awaited the three industrious detectives. Presently Davison and McClintock trudged in. Their car had broken down and they were weary, foot-sore, out of sorts. Mr. Peters arrived a few minutes later, petulantly hitching up the voluminous trousers and muttering to himself. His audience assembled, Mr. Kelly observed, in a careless manner:

"The stuff is all upstairs. Help yourselves, gentlemen. Be kinder to your cook and you will save a lot of trouble."

"Huh!" grunted Bill Davison, his expression comically sheepish. "One of these fresh newspaper men! They ought to raise your salary."

The other victims choked up, glared murderously, and walked toward the beach.

"Hold on," shouted Kelly. "That isn't the story. I put one over on you and it was easy. Now let me present to your respectful attention a genuine detective.

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Listen to young Mr. Jeremiah Kendrick and learn how it's done."

Bashfulness overcame the hero so the reporter took pity on him and told the tale of the broken pipe-stem. Every word of it received flattering, silent attention. Then the headquarters men shook Jerry's hand and slapped him on the back, and the big voice of Bill Davison rose above the others.

"Say, boy, in case of a vacancy will you consider coming to New York and taking charge of our office?"

"What about a reward?" suggested McClintock. "It's usual. If he doesn't deserve it, then I never earned one myself. I'll start off with a ten spot."

"I should say not," firmly and finally declared Jerry Kendrick. "I am selling mouse-traps for a living. A reward? Why, there isn't money enough anywhere to make me feel any happier than I am this minute."

UEER things, faces, aren't they? "Poor chap, he can't help it!" one so often hears. Of course there are some things a fellow cannot help, but there is a good deal he can help if he only knows how, and has enough determination to do it.

For instance, that vacant, mouth-leftopen-by-mistake sort of expression. You It looks brainless

know what I mean.

and silly. The boy with that expression only needs to realize what an ass he appears, and he can quite easily make up his mind to alter it.

Then again, there's that hang-dog, miserable, slouching expression (of course, Scouts never have it!); but if by any chance you

should happen to let your "physog" drop into this bad habit, have a look in the mir

ror and laugh at it. It'll change. I can guarantee a change if you only laugh at your own dismal face in the glass.

There is another expression which you should avoid, and that is the high-andmighty, top-dog, disdainful air-nose atilt and a sort of sneer on the mouth. That is "swank"-and it's silly.

That senseless grin of the giggle-all-day boy. Don't, whatever you do, allow that to develop on your own countenance. A Scout's smile lights up the whole face, but this giggly-grin is quite a different expression, and means nothing. Beware, however, of looking too serious, as if all the troubles of the world rested upon your shoulders-they don't. Don't put on that expression, "I know everything -follow me”—y ou don't.

I can hear you saying, "Well, this is all very well; but what are we to do with our faces?"

Above all-look natural. But if any of the foregoing expressions are natural

to you, correct them now. Don't leave them there. They dry hard, like clay, and in later years you can't "rub them out."

Keep your face calm and happy, and determined to "win through" everything.

But don't allow your face to do as it likes, otherwise you have lost control. You'd think it rather queer if your feet began to walk when you wanted to sit still, wouldn't you? It's the same thing with your face.

Keep it in order-and "under orders." Mind your face! You can help a good deal in expression, anyway. Go in for a course of "Smile Drill" before the mirror, and get your face right while there's still time to alter

HERE are many kinds and degrees

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of electrical work. Its chief branches today are railway and telephone systems, light and power plants, the installation and repair of wiring in buildings, and the manufacture of electrical machinery and apparatus.

An untrained man, starting as conductor, motorman, barnman, or lineman, will remain in the ranks of unskilled workers unless he adds to his limited daily experience such a study of electrical principles as will give him an intelligent understanding of the forces with which he works. Private study and reading, correspondence or night school courses are his way out to a broader field and an increase of income. Mathematics, chemistry, physics, and electrical principles will fit him for a position. as foreman, inspector, or installation engineer.

In manufacturing plants electrical machinery has become so standardized that one capable engineer can direct the work of hundreds of workmen, who, unless they are alert and quick to learn, may fall into the rut of machine tending just as in other kinds of factory work.

The Boy Who Starts

The average boy starting with one of the larger companies to learn by experience would be paid not over $8 or $9 a week. Many college men are content to

start at $9 a week to get practical experience from the ground up.

For the boy who goes to work after his high school course, or even after his grammar school course, there are a number of ways of getting ahead. Schools like Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh give industrial day and evening courses suited to the student who can spend only one or two years in preparation, or who is already at work. The city public schools, the Y. M. C. A.'s, such free institutions as Cooper Union in New York and Lowell Institute in Boston offer vocational and industrial training. Mechanics' Institutes offering trade and industrial courses at moderate rates are to be found in a number of cities.

The Electrical Engineer

The training necessary for electrical engineering is a thorough four years' course at a technical school or university. The boy who looks forward to engineering may begin his specialization in mathemat ics, science, mechanical drawing, and shop work in his high school days. For the higher course there are many schools to choose from.

The best training in this field is to be found at our best technical schools and the larger universities. Such schools require at least fifteen units of secondary

school work for entrance. A unit means the study of a subject for one full school year with the equivalent of five recitation periods a week. Some schools admit by certificate from approved high schools and private schools, others by examination. only.

The poor boy is not necessarily barred. from the best schools and the best schools are not always the most expensive. In all schools there are students who earn a part or all of their expenses without neglecting their studies. All schools have a limited number of scholarships and other means of aid for students with more ambition than money.

School catalogues usually give an estimate of the average cost of a year's attendance. They advise the student who expects to earn his own way to come with enough money for the first half year.

After Graduation

ranks and work through the various departments to a thorough experience and grasp of the whole business.

There are opportunities for a considerable number of technically trained men in the sales departments of the manufacturing companies. The sales engineer who combines scientific knowledge with business ability, is a well paid man. Salaries of $2,000 to $2,500 a year are not uncommon

Schools help their graduates to find positions, although they do not guarantee positions. But the demand for well trained men from the best schools is great enough to insure the placing of practically all graduates soon after graduation and in many cases before graduation. The higher the reputation of the school the more are its graduates sought.

Getting ahead after graduation means hard, dogged work. A technical graduate has to learn many things before he gets his bearings in practical engineering. Many electric companies have established apprenticeship courses for technical graduates, where they may start in the

for such work and a man of marked ability might go several thousands higher.

The contracting field has proved profitable to engineers who possess business judgment and execute ability in addition to technical training.

Competent designers of electrical machinery are rare in all parts of the field and correspondingly well paid.

Electrical engineering offers unlimited work and unlimited opportunity to the boy who has the brains, the grit, and the ambition to make the most of it.