ASSINIBOINE 



boiled water by dropping hot stones into it. 

 lived between the Missouri and Sas- 

 katchewan rivers, on both sides of the 

 ::an border. About 1.250 are now on 

 reservations near forts Baldwin and Peck in 

 Montana, and a slightly larger number live 

 in Canada. 



ASSINIBOINE, asin' iboyn, a river of 

 Southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the 

 chief tributary of the Red River, into which 

 it flows at the city of Winnipeg. The Assini- 

 boine proper rises in Eastern Saskatchewan, 

 near the Manitoba boundary, and flows south- 

 ward for 200 miles to meet the Qu'Appelle, 

 which rises about fifty miles northwest of 

 Moose Jaw and flows eastward for 270 miles. 

 From this junction to the mouth of the Assini- 

 boine at Winnipeg is a course of about 250 

 miles, through some of the richest grain lands 

 of the Dominion. Near Brandon, Man., the 

 Assiniboine is joined from the south by the 

 Souris, which rises in the southeastern corner 

 of Saskatchewan, makes a wide bend through 

 North Dakota, and then returns northward. 

 The drainage area of this combined system is 

 52,600 square miles. 



ASSINIBOINE, MOUNT, one of the rugged 

 and most beautiful peaks in the Canadian 

 Rockies. It lies on the boundary between 

 Alberta and British Columbia, twenty miles 

 south of Banff, and rises to an altitude of 

 11,860 feet. Its shape is somewhat triangular, 

 like that of the Matterhorn in Switzerland, 

 and like the Matterhorn it is extremely diffi- 

 cult to climb. The east face is a sheer preci- 

 pice, and the west face, though less steep, is 

 covered with ice and snow, which frequently 

 break loose in great avalanches. The lower 

 part of the northern slope presents three dis- 

 tinct faces, which attain an angle of 80 where 

 they merge into the final spire. The first 

 ascent of Mount Assiniboine was made in 1901. 



ASSOCIATED PRESS, an organization com- 

 posed of the publishers of daily newspapers 

 who thus combine to furnish each other with 

 the important news of the day. No newspaper 

 not a member of the Associated Press may 

 receive its dispatches. 



With a view to making this service of the 

 greatest value, the United States is divided 

 into four geographical sections. News dis- 

 patches are sent to the headquarters of each 

 division; those that are of national interest 

 are telegraphed to all members in the four 

 sections; those of more local importance but 

 without general news value are sent only to 



) ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL 



those papers in sections where they are avail- 

 able for use. 



The Associated Press is a close corporation. 

 In great cities a certain number of franchises, 

 or memberships, are available, for it would 

 dearly be against public interest in a great 

 metropolis if there were but one member 

 of this greatest news-gathering organization. 

 However, in small cities but one paper can 

 be a member of the Associated Press. Mem- 

 bers do not pay a fixed sum per year, but the 

 cost of maintenance of the service is pro-rated 

 among all members. 



The Associated Press employs correspond- 

 ents to represent it in all the great cities of 

 the world, but no papers in Europe are mem- 

 bers. European journals are served by their 

 local press associations, among which the 

 Renter and the Havas agencies are probably 

 the largest. 



There are in the United States other agen- 

 cies with a wide field, but none other is so 

 great or so influential. Among these minor 

 organizations may be named the United Press, 

 the Scripps League and the International News 

 Service. 



ASSOCIATION, LAW OF, in psychology, de- 

 notes the way the mind travels from one idea 

 to another. The conditions under which a 

 thought suggests another are classified by psy- 

 chologists under four general laws, as follows: 



(1) Those ideas which are perceived together, 

 or contiguity; 



(2) Ideas following each other in order of 

 time, or succession; 



(3) Those ideas which bear a close likeness 

 to each other, or similarity; 



(4) Those ideas which are opposite in mean- 

 ing, or contrast. 



We also recall experiences that have oc- 

 curred together or in the order in which Ihey 

 are experienced, by their similarity, and some- 

 times, though rarely, by their contrast. If 

 you will picture your breakfast table in your 

 mind's eye, you will find that this will bring 

 up images or memories of the people you saw 

 at breakfast, the things that were said there, 

 and so on. If you will follow the images that 

 come into the mind long enough you will find 

 that they come in about the order they were 

 experienced through the day. The child re- 

 members his multiplication table in the order 

 of 1, 2, 3, and if he attempts to say it back- 

 wards he has trouble. See PSYCHOLOGY; 

 HABIT; MEMORY. 



ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. See FOOTBALL, 

 subtitle Association Foothall. 



