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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1921-2-24, Page 2rockery Teapo Put a tea poonful of the genuine y4.00.6 and By Edwin Baird Tor every=TWO cups Pottr oti freshly BOILING water and letqt stand for five rriiiliates. THE RESULT will be the most perfect flavoured B725 tea you ever taSted4 ' Melissa's Accouet Book. Ilse how to get even better results. I'm going after them." Dan threw up his hands, "She's ever' countecl the worms the hens picked up and charged, 'em up!" he, said. "Who says women haven't busieess heads? But finding out what it really cost to feed a hieed man was the most ab- sorbing work of all. Any compunction which Melissa might have felt about 'counting the bites' 'Were wiped out in the greater consideration of learning if it paid to feed help. At first she jotted down what had been served at every meal,- and how much, approxi- mately, the men ate. But she soon discovered the better way wee to set aside a given amount of food each used, keep track a the number of into the dirt and seemingly lays eggs, meels it Tested, and then average it as I find the dirt full of little worms. 111, would have known the tone of thud And then in a disconnected fashion, for Rowena was sobbing heart-in'oken- ly now, she told him all about it. She had been inanely jealous, and t the junk -dealer had passed in the alley d t h.' from 1 ,the windage and he had come up and bought the violin for $5. Dazed, dumb with grief, he heard her through, as a father might hear that his only son is dead. And when at last she had finished, he stood star- ing at her vaea.ntly, still too ehocked for speech. That she Wild sell his violin, his precious, Strad, seemed un- bI b1 He moistened his lips and asked, in a dull voice:. 4Yeu have the man's name, Row- ena?" "Yes, Milo." Hurriedly she procur- ed from the bureau a piece of papee on which was written in lead pencil the name of Abe Rubovitz, and an ad- . . All right Pll tell Cass." dress in Terauley street. He will ow vialin .anywhere. t ANa§ $ Stradheariiis! 0 it , Precipitately, lie dashed up t,he stOP$ inornin.g in the pollee imert of ,eny big o 'the door, tried the ltedh,Iound the nteetteeen fiends, eateen weeeete petty deer lacked and banged uPon, it. driefic-and-clieoecierriee, niek- Ii1S;toner -froWned. T7rgenti ((nee- tiOnime falling to elielteiniee fuetle in-ltavenestion., he twined to Abe, ottwittet. you play for usi M. e ea: egda ee-nreesiVelet! o ean piny said ho. Sebin, how about you?". i "Smell" grinned, Mr. Sabin, and playetie the fiddle., lie knew but one tune, and he had readered indiffer ently last night. He was nervoes hoW , - ,3 and his reelleion was WOVSO. now, air. ynaoop," said I And "if W the judge, mulling- down at the faded little retie lei a `` u pp o e we hearyOu," Pale; but quite solf-possessed, tueked the violin •bencath his ale! swept his gaze over the crowd, Ib was. ' while the opeeed' a scant piece, -"Sin Within cease'', and n a listl Pockets, a Soreel crowd ia eordidl three inches by a woman of forbidding Then ,the master touched, bis mane., eountenanee, who regarded him suss I bow to the steings see fleeting the piciously. I place with exquisite music. The ugli- He thrust the door open and brush-iness vanished, and there appeared, in- ed,past her. AS he rushed into an ad -i stead the enchantment of eing'ng _sem- , surely give it back when you explain. And I'll work and earn the money. I'll Gnats on House -Plants. do anything, anything, Milo, if you'll E. L. I find that a small fly or only try to forgive me." gnat is hathering my house plants. _It He made no answer to that, but got d as the common house fly. It crawls the door. She followed him, her arms is very small and about the same color his a an coat, an In , up. In three weeks, so well had she One g•eranium plant is dying, and -I weighed and measured and reckoned, fifteen minutes after supper each evenfing sufficed for her bookkeeping. Melissa's carrot -counting. was Dan's etandard joke that winter. For years he had kept accounts. Stocks and crops were weighed in the balance and merciles,ely rejected if they did not pay. But that the food served on the table and the time spent getting it ready should be charged to profit and loss struck him as funnY. -You've got to eat just so mueh," he argued. "What's the use of setting down how many carrots you mit into the stew or how many grains of salt goes into the soup?" Melissa knew that you had to eat euet so much but she found out that it made a great deal of difference what that "nruch" was. - The usefulness of household book - .keeping became apparent to Dan in the spring. "Cass thinks he's got to have more money, he grumbled as he watched Melissa bending over her books one ?evening. "Says e-verything is going eepsand lie-ean't get along on what I'm paying.," think this insect is the cause. What can I do to prevent or get rid of it? I think there ean be little room for doubt that the small flies or gnats, which bother house -plants and which are dese.ribed as being very small and about the same calor as the common house -fly, are fiingus gnats. These creatures often, breed in decaying ma- nure and decaying vegetable matter and occasionally injure house -plants. We have found nicotine the most val- uable agent for killing. these creatures and have usually had little difficulty with them after watering a few times with a little black hell forty in the water. It •is often sufficient to dig into the soil around the roots a quan- tity of tobac-co fine-cut tobacco or Something of the kind which will lib- erate nicotine when it becomes soaked with the water of the soil. These warms are more apt to be present when the &oil in the pot is soggy and when it is kept too wet, elthough they may thrive in soil of proper mbistura. I would 'give the plant a little better drainage if the soil seems too wet and either use soine tobacco or S01113 nieo- tine. It eloesn'tanattee ;which brand of nicotine is stied. "How much does he want?" "OriI3,- three cents an hour more. It's Foot Comfort. kot much when you think of it in "From a well -fitted infancy to a hours but it's around seventy-five dol- cornlese, comfortable old age," was !ars a year." the keynote of a shoe exhibit. Special - "Tell him you'll give it to him if bell board himself. You can save snoney at that," Melissa threw her bomb without looking up. "What do you mean?" Dan howled. "Didn't I just tell you it amounts to 3erourid. seventy-five dollars. a year?" "Plumb crazy," said Father Tomp- kins looking pityingly at Melissa. ? "You've been paying him more -than that extra three cents an hour all winter, with his two meals a Melissa tapped her books meaningly. "The meals we set out could not be paid for by his extra pay, figured. on what we get for the stuff we sell and what We have to pay for the, grocer- ies we buy, plus my time." "Do you mean to say you've been keeping tab on what tEat fellow ate?" "Nor you never heard of such high- priced help before," Melissa came back. "Those figures do not take in all the cookies and fried cakes you've told -him to carry out for lunch. I have them all down on a separate slip, if you'd like to look them over." Dan snatched' the paver. T -here it -was in Melissa's neat writingeabegun the day Cass arrived and continued on caown to the present—a long trail sf cookies, hermits, niieces of pie and gaice, apples, handfuls of raiSillS, crackers and elaeese, all urged on Cas- ilua his generous employer. The letal staggered. even Dan. "But what's a meal?" he said lame ly: ,Very little, ten years ago," Melissa agreed. • "But with 1920 prices for eggs and butter, not to mention sugar and coffee, 'a meal' is another story. (Nye Cass his raise and tell ,him we will not board him." "1-le'e strong for your cooking," Dan grinned. 'Maybe he'll stick to Ws old wages if he has toaniss that." "I won't have time to cook for 'him ney snore," Melisea picked up her Venal]. "I'm going in for poultry raising as a sure -thing money-maker. lay hooks show me that even with our slip -shod way of doing, hens pay. That 'h,00lc on poultry raising I borrowed from the County Representative, telle held out in „supplication. "Wait, Milo! You mustn't go be- fore you've eaten. Wait till you've had your dinner." He did not answer that either, but left the room and closed the door be- hind him --noiselessly, as before. Down the front steps he walked like a nian in a fog. • Milo reached the junk establishment just as Abe Rubovitz himself arrived; and Abe, too, was visibly excited. He had arrived, not in his decrepit cart, but astride his equally decrepit horse; and it was manifest that misfortune had befallen him. When Milo rushed upon him, violently demanding his violin, Abe gesticulated and swore that he did) not have it. Argument ensued. Both talked, and neither listened. "Where is my Strad?" yelled Milo. al c °anthers? 9nPle'ilsibiltsollogfh daensdersiPelitieOri-il .ss?.,ntii'obacuisdioannede sprang to their feet, startled by this high -banded 'intrusion. The tough guy laid the 'violin aside. That was Milo's chance. With cat- like quickness, he pounced Upon the instmment, and in another moment, before those intheroom had teeoyer- ed from their astonishment, he -was in the hall with it, and going fast. The womae made ari ineffectual grab at his coat, as he sped past her, and the tough guy quickly plunged in pursuit. Having gained the street in safety, Milo -fled in the direction from which he had corne. The bard -faced woman, the tough guyand all his tough COM - racks tame full cry after him, shouting: "Stop him! Head him off! He's a thief!" In every block the pursuers gained receuits; and when they reached the spot where the street ear had struck Abe Rubovitz their number was in- creased t'nreefold. Abe and has pro- geny were. poking about in the scat- tered junk and removing parts of it in a wheelbarrow; but- seeing Milo running with the violin under his arm, they abandoned this less profitable employment and in their own way took up the popular cry: "T'ief! Tief! F.S-ss Viefl" The chase ended as it was sere to 3 end, when a. peliceman appeared on the scene, curious to know what the rumpas was about. "It's mine!" panted Milo, when the policeman grabbed him. `'It belongs to me!" "' 4istened s ell-boend; and when. the last soul2searc ing ,uote bad, died away, there, was a roornent's breathless bush. Then the courtroom rang with tuariul- thus applause. The bailiff pounded his gavel foe order, and amid theuproar the judge could be heard pronouneing his de- . . cision. ' A few. minutes later Milo walked from the dourtroom poseession of his violin. He wag -thinking that lie must invent an alibi to present to Rowena and. another to submit? to 1VIenager Bloom. It would never do to have either know of this affair. If )3loom heard about it, he would prob- ably cancel that contract. - He had proceeded thus far in hig meditation, and was nearing the door of the Court -house, when his wife and Bloom confronted 'him. Unobserved, Bloom had been sittme, in the rear of -first. but since he started with the tail, the veorm coeld dig its hooked feet into the floor and crawl out the toad's mouth.' At the end of five Min- utes the grub finally craavled free, though it died from the coating of toad digester that it had encountered. 11 is -fun for the youngsters to feed katydids .tq the toad; he has such a time swallowing all the legs and antennae. He stuffs-. them into his mouth with his paws, very much as a little -boy crams in more cake than his mouth will comfortably hold Moreover, the toad is troubled by the we're an hour late for rehears.al. insect's ‘1,e`icladng. after, -it *is doWn; an (The • End.) sometnnes a jarfly will sing quite a s -Wan song after it is enguLfeds At such times the toad pats his etomacl with his forefeet or flat on the "Give me back my precious Strad!" "He's got TklY fiddle!" accused the "Eriryt'ing gone!" wailed Abe, lift- tough guyopufflng like a tugboat from ing his arms to heaven. his exertion'. "I bought it off'n Tommy Mrs. Rubovitz, convoying nine for one bone." young Rubovitzes of assorted sizes Tey tell lies," announced Abe R bo breathleesly, joining the made her ap-pearance from the shack u N , ' which served as home and the hub- trio. 3"De f4tile Vic`ngs by me. 1 giff don to be got from the observation floor and stretches himself' as 'far as bub was augmented. ' Loith, chatter latlY fife tollar for Int." e- oe sesAerse - he can reach. - , followed in a tongue unknown to Milo; The.h.onest policeman could. tlrink os. 2"' ' ' These insects cannot spin properly .- 111- ie seluti n to etch an interest- • ell kinds meda Into NW RUGS Pet Ru s Carpets Glee:tea Send wed foe cola ogee, $AN1TAR'Y cArtptiT CLEANIleQ CO, 83 Ilyartion Ave., Toronto A Toad's Table 'Warmers, One ;summer night when we were sittiee rdenti the porch light sey$ a t, 7 writ,el,' in country Life, one of us, noticed a toad that was making fran- tic 0,i'otte olimb the thece step$ that lead to the walk 1. -Ie f'nell I'eached the verandah floor aid began flipping ht the bugs that had fallen into' the circle of. light that the lamp east. Seine of us ibegn catching beetle anil dropping them near his -nose and .e ,he soon appeared to accept us as Inc natural providers, ile was back the 3 next night and, in feet, every night the courtroom, chatting genially with some newspaper men and mentally computing, the valu.e of the free pub- licity that would accrue to Valentine the Viigabend Violinist. "Well, Val, old scout," he said, for the benefit of the reporters, "you did that.very cleverly. I congraturate you. Your wife got here just as the jedge dismissed' your ease, and you can see how tickled she is." And a little later, for Milo's ears alone: "By the way, Mile; there's a slight mietake in that' contract, It reads for two weeks at seventy-five per. It oughts. be for six months at one hundred and fifty a Week. I'll fix it up in a jiffy. C'mon; while the toad season la,sted; and he has continued to visit us in the same manner every summer. It is evident- ly the memory of e well -set table that brings him back each year. ' There are certain bugs, such as po- tato beetles -anti squash -bugs, that the toad will not touch. He likes light- ning bugs only when he is very hun- gry, but he is not often. 'too full to spear a luckless June bug that comes within reach of his tongue. Now and then a big clinching beetle clinches it strong 3manclibles “)n the toad's lip or foreleg and clings there, much. to his inconvenience, but apparently not to his great eeuffering. One night some one offered him one of the big green larvae that feed on grape leaves. The Worm was the size of a man's `finger, but the toad undertook to swallow it. He would have suc- ceeded had- he taken. the grub head - !AST ARRIER IN '4 EXPLORER'S PATH ViOUNT EVEREST, HIGH- EST MOUNTAIN PEAK. Sir Francis Younginlsband, British SoPier anci Exporer, Att,oniPt Its A,s01t. , , The ateneare hist barrier! There Is a certain amouet of pre- eumption ti ttach ing this d crip tion to any obstacle standing in the way of 11r'.121111.e ale was a barrier for a time but , 110Yr avi-atars aeo heaping else loop in the upper reaeliee. At the perpendicu- lar ektremes of the globe are certain Waste spaces suitable ,neither to tour- ing nor cultivation. 13nt they oppcsed man'e ambition; and at' a Toot Off' daily Placed at 400 lives,- 0_50,000,000 in cash and 200 ships he achieved the North Pole. The expeditions into the antipodean seas were almoet as cost- 15ye,i anhoitsitletiiilge laitiaenbhyareineg'clahgiining- . in the greatest war of the ages. ‘, The Naxt Goal. Now, temporarily out of soneations,'ll - he is casting -his eyes eagerly taavard• anethee last boal.left unconquered - and fervently hoping it will not prove too easy of achieveinent. It is in Tibet that this last adven. ture against the world's final barrier is to be staged. Tibet as in itself a strange country. It is intthe southern part of China, separated from India by a narrow strip of buffer states, of , which Nepal is one. Extending through this etate of Pepol, like an army of giantsdra,wn up in SS111,1-eirell- lar formation to guard )3ritain's most famous colony from Asiatic hordes,„ are those towering wonders of the earth known a,s the Himalayas, and in their midst the most awe-inepiaing marvel of them all --Mount Everest. It is this Mount Everest, the high- : est, most remote and most terrible - I mountain in the world, that Sir Francis Yeungluisbaml, the Britieih ealdler and explorer, has announced his intention .1 to scale, probably value time next May. ' It is not without reason Mount ! Everest has been known throughout the generations as the unconquered mountain., Not without justification 11 are its clear.heig.hts unshilied by 'mortal presence, and net Without cause ha-ve.- the adventurers of the earth paused dismay before iL - Tibet, through which the expedition doubtless will proceed on itsesvr-a-y to the mountain, is familiar groan, Sir Frar.cie. In 1904 he led- a force against', Lhasa, its chief metrepolis, 'and Wes the ihit white man in' years to enter the -F-cfrbidden City, - Lhasa, is about 280 miles northeast of Mount Everest, and if the expedi- tion starts there, as is like3., of--- fer the climbers a sharp picture of contrast's. Shielded for generations from infic.lel eyes, it is a remarkable relic of the Middle Ages, A Land'of Lamas. Spiders as Weather Prophets. There is a wealth of weather wis- and then- the entire Rubovitz family 3' (t1 - § led by the master on his dolorous ing problem arid' o 1 lied th ; le ea e high wind Before a gale they steed, filed dismally down the street, wagon and hielsed them all up-. .• ' may be observed stren theit a mournful proeession indeed. The same:interesting problem (on- webs. Milo had -no choiee exeept to fol- fronted the Judge the next morning. The shape of the web is. alsara . low; and several -blacks, away he en- Here `were- tisFee.sMen, ,all claiming valuable inclication.:When the frame - remains of Abe's junk cart lay in al all, aPP‘arehtlY, entitled to it bY law, „instinct has told it that wind and rain while long and slender pile on one side of the street, cm the Abe Rubovitz, being duly sworn, opposite side were heaps of old iron, reiteratedethat li.e'had given the. lady are cdrning' fa:rime-lines are a reliable sign of bones, wire, bottles, rags, what -not. rfile tollar for 'im." The tough guy countered an answer to the. riddle. The ownershili of. a piece. of .PrePertY an,cl lines are short and stout the insect's It was painfully clear that a street (Cease name, It developed. was Joe case's and me wea ler. spiders memarn ac -Lire , u ng car, travelling at high speed, had ram_ Sabin) deposed that he had bought If nied Abe fairly amidships. It was also the fiddle "oirn Tommy Pike for one rain you may be certain it is anly as asts in Women's footwear believe that clear that the violin was gone. All bone." And Tommy. Pike, a lad of shower and *ill be over soon. When, common sense may be attained wibh-i search proved unavailing. Nor couldfifteen solemnly sword hat , he had at the beginning of rain, they retire f out sacrificing bea-uty, and it is to1 anY person in the nei ewe. gee Van Wynkoap," said the el I found it; and lie toed no he. into complete indolence, the unsettled ghborhooci tell stress this point that the exhibit had anything about it. weather W1 E..a most certainly last for Broken in spirit, 3331ilo at last moved judge, "what have you to say about . be -en planned. e t ie Among the va'rieties displayed were slowly away. muttering to himself and t' le • '' - • . . i • shoes for infancy and -childhood, for down his head. His eyes were east Mile rose, tremblingly; his face very I The time of day at which spiders college gerls, for elderly peopie, and by. He la -a; as if he had grown years n ieedless of the cur'ious pa-ssers- pale and haggeed. Last night, in he, mend their feets-is also a good wea- cell, he had written a note to Rowena I tiler sign. If the mending is ()beery - for people with weak feet; shoes built older. Het was a lost soul. Josteea' on and given a boy ahalf-dollar to deliver I.ed going on during a semmer even- , e i tee over- it and answer n6 questions. lie liadrileg, there will be no -rain that night. 3 on 'hygienic lines, and a comparison all sides szared3 r dieu If You Forget. If you forget to do the kindly. deed, Someitseawdays;oul may go sadder- ore - And drearier still may be its dark - some day, Missieg a friend in need. If you forget that helpful word to say, - Some sine heart may be filled avith fiercer ache; „ Andr`needing sympathy, that heart may, rea So speak :the word to -day. If you forget to say, to think, to do The thing, to help. a -fellow-ssoul along, • ' Your soul must -bear -the. burden of •-the Wrong Your whole- rife's journey theaugh. of well -eared for and neglected elmee. whelmed with grief,,lee sh-tiffled along told her not th avorrye that the vio When spiders are 'Seen, crawling- on Shoe S 'with French heels and sainted toes, though for -a long time dictated by Dame Fashion, are not in reality beautiful, assert the home economies experts, who say thay are conducive :raining School for 033.1a00, Hospital for • Ul OLIO* Insane, Tordnto, , ameeslealW Calsree for young mtStVittygdil aal4 mentalnetraingi Set*unetagobe With Otillforin, ,sInd Utie.dtyt aBIOWed daring , OcinefailWiilaf tetititeW male rot 81 0I80 Aols, - E,DioAL 01.1P-NRIN'rENDENt ; Heap;tal Toronto, avails instead of attending to thein TM:need's Linimeet for Bartle, etc. the snowy street. was safe, and that he wou,ld be home Ii. this manner he paoceeded aim- in the morning and .expteen ,.eyeery- . R nets wet Weather is traminente • lesely through the Ward. Thene'all at thing. And he ases on; -as ONN- , once, lie stopped short, flung his need ena now W len .0 881 8: . . up, and ethod listening. „ From the "Your honor, the violin is. mine. I lower window almuse on hie left is- can not tell you how these men came shed the strabis of a violin. It was to have it. 1 am willing to pey them poorly played and the air was rag- for return. That IS aril can say, time—a thing he abhoerecl—but he your honey." • 0:4 The telephone arose out of an at- * Snails'.and Screws,. tempt to de.sign an apparatus to aid - - deaf p donle in - hearing. s,3 ot neither to health, comfort, nor happi- Neaely all hreentions ba.ve been . suggested bY .1"latigal objectg. ohne 13aiftieueee 'weee the, sleet to Hihheeled itl itlt Fremont, of the French School oe trade with 'Africa, the Dutch the first g s oes w po n oes cause a hobbling, itching gait and de- foarn the foot, while bhose ;with low or mediuni straight heels and toes which are not t-ao pointed are a safeguard againet sprained ankleand broken arches. Low heeled shoes cause one to walk with the foot in a straight line, heels do not wear down rapidly and shoes of this type are easily cared for. The graceful swing weth whith one walks when 'comfortably footed is reason enough for the adoption of the hy- gienic shoe, it is contended. Women! Use "Diamond " Dyes." Dye Old Skirts, Dresees, Waists, Coats, Stockings, Draperies, Everything. Eachs pacgage of "Dianiond Dyes" contains easy directions for dyeing any article of wool, silk, cotton, linen, or mixed goods. Beware! Poor dye streaks, spots, fades and ruins ma- terial by giving It a 'dyed -look." Buy "Diamond Dyes" only, Druggist has. Color Card. Airplanes Guard the Vine-, yards. In Prance great damage is done t6 the vineyards -1;Y hail, and resekt has been had to, ma,ny ingenieue'electrical And -thdier devices for warding off this mischief. Th.e nerweet idea IS that of a French scientist who proposes to use air- planes for, the purpose, sending them up when atmospheric conditions sug- gest a likelihncd of a hallstornie His argument, ig that inagmuch as a. tall' of bail is usually preceded by a calm, a disturbance Of the air by the whirling propellers of flying niachinq Would be likely to preVent.the farina - testi of the Icy projettiles whose belt- baielnient la so mecii dreaded. Watch How Thy Wait - Have you ever, noticed men. walk- ing? Every one, when walking by himself, has a diffeeent style, and that aloue shows the character. It would be as easy ttetread the charact- er of 011r lady ' friends, only, for Obvious reasons; their walking „man- ners- are less easy to study„ womaa even in her walk being ruled by the prevailing 'fashion. Take the slow-naced, stiff -kneed manwhotravels at the rate of two miles an hour. He. has no ambition and few oi" no hopesse he hes•no idea of bettering himself, and he will pro- bably never do so.- His mind is slug- gish, and he is most unlikely to get on in the world. - The man who hurries one minute and delays the next is an erratic in- dividual. He is a inan often full -et schemes which he will never carry out. I -Ie works well by fits and starts, hut he never persists. The man who frequently etops and staree about, who is- attraeted by ghop windows, or who w ill tarn to look after a nrc,,tty gill, is the pleasure - laving man. Any form of work- is ab- horrent to him, and what work he dace Is °illy foreeti dram- laim by cir- 1. ees. , " Then Comes one with eyes fixed dn the, ground,, ,seeing nobody. He runs inte people, a,nct is often in danger or the traffic. Ile iS the dreamer, and in rare cases hie dreams becoine sPIendid rOal.iti es, bet far 'mei% often he comes to grief. A variety of this man is he who, with 'big eyee fixed on some 'distant object, sees tlittle or nothing cif what in terven es. TTe .1.3as a bei toe 1151100 01 sudecits bile like the ()thee - Mines, ,Peints:-011t an. interesting .ex- to settle in. the -South, • ample in the ease of the screws the, Ire is a dreamer,iwho fails to caleetloto what 'obstacles -Are on the :road to success. He means to do, something big. In his mind's eyee he sees it already done, ami ails asea.rule, be- I cause some little, thing .tripPed -up his plan. Then collies a man who tries to rush ahead, sees people in the way, falls back, end is afraid -to risk a collision. Ide frets and fumes because he -cannot make headway quickly enongh., but he has not the pluek. to force his way through, or the :skill to do .it without force. .- Time steady, thoughsomewhat- slow walker, -is one who usually does well without doing , very well. . 1-1.e Is methodical and tidy, 'punctual as a rule, and some -What Careless of criti• dem. • ° The -re is in individual known to most of us who rushes° ahead.careless of all in his way..., Streng or weak, he; , pushes them from lfis path without e'aring a jot what, be.corues of ibem. Ile is ustially in a hurry. ne is a selfish, graspingefellow, who means to win, his way, no matter who ,may suffer. thereby. That he often, -fails is because, he contrives to make go many enemies. ' Then there is the smiling individual, Who pushes ,his„way ahead but who is always apologetic when he treads on one'e corns, or, loiocks one's hat off. He doeen't really `care a jot, but lie knows that politeness coatsnothing; so he ie alwayer-caurteons; 11101181 esl- io11s ' Ile is a man at° -will probably gain his way. iTe is w.ily and toadying, he will lie without hesitation, and he is 8 81811 with whom it is well to have h hie to do "Turiclarneaal idea of Which,..he , be WaS*slIggepted.• to etemiave the spieal shapeof the 'edible t It was not the shape ofthe shell that • suggested -the .screv, but the . - 4 'al motion which it is necessary to eive---ro the ho'cly of the snail hi 10 Wiibd'tttW it from the shell. This. at -once showed that an object oi- a.screw shape embedded in a solid oweefullY resisted attempts to with_ it-h trai ht ull The hint was eneugh, and the screw became one of-flie earliest of man's inventions. 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CO LIMITED 235 Seed Merchants since 1850 ' • 1IAMILTON; ONTARIO On a hill is the palace in which dwells the Dalai Lama, vicar on earth of the.g-reat Buddha, and in the square below the cathedral of SoKang, avhere incense to the Holy One alWays is ris- ing. Tibet is a country of laMas, 'and - everywhere the roads are filled with pilgrims coming from Photo., Nepal, Leielakis, remote • secti0116' of China, India and Sikkiin, tPay `their devo. tons to the Peerless Teacher. ' If Sir Francis decides. to approach Mount Everest -from Lhasa he will have to crass the.letalftrfaiettra'River and skirt at, least genie orthe 40;0,00 peaks which make up, the "1-linielaya group. He may,' on the other, hand, decide to make the start froth Katman- du, -the capital Di Nepal, whieh, while not so important as Lhasa,.is only 110 miles' -from MotintfleYeeest, „an -d has been the gateway for Many eXpleteng expedittons. But whether the start is made from one place tis the -other, ,the.'sniirente trials aviaiting.the actirenturens:arce in- escapable. . • • I ' Mount .Everest, it must be. Under - Stood; not only'never leas-lieent,tel.etre,.(1 by the foot of a white Man ,(so far 'as history .knowe)," ' but has- -only ben eeen by othens than native's 110818 dis- tance. , - Sir Ge.orge Evereht,'`aftOr it is named,' estimated 'its -'height; ate-Arl 29,002 feet hp trigonomettical calcu- lation, an.d he only. Managed to 4o this by telescopic 'obierstations cently, his co,mputations have been brought into citie,st,ion, and scientists now s -ay the height of Everest is., at least 29,141 feet, qtr more than five and ' Perils Await' Adventurer. 11,ecal1ingehe thrihling accounts given by De• Sans -sure and 'pelmet' at their "efforts, to reach the siminele of e1ont Biline, which is only .15,782 fleet high, soinething of the charg,cter of the task 3 3 confronting Sir' Francis .1N -ill become apparent. eforeever, Sir SraTICIS is in his sixtieth year, old -for a man of hie age, toeinclei'Lalce such °an achieve - meat isten. Itself worthy ef commermix ration., if not of- e-xploitation ,for tho encouragement of our faint hearted brethren, who believe that forty or, 'fifty isehe furthermost limit of human in tile higher regionspd ths ea, r th' s slit -face are 2110,113' dangers,' One'l?allA - have a good pair eel -lines, and a youth. ful spiritete not a youthful heart. Not Infrequently avalanches Osnur, mid a degree of agility sufficient to avoid the thundering milli -me, of eons of lee and snow is s dee:11-01e vieetie.