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time. So it came about that Satur- day evening, Fred Clarke, officer in t charge, decided to go 'to Chicago station and bring out the coveted boat. 4 The assignment or whatever it is t necessitated a land journey via* the "L,'ýI and, the officer feeling. none too- P secure about his sea legs on asway- ing "L" train, besides being un- accustomed to the ways 'of, a big city and unacquainted with its by- passes, underpasses and crosspasses. conceived the really clever idea of picking .,bimself ýout a. good land- Iubber as an escort or bodyguard or' what niot. Remembering, that, Post- master Bert O'Connell had been a deputy sheriff «before ,corning into the postmastership, oficer .Clarke exclaimed,*-"That's the very.,bird P'm looking for." The P. M. 'promnptly acquiesced and the: train trip was 'completeci witbout untoward incident, due, the former sheriff asserts, to bis pre- caution ini scat ing the officer next to a closed window and himself tak- ing the aisle seat to prevent bis compan ion from falling out. It was only natural, of course, that. the pair should look about. a. bit before -starting the homeward. Voyage via the boat, but they finally got aroun1d to it. Returning the compliment, omfcer Clarke guarded the safety of the P. M. by lashing' him to a yardarn, or yardstick, or something, and ail went well ,untiI a tiny little wîre that no one would tbink amounted to anytbing un- fortunately ceased its function, and the motor couÜghed to a complete stop. Humiliating as 'it was to the seaman, and -em'ibarrassing-as it was totelandlubber, that boat simply drifted about at will, and resisted a-il eèfforts of the pair to make it behave. It %was bent on drifting, and. drift it did until the flash of,,a flgre attracted the, attention of the look- out in the tower of the Wilmette station, and another, or the other, lifeboat was sent out to tow it in, erick F. Skeel of 338 nue, Kenilworth, for An extention, telephone in your k ave- eeks. NUZE OUR ADVRRTISERS. kitchen brings you 1r telephone service to you in thiS busiest of rooms. It is * -o-ô Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Scheiden- helm, 704 Lake avenue, last week completed a two weeks' vacation and motor trip in the nortbern lakes re- gion. They drove around Lake Michi- gan, stopping first at 'Max Welton Brats in Wisconsin and then vîsiting, with friends'in Pentwatér, Mich.> 9981' 1 LL9 O BE~LL TEL E E NE Cl THIS KITC IIEN AID C OSTS , LITITLES llý , -ýi ..>