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Mutual Weekly M©o 4i\
Baby Show in Michigan — A splendid collection of youngsters shown at Kalamazoo.
Santos Dumont Honored — First aviator present at dedication of his own monument.
Shooting the Mail Through Tubes — An experimental plant at Paterson, N. J., latest devised scheme for rapid mail transit.
Argentine President Attends a Fair — Chief Executive of South American Republic opens a big country exposition.
Macaroni Factory Burns — Long Island City plant quickly destroyed by fire.
100 Years After Leipzig — Germany celebrates anniversary of famous battle.
San Francisco Football Mad — U. of C. and Stanford teams meet on Stanford field.
Funeral of Zeppelin Victims — 28 German officers killed in balloon explosion buried in Berlin.
Off to the Border — 15th Regiment, U. S. Cavalry, leaves Fort Meyer, Va., for Fort Bliss, Texas.
A 1,000-Ton Blast — Bethlehem Iron Works shaves off side of a mountain at McAfee, N. J.
The Ambition of Youth
"Johnny, why don't you be a good boy like your brother Willy?" the mother was sternly admonishing her naughty son. "Willy here may be president some day, while you will have to dig in the sewer."
"But, mother," wailed Willy, "can't I dig in the sewer sometimes too?" — Harper's Weekly.
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, The Long Portage
Dec. 5, 1913.
For several years, Canadian stories have been very popular in the magazines — in fact, ever since Sir Gilbert Parker's Right of Way focussed public interest upon Our Lady of the Snows. As a rule, these Canadian stories deal with life in the raw — among men who live and love and hate in a primitive way. Consequently, there is frequently more tragedy than humor in the narratives and legends which reach us. The Lang Portage belongs in this class. Were the scene laid in a more civilized lattitude, the play would be too sombre — but it is more or less true to the section which it describes.
A Canadian trapper leaves his fiancee at a small border settlement and goes off on his regular yearly trip into the woods — La Longue Traverse — {or Portage). In the wilds, ht saves the life of a handsome stranger who returns with him to the settlement. Then he is called away to the bedside of his dying mother in Quebec — and the handsome stranger lies about him to the girl until she breaks the engagement and promises to marry the scoundrel. Later, the trapper comes upon the fellow in a bearpit, with a broken leg. Securing a written confession from him, the trapper leaves him to die in the pit and sends the confession by a friend to the girl — who is broken-hearted over losing them both. Of course, in life, any man worth powder enough to blow him up would have forgiven the girl for breaking the engagement under the circumstances, and gone back to her — but it makes a more harrowing story this way, and gives opportunity for about the limit of melodrama. The play is certainly not dull — and the Canadian pictures are beautiful.
'The Long Portage"
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