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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-6-23, Page 311 Q1 10E tfO ';S RETAINER 13y BIsseA 13 loo The buzzer sounded sharply in the outer ofice, Abe Bettis gave a fine. twist to tho wheel or the letter press and started for Mr, Whiting's room. A Client, alto was nereeteily peeing back and forth as Abe entered, suddenly stopped to speak, "I tell you, Mr, Whiting," be said, "1 believe Glenn is crooked. Ile has been promising me from day to day that lie Would settle with me, but when the time comes I get excuses in. amid of money, He has been slcin- ning that job, and a dishonest job Mane a dishonest man;" The client, Mr. Walsb, rbsumed his walk for a minute, then stopped anti spoke again, "I ani actually ashamed'. he said, "to have anything to do with thee building,, He has obtained a loan of forty thousand dollars an tire place. The mortgage 1e on record, mid the money is being advanced as the work progresses. , Iia has had w'enty-Ave thousand on 1t so far and says he will get ten thousand more as soon as the plastorlog !Saone and that he will pay me out:of that." "How long will it take to finish the pinetering?'s asked Mr, Whiting. "Not more ban two or three days. But 1 eta afraid he will pocket that ten thousand and light out. He is build- ing on wind, Why, I don't believe he has put over Ave bundred dollars of. hle own money Into the job, IIe paid about that, when he got the lot and gave back a parchase•money mort- gage for the balance. When be got' the walls up his building loan was granted, and he paid off the original mortgage out of the first advance on that" Turning to Abe, Mr. Whiting said, "1MIt Mr. Bird If he has !Malted that lien ha was drawing for Mr. Wnleh, If he has, bring 1t here." "Yes, sir," replied tite boy. In a few minutes he placed the paper on his,. employer's desk and started from the roam, "Wait a minute," said Mr. Whiting. "I shall want you to take this over to Um county cleric's office," After reading the instrument care- fully he laid it on his desk, Turning to Mr. Walsh, he said, "This seems to be all right. Sign it there, please. "That will fix you all right," he continued after lir. Walsh had signed. "As soon as that goes on record the will be the one to do tho worrying." "I don't think he will be much sur- prised," urprised," said Mr. Walsh. "I told him I was coming to 4108 you." He had scarcely uttered the words when a clerk cane to tho door and said, ":llr. Whiting, Mr. Glenn and an- other gentleman wish to see you." "Sit down, Walsh," said the attor- ney. "Let's see what they have to 911Y -r, When Mr, Glenn was ;Mown into the room he shook bands with Mr, Walsh as if he were his best friend, whom he had not seen for a year. "I've been looking for you," he said. "I was afraid you night not have un- derstood me this morning;. so I thought I'd look you up." Mr. Whiting smiled. "1 am glad you are here," Mr. Glenn continued, "so that I can at -plain the situation to your attorney also. There is no need of having any unpleasant- ness, If you will waft a few days, we can get you the money. When the plastering is done we will get another advtmce of ten thousand and take 'care of everyone. I want to be fair and square. I believe in treating everyone right." "That's all very well." Mr, Walsh was looking directly at Glenn. "But you have beeen telling me for the past three weeks that I should have a pay- ment in a few days, and I don't get it. I have put about two thousand dol- lars' worth of material into that work and about five hundred in labor. I have paid niy help, but the parties from whom I bought the material have not had a cent yet, and they want to know when they will got their money. It is hurting my credit." "1'11 admit" said Mr. Glenn with a show of candor, "that I have made promises that I have not been able to keep, but I expected to have money from another source and didn't get It, There is no doubt whatever about my getting the money now, however." After a moment's silence Glenn con- tinued, "Fon don't intend to clo any- thing nything now, do yon?" "I had decided ta." "Oil, new, you dent Wallt to do that. It would matte all ltinde of trouble, if yep file a 11en, everybody eyso wait It will tie the job up se tate, we 0114111 all lose, The Only way you coull get any- thing out of it, if yep did that, would. he by it rereciosm'e of your lien, whioh might take several menthe. Thep, too, you lnlght have to buy the place at the sale, witil a twenty -flee thQus- a11d mortgage against it. Of eourso it is worth it, but suppose you got the property. You might have to raise Money to finish 1t, and Dupe a 111141e gets into trouble everyone !aa errata.. to have anything t0 Ito With it. On the ether ;rand, by waiting a few days yon will 'get the cash, ant the, other codtrector'e will get Melia," Mr, .Walsh rustled'a rubber band up and down a roll of blue prints. There was truth in what. Glenn had said, lie did not want the property, but the' loss of two thousand dollars would mean his . ruin. "Can. you say positively that I can have the money day after to -morrow?" 11e Inquired at length, "Yes, positively, "Well, then, I Will waft," "That's sensible," said. Glenn with an atr of relief, "Yeti. will be the gainer." After further declaration of his in- tentions to "treat everyone right," Mr. Glenn and his" friend departed, having scarcely noticed a little boy who stood by the door uwaiting.orders. "Here, Abe," said Mr.. Whiting, handing hint the paper, "we won't file this lien; you can put it away with Mr. Welsher petrel's." The next morning in an open trol- ley car crowded In one seat were two ineu talking busily. Next to them was a small boy with a bulging satchel, bound for a two weeks' vacation in the country, So Slost was the boy in thinking of the good times in stare for him. at Uncle Jim's that he paid no attention to the two sten beside him until a fa- miliar voice caught his ear, "1 am going down to the Title Com- pany's office in an hour or two," said the voice, "to have this title abstract brought down to date. Then I will take it over to Monroe, show him that there is nothing else against the place and get the other ten thousand." "What will we make out of it?" in- quired the other man, "Nearly twelve thousand. 1 was afraid that Walsh was going to spoil it all when be threatened to file his lien. Won't he be falling over him- self when he looks for us tomorrow and doesn't And us?" The speaker 01111alled. The boy with the bulging satchel shrank back as if trying to hide, but the men paid no attention to him and got off the car two blocks farther clown. The boy watched them go, took off his bat, ran four stubby fingers through a loop of red hair and whist- led. His vacation would have to wait. He got oft the car at the corner and went up to the office, but the room was deserted. The long rows of books on the shelves were full of wis- dom, bu' not a hint did they give him. The judges of the Supreme Court look- ed ooke(1 down from their black frames, bat ouered no suggestion. What should! he do? His -train would leave in half an hour. Glenn and his partner were losing no Unto. He might roles his 1111111 and let them beat hint as well. He stood motionless for a moment; an idea bud roma to him. One way seemed open, but dare he take it? Going to the files, he took down a box, extracted a paper, picked up his , satchel and rushed from the room. That afternoon Mr. Whiting was at his desk when Mr, Walsh entered, "Well1" Mr, Walsh exclaimed, "You have stirred tip a lively rumpus," "Bow's that?" inquired Mr. Whit - lug. "By filing that lien. I suppose you hoard something after I Left yesterday t that made you think It unsafe to wait,"' Mr. Whiting leaked astonished and replied, "T didn't file your lien." "What?" said Mr. Walsh. "You didn't file It? Then it wants to be done right oil. Some one started the report that I had flled a lien, and everybody on the job is hustling like mad to get theirs on. Great guns! They will all be ahead of mei" Mr, Whiling called the managing clerk in and instructed him, to send Mr, Wals11's lien to the county clerk's office at once. The order set the outer room in confusion, for they could find no lien. Mr, Whiting joined excitedly ,in the search. 11Ir. Walsh stood helpless while the moments that might save oN Mold `tti cAT" tiAS cNICKENS` 7 HELPFUL EXERCISE I used to sit in pomp and state and took no exercise, and I ,tehievod such grievous wefgllt I palled the "doctor's eyes. '1'was very little grub I ste, my iippetite unsound; but every bile locreased my weight three nuarters'of n pound, And then. I heard 1.130 doctor say,"You tuaely lard the earth; you'll have to v ltldt twelve miles a (lay, end time cut down your girth," So I put on my nine -league bQotte and walked 1.111 1 was lame, a1• though I hover cared three; hoots for walking as a game. But talo must heed, whatever rules the doetcrl1 may invent; whatever sort of 'patllle schools these docs may represent, And me I wanted a1oug the shore about a hundred. miles, and 1.ben I walked a hundred mere, in all the ragtime styles. The fleet result of 1411 this toll wen appetite renewed; the women had to fry and boil groat quautitles of food, My appetite was Strange and Neirtl, It clamored stilifor more; the l0aviei and fishes disappeared, and all the larders store. My weight increased by leaps and bounds, by bounds and leaps it groin, and where I used to gain two pounds I now gain twenty-two, The fat man falls in all he does, In all the schemes he tries, and alecks always round him Mike, and talk of exercise. him from bankruptcy flew by. All the office was upset except the errand boy, and he, a hundred miles away, was bouncing on the vtagon seat be- side his uncle. Mr. Whiting was giv- ing orders to prepare a new lien when a boy entered with a note. "Mr, Whiting," he said, "I met Abe Bates at the depot this morning, and he asked me to give you this." Mr, Whiting- took the note, glanced at it, than sat down and read it care- fully, "By Jove!" he exclaimed, slapping his knee. "That boy is a brick! Look at that, Walsh!" His client took the paper, and as he read it through bis wrinkles spread out into a smile, This is what he rend: Dear lir. Whiting. I filed Mr. Wa13h's lien this morning. I heard Mr. Glenn say he was going to skip out with the money. I remembered you said he could not do it if the lien was filed. I was afraid it would be. too late if I waited for you. I hope I did right. I have no time to write more now. Abe. "Pretty good for the boy!" exclaim- ed Mr. Whiting. "I think he deserves another two weeks' vacation. Don't you?" "I should say I did!" replied Mr. Walsh heartily. "When you write tell him there are twenty-five dollars wait- ing for him in my office. He has earn- ed them. If I am living when he is admitted to practice, you will lose a client, Whiting, unless you take him into partnership." Lord Byng Former Commander of the Canadian forces in France, wlicse appointment as Governor-General et Canada is of- ficially announced. A fault -mender is better than a fault-finder. To guide pilots flying on the Paris to London route, the French Govern- ment is placing captive balloons in certain positions at a height of about a mile. Edison Showed Them. In the old days, telegraphers copied meseages Pram the wire with pen and ink in a beautiful, round, legible hand, at a speed of from 30 to 40 words a minute. Thomas A, Edison, who started out in life as a telegrapher, invented the telegrapher'shandwriting, and to this day he writes in the same style as he did when copying Associated Press dispatches from the wire in New York fifty years ago. It has been said that Edison was the greatest telegrapher that ever sat down to a key. A trampish looking man strolled in- to the Western Union office at Mem- phis one day, many years ago, looking for job. Because he looked rather weedy, the manager decided to have some fun with 'him, Consequently he sat him down at the fastest wire in the office. The man answered the call, and the operator at the other end began 1.0 send a long press dispatch like a streak of lightning. The man leisurely picked up a penholder, examined the pen, pulled it out of the bolder, inserted a new pen, dipped it in ink, lighted a match and touched it to the pen to burn off the finish oil, tried the pen till it worked to his satis- faction, then started to copy. He was three hundred words behind when he began copying a five -thousand -word dispatch; he finished live words be- hind the sender, and turned out a per- fect copper -plate copy, "You must be Tom Edison," gasped the manager. "I am," was the answer. "Name your salary and you can have any job in the office." Vancouver. On Granville street the lights are gold, And when the dusk falls swiftly down Like shining bubbles they appear And light our windy sea -port town. Great golden lights on Granville street! Across the bridge they dance away— A charmed chain that conies with dusk To vanish with the dawn of day. 0! When the last late folk have tramped To home and rest with weary feet, Perchance they hold high revelling, These golden lights on Granville street. Aileen I3eautort. Makes Shadow Audible. A curious thing ,.bout the metal selenium is that its electric conduc- tivity varies with exposure to Iight. Prof, Alexander Graham Bell has found that a bar of selenium, 1n con- nection with the telephone, can bo made to give out an audible sound by exposing it to interrupted light. When flashes of light are directed upon the metal bar, if frequent enough and sufficiently regular, they will pro- duce a musical note which can be heard by a listener at the phone. It is the interruptions, of course, that produce the sound, Ileuce, says Prof. Bell, the listener may be said to "hear a shadow." REGLAR FELLERS—By rr WO ialtot CR44aza(e. i DON'T' \M RAM. ARE_ `t QSe- �'tN� lNGS s.(0 u H (t,D 'Tile- icE BcYJ A New J-.ittIe Girl in Heaven. NA! What do yen Welt the angels, lay?" Said the children hip in heaven; "'I'hero'a a dear little girl awning home to-doy, Shen; almost reeal7 to fly away From the earth we used to live In, Let's go and open the gates of pearl, Open deli wide for the new little- ' Said :le abildren up in ]leaven. "God wanted her Isere, where the little (L'es sleet," Said the children up iu heaven. She 1111 play with us in the golden streets She has grown too fair, she lifts grown too sweet, For the earth we used to live in, She needs the sunshine, this dear girl, That gilds this side of the gates of pearl" Said the children 11p in heaven. "So the Bing called down from the angel's dome,' Said the children up in heaven; "My little darling arise and come To the place prepared in tby Father's home, To the hone my children live in; Let's go and watch the gates of pearl Ready to welcome the new little girl," Said the children up In heaven. "Far down en the earth do you hear them weep?" Said the children up in heaven; "For the dear little girl has gone to Weep; The shadows fall and the night clouds • weep O'er the earth we used to live in; But we'll go and open the gates of pearl; 011, why do they weep for their dear little girl?" Said the children up in heaven, "Fly with her quick, 0 angels dear," Said the children up in heaven; "See—she is coming! Look there! Look tlterel At the jasper light on her sunny hair, Where the veiling clouds are riven! Ah,—hush—hush—hush all the swift wings furls For the Icing Himself at the gates of pearl Is taking her hand, dear, tired little girl, And leading her into heaven." Success. Successful he who strives, e'en though he fall; HI s conscience gives applaus0 along the way. Thus does he win Eternal Holy Grail! His sun is ever bright—though clouds obscure the day. Strive on and keep your ideal to the fore; Faint heart can never win; nor here, nor there, For in this day, as in the days of yore, Achievement comes with courage and with prayer. As perfume rare distilled from violet, As lark's rich note, that mankind ever bless, So he who burden bears without re. gret Has solved Life's Problem; has achieved success! —Warren E. Comstock, Just Like Gay Faroe. A soldier, whilst serving in France during the war, had picked up a smat- tering of the French Ianguage. After some months he was dis- charged, and, with the money ho scraped together, opened up as a coal merebant. He was very' proud of his knowledge of French, and took every opportunity of "airing" It to his customers. A woman entered the office one day, and asked him: "How do you sell your coal?" "A la carte or cul de sac," was his Aty A Much Smaller Object, She was a stranger to London, and teas traveling from Brixton to 1110 !nu known as the Elephant and Castle. All the way she bothered tate passeu- gers on either side of her with in- quirles whether she ma nearing her destination. Finally, getting really anxious, she reached over and de- liberately poked the conductor with her umbrella. "']ell me, my man," sbe said, "Tell 111e, is tbis tho Elephant and Caste?" "No, ma'am, It isn't," sharply re- plied the man, "It's the conductor." Life. Life is .a mixture of gladness and sad. tees, A lnettuoe of laughter and tears, ,Life Is a bleeding of.goedness and bad* 41005, And down through 111e lane of city years Our feet must go tl'ippleg and: now and Eben slipping, We wuet pay for our follies • with paha., We must suffer for Sinning but make a beginning Bach moraine to conquer again, Life isn't goodness -and life isn't bad- nest, And life isn't laughter or tears, Ideaven's doors are not won by the Mingo we've not done But the record of all of our years, We have known sin and sorrow, shall know them to -morrow, Shall fall in 0111' duties and mourn, But the chart that (oil reads le the sum of our deeds, Wblcb than show just bow well we have borne, Life isn't praying and life isn't play- ing, layIng, And life isn't barring the doors, And remaining within snot away from the sin And claiming each virtue as yours; But life is in living, In taking and giving, In not being afraid of a sin, In mastering vices and paying their prices, And rising above them to win, Edgar A. Guest - Coal and Oil in the Far North. The fact that the axis of the earth is tipped so far from the vertical— about twenty-three and one-half de- grees—is responsible for the existence of climatic zones and especially for the prolonged cold and darknes:3 of the Arctic winter. But the axis has, not always tipped at that angle; through long periods the earth has spun round In a position that made the axis much nearer vertical. During those periods the climate was much more nearly uniform all over the earth, and the vegetation at the poles was not greatly unlike tha, in the tropics. It is hard for us to imagine such a condition of affair's, but there is plenty of evidence that it really existed, One of the most interesting discoveries made by explorers in the far north bis that of great coal seams freely ex - 1 posed in the rocks of the scash0re. i The country that now lies under sew- leral thousand feet of ice and snuw, land that reproduces for us t, -day the aspect that all the northern countries I of the globe presented dun „ the I great glacial ages, was once warm 1 and equable in climate and coffered I with the luxuriant gi'oh1 th of tree !ferns that was the distinguishing ]characteristic of the Carboniferous period. Northern Greenland above the seventy-eighth parallel has a very , moderate snowfall Most of tho mnis- 1 tare hs precipitate -.i e' —ther south, awl, so the rocks along the northern coast ! are not covered as they are in lower latitudes with a load of ice. In those. racks Dr. MacMillan, the explorer, has I seen coal seams ten and even fifteen! feet in thickness, so easily mined that the Eskimos can pick the coal outI with their rude implements. The dif-, feculties of getting to the region„ the inconveniences of living there and the still greater'iifficnities of getting any cargoes away make those great coal beds of no present commercial value; but it is interesting to know that they exist. There is reason to believe, too, that in the barren and inclement region. io the southeast of Hudson's Bay there are great fields of oil. The country is almost unexplored. out there are Indian reports of oil oozing freely from the sail hn several places. That means, of course, that the land, now so inhospitable and sterile, was once abundantly supplied with life either marine or terrestrial. It is 1)y no means unlikely that it will berme, in the nut distant future ane cf th•: chief sources of petroleum. The Background of Sl v+ ess4 In a week or two thousands of 0114. tari0 boys and girls will iin'eh tlieiti primary school work. Other tliousanath4 of young teen and women will e0tn.,. pleto high school Courses, while 1141414 d'keds have just graduated from coir leges and universities, A very large percenMge of these) will be country boys aro' girls wbu have little in the way of hnatecio: rd� sources with which to begin their life worst and n» inflpential "eonnectiou'' through which they Dan secure a lna crativo position, or who would help iii finance them in any business under+ taking of their own, ' Too often they are inclined lo loose upon title situ/it-Jena as a handicap, as compared with thJ Moire fortunate acquaintances who may have both of these seemingly '11)34 portant advaantagee But asset tante i fluence the ma as a matter of feet, the liver'= age fa rm boy er girl has a bushes# which is of far greater !repot,.n the raee for material sueeo4f than the seeming advantages of t1.»• or affluence which they Edo often envy others. The nature of title advant age was happily expressed by Wager Of a large business enter.prise who gave his 701190,1 for tweet- ing faun boys among appticante Ise jobs in his business as follows; "The,, go to college with a background bf hard work. They expect to :work, when they get out and they want the college triiining so they can �vorli' effectively," There is food for profitable tlioonht by young and old in this expression of an experienced and successful bust- nese than. The boy or girl who real., izes the fact that the more education he gets the more efficiently he can work, will not be stopped by any ord1-: nary handicap from getting a good; education. .Also the young man or• woman who realizes that a baekgroundl of hard work is the beet preparation for future success will not he envious of the apparent preferment of the favored sons of those in high places, For after all has been said, true suc- cess most be based on real achieve. ment, and this is always .the, result of hard and intelligent effort. The truth of this statement is abundantly proven by the large per- centage of successful men and wetness in every walk of life who were furan boys and girls: Their example should be an inspiration to every country boy and girl to get the best school train- ing passible, whether they expect to enter a profersisn, beecme bus.:nese men or follow their f 1)t e s fo:t'.ers as fanners, A ,.001 c -h cation will be their best asset in any calling. With hard work as a uaeltgreend to !mere perseverance and it good education "s a training to :cal 411 +11 1aluatio end application of ita a a thP country bon or girl has the Itcat ' ,s i til e r fru teat for toiceese i11 11t:. 1:LICSO 41174,}t *:t3 cul, of all pro, t r (.: n 1 x 44 co• -r - pared with u i 1 sacr .aeui t•r preferential 1-,.i ,• o its ' has been the h _lc.;' of o h.o. n liens of boy: iris,:- i It::: cry will repeat 't ; - t• -`-t eat generation. Legend island Only for Women In the West ladle, there is an old legend to the effec,that among the in- numerable small islands in the Carib- bean Sen there ea ,.5 (me that is hn- habited only by women. Old Customs Greet Prince in Scilly. term the rocky of Eegaled's most soutaern rampart., from the Sells:' Is- liands, nue of the nto•,, ancient posses- sions of his Dukedom of Cornwall, the Prince of Rales has returned to Lon- don. Flue weather enabled the Prince to visit nearly all of the nnmerou- is- lands that \Viililuu the Conqueror an- nexed to the then Earldom of Corn- wall, which he bestowed on his b -c tit• er Robert. The Prince witnesse,l some of the strangest histor?cal customs, ri• vatting even his experiences in the Fiji Islands wben Ile toured the em. Moe. Launceston, t11e capital of the Duchy, revived at the castle gate tho- old manorial court, The Prince thea 12'41"ivcd the rents from his tenants. many giving goods instead of cash. The latter included a mettle of pep- per, gilded spurs, a goatskin at -mile, a salmon ]peal t fast of wetel and tg pair of ltou1,21. 1\'lien Ileo 1'rinee arrived on the stands the tat:;; cent' 11lticn of 2,050 sten, women end r...'!h• ren turned out led by a Imola 7.:3111..1, on a white horse, The Prince (teat; with the children picking 11•'1. s. and ple!ed 1' if 1:e w.:n•e 41e14' of them. Old Roman Road Oiscoveiod. DiscU'.•ery h t_ b..cn made in 1.3! Gene Byrnes taint of I:notlicr old Roman x0111 h. h• cyto unknown. Worlinion who txtEt.t-, ittE C*T- mor 'I✓N1 digging manholes s on the \lion road where the latter joins the goat'..: to Bentley nod It ,dor, nen h:arn ,.tin, Surrey, unearthed, five feet below 1110 surface, part r4 what appears to. he an old Roman road that ran from 1.,n tact to ll neliester, The hold \r1111 u+ nn excellent state of prepertatton, turfacc layer being a forst in Ihiek.iess end composed of flint::, In order to penetrate the suvfave the workmen bird to use drills and steel weli,es. Research has dentonst•mted that, not only the Romans maul bituminous materials, intending asphalt, but Ile ancient Sumerians, Persians, Babyli n- tans, Greeks and 1401)1 1111101 ns Will, Tho road discovered in England, acr. 'cording to enefut'ers, was capable of 3 (au•rying 174101c h(Ivic" than any 13* which mnd4rn reads are now put. i'$", ;•::;,iia 1,1 wol;•.of walking is with nhp:a.i an$ 11111 ia4Ri(k1 Ou:'ratds.