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red clacks and Tire Pumps.
trouble le one. of the most fre-
things to happen and take real
t of a trip. To make matters
ain a tire does not always give
�tl
indications that it is going to cause
you to stop and make a repair, and
so the trouble comes on "like a thief
in the night"
%This brings up the necessity of a
tire pump—one of the greatest con-
siderations with which present-day
motorists have anything to do.
Never go riding unless you are sure
the tire pump le in good repair. If
you expect to have sante fellow trav-
eler lend you his pump, he may be in
too big a hurry to wait on you; or,
his pump may not he in any better
-.shape than yours.
Of the hand -pumps, those with two
or three barrels are best. Inside these
pumps there are plunger leathers
wh'ch will heat and get stiff from use,
fora great deal of heat is generated
when pumping a tire. This will causel
a pttntp to lose compression and nee -d
essitatc more pumping to get air into
the tine then would be needed if things
were different; andthereis nothing:
more t;resome than violent and pro -i
le nged 1;umpltg l:y hand, It is some-;
ether easier when two take hold of
time purnp-Irmo 11 -one on each side—!
en 1 do the: pureeing. Many make;
pang n.; harder tthau necessary on ae-;
(germ tf the tension under which they
11...•e litemseleee while doing it,
Pero 0 by at:11 motion for a fowl
str.;i'cet then rdternato with back ac-,
t,•nt en 1 you will find it more reetful,i
Wl t. t t re tumme.n forms of hand -
'melee a
ard'm ; ire. found to he leaking, or it
Wore 1 ,t rr than usual 1,o get air
int,, t .e tem, ihe pump should have
eleemer leather.; put in. You can'
re. ! 1 •.e out of n piece of shoe -top,'
oe ees elm buy them ready made.
"f the old ones with either
1 • ne. es er vascline will often im-
1,1.,, , ondition and make them
a while longer. Never overdo this
e•"]' :,, fix some of 'the grease May get
ince t , tire where it will damage the
rehbc
1iinah pral,irg any special Dee, I
..,.t i•, od to favor the motor -driven
1: one aLeve a:1 ethers. With such a
fro o, the mut r of your ear will do
the week; ell yeeu need to do is to sit
n ... . e'rh yuur gemen on the air line.
With these motor -driven pumps you
ean 'gene ;oar tire to any pressure
des' red , alth0,;gh yen should never
)a:n(p in mare than the estimated
]( 1('re act•fed, You have none of
the sweat and worry that usually ex-
(rc:patny the hand -driven pumps. With
e cue clothes and a calm mind you can
ort the motor fill your tires and finish
Der work in the same condition you
l+eonn.
lite motor -driven pump has an oil
chamber under the pistons, where
there is a supply of oil—the same as
there ,is in your crank -case. There is
a filter on these pumps to hold back
the creepage of oil- to the air line.
After considerable trouble in keep-
ing our hand -pumps in good order we
installed a motor -driven pump and
really find now that we have less tire
trouble than before. Whether the
presence of the motor -driven pump
acts as a .preventive—something like
a scarecrtlw does to a thieving robin
in a cherry tree—or whether there has
developed a different stele of driving
with nie, I do not know. I only know
I decided to take the backache out of
tire trouble, and I have done it.
Practical Paragraphs.
Cleaning Fouled Plugs—The best
method of cleaning spark plugs that
have become fouled with oil is to boil
them in a solution of washing soda
and water:•.
Scraping Cylinders—It has long
been customary to clean gasoline en-
gine cylinders with long -handled
scraping tools, the cutting edges of
which are hardened, In scraping a
cylinder in this manner, it is impor-
in the upper -
mot
to have the piston t
PP
most position of its sweep, since
-otherwise the scraping tool is likely
to Op into the bore of the cylinder
and injure the smooth surface of the
cylinder wall,
Puzzling Rattles—When something
seems to rattle around the body of
your machine and you don't know just
what it is, get some one to hold the
doors tight while you drive. If that
stops the rattle, get some anti -rattlers
for the doors and apply them; or fas-
ten a small piece of rubber on your
door to fill out the vibrating space.
Controlling Skidding Car—To pre-
vent losing control of a skidding auto
turn the front wheels quickly in the
sane direction in which the car as
skidding and close the throttle. Leave
the clutch in. Do not apply the
brakes. If they are applied and caused
the skidding disengage them before
turning the wheels. When the car
stops skidding right the front wheels
quickly, If tihe car is to be brought
to :t standstill apply the brakes very
gently and gradually, with the clutch
iiieeu ;aged.
Tightening Cylinder Nuts — The
holding -down nuts of the cylinder
head should be tightened periodically
If the cylinder head is taken oft feu
any reason, in replacing the part it
should be tightened up again by
screwing down opposite nuts. Each
nut should be turned a little, then its
opposite should be screwed down
somewhat, and so on, working around
the cylinder head. If one nut is tight-
ened all the way there is danger of
spr;nging the part.
Are We Wasting Too Much Timber ?
the virgin pulpwood forests of
Ontario, a balsam tree' 10 inches in
,,:e. er et breast height is, on an
average, 110 years old, with a total
volume of 7.4.0 cubic feet. White
spruce of the same diameter is 114
years old, with a total volume of 14.9
(ethic feet. Black spruce is 144 years
old, and has volume of 14.7 cubic feet.
Soe•d]ingr grown in a, nursery, and
transplanted in the open, will make
a much better growth than those in
the virgin forest, but, even if they
reach a diameter of 10 inches in 40
years less time, It would still make
the total age 50 years for balsam, 74
years for white spruce, and 104 years
for black spruce. It is advisable, there-
fore, that, in all logging operations,
the fullest utilization possible be
made of every tree cut, and that every
precaution be taken to avoid injury
to those left standing, in order that
they may produce a second erop in
the shortest possible time.
Where logs of only one length, 16
feet, are being cut for pulpwood, there
is a loss, due to waste in stumps and
tops, of 20 pet' cent. 08 tiro total
volume of the tree in balsam, 14 per
cont, in white spruce, and 20 per cent:
in black spruce. These• figures are.
based on actual measurements, where
the stump height averages about 18
inches.. Where winter cutting is clone,
stumps cannot be cut much below 18
inches, owing to the depth of the
snow, but the waste in tops, can. be re-
duced by cutting to smaller top
diameters. This would necessitate
the cutting of different lengths of
loge, say, 10, 12, 14 and 16 feet, the
increased cost of which would be
more than offset by the greater pro-
duction per acre. A 3 -inch top diame-
ter makes a gain over the 4 -inch of
one cord for every 223 trees, a gain
over the 0 -inch diameter of one cord
for every 89 trees, and. over the 6-111011
diameter of one cord for every 53
trees.
The short logs in water will not sup-
port a man's weight, and may, there-
fore, be harder to drive, but, on the
other hand, because they dry out more
quickly they float higher in the water
than the long lengths and aro not so
Liable to term jams.
Cutting shorter lag -lengths increases
the number of cords which may be
cut per acre; it lengthens the out of
any given area; it gives the unmer-
chantable trees that much more time
in which to grow to a size sufficient to
enable the area to be cut a second
time, and it decreases the fire hazard
through the fuller utilization of the
tops.
Ripplingragmes
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Boosecleaning.
ITI like to be an Eskimo and in an igloo dwell, and eat fried
ice and scrambled snow, and go outdoors and yell. The
humble Eskimo is glad, we sea him donees and sing; his
womenfolk don't drive him mad by cleaning house each spring.
Ile isn't driven out of doors to hunt for frozen grub, the while
the women scrub the floors there are no floors to eerub. He
Is not chased, to heat the band, from out the divers rooms, by
dames with brooms and mops in hand—there are no mops or
brooms. Year after year be sits fn peace, or lies upon his back,
clothed in 1110 wholesome film of grease, and no one clean the
altack, Els treasured goods are not mislaid, as mind are, every
year; and he can find hie blabber spade, his corkscrew and bis
spear. And if he spills a cataract of ashes on the floor, no woman
reaels the riot act, no female heart is sore. I'll go to join the
Eskimo when next a vessel starts, for I am tired of all the woe
that cleaning house impar•te. I'm tired of sitting on the stairs,
oppressed by fantods three, because the couches and the chairs
are hung upon a tree.
Time for Lightning Rods.
The season for electrical storms
will
r So much fun has
IsaonUehee.
been made of farmers and lightning
rod agents that a few people have
come to the conchrsiou that lightning
rods are a fake. This is far from the
truth.
A good lightning rod is the best
protection against damage from light-
ning. It is a well-known fact that
lightning will take the easiest path to
the ground. This may be a high tree,
a church spire, a chimney, or a tele.
phone wire. It is reasonable to as-
sume if a lightning rod is a good con-
ductor of electricity and makes a
good contact with the ground, that it
will protect. property. -
A good lightning rod should be
made of copper or iron, of ample cross-
section, with a point projection above
I the roof of the building and the lower
end well grounded. .4. good rod for
this purpose, if of copper, should
weigh six or eight emcee a foot; if
iron, it should weigh about two pounds
1 a foot. The lightning rod should be
I well separated from the building by
porcelain or glass insulators. The rod
should be - Meted and soldered to a
large copper plate three feet by three
feet, so as to make good contact. The
plate should be buried in charcoal in
a damp place.
If an old rod is already in place, go
over it carefully to see that it is not
broken, as a broker rod is worse than
none, because lightning will start
ldown the rod and leave it and enter
the building where the rod is d' eec-
tive.
—..
Brazilian Savages Used
Poison Gas.
The Guaranis and other native tribes
along the Rio Parana, in Brazil, used
poison gas centuries ago for military.
purposes. How they did it was des-
cribed time and again by early Span-
ish chroniclers.
When attacking a fortified village
they would prepare pans of glowing
coals, which they sprinkled with a
kind of pepper called "agi." This
gave off suffocating fumes, which a
favoring breeze would carry over the
besieged town.
The fumes did not kill, but were
sufficiently noxious to deprive the be-
sieged of all power of resistance—a
fact which beleaguered outpost garri-
sons of Spaniards discovered to their
coat on more than one recension.
In that part of the world, as else-
where, the policy of the Spauish fie
vaders, when dealing with the abori-
gines, eves one of wholesale and sys-
tematic cruelty. They specialized in
ruthless massacre. But they did not
always win, and there survives in the
Amason Basin to -day a tribe called
the Lorenzos who are nearly white—
n phenomenon alleged to result from
their capture, centuries ago, of a num-
ber of white women as spoil of the
successful siege of a Spanish town.
"Mother ;" inquired the small
daughter of the house, wrestling with
her home work, "which is correct,
'Girls is' or 'Girls are'?" "'Girls are;
of course," promptly replied mother.
Then came the plaintive reply: "That
WAS what I thought, but this does not
sound right: "Girls, are my hat on
straight?' "
Apparent Waste Is Con-
servation.
What on the eurface would appear
as altuost criminal waste, and yet is a
conservation measure, is taking place
in the pulp -mills en the Paciflo coast.
s
Prior to the elrn e f the war upwards
o u w d
n s
of 100 million feet of the finest spruce
logs for the manufacture of aeroplanes
was cut in northern British Columbia,
principally on Queen Charlotte lea -
lands, As the timber was not—re-
quired for its original purpose, and,
as the logs lying in the woods would
decay and those be the water would
soon be destroyed by teredoes,it was
disposed of for commercial uses to
the beat advantage.
The limited capacity of the lumber
mills in that portion of the province
prevented the utilization of the great-
er portion of the supply of loge for
lumber. The pulp -millet however,
which during the war had been pro-
ducing large quantities of aeroplane
lumber, purchased much the larger
Portion sI the logs, and will convert
then into pulp. The large timber on
the British Columbia coast has to be
sawn before it can be used in the
pulp -mills, and as several of the pulp
companies also manufacture lumber,
material suitable for aeroplane con-
struction can and is being g saved to the
extent warranted by the demand.
Though it is regrettable that such
fine timber must be used for pulp, true
conservation dictates its use for the
purpose far which a market exists
rather than to have It wasted. It is
also claimed that larger financial re-
turns are secured from its manufac-
ture into pulp instead of into lumber.
Her Choice and His.
"She's just the ono for him," we say.
He seldom sees it, though, that way.
I-Iis mother's choice is prim and staid,
A paragon, a perfect maid,
The kind of girl they put in fiction,
Correct in manners, poise and diction;
But, spite the mother's best exertion,
The youth feels only deep aversion,
He goes and picks a flighty girl
Who dances like a leaf awhirl,
A girl all dimples, wiles and laughter;
And they are happy ever after;
While mother can but sit and wonder
How her son could make such a blun-
der.
How sad that our "one proper mate"
Is always someone whom we hate!
Ribbons In a Minute.
Typewriter ribbons can be made in
a minute by a new machine that pass-
es white ribbon stock through rollers
automatically inked from a reservoir.
The Chinese have a flower which is
white at night or in the shade, and
red in the sunlight.
Even in these days of intensive
training, -war still leaves room for
initiative and invention. For example,
the officer in charge of the defence of
the Suez Canal succeeded by a clever
trick in detecting the approach of
nightsscouting and mine -laying par-
ties of the enemy. Every day he had
a ,broad mark made along the bank
of the canal, throughout its whole
length, by dragging a timber wrapped
in burlap over the sand, In the bell
every footprint showed and gave its
warning.
"REG'LAR FELLERS"—By Gene Byrnes
Grasshoppers m Western Canada
In the Prairie Provinces of Weistcrn
Canada, pa•t:leelarly in certain r,ec.
tions of Souther,' 110011ateliewan and
Southern Manitoba, 11,111ians of riot;ars
worth of grain were deaf my(' d by
loeusts in 191.9. Ieollowing tele aule
break, cmc of the most, important of
which we have recur!, enorn,nne emu-
bers of egge of "tweets were dc.po..ited
by females of destructive speeiee in
late summer and autumn. Times, eggs
have remained in- the ground all win-
er. With favorable weather condi-
tions for the hatching of therm eggs
during the present Han,.on, there
is every reason to expect an even
greater and more. widespread outbreak
of locusts' 1n the western province; in
the present year. Towards the end
of March numbers of young g;eselt•tp-
Pere were noticed in Southern tia/-
katehew•an, but theta more of colored -
winged speefes, which are not of
economic importance. The two
species, the eggs of which are expect-
ed to hatch 1n early May, are known
as the Looter Migratory Locust and
the Pellucid Locust.
Both federal and provincial oflieiais
are in close touch with oondition
generally, and, with prompt action
from all concerned when the threaten-
ed outbreaks occur, there is no rea-
8071 why •the pest should not be kept
within bounds,
In. 1919, applications of poisoned
bait saved thousands of dollars• worth
of growing crop. The poisoned bait
which was largely used c n
isted of:
Bran, 50 pounds; Paris green or white
arsenic, 2 pounds; moiaosea, 4 quarts;
oranges or lemons, 6 fruits; water, 5
to 6 gallons. In preparing the mix -
lure the bran and flame are utixed
thoroughly while dry. The juices of
the oranges or lemons are squeezed
into the water and to this is also add-
ed the pulp and peel after cutting into
line pieces. The molasses should then
be added and, when dissolved, the
mixture should be poured on the dry
bran and poison, stirring the whale
constantly so as to dampen the bran
thoroughly. In the preparation of the
bait it is wise to guard against breath-
ing on the flue particles of poison.
Mir .may be avoided by tying a hand-
hoert•hief loosely ,ever the month and
(•(i:;e.
The bait should be r'ealtered thinly
by hemi front a wagon or light. rig,
Baro being token to'prevent tiny large
lumps forting. Irarly horning is the
best titne to spread 'wheeled belt so
that the locesta will be ate re, :feel to 11
before they feel to ,,— y extent in
i growing craps. As they feed very
little during cloudy, cold, or rainy
days, bright, warm days should be
• cbcsen for mattering the. halt. 111
badly infe,ted areas it is frequently
1 no -roes rt tc spread the halt at re-
gular intervule, of font or five day%
before the btseete are finally brought
under cath;ol. In 1coasbinfeeteci 4 e.•
areas, Partners Memel early
in the 8010‘.11, no that when the young
grass-hoppere appeal' in large num :
bare, poisoned bait may be prepered
quickly and wideserta1 appileatian I.
matte at the same time. Prompt runt•
ntnnity action is of the utmost im-
portanee in dealing with an insect 111,e
the locust, which occut:i 111 such enor-
mous number% and over widespet .d ,
arcate. As an inetartee of the value of
community action, we have: only to
cite an experience in 1815, when .tb,,ut
30.000 acres of growing crop in St.'
12tiearu-de-Gras and adjoining pari li-
es were treated with poisoned bait
Within a perlo:i of two er three days,'
and as a result 95 per cent. of the
locusts were killed, and crops 1:avel
111 Aoate fl.ebls where, owing to c.t
tinueh outbreaks of lltr c mitts,
Teething of value had beet have• e d
for several years.
The Entomological llraneh, Dtin..;
inn Department of Agrieultore, 11$t is•
sued a circular on Loco t Cent.tsa 1n
the Prairie Provinces, enptes of which
may be had on application to the
Chief of the Publicatione htanelt, ILs-
partntent of Agriculture, Ottawa. This
pubhlctttion, whteh has been ptee ar d
by Mr. Norman Critidla, Fut oto
logist-in-charge for Mn -itoba, (11_-
ettsses the kinds of locusts whi,-h are
destructive in the Prairie Provinces,
their habits, (Metro] anti natured
eta miss.
Moths Do Not Eat Cloth.
Many millions of dollars' damage is
done each year by moths, and they
should be hunted down and ruthlessly
slain; but it is not while in the form
of a moth that the little pest spreads
destruction. If the meth could -be
coaxed not to lay eggs, it could he per-
mitted to live out its brief life in
peace, as it does no direct harm whet -
ever, some variotiee not evert eating
anything at all and the °there merely
sipping the nectar from. night -bloom-
ing flowers, which are made strong
scented in ceder that the moths may
find them by the sense of smell, that
of sight being, of course, useless in
the dark.
What causes the ruin of the perfect-
ly good overcoat we had counted on
wearing another wiuter and the un-
derclothing that was almost like new
is the larvae or grubs which de•• er to
from the moth egg After f. -tin,; ;t
our expense, theee lareee <hane"' 01.0
pupae, each font r, tun.'
similar to that of the ellte:wo•m. tonl
after some time the cycle ie ct maple t 9
by the emerging of ma1he (rent line,
cocoons and the i yeee Uy the 01:10
of mora eggs. The moths v,eeer re ri set51,1:,a. out when c•lothirg ie alt en are 010.ea
inrocent of any he:ret that ha'. el-
ready
,l ready been done. but 11 left. and ,. :11
turbed will lay egg:,, which scan will
develop into vt•rac.aus grebe. \\1;en
moths aro observed the <ltotbiep
should not he immediately packed
away, as eggs may already have been
laid on the garments. The garmet:ti
should be carefully examined and
well brushed, inside and out, hung in
the air if possible and then stored.
Math preventives will not kill eggs
and grubs, but only keep flying moths
away.
Getting the Most Out of
the Woods.
- Tho anlpil 1 Lug of the wasteful
lttntln.ring methods of the past in of
little savior, milees ihe preetieabllitY
of better lntahltrt'r; nun be shown.
Wait to eros:onkel lagging rne•thcdw
are being nr:ed they should be given
full roeegnit.ion by all cottservatkmiets,
and given earnest consideration by
aper5lera. An instance of close utili.•
r..ric11 ie evld•meed on lite unite of 11
crinipttuy (Tara -flog in it modcwt way
111 the Parry Hound -tilol ,'strict_ This
coinpattY eeeureel tt aleck of limber,
eonrlsting of utixed herdwewes, Anel
ttonifere, situated near the mill of. an-
other eontpany. The first nt, union',:l
company let. out its- woods mimeo ro:v
to a sub-enittrat for and is prceeveme
to leg tho area very cleanly. 'lite
tborengtttcts of Lbe operafhun 1,
shown 10 the disposal of the prodnt•tr=.
The . rftwrod lege go to the neighbor -
tug mill; the lisuilack Dee (hewn) toe
the railws.y e:e.:,npany; the spruce and
balsam pulpwood 10 a pulp -mall at at
cousidcr: hie distance.; the bue:';v✓ce•I
logs, 11.11 also t ny good balmrof-gilead
logs, go to New Jeroey for match
stock; the birth test, go to :tis trail
for export � u, taupe, for ore u
veneer. and the other hardwoods in -
eluding white oak, nett and elm.2'
alto di os{.3 of. In aldttun, ort +r
pale are taken o,rt, hr1 he mivt'1t herk
is shipped to tanneries near Torante .
u hardate l waste .tit et asfeel
and t 1
in its e,np5. This op roti:•n, tl. t? -
fore n,y be sail to represent tee
nu:xhmutu of close,vt.dt at on. 1'htie
timber Ilcen.c of u;11 15 cio-e to
a
t
M5174;87. bu there meet. be eta; :
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ta,er: t ails 1Lt ugh act Ontario.,
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The Duty of the Educated Man
The other day an observing person
asked the interesting question whether
the education of an educated man
—unquestionably serviceable to him—
is beneficial or harmful to the unedu-
cated man. The question, like a good
many others, cannot be answered with
an offhand yes or no; it must be an-
swered conditionally. The condition
relates, of course, to the use the edu-
cated man makes of his education.
We do not believe that there can be
any doubt that in, the long tun and 1n
the great majority of cases the know-
ledge of the educated man has been
of distinct service to' hie brother of
Kittle or no education. To know that
the educated man serves the public
continuously we have only to think of
the advances that have been made in
medical and surgical science and of
the faithful service to the community
of thousands of educated physieiaag;
of the vast debt we owe to the edu-
cated common some of the founders
of our government; of the comforts
and conveniences that the Intelligence
02 educated men has brought into our
daily life through the countless inven-
tions of modern times; of the help—
spiritual, mental, and moral --tint un -
s -elfish and conscientious ministers,
teachers, lawyers and business men of
our acquaintance are daily giving to
persons loss learned then themselves.
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Unfortunately, not all educated men
comprehend the obligation that is laid
upon them. Many of them are selfish,
thinking only of their own advantage,
scornful of their neighbor. Among
such men are the quack, the shyster,
the demagogue, • the swindler and
many, too, who cannot be written
down so contemptuously, but who re-
gard their abilities net Oct reasons for
helping to bear the burdens of others
but as means of winning prizes.
In the end it comes to this: that
no education is true and admirable un-
less it trains the character as well as
the mind. The person who coked ihe'
question must have seen instances of
mon who took frequent advantage of
their cleverness and superior know-
ledge to defraud or daoetve some one
else. We have alt seen such men. The
truth is not that they have too much
education, but that they have not
enough. Their moral natures have
been neglected while their brains
have been sharpened; and that always
makes dangerous mea. We need
more education of charaotet; more
moral discipllno both at home and in
the school, When we pay as much
attention to moral training as we pay
to tratndbg our boys and girls in
languages and mathematics and
science, no one will think of asking
this gee-glom—ILK.
Fou -
'Gasoline.
Gasoline v:i]1 0::*0110/e r1 ;::1 t: 'n
price. A few yens" frau ter.: r.c .11
have to use 0(00ih,t o 3 i:,ol . ;r
ourattlC,n air;':ee, The q
w het?
Sefent:se, thiol: 111114 we .1l01 ..a
the rcquts;te--ot,:tiinte teem e 1.
"Ry -product Coke Glens" w 1!
to extract front the eco:i e. lirhf 'c+L.
available for the purpose he melte
can then be recd in cur fr,rn:iees and
for other ordinary fuel Purpcee0.
One ton of soft eos.1 in the ponce s
of coping yields about three gallo:.s
of oil tlrst-rate far mots.fuel. t
present pr'icez tl:e heat In the nil 1..rc
twenty times the commercial value of
the same amount Gt heat in the forret
of coal.
Germany during -part of the wag nr.o
practically shut off from every enpply
of mineral oil. She depended for ?tar
motor fuel entirely on coo:, putting
the latter through by -prosiest coking
plants. 13efore long we shell be
obliged to do the 001110 thing in Nevah
AmarIca,
Part of the ligh; oil in coal is tni.tt,l,
which in time of war Is needed for the-
manufacture of TNT. Modeen var.
faro requires eno'nieue quantitia: cf
this sulestatce for making hien <ex-
plosive shells. During (ho dost trot
of the war the Allies lane nr•-ar Oa -
feat for lack of it.
Another byproduct from the cel::,;:t
of one ton of soft coal is 6.000 rebel
feet of gas, available for cooking, nal
other household ttsee. 711^_ ,lake ;a
self makes an admirable sur:;k.'' v
fuel for 11u'aaces, if peopled ctuld only
be persuaded to use it. -
How Hy/naming-Birds Bathe.
Not being atgnainte•d eith the beth.
ing habits of humming -birds, a Cali•
forntan put cut an abalone 01011 50
the most artistic ba1111eeelish he e:etld
find, but never tv hi,t l,i -arledge diel a
bird pay the load, atitu,t100 to it.
One morning, iu tee !Wrier- of a
shower, however, a 1100111111110
crouched down cm the wet bled° e
a dogwood leaf, and her apidly flut-
tering wings.. %pattered the raindrops
in every dircctienn. The bird went
trent leaf to leaf nntil she had one-
c0eded in getting herself very wet;
then she perched on a twig, shook off
the drop.:, and Carefully preened her
feathers.
It is not improbable that, in theab-
sauce of rain, humming -birds use the
dewdrops of early morning. lo eloeotr
captivity one bird bathed in a glad!••
Gins blossom. 'Thereafter a pitcher•
piont was used. A humming -bird to.
cusiorueci to drinking sweetened water
from a spoon, one day found water in.
steal of sweets in the spoon,' where-
upon she at ones alighted on the edge
and took a bath.
Take 1Sfe as you find it --bot dot't
leave it there,