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Vitheet .Chaeging 'Geere.
Fe -Imes -often t,etll you they, Mae 41:
'certain aletomobilettatip,-withent:.ehange
ing gears..Thiacten, mean erne asthma
things: The roe* wate 'very geed
:a hasty trite hadthe lbe 'Made negazsillase
eif 1'0,1)4, :00141.4*,1001hi8.,,iYe014, 11:1'0.0Pt
telee tevse. rObletleaticist_jitetete'lerag
atheist it
Manuitieettlearese.aye..reatle it easy to
ehange. lautternelsilatigestes for. a. Per-
poses.- Ones,•.r.eateenais.' that Cars may
get:,aribaertWaseswitheniteullejegtiegithe
meteretotetill lead ,atelate, apeteda. An -
Other :and Jug' az.irap,arstant isseetanis
thart , ears nasty. ,be alloWert to travels at
vaeyinseipe.edle to -suit read conditioni•
I theyo, . friend', rho :thinkslieafte
sliteUla flsessehaegeat, only in, startiege
The, eppea,ramee. :oft 'as. mketeese epaaae,
rektgletepat oristeetenha (eyee :the:leak
„, .
waeliecirandereckeedesr. ingebal.AX bele
the 'oar may eistaht
ereetegh 'reseenetiture toe carry i eaters
theeebetenction irietIllegIbP • But, my!
The damage he does de to his ear midi
ehe deseenefeet lie exiiiieS himetelfeand
•Oblier elee4engeeells. ito".1use
his ewe ilanteeiegta "the .antoreobilet
.not salted for- malan, lionigertatepe.'
If; het *midi hut elisange.tib.,Sepand
ei• gesin 'at -the
.
nneekerictie -pleasant ricling.,.withetara
wifeil& an&.11;!evY: 'much elenger, hi
.epar.-wouael last.
Practical Paragraphs.
A small leak or .erack insthe water-
s j,eeset, cylinder or ,e3s I -snider head of a
gas=engine.--can often be riesinedthed
thus: Put a handful of salestramonlac
into the 'water. Run the engine till
evater,,h,olls then drain. will rust.
Shut the lealsage.•
Spare tubes should be earefeilly
, up fiat, the interior valise parte
basing been removed; so that, e!iu.,, the
, air may be tonged .01.4.. Th:a- vawe
PaitS ehould then be replaced and'the
tube !pecked away in •a grease-re•roof
bag containiag a good sprinUinge• of
French talo. Extra casings sh,oulcil be
kePt in a good „tire cover, protected!
fr6/1:1, MgTh.t, Sall "and du -St -
Newt, emeas ,tae, eatese--have your
farm name painterisen the farm Motor,
•tmelc. •M'oPt..eyercy eityttrrielr, aclver-
triaeg ekla ow/lees business,. at4.1,111TY
not let -the -farm track de the same?
That is -what -T,Eb Hartwictic • theistg.ht
when- he bought; -these :tassels,- and he
istiptelleted that the- manufactures.
Paint "Ianden Grove IStatok .Parin, T.
E. Harti;crii, propeeto," on the rear
Never Jet mareledry oethe-Car !i_f you
• • ,
cane 1.1elp et. t• Play a .gentlet streare, of
esateteseeetes, a etsse on the, mud anti:11.
it- caufs away, and 'leaves the, sturfasel
free. If -a 'hose ,is erot,a,vaiiilables thene!
use a email. compcc,essecleair sprayer Or ! •
sponge:, In using.',,a play :the
streara et) atb Wik notetrflee the
mud epees ,clireetlys. bet frorri the side. .
In other. words begin 'saY ct the end
of a ,iender, and w.ork toward' the other
end., , This ;Plant swill"reeneve the reed
mneh. nve411.4eklbr.
A: mighty: utedul. addition :to the to&
ibex iseeelbartof ordinary la:unary Soap.
This rhartealiel•'cari Sills -yea of. with
a IP e z*ncirfe and the slivers be kneaded
into a very fair putty to be need in
reipaiking leaks ie gasoline or oil lines.
Obviously such a repair is only tem-
poraxy and must be made perinanent
wlhan 'the Motorist gets back to his
Letty"s Wife.
Letty was six feet tall, red-headed,
-bony and known az "a tax& worker.e
Every woman In the village begged for
:her services during spring and fall
cleanings, but Letty nearly always re-
fused; Sias did not mind the lesehT
chores that women have to do, she
said, but she could not stand them
around the house. Letty wailld some-
times agree to 4ximo if the house were
left 'at her disposal. Even then she
bad to be coaxed, 'because her farm
tools most of her time.
The farm was rock-oureed and billy.
It would have seemed a pitiable thing
to see a woman struggling up a -hill
behinitsPlow if one did, net know how
well fitted Letriir-was to do it. Many a-
, iiiian"er-ould° Leuy doubled aer
'tat or aimed a kick. Lett-y's sole in-
•
cougruity- was her reluctance to part
with hers skirts. She pitched hay in
a oniespiece contraption made of black!
Letty-e, husband appeared only on
Sunday, when she drove the children
to church. He usttally sat in the back
seat with the little girls; while Letty
and he youngest boy sat in &oat. Once
when the horses were restive Letty
eat in the wagon during the service,
while George occupiedthe pew. No
one seemaed at all surprised.
But now that Letty'sbrawn, and
nausele Caave been crowned with a
moderately priced sedan he IS afraid.
to drive it. She sits. lie the tonn.eau
wearetsga hat an.d veil and reminding
me react little in appearance of a
scarred and fringe -eared tomcat I
know when he is forced to lie on a
silk cashiers,. George, at the wheel,
looks, assif he hadat last come into, his
own. '
Diagonals.
Now tele he sthe strangest thing since l
tate world began:
You tell me that: you are a: bad and, a
' violent mane -..,
But I seepVy
A child, little and lonely, .e•
Crying with fright in a desolate place
apart.
fimmir MUM I ill
.41(211,,.,5;ataeas.
Kings. Out of Work.
The
latest. king t9 lose, his throrbe,
Consta.,atina ("Titus") of, Greece, has
created a record by exsing.driven, from
poWeeetwite Within, five years.
Greek manserche ,have always been
unlucky, but the royal -house of Spain
-haa suffeeed, even more. ,
Within the last century and a half
four Spanish kings, have had to fly for
their lives; a queen, too, granclica.other
of the present ruler, evaa forced to
leave Spain.
In France, during ,the hu.ndred and
fifty years before the Republic was es-
tablished, only one king was still on
the throne when he died. Manyeother
countries have record e almost as bad,
and even a Pope has been. driven into
exile before noVr.
Many monarchs who have, lost their
thrones have suffered' terrible ,tarte
ships net only during their es,aape, but
aleofoi the rest af their lives. Mast
pathetic tef aili weRanavolo, Queen cif
ler last years with one solitary at-
teadant in a tiny. mem in -a third-class
hotel Paris.
".Another queen, Adelaide of Italy; af-
tei,*.hete escape from the rebeei,raniel to
hroujj forests.,iik over laugh
e6ad4 begging.bread from peasants to
keep herself alive, befare„ she arrived
rags at thelheuse of a loyal friend.-
: But if there is tragetlY in banishment
Aere is also humor., One AffIcan king
Who was driven frarn home, spent the
rest of his .111e ,quite- helves's: When
he was aiked.whetherhe regretted the
loss of histhrone, he replied:, "Some-
times I miss the dallasseerifiCeet forty
men and searmen in. thy great tOsmple•
But really* th.e sightgot, very dull --
most of the victims died so tamely!
Now 1 ana not troubled; and live in
peace." This monarch reCeived a
daily allowance of tanshillings with
which to keep up his regal state!
Tae late Sultan of Turkey amused
himself While in exile by writing let-
tere to the ruleir who has succeeded
him, poietisag out hew, likely- it wad
that he (bleanew Sultan) would be mae-
a.worried thelr recipient,: and the
posed Sultan Sultan derivecisuch pleasure
tsroEmSina,t
theedfa. "etTlibe.,,se cheerful prophecies
Madagastear, eddied in 1897, who stpen
While I am known as chaste anci rea-
sonably good;
But you are blind to my virtuous V00-
.
manliood;
Somehow you see,
Dragged out of the depth & of me,
The wanton that every woraan hides in
her heart. "
—Alin,e Kilraer.
Fr Auction !Wore Firmly Established
The seventh periodic Canadian fu
sale was held at Montreal in the mid
, die of September, at whine half a rail -
lion raw pelts were ldisposed of ter nn,
amount' totalling $1,500,000, making
the total': receipts, of the sales since
'their anaugurationen 1920 in excess of
$13,000,000. ru ita, every trait this
t last Canadian sale has given feather
and _more convincing evidenee of the
definite and perareanent establishment
of the national fur auctions; their..
ability to assemble what is undoubted-
ly ono .of the finest aggregations: of
YAW paltry in the, world, and power
attract diseriminating purchasers from
all over the world. In the epinion of
those best entitled to make forecasts
in an industry subject to the most in-
consequential vagaries, the national
Canadian fur auction is now perman-
eatly and securely established and a
foundation has - Demi laid sturdy
enough to withstand the tempeets, to
walich the industry is frequently Sub-
ject.
As at previous sales, the important
status, of the Canadian auction was
widely recognized by both vendors and
buyera.„ Pura for disposal came in in-
creasing volume fram all countries
producing raw peltry, from all over
the Canadian Dornin,lon th,e 'United
States; Reseda, Siberia and other, coun-
tries, The September sale saw the
gathenin•g • at alo•ntreal of the largest,
number of.Sur buyers since the 'Indept.
ilea of thee Canadian market, itself self-
' ficient *dation of the 'growing ims
'portancte; �f the isal ess Soma three
. hundred were present, seventy-five per
cent, being from New York, othes.s
tram. Canadian centres; and repre-
stenta,tives of Eng,118,1e French, German
Swedish, Ituselan and Japanese
house.
This grassing tendenny of foreign
buyers to comb to Canadian sales is
the best indication of their permanent
character and firnan•ass of -establish-
ment. American and 'other fereige
buyers generally Voice eomplole seatire
faction at the manner 10 vshich tee
IVIontreall sales, are conducted, their
sound business methods and satisfac-
tory centime throughout. 'flejr opini-
on is fairly unaelmone that tbe past I
r seven sales: at Montreal have laid the
- securefoundation of a permanent ria-
tion,a1 fur auction 'which will progrees,
without .feen of suecessful a,setafilment•
Whilst it° is recognized that, in com-
mon ,with 'many other other Canadian
enterprises, the Canadian sales may
lack the enlirnited finances available
to similar concerns elsewhere s'ntl this
resultesincertain handicaps of a minor
order, foreign buyers point out that
Canada possesses many 'varieties- of
fere svhiceb are not procurable else-
where, and as long as she holds them
vy-it•hin her confines she e,an draw the
world's buyers; who will come where -
ever they can secure what they want.
These handicaps are not sufficient to
'appreciably draw away from the flow
•of raw peltry to Montreal. Compared
with the status, ancl Operatien, of fur
auctions, eleeweese on the continent,
foreign purchasers offurs exprese: the
most entire satisf.ction with the
Montreal sales.
The tendersay in the prices paid at
the "September .au eticn a was consider-
ably higher than at the previous May
Thi e was due largely to a ,sinall-
.er volume of offerings and the general
belief .that there Wer0 no accumula-,
times of skins ' anywhere. The keen
demand for peltry at theeresent ihnb
IS evident , in the fact *that ninety per
cent. of the 'skins offered for sale, were
disposed, of. „In the opinion of. the
.largest buyers the ...,,tendency to rise"
will exist for aortae time, at leat, until
thenext winter's catch eomee in.
Regarding the winter's, catehit is,
too. eaely in the season to Intake any
predictions, are to volume ors -quality,
Walsh will not discloe ,theniselves un-
til' the fall of the first snow and the
commencemen•t of trapping operations,
Irrespective of tbese two factaes, how-
ever, it is apparent from the foregoing
that 'good figures Will ee procurable
for the winter's catch, and the scason
will undoubtedly be, it profenble cno
for the trapper,
Defined et Lest.
T.einmy--"Paw, what is the forest
primeval?"
Paw—"A woods Where tante tree no
nitials cut on th o beech treel"
Glad •to•Help.
Boy Scout (small, but polite)—May
I accompany you across the street,
madam ?"
Old Lady-- Centeinly you may, IrlY
lad. How 1meg:have -you been waiting
here for ' somebody to take you
across?"
Think twice before you speak. Even
then, nine times out .Z/T ten, the world
will not lose anything if you keep
cru_iet. . '
Wasting Time.
The boy entered the office brisk
removed his, hat, and turned to
manager.
"I understand you require a b
sir?" he said.
"What sort of a place do you want
asked the manager.
"One where there is as little wo
ancl as nnich pay as the firm c
stand."' °
"Most boast who came Ler° are wil
Ing to take all work and no pay," ea
tinued the manager.
"I'm not like Most boys," said th
applicant.
"Do you expect to get the kind
job you want?"
"No, sir; _nobody gets exactly tvh
he wants; but it doesn't hurt him
expect a good deal,"
"What wages do you think ye
&holed have?" , • ,
"Seven dollars a week."
"The ether"febrys have been paid old
five dol.lans."
"How many boys did you. have las
Year?" asked the applicant.
"Nine or ten."
"I thought so," said the boy. "That'
the kind eitfeboty youslete'er five dol
lam. I'm not that kind. I come,
hang up my hat, and stay."
"But 'suppose we should dismie
yam?"
"I'd be glad of It, sir. Tea firm len'
satisfied, with the right kind of boy it
isn't the right klrud of firm for the
right kind of bey to be in. It' • time I
was .„starting work if I'm going to
work, and if I'm not, its time -1 left."
"Well, said •the managers, "hang up
your hat and consider yourself en-
gaged."
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Veterans of the Sky.
From time to time startling ac-
counts are received of long-lived ani-
mals and men, but their feats are put
far into the shade by bird.
_ancient writers tell of rooks that
eurvive-d until their seven hundredth,
year, and of ravens, that' reached" two
hundred and forty years; HOW' far
these statements are correct we aan-
not tell, but et is certain tha creatures
of the air live mime longer tban mam-
mals,
Swans ,litave been known to attain
their eeconcl century, and even in cap-
tivity nightingales and chaffinches
have lived for more than forty years.
Storks and herrone can claim records
ia old age, for a famous naturalist has
racerded the cases of two of tee form-
er creatures who- built their nest in, the
same place regularly for forty years,
and of a heron who easily Paseed. his
half century.
Fifty years ago cocaine was almost
unknown. Now 11 is recognized: as a
valuablailatg, and as a yeeyentlye of
paln when used by the starg,eoe for
sMall ,operalione on the noee, mouth,
etre, teeth, and;•othee mirface parte. It
obviates the else of „Gillet or ell'her-o*
form, deadening peter aeil proe•uerng
elatioe „orseetrite foe e short time.
Cocaine is merle from tee leaves ot
the eoca, pant, Which grows in South
arnerice reel is now cultivated in India
and Ceylon. The loaves are soaked
"In water, andthe resultant liquid,
when 'chemically treated, yields the•
crystals of cocaine. These cryetals
have a bitter taste.
' The, cocaine Is eonvertecle into a
laydrechloriee, paa in this form may
be used as a powder for sprinkling on
the parts to be operated upon, ree sniff-
ing into thernose, or for Injec,trate into
the skin.
Corsa leaves are a-ellOwish ;brown in
I color, and froin ere and a hail to three
1, inches: long. The South Americans
I chew them retried with Hine and Plant
.eshe a' Mixture' which: is , claimed to
have 'great suetaining powers both
me,ntally, and physically. A coca
chewer,rarely lives beyend thirty: Yet
fele leaves yield Only five Per cent. 01
cocaine. •
A. few minutes, after "titopesg" with
cocaine the mind is happy, the body
buoyant, and conversation voluble.
Wheii reaction sets In; a larger dose
is required to produce the firet sense: -
tions. Then, as, the drug takes e hold,
the pleetan.t dreams which were pre-
sent at fireachange to aighernares. of a
terrifying nature. .At the end of a
montile of daily cooain,estaking the vic-
tim is ,a slave to the drug, and hae no
power to discontinue its use.
The -drug habit is not ee11fine4 t
Cocaine. MatrY People ere victims 0
laudanum, morphia, opium, axLcl hash
Ish, which proeuce dangerous, sleep.
At least three of these druge are
obtained from the same plaut—th
eleeparinging poppy, which is cult;
vated in leirkee, Asia Inor, Perla
and India. Crude eplunals the juice o•
the uneepe'Poppy'Capsule, and from 1
we get morphia and daudanum. The
latter, be the way, is many times more
powerful than opium, and used mainly
oinkinthe form of an iniection under the
In India there are recognized fac-
tories for the manufacture of opium
and the British Government &Maine as
much as five million dollars a year
from taxatiora. The opium Year opens
in September witea the preparation of
the land for the reception of the Poppy
seed begins, The soil is ploughed at
intervals. of ten days until the middle
of October, when sowing begins.
The juice of the drug is obtained by
scratching ,the green capsules with a
ein, The juice is teen removed to the
factories, where it is made into &Ices:.
In certein districts. the aatvete culti-
vate opium for their own use, and Ill
malarial districts the drug is taken as
preventive against the malady.
iota trite.,aPPett,ranne giO
Phaillta.14IS of Aho
A good deal haS been'beard'ae "
,
0 land, Many it village 'bete ite 110
houe Or lanes' :duly regided
yeeyiee degree:of awe by: the .inhabla
ants,
This beine- so, it is rot eureprisieg
that the zee also Poseesses Its quota
o of legendareeuncaneinees-
' There le the ferneus Flying Dntelr
e7 man, or pbantinn ship, of 17anderdeek
f en, What trlah 'there is In the fret
t itituetsritdreittipeoalIts ttio)atsaiyt,1141hnstbehL4't'o'rsigieght14"(11Y
there is no doubt that rather a hot.
tempered man of that name many'
years ago lett Holland for the East,
by way of the Cape of Good Hope.
The Story IS that, meeting -with bat
tiling winds; he swore a terrible oath,
in consequen.ce of which the Divine
Wrath reed, that he s.heuld for ever
endeavor to weather that headland.
Another strange sea ghost ;store' is
that during January, 1647, a vessel left
New Haven, Connecticut, but was
never heave of again.
One evening in the following June'
after a severe s,torna, she was seen
corning up the river. The inhabitants
were everjested at her return., but
something urreariny was noticed about
hex, especially as Slle was Sailkig
'against the wind.
To the onlookers(' consternatiton
gradually faded away and disappeared.
Lougfellow fiats /narked the oceurrence
in poetry:
On she came, with a clod of canvas,
Right against the wind that blew,
tintIl the eye could distinguish
The faces of the orew.
And the masts, with all their rigging,
Fell adowly one by one,
And the hulk dilated and venal:led.
As a sea -mist in the .sun.
Natives of the East seeni to be Ira -
mune from the bad effects of the drug
that are eaticeable in Europeans. This
Is believed to be due to the fact that
It hae, been in use fer so many genera-
tions that the native eonstitution ha&
become inured to it. A petalled is, to
be &rind in alcohol, which, whesj given
to races_ that have never tasted it be-
fore, is far more ,deadly than when
taken by Europeans,
Made Famous by Phrases.
A single phrase was partly respons-
Dile for the fame of the late Earl
Spen.cer.
Ile was well known in his day for
his smartness in dress, and lee collars
were said to be the highest ever
known.
His famous remark occurred during
his feet speech in, tee House of Com -
moue. "Mr. Speaker," he said, in his
well-known drawl, "I ani net an, aged-
Oultural laborer." Fellow-membeis.
gazed at his immaculate attire and
then burst into laughter.
Another maiden speeca " that in-
cluded a sentence destined, to become
famous was that of Disraeli, after-
wards Lord Beaoonseeld. For some
reason enerabens in, the House became
angry and key
Hefot interru.pting and shout-
ingathuininit impossible to make hina-
self heard, and at last sat down with
a partiag shot. "Some day," he shout-
ed, "you will hear me!" AM it was
otelong before this prophecy -was. ful=
filled.
Mile Mr. Asquith was not made
famous by a phrase, one will always
be connected with his careers, "Wait
end see" long since becanseeheetoric.
Mr. Gladstone's mest famous phrase
is now in general use, for the remark,
"to advance by leaps and bounds,"
was originated by him.
Another politician to whom we owe
a part of our language is Lord Rose-
bery, who was. responsible for the
phrases "clean slate" and "lonely fur-
row."
"Boys- ,will be boys" and "a leap in
the dark are two moreeentences 'in-
vented in the neighborhood of :West-
minster, one by Lord Palmerston and
the other by Lord Darby; while a
please that was much le use during
•
e war came, appropriately enough,
from the ex -Kaiser, who coined the
expression "the mailed Ilet."
A Last Chance.
'Know anything about an automo-
bile?' "
"Net a thing."
eJu.st,the,man I want. Tell me what
you think might be the Matter with
my car. The experts that have .cone
along itave. all guessed wrong, and I ,
thought perhaps you might be able to
geese right."
'Nail Dye is a Hobby.
Finger nail dye is a hobby of all the
fastidious women of the better Class in
Turkey. Not just palishor pink paste
is used but actual retL4 and gilds, and
blues are applied.
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seeler. 'e4Wees>1:4—‘'....
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SA WALL .Ge beeEetTB:WAStallOIS ' '''
, A novel Ilse, for abselete 'warships ha e beet dieceirerea at latuansouth, Intothld, wbopo they are reeged side
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by sta6 ill thb.iirto, of the new Scar: wale. rend: elled wall rabele, ... Tlie old ctetropr, ,i):(3d," le lieree:Seen 'being.'
. . , ,
Merged in te,the ayall.::
Look Forward.
" It is not a pliasant subject to con-
sider but if it should so happen. that
temptation came to you, and you fell,
and your sentence was five years' pen-
al servitude, do you know what would
be ere hardest part of your prison life?
No, net the footle/ler the discipline,
but the inability, on account of the
length of your sentence; to visualise
mentally the day when. you would be
free. It would be too far ahead for
you to grasp. There would be nothting
to which you could leek forward.
You would sink into, a slough of
mental apathy until, as the years
passed, theaciay of Your freed-om came
as 'a pin -prick of light at the end of a
dark' tunnel.
Teen you would revive. Hope
would suppean,t hopelessness. Free-
dom is ea sight! The distance has
been :shortened, and your mind can
leap it. You've something to which
you can look forward.
And that, exactly., is wihat thousands
--youi may be one--neeCi in. their or-
dinary lives. The look banger:a'? What
you see, and press .toward, may be
something small, or something big. It
ma Y- lie at the end of neet week, next
.month, next year, or further on. still.
But .you must, if life is to be worth
living, have something to which you
een look forward.
That the combined sea and land
tank, about which so nauch speculation
existed during the war, Should have
been forecasted by a phanthotn ship is
indeed strange. This is the spectre
vaseel of Parthouteo, in Come/ail, and
jn Robert Hunt's "Romances of the
West of England" there is a descrip-
tion of what a local initabitant wit-
nessed during one of its escapades.
° "On it came from over the sea.
Glided up over the sande arid steadily
pursued its way on the dry. land On
It went to Bodelan and turned towards
Ohygwiden, and there vanished."
Truly weird!
The "Chronicles of the St. Lawr-
ence" also contain a description of a
mysterious disappearing veselel seen
off Cape d'Espoir, and -which 'vanishes
amid the noise of bottle, She is said
to be the spirit of a British flagship
which was lost unaccountably.
The lumbermen of the same great
river relate that a 'warning of bad
weather is given by the appearance of
an antique caravel, which procseede un-
concerned up the Gaspe Palls, where
no other could follow.
British Parliament's Rare
_ Ceremony.
A ceremony which has not ,beengier-
formed Since 1892, and. will not be car-
ried out again for another thirty years.
If you fought in the Great War, don't Iva
you remember how eagerly you look.ei Co
forward to your next let of leave? In
all the mud and misery, that it was
svatich kept you goingewa,sn't it? -
What's your "look ,forward" to-dav a
" 7 th
If ycu've nothdng, Heaven help you! ca
Why are children S.G. happy? Simply w
because they t are 1---ays lacking for-
-ward to something--Ch,ristmas, their St
Ya
birthdays, the holida.ys, and se on. A
hundred happpy visionings! me
That to which you sheuld, look for-
ward, and fight to reach and grasp, you
must settle for • yourself. Be ambi-
tious, but don't stretch beyond your
strength. eeRemember, when work
seems hard, and the days are long and
dreary, that everything becomes
easier, and can- be borne if you have
something to which eau can look for-
ward. Why, even now, it helps you
through the ,day and its worries to
look forward to kneckingeoff time--
and home!
Extend tbe prineiple, and life is
re -refigured. Look forward!
A Banquet, in Honduras.
The proverb of the crown and the
neasy head migIlt well be twisted to
pply to a Central American presalent
ortainly the president of the, Header-
s; that Mr. J. H. Currie describes in
his World of Ours could not have felt
t his eascefor• very long. there was
oo anuch revolution and intrigue for
s observed in the British Reese of
iaimone a shorteirne ago.
The Speaker and a group of Govern-
ent officials gathered round a box
d took from it a pound weight and
yard measure, and after examining
em with the greatest royerence and •
re put them back again. The objects
're the Parliamentary copies of the
andard 13ritish Pound and British
rd, on which all our weights and
asures are based.
The standards were legally.fixed, in,
1824, and placed in the House of Cern-
mous, but were destroyed when the
Houses of Parliament were burned,
dawn ten years later; -New standards
were made and headd aver, to tete
Beard of Trade, but acouratte copies
were placed in the Commons.
It was tb e aopiee that were ex-
amined the ether day. It. wasfound
that the Imperial Yard was shelter
than it should be by a ten-thousan.cith
part of an inch, and that the pound
was heavi•er than it should be toy 2.86
thousandth's ef a grain. Feasibly the
discrepancies were due to chemical
changes in the :standards themselves.
The pound weight ie a cylinder made
of platinum. It is lifted, aeeerding te
law, by inserting -an ivory fork in a
groove running reund it, The yard is
a stolid ebiong bar of bronze on which
is marked the length of a yard.
Bete measures are kept in mahog-
any boxes, which are scaled down, put
into a leaden case, and then plaoed in
a cavity in a atone wall of the Com-
mons,
a
Orme sue Mr. Curie, there was
banquet aft, Te,gucigalpa, the capital,
The meta who, happen.ed to be prase
dent on that day attended it ansi sat f
next to the coeteul Of the United States.
In the midst of he banquet the' 'electric eine.
light failed, anEl the room was pi:tinged rae°seicli
e
into derkness. Fearing a plot, the —au
president sprang to his, feet, but tee
Omer
consul seized his arm. "Sft down!' he
whiepered,. It is' safer,"
The light returned a few moments
later.- The consul was sitting calmly
in his cleft; beside him sat the presi-
dent, wiping the .sweat from his 'brow;
every, other man in the room was on
his feet, guar -ding leinselt with drawn
revralver,
A Captain of Industry.
hale arid hearty looking Mis:sorirl
en' sat on a dry -goo -cls boa, whit -
a 'stick, but he illatle• room for the.
logiet from the Eaet and they
by engaged in coreyersattion.
li•at's year businese:?" tile East -
asked after a while, '.'
"Well, tet;ranger," replied Ibo hospit-
.
able Missouri' • person,' "I've retired '
from btisinese I dont Inlet) to do
nothing for a living theso deye. I've
got five head .of gals atworitieg 1 tits
factory over there." '
An End of 1 -e -f
A yeerig wertian, aceording to a ean.
' tene)crary, was 11e57r1biler to one of
, her friends a great cleteria Which see'
had undergr.nie,
"I was Just aline,et litied by it," Sltf,
Said; ei coald leave cried myself to
'detatle" '
"1)1d sou. cty ?" atilterl the other,
I just Was jsu u g.N.thig rct1dY
'Lel) .0
, 'Quite True.
Bobby, -,-"What is that Whittoecur,s
once in a minute arel twice in a nu>
maet, but not ease in a hundred.
years?"
Torniny---•I don't knee-, I'll give 11
up."
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it