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.. . Ste v He Teaches the Rattle-Brai ”7 THE MOSSBACK at: n a Few Fine Points of Small- “ Town Newspaper Ethics. By WILLIAM DUJLET FELLEY. oil :‘l‘é 74§=z ,m ,PARTJ. privately that the board had several There was no doubt about itâ€"‘0ur little Vermont town of Paris had a second newspaper at last. Young Joe Dicks had carried out the threat made before he quit our employ as reporter. He had purchased Joel Siblcy’s print shop. He had produced a paper. It lay before us on ;he exchange table' now, smudgy and pathetic and half full of boiler plate. But it was a newsâ€" paper, and we of the Paris “Tele- graph” crowded ar mid to inspect our. new contemporary. We were still looking it over when Uncle Joe. Fodder came in. I “Look here, Sam llod, this won't do at allI" he cried in his eackly voice. "This new paperâ€"right off the bat in the first editorial announcementâ€"is . hurtin' folkses feclir.'s. This Dicks boystarts pokin' fun at Dr. DO'itl for bein’ on the school committee!" “I know, Josephâ€"I know!" declared Sam Hod, our editor-owner, sadly. “Alec Patherton‘s set him up to the whole business, Joseph. It's too bad, too bad! The boy came here, a strang- er; and mighty gullible, too. He fell in with Alec, thinking Alec was a bright man. You see, he didn’t know Alec like we know him. Each morn- ing he went into the shoe store for items, and Alec urged him over and over to start a paper. He’d stand with hin'behind the shoe store door, and Alec would classify the liars and double-dealers and scoundrels and thieves and swin-dlers and publieans and :inners that passed outside. Ever since he came here, the lads been handicapped by a nonsensical preju- dice. Now it’s cropped out in this!” “So Alec's behind it, hey? That ac- counts for this crack at the school committee. I remember. now, Alec’s been sore because they didn’t pass that dunder-headed kid of his into a higher grade this winter.” “I tried to warn the boy," went on "Sam Hod. ed. He seemed to think I was dead set against having any human-interest stuff in the local columns just because what he wrote had a little gaff in it somewhere‘to prod into folks and leave a little hurt to their feelings. ‘Here’s this Broken Jones yarn impar- ticular, Joe,’ says I to him, the night he quit us. ‘In a little town you can’t get away with it. Jones has his friends â€"-lots of them. They know his his- tory. and sympathize with him. Here, in the first place, instead of calling him Ezra Breston Jones, you bluntly term him Broken Jones in print. Now Broken Jones is-what the totvn calls him, and he probably doesn’t resent it, and neither do his sympathisers. But you can’t call him Broken Jones in'print, Joe. Right off. the bat there’s a cruel insult. “ ‘Then, all through your yarn,’ I says. ‘y'ou’ve inferred that if he wasn’t half foolish it wouldn’t have happen- ,ed. Maybe he is, Joe. But the little loca‘: paper can’t come out in this vza and say so in print, either. It c parade the weaknesses of the h 5 ' l i Ollie folks, never mind how humble they di are. It’s not only‘a mighty un-Chrisâ€" tian thing, but it’s suicidal to yourself Joe. To get your name in the pope in a little town is a mighty serious thing, Joeâ€"at least, up here in New England. People demand that their names and the reports of their actiâ€" vities be handled with dignity.’ “But he never saw my point. He said I was a mossback. Poor kid! He’s got a few awful jolts coming to him ‘ two young men in our town. Broken Jones before misfortune overw kind. . _ . '.to change her about from budding to “But he wouldn’t be warnâ€"I times considered (lismiesing ber. Yet twenty years before, when Miss Lash- er was not old and frayed out and gone to seed, she had been loved l._' tookehim; the other was Jack Sheldon. Angie Lasher had chosen Jack, and had been engaged to him at the time the Spanish War broke out. died in Chickamuuga, and llltiC Lasher's heart had been him. The school committee L'OYll.lllllL’1l building and room to room. and she in time knew that she lit‘it her place out of pity. and tried to war lzcr dis- appointment and life tragedy bravely, and not to let it embittcr her and ,.comc out ‘in her treatment of the ; children. “Mr. Hodd," she began awkwardly, iot seeing that Uncle Joe Fodder was present on the other side the big of-l tice stove, “I wish you‘d tell me just what to do; you‘re a member of the school committee, but you've been a good friend of mine aside from that, and I haven’t anyone else to go to. {The new pap-er we've got here has lbeen saying some things lately that lare kind of hard to overlook or ans- lwcr, Mr. Hot." She stopped because there Was a lit- tle hitch in her voice, and she could not trust herself to go on until she had better control over -it. l “He says, this young man does," she finally proceeded, “that the school I ment interfere with the choice of school teachers. I know he means a :lot of us who have ‘time an rut. for u |.here l But, at. the same time, it‘s hard 5 to resignâ€"we who have been and teaching the boys girlsâ€"” Sam knew, and Uncle Joe Fodder, staring over his spectacles, knew, that what ‘she meant to say was that she fcouldn’t afford to give up her place. It was the only thing she' knew how ttO do to earn the few dollars necesâ€" sary to keep her off the town. So the old editor broke in and answered: “I wouldn’t take it too much to heart, Miss Lasherâ€"what this young chap says. He doesn’t understand the glocal situation, and he’s got a lot of lboyish steam in him that he’s got to §blow off somehow. Just you stick in ‘your place, and don’t resign until we _ask you to do so. And from present :indications, and what you’ve been to Ethe boys and girls of Paris, that’ll be la long time yet, Miss Lasher. Us old lfolks who are content to keep a slow- ier and more conserbative place are still in the saddle.” Tears came in little Miss Lasher’s eyes then. She got out her handker- chief with her bony lIittle red hands, and wiped them away, and blew her sharp little noise, and folded the handâ€" _y i kerchief and wiped her eyes again, ant and restored it to her plaid waist. “Poor Angelina!” mused the old scl- er, after the frayed little school teach-er had gone out. “I remember a , time when she was the d’aintiest and 1‘ prettiest girl in Paris!” (Continued in next issue.) 0' o Strawberries and Cream and a Moral. A small boy who did not like to do "home work” was being‘varned by his before‘he succeeds in country-town mother against the evils that are like- journalism." “I should think he’d go slow at first, tion. ly to result from habits of procrastina- The boy asked her‘to explain and sort 0’ feel his way alonvgâ€"him,quite definitely what she meant, and with a business to build among folks he ain’t quite used to, and a wife and baby to support.” “God makes youth supple in heart as well as in bod-y in order to stand the awful bumps that come from exâ€" perience, Joseph. It's proof of His mercy,” commented the old teditor sadly. Sam leaned back in his chair. A far-away look came in 'his eyes. For he had not missed the fact that the boy’s little wife had come on from Springfield, and each day pushed the willow baby carriage down the street and into the print shop, and watched her youngster while she helped out at the case because the “Blade” could not afford a linotype. Perhaps the old editor was thinking of a time, also,, when a good woman had kept downi hiis composition bills by helping gratis; at a type case. That is the pathos of; the'country press. Legion are the1 country editors who could not always; make a living it it were not for the; sunelfish and unpaid assistance of their wives. ! “Poor boy andgirl!" he said aloud.’ “trying- to get ahead. It's pathetic,‘ Fodder. l wish I could help him aiid steer him aright. Alec is a false friend to him, but I'm afraid he'll pay dearly finding it out." ' Sam and the old soldier were still discussing the thoughtless insinuaâ€" tions in the “Blade's" seliool»coxnniit- tee editorial, when the door opened and little Miss Angelina Lashcr enterâ€"- 9d the office. Little Miss Lasher had been teach- ‘ing school in Paris for more than! twenty years. She is not so cheerful: as she was onee. She is small andl (royal out and gene to seed. We knewl l l l l l she replied by quoting the proverb, “Never put off till tomorrow what can be done today.” On getting the moral reduced to this simple form, he said: "Well, then, mother, let's go down- stairs at once and cat the rest of the strawberries and cream; there were heaps-left over after your tea party." “â€"4â€"“ Taking a Chance. The fussy aunt was accompanied to the train by her nephew. “Are you sure this is the right train?" she asked again and again. "Well, returned the young man, i‘I’ve consulted five porters, two ticket sell- ers. the bulletin board, the conductor, and the engineer. They all say it is, so 1 think you might risk it.” e“: The personal equation is the most important factor in a business operation; that the business ability of the man at the head of any business concern, big or little, is usually the factor which fixes the gulf be- tween striking success and hopeless failure. Each man must work for himself and unless he so works, no out- side help can avail him.â€" Theodore Roosevelt. One WM" Jack had ‘ :llrS ‘ buried with‘ Paris. knew the story, and wazw committee is letting too much senti-i been here a long: d maybe sort of got into at and 1 Our resource-x in game have A double value: economic and l‘f-t‘l‘uitlil‘til- l l‘niler the term "game" are in- cluded. in the legal sense. all valuable fur-bearingr animals, on which a close reason imposed. The economic lvalue of this tltlns needs no argument, .but minks. (to, are 1114‘! ”same" in the rennminlyéauesepted sense (if the Word. \Yhut \ve uwntiliy llI‘Ilf'i'SiI‘lltl by: thi< term are animal-2 1 for sport. animal» and It is innrtens, Slih!‘li>. which are bun‘el priznnz'. \\'h:.t \. value have thew .\lll:li(lt1iilll';f\'r the; (7‘. n, t3 r ‘, .‘trit'C- .titnt‘.’ In the first l“ .w. l'lllll“ 2:": . eer- tnin Villll" :.s ilt'0*‘<.\t.|'_\' ti llit- inmt sigq- ll :4 int n: greit lllll?wl’l2ll.rt- ‘ ’ :;::’(":ite and every true swirlsâ€" min acorns t.» be :i p H-l n Ier, yet it is ille to pr: l.-:n‘. that iii.‘ : . is not \xhettevl by :1.” pm pm". 1i :1 hell t-(oked promo or n 'snvm'y Veni<un Sli‘lllt. And this is quite 2“ it should be. for the l!! ‘n who leave: :1 r‘irenss in the \xootlx to in! is illtilC guilty of “Hillltill tbutrm-Iinii than even he “ho kills for Chin. 11‘ game breeding were ‘to bem'ne as common in this country 'as it is in lmrope, the important? of {game in the food supply would be 1much greater than it now is. ‘ (if more importance from an econo- imic standpofzi‘ is the revenue ‘lt‘lli'efl ll'rcm the, llt:l resident sportsman. Ile fpays for his liconse a fee which bears {some relation to the valuable privi- :leges contrrrml and puts a little. money into the Provincial treasury to 111011) defray the cost of game protec- tion. In Ontario a non-resident's , license costs $25. while a resident pays {only $5 for mouse and caribou ai.(1 $3 ‘ftN‘ deer). In addition, he spends a ;gobd deal .money for supplies and 'services and the money thus brought lin by tourists-40 many of whom sport is the main attraction-is in the aggregate considerable. In British Columbia, it head of big game is worth $3,000 to the Provincc'in trade, due directly to the spendings of wealthy hunters. VNeither are hunters the only class of tourists attracted by game. Holiday seekers love to find a bit 0 real wilder- ness where they can see wild animals, free and untrameled, in their native haunts. Thus, the Dominion parks in Alberta, where no firearms are allow- ed to be carried, attract thousands of tourists annually. Speaking of revenue from tourists leads naturally to the subject of the recreational value of game. What the alien or non-resident considers valu- able enough to pay out his good ‘money for, should certainly be pre- served for the enjoyment in perpetui- ty of our own people. Nothing is more invigorating than close contact with anature, but what are the woods and fields, lakes and streams without Wild life taglend them interest? Are we to exterminate our glorious fauna and leave posterity an earth on which no life will have survived outside of the human race, except domestic animals and pests that refuse to be exter- minated? To give the wild things a chance is clearly for our own benefit, but, apart from that, have they no right to live? Is mankind to be the most blood- thirsty tribe of all creation, extirpat- ing all other species, wantonly and uselessly, by senseless slaughter? Surely, it an animal is doing us no harm, we cm at least let it alone. Responsibility of Hunters. The plain fact is that many of our most valuable game animals are being headed fast towards exinction, and the people chiefly responsible are the very class who should be most inter- ested in game preservation, namely, the hunters. Many of these are prone to regard the game laws as a nuis- ance, as something arbitrarily imposed by a higher authority, though, as a matter of fact, in this democratic coun- try, the game laws are just about what the sporting fraternity will stand for. If they are not drastic enough, it u is because the man with the gun is Q 'that his boy will never have anything to shoot at. Yet it is certain that the healthâ€"giving sport the father so much loves will be utterly denied to the son, unless the present generation imposes more restraint upon itself. Game, if ,game there be, will be artificially ‘reared and will be the monopoly of 'the rich who can afford to maintain game farms and private shooting pre- serves. Thus. Canadians who oppose game laws and their adequate enforce intent are helping to bring about the undemocratic condition which exists ill) England, where sport with the gun ‘ is an aristocratic privilege. i As an example of .. retrograde step, throught about by the pressure of pub- ilic opinionâ€"which, in the case. of ‘game. means sportsmens opinion, as the rest of the public. untorunmtely, 'is not interested filmy be mentioned the repeal of sale of game in .\'c\v Brunswick. Rational i‘ur u. (‘: .iference in Montreal c... 'I, A. Smith. ir. second ‘ lie late Dr. F. Gor- ‘ y. hibftion "Two years At tt‘y anl Wild , . ,‘tiie ; Life a"; (D Canada’s Resources in Wild Game _,â€"â€"â€" is estimated that each' determined to shoot, even if it meansl the prohibition of the] film, i had the (enterity to secure the i‘il<\:1gt‘ of on Am, prohibiting the sale [.1' wild llltitt in New Isrunswick. But i I found that I had . ahead of public sentiment. Ilow- '. l have every confidence that it short time before the ‘suin of wild llii‘li is again prohibited {@1qu llru:;.~\vic.c." l .\t the present time, Mdnitoba and l was zw-ptniezl. x . only lic' .. , . n.» . me. «not. :ll‘OxlllO only two pro- ‘vinres n. ('nnndn where the sale of wine for food i; entirely forbidden. ‘:\«r..t Set-”:1 i‘niliids the sale ()f (1601' land upland and shore birds. Alberta of upl-iml game birds and Ontario and Columbia of all migratory The lust-named province only .illm‘s the sale of other game under lr'lu’t'lil regulations. The general prac- ‘ ' ,. in all other cases is to permit the the open sennm of all killezl. llllltll'lllllilll}l}', this (li‘iils the door, in spite of bag limits. to the commercialization of wild game and its slaughter for the in..rl{et. in Ontario, for instance, veni< .« on can be had in almost any hotel or restaurant during November and Deâ€" cember. The Provincial law does not require a deer to be killed, by the ilicensee; a group of persons hunting Etogether may kill one deer per license. This practically means‘that a good mot can kill as many deer as he can get licenses for. Not only that, but they do not even take a sportsmau's chance as to whether they get the :rleer or not. At the National Con- ll‘erence on Game and \Vild Life Con- 'sei‘vation, held at Ottawa in February, lli‘it isli birls. during lf.tlllt‘ l :ily >zt‘r "1919, Mr. S. Harris, of the Essex ‘(‘ounty \Vild Life Conservation As- .sociation, stated: “Books of licenses, rwhich get into the hands of various iparties, are issued indiscriminately," {so that a hunt club may "go to hunt with one member in possession of one of these books, and, if they are suc- cessful in obtaining game, they at- tach a license or tag to it and pay for ,it on their return, but, if they are un- isuccessful, they return the book." A fine example of betting on a sure ' thing! Practically every state in the Union now prohibits the sale of game. Maine, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and the District of Columbia permit the sale of venison under certain restrictions. The sale of game birds is allowed no- where in the United States, ercept imported game or birds raised on game farms. Some states forbid even the sale of rabbits and squirrels, ani- mals that we scarcely consider as i game at all. If there is a demand for the flesh of game mammals and birds as delicacies, this market should be supplied by ani- mals raised on farms, as sheep and poultry are. It is the height of folly to exterminate our wild game merely to gratify the taste of epicures. It is not difficult .to tag game artifically fication. Remedy in Hands of the Public. The great remedy for the serious game situation in this country is an awakened public conscience. To ths end, associations consisting of sports- men, naturalists, and others interested in wild life, should be formed in every district. These associations would pledge their members to abide by the spirit as well as the letter of the glme laws, to secure their better enforce- 'ment, to inculcate the best tralitions of real sportsmanship, to study the natural history of their neighborhood, to influence public opinion in favor of wild life conservation and to press their viewsrupon the government as to lways in which the game laws may be 'improved. Some very successful and enthusiastic associations of this char- acter are already in existence, but more are needed. If you love the wild things and the ,great outdoors, do something to pre- [serve their life and beauty. Find lsome neighbors who are like-minded land form a Wild Life Conservation «Association. Sportsmen, it is up to ‘you. Dr. W. T. Hornaday, of the New ,York Zoological Park, says: "If our sportsmen can endure the extinction 5 of sport, I can.” I There are all sorts of ways in which . the game of Canada can be not only‘ saved but greatly increased, if the sporting public really wants to kr. or about them. But it is useless to give advice that falls on deaf ears. The Dominion and Provincial Governments have their experts, who are ready to help, if their help is requested. For general information. covering the iwhole Country, probably the best of- lficial to consult is James White, vtho :is Deputy Head of the Com; <ion of Conservation and Chairman of the Atl- iv‘sory Board on Wild Life Protecting. l Ottawa. l _.,._,._¢__. , Boot Heels From PerSua. E Boot lieeis are of1‘iéiâ€"i‘.~‘jtno'i«.-... , :were originally attached t.) we. ‘order that the wearers ,ittigl1: 'thei: feet above the burning «is. 1‘, Minard's Liniment Relieves Colds, etc. reared so as to render it easy of identi-~ A Ride in a. Pampas Coach. If you ever take a ride in a pampas coach. your journey may be uncom. fortable, but it is not likely to be mon- otonous. For the painpas stage driver, says a contributor to the (‘orn'nill Mazagine, uses his horses as some people use stimulating drinks. If one hitch of tour horses does not produce the effect he desires, he adds another four and then four more, and so on indefinitely. The first four .horses are in harness and *ually abreast; on rare occasions the second tour me also in harness and abreast. All further additions are in the nature lot "led" or “ridden" horses that are attached by means of a longr rope or a chain to the end of the pole or to the donbletrecs. Suppose you are starting out on a morning af’er a hard storm of wind .nnl rain has reduced the surface of the earth to an endless succession of sticky quagmires and hard-bottmm‘d, steep-sided gullics. The driver rounds up all the spare horses and Gauchos in the village. He acts as superin- tendent while a long line of horses is attached to the stage. Any horses be- yond the, number deemed necessary for innnedinte use are herded 011 be hind as reserves. Then off you go and by sheer force of numbers the lumbering vehicle is hauled along at an astonishing rate of speed. There is much jolting. and the landscape dances before your eyes in a dizzy blur. The advantage of the open~order ar- rangement of horses becomes appar» cut at the first guly. Though some of the horses may be bellyvdeep in mud and others may be pawing helplessly for footing against a sharp bank, thanks to the extreme length of the formation there is always a sufficient number of animals on firm ground to] pull the coach through. Over and through small sink holes and human- cos the coaich rushes like a bull at a gate, finally to bring up in an arroyo. with wheels wedged by storm-felled trees. That is what the driver loves; and, with eyes that glow from the joy of combat, he leaps up on his seat and calls for more horses! The reserves are promptly driven in, more rope and chain are brought out, and every animal directly or indirectly is attached to the stage. Then the big show begins. Some of the ropes run back to the hind axle, some of them run even to the wheels, and a number of the lflrses pull at right angled to the line of advance. The operation sends shivers through the body of the stage, but since it is built to withstand just such treatment it usually pops out of the mess un- harmed. _ v.0 An Example in Kindness. The far-reaching effects of kind treatment are well illustrated by a story of a man and a tired horse, which is told in the Buffalo Commercial. Down the street came a wagon loaded with meat and drawn by a wellâ€"fed little mare. Her steps became slower and slower, and finally in the middle of the car tracks she stopped. “Git up!” said the driver; “git up, Jenny!” Jenny only turned appealing eyes toward the man on the seat. Behind nim came the shouts and oaths of other drivers. . “Poor Jenny, poor little horse!" said the big, dirty man. “Is she all tired out?’ At the sound of his voice the little horse sighed a sigh of tired ap- preciation. I “Never mind," he went on soothing- ly as ,he scrambled down off his seat and took her by the bridle. “We’ll go right out to the side here and rest a bit.” He led her away from the crowd and stood patting her well-curried sides, while she rubbed her nose against his face. The other drivers moved on, then turned and looked at the man and the 'horse. Some of them smiledâ€"in sym- pathy. Others quietly replaced the whips that they had taken from the i sockets. o 5* The Quebec Act, passed in 1774 by ithe British Parliament, gave the 3 li‘rench-t‘anadians the free exercise of the Roman Catholic religion, the en- joyment of their civil rights and the protenion of their own civil laws and customs. It annexe-cl large territories to the Province of Quebec, and proâ€" ‘vivlel tor the appointment by the Crown of a Legislative (‘ouncil and for the :nlministration ot' thetriminal .< in England. Haste”: Llnlmcnt For Burns. Etc. ___.. .\ bowl. that has been invented to "live the, prodiiet of a household fob; grinder without loss can be at- tached to a grinder to fold up over it Lilo. when GOA 3E SALT L A N SALT Bulk Carlots TORONTO SALT WORKS c. J. CLIFF . TORONTO l'_-__