With these climatic benefits must be reckoned the commercial possibilities in the scheme. Haifa might become a second Port Said, a touching place to ships of all nations. Raw materials from Europe and America, so much needed for the building up of industrial enterprises in Palestine, and which now are being held back due to scarcity of calling ships, would be given to flow more freely.

BEAR IS STOCK'S WORST FOR
Noted Hunter in Montana Declares
Bruin Will Kill Animals Just
for Fun.
Ovando, Mont.—J. K. Stadler, a professional hunter employed by the government, brands the stock-killing bear as the worst enemy of live stock in isolated places, which he has killed three-score, are branded by Stadler as cowardly animals, only one of all he has killed.

The veteran hunter, who has killed more than 200 bears during 25 years hunting, says the stock killer is either more or less among bears, but when one begins the game he kills in a spirit of wanton mischief, not for food.

He will trail the stock for miles—stick to the trail for weeks, if necessary—to get the chance to kill. Getting one beef or sheep, he will persist until he gets all in sight, unless killed before this happens.

Mountain lions, of
Married After Many Years.
Middletown, N. Y.—In St. James Episcopal church at Goshen, N. Y. Mary Anna Laura, Elton of that village.  Aged,
city, were married by the Rev. Dr. C. T. A. Pise. Thirty-eight years ago the couple were to marry but the engagement was broken and each married another. Recently they met for the first time since their early days as widow and widower and became re-engaged. 