SLED MAKERS ON A
WAVE OF PROSPERITY
Early and Heavy Snow Makes
Demand for Vehicles and
Factories Are Hard Put.
From The Sioux City Tribune.
Roii sleds and sleighs of all descrip
tions an at a premium. Never before
In the history of the northwest has
there been such a scarcity of these
articles, either for pleasure or busi
ness. and the fortunate owner of one
Is considered very fortunate.
In the carriage and wagon shops such
articles are not to be lind at any price.
Dealers In this section are unable to
eeetirr them from the factories and
the factories tind themselves caught in
an unexpected situation. Not antici
pating such an early winter, so much
snow or general demand for such ve
hicles. they had allowed their stocks
to run down and are now In a posi
tion where they are unable to meet
the demand
Demand Usually Light.
Charles A. Davis, president of Davis
A Co., stated today that it Is im
possible to meet the demand as neither
sleighs or bob sleds are to be had. "It
has been several years since winter
started in so early In this section,”
said Mr Davis. "This Is the first time
within four or five years that snow has
fallen so early with the prospect of
It stating on the ground all winter.
Of course where the Indications have
been for a short winter period the de
mand for sleighs and sleds was light,
but flits year It looks as though the
farmers will have use for sleds for
several months and those who enjoy
sleighing will have an opportunity to
Indulge In the sport for a much longer
period than usual.
Made but Few.
■'For several years the manufacturers
have not been building sleighs or sleds,
selling off the stock they had on hand.
This year when the snow fell early,
followed by a spell of weather that
Indicates it will remain on the ground
for the rest of the winter season, there
was an immediate demand for sleighs
and when the jobbers put In their or
ders, after selling off the few on hajid,
the manufacturers informed them that
the orders could not be filled. The
manufacturers are of course getting
out what they can, but being unpre
pared for the sudden demand they are
at a disadvantage and the supply Is
coming In slowly."
Notwithstanding that there Is a
scaraclty of new snow vehicles, there
seems to be an abundance of old ones
Many pleasure sleighs belonging In the
city and some from the country are to
be seen daily on the streets, while a
number of companies are using sleds
for delivery purposes.
Four Flies or None.
From Everybody *.
The house committee of a New Tork
club recently received this unique com
plaint:
"I have the honor to inform you that
I lunched at the club this afternoon
and had as my guests three gentlemen,
all well known gourmets. Among other
things an omelet was served. It con
tained only three flies. As an old mem
ber of the club, Jealous of Its reputa
tion, I naturally found tills very em
barrassing as. In order to make an
equitable division of the omelet, it was
necessary either to divide a fly—a nice
bit of carving as you must concede—
or forego a fly myself. I beg to sug
gest that In the future, when an omelet
is served for four persons, It should be
either with (a) four flies, or (b) no
files at all."
Homeliness, too, Is hut skin deep and
oft but half conceals the beauty under
neath.
_
THEODORA GIRARD
“REPROVES” ADMIRER
Little Dancer, in a “Quiet”
Way, Smashes Glass in
Russian’s Face.
Paris Special: Little Theodora
Girard, the 10-year-old American girl
who Is dancing at the Olympia, is the
talk of Paris. It is all due to the quiet
way she reproved a Russian admirer
the other night at Maxim's.
An American gentleman, a New
Yorker, who was visiting the famous
place for the first time, was sitting In
a corner watching the gay scene when
Theodore rushed up to him with tears
In her eyes, exclaiming:
"I know you are an American and
will not see one of your countrywomen
Insulted as I have been!”
He asked her to sit down, compose
herself and explain the trouble. Dry
ing her tears, she pointed out a huge,
bearded Russian at the opposite table,
who was staring at her.
She said the Russian had followed
her In the streets, called her bad names
and had even spat at her because she
refused to accept his barbaric ad
dresses. The New Yorker advised her
to be calm, to go quietly to the Rus
sian and tell him he must never speak
to her again.
"It doesn't pay to get excited," the
American said "Just go to him In a
quiet, dignified way. I will accompany
you.”
They crossed the room and the New
Yorker said:
“This lady has a quiet word to say to
you.” •
The Russian replied sneeringly that
he did not know the lady. Miss Girard
retorted by smashing a champagne
glass on his face, while the pacific New
Yorker Jerked the bearded giant out of
his chair, wiped up the floor with him,
dragged him into the street and liter
ally kicked him into a cab.
Neither waiters nor police interfered.
All were wattching the scene with sym
pathetic Interest. The chivalrous Amer
ican disappeared into the night.
Miss "Teddy” remained and received
congratulations from many frequenters
of Maxim's, including a Russian grand
duke, who patted her on the shoulder.
Senor Tonito, son of the Spanish am
bassador, also expressed his firm ap
proval of h - quiet way of reproving a
discourteous admirer.
HOW WOMEN WILL HELP
DIG THE PANAMA CANAL
Three hundred and fifty women, sitting
in a factory on the Panama strip, will help
materially to build the big ship canal. The
women will be engaged all day in mixing
chemicals, such as perchlorate of am
monia, nitrate of soda, dlnltrotoluol, par
affin and several other ingredients, and
the finished product will be an explosive
which is 60 per cent stronger than dyna
mite.
This explosive, which will rip out the
rocks In the Culebra cut and all along the
remainder of the canal site, cannot be
exploded by ordinary methods, so that it
Is to be hoped the women will be quite
safe while they make it. It has been
hammered with a sledge, shot at with a
rifle, burned, and ordinary dynamite deto
nators have been set off in it without any
effect. The only agency which can set in
motion the mysterious power locked up lc
this material is a tiny platinum wire
heated by an electric current to redness.
The Panama Canal company has 20 tons
of the new explosive on hand, and th*
factory will make between 6,000 and 7,000
tons per annum. Tho United States consul
at Panama, who tells about It, predicts
that it will have a market all .along the
South American coasts. It will probably
play a leading part in future South Ameri
can revolutions, so that these 350 women
who make It may be said to have the
destiny of thousands of people at their
finger tips.
Don’t Weep At
i
The Ice House.
Some people swell up on “emotion’’
brewed from absolute untruth.
It’s an old trick of the leaders of the
Labor Trust to twist facts and make
the "sympathetic ones” “weep at the
lee house.” (That’s part of the tale
further on.)
Gompers et al. sneer at, spit upon
and defy our courts, seeking sympathy
by falsely telling the people the courts
were trying to deprive them of free
speech and free press.
Men ran speak freely and print
opinions freely In this country and no
court will object, but they cannot be
allowed to print matter as part of a
criminal conspiracy to injure and ruin
other citizens.
Gompers and his trust associates
started out to ruin the Bucks Stove
Co., drive its hundreds of workmen
out of work and destroy the value of
the plant without regard to the fact
that hard earned money of men who
worked, had been invested there.
1 The conspirators were told by the
courts to stop those vicious “trust”
methods, (efforts to break the firm
that, won’t come under trust rule), but
Instead of stopping they “dare” the
■courts to punish them and demand
new laws to protect them in such de
structive and tyrannous acts as they
may desire to do. * * * The rea
son Gompers and his band persisted
in trying to ruin the Bucks Stove
Works was because the stove company
insisted on tlie right to keep some old
employees at work when "de union"
■ordered them discharged and some of
"do gang” put In.
Mow let us reverse the conditions
and have a look.
Suppose the company had ordered
the union to dismiss certain men front
their union, and, the demand being re
fused, should Institute a boycott
against that union, publish its name
in an "unfair list,” instruct other
manufacturers all over the United
States not to buy the labor of that
union, have committees call at stores
and threaten to boycott if the mer
chants sold anything made by that
union. Picket the factories where
members work and slug them on the
way home, blow up their houses and
wreck the works, and even murder a
few members of the boycotted union
to teach them they must obey the or
ders of "organized Capital?"
it would certainly be fair for the
company to do these things if lawful
for the Labor Trust to do them.
In such a case, under our laws, the
boycotted union could apply to our
'. courts and the courts would order the
vuiill»ail> u.i i cune uuji;uuiiis aim u ,y•
Ing to ruin those union men. Suppose
thereupon the company should sneer
at the court and In open defiance con
tinue the unlawful acts in a persist
ent, carefully laid out plan, purposely
Intended to ruin the union and force
Its members into poverty, What a
howl would go up from the union de
manding that the courts protect them
and punish their law-breaking oppres
sors. Then they would praise the
courts and go on earning a living pro
tected from ruin and happy in (he
knowledge that the people's courts
could defend them.
How could any of us receive pro
tection from law-breakers unless the
courts have power to, and do punish
such men
The court is placed in position
where it must do one thing or the
other—punish myi who persist in de
fying its peace orders or go out of
service, let anarchy reign and the
more powerful destroy the weaker.
Peaceable citizens sustain the
courts as their defenders, whereas
thieves, forgers, burglars, crooks of
all kinds and violent members of la
bor unions, hate them and threaten
violence if their members are punish
ed for tireaking the law. They want
the courts to let them go free and at
the same time demand punishment
tor other men “outside de union" when
they break the law. « • * Notice
the above reference Is to "violent"
members of labor unions. The .great
majority of the "unheard" union men
are peaceable, upright citizens. The
noisy, violent ones get Into office and
the leaders ol the great Labor Trust
know bow to mass this kind of men.
In labor conventions and thus carry
out the leaders’ schemes, frequently
abhorrent to the rank and file: so It
was at the late Toronto convention.
The paid delegates would applaud
and "resolute" as Gompers wanted,
but now and then some of the real
workingmen insist on being heard,
sometimes at the risk of their lives.
Delegate Kgan Is reported to have
said at the Toronto convention:
"If the officers of the federation
would only adhere to the law we
would think a lot more of them.”
The Grand Council of the Provincial
Workingmen's Ass’n of Canada
has declared in favor of severing all
connection with unions in the U. S.,
saying "any union having its seat of
Gov’t in America, and pretending to
be international in its scope, must
light industrial • battles according to
American methods. Said methods
have consequences which are abhor
rent to the law-abiding people of Can
ada involving hunger, misery, riot,
bloodshed and murder, all of which
might be termed a result of the prac
tical war now in progress In our fair
province and directed by foreign emis
saries of the United Miners of Ameri
ca."
That is an honest Canadian view of
our Infamous “Labor Trust.”
A few days ago the daily papers
printed the following:
tBy the Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C., Nov. 10.—Char
acterizing the attitude of Samuel
Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank
Morrison of the American Federation
of Labor in the contempt proceedings
in the courts of the District of Colum
bia, in connection with the Bucks’
Stove and Range Company, as "a will
ful, premeditated violation of the
law,” Simon Burns, general master
workman of the general assembly,
Knights of Labor, has voiced a severe
condemnation of these three leaders.
Mr. Burns expressed his confidence in
courts in general and in those of the
District of Columbia in particular.
APPROVED UY DELEGATES.
This rebuke by Burns was In his
annual report to the general assembly
of his organization. He received the
hearty approval of the delegates who
heard it read at their annual meeting
In this city.
"There is no trust or combination of
capital In the world said Mr. Burns,
"that violates laws mer than do the
trust labor organlza -ns, which resort
to more dishonest, unfair and dishon
orable methods toward their competi
in the country.”
Mr. Burns said the action of "these
so-called leaders" would be harmful
for years to come whenever attempts
were made to obtain labor legislation.
"The Labor Digest,” a reputable
workingman's paper, says, as part of
an article entitled "The Beginning of
the Knrt of Gompersis'm, many organi
zations becoming tired of the rule-or
ruin policies which have been en
forced bv the president of the A. F.
of L."
"That he has maintained his leader
ship for so long a time in the face of
Ills stubborn clinging to policies which
Ihe more thoughtful of the working
men have seen for years must be
abandoned, has been on account part
ly of the sentimental feeling on the
part of the organizations that he
ought not to be deposed, and the un
willingness of the men who were men
Honed for the place to accept a nomi
nal Ion In opposition to him. In addi
tion (o this, there is no denying the
shrewdness of the leader of the A. F.
of L , and his political sagacity, which
has enabled him to keep a firm grip
on the machinery of the organization
and to have his faithful henchmen in
the positions where they could do hint
(he most good whenever their services
might be needed.
"Further than this, he has nevet
tailed, at the last conventions, to hav«
some sensation to spring on the con
vention at the psychological moment
which would place him In the light o
a martyr to the cause of unionism, ant
excite a wave of sympathetic enthusi
asm for him, which would carry th«
delegates off their feet, and result It
his re-election.
"That his long leadership, and this
apparent impossibility to fill his place
has gone to his head, and made him
imagine that he is much greater a
man than he really is, is undoubtedly
'the case, and accounts for the tactics
he has adopted in dealing with ques
tions before congress, where he has
unnecessarily antagonized men to
whom organized labor must look for
recognition of their demands, and
where labor measures are often op
posed on account of this very antagon
ism, which would otherwise receive
support.
“There is no doubt but what organ
ized labor in this country would be
much stronger with a leader who was
more in touch with conditions as they
actually exist, and who would bring
to the front the new policies which
organized labor must adopt if It ex
pects to even maintain its present
standing, to say nothing of making
future progress.”
We quote portions of another arti
cle, a reprint, from the same labor pa
per:
"Organized labor, through its lead
ers, must recognize the mistakes of
the past if they expect to perpetuate
their organizations or to develop the
movement which they head. No move
ment. no organization, no nation can
develop beyond the intellects which
guide these organizations, and if the
leaders are dominated by a selfish mo
tive the organization will become
tinged with a spirit of selfishness,
Which has never appealed to mankind
in any walk of life at any time since
history began.
“It can be said in extenuation of
certain leaders of organized labor that
the precarious position which they oc
cupy as leaders has had a tendency to
cause them to lose sight of the object
behind the organization. The natural
instinct in man for power and posi
tion is in no small measure responsi
ble for the mistakes of the leaders,
not necessarily in labor unions alone,
but in every branch of society. This
desire for power and leadership and
personal aggrandizement causes* men
who have been earnest and sincere in
their efforts in the start to deteriorate
into mere politicians whose every act
and utterance is tinged with the desire
to cater to the baser passions of the
working majority in the societies or
organizations and this is undoubtedly
true when applied to the present lead
ers of the Federation. We mention
the Federation of Labor particularly
in thia urM/>lo hopaitap thni nrAAnizA
tion is the only organization of labor
which has yet found itself in direct
opposition to the laws of the land.
There are other organizations of labor
whose leaders have made mistakes,
but they have always kept themselves
and their organizations within the
bounds of the law and respected the
rights of every other man in consider
ing the rights of themselves and their
constituency; whereas, the motto of
the Federation is just the reverse, and
unless the leaders conform them
selves and their organization in ac
cordance with the laws of the land,
the leaders and the organization itself
must be disintegrated and pass into
history, for in America the common
sense in mankind is developed to a
greater extent than in any other na
tion on the earth, and the people, who
are the court of last resort in this
country, will never allow any system
to develop in this country which does
not meet with the approval of the ma
jority of the citizens of the country.
“This must have forced itself upon
the leaders of the Federation by this
time. If it has not, the leaders must
be eliminated. The organization which
they head has done many meritorious
things in times past and the people
are always ready and willing to ac
knowledge the benefits which their
efforts have brought to their constitu
ency as a whole, but at the present
time labor organizations In general,
and the Federation of Labor in par
ticular, stand before the bar of public
opinion, having been convicted of self
ishness and a dispositio. to rule all
the people of the country in ‘he Inter
est of the few. The people are pa
i (lent and awaiting to see if the object
lesson which they have been forced to
give to these leaders Is going to be
recognized and if they are going to
conform themselves and their future
work and actions in accordance there
to."
Let the people remember that com
ment, "The Federation of Labor in
particular stands before the bar of
public opinion having been convicted
of selfishness and a disposition to rule
all the people of the country in the
interest of the few.”
The great 90 per cent of Americans
do not take kindly to the acts of tyr
anny by these trust leaders openly de
manding that all people bow down to
the rules of the Labor Trust and we
are treated to the humiliating specta
cle of our Congress and evei^the Chief
Executive entertaining these convict
ed law-breakers and listening with
consideration to their insolent de
mands that the very laws be changed
to allow them to safely carry on their
plan of gaining control over the affairs
of the people.
The sturdy workers of America have
come to know the truth about these
"martyrs sacrificing themselves in the
noble cause of labor” but it’s only the
hysterical ones who swell up and cry
over the aforesaid "heroes,” remind
ing one of the two romantic elderly
maids who, weeping copiously, were
discovered by the old janitor at ML
Vernon.
“What is it ails you ladles?"
Taking the handkerchief from on9
swollen red eye, between sobs she
said:
"Why, we have so long revered the
memory of George Washington that
we feel it a privilege to come here
and weep at his tomb.”
"Yas’m, yas’m, yo’ shore has a de
sire to express yo’ sympathy, but yo’
are overflowin’ at de wrong spot, yo’
is weepin’ at de ice house.”
Don’t get maudlin about lawbreak
ers who must be punished if the very
existence of our people Is to be main
tained.
If you have any surplus sympathy
it can be extended to the honest work
ers who continue to earn food when
threatened and are frequently hurt
and sometimes killed before the courts
can intervene to protect them.
Now the Labor Trust leaders de
mand of Congress that the courts bs
stripped of power to issue injunctions
to prevent them from assaulting or
perhaps murdering men who dare earn
a living when ordered by the Labor
Trust to quit work.
Don’t "weep at the Ice House" and
don’t permit any set of law-breakers
to bully our courts, if your'voice and
vote can prevent. Be sure and write
your Representatives and Senators in
Congress asking them not to vote for
any measure to prevent the courts
from protecting homes, property and
persons from attack by paid agents of
this great Labor Trust.
Let every reader write, and write
now.
Don't sit silent and allow the or
ganized and paid men of this great
trust to force Congress to believe they
represent the great masses of the
American people. Say your say and
let your representatives in Congress
know that you do not want to be gov
erned under new laws which would
empower the Labor Trust leaders with
legal right to tell you when to work.
Where! For whom! At what price!
What to buy! What not to buy!
Whom to vote for! How much you
shall pay per month in fees to the La
bor Trust! etc., etc., etc.
This power is now being demanded
by the passage of laws in Congress.
Tell your Senators and Representa
tives plainly that you don't want them
to vote for any measure that will al
low any set of men either represent
ing Capital or Labor to govern and
dictate to the common people, who
prefer to be free to go and come, work
or not, and vote for whom they please.
Every man’s liberty will disappear
when the leaders of the great Labor
Trust or any other trust can ride
rough shod over people and mass their
forces to prevent our courts from af
fording protection.
"There's a Reason.”
C. W POST, Battle Creek, Mich.
' HIS CHRISTMAS^DINNER
Percy M. Cushing in Recreation.
Over on the mainland there were tur
teys, but the eight miles of drift ice
that swept northward from the beach
barred the way. And the next day was
Christmas. He turned, big and broad
chested, to the men gathered about, the
stove in the life-saving station.
"Let’s have roast goose tomorrow,"
fie said.
''How?" they grunted.
‘‘I'll get the geese," he replied, and
laughed lightly. "Three of ’em I should
think 'd be about right. I'll get ’em if
I lose a leg.”
“Better say Angers," put in the cap
tain. ''You’ll freeze 'em off before you
get back.”
They watched him as he trudged
away over the sand hills to the bay
side of the beach where the porridge
ice was grinding along shore. Then
they settled back to keep the stove red
hot and wait.
It was past noon when he began the
long detour. Half a mile ahead at the
edge of the forming ice a blurr of hud
dling black dots caught his eye as he
rounded a point, and he crept back out
of sight. From the cover of a bunch
of dead beach grass he surveyed the
Scene.
“Gosh, there must be a hundred of
'em,” he muttered.
Then he began to crawl. That part
of the beach is known as Pickety
Rough from the thorny undergrowth
and the staggering beach cedars that
hold domain over its loneliness. In the
summer it is practically Impassable;
in winter the trozen briars droop low’
in the gray-brown tangle, but they cut
Just as deep and cruel if a man goes
among them on hands and knees.
An hour went by, and his mittens
were red with frozen blood where the
briars had bitten through the thick
wool. He paused to pull them off to
pick the thorns from his knees. He
did not have to bother with his trous
ers. He could get at the Aesh easily
for the briars had left but a few shreds
of cloth over each knee. As he pulled
out thorn after thorn, with a quick mo
tion to lessen the pain, a red drop fol
lowed eaoh to the surface but froze be
fore It could trickle away. When he
was through, he rubbed his face to
bring back the feeling, and crawled to
the edge of the dunes. The geese were
still a quarter of a mile ahead. They
had been swimming nearly as fast as
he had crept.
A moment he paused to rip his hand
kerchief in twain and twist the pieces
about his ragged mittens. Then he
dropped his head and crept on. An
other hour passed and the strips of
handkerchief were masses of reddened
shreds. Again he stopped to pick the
thorns from his knees and rub his face
to bring back the feeling. Then he
dragged himself to the top of a low
dune and peered over.
Slowly, very slowly and stiffly the
old single barrel came to his shoulder.
He sighted long and carefully. It was
a long shot. He had promised goose
for rHnpr And hfi must not fntl. Tho
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN NORWAY
How It Looked to a Frenchman. They
Voted Conscientiously, Calmly
and With Dignity.
By Paul Parsy, In Parts Figaro.
Here in Norway, where cliffs and
fjords seem to restrain the passions o£
the sea, the profoundest revolutions oc
cur without violence or uproar, as if
wills of granite—or shall we say a moral
coldness Inherited from the glaciers—
checked every tempest, every outburst
of Joy or grief, every sentiment of
triumph, every song of exultation in
the feminine as well as In the masculine
heart. Norway seceded peacefully from
Sweden; with equal or even greater
serenity, she has Just admitted women
to political life In Christiania.
Yesterday, within 46 hours of Paris,
37,473 women—of whom 22,561 were mar
ried and 14,913 unmarried—enjoyed for
the first time the right of electing dep
uties to the Norwegian parliament or
storthing. For the first time ■women
were eligible for the storthing. And
this event, whose Importance is un
deniable, caused not a ripple of excite
ment in the city. You would never
have imagined that anything unusual
was taking place. There were no shouts
In the streets, no posters on the walls,
no interruptions of business, no heaps
of bulletins around the voting booths
to drag the names of candidates in the
mud. And yet a revolution was going
on. To be sure, the women of Nor
way had already taken part in county
elections, and there were already two
women—one a conservative, the other a
socialist—In the municipal council of
Christiania; but when women took part
in Monday's elections for the storthing,
they were doing something unusual and
significant; they were taking their
place permanently in national politics.
They did it conscientiously, calmly
and with dignity, as is the way in this
northern land.
Ta Christiania, balloting begins at 9
In the morning and keeps up till 9 in
the evening. Naturally things are live
liest around the voting booths after
work hours. I visited polling places
both In the fashionable districts and
In the parts of the city where the poorer
people live; I Btayed a long while,
either inside the booths or outside them,
watching the doings of the men and
women who came to vote. Well, I was
the only human being in the city to
betray any astonishment. What struck
CARNEGIE AND HILL MADE
MILLIONS BY AD VER TISING
From Manufacturers’ Record.
Andrew Carnegie and James J. Hill have
probably made more money by skillful
advertising than any other men In Amer
ica. In the line of shrewd advertising, as
well as In knowing how to accumulate
millions, tney are experts of the highest
order. For years Mr. Carnegie kept him
self and the Carnegie company before the
public so effectually that the American
people bellqved that by all odds his con
cern was far and away the greatest In
the country. Very few knew that at the
time the Steel corporation was formed an
other Iron and steel company In Pittsburg
had an output almost as great as Car
negie’s. The world knew all about the
Carnegie company, but it didn t know
about others.
Carnegie capitalized his reputation and
sold to the Steel corporation for *200,000,000
or *300,000.000 more than he could have
made had he not for years known and
practiced the art of the widest possible
publicity. The Steel corporation’s issue of
securities, based In part on the ownership
of the Carnegie plant, had less water
than many have supposed. It was merely
the turning Into securities of the tre
mendous asset of the world-wide reputa
tion of the Carnegie company, and Mr.
Carnegie thus capitalized and sold for
I some hundreds of millions the publicity
work which he had carried on for years.
This was equaled only by James J. Hill
when he was getting ready to sell Ids iron
ore properties In the laae region. For
several years Mr. Hill never lost an op
portunity to keep before the public the
Increasing value of iron ore and the vast
quantity which he owned In the lake re
gion. There were rr any suggestions of
the fact that these quid not be dupll
<.ated at any price and that they would
be very cheap at a dollar a ton in the
ground, as they might furnish the basis
for some independent steel company. No
body knew very much about these prop
erties. but the public finally came to be
lieve that they were so immensely valu
able that they were almost necessary to
the existence of the Steel corporation.
When the Steel corporation decided to
make the purchase of these properties on
the basis of about $1 per ton in the ground,
thus assuming an obligation of probably
IftJO.OtfvJOO, it was regarded as a master
stroke by the general public, who knew
nothing In the world about ores or about
these particular ore properties. Like
Carnegie, Mr. Hill had capitalized his
publicity work to the extent of several
hundred million dollars. The Steel cor
poration could never have been floated
without taking In the Carnegie plant, not
so much because of its magnitude as be
cause of the reputation won by Carnegie’s
magnificent publicity campaign running
over many years. The Steel corporation
could never have met public approval In
paying such a price for the Hill ore prop
erties if Hill hadn’t made the public, by
the most skillful work, believe that they
were really essential to its welfare.
And so, after ail, the great fortunes of
Carnegie and Hill are largely due to the
advertising which made possible the capi
talization of the public sentiment that
they had created about their own enter
prises. The creation of such public senti
ment of such widespread knowledge about
any section or any business is one of ita
assets often more important than the
natural resources of the country or the
immediate results that follow a broad
l advertising campaign,
roar of the black powder came dull and
heavy as it merged into another roar—
the roar of beating wings. Two gray
breasts floated upward in the grinding
porridge. Another bird was struggling
weakly to raise a limp black neck. It
had been a real “pot shot."
He had killed the dinner, but it lay
30 yards away, and that 30 yards was
a sweep of ice filled water. For an
instant the man hesitated. Then cams
his own words: “I’ll do it or lose a
leg.’’
With painful effort ho peeled off his
clothes, for he knew that if the wa
ter touched those woolen things they
would stiffen like oak planks before he
had gone far, and he would be as help
less in them as though he were in
cased in steel. As it was he cracked
the crystal coating from his body when
he came out. Then he ran desperate
ly back and forth to start the con
gealing blood. But he had the dinner.
He tied the geese by the feet with
a bit of cotton rope and turned across
the beach hills to where the smooth
surfaced sand was frozen hard and the
going would be easy. As he struggled
through the undergrowth that choked
the hollows between the hills, listened
as the monotony of the breakers grew
louder—ever so slowly louder. The half
mile battle through the frozen tangle
seemed an eternity. The weight of the
geese dragged him down. His wounded
knees were stiff and the lethargy of the
| cold was upon him. He staggered up
the last of the dunes and saw the angry
j sea reaching vaguely into the failing
light. Then he plunged into the home i
stretch.
Step by step hs fought'on up the end
less res.cn or sand. His jaw dropped
forward on his chest. His eyes were
wide. The surf snarled at his feet, and
the pale gleam from the lighthouse
stared at him from afar; but he neither
heard nor saw. Only one thought he
had, and that thought carried no un
derstanding to him now, but burst
meaningless from his gray lips: “Din
ner! dinner!”
The sand rose hard and cruel to meet
his benumbed feet. Clump—clump—
clump, and at each step it rasped
through his raw throat: “Dinner—din
ner—dinner." Once when the light
broke in on him for an instant he won
dered vaguely how many dinners it
would take to carry him back to th®
end. Then the thought wandered and
merged into the ceaseless monotone—
"Dinner—dinner—dinner,” as he reeled
into tlie dusk coming in from sea.
In the darkness the east patrol found
him lying face downward on the sand,
and pried his fingers from the single
barrel. But It took a marlin spike to
loosen his clutch on a bit of cotton
rope fastened to the feet of three frozen
geese.
They carried him back to the station,
and took him across the bay when th®
power boat came with the dawn. After
the surgeons cut off his hands he got
well. But over in the life-saving station
they had croned beef for dinner that
Christmas.
me as the most extraordinary thing
about this feminine participation in the
elections was the fact that nobody
seemed to regard it as an innovation.
I saw venerable couples, bent with
age, come to the polling places, enter
the booths as stolidly as if they wer®
going to church and cast their ballots
without the slightest evidence of feel
ing. The Norwegian women, whether
young or old, rich or poor, passed into
the little isolated compartments and
later deposited their ballots as if they
had done nothing else all their lives.
UNKIND.
Mr. Ruyter’s Kramp (a poet)—When I
write far into the night I find great dif
ficulty In getting to sleep.
Miss Cutting Hintz—Why don’t you
get up and read wrhat you’ve written?
In a deep cutting on the Great East
ern line, near Ipswich, Miss Nina Lay
ard, P. L. S., a wellknown woman sci
entist, has unearthed, at a depth of 3®
feet, a strange assortment of bones of
the mammoth, horse, gigantic ox, bear,
wolf, red deer and a bird, with a few
Hint Implements of palaeolithic type.
In her opinion, these are from the
pleistocene deposits in the gravels of
the original course of the river Gip
ping„ when the site of Ipswich was be
neath the waters.