59 2,065' J’f’rson . 1.95 6,8251 Juneau . .65 2,275 ! Ke’os’a . 1.52 5,320! Ke’a’n’e. .70 2,450! LaCross’ 1.54 5,390! Laf’ye’te 1.43 5,005 L’ngl’de. .62 2,170! Lincoln . .66 2,310: M’n’to’oc 2.03 7,105| Better Grade of Cheese. June brick cheese just scored at the University of Wisconsin, reached the highest average score ever made in Wisconsin on a collection of brick cheese exhibits. The improvement in quality was especially noticeable. The instructor in foreign cheese making at the College of Agriculture of the University of Wisconsin, who was one of the judges, stated that the ten entries of brick cheese were the finest in flavor, texture and workman ship of any that have ever been re ceived at the college. Four of the ten entries were made in factories where the milk , was received once a day and the other six were made from milk delivered twice a day. Since the flavor and texture were good with the exception of a trifle open body in a few of the cheese, it is plain that good milk was received at the factories from which these ex hibits were sent. The water content of the cheese varied from 37 to 41 per cent. This represents the two extremes for water found in brick cheese. Cheddar cheese broke the record for the largest exhibit this year and the workmanship on the lot was far superior to that of the May exhibit. The greatest fault was a sweet flavor, probably caused by the cows eating some green feed containing the flavor. This could have been at least partly eliminated by aerating the milk, because milk aerated in unsani tary surroundings will probably take up more odors instead of losing those it already has. Fair Board Now at West Allis. I Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture R. W. Rowlands, has moved the state fair headquarters from Madison to the executive build ing on the state fair grounds and his office staff followed him. This action of the board in locating the secretary in Milwaukee during the months of August and September is a progressive step in the management of the fair, and exhibitors in the machinery, horti cultural, cattle, horse, poultry and other departments can secure direct information and select space any day until the opening of the fair. The publicity and promotion bureau of the fair is located in Milwaukee this year in the offices of the Citizens’ Business league, and the advertising campaign is being conducted by Wil liam MacLaren, one of the Milwaukee members of the board, assisted by Bart J. Ruddle. A 16-sheet, four-colcr poster, and an eight-sheet, four-color poster have been designed and will find their way to the cities and cross roads of the state early in August. Will Form Insurance Company. Steps toward the organization of the Wisconsin Mutual Employers’ Lia bility Insurance company were taken at Wausau at a conference of manu facturers. The purpose of the or ganization is to insure the manufac turers against loss through the opera tion of the industrial insurance law. The insurance will embrace all of the industries of the state. i The committee appointed to formu late a plan consists of G. F. Steele, Port Edwards, chairman; H. W. Bolens, mayor of Port Washington; Nathan Paine, Oshkosh; C. C. Yaw key, Wausau; E. O. Brown, Rhine lander; Neale Brown, Wausau, and | W. A. Fricke, Wausau. Delays Pardon Hearings. I Governor McGovern has postponed ( hearings on all applications for par ! don until October 2-3, when he will , have more time. There are 12 appli ■ cations pending, among them being two ( from prisoners serving life sentences for murder, Edward Eckert, sentenced , at Jefferson in 1878, and Burkhart Bram, sentenced at Monroe in 1883. i On September 5-8 the governor ex pects to attend the International Tax ‘ ation conference at Richmond, Va., where he will be the guest of Governor William Rogers Mann. Pctgs. Amts, of tax. due. Mar’th’n 1.77 $ 6,195 M’rine’te. 1.01 3,535 M’que’tte .41 1,435 Mil’a’kee. 19.70 68,950 Monroe . .99 3,465 Oconto .. .80 2.800 Oneida .. .46 1,610 O’t’g’mie. 2.07 7,245 (Oza’kee . .83 2,905 Pepin .... .24 840 Pierce ... .78 2,730 Polk 73 2,555 Port’ge . .83 2,905 Price 43 1,505 Racine .. 2.53 8,855 ! Richl’nd. .78 2,730 Rock .... 2.91 10,185 Rusk 39 1,365 St. Croix. 1.02 3,570 !Sauk 1.54 5,390 | Sawyer .. .33 1,155 !Sha’ano . .97 3,395 Sheb’y’n. 2.32 8,120 Taylor .. .48 1,680 Tr’mple’u 86 3,010 jVernon .. 1.04 3,640 Vilas 34 1,190 IW’lw’th . 1.93 6,755 ! W’shb’rn .24 840 Wash’ton 1.26 4,410 IW’uk’sha 1.92 6,720 IWa’paca. 1.13 3.955 Wa’shara .65 2,275 !Win’b’go. 2.54 8,890 'Wood ... 1.01 3,535 1 Totals .100.00 $350,000 Annie’s Elopement By Effie Stevens 'Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press.) Anne Blair alighted at the Blithe dale terminal, and waited impatiently until the trolley car, on which she had come, had gone clanking back towards the city. Then she looked uncertainly up and down the lonely stretch of bush-bor dered country road, which ran at right angles to the car track, following the winding course of the Podunk river. “Now, wh*?h direction did Walter tell me to tane, I wonder?” she asked herself, puckering her brows in a frown of perplexity. “I shall just have to look at his letter again. It was lucky that I thought to bring it with me.” Anne seated herself upon a large log which was lying conveniently by the roadside, and, drawing a bulky epistle from her leather hand-bag, ran hurriedly through its pages. “Oh, here it is on the sixth page!” she exclaimed at last. Then her frown deepened. “Why, he doesn’t say,” she gasped. “Isn’t that just like his thoughtless ness? He only says tq follow the road until I come to a path leading to the river; he will be there with a boat, or, if he cannot come himself, he will send a friend in his place. Now, the question is, did he mean me to go up the road or down the road? Well, as the choice seems to be left to me, I’ll try going down the road. I don’t dare remain here much longer, for if father should have found out, there’s no tell ing at what moment he may come whizzing along in that new, high speed car of his. It’s a pity the roads be tween here and town are so good.” Thereupon, Anne jumped to her feet and proceeded to walk briskly down the dusty road, her eyes searching eagerly for the path, which would lead wj ( eV 1 1 )/ / Y VI “I’m Almost Sure I’ve Taken the Wrong Direction.” her to the riverside, where she imag ined Walter must be impatiently aw r aiting her, and her ears keenly alert for the dreaded whir of an ap proaching motor car. On and on she went for a distance that seemed interminable to her over wrought nerves; but nothing occurred to break the peaceful montony of her surroundings. “I’m almost sure I’ve taken the wrong direction after all,” Anne com plained to the solitude. “Why couldn’t Walter have been more explicit? If I don’t come to that path soon, I shall have to turn about and go back, and like as not walk straight into the arms of father —that is if he doesn’t run over me before he recognizes me.” A few steps farther on, however, Anne came to a path leading towards the river, which she unhesitatingly took, though it proved decidedly un pleasant walking. “I think Walter might have chosen a nicer place for me to meet him,” she thought ruefully, as she stumbled over a treacherous stump, and barely saved herself from a fall. A moment later Anne came out upon the river bank, but no Walter was in sight. Immediately, Anne’s anxiety in creased tenfold. She could not help imagining all sorts of unpleasant pos sibilities as to why Walter was not there. What if her father had had him arrested for contemplated kid naping? She didn’t even know if one could have a person arrested for pro posing to do anything—her ignorance of law wj»3 profound—but the uncer tainty intensified her fears. Anne was on the point of sobbing aloud, when she caught sight of a small motor boat approaching from across the river, and the world grew bright again, for, though the boat was so far away she could not actually tell, she never doubted but that its occu pant was Walter. It took her but a short time co dis cover that the boat was headed for a point much farther up stream than her present position. /'I came the wrong way after all,” she wailed, as she waved her pocket handkerchief frantically in the almost hopeless effort to attract the ttention of the occupant of the boat, “'’’hough how was I to know there was more than one path?” Anne was seen, nevertheless, and the little boat soon changed *ts course, and came directly towards her. At the same instart, to complicate matters, Anne heard the unmistakable, though distant sound of a motor car approaching along the road. Ordinarily Anne would have realized that a large number of people are the possessors of motor cars at the pres ent time, but now she immediately jumped to the conclusion that it must be her father. A dreadful fear assailed her lest Walter and her father should meet, in this lonely spot. Her father was a vig orous, hot tempered man. He had never - liked Walter. What might he not do now in his anger? Walter would certainly stand no chance against his possible onslaught. Anne suddenly wished that Walter was not quite so, oh, well, lady-like and namby-pamby—there were no other terms fm it —though these -were, the qualities which had especially at tracted her to him in the first place. If he were only more like Herbert Sar geant. He could have fought his own battles and hers, too. And then the hot color flooded her checks as she re membered that it was Herbert Sar geant whom her father had desired her to marry, and that it was on his account that Walter and herself had been forced into hasty action. Oh, if she had only let the boat go on its course unhindered. But that wish was vain, for while Anne had been giving way to her fears, the motor boat, all unheeded hv her, had come close to the shore, and a cheerful, familiar voice now called out, “I wasn’t expecting to find you. away down here, Anne.” Anne started. With dismay, she saw that the oc cupant Of the boat was not Walter James, but, of all persons in the world, Herbert Sargeant. “Were —were you looking for me?’* she managed to stammer out incred ulously. “Who else?” Herbert laughed. A feeling of intense relief swept over Anne. She had not known before that Walter and Herbert 'were friends —she did not. quite understand yet how they could be —still, since Her bert was here, everything must be aIE. right. She had known Herbert all her life, and she could trust him implicit ly. She knew he would take care ofi her. The automobile passed on along the country road unheeded, and forgotten. “Let me help you into the boat,” Herbert commanded kindly, almost tenderly, springing lightly to her side, and Anne obeyed him without ques tion. Taking his place at the w’heel, he sent the boat speeding across th© river. Anne watched him silently. Novr that she had time to review the situ ation calmly she began to have seri ous regrets as to the step she had taken. It was too late, however, to back out. She must go on to the end. “Why could Waiter not :ome him self?” she asked faintly. Herbert looked at her pityingly. Then he burst out: “Anne, how could you care for, that contemptible, little cur ?” Anne stared at him indignantly. “Oh, I suppose you’ll hate me for telling you,” Herbert continued bitter ly, “but I couldn’t bear to have anyone else know. Jim Grierson told me Wal ter James had been asking all man ner of questions about how much money you had. I hunted the fellow up, double quick, and after I’d told him you hadn’t a cent but what your father felt like giving you, and h© wasn't likely to give you anything if you married him, he showed that he considered he’d put his foot in it, all right, and he was so anxious to get out, he blabbed this whole’elopement plan. That’s all, except that I couldn’t leave you to bear the shock of his not meeting you alone, so I simply had to come.” “You didn’t hurt him?” Anne whis pered, with white lips. “No,” Herbert said grimly. “Oh, I’m so glad,” Anne breathed. “I wouldn’t like to think you had de meaned yourself by touching anything so vile.” Then Anne blushed violently, a<3 she realized the full import of her im pulsive words. A veil seemed suddenly lifted from be fore her amazed eyes, and she realized that it was Herbert, and not. Walter, whcm she cared for all along. She had merely allowed a lifetime’s friend ship for Herbert to blind her as to the real state of her feelings. “Anne,” Herbert cried, eagerly, “do you really mean it? You know I have always cared for you. My mistake lay in telling your father before I told you. Suppose we go on with this elopement? We can go straight t*o the minister’s.” “We haven’t any marriage license,” Anne objected demurely, as they stepped from the boat onto dry laud. “We’d have to have one in this state, I know, because I looked it up.” “I did too,” confessed Herbert, as h© sheepishly drew a paper from his pocket and held it out to her. “Won’t father be surprised when we tell him,” was Anne’s only reply. German Mortgage Banks Busy. Big things doing in Germany these days. The 36 mortgage banks there have about $2,618,000,000 loaned out on mortgages, practically all of it on city property. That is about $350,000,- 000 more than the public debt of Prus sia, taking in the bonds issued to build the great system of Prussian rail ways, which are a perfect network over the country. O’ e of the mort gage banks has outstanding mortgage loans of some $260,000,000. The av erage returns on the loans have ranged from 4.22 per cent, in 1905 (as In the three years following) to 4.34 in l£o9, with 4.33 in l c, lo. —New York Press PAGE SEVEN