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w 1 ku ji ai s hr arioti jrtrgr frggg thursday november 5 18 ad a man grows old a llttlo moro tired at clone of day a llttlo leas anxious to have bur way a uttlo less ready to so old or blame r a llttlo more tunc for a brothers nnmo a ml lo wo aio n earing the journeys end whoro time and eternity meet and blond a llttlo less caro for bonds and gold a uttlo moro seat in tho days of old a broader view and a saner mind and ii llttlo moro tovo for alb mankind a llttlo moio careful otf what we say and ho wo uro faring adown tho way a little moro lovo for tho friends or youth a llttlo less zeul for established truth a llttlo more charity in our views a llttlo less thirst for the dally nevr and so we are folding our tents away and passing in silence at close of the day a llttlo more leisure to alt and dream a llttlo more real tho things unseen a little bit nearer of those ahead with visions of tuohejuynfflayfid anx dead and so we aro going where all mubt 6 to tho placo tho living- may never knowl a uttlo more laughter a uhlo moro tears and we shall have told our increasing years tho hook is closed and the prayers are said and we are a part of the countless dead thrice happy then if some soul can say i live because he passed my way m rollln j wells he 3fw 1 teste hnrt tpnj for jerry marshall by julibn josephson gt news from acton overseas a budget of items clipped from the aoton en aland gaxtt on sunday after the evening ser vice mr pearce lioijken gave an in teresting organ recital at the acton wcsleyan church acton hill hoso wheeler of somersetroad acton groen was fined 10a at acton police court on wednesday for using obscene language at actonlane on saturday j at acton police court on wednes day sidney wreford of dawes ave ialewortb was fined 40s for driving j a motor cor- dangerously in high- j street acton- subject to the approval of the board of education the aoton education committee will make a number of extra payments to acton teachers do ing speclolwork t charles harris a laborer of junc tionroad acton who was charged at acton police court on monday with being drunk and disorderly and us ing obscene language in osborneroad acton on sunday was fined 15 george hunt a laborer of stirling- road acton was charged at acton police court on monday with being drunk and disorderly in hantoury- road acton on saturday he was fin ed go and costs that a healthy interest is taken in our local affairs by at least a con siderable boctilon of the community is proved by the fact that there will be contested elections next monday in each of the four wards of the borough the mayor and corporation of acton will attend the service at st thomass acton vale at 11 15 a m on sunday and representative towns people of both sexes are invited to join the procession from the parish hall to the church members of the council will assemble for robing in the hall at 10 46 j husbands are a problem a com edy in three acts enabled the east acton musical and dramatic society to make a good start on saturday and on monday and tuesday evenings with its programme for the present season george stone a motor mechanic who gave anaddress at xjambeth was fined 10s at acton police court on monday for being drunk and disorder ly in gunnersburyiane acton on sunday i brentford guardians are touylng 100 tons of midland steam coal at 74s per ton coko at 75s per ton in the new mona film which is to bo shown at the globe theatre acton onmonday november 8 and during the following weelc general sir h i smith donten who cora- jnanded the 2nd army of the british expeditionary force appears and plays over again the part in which he went through in real earnest twelve years ago i am convinced that tho coal strike is settling itself in the very best way possible said sir harry brit tain amid general applause at a conserva tive meeting held in stmartlns hall west acton on saturday night in stead of going back at one jump the men are going bock in sections and x know from personal conversation with them that those who have gone back aro entirely satisfied with the ar rangements they have made we were married in june and he won- speak to me said a young wife at aeton police court on fri day he writes- on a piece of paper whenever he wants to speak to me he wrote that he was coins to leave ma magistrates clerk and did nt you find that out before june applicant ho was on his best be haviour then the court missionary was asked to see if he could persuade the parties to hvo together in a more amicable sprilt mr clifford evans the president of the acton chamber of commerce in preeminently a business man but he comes from the land of poetry song romance and legend at a concert the other night he was in his proper ele ment and told how when he waa once snowbound amongst the hills of wales he took refuge in a- smithy where the sturdy smithy made him sing for his shelter he started something he knew and very soon the smith and- his men the proprietor of the wllago store an innkeeper and his customers and the village constable were joining n the lay they sang the songs of their native- an while the snow blocked the road for every- body stags whether it oewet or dry hot or cold in wales out of com- y to mr clifford bvqois who talks welsh in the hpme the choir sang land of my fauiers and he deserved the compliment but they had to sing it in english he wasnt promoted he grumbled he watched the clock he was always behindhand he was willing but unfitted he didnt believe in himself he asked too many questions i 1 he iut no heart into his work he felt that he was above his posi tion he learned nothing from his mis takes he was contented to be a second srate man he ruined his ability by half doing things y ho did not think it worth while to jfearn 4iow he chose his friends from among fclfthrferiors familiarity with slipshod rrtethoas paralysed his ideal hitock eicusetwere i forgot 1 jlotflflnt help it ri never dared to act on li own ith a etuvo look on his face young harknoss timekeeper at the suit bed a of tho owens vallej salt company7 put the telephone receiver back on the hook for twenty minutes ho had been try ing without success to cull the com panys main office at swansea across the mountain di burton tho companys surgeon was needed at the salt beds and need- ed badly for jeny marshall tho grlx- xlcd jolly old engineoi had fallen into tha gearingl- that- turned the huge drum of the cable tramway and his right log had been cruelly torn and crushed wluits tho superintendent and young harkness had made him as comfortable as possible hut they could do nothing to relieve the excruiatlng pain t wrung thoir hearts to ob serve his resoluto efforts to stifle his groan r harknesa called willis aside i cant raise anyono at swansea he said anxiously tho line must be out of order some one will have to go for dr burton the superintendent scratched his gray head it would take a good eight hours to mako it on horseback over the haul rood he said there is a short cut oyer the mountains a halfbroken trail that follows the line of the tramway but its just about like climbing up tho side of ono of the pyramids harkness did not reply at once he turned and gazed at the steep lava sides of the inyo mountains that rose from the subsea level of the salt beds to a height of eight thousand feet- he know the dangers of that sheer and treacherous iavajpath for ho had made the journey once with jerry marshall he and old jerry as everyone af fectionately called the engineer had been close friends jerry had been like a big brother to young harkness ever since he had come to the salt beds three years feeforc if dr burton isnt here by to- night remarked the superintendent gravely breaking in upon the boys thoughts im afraid there wont be any use of bis coming at all jerrys in mighty bad shape harkness made a quick calculation it was twelve miles to swansea if he took the trail that followed the line of the aerial tramway over the mount ain putting on his cap he pulled his mackinaw jacket off the wall ill try it he said quiotly good luck to you sajd willies and be careful it was a long grueling oumb to the top of the ridge what with many a fall on the hard treacherous ltrvn and the constant lashing of the stubborn dustladen grease wood brush u through which ho had to force his way the boy was nearly fagged jivhen he reached the summit he sat down for a few minutes rest jrvhon he had left the salt beds two hours and a half be fore it was so warm that be had almost regretted bringing his heavy coat but now as the sun sank lower j the temperature dropped with that i almost incredible suddenness that is characteristic of the death valley re gion as he rested he looked down into the tuxit beds eight thousand feet be low in the distance the ancient lake bottom looked hke a great bowl of dingy gray granite here and there where the sun chanced to strike a patch of salt crystals there was a slftterlng as of dusty -diamonds- on the other side of tho mountain owens valley stretched away endlessly yel low and forbidding glancing at ills watch j harkness scrambled to his feet precious time was flying he was already tnuf4tn hour behind the schedule that he had set for himself as he swung briskly down tho mountain side he could hear lthe steel cable of tho tramway above his head slipping smoothly with a slight swishing sound and could see the trait buckets come and 90 with monotonous regularity on their way from the salt beds to tho refining plant he was mentally contrasting their smooth unopposed journey with his own difficult stumbling progress when he came in sight of a great doep gorgo that barred his further advance the cjrevasse was almost five hundred feet wide and fully as deep a brief sur vey of the situation made it evident that ho should have to make a detour of nearly two miles inorder to reach a point where he could cross he know that the life of jerry mar shall might depend upon minutes tho superintendent himself had said as asrjmuch if he made the detour hc should lose nearly an hour an hour far too precious to lose he came to a swift determination he would cross the gorge on the tramway in one of the salt buckets it looked ierfectly safe and the dis tance to be covered was only five hun dred feet neacthe brink of the chasm on either side was a tower that supported the cable harkness climb ed the narrow ladder to the platform of the tower and as an empty bucket came slipping leisurely by ho swung neauy into it the bucket proved somewhat small er than ho had expected it to be but by drawing his knees close to brother he was able to wedge himself in se curely tho bucket travelled along smoothly for about two hupdred and fifty feet then abruptly ceased to move the tramway had stopped jtarkness was a llttlo starred but not alurmed he knew that for ono reason or another the tramway often stopped for a few minutes sometime there was trouble with the engine oc casionally the scaring got out of order now that jerry was no lomrer run- ning the engine and an inexperienced man was in his place it was not sur prising that something had gone wrong glancing down he saw that the bucket had stopped almost exactly j over tho middle of the gorge from where he sat to the bottom of the canon waa drop ot half a thousand feet he reached up involuntarily end felt the fight vteel cable it seemed strong enough but he noticed that ma weight was making it sag deeply hf also realised with a slight feeling of uneasiness that whereas the tramway towers vera usually placed about every two hundred feet those support- flnar heenme that spanned the gorge were fully five hundred feet opart 1 fuve minutes pawed ten fifteen once the cable jerked slightly and the boys hopes rose but otter that there wan no movement when another ten minutes had slipped by he was re proaching himself bitterly for havfng ventured out upfen the tramway he had already lost a considerable port of the wry time that lie jtad opod to miv and- worst ofal he waal virtually- a prisoner in jhtthmr the sun had dropped behlrtd mount whitney ana the gorge below him badvlwotne a ffctncmlasjr byv t purple base frtfc wmg m i crystal here andthqerf ihtrjng oomp in time he must free himself from this trap with a shudder he realised that there was only one means of es capc and that a terribly hazardous one to work his way across the fforgi on the cable hand over band but ho was strong and feanless and be sides jerrys llfo was in his hands very carefully he stretched first one- log- out of the bucket and then the other to remove the stiffness caused by his cram pled position in the salt carrier then he took a good holovon the cable his hands were soft from months of work in the office and the sharp strands of the steel rope cut his soft palms cruelly but he covered the first thirty feet more easily than he had expected to and his hopes rose he dared not look down into the gorge he could see it all to vividly in his minds eye slowly carer dy ho made his way along the caole 1 a few inches at a time when he had gone another thirty feet his hands i were beginning to blister his wrists ached painfully and his arms felt as if they were being pulled from their sockets to make matters worse each time he shifted one of his hands the cable oageed and swayed once he almost lost his hold and saved him self only by a desperate effort he had now with great difficulty progressed a little more than one hun dred feet but he was almobt exhaust ed and his hands were torn and bleeding he felt that he could not go much farther yet the brink of the canon was at least forty yards away formal opening of the oakville pavement deputy minister squires present and a banquet follows on saturday afternoon at 4 oclock the kerr street pavement at onkvillo wan formally opened for truffle by 5i lt squlreov deputy minister of tho highway s this fine piece of pavement means much to that growing portion of tho town and will tend to popularlso it ns a residential section they now have water mains fir protection sewers siderwnlks and a pavement following the opening ceremonies there was an informal supper at tho hotel gibson when addresses were given by mr squires and othors star a hostesss thought ed into his mind a memory of his boy hood days when he used to do knee grinders on the trapeze in his barn putting one knee carefully over the cable he crooked an elbow over it tightly thus ho supported his weight for a full minute or more and gave his hands and arms a sorely needed rest but when he was ready to trans fer his weight to his hands again he had to move very carefully once more he started across the deepj chasm but before he had gone ten feet he realized that his plight was desperate his hands were raw now and the steel cable cut deeper and deeper int- them he could scarcely bear the agony how much farther could he go with a sinking heart he told himself that tie could never reach the other side of the gorge but at that moment of darkest des pair the picture of jerry rose before his eyes jerry whose life depended ion his reaching swansea buoyed up with a sudden rush of fierce deter mination he crooked his leg and el bow over the cable and rested a mo ment to prepare for the final supreme effort his eye anxiously measured the distance that lay between him and the tramway tower it was a good hundred feet as he blanced nlang the cable he noticed about twenty feet away a short piece of rope that dangled from tt the rope had prob ably been used to fasten an extra bucket to the cable like a flash an idea came to him summoning every ounce of his grit and remaining strength he worked his way painfully toward the rope when he reached it he put his knee and el bow over the cable and managed to get his springblade knife out of hlsvl pocket he knew that 4f his strength was to last until he had accomplished his purpose he must work quickly so he hacked fiercely at the rope until he had freed h from the clamps that held it stationary on the cable fast ening one end of the rope to his leath er belt he tied the other end to the cable with a noose that was large enough to slip easily along the wire the rope looked weatherbeaten and worn but he must take the chance of its creaking he carefully let his whole weight dowiron it and then be gan te pull himself forward to his relief the rope seemed strong enough i to hold him with the rope supporting his weight he now worked his way steadily along the cable the noose slipped easily along the wellgreased steel wire and there were fortunately no buckets or bucket clamps in the intervening space to stop its progress a few minutes later he swung himself upon the tow er platform as he cut the rope from his bolt he happened to glance at the noose it was worn partly through another moment and h n have parked looking back involuntarily into the depths of the gorge harkness shiver ed a llttje then he clambered to the ground and aped down the mountain toward swanseot two hours later he was sitting with dr burton in the doctors machine speeding over the haul road across the mountain to jerry it only remains to add that jerry marshall is olive and wen today and except for a alight limp he gets about jut aprjy as ever he heard from the doctor the story of he boys trip over the mountain andwell that was the tcind of act that old jerry would not forget mrs stowe remarks somewhere that what impressed her most about eng lish households was tho leisurely tranquil bearing of the hostess who never seems cumbered with a care as to the smooth and certain run ning of her domestic machinery mrs stowe attributed the calm of the eng lish housewife to longsettled habits and traditions of service and con trasted with it the worryvpf the can adian housewife who is often expect ed to cook the dinner lay tho table and them dress in haste and receive her guests with as much serenity as if the meals came into the world per fectly fashioned like leaves on the trees we ah know the kind of hostess whose thoughts ore obviously a thous and miles away from the interesting things we are saying to her behind that bland and vacant smile we can easily read a bitter preoccupation with what the cook may be doing or not doing agony at the waitresss blund ers and vain regret forjthe soup that b burned and for the roast that will ntver be done there is also the hostess who cares for none of those things who is joy ous as a girl no matter what goes wrong who will jest with you over girls dress for business the baked potatoes that are crisp and aa ho hung on the wire there flash- biscuits that are not- and you much prefer her to the other kind still you had rather meet her in an other womans house than your own when at rare intervals we come across the mean between these exr tremes she charms us and we re member her there are women who by a subconscious instinct keep a delicate linger on every thread of the domestic labyrinth whose table is dalntly perfect whose food is de- ijctoub whoseservlce is quiet and ef ficient yet who seem to have no know ledge of those things and can talk gnyly or sympathetically on every sub ject as if they were giving to the topic all their thoughts those are the women to marry ifa man could only find theni and not mere bright eyesv or a dancing tongue their art is born with them and can hardly be acquired but in a measure it can be taught and learned it is worth rnore than all the lessons of boolcs the vice prcsttlont of a great indut- anco company took occasion recently ti talk plainly to womo of iiih hundreds of girls who weio accustomed to over dress or to dresh inuppropi lately 01 to use onlce tlmo for prinking such a thing doo not happen without good loason for n tho ordlnaiy american business man is always respoctful of tho rights in drcha and slmllai per sonal matters of his women employ ees ho docs not speak unless he has abundant provocation there la abundant provocation in a gre it many offices girls are often obliged to go to work before they have becoftie old enough or have had the opportunity to form sound tasto in dress or anything elso many of them go frequently to the theatre or tho movies where they soo women 00 the stage or tho screen in tho most elaborate and striking costumes that means and ambition can design the whole stage setting is often a more background for tho dross parade elaborate decorated windows of the great and fashionable department etorefl aro constant sources of temp tatlon it is almost inevitable that a girl with tho lovo orrbeouty- anotltn- ery in her heart and whoro is the girl who has it not should go astray in the matter of taste in dress if left to hersolf- the point is that she should not bo left to herself if her mother ne glects to tell her tkerin businesa there is no place for very short or diaphanous skirts or fancycola reo shoes with inordinately high heels 01 conspicuous stockings or picture hatb if her mother so neglects her duty her father should see to it that he is instructed and if he fulls of the task let tbe girl consider herself for- tunato if she falls into tho hands 6i an employer as sensible and as cour ageous as the vice president of that insurance company showed himself be valuable book for advertisers advectlseralflnd that knowledge of the field is essential to success and the uptodate statistics he to publica tions their circulations and advertis ing rates contained in the desbarats axjj canada newspaper directory make it of the greatest value to them the 192827 edition just off thohpress contains sg2 pages and is a wellgot ten up urfbful issue of sx work of which the first edition was printed twentytwo years ago we are informed that the desbarats advertising agency 161 beaver hall hill montreal offers copies to adver tisers athe special price of one dol lar the regular price being g 00 post paid a stirring tim it is in time of war that tho virtue of military 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