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• • - - -- - ' • --•• -• Nothing Doing r* v' .. >.7ivy^ ITS FOOD 0& 10 fttutvfc <rt£ FPERW6, (M HERE fO LP VOU- 30T AS TO seuiNfc you wfi»jw WttJU YOU 7 p r . * *•: '$ i t ti •& A .y.-^i :w«! * •; ;>:;y v'-;f.. •. V'\V& Vgw<: THE* MAIN THING Hearken to ife Frivolous Boss £'--'<V: 'V;*: -Cwtist^le, I don't believe I'Wi»f(Jk lug more than 2Q miles an hour" i:. "I timed ye." , 1 -With that tin watch T" ^ "Yes." "1 refuse to accept such evidenc^T "Mebby you do. It's mighty pOjpular with the judge, though." m Too f>ld to Kiss. The caller, who was neither youthful nor of prepossessing appearance, anxious to gain the confidence of the son of the house, remarked pleasantly, "Why, Bobbie, how growu up you are! But still, yon are not too old to klaa, are you?" • "No," said Bobby, with conviction, "but yon are." Local Spirit. ; " "I understand Crimson Gulch It gO-v ing to build a new Jail." *' _ "Yes,'* replied Cactus Joe. "The first proposition was to build a new (hotel, but we decided that if there was to be any further housing accommodations they ought to be for the benefit o£ oar own cltl*en8.,'-TWa8hU$gtoo 8tar. ' And Then You May. Mr. Slough (at the wheel)--Don't you feel a little chilly? Don't you think you had better have something around you? Miss Qulcke--Weil, wait till we get a little farther out Into the country. George. r \.. -*• i*T ' :K : - fh" ; - & a * •*** IN ' f W - r; OH-H-H SO«« \ \-\ JE«r jct« a WO*M! ^6ft IT VIMXPor new upe SJass Helpful Ailment. • . ' , ' "Your friend Bagley is quite witty, even though he does stammer." "Even though he does? Man alive, that's the very reason he's witty ; bis affliction gives him plenty of time to think up good repartee."--Boston Evening Transcript. Wh«r« He Falls Down; . *f admit," pouted the wife# "that you are always polite to ®e la -company, except--" ' v "Except what?** "Except that you seem to forget the saying that Two Is company."' ' Folk wlio live in Minneapolis and St Paul, Minn„ know how to extract a lot of pleasure out of winter conditions. These photographs show horse racing on the ice; Bob Gray's motor Ice boat making * turn at 70milea eahear, £/&*•$.- and three daring girls who have hitched their toboggan to a fleet Ice yacht. Dapper Benny Hit Opori Six Claims That Now Produce :•-^1,000,000 a Month. : c,-»-nr LADY LUCK TURNS HER RACK Bonny, Caved by PhUoeophloal Slant, Settled Down to. Simple Life- Heart Stopv Beating While • P«yer. • « • m m m WIMfc1«' Luck smiles on this man and J then desert* Him. What do you t think of his philosophy! J 0 Oh, You Cheater, Felix WHY NOT? "What's Mrs. 8ea Cow doing domk •days?" M0hrahe's keeping a dalry^f ^ A Hard Lot. " ^ Ain only daughter's lot !« • For sisters oft she wishes, *. Twould be so nice to have a till. To help her with the dtflhe*. Competent Wltnesa. Judge--You are charged with arson. Prisoner--Call my wife. She can testify that I never started a lire since I've been married to her. i€. '"\ ' The Radio 8core«|vr"; ;'o Barrister^--But couldn't ytrtj let nm have some of his love letters? Breach of Promise Client--There weren't any--we had wireless sett^ys Made a Christmas Appeal. V Neighbor--So your father got you a motorcycle* after all. How did you manage to persuade him to do it? Young Wag--Oh, I simply waited for the cycle-logical moment, thafs all. I VE RUN HOUR ftAS*-- GO ON »N THE«?E. AMD TAKE IT -VOU HAVtKT HAD ONE. HUROM OP NOW AND get in there. --i wont 5 t>ANb UNLOCK THlSDOOti I DON T WANhA A BATH f DARN MGPNIN Second-Hand. She--Johnnie, I hear that year broth er has the measles. When are you them? Johnnie--tWhen puppose good, after me miles to see ye? &"'?•($ The Kind He's After. Tom--Do you intend to go abroad on your wedding trip when you get married? (SOW A REN T >OU Dick--I do If I marry the right gill. OH 50V f A 6AWTH GLAD I MADE YOO 5UR6. DO MAKE OWE FEZ.L CR£AT t Naturally. Visitor--What makes this town have auch a dead look? Native--WeU, it was laid ovt tgr -«• undertaker. iv*f- • Alarm Bed for Boiling Milk The "lactabell" is a device that rings &'if .«n alarm when the milk is boiling. The -Jg^histrument comprises an ordinary bell $fJs|,gong fitted at the top of a tube containing a fusible composition that ineits at a temperature equal to the ^scalding point of milk, or about 154 i: . -'degrees Fahrenheit. The tube Is placed in a saucepan containing cold milk, being hung on the inside of the rim by Means of a pair of hooks and tbe saucepan is then placed on the fire. As soon as the milk reaches scalding point the fusible composition soften? and allows a ratchet wheel to move. A strong spring then draws the striker, causing It to strike the gong sharply {md warn the housewlfg^jo ^•p^gg-va You are seeking your owiHrflll. You are seeking some good other than the law you are bound to obey. But how will you Had good? It is not a thing mh.w- J5 Vwtni W«w«p«i>w Us»»g» of choice; It Is a river that flows from the *foot of the Invisible Throne, and flows by the path of obedience, say, again, man cannot choose his duties; You may choose to forsake your duties, and choose not to have the sorrow they bring. But you will go forth; and what will you find ? Sorrow without duty--bitter herhs, and no bread with them.--George Eliot. Not His Choice. A Scottish minister, marrying a couple of his rustic parishioners, was disconcerted by the bridegroom's answer when asked if he was willing to take the woman for his wedded wife. 'Aye, I'm wiuin'." was the- reply, fbut I'd rather have her sister." An Accommodating Cop. The Prisoner--There goes my Shall I run after It? Policeman--What? Run away and never come back again? You stand here, and I'll run after your hat. Timmons, Ont.--The gang In the corner of the bar at Cobalt Camp was playing seven-up under a smelly oil lamp. Jack McMahon was mopping the bar and mentally calling It a bad night. Then the storm door opened and dapper Benny Holllnger, the gen tleman adventurer, was pushed In by the north wind; "'Lo everybody--luck to you all," be shouted, as be peeled hie macklnaw off and tossed it on the tbreelegged chair. "Drinks for the gentlemen, Jack,' he ordered, stepping over to the Empire stove to thaw out. Jack walked from behind the bar and poured three fingers for each, card player. Fifteen drinks had to come from each quart, and he preferred to portion the liquid himself. But as for Benny, well, any one could see with half an eye that he was a gentleman, and therefore wouldn't take more than two fingers. So the bottle was placed 'beside a glass on the bar, and Jack -said lo his ingratiating manner, "Step 'up and pour for yourself, Benny Benny Pours. Benny forsook the stove- and poured. "Lucky, Benny," the gang wished, as the red-eye was washed down. Benny leaned over the bar and whispered: "Jack, there's a gold mine waiting for you and me--up Porcupine way." "So?" Jaek queried. He had heard similar tales before^ "Gold, waiting to be picked up," Berfny continued. "And what is more, my luck's Just right now." Jack had heard those stories of the Porcupine field, 150 miles north and 500 miles from Toronto. "But nobody's found any real pay dirt that I know," he Interjected. "Seems that it's all talk and no dust." Benny talked on. He knew the land and he knew men who had found gold there. What was needed wi $75 for a grub stake. "WeU shan Benny urged. as hard tfe wai e talker. Benny walked out with $75 the gang in the corner roared. Benny had been grub-staked before and had never found his mine. They joked McMahon so much that he became doubtful of the whole enterprise. But one couldn't take- a grub-stake back. It wasn't done. But Jack McMahon had a brotherin- law, In Labine. He told Jim of the Porcupine's richness. One-half of his half In Benny's stake could be had for $75--because he was In the family. They all had better get rich together. Jim paid his $75. Benny Qoes Northward. The next day Benny mushed northward. Somewhere along the way be met Alex Gillies on the same mission. They joined forces as companions, not as partners. When they reached the Porcupine section--a wild bush land with bits of swamp--they found old Bill Davidson, veteran of British Colombia mining camps, panning guld. Yes, there was some gold thereabouts. Of course the best land bad all been staked out by Bill, but if the youngsters would go some miles "that way" they might find some quarts veins there. ... . .. They found the designated spot, almost iwrt In low^fytrrg ijpruce swamps. They staked twelve claims. Then they tossed a coin to decide which should take the six east and whlcb the six west claims. Benny got the western ones. Benny found a prospector^" forge, overgrown with dank -grass, *on his land. Someone had given up there, years before.- By the side of those claims ran the portage trail,* over which hundreds had passed. No one had found gold there, but you never knew your luck till you tried. The dapper adventurer began digging, and he found quarts veined with what looked like gold. He filled a pack full, and started Cobalt way. Days later when he reached the edge of Cobalt he met Alphonse Pare, mln Ing engineer, and nephew of the Timmons Brothers, former storekeepers, who had made a little money silver mining around Cobalt. Pare stopped Benny and asked what luck. He* had a bunch that Benny's luck had turned after seven years of (pilure. Benny showed his samples. Pare decided there was no reason for Benny to visit Cobalt--the thing to do was to turn around and go back and talk business, Pare mode quick work with bis pack and the two headed nortbyrard. Snow began to fall before they reached the Porcupine lands, but a providential rain washed it away the day before they reached the claims. That was the fall of 1009. Gold 8ticks Out. Yellow gold of unusual richness was sticking out all over the white quarts. The rains had washed It clear. The two stood In an infinite solitude beside the ground which in 1023 was to be hailed as the world's greatest gold mine, with an output of $1,000,000 worth'of gold a month. Gillies was elsewhere, and the nearest neighbor was old Biir Davidson, laboriously panning gold beyond the hills. Pare's trained eyes told him of the find. But Pare played the game squarely. He sat on a boulder, looked across nt Benny nonchalantly packing his pipe, and asked him if be realized What he bad found. "I have found--some gold," Benny answered, gazing ovev* the waste land. ,**You have found--much gold," Pare toid him. Pare opened his wallet, took ont $2,000 in currency-and laid It On the boulder. "That's fo/ tha right to look In," lie said succinctly. Benny accepted the money and continued smoking. Pare took his geological hammer and spent the rest of the day tapping rocks. When they started back to Cobalt Pare offered. In behalf of the Tlmmons- McMartln-Dunlap $330,000 for sami shares--a word. But would Benny like td join the syndicate? He would be given some cash, and 50,000 twelfth interest--valued at $340 a share. , Benny had dealt In shares before. He preferred all Cash, but perhapai Jack McMahon might wish a say-so. Jack knew a nice piece of bar goods when he saw it, but little of gold " mines. He decided that Benny should ftljf make the decision. Benny said, "all cash." Benny gave half of It to Mc- B " Mahon. . . ^ The syndicate eventually acquired Gillie's claims, but they couUbi't p':\ budge Barney McEnaney. "Sure, it was Benny's gift, wasn't it? And lt» ||if: bad hick to give away a present, audi that's what your asking me to do.* 0^ Begin the Mining. Work began at the Holllnger mines. Benny went to Point Alexander, on the upper reaches of the Ottawa ^ river, and took his parents from tbera jj&| to Pembroke, a pleasant little town vv that had grown from a trading post. > . Benny had always loved Nellie Hill; y now he could afford to marry her. Shei ' had faithfully waited while be madeg his stake. They visited Toronto and other cities, but the two decided that ^ . Pembroke was a friendly place, so thej]- . returned there. Word came that the Holllnger mln#; --as they called the Porcupine claims --had become a bonanza. So Benny , hit the trail again. Maybe luck would ^ strike the second time. The whole; countryside was willing to stake Ben-if : ny, but he needed nothing. A few • miles from Eii great discovery hef|.: found claims that seemed to have slml-||. lar formations. He bought them from^ the discoverers, and organized a company called the Holllnger Reserve. But It takes money to do quartz minings - Money went and gold didn't come,» though across the way the origina|l Holllnger was paying thousands of dollars a day. k Eventually the Holllnger Reserve;*, was put up at sheriff's sale. Benny • • was flat broke again. But in the few years that had passed Barney M<s Enaney had been persuaded to sell his . gift claim. He had received a price - said to be $500,000. Barney was presv ^ ent at the sheriff's sale, "and bid in|;^- * the Holllnger Reserve--for one goodly On»> dis-; tlpulation, purchaae only five the claims, for he was going to give one of them to his old pal, Barney McEnaney. Barney had befriended him, and It was only fair that he should share his prosperity. McMahon had agreed to this when he grubstaked Benny. To this Pare made no objection. Thus flve claims would still be worth $380,000. When the assay was completed Pare called Benny in. The syndicate found It would require much money to develop those clalma. Their original offer held good; they never broke their ' Disarming Sutpioion. "The dealer made you pay more thad this picture Is worth," commented tbe artist. "I know it," answered Mr. Comrox, "I'm selling him a piece of property^ and I want to convey the impression that I am guileless and easy."--Waah> ington Star. Not a Bar* Bear. Headline--'"Kills Bear I* Pajamas."--Boston Ti Much Needed Artleie. • ••What would be an appropriate praaent to give my stenographer, Jim?" "If she's anything like mine I poald recommend a spelling book." Rang Town Fire Alarm to Get Hit Witnesses In order to subpoena 1,060 witnesses in the trial of two shop strikers who were accused of violating the industrial court law, the sheriff of Brown county, Kansas, rang the fire bells at Horton, Kan., where most of the wltnesses live, and when the Crowd had assembled, virtually every person In It was notified to be in court at the nest eeeturn deserved another, you know. couldn't see a pal go down In grace. McBnaney later. la Other Ventures. Benny went into other mining turea with bis retrieved stake lightning luck seldom strikes twlce| be found. Finally he turned.back t« Pembroke. He had a pretty little home there, a wife who was a mate; and three 'youngsters who worshtpedjjg. him as king of everything. He wasjT happy. To while away the ltfng win*. • ter months he opened a bowling alfj£-^ iey--dapper Benny's place, It known throughout the country. Word came that the Holllnger was being called "one of tbe gold mines In the world." "Don't you wish you bad an?" he asked. *** tee the they offered you at f&80 i ahare selling for $00." Benny smiled and shook hla headjj^ •Tm glad thef are making It pay," h# said. "They,deeerve it; they playef •quare with «?. And I*n» happy b« Suppose we go deer bunting tc row?" They did. That was la tbe fan 191®. •- A few days later Benny with a buck's antlers for the They saw him afar off, and meet him. His wife came to doorway, smiling. 8be had cooked just what he wanted--tt was ready ttj£. him. is* Benny, in the prime of health anf feeling that the good God bad bee* . kind to give him so mueh happines% , went in and sat down at the table. Ht -- bowed his bead In prayer. Hla heaij^j y stopped beating before be could open his eyes. ic They have taken $50,000^)00 out et the Holllnger mines. General Manager A. F. BfWvm announced tbl| week that $40JOOWOO worth Of ore ha« been cfearfeeft eat isr the next tlurefi r years.. Bgpect* m wk*** ? $400,000,000 worth oft gold waiting fof A dUllioa dollars worti. at era ta being taken out each month, an# one-half of tl*t Is net pn6t Son* of tbe meiuben of tbe original ayadlx ~ cate are receiving dividends at thfl) rate of $6,000 a day. It Is tbe wc greatest gold mine.--New York W« BANDIT CAREER OF BOY ENDED "Studious and Baahful" High tohool , Athlete Robe Stationa, Wounds. • Officer, and la Killed. Kansas City, Mo.--His face smeared with charcoal and clad In overalls and a jumper, Ray C. Bishop, nineteen years old, popular high school athlete of this city, turned bandit, robbed two gasoline filling stations, and was shot ta death by «. policeman whom he wounded la a gun duel. Lawrence Perguson, an officer, la lying In a hospital with a bullet In hts hip as a result. The news of the robberies and duel was a shock to Otto Dubach, principal of the high school ills voice grew husky as he narrated the virtues of young Bishop, whom he said was §. "splendid' type at rugged, bashful, athletic, stud loved by his companions." / Yet on tbe desk In the riolice sti tlon lies a pistol taken from the Jad'a pocket, a Jumper and a pair of Oye: alls, the former stained with bl which he wore when be fell, and In bills. And in the bo*pital son testifies between groans Bisliop fired first. The crown of Hungary constats el two diadems, one dating back to 10(i|. and the other t» SDH, ; ... .