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soâ€"night‘" Fumping & Cisappoints She looked at little mother had so much Alled with sw mother, of cor Into your bed ‘Sarah, de aweet, gentle you could get wre busy on I I‘ve such a hea baen so bad itc and potatoes : They‘re know bet #( "Moth to aive : d Her wot W Bu a mary wemn Ic It‘s p Half an ho lig t« €) th With her brows knit thought, Sarch Jane Folson table in her bare little roc paper and pencil were arr neat plle before her. M V @T he H bj THE PRIZE THAT MOTHER WON By Daisy Crabbe Curtis sudder O x la= r who was so frai 0 good whipping i and aught t e com 1 have en e wen the gent K1 O W mJ W ju LT sat b words PE vhether Why i ve hing ea ot Books ate the ing 8 t Or in p rgue ad O 1g H inted, f w of a "We‘ll de e tea Saral bave a n affectionately round her mother. "I‘ll get dinner and supper and breakfast and dinner and supper, world without end!‘ You run along and climb into your little bed. You do teo much for us wicked youngsters, and I, for one, am going to see that you ston." it a pt for afr muC )b," thought Sarah, is from supper las mother with us ma nce in the world." No w Where wh iran Macbet M rt r little wicked going Why S; you ald had n of ways and means. ‘eased and delighted mother ) when Sarah told her that Oldworthy had complimentâ€" pon her character sketch of h i lew H t} U eZ aI iime she sat and puiled i frowned. She had not her snbject. What great d she wrire about? Sudâ€" ve a glad little cry, seized Jones‘s and san‘s foot." 4 to s Sarah childre done with ery where ings alone nia 1 it rere bent a little and his ther lined, but he was still ig man. Then the twins, John, tumbled into the their faces and hands disâ€" rty. Sarah silently urged 1 the kitchen sink. Close twins came Florence and ttractive girls of thirteen . Last of all in tramped dren, too rarked . said to herself, when washed and put away climbed again to her v must do something U ne th > that I love seen your fishline." bly forgotten where replied surlily. "You r picking things up!" _slammed the door. e potatoes and sliced When all was ready loor and called, "Supâ€" Just the kind they d seen in the winâ€" bhop downtown. age a new hat for mother had satd e. "Perhaps we i. hallâ€"worn velvet i bit of ribbon‘"‘â€" wed an animated e i1 to n An it tl at e n in Where‘s mother in teapot with & twins began t« ir. Father ad to the children rsation lagged in gloomy sil m y for ome w down lay | M nd and the then sat down began to pour to how different night! Hayâ€" s all the difâ€" an ng time it 14A truly inste T on( fist ol news, j 0 straight| her what j sugar and Mother al aint. hum the the t b fath _ Foisom:~ hen stopped w hurt her could hear + said more A1 Sarah y, dear, ead of Wis mother LOD. . what tab OUT mem br ain she ruefully, narrow h | _ "Miss Sarah Jane nounced the president The / of education. Can I Qurah racs and wall an lid you ther, what I‘ve his can she too for "See‘" whispered Anne, touching Sarah‘s arm. "They‘re coming back already‘ Didn‘t take them long to decide." The professor of literature stood in the front of the room and gazed calmâ€" ly and benignly round. He cleared | _ It was eleven o‘clock before Sarah flinaly finished writing and rose stiffâ€" ,ly. "I don‘t dare read it over," she safd to herself, "and, anyway, I haven‘t | time. I‘ll get up early Monday mornâ€" | ing and copy it." l In the high school Monday morning \a subdued excitement prevailed. The compositions were to be read that afâ€" | ternoon, and for the contestants the | morning dragged tediously. At noon | Sarah ate her dinner hastily, helped | her mother to clear the table, and hurâ€" |ried back to school. The last bell | rang just as she arrived. In the front | of the assembly room sat the presiâ€" 'dem of the board of education. beside | him was a famous professor of literaâ€" | ture, who was to make the final deâ€" cision in the contest. Sarah rose and walked to the front of the room. She folt strangely light; her feet seemed scarcely to touch the floor. When she first began to read she could not tell whether any sound was coming from her lips or not; but as she read on she seemed to see her mother smiling encouragement upon her, and her voice became steadier. The famous professor of â€" literature leaned forward in his chair. The stout president of the board of education threw back his shoulders and looked pompous and important. As Sarah took her seat, Anne whisâ€" pered to her, "O Sarah, that was fine! I‘m sure that you‘ll take the prize." Every eye was upon the professor of literature and the president of the board of education as they left the room in order to make the important decision. In the silence that followed, the pupils‘ faces wore a look of strainâ€" ed expectancy. ‘ d cision in the contest. Sarah watched the trembling aspirâ€" ants as, one after another, they rose, watked to the front of the room, and read their compositions; but she heard not a word. She was thinking of the time when she must stand in the same spot and read what she had written. Her pencil speedily squeaked its way down the paper; she wrote so fast that the rickety table wobbled. Inâ€" cident upon incident crowded into her mind; little, homely things that her mother had done for her children and her home. Pictures of her mother flitted before her eyes; mother sitting late at night, darning stockings; mothâ€" er binding up a cut finger or bathing a bruised knee; mother straightening out the tangles in an arithmetic probâ€" lem for her; mother nursing her when she was i!l. You wouldn‘t think that this was Goat Island at Niagara Falls. But it‘#sa fact, Old Man Winter has truly set in with a vengeance here. « er." 2 sheet of paper, and printed at the top of it in great, bold letters, "Mothâ€" Sarah rose and walke A $600,000 cargo of copper that has lain since 1869 with the wreck of the British frigate "Cape Horn" off the coast of Chile is reporte'd to have begp salvaged by Captain B. Leavitt, Inventor of the high pressure diving sult, shown above. "Xqg. * *.: hy plme n rom nsm 1 o *‘ l Tarle l 324 c Te i . P M y y wiee * â€" etonse e A * Alact iA * . / e 4 & Lt Hrsnl ol > . 4+ _ nacte .. C #% . i e a29B . * .c hok s ies ~ f o s en ies â€" is § * " Hoga T. °P : + mag a PTuk setel‘ " ie ... 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Too much overâ€" charges Nature, and turns more into disease _ than _ nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which make books serviceable and give health and vigor to the mind.â€"Fuller. A bullock which was being driven to market at Falkirk, Stirlingshire, dashed into a china shop. _ It was driven out by the back door, and not a single thing was broken. The Mexican tortilla is a kind of flapjack which takes a cultivated taste to appreciate. It is made from Indian corn which has been parboiled and crushed into a paste and then baked on an iron or stone plate. "Don‘t you see." she said, "that I never, never could have written that composition and won that medal if it hadn‘t been for you? When I was tryâ€" ing to think of & great person to write about, I suddenly though, ‘Who can be greater than my own mother? Think of all she does for us and everyâ€" one!‘ I couldn‘t write fast enough to get down all I knew. I tell you what, it‘s one thing to read about great people in books, but it‘s quite anâ€" other thing to live right in the house with one, and to love her and have her love you!‘"â€"Youth‘s Companion. "Congratulations, mother, dear!" she cried. "See what you have won!" ‘"Why, Sarah! What do you mean?" Sarah‘s words fairly tumbled over each other as she told her mother about the composition she had writâ€" ten. Sarah never knew how she reached home. Like a whirlwind she rushed up to her mother‘s room, threw herâ€" self on her knees by the chair in which her mother was sitting, and pinned the medal to her waist. Sarah‘s face paled and she grasped the seat for support. Suddenly the color came back into her cheeks and her lips parted in a glad smile. As if in a dream, she walked to the front of the room, where the famous profesâ€" sor of literature pinned the gold medal to her blouse. When she came back to her seat she saw Tom lookâ€" Ing at her proudly. Tom was proud of her! "My young friends," he began, "I have listened with interest to the readâ€" ing of your excellent compositions. From among them I have chosen one that to me seems fullast of meaning and strongest and best in literary style. The words are simple, practiâ€" cal, and well chosenâ€"words that fully and forcibly express the thought of the writer. Above all, this composition in its sincerity has made, I am sure, a strong appeal to the heart of everyâ€" one who has heard it. It gives me the greatest pleasure to present the medal to Miss Sarah Jane Folsom, who wrote ‘Mother.‘ " his throat two or three times. The students fidgeted in their seats. i uie c 0e n " & iss | k uk. £ . Lo0k te Agâ€" +o > B _gt y ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO 1 Surar cane was first grown in the Englisn ~~lonies in North America in '1751. Toâ€"aay the temperate regions ‘of Europe and the United States are said to produce half of the world‘s supply of sugar from the sugar beet, the first serious attempt to utilize this | source of supply being made by Naâ€" ‘ poleon when the Allies were blockadâ€" ing the ports of Continental Europe and cut off the imports of sugar. Many factories were established in France _and Germany. The beet sugar indusâ€" try did not become important in the United States until the final decade of the nineteenth century. "Perhaps that‘s wh,vil can‘t ge hat off!" "Is this hair oil in this bottle, mum my?" or from sugar cane plant into the valâ€" ley of the Tigris and the Euphrates, then into Egypt, and finally into Spain. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it became generally known in Europe. The earliest record of it in England was at the beginning of the fourteenth century, when it was used only as a medicine, says the Detroit News. A crook may have an accomplice who works with him. The accomplice may come along at a prearranged time and with the help of the crook tow the car away, as though it were disabled l The theft of an automobile is oftxeni What auto thieves do with stolen due to carclessness of an owner. He cars depends on the motive of the [may leave his key in his car, thereby thic?. Usually the thief is bent on seâ€" extending a hearty invitation for some curing a financial reward for his waiting thief to steal it. A‘most every. work. He may take the car to a garâ€" car has some kind of lockitg device; age where he changes the license numâ€" or other, which wi‘l greatly handicap ber and the engine number. He may a thief in his operations. There is the paint it some new color. He may alter ignition lock, which is very common. the external‘ fixtures. The result is Some cars are cquipped so that the apt to be a car that even the real gear shift lever can be locked in neuâ€" owner would find hard to recognize. tral. Some machines have a stecring: Then the crook will undertake to sell wheel lock, which makes it impossible, his newly acquired machine for what to steer the car. There is a device he can get, which is apt to net him which may be attached to the tire, a good profit on the deal. : which makes it possible to track a| Some cars are stolen just for the stolen car. ‘fun of it. That is to say, some young ! If the owner will exercise reasonable| sport with extravagant tendencies and care in locking the car and taking the meager resources wants to joyride key with him when leaving it, even for, with some charming flapper. He a short time, he will reduce to a miniâ€"| thinks an automobile will help him mum the chances of having his car:win her favor. So he appropriates stolen. But this does not necessarily'the first car he can get away with mean that his auto will not be stolen,‘ and proceeds to make a hit with the for crooks sometimes outwit even the object of his affections. Being unused. most careful owners. A crook may to the strange car, an accident is not watch a car for weeks until he beâ€" an unusual result. After this youth comes thoroughly familiar with the has had his fun he leaves the car habits of an owner. The crook learns whoerever it is convenient for him to how long the owner leaves his car at do so and the owner finds it if he can. certain places. He may be able to get: Of course the thing for an owner to a key that fits it and thereby get away. do in addition to taking reasonable with his booty rather easily. | precautions is to insure his car against How wou‘ld you like a morning bath like this, if you had to chop throuxh:’ wz the ice in zero weather to find water for it, as these boys are doing? Brrrl ! Those who are interested is right. But they are Boy Scouts. in# of the work done by +h due to carclessness may leave his key extending a hearty waiting thief to sto car has some kind ugal No, darling, that‘s glue LOCK Sugar Cane Plant. The Automobile Suspicious YOUR CAR PARKING. in his car invitation sal it. A‘m WHEN i my | Hearing Tkrough the Bones? . _._._ fying silently through thick fog, and dropping over a city and its unsuspecting inhabitants enough plague, cholera, diphtheria, and other disease germs to decimate its populaâ€" tion in a week." "Imagine," he writes, "a fleet of unâ€" manned, _ wirelessâ€"controlled _ aeroâ€" planes, loaded with such a deadly carâ€" go (disease germs), rising noiselessly at intervals, and disappearing one afâ€" ter another on their merciless errand Mr. Risdon claims that by placing the ossiphone against one of his knuckles he has carried on much betâ€" >er telephone conversations than by vsing the ordinary telephone receiver. Peeping into the future, he devotes a chapter to television, and another to interplanetary communication, and he discusses at some length the part wireless is likely to play in the next world war. There seems hardly any limit to the possibilities of wireless. Its use in cases of deafness is of great interest and importance. The instrument used, called an osâ€" siphone, enables a person to "hear through kis bones, independent of the outer ear. Mr. P. J. Risdon has written an enâ€" cyelopaedic â€" work, "Wireless," for those whose knowledge of the subject is limited. in a Dream. Wifeâ€"â€""I saw a dream of a hat for forty dollars toâ€"day." Hubbyâ€""Dream,. eh? Well that‘s the kind you‘ll get. Don‘t wake up!" White fields, that are winterâ€"starved, Black woods, that are winterfraught Cold, harsh as a face deathâ€"carved, With the ftron of some black thought The wind has sunk to a sigh, And the waters are stern with frost And gray, in the eastern sky, The last snowâ€"cloud is lost. The moon, like a round device On a shadowy shield of war, Hangs white in a heaven of ice With a solitary star. _ Of course the thing for an owner to . do in addition to taking reasonable | precautions is to insure his car against tloss by theft. In such an insurance _policy the usual theft clause provides for coverage against loss or damage by theft, robbery or pilferage with certain exceptions. | repa Irs and were being taken to a garage for A Snow. Moon‘s Hl'f;;t.’"-;)ulll. The highest mourtain on the is said to be 26,000 teet high, Grade Crossing Problems. Elimination â€" of grage crossings, either by relocation of highways or rail lines, is urged by many as the only perfect solution â€" nt the grade crossing problem. "Strenuous" is ano word, ard so are "t ible, inevitable." _ M; work one word and n a large number of « though slightly _ dif They say "axlous" in "I am anxious to se play tennis," when th "Oh, I am anxious to they mean they are |« We are told that someons was trigued by something or someb when they were just interested. hear that someone preached a "g ping" sermon, or that someone es a master of "compelling" eloque or even paints compelling pictures the next sentence we are told of "recrudscence" of crime, or of "true inwardness" of the situation of the present time bein« th» ‘psy logical moment" for rction, in certain possibilities ol the future ing us "furiously to <ibink"* e further told to "envisage" certain | sibilities which are "adumbrateg" present happenings, and to be ca» not to be "obsessed" by a false so of security There are some words whi badly overworked both in spe: print. Such a word is "mer. and another is "absolutely." there is the word "intrigue." _ Annual Report of the Uniâ€" | versity of Toronto. ing of the work done by the Provinâ€" !cinl University of Ontario should se cure a copy of the latest annual report of the President which has just been dessued. In it Sir Robert Falconer deals with such special features as the dedication of the Soldiers‘ Tower, the rapid development of University Extension, the increased use of the University Library, the remarkab‘e work done by the Connaught Laborâ€" atories and the many generous beneâ€" factions received from friends of the University. There are seventeen re ports from Facultie and N. part ments, also special reporis on > search, on publications, and on th« Royal Ontario Museum. it may > that, as scientific investigation is so much in the public mind because of recent important discoveries, the mosi interesting part of th: Report is that which gives a list of more thin thro» hundred research problems on which work is being done. T:ken :; (> gether, the Report is an imn»o» contribution to the educational !+er. ature of the year. Fire waste is more than a tax, beâ€" cause every dollar paid in taxes conâ€" tinues to circulate, while a fire loss is a permanent destruction of created wealth. Can Canada afford this waste* in the event of fire, if the jury finds that such fire, or the loss of life, or the whole or any substantial portion of the loss of property, would not have occurred if such law had been comâ€" plied with." Do You Use These Words? _ It is an unfortunate fact, however, that there are comparatively few safe homes in Canada. â€" We build largely _ of wood, and we have of necessity to 'employ much heating equipment in | winter. It is this combination that is responsible for many serious fires. Chimneys become coated with soot, :nnd take fire, sparks escaping when new fuel is being &dded to fires, overâ€" heating of stoves and furnaces, stoveâ€" pipes passing too close to wood parâ€" The expansion and contraction of building timbers is a material cause of fires. Changing temperatures and humidity conditions cause cracks to devwop in the brickwork of chimneys, especially when the latter pass through unused attics. Through these cracks sparks escape, and a fire is under way and possibly beyond control before it is discovered. It is not generally known ligence that may result in criminal offence. Section / Criminal Code says : titions are a few of the more common causes that are the result of negliâ€" gence. Canada‘s fire loss for the past year has again run into an enormous sum, $83,319,609, as near as can be at present estimated. There have been 187 lives also lost through fires in buildings, many of which were considâ€" ered safe homes. The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Department of the Inâ€" terior at Ottawa says:â€" Natural Resources Pulletin. ol crime, s" of the ai ime beine t " for actior tles of the / y to ibink"! Man ma ahe InZ to & Mile. Loenglen mean eager‘"; home." whan cverworked nfous, feasâ€" pecple ove; nience like somebc me ure giv We an 4t in knowâ€" that negâ€" fire is a nmoon when ning Th« @1ui of the 1« 1j in the the Ar by 1 cheque they bring bas *n yo AI Preachers Unpopular at Sea STOR;® s OF w KNOWN PEOf