J?»" « -I * »l » » » * i ' I . Red Letter Days From Mao to Ati Wheie die Price of Gas, Runs a Race With the Rising Thermometer Even the Thirty Years' War, so the away Tlbestl tn the hearts of the Sa- hlstortans tell us, ended eventually, | hara lu search of the white unicorn and there's a seven-year limit oc the , and had been reported robbed and Itch, they say. But In the meantime [ claln by the naurderous Bedouins, who you've got to keep on scratching. ' stlU raid caravans and steal slaves In It was this kind of blind optimism that unpoUced desert. We chugged that kept Jim and me plugging away up to a mud rest house on the edge day after day and week after week ot a cuvette at the end of one terrltto until the miles ahd stretched into the | day and found the Qlovers' camels, thousands, the Ume had lengthened '• Mrs. Glover was the only white worn Into months, and our beards grew J an we saw Jn two months of down to our chests. But If It took a and our American accent was the year this attempt to cross Africa on | nearest approach to English the Olov- motorcycles, we were sure we'd still ' erg had heard for several months. be the first. In all the ages of the | They had been entirely out of any Dark Continent nothing on wheels had i food for weeks except what they ever passed that way before so there teould kill or purchase from the na- was really no hurry. But one doesn't , tlves. Happily our own camels with want to spend one's life, or lose It : our provisions had kept up with us either, fighting the bush and sand la | that day and so ws broke out some Africa. ette." I grinned this further bid for welcome. "Qui sont vous?" demanded the Commandant without even offering to shake hands. And when a French- man doesn't seize every oportunlty to shake hands there is something wrong indeed. That finally woke me to the situation and I babbled a half- dozen paragraphs of French out of which he got the idea that we were driving motorcycles across Africa and. more important still, ttat wa were Americans. Then we were wel- , corned Indeed. The colored soldiers broke ranks and stacked their guns, travel K'^^ted him warmly. I didn't know hands and the Commandant h. sed us on both grimy cheeks and ordered lUe post pig to be killed toute-de-sulte. There came the never-to-be-forgot- ten day when tbe cuvettes were so large and frequent that we made 100 miles In one day â€" the first time for two months. We stopped that night in the French fort at Oum Hadjlr We had finally reached Mao, north- east of Africa's lake of mystery, Chad, over a camel trail that had only once before felt the roll of a wheel of any kind. Three years before, a French military expedition with army tanks, . , .. ^ ,. ^ caterpillar wheels, machine guns, and ', several years ago told of death-dry a young army of mechanics and help- ] ^^r^ 'n Tlbestl. seven days between ers, after many months of preparation ; ^ater holes, of their brush with the had finally reached this same French ! cans of Scotch oatmeal. Australian '^'^ ^^""^ '^ZJ^""^ ?" ^""V°"f f'^^ butter. American mixed fruit, Portu- '^^ Sate. "The.T only came to dr nk from the oasis lake, explained the gruese sardines and English biscuits and let their African cook fix up a real meal. Then Mr. Glover, who was the photographer with the first motor expedition from Capetown to Cairo fort at Mao. But here they turned south, put the devil and the desert be- hind them and retreated to the firmer ground and better roads In the region south of Chad. We could do that, too, for one way and another Jim and I had come thus far with our little one-IungeU motor- bikes and the prospect of better roads to the south wasa welcome one In- deed. We could follow the example and the trail of the retreating cater- pillar tanks or we could â€" at least Jim thought «e could â€" strike straight on east across the edge of the Sahara Desert where nothing on wheels had ever been before. Here at Mao we must decide. At Mao, Jim decided, we would go straight east to the Red Sea. It was only a couple of thousand miles. We had 3 gallons of gasoline which the robbers who had attacked but had been driven away by the Glovers and their cameleers, of the mythical i white unicorn he had been sent to i find and found, of 2,000 natives I clamoring for the meat of an elephant ! he had sbot in the region south of ' Chad, and of the fortitude of his lit- tle 95 pound wife who had made the whole trek with him and looked even then fit enough to lick any other part of Africa yet unllcked. There >came another red letter day, when I broke two bones In my good Lieutenant in command. "Ttey can't get inside the fort." I hare slept to the music of many a coyote »:horu3 the Klondike sym- phony put on nightly by those great malamute dogs in the Canadian Northwest has been as pleasant to me as the sleep from which they've waked me. But the roaring of a lion Just outside one's gate Is a fauna- phone lullaby that one cannot forget. The Art of Anecdote A Reverend j Tapping Canada's Gentleman Roused Res Durces (By Rev. John Brown.* aa quoted In the MellU (Manitoba) New Era) You insect pests: you villain rife; Aasadslna ceaeeJees in ths atnf«, Your noses pierce me like a knife. You dread nio8qutto.i. On all the Joys of rural Ufa You set your vetoes. ' Respect you've none for man or beast, I When hunger calls you to a feast j You never hesitate the least, I But drive your stings In landlord, pedlar, pauper, priest. Or even kings. After three ceu:uriea of develofh ment in Canada, the mineral re* ' •onrceg of 'he vjst Dominion ara •till awaiting > hand of the promo* â- ter. Oold. ill . . . nickel, copper, I (raphlte and other deposits are be- I Ing found In quantities which Indl- I kata, that the potentialities of sec- I tlona once regardeil us almost a bar- ren waste are alm<. limitless. In the region fori. :ng a y-8hap«, I with Its base resting .li southern On- I tarto and the angles s winding n^H-th- '. westward into Manitoba and eastward ; to Labrador, the terrain is dotted I I with mineral wealth, the full extent You stewing, longleg'd, flying leaches, of which has not yet been determln- What demon Ib't you manners teaches, ed. ^Vmerican and Canadian capital j Your every nose my vitals reaches, ! Through coat and vest. ' 1 1 doubt if en'en my leathern breeches I Would you resist. i .__^ CHAMPION LOG ROLLER Wilbur Marx. 17, Eau Claire. Wis., won the world's championship log rolling tourney at Washburn. <, We have masters of anecdote amongst us still â€" though to my loss I am less in the way of hearing the political or quasi-political variety. right foot. A concealed stump was ' Mr. Pett Ridge is an unrivalled and hidden In the sand just high enough inexhaustible store of the humours of to catch the toe of my shoe and just j Cockneydom ; and Mr. Seymour strong enough to bend the iron foot ' Hicks's reminiscencesâ€" slightly ting- rest on my motorcycle entirely out ; ed. perhaps, by the glow of Imagina- ' ^ French term, sometimes mlsun- of shape, even thotigh my foot, cush-itlon and rounded by an artist's hand (jerstood, Is the descriptive "a jour,' loned in betw^een. broke the force of â€" of theatrical and club Open to the Light of Day I is uniting on a broad scale to de- velop the wealth of this land, and potential water supply In unlimited volume makes feasible broad-scala operations at relatively low cost to ; My very life blood you would steal, j the promoters. j Your bites like cankery thorns I feel; j In the Lake St. John district, lying â- In scratching oft the skin I peel, [ north of Quebec, model towns, enor- I Plain truth to speak. mous hydroelectric developments anl I So punctured, sore from head to heel, rail and water terminals are proceed- I swear in Greek. j In* apace. Newsprint paper Is being I ! produced on a scale which makes pod- slble the supplying of all Amerlcaa newspapers, and the transportation at this by rail U a source of Increasinjf profit to the Canadlau rnllroacis. Fast and regular schedules enable tha great dallies in cities south of tha herder to keep on hand only a reUw i tlvely small amount of paper. , I Great corporations are Investing huge auma In the development of the recently discovered resources ot I Canada. The International Paper j Company, with its plants throughout I the eastern provinces ; the Aluminum ' Company of America, which Is taking I advantage of the hydroelectric 8up> i ply to establish a plant for the manu< ; facture of aluminum in northern Que- bec, to which point its ships bring bauxite (the principal Ingredient) direct from South America; th« I E'en while asunder words I tear, I To weave them Into verse with care. Like asps your buzzing in my hair, i My beard and nc-ok; ; A poet's efforts, humble, rare, 1 You often check. 'a youthful pair by love oppressed; â- The holy fiame beats in their breast. What wretches to disturb their rest. In hall or bower; And poison what had else been blest. Their hallowed hour. With ruby lips and liquid eyes, A cherub In her cradle lies. Yet, heedless of an infant's cries You quench your thirst. Like bottles filled with wine you rose. Filled Uke to burst. , In dreams what sights my fancy sees â€" Harrv Payne Whitney mining devel- . are in ^s applied to fabrics, embroidery and ; ^^^^^ vampire bats and vulture fleas, opments In the Flln Flon fleld of the blow. Fortunately, we were i tbelr own vein supreme. -A.nd our trimmings. The literal translation's ^ike Vmrning birds that flt at ease ^ Manitoba are among a few of the tcompanies which are spending mil about SOO miles from the nearest doc- after-dinner speakers have been, or -ng the daylight" and so used, the, " "-^^ ^ vines and roses; French government had furnished for tor and there was no way for him to recent years, reinforced and varle- ^^^m furnishes an artistic way of de-'^^^ "jj,^^^ inverted bumble bees. " . â€" .- .1 tyj^ygj [,„[ ^,y camsl. Sluce we could 'gated by the advent of women in that slgnating the open-work idea, whether wi-.h red hot noses. have no doctor I didn't know until ' new capacity â€" among so many other expressed in the form of fabric or Its 1 " two months later that anything was new and more important capacities, decoration. Many of the newest ' jj gjj ^j^g j,oad to walk or drive. us at Mao at cost, only $3.60 per gal- lon. This seems high In a country where common labor is worth only one or two nickels a day. We could have bought us each a plump young A Women speakers do not indeed add materials are now advertised as a The hum of wings is like a hive. up my,mu«h In the way of anecdote.^hen ^omt." and are to be used over con- , 0^^,,.^ ; There's none that men devise for whom model towns are being con- Kk into, one comes to think of it. It is. for jrasting linings to give full value to That aafatv hHn«s: 1 .trM,^r,..i wirh ^h..n„ waf», =„n,,i^ t„ That safety brings; trastlng linings to give the open-work design. Georgette a j ^j^ truth, I'm nearly flayed alive. Jour Is in this category. French j pierced by your stings. model hats are also featured with felt ; tn a jour designs and these open-;£j ^^ njy couch to sleep I Ue, work effects are in evidence on the ] u^^ swarming bees you 'round broken and so we kept on going j black "medicine man" tied wife for less than the cost of one five- foot, Jim jammed the pedal ba<ck gallon tin of gas. It hardly seemed : place and we were off again. i some reason or other, a rare thing fair to the women, or to us. Of course | There came the evening when we , to hear a woman tell an anecdote. it was mostly transportation charges, camped In a mud rest house beside but they bring their own qualities In addition to the long ocean voyage the caravan trail and asked the vil- , Into service. Being fundamentally to Africa, the gasoline had been cai^ ' lage chief for water. He sent two serious, as they prove by the earnest- rled seventeen days on a river boat women to the well which at that sea- ness which they devote to nnlmpor- 'cuffs of modish gloves, a contrasting! fly; through the Congo Jungle and forty- son of the year was two miles from ! t? it mattersâ€" nothing Is a trifle to color of lining showing through the 1 1 twist. I turn, e.xhausted. sigh; five days on camels to reach us in ' the village. When they finally ap- true woman â€" they took to political perforations. that lonely comer of the Sahara. peared, each with a three-gallon pot speaking sooner and more readily i^ some English Money we spent on gasoline we of water on her head, we gave them than to the lighter kind, and in my saved on board and room and on our ; a franc (five cents) each and put the earlier days seemed Inclined to over- ewn camel baggage transport. The \ water on to boll. .\n hour later tour- 1 rate the solemnity of occasions which best and most board I ever had in teen naked black savages filed In ! In their true nature were not at all my llfe,was given us without even the through the compoun.l gate and ear'i|8olemn. They were apt to strike the asking at every one of the Isolated face was grinning under a big pot vrf . note of emotion too soon â€" it should French forts that fringed the edge water. They set their water pots! come, if at all, at the end. not at the ^jjg prominent part of the design. »f the Great Desert and which marked down in a circle around our fire, 1 ebginning of the speech â€" and too of- ^^^ lions of dollars in tie Dominion of Canada. With a plentiful labor supply, which Is stable because it Is composed largely of residents who are local 01 dictionaries i':^ French word "jour" appears with li > definition of a perforation or eyelet In design, and. In lace work this word Is a synonym for mesh. Eyelet em- broidery, therefore, is "embroidery a Jour," provided the eyelet feature la I groan, I yawn. And often never close an eye Till morning dawn. our trail to the Red Sea. And in be- bowed themselves to the sand before tween the forts, with two million us and held out their hands for their square miles of desert to choose from, there was no one to charge us rent. Aa for our baggage transport. It was cheaper than having the outfit of cam- els presented to us. From IllgRlg to Ati we had four men. five camels and one horse, and the total charge for six days, going and returning, was 126 francs or $6.30 for the whole caravan. franc We had made the common ten: they had not learnt that emo- tion must be deftly and lightly intro- duced into an atmosphere. . . . Things Do Unto Othersâ€" American mistake of being too liberal |are different now; the lesson has been with our money when the women brought the first two pots and were expected to pay for that error now. Instead, we graciously presented each black business man with his own clay pot and bade him run along. There came the hot afternoon when rve paid that much In Iowa to get we chugged across the sandy parade pulled out of one mud hole. grounds and stopped before the gates Notes." Fi-om Mao to the edge of the Nile of the big French fort at Ati. while â- Valley It was all very much the same, the Commandant and all his officers learnt. To cite only one name â€" and I cite It with the mora pleasure be- cause it affords an opportunity to pay homageto a great artist In another sphere â€" tew male speakers of to-day could afford to "give points" to Dame Madge Kendal over a dinner table. â€" Anthony Hope, In "Memories and A thousand miles of caravan trail and every mile a fight. Sometimes we'd work all day and make twenty miles and sometimes If we were lucky we'd make- elKhty. Those were long days too We traveled light, all our bag- gage, gasoline, spare parts, and food, except the absolute bare necessities followed us on our little camel cara- rubbed their eyes and wondered. The.y hadn't been told we were coming and the sight of two motorcyclists in their military dooryard where nothing on wheels had ever been before was a colonial Frf>ncU frontier, stepped for- ward to parley-vous with the strange Invaders on wheels. We looked tough enough, dirty, unshaven and dlsre- Learn to Walk van. We'd struggle on ahead to the putable. I don't blame him for his next French fort along our route and rautlon, especially since we had drop- In learning to walk correctly people often concentrate on the placing of the foot on the ground with no rogard to the part the rest of the body plays in their progression, whereas if the co-ordination of the body is under- stood, the correct placement of the foot comes as the natural result of finishing a movement which actually starts in the spine. It would seem Paying your bills promptly Is one of the best ways to follow the Golden Rule. Firstâ€" In fairness to the merchant or professional man who has Invest- ed cash and time In the merchandise or service you have received, you should reciprocate the favor of credit by taking care of your obligations in reasonable time. â- \'our merchant or professionial man does not require security. He de- mands no interest â€" yet he is actually loaning you cash. Second â€" in fairness to your own good name and reputation, your bills should be paid on time. You are granted credit according to jvur past record. Your charact^eT is the basis for confidence In your ability to pay. o: would some gifted druggl.st wise Some method of relief deviseâ€" A monument of costly size Would bear his name. And nations, yet unborn, would rise To spread his fame. But. meanwhile, let each man and sire. Each matron, maid and man on hire. With nets and screens and smudging Are Maintain the strife: Nor from the battle once retire Or vain Is life. We dread the mud. the cold, the rain. The blizzard winds that sweep the plain; But all of these I do maintain Will ne'er defeat us Equal to this horrid train Of dread mosquitoes. struct ed: with cheap water supply to drive the machinery; with deep-water navigation to many points and ade- quate rail transport to those removed from the eastern rivers, Canada la entering an area of manufacturing and Industry which may well bring It to the forefront in supplying fin- ished commodities to the world. That her start in industrial activi- ties has come at this time, after other nations have been in the tiold for a century or more, is not a disadvant- age, for the Canadian possesses a de- gree of optimism concerning the pos- sibilities of his land which loan readl'.y surmount all obstacles. Can- ada's progress in a relatively new fleld for her seems assured, for capital does not lYeely flow into untried and ; highly speculative Investments. â€" â- Editorial. Christian Science Monitor. there sit down to rest and eat and ped from those desert skies entirely that the very commonness of walking argue prohibition with the French olB- nnannounced. cors until our camels would catch up "Bon jour, mon f'apltalne," I two or three days Uter. Then we'd greeted Mm warmly. I don't know get a fresh bunch of camels, load them we were unexcepted and had antlci- up and start out again for the next ' pated the same warm welcome we'd tort, usually 100 or 300 miles away, received at all the other French forts. Altogether we used this camel trans- My friendly greeting didn't help mat- port for at least 2,000 mllea of bad tara any; it only showed him that we going. That made slow travel. j weren't French. Probably English. In between forts tha semi-desert And the Freoch and English aa neigh- lands on the adg* of tha great Sahara boring colonisers aren't any too were mostly a monotony of broad friendly. "Nous sommes id, Lafay- landy plains. Then miles and miles »_â€" _^_____^^_^_________ of rolling land with low hills always ' ~ â€" â- to be climbed or skirted around were aometimes broken by a higher range of deep, soft dunes that broke out hearts as well. Occasionally we'd ehug down into a cuvette, a wide flat basin that drained hundreds of square miles of aurrouuding hinterland. In any other country these cuvettaa would have beon lakes but here they were simply moist places with a high enough water table underground ao that sometimea wells were dug and some green stuff could be grown. Thu« it went for days and weeks and months. Broad plains and deep, •oft auud. Rolling hills and aand. High, steep dunes and sand. Bomt:- times a scattering woody bush. Some- times a narea of high hunch grass so liigh » e'd have to stop and atand up en our luggage carrier occaalonally to get our bearings, the clumpa ao thick We couldn't dodge them and could only rack ourselvea to piece* f"g I ver the fops, Th; .• .-eu'" thtj evening we found r.e Ci' 'ver!. TU's English explorer >;.:! it:.i w!fa tai ventured Into far would Insure its proper performance. Instead of which the very opposite is the case. The majority of people rare- ly ask themselves how they walk; they simply take It fro granted that : they know how to walk. But when (•Rev. Mr. Brown was a pioneer missionary of Manitoba, and In the old days when his verses wore written, and to which they refer, the mosquito pest was a serious handicap â€" whether because there were more of the in- _ „ n K.11 sects, or the protective measures ?f ^°"'.!."*:.I*^-!r'n • .'.! I?"' avallabl to human kind were less effec live, no one can say. Let none think. at any rate, that the reverend gentle- man has departed from Christian re- ticence without due provocation. â€" Ed. Winnipeg Mirror. 1 ptly. If you can't pay all at once pay half or whatever you can and see to it that your creditor knows you are playing the game square. * In China every soldier takes his wife to war with him. It may be a -»- they begin to analyxe walking from government plan to keep the boys in! the standpoint of correct balance and a fighting mood. j transference of weight, it is found to ' demand such fine co-ordination that It becomes a basis for nearly all subse- quent motions. I 1 am merciful with almost any one except a perjurer. â€" Judge Julian W. Mack. Thought Thought is the labor of Intelligence, reverie Is lis voluptuousness. To re- place thought by reverie la to con- found polsou with nourishment. "Slsep-walklng Is an afnictton from which high ateppert auffer Caterpillar Tractor Handles Famous Lifeboat LIFEBOAT AT.NEWTUrta, ABERDEENSHIRE, AND GALLANT CSEV. WAS HONORED BY PRINCE OF WALES 'i'h<» I'oNswa'n. ninih f'om right, John Inne â- . and tourui lu.ir^ (11 ni light, Jutnes limes, are (itlu'i ami biothor, resptiiively, of J. M. Innes, Toronto who Is leaving this week for Sootlnnd. The cn-w wu.< decorated for valor in re.'^cuiuK the crew of a trawler. Imperial Prince. Cockawaia Innos has Ueld the position for 47 ycar.o. In the last 20 years his boat has saved 80 persons Pact Regarded As Only A Beginning Bolton C. Waller, winner of th« Filene peace prize "rhe Kellogg pact is welcomed as the most swieplug declaration yet made of the will to get rid of war. It Is particularly wel- comed as being Initiated by the l'nlte4 States, and showing a fresh dctermiua- tlou of the strongest country to unitt with others for that object. But tha pact must be th.,\ beginning, not tha end. It must bo rendered effeclivo, both by a reduction of those arma> ments which are unnecessary if tho pact Is a rraltty. anil by a far inor« comprehensive ^y.-stem ihau yet exista j tor the j»eaceful settlement of dispvites. j Tho pi'oplen of t^,' world must see to it that thia dtnUration on pap^r be- comes a real factor iu deirn''n!n« tha natliiiial policies." * - â€" Of what I have written I ttiy ta the wo- Is which Patrick Henry n ada ' famous; "If that bj tre.isoii, i -alia ! the most of It."- N*l.\ij.>:!.' ^:!•.â- ^ay j Cutler. I ^ ... 1 *):nuld be sotry, very $crry in- dee 1, If Rlmoct all tho books -.v-'ten t.vdsy (lid not .-itiri.'i.- Goorj.' V: ar