Lighting A Pipe In A Wind

"Paddling up Sebee Lake last summer in a birch-bark canoe," said a New York sportsman to a Sun writer, "the breeze blew so hard and constantly that, try as I inight, I could not keep a match ablaze long enough to light my pipe. After half a dozen matches had nared out in the lighting of them, I made some forcible remarks apropos of my failure. 'Let me show you how to do it,' said my companion, an old Californian, who was handling the bow paddie. 'Hand me a bit of that newspaper sticking out of your pocket.' "He took the piece of paper and crumpled it up into a wad, which he retained in the palm of his hand. Then striking a match, he closed both hands about it to s'aield it froni the wind. after the traditional manner of the railroad navvy in lighting his pipe. The name instantly set the paper smoulder7 ing on the top without its breakicg into a blazo. He passed the burning wad to me, and it served as a pipe lighter equal to a live coal, the high breeze fanning ir:Steal of ctingulshing it. It was the siiuple invention of a practical mind, which scred my turn then and afterward, and I commend the device to sportsr.'.en needing tinder for a pipt (ight or to start a camp fire."