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Since Death Of her husband, a Hudson's Bay f actor, Mrs. Watt has been establishing the J.
S. C. Watt memorial recreation and community centre for natives of the Arctic area. Through
donations and labor of Indians, $17,0 00 building now is two-thirds paid for
The Dog and
His Master
By
v ERN AUBLE
The dog stood motionless, soft
brown eyes riveted on the small
figure lying face down. Sobs racked
the thin young shoulders as the
boy's clenched fist pounded the
bard earth.
Slowly, the dog moved toward
the boy until he stood over him.
Tentatively then, he nuzzled the
youngster gently.
Thad Lacey lay motionless for a
moment and then, slowly, almost
fearfully, he rolled his head to one
sid", and stared up at the dog
standing over him. For a space,
time stood still as boy and dog
took each other's measure. Then,
the dog lowered his head and with
a flick of his tongue on the boy's
tear -stained cheek, lay down on
the ground beside him, his nose
buried between his forepaws.
Thad raised himself on one el-
bow and stretched out a grubby
brown hand.
"Aw, gee," tr breathed softly
"Gee, where'd you come from boy?"
Thad's fingers gently fondled the
silky ears. "You're just about the
most handsomest dog I ever seen."
Only a hint of the storm of tears
lingered.
Then in a floodtide of remem-
brance, his eyes filled once more
and he rubbed his knuckles into
them angrily. His voice roughened
as he said, 'Spot wasn't nearly as
pretty as you, but I loved him
anyway. Old man Benton needn't
have shot him. Spot never hurt
his sheep. Spot never hurt nuthin'
less it was rabbits or 'possums or
varmints of some such kind."
* * *
A Twig snapped in the under-
brush. Thad jumped to his feet
and the dog rose quickly, a low,
warning note deep in his throat.
The man's quick eye noted the
tears -streaked face and then dropp-
ed to the clenched hands. "Hi, son-
ny," he said in a friend!. voice.
"Don't think I've seen you around
here before, have I?"
"Guess not, Mister. Dad and me
just moved here a couple of months
ago. And Spot," he added forlorn-
ly.
"Spot? He your dog?" The man's
voice was pleasantly interested.
• Thad'a ' ad came up and he
made no effort to hide the heart-
ache in his eyes as he said with
a shaking, indrawn breath, "Uh-
huh. He was my dog. Old man
Benton shot him yesterday. Said
Spot was runnin' his sheep." Chin
not quite under control, he con-
tinued, "Spot never run nothin'
but varmints. 1 trained him my-
self an' I know." He stared de-
fiantly, at the man who gazed back
at him with troubled eyes.
"That's too bad, son. I'm sorry
you lost your dog. Mr. Benton
was probably too hasty, but
there've been a number of sheep
killed around here lately and the
farmers are pretty touchy."
"I know, but Spot didn't hurt
his old sheep none. Not ever."
* * *
The man was silent for a, mo-
ment, watching the boy fondle the
hound. I've never seen Bucky with
such • an idiotically happy look
about him, he thought.
Suddenly, he made his decision
and looking hard at the boy said,
"Look here, son. You've lost your
dog through a mistaken notion
on the part of Mr. Benton. It looks
like you and Bucky there under- ,
stand each other pretty well.
"You take Bucky for your own
dog. A boy needs a dog and all
dogs need a boy for their master.
You and Bucky belong together."
I -Ie stopped, swilling at the light
in Thad's gray eyes and before : e
could repent of his offer, turned
on his heel and started rapidly
across the field.
Thad looked after him word -
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lessly. He sprang to his feet and
raced after the man, Bucky loping
at his heels.
"Hey, mister!" Thad's voice
reached the man as he walked with
downbent head. He stopped and
turned slowly,
"Hey, what's your name, mister?
I never seen you before neither."
There was a note of apology in
the man's voice. "My name's Law-
rence Benton," Not waiting for a
reply he turned ar strode on.
Typewriter Prints
90,000 Char:. (eters
Canadian stenographers who
have been bothered with typewrit-
ers that do not spell very well
might shudder at the thought of
operating a new Chinese typewrit-
er, invented by Dr. Lin Yutang,
the distinguished philosopher and
author. This machine can print
90,000 Chinese characters by the
use of various combinatiipns_ of
its 72 symbol keys and eight
printing keys. What scope ), for
typographical errors!; exclaims
The Edmcnton Journal.
The typewriter, product of 30
years' work by Dr. Lin, measures
only 14 by 18 by nine inches and
weighs little more than 50 pounds.
It is an enormous improvement
on earlier efforts in the way of
Chinese typewriters, one of which
resembled a pipe organ in size and
was sharply limited in the num-
ber of Chinese characters that it
could print.
Dr. Lin's machine has 36 upper
and 28 lower keys, representing
the upper and lower parts of a
Chinese character, The pressing
of an upper and lower key brings
into printing position a unit of
eight words in the same category.
The typist sees these eight words
in the magic eye of the machine
and chooses the one he wants by
pressing one of the eight printing
keys.
Chinese language and literature
experts are enthusiastic over •the
possibilities of the machine, which
will be mass-produced in the Unit-
ed States.
Chinese documents and letters
at present are all written manual-
ly. Their books and newspapers
are set by hand, and they must
depend on a numerical code for
sending telegrams, so enormous is
the number of Chinese characters,
The new typewriter opens the
way for a great advance in Chi-
nese writing, printing, filing and
other associated fields.
Sold by all Druggists -25c,
35c (tube), 50c and $1.00
It May Be Necessary
To Curb Rainmakers
Most people figure that right
now there are too many laws
against too many different things
—but obviously there will have to
be a few more. Take, for instance,
this recently developed business
of rain-making—or call it recently
improved, if you figure that some
of the old formulas were effective.
At least, they were jealously
guarded secrets. Now it's getting'`
so that anyone who is really inter-
ested in producing a rainstorm can
hire an airplane, scatter a few
pounds of dry ice into a rain
cloud and get results almost im-
mediately, According to the Sault
Daily Star, all the props he needs
are in the rain cloud, the dry ice
and the plane.
* * *
It's easy to forecast the diffi-
culties which may develop if rain-
making becomes as simple—and
as universally practised—as turn-
ing on the sprinkler every time the
lawn looks t'o dry. One farmer,
for instance might figure his corn
in need of rain. But if when he
turned on the water his neighbor
happened to be haying, strained
relations very likely would de-
velop.
As a matter of fact, there has
been trouble already. Out in Ok-
lahoma recently, residents of
Chickasha hired a dry -icer to go
up and make them a little moist-
ure. But a wind came up with
nice timing, and Chickasha's rain
all fell in nearby Anadarko, which
hadn't wanted to be drenched at
all.
* *
One case of legal action has de-
veloped. The manager of the Kan-
sas State Fair not long ago asked
for an injunction to restrain a po-
tential rainmaker from making
things moist while the fair was in
progress.
Obviously, something will have
to be done before all this goes too
far. If' a law isn't passed, the only
alternative open to any area whose
residents don't want to get wet
will be to set up anti-aircraft de-
fence systems.
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•It Makes Sense
In midsummer we took my four-
year-old niece with. us to the movies.
Otir summer heat is such that not
even an air -Cooling system reaches
all parts of the theatre. Diana
squirmed and wriggled. During the
intermission 1 asked her what was
the matter, She said: "I'm hot. I
wish I had a sweater on."
"Why on earth a sweater?" 1 was
surprised into asking,
"So I could take it off," she an-
swered.
British settl'drs in substantial nuln'
bers arrived at Cape of Good Hope
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