These People Really Enjoy Winter Weather
Here’s New Way
to Make Living
Men Who Sell Their Blood for
Transfusion Have Close
Knit Union.
MUST KEEP AT TOP OF FORM
Most of Them Are Working Mon, and
Clean Living Ie a First Essential
Pay Is Small.
Folk who live In Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., know how to extract a lot of pleasure out of winter condition«.
These photographs show hors« racing on ths ice; Bob Gray's motor Ice boat making a turn at 70 miles tin l»our,
and three daring girls who have hitched their toboggan to u fleet’ice yacht.
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word. But would Benny like to Join
the syndicate? He would be given
some cash, and 50,000 shares—a
twelfth Interest—valued at $3.50 a
«hare.
Benny had dealt tn shares before.
He preferred all cash, but perhaps
Jack McMahon might wish a say-so.
Jack knew a nice piece of bar goods
when he saw it, but little of gold
mines. He decided that Benny should
make the decision. Benny said, “all
cash." Benny gave half of it to Mc
Mahon.
The syndicate eventually acquired
Gillie’s claims, but they couldn't
budge Barney McEnaney. “Sure, It
was Benny’s gift, wasn’t It? And Its
bad luck to give away a present, and
that’s what your asking me to do."
Begin ths Mining.
Work began at the Hollinger mines.
Benny went to Point Alexander, on
the upper reaches of the Ottawa
river, and took bis parents from there
to Pembroke, a pleasant little town
that had grown from a trading post.
Benny had always loved Nellie Hill;
now he could afford to marry her. She
had faithfully waited while he made
hls stake. They visited Toronto and
other cities, but the two decided that
Pembroke was a friendly place, so they
returned there.
Word came that the Hollinger mine
—as they called the Porcupine claims
—had become a bonanza. So Benny
hit the trail again. Maybe luck would
strike the second time. The whole
countryside was willing to stake Ben
ny, but he needed nothing. A few
miles from hls great discovery he
found claims that seemed to have simi
lar formations. He bought them from
the discoverers, and organized a com
pany called the Hollinger Reserve. But
it takes money to do quartz mining.
Money went and gold didn’t come,
though across the way the original
Hollinger was paying thousands of dol
lars a day.
Eventually the Hollinger Reserve
was put up at sheriffs sale. Benny
was flat broke again. But in the few
years that had passed Barney Mc
Enaney had been persuaded to sell his
gift claim. He had received a price
said to be $500,000. Barney was pres
ent at the sheriffs sale, and bld In
the Hollinger Reserve—for one good
turn deserved another, you know. One
couldn't see a pal go down in dis
grace. McEnaney died a few days
later.
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In Other Ventures./
Benny went into other mining ven
tures with his retrieved stake. But
lightning luck seldom strikes twice,
he found. Finally he turned back to
Pembroke.
He had a pretty little
home there, a wife who was a mate,
nnd three youngsters who worshiped
him ns king of everything. He was
Lappy. To while away the long win
ter months he opened a bowling al
ley—dapper Benny’s place, it was
known throughout the country.
Word came that the Hollinger mine
was being called "one of the great
gold mines in the world."
“Don’t .you wisli you had swung
on?” he was asked. "I see the stock
they offered you at $3.50 a share Is
selling for $60."
Benny smiled and shook hls head.
"I’m glad they are making It pay,” he
said. "They deserve it; they played
square with me. And I’m happy here.
Suppose we go deer hunting tomor
row?”
They did. That was in the fall, of
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A few days later Benny returned
with a buck's antlers for the children.
They saw him afar off, and ran to
meet him.
His wife came to the
doorway, smiling. She had cooked Just
what he wanted—it was ready for
him.
Benny, in the prime of health and
feeling that the good God had been
kind to give him so much happiness,
went In and sat down at the table. He
bowed hls head In prayer. Hls heart
stopped beating before he could re
open hls eyes.
They havetaken $50,000,000 out of
the Hollinger mines. General Mana
ger A. F. Brigham announced this
week that $40,000,000 worth of ore had
been charted out for the next three
years. Experts say there is another
$400,000,000 worth of gold waiting for
them. A million dollars worth of ore
Is being taken out each month, and
one-half of that Is net profit. Some
of the members of the original syndi
cate are receiving dividends at the
rate of $6,000 a day. It is the world's
greatest gold mine.—New York World.
Once Owned the
Greatest Mine __
Dapper Benny Hit Upon Six
Claims That Now Produce
$1,000,000 a Month.
LADYJÄ TURNS HER RACK
Benny, Saved by
Settled Down
Heart Stops
Saying
Philosophical Slant,
to Simple Life-
Beating While
a Prayer.
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then deserts him. What do you
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most lost In low-lying spruce swamps.
They staked twelve claims. Then they
tossed a coin to decide which should
take the six east and which the six
west claims. Benny got the western
ones.
Benny found a prospector's forge,
overgrown with dank grass, on bls
land. Homeone had given up there,
years before. By the side of those
claims ran the portage trail, over
which hundreds hud passed. No one
hud found gold there, but you never
knew your luck till you tried.
The dapper adventurer began dig
ging, and he found quartz veined with
what looked like gold. He filled a
pack, full, and started Cobalt way.
Days later when he reached the edge
of Cobalt he met Alphonse Pare, min
ing engineer, and nephew of the Tim
mons Brothers, former storekeepers,
who had made a little money silver
mining around Cobalt.
Pare stop|x«d Benny and asked what
luck. He had a hunch that Benny’s
luck had turned after seven years of
failure. Benny showed his samples.
Pare decided there was no reason for
Benny to visit Cobalt—the thing to do
was to turn around and go back and
talk business.
Pare made quick work with his pack
and the two beaded northward. Snow
began to full before they reached the
Porcupine lands, but a providential
rain washed It awuy the day before
they reached the claims. That was
the fall of 1909.
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Gold Sticks Out
Yellow gold of unusual richness was
sticking out all over the white quartz.
The rains had washed it clear. The
two stood in an Infinite solitude be
side the ground which in 1923 was to
be hailed aS the world's greatest gold
mine, with an output of $1,000,000
worth of gold a month. Gillies was
elsewhere, nnd the nearest neighbor
was old Bill Davlanon, laboriously
panning gold beyond the hills.
Pare's trained eyes told him of the
find.
But Pare played the game
squarely. He sat on a boulder, looked
across at Benny nonchalantly packing
his pipe, nnd asked him if he realized
what he hnd found.
“I have found—some gold,” Benny
nnswered, gazing over the waste land.
.“You have found—much gold,” Pare
told him. Pare opened his wallet, took
out- $2,(MM) In currency nnd laid it on
the boulder.
"That's for the right to look In.” he
said succinctly.
Benny accepted the
money nnd continued smoking. Pare
took his geological hammer and spent
the rest of the day tapping rocks.
When they started back to Cobalt
Pare offered, in behalf of the Tiin-
mons-McMartin-Dunlap
syndicate,
$330,000 for Benny’s six claims If the
samples assayed as high as he regard
ed them. Benny was satisfied.
To Give One to Pal.
But Benny made one stipulation.
That sum would purchase only five
of the claims, for he was going to give
one of them to his old pal, Barney
McEnaney.
Barney had befriended
him, and It was only fair that he
should share his prosperity. McMahon
hnd agreed to this when he grub
staked Benny. To this Pare made no
objection. Thus five claims would still
be worth $330,000.
When the assay was completed Pare
called Benny In. The syndicate found
It would require much money to de
velop those claims. Their original of
fer held good; they never broke their
Timmons, Ont.—The gang In the
corner of the bar at Cobalt Camp was
playing seven up under a smelly oil
lamp. Jack McMahon was mopping
the bar and mentally calling It a bad
night. Then the stonn door opened
and dapper Benny Hollinger, the gen
tleman adventurer, was pushed in by
the north wind.
“ ’Lo everybody—luck to you all,”
he shouted, as he peeled Ida macki
naw off and tossed it on the three-
legged chair,
“Drinks for the gentlemen. Jack.”
he ordered, stepping over to the Em
pire stove to thaw out.
Jack walked from behind the bar
ahd pourinl three Ungers for each curd
player. Fifteen drinks had to come
from each quart, and he preferred to
portion the liquid himself.. But as for
Benny, well, any one could see with
linlf un eye that he was a gentleman,
and therefore wouldn't take more than
two fingers. So the bottle was placed
beside u glass on the bar, and Jack
said in his Ingratiating manner, "Step
up and pour for yourself, Benny."
Benny Pours.
Benny forsook the stove nnd poured.
"Lucky, Benny," the gang wished,
as the red-eye was washed down.
Benny leaned over the bar and
whispered: “Jack, there’s a gold mine
waiting for you and me—up Porcu
pine way."
"So?" Jack queried. He had heard
similar tales before.
"Gold, waiting to be picked up,"
Benny continued. "And what Is more,
my luck’s Just rigid now."
Jack hud heard those stories of the
Porcupine field, 150 miles north and
MM) miles from Toronto.
"But no
body's found any real pay dirt that
I know," he interjected. “Seems that
It's all talk nnd no dust."
Benny talked on. He knew the
land and he knew men who had found
gold there. What was needed was
|75 for a grub stake.
"We’ll share nn<J share alike,"
Benny urged. Finally Jack gave in.
It was hard to hold out ngninst
Benny. He was such a pleasant, per
suasive talker.
When Benny walked out with
Jack's |75 the gang In the corner
roared. Benny had been grubstaked
before and had never found his mine.
They Joked McMahon so much that
he became doubtful of the whole en
terprise.
But one couldn't take a
grub-stake back. It wasn't done.
But Jack McMahon had a brother-
in-law, In Labine. He told Jim of the
Porcupine’s richness. One-half of his
half in Benny’s stake could be had
for $75—because he was in the family.
They all had better get rich together.
Jim paid his $75.
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witnesses In the trial of two
shop strikers who were accused
of violating the Industrie? court
law, the sheriff of Brown conn-
ty, Kansas, rang the fire bells
at Horton, Kan., where most of
the witnesses live, nnd when the
crowd had assembled,
virtually
every person in it was notified
to be In court at the next ses-
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New York.—A man recently brought
Into night court for intoxication won
the sympathy of the court by stating
that he had recently given a quart of
ids blood by transfusion and in hls
weakened state had drunk more than
lie could stand. Later he amplified
his story, saying that he had submitted
to 206 blood transfusions in three
years. These statements drew a pro
test from the small number of men
who make a business of giving their
blood to others and who bold them
selves at the call of physicians and
hospitals.
The Order of Blood Donors is Jeal
ous of Its reputation and branded as
false the culprit whose case found Its
way into court In the first place, its
members said, no blood donor would
be haled to court for intoxication be
cause one of the first requirements for
the “profession" is clean living. Ac-
cording to them, nothlng would throw
a donor Into the discard quicker th*n
even a suspicion of alcoholic taint in
his blood. And Thomas Gane of 502
East Fifty-first street, who lays claim
to the record for transfusions, said
that it would be a physical impossibil
ity for one to undergo transfusion 206
times in three years. The best Kane
has been able to do la 49 transfusions
since 1914.
Profession Is New.
The profession of blood donor is com
paratively new. A few years ago when
transfusion was necessary some friend
or relative had to volunteer or an ad
vertisement was put in the newspa
pers asking for a donor. There was
never any trouble In finding persons
ready to lose some of their blood for
pay, but It was sometimes difficult to
select an applicant whose blood would
stand the test When a physician or
hospital found a man whose blood did
stand the test they kept in touch with
him, and It was in this way that the
first waiting list was made up. Ac
cording to Kane there are about 400
men who make a practice of answer
ing calls and who “go out” on cases
whenever needed.
Each time the donor is called he
gives from a pint to a quart of blood,
so there must be long intervals be
tween aid calls. The pay is surpris
ingly small.
Being accepted as a donor was not
such an easy matter, he said. Before
the blood Is taken from a donor it has
to pass the Wasserman test to see If
It is free from the taint of disease. The
donor then has tp submit to a blood
count; that is, a test to see whether
his blood Is up to a standard of rich
ness. Then the applicant must be In
the same grqup with the patient. This
means that the physician must select
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blood which will unite readily and uni
formly with that of the recipient.
“Stories of men who have received
fabulous sums for a pint or more of
their blood are false and are usually
Inspired by boasting.” said Kane. “I
have heard such stories and I know
from actual experience that they are
untrue. In the first place, under mod
ern methods, the donor in most cases
does not come into personal contact
with the recipient of hls blood and the
physician is the one who looks after
the financial end of such transactions.
That eliminates acquaintance and a
sense of gratitude on the part of the
patient.”
Poor Way to Make a Living.
The establishment of a permanent
market for human blood does not mean
that the donor can make a living of
IL He could not stand the strain of
continual loss, even If the demand for
hls services was constant and there Is
not enough money In IL Bq the pro
fesional donors follow other lines of
permanent employment and answer
calls in order to increase their In
comes. The present list of available
donors includes men of many occupa
tions, usually those who do manual la
bor, for the donor must keep his blood
in the pink of condition.
Prior to 1919 the standard price for
transfusion was $25. The cost of this
operation has gone up with other
costs. The donor now gets $35 to $50
a case.
Sometimes, because of the
condition of the patient, it Is neces
sary to keep a donor on hand tor gen
eral days before an operation is ex
pedient When this Is the case, Kane
said, the donor receives hls keep and
$5 for each day of waiting.
Edward P. Snyder of Baltimore re
cently celebrated hls forty-sixth year
as a newsboy on the same stand. Sny
der started to sell papers when he was
twelve years old, and established him
self at the comer of Green and Frank
lin streets. He’s still there and do-
Inf a bigger business every year. He’s
never bad any other Job, but has made
a success of selling newspapers.
Cost of Bigotry.
The bill for burning three eminent
martyrs in England Is preserved in
the British museum. Including cost
of faggots, furze, a post, two chains,
two tables and laborers. It totals $6.66.
War Heroes Are
Dropping Out
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Official Charts Show Their Places
as America’s Defenders Are
Being Refilled.
YOUNGER MEN FILL RANKS
A Decade After Their Discharge Only
423,000 of the 3,000,000 Men of
Pershing's Army Will Be
Available for Service.
Washington.—Men who shared with
Pershing the great adventure in
France are passing off the stage as
America’s defenders. Official charts
show that their place already is be
ing taken by the younger brothers of
the A. E. F. Tomorrow it will be their
sons who stand ready to fight for the
flag.
The charts show, that of more than
3,000,000 men discharged from the
wartime army up to January 1, 1920,
there will be available in 1925 for
Class 1 service—and that means bat
tle service, face to face with the foe-
little more than 600,000 veterans.
Millions trooped to the colors in
the World war, but even the eighteen-
year-old youngsters among them will
be men weighted with cares and re
sponsibilities by 1945.
How Io wans Treat Hen Thieves
Youths Must Stay Home
at Night for Two Years
Judge Vanderwerp of Muske
gon, Mich., in paroling Frank
Kettle and Roy McClure, each
less than twenty years old, who
were convicted of the charge of
breaking and entering a build
ing, made It a provision that
they must stay at home nights
for two years.
They will have married or will have
acquired other dependents; they will
be broken with years; many will have
died; some will be working at tasks
as essential as soldiering, and none
will be left to man the trenches. The
bright day of their youth and fighting
powers will be but an honored heri
tage for their sons.
“Of the 3,128,670 officers and men
examined for discharge to December
1, 1919,” says the colorless record of
the War depat tment, “2,981,560 were
discharged without disability.
It is
assumed that by 1925, or approxi
mately five years after discharge, they
will have attained the status (having
acquired dependents, engaged In es
sential occupations, incurred disabili
ties, etc.) of average citizens, and
would be available (held for serviceh
in the same proportion as obtained
with those registered under the last
draft.”
Application of the census bureau
death rate, coupled with the knowl
edge gained of average conditions sur
rounding the age groups Involved by
the calling up for examination under
the draft act of millions of citizens,
gives a clear vision of what time Is
doing to the great body of trained sol
diers poured back into the country
after the armistice.
Basis of Calculations.
That Is the basis of the War de
partment calculations as to probable
exemptions, and the basis, too, to the
pressure for filling up the organized
reserves with new blood edch year into
an unfailing reservoir of fighting
strength, at least partially ready to an
swer the call to arms.
By age groups the veterans above
thirty-six years in 1918, will have
ceased to exist from a military view
point in 1925. and of more than 135,-
000 in the thirty-six-year class some
20,000 might still be ready for a call.
By 1930, all those above thirty-three
years In 1918 will be gone, and by
1935, all who were above twenty-eight
years In 1918, will have vanished
from the charts.
By 1940, the youngsters who were
twenty-three years old when 1918
brought them to the colors, will show
a mere 22.000 still ready for active
service, and hy 1945. the elghteen-year-
old youths of those days of war could
muster probably only 5.310 veterans of
St. Mlhiel and the Argonne to follow
the flag again.
Pastor Uses Calliope to Boost Church.
New York.—A circus steam calliope
These three men were seized by a committee of vigilantes and treated to trundled through the crowded streets
coats of tar and feathers. The flashlight photograph was secured by City Mar of New York city tooting the tune
of “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” Rev.
shall John L. Spurr, who arrived on the scene too late to save the three men
whom the vigilantes had charged with chicken stealing. The Incident occurred Christian Freisner sent it out to at
at Sanborn, Iowa. Buqkets In which the tar had been prepared were used to tract worshipers to the Chelsea Meth
hide the faces of two of the victims. The third didn’t need any covering other odist Episcopal church for Sunday
services.
than the tar and feathers.