The Exeter Times, 1921-12-1, Page 2r
Not co'r.tent wit this suceess, MIS,; • e7"-
eween became ambitious to try her
lerialistie wings in other directioes;
t he des ire f or more important
s m en ts than the reporting of
afternoon teaS broti•ght down the pa-
ternel foot—flatl No daughter of h
:Nathaniel Lawson \vas going te be
:Allele -ed. to .reani the city at t1i hours.:,
"No night work," her l'atheer had it Tho. "Heart Of 'YPUr Home-
sieted. Neverthelese, the young i intiny of our old homer, fire-
/flan- continued to hope that this edict places axe Oozed and hearths covered
r
would beremoved evettnallY and he witn ,e,arpet* ,ae reithreeed, ,and hoards.
never lost an OppoKtunity of coaxing
if She baPpened to be at home when ,P,,l'a!tar„ Mt° gTa'Ve$ What
,
MeAlliSteT ,was present; but there ''"16."L' -to ,°e the throbbing heart of
came a night finally v,,licn Nat Lawson. the Irma. 'The we chimneys are
grew impatient, at her persiebence and there, the logs need only to be carried
se---•---e"'"e kindly but firmly put -a final period i in, but in snob homes, if the -stove or
to the topic. 1 heater int adequate, we,, set up a
eressa.esa,--eieseseee.,..e-seseee.iaseseseeeeN
zee, arrived home from a recital at icoeceeene sto\jel In the cities, the
se_
the Censor v titorY Music just in „eatilnh t p1 ueS of the
e time 't0 serve the refreshments ancl
Mallk 1115t1 oh, Paster Is -belie, torn on.t, outside
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(Copyright by Massou Company)
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more damage in after years to the
individual than the lass of ally other
teeth.
The gravest damage to teeth is done
by deeay between the, ages of six and
twelve' and they ehould be watolted,
cantimially during this period-. It is',
during these Years that the teeth are
most susceptible to decay, This 1
due to the fact tI2,at they nec 1;111
growing or undergoing development
and have not acquired the hardeess
and resistance that they will have
f tlt • -:10 11 ‘chire-neelve :built and, wood iboug.ht by later, They shoeld be sand anti :free
to as en tee- 5 e c
Both Wade and McAllister were there tho 101'0- O'1' the new hrePla°° that
and it was evident; that they had been has 'become ihisluonuble.
"at it again," From the quiet elation The fireplace, whieh is doctor,
in the editor's eye and the correspond- friend and spiritual comforter- is be-
ing amusement of her father, she booed by niarry women because it
judged that McAllister temporarily being.a with it some dust. •But was
was having the better of the argu- ' • • -
tion again for about two years. Brad- merit.
. ever anything worth while that did
Like so many successful men who ford had left everything in connection "Mae, I flon't care a hoot what not ,brjeee• With it some attendant
,
have risen to places a wealth aild with his investment in his friend Law- you've found out!" dedarcd Ben hardship? Chilarcia bring privations
influence, Lawson had begun as a poor son's hands. While the status of this Wade. "You ean sit there and talk sglr-litiees, wakeful nights and tiring
difficulties by Pluck and determina-, eial was unquestioned, the power -of- you'll never convince me that the Hon -
CHAPTER' VII.—(gent'd.)
nein_ till this time to -morrow night, but days, with a reward of deepest joY,
boy, straggling upward. over untold, stock on the books of the InterP
tion, In his ease, however, the re-; attorney had been given to Lawson Orable Milt isn't as straight as the
wards of the straggle had been swept . perspnally and had not been placed best mail who ever wont into politics.,'
m the hands of the secretary; "Ail, just so—who ever went ' into
from his reach at the very pinnaele a.fhae.11Y polities," drawled McAllister with a
of achievement by what appeared to [with instructions.
be an exeeptionally bold Piece of l Herein lay the quandary. For when Iprovoking grin,
hucaneeriag. He belonged to the older at the annual meeting in question Nat -"Who ever did his duty in public
goacration which had grown up ac- Lawson had tried to vote the stock lla and became the victim of hide-
customed to- seeing business carried, in the usual way, be was asked for. hound nosPaPerst" ratarte Wade,
en by individuals or on a partnership , the power-of-attorney by some of the,s`Miw
lt Waring and I grew up in the
,
basis; joint stock companies, combines ' new shareholders and could net pro_ sarne town together—went tothe
and holding companies had bean a de-, duce it. Proxies which Nickleby had same school: PlaYe.1 b th hookey and
veloPinent of his later days. It had , manipulated then were thrown en the hockey together. Why, I know him
taken him a lifetinie to build an his scale and when the meeting was over, zistrtiehr ads (Ttsfitidg. tell you he's as
from pain during this period, as they
aid in building the steuctuee or body
that must bear the stress and strain
of life.
A ' clean 'mouth and sound teeth
have much to do in keepine; one well,
The germs which cause nearly fifty
thousand deaths in Canada every year
enter the body through the mouth. If
the mouth is unclean, only one or two
disease germs entering it may -remain
unepuistnening love and fulness of lir- there and grow. It is just as import-
ing: in. old age,. Farn-is brine; long eitteto weeh the mouth two or three
• •
hours, hard tail small returns, .but tiines :each day as. it is to wash the
health. and peaceful nights and safe! hands' and fac'e. A few germs of
futures. And fireplaces? Ye$, seine' diphtheria, sore throat, Cr tuber -
dust, but I. can, think of mo other de -1 culosis are likely to get hato the mouth
terrent. I can hear only the ceackle, any day, but if the mouth -and teeth
of the logs, see the glow, the sparkle, are well washed with a brush morn -
feel the genial warmth. The prob- leing and night. the eo-orms \rill -be less
lems worked out before it, the dreame likely to grow and cause sickness.
dreamed. the journeys taken, ;the Germs develop, grow and multiply in
sions of friends and loved ones gone, the mouth on the decaying food sub -
the mellowing atmosibere for conver- stances collecting between and about
- "Your ----------------------------- , Ben_ sation and the stories told before its , the teeth and clinging to them. Olean
financial business from very small t e Intetprovincial a a new
beginnings, until it had become the dent by the name cf J, Cuthbert,
Tne straightest string ran be tied in 2,riendies cheer. confidenee3 wh,ohi the teeth often, after each meal and
big organization now Imown as the Nickleby. In making the anneunce-;
Interprovincial Loan & Savings co.1 ment, the newspapers had quite a'
, see by this mornines'papera that side a steam heat radiator and under I Chewing of hard foods gives the
wou,d never lave been excb.na. be- , risino. and retiring time
And because it was his nature to be story about Old Nat' and his career; R, b f
' h ddt tl re ardin the, penitentiary," interposed their host. eyes fixed on the red embers and the, intended. With the assistance of the
Ives les een east ram the electric Ueda are easily given with teeth work to do for which they were
generous and kindly "Old Nat" had thoY Printed in full the account whin . .
fallen victim to misplaced confidence.. was an e a iem g g
'Goad conduct has got him out three
suitably engraved. and an illuminatedlY fife. ., o imp. is sentence roam lighted by their glow. Pictures tongue and cheeks and salivary glands
a those early years of structio 1 prese .. t on. of a ,„, ld-h... ded
' nfa i . cro =a cane '
'' ears head f t' H'
conservative methods and plain hon -i - eem m was teen, wasn't it?" a forest and -sea, and breath of pine' the teeth a'es the means by which the
his l address which marked the eat,... come to us with the whiff of burning ' food is prepared for the stamach to
esty had been not the least of Wade,. nodded, ,but systs. t '
no L0 be wood.
...which the directors held the retiring .,1
president and founder. _I digest, and it is this work that helps
assets. It was upon these sound prin-1 l turned In:1m his tilt with McAllister. ciples that he had relied throughout.1 "What have you found out that So farm friends who are fortunate, to keep them sound and strong by
The smslI deposits of the working Convinced though he was that the, makes ,1,, ',- • c
you ea e.acky to-n.ight . he enough to have inherited old fire- i using the teeth on hard foods. In
deeses more oe less ignored by power-of-attorney had been stolen de- ,
, , 1. e , , . . 'challenged the editor with mterest places, open- them up. Hunt -up the eisewing'they stimulate the supply
early tompetitcrs. had given him his.; nberat ly arid that the whole thing.: ,ry , '
ou ll read all about it in the aid andirons and tangs and polish of blood to the gums and grow strong,
start; even now the strength of the'evas a cunning frame-up to get him R d h . -
. ecor er w en the tame come
Interprovincial lay in its popularity' out of the ,----------------------1 tree -----. just as the blacksmith's arms grow
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way in order that aerta'n'laughea at me the other night when • . •
and a hickory fore -stick and don't strews by exercise.
amorg workmen and farmers, while:transact:ens of which he never would.I -warned you that polities was 111.1.x.ed „. 3, ° • • food
its aggregate of small savings was have aPPraged might go tlr-augh—al--' up in this Interpeovincial manoeuv- ea -it until compaasy comes to- start the, Mastication end insalivation of
tremendous.. The people trusted the though cansinced that this was the ring. g Watch nie prove it. I'll send blaze- Have a royal fire every even- ; is the prat -less of taking food into the
Interprovi-ncial because they had seen' truth of the 'matter, Nat Lawson had, you a marked copy of the paper." /lig when the 'boys and girls come mouth and crushing it with the teeth;
it grow and knew that it was ad-' no. evidence to 'prove a case against 931uff! Listen to him, Nat!"
ministered honestly. "Catch =old Nat' Nior any ef his associates. It;
f "I'M not in the habit of lahrffiin‘g,
having anything to do with the tricks, would have been a dangerous proce- —
, wade." AleAllister's jaw was set. as
of high finam.e, ' said they, confident-1dure to give pubPcity to his attsPi- he .'Intted the edge of the table for
ly, and many were the stories whichecions, or to attempt legal action with-, erapVasis.. -I'm responsible to the
went the- rounds cf how the -old-1 out definite proof of his charges' as public and I tell you both right now
fashioned" financier had allowed sent', this could result only in destroying, that as sure as you're born-- Al,
. ment to "interfere" with businessi Public ennfidence in the institution geed -evening, Miss Lawson,' he firs -
And the business had grown apace. , its „if v, in out in the least altering the,,isheti. ris•ng,,
1 to his feet with a smile.
At the worst, the reigns '
Because of this • ingrained senti- siteation- McAllister busied himself, clearing
mental streak in his ma.ke-np end be._ cf the Nicklay faction could be buti
cause of his inherent honesty he had, temPorarY, asthe stuation Would ati-; was earryirg, and from beneath his
a space on the table fax the tray she-
:
created some enemies. There were jut itself with the return of the ex -a shaggy brows the railroad president's
those who lorsked hungrily in the di- it
Plorer who oevned the stock. But - Shrewd
rection of the interprovincial arid i was eseeedingly humiliatinie, eyes carried a glint of aniuse-
lid'
a , e
imagined what could be accomplished, there was always the possibahty that ment at the vident relief with which
in a very big way in several different these now in. ethitrol of the Lthe editor weleemed the interruotion.aterpro-1
i
directions if only the man in control: eincial meanwhile waald undermine; A. momeet more and McAllister eight
ha-ve committed. himself to a rash
dn the whole financial fabric by loo,se!
a the stock were—say, a little me
ipoles of administration, or even
C, Nickleby, may have been the first' by i statement_
aFe tricks as inventors have
ern. T'F it were net -Fur the close tab (To be continued.)
i nessionahl rattic -
which that energetic young secretary q = - e P - ,,ee. e
These apprehensions were shared;
kept upon things, Lawson would have'
by the only two friends whom Nat Inventor's "Fool -Proof"
/1/31 the concern into the ditch long
ago, whispered the ambitious aness- Lawson had admitted fully to his con-,
j.,fidence—President Benjamin Wade of Railway.
•
The young and energetic secretary,
the Canadian Lake Shores Reilly's-- St t • '- '
to whisper it—very confidentially, of ' and McAllister, the keen -eyed editor'; p ;a in, e past, surely there was
so . of the Recorder, which of all the city' n-lea.eeerclone more remarkable than that
courS.. For it would. ill becom.=
promising a young financier as 3'. 1 PewsPaPers was the most consistently
independent in polities. Wade was an, perpetuated by an Australian. But al-
Cutlebert Nicklehy to be guilty of irt-1
gratitude, and there had been one raw
old friend of long standing, hin-rself though it seems lite a trick, it is real -
wet night in the spring -of a year long f k • ly a great Invention.
. .
holder o a small block of stock in the
past when Nathaniel Lawson had For a long time Mr. Angus has been
Interprovincial Lean & Savings Coin- .
rest -sued a miserable travesty of a man .0 -
had turned for advice in his extremity.
from the gutter—a night that Nickle-'
Immediately Wade had called into
by, once his benefactor had set him i,
counsel the chief of his railroad's very
firmle- upon his feet with a new lease
competent detective staff, Bob Gran -
of life, /10 doubt had schooled himself
I sten, and: thereupon began. a series of
to forget for all time,
an _i quiet investigations with the object
At any rate there had came an
nual meeting at which Nat Lawsonl of obtaining the necessary evidence to
!depose the Nickleby faetion from. con-
found himself in a quandary. It fel-
s T ' ' '
lowed on the heels of a rumor that s - P •
Although equally anxious to help,
it was the desire of certain. sharehold-1
ers to inject some "new blood," and l - cAlltster had no part in Wade's ed impossible, and, in the eventof any -
M ' ' '-, ' ' ' -
'plans; he preferred to work along thing happening to the driver, the only
thereby new life. into the lean cern- plans;
him that Lawson experimenting with steam engines,
and at last he has succeeded in pro-
ducing the "fool -proof" railway. Al-
though the liability to error is not
avoided, error is rendered completely
harmless.
Electricity is the secret of this in-
vention. The engine is stopped auto-
matically when another engine is an
the same line. Collisions are render-
, special lines of his own. He and Wade
PanY—that it would be a good thing,
in short, for the "revered old Chief" ; differed
in their theories of situa-
to. retire to a pedestal where he could tion, and much to Nat Lawson's am -
alt as inanimate as a. bronze bust upon usement they had argued with some
the official label "Honorary
presie; heat the first night that they hap -
dent," while a younger man took upon Pelted to meet at the Lawson home; so
ex_ that the two were somewhat in friend -
his shoulders the burden of the
panded business, and so forth. I IY rivalry, each anxious to Prove that
The campaign against him had bean he was right, and each determined to
of a most insidious character and Play a lone hand.
It may have been his interest in the
Lawson had pretended with dignity(
to ignore it, even while his resentment case that led McAllister to call so
grew to the proportions of great in- ' frecinentlY of late at the o1defa3hioned
dignation. And all the time he was 'brick house that stood back from the
-worried because he could not find a street, surrounded by spacious
certain power-of-attorney whicht grounds and a wealth of carefully
authorized him to vete a large block I tended shrubbery, 1 the older resi-
of stock belonging to a personal dential section of the city. No doubt
friend who had invested heavily it was this that made him stop for a
Lawson's cannrany—Bradford, the Era°ke with the former president of
Arctic explorer, who had gone into the Interprovincial about three even -
the hinterland on a Government eXpe-Iilig5 a week on the way to his office
dition, and who was notexpected to in the brightly -lighted Recorder build -
get into ecimmunication with. civilize.- ing, where hummed activity during
the hours that others slept, in order
that the public might have a morning
newspaper ta prop against the sugar -
bowl while it breakfasted.
Even so, it is necessary to add that
Nathaniel Lawson had a beautiful and
accomplished daughter whose name
was Cristobel. It is necessary to re-
cOr-d further that being a young 'yeo-
man of spirit, Mise Criety Laws
had insisted ;upon taking up news-
paper work as .a profession when the
need of adding to the family resourc-
es presented itself. Fax most a the
Lawson eapital had gone into the loan
company and her father's philan-
thropic tendencies in the heyday of
his earnings' had made greater inroads
upon his personal fortune than I,e
had realized at the thhe. Her father's
objectionS to the plan had been -over-
ruled finally When MeAllister had of-
fered Miss Lawson a position on the
ecorder's dey staff as "Society Edi -
ter," and it was not long before her
interest 'in the work and her natural
aptitade foe 1 rejuvenated the Society
, Page into one d the best features the
tl4", paper boasted.
effect is a temporary cessation of
traffic.
A few simple coils attached to the
engine two inches above the rail do
the trick. All you see on the track is
a wire joining the rails at this jtmc-
tiote A small box of electrical fittings
Is outside the bailer, and a compact
magnet under the hand of the driver.
Electrical sympathy between engine
and rail prevents the brakes from go-
ing on and steam being shut off. Di-
rectly that sympathy is broken the
brakes are applied automatically and
steam is shut ,off. This sympathy
must be broken if another engine is
on the same section of line or if the.
line is broken in any way.
The system has been installed in
Sweden, and is to came into active use
in Great Britain almgst immediately,
Coal in Australia.
Coal has been found in every A.us-
tralian state, the deposits of New
South Wales and Queeneland being
the largest and beat,
Durnpless Drydock,
home front school, and for the grown-; at the same time the salivary glands t
ups when they eome in from the cold.' situated on either side ,above, and be-'
Use your -fireplace as an asset, and neath the tongue below, pour saliva
you will find the chill taken out of the, into this mass of food; the tongue
spring, the rros.t ,,rart the autumn keeps churning this mass about until
evenings, and the north wind'sraer it becomes liquid. Willie this ia going
will bring content. on a remarkable change takes place.
The substances taken into the mouth-
In. Norway a drydock has beea built
in suck a location in reference to a
canal that it can be filled with water
and emptied by gravity without the
use of pumps.
Preserving the Teeth. are no longer bread, potatoes, vee -
The prlinal purpose of the teeth is tables, but a new liquid substance is
to aid in the raa.etication and in:saliva- forined, ready to pass, to the st'snach;
Eon- of iced teken into the mouth. and unlese your food is well chewed
Then, by their' proper arrangement and mixed with saliva, it v:111 he meee
and appearance they lend beauty to difficult fax the stomach to digest it
the face. They also assist the organs They are four in number, two in the
of epeech in the proner articulation upper and two in the lower jaw; they,
and formation of sounds int a words. ean easily be resognized, as they are,
Every tooth is covered by a. hard the teeth farthest back in the mouth;•
substance called enamel. This coat of they come in behind the first or baby
enamel forms a means of protectien to teeth, are very often taken for baby
the softer inner substance called den- teen, and are neglected on this ac -
tine, of which the remainder of the count.
tooth is composed. Inside of the tooth The molars should be examined
there is a hollow space for blood- when they appear and should be
vessels and nerves which enter the watched carefully afterward, as they
tooth from the end of the root. Sound are especially susceptible to decay.
teeth are worth more to the child than Should a eavity appear, be sure to
gold or money; for they help keep him have it filled at once by the dentist,
well., and health is better than wealth,
The most important teeth in ' a
child's mouth are the six-year molars.
so -sailed because they make their ap-
pearance at about the age Of six...years.
This world haz menny he-ros—he
who dez all he kin, hi the hest manner
possible, 1 a hero; I don't karts who -
'thee he bialys yare boots, runs a loco-
motive, or leads 'forlorn hope into
battle.—josh
Let us enlarge Mir world by expand-
ing Ourselvee:
Minard'e Liniment Uttedby Veterinaries
as the destructron and loss of this
tooth is the cause of loss of health to
many children about this age or 'a
little later. 'Dentists agree that the
loss of the six-year molars causes
The Father of Shipping.
rLloyd', the headquarters of the
t_raio.m a London coffee-house keeper,
Lloyd',
s,
shipping insurance, derives its
nt
Towards the end of the seventeenth
century those interested in shipping
matters were acciistomed to meet at
a small coffee-house in Tower Street.
This was kept by a man named Edward
Lloyd, who subsequently- removed to,
the corner of Abchurch. Lane and Loth -
bard Street.
In 1696 Lloyd' started a newspaper,
which gave a list of ships arrivals and
sailings. The newspaper, ' which he
called "Lloyd's List," 'succeeded until
its founder publiehed an article ques-
tioniug 'a decision in the House of
Lords. - •-
. Edward Lloyd was censured and his
paper was suppressed. It was not un-
til thirty years later that he was al-
lowed to re-establish it. Since then
"Lloyd's List" ilea appeared regular-
ly.
The freqpenters of Lloyd's coffee-
hotise were not fiermitted to enjoy
Entries Close November 26th
for the
TWELFTH ANNUAL
TORONTO
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Lets of Three, Six and Ten and
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011 will be astonished at the ze-
suite we get by our modern system
of dyeing and Cleaning. Fabrics
that are shabby, dirty or spotted are
made like new. We can restore the
most delicate articles. ,
Send one article or a parcel of goods
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When you think of clean-
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ye
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their monbpoly of marine insurance
for long, and in 1720 Parlia..mant al.
lowed- two other companies to be es-
tb.bliehed in London-.
A:bent:one hundred years Pater there
was a Realliamenta.ry inquiry into the
-monopoly enjoyed- by - Lloyd's and
these two, gompaniese Tbe ,House of
Commons decided that' %Lloyd's had
rendered such great service to the
country by supplying the Government
-with information regarding maritime
matters .that it should -retain its privi-
legeS.
Ten years later, however, an Act
was passed by which. marine insur-
anee Was thrOWn open, and since that
date many other companies have' been
established.
All candidates far membership at
Lloyd's have to deposit such security
for their liabilities as may be required.
This security at the present time
amounts to over -$20,000,000.,
There is a Lloyd's agent at 'every
part in the world, who transmits, news'
of all ,ships that pass. At Lloyd's a
'Captains' Register"- is maintained,
which gives the record of every Bri-
e •
tish maeterenariner, and there is
an Inquiry Office,
World's Wonder Cloek.
For twelve years a Frenchman has
been at work on a clock which is one
,of the most marvellous' pieces of me-
chanism in the world.
In this clock the quarter-hour chimee
are struck by figures representing the
'four ages of Life, while the figure of
Death :strikes eech hour. Each day,
on a small chariot, appears a divinity
symbolizing' the particular day, to'
which it cimeecrateci.
A th r feature of the clock
model of the earth, whieh :maY be
see.n reAtIolving round the sun. it marks
the .trienths and the 'signs of the
'Zddiac.
Switzerland is electrifying her rail-
ways to save importing coal,
Minard's Liniment for Colds, ete.
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'ENTIRELY DARK AND '
DREARY.
Th 'e Gallant "Quest" Will be
Aided by Lights We Never
See in This Latitude.
Shackleton and his brave compaet-
ons may not after all, experience such
a dark and dreary winter as most „peo-
ple imagine.
Although the sun's light will be
withdrawn for a greater or lesser
length of time, according to the lad,-
tude in which the explorers are lo-
cated, the brilliance and duration of
the moonlight, for one thing, should
make considerable amends for its loss.
Shaekletores old chief, the late Cap-
tain' Scott, for example, tells us how
at mid -winter (June 23rd) . "the -full
moon,\Itigh in the heavens, flooded the
snow 'with US' white, pure light," whilst
"overhead a myriad stare irradiated
the heavens," and "the pale shafts 01
the aurora australis grew and waned
in tile southern sky."
The mean, Captain Scott furtlier re-
lates, greatly favored the Disovery ex-
pedition by being lull when at its most •
southerly decilination.
Starlight should be another import-
ant means eif relieving the darkness
of the Antarctic night to the Shaelde-
tonians. It, is perhaps not widely
realieed that the very large majority
of the most brilliant stars are either
in the Southern Hemiephere or visible,
from the Antartic regions.
Nature's Lam pi i get.,
The three brightest—Sirius (tha,
Dog Star), Canopus, and Alpha Cen-
tauri --are all south of the Ecetrator;
indeed, the two last mentioned are so:
Lar south that they never appear
above our horizon at all. The ,Dog
Star is, of course, a familiar object to
everybody in our latitudes during thef
inter month s.
No small , amount Ois illumination,
Isceild be derived from the ma..
edatic. zone of "star dust" -which gird,
les the entire armament, aral. whih is
Mast generally known ir, ties countrj
by the name of the 'Milky Way.
Its brilliance is certainly very marle
ed, with us, but in the South Polar re
glens it shines with a sploldor ot
which. we Nertherners are quite ignon
ant.. The bamous Southern Cross ii
seen partly projeted against the Milkj
Way.
'Thee. the Magellanic Clouds -- twc
brilliant, luminous patches -which looli
as if the,' had broken loose from the
Milky Way --should he another source
of illumination. They are se immense'
ly remote that our own uziverse ol
stars would appear like' one of them
if viewecl from the same distance,
Yet their brilliance is such thatarhen
near the horizon in the tropies they
have:been mistaken by travellers -for
far-off prairie or forest fire.
There are also luminous clouds oi
enOther kind which might help tonliti.
gate the gloom of the long night.
These, however, are in our atmos-
hphigeirie, perhaps thirty or forty miles
The "Merry Dancers:,
They are supposed to be of eIectri-
cal origin, and are brighter -at some
times than at others. IloWever, they
are quite capable of giving a glow tb
their region of the heavens.
To what extent the aurora australis
will illumine the darkness is uncer-
tain. Some Antarctic explorers have
expressed themselves as altogether
disappointed with the display of this
Counterpart of our aurora borealis or
"merry dancers," or "Northern lights,"
as it is variously known to us. —
The aurora ustralis it seems to me,
varies in brilliance iit the same way
as does our aurora boeralis. This
variation is regulated, presumably, by
the electrical condition of the higher
regions ofthe atmosphere.
'When, for instance, there is unusual
activity en the, sun, the auroral dis-
play is often mare brilliant than- when
the sun is comparatively quiet.
It, 1 interesting to note, in this re-
gard, that the sun's quiet time will
coincide with Sha.ckleton's sojourn in
the Anfarctic.
Displays, of some degree of iatensity
are sure to be witnessed: by members
of the expedition, and, likely as not,
the auroral stremers will eametimes
have a reddish er greenish hue. The
effect of this light on the frozen
wastes of the ,Antarctic should be
grand in the extreine,
The Straig,ht Road.
There are roads that .pass thrOnh
splendor,
And ways" that,seem,sublime.
There are 'paths -that lead O'er vale
tin cl mead,
01,d ,roads sin'ee man kne•W time,
. ,
, ,
Yet since the first reati travelled
With -his latighter or his oare,
The straight rea0. Was. the groat road;
"It's the shortest distamcp there.
We yearn ,ofttimee for nett teads,
5oesn't a bit! Drop a little For a short, out o'er the Way,
"Freezone" on an aching corn, ins
stantly that corn stops, hurting, then
fshortly you lift It right off with fingers.
ru
Tly!
Your druggist Sells a tiny bottle, of
"Freezonefl for a. few cents, sufficient
to remove every hard corn, soft corn,
or corn between the toes, and the cal-
, Without soreness or irritation.
And sametenee weep when. 'oaths aril
steep --
Our path of life to -day.
Yet sinct: the first Irian travelled,
Succeee was near, eenneWhere.
And the straight life was the grea(
te th shartest dtstatsnai