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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times, 1921-1-13, Page 611 kee CH.A.PTER III. NvAthed (Mee' stride down die ihrotigh the doorway leading to the platform, and a vague seise o•f intleendiag elleaster assailed no. Even When from the dIspatelter's office herd the 'whistle a his engine, shriek- ing foe yard clearance, my fears fee* hie safety and the safety of every- body outhe big grade were not quiet- ed. I grabbed a seat over by the;Nir1,11 - dm which offered a 'view a the arc,. lit fields a, tracks and towers, and puffing dummies forever cutting out and making.up and bumping cars to 'unloading platforms. Many an even- ing I've eat them, pipe in mouth, ears on the clicking keys, and my eyes half •closed, Have you ever been in a dispatch- er's office? It's quite •a evenderful place. Ilere all the gossip of the road filters in between, train orders; what's happentig at Hastings, who's drunk on the Central Divisioa, the best ovie in Hillsboro—in short, every kiad of human interest new brewed by a big railroad. It is a sort of elea,ring house —the heart, you might say, of the di - von, always active, never asleep, vibrant, palsing, keenly alive to the least leiteh in the earetully oiled ma- chinery of dispatching. "Pop" Winstou, Shirley's father, sat at hie desk, a mass of train sheets before him, a green eye shade hiding the upper part of his face. Raziged -along the wall were many other desks ---seme with telegraph instruments layttering metallimelly, some piled with code messages., orders, lists of rolling sleek, Beyond the rail loung- ed three or four off-duty engineers, among them myself, while now and then a flagman Or a conduetor saun- tered in, exchanged a quip or two with Pop, and went about his business. Over all hung the buzz ef voices end tee monotonous, unsteady click of the railroad telegraph. It had all soaked into my blood. I loved it. I loved the continual nerve strain which bad grayed my hair; I loved the gossip still hot from the wire; I loved Pop Winston, his aseestants, • Bowlson, every motheide sett of 'em, with a passion only a railroad man may com- prehend. Just how • long I'd been drowsing there I've no means of tellug, but isuddenly the chief's vaice brought me beck to fun consciousness with a bump. "What's that?" he was yelling at an assistant. "Take that message again!" We all sensed something wrong; the zoom was rattles:, quiet each ear straining to catch the wire talk as it arae stuttering in. I too leaned for- ward. I prided neyeelf on my ability to read Morse. • "Engene number seven -o -seven jug passed here eneriaingstaway—Hillsbor- e. "Give me the key!" "shrieked Pop. tiThat's • Jimis ergine behind the Limited" •, The 'ohief ,diepatelier crossed the room at a bound, stretching himself over the desk liken jockey oa a race horse. "Dash—daele—dash—det—dot —dot" snapped the Hilleborough eaU over and over. There was, a moment ef glence. Thea, as Pop threw his switch, "OR—OK—OK" eame in steadily, "Give me details about runaway," clicked the dispateherO "Don't know enuela Saw seven -o - seven just pass.- Going like hell. Po - *Wye nobody at throttle." "How farls the Limited ahead?" "Fifteen minutes." "God!" muttered the man under the green eye .shade. Thenhe was at it again, smidiag out the Hastings- call like a streak of sound. "Ditoli runaway on siding. Quick! Will catch express ou big grade." We were at the rail now, pipes for- gotten, sweat on our foreheads. It seemed hours 'before the Hastings man answered: "Nothing doing. Engine went through as you opened up. Try Spar- tan." Spartan was the last siding before the track dropped. off down the moun- tain—just a flag station, a water tow- er,. and a telegraph office. If only the operator were there! My finger netts bit into the banister rail until I felt the blood welling up under them. "Dash—cla.sh--edot—dot" clicked Pop furiously, but there was no anawer. Again and. again he sent thecall, i crashing down on the key as f the very weight of the sending must rouse somebody. "Dash—dash—dot—dot" ever and over until our brains whirled with it and our lips whispered, It. Three minutes passed, lengthened to five. The five became ten. Then, "OK—OK" cracked out briskly. The chief, white as the paper lying under his shaking hands, hardly wait- ed to close the line. "Ditch runaway, he ordered. "Ditch—" "Too late. Tried to. Just gone through. Lirnited twenty minutes ahead." Slowly, covered with sweat, "Pop" staggered up from the desk. "Boys," he whispered hoarsely, "nothing under the sun -can save the Limited. A rear - end collision on the big grade. God in heavenl" All my life I have been used to rail- road erises; all My life I had looked forward to the time of the inevitable mistake which must send me to my death. I had always prayed that mis- take would not be mine. I had al- ways hoped somebody else might be responsible for that last error in the art of juggling human lives, so that when the whole blamed thing was over, the debris cleared away, and the track open again,e odd . Rowison might say with or -s- of -his diabolical grins: "Well; O'Kelley played the • game. No kick coining on O'Kelley!" !But now, in spite of the fact I was safe in the dispatcher's office,- the horror of what might happen to Jim Duval turned me cold, CAN REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT CLE , • • hknewt rrat hwa,dt,she! NEW DiREcToRs OF THE 0.01K OF MONTREAL.: a este e only son, as 0, ileg his etrides forward with keen hap- piness. I knew anything refleeting on ;fines ability would be in, the nature of' a death blow to him. Pletures ed before me of:Yeang Dural armee- aelette on that railway or lying creslis ed at the bottom of sone fill; of the Lintited Seat tumbling over a cliff by a following eugine doing eighty or ninety miles an hour on a down grade; the screams of the passengere; the hurry call for hospital trains; the in- vestigation; the aceueing finger of the press and teeny Shirley Winston, brave to the last, sticking it out beside Jim, true to his niemory even aa the public pointed to his grave and shook Its fistneall this.' I thought a in the same length of time it takes to dream a nightmare, which is really no time at all. With a sudden flash a intuition, bora perhaps of a brain working over- time, 1 thought of la possible solution, an improbable harum-scarum method of saving the Limited. "Listen!" I 'cried, trying to make my voiee matter-of-fact. "There's one way we haven't considered. You, Pop Winston, listen to me!" Every eye turned; every face mir- roring despair became intent. The dispatcher, his gaze feverish, his bands trembling, looked up. "Ged!" he muttered. I reckon my ewn face had lost a little color. "Number seven -o -seven is a slow exigine. She's running away. She will catch the Intuited on the big grade if she isn't stopped. There are no more sidings to ditch her on. Behind her, all :the way from our yards to the mountain is practically clear teaelt. There may be a freight or two to be run into the lear, but that's easy. Well, take my engine, old ninety- nine—ehe's the fastest oil burner on the division—and there's a chance of my oetching that runaway. A good sporting chance!" The room had become el ate ed with mlenoe, explosive, vibrant, broken °lily by the persistent click of the key$ and the ;breathing of men. "O'Kelley," Pop spoke, his voice husky, "you know what that would mean? Probably your death. Suppose you found isevenneseven ditched on a curve? Suppose—" (Contmued in next issue.) At the Top. There's ever a crowd in the valley And at the base of the climb; But there are few that appear to view At the crowIi of the height sublime. The plain is filled with the turmoil, The outward struggle and strife, But. the Spirit broods o'er the soli- tudes On the higher levele of life. You are jostled aside in the valley, For the lower a soul descends, The more it finds of the smaller minds That seek but their selfish ends; But there's elbow room an the III01.111.- ta And, freed from the lower din, ' nneere's a chance to hear with some . eller ear The call or the voice within. There's companionship in the valley; With others your lot is thrown; But the man who tries for the larger prize _ Must travel the heights alone. He must make for himself a pathway 1 Where no other foot e'er trod, Till he grows complete in content - ENG NORTH LANDS Az huleelneatrsnwieteot,walk with God. By ALFRED FITZPATRICK, Principal Frontier College. One means of solving the problem unemployment is for the Govern- ments of Canada to begin the lang- .. ee-eeeee. oserdue task of preparing ita bash lauds ter settleieent in the clay belts of the North. Owing to summer frosts, farming of northern clay lands has largely been a waste of time and money: Only by clearing whole areas will this barrier to settleraent ever be overcome. Farming under present eoaditions, whereby each settler clear& a small patch, is putting the cart be- fore the horse, and is wholly unwar- ranted. At least 65 per cent. of each lot in carefully Selected townships ellould be cleared by means of large gaegs living in community camps. Berein lies one solution of unemploy- ment, now stalking before us daily in the breadlines of the cities. Work could thus be provided, particularly in the fall and winter months, as well OS during special periods of unem- ployment. This policy of extended land -clearing should not be _simply an emergency measure, but should en- gage the attention of the Federal and local Governmentis the whole year round, Should any of the wOrkers at these community camps wish to re- main on some of the cleared. lots they could be sold to them on easy terms. For the next 20, 30, yes, and for years, land -clearing in preparation for future settlement should be an urgeat and essential department of every Government in the Dominion. The big industrial plants of the Do- zxsinion, as well as the Goverements, can assist in tide great exidertaldng, Beery large ituluetry should apply for a Whole townehip or more in the bash lands, Land-olearing might be made a bitsiness department, of many Calla- dian enterpriets employiug great num- bers of workers. Instead of "Meting - off" men vrheri a pinch comes, they could establish large land -clearing camps and loameetead by proxy. In this way an ovitett would 'be provided tor a eonsidetrettle percentage a the able-bodied employee's now tureecl in- to the streeta. If as ably handled as other depertmente of the business, the bind -clearing department would un- 4o/41401y prove tensinerettive. I/tim- ber, ties and pulp vrill elven' find a ready market in Canada as welt as in taw bordering Staten The fanners', too, can. take a very • real part in this permanent policy for relieving unemployment. Let thew - 1 ands of individual farmers apply for bush lots of 160 acres each in the clay lands. All applications should be la- calized in townships most suitable for future settlement. At con.venient centres in such townships the Govern- ments should provide comfortable and attractive community camps. Farm hands should be hired by the year. Instead of being turned adrift when the busy seaton is over, to congregate in the towns and cities, they could go north for a short period to help in clearing th.e bush iota of their em- ployers. They would not, of course, be asked to live in shacks on the in- dividual lots. They would reside at the nearest community camp,. and share in all its social activities. There need be no elaborate prepara- tion for this work. Men. in charge of a practical bush foreman could be sent north at once with warm clothing, tents and small portable sawmills. A seitable site for a community camp could be selected in the centre of each. town,ship *opened, and the necessary buildings erected. The work of fell- ing trees, cutting ties, pulpwood and other lumber could be started im- mediately. Because of existing conditions or settlenient many men, even among the unemployed, are naturally loath to face the hardships involved. The writer is of the .opinion that this pre- judice can largely be overoome when the men are well clothed and housed In fully equipped community camps. Why spend so much en ,able-bodied men in th.e cities, when Oa equal ex- penditure in well -organized efforts -would provide stimulating employ ment to many theasands in the healthier environment of the north, Well -ted men In comfortable COM- munity camps, not the bread lines of the cities, is the oolution. Let Canada for all dine abandon the fooltsh polioy of homesteading her bush clay lands by individuals, work- ing separately ageitist unequal bar- riers. Rather let her undertake now a great permanent land clearing policy by tieing large gangs of unemployed mennliving in community camps, atty., pligd with every facility for ethication and enteetainment—the movies not extePted, • There is glory upon the mountain, Though the summit is cold and bleak, Yet the radiant burst ot the dawn falls first, Like a blowing rose, on the peak. Though tempests are in. the valley, The sunshine is on the height; And the golden day, ere it speeds away, Them rests, in its last goodnight. Then dare the paths of the mountain., 0 spint with Godlike fire '- Whose depths are stirred by an in- ward Word To struggle and to aspire. Be not content with the sluggard In the valleys of life' to step. Turn with eager soul to the higher goal And end your place at the tap. Tributes Cover Tomb of "Unknown Warrior." Scores of touching instances have been witnessed at the tomb of Bri- tain's "Unknown Warrior" in West- minster Abbey, as long lines of men, women and children have passed the black marble slab covering the grave for several days since the burial there of the unidentified soldier. The fact that no one knows the' name of the man whe lies beneath the slab leads many to offer tribute in the hope, perhaps, that the body is that of a missing son. The mother of one of the tb.ousands of unknown war- riors any one of whom might be re- paslng in Westminster Abbey, laid three war medals, the Mons, Star, the Victory Medal and the British War Medal on the grave as she passed in the line. They had been awarded to her only son, who was wounded three times an'd afterward reported miseing. A soldier's modest offering of floaters bore the inscription; "In loving memory of my two pals and all the other pals." The epitaph placed on the slab reads: "For King and Country—Greater Love Inath No Man Than This." For various reasons, irecluding cruel- ty to animals, gruesome details in ceiree, irreverence, and excessive re, volver shooting, the British Board of Film Censors raised objections to 253 films last year. Minerd's Lielment*Fietleves Colds, etc. e • SIR LOMER GOUIN GENERAL SIR ARTHUR CURRIE The enlargement of the directorate of the Batik of Montreal, which was decided' upon at the recent annual meeting as a meult of the extending scope of the institution, has resulted in two gentlemenof national reputation. being added to the board, namely, the Hen. Sir Lerner Gouin K.C.M,G., and General Sir Arthur Currie,. K.C.B,, LLD, Sending Children to Bed for Punish - meet. Some parents have the habit 'af pun- ishing their 'children for wrong doing by requiring theta to go to bed during the daytime. There is danger in such Punishment. Children who Hein bed unoccupied ere likely to develop had habite. A child should not He in bed ,at any time while he is awake unless - he is kept busy in some wholesome way. When he is sent to bed for pun- ishment the chances are that he will not be eocupied and the consequences are apt to be harmful. Some parents encourage their chin: dren to remain in bed and rest after they awaken in the morning. It would be better for them to arise at once. If they really need more rest than they can get from a night's sleep, they should form the habit of taking a nap at a regulasc time when they are tired and sleepy. Parents who discover that their chil- dren have already acquired bad habits fro -m lying in bed unoccupied, should explain in a frank but kind way the dangers arising therefrom; such par - tents should follow this explanation with redoubled efforts to keep the at- tention of their little ones filled con- stantly with wholesome thoughts and occupations. Evil habits re probably acquired more largely thiougli theepraottee of lying in bed awake or being sent to bed for punishment than from any other one cause. - The Hospitable Hour. Winter is the season for cosy tea parties. A homelike room, some hot, fragrant tea and a plateful of tempt- ing sandwiches will look very inviting to guests who have tramped through cold and sleet to see you. Here are recipes for palatable .cracker and sandwich fillings. If your guest i care for cheese, you can tempt their appetites with a filling of cheese and prickled onion. Grate the cheese, mince the onion and geld a lit- tle vinegar; or beat the white of three eggs stiff, and slowly stir in, one and one-half cupfuls of gratedncheese and, a little paprika. Then spread the mix- ture on crackers and brawn the crack- ers in the oven. Oyster crackers may be 'crisped in the oven, dipped in hot 'butter and rolled in grated* cheese ar in nut crumbs; or they may be coated with almondtor strawberry icing. Cheese wafers spread with. dates and nuts that have been mashed to a paste are always good. Se arebutter crack- ers coated with a mixture of cottage cheese and blackbetry jam, or with a paste made of cheese and apple butter. To make a etelicious sweet cracker pour ehoeolate sauce and grated wal- nuts over well -buttered reception flakes, or melt a chocolate cream on a plain 'cracker. Cocoanut marguerites are easy to make. Boil a cupful of sugar in one- quarter of a cupful of water until the mixture spins a thread. While it is hotRour it over the well -beaten white of an egg, add a third of a cupful of fresh -grated cocoanut end a teaspoott- ful of vanilla. For foundation, use small, plain crackers. Put a spoonful of the mixture on each cracker and brown the eraelters in a moderate oven. You can serve soda crackers in it new and delightful way by icing them. Make a syrup of sugar and water, stir a quarter of a cupful of sugar over the fire until it begins to burn, add it to the syrup, pour both over one egg stiffly whipped, and stir in &lopped pecan nuts mid a Tittle vanilla. Place ithisee87-v ackers in the oen until the icing Cinnanion tea biscuits are familiar, but are always welcome antral.* easily prepared, Make a paste with soft but- ter, hall a copful of sugar and two tablespoonfuls of ground cinnainoe, Spread it on. traekers or on eourele of toast shoed thin, and beet the toast or the crackere in the oven, Peanut -butter finings are equally popular. Mix half a pound of con- feetioners' sugar and a level table- spoonful of butter; then add two table- spoonfuls of peamit _butter and suffi- cient cream to moisten the mixture. You ecan make a filling that has a distinctly Oriental flavor if you rub to a paste a dozen stoned dates and half a teaspoonful of ground cloves, and thin the mixture -with a Little orange 'juice or eream; spread it on modeiately sweet -crackers. e Cooking by Graded Temperature. Not everyone realizes what temper- ature means in cooking; yet the in- telligent use of graded heat largely determines the palatability of a dish. The higher the temperature used the more pronounced is the flavor of the food, especially -when dry heat is em- ployed. Take, for example, the character- istic taste of eadrst beef and the savor of broiled oysters; if the beef were boiled and the oysters stewed, •each would lase much of its flavor. The rule applies to 'vegetables is well, for, although turnips, tomatoes and a few others have their flavor in- creased to an unpleasant degree by high temperature, by far the greater eanbereare better baked than boiled. 0 -rote, parsnips, beets and squash can be baked on the rack of the oven as Bpuett abt baking nes agr e. does more than to en- hance the natural flavor of foods; it creates new flavors by making new substances through high temperature. The fresh crust of bread, muffins and toast, the well -browned top of a rice pudding and the crisp surfaces of broiled or baked meats, poultry and fish all have a new and delicious flavor due to actual change in the food materissl, Moreover, baking insures the reten- tion of minerals and other valuable substanCes that are dissolved- in boil- ing and lost when the water is. poured into the sink. The constant use of foods impoverished in that way causes malnutrition as surely as does a diet ithooadtstffess elsome one of the important Some foods, however, should not be subjected to intense heat during the whole of the cooking process. For exanible, if an egg is boiled steadily for three or fete: minutes the white wilI be hard and the yolk soft, whereas if it is put into a pan of boiling water and the pan is withdrawn to a warm place where the water does not boil, both the white and the yolk will be cooked evenly. A cake, a loaf or a joint of meat that is put, into a very hot oven and kept teere until it is cooked will be overdone on the 'outside and underdone inside. That is because the substance formed by continued high temperature on the surfaces of such foods is a non-concluctpr of heat, Foods that are injured by continued high temperature should be baked for twenty minutes in a very hot oven; the heat should then be reduced and the foods left in the oven uxtil they are cooked through. Sophie. Sophfets pleasant, round face was less mune than usual, and the pink had faded from her cheeks. Her hair, hi two childish pigtails, was brought forward over her shoulders as he lay against a pile of pillows. Her eyelids dropped, and she booked, until Gwen- neth entered, like a tired -out little girl. Then her Whole face flashed alive in a smile of welcome. "Oh, Gwen, dear, et's goad to eels you!"e she cried softly. "You're the ,ficorisnet .f),f the they've allowed to "Because I was the most persistent, • and they got tired of keeping me declared,"Gweeneth, mailing back at the convalescent with, a twinkle of moisture on her eyelashes; for Sophie had 'been very near the verge. "I've pelletized, to stay only a few minuts. If I tired you they mighttnt let the rest comt e and then—I don't know what would happen! The pack would turn and rend mei They vend thole opera time on your beck doorstep, whining to get In, and they are jealous enough already to bite me for slipping in ahead." "Everybodyts been so good," said • • . rt.e•Ste""•estele..:,,iaaetstei't' e f: !Canadian Song Writers To protect Yee feeni feandoient WRITING STUOIOS.seeismityeur setig poems to me, and twtU..edviee you as to musical settings. International copy- • rights and publicatien of yoor eeng. Residents ef Canada oomreunicate only, JULES BRAZIL pr9fcsional eon Arrenger. 41 GORKhEet AVE. -, TORONTO „ Sophie happily, with a tremuloue laugh. "So good I—I cant even talk about it yet, I should cry if I tried." "Don't' try. Enjoy oar transitory sweetness 'while it lasts, Eat our jel- lies and sniff our flowcre and regard us as young angels while you can; you'll soon he well again, and we'll be our old prickly, teasing, unreasonable selves, We are extra nice now because when you were sickest we held a con- sultation and matlea, dtseovery, You'd never guess what it was," "No," assented Sophie, you knew I wouldn't. I'm not a bit clever, But at least I'm not too Stupid to knew that I'm perfectly ,ordinary and uninterest- ing—and to be grateful—" "Stop there, my child; you've coni close to the edge of ourgreat discov- ery, but now you're tanieg a wrong • turning," Gwenneth interrufted her imperatively. "We are a clone crowd," she went on frankly, "in e way. We're quick, and if only two or three of the ,girls are really witty we've all got the habit of toesing the talk back and forth. That's well enough, as long as we eau just eajoy, wee own fun without eonceit, But we were beginning to consider ourselves out of the ordinary, I'm afraid; and that's fatal. The next thing we'd have been striking poses and scintillating. • Awful!" "You abeurd old Gwen," protested Sophie. '"You're trying to apologize for ibeing bright!. And you haven't yet told me of your great discovery." "The discovery," said Gwenneth s'Oberly, "came whet we realized that a certain little person lead taken sick —a person who never said anything clever, but who just laughed and lis- tened and appreciated our nonsense, and who put in an occasional sensible remark just at the proper moment, or a kind one if we were too sarcastic; and who was always sweet and good temperecleand moticst without an iota of show-off-i-ness in her whole sys- tem. and--" " "Why, Gweal" said. Sephie. "Mtn G eenl" "Oh, yes, Sophie dear! We found out that it was a small thing to be clew): and a big thing to be wise and kind, and that the one person we couldn't possibly do without was— Goodness! Time's up. There's your sister in. the eloorvvayonaking signals. GoShdelbvanished with a nod and a wave of the hand; and it was a very proud and humble Sophie, with a heart full of love for her fxiende--though she could not.really believe in their great discovery—that snuggled down into her pillows with a sigh of content. Health --the Everlasting Reality. To nothing else touching his life eau the aphorism "As, a man thinketh ia his heart so is he" be more fittingly applied than to a man's health. Health can be established only by thinking health, just as disease es es- tablished by thinking diseaze. Just as you must think success, expect it, visualize it, make your mind a huge success magnet to attract it if you are to attain it, so if you want to be healthy, you must think health, yoa must expect it, you must visualize it, you must attract it by making your miad a huge health magnet to attract more health, abundant health, As long as physical defects, weaknesses, or diseased conditions exist M the . imaginatien, as long as the mind is ' filled wth visimis of ill health the body must -correspond; bemuse our bodies are but an extension of out' thoughts, our minds objectified. Health is based upon the ideal of the body's perfection and the absolute denial of disease, the denial of every- thing but the ideal condition; upon the idea that only that which is good for us can be real in the highest sense of the word; that all physical discords are only the absence of harmony, not the reality, of our being, the truth of us. Health is the everlasting reality,. disease is tbe absence of reality. It is only seeming. in to the physician's ability to suggest perfect soundiess of body to his patient,dto visualize him as physically perfect; in proportion to his power to sen and to impress upon the mind of his patient the image of the ideal, instead of that of the dis- eased, distorclant, suffering individual, will he be able to help him. eillnard's Liniment for Burns, etc. • , ' First Funeral by Air. The first case here of a funeral by air, says s, Lon.den despatch, was ar- ranged when the Hantdleet-Page Co. was asked to quote its rate for carry- ing the body of a woman be air from Loadon to Petrie. ,et was explained that the bady had to be in Paris by Thursday and that air teammate was the only method whioh would guaran- tee, its punctual arrival; The coot of an air funeral was placed at 475p or approximately $300. COARSE SALT LAND BALT Bun palots TORONTO filltisT WORKS tfe OLII/Fr , TORONTO •••"- .7.,Ntt.4 THEPOWERT1iAT MOVES THE WORLD ENTHUSIASM IS MOTIVE FORCE 'OLT_HEIVIIND. Put Your Soul Into Work mwKla'yYVVouliWereilMake Had vitir You Are. Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality, Without it; whatever abilities yen may possees Ile dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has' more latent power than he ever learns to use. You maes have kaowledge, sound tudtmeet, good reasoning faculties; but eo one—not even youreelf--will know it, until you discover how to put your heart into thought a.n,cl actiou. wouderful thing is dile qiutlitr whech we call enthusiasm. It is too often, underrated as so much surplus and useless display of feeling, lacking in real substantiality. This Is an enormous mistake, You can't go wrong in applying all the genuine en- thusiasm that you can stir up xvithie you; for it is the power that moves the world. There is nothing compar- able to it in the, things which it can accomplish. ' ' • Power �f Persuasion. le 'We ca,n out through the hardest rocks with a diamond drill and melt steel rails with a flame. We can tun- nel through mountains and make our way- through any sort of physical ob- htfruction. We can checkmate and di- vert the very laws of nature, by our ecience. But there is no powet in the world that can cut through another man's mental opposition, except per- suasion. And persuasion is reason eplauseisnitashums.iasin, with the emphasis on tiu Enthusiasm is the art of high per- suasion. And did you ever stop to think that your progress is commen.- surate with your ability to move the minds, of other people? If you are a salesman this is pre-eminently son Even if you are a clerk, it is the zest which you put into your work that en- kindles an appreciation in the mind af your employer. You have a good idea- -6.(zet otkmpeopbe will iecogaize it at once. Columbus had a good idea, but he didn't get "across" with it witheut muck of this high persuasion. If you would like to be a power among mete, cultivate enthusiasm.. People will like you better for it; you will escape the dull routine ot a me- chanical existeace and you will make headway wherever yoe are. It cannot be otherwise, for this is the law of human life. Put your soul into your -- work, and not only will you land Ltd' pleasanter every hour of the day, but people will believe- in you just -as they believe in electricity when they get in touch with a denamo. Leaders of Men. What is it 'In a man that qualiftes hitn for caramand? 'With some men we feel on the instant that they are born to take charge of things. More- over, they will not timidly initiate and ineffectually coetinue what they have started, but they will start and carry on and carry through without abate- ment of th,at remarkable dynamic driv- ing force. Such men are priceless and they are few. The leaders are ram because so many want the glory with- out the labor of caramand, and large matters of moment are not intrusted to thosie who first of all are searching fer-a melee and a fame for themselves. The one thing that gets a man to a place worth bevieg by the time he dies is a real and not a posing and pedes- taled self-sacrifice. The trouble with some of the sacrificial is that, altb.ough the deed may be a preen one, they put too much on exhibition; they can- not keep it a secret. What does it matter who does the thing as come pared with doing the thing? Why do we want to get our na,mes'noted and bruited here instead of waiting for the recording angel? Why are we rest- less when we hear praise go to an- other? Tilley are we put out if not in- vited to or for all sorts of things? What becomes of the vanity of human wishee when the wisher. is in, the grave? Then all that will be remem- bered' of hlxii is whether he did his 'work and whether he.helkeds,„.3.nd • ly helped, to down the bad aid to e± - alt the good, Sir Waiter Scott on his deathbetd told Lockhart that only the sense .of having been a good man is a comfort at the last The man who leads has a cause -that ist bigger than himself or any of his followers. He oommands them just beeensta there is something not seen with the eyes that commands him. They obey heoau,se they know he is devoted not to the notion af overrul- ing there, but the idea Of getting the right thing done. He cares for their good, too. They all stand, advanee or retreat, gain or lose, together. The captain is the father of them he ie torn with paternal solicitudes • for them. Therefore, they follew 'when the commend is "Forward!" Real Cinderella. Cinderella'sreal name, 1t1s alleged, was Rhodope. She' is believed to hage been a beautiful Egyptian maidea who lived 670 years before the came mon era and during the reign of Pear modeles., one of tlfe twelve 'kings of Egypt. A Uay of warty is more exhetultinel than a week of %eerie. . , • a