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Character Reading of
Match Box
To the truly great nothing is ever
entail. Carefully watch a man as he
strikes a match on a box and you will
be able to tell his -character to such an
astonishing extent that all other mind
reading schemes will be as nothing.
The rules are simple. You can find
some excuse to hand a man a new box
of safety matches, and even if you turn
your head as he strikes a match you
can tell about him by looking at the
box when it is returned.
The striking portion of the box will
have at least one scratch. If only one
scratch is found, and if it is in or near
the centre and lightly made you have
before you a man who is careful, ac-
curate, gentle and thorough, a man
who never does things by halves and
who looks to see what he is doing.
There is an exception to this—if the
scratch is across one end of the box
and lightly made you have a man who
combines all the other good dualities
With a habit of thrift and economy.
The wise man knows that the easiest
way to strike a safety match ia•to rub
it gently on the scratching surface. If
he accomplishes his purpose and uses
a small fraction of the surface he is
sure to have enough of the composition
left to finish all the matches in the
box. The man who has a box which
keeps him busy looking for a new
place to strike is a man who goes
ahead without due regard to the future
—he has used his surface regardless
of what Is to come.
If a man makes half a dozen digs on
the striking part he has little system
in his make-up.
If he strikes severaltimes in quick
succession without giving the match
a chance to light he is not sure of him-
self or anything else. As a workman
he would waste time and material.
If a man's own match box is torn
and almost useless you may employ
frim to drive slaves or mules but he
will ruin the mules.
If his box surface is evenly worn
when the matches are gone the man is
a careful workman in any line.
The man who strikes at random, jab-
bing it hero and there, sometimes
lightly and lastly with a hard stroke, is
careless and sloppy and shows im-
patience as well as temper—a man
who blames his tools for faulty work.
A rough jab denotes stubbornness
and a grade of "don't care" according
to the fierceness of. the mark. Such
a man is not efficient and would drive
screws with a hammer to finish his•
work. regardless of the staying quali-
ties of the work.
A straight scratch shows thought, a
circular one shows flippancy and light-
ness of mind, not always bad, but us-
ually carefree and rather a good fel-
low in any old glaze. He will tell good
stories and be well liked, although his
work may not be up to the very best
of standards.
The ma. who strikes and misses is
not to be depended upon, for he is ab-
sent-minded, and so is the man who
lights his match and forgets it until it
burns his fingers. If he burns his fin-
gers and squirms and swears he is a
man who will acknowledge his own
short -comings, and is a good fellow.
If he seeks to hide his mistake he is 1
secretive and overly cautious, he
would make a good secretary—if you
watch the cash box. The fellow who.;
swears vigorously might possibly take
your money in one grand robbery, but ,
he would not pilfer. The secretive fel- ;
AfterET Neal
SEALED
TIGHT
KEPT
RIGHT
Pass it arca isitd
after every meal.
Give the family.
the befit of ts
d totdx e stti
a7tt.
e2 'ie tea: too,
lfrep it always
lit the . house. Rai
"Costs little - kelps mach"
low might sneak away a little at a
tame --but absent-mindedness does not
by any means indicate wrong doing.
These same rules apply to a certain
extent to the girls, but those creatures
usually make the striking surface look
like a spider's wet, which is hard to
read.
01d .Trees in Spring.
There is a quiet glamor to old trees,
A fragrant breath — especially in
spring ---
That soothes the soul. No heated clat-
ter scorns
Their tranquil shade. No restless
heart bewails •
Their solemn, stately grade. No rov-
ing foot
Turns from their easy avenues—in
spring.
Much like old men they nod beneath
the sun,
Proud of their scars. Ansi here and
there one stands
Shorn of an arm, bit by the darting
lance
That rules the storm. And some hang
heavily,
Mute evidence of sudden wrath that
caught
Them unawares. Some random temp-
est struck
At night, and morning found them
strained and bent,
Now every year their hacks ache in
the spring.
Old trees, kind trees, what memories
they keep
Though autumn binds then to forget-
fulness
They wake in spring with hands out-
stretched and hearts
Alive and lips athirst to every breeze,
No murmur of their hundred years but
they
Recall its whim, or tryst, or song of
love,
No bitter sigh but grieves through all
their days,
Forget? How can old trees forget in
spring?
—Lowe W. Wren.
The Land of Lost Things.
Once I lost so many things.
Childish toys and pins and rings,
But my mother use to say
I would find them all one day
On a high shelf laid away,
In the land of All Lost Things.
•
Now I've lost more precious things,
Love and Friendship, I3eart that sings.
Will I find them all one day,
On a high shelf laid away,
Kept by one who loved me gay,
In the Land of All Lost Things.
—Louise Emilie Boyden,
Noisy Stuff.
"Isn't her dress loud?"
"Can't you see it's a wash?"
Canadian Aerial Survey at
Wembley Exhibition.
The British Air Ministry has invited
the Government of Canada to prepare
an aerial survey exhibit for the Ene
Aire Exhibition at Wembley during the
coming summer, The request is par-
ticularly for a full detailed exhibit of
the method used by the Canadian Gov-
ernment for plotting aerial photo-
graphs. The Topographical Survey,
Department of the Interior, which is
the Central aerial surveying unit for
i Government, hs
.s Dominion G e nt c h s re-
g
pared in co-operation with the Royal
1
Canadian Air
Force, an exhibit which
sill show the raid development
Canada of Metheas for gh'li5Hal lip
p�ietion of aerial photography* to la*
Ping. ""'.,.�..,
Ypy:
Canadian ants yielded in 1924 the
total of 411,697,000 buz1i 1s !bent 14,-
491,289 acres, as compared With 56$,-
991,500 bushels from 14,887,807 acres
in 1928.
13SU'' No. 27--'25, Minard's Liniment for liaokache,
Love '�iives ltse�
TI- L $'TORY, OF,.A BLOOD FET.JD
n. Y ANIt•O1•' swAN.
"'Love gives Itself and is uot bought,!"--Longfelleis.
CHAPTER \XI. seethed more real and tangible than
z, the rest, and therefore, being a pure
ly personal introduction, was ,prob-
Rankine now entered upon e very ably more likely to bear fruit.
h
singular part of his :c l'eer,,for which• It was one of the. cider business'
his birth, upbringing, and former' ex- blocks on Broadway, and, though it
peri•ence bad in no way prepared bin, boasted sixteen stories, fell far short
He had to face the world with such of the modern skyscrapers. •
marketable accomplishments as he "t'ha elevator' -man ran him up
possessed, and discover what they .smoothly to the sixth floor, all of
were likely to bring him in the way of which pertained to the firm, the na-
fame or fortune. ture of whose business , rhe did not
Many of lineage as high, of charas- know until he saw the title "Sugar
ter as irreproachable, and of disposi- Brokers" on the big copper plate, and
tion as willing, have been forced by then reflected that, of course, Sillars
circumstances into that somewhat would be likely to be connected with
galling position, and have passed that particular trade, owing to his
THE PITILESS " TIIEriTs
through all its searching grades of plantations and his big interests in it
experience., at home and abroad.
Rankine's assets, roughly speaking,' Arrived inside the first, door and rose from his chair. "It's what the
u t soaking in/it loosenS
all the dirt .s saves . you the
hard work of rubbing
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lisssomasigaar
"He was disposed that way, Mister;
Rankine," said the American as he
were a decidedly pleasing, even strik- finding himself before a small counter
ing appearance, a good education, with a glass screen labelled. "Inquir-
knowledge of horseflesh and of out- ies," he was attended to without delay
door life in the country where he by a keen -faced, red-headed urchin
had been born. But of business he who looked at him oddly when he in -
was singularly ignorant, and his three quired for Mr. Findlay Macalister.
years in Bombay had actually taught!" "He ain't the boss here now," ans-
him little, for the powers in authority veered the lad in the most casual way.
there had quickly enough gauged his
capacities, and had seldom made calls "Indeed! Where has he gone, may
upon them. He was used as an orna- I inquire.
fl
mesh to the establishment, so to speak, the lad's eyelids, ebutohe re edit cite
d d d the man who wasp q
alwaysrgwilin to take the casual or .stolidly:
unexected visitor out le lunch, to doh "Dunno, sir. 'E's quit—dead, I
him well, and keep him in good humor mean, afore. I come here."
until he happened to be, required in . Rankine looked at once shocked and
non .ussed and thought it was a
the interests of business. 1 strange thing David Sillars should
But in New York City Ran
diet not have been aware of this fact.
found himself up against a very
dif-Ina lulu some secret malice in the
ferent proposition. When he descend -,boy's expression, he assumed a some -
ed to breakfast, considerably after the
scheduled time for that scrappy and what more peremptory air, which wasnot without its efi'ect on the youth.
always hasty meal eaten together by see the head of this firmt to
the inmates before they scattered' to "I want ,
their widely varied occupations, he then, if hyou please; and be quick
l h h about ',
found the table cleared, a t oug the uAppointment sir?" asked the
cloth stili adorned it, and the room youth, reeling off the formula common
retained the mingled odors of coffee,to his in .
d
bacon, and fried potatoes. �'No:'
No one was about, bu$ when, after '
some brief colloquy with himself, he He shook his head.
rang a bell, black Sanibo'appeared, "My boss don't see anybody, not for the second venture. It brought
grinning cheerfully. without appointment:
r,Brekkus is orf, soh; and de Missushim to a suite of alatial offices in
"Oh, nonsense. Take him this card, the immediate neighborhood of Fifth
gone down town." and be quick about it!" Avenue, where the firm of lawyers
"Oh, very well," answered Rankine, The boy took the bit of pasteboard were located to whom he had been ac -
reddening a -little at the snub and with obvious unwillingness. He had ,credited by Mr. Samuel Richardson of
half disposed to raise a racket on the been more than once in the early Glasgow.
spot; 'but reflecting that he had prob- stages career
principals at Mac- The the firm,
both of
threatened withdismissal whom he saw, wereereprdigi prodigiously polite
for a similar breach of office rules. but promised nothing. They thought
But there was something authorita- it unlikely that he would obtain the
tive and compelling about this man, kind of post he was seeking, but prom-
and deciding that he could not possibly ised to help him to make inquiries:
in s ens em= name
crowd, against which it was part of invited bine to dine"at Tiis house in
his.: duty to ,guard his superiors, he Brooklyn one evening the following
nodded and disappeared, leaving Ran- week.
Rine standing outside the glass screen This interview did something to -
feeling . a little cheap. ward`s restoring Rankine's self -res -
u ree mann a him no nearer
business is suffering from at' the pres- •
ent moment. If it hadn't been for his
propensity for helping folks he would
have died a millionaire. As it is, he
has made it difficult for any ordinary
man to follow. in his steps. Good
morning,' sir. Sorry to be so discour-
aging, but times are hard, and if I
were you"—here he looked with a
very straight, keen glance into Ran-
kine s
an-kine's face -"I shouldn't stop no
longer in New York City than is just
necessary. There ain't room. You'll
get busy quicker in alniest any other
city in the world."
He pressed the electric button, but
before the call -boy answered the sum-
mons Rankine had made his exit,. out-
wardly calm and dignified, inwardly
fuming. Even the reflection that, had
he had the good fortune to arrive
while' Findlay Macalister still occu-
pied the managerial chair, his ex-
perience would doubtless have been
more encouraging, failed to comfort
him or take the keen edge off his
humiliation and disappointment.
He,had no stomach for further in-
vestigation of the employment re-
sources of New York, and it required
some effort to pull himself together
ably struck one of the unalterable
rules in a system of which he had no
previous knowledge to guide "him, he
decided to go forth in search of his
morning meal. be .one of the office seek' g, pet ' g Oneof th by Un yvin Gage—
It was twenty minutes past nine
when be left the houses and, although
he was unaware of it, New York had
been awake and at work for hours,
and had already broken' the back of
its work=ing day.
Ili nbo t tli t s the youth
The early summer sunshine lay, pest though it brought
reappeared outside the glass screen, the goal of his desires.
and invited the stranger to accompany He paid a third call, equally futile,
him along the corridor to a door mark- and long before the day closed had
ed "Private." There was, of course, come to the end of his personal re -
access to it from the labyrinth within, sources.
but unaccredited callers were only ad- There remained but the usual chan-
mnitted from the outside. nets through which employment' was
Ushered across the threshold of the to be obtained, and from what he had,
room, Rankine found himself face to in these few hours, learned of New
, warm and golden, on the busy streets,
I and the air of cheerful activity per-
vading both the atmosphere and the
people, was not without its effect on
Rankine.
Not liking the look of any cafes or
I
restaurants he encountered in the im-
! mediate vicinity, though every corner
made simply y to Broadwayeo an. ien, he face with a middle-aged man of rather York business methods he was not at
made his way and enter- full figure and face, with the Amer -fall sanguine of his future success.
ing a somewhat colored
kind g
place with much colored glass and ican cast of features -the heavy, He found himself looking forward
I ornamentation about the outside, he clean-shaven jaw, the elert eyes, the with an odd feeling of anticipation to
ordered a substantial breakfast, re- general air of efficiency and wide-' his meeting with Miss Dempster at
awakeness characteristic of American. the boarding-house. He retained his
fleeting that, owing to the lateness of
the hour, it could serve as luncheon
as well, and thus effect an economy.
, While he waited for the meal in a
practically deserted saloon, where he
could not escape from visions of him-
self in the mirrored panels of the
walls, he pulled out his pocket -book
and begftn to sort out the addresses.
They were now practically reduced to
four. The first one staring him in
the face was to Mr. Findlay Mac-
alister, ,at a number in Broadway, the
very street in which he was at the
moment.
To Findlay Macalister, then, he de-
cided to go first, for, being a fellow -
countryman, doubtless he would be
more inclined and, probably, more
competent to advise a tenderfoot how
to set about 'earning his living in New
York.
CHAPTER XXII.
IN NEM YORK.
Rankine was interested in the New
York street spenes as one might be
interested in some moving panorama
from which one was dissociated in
actual experience. 'He was thousands
of miles from the scenes of his former
anxieties ,and poignant emotions, and
had thus lost the immediate sense of
realism which had, in Scotland, and
later in London, strung all his facul-
ties up to the highest tension, He
was passing through strange psycho-
logical experiences which were not
destined to end for some considerable
time,
men in their business hours.
"Morning, sir. What can I do for
you?" he said brusquely at the same
time pointing to a chair.
He was favorably impressed by the
looks of thestranger, just as he had
been impressed by the neat and un-
pretentious piece of pasteboard bear-
ing the name "Alan Fotheringay Ran-
kine, Stair Castle, Ayrshire."
'Rankine availed himself of the offer-
ed chair, but he neither felt nor look-
ed
ooked at his ease. There was neither
welcome nor encouragement in this
square, hatchet-faced American, who
bore the name of Arnold P. Ford."
"You're just over, I take it, from
Europe—eh?" he asked with his pleas-
ant drawl. "Anything we can do in
our line for you, sir?"
"You may be able to do something.
I must explain to you first that it was
a Mr. Findlay Macalister I hoped and.
expected to see."
"He's gone," answered Ford briefly.
"Died on his yacht in the Azores,in
the fall. But he -ain't been at business,
not more than a month at a time, in
five years."
"It was a friend of my own, and his
—Mr. David Sillars --who recommend-
ed me to him. Mr. Sillars thought he
could advise me as to my future."
"I'm sorry, but he ain't 'ere," said
the American stolidly, his interest •be-
ginping to wane, "What is it you
want to know, sir? If I can be of any
use I'ni willin', but this happens to be
our mail -day, and tirne's money, so
to speak."
His breakfast was good, but ex- "I won't detain you but get to the
pensive. It cost him two dollars and point at once. I m seeking a eecre-
a half—rather over half a sovereign tarial post of some kind," said Ran -
'in English money—but he, was not kine nervously, getting out the adjee-
hard up yet, and all the day was in tive on the spur. of the momenta "Pei'-'
anything.
front of him. He had had enoth h of haps .you could 13Dint out the ro es to
the Isaacstein establishment how- me, if you haven`t actual`
ever, and decided, as he allowed thetooffer ane here.
black boy to brush him down in the A very faint smile flickered for a
restaurant vestibule, that one of the moment on the American's grave
first questions he would put to Find- mouth.
elf .
lay Macalister would be relative to "We haven't got anything here, II
some inexpensive but thoroughly good guess, nor woe't ave for as far ahead ,
and quiet hotel where he could live as the most of us can see. What this'
business wants, Mr. Rankine, is re-
organizing organizing' and cutting dhvi. It's
Mat I've been busy on ever since Mr.
acalister handed in his clicks,?'
The words and the one if sat ex-
t1y o enslvo at. 1 as•� left Ran-
a with11.6 exc {�8e or lingering hi
r
thee.
_ t.
particular 0 .
t "Then I ASP say good morning, I
suppose, with apologies for taking no
your time. I should rot `have done it
except for my friend Sillars, who in-
formed the that the late Mr. Mac-
alisted would• be disposed to adviso
and keep itis self-respect..
tp.i§b,.. . sig�Ei? ' 9 4Y1 .:oft
smolcin mari s 6a1 lag .coin-
, and made a very striking figure
o t1 sine Its of fr4a
'ossa" den th4' Vey ji citife of
elli ritishat his ease. It _
a'V n i as was
eleven o'clock precisely when, throwing
away t end of his cigarette, he
enteredh building ere his ad-
fidress -book had _informed him he would
nd Findlay Macalister. It was the
name head got from David $I11ays
In the Gi o train, and softie ow t
o saun ered a little in the gun-,
eta
sr
seat of honor by Mrs. Isaacstein, and
could not therefore engage in any con-
versation beyond his itnmediate vi-
cinity. Miss Dempster was at the
very bottom of the table.
It was quite a pleasant meal, and,
in spite of all depression, Rankine felt
interested in his fellow -boarders. He
listened to all their remarks with an
intelligence sharpened by the thought
that most of them were richer in ex-
perience than himself and could prob-
ably give him points regarding his
own immediate goal. For they- were
all, without exception, enjoying a
brief respite after a b usy day. This
reflection caused an access of respect
hi his attitude towards them, which
certainly had been absent both from
his demeanor and his thoughts on the
previous evening.
Even the bore, he felt, .was entitled
to a respectful. hearing, for Mies
Dempster had informed hini that he
was the curator of a small museum,
and enjoyed a very handsome salary.
(To be continued.)
Attainment.
No star 1s ever lost we once have
seen;
We always may be what we might
have been.
—A, A. Proctor,
For First Aid—Minard's
L.ineeen .
1048
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