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In of `Val' Pierce
The Making
By CONRAIll..-RICHTER.
VI. Val's pulses stood monienturely still.
at ;the log -littered swamp until after
r
One morning Davey did not appear
the others.
"I guess you can get along without
me all right," he said to Val with
averted eyes when he came.
"I intuit understand, Davey," said
Val.
"Mol and me are going to Rockville
to try to get john," he stammered.
"Why, you've got a job here on your
owneeember!" reproached Val.
The boy tried to answer, . f
altered,
broke dQwn, and confessed wretchedly
that lie and Mol were leaving only to
keep up their mother's table.
"We haven't eaten up your mother's
money, Davey!" protested Val, aghast.
"There wasn't much—only--"
"Not your school: money, Davey!".
And at the boy's hasty disavowal of
consequence: "Lord! .1 never figured
how much three .hunery'woodchoppers,
could cat. Wait till I talk to-Barney.I
,ort and Moi can't go to Rockville,
that's certain." He hurriedly, sought
out his partner, who whistled blankly.
when infornt•ed of the disaster.
"Barney,"jail Val doggedly, "we've
got to sell what timber we have over
the mountain. And you're the one
who's got to do it."
"Me!" exclaimed Barbey. 'Why
me?"
"I don't have the gift of gala, Bar-
ney," faltered Val. "Besides— Be a
sport and go, Barney! Don't rile wliy."
With evident reluctance and alis -I
givings, Barney took the seven dollars'
and went over Sunset mountain, - He
came back the fourth day with a:dol-1
far and fifteen cents, and no success
except that at the hotel .in Millersville 1
he had found a party of trout fisher-
men from the city, one of whom was
a ltunber buyer. He and another were
earning over to fish Beaver creek the
_ next day, and would try to find time'
to look at the timber.
Early the following morning Val,
Barney and Davey started for Beaver
valley, They_ crossed the mountain in
true backwoods silence. Val's spirits
fell when he saw the timber. It lay
sprawled here and there where it had
landed. Bushes hid it and leaves cov-
• ered it, and the sawed ends of the
logs bore a yellowed appearance, as if
Aged.
About 11 o'clock two figures in tan
teats and dripping waders appeared
from the stream. One was -short and
slight and' bobbed along in nervous,
uncertain fashion. The other was
built on bulky lines• and walked pon-
derously. Val's breath failed when his
eyes fell on the pair. From where he
stood he would have sworn one to be
Angus, the head of his father's pur-
chasing and supply department, and
the other his father himself, In quick
panic he begged Barney and Davey
to say nothing about him, then -fled
to a clump of young hemlocks shading
the old bunk -house spring. .
The identity of the strangers proved
as he had apprehended. A multitude
of sensations, new, old and forgotten,
crowded upon him as he peered mute-
ly from his arotn'atic a'creen. IIis eyes
followed his father's inimitable walk,
eaw him poke with familiar motions
about the logs, saw him confer short-
ly with Barney, while Davey at a
respectful distance • watched with de•
fercnt eyes.
'then with cliaracteristic abrupt-
ness, Valentine Pierce, Senior, started
away from the group.
"Looks like water coming out of
these young hemlocks over here," be
observed. "Wait till I get a drink!"
He looked around wildly for retreat.
Hie little clump of trees stood alone.
Escape was impossible. A minute
aftertvard he stood doggedly facing a
heavy figure on whose duck sleeve the
evergreen needles stretched audibly.
"Vail" bellowed his father. "What
the devil are you doing here?" With
a bearlike poly he caught the boy and
administered a father's kiss, the same
unfashionable greeting Val had shrunk'
from upon his return from college,.. ani
endearment tasting intimately of mus-
tache, coffee and cigars.
"Please Chancellor!" begged the;
boy' unsteadily. "Don't tell my friends';
out there! I'll go along and give my -1
self up without trouble,"
"Give yourself up, fiddlesticks!"
'
snorted the parent."You ilial mos -
nacre anybody, Last I heard he teas
smok!ng fifty cigarettes a day."
Val's mind struggled hard to under-
stand.
"But Lon, Chancellor. " -Why-didn't
ltolpful, cheerful spirit and
an onttlntstte eleW of things—
which may be aequlred -will, in
a short Chao, change your entire
attitude toward the world, your
whole outlook, l3Y• cltangtng
your mural glasses from blue or
black to pure white crystal you
Will hey your life up to the
health tone, brighten the sit;td-
own and heighten ,the high.
lights.
i
Learning to Listen.
$ince the ability to listen opens the
dour to many pleasant things, it Is an
acconlplislim,ent worth cultivating.
Not only will it make you generally in-
formed and alert, but it will increase
your enjoyment of good music a hum.
tired -fold, stnce.it Is only by following
accurately the themes and the melo-
dies embodied in a composition that
we can thoroughly appreciate the
composition,
tt and
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Sit quietly t
listen to the sounds to which ordinari-
ly you give no heed, A church bell
tolis slowly; the silver chime of the
clock strikes the hour; the telephone
jangles; the doorbell renes, and the
sound calls forth a quiche bark of le.
Wary from the dog; or- perhaps the
canary is singing with all its might.
There have been oars so sensitive as
to be able to distinguish and name
every tone made by bird notes. Mo.
'tart, even when. a littic boy, was able
to determine that the canary was
singing in O sharp.
1n the nett room 'some people are
talking together; one voice is soft and
low, another harsh -and shrill. Out.
side In the street a newsboy is calling
papers; a carriage passes;. a peddler
cries his- wares. What tones are all
these instrumenLe of , sound giving
out?
Test some of the sounds that you
hoar by humming them; thea try to
produce then on the plane. by touch.
Ing different keys or,u at a time. At
first, you may not succeed In finding
a note that well seem at all like the
one that you heard; but every time
you try you will come nearer finding
one
he tell? He, knew where I was all! Many persons who hear imperlectly
the time!" 1 attempt to play .the piano. They are
1nct without ears, nor have they any
"Guess Lou didn't•stop long enough, physical defect, but tney have never
to find. out your friend got well,"! learned to listen. On the other hand,
chuckled Valentine' iPerce, Senior. "I' lierscns who have' thought that they
understaml he chased it to Louisiana had "no ear" or who Have believed
pretty sudden. Got a _job with a cy-'that they were tone deaf have often
press mill." 1ka eyes swept the boy i learned to recognize tones and °horde;
critically. "Must say you're looking; In time, ,such people have even become
fit, son. Your another sure won't bei good players. You can easily bell by
sorry to see you. She's been anxious! the way a girl plays whether or not
some. I've been worrying more about; she has learned to hear truly the
Angus. He's leaving us in the fall.! tones that she produces.
Might be an opening for you, young Learning to listen is where • music
mut. This country up here ought to! study should begin. At flrst,•listen to
be pretty good groundwork for our every note that you strike an the pi -
line of business," ano; then sing it many times. Five
. r• 'Leve
"I'll be radah obliged for the chance, 01' ten minutes oil, hour's u' s p ac,
Chancellor," said Val meekly. t:me may well be given to spectral lis -
Three days later two men sat at tatting exercises, such as striking a
the writing table of a comfortable dingle note to the middle of the Ices --
hotel room. • One of the pair, a heavy board and then reproducing it with
grizzly -hike form, had just finished the voice, or playing and naming notes
blotting a check with a fist that without looking at the keyboard.
threatened to crack the table. The It has been found that absolute
pitch—which was always thought to
be a natural gift, and which is tile
ability to ideutify every tone as soon
as it is heard—can be acquired, Try
to learn the p1telr of a single tone;
pass the piano, hum that note, then
strike the key to see how -nearly right
you, are. Soon you will acquire that
tone as a mental possession; you can
"But I didn't do that" explained the learn others In the same way.
P Even though you play only scales
sandy -haired man. "He worked into and exercises, make. them as smooth
it himself—after he saw you under and as beautiful as if they wore intri-
that pitch pens on Black mountain. mate compositions. you cannot do
All I did -was plant Myself on the job, that unless you listen to every note;
saw that its didn't hurt him"self or but If you do listen to the exercf'ses
get away, and mail you your reports." and try to beautify them, you will gain
"Doesn't natter," waved the big the ability to play difticult selections
man testily. "J gave that young Lon. musically and intelligently.
Baron an extra check for pulling off The art of listening cannot be at•
his stunt, and his, mmdng-picture Weed in a moment; it is a growth.
friend another for dying so dawn real But It can be begun at any time and
from a blank cartridge. You had a carried on indefinitely. Its, secret is
longer siege than any of thein. Now contained Inttwo words, attention and
I got more work for -you. The boy- concentration. It is through attention
says I've got to give you a decent jab that you learn to hear tones, and
and send those Millan kids to college, through concentration that you learn
or he will. Pm net objecting particu- to know them, to memorize them and
larly, providing you never give this to reproduce them.
thing away to the boy. But his mother
isn't exactly anxious to see him get
tangled up with that •girl-"
other, a sandy -haired giant, accepted
the limber slip of paper, then banded
it back .
"I believe you've made a mistake,.
Mr. Pierce."
"No mistake," assured the other
gruffly. "That bonus is for seeing the
boy -into a timber job on his own hook.
Best thing could have happened him."
"Nothing doing, Mr. Pierce," said
the sandy -'haired man abruptly, get-
ting to his feet. "I'm theeugh."
"No offence, Barney," assured the
big man placidly,- Proffering a dark
cigar, "I just wanted to tell Mrs.
Pierce that I tried my darnedest, and
fell down. Pact is, between you and
Me, Barney, I'd lake to see him marry
the girl."
(The End.)
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XFORD I3LUE
THE womali who wants WHITE clothes uses
Keen's Oxford Blue, just as her mother and
grandmother and great grandmother did before her.
Times have changed and methods too.
water and mangles are forgotten: All kinds of .
patented devices and labor
saving soaps have come: But
wherever clothes),
are washed
today, 'KCeein'a`
Axford Blue is still
• the standard o.f
cxrellencc.
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Monireel' Totems
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Putting Frost to Work.
An interesting application of the
freezing system In Shaft sinking is ex:
htbited in the Washinston colliery in
England. When the shaft had been
sunk a short distance, It was found
that a layer of quicksand eighty feet
In depth must be penetrated, To pro.
vent the wet sand from flowing into
the shaft it was frozen solid., A cin.
calor row of holes, forming a ring over
twenty feet in diameter, was made
round the shaft, and by means of met-
al' pipes a freezing mixture or brine et
chloride 01 sodium, was causer to Cir-
culete in the holes. Tees had the' ef-
fect of freezing the sand in a circular
wall round the shaft as hard as rode,
On the removal of Cue soft sand in
the centre, the frozen wall remained
intact protecting the workmen froth
the quicksand behind it.,
Life.
Life's a game of go and hustle, life's
a thing of ruth and bustle,
Life's a. play of Urdu and muscle,
life's all jump and buzz and
whirr;
Life's a gauze at wholes beginning all
the world is set aapinfting,
'rind the very thought of winttiug 1s
itself a splendid spur,
Life's a thing of reuge>_and-tumble,
life's a thing of laugh, and
grumble, .
Lefe'S a thing of grab and fumble,
. life`s a thing of jolt and jar;
Life% a s retch 01 deleted meadows,
lifers a place of glints and
shadoWsy •
• Life's a thing of maids and^widows,
smiles and tears, and there you
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Ono specio5,of Shark, sornetines $0
feet: in "letrgt$; gtts inoli'etisive until
abtadlcedi its inefrwib1,'dff the West
Coast of Trdlaid.
seeetaweeemeteree-
. -•-.,w eeetratu:ievere....e
Women and Household Machinery'.
It has happened somewhat frequent-
ly that then who have provided thole
wive's with elle of the new inventions
irr ho-usehold machinery have observed
that after the "labor saver" has been
used tt few times it found its way to
the shed or 'the attic, there to languish
out its dusty days, Sieh incidents
have led to the assertion that "women
do not take to machinery." Women
are natural conservers of old ways,
but the fact that they are not unalter-
ably averse to.' machinery is proved by
the willingness of every woman who
sews to use a sewing machine. Never-
theless, it is true that many of the
women who most need the labor-sav-
ing contrivances -the women on the
farms, in the villages, the women
everywhere Who have mountains of
honsbwork to do, and who are busy
from sunup to sundown—are the very
ones who appear Most loath to adopt
time savers and strength savers. They
are perhaps more reasons than one
for their disinclination.
First, although machinery unques-
tionably docs the work more quickly,
more thoroughly and more cheaply
than human labor, it often calls for
an excessive output of energy in a
short_ time, and women are not used
to that; nor are all women eonstiteted
for it. The washing machine, the
cake mixers and the bread -kneading
machines will do the work in one-sixth
of the time that is required by the
old methods, but a delicate woman
may not be able to keep up the pace
for even that short period. She finds
it easier to rub clothes on a board for
two hours than to turn the handle of
a patent washer for twenty minutes.
1'Vhero power from electricity, gaso-
line or any other source is available
the problem is solved, of course; but,
lacking that, a woman should plan to
work the machine front one to three
minutes at a time, and do something
else between the periods of work. In
that way she will save time' and get
more work done with less fatigue.
In the second place, not all machines
suit every woman, for different makes
often tax /different sets of muscles.
For example, there is a little vacuum
washer on the market, small and in-
expensive, that 'will do the work of
one of the big, costly contrivances. A
woman with strong abdomen muscles
could not ehoess a better machine; but
one wlto has not that advantage
should select a machine that exercises
different muscles.
It is the same with the heated laun-
dry mangle that quickly presses all
fiat pieces with a beautiful finish, but
that requires strength of arm and
shoulder. There are so many different
snakes of nearly all the labor-saving
machines that women should be able
to make an intelligent investigation
and select those that they can use
with the most comfort.
In general, et may be said that the
machine that calls for the downward
push rather -than the upward pirll, or
for the motion that throws the weight
away from the worker rather than
draws it toward her, the machine that
can be set at =eh a height that the
operator can use it without banding
her back, the one that does not re-
quire raising the upper arm to turn a
wheel or pull a lever, will be • the
easiest to run.
Third, many women are blinded to
tbe advantage of some contrivance by
considering not so much what the ma-
chine will de as what it will not do.
The vacuum cleaner will not pick up
threads or raveliegs, but it will clean
carpets and rugs better than the most
vigorous hand sweeping, and if used
every week will do away with the need
in •spring and fall of tearing up floor
coverings and .of beating rugs, pil-
lows and draperies free from the duet
of months. It is one of the most sani-
tary, as well as one of the most effl-
cient machines.
Then there are the family dish-
washers that require a great ,,deal
more het water than would be -needed
in a dish an. But the dishes are
washed in one quarter of the time, or
less, and the cost of the hot water can
easily be balanced by using a fireless
cooker and so saving more fuel than
the dishwasher requires.
There .is also an ice-cream freezer
that does not need to be turned. The
ice cream is not quite so smooth and
velvety es the kind made in the old-
fashioned freezer, but time and
strength are saved, and the ability to
enjoy a cool, refreshing dessert every
summer day 'should more than come
pennate for a slight lack of fineness
in texture,
Besides the larger appeionces there
are dozens of small and handy aids
to housework that no women should
be without, but that should be chosen
-with intelligent regard to individual
needs. A good food chopper can be
used for all sorts of foods. It is Cicely
to be in •frsquent use, for it saves time
and labor and is easily cleaned. A
mayonnaise mixer, on the other hand,
may be needed Only occasionally, and
can be used only to make mayonnaise;
and it takes time to clean it. In
buying any of ,the household conven-
iences it is well to eonaidor: (1)
whether the article is likely to be in
everyday use; (2) whether it has .a
wide range of unfelt -tees; (3) whether
it is easy to elven and. care for.
Apple Batter.
One peck tart apples, two quaa!te
eider, three pounds granulated sugar
et less, one arid oho -,half teaspoonfuls
each of ground allspice and cinnamon;
one half teaspoonful ground cloves.
Was'lr, S'eice and eat epplee, place in
preserving kettle with cider and nook
until' very tender, then press through
etrailter. 10 removeskins, dares and
seeds. Ileturn pump 'to fire and boll
quickly for a half hour, add sugar and
spices and cook until thick, stirring
frequently, Can bo stored in stern.
ilei jets or crccke,
Training Little Childretl;
dile mother et small children who
does net live within teach of a ]tinder.
garten-need not .fog Compelled to de-.
prive her little ones of the pleasures
and benefits of systematic tr lining.
It is true that the stimulus of co-op- -
erative work and play, so vital a fee-
tore ct'f the laindergarten, is not so apt
to be found -in the smaller group at
dome and is entirely lacking in the
case of the only child.- Nevertheless,
many of the aelivities provided in
kindergarten can he carried on not
only, by the small group but by the
lonely child ea well,
"Come let us live with our chit
dhenl" tis the old familiar Froebcliaa..
slogan. Wo might paraphrase it by
saying, "C,gnte, let us sing with . our
children!" -
Wily shouldn't .children oing morn
lag greetings to -father -and mother as
well as topteacher? Even 2 -year-olds
that I idsow can sing them and delight
in doing so. Thd good morning songs
to various members of the family, to
the new days, to sun or elands, sung
while dressing, do much to create a v
sunny morning atmosphere. There are
songs to accompany many of the home
duties,;besides a wealbh' of nature
songs. At bedtime the -devotional spir-
it of the evening prayer may be en-
hanced by the singing of a child's
hymn. Songs such as these can be
found in "Gaines and Music of Froe-
bel's Mother Play" and in other kin-
dergarten songbooks. Any good lib-
rary would have some of these, or it
would he possible to buy copies
through a bookstore.
A kindergarten calendar may canny
be Made at home. For this purpose a
sheet ',of white oardboard is ruled off
into a sufficient number of blank
squares for the days of the month.
The children mark the calendar each
day -with a suibable emblem, Yellow
circles should be provided for sunny
days and gray for cloudy. Tiny um-
brellas denote rain; a gray circle part-
ly covered with white indicates snow.
Advertisements furnish pictures for
special occasions—a little church, a
toy, a birthday cake, a -Christmas tree,
etc. The particular emblem is less im-
portant to the children than the plea-
sure they take in attending to the
calendar regularly, and the fact that
they are being helped to a realization
of divisions of time. The card should
be large enough to allow for a suitable
picture for the month to 'be mounted
outside of the ruled portion. Land -
seer's "Squirrel and Pair of Nut-
crackers" may be used for the October
sheet. Correggio's "Holy Night" for
December. Queen Victoria's portrait
for May.
Games train the senses at the same
time that they afford keen pleasure.
A mother can play many games with
her child without interrupting her
work. Dramatization is a wonderful
stimulus to the imagination, and num-
berless stories lend themselves to this
form of reproduction.
The lcindeagarten, alining as .11 does,
to relate the limited world of the
small person to the larger world about
him, to quicken his appreciation of
parents and all world -workers, to
deepen his wonder and reverence for
natural phenomena, is much more
than a mere place of amusement. The
home can be made more than this also.
Something in You That Can
Always Redeem You.
A government bank -note never be-
comes so soiled or disfigured as to be
irredeemable, It there is a single in-
dication or proof about it that it is a
bank -note. Just so, you can never fall
so low, my friend, or become so de-
graded but that there is something in
you which can redeem you.
- No human being ever became so de-
praved, so polluted with evil, as entire.
ly to destroy the image of hie Maker.
There is something In every man that,
never sins, that is never lost, never
disfigured. It is the Creator's image.
So long as this is there, we are al-
ways redeemable. You could never
commit the unpardonable sin, because
the reality of you, the truth of your
being, is divine, is immortal, la iden-
tical with tbe great creative Source,
one with the Inflnite Mind. There is
something in you that will some time,
somewhere, bring you to your Own, In
the wholeness of your divinity, iu the
entirety of your possibilities.
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Lantic is a quick -acting sweetener, because it is fine. It distributes
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saves time in the preparation of cakes, puddings and sauces, in the
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of beverages, hot or cold. Not whiter are the snowy doilys and
serviettes on the mahogany table than the tiny crystals of Lamle
that gleam and glisten in the sugar bowl. Not finer is the silver with
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Twelve Things to
Remember.
The value of thee.
The success of perseverance.
The pleasure of working.
The dignity of simplicity.
The worth of character.
The power of kindness.
The influence of example.,
The obligation of duty.
The wisdom of economy.
The virtue of patience.
Tho improvement of talent.
The joy of originating,
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Unconquerable Souls.
The soldier who sent his people the
tunic he had worn in battle and wrote
front hospital, "You ,will observe that
there are nine bullet holes in it, but I
-was awfully lucky, only five of 'em hit
me," has a rival in a boy of nine,
whose cheerful acceptance al the
"bludgeoniegs of chance" are tints IIl-
stanced:
"My life has been a very lucky one,"
he wrote in a "composition," '.'When
I was three years old I fell downstairs
and cut my head. When I was live
years old I waslooking at some hens
and a dog bit my leg.
"When 1 was eight 1 wont with my
brother eu a carriage, and the : orse
fell and threw us out of the carriage;
my brother lit on his feet and 1111 on
the horse's back.
"Last year I was playing and ran
into a wagon and cut my eyebrow, and
it has left a nark. -
"One day I went into a slaughter
house in Toronto and a big sheep ran
after me and knocked me down and
broke' my arm.
"1 have had a very happy 1110,'
The first battle -cruiser eomplei:ed
for the British Navy was the Indom-
itable, in June, 1908.
Hit by Epidemic.
Little J,Immy, the five•yeat•-oltl son,
of a candidate for a local office, was
told that his father hue got the >1011>1 -
nation, Running into the home, he
exclaimed, "Olt, mamma! bit'. Jones
nays papa's got the nomination. Ts
that worse than the measles??"
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