Show Enough to in a Storm But Could Make a Lumber Loop r F D Jones of Duluth Minn Minu who has largo large rind and widely distributed mining and lumber Interests was in a reminiscent moon mood the other evening at the Wilson WilsO hotel and told a story of how he hue valuable bits of qC Information from a half witted boy in his home town Warren Fa Pa when he was a lad earning barely baret enough to keep body and soul together The boy I refer to would so go out in a rainstorm and extend his hand to be con convinced vinced that it was really raining said Mr Jones In other words he did ditl set not have gumption enough to go indoors when it rained One day I was driving a teenS team of horses attached to a truck heavily laden with timber It came about that the latter worked loose in Ia susie some way ana I got down from my say perch to adjust the fastenings confess that I did irot known just how to go about it but I made a a des desperate desPerate effort to ts get tire the ropes taut Pros Pre this boy bow came up took the end of the rope hand and in ina ina a jiffy had the bundles so looped that alt all was secure and fast He then showed me use how ny by a simple trick of one hand he could loosen the whole load A man can cannot 0 not describe it offhand unless he had a load 1011 of timber to demonstrate it but that loop is now used throughout the lumber districts of or the United States and Can Canada ads ada and that boy so far as I know was the inventor of it it My friend Browning says that out of a mul of counsel there comes comus wisdom and I think that that poor boy bereft as h ha i was of the ordinary faculties had a multitude of counsel stored away in his nis otherwise shallow shallots brain |