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Article IV.
You have learned just what your
gasoline steed is, how it works, what
it consumes for fodder and how the
fodder is converted .into miles per
:hour,• now it is time that you learned
to drive. Oh, yes; I know that the
salesman or demonstrator showed
you how to move certain pedals and
levers so as to make the tin horse jog
along and how to move the levers and
another pedal to make the critter
• speed up.; but that is not driving. One
► trouble is that a lot .of owners never
' get any further along than, this pre -
r
kindergarten dope.
You know of coutse- that 'there is a
change speed lever which enables you
r = tee start ,in low speed and then to go
into second or high speed at will, or
. s'3nto reverse; that there is a clutch,
you know, and , that there is a pedal
•where you "step on the gab" and
another which applies the brakes and
that there is still another lever call-
ed the emergency brake lever for use
when the car its standing or if the
other brake goes wrong, also for al-,
onghiternating -with- the Iatter on 'lank-
hills.
lls. But do you know enough not to
step on the gas every time some fel-
? ryvr, Iva 0.21, topeas you or ::t'otl � get 'In
try,., ,,T think T.
.a,:�. six.. �rh.u.. `i,-ou pari iAne
a chance with a dash?
But since you, know all about the country, the section in its turn being
uses of these levers, which are modi- ,ing paragraph. The car must be
fled in the case of the Ford, which slowed down and the clutch released divided into shelve and drawers, each
has pedals for the speed.„,slangs:, it slightly. Then without . •hesitation devoted either to the Army or Navy,
will be unnecessary to tell you how make a rapid shift. This does not or, perhaps, the particular regiment in
to use them,' and it will be possible mean that you are to hurry the pro- which His Majesty holds honorary
. to tell you what not to do. 'First of cess, but that when you start to shift rank. .
a11• as to the cititch. If you hit your you do it with•celerity and confidence. Almost every country in the world
nag a sharp cut with •the. whip she Remember that .practice makes per- has its special section, and the system
is so carefully arranged that irumedi-
jumps forward and ali,,,, most sends you feet.. 'Shifting to reverse must always
be done when the car is standing ately the head valet receives news of
the King's proposed visit to a for'elgn
country, or to any special function, he
can immediately place,his hand on• the
desired uniform:
Thus, in the section' devoted to
Spain, there is a special division in
the shape of a drawer devoted to
every regiment whose uniform His
Majesty has a right to wear.
Iii addition to those' official ward-
robes, there are, of course,- His ..Ma-
jesty's private clothes, which are pre-
sided over by a specially -appointed
h h d valet. This 'section is again divided
into clothes • of different thicknesses
and styles, suitable for the various
seasons, whilst another partition is
reserved entirely for dress suits and
evening clothes.
. Each garment is marked distinctly,
so that the valet will be able to re-
place
e-place it in the proper place. r
There is a considerable .amount of
work to be done in. keeping theso
suits in order, for each garment must
be brushed and pressed regularly once
a week, and the .same care is shown
towards the uniforms which are sel-
dom used, as to'wards the things most
likely to be needed.
Of course, His Majesty's colledtion
'of foreign unlforths mustp be kept up-
to-date,' and directly the head valet is
informed of any slight alteration made
in a particular uniform, the old one
must be cast aside, and a new_ one
made.
As only the highest skilled labor is
employed, a perfect fit is assured, and
r.
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way before the clutch is fully en-
gaged and the pedal released. With
a littte practice you can start the car
smoothly; until you caa you are 4n
the novice class still.
Now as to the change speed gears.
-.I have seen a lot of novices, not able ways an extremely neat and tidy ap-
to change the gears noiselessly, drive pearance, and seems to favor a grey
lounge suit for his indoor hours, whilst
his favorite outdoor dress is that of
an admiral 'in the Navy, which suits
him so well.
The Royal wardrobe is a vory large
one, and contains more, than one hug=
dred uniforms for wearing on various
In shifting into first speed,•. release occasions. For; instance; a visit to
clutch, hesitate an instant in neutral, 'France' to inspect a certain".regiment
long endugh to let the clutches stop of which His Majesty is colonel ueces-
spinning, and then quickly shift. .In .siestas; a - reneh.inl rm;,wlrile-an h,ts
shifting to second speed the.car 'Must. return, another costume must be forth;
be, speeded up a little, the clutch pedal
fully depressec1 nd, hesitating again
neutral for an instant, make the
shift; in,the same way°shift to high
speed. _
It is easy to shift to higher speed
usually. In spite of this ease, how-
ever ti many create all sorts of grinds
King George's Wardrobe.
The late King Edward was rept}ted
to be the best -dressed Monarch initho-I
world, and, naturally,.being coittitival-
ly in the public eye, he was often re-
sponsible for setting new; masculine
fashions._
It has been said that he was accus-
tomed to as maty as six changes a
day, not including those for special
functions. •
King George, liowever,' is noted for
the simplicity of his attire, and has
the habit that is so dear to English-
men of wearing. his clothes for a con=
siderable period. His Majesty has al
around the block rather than° turn in a
narrow street; don't join that class.
-With a little practice you can be a
real' driver, able to change gears',
withot alarming the whole neigh-
borhood. Too much haste is the chief
stumbling block.
coming to enable hint to take part in
some elvic 'function.
Having 'such is -considerable number
of clothes to dear with, a system must
be employed to• store them.
Royal wardrobe proper Is at
Buckingham Palace, and one large
room is devoted entirely to a1•ticles of
and crashes within the gear case.. A11. wearing apparel, which is carefully
such should take a half hour on a attended to by a staff of specially -
quiet street to try out .shifting, prat- .chosen valets, each one of whom has
tising over _..ancl.overr, Until -it is noise hie own, 4rart,tealao' ra ork t..
r.pal
fess, ' I'r i>vii iiy' . � -t of ” the p ..l ..
will 'tie needed ;i t tg.: .to lower
speeds. The`process is exactly the
reverse of the process of the preced-
;i: I E Sal:na g atl1''' ,.s .
The 'side's f this room are divided
into sections, and each section\ is -de-
voted to the uniforms of a different
over the back of the seat; so with the
gasoline nag; Ietting in the clutch
too .sharply is like the whip swish, or
• when the motorman starts the car
with a jerk, the car jumps off, per-
haps "dragging the tires, certainly
reeking- engine • and car, -besides yank-
ing the daylights almost out of you.
Nine -tenths, of the motion of .the
clutch pedal may be made very quick-
ly and the last tenth, or from. just
before the Flitch begins to engage
until it is fully engaged, must be
made slowly, so that the car is under
still.
Turning gives many troubles, par-
ticularly if the street be narrow. One
may easily, tell the old horse driver
at such a time. He will when curving
across the roadway quicky reverse
the wheel just before coming to a
stop, so that it is almost set .`'for tyle
-reverse curve. If you do not know
just what this m , watch .an old
driver do' it and y will at once
grasp the move. , ictice ° it until
turning is easy.
Women Forging Ahead
in London.
The modern woman is making her
'vtray into the close corporations kern
as the City .Companies, says a London
despatch. A few days ago- a woman
proved her right to admission into the
Spectacle Makers Company, one of-
the
fthe few City Companies that require
their members to have passed an
examination
Some of the twelve great companies
and the sixty-three minor companies I
were founded by men and women in.
terested in the industries they repre-
sent and stoma received. their charac
tare from .queens, but nowadays it is
the exception for them to admit
Men to membership. The Company of
Turners, whose 4craftdates back to
Boman times, has - enrolled one wo-
_-lagan,- a master turner who' did- impor-
tant work- In munition factories. Lady.
Wolsey is one of the women members
of the ancient Gardners Company.
Women have always been entitled
to the freedom of the . Clothworkers
Company, and the same, right is ac-
corded by the Skissera (or furriers)
Company, but the right gas by pater-
nity, and can only be claimed l: y those
daughters who were born after their
fathers were admitted. In some com-
panies where the right of admission
by paternity exists the claim is no
longer recognized.
Curiously enough, no woman is as
yet a member of the Apothecaries So-
ciety, though a good many women doc-
tors are licentiates of the society; and
every licentiate has a right to neem,
bershp. One would think they would
claim'the right, which carried with it
the freedgin of tate_ City of London,
bsi..the question df their admission has
never yet.been raised.
I.f -When Captain Cook, the famous fended their country_ in a long series
or wars against - the white invaders.
At one time the British had'10,000 sol-
diers.in New Zealand.cow) is very rich. The shaggy hair
The origin of the M_.aoris iauncor- Most people know .that turpentine Irk
ta1n, but tTira are presumably of Ma -a' product of the pine tree, but are not ; of the outer coat covers a soft, 1png-
Xacquainted with the meson by which j libered wool, equal !t not *superior to
lay stock, They have a tradition that the finest 'sheep wool. Large bull:
gr year cruising around the islands and the Islands were first, settled by an- it is obtained. .•
cultivating friendly relations with the cestors of.".theirs who came from a Beneath the barkthe-We of the tr?o aro •weigh from 600 to 700 pounds.
in -
Inhabitants. distant land in fourteen canoes. Most resfn-secrttng cells, whose output Is Musk oxen have not the roving in -
meant_ by nature ter healing wounds. 1 _ . - - '�,a -uellt1' devotin himself entirely India as a clerk. stir ct of cattle and cannot be easily'
They appeared to be amiable and cherished of their ancient weapons $ Y !; rlc because everyone at
if tt _skin of- the tree bei ROtinuled' "stampect1�c1 cWherr'alt.tCketl by wolves 1
sxceptionAlly tutelligent,; yet infanti- tiro, war -clubs .marls of a trap-slt1'c�ent to literature. Dean Swift fah eel at ; borne was lira(! of his hoof t(�iirper and
utile were crsrtTtlioitiy "qrr ctfccd, and and very beautiful green stone. A .severely, many more et the>e ceryls, (the principal oI'etriy of gamo animals ; his e' tm'nsttimi in Dublin 1 niversit;;. i his 1 upck ss dullue c:s. Dor ink, the dip -
much larger in size, clevelo andpour in the north)tat adult members of
aannibalisrii WWI an estah11s31red habit. i British sea captain anco asked a (thief
ti p. Ile became secretary t6 sir woo set lomaticr difficulties which rose between
The Maoris thought nothlttg of mak- 'what .lie would take in exchange •for, out great quantities of resin. tho herd farm a .circle around the ; Temple and 1r.+>I:etl for puli(icat ler.+' l:tt}'!.tr,d and Franee lien attracted the
t! . � o r ; til 1 yrs ) some
rade abltt';uggr,5tin��;; for the c•rirbiny, of the
Getting }'reach inflt•cr,fr••. In the war f.kat fol -
entangled l;;vrtrrl lie was 'I;iven It command and
but +lisl,istrErrl :,url► -rrrnari.;+d,le military
r to gonitis that he virtually becsani(r t'ot»-
hc!sd • ; rnan(lE'r-in•t'ir'.ef. in the troubles that
ani1�--'call.owed.=�'.'it-l�.- .;lr�►-:rrrrti-ve ch•tefs, he
- - ! was r(1ua11y re ottr5e; u1, 'and succeed•
mi;;• in laying the ir.tus(i:+tic rt of tate 13ri*
iT.tii 11511 l�:nipirt� in lnrtl;r cTu a, lour() hagis.
ers
tavigator, landed at Poverty Bay,
New Zealand,ein October, 1769, the na-
•tives took his ship for a gigantic •bird
and were struck with the size and
beauty of its wings. He spent nearly,
10S8
of the tailors, nor does , he have to be
fitted with &1l the varitfiis additions
to his wardrobe. -
Whence Comes the Tur-
pentine.
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CROSBY'S,KIDS
Lard Luck.
Ain't no use, as i cell see,
Iir sittin' underneath a tree
An' gr(,wlin' that your luck is bad,
An' that yodr life is extra sad;
Your life ain't sadder than your neigh-
bor's, - -
Nor any harder -are your labors;
It raffia: ops hits the saine as you,
An' he hoc. wr,ra< }.,� i,•,v,� r
1 e 1:� g, . - ` .. .S. •' 1, '.' ...'4 -, -,,
A.n' he ltas trouble - with the boss; •
You take his whole life through and
through, •
Why, he's 110 better off
than you.
If whinin' brushed tha'clouds away,
I wouldn't have- a word to say: -
If it made good friends out o' foes,
I'd whine a bit, too. I suppo.e;
But when I look around an' see
A lot of filen resemblin' me,
An' see 'em sad; and see '‘em gay.
'With work to do most every day,
Some full o'{un, some bent with care,,,
Some havin' troubles hard to bear, .
I reckon, as I count my woes,
They're 'bout what everybody, knows.
The day I find a pian who'll say s,
1'•Ie's ,never knewn a rainy day,
Who'll'raise his hat right up an' swear
In forty years he's had no care,
Has never had a single blow,
A,n' never known one touch o' woe, '
Has never seen a loved one die,,
Has never wept• ar heaved a sigh,
Has never had a plan go- wrong,
But always laughed his way along;
Then I'll.sit. down an' start to.whine
That all the hard, luck here Is mine.
Alaska and the Musk Oxen.
The treeless' coastal plains of north-
ern Alaska, from the_ international
boundary to Point Barrow and even
as far south as the Seaward Peninsula,
were at one time the hone of the
niusk ox. The animal seems to have
been exterminated in those regiEna
fifty or more years ago.
An .effort Is now to be made to re-
establish this interesting little species
of the genus Bos in the territory, the
plan being .to import from Coronation
Gulf or Melville Island a sufficient
number of specimens to form a herd.
This accomplished, they can be bred
for the benefit of natives and white
settlers.
The present governor of Alaska In-
dorses the scheme, and suggests that a
ship be sent to Melville Island in sum-
Sprirtg Corning. I-
•OON the t:srinets will be farming, plt►wieg up tine bosky Sdells: skies will wn►•be blue and ttltarmitig, au.d • 1 hr' breezes
cn
wearing bell,. f•,'vcry • day is bringing hearers Suring, th r
:•e.: nit we a' •e.; and this.precli►tl§ thought grows clearer as
I fed the'f`t , ce.iit•0, \linen i'rn-shaking down the ashes, w lien
I'm heaving -1n the coal, this reflection goes a4las,Ling through
the fibre cf niy soul; and I wave the rusty iioker and I slain the
furnace duos, fur 1 will icct• 110.0t1 49 stoke her, in -the spring terms: •
any sore. t)h, the winter Kinds are chilling, -and they Jolt lair us
when they strike, beet the sapriiigtiltl"'' calndy drilldng sU.ne-
Nviiere up she (lest% -pike ;, .and sire's bringing birds untl roses
and :t swarm of -bumble b'«i.s;• we forgot our frosted n(riea when
v;e- tlti•nk.'such thcrtIgh( as 11.1Ss ss "Spring- ,is. 'coming., geutle
roaster, svtth�that 1use!!(-u.1: siulle of 1i�r''s, and the•fariner4iith his...
SO4';ier, .will besos liW, secitleber , and ,we'll get up `tdenie patties
` its th4..aa•li';lin:titans- avkl,.glidsra ..wh ta',t.,1,.t:p.py:..saii.Lag .s.inartles .
-will escort the giggling ivaid and we'll be knee deep In clover,
• and furg't our every ,ore, for Use winter will be over, and the
.spring w:11 have the itut�r. •
Wise Men Say - Laugh and Live Long.
That iti 1;,,ns loiid:.t• than 1. 1)uc•t;1ra tell *lis that 10;l0Ut,t1 is bah
the people talk.
ter the health. \t„ all have to (lie
' In;lit .ia_.obl c`ri.t' .•1�Leala. s,=setatet.i"ass..4214Tit' 1a'-'
if a r ✓ •
at d -
�, _ 4. � ' l'• ..•." tees it ;s:,� •ri ;�
*eo le talk
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,. w --eels-et.°1i.•.4t IS heater too be optimistic. •.. ;..about.; 'r:6 ,�-(.i:til} is this the Lase at 3neal'.,
That the unPurtni't`tt� tLt_.:, t ,
es lutions Is that they :are (3-t'tett'�tlutey. If v,e are not Happy, we arta
nijigod resolutions not likely to ht' hungry, good diger,•
made too -late. .. - i
That are it not ,vlothy of the houtey• _ rigs:, it' has becti said, waits on :tope-
-comb who shun:; tine hi, c bee'.it; is the t t....'1'1 rr•f,►re, if r: e are wise, Hee
bees' have st!Iigs.•,, • "� sh:til tale. ('very f,I'('4•:tUtit;sl to: rendez
That often the thing- th.it vex 11:; ourselves as-hapt►y as we can.
most in others are 111" 1.`ry faiult:3 iu ; - A g+,otd rule is tt:'ver to indulge in
\shah they*resemble Deuselves. • itTty li!n(d of. di;t •us-i()rt at mealtimes.
That politeness is like r.11 Asir Political and religious probe eni s are
hion.___ -here may be nothing iii it, partirularl: to, be avoided. These
jut 1t eases the jolt:;• wonderfully. ' topic; ll;t`.e� 11v.:fly:s set people by the
That it is so easy to tion fau,lt'that ears, and always will. .&grectsren't ou
seif••respectirg persons• ought to be such -til ;Lies• is mainly a matter (t
ashamed to waste their energies in 1 to alp r:'•sitt itt. I'^ogle of different
that way, - • - t •utpf ,';stnetita will approac•s thct,i
That the 111011 with past=i and the ± tr(.isi difterf'nt angles.
men - with futures have their fid• ; People sometime; ►say` they are glad
nrirers. But the men with' pr', 'guts they (lid net live in the 11lad1e Ages.
are the real winners. 4hey feel afraid l,:s,t they should have
been. burnt . as heretics, or massacred
martyr. They forget that the
Roads That Lead Nowhere. !!idd:e ages. produced the. noblest of
"Since life is a journey and we l►:Ii,s all callings 'that • of tate jester. '
"this way ,dor onc,e, we should be sure It Was- the jester's duty to put at
of the, road we travel," said a 'recent their' e.sse ,all wito gathered round the
speaker, "So many roads . lelItl nd- board.-- 13y his sudden sallies of wit
where at all. There is nothing at the and tnirth lie banished ilullnes:s, ar.'t
end of the road whose ways leave a made .heat,t+i controversy- impossible.
buried -out soul; nothing at the end' is nliko the doctors.. he never- lei -iced'
of a mad struggle for tucney save anyone. .
poverty of spirit; notlilug at thr end (t rite, alas, are the .Toucirst•^lies of
of the road of pride save loneliness. ,.other days! Theirs was -a noble task,
nothing at. the end of i'etfll`e'ss -but nobly tulfilIed. - 'But if we cannot en-
disillus'icn and regret. - 1 gage a jester to make us merry, we
"The ways of love and service. of can - at least banish frowns and
friendship pnd goodness never miss- .-gruntb•les at table.
lead us; effey bring .us to the hilltops i Harsh words and ill -feeling may be
peace• as deadly almost tits -germs. Silence, if
waters it he the silence of friendship, is a
s their blessing. But gloom and rancour will
I spoil the best digestions.
of vision and to the valley
they lead us beside the still
and the lightof. hope falls ace
farther distances."
Triumph of the Dunce
Wotclsworth, one of the greatest
poets of the last century, was an ex-
tremely dull scholar, and kyr his own '
experience went a long .way towards
amens
the following summer with a bunch of lines, "The child to father cat he man." j
Thomas- Chatterton the wonderful
-musk oxen. Ie -believes than by thisboy-poet. returned from school one
means an industry at great future day with the message, "Your son is a
value could be created. fool of whom nothing can bo made."
Musk oxen are easily domesticated. Robert Burns, Scotland's greatest
Their neat is hardly distinguishable
from beef and their milk (about halt poet, was a_dunce at school, yet in his
the quantity yielded by an ordinary career he poured forth song after t-ong
of emotional tenderness which tirade
him immortal.
Goidstn;th, the celebrated author of
the "Vicar of Wakefield," ';Tho. _De-
serted Village," She Stoops to Con -
of his dominle. .Actother famous
preacher, •Isaac Barrow, was so slow •
and quarrelsome that he was counted
a disgrace to the'schoel.- r •
Dr
Shriswii''bury' School, had often to call
Charles Darwin _ _ithe most famous
naturalist of the nineteenth century)
to task for inattention and laziness
during his studies. Tho only thing'
that seemed to interest .him was the
contacting of caterpillars, worms, and .:
all sorts of creeping things, and the
risking of his own and his brother's
life by dangerous chemical experi-
ments.
Napoleon was spoken of at school as
-the "duff - sc umir,' and Wellington's
schoolmaster said that he' was only fit
quer," `sits ate aWftll dunce at school. to be Brod for• powder.
He found hia way to 1on+lun is 1+ ►f,r . Lurcl,.ltc.ttu+rt i'-li es --hare- teTtt nut' t0
in, the yo
bark is well s3cari-0(1 v. it h.:cuts (pre- front.
ling, presenting an impret;nabl
Lig an armed descc►tt tipoia ITr-distant ;his 'club, and the reply way, "your Hence to procure the res ferment which. however, did not attention f i i iper'r 1 y 5 me
island, rturding up its people, and arc- ship T 1Y is claimed that the murk ex con\
compllsbing a thorough ,clean-up, by 1 The chief explained tlsat the Hies'tc,rably made 11 n sccries of parra.el
•V's), aril a ret!et+tacle i5 pliic.ed be- bines all of the qualities most to be
eating ahem all in leisurely fashion. ! time of 'one netts wits required to make r
Captain Cook oatluratcsl their num- :rich a warclu1t Very likely, tit was ncah to catch, tin iiuid as it exudes. desired by a• pioneer population in a
The fluid is then distilled, and (he• desolate region. The wild wastes of
. bee at 404,000. To -day there are not ; true. For when nn•attempt was made
• volatile part of it, w hic•ti passes. over, northern !Alaska, utilized as grazing
,•. psorEi tlitin 40,0 0 .rfl,alivc►.°Like other' to turn out cluh� of like.pattern from iground for this picturesque beast,
is tirrpentlne. The r.es due iq what we l
• native races all over. Oceania, the the. sante material • with , the 11P1IT of t
Maoris alio dying out. They earned maciitnery the re. silt •Nva: failure, ntii:- r
elt�I "14 19," and ia•lisesi for many pur- i would thereby etc quire ,important
sposes. c:as. of its. employments being in 1 value, • yielding great gtiantitics of
the admiration of Lurol,eans by the ing to . tite_,_e tr:esue_. harclri 4f ztlw
• /kill eyed Vitra`►"ory with whit h they de. ; s'.cine.
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the manufacture of explosives.
meat and wool.
E'iterittg- t.ho ('htir( h, hs" wars made
Dean, of 'St. Patrick in 1 1:i. Get
entangled in p011)ica1 crint;av,(•rs;
lest favor with the popu.l:►r party,
f ei:soleti himself with a devotion
'literature,.•. which he greatly. enr'ic
by sones powerful Satires; poems,
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r}isro rses.
Thomas Chambers, '...the noted •
sionary and preacher, was the• (te4s
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