Sharon firemen answer an average of seventy-five alarms of fire a year, therefore Chief Davis and all the firemen agree that Pete is entitled to credit for his record. Council has taken recognition of the animal, and he is possibly the only dog in the United States who is exonerated from wearing a license tag. Motor Trucks Used on Mail Routes. Motor trucks are fast taking the place of wagon stages on the inland mail lines in the sparsely settled districts of the Northwest where there are villages still distant fifty, seventy-five, and even one hundred miles from the railroad. The drivers of the trucks in making their trips over the lonely prairies--miles from towns--have a variety of experiences, as does also Uncle Sam’s mail. Sixteen pouches of mail, including several sacks of women’s hats, lay out on the prairie during the night following the burning of the truck that carries the mail between Williston, N. D., and Watford, a distance of forty-five miles. It was past midnight, the car was ten miles out of Watford, and the mail ten hours overdue, when, in cranking up, the engine fired back and the car caught fire. The mail was barely saved. The driver walked in ten miles, carrying the locked pouch of registered mail and leaving the rest on the prairie for the night. This Lake is Abode of Evil Spirits. The most singular body of water in the United States is that of a small lake in the western portion of the State of Washington, known by the Chinook Indians as “Nao Skookum”--meaning “no good.” To the inhabitants of the Indian villages this lake is a great mystery as well as a source of great fear, for they believe the underground crevices that feed the lake are full of “evil spirits.” The lake covers perhaps fifty acres of ground, and fish and waterfowl are more than plentiful--for about nine months of the year. North of the lake towers Mount Olympus, of the Olympic range, while to the south and west are the coast range of great hills. In western Washington the “rainy season” usually lasts something like nine months, and a week or so after the rain sets in, “Nao Skookum” Lake grows very much in circumference and in depth, but, after a week’s dry weather, its waters vanish, taking with them the fish and, so the Chinooks declare, the waterfowl, too. When the rain stops, all the Indians in the neighborhood gather on the shore of the lake in order to get as much fish as possible while there is yet time.