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a n d h honor" to »# the settle. onfirmation when Pap. the whole the happy politicians s heralding ©operation key: ves ine‘!s row s Niv Dris ms del scene nes mong the and t« fr Ini mxC U he nt aÂ¥ et min Oppost untry. amon s met as walked Into her home She bhad hop: _ _ ~"~#Â¥ l that he bad preceded her lmme..\\ xeeâ€"â€"ommmeo@Qumgemimmge C bu: ho was not there The parants: â€" Small Boyâ€""Quick, policeoman. A zgrew uneasy as the shadows gathsr. man‘s been beating my father for ed and twilight merged into darkneu.!mol'a than an hour," _ Policemanâ€" Caswoll called, yodeled and whistled "Why didn‘t you call me sooner? with all bis ab. ity in these lines, nop.‘qull Boyâ€""Father was getting the Ing for an answer from Waiter. Nou!but of it until a fow minutes ago," l true and tried service. He is wolâ€" come to the range of Caswol farm was a frequant question." "I had as soon shoot one of my family or at least one of you fellows, as old Dan. He is not hurting any» thing and is getting a rest from long, Mary, being unable to get an «ns wer from ber brother, decided to reâ€" trace her steps toward home, which she did. As she came out of the bushes suddenly, old "Dan," the agod family horse, appeared. Dan was an animal twentyâ€"odd years old. In his day be had been an attractive stepâ€" @ay wandered 1 hunting hazelnut m t ca > back 3 way An H father D pa market, Though men like » horse. And her p in single horness; but baving 1, he had been‘turned out to grass was seldom used for any purpose, nelighbors said Caswoll was ish to keep him about any longer. y don‘t you shoot him, George?" 4 deed, ru m back an 1 putting t s such dem who love h () Miiaights 74e . uns issc inioredl ingly improbable stortes are vouchâ€" ed for by the author, a wellâ€"known newspaper writer. My father, who was a New Engâ€" lander, was a rare lover of horses. He saw in the horse more than instinet, more th&n "horse sense"; he saw kenuine intelligence. *~ How he adâ€" mired a fine specimen of the equine family as it stood with its head wellâ€" eroct; ears pricked forward and lookâ€" ing with investigating â€" or knowing eyes at some object that attracted its attention! Standing with fowing mane and tail, a form of life and beauty, father beheld such a creation of God as almost human. + Toâ€"day, forty years later, some men are saying the horse is gone, and llka] the dodo or roc wiil soon become an extinet. species, There ars thousâ€" | inds, however, who ho wever much | ‘hey may delight in the modern "fery | chariots" which now travel without | be horss, will insist that the horse | n comp child Editor‘s Note UT w n It wrong ) expre Cl, [‘0uay, 2mongk the wealthier ‘s there are many, who having of limousines and superâ€"sixes, gain turning to beautiful horses ans of jJoy in truvel. And some ch horses their owners would xchange for the most valuable vehicle yet placed on the on some year o champlon th of such men ill not forget 1as been,. nor markable M in the hi in A V "Morse stories about horses. ing an Easterner, was h with the "Kindness mpH Realiz : Caswell. The Tamily d of himself, his wife and i, Walter aged ten and ind str nigh dark when Mary, orried about Walter, h at t was lifted ovut by my > mother tried in every ss her thanks for the nuing first to the colt LV Wa‘lter had started to thought, but soon lost andored down into a n p r Tace up nstrations essed my iuman in the Ou U inother with uch ady r . The children ona nto the woodlant. th not The following mar ttle lay nkn e my father, who irs ago, may not be the horse, the postâ€" n are carrying on t what good horse r some of the reâ€" rbout horses. My own to poste mankind for Dumb him, ; with M builds d d of th Un ns the purâ€" in one‘s life _Rorse will 1 uated up =| world will t ther‘s hand to his. It as this that father with lligence" of th se, put her rindow and somcfhini kly drassed toward the ay the aniâ€" tory even _ and which ) > Animals" and be had Mr. Angell. 3 ideals in many great T Mint b ng 1 Ozarks b ut HERB LEwis seemâ€" came. ‘Then the father set out Into @ vouchâ€" the woodland. He went up one can: Ilâ€"known yon and down another, working farâ€" ther and farther from lome, until he w Eng. realized he might become lost in the ses. He Wooded hills himsolf. Hig frequent instinct, | Calls and whistles echoed and reâ€"echoâ€" he saw ed along the rockâ€"ribbed gulches, but he adâ€" no answer came other than than calls : equine Of the whippoorwill or the "whogâ€" ad well. whoos" of the hootowls. nd l°°k'l ?lter some time Mr. Caswell, by knowing ‘ following a cow trail ramchaiâ€"a c..4 people vÂ¥ over n upâ€" ften innot AT " and the Lost Boy ty he America With a Complex. ! Westminster Gazette (Lib.): (Forâ€" eign comment on the Saccaâ€"Vanzelti case, the change in the French tariff laws, the formation of an Angloâ€" Fronchâ€"German Chemical Trust, have each beon the occasion of violent outâ€" bursts of American indignation againâ€" st the rest of the world). What is hapâ€" pening to America? ... It is an arâ€" resting fact that, in spito of an imâ€" plicit claim that should place America beyond the need of falling into peflodl-‘ cal megrims, she should assert herâ€" sel? like an adolescent. But this is the way of a certain sort of complex, and as. the States have some scientific psychoâ€"analysts the condition may be commended to theq,‘ in to so that be plain or h« bad won his laure vacation at the ( should there be nc con "Arrest is more certain if you lie in hard language than in a soft bed." hi have believed him dead. Caswell ran to the other end of the log, and called. Walter faintly answered. "Bo quiet, son," ordeéred Caswell, "don‘t strain yourself any moreâ€"I will get you ath L m him come tha What possacss Mma A "hitch" and a pull on d the log opened to the alter was fast. Caswell s boy: rolled him ant Cal mu As C heard but the voi "NZâ€" Some time Mr. Caswell, by Iol?owlng a cow trail, remached a roadâ€" way which ho soon realized was two miles from home. and far from the bollows where the childrén had been nutting. _ "No wonder," he thought, "that a boy would git lost even in daylight, when I, who have been hera for years, gots lost so near hoime," Quickentng his ‘step he pressed toâ€" ith bim. Stay here 1t if I call, you come, Old Dan started and irdly keep pace with oy wentâ€"up Hazel h boy; rolled him out : in his arms â€" The b cious, but after a fe ed his eyes and rec r, only to bscoms i d Dafdy," exclaime; i suppose ails o kes twice he has se, acting as if ng wihh him" h ‘he voice of Walter was not mingâ€" with theirs. _ Suddenly old Dan ) trotting up, with almost as h spirit and action as in days of many days before Walter reâ€" from his terrible experience, ngs he fully decided. One at the Caswell ranch, even ere be no horse heavenâ€"and s I think thore must be. 28 some, aP aswell approached tis h Mrs, Caswelland Mary 423 NLm," added M try to catch a rabbit in he other, that Old Dan nse than t>e neighbors to shoot himâ€"whether or horse sense. Old Dan laurels and an unending exclaimed Mary, "w} pu‘l on a pryâ€"hole, to the end where ‘aswell sprang to 1 out and closped Mie boy was unâ€" _ a few moments nd recognized his rs," Caswoll, "I saw way once bofore. id recognized his ome unconscious 1 Mary, "what do id Dan? This come up to_the something" was ‘"“na talking, use he _ _A certain woman is so painfully tidy that she makes life miserable for the rest of the family.. One of her rules is that everyone in the family must remove their boots on entering the house. One day recently she said to her husband: "I have just found a grease spot on the chair you sit on. I think it must have come from that old paeir of trousers you wear in the workshop." "Now, look here, Sarah," said the husband, in a detormined tone, ‘"for the last 20 years I have taken off my boots every time I come into the house; but I‘ll be hanged if I‘m going to go any further than that!" "Is he really your rival?" "Yes." "Great Scott! If I had a rival who looked like that, do you know what I would do?" "No." "I‘d give up the #irl." Gown to tre tomb, but "the glint of precious motals far underground has been seen," the. dispatches says. The discovery of the tomb, belfeved to be that of Imâ€"hotep, architect to| Kirg Zoser, and builder of the step pyramid near Sakkora, was reported by excavators working in that region last March. _ It was also suggested | that the tomb might have been temâ€" porarily used by Zoser while the pyra-[ mid was being built or that it might have been that of Zoser‘s Queen. , The Third Dynasty, krown as the| Memphite Dynasty, two Kings, one of | them Zoser, built tuge mastaba tombs at Bet Khaliaf, near Abydos, further up the Nile than Sakkora. Imâ€"hotep then built a mighter monument forl King Zoser, the ston pyromid. I A hunter making a The work, which was being directâ€" ed by F. M. Firth, of the antiquities department of the Egyptian Governâ€" ment have been temporarily halted by the caveâ€"in of a side shaft leading down to the tomb, but "the glint of precious metals far underground has been seen," the. dispatches says. Londonâ€"The discovery at Sakkora, nedr Cairo, Egypt, of what is believed to be the tomb of King Zoser, famâ€" ous Pharoah of the Thiry Dynasty (about 4,000 B.C.), is reported _ in special dispatches from Cairo, The find is said to be more importâ€" ant archaeologically than tie discovâ€" ery of the tomb of King Tutâ€"ank hamen. Discovery Another Link ; This Northern Onta may be to the beaver its amous Than King Tut‘s Reported n AN UNUSUAL.POWER PLANT lassoed Moose tow his canoe at Lake Amat With Past Putting Game To Use omb More Where‘s His Trowel? Little Cora Ann had been told that she must always wait patiently until she was served at meals, and not to reach across the table or grab for her food. One day, while dining at a ’neighbor’s with her mother, the little girl was accidentally overlooked. She was very patient for a time, but at last she could bear the strain no longâ€" er, seeing everybody eating but herâ€" self. So leaning quietly across to her mother she said in a loud whisper: "Mother, do little girls who starve to. death go to heaven?" J "Let‘s see," said the chatty man, "your brother went abroad on a felâ€" lowship, didn‘t he?" "No," was the reply. "It was a cattleâ€"ship." l London Daily Telegraph (Cons.): All the great nations of the present ,and the past have been born of the ‘ mixture and confusion of races. We are not so much born of English stock |as of English deeds, English thought, | English feeling. ‘The most potent eleâ€" !ment in national individuality, the force which makes most of the differâ€" ence between English and French, American, German, Russian, is what their forefathers have done and sufâ€" fered. "We have heard with our ears fand our fathers have told us," this is what makes a nationâ€"the lessons of the national past, the standards of‘ value which the past has left, its inâ€" stitutions, its habits in action, thal ideals which it has honored. "My friend says he contributes to the best magazines." "Yes, 1 really believe he sub» scribes to all of them, my dear." ONTARIO ARCHIVEsS TORONTO THE CONTRIBUTOR Nations and Races. that however useful his tail , Quebec F IP Lo Y B PWVE ET [d “u‘l-l“l | _A farmer‘s boy stood by the road-" * * * An unfortunate feature of the ,slde near an overturned load of hay. national life was widespread thieving, A neighboring farmer driving by not-'which assumed the form of graft in ’ed this forlorn appearance and invit. the upper claszes * * * Theezucatod ’od him home to d'n?er, saying that were phenomenal in‘ their cation he could take care of the load of hay uns' culture, but there was no ‘ladder afterwards, _ They boy seemed unâ€" of education‘ figu\bd to the working willing to accept the invitation, and classes. * * * owever, the people remarked that his father would not be , had great reserves of i'oedt:b and viâ€" pleased. â€" The farmer finally persuadâ€" tality, a remarkable inclusive lanâ€" ed him to accompany him, During guage, fiv&lu&blo traditions, folldlore the meal the boy was very nervous, and isic, unusual religious and and several times said that his father philosophic instinets, great intellectual would not like.1t. ~@n being urged to capacity, an incomparaÂ¥le territorial give the â€"reason for his father‘s obâ€" inheritance and economic potentialities jection, he waid: * "Well, you see, dad entirely proportionate to other aspecis is ‘under the load of bay!" _ of potential greatness." ‘ A Dundes man tells the story of two Dundontans who, after death, went to their appointed places. One of them on meeting the other remarkâ€" edâ€"‘"This is an affu‘ cracked up place, It‘s no much better than Dundee." . "This is not Heaven," obâ€" served his companion dryly, » "What do you know of the characâ€" ter of this man?" was asked of a witâ€" ness at a police court. "What do I know of his character? I know it to be unbleachable, your worship!" the witness replied, with much emphasis. The girl at the boardingâ€"house askâ€" ed Slim why a chicken crosses the road. He said he didn‘t even know why they crossed their knoes. Letters Said Known to Man 10,000 Years Ago. Vichy, France.â€"That man possessâ€" ed a definite alphabet 10,000 years ago seems to have been established by the finds made by the International Comâ€" ~mission of Scientists, investigating oxâ€" cavations at Glozel, near here. Conâ€" troversy over the authenticity of the supposedly neolithic remains developâ€" ed last September when Rene Dusâ€" saud, conservator of the Louvre Musâ€" eum, said that the implements and bones were "planted," at Glozel less than 20 years ago and probably as a hoax. The anthropological congress which heard his charges then took up the appointment of a committee to, detremine the authenticity of the find. One of the machire‘s motors is praced in front and two in the rear, and all three are geared directly to the rear axlo. It is without clutch or gearâ€"shift. . Mr. White expects his machines will make at least 210 miles an hour. It will be shipped to Orâ€" mondâ€"Daytona â€" Beach, where _ the speed test wil be made this winter. Mr. White pointed out that Major Segrave found that at 200 miles an hour half his 1,000 horsepower was required to overcome wind resistance, while at that rate of speed Mr. White‘s "triplex" will have 1,000 horsepower loft. The Vâ€"type engines develop 500 horsepower each, so that the machine will have 500 horsepower more than that of Major H. O. D. Segrava‘s autoâ€" mobile which made the present reâ€" cord of 203.79 miles an hour last March. Philadephian Aims at Speed Record With Threeâ€" Engine Car Philadelphia.â€"A huge racing autoâ€" mobile, powered by throe twelveâ€"cylâ€" indered _ aviation engines, is being completed by J. M. White, wire manuâ€" facturer, in an effort to set a new speed record, Mr. White announced recently. : Builds Huge A romantic courtship led to the wedding. Lord Aberdeen, then 21, lost his way while hunitng and sought & night‘s lodging. He met Ishbel Marjorie Banks, then but 11 years old, and waited 11 years to marry her. roy of Ireland and Governorâ€"General of Canada. . Between intetvals ‘of public service, Lord Aberdeen has lived the life of a highland chieftain and at a luncheon recontly in bis honor, the men dressed in kilts at the request of Lady Aberâ€" deen. The King and Queen were amâ€" ong the first to send their greetings to the couple. Earl Balfour, who was best man at their wedding fifty years ago, was invited, as were seven of the cight girls who were bridesmaids. Lord and Lady Aberdcon have travelled extensively ard as long ago as 1893 Lady Aberdecn organized the Irish section at the Chicago World‘s Fair. She has been prominent in soâ€" cial work, especially women Guffrage, for half a century. Her husband has held many high posts, including Viceâ€" "There can be ro royal road to weddod happiness," Lady Abordeer said. ,"We are all diferent and we cannot dictate to one another. But so long as the unien is basod on mutual love and respect, things are likely to work out all right." London.â€"Lord and whose recent golden w sary brought tribstss tions from «all parts c cause of the long rece useful public service, for wedded happiness. Alphabet Traced Love and Respect Only Firm Basis Royal Road to Wedded Happiness, Says Lady Aberdecn. Racing Auto 1§ recoras ervice, ha d and Lady Aberdson, 1 congratulaâ€" 3 world beâ€" both ho‘d in ve no recipe % anniverâ€" London Morning Post (Cons.): That progressive saving of ten millions a year which Mr. Churchill talked of when he assumed oflice is much overâ€" due. Instead, the country has seen both expenditure and indebtedness goâ€" ing up, until it begins to despair of any relief from burdens wellâ€"nigh not to be borne. If this is done in the greentreo of a Conservative Adminisâ€" tration, what will not be done in the dry tree of Socialism? ‘That is tha question thaf is presenting Itself to the public mind; and that is the quesâ€" tion which should preoccupy the Minâ€" isterial mind, for on success in grapâ€" pling with this noed for economy, the | credit of the Government will be esâ€" tablished or destroyed. | "A pie can be stretched farther when the dough is elastic." are not lacking that this â€"soction of the community is being alienated by the Prime Minister and certain of his colleagues. The sustained virulence and maliciousness of the attacks on General Smutg, the insults and threats of personal violence to which he has been subjocted, and the organâ€" ized attempts to prevent him from speaking have disgusted all fairâ€"mindâ€" ed persons Irrespective of their party and political opinions. Political Rancor in South Africa. Johannesburg Star: There is a conâ€" sfdenble body of opinion in this as in other countries not actively identiâ€" fied with any political party or leaderâ€" ship, but which often determines the result of an election, and indications single ring fence, within which Briâ€" tish industry would be the manufacâ€" turing end, the largost manufacturing end of the British Empire, then we have got a chance of equality. "We are no less enterprising or less capable in organization or less intelliâ€" gent than any other nation in the world, but at present we are not dealâ€" ing with equal conditions." "Think," he says, "of the grouping achioved in tho United States, a counâ€" try functioning as one economic unit with the free exchange of goods from New York to SanFrancisco, with one currency, one exchange, one standard of weights and measures, one langâ€" uage. Give me the same scopbe and markcts, let the Empire be within a His schome is to give all the units of the British Empire a singlo tariff, thereby facilitating froe trade among them, and then start mass production. drossing the sociation here London.â€""Give me the British Emâ€" pire as ‘my territory and I will then produge more than the United States cyer dreamed of," declared Sir Alfred Mond, British industrial magnate; adâ€" Industrial Magnate Advocates Empire Being Within ‘‘Single e Ring Fence." Single British ~ Tariff Sought By Sir A. Mond The Need for Economy The Old Russia. [ * CAAA AApueve, £G+ ®mpire Industries Asâ€" I possess three children, age three weeks less than eloven, half past n:go and heltâ€"past sixt. The summer sh6 passes delightfuNy, but the winter he is Indeed hasty; but she the governess can be preserved with many hot vestâ€" ments, which keep in health and keep out cold. Me I wage you 500 by the month, if this you suit writ me the hour for come." A French lady advertised for a gov» erness and received an application from England, After a hard struggle with our languago, the French lady repliecd as follows; "Mademoiselleâ€" if you wuhlx leave change place, will ou_ year with me L?o,owro mn:fli rulde'?‘ Mo | "The Mexican Government has been l avle to carry out its antiâ€"clerical meaâ€" / sures because of the indifference of the mass of the pagan Indian populaâ€" tion to the Christian cult in general," writes Frederick H. Martens, . wellâ€" | known author, in November Current History. "The Mexicans are neither European nor Christian. They are at bottom American pagans who cling jwlth all the red man‘s tenacity to race ideals grounded in primitivisam, 'and have an inborn conviction (that only an Indian god will answer an Inâ€" dian‘s prayers. In spite of the cenâ€" turyâ€"long labors of priest and misâ€" slonary, when the Mexican is scratchâ€" ed, the Aztec,.Muichole or Zapoteocan appears. _ Once this is realized the otherwise inexplicable spectacle of a people allowing its Government to sweep away the superstructure of what is considered its nattonal reliâ€" gion, without any serious eNort to prevent, is largely explained." ‘"Mexicans Have Never Been Christians." any othor ‘unbeliever‘ in Russia, Thus 'we find that it is not the dictatorship of the proletariat that constitutes the "(:uvernmnm of Russia toâ€"day, but the dictatorshtp of tho Communist Party, whose membership, in spite of all the privileges mccorded to the Communâ€" ists,<is less than 1,000,000, the Comâ€" munists thus constituting orily about oneâ€"half of 1 per cent. of Russia‘s vast population. Going further, we find tnat it is not the Communist Party mat rules Russia, but the soâ€"called Polithureau, a body of seven mens And even this Politbureau is under the domination, it seems, of a single individual, the ‘strong man‘ in Russia lo«day, Joseph V. Stalin." "While announcing that they are a Government by the grace of workers and peasants, who combined repreâ€" sent about 90 per cent, of Russia‘s population, the Bolsheviki declare in the same breath that their rule is ‘a dictatorship of the proletariat, the proletariat constituting but about 4 per cent. of Russia‘s entire populaâ€" tion," writes A. J, Sack, former repreâ€" sentative of the Kerensky Governâ€" ment in the United States, in Novemâ€" ber Current History. "Avalyzing fur ther, we find that even the proletartâ€" at is not ruling as such, but only in so far as some of the proletarians are in the membership of the Communitst Party. Proletarians who do not share the Bolshevist faith, although they y be good Socialists, are as undeâ€" :l!uble and as sovoraly naraanntad L. "I had to answér ‘No/‘ I had done with business and risked m throw in that game," he said. proached Winston Churchil in "Will an ipdividual fAinancier come forward to meet the u need. Drake, too, went out for vate gain, yot vast advantages erued to the Empire as a result « adventure." Experts point to the Vickersâ€"Armâ€" strong, Whitworth amaigamation as a recognition in the world of ‘steel that the product of a large scale industry in a weak market must be based upon 'the most perfect plant, also that seleo tive organization is possible only on ’the broadest basis. ‘The world of coal bhas yet to learn that lesson. ‘ Lord Beaverbrook, in the Sunday | Express, makes himself the prophet | of a new era, basing his clatm upon \his experience as the one who brought â€" about the Canada Cement (merger. He scouts the idea that he was a philanthropist thinking of the public welfare, _ He was intent on i makin»" moner sno «ons O . Oe B punlic welfare, He was intent on making money and selling the public a sourd security, which would enâ€" hance his rising reputation as a mor» chant banker, He succeeded in both aims, The consumer he was not bothering about. He admits that men with the highest reputation have askâ€" ed him to take a financial interest in the British coal trust. London.â€"*"There is a flourishing workers‘ oducational association. Who will undertake the education of the capitalist?" So aske the Ohserver on the ove of the parliamentary seaston, when the precarious position of the coal ahbd steel industrials comes under searchii#r review, British House to Who Rules in Russia? ill Discuss Precarious Posiâ€" tion of Coal and Steel. Review Industric; perience as the one who : about the Canada Cement _ He scouts the idea that he philanthropist thinking of the letarians who do not share vist faith, although they )d Socialists, are as undeâ€" as sevorely persecuted as inbeliever‘ in Russia. Thus t it is not the dictatorship tariat that constitutes the of Russia toâ€"day, but the of the Communist Party, bership, in spite of all the to meet the urgent ‘0, went out for priâ€" vast advantages acâ€" and risked my last .‘ he said. He apâ€" Churchil in vain. a result of his I had long now