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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1921-9-29, Page 21 %ftmegazaar.1 fit.4SX, r Every Man For Hints Bry HOPKINS MOORHOUSE (Copyright by Musson Colnpany) CHAPTER /. "Fog. Pie./ept for the lone policemen who paused 'beneath the are light at the Front Street intersection to make ant eatra in hi qi; petrol book, Bay Street' was deserted. The fog which hnd come crawling in. from the lake had filled" the lower streets and wae feel- ing its way steadily through the sleeping city, bier -ring the street lights. Its clammy touch darkened the stone facades of tall, silent isuild-1 trigs 'and left tiny wet beads on iron railing and grill work. Down towards the waterfront a yard -engine coughed and elan.k.ed abeat in the mist some- where, noisily kicking together a striae. of 'leex-cars'while at regular intervals the fog -horn over at the Dastern Gap bellowed mournfully into the night.. After tucking away his book and re - buttoning his tunic the policeman lin- gered on the corner for 0 moment in the manner of one who has nothing to do and no place to go. He was pre- paring to saunter on when footfalls began to echo in the emptieess of the staaet and presently the 'figure of 4 young man grew out of 'the gray -vapor—a young man who was swing- ing down towards the docks with the easy stride of an athlete. As he came within the restricted range of, the are ligh it was to be seen that his panama at was tilted to the back of his head and that he was holding a silk hand- kerchief to one eye as if a cinder had blown into it. "Good -night, Officer," he nodded as .he passed without, halting his stride. "Some fog, eh?" "Moraine sir" returned, the dim sentinel of the Law with a respectful -sailute es he grinned recognition "Faith, an! 't is, sir." High up in the City Hall tower at the head of the street Big Ben 'boomed two ponderous notes whicb flung eerily across- the city. Already the young man had faded into the thickening fog. He was in no mood to talk to inquisitive policemen, Ilo matter how friendly or lonesome.; It was his own business entirely if , concealed beneath the silk handker-1 chief was the most elaborate black eye; which had come into his possession; since Varsity won the ru.gby pionehip some months before. If his • face ached. and his knucklea smarted' where the skin had been knocked off,' that e as his own ;business also. And; when ehe judgment of calmer moments ' has cenvinced a respectable young gentleman of spirit that there is no- body but himself to blame for what has happened he is- inclined to solitary el:mom-union while taking the measure of his self -dissatisfaction. , It was indeed the end of a ;very im- perfect day for Mr. Philip Kendrick. As he descended the stairs of the Canoe Club his thoughts. were troubl- ed. At that hour there was nobody about, but he let himself in with a special key which he carried for such contingencies. He found, the suitcase undisturbed where he had left it and soon had his canoe in the water. A, moment later he was driving into the thick wall of fog with. strong, prac- ticed' strokes, heading straight across, the bay for Centre Island. The fog gave 'him little concern. This land -locked Toronto Bay he knew like a well -marked passage in a favor- ite book and at two' o'clock in the morning it was not necessary to nose along cautiously, listening for the aja•-; proach of 'water' 'craft: Away to the right the lights of the amusement park on Hanlan's Point had gone out long ago, before the fog settled down like a wet blanket. The ferries had stepped running for the night. Even the "belt hne boat," Lulu—last hope of bibulous or belated Islanders—was back in her slip, funnel ;cold, lights out. The whole deserted waterfront lay wrapped in the 'shroud of the fog, 'lulled by the lap of v,vater against A PostEll card0. you; our new large 'Vali 'Ca talogeeeeoen to be issued, Ceptaiaing 'TitailaePas; of illuettatidus kt Gifts in jewellery, •Silverwere, Qatait and IsToveltle Write to -day. ELL 4BQ$., Jewellese. 96 - 96 Y.ONGE ST. TORQINTO. in .)e- up against it. Nasee, 1 got a date pilings and the faint' creak 8. w $111311 craft at their inaerings. a a'11°).`ra 'In- alriL "with Jne to - -Mussed map. Not on y'r tiatypet" As the 'solitert cane() Poked out for hankerin' lose me wav with no the open bay -these minor sounds fell 1- belanci and were eeplaced' by the' Whereupon the "Iron had'pro- steady purl of water ender. the b ; eeeded to demonstrate Ills malleability It filled with. pleasing monotone , the bY assuring Mr- Kendrick that he was interludes rbetween the fussing of the ready to agree that the sun rose in .rurd,...eugine back on the railway the sonth and ma o a daily trip trackage and the blatancy of the fag_ straight north to eseape the heat, if horn at the Eastern Gap, every half:Mr. Kendrick said so. Hie anxiety to minute bawling its warning into the make frieurds had been: rPositivelY fun- opee lake beyond. 1 ny; but there had 'been a sincerity in . his hancisaalte that eameliow had There was notioey over at the big, seemed to. rob th a olo f t' slimmer residence on Centre Islandl.c”"'"440 p gy o 5 sa except Mrs. Parlby, the housekeeper,l'on. .And when illic°°rcluudala had [proffered a broken cigar Kendrick had and her husband who acted as garden- , accepted it with an uneasy:feeling- that et. place e he had made somewhat of a fool of laud°, the Honorable Milton Waring,' himself; for Phil was no prig and he and it was usual for them to open the big house about the end of :Ailey. This! found tha-t'.1919111111°`hile was a pretty aeee chosen to speed the sunuthr at Spar- row Lake and for the past week they had. been up at a rented cottage in the woods, leaving Phil behind, in charge of the Island residence. year, however, his aunt and untht Was vat to h' dnid, uncle had good "It that certain whinsicality MADE. s1 CANADA The importance. of Vitarnine.s in food is leeing recognized at he present time to a. 'treater rent theon ever before. It has been con- clusively deznonst rated that yeast is rich in ;this all important element., Many p ople have re- ceived gregot benefit physically simply by tak- ing one, two or, three Royal Yeast Cakes a day. Send name and, Address or -free copy "Royal Yeest Cakes for Bqttor W. GILLEIT 10103PANY UMTD Toacarro,cAraon WItiNiFt% PIONTVISAL , '",;4•J -6/0;1...,m • , In response to a. wire.; from his uncle, requesting him to join th-em at once and -bring along certain art- icles which had been overlooked, he had peeked his suitcase and paddled across to the city in the morrang, in- tending to take the train for Sparrow Lake. A chance meeting with an old classmate, however, had resulted in a sudden decision to delay his departure for another twenty-four hours in favor of a good time with Billy Thorpe. As if in punishment, things had seemed to go wrong with him all day. In the afternoon the Rochester base- ball team had knocked three Toronto pitchers out of the box, a bloW-up which had cost the loyal Mr. Kendrick twenty-five dollars and a loss of repu- tation as an authority on International League standings. Then in the even- ing, in the crowd at The Beach, some- body had taken hold of his silk ribbon fob and gently removed the gold watch which his aunt had given him on his birthday. Later It was the left eye, so swollen now that it was closed to a mere slit. There was no optical delusion' about its nomenclature and in diameter and :chromatic depth it was at the head of its class; in fact, it gave promise of being by daylight in a class by itself. It was the sort of decoration which could be relied upon implicitly to fire the imagination of misguided acquaintances; through several merry weeks of green and: yellow recupera- tion. And withal it cast a reflection upon the fistic prowess of young Mr. ,Kendrick which was entirely unjust, 1it being the product of what is known 'as a "lucky punch"—for the 'other f chow. I No, it was not in the result of the .fight that dissatisfaction lay, but in the cause. MeCorquodale's remarks :about the Honorable; Milton Waring ;had been addressed to MeCorquodale's ;two companions; there had been no 'intent to insult the Honorable Milton Waring's nephew who sat at the next table in the restaurant, none of the three worthies being aware that they were within earshot of a hypersensi- tive member of the honorable gentle- man's family. That being se, it had beentclistinetly foolish for Ihe afore- said nephew to walk OVET to the other table and demand an apology. He should have finished his coffee and cigarette and strelled out; Or, if he had deemed it imperative to partici- pate in the political discussion, why in the mischiaf hadn't he just stepped across, proffered his cigarette ease and made a joke of the situation? 04,ektiet mo. ssf--11. He rested his paddle fox a Moment and floated in the dark, listening, As soon as he got home he would go to the refrigerator for a piece of raw beefsteak foe his swollen eye. Darn that eye anyway. He would have to hibernate up in the woods till it be- came more presentable. Far behind him in the mist somewhere the yard - engine was still coughing; across the water came a subdued squeal of pro- testing flanges, followed by the dis- tant bang of shunted box -cars. He listened for any sound of the harbor patrol boat; but even had he bothered' to show a light it would have been obliterated in the fog, which was the worst Kendrick had ever experienced. A raw beefsteak poultke— He fancied. the fog -horn -was a little louder; he would need to keep more to the left or he would -find himself hitting Mug's • Landing, west of Island Park, or wind up away over at the Poiat somewhere. He reeenteci his paddling mat, ter of his unele— Wag it posfurble that in purgait, of political ambigonsbi unele was fergetting the principles for whiell b ProresSed to stand as a public. mite? Was it juet peeelble that this fellow, McCorgeodale, knew what he was tall!ting about? Wasn't it men of thet stamp who be,esatie the tools, for corrupt ;practices—the boodlers, the heelers. Who did the actual Ipallot- stuffing, the rersenating at the pet's, the .heibine? Did MeCorquodale know of 'what he spoke? The thought brought with it aesense of disloyalty to his uncle; but the young man Toeced himself to faee the idea seriously. He was beginning to reahze that thexe were many things about whieh he was woefully ignorant --praetioal thins entirely outside a oademic curriculums. For twenty-two years he had eaten his meals regularly and lived •a life uncolored by any events more significant than Ids re- cent graduation from 'Varsity with honors. That he had captained tho football team to victory the fall be- fore was nething extraordinary; many another fellow with equally broad shoulders and an equally well, alancod head upon them ia 000 s- inc thing 'before him. Financial worries had never intruded upon his good times, while soviai standing was some- thing which he had come to accept as a matter of course. Only of late lied he begun t� analyze things for him- self and it had been"samething , of ss ahock to discover that e college educe/ -Lion waa just a beginning—that be yond thecaanPus of his alma meter spread a workaday world which scoffed at dead languages and went in for a living wage; which turned from isoceka triangles and algebraic comma drums to solve the essential problemsof food arid clozaing and shingled roofs. It was a new viewpoint whiah planted doubts where what he had sup- posed to he certainties had been wont to bk.-sap/h. (To be continued.) Keep Minards's Liniment in the house. When Son Wants a Confidant. Wonder how many fathers feel jealous a the way tlie grovm-up son goes to mother if he wants a cenfi- dant don't suppose we'll ever know, for most of. theni would. die rather than, adnait they cared. But all the ea/nee:elf e the truth were knew -re fathevoulairgive11 a ' great tdeal-df came to him for advice. As a rule, son goes anywhere else ekeept to fatheia; doesn't 'he? It's too "late to help the fathers with grownsons.'But here's the secret for. the benefit of young fathers with sons who are just beginning to jabber. Listen to sonny when he wants to talk to you. Don't tell him to stop his noise or run and tell mother. That is, if you really want to be in on his secrets after he grows up. It's very simple, isn't it? And easy to understand. You don't bother to talk much to folks who aren't' a bit interested in you. And son is exactly like you. You may be inordinately proud of 'him, you may love him, till' it hurts, but he has no way of. knowing it unless'yOU pal around with him. And the, tithe' to -begin to be churn a: with your /garret - I know a father willoaan't 61kler- Of a truth the expression upon .this stand, why foiurteen-year-old, boy fellow McCorquodale's homely, good- deem t want to .do anything on the, humored face when Kendrick reveled farm. I -could tell him, but I daren't. his identity had been sufficientlY quiz- I was there e.ne spring when he was meal. He had grinned widely ,as. -he setting out early plants. Four-year-old wavedthe indignant young man to a, son had a toy shovel and rake 'and hoe and he was naturally right anxious to help father make garden. Naturally, too, he got in the way. Father's tem- per is none too reliable and af4er hav- ing two plants dug up 'he spanked son and sent him in the house. He could harve given son a little corner of his own and a half dozen plants and showed him haw to set them out. That would have been the beginning ;of a workiag 1partnership. But ihte hadn;tetiane to :bather; with' seat at the table and even then the situation would have adjusted itself had it been left to the principals. But McCorquodales companions were a pair of flashily dressed young "sports" who, thinking they saw a chance for some fun at Kendrick's expense, had proceeded to tread upon Mr. McCor- quodale's professional pride—McCor- quodale, one time known to ringside patrons as "Iron Man" McCorquixIale, one time near mid'cileweight champion. "Y'see, it's this -way," the ex -pugil- ist bad explained earnestly. "I ain't said nothin' about y'r uncle as eaet kids. Ten minutes was too long to public anywaa-s. It's in the papers off, give to holding his boy, and so because , an' on see? An' now another elee- he wouldn't bother when the boy was tion's comin' down the pike, y'll have four; he get a no help from him now that he is fourteen. ed with acids. That is why a sour apple coeles more quickly than a sweet apple. When you wish pears, peach- es and apples to keep their shape' you cook them in a sugar syrup. If cook- ed in water alone they \vapid "cook to pieces" because of the acid in them. Acids have a similar effect on the tough- connective tissue of meat. A stew made of the particularly tough but well -flavored pieces of beef from the lower part of the shank will 'be tender in a sprter time if a dam of vinegar is addii"to a stetvpot. Aetvell- known practice of the chef et the hotel or club is to marinade a steak that is likely to be tough by rubbing it with a mixture of vinegar and a little °H— one part of oil to three or more parts of vinegar. Some cooks immerse such a steak in a. bath of oil and vinegar and leave it there twO hours or more; then they wipe it dry and broil it. The result is a steak that is tender and of delicious, flavor. 777, P' R EVE NTS T 14AT Si N Ki E N good shampoo. Tincture of green Soap may nob be owing to rayapia alone, plus some geed toilet water also but pertly or wholly to astigmatism. make.s a good shampoo. "School myopia" may aae largely prevented by short hours of School work and frequent recesses, well - ventilated and well -lighted school rooms, desks with sloping tops and text -books with large print. If layepia is teaready establ;ished, ap- propriate glaseea are necessary. Brush and comb the hair. Then ap- ply the shampoo to the scalp ana rub it wen in with the tips of the fingers. When you have made a thick lather, wash the long hair thoroughly. You are now ready to rinse your hair and thi5 pracess -must be very- thorough. No xi -latter how much bother it may seem, you. must renew the rinsing water until it remains perfectly clear after the -hair has-bcten clipped into it. If you haee a bathroma and running vary convenient for use in rinsing a anti -atilt apeay boats and tows them through tanks Itt water, yoe will find Shampooing stimulatea the your hair., scalp fer to the water, ,c), the aeroplane- estetemeer tworal:arn what resistance they 0E - maker tests model 'atenea in much the by increasing the flow of oil. His difileulty is to knaw d usually improves dry, brittle hair If ,byl how a 'plane s ou be built to offer h ld , be too dry after a shampoo, you would! tested in specially designed tunnels, the resistance to the wind. t aeroplanes are made and any chance your acalp should seem to; line applied with a medicine (Dropper Pure vase" through which wind is made to peas better use e little grease. Novel Plan for Testing • Airplanes. -titO'shipbut'aler makes model us: as ; will be helpful, and ought to cause growth of hair. Part the hair here arid there and apply a drop of va.seline close to the skin, and be careful not to ,spill any of the grease on the mass of youe hair. If your hair is too oily, a little pure aromaticammenia or a little borax wili help. But you must not use either of these things too often for in that case yeti wilt injurethe hair and make it brittle. The Nearsighted Child. Myopia, or nearsightedness', is ow- ing to a deformity' of the eyeball; it becomes so long that the. image is focused in front of the retina instead' of exa.citly upon it. 'Few if any child- ren are born with ;shoat sight, but the softness of the eye, which permits the eyeball to length.eri, is often a family peculiarity that children inherit. The trouble .comes soon after the child begins its seleo.ol work- and, once beg -un, the defect is likely to increase; with each year of school until- finally Minard's Liniment used by Physicians the inconvenience or, the actual di's— ; tress obliges the child: to turn tel.' glasses to, correct its vision. Some- tim.es it is not merely inconvenienze that the condition causes; the myopia may become malignant mycpia, in which event 'changes in the e -ye begin "Etonl.ach hail capsized.", IJelt it in - that lead to ine.urable blindness-. ! If the child keeps his normal viaion tinla:irlg cumbent on me to admlnister castor that that, might be suf- until the 'age of fifteen or sixteen,' fl-°1ail'eatlia'nishment for w,nat I had lea - he may be regarded as no longer liable to neareightednesa. The pcape work. It was hard forme to pc- son to believe was only a muse to es- liable inarease in the 'defect usually ' give the oil, but harder sl ceases, seen aften the twentieththe boy look up aaterwards with a year. til 'to have Only the . physician can 5101(0 an °ken' ! exact diagnosis of myopia. The dia.g- oil that Elisha gave the widow bic smile and ask if it were the nosis that a nor' -medical optician woman! same makes is not trustworthy, be ; cause the spasmodic contraction of a; one of the eye inuseles may cause an apparent myopia, which unless atro- pine is uSed temporarily. to 'paralyze.; the muscle cannot be distinguished !' frorn the real thing. It is easy to! guess, however, that a. child is suffer -1 hag from nWeraleiteeleiVs.5 '4,1;ihen.: has a/amine/it ey,estencledilated prapils!, and, though.bright and quick at play,l seems dull or mischievous at school —dull because he cannot see the black -1 board .and miselfievotis because, not being able to take part in tha school work, he must find some oth.er out- let for his, energy. But the trouble, at varying speeds. You can have a mere ripple er a hurrieane by the simple action of pulling over a lever. The largest of these tunnels is that recently built at St. Cyr, in France. To assist English aeroplane -makers, a testing -tunnel has been installed at the laboratories at Teddington. The tunnel; which is circular in de- sign, is sixty feet, in length and twelve feet in diameter. At one end is a huge box -like chamber. The model is suspended in the air in the latter, and attached to it is a delicate instrument, called an aerodynamic balance, which measures the wind forces to Whiek the model is subjected. . ,IVIcidel after mode' is tested, until one is found that ,offers , the least re- sistance to the wind. By lessening the wind resistance of a moving body, you cut ;down the amount of fuel re- quiredato driveit at a given speed. 'When a hundred -mile -an -hour gale is blowing through _the,. tunnel 'it is impossible to open theeltamber door, so terrific is tb.e suction. Not Likety:. , Wrath ted'come to inform me, writes a Labrador Miserien worker, that he could. net "cleave,' the .eplitee" for his Shampooing Your Hair. If you haveigtown up in the belief that you must -not shampoo,,your hair toe often, here is something newfor you. Nair 'and SealP must be kept cleelf, and; unlOsatisibualiti/ve lsentrf& ver:t peculiar scalp; disease, you Will Profit by frequent slianipeolng. There are Many excellent shampoos on the markt; stimUlating and -re- freshing to 41 you prefer, how- ever, you can make Your own shampoo A mixture Pf100 parts of. &Oft soap, four parts et oil ' of lavender, and sixty parts:`of ,alcohol makes a , very allow ovelties Pan't. overlook tilese, in buying., Our Travellers have the Samples. We have the Stock. Torca,n Fancy Goods to., Ltd. Wholesale Only. 7 Wellington St, E., Toronto, to be gattin' used to all kinds o' spiels. Fae's is fee's, kid, an', when I says the Hon. Milt aint no sweet -scented ger- anium but's out fer all the simoleons he can pick off the little olcl Mazuma Tree,—why, I on'y says what 1 reads an' heaes, believe me. You bein' his nephew ain't changin' public opinion none. See?" . Kendrick's .anger at this beazermess had prevented him from thinking clearly. He wa.s getting. "touchy'. about his uncle's political record of late and had had occasion to defend it with some heat during certain dis- Of course, little children are more bother than help. But the wise father knows that the -time to interest a boy in work is when he wants to work. Habit forming begins at birth, and it is never too early to start the habit of being a pall with your boy. Cranberries—Sugar and Acids. There are many wrong ways to make cranberry sauce, but there is ono right Way. Allow half a cupful cussions among friends; there had of cranberries for each person, and been several newspaper attacks whichl-monqm ,e out half as much gara he had resented greatly also. His cranberries an,d half as mucTi' waee: uncle's reputation as a public man he as sugar; Bea the cravbania5 and., had been Quixotic enough to take to heart as a personal matter of family. the water t°geql°r 10 t saucepan; honor and, as everyone knows, family witliout a coy:zit An Oright-eolored'''' honor is a thing to uphold. He had1 vegetables or fruit, if cooked in ,a dema.nded that McCorquodale retract 1 dishVritleint acl '-cover, are earer and his statement. McC,orquodele had re- i piettier''' the 'When the y are Pent fused flutlY to do so, cic)sely covered during the cry., -king' ‘ One of the two grinning "sports" when' the berrt(ig are 8'eTtfr'n'iash '<new a place where they ceuld settle it undisturbed--juSt areand Inc corner them with a spoon, remove them f.rom In the basement of a pool -room. It he fire, add the sugar and aSIr haiittle d, been a brisk rninalp while WeiFI. The result will be a thick sauce it lasted; but it had not taken the ex- that will jelly when cold, and the skins pugilist long to discover that hearwae of the berries Will be of a 'bright, clear facing the best amateur'boxer Varsityred, and so tender that there will be no need of steainin,g the sauce. The reason that berries cooked in this way are hcbtcr is a very simple on.e. All vegetable eclailo ,e is taugh- had produced in a number of years and right in the middle of it he had put on his coat, deliberately, to the over- whelming disappointment of his 'ON friends. "Nix, you .guy3!" he had g-runted, cued by being lciiled with sugar, but loroathing heavily- "I knows when is nip,41e tender arid sofa by being boll - ,-,411:rj;1,1014t *Stands' Zitrertuott6ar EN who work outdoors need 11 the comfortable .warroth of STANIFIEL 9S "Red label" Underwear It is made of the best wool—and is cut to fit perfectly, giving ease and freedom with the warmth needed to protect against bitter cold. We make underwear in heavy weights for men, women and • children. 1Vrke for frcp sample book. STAIVFIELD' 'LIMITED Truro, NLS. SCOTLAND RECEIVES $3 850 000 A YEAR. Beneficial to Country Because liunOng Affords' Large In- comes. to Inhabitants. R,eferring to the report ,that nearly 4,000,000 acres iu Scotland are given up to deer forests, Christopher Beek, writing in "The London DailylVfail," denies that this is harmful for the ,country. That some farmers do- lose coesider• ably by the inroads of deer into their crops is a fact that cannot .be denied, but sympathy with these farmers must not be allowed to blind the public to the fact teat the north of Scotland owes tire whole of her Modern pro. peeity to game. It is stiegs, grouse 'arnd salmon -which bring the rich mao to the Highlands. it is these wild things and 1110' sport afforded by themwhich have dotted the glees with; liandsonle lodges, caused roads to be made and bring trade to the towns and employnior4ra the Countryside. Enormous Profits from Sports. Short as, the season is, the figures inolved are enormous. It la estimated eat, that the rent paid for Highlarra ings considerably exceeds a1,50.0,000 yearly, and that -over 4,000 keepers and gillies are employed all the year round to lodk after them. But this is only the beginning of the expenditure which, sport brings to the Highlands. At the beginning of Aug- ust an army of several thousandPoo- ple migiria igte hifarnoand si. all parts of Englan to the Theso are nearly all wealthy. people who spend money freely. They fill not only the lodges but also. the shooting h:ctels. Most of them stay from six to eight weeks, and the amount of money which they leave in the country is very large indeed. After them comes a second tide of leae wealthy but still well-to-do folk, most ci ahem stay un- til web into November. Testiraates a.re hard to arrire at, but it is probably within tile mark to say that the sporting contingent leave ze, 700,000 behind them in SOotland every year. During the past forty years the pros - porgy of the Highlands has increased by loara and bounds. Old houses have been rebuilt, new ones erected, moors, drained, walls and wire fences Labor 13 in much gretiter demalts1,71anAjA much better paid than formerly. 7' While there are pienty of ill-inform- ed people who believe that enact keeps millions of acres of fertile land mit of cultivation, facts tell a different story. Quite SO per cent. of the land given up to deer forest and grouse moors is fit for nothing but sheep. As it is, sheen,are largely fed on grouse moors, and 'that without serious damage to the birds. Abolish Scottish sport and with it will go Scottish prosperity. When Fish Fight for Life. There are no two species of fish • which, when hooked, behave, alike. Every angler knows how a trout, the moment it feels the hook in its; jaw, makes a dash for the neareat weed patch, hoping, totangie and ,breake-the cast. Or, if there are no weeds. bandy, it goes for its hole under the bank, and, if it reaches it, there is an end of the matter SO far as the iisherman is concerned. A salmon goes away with a cyclonic rush so fast that the slightest acci- dental check on the line means con tain smash. If the first dash fails, he jumps and tries to shake the hook from his jaws, or, if the pool is deep, descends to its cool depths, And sulks there In a south -country river in which I ; often.fish, iays a writer, in the Lon- don Daily Mail," there are two pools In, which the odds are always at least three to one upon a hoolted salmon breaking you. In eacti of these pools is a "tunnel"„ composed of rocks, which lean together and meet. Every salmon lying in those pools is aware that to reach one of those c. tunnels means safety, and anyete when Looked instantly makes forhiI tiumel, clashes through it, and turris and smashes the cast or else Cie line. Some fish, such as carp, will seize the weeds near the bottom, evidently, with the idea oagetting an extra 'lever- age.against the angler -5 pull, , The giant of the Gulf of Mexico, the great tarpon, which grows to a length et seven feet a.nd a weight of fully two hundredweight, fling's its glitter. ing body ten feet into the air, rattling it 'too often etking the hook Troia ite hosld7athery jaws 1sh7 caste nets, 01 7,1,, House That Sings. India has many strange buildings: one of them sing's, Except for its extraordinary exteri- or deoorationa, it is, appatently, 110 dif- ferent frOm other buildings, but as (he wind sweeps round its nicheii and eaves a curious singing noise Is emit- ted. The sound can he heard some diet,ance away. 1- Poi' a io'ne time the muSic refneined a mystery,' bnt at last an engineer Solved the puzzle. 1-19 discovered that the sound was caused by the insierfai of whih the house was built, a very porous' stone. Vac; fra."..ng is known as the Palace oxtfi wiAida, and is at .