The proprietor of the only garage in the village was not popular, because he seemed to have only one idea in mind, that of raising the price of gasoline. He controlled all the supply of that valuable fluid and every time he thought of it he boosted the rate a nickel or so. The disliked man had a daughter, who had a sweetheart. He was a young man who came to the town and started a photograph gallery, but met with little success. True, he made a hit when he took the garage keeper posing in the midst of motor cars, but unfortunately he set the place afire. With local customers he was also unlucky, for somehow the pictures he took were always out of focus, and so badly distorted that customers would never pay for them. Hence, within a short time the sheriff took possession of the photograph gallery. The young man called upon the girl and told her his career was over. While she was trying to console him her father entered and ordered the young man away, saying that no man who does not work “can court my daughter when gasoline is selling at 90c a gallon.” The young man admitted the truth of the argument and was just about going away when he chanced to look through the window and saw that snow was falling, so he turned upon his father-in-law-elect and said resolutely: “Listen, a job awaits me; I will become a snow shoveler.” And he did. In any line of business the energetic man can make good. The snow shoveler worked so enthusiastically that within a few hours he became a foreman, much to the joy of the other laborers in his gang. In the meantime the garage keeper was in trouble. A poor widow and little child had endeavored to buy some gasoline and had been rudely repulsed. She sobbed out her sad story to several young men, and they determined to make an example of the wicked garage keeper. They found him in his home and would have made him swallow his own gasoline had it not been for his daughter. The girl went to the roof of the building and attracted the attention of her sweetheart by hitting him with a snowball. He came to her rescue and the intruders were vanquished in hand-to-hand combat. His narrow escape taught the garage keeper the wickedness of his conduct, and he voluntarily reduced the price of gasoline so low that the poorest widow in town could buy all she wanted of it. In addition, he permitted his daughter to marry the man of her choice.