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tg Noosa MALL MORNING f i Pave HUSKY MEN ) GEM Ne inal Comments on the Subject, ® A VERYBODY hopes that the Moot ‘ canoe ; b Pwins nt Street ane Glermine(Commisstoue ang: its ; DUTY. | new De} keep ot ~~ aning officials should furnish Neither the new Both of Nobody ever played football successt y unless he had both, ; ‘ “ Ee By Count Tolstoy MMM Count Note aN 6 ; Not yer! Cte You'ee en ) Translated by Herman Bernstein | CLOSE THE WINDOW 1 i WN aAerat F f One ¥ J ANG GO DOWN aNd IM GOING GET UP AND FIX : One Mon X THE Fure NACE, To SLEEP LATE, THe FURNACE You | , vm lig Company, the New 7 CAN COME _BACts TO ie a 1 Hernatein.) wry 1909. January 4, The Day of Rest. By Maurice Ketten. \ My “Cycle of Readings” \morninG f |] | }Bep ano SLeee, d P. erarania Ate ‘cout Tol- JAN. 4, Y life consists in fulfilling the will of Him who into the This work of His is within the power of We may perhaps not know cannot help knowing that we sent me work and every one of us world and in performing “His each what this work ts, but we should participate in it. ’ no » skilled labor, eee l sites are husky men OT every one that saith unto me, Lord! Lord! shall enter into the aie Fon waza kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father which tg BUI MUL BAC Dostulot ITS ALL {in heaven.—-St. Matthew, vil. 21. FIXED NOW DON'T WAKE NE UNTIL NOON F we have not the strength to burn and diffuse light we should at least l not obstruct the light. does anybody make a good fireman or policeman unless he has strength, health : less Chief Croker is asking the city Civil Service Commission to the laws of sound reason {ts lower than he who loves Taise the he E who knows them, He who loves them is lower than he who follows them.—Chie phys a requirer s firemen so that ean get ' ' 1 pse Prover huskiar men. [1s t ree times as many of the book- nese Proverb pees came le rr learned emen sea is it did ott le firemen, who AVE you done what you should have done?” This question assumes were more hus The same applies to the Street Cleaning Department. Edwards sists in whether you are doing, during the brief space of exist and Hogan are college graduates, but their faine comes not from ence allotted to you, that which He who has sent you into life wants you to do. Are you doing it?—The Talmud their aptness in | g 1 languages or caleulus | r foot ball prowess. FEEL distressed—1 pray to God to help me, But my work should te to When it comes to cleaning the streets the ability to enthuse a I serve Him and not to have Him serve me. It is only necessary to recall! gang of men and get them to hustle in intelligen mony ist this and the burden grows lighter, bi ae ; a } 4 pant IERE is no antagonism between earth and heaven, and it would hav@ Sree aoe a ase, a been sacrilegious to think that V's creation, the dwelling placa &é which He has given us, may be despised and left to the disposal of With firemen it does no harm to know the names of the rivers of France, what, flow into the Mediterranean and what into the At S 1d f EF rt lantic, or to tell how many miles of the Rhine flow ‘through Germany. : - “ _ pus n a © ‘ 1ers © 0 une 5 It is also advisable to be able to hound West Virginia, to tell what) estar Wed ee —tp : ; : Good Stories 3% OSES OOO IL EE Ina Hundred ailroads run from New Yor Fulovand howananveobthem are Oe 2 na Huntred Years, By Albert Payson Terhune wholly within New York State, to tell how long is a kilometre and to ae of The Day, | Reflections of a Bachelor Girl; By ora M. W. Greenleaf. y y know whether a litre is more or Joss than a aut when it comes to p ting out a fire, to saving live a LL was quiet in the anaeoe y i YOUNG scon' ong, } bronzed—crouched behind a clump of bushes: ability to raise a ladder quickly keeping one’s h A Wer e| oo pate RIN eo th A on the banks of Salt River, Kentucky, A morning fog covered the j i \ ‘ fe the man who hesitate: los ut love ¢ A ‘i + training in the conditions of Ne w York have more practical outa weather N ii/eltherman who) healtates it te Wit I streams But through the mist the scout's keen ears had effect. © sable tu WACTLOR CORON IESG GS htSAI0G ity Ay | one ina hundred the faint splash of a canoe paddle, Motionless, rifle in rest, a» Look over the new men Oh, yes, man may some day concede that a ; anccy ty | Waited, At last, a birch canoe loomed into sight, manned by three Indiana om ff Are | mer le grumbled, “where's th roman knows enough to vote, but he will never concede ‘i ic in full war paint, ‘The scout fired on the savage who was paddling. The rs ieee of WIE UIALG found ius ‘ that she has intelligence enough to sharpen a pen Indian fell dead, upsetting the canoe in his death struggle. The two other the downtown office build : To be happy in marriage a man thinks he » swimming one on each side of the capsized boat, tried to tow It streets. They can he told by not aaale hia deal, but a tcoman Knows that she must idealize whatever she gets, pas inge, But the scout’s rifle spoke again and then a third time. Both having stripes on t Uthens eae tiedite It is just as foolish and unreasonable to erpect a man to love you next ‘ |swimmers sank, mortally wounded How many of them could, go Tribune year because he loves you this year ag it is to erpect it to rain to-morrow T ve pl t and our | The scout—Bland Ballord by name—was rewarded for this triple slaying ed, take a because it is raining to-day. ye ‘ meet ving from Gen, George Clark a gift which in that section of the lana ot , ° | vith st ras prized r —a linen s! There we y such gate truckman to the station | Her Logie. A girl’s idea of a perfect husband is a hero who says “Darling!” every | | | y wos at prized rarity—a linen There were few such gat este Apart tee NNA MARGARET had ag time he s his mouth; a married tcoman's is a man who says “How |!% 1s passed | ments on the Kentucky frontier in the late decades of the eighteenth cene Many of the cases of needless era ail Pee Aavehitclery TimainG enenath ia uncheliGas + deerskin was the usual materlal for shirts, So Ballard's reward for, kille police clubbing come from an in- LAME: DUEL Va ; Bee a ‘ A } Te will be one In a hundred he three savage warriors was not so insignificant as might be supposed, i 1 em away bef h less CUE UU an is a weakness, but ina man it is merely a noble, oats Hland Ballard had left his Virginia home in 1782 when he was only elghteem ferior man physically r & to nate children, Ar selfish delight at being able to give pleasure to others just by being |Come we With his parents and a big family of brothers and sisters, he journeyed into the that expedient where a} § to part the 1 t handsome. t Kentucky wilderness and settled In a log cabin near Shele j } ee cracks f diche nie eeeg ae Ae rata y ua ; ; nS rene pat pyle, “Kentucky was swarming with hostile Indiana policeman would need no nia t ena man has found the door to a woman's heart he fancies he can T ng no De A Game of ) stween thtse redskins ard the handful of ploneer sete The Football ‘wins start off with F ; ; s 1 prop it open with a footstool, and it will stay that way while he goes of to) |, Life and Death, § tiers there was mortal feud, Every white man who vene fea : eye = good wishes Chee aT I Ce © tired alone Into the forest ran fearful risk of death by them line tl © Wings t TH tn ¢ fom Woden hich a twoman's rorld revolves—the evening |For the way we meet life s MN r rrow or tomahawk. Every Indian such ploneers met was shot with no more on the dirt, | 0 ’ aA ANAL SELE RL ed te pied tiles : ee ign Sets amt netion tl he had been a rattlesnake, Life was held lightly, ‘The hee There j Le s « star which a@ man secks when he has nothing else nore important to do. te courage ther faith > were blazl he trail of civilization through the trackless Southwest, ee a ‘ Grass widows are so lucky: as soon as one man begins paying @ woman hs a LEAL RRO Ives * on a losing hazard. of massacre, burniig and tom ——— fa Ale, Pay the Diners her ie ee i \- einerel ture were ag com as accounts of autor illings now are. pe Gon sent ralveoln paying heria Y , Into this perilous existence Ballard plunged, He quickly won fame as a crafty, Letters F t her ia! geabie—Lecause it is just a highly colored and < scout. At nineteen he went with R. Clark on a campaign against rom 6 People ] eee i 1 he happened to be in lave with ‘ a , ind gained a reputation for unusual courage, even among ¢he , — men h whom bravery was the most common of attributes. In one flerce —~ |! attle against the Piquas young B ad received a bullet wound in the hip that. > 0 © B R W. iy | Jed him all the rest of his life. Yet this did not prevent him from going on motte i eh crams Stamps | Hie Million ituler Kid Gap By Ne eee aie eierelyaat er eet OA Edt eee ised ucaueanen te © sufficient t ©) jut, a position that meant incessant toll and exposure and menda N while serving in this capacity that Ballard shot the three Red Cr ps. I r 8 AFIN | Baa urriors on Salt River 1 these st MY BEAT! Sous \ little later he and one follower were on a scouting trip at Salt Licks whea of being used ¥ F , YY SEAT WBS | they stumbled upon an Indian war party's camp. One moment of indecision would | day season. If the nu f $0 INSIGNIFICUS meant capture and an unspeakably horrible death by torture. But Ballard come to MY SELF is more than equal to the occasion. Whispering a hurried order to his fellows and i SPECK : is he shouted loudly to Imaginary militiamen in the woods behind him, come PECK WONT PERMIT on tired thelr rifles Into the : To WORK HERE! throng of Indlans and elling, upon their camp. ave hee helieve that two men ild do so foolhardy a thing. Supposing that Bale ! Keep Money in reulation. lard and his friend we wed by at least a hundred backwoodsmen the Ime Now 850,000. e because the only meaning of your life cone “H enormous tmpo: The earth is not a place of expiration; it {s our where we must to for the attainment of the ideal of truth and jus are hidden in the soul of every human being. egoism and tyranny p |Nou'lt HAVE coal i =)TO TAITE AL bod abode, tice, the ideal whose seeds Mazzint v7, Eo must do our human work honestly and irreproachably, regardless W of whether we lic to become angels or whether we believe we hai once been molluses.—Ruskin VAGINE that the life is your happiness and ufe becomes @ crue 1 absurdity. Be that which tradition, reason and your heart telR you—that life means to serve Him who sent you into the world—ond then life becomes czttintl and out Fifty American Unaccountable Mistake. NO. 33-—BLAND ALLARD. nhe and his compan manding them to s could discover their 1 avages, | dian: ‘ore the The savages could not nistake Ballard and the other returning, chased them for “= 1) at Firsts ’ | white man® ha up the pursuit. Coming home one day from @ cabin, Dropping Into the une n until his ammunition wae two days throug scouting trip, he saw a band of t derbrush, he fired on them, lo: gone, and killing six of , they were murdering Mig fatnily. Befére the helpless scout’s eyes they slaughtered both his parents, omq f ‘ ' of his brothers‘and two of his sisters. His mother was brained by a tomahagms MUGLER CH just ag Ballard’s rifle slaw her assailant, The bereaved gt BE GREAT To) (AW SHUT UP! Quit To the § i ; 1 | athe soout exacted henceforth a terrible vengeance for Bis Have ALL AnAL BE RICH AND HAVE / | KIDDING Me? Strange Escape) faiiy's murder. Shean j AVE eS oe EVERYONE CRINGE/ \ y } From Torture. § jf became the terror of the Indians and was at lest . ely \Berore You! een supposed by them to bear a charmed life, Once whee The s ose I they had captured him and were about to put him to torture, Ballard knocke® Ushed down the two Indians who were holding him, leaped upon the horse of one of of the | them and escaped unhurt amid a storm of riffe bultets that sang about hie eames ¢ sires. He served under “Mad Anthony” Wayne in the latter's Indian campaign and reee 4 CHIC ULRTE RT Sot Galhanitice by sheer bravery to the rank of captain, He was a major in the War of 1819 m4 To tb SME del Rub ma Va led the charge {n the terrible Raisin River battle against the British and Indlame Having \ In that fight he was wounded and made prisoner. dents After the War of 1812 Ballard turned to civic Iife, helping to bulld up Rene meant eff | tucky and to strengthen its power in the Union. He served many terms tn the / dee what : Legislature and lived to see the former wilderness a mighty State. y Wide the aante ae : fs Ballard died in 1883, gt the age of ninety-two, the {dol of his fellow Kentuele @ften wondered why the Police Denar. fence teht tk nahi lai wake fans, and one of America’s bravest eoldlers of fortune, ment doesn't include fo the cur the dead) 1 lave nuleahes: Lette’ be Tao kk eka Ek Be caked o¢ festrvction 2 me Missing numbers of this series may ined by y