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The Accomplice
By JANE GILL,
PART I.
Itis' queer that no one thought', of
Caroline's ,ntoney•.when the , sport
.carne that Peter.-Helinie..horees had
been stolen and the thieves were still
at ilargei .'Of'coiirse;;even if it had
been remembered,. no one would have
felt much uneasiness, for the Stalcey
boys weren't likly to bother any• one
but Peter Helm, whoin the thought
they had cause to hate.
Just the day_before she had arrived
at her uncle's farm in her pretty new
blue traveling suit, and user pretty new
traveling bag Ott of the traveling
bag shelled take'i'an old wallet which
containedthe money.. Bill by bill she'
had spread it over the dining room
table until she had made a tablecover
of yellow paper on top of the white
dainssk one.
"Five, hundred dollars!" she an-
nounced proudly. "And more in the
bank!" She opened her bankbook that
her aunt and uncle »light read the
neat little figures which announced
her balance there.
"Did Aunt Hetty leave, yea all
that?" exclaimed Uncle Aaron.
"Part of it she left me, and part of
it I earned at -teaching," Caroline tcdd
them. "And I'm going to buy a farm,
with it,"
Tltey laughed at her. "Why Caroline
Rodman, . child, what do you.. know
about farming?"
"I guess S know more than'lots of
farmers. I spent half my evenings
reading it up in books," she told them
a little defiantly.
They laughed again, and Uncle
Aaron- explained very kindly to her and -then bitter, fighting mad, desper-
that "just about the first thing she ate.
would have to -do tomake a farm go "But they ought to have known,"
would be to forget all the fine notions said Caroline, "that if they never paid
she got from the farming books. - interest the mortgage would be sure
Then he turned to his wife as if to be foreclosed."
Caroline weren't there. "Of emerge, if "Of , course they ought, her aunt
,she's set on getting a farm, there is agreed. "But 'they never gale it a
that Stalcey farm that Peter Helm thought; always had t'1beir minds chock
has. We might get a good man to run full. of their -.crazy schemes;; and, be -
it for her." °ides, even if they had thought of it,
'firs. Rodman shook her head.`"Even they never had any money; always
if she got a good man,' she objected, sank every cent into the old place.
"1 dan't think' farming is the work But I always will say that they would
for a girl:' have been lovely boys if they had had
Then she addressed Caroline, "You'd half a chance."
better go back to teaching. Teaching
"I don't care," Aunt Rodman -de
fended them, 'they are lovely boys,
only they didn't have half a'chance.
Her husband laughed dryly. "Well,
'it will go pretty hard with your lovely
boys when they are caught; •They're
likely to try shooting, too. It's known
they've got weapons, and that will
make things allthe•harder for them
when they are eaught. They're reck-
less young devils. -Did I tell you about
the note they left when they stole the
horse?" "
"No, what note?"
"Left a note for Peter ilelm saying
that they would come back and col-
lect the rest of what he owed thein
later, Can't get over the idea'that
they were robbed.
• Uncle Rodman smiled amusedly, bat
his smile was not withbut compassion,
and lie added rather gently, • "Poor
young devils."
Then in another tone to his wife,
"Come; my dear, you will 'have to
hurry if you want me to drive you
down to Mrs. Jennings's."
. As Caroline continued to help her
aunt make ready she demanded ex-
citedly more- information about the
horse' thieves and received it in dis-
connected /regiments; The father of the
boys- had -died ten years ago, when
David, the eldest• tad, was only six-
teen, leaving them with the. heavily
mortgaged farm; the boys had turned
in and worked amaziegly haled, but in
a •scatter -brain,' outlandish fashion;
theynever paid . any- interest on the
mortgage, and when it was finally
foreclosed they Were stunned at first,
"Is that the farm you said seme-
is a lot nicer and more ladylike." thing about my buying?" Caroline in -
"I hate • teachingl" retorted Caro-. quired: ' ' •
line a bit defiantly, for this prompt "Haven't you given that up?" her
aunt laughed at her. '
Caroline's brow clouded a little, bat
she did not answer. -
Five minutes later she was out on
the front verandah, an old red anveat-
er of Cousin Arthur's thrown over her
shoulders, waving good-bye to her
aunt and uncle.
"You'll be back in time for supper,
won't you, Uncle •Aaron?" she asked.
"I am coming right straight back,
dear." '
Looking at the clouds, Caroline shiv-
ered. "Isn't it windy, and isn't it cold?
It's going to storm. Be sure and get
-home before it storms, Uncle Aaron."
"I wall," he promised, and rode off.
He came back just
as Caroliave was
taking a pan of graham muffins from
the oven.
"Supper will be ready in a few min-
utes," she told hint, and just then her
young cousin Arthur burst into the
room.
"Where's mother?" he demanded,
excitedly.
"Gone down to spend the night with
Mrs. Jennings."
"Oracicyl" he ejaculated, with a low
Whistle. "That's -going to leave you
all alone."
"Alone? Why, what do you mean?"
"Juat saw the sheriff, and he's call-
ingthe on all men
around here to help
him hunt for the Stalcey boys. And,
of course, father and I have got to
go. As far Be they can 'make out,
they are still somewhere hi, the
county, By rights we ought to be
starting now."
"I'll have supper on the table hi a
minute," Caroline promised.
A few niinutes later at the supper
table her uncle asked her; "You are
sure you aren't afraid to stay here
alone?'r^
attempt to , disillusionment annoyed
• her. -
"Well, anyhow, what did you bring
all that in cash for?" inquired Uncle
Aaron.
"For the first cash payment," Caro-
line "told him promptly.
"That was silly," Uncle Aaron scold-
ed her kindly. "A cheque would have
done' just as well, you know,
Aunt Rodman fretted a little. "I
don't -like all that money in the house."
• "Oh, it's safe•enough," her husband
reassured her, abut we'lI take it to
the bank when we go an on Saturday."
The good woman's anxiety was only
partly molified. "I .suppose it's safe
lenaugh," she admitted, "but just the
same, you lock it hs your trunk, Caro-
line, and keep the key with you all,
the time."
And yet, twenty-four hours later,
when the exciting nevi's came that
there were three young horse thieves
at large in the county, no one, as I
said, thought of Carolin.e's money,
least of all Caroline herself. She was
helping Aunt ltodnran get ready to go
down anci spend the night with a sick
neighbor, lura, Jennings, who was have
:ing a pretty desperate ease of the
grip, • She was just malting a bundle.
of her stunt's. comb and brush anal
toothbrush and night • clothes when
her uncle tame in with the news,
Aunt Rodman sa'nk,gasping into a
chair, "I never did like that Peter
Helm, eaivlto rs," she declared. "It
serves him light if those boys' dict take
his hooses. It was a nnean trick of
him to foreclose on their mortgage the
way he did."
"My dear," her husband protested;
"busfnles is business. You can't throw
money away,' and they hadn't paid any.
interest on that mortgage."
','Oa comae net/a she ;lettered ltilns
"Wall, I relrlly. don't think Yen need
be, for I" dolt't believe they'll bother
Mak tine else lvennfi here. Tiley )l be
trying to get out of roach, But if"eroll
are afrald I'll .Josue Arthur here with
You."
"Ian not the ]:east 'bit afraid," she
repeated,
;And even after they had gene' she
felt not the slightest tear. She washed
tap hr dishee, and then, with a plate
of tipples, a magazine and the old eat
for' company, prepared for a fpnnfort-
able evening. in front of the 'kitellen
stove,
• The storm which had threatened in
the afternoon was 'beginning to rattle
the winclhws of the old house, anti
there wis a sound like the throwing of
sand . against the 'glass, which she
knew was sleet,
She tiled to read, but found she
couldn't. The house was beginning to
'22]58 vel' the wind, as only en old house
call --gleans from the cellar and
stranger shrieks and moans from the,
garret, until it filled hod with uneasi-
ness. Halt ashamed of herself she
roso, locked, the doers, drew clown the
blinds and wished that there were
locks on the old-fashioned windows,
(Continued in next issue.).
A Case , of Wasted Sympathy
The :iioyltig gli.allty of the human
voice lis i.u'paesicued utterance, apa11
Iron the n10E01111g of the words utter-
ed, late. been often exemplified. The
startled ciei'ic al whom the great
actieserMrs. Siddons, purchased cilli -
co, was thrilled to the soul by the
treg'ie intensity with whiolt she de -
=sided, in sleep contralto, "Will it
'trach?„
Madame hiuljer;ktt, the°great Polish
actrese, whom certain of. the old-
thners will recall, pressingly invited
at a reception to oblige the company
with e recitation, did so in her native
tongue. .
"At drat," says au auditor, who tells
the •otory, "it seemed 5finple enough,
apparently With some give amid take,
o8 question and answer; then it be -
taints patlletic; and, as she- spoke the
saldsntng word*, the "Dios of the at,
eemplished aetrusee broke; thele was
Witold a sob in her tone, and there
were tears ready to'fti11 iron), her eyoa
Hilt the one person present who un-
derstood Polish had to leave, the .room
to restrain 51s•laughter, because what
she was delivering thus emotionally
was the multiplication tablet"
lama the Italian tragedian, achieved
rat' eaell greater triumph, of 'ialannor
over matter when, dining at cafe
With some fallc)v actors, he ateopted a
wages (fiat, he cinikt, Se read tiro wenn
AS to, bring Leta to their eyes, Xis
n.auls Gts1t), patl4s is int Soups, appeal -
ing • among fish, frenzied with the
roast, rising to agony at vegetables,
sinking to heartbroken sobs and poig-
nant whispers in the ennrneration. Of
sweets and fruit, and fading finally et
coffee to a dying sigh, was not -to be
resisted. Tears streamed (learn their
cheeks and Rossi won the wager..:
The temperamentoldifference be-
tween a restrained' and a)1 emotional.
race occasionally,brings about khldred
effects through. accident, 4 lady,
waiting belated g for a 1 br) la etl train, witnessed
a most affecting parting between an.
aged tether end. his son, beth Italians
The old men seeulecl;1u :a frenzy of
woe. He manned, raved, lifted lits
ale -tidied, hands toward heaven and
shoots them despn.iringly.
"Poor, poor soulsl s11e exclaimed,
cotiipassionastely, "Tito young men
going away to souk his fortune and
alio old man left behind. I suppose he
fears• they may never meet again. A
common tragedy, het it grips one's
vara heart"
"Cheer net" ' briskly advlsed her
ecimas11112, who undoyetoorl.Italian,
"The young chap ie only Being to the
next town to Visit leis .married siste>'.
end the verserable old Person is war',
tied lateens* ]1e'S l0anod 1112}) elle sea -
sot ticket and wisliee naw he hadn't
promised to do 80, Ile says he knows
the boy wilt lose if bit y+2 if
Fashions in Bathing.
While humans journey far to dis-
port themselves in the waters of lake
or enema and trouble themselves muck
over questions of ono 01' two place
bathing suite, their animal. °att ills
show an instinct for cleanliness and a
variety in fashion of bathing at once
interesting and instructive.
ftez' erieud squirrel, .the other morn-
ing, had sported on the verandah roof
to his heart's content and taken his
horning exercise bounding from limb
to limb of oak and elm, he decided to
take his uatii, Eo he hold one paw
with the other while washing it, and
changed so rapidly from eve to the
other that he seemed to be clapping
his hands together in very joy.
Tabby the cat has a constitutional
aversion to water. Nevertheless, she
puts her rough tongue to good use and
brushes " herself with the vigor of a
hair -dresser. Domestic fowls share
the feline dislike to bathing, but they
roll in the cleansing dust with all the
zest oR. a smell boy playing in the
ground and bathes itself in this way.
Bats, moles, hedgehogs and such
animals comb themselves with their
nails as with a fine-tooth comb. Spid-
ers and other insects brush' their
antennae and mandibles with their
forelegs.
Dven roptiles are not content to re-
main unclean. Although, they cannot
conveniently wash themselves, they
discard their ;old skins for new ones
several times a Year, and face the
world with •complete , new raiment
every few months.
Tho bath seems to be an asqulred
.taste among human,bemgs. The small
boy does not take to it kindly, -while
his young sister often feels quite setts -
fled 1t only her face, neck and wrists
are clean. Primitive folk do not ex-
pend much energy keeping clean.
Dr. Grenfell 'notes among the people
of Labrador a decided indifference to-
ward cleanliness.
But most of the four -footed and
feathered creatures show an. instinct
for cleanliness. Some of them are
even fastidious :n the matter.
A City Park.
The travail of the world roars like the
sea
Throughout the city—traffic., strife
and haste,
And all the petty trade wherein men
waste
The nobler graces of bumanity.
The streaming streets are thronged
incessantly.
Wltlt feverish hordes driven ,and
overpaced
By competition stern, with little
taste
Or time for that which life was meant
to be.
But here is hope -here is one rescued
spot,
• Where beauty waits in fountain,
grass and flower,
Where children play, and men turn
from the hot,
Mad mill of labor for a quiet hour
To feel the cooling wash of the sum-
mer breeze
And glimpse the calm of heaven
through the trees.
, Planning Our Worlc;
No two homes can be run surto,
Still, we etre 21.11 g'1wd of sl'iggestione.
Here is tL work-sviledule which you
'con alter if it lees not enth'elY au)i
your needs;
Laundry—The washing sllauld be
done on Tuesday. All preparations'
should be amide 3Vfonday night, The
clothes should• be.put to soak at that
tune and left soaking over - night.
heavy weak, suefi as lifting water,"
should bo done by the Hien. If Yea.
have not a washing machine, it will
save doetoi;'s'bills to bay one.
Ironing --Rough dry as many of the
pieces as poss:bie. This is clone by
folding your clothes as you take them
from the line and putting' them under
pressure, Underwear', sheets, towels,
and all flak pieces should be done in
How the Nations
SIe:.p.
What seems indispensable to one
nation for a good sleep another con-
siders the surest means of driving
away repose.
Europeans requi;e, as a rule, a soft
pillow, while the Japanese stretches
hlrntelf cm his stat. and pots s: square
wpbdon block under hit need, upon
which he rests comfortably.
To the Chinaman hie beer is an im-
portant affair. It is low and often
adorned with precious carvings, but
It never occurs to, him that anything
could bo more comfortable than
plaited mats.
While the people of northern coun-
tries cannot oleos) unless they have
suflicfent space to stretch themselves
at full length, the natives of t:he "trop -
los are often satisfied with a bean -
monk.. . ,
The inhabitant. •of Russia Minor
loves to sleep, on hie hot stove; from'
which, on awakening hall roasted in
the morning,: he :will immediately
plunge into cold water' r)0 as to re-es-
tablish )tie physical equilibrium. '
- The Lapp crawls into a emir' made
of reindeer skins, while•alre Hfndoo,
who' likewise Uses n .seek, though an
airy and light etle,.doos se to protect
himself against' the mosquitoes, not
against cold. •
ONTARIO. OIL
R
The Dover 011' Company own oil
leases on 1,000 acros'of land• in Dover
and Tilbury. Townships arab in the
'Comber and Belie River districts. In
the latter district they already. have
• 22 well* Producing, all In encouraging
quantities, In order to 'mance and
.develop this enterprise, we offer
X106,000 shares of stoclt at : ar value of
1)
'$1.00 Bach, , ,
Write Now for Pull P r lo' Ars t"
u at ul, o
hut, nn , x;r, ,rOI97t1 ?Pitt(fir 0'
helCtres,�he'fl basals, evert( bate lit his
bade/ whets he ,010120» e, Theta arra" 75 Adelaifde' St. 1✓a „ 'foi'onte
this way.
Cleaning the house --Part of the
cleaning should be don0 each day, so
that a great deal of cleaning does not
have to be done at one time, Lamps
should be eleaned and filled once a day,
5.00-0.00—The family arises. Each
member turns back bedding, smooths
oat lower sheet and beats' up the
pillow.
The man etarts the fire. The cereal
is the fireless cooker should be hot.
Take care of poultry.
Do the milking.
6.00-6.15—Prepa'ie breakfast, (Use
toast rather than muffins—cereal and
fruit are already cooked. The table
has been set the night before and
covered with a large cloth.)
6.15-6,45—Breakfast.
6.45-7.15—Start dinner in fireless
(meat dish and dessert).
7.15-7.45—Wash dishes (breakfast
dishes and those from night before).
The dishes may be placed back on
table and the table :covered.
7.45-8.15—Put house in order, Clean
one room a day. There may be no
need of frequent dusting. In fact, it
should .be reneeinbered that crust "sit-
ting tight" hurts no one and is only
harmful when blowing in the air. If
it is a "question et using energy for
dusting or 'of resting, it would be
wiser, in your case, to rest.
If beds are in a room used only for
sleeping, they may be left open all
day.
8.15-10,00—Work in garden. Pre-
pare vegetables for dinner.
10.00-11.00—Rest.
11,00-12.00=Finish preparing din-
ner (vegetables).
12.00-12.30--D; iHer.
12,30-2.00—Dishes washed, kitchen
put in order and supper preparations
made,
2.00-3.00—Rest.
8,00-4.30—Mending, sewing.
4.30-5.00—Taking care of poultry:-
5.00-6.00—Milking,
oultry-5.00-G.00-1MIilking,
6.00-6.30—'Supper prepared, Cereal
for next meaning started while fire
is burning, and then put in fireless
coolcer. If you have none, either buy
or make one. •
6.20-7.00—Supper.
7,00-7.30—Dishes scraped, rinsed
and piled, to be washed 'text morning.
Table set for breakfast.
Some super -active women and we -
men with babies or growing families,
will doubtless shout scorn at this
schedule as being silly and impractical
but, just the same, a time -and -work
schedule d.s one ref the best helps in
the world, both to urge us forward
and to hold us back. It is simply a
movable plan po;nting to a general
path of system in the day's work.
Dressing to Please Hubby.
A good many people goabout with
the idea that a woman dresses in order
to make herself pleasing in •bhe eyes
of men. Ver little credit i i
y e c d s given
n
by such people for a woman's natural
instinct to make the best of herself
fox' her own satisf.certion.
To bolster up their argumen
quote the woman who "lets 1
go" after marriage.. But slattern15 are,
luckily). in the minority, and th
age married woman is "as- in•te
in the dress problem as her unm
sister. But does the married v
dress to piens° her husband?
Some men have strange g ideas
women's dress is concerned, ,
the stain they prefer It to stnskr)- the
fen?nine note that "samethin
and clinging" still holds. And for
color they like semi -shades,•
w
It takes' a.olftan to Icnow bas
suits Iyer,. because the. average man
has not taken up the study of wa111an'e
dress. Hubby has to bo edu.ca
many )iointsl ' -
t they
leseelf
e aver -
rested
armed
voms.n
where
but in
g soft
t what
ted, on
One charmingly tracked matron told
me that it took her a long third' to
educate hes -husband.'
"Tom wanted ane to wear those deli-
cate glades in which you would dress
a Watteau typeof beauty," she said,
"You see, his mother weis one Of the
fragile rose -bud, type, anti use thought
it perfection. She always looked as
dainty as a Dresden shepherdess."
What Tom didn't realize was that
his mother and his wife were entirely
differentin styleand type. IRitty was
a dark-skinned, flashing -eyed beauty,
and lookecl superb iu black, relieved
with xich colorings. As a Dresden
•eh_epherdess she did not Slone. She
maeraged to peeve to -Tont that site
could tot espy itis mother, Mainly by
experiments, •
`So you see," she said, "I don't
dam to please my husband, but I've
'mae:agedl to snake' him pleased with
the way I dress,"
• All •happily moiled women study
their htesbands' tastes where dress is
contented, because, they know so well
that if`they want to remain fine -birds
in t'he eyes of their loved' ones they
must pay, attention to the feathers.
But a clever Woman gets what she
wants and manages' to snake iter man
think he wanted it.
Dimes Moat 'won't hold a man's love,
but it will � elp.te keep 'attention.
h 1 hie
-There ars wives Who grumble be.
eruse•tllefr husbands never notice what•
.they are wearing,
"05/' 'Area 015 heti wife, "so long
es hie Meals are ready to 'tune Lata
is peeceal210. That's all he thinks I'm,
bear) for. He never): netiese me. If I
were to some down to breakfast' l'a
carters and dreseing-gown ha wouldn't
notiee, Lueleily, I have some respect
for myself, or I. might become a
slattern:" ,
But she was wrong, e
, John cad notice and he appreciated:
Unfortunately, like so many married
men, ' he forgot `to mention the tact.
Eve went on making the'vest of hes,
self, and down in her heart I don't
doubt' but that she did it as mach. for
her husband as for bersel£.
During the days of eourbship a'man
indpiges has girl's craving forflattery-
and, attention, lie will rave over her
foot in its pretty satin slipper, but
when, later on, he seoldls her tor net
putting on strong boots en a wet trey
she imagines thwt he 110 'longer cares
about her good points. Most women
are • super -sentimentalists. •
Very few men exist who care to see
their wives . going about - as frumps,
and most of them appreciate a wo-
man's attempt to look pleasing_in the
oyes of other men, for possession is
sweeter when the article possessed is
coveted by ethers.
The husband who insists on choos-
ing his wife's `lathes is rare. He may
like to help choose them, and a sons-
ible woman will encourage bis interest.
If he expressesa liking for a certain
color and style she tries to please him,
knowing that there are details where.
she may let her fancy roam, 'So long
as she studies and satisfies the broad
outline§ of his ideas on dress he is
pleased.
Very few men like their wives to
wear clothes that "hit you in the eye."
They prefer their women to be "neat
but not gaudy,"
Sinks High and Low.
There is a right and a wrong method
of installing a sink. When it is
placed at the right height it serves the
purpose for wllioh it "was meant, adds
ease and enjoyment to the routine
duties of the kitchen work, and makes
the kitchen a much mere •satlssacaory
workshop.
The housewife should assume more
authority ,when the sink is being in-
stalled. There is no regulation height
for placing the sink but it should be
at such a height that the one who is
to use it can stand without stooping,
and thus relieve the strain on the
muscles of the back,
The following table gives the com-
fortable height for tables, sinks, iron-
ing boards and other working• sur-
faces according to the height of the
woman who is to ,use them.
Height of Height of
worker. working surface.
4'10" . 33'1,2"
4'11" 34"
5' 341/."
5' 1" 35"
5' 2" 351/2"
36"
361/2"
37"
371F"
38"
381/"
39"
391/."
•
5' 3"
5, 4„
5' 5"
5,' 6„
5' 7"
5' 9"
5'10"
Anchored Islands.
• It would be a real convenience if a
few well-rooted.islands were scattered
about the North Atlantic, as well as
in other unfrequented seas, in places
where nature unfortunately has pro-
vided no landing spots in wide wastes
of water. ..
James M. -Roberts, of St. Joseph,
Mo., proposes to make good
this de-
ficiency by planting in appropriate
oceanic localities what might be called
artificial atolls, inasmuch as they will
i the South Pacific
be ring-shaped, like ti
islands so named.
The artificial atoll' will be in effect
i fshipsandair-
craft.
station for
aindos
craft. nerd permanently in place by
great steel cables and huge anchors,
it will be sufficiently large to provide
docks and drydocks for vessels, land-
ing fields for airplanes and balloons,
repair shops, storehouses for supplies
and other conveniences,
Tho great volume of water inclosed
within the island ring will lend inertia
to the latter, making it practically im-
movable bywind and waves n
nevi and
thereby lessening the' strait on the
anchor cables, But the Inclosed water
apace) will find its most important use•
fulness as a harbor.
While of obvious value to commer-
cial navigatiou, artificial islands of this
description, properly located, would
be immensely helpful to naval opera-
tions.
The Land of "Other Days."
There is a creep ravine where the fairy
echoes hide,
Where a laughing, singing, stream
bounds down the mountain side,
Where the ferns grow thick and high,
and the trailing dog -rose sways,
And a winding path, that led to the
land of "Other Days."
05, the wonders • that it held for the
childish feet that strayed;
And the treasttrosteat were found,
which will never, never fads,
Anil even on the quest anter the golden
haze,
Walked Faith unchallenged, blest, in
• the land of ;`Other Days."
Could one but leave the cares and
, troubles that enfold,
.And And the singing stream and the
sweet belief of our;
131.1t the path Is overgrown, 111d .from
the longing"gaz0,
Lost with tine fairy echoes, is the land
of "Qtllel' Days,"•
as
IttEDl}5 D. S F. MUSTARD is largely associated
usewitld wh theith faitmfox 9e oVexf LJtlgiacelatuand srry, road beet, tarring been
Keen's .5.F. Mustard
Oaten" with roast beef and other meats, fish,
game, poultry, .cheese, etc„ ceases better
digestion, and 40=n:a full nutrition.
It has received the
highest awards at exhl-
aitions all over the
world,
SOlta Co.,
steed
Maass! 'ramie.
Canadian Aileal2,
mfzw "6oW"k 111u ; C 1r r •
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The emilest known occurrence • f
the dollar -`nark ($) in print is in
Chauncey Loo's "Alnet'ican AceOmp-
tant," an arithmetic printed la 179? In
Lansingburgh, New York. Lee, how-
ever, did not Invent the sign, A, great
deal of research has been required, ca
the part of many 'authorities, princi-
pally Cajori, tolearn what the 'steps
in its evolution were.
Most old documents and books spell
out the names of monetary units in
full. Of nine Spanish arithmetics of
the seventeenth and eighteenth con-
tueles fivegave no abbreviation for
"peso" (also called "piastre," "peso de
8 reales," "piece of eight," and i'Spa,l-
isd' dollar,") In some early Spanish
books, however, there are abbrevia-
tions: "post' "ps.", "ps.", . "p "
It is a remarkable coincidence that
the throe names by which tine Spanish
dollar was known, peso, piastre, and
piece of eight, all began with the letter
p, and all three formed the plural by
the addition of the letter s. Hence p
and ps answered 'admirably as ab-
breviations for any of these names.
Men wroto the p with a. flourish, and
raised the s somewhat above the p.
The transition from this symbol to
our dollar mark apparently came
about unconsciously, in the effort to
simplify the complicated motion of
the pen. No manuscript is so con-
vincing on this point as the two con-
temporaneous copies, made by the
same hand, of a latter written in 1778
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by Oliver Polack, then "commercial
agent of the United States at New Or-
leans,"
IIis letter is addressed to Colonel
George Rogers Clark, Both copies of
tbo letter show the $ in the body of
the letter, and in the summary of ars
counts, at the close, the $ and the
flowing ps are both used. A careful
examination Shows that • the writer
made the p with one continuous mo-
tion of the pen, but that the symbol $
required two motions—one down and
uP for tate P, and the other a curve
for the s.
Before 1800, the dollar -mark (5)
was seldom used, It appears in eigh-
teenth -century manuscripts not more
than fifteen or twenty times. None of
these is earlier than Oliver Pollock's
letter of 1778. But the dollar was then
a familiar coin. In 1778 among the
Philadelphia theatre .prices, according
to printed advertisements, was "Box,
one dollar:" - An original manuscript
document of 1780 bears thirty-four sig-
natures, headed by George Washing-
ton. The subscribers agree to pay Uro
sum annexed to their respective
names, "in the support of a dancing
assembly to be held in Morristown
this present winter,' The sums are
given in dollars, but not one of the
signers used the $ symbol; they wrote
"dollars," or "doll.", or "ds." The
dollar -mark clearly came into general
nee from the accountants or book-
keepers who first einployed it as a
meansof saving time,
And Are We Any Happier?
One question always interests ate
when I ani reading about any articu-
lar period in history:
"Was. the average man, or woman,
o2 that period happier .or less happy
than the average man or woman of to-
day?"
"The world is getting fuller of so-
called comforts all the time, but is it
getting fuller of happiness?"
I do not know that there is any surd
way of answering that question. His-
torians have differed also on it.
Fronde, who wrote the great history
of Henry- VIII„ had an idea that Bien
were about as happy in Henry's day
as they had ever been before, and bet-
ter off than they have ever been since.
Everybody was poor, .to be sure—as
compared with now, But every man
had his own home, and liis grounds.
Pleasures were simple, but were open
to all alike, and no one lived in fear
or want.
Emerson raised the same question, •'-
When • Arkwright carne out of 111s`
•cellar in England with the model of
the spinning jenny in his hands, there.
were 6,000 skilled spinners in England,
he tells us.
And 260,000 Englishmen owned
laud.
Fifty years later there -were ma-
chines that could do the work of 600,
000 spinners.
And the number of landowners had
shrunk from 250,000 to 32,000!
The machine had increased produc-
tion, but it had decreased the number
of those who lived free, independent,'
seif•coirfldent lives.
Civilization had advanced, but has
happiness increased or diminished?
I hold no gloomy view of life; on the,
contrary, I get a little fonder of this.
good old world as. every year rolls by.
But I find myself wor/lering about
thisq uestion of happiness more these
days than ever before.
For years, labor leaders and social
reformers . and uplifters have been
talking as though they
had the secret
of salvation in their hands.
"Let us arrange matters so that
every -Iran will get a little more money
and have to do a little less work," they
have said, "Then the millennium will
tomo, and we shall all bo as happy as
can be,"
And the hour that they have waited
for has apparently arrived,
Everybody does have more money
Mimi he ever had before, and --with
the exception of 'us farmers—every-
body is doing less work,
' • And are -folks happier?
As I stand on the street corner null
watch them go by, it seems to Hie I
have never seed more erre and roar
and envy and covetousness in human
faces before.
It's disappointing —isn't it?•- to
come to the end of the rainbow and
find only a pot of gold?
'It more matey and leer) work are
not the s0cret of.happinass„what `air
the secret b0?
There is an old rule of living, some-
times Itnowll.115 the Golden Rule. Its
advocates claim that tilos` Who leek
to follow -it 41111 really find that secret,
and that there is to other way.
I- vvendee if It isn't worth trying?
We seem to have. tried everything-
else.-131'uee Barton, , -- .
A Problem to Come'.
Little Barry, the pride of a Toronto
household, was one morning engaged
in a syriggling and twisting series be
manoeuvres to. gat his,,arrns through
the sleeve of .an undershirt and thele
got It over his Ileal, Aster a number
of won attempts, 50 culled ilpoln his
mother for assistenee, remarking:
” ether, when I get to be air angel
and Have wings how In the world nth
I
over to (set MY shirt o11?"
l3uy Thrift Stamps,
Not Many Chauffeurs Would.
A negro chauffeur of Washington
was hailed into court for running
down a man.
"Yo' Ilanah," said the negro, "I did
de bes' I could to warn cue gennulman;
I tried to blow de horn, but it wouldn't
work"
"Then," said the judge, "why didn't
you slow up rather than rut. over
him?"
A light seemed to dawn on the prls•
over, who finally said, "Why, jedge,
dat's one on me, ain't 1t? I neber
thought ob dat" '
The rst person to fly in Europe was
Santos -Dumont, who on October 23rd,
1206, covered a distance of 200 feet,
ill y_wdf �'
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