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By DAVID H. TALMADGE;
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Nothing occurs in the great eenties
ef the world that has not a parallel
in Paxville. Possitg!y you weuld not
suspect it to look at Paxville, which
ie a mall railway station surrounded
at varying distances by oae-storey
business buildings and unpr9LenLious
dwellings, but youcan substantiate
the assertion readily enough if you,
will take the trouble to menthol scale
incident of importaaee at the TaxvIlle
aotei or at the post office while the
morning mail is being distributed. I
For example, Bewley Briggs, a
traveler who sells tractors •and auto-
mobile supplies for a Michigan firm,
happened not long ago to relate a
thrilling story of his brother's heroism
at the Battle of the Marne. It was
really a good story and Rowley told
it well, but he had barely finished when
old Lafayette Higgins, who had been
twitching nervonsly at his beard dur-
ing the narration, told how Bud Elliott
chased a 'hobo *feller" clega eff the
ranch last summer. Lafefs last word,
was still warm from his whiskers
when Putney Reed told how he had
recently charged successfully upon a
party of melon thieves. Other remin-
iseences quickly followed; and when
Bewley Briggs had finally received his
mail and had gone to the hotel dis-
gusted, recollections Inspired by the
Mighty ch.erge at the Marne were still
flowing freely. :
Anything touched them off the same
way; from heroism to holocaust there
was alevoks a case in point in Pax-
vilIe. It was a little different from
other towns, at that. Man survives or
perishes by a process of comparison;
his interest in world affairs is aroused
only when they are similar to his own
private affairs_ The application of
that principle, it may be said, heel
made one or two country newspaper
editors tremendously- successful, as
success goes in the rural journalistic
field. Failure to apply it has ruined
one or two others. lea j
..,7ttie Pasessill'e GaZett_e ap-1
4t'VR:'''vill'''''.- s present with other
loz pee'rerstan. the post office lobby:
when Rawley Briggs told the Marne;
story, and pras-ently he followed Raw -1
ley to the hotel. He found the sales-
man alone in the Letellt office.
"You see, _Rawley," he said ,"how
-dangerous it is to a man's peace of
mind to let out a story in this tovriej
Our folk§ enjoy a story in some slightj
degree for the story itself, but rnost-i
ly they enjoy it for, the opening It
gives them to tell their own stories."
"Their own stories—bah!" enented
Rawley. "They told no stories; what
they told were absolutely inconsequen-
tial, perfectly uninteresting anecdotes.
They have no gentoine stories to tell,
of course, and I suppose they must let
loose what they have in the way of
substitutes; but its annoying, Barker,
when a fellow tells about courage in
the face of great dariger, accomplish-
ment in spite of great odds, and at
the met- of numb sacrifice, to have
it lightly brushed aside by a bunch of
garrulous hicks. Why, man, my bro-
ther threev his very life into the thing!
It makes a chap sore."
"See here, Rowley." Barker put his
hand on the other's knee. "Had you
listened, patiently to their stories and
pretended to like them, the tale of
your brother's heroism would have
been told at a dozen supper tables M
this town to -night. I'm sorry, but you
killed it because you were not willing
to pay the price. No one will hear
3t to -night. The bunch over there
are already picking it to pieces. They
have agreed that it's too strong to
be true. No story can stand up against
a preconcievecl determination to. see
DO merit in it."
"But my story, IrrIcer, was—'
"Your story was all right enough.
It insnired a rannber of imitations,
which 'you should have accepted as
flattering. You did not choose to ac-
cept them in that spirit, however, and
the story failed to score. Furthermore,
Ita,wley, you are mistaken in your be-
lie/ that these people have no genuine
stories to tell,. It is pretty much the
same 'here as elsewhere, I reckon—
the good ones are few; that is one rea-
son why they are good perhaps. But
things happen here just as they hap-
pen in other places.
"You remember, when the President
was taken home from hip Western
' *is and put to bed. 'There was a big
mths made, That was bemuse he was
Preeiclent. But at about the sanoe time
Bill RinTi10718„ who lives near the river
west of town, broke down in Ilowe'e
atore—ilattened plumb out physically
and otherwise. We took him home on
*truels, Doe Taylor on one Bide a him,
X on the other. When we got hisn home
and put to bed, and Doe was fuesing
Oven Irilt prafesalonally, Mre. Sinemena
and I visited in bin parlor.
"Mrs. Simmons` had ben aeenni-
Valid for years, and the two dau
Is e are also 6M
m -invalids' brit i -
m, so Mrs. Simenons inArrneel me,
a always hem perfectly well. She
T8t into tears when she told me this.
She did not know what she ead the
air/a would everdo now that papa
Wit8 sielt. Well, I could not Say ninob,
I simply at there and thought olt
those three plump, pampered -women
and poor old -Bill Simmons, with inc
bent back and his thin face and h's
big, kind blue eyes, who had been go-
ing himself patiently, cheerfully, lov-
ingly, until there was nothing more
to give. When the final review conies,
Bewley, there will be some interest-
ing revelations. Big heroism is not
always of the big places."
"You mean to infer, I suppose,
that—
"Now, this Mrs. Bill Simmons had
a sister, another plump semiainvalid.
I never quite understood why she was
not added to Bill's home burdens, but
he was spared that. She went away
to the city after Bill was married.
That was after the old folks had car-
ried their groans and griefs into the
next world. A sister-in-law would
have 'meant little more or less in the
life of Bill Simmoris.'He was that sort
of chap. His wife was not backward
in letting it be known that she thought
she had married beneath her station,
and she brought up her daughters to
look upon Bill as a beast of burden
who had been unduly honored by an:
alliance with her family. Fine home
atmosphere for a man, was it' not?
figure that their state of mind doubled
the man's difficulties. Her people vir-
tually cast her ,off when she married
Bill, and the sister-in-law was frank-[
ly disrespectful to him. She finally,
ceased to speak to him, and, when he
bade her goodbye at the depot she did
not answer. She thought she wasj
humiliating ham, 1 suppose. I
'Then, perhaps six months later, she
telegraphed to her sister that she was
sick in a hospital and that an opera-
tion was imperative. She positively
had to have five hundred dollars. When
this telegram was referred to Bill, the
worm almost timned—almest but not
quite. He was not one to inflict his
troubles upon others. But he was in
a bad way financially himself, and he
had barely five hundred dollars. 'Shall
la let Epuna have it?' he asked me.
I sat'-ci no, tgifinit tea• whyani apsa Jae
sent it to her and, got a job work-ing
nights at 'the tile factory, in addition
to the work on his farm, to make it
up.
"Now, Rowley, old Bill needs help.
The doctor says he may get well if he
has a long rest and good care and
freedom from worry; but there is a
bit of interest overdue on his mort-
gage, and the bank folks are beginning
to feel ugly about it. Emma, your
wife, never paid back that five hun-
dred dollars or any part ef it. I won-
der, Rawley--"
"You wonder—what ?"
"How much of a hero you are your-
self. Old Bill saved your wife's life
and elnrost lost his own In doing it.
Are you as Much of a hero as he? I
just want to know. It seems to me
that it is up to you. If Bill Simmons
had even the slightest inkling of what
I am telling you he would,gmieve him-
self to death, I reckon. He feels that
he is sufficiently rewarded by his own
conscience. Bill is a species of fool,
or would be -rated as such by most so-
called practical business men. Never-
theless, heroism is sell -sacrifice,
whether it be on the field of battle or
elsewhere. How about it, Bewley?"
The traveling salesman rose, went
to the window and stood for a time,
then returned to his chair. The edi-
tor picked up a newspaper from the
table and appeased greatly interested
in it's contents. Two men passed from
the hotel dining room to the street.
Ten minutes went by. Then, sud-
denly the traveling salesman squared
his shoulders and drew a long breath.
He took a cheque (batik from his
giat,taket vela a aczneten pea. •
"I'll put off buying the oar for an-
other year," he said as he filled out
the cheelt.
He passed the slip of paper over to
the editor and wiped his eyes with his
handkerchief. ,
"I never knew much about my wife's
relatives Barker. ram glad you have
taken the -matter up with me."
For as instant his teeth set together
firmly. Then he laughed and grasped
Barker's hand.
.(The End.)
Thaw Pipes by Electricity.
For the use of progressive plumb -
an electrical machine 'for thawing
out frozen pipes has been developed.
It Is a compact portable outfit and
when wanted far nee has Only to be
Connected with the household lighting
cireuit.
One advantage of this euntrivance
Is that it does away with danger of
Ilre, a consumes only about as much
energy as an eleetrie flatiron. The
whole affair Weighs only thirty-five
pounds,
The 1000.005,8 of thawing ,the pipe be-
gins with turnieg dat the faucet. Then
the workman selects the point nearept,
the street and begins heating the pipe
Deai0,11, cantinatieg until the water
t the fausset begins to run.
Minard's Isinlefient 'for !Burps, eto.
Sett Playhmeses for the
Mat 8i..5tQl' has three childrea, aged
six, ten, and thirteen, and each „child
has a playhoese, a ret—the word In
res ity moans sacred--plityhouse, into
which no one can go unless especiallY
inv'ted. These little honice are avail-
able -winter or sun -liner and 4ny hour
of the day, They may be just as nice
in a three-room apartment' as in the
mansion With its gaily furnished
nurseities.
When Neilia, the youngest, showed
me her playhouse, I was delighted
with it, and asked her to tell me all
about how she obtained her furniture.
Ruth's house interested me for an
hour, but when Pauliae, big .thirteen -
year -old Pauline told me shyly that
she had not yet discarded her play-
house, I was astonished. Hers was a
charming -one, filled with the dreams
of this' age of girls.
And this is how they built and kept
these little secret boniest ,
A blank book about the size of the
large magazines was purchased for
each one. A. very thin book was suf-
ficient because not more than twenty
leaves are needed.. These girls have
blank ledgers with thin 'cardboard
baek. Then a bottle of paste, a pair
of scissors and a number of discarded
magazines made up the materials
needed.
Each page of the blank hook repre-
sented a rooan and this room was
ruinis ed- by pictures from the oid
magazines. Neilia's house contained
only the very essential things, as
table, chairs, beds, and so forth, -Ruth
had found rugs for her floors, lovely
bathroom fixtimes, curtains for her
window, a library table, and there was
no end to her interest in the appropri-
ateness of each bit of furniture, color
schemes and all that went to make
up her "house." '
Pauline's books had become a regu-
lar home, a beautifully finished affair.
At the beginning she had a picture
of her driveway, and the entrance to
her house. On the next pages came
her entrance hall, reception room,
living rooms, bedrooms—even a sun -
parlor, breakfast room and den. Then
she gave us glimpses of ther back
yard, her garden, her flowers.
There seemedtobe an endless in-
teFest in these houses. Under the
trees in suemner or on the shady
poreh; by, the fireside in winter or
when visiting a little friend, the girls
could take their playhouSes, unmol-
ested from the, time they last had
closed the door.
They would search and search for
the kind of.table or chair they thought
they liked best. A new picture
brought out a new plan. One of the
gials found, a winding stairway and
immediately began to plan where she
could use it in her house. So much
originality, so much observation is
necessary that the busy, minds of the
girls deli,/ht in it. Paper cutting is
always festinating and this method of
building a permanent playhouse gives
them- a broad opportureityafor self ex-
pression. If they tire of she bOoks,
they are merely laid away for a day
or two and become "new" again when
taken put.
When. Ruth has her little friends as
guests, they sometirnee take the book,
open it at the living- room, and both
pretend that they are in Ruth's house.
Pauline is adding to her first year
High School, this little private course
ars e
.1 0 3, 7 a
tkig of the
Ban:
." ";,&,,<)" Bank r Strong Patistitittia Total Assets
094,670 01 (-41 T'areltre Months
„ $4,253, C3492.4.
in h lone Arts, that will be or-
perm:glens valt e to her, for no etudy
of the home, even in this gehileieli
manner, is ,whcily losa Wnhlc he
select:, and cuts, and pastes bee pic-
ture -house, she i in mind, choosing
her futare home and "•'11•1 Ping llev
ideals of life.
About Things to Eat.
Can you imagine anything niuch
•
nicer thaii one of these hot chicken
sandwiches after a cold drive or a
day in the open?
Stew one fowl hi an obundeasce of
water until tender. Then cut the meat
ante bits with scissors or a knife.
Grind the giblets, omitting the liver
and the skin, in -the food chopper. Add
enough Stock to the' meat to make it
moist, and season well witit salt and
pepper. Keep on the stove so it will
be warm. Thicken the remaining
stock, using three tablespoons of flour
for two cups of atock, Boil the stock,
and add salt and pepper to taste.
Place a thin slice of bread on a plate,
and put one heaping tablespoon ,of
chicken on it. Cover with a thin slice
of bread, and then place one or two
tablespoons of gravy on top. One
fowl will make fifteen sandwiches.
They are fine for socials.
Maple charlotte -1 cup maple
sugar, 2 tablespoons powdered gelatin,
2 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanille. extract,
% cup chopped nuts, % cup boiling
water, 2 cups milk, 2 tablespoons
sugar, % teaspoon orange extract.
Grate the maple sugar, and dissolve
In the hot wateithDissolve the gelatine
in the milk. Plebe the gelatin and
milk mixture on the stove; when' it
boils, add slowly to the egg yolks
beaten with the sugar. Stir over thes
fire until it begins to thicken; then!
rernove from fire, and stir in the stiff-
ly beaten egg whites. Add the dis-
solved maple sugar, vanilla and
orange extract, and the nuts, chopped.
Pour into. a wet mold, and turn out
when firm. Serve with crectin. ,
Mincemeat pudding -1 cup mince-
meat, 2 cup's boiling water, 2 eggs,
4 tablespoons butter, 1 cup browned
bread crumbs, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1
teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon
cinnamon, 1 teaspoon lemon extract,
elk teaspoon ginger, l/a teaspoon all-
spice_ Break raincemeat inte small
pieces, and boil With the water for
fifteen minutes. 'When this is cool,
add the eggs, which have been beaten
light, the butter, melted, the bread
crumbs, and the other ingredienta.
Bake in a moderately hot oven one
hour, or steam two and one-half hours.
Serve hot with a Sweet sauce.,
Mincemeat cake -Let cup sugar, 8
,tablespoons butter, '2 eggs, a's cup
molasses, a. cup minc'emea.t, 1 cup
sweet milk, 3 cups 'flour, 2 teaspoons
baking powder, % teaspoon salt, 1 tea-
spoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Cream butter and sugar. add the eggs,
beaten, light, the molasses, milk, and
the mincemeat, whioh has been broken
into very small pieces with a fork and
sprinkled with a part of the flour,
baking powder, and salt. Bake one
hour in a moderate oven.
. Cranberry whip -2 cups .cranberries,
.4 cups water, 1,.% cups sugar, al, . cap
farina. Boil, the cranberries in the
water until 'soft enough to -mash and'
stream Bring to a boil again, and add
sugar; then stir in farina, stirring
slowly. Place this mixture in a double
boiler, and let it cook at least thirty
Romantic History of Iludson Bay_
In coming to earth near Moose Fac-
tory, at the southernmost point of.
Hudson Bay, pilots of the United
States naval balloon which 'recently
was blown from New York city to the
frozen north i11 relatively a few hours,
stumbled on a country rich in the 41s -
tory and traditions of the picturesque
old Hudson Bay Company.
Henry Hudson—"Hendrik" Hudson
to his Dutchemployers—was respons-
ible strangely enough, for putting on
the meet assail tate 6taa-tna4 and ending
point of this recent chance balloon
trip. In 1609 he anchored his ,famous
Half Moon close to the present loco. -
tion of New York's Goddess of Liber-
ty, and the following year, still search-
ing for the elusive Northwest Pass-
age, he sailed into Hudson Bay and
followed its eastern shore south to
near the preeent Moose Factory. .
It was there in James Bay, the shal-
low southern arm, of Hudson Bay, that
Henry Hudson suffered the keenness
of disappointment that can come onlY
to the world's great dreamers. His
dream wae to find a paseage to, the
"South Sen," and therefore a short
,
cut to India. When he sailed inte
Hudson Bay end found that it was a
great body of water he watt sure his
dream was; about to be realized. Bat
when ho reached the shallow James
Bay, and nosing across, found that
there was a west coast to the great ex-
panse of water, hie dream came to an
end.
It was on the shores of James Bay
that Hudson and lath surly crew win-
tered following his discovery, and only
a shalt distance to the north that the
great explorer met his tragic" end the
next caning, when bound,by mutineers
he was sot adrift in a email boat with
a handtvl of al& men!, to. perish.
"The Company of Gefitimen M.
venturere TO.diag to Hudson's Bags"
which carved dominion: for GreatBri-
tain across North America, establish-
ed its tint _post near Moose Factory
soon after King Charles IX. signed its
charter in 1670 and blithely made ite.
members "true and .absolute lords" of
three-quartera of a continent, vested
thwn wlth trading 'monopolies, . right
to pass laws and irapopel'auehmente,
and even gave them power' to make
war on non-Christian peoples. During
the three and a half centuriee since
that time Moose Factory has remained
one Ot the arnportaat poets of the Hud-
son Bay Company, gathering a riels
harvest of furs. It was thescene of
many raids and counterlaide in the
early days between the French and
the company's employees.
Hudson Bay is otte of the most
characteristic features on.the map of
North 'America, standing out as strik-
ingly as the Gulf of Mexico and cover-
ing almost, as great' an 'area. Though
It falls far short of furnishing a pass-
agerto the Beata Sea, as the early eg-
ploreas hoped, its, westeamost ceat is
on the awry centre -line of 'the contin-
ent Much of the surrounding terr1-
tory of the bay is unexplored" Wilder.'
neva. •
On the wes,t coast are Port Church -
,the bay's beat port, and about a
bundled miles to the south, Port Nei --
son. Boat these ports are to be Con-
nected by railroads . with Win.nipeg and
the *heat -mid cattle country to the
west. galling vessels/ ply Hudeon, Bay
batween July 15 and October 1, and.
eteamers for a elightly longer paned.
ViThet the railroads increase the 'im-
portance Of the Iluslion 13ay ports it
is bellereed that icsaerushing ships will
make possible the shipping of cargoes
between June,15and November 1, By
the Hadeert Bay route Edmonton, Al-
berta, is 1,000 miles nearer Liverpool
than by the Montreal route..
'rho etatement presented to the eliarelioldere of the Royal Bank of
Cantle:la, .at the ,Aanual lqeeing, al/ the Ilead Offiee of the Bank of
'Alontreal, en Thursday-, January 1`,3t1i, was a most satisfactory one, as the
Yeah brought to a close on November 30th last was one of substantial growth
•
and the moat- successful in the histpryof iins metitutioa. „
,
The Directors' itereire WaS read by. the cieeerot,,elanciagr Air: C. 21 Neill,
rits follows: 4., e ' r
profit and. Loss Account.
Balance November 29 1019 $1,090,418:74
fOr the year, a9tor deducting charges of tee, ,
alonageitient and all other Ek'Pensce, Accrued
thtereSt on Deposits, fall Provision for all Bad
and Doubtful Debts and Rebate of Interest on
"Uninittured 13111s ..... $4,253,049•24
per annl-Irn • • • • • „ ,,,,,,, .r2,163,159.11 5330003.9S
Appropriated as fonown:
Dividends Nos. 130, 131, 132 and 133 'at 12 per cent.
Bonus of 2 per cent. to Shareholders .... 40'2,680.20
Transferred to Qfficers' Pension Pun ia 100,000.00'
Written oft Bank Premises Account . • ........ , • ' 400 000.00"
War Tax on Bank Note Circulation . . • .... . 130,296.47
Transferred to fte'sdrere Fund . • , • , . . , 1,807,006.00
Balance 'of Profit and tobs carried 'forward 846,928.20
$5,860,0_67.99
— The assets of the—bank hare been, as usual, carefully revalued, in order to
Mali° ample provision 'for all bad or doubtful debts.
The total Assets of the Royal Bank are now $594 670 013.43 an' increase
over last year of $61,022,928.58. The total deposits are $455,01'7,887.02,
the growth being $61,463,229.'74. 'While'a shrinkage is shown in free de-
posits, accounted for ley the fact that on November 801h, 1919, there were
on hand large special- deposits in ,connection with' subsceiptions to the
Victory ,Loan, there Is,shown a substantial increase In interest-bearing
deposits, which is a Particularly satisfattory feature.
An increase of not less than $52,951.,830.00' M 'current loans is the result
of the policy of affording legitimate Assets to clients 'of the Bank during
, a period of great trade expansion.e. The percentage of current loans, and
total assets,now-stands at 48.16. The liquid position of the Bank is well
maintained, the liquid assets being 60.50% of Liabilities, and the actual
esiels and deposits in banks being over 80% of the Vital Liabilities.
The Capital of the Bank has been increased during the year by the issue
of thirty-four thousand shares to shareholders. The reserve fund now equals
the capital and a very ,satisfactory increase in earnings has been made
the net profits being $4,253,649.24, equal to 23.70% upon capital or 12.1%'
' of combined capital and reserve. The 'usual dividend and an additional
bonus of 2% has Jbeen paid to shareholders and a 'balance of $546,928,20
carried forward in profit and loss account.
During the year seven new branches were opened hi Alberta; seven
in British Columbia, five in Manitoba, tato in New Brunswick, nine iii Nova
Scotia, 'twenty-seven in Ontario, three in Prince Edward Island, nine in
Quebec, one In SaSkatchawan, two ',in Newfoundland; twenty-two,in the
West' Indies, two in South America. • ... '
minutes. When eool, 'Whip with a
spoon until it look's like strawberry
ice cream. The more it is whipped
the lighter in color it *ill be. Put
hi individual dessert dishes, and serve
with cream.
An "If" for Girls.
(With apologia to Mr. Ruelyard
Kipling.)
If you can dress to make yourself at-
tractiVe
Yet riot make puffs and curls your,
Chief delight; '
If yen can swim -and row, be strong
and active,
But
,
But of the gentler graces lose not
sight; '
If you can dance without a craze for
dancing.
Play without gliing play too strong
a
Enjoy the love of friends -without
romancing, -
Care for the weak, the friendIese,
and the old;
If you can master French and Greek
and Latin .
And not acquire, as well, a Priggish
mein; a
If you can feel the touch of silk and
satin :
Without despising calico and jean;
If you can ply -a ,eaw and use a
mer, ,
Caa do a man's work -When the need
occurs,
Can sing, when pelted, without excuse
or stammer,
;Can rise above unfriendly -snubs
1 and slurs.
If you :min make goad breadass well
ae fudges,
Can sew with skill and haye an eye
for dust,
If you .can be a friend and hold no
grudges, „
A girl whom all will love because
they (must;
If you sometime should meet and love
another
And make a home with faith and
peace enshrined,
And you its soul:a-a loyal wife and
mother—
You'll work out pretty nearly, to my
mind,
The plan that's been developed
through_the ages *
And win the best that life can have
in store.
You'll be, my girl, a model for the
sages, .
A „woman whom the world will bow
beiere.
--Elizabeth Lincoln Otis.
4.
British Woman Juror De-
mands Clean Wigs.
"Old Bailey," which has stood in all
its dignity for so many generations,
wrote a new page in its history this
week, says a London despatch, when
for the first time women jurors sat
with me.n in several cases and the
musty ehambers heard the judges. who
eta]: suggest, characters from Dickens,
say, "Ladies and gentlemen of the
jury."
For one case the only woman who
vvastarnpannelleci was made foreman of
the jury. After the trial, in,which the
defendant was acquitted a a charge
arising out of a shooting affray, the
feminine foreman expreseed her views
on coiirt procedure. 4`
"We just simply will have to make)
th,wyers wear clean wigs anei. 880 t,0 it
that they have better manners," she
said in conclusion. A vvathan jaror in
another case almost made the Black -
stout= walls crumble when she said,
"'This legal procedure ought to be
made raOre businaselike,"
e
Minard's Liniment Relieves Colds, etc°,1
Think Your Way to Success.
The key to success to -day has not
'changed franiVeshat it was fifty Or. a
hundred ,yeare ago. It still is right
thinking :which has its applicationIn
action ---action that !stile result of the
correct decision.
The truism that brains are superior
to brawn never needed mare emphasis
thau it does to -day. The buainesi man
who thinks logically makes unerring
decisions, and then has the courage of
Ms convictions to act boldly on those
decisions, -is the man wto, will forge
ahead and attain his goal. If he
thinks along the wrong lines, if his
,
reaeonhig power is weak and his judg-
ment warped, his 'decisions' will be in-
correct and the result will be failure.
The keen business naind cab a
straight passageway through all ob-
stacles to sachem. The mind that is
not treated ,td 'analyze' difficult prob-
lems
becomes ' panic stricken in the
face '6i 'seemingly Insurmountable ob-
aatructiens and Is lolst in a chaos of
despair.
, The executive hes,d of any large cor-
poration or business institution must
be an expert thinker. Each day he
niust render important decisions -with-
out delay; on the result ofswhich de-
pends the auocees or failure of the
organization. He holds' hie position
merely ensthe strength of his ability
to think, correctly.
From my own experience and from
. ,
my observation of many husineas Suel`
cesses and &flares 1 can recommend
no surer guide along the road to the
attainment of llfe'e ambition.
• ••
New Kind -of Lifebuoy.,,
The newest lifesaving apparatus is
a Danish invention. It is a large life-
buoyetlesigned to captain a number of
personsanhe buoy -shaped body being
provided with a collapsible framework
of ribs Covered by a ,water -tight fabric,
The inner edge of the buoy forrman
circular bench for people to sit on,
and in the middle of' the bottom is
fixed a box with receptaclesfor water
and provisions. The box serves inciT
dentally as a table and lamp support.
In. such ,a buoy a' doeea persons
might spend many days in ,safety and
relative comfort. When out of use the
water -tight cover, which is supported
by hingedsteel rode, is 'collapsed and
ckwed. Thus the apparatus, stowed
on a,s,hip, takes up very little room.
rd.51'55,555=22
,
You will Immensely Improve
the tastiness of dishes and.
add tremendously to their
nourishing value If youute*
PitintY 3Y1'Id
C)OARSE SALT
LAND SALT
Bat Cariots
Tonowro SALT WORKS
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CURIOUS CUSTOMS IN
SNOWBOUND LANDS
ESKIMOS HAVE VARIETY'
OFSPORTS.
Picturesque Winter Scenes in
Japan — Galleries From
..117.14 -1 -use to 1 -louse.
, Although the Eskimos, have no ma
aional game, they lack neither la num-
ber nor in varioty,the divensions suits
ed to their life. In this relation it 18.
of interest to mite the games which
are played by childrea along the,
shores of Bering Sea, where, hard as
life is, children can still find pastinsee
that put them on an equal footing with. -
those of inore favored races.
Football is played with a bag stuff-
ed with hair, "Tag" is the Balm game
the world over. Children are fond of
"teetering," standing upon the endoot
the plault in,stead of eating down. An-
otltbr'iirOusement, which requires skill,
is the being:tossed up in a blanket. A
wairuo hide is used, and the trial of'
altill ia, to see who ouratandd, on his
feet .and be tossed into the air the ,
highest.
Small children have miaiature slede
which they load with mice sickle
all sorts of trinkets, so as to play
trader. Boys practise, archery.
Of course they slide down hill, but
the sled is the seat of a stout pair et
deerskin trousers.
AthIetics in Arctic Regions.
_athletics are also much indulged in.
One diflieult feat is to walk on the
hands, the legs being oalserle of the
arms and held straight out in frout„,
parallel with the ground.
Lifting matches are also frequent,
but Very few natives are as strong at
the average white man. Ifueling dies
spear IS likewise practised; and small
darts guided by goose feathers are
thrown with great accuracy, so that s
they often hit a mark at thirty feet.
The faculty to throw a stone Is innate
in every boy. In fact, the small boy
Is the same the world over.
Girls, play -with dolls carved out of
Ivory, which they dress-uP after their
own fashion in clothing of ermine,
mice or 'other skins.* One of their
games is to kick a ball of ice or snow
about the size of a baseball, the ob-
ijeacntd. ,
be
s,ing to keep it in th.eair all the
itime without touching it with their
h
They alsoloss pebbles very skillui-
ly, some being able- to keep six or
seven in the air at a time with ORO
hand. They frequently wear brace- .
lets of sinew, on which are -strung bite
of Iran, brass or anything `that will
jingle. Stones are tossed in the aim
the hands crossing each other betweexr
the tosses, jingling the bracelets, keep-
ing time and -accompanying the play.
with a sort of chant. '
Snowbound in Japan.
AmOng the picturesque sketches of
scenes in Japan are those of. villages
balaburied beneath madrifted snow.
How such conditions are produced is
explained by an American observer
who has lived in that country. Sped-
nosily:lie mentions the case of- a yil-
lage near the beach of the Sea of Jap-
an. .,
A curious:1 effect is produced by the
long galleries running in front of the
lower stories of the dwelliegs which
afford means, of, passage from house
to house when the streets are, as is
often the case, deep blocked with wai-
ter snows.
The excesstie snowfall in the region .
and en the nartheVestern apurs of the
main chain of the Japanese Alps is an
interesting phenomenon. The expla-
nation Is Simple enough. As the cold
northeasterly :wind sweeps over from
Siberib: across the Sea of Japan it is
there mingled with a warmer and
moiater air,' so that when it finally
-
reaches the western face of the range
this ,moisture is precipitated in
abundant snowfall on the west flank
and summits of the range. Conse-
quently, in the winter and the early
spring an extraordinary contrast:
strikes the traveller.
On the west the valleys lie deep in
snow under a sky often hidden in a
dark veil of clouds. On the east, how-
ever, for months together, a bright sky
smiles on valleys and plains compara-
tively uncovered.
It is to meet the exigencies of this,
heavy snowfall that galleries are con-
structed, Tho inhabitants' are com-
pelled to live la the upper story and.
additional light and air are then ad-
mitted through, a paper window in a.
leort of chimney. So deeply are whble,
villages occaadonally buried that the,
various, houses can be distinguished
only by sign-pos,tfastuck in theaancw or
fixed on the roofs.
The following Earth of inscripthins.
are used to point out public buildings
"The Post Office is beneath this.
spot"
"You will tirtd the police station,
buried below."
.Telking clock.
r A clock with neither die' nor hands,
but which tells the time satisfactorily,
has '..beea constructed 3ey E. Hari -
mane, of New York city.
It tolls the tinio With a voice, specie-
ing every fifteen . minutes. There Is,
of course, a phonograph inaide, the
'voice record being eareied on a band
of films If desired; pressure on a but-, '
,ton will cause it to repeat the time.
A gale becomes a htneriea.ne tvhxi
its velocity excess& levantatsfotte mile
per hour,