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The Canny Wee Scone. Then the haymakers took after it
A long, long time ago there lived with their rakes and their but tscythes.
he :Cat -
man and a wee little man. T
in a far -away country a wee little wo- They ran and then ran;
They had er tier ran so much the faster the
a wee house with wee pots and pans wee scone robed, until after a while
in the kitchen, and all kinds of tiny it was clear out of sight, •
furniture to match and very happy At length the road dropped down to
they were, to be sure.
One day the wee woman made a we -e
se me (which is a kind of cake) and down the bank, this way and that, bu
^ put it on a board before the turf firethan ever
to cook. After the wee scone had it was no nearer crossing
baked on one side, the woman said when, all at once, a red tod (atod ie
When
s
aloud, "Now P11 turn it over and bake a fox) came loping along. d
a broad river. Canny as the wee see
was, it was at its wit's end no
w to
know what to do. It rolled up and
it on.the other tide."
But the wee scone answered smart-
ly, "No, I can turn myself."
And without further ado it did turn
itself.
As it lay with the other sidle baking
tod saw the wee scone, he pricke up
his' sharp ears.
"Eh, my bonnie wee thing," he said,
"what is it yetre wanting?"
Then the wee scone answered: "I
have tricked the wee woman, the wee
man, the wee pot, the wee pan, the
it thought, "Flow easy 't' as to turn wee shovel and tongs, the masons w1
myself! And how easy it would be their hammers and their trowels, snd
to turn myself entirely off the board, .the haymakers with their rakes and
an -d go out and see the wide, wide
world!"
No sooner said than done. The min-
ute the wee woman looked away the
wee scone turned itself over and over
and off the board and on to the floor.
Frani the floor it. hopped to the win-
dow sill, where thcewee woman silted
it. Before she could reach the window
the wee scone had wheeled over the
edge of the sill and was gone.
Thereupon the wee woman, with the
wee man behind her and the wee pot the stream.
and the wee pan and the wee shovel The water began to come up far -
and tongs behind him, went running ther and farther.. The tod, moving
wildly down the road. But the wee slowly forward, looked over his shoul-
scone was too quick for them; it roll -1 der and said, "You had better get on
their scythes; and now I'm going to
trick you, too."
But for all its pert words the wee
scone was scared. "I want to go over
the. river," it added. "How • shall I
get across?" •
:The red tad smiled broadly. "Just
get on' my tail, wee scone," he said.
"I amu going across myself."
Then the red, red tod stretchecl out
his tail, and the wee scone hopped on
it, and the tod stepped carefully into
FAILING TO SPIKE
THE LEVER
By Harold T. Chesbrough
.At five minutes past nine on* Win-
ter night, when the thermom ter ee-
gistered thirty degrees below zerp, ex-
tra engine No, 1626, oast-boundltwenh
MT the track three eatraees of a resile
west of JB tower, because a ro .• had
broken under the pounding ofeavy
traffic and the contraction caused by
low temperature. The point of de-
railment was two thousand feeta east
of the Arced Street tunnel and nearly
a mile from the Seaton block, office.'
Often during heavy car movements,
when the- West Broad Street ,yard
would, be full of cars, the eastbound
track from the tunnel_ to the Jai tower
would be used by direction of the
yardmaster for ears soon to be Moved,
and the dispatcher would -issue orders
establishing a single-track zone be-
tween the JB tower and the Seathn of-
fice. To -night the dispatcher did not
establish a zone, but the operator at
the' tower had orders to hold: west-
bound trains ,and to allow east-11ouTId
trains to - proceed against the ceeerent-
of traffic. b �.
When Taylor Williams, the third -
trick operator, came on duty at eleven
o'clock, he failed to sign the transfer
book, which contained the information
that the east -bound track Was' block-
ed; but the second -trick man ir'ati told
hint the news and, with a warning not
to let the fire go out, had departed in-
to the dark and biting cold.
The warning about the fire was un-
necessary. Williams heaped. on the
coal during his eight hours of duty;
but when he had been on duty an hour
and a half he discovered that the,
room was -becoming decidedlychilly
in spite of it.
Wiliams dropped upon his knees and
gazed into the ash pan. It was full of
ashes up tp the grate, and he esti-
mated that the fire pit was a Quarter
ed and rolled until 1t was clear out of my hack, wee scone." i full. He would have to empty the ash
So the wee scone got on the back pan before he could shake the grate.
of the tod. Shivering, he went. about taking up
the ashes, which
Still the water came higher and first meant a bunt
higher, and so the tod said, as he outside for the ash pail and the,shcivel.
swam farther out, "You had better ! To prevent mistakes owing to for -
saucily, ."I have tricked the wee wo- • get between my shoulders, wee scone." • getfulness, since trains were Cblitrol-
an, the wee man, the wee pot, the I So the wee scone got between the secs by mutual block signals, a,niale-
Inwee pan, and the wee shovel and, shoulders of the tod, shift arrangement was in force at the
tongs; and I'll trick you, too!" But still the water rose and rose. s Seaton block office.A railway spike
With that it was off. The masons, Then the tad told the' wee scone to get was placed between the latch and the
took after it with their trowels and i up farther, between his ears. The 'handle of the lever treat controlled
their hammers, but thefaster they wee scone did so but the avatar ^^r -•the main line signals; it prevented a
sight.
On and on it rolled until it came
to a place by the roadside where some
masons were building a wall. There
it stopped for an instant and said
.,.••-'fan the faster rolled the wee scone.
It rolled and rolled until it was deer
out . n£,
tinned to rise, and presently the tod pliurried or improper lncveinent. After
called back, "Wee scone, if you lalining up the switches E Z rain
1
L t It sent wl irt.. *
• ,..lifer,.. M,] „est li' ! t♦ J'• rnov
by - ' ' scone came to al nosel"
field where haymakers were at work. So the wee scone gave a hop;, but
It stopped rolling for an instant to that did not save its life at all, for it
say, "I have tricked the wee woman, hopped squarely into the red mouth
the wee pian, the wee pot, the wee of the wicked tod. And that was the
pan, the wee shovel and tongs, and end of the rash wee scone. For all
the masons with their trowels and that it was so canny, it was not nearly
hammers; and now Pll trick you, too!" so canny, you see, as the red, red tod,
A; Roundabout Way. he was asked how he arrived at the
total, for camels, owing to their rest -
Lord Allenby, who commandedthe lessness, are ' not easy animals to
British forces in Palestine during the count.
war, tens an amusing story illustra- " 'Well, sahib,' he replied, 'I waited
tive of the Oriental's ingrained habit until the camels were unloaded and
of going the longest way round in or- lying down. Then I went round and
der to achieve any desired end. counted the legs,.and divided the num-
"While in Palestine," he says, "a ber by four.' "
native was told off to find out and re- s,
port on the exact number of camels
in a -certain large caravan. Lots of people say things they
"After the`'lapse of a considerable ought to be ashamed even to think.
interval, he returned and said there It is not the oath that makes us
were exactly sii hundred and twenty. believe the man, but the man the
"This was found to be correct, and oath.—)Eschylus.
The ilountai ns of the Sea
At the captain's table on an Atlantic
liner, says the New York Sun, a young
woman idly inquired how far the ship
was from the nearest land. Several
passengers agreed that it was about
eight hundred miles to land; but the
captain turned the matter over to a
quiet gentleman who sat near him.
The gentleman looked at his watch
and at his chart and then amazed his
listeners by replying:
"Just about seventy yards."
"The land I speak of," he continued,
°'is jest thirty-six fathoms beneath the
ship. It is the summit of the Laura
Ethel Mountain, which is twenty
thousand feet above the -lowest level
of the Atlantic basin. If it were some
two hundred feet higher, or the sea
were two hundred feet lower, you
would can it an island."
In effect, the Atlantic is a huge con-
tinent boasting a superficial area of
twenty-five million square miles. It
is nine thousand miles long and
twenty-seven hundred miles broad.
The delith of the water that covers'it
is by no means so considerable as
people used to imagine. Oceanog-
raphy as a science may be said to date
only from about 1850, but—thanks
cable -lay.
la r, of they
t11
bo s
hien
toe
chiefly
lag and cable -repairing ships — our
knowledge of the configuration of the
bods of the ocean grows greater every
year.
Th -e Laura Ethel Mountain, dis-
covered in 1.878, is the uppermost poak
Of one of the most celebrated of the
viii 3 e� . @ 1. li' •
MAY, 'Williams had failed to "spike I to do, -
the lever" controlling east -bound sig- I But fo}got and remembered too late—
nals. I Little praises unspoken, little pro -
Physically cold, but "hot unc:er the 1 mises broken,
collar," he paid no attention to the i And all of the thousand and one
put ten cars bel:;ind him, iris move- ! ('r
tents became more and more labored.
The gaps bteween cars seemed to
yawn wider and wider. The intermit.
•Levi,glow from the fire -box door beck-
oned hint on and relocked hint by seem •
-
ing to remain always just so far away. '
The tunnel! IIow near was it?
He became aware that the train was
entering a cut; he saw the lights of
Broad Street, which paralleled the
railway, rise higher and higher, He
tried to run faster, but his motions
felt grotesque and he seemed like one
who tries to run in a nightmare. !
He was close to the engine now—it
was only two car lengths away—but
the engine Was close to the tunnel. He
saw the black hill ahead; then the
smoke of the engine flew bads and en-
veloped hizn in its acid fumes.
How could he see the tunnel now?
If he failed to .see it in time he would
be dashed off•':the car and killed. He
Wanted to drop fat,' but fought off the
impulse and strained every chilled
nerve. He was on the last car when
the warning telltales slapped his face
cruelly. One hundred feet to the tun-
nel! Suddenly its sinister mouth was
right upon them, swallowing up. the
locomotive. Uttering a hoarse cry, he
fell forward - across the last gap be-
tween train and tender, and'then, with
'a roar, the cal: efi.'tered the tunnel.
Half unconscious, hatless, blinded
and blackened by cinders and smoke,
he worried his way- over the coal and the United States and Canada seems
a.
The Horne.
It requires two to snake
a home. The first home
was made when a woman,
cradling in her loving arms
a baby, crooned 'a lullaby.
All the tender sentimentali-
ty we throw around aplace
is the result of the sacred
thought that we live there
with some one else. It is
our home. The home -is a
tryst --the place where we
retire and shut the world
out. Lovers make a home
just as bills make a nest,
and unless •a lean knows the
spell of the divine passion,
I hardly see how he can
have a home at all. He only
rents a room.—Elbert Hub-
bard.
_._ $15,000,000 FOR
Wi. ,iA I.Vikt.E0R1i a
WORKING
FOR
SOLUTION
Carriers Studied Exchange on
International Freight.
Definite progress towards a solution
of the vexed question of exchange on
international freight charges between
rolled down into the - cab at the feet
of the astonished fireman.
Self-preservation is an instinct with
railway crews. 'The. presence of the
frozen operator was all that was
necessary to tell- the- engineer some-
thing. was wrong. He brought the
train to a stop:as,soon as possible.
The:Land of Beginning
Again. •
were •some wonderful
I wish:. there
place
Called the Land of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all czar
heartaches
And all our poor, selfish griefs,
Could be dropped, lil:.s a shabby old
coat, at the door,
And never put on again. -
I wish we would come on
aware, -
Like the hunter who finds a lost trail,
And I wish that the one whom our
blindness has done
The greatest injustice of all
Could be at the gate like 'the old
friend that waits '
For the comrade he's gladdest to hail.
A int
it
all un-
submarine elevations in the Atlantic,
Mount Chaucer, at the eastward oe it,
was revealed to oceanographers in
1350. Sainthill, which is westward of
both, has the honor to be the first
mountain discovered in the Atlantic.
It became known in 1332.
Prior to the laying of the first Atlan-
tie cable, Lieut. Maury, United States
Navy, made it known that a wide pla-
teau exists beneath the ocean, run-
ning from Ireland to Newfoundland.
It seemed so admirably suited to the
purpose of cable laying that he mod-
estly called it Telegraphic Plateau,
but in most charts it bears the dis-
coverer's name.
The location of Davy Tones' locker
,night be said to have been establish-
ed with, the discovery of Sainthill. It*
has been estimated that at the base
of this eminence the relics of not fewer
than seven thousand wrecks lie scat-
tered. Or one might ascribe that grue-
some distinction to the Faraday hills,
discovered in 1883, and lying to the
north of Mount Chaucer. These hills
are noted among oceanographers for
the amount of wreckage of which they
are the monument. -
There are cavernous depths, of
i a
course, in the Atlantic , s well as ma-
jestic heights. Four smiles and a half
may be taken to be the greatest. The
average is probably about two mile's.
Heights and depths alike are merely
hidden land, which may some day be
exposed by the mighty workings of
nature. se,
GREAT BRITAIN MAKING
A CANVAS.
Stone Crosses Will Record
, Names of Dead in V llages—
Hospitals for Cities.
The Daily 1tlail'has been writing to
local authorities. throughout England
and ]Vales for particulars of war
memorials to be erected in their
evicts, In general, stone crosses with
the navies of the dead will stand in
,1 every village, while large towns may
Ifound hospitals or lee out parks. Par
titulars of 326 places where inemoriale
are to be erected have been received.
Of these, seventy-two have not yet
decided what form the memorial is -to.
take.
To this total must be -added the
ainiount; to be spent ie. towns that have
not yet decidedon elle •' I he form of the
memorial, and the cost of the shrines
and nionuncents which have beep'
erecter] in almost every chttrele and
chapel tllroughotit the land. It is .h
fair estimate that, at, least $15,000,00C
is being spent on war memorials in
England and Wales alone.
likely, as a result of a nieeteig of re-
presentatives of the principal Cana-
dian carriers at Montreal recently.
The question, which is a most com-
plicated one, was again considered
from all its angles, and a tentative
plan was prepared involving an aver-
age varying surcharge, which, it is
hoped, will lead to a solution which
will be satisfactory to all parties in-
terested,... It- is appreciated, however,
that in theworking out of this prob-
lem it is of the utmost importance
that the itfegrity of the through
rates by the different gateways must
be maintained to avoid the danger of
a cancellation of all international
tariffs.
Owing to the diversity of conditions
affecting the various classes of traffic,
and the far-reaching effect of any ac-
tion which may be taken, a full exami-
nation of the international charges
and consultations with United States
carriers is necessary. This has al-
ready been undertaken by a commit-
tee appointed for the purpose, and the
matter will be pressed to a definite
=elusion at the earliest possible
date.
Success.
2 -Peng? t" tor ycu, and I. wrought i'or
you,
And I strove to win your smile;
I toiled for you, and I moiled for you,
For T deemed you welt worth while.
distant four long blasts of an east- !Little duties zegleeted that might I ran life's race at a frenzied pace,
bound freight calling far the clear ! have perfectedAnd the goal I had in view
board at the Seaton office. The i The days of one less fortunate. Was an envied name an the scroll of
second call, nearer and given more im- !
Patiently, brought the ejaculation, I It wouldn't be possible not to be kind
"Keep your shirt on!" as Williams 1 In the Land of Beginning Again,
gave the grate a vigorous shake. And the ones we misjudged and the
The near rumbling of the train drew 1ones whom we grudged -
him back to his duties. He jumped to 1 Their moments of victory here
his table, reached for and pulittd: •theJ Would find the grasp of our loning
east -bound lever - down witha'.jerk. 1 hand -clasp
•
The engineer answered with :,two I more than penitent lips could explain.
short blasts and yanked the throttle !For what had been hardest we'd know
open again, had been best,
'Williams was not sure, bat he And what has seemed less• would be
thought he saw the engineer siiliouet 1 gain, •
ted against the glare from the :open ]� or there isn't a sting that will not
fire -box door, shaking his fist at him • take wing
for being tardy with the signal. -' The '
freight had slowed dawn considerably When we ve faced it and laughed it
before the signal lied cleared, but now away;
And I think that the laughter is most
the heavy train was quickly gathering what we're after,
headway.
As Williams leaned on the table, In the Land of Beginning Again.
I..
S I wish that there were some won-
derful place
Called the Land of Beginning Again,
one palm closed over the spike.
Touching the spike shot home to
him the fact that the east -bound track
was blocked—he had failed to "•spike. Where all our mistakes and all our
the lever," which would have prevent- heartaches
ed just such a hurried movement as he And all our poor,, selfish griefs
Could be dropped, like •a ragged old
coat, at the door,
And never put en again.
—Louisa Fletcher 'i'ai•Iciugton.
Until your 'mind and your body are
on fire with eagerness for the thing
you want to :do, you will remain a
connnon, ordiiiatry man,
had made. The heavy train was al-
ready
lready proceeding east on the east-
bound track to certain disaster!
For an instant he stood stunned by
the knowledge of his carelessness.
Then he plunged out of, the office to
warn some reember of the crew in the
caboose When it went past. The biting
air shade hint think quickly, and he
realized that' •.there was not one
chance in a httnidred of any of the
crew's being out on the platform.
When it reached him the speed would
be too great, for him to attempt tot
"June it.
Only one chance remained, With-
out, a moment's hesitation he ecepped
quickly to the side of the moving
freight, caught hold of the ladder of a
ear and climbed to the top. He was
nearer the locomotive than .to the ca-
boose; so Ite started toward the front
end.
The tunnel! He must reach the en-
gine before they came to the tunnel.
If he failed, he would have to t,teetch
out on the car roof until they emerged
on the other sidle. Then it would be
too late to warts the engineer. '
Williams judged he was between fiat
teen and twenty cars from the engine
as he started forma -d, The race would
be close. The biting wind chilled slim
to the hone; his ,ars and lingers
fame.
And a Iiberal share of you!'
I sighed for you, and I lied tor you,'
And for you I staked my all;
I longed for you, and I wronged for
you,
But.—your honey was mixed with
$5,000,000 to I -i ospitaIs,
- 'With memories of the suffering
caused by the war, it is not unnatural
that many towns have chosen the
building of new hospitals or the ex-
tension Of existing ones as the best
of memorials. In the list -collected
forty-seven towns and villages out of
254. ere devoting more than $4,000,000
to hospitals. They range from great
new'hospitals in Blackburn and Isling
ton to small cottage hospitals in little
market towns ---the public spirit and
generosity of the latter being, oa the
whole, more remarkable than in greal
cities.•;e
There are numerous parks and pub.
lie halls, and several instances it
which funds have been created for the }
relief of dependents of those wlic
were crippled or killed. Clubs for ex -
service Men are in some cases beifg
built the memorials, and in others cot•
tage homer, and almshouses for
widliws and children of the deade
leeprodztctious of the Cenotaph
erected in -Whitehall abound, and an-
other popular forint cf memorial is the
Stone of Remembrance, similar to
that erected at. the entrance to British
war ar co-metrreseasasevancin For the
rest there are hundreds of crosses of
all Isaias, winged figures of Victory,
obelisks and other stone columns.
Islington, Blackburn and Woolwich
each propose to spend $500,000 on new
heseitals, and the last named borough
already has collected more than $350,-
000 of the rognirerl amount. •
Beauty Spots Acquired.
Opportunity has been taken in many
cas«s et acquiring famous beauty
spots as public parks. Coventry has
been specially fortunate in this re-
spect. Bideford has• acquired Chud- -
leigh fort and grounds; Clitheroe has
gall. purcha:•ed Clitheroe Castle, and Lord
I have won you, yes, but I. musk -con- Cowdray has presented to Colchester
the fatuous local castle as a memor-
ial, with :150,000 for improving the ap-
proaches and maintaining the fabric.
fess
That my triumph itt small and mean;
For in life's great game, neither name
nor funic Carlisle, as a memorial for all the
Is the worthiest chairs, T ween. men of Cumberland and Westmore -
I dreamed for you, and T schemed for land who fell ill the war, has asquired
you,
And my scheming was not iu vain;
I wrested for you, and contested for
you,
But the best I have failed to gain.
In my selfish quest, how little I
guessed
a magnificent park 'ot ninety acres,
and is building a large new bridge as
a better approach. to it.
One of the most original and most
beautiful memorials will be at Leices-
ter, where $100,000 is being spent in
laylit out avenues of lime trees in the
That fame is. a fleeting breath; Ulan of a cathedral church, consisting
That riches, renown, are as thistle-
down,
But that love shall be love till
death!
All good work is especially done
without hesitation, without difficulty,
without boasting.—Ruskin.
Every pian I meet is lily master in
some point and can instruct me there-
in,a-Emers on.
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6Ad� NI+C GI,�`�.,.v140'M1Vra17a
•
eisea
of nave, aisles and transepts, wit"t an
apse at the east end. At the e. est,
looking east, will be the cenetapli, and
at the crossing, in a circle of stone
wailing, ou which will be inscribed tae
names of Leicester's dead; will be tee
great war stone, a monolith altar, with
the phrase: 'Their name liveth for
evermore." Paved paths will aeoen-
tuat.e tate p1a11 and lead to the monu-
mentts. The designer of this unique
nieutorial is Sir I]dwitt L. Lutyens.
The Best Medicine.
Prescribed`( for members of the
League for Longer Life:
Two miles of oxygen three times
a clay. This is not only the best, but
cheap and easy to take. It suits all
egos and constitutions, it is patented
by infinite wisdom, sealed with a sig-
net divine. It cures cold feet, hot
heads, pale faces, feeble lungs, and
bad temper. If two or throe take it
together it has still tttore striking ef-
fect.. Tt has often been known to re-
concile enemies, settle nuttutival quer-
rel,e, and bring reluctant parties to a
state of dqublo bieseeiinoss. This
medicine never
fails. Spurious a
nue
pounds are found in large towns; but
get into the ('ottutry lasses, among the
green fields, d• on the tnnttutain-top
and you hr,vd is in perfection as pre
parcelin the gt eat. Iabulators? of 110'
ture.' - -
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