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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1921-9-8, Page 6- PART 'III. Teen, watelting his task, its inethod puzzled her, or instead of tappiag continually on one point of the drain liC now :spread if.' the length of the stone and proceeded to hammer this steisment flat, "N.Saty are yea doing ,that?" she ask- ed, "Watelt and learn," he answered. Satisfied presently with the result, he pickedup the chain of which the nuke were now hammered, so closely together that there was no play be- tween them, but remained stiff like a piece of wire-. Taking this between his imads, he began to betIOL It back and forth at the point which he had first eroded. Tbe result was zaniest immediate, as the death, no longer able to articulate, broke at the drad.ed pea. "Easy enough when you happen to be am inventer," and glanced at Claire with a flashing smile which brought the color to 'her face. .But this was not because of her deshabille. She Was beginning to foeget about that, or at least to disregard it. For a moment her gray eyes clung to his hazel ones, when for some mysterious. rea,ean bath faces glowed with a crimson which was not entirely a reflection of the sunrise. Stephen rase to his feet, picked up the valise, and set it away from the edge of the root, almost in the centre, Claire laughed. "Invention seems to be your first in,stinet, and playing eafe the second'," said she. "How mach have you actually got in that bag?" He raised his eyebrow. "In real money, none." "What?" "None. In fact, it would not even be negotiable to anybody who might steal it." "Well, upon my warci,", gasped. Claire. "Then why do you inyite at- tack by chaining yourself to it?" "Becaus,e I am very absent-minded and I eid net want to risk I•o-sing it. I ani apt to get thinking about ,sorita- thing and go off and leave my things! anywhere." "You didn't forget about me?" "Ah, that was something of real value. The contents of the valise have still to prove their value." "When will that be?" "When the hour strikes," Stephen answered, and as he spoke an aston- ishing thing occurred. There came a buzzing from the inside of the valise, sts if it imprisoned an enormous bee, and this was followed by the muffled riaging, of an alarm clock. The effect upon Stephen was electri- fying. For a moment he stared at the bag with open mouth, then sprang to his feet, rushed to it, picked it up, and held it while the alarm continued merrily to ring. Claire, for her part, was petrified with amazement. It flashed suddenly across her mind that she must be adrift on that muddy river with a madman, f,or who else would think of winding up and set- ting an alarm clock, then placing it ia a valise and chaining hirn-self to it? Stephen's immediate mano,euvres appeared to confirm this startling con- viction. The alarm rang itself out and stopped. He set down the bag and stared from one side of the river to the ether as if trying to take bear - i zings. Then ternin•g he glared at Claire with a wild expression on his face. "We're s,ma,ok over it," seal he. "Over what?" she a,skect faintly. "Over gold;' he answered. "Quan- tities of gold, either in the bed of the river or on, a sunken steamer or pri- vate trea-sure something of the sort." Claire looked about fearsomely as f respects. She began to breathe more freely when his next words confound- ed her diagnesis of his case. "You see, Miss MacNorton," said he, trear staring direetly at her, but appaxenay uncoescious of her near nudity, "that thing. in the ,bag is an inireetion fez preelOUS non- magnetic metals, principally gold. Mr. Lothrop financed me while I was at work upon it. That's 'been since the end of the war. I've discovered an affinity for gold which acta in a way to liberate a certain force which makes an electric connection, and rings a bell. This would only happen if the gold was in great quantity and di- rectly underneath, even at a consider- able depth." Claire's face cleared when she re- flected for a moment. "Would it do it if the gold were in small quantity but very close," she asked. "Why, yes," he answered. "I've test - edit ever a gold brick." "Then maybe it' in the bank," said Claire. He stared at her uncomprehending- ly, then frowned. "I'm not joking," said he. "Neither ten 1," said Claire. "We're sitting on the roof of a bank. Don't you remember the sign?" He slapped his thigh. "By jimany, I hadn't thonght of that!" An•cl then to Claire's dismay he strode across to where she was poised. himself on the edge of the roof and took a clean dive into the turbid waters. But Claii-e was no longer alarmed. Looking over the edge, she saw him rise and reach a window in a stroke or two. Then he turned his dripping face upward. "Hand me down that stone," said he. Claire obeyed. Stephen •sinashecl a pane of glass, reached inside, removed a window stick, -then raised the aaah and crawled' over the .sill, which was just awash. Claire could hear a Slosh- ing about beneath mher. .A few mo- ments later Stephen's head and shoul- ders reappeared. He held in his hand a canvas shotiyag which -appeared to be about half full, and, standing on the sill, he h,anded this up to her. "They can't believe in safes dOwn. here," said he. "This was tucked away up under a roof beam. I set the valise down smack over it. I may be a geed inventor, but about mast other things I'm a darn fool. If it hadn't been for you I'd have come back here and wasted weeks paddling around in a scow." He slipped' back into the mu•ddy water, swam arcund -be the rear and got aboard. Together they opened the sack and found it to contain $450 in twenty -dollar gold pieces. "This darky banker was getting ready to loan a little money on the crop," said Stepham "We'll find: out about him. when we land and see that he gets it. Meanwhile we might ne- gotiate a little loan ourselves." They looked at each other and burst into a gust of laughter. "1 begin -to uedeastand," s,aial Claire, "why you kept it chained to you. It seems to nae you've got a fortune in that bag." "I hope so," Stephen answered. "My object is to locate big gold ship- n.ents on vessels mined or torpedoed. The Government has been suffidently nterested to at a ehaser at my clia- pesal for the next three months. I doubt if my invention would work on land except in the ease of buried treasure where the•gold, was in con- siderable volume and -near the surface. A mere lode or vein would scareeIy get enough reaction." . "All th.e same, you ought to try," said Claire. I intend' to, of course. A rich sur - ace vein would ring the bell, I thinl. if seeking some avenue of escape. There b.eing none in sight, she stead- ied her voice and asked, "How do you t know?" He flung out his arms int a sort of a despair. "Smack over scads of gold h and no way of getting an accurate bearing or buoying the spot or any- thing to locate it. Never mind. I know wItere it is in a general way and h I can get a boat and come back here and paddle around until I find. it." Claire had 110 longer any doubt. Her rescuer was unquestionably ina,d, but with the madness of the inventor, some monomania or insistent idea which left him, sane enough in other There's a lot of prospecting ahead and 've got a considerable grub stake, hanks to your godfather, but—I need partner_' Ile turned his head slowly and his azel eyes looked steadily into her may ones, and again the wave of dor spread over the faces of bath. - , ses4,.,.v.45,7-4v4-4t buacToN5 ,,,a • (IP ven'as`4„.aErtt COMPANY KlLIOTeasCp iPar atiausa• 0;10r- wrs, 21. n Stephen looked down at her left and, which was devoid, of any orna- ment. "Has anybody a prior claim?" lie asked. Claire sb.00k her head. •Sbeesheri pos- sessed himself of the unadorned hand and raised it to his lips. "Nat long ago you practically acknowledged a cla-irn on my part," said he. "I don't intend to press that,: because what I did was clfstinetly inthe line Of duty, so if you prefer I'll Waive it, Do you?" Again Claire shook her ,head. She turned, and as he leaked; into her eyes Stephen won'derecl how he could ever have felled 'them hard and hostile, "Two years ago," ,said Stephen, "I begged a picture 4f you from' Mr. Lothrop. It has beeri my'ishrine ever Since, He know of 'this, hat; J aeltecl him to keep it se,cret until I Might have something to offer. He thoraugh- ly approved, and no doubt it was on ,that aceount he was so furious, .at i" eerning of your engagement," , Claire's eyes widened. "you knew about that ?" she ,ttalted, "Yea''',, said '-Stephen, still hdlding the unresisting hand "I askecj th lawyers Why your 'name had not been .....z.a.-A NTA1Z40. COLLEGE OF AR:r 0,..„,,, ?f;. aiev-etite DRAWING.PAI Nal NeaMODELLING-DESICN DIPLOMA COURsa. • JUNIOR COURSE, TEACi-ISRa COISISS•C • CoaiMERaiAL ART t O•A'ISEIO 11.C•A. Principal ISession 1921-22 Opens Oct 3. Prospectus Sent on Application. ----------as read, and they told tee. I fully in- tended, to regulate that score. liiut am it turns out I seem to be asking in- stead of giving." He raised her hand again to his lips. Claire, scarcely able to breathe, tureed and etarea at the distant shore. "There are some nienirunning down the jetty and getting into a boat," said she. - "Never mind the rnen," said Ste- phen,• "How about this partnership which I propose? Do yea acce.pt or do you refuse?" Claire balled alowly and looked at him, her face slanted upward and a stricken expression in her eyes. "What sort of partner?" she mur- mured., •i+ "'There's only one sort. A gold ring on this pretty fingce and a light, in- visible chain which nothing can break fastened to that and to my heart. You're not going to refuse." , Claire gave a little sob.' "After all .bhat's --happened I don't see how I could refuse you anything. But—but, I haven't a thing in the world," and acid -cd, with a gurgling laugh, "I haven't even any clothes." "You've gotyourself, " said Ste- phen. "You've got courage and sweet- ness and beauty. It's up to me to supply. the rest." Be drew the liana toward him, and with it the ai•rn and then the girl. His arms went round her and hers slipped up over his shoulders. Their faces were crushed together ecstatically. Then Claire freed herself and looked over his shoeldent "We mustn't," said she. "Here comes the boat!' The End.) Fancy That! One -ton of coal yields 10,000 It. of gas. The Bible is printed in 528 different Languages. The Paltsh alphabet contains forty- five letters. Mars has a day farty-one minutes longer than our own. A large nest of Wasps will account for 24,000 flies in a day. A single orange tree of average size will bear 20,000 oranges. An ounce of gold could be drawn in- to a wire fifty miles long. - The King of Sweden: has been wed- ded longest of any European crowned head. The family Bible of 'William Buena the father of Robert Burris, has been sold for $2,250. The world's envelope of airThese just been proved to extend for' 300 miles above the earth. Obstinate. Jimmy (after dis,cussion with lib governees. onethe subject of the Last Judgment): "Will everyone hive to eathe out of theitegraires when the Last Trump, sounds?" ' "Of course, Jamey." "Shall yae, Miss: Brown?" "Most certainly I shall." , Jimmy (after deep reflection): "Wei', I shaaat." *Keep Minerda Liniment in the house. COUnting Out Bed, White and blue, All out but you! Could any rhyme he briefer, simpler or More purely. Canaciiiin? It seems too trivial a serita to be ot aterest, yet it is only one ,more variation in a long line of childish rhymes and games 'that are deeply, interesting to the student, sinaethe mare he s•tudies them, the mere he seasethat in their thadamental sluiilaity the -y -link na- tion with siation and past with pre- sent. For children have always play - ea games; and of couree some one of them has always had to be "it," tIn the very beginning, a is LOW sup - Peseta all counting -out rhyme -a were simply eaumeration; and many of them are ,Still so in part. Gradually for the sake of rhythm or rhyme or alliteration cater neaningiees syllables or tvorder or sentences were inter- ., mingled. - • , What Canadian child has not at same tiine Sellowed eagerly' the paint- ing finger of a 'comrade chanting and 'ceunting: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven— All good children go to heaven. Oee, two, tbrea four, five, six, seven, eight— All bad children have to wait! , Or the.equally familiar, if lesb edify- ing: , • . Little man driving cattle, . Don't 'you 'hear his money rattle? .. -One', two, three Out goes he' (she)! Of cuese 'all the "one -cry" forms fall into the s-ame, group, and so probably (through distant foreign derivations) do our old, friends the "eenameenies." A_ recent -writer in a richly varied col- lection of . counting -out rhymes in- cludes several of the eeny-meeniesi 'notably, that ancient and inelegant favorite of both patrician and plebeian youth: Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, Catch •a nigger by the toe; If, he -hollers let lath go, Eeny, meeny, miny, mo. It is probable that with the influx of children, from many foreign countries the very games that in their likeness bring all daildren so happily together may take on 'here and there' new and wider variations, which will interest and perhapa,puzzle future 'students of folklore. •Some of our students of French may like to translate for them- selves this, little counting -oat rhyme just as it comes to us from France: Petite fille de Paris Prete-moi tes souliers gris Pour eller en Paradis. Nous irons un a un Dans le chernin des Saints; Deux a deux Sur le chemin des deux. The Trail. By hill and dale there is a trail That leads ray vagrant faotsteps far; And if perchance my courage fail There is thei ever beckoning star. 1 • The beckoning. Star, the g'uiding sun, And sooth, why should. I ask for more? ' The pathways to oblivion Stretch or and on before. Oblivion, or the bourne of dreams, Serene within the afterglow, Where joy sit a by the singing stre,ama, And there is -peace for friend and foe. • So, high of heart, I take the trail; So, sure of soul, I make the quest, But at the end, whatear prevail, I needs must bow to what is best. He knows much who knows how to hold his tongues." - Spectacles for Russian Cows - A goad deal of surprise was created when a,long list of goads, required -by Russia'vras fOund to 'contain an order for spectacled for °bars, says an Eng- lish' netispaper. -Surely this must be a joke, said the besiness, men, or so,meone laust have blundered in writing tee word caws', for spectacles could certainly not be _needed for anneals: Butaliere ,W4a.I10 mistake. Cows on the Russian steppesehave long worn spectacles' to protect their eyes from the glare.of the sno,W; which stretches for hundreds of miles on all sides till late spring, and sets1." af- fection that may result in: total blind- ness. anow ;blindness is not a new plaint. There ' There are many instances of It in history. The glare of the sun shining oh the sito,w causes- a pricking pain; then there is. &senaation Grua under the eyelids; aight of any kind becomes, extremely painful and the eight begins to go. If the matte -r is not attended to, the eyelids swell and the vision raay remain: impaired for months,. at. On the vela eteppes, of -Russia the cattle that graze during the early spring, when the ground for hund-reds of miles Is, glistening White, are troubled with SII.:OW blindness; •but ,seleral yearaqd. an 'Englishman ae 'vented a epecial tom of ,spe•ctacies With brownglase, which could be fas- tened round' the horns :of cattle- with' lather 'Straps,. Quite a thriving busineee grew tip In the, manufacture of these spectacieS, bet the war put a stop to it, and the cattle. Suffered severely, NOW Russia is anxious -to adopt the ,remetly again, , elleib,ers . and .Arctia, exe piorersehave to' wear blue or green, glasses wheri, in snow-cladaregions, andiany negleat tad'o this-, may lead to serious trouble. No a.mount.of familiarity or usage gives immunity, ,even to the people whose ancestors have lived arrad the snows for ce,ituries. The Eskimos, have long made, Snow spectacles in a very crude form from driftwood. This is cut to the curvature of the face: a notch serves as a bridge for the nose, and in each: ot the discs that cover the eye si where the wood- is about two inches,. thick, a narrow slit about the width of a Ulla saw cut, is made. Throligh- the slits ,the, light passes to the eyes suillaiently dimin- ished to prevent snow blindness., Nasts,en used , thes-e Eskimo snow spectacles in Greenland, and tonna -them very good, as the a,beence of glas,s,,prevented. the obscuring of the sight by the condensation Of moisture on the lenses. Captain perry, an ear- lier explorer,_and , his men, also WOT,43 native snow spectacles. On ohe• oc- casion, when a party of men set -mit from Parry'e 'boat without this pro- tection, every man was s,truck with blindness, and he one *is 'able to di- rect th,e sledge. Large bodiee of, men; have some-. times been affected by snow blindness. In Peru a whole division of the army merehing from Cusco to patio became blied, and a haindred 'guides. had to be summoned to ,feadthern to their des- tination:. Many of the 'afflicted nide wandered away and fell over 'pre, -.1. cipiceo. in 1703/ in the, Kips-, bealea of Pledmontese traope were similarly incapacitated. ' Eat the leg.sen has now :been learned, and modern -travellers snowy re- gions invariably mi4r.tr colored spec - facies, and, thanks' to ',English enter- Prise,'which haasclone;-se reed to 'fos- ter kindness to anima's,. , th,e haver' creature. gm sinOirt*:lirotocted. '! ne Cooks Less ---Smiles More. There was a vegetable 8,o,uip for dinner that has required seVeral, hours cf prep,axatieri and coo -king.; a deli- etous roast; potatoes that had. been mased; camiLiflowor with hed 'a(iiirdeslo4age eum;1, apple that had been .boughtthat morn - sliced and cut in cubes; nuts that had taken a helf 'hear for the 'cracking and picking; mayonnaise that had alade a righte with the stir- ,riumg hGt 3.ainsdcu, titht;ealahiine.adt, ianiaat; h,al'ovmple.emapdiee j1,4arinithl whippod "Ido ant'tewillin.tigninyt.00Ittlibenditttovauita:tt.a"1 "Then why ,d6. you go , to se mac tionble? The children 'and wou ,37,beou!aitc,niSowfied,,,wi,th ,ritech, simpler meal, fallg.res 1,,know my duty to my 'Thee 'follloared 'the silence • 'that 'Markt' the ilasaWiedge• df a futility of .arguatient and the Sather enci childeee ate, a -perfectly 'cooked inc' without : eomment or enjoyment. Where.Serena, the oldest ,daughte repeated- her employees ,complimen over some acceptable work she ha dcide itgavehhett 'day, it itleewoafs,ehne:croufartilgerinl'enil The rnethea remembered, that ,ste, too, had strositecl that day and•—fghed. When Tom, aged ten, related ,an that didn't laugh. arnusing -incident .that had besaPenee in school, Mother. was the ably one Th•e next evening, Serena was a guest at, the Whites-, -next door 'neigh- bors. It was warm. Th -e open dining- iraouoginthtewri.ndows revealed the aVhite.s tition fence came _sounds of repeated sitting at the tulle. Across the par - and their fiva ehildeen and Serena "What," she esl:ed.iof Serena n fetis hours later,ina reproachful etune, for she, remembered the laughing, "did you have -to eat?" Serena was not sure if she could remember. They had.'talked so much she had not noticed what they were eating, except that the dinner was good. Soup? No, there wasn't any soup. Potatoes? Yes, scalloped. Des sert? Little cakes covered with cus- tard. She remembered that the cakes were cookies. 'Was it 'good? Oh, everything Was good; she had, never enjoyed anything so much in her life. But -was not that a plain meal to.serve a guest? Serena dianot think. so. She could not have eateri, more, everything was so good and 'Mrs: White was se happy 'and jolly. „ "I had more than that for our din- ner," said Mrs. Brawn resentfully, and- there'wasno one here 'but your father and brothers." This with 'a sigh, the corners of her mouth droop- ing. Serena looked at her thoughtfully. Mrs. Brown resented the look. "I cook so much for my -family," she began defensively, "that am too tired to be what you call:, - "I," growing more antagonistic,' thou,gii she could not explain why, "know my duty to my family." "So does Mrs. White know hers," answered Serena sorrowfully. "She cooks less than you do but she—' smiles more!" "Cooks le,ss, and smiles. -more!" The words rang through Mi -s - Brown's brain the next morning when she beat batter for 'muffins, waipp.ed up an sandelet, put potatoes in the oven to bake and otherwise prepared break- fast. .She „couldanat go to the school exhibition; she told 'Tam at b-reak- fast, :because she had -a pudding to make. that Would require- four hours steaming; she ,could not eat lunc.h with Serena and her father down town be- cause there was an angel cake to be made th,at would require at least an hour to beat. Both refasals made with a sigh. As she turned. from the door after seeing the last child start to s,chool, she caught a glimps'e of Mrs. W.hite starting off to the .school exhibition with her 'children. "I wonder," she, thought, feeling very self-right:eons, "what my faini•ly would think if excus.e? They'd. soon be tired of pick-ups." -uanpys,,,cooking for 'such a trivial Perhaps she thought, w.hen later in the day she caught a ,glimase of her face in the mirror, Mrs. White was ['right and she was wrong. There were deep wrinkles in her ferehead. Mrs,„ W'hite had. none. Her Owe were tired end listless. Mrs. White's were fall - of purpose arid laughter. Her cheeks were white and hollow'. She s,aw a vision of.Mrs. 'White's plump ,ancipinit. With her Chin la her hapicia, she, at before heranieret. g lepla tail& ''' stared earnestly into her own. sOul; Slie shucklesiecl. She had worked se bard foe her family—se mach harder tiage Wtite Worked for hers— trryi her family loved. cher less far it, iebiiken hder irtiamse•dL in,to the kitchen attalr'-schoZ' 11;760. 'Mite's did. 'There was a ''.kfe, cake Pudding in, the oven arid aistep aeross, , , the flo,or might-nialce it fall, Her chil- dren never. played around her when she coofted,_ for her coakingehadtials waYs'lacen too elaborated and complex for such interruatians • as childish She never knew how ,Iong 'she so there taking inventory of her Galli bu was a long time and Whea -she r turned to the kitchen there' was snaila on her face a smile that Wa still Sere when the family 'earn hoina. It dimpled- • her 'cheeks whe . her husband praised tho extra goo meal. 'Your cooking iimpreves all th • tirne,". ,said with a look that re fleeted the love hi las Wife's 'face. This ,tirno the smile sWept 'awa every wrinkle. 'She knew that sh had never eaolced less! She had mixe wisdom 'With her service. lde, A Successful Vy-omalt Farmer. lit • Another uame added to the list of ivanlen. whaare successfully apeaatiaa f,arrn,s -Western, Canada is that of ,1VI:a3r V. I-Lszlettaan English girl who for four years has lived „alone on homeetead in. the ,Totialiwpod Hills, in Saelcatehewaria and, ma.de it 'pay. Her hrother who homesteaded the , land was. killed in the Canadian forces nt Viiny Ridge and. Miss Hazlett who alwas worlonag a$ a sbenegrapher, arid tired of the eternal pounding, deter- ailieed to go contrary to the ad•vice 'to 'sell the farm, and though She had les' never lived: in the' country; decided to operate it hers:elf. Suece.ss has. at - u tended her effort& and she now owns several headsof horses, a fipe bunch t. of cattle and has more than one .hun- re acres. under cu tiva e ,again,reversing the order of things as . , .having built Western harne she ie -returning , to England to marry her fiance and ,brieg him out to the Sas- katchewan- farm. ' She is an ardent advocate of .homesteads for women. An Entertainment Exchange. A cantributer des,cribes a novel Olen for -unit entertainment .that an invalid• originated and brought to practical, itise. In 0.Sb/deal-atter, copies of which she sent to a nunaser of resident.sein Ater _town, she,c,alled attention to the -tact that recreatienias,as necessary to ;the life of a,orn.munity as -food and cloth- ing are; that its cost per 'capita -am- ounts to a good deal in a year's time; that to attend the usual plac,es of amusement requires not .only money but time and effort,. She .conclucled by askiag her rieighhors to exchange with one another their ideas an community recreation, as 'well -as their actual en- tertainment facilities -- magazines., catalogues, phonograph records, books, . games, puzzleat sheet anisic and so on. The plan' having been tried' and hav- ing proved useful, its most valuablei resii,tt was felt to be that the persons conceened -were `eorierineed• that it took, only a little thau•gat aad, interest tol put in operation a- scheme that kept, calleeen happy at home, -entertained! both old and yoling and- created'an undercurrent of good feeling in the community. said the happy., invalid, "think what it has meant to me -- persons. ocanin-g and gairig; t -he inter- est in exchangiag, opinions. I haye. even ..,persuaded them to go a ,,step farther and to exchange their own, spegial gifts. One veao sings sings ocicasionally for us all; another who is a trained reader sometimes reads alouel to us. Since the introduction of our entertainment exchange we have all been ,enteitained, more • pleas.arrtly4 and more whaleso,ritely -than we ever were b•efore: PAPER JN»WTRY DATES BACK TO 1803 AC 'COlit DING T� 'TRADITION Enormous Demand for Forest a PrOCitlets IS Taxing Capacity 8 to the Uttermost. 'n "Canada, aaet attrectiens far 'd dad-Ian:deaf the present thee halieas , . _ o ace's of which are mit fai. to sleek, but - judged in round, figures h.er grea,teec lies in her' (sae:0111'6es, of" pulpwood. Y More and Mere haste -the depleted' e. forest .resources.. of' other na,tio,ns ads and questions. ' 11 h ,P,14Ver,, driven them to Canada for supplies of the raw material for their paper mills, that exports have experienced tha most phenomenal of elevations, ana the deyeloament of , the various phas,es of the bedustry, raised its status to that of the second industry. of the Dominion, taking only a -lower place than agricalture. Though it is only of recent years, Since the destauctien of forests that were never ,regrown., and the tubsta quent ' ferther afield ''Ifott other resources-, that the industry has -gro,wn ,to' be of' such nation,a1 import-. „Same to Canada, it is an eld.one ii he Dominion and manufacturing, waT ac- tive at the begianing of the last 'cen- tury. Paper, according .to.'tradition, was first made in Canada in 1803. • In 1825' a Mr Crooks won a peize of R.100 ea given by the government of Upper ,rib' Canada for the first sheet of paper s made in that realm. , In.:1840-0re Jav- ier Brothers built a mill near Toronto and later two oth,ersi 'one of still exists as the Don Valley Paper Mills. In 1866 a mill employing sixty sIA:eireiniiaard's• Liniment used by Physicians. been exthiet for f•orty years has been Sea -Cow Seen. The Arctic. sea -cow, thought to have -Islands dealer° that when fishing off taivgaeinfis,herme•n of the Aleutian the islands one or more of these crea- tures have been seen.. In.the hind- quarters they appeared to be true fish, but in the he -ad and neck they were The h'Uge sea -cow often wenght 4,000 lb.; and is 40 It, long. SeaWeed grows in. miniature forests along the Aleutian Islands, and the sea -cows once aastared there. They possessed a habit Of herding together like cattle, -seTarhteinhginadedleigmsffwinegre. used as a single fin, but the front fins were used as leg -s to Supp,ort the, aninial, There were udders between_ the forelegs, and The liarissttetairn.de0a1 tseeeat-teeth, was eeen, by white men was forty years ago, over a hundred years after its diecovery. Pills importea into India, are color - ea to show their use; these tinted' red cantain ,poiso,nr. Het weather will frequently cause pia* and watches long out of use to Starr worIcing. The heat melts the ofd ail which -has hardened antl ged the hearings' Q MILE , Xi, E inn a -car deafer who ishow e you how' sasaaa Ins4to.e, of talking about Percywhat •?hey,:ti7.41,t0:; '.,USED UTOS Ale t persons was established at Windaor Mills, Quebec, which. is now the Cana- da -Paper Company. ' By 1881 Canada had five pitper mull capitalized at 592,000, employing, 0 people and having an output of 563 000 annually. In 1901 there were 2 mills withia capital investment of 511 500,000, employing 5,300 people, an with an ontput.ef-$4,246,000. 5 .$255,000,000 in,ve.sted. , The say -ogress of the past tiverity years in this industry has possibly beeu the most phenomenal phase of Canadian development unless we ex- cept agriculture, and the amount in vested in the industry and the -value of the annual output of two decades ago appear quite insignificant in coin- parison with the moneys these repre- sent no -w. At the end of 1919, when the Ia,st surveyvars conducted by the Dominio,n -Bureau of Statistics, a totaileeta, of 5264,581,300 was invested in the in- dustry, 869,896,583 being in Pulp nialeir.'# s $16,553,270 in paper mills, and 5178,- 13.1,436 in pulp and paper mills. In all there were 99 mills, 33 paper, 39 pule, a,nci 27 pulp and paper, Of these 46 were located in Miebec; 3S in Ontario, 5 in British Columbia, 5 in New Bruns - a ck, and 5 in Nova Scotia. The iadustry given emploament to a total 01 , people, who draw wages and salaries amounting to $32,323,'789. Wood pulp production in that year amounted to. $43,562,088 an,d paper production- to 591,362,913. A me•re modicum of the manufac- tured products of Canadian pulp and paper mills is absorbed by the domes- tic market, by far the greater part -be- ' p , e °minion s, lareest " eusto,mer being the United States, This export trade in pulp and paper has been themoatremarkable feature of Canadma trade in the past • few years the increases being of a woad, wood prod.ucts and paper amouirted to less than fifty 'million dollars. By 1917 they had increased to nearly eighty millions,. Between 1917 and 1919 they nearly doubled, arn'ounting In the. latter year to, 5154,500,000. In 1920 the total', exports amounted to $213,913,944 and in '1921 ID 5284,561,- 478, or nearly six limes what they were in 1913. U.S. Canada's First Customer. The TJaited States IS Canada's first easterner in his regard,. her pur- chases being Overwhelmingly greater than other countrieecanabined. In the year 1920 her imports of paper and pulpwood from Canada amounted to 558,822 142. In the same year 54,813,- 577 worth of paper -Was exported to the United Kingdom, $2,963,871 worth to Australia, to the extent of 51,184a" 629 to New Zealand, to 51,253 871 t� South Africa: and "5872,1)32 to Japan, „ all of countries are drating upon!. Canada for their paper' and raw ma- terials for its manufacture to an in- creasing extent each year. The enormous and widespread 'de. mands fer the products of Canada's forests. is taxing their capacity almost to the utterm-ost a•ncl only a tvise fore- sight aud rigid methods of co,nsrvit- tioa ea the pa,rie, of botlegovernmentlj and iatialPanies engaaat aloitation'eaa maintain them in frui. tion: Already pulp and paper com- panies have been ea:aced from East to West and the indhstry on the Pa- cific Coast ie showing, if anything, mare active development. The untouched, pulpwood. supplies the amide Provinces are aisle at- traoting afiehlime and with tiomestlo nsumption inCreasiala and the; eifs co bpoourtatitsTgeanaidtalmnPiaillyg-exbpyec'tletlsindailliga. DtrYiarvutongfu,arltidh/rp, ei:peravnaoti.olon:. .17 natilni limit „dependent upon .systieriatirs re- , of The., inhabitants of St, a ada, th� loneliest 'pot li th.4 WitiSto speak,only Gaelic.