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goys and Girl;
BREAKING A CHAIN
BY LOUISE CORWIN M'CARTY.
"You will have to open the shop this and all it contained, together with our
morning, Lucia, and take care, of it
the best you oak," called my father
from the next room, "for my head is
aching sod that I shall be unable to
leave my heels to-daY."
I was quite a little girl then, not
more than. eleven years old; but, as
father and I lived alone and therewas
no one ese.to perform the task, I
arose',cheeifully, shivering into my
essie c:other•-for it was bitter cold .and
quite 'early—rend "hastened downstairs.
Broom in hand, for the purpose of
sweeping off the sidewalk first, I pro -
household goods, was consumed by fire.
Later my father's eyesight failed him,
and, hoping to better our condition, we
moved to Montreal.
But we soon found that the great
city, was already over -crowded with
workers, and in a little while we be-
came poorer than we had ever, been
before.
Hearing one day that a wealthy.
gentleman, who was about to take a
long-' journey,. _,wanted a respectable
person to care for his house during
his absence, I hastened to apply for
ceeded.to throw epen the front door, the, situation. .
but only to draW back, With a faint I found him' at his office—a hand -
cry of terror and surprise. some, kindly-featuredman, seemingly
• "Crouching behind the 'friendly sha- but a few years older than myself.
low of a large packing box, standing "Have you references?" he 'asked,
at one side of thedeerway, was a lad, on -my stating my business.
apparently about twelve or fourteen, I ,prbducod a written paper, which
a poor, ragged creature, with hollow our good minister.htld given nie before
cheeks and a hunted look in his dark- I left theltome of my childhood.
"blue eyes that lived in.my memory for A hush of pleasure overspread his
many a day afterward. s handsome features as he read it. •
Please, please, don't cry out, o
" 1 , yr esil • , "You do not recognize me, I see,"
"
an one. he entreated in a low,' plead- he remarked. •
ing `voice. "They'll surely take me I certainly did not, and said so.
again, and don't want to go back." "But you must remember John
"Don't want tb go back where?" 1 Ray?"'
asked, growing courageous and taking I shook my head. - In the many
a step nearer him: troubles that had.come. upon, us, the
For answer, he pointed to w heavy memory of the covict boy I had once
ball and chain attached to one of his assisted had passed entirely away.
ankles. "If you have forgotten me, ;Lucia
those days -for the time of which Sumtn_eia,' he returned, taking ' a
I write was long, ago—it was custom- small, shining gold -piece from ` his
cry to attach a weight of that' kind to watch chain, "perhaps .you may re -
the Iegs-of convicts in order to prevent member this, the coin you gave use
them from going very far in case they one dark night twelve years ago. I'
should :attempt to escape; so I at once had no occasion to spend it then," he
understood ho -had broken away from went on, "for I found work almost
the town jail. immediately, and, since, I have kept
Y, "I was arrested for stealing a meat- it -as a talisman against temptation
pie and they treated me so bad at the • and a reminder of the promise I made
jail," he said, with a dry sob that went you."
straight to my heart, "that—that--" ' "But why did you never let me hear
Ill hide you safely away." , from you?" I, asked.
Trying with much difficulty to pre-. "I wrote to yeti once, bn. received
vent the chain from rattling, which no reply, and two months ago, when l
would betray his presence to my fa- found myself the junior member . of
ther, we succeeded in creeping down to the firm whdm 1 had served so long,
the back eerier: There I left him, well I went to your town to look for you,
satisfied with my morning's work. but you had gone, no one knew
A little while after I carried him a, whither."
bowl of steaming coffee and a slice of John Rayr prosperous and happy,
bread, which he swallowed,- to my - went on his intended journey, but not.
greet satisfaction, with a decided alone; for we weremarriecl soon after,
relish. and I accompanied him, and my father
"I. say, sis," he whispered, sis I I also, dor the purpose of having his
turned to leave, "if I had a good eyes attended to by a celebrated
, strong file, I could got this 'ere chain French doctor.
off, and then I'd be all right" When Iris sight was fully restored,
"I will bring you not only a file, but we came back to reside in the beauti-
a good suit of clothes that belonged to ful hone which had conte to us all
my brother that's dead, and an old through my timely aid in "Breaking
red wig from the garret, to disguise a Chain."
you with," I answered, "on one con-
dition only."
`-`)rhat is it?" he asked, eyeing me
▪ • curiously.
"Only this, that you give ,ms your
solemn promise never to steal again,
no matter how poor or hungry you
may be, and to try and become a good
and respectable boy."
A flash of hrig,htness, visible even in
the dim light that struggled through
the narrow cellar window, passed over
his wan features, and kneeling down
before me, he caught one of my hands,
and bending overit; seowly breathed
the required pledge.
For three days, during. Whirl time,
fortunately for my projeet, my fatherkept to his room, the poor fugitive re-,
mained in his dingy' retreat. Then,
when night came on, and I well knew
the one constable our town boasted lay;
snoring comfortably between his bean-;
kets, 2 softly opened the back door, and
let John 'Ray, as he 'called himself, out
into the darkness,
Freed from his fetters, and arrayed,
in the niee suit I had given him, he
looked so respectable, even handsome,
that I felt he would, never be recog-,
nixed, and, that he might not want for
ready cash to 'assist him on his way,!
I Meese('a long -treasured gold -piece
n
of y own et his hand, as we parted
i--n"e in the
s ,, e
in sober Shadowy door -
Broadcasting
Broadcasting School -
Children's Concerts.
From an.Bnglish paper, "Music," it
Is learned that the popsy of giving
elementary schoolchildren during
school hours' the opportunity oll.aten-
ing to the best music will be carried
, forward another stage during the win-
, ter, when the Loudon County Council
are holding a -series of twelve chiid-
ren's Concerts at various halls In Lon-
, don. The 'County Council is working
in co-operation with the People's Con-
cert Society and the British Broad -
Misting Company, and the concerts, to
lie held on Friday afternoons, will be
broadcast teem 2LO and Daventry.
The concerts, which are the outcome
of an experimental series. held in Bat-
tersea early this 'Year, are •destgned-to
-train children to become keen, Intel-
ligent'listeuers, in the hope that they
will come to appreciate' what is best
in music, Bach .concert will be pre -
fated by a short lecture on the select-
ed numbers, and communal singing
1}%ih.be euoouraged amongst the child -
rem The scheme is receiving the sup
port' of Dr. Arthur Somervell; Ohief
Inseeetor of -Music, to the London
Board of Education, and others.
i'tvelve years carne and went. Mis-
fortune meanwhile had visited us in
several,ways.
Ono, wintry night, our little shop
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Happy Zoo.
"My husband certainly does enjoy
smoking in his den. . Has your hue
band a den?"
"No, he growls all over the house,"
• DR. WILFRED Tr GRENFELL
Medical miesienary and explorer, is shown at the left, starting out for a walk
through the snow to call upon some of hio wards in the frozen reaches of
Labrador.
Should Make- Music a
Compulsory Study. ,• ' .
The study of music should be'made-
aompuds•ory in the public sellools, and.
the.masses should be taught what true
music L.
The only way to accomplish this is
to cause the children continually to
hear,. to sing, and to perform apopein-
etruments music • of the .highest
quality. 'The average popular music
of Canada iss,•without doubt, of an un-
attraotive character. A. generation of
bobs and girls brought up on Bach,
Beethoven, Gounod aucl Wagner would
have emits 100;per cent. purer than
the unfortunate children of to -day fed
upon melodies of contemptible in-
anity. •
The greatest danger 'threatening
Canada is that it may become utterly
material and trivial; for triviality in-
variably accomplishes materialism
and the decay of ideals. A nation that
lsase no deep -hearted songs, a nation
that can not, or will not, sing, can be
no, organic thing—it is but_i!opse dust.
Who ever Beard of a fashionable
fanoticn where the guests sang
choruses and pert songs? Our people'
are educated to have music made at
them, not to make music themselvee
—a fatal mistake: •
There chat be no civic conscience, no
clean polities, no iirm organization 'of
the people without music as basis.
"These who can; not sing together,can
not act together for high spiritual and
political ends. It is es necessary for
people to, have tnuobc as they march.
towards their civic and national goals
as .it is for an army., to have. bands or
to chant folk songs on Ile way to bat-
Turkey's New Calendar:
With the passage of one law Turkey
has jumped ahead exactly 132 yours.
This newlaw requires the use of the
international•culeeilar, which changes'
the date in Turkey irons that of 1344
(the Mahonvetan year based on the
Hegira., the alight of the prophet from
Mecca to Medina) to the Clu•letian
date, 1926, The religious feast days
will be proclaimed as heretofore, on
the risings of the new moon.
Turkey also has adopted the twenty-
four -hour clock of current European.
use.
t Great opportunities wine to those
who make use of the small ones.
THE FOREST GUARDIAN
By H. W. Sohofiehl, St. John, N.B.,
Where the trees thin out at the Barren, and the waste land stretches North,
With never a bush to shelter thoee that must venture forth,
There stands apart from his fellows, a storm•scarred, sentinel Spruce,
Breasting -the snow and' bitter cold the wild` north wind lets loose.
A hundred feet he'd. gained and held, against the common foe,
And in between he'd spread his seed, and watched .his. children grow..
Wtth'roots deep down for safety, his branches slryward run,
A fun two hundred years he'd fought, to hold the ground he'd won.
When the rains drive in from the Sulh'ard and the lichen mosss grows green,
Through the short sweet summer season ere the Northern Lights are assn,
le gathers strength from Mother Earth and Levels in sun and rain
Clear to the crest or his eighty -foot crown the sap stirs once again.
When th,e storms sweep down from the Arctic, beetling with eleet and snow,
And the toy cold creeps upward from the frozen ground below,
Bravely he faces the burden, resisting the tearing blast,
Guarding the youngatersbehind hint, knowing himself the last.
He's fighting the years out grandly, fighting for time and space;
Till those that follow dater •can rise in their strength and gr:t•ce.
Knowing if he Pails them ileal carry them down iu hie fall,
And the Barrens creeping forward will conquer and cover all..
—Canadian Forest and Outdoors.
RES; 'LAR FELLERS—By Gene Byl'nes,
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ARTICLE No. 16
An interesting experiment is being ten. 11 B should hold both of them, Isi4
tried out by a local group of auction is bound to win one triols. On the other
players. They meet once a week and hand if B held the king alone, Y would
each player keeps track of another gain a trick by playing his ace. The
players losses by bad bidding or bad play is really a guess but Y should play
play. Belpre the loss is entered, the the ace of epades hoping to drop the
-losing player has a right to justify' his singleton Icing. If he doesn't, then he
bid or play and the ocher three players should play for the clubs and try to set
decide whether or not he lost and the a thirteenth club in Z's hand before be
number of points. At the end of the loses the ace of diamonds. If Y plans
game, all four players settle up their his play in this manner, he should only
lost points with one another on the lose one spade, one heart and one club
same basis as their trick score so that trick and, therefore, score gameand
it is very much to their advantage not rubber. As a matter of fact, B chid hold
only to play, well themselves but also the king of spades alone. If Y failed to
to be on the lookout for bad bids or play the ace of spades, B. would have
plays by the others. The writer has won the trick and led a last which A
never heard of a better way to learn would have won. The' latter would now
auction. About one hand in three causes lead a diamond. Y must new lose a
a discussion so that practically every diamond and club trick so would fail
point of'the game comes up for analysis to make his contract by one trick. This
during an evening's play. There are two is a very instructive hand and should
drawbacks, neither of them serious: be carefully studied.
First,- that the discussions take too
much time; and second, that too much Answer to Problem No. 9
criticism may cause hard feeling among - Hearts — 7, 2
the players. These objections cans be Clubs 10, 3
• met by limiting the discussion of any Diamonds — K 8, 1
one hand to two or three minutes and Spades— J, 8, y, 5, 3
by an agreement that the arrangement
terminates whenever anyy of the players , Y
lose their tempers.' The writer would 1 A B :
most etrongly recommend a trial of this : Z s
system to those players who play with
one another fairly often. It *ill not only ' Hearts = A, K, Q 9
improve your play but else add to the Clubs — K, Q,8,
zest of the game. Try it out and if any Diainonds='
; 10, 9
bids or plays come ep that =sea Bert-
ous'difference of opinion, refer them to
the writer and they will be published in
these articles. •
Here are two hands that were sub-
mitted for analysis by the local group
who are trying out the system:
Hand No. 1
Hearts—A,Q, 8, 3
Clubs—A_: Y
Diamonds A, 4 - : A B
Spades—A,9,8,7,5,4 Z
No score: 2 dealt and bid one no-trump.
What should A now bid with the fore-
going hand? A should pass and open his
spade suit. It is almost a certainty that
he can defeat the no-trump bid. In this
way he can score penalties and also his
100 aces. Any other bid with this hand
is unjustifiable.
Hand No. 2
Hearts— A,.4
Clubs—A, Q 9, 8
Diamonds -8 , 8, 3
Spades --Q, , 4, 4
Spades — K, 10 ' '
No score, rubber game. Z dealt and bid
one no,trump. A and Y:passed and B
id tete spades. Z bid two no-trump,
A and Y passed and B bid three dia-
monds. Z now bid three hearts A
passed, Y bid three no-trump and all
pasrid. A opened the six of clubs. How
shoddld Z figure out the cards held by
his opponents, both from the bidding
and the opening lead of the six of clubs?
How should•he plan the play of the
hand so as to score three odd game and
rubber? Z should figure B with at least
ye spades and five diamonds. If that '
is so A probably has only two diamonds In the survey of the industry cover -
and, one spade. This conclusion is ing the year 1924 a total of 38estate
strengthened by.the fact that he opened nehmentsere reported, in which there
his club suit in preference to either of
his partner's suits. On the first club lead is a capital of $58;160,930 invested. A
B fails to follow suit, discarding a dia-
mond. Z should now be able to figure ment and are paid in wages and salar-
out B's probable holding; Spades— les the sulk pf $11,413,632. The cost
A, Q, 9 and two small; diamonds.— of materials used in the industry is
J and three small and three hearts. $24,519,236; the gross . value of pro-
this analysis is correct, he. can go duct $57,411,446•, and the net value of
game by winning the first club trick in
Kis own handwiththe seven of clubs production $32,882,210. Looking back
and leading the kin; of clubs. A must to 1021 there has been anincrease in
Z : win this trick, and It makes no differ- the value of net production in the
:13 A : ence what suit he leads -backs 2 must period of $10,279,548, or 46 per cent,
Y make game. Suppose he leads diamonds. Ontario and Quebec are the two int
Z should win the trick with the ace in portant Traducing rovfnees Ontario
Hearts -8, 3 his hand and lead the king of spades. p
Clubs —10, 7, 2 13 must win this trick and should then maintaining a wide lead in the' gen-
Diamonis—A,4 leadhearts.Zshouldthenwinthetrick oral rubber goods section, with Bri-
Spades—A, J, 9, 5, 3, 2 and:Iead two more rounds of hearts, ' tish Columbia also contributing, and
No score: Rubber game. Z dealt and taking all of the hearts out of B's hand. Quebec leading in the manufacture
bid no-trump,' A two hearts, Y two On the third round of hearts he should of footwear. Among the important
spades. B three hearts, Z three spades, discard a spade from Y's hand. He lines of manufacture am rubber foot-
A four hearts and Y four spades. B should then lead the ten of spades which wear, which in 1924 had a production
opened the jack of hearts and Z won 13 must win with the queen. must nowvalue of $19,9o0,'LOS ; rubber heels and
the trick wiB
th the ace of hearts. Z now lead either diamonds or spades so that
Iced thdqueen`of.epades and A played in either event YZ will only lose one soles, $1,018,185; belting $2.101,774;
seven. How should Y now play the more trick. Played in this way, Y2 hose '$1,407,218; pneumatic tire sae -
hand? When A played the seven of should only lose one club, two spades Ings• $22,855,905, and Muer tubes $4, -
spades Y -knew that there were only and one diamond trick, thus scoring 318,022; solid auto truck tired $531,•
two spades missing, the king and the game and rubber.
189; and other tires and tubes $856,
636.
Scotland's Eternal Snows. in tropical heat at Llandudno. 1fid Materiel raw or partially. manufac
one usually thinks of Swi'tzevlaud, summer snowstorms are by no means tured is brought into Canada from a
and the Alps in connection with lander- uncommon 0n the summit of Coder number of countries—United Klug.
and but cos are onew sothe Idris, while in the Lake district anew dom, United States, Belgium, Fiance,
nal snow,tof Sthe e e are atreas
snow often covers. the mountain. tops till the Dutch Bast Indies, Straits Settlements
Clever' mets. • end of May. and others•—and include crude balata,
crude rubber and gutta percha, hard
Hidden ;away on the .mighty slopes A Doctor's Guarantee. rubber in sheets hard bb
of Ben Nevis and Cairngorm are gul-
lies and chasms to which the sun's powdered rubber and recovered
d rub -
rays never pierce. There the sun's ber. In the year under review, the
never melts, and has un porta of crude rubber anti gutta percha
possibly never amounted
melted during thousands of yearss. he t d in value to $8,199,734, and
other raw and partially eracessed pro -
"Are you sure; an anxious patient
once asked a physician, "are you sure
th
RUBBER INDUSTRY
OF TILE DOMINION
SHOWS SPEEDY ' AND
CONSISTENT GROWTH.
Imported Raw Material Made
a Source of Considerable
National Revenue.
The rubber industry of Canada,
which hes shown such rapid and
healthy develsepment until in the Dant
survey of 'Dominion manufactures 'it'
had reached the posetion of twelfth
among the leading industries. of Cana-
da, is In certain respects an unusttel
o ne. Few industries 1n. Canada have
shown such speedy and eoneletent
growth, and yet the activity, is to be
regarded largely as exotic, as e'fnrce-
ly any of the ese•enttal raw material
used in manufacture is to bo 1dtdnd !n
Canada. The development of th;e nib-
ber induatry in the Dominion furnish-
es the most eloquent tribute to Cana-
da's sitrategie position nus• a base for
manufacturing, not only for engage-
ment in export trade to countries of
the British' Empire but, as indicated
in the trade survey, to foreign' loads,
as well.
The rubber goods industry has at-
tracted to Canada milllonea pf dohlare
of capital from theti7uited States and
other countries as well as enlisting lo-
cal. Suede in some volumes •Tho 1921
census of ownership of Canadian in
duetrlal'securities recorded 88 -per cent
of the investment in the general rub-
ber gopds industry being Canadian,
about 20 percent, United States, and
about . iQ per cent: from the United
Kingdom. Ln the manufacturing of
rubber footwear fully 70 per cant, of
the capital was from the United
States, and 25 per cent, from. Canada,
with a very s'ma11 con'tribwtion from
the United Kingdom and other coun-
tries.' The development of: the Indus
by has put Canadian manufactured
rubber products into every part'of the
British Empire and into more than
fort?'. foreign -countries.
Centres In Dntarlb andeQttefiece '1
at 1 shall recover? I have heard
that doctors sometimes give the wrong
diagnosis and have .treated patients for
'The northern precipice of Ben Nevis pneumonia who afterward died of ty. ducts to $528,894. Mannractured arta
le always covered with a counterpane irhoid fever.'" cies of rubber brought total imports
of dazzling whiteness, and even fn the "You've You've been woefully .misinform- up to $12,389,759, 01 which $9,795,000.
hottest clays of summer, when the val- ed," replied the medico indignantly; was purchased from the United States.
lays are sweltering in heat, snow fails "if I treat a man for pneumonia, he 91,996,731 from the .United Kingdom,
up there. In one at clefts there is dies of pneumonia," and 9500,338 from the Straits Set Fle-
a miniature glacier, the last remnant _ merlist
stributo
oP the age when one continuous glacier Preliminary.Dl
extended from the Grampians to what i n World Wide.
le now known as the Irish Sea, and "Now, my dear sir," said Dr. Pox, Canada Is exhorting her 001,11or
which carved out the hollows .which I cannot cure you unless you do manufactures to practically Avery
now lie such lakes' es Loch Lomond everything I tell you." country of the globe. They go in
and Windermere, "All right, doctor," said Skinner, "1 greatest quantity to the United King-
e.
In England and Wales there ie- no p ramiS" dote, which in 1924 purchased to the
mountain which has even a patch .of Good! Now, !list of. all, payane•my efitent. of $2,4429,219, ,The next best
suety which never melts, but there is haat year's hill." customer is the Argentine, 91, 4 which took
a gully on Snowden' called the Deep Agood name a geode to the value of $1,245,948, whilst
a els like a fortune- Many
Cup where snow often lies while swim. a man has found one more difficult to New Zealand likewise went over the
mer visitors are disporting themselves preserve than to acquire.
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million .nark. Other important bus-
toners in order are British South .+.f
rico; Australia, Dutch East Indies, In-
dia, Brazil, Newfoundland, Japan,.
France, Uruguay, Jamaica, Belgium,,
Straits Settlements, Trinidad, British
Guiana, Ceylon and Mexico.
The Canadian export trade in rub-
ber goods is increassing very substan-
tially as indicated in more recent
trade figures'. Stathsticn of trade ter
the twelve months ending October
show the following for tubber exports
for the past three years 1923.. 90,-
603,100; 1924, 99,849,442 1925, $15,-
891,856,
15,891,856, - The rubber gapes industry
is one which Coi:atcla hos t'ettifiariy'
developed i:rom imported raw ma-
terial and,by using her increasingly
favorable position • 1n the al arid•- of
trade,. made 1t a source of con0'idor-
able national reveilles.
What He Was Trying For.
Hospital Nursr,_.-"You Wish to see
the young man injured in the' motor
accident. You are the Iady he was
with?"
Gweudoline--"Yes, 1 though It would
bs only fair ,le, give dtini the, ]rise he
was trying for.".. •- .. .