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The Exeter Times, 1921-1-6, Page 6• BY EUGENE TONES. CHAPTER, .IL Shirley Winsten was the daugater Q f "Po" Wineton„ thief dispeteher of tae Mountaiu Divisioa. Back in her •school day e she used to. ling her lunch to the yards and eat it with me in my cab; an4 niant- times I've seen her oil' to her elass with a rimed dress, Oh, j did lily best, but she knew what she wanted. Yes, she wett- ed to learn railroading! That was the surprise of it—a girl hankering eater a steam throttle and thrilling to the tufa a a gong whistle. Her father shook his head over her more than once, saying she sheuld have been a man,. and prophesying all kinds of disaster. Nevertheless he let her come. Ile did more; be took her with him, taught her about' train sheets and automatic block e and the handling of freight. Later, when she finished school, she got a job in the station master's office—not because she had to, mind you, but because she wanted it. Then once in a while she would ride with me or some other engineerman, and when my old blaek horse wasn't dragging. anything but the tender I'd break regulations and turn the throttle over to her. About the time Shirley became of age she could actually handle a train. Now you might figure a girl like that Would be oa the sort that wants 1 to vote and wear pants and make pol- itical speeches, yet I have never laid eyes upon a more delightfully fem- inine womaix than Shirley Winston. Pretty? Why, everybody from the track waikers to Old BOWISen himself worshipped her. She'd drop into th: • smutty, blackened depot, or the Pull- man office, or tbe dispatcher's office, and it .was always tbe same: "Howdy, Miss Shirley. Have a chair. What's the good word with you? Hear about—" etc., etc., .until yarad suspect her of minim _the road. No matter haw busy anyone was, she found a eivekome. The car clerk had asked her to marry him; so,. had a half-dozen others. But she turned them down in such a way each felt he was particu- larly blessed by her undivided prefer- ence. I can only think of one word to de- ecribe her—sunshitiel Her hair, her smile, her eyes, her voice, her manner, eventhe clothes she wore, reminded you of -a pleasant day and the breeze in the trees and--anci—well, jest sun- shine. ' That was why the whole division watched young Duval jealously when his father, the president of the road, sent him to us and told us to teach him the game. And Shirley took to him mighty near as quickas he took to Shirley. As for Jim. Duval himself, I didn't know him as intimately as the dis- patcher's daughter, but he losaied well trusiiiteanarMnahttalltaifitht pug-nosed, and freckled, yet not home- y by a darh sight. One thing I can say for him: he wore his overalls as if they'd been a king's robes. And le didn't nand work. When Pritchard lost his job, Duval was running a passenger l000motive ne...- extra to help haul tonnage on the big • grade. His duty was to follow the Limited down every evening and hook im to number seventeen, winch waited et Salida for the Limited to pass. When seventeen had been yanked up • the mountain she would come in double-heacled to Hastings, where Du- val would cut out and wait for orders - . en freight running extra. The job eeetied a good engineerman, ancl, so aar as I could learn, Duval already dis- played sufficient skill to warrant a run of his own. The morning after the little affair in the superintendent's office I was climbing down from my cab prepara- tory to a cup of coffee in the lunch- room, when one of the clerk.e brought me ward Bowls= wanted me. I found ,• • • • • • 0 him as usual in his swivel chair, che' - ing the stub; of his cigar. "Well, O'Kelley," he been, "what do you think about last night?" "You mem,. tries Priteliercla" "bare. "Its not my busineesto think any- thing ahout it!" I ,snar,ped, min.dful of every chance to score a dig, "You'll think about any blamed thing I tell you to!" Bowlean roared. "Sit down over there. You're the old- est man we've got, You know men— or pretend to. I'm et °Tried. Pritchard hasn't turned up for his pay this morning. He was fighting drunk last night, and he was mad. Hell be mad- der now—and more sober. He's going to come baelt at us probably th.rough Jim: Get me? The girl's safe enough working in the station master's office, But—jim?" "Well?" He made a gesture. "alln runs right behind the Limited." "Do you want me to take his run to -night?" that might look as if we didn't trust hun. Try and get -track of Prit- chard, if you can. Let's see, you'll be batik here Alt five -fifteen. Give the saloons the once over—the ones near the depot—and drop in and see me. Understand, those aren't official ord- ers: I'm just worried. Funny, isn't it —rae being worried?" "Um," I grunted; ,T11 wager young Duval is capable of taking care of himself and his job. But maybe—" We looked at each other, leaving the thing we 'both feared unsaid. Then we shook hands, a most unusual pro- ceeding. Afterward, at the door, I hesitated, caught his eye and dropped mine. "What the hell are you waiting for'?" lie yelled. • I went out thoughtfully. All that day the matter troubled me. Where was Pritchard? What did he intend doing? I wished young Duval had been running freight; I wished his home wasn't so blamed far from the yards and through such a dark sec- tion of the city. Vieidly remember- ing the way Shirley had looked at him in the superintendent's office; and, in- cidentally, the way he had looked at Shirley, I wished a great many things right then. Five -fifteen that evening found me tlunading my way across the network of tracks behind the depot. Once in the street, I lost no time m following Bowlsoxas inetractions, but every- where tertender and eigarette loung- er answered me likewise: "Priteliard? Sure, saw him last night. Was stewed for fair Nope, not since the .." - More uneasy than ever, I went back to the 'station, only to find the sup- erintendent out. Having secured a bite to eat at the tun& counter, it seened advisable to drop in and pees a feta Wards with young Duval before be took his engine down the mountain. He would probably -be in the dispatch- er's office getting, orders, so thither I went. We met at the door. ' "Hello," he grinned. "Y•ou're a lucky devil—nci night work for yours. Now look at me heeling seventeen up the mountain with a rainstorm in the air!" "The rainstorm isn't what you've got to worry about)' "What do you mean?" he asked, losing his grin. "I mean—Pritchard! He hasn't turned up for his pay. More 'an like- ly he's on the warpath. Watch your- self to -night." It seemed as if the muscles =dee Jim Duval's smutty juniper swelled a little. His voice was very low, re- minding me somehow of Bowlson in a crisis. "Thanks, O'Kelley. If Pritchard tries anything dirty— Butt there, he won't. He's probably drunker than ever right now. So long." (Continued .in neet issue.) • Untempted Righteousness. Wherever a 'mot of students gath- ered that day L•ortan's case was the topic of conversation. The arrest had taken place early, and few of the fel- lows had witnessed it. Henry Vander - lip was one of those who did. "It gave me a sense of sudden nau- sea," he told Hammond and Gray when the subject was brought up later. "I had the same feeling once, . -when the men found a couple of dead eats in the well we'd been drinking from up at the camp. The water look- ed clean, but it was foul, and we didn't know it. That's theiway with Lorton. Ugh! It disgusts me." Hatamond's words came slowly, as R he were thinking them out as he talked: "I understand from Derrick and Shafer—they both room in Clark Hall—that Lorton's term bills were overdue. Derricle tells me Lorton has lion on the edge ever since hd enter- ed college. Several times he has dropped out of the bearding house for a fortnight or longer and boarded him- seilf on next to nothing. Shafer says The day returns and brings- us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man. Help us to perform them with laughter and •kind faces. Let cheaful- • ness abound with industry. • Give us to go blithely on our business all this day; bring to our resthig • beds, weary& and content a n d undishonored; and grant us in the end the gift of slee • • • • t 13 it EP • • • • • I that Lorton invariably apologized to his callers about the fire's being 'dawn, but that 'down' was its normal con- dition—to save fuel. "Lorton said that he took the twen- ty -dollar bill out of Morris' desk, con- fidently expecting that he should be able to replace it before Morris dis- covered the theft. It seems- he'd had a rather urgent reminder that morn- ing that his bills must be paid within a specified time. That doesn't excuse the theft, of course. It was a. foolish and criminal act, but a fellow who has never had any such strain an his virtue had better not be forward about condemning Lorton. €1 came across two words in a book I was reading the other evening: 'un- • tenipted righteousness! Isn't ours that kind so far as money Is concern, ed? Has any one of us ever known what it was to need a twenty -dollar bill—need it badly enough to be wor- ried fOr days over not baying it? If we haven't, we oughtn't to judge the fellow who has-. We don't know -gaud we should do if we were in his placee 1:Intempted righteousness is good in WI way', but it isn't qualified to sit in judgment on a fellow wb.o has borne the brunt—and gone down." "I see, Ilamracind," said Vanderlip, putttng out an impulsive hand, and I/Inane:led winded under the grip. "You're riglit, tratempied righteous - nesse -the soft sort that's never had to take hard Imodke—isn't an article to boast ot" • • "Children between five an,d seven years of age shoukl go to bed at seven o'clock tired sleep thirteen hours; be- tween setien and ten, twelve hours" sleep, with eight &dock bedtime. and • between ten and fifteen, ten hure' Sleep, with nine o'clock bedtime," saye an eXpert, - • • "Unl-nown " An unknown British soldier • was berital in. Westininater Abbey xn the email anuiversaxy of Armistice Dine The Kim; was the sele lemma In (old, old Westminster's snored pile There lies, In iaim repose, with peasant. prinee and peen A man enknown to fame, yet laid to res With all the prayers of a broad Em- • pire blest, And on whose grave a king has drop; • ped a tear. His claim to his within that holy few) Is just, and none will b.im deny a niece ',Midst all the noblest ot old Englaudis dead, Who gave her laws, who noble armies( led, Who sang sweet songs for all the Bri- tish race. Not his the glory of the soulful bard; Not his the glory oa an honored grave; He was a warrior true, yet did not lead A gallant seamy at his country's need; He was but one of the unnumbered brave. No single land can claim him for its own, • No Sand can say that he is truly theirs, He was .an Empire son, loyal and true, He came at Empire's call her wilinto do, And Britain nenr forgets the son she bears. Sleep on, brave heart! a sacred tie that binds Still closer all the links of Emrire's . chain, • God give ue faith and strength to still Pursue The path of honor and his will to do; And keep unstalned the Empire's broad demain. —G. Montague Mason. An Alligator Farm., How would you like to be tb.e man with the bucket and stick standing among hundreds of creeping cannibals? He Ls the owner and manager of the strangest of the many strange farms around Los Angeles, the alligator farm. His is a little place—only about two acres—and the new crop each year is not large in numbers, but it is exceed- ingly valuable. A high fence sur- rounds the farm and the visitors mu,st each pay a quarter to get in; but it is well worth the inone,y, for never did. we learn so much in one-half hour. Imagine you are with us. as I tell you about these frightful creatures.; holt snake, half beast, wallowing in filthy, stagnant water, eating nothing •but raw meat, fighting ar sleeping all the time, and often eating their own kind. There are only 1,800 alligators here, the oldest ones imported from the. swamps of the Gulf States. They are carefully graded and kept in. • lots fenced in. by stout *ire, eacla group having its own pond under the euca- lyptus trees because wallow they must. • • The keeper has a dangerous job for they c.are not what the meat Is. He takes care to stand in front of them for they cannot move forward swiftly and must use their tails to strike their prey and sweep it into their cavernous mouths. Nor does he venture into the fields where the biggest 'gators are. The eggs are the size and shape of hen's eggs, and these are pieced by the mother -alligator In the ceptre of a mound of dirt and decayed matter - which she heaps up. The warmth of this, filth hatches theme Then the zoos allover the country must have some to make their dis- plays complete, and this "farm," es- tablished fourteen. years ago, supplies many. Very many people buy them for pets or the oddity of the thing, and. prices of tb.e live ones vary according to the size. One must be six or eight years old before its skin is worth any- thing as leather for the lumps on the back are just softcartilage at first, harden into bone gradually. Every man I tneet is my master in some point and can instruct me there- in.—Emerson. Minard's Liniment Retieves Colds, etc. • Wings •of War the Famer',- Frzend. Tbe uewest Ides for agriculture is tin airplane equipped for the plentieg of the farmer's field, witb, seed. It has a system of perforated metal tubes, laid crosswise on the. wings, out ef which the seed is torced by air sure created createa by the flight ot the Planta • This kind of flyiva machine, as de- scribed by Popular Mechanic.% is befit for sloiv specia, with a roomy fuselage that prevides capacity for a large quantity of grain. .On ea,cla trip It plants a row thirty-six feet wide. Fly- ing only a 10W feet above the ground, it • ejects the seed with sufficient velocity ito; bury it to the requisite depth in loose, prepared soil. At the end of each wing -tip Otero is a tuba to throw down a thin streematf white lime, marking the line of the planted belt. In practice only one tube would be used at a time, the other beiug alit off. By this means it should be practicable to plant one square mile, or 640 acres, in six hours, flying forty miles an hour and allow- ing one minute at each end of the field to turn get linea up with the white ni With a sowing capacity of 1,000 acres a clay, one machine could ade- quately .serve a large grain -growing. district, 'working either on the co- operative basis or by centred. Platinum Fields of Columbia Are Rich. Platinum, -which was worth $9 an ounce not very many years ago, fetches $110 an ounce to -day, or more than. five times as much as gold. • It is said. to have been first discover- ed in Colum.bia by a Spaniard named Antonio Ulloa. For a long time there- after miners in Columbia, finding it commonly associated with gold, threw the platinum away. Recently seven- teen pounds of it were recovered from the foundation of an old building in the Quibdo district, the site of welch was an ancient refuse dump. The present high price of platinum is largely due to the falling off of sup - piles from -Russia, which has been the principal producer. But the mining of the metal in Columbia has been great- ly stimulated thereby. Themetal in Columbia is found chiefly along the Atrato River and the •Cauca Valley south to the border of Ecuador. The Atrato is 800 miles long Darien by fifteen mouths. steam- ers) and empties into the Gulf of (two-thirdsLf it navigable by Homes Under the Sea. Houses, streets, theatres, picture palaces', etc., buried. under the sea, are reminiscent of Jules Verne. A mo- dern wizard, Mr. E. R. Calthrop, -who designed • that Admiralty mystery towers, one of whcih was recently moved to the Solent, may be relation- sible for this ratracle, says a London • newspaper. It has been suggested that a large submarine hotel and theatre be built at Hythe, the sam,e principle it is as- sumed being used as in the case of the naval towers. • The inventor puts forward yet a31- otlier interesting • suggestion. He plans an artificial island home under- neo,tk the waves, some miles out from the Goodwin Sands. The burden of the conventional householder—rates and taxes, customs, dues, licensing restrictions, etc.—could not apply, he contends, to such island colonists. "I May Not Pass This Way As each small tender bud that grows, Anon may turn to beauteous rose,, So each kind action serves to prove The fragrant soul of human love. Of man's. true brotherhood to man, Framed in the great Creator's plan, With those who follovred in Ilia 'main, Who may not pass this way again. • Again." "I may not pass this way again," Let this thought burn in heart and brain, • So shall we live not all in raiz Who may not pass this way again, So ere we leave this passing show, Where all are wanderers to and fro, Let each life's path a record be, Unbroken to eternity. Successful OYS at Play Sir A Conan Doyle, although ap- parently believes in the astral body, has a pair of fists which are by no means spiritual. In fact, the creator of Rodney Stone, that best of all box- ing and priee-fighting yarns, is him- self zio mean expellent a the "noble art of sekedefence." • ` But the originator • of Sherlock Holmes is the A.drairable Crichton of literary sportsmen., for he bailetravel- led the world over, is a daring moue- taln climber, can make as pretty a cut through the slips at Loeb as misay • profeasiottal cricketer, and has scored a good many centuries hi hie time, can make even the best- of lawn tennis players sit tip and take notice, iean. indefatigable motorist, is a Ma: tun inan. t� follow aerose eauntiw with the hounds, and ear find hie Way both into and out of a bunker as well as -meet amateur golfers. • Tho greatest traveller anmeget modern novelists was poor Jack Lona don; now that he le gone, the man who gave Catita,in Kettle -0, 1. Jut- ohlffe the world, probably holds premier place. If there is any corner of this old earth he has not bean into, eny desert, ar mountain range, or great river he has not.seen, any wild beast he has not shot, then sqmeone ahould eaU upoia him and tell him of his omission, and b.e' Wilt sure- ly include it in his next trip, seeing that he reckons to do a pretty regular ten thousand Miles • a year--eaccept when there's a world-war,on. • He believes •that a novelist . who wants to write "live" stuff, needs see "live" places. He possesses a fine collection of hunting trophies. Twoof Britainie best-known writers are • at their beet in a yacht—Sir Arthur Quiller -Couch, the famoua "Q" a "Dead Man's Recite" anti John Oxen - ham. Both„theee Men are very much at home on salt water or fresh, for they are as handy with an oar as with a Sail. Probabli the least sperty of literati men are ,Iludyard Kipling, Sir James Barrie,'• and George Bernard Shaw, The anther of "Mary Rose" ie, how- ever, fairly useful -with a bat, and has often taken part fii matches as a re presentative of the Press, whilst fete men have "mouthed" about country lames on a bike more than the otter two distinguished men. Healthful Heat for Houten Air needs moisture to tratsfer the heat along from one particle to an -a • other, ond for the air to be an eea- eager, a cep eream, ¼ tenspeon salt, ciesntdcisienttribuatrzierounati.leof bum atiitmiudisttyl:avAe 1 thaPPed pecans. •Boil the sugar, auti cream and seat together until seft in3:911 lel3s7aPicielYto rallrinitdai6inets it'eenclUepireers- il):11117ewfalle7e41TwhierAlleal airdist4nritrtsds t When cold, break aliart, and wrap each square in waxed paper, Maple Cream Fadge-4 ib. inapia attire than a dry room. A room heated to a6 degrees F. with moist airis more comfartable then a and pour on a buttered plate.. •Fruit Rolle -1 cup prunes, ¼cure, figs, at cup walnut meats, ¼cup ATER POWERS OF MANITOBA Fua.z. POWER PROBLEM SOLUTION. Creator Part of the Province . Laurentianin Character With - Ty0leid Waterciiiirse$4. The phavince a Manitoba, formerly fained thieflj abr its rich agricifltural lands, has .within recenttyears begun to realize and anPreoisite •its beunti- ful triheritance of varied natural re- sources among which watee powers shredded co-coanut, 1 cap dates, 2 axe of paramount importance, says a room heated with dry air to a temp— , o • Atwed Dt erature of 70 degrees F. The reason tamesponsorange ewtl e; 1, teaspoon . , etee' ' t Chef Engineer is that air which is to dry interferes grated orange peel. Run the cooked Several of these water pewees have ancocsaI1 d ut been develimed, notably two on the • prunes, P $ r vrith the normal radiation of the bodythrough the food ,grinder. t Add the Many people find it necessery to heat orange juice and peel. Roll into a their rooms to 76 degrees or 80 de- long roll, cut in slices, and Impeach. grees F. simply becaute the humidity one in waxed paper. • - of the air Ts tonsideivibly below what it should be. • W• hen the air in a room is so dry that it warps books and the furniture begins, to dry out, it is entirely toe dry far the health of the occupants,. If- your heating system does net provide means for maintaining pee- per humidity of the air in the room, it is necessary to use pens of, water in order to evaporate sufficient moas- ture. Wicks or cloths dropped into the pans and extending over the edge or over a crosspieee on the pan accel- erate the evaporation. It takes a little time anti trouble to keep the pans filled, but freedom from colds and generally better health more. than re- pay the effort. The discomfort caused by excessively dry air lowers both the mental and physical efficiency of a person. For the safe of comfort, no • less than economy of fuel, the air in the room must 'contain a sufficient amount oS moisture. In most warm -air furnaces there is a means for humidifying the air, and the waterpan must :be kept filled, so that at no time it will become dry. With -winter here it is well to keep these thing's in mind and live scrupu- tously up to them, not only for the saving of fuel; which is necessary in 'view of the serious fuel tituation, but as a protection. against colds, influ- enza and other illnesses which are likely to follow if the air is not pro- perly heated and humidified. It is easier to pay attention to these de- tails than to pay doctors' bills. Mother and Son. Thierttg -yeaei• of his life from the heiime of a child, She had rnoulded his mind by her discipline mild; And the training which far in the past she began, Her gaidance to manhood, has made him a man. • She has taught him in matters of • honor his part, Her influence gentleis deep in hie heart; He holds to a code of nobility high, And justice to others he will not deny. 'Tie a trait of his nature he r trust to requite; He is firm in his faith, and lie stands for the right— Though proofs of her worth there be many a one, The surest of these is her chivalrous son. • • • • • • A 'Disappearing Ironing Board. "Please step aside. Can't you see I'm carryiing. this heavy, cumbersome old, ironing -board?" City people have overcome this dif- &city so they clo not have to say this. All- they have to de is to open a little door in the wall, unhook the ironing - beard end it is in place. .A.ny farmer's wife can do this too. It takes only a little tifne to 'install the ironing -board, and the busy house- wife's work woeld be lightened a great deal. It is very simple and saves so much time and worry. Have one of the ;bnys fix up your ironing -hoard like this on some stormy day during the winter. • The top of the old ironing -board will do, but it is better to make a new one. make it four feet lona, eighteen inches wide at one end and nine inclues at the other. A foot and •one-half from the narrower end, drop a Isupport to hold the booed up. This should be three feet long, our inches wide and an inch thick. This must be fastened on the board with a hinge. The iron - sing -board fastens to the wall by meann of two hinges. • A hook is placed in the =maw end a theboard, which fastens near the top of the closet. If your house is one in which you do not think it ad- visable to build the ironing -board into the wall, it may be put on the outside of the wall. A curtain may be hung aver it and it -will not be noticeable, but, will do exactly •the same service for the housewife. Sweets for the Party. Old-Fasbioned. Nut Cander-2 eups light .brdivn • turgat, 36 cup water, 1 to:Mese:goat!, Vinegar, 2 tablespoons but- ter 3, cap Chopped Mite. ,Phiee the Snip; and Water eh the stave, 'Wheri the =tactile°begins to 'boll, add the vinegar. Cook :a few iniraltea aad. thee add the butterWhen'the synia spins a thread, pour it otter the nate, , Whlele have been speeeol an' a tittered platten Mark air scpuirepaitikalt ;coal. Stylish Economy. For the brilliant ealee note, and for real warmth,eym tryareealatsliceintAtg b_ enstwool scarfs. stitute for furs that not all a us can buy this year, because of their high •price. The scarfs are wide and sat, and come in the loveliest Qi -Color combine, toes. They are made, a angora, cantel's .heir, and brushed wool, and the aew idea is to have a hat to match. The scarf with matching tanaoa shenter is no novelty, but the scarf with a real hat, in a becoming shape, is counted among the new things of the winter season. • Some of the hats have straight brims, ethers axe in rolling brim shape. • Frequently the brim will be one color and the crown another. Bril- liant purple and squirrel -gray are used together, as well as rey-al blue and tale and black aed wbite-ehecked angora combined with green, Grange, or bright red. The hats are not hard to make if you have a knack that way.. The best looking are made over a small buck- ram frame, that has a sat net top to the crown. FOT trimming, wool ccirds encl tassels are iised, 'also fluffy pompoms and gay wool flowers. The Habit of Giving Your Best. How much better . you feel when you are conscious of giving your best, unreservedly, of flinging your life out in helpfulness, in inspiration a.nd en- couragement wherever you go: What an infinite satisfaction there is in feel- ing that we are helping somebody, that we strew our ways with flowers because we know that we shall never go along the same road again, that we make everybody aritli whom we have come in .contact feel a little :better— this is the way to get the most out of life. • But urifotatunately, most of us do not open up oueselves to the world very much. We •are too selfish to fling ourselves out, to show the best that is in us, as we go along. We envy the person who 'has this faculty, of fling- ing out his lest,. the aroma, the rieli- nese of his life, it/et as the rose flings out its sweetness'its beauty, to every h passerby, witout reserve. It is a wonderful art and if everybody would do it what a won:lea-fel world • this. 'Weald ate.. .. • Fling out your best this year. Don't hold it in. Don't carry your best things to the grave, give them to the world. .Opportunity. • Opportunity is but a doughnut with the rim in someone's stoma.a. Ask any man who lias made good, and he will tell you that Opportunity is but e date on the Calendar—a time when an individual -woke up. • Opportinity is a passible chance, while work, with an opportunity, is a probable chence. • Opportunity may, be a chicken house, it may be a saw mill, or it may be a violin, hut who ever heard of a chick- en house, a saw mill or a violin mak- ing a sucoese, all alone? • • Opportueity is as useless as monkey fat, ai hopeless without work as try, ing to stop up a, rat hole with common cheese. • The man who depends on an oppor- tunity alone, the fellow who anfusee to work -with an opportunity, is as use- less on earth as a buttonhole without a buttert. The man who sits down and says he is waiting for an opportunity to turn up is as unwelcome in society as a looklug gla,se to a woman who hes just recovered from a severe case of smallpox. Sometimes More. Speculating sounds •more refined than -gambling; but a fellew -loses jest as much., • r Liniment Far Sumo. eta. • Enthusiasm as the greatest lewdness asset in the world. Enthusiasm trealiples evee pretudices and opposi- tion, .spurs inaCtien, StOrnIS the eitedel of its object, rand like an avalanche overwhelms and engulfs all obstacles. 00A 41,E 8 '.iLT LAND SALT • TORONTO SALT WORKS 0. J. . TORONTO ti • Winnipeg river, whieb have peeved of vital impoxtanee in the industrial ex- pansion of tbe :city of Winnipeg and its environs. Many of the water pow - era are at present remote from the more thickly settled poets of the Pro- vince and are, for that reason, mare particularly important for the exploi- tation of the natural resources of the hinterland. • It is inevitable, however, that with the increased cost of eoal production, taansportation, and labor diafi.culties„ eta, and with advanees in the art of • development, transmission and use of hydro -electric energy, most of the water powers will, in time, prove. to be important -factors in the solution of the fuel -power problems • of the enne - The Dominion Water Power Branch of the Department of the Interior, by many years of hydroenetaic survey and reconnaissance, have iargely de- termined the power possibilities of the province. Their report 'oix the power reaches ef the Winnipeg river 'within the province shows that by storage and regulation, some 650,000 h.p, are available within transmission distance of Winnipeg. • Their investigations have also covered the Saskatchewan river at Grand Rapids, the Nelson river, the, Manigotegan, Wanipigqw, Pigeon, Berens, Bloocivein, Dauphin, Fairford, WaterheniMossy, Minne- dose, Grass, Burie ritvood and Chmieh- ill rivers, as well as smaller streams. Administration Regulations. The water -powers of the province of Manitoba are administered under regulations pursuant to the Dominion Water Power Act, 1919.These regu- lations provide for the exploitation of the water power resources under full Government control of rates, rentals, etc. . These regulations absolutely pre- vent unwise and premature develop- ment of water power and provide for the permanent retention in the Crowe of the ownership and control of the power project. Concessions are only made for limited periods to bans fide applicants capable of prosecuting tale development to a suocessaul issue. Application for -watea: power prtiVi- leges in Manitoba should be address- ed to the directot of Water Power, Department of the InterichinCittawa. General Characteristics 'at the Pro- vince. The extreme southern and south- western portions of the province be- long geographically to the Plain re- gion, composed for the most part of treeless prairie, traversed with rivers of tortuous courses and fiat gradients. The greater pent of the province, how- ever, is Laurentian in character, with the rivers typical of that formation; • lake -like expanses followed by con- gested -channels with falls and rapids .of more or less turbulence. • Lake Winnipeg forms the collecting basin for the southern rivers, the more im- portant of which are the Winnipeg, from the east; the Red and Assini- boine, from the south; and the Sas- • katchewan, from the leek. The Lake in turn discharges north-easterly by way of the Nelson river to Hudson Bay. In addition to the Nelson, the waters of the northern part of the province are collected by tile Hayes and Church - all rivers, both of which discharge into Hudson Bay, the former to the south of the Nelson and the latter to the north. The peried ol low flow occurs during the winter months on all the, rivers of Manitoba, due to the fact that precipitation during that period is conseread ine.the, Seam atfaine/th, snow; flood flow oecurs in the spring and early summer months. The rivers, which hiaverse the prairie territery ha,ve a wide variation between low and high flow, whereas most of those in the Laurentian country are re- markably regular, clue to the stabil- izing effect of the many lakes, Swearma and muskegs in their various drainage basins. • Among; the larger power sites, those of the Winnipeg axe the most advan- tageously situated with •regard to the present centres of population and rail- way facilities. Mae of the others alio somewhat rerriate from thickly popu- lated distracts. • • A wise Frenchman has said thet the worst of Twit is al have too little 'Wit to talk well and too little judge meant to keep still. Six of the nine Canadian Provinces; reach salt water and car: theinfote have Goetz: ports, viz., hTotra. Scotia., Prince Edward bland and New Brims-, wick, ferneing the 1VIaritirne Proviricese Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba now reach the shores of Hurlson'e Bay, and British Columbia.