Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-20

sRalph D. Paine. whose latest pooA'
'HThe Stroke Oar" first appeared re-
Gently as novel in the Popular Mag
azine, is contributing a story Of col
lege athletics to every number of the
magazine. Better even than 1.-THE
Stroke Oar is Glow Hector Won His
tY,'" which is only one Of the features
of the January Popular. This is tale
of the perennial candidate for athletic
honors at Yale, who, at the instance of
a brindle bull, discovers that he is a
human grasshopper. How he went to
England to compete against Oxford and
Cambridge in the high jump, how the
Akmet of Tongaloo almost hoodooed
him, and how Julius Caesar Jones once
more proved himself to be "the old re-
liable mascot" is told in the January
number of the Popular Magazine-the
biggest fiction magazine on earth, COM
prising two hundred and twenty-four
pages Of breathlessly interesting fc-
ton, twelve unusual stories of romance,
humor~ and adventure. ---.-...
The Indian has conspicuously figured
of late years in magazine illustration
and dramatic presentation. We have
had him in all the postures of saVagery
agencies and depicted in his degener-
acy at the railroad stations in the en-
Der and ash Of his past glory-the VIC
tim of mescal. 1t has remained Tor
Pierre Beringer, the editor Of the Over
land magazine, to challenge attention
with q new and fascinating face OF a
Carlisle buck, which finds illustration
on the cover page Of the December
number Of California's monthly OF
splendid heritage. The brush Of Pierre
n. Beringer has deftly transformed
into a work of alluring and fascinating
art a sitting Indian cowboy. The Shad-
ing Of the sphinxlike facial Hneaments
and the colorings and shadows: define
the tensity of expression which require
no caption of words to index the feel
ings which harrow the savage soul.
"I would rather be a blanketed Indian
than a tricky white politician" is the
expression the face conveys-and the
Indian exists and the story Is true that
prompted this graphic portrayal Of the
Overland Monthly cover. 1t is that OF
an Indiana Carlisle -adnate, VINO
aspired to the office of sheriff. BY
voice of the ballots he was elected
by the trickery Of his white opponent
the latter got the position. The edu-
Gated savage had tasted Of civilization
and its fruits-and he now looks out
from the wilderness toward where the
sun rises and ScornS in graphic -ex-
preston at the white man and his
crooked ways.
Everywhere the south is already
catching fire with the new and radical
idea that the small farmer may really
make money In Virginia, farmers, on
land valued at 81 an acre, have sud-
denly taken to growing crops valued
at 500 an acre. Young men are be-
ginning to stay in the country in order
to make money. Even the young men
in city sweatshops and factories have
caught the glad tidings and are hur-
rying back to the soil to try their luck,
and draw a good deep breath, and are
taking some Of the city's savoir vivre
with them into the country.
And If the south, why not the north?
Why not New England?
Asa Judd was told the other day
that, with the new government meth
ods, ..e might clear a profit of at least
$1,000 next year. He merely smiled his
great, whole-souled smile, scratched
his head q little and went on doggedly
doing the work Of two men and a, horse
in the same old, futile Arcadian way.
But have high hopes Of him and of
Laban. One of these days the depart
ment of agriculture will establish a
demonstration farm in the White noun
tains-a farm only half as large as
Badgers" yet one that will grow two
tions of hay to Asa Judd's one and
plenty Of grain into the bargain.
And presently one will notice two
teams in the old Badger barn, and two
young hired men at the dining table,
and that sleigh will actually material
ize. So will that graphophone, and
ma" Badger will lose her anxious
look and begin to feel as though her
head were "wuth' more than the long
est doctors bill ever made out. And
that dollar will cease rotating on It's
axis and will be laid to rest in the bank
to save wear and tear.-Robert Haven
Schauffler in Success.
The only way to overcome bashful-
ness is to act and think as If you were
not bashful, and keep at it until all
your being takes the attitude of un-
bashfulness-the attitude of natural
ness, of self-expresslon.
Keep company and blat out yourself,
gTins or no grins. Express yourself,
and keep on doing it. Better be a
buffoon than a self-cramped dumb
head. Better. hop across the parlor
floor on one foot, with a will, and set
the company laughing at you, than to
sit like shriyeled mummy in a corner
for people to pity or despise!
You would not expect to learn to
play the piano, or to shave yourself
neatly without practice. Why expect
to learn company manners and activi-
ties without practice?
Between times watch other folks
who are not bashful and catch onto
their style of doing things
If anybody laughs at you laugh with
him. Take yourself as a polliwog- joke
that will presently bloom into a better
life. You will find yourself blooming
before you know it.-Elizabeth Towne
in January Nautilus.
The life of a chauffeur who drives for
glory is a strenuous one. When he Is
net trying to clip a. second off his own
or a rivals record on the track, or
lodging cops on endurance runs or
speed tests. he is rushing to and fro
between factory and salesroom, trying
out high-powered new machines, turn