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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-8-18, Page 71 4.t•r Ell YOUR TIItieS NEED WATCHING, eather ani- a blew -out only when the tire is neck At some joint phi3 fact muse be taken into cars :ler tion vn,l far dale reason cat's mel eat mai ezcd in 'whatever allowaree is . ,mule in tiro ',roseate an eeeotret of the surname heat, It would 'be a'good pract;e, however,, in hot we Vher to leave the garage with the tire pressure nbout ten tannic less than that usually specified as being normally correct, Try It Out for Yourself: It wouldoleo be a good practice for the driver to tcu't Silt his tiros after running ata good clip on a hot day, to and out for himself just how his particular tires react to the heat. A little' of such experimenting will satin truncate to him just about what allow- ance he should make for hot weafher in the inflation of his own tires. The question of tire inflation may be a question of sacrificing a little on the life of a tire in order to secure a greater amount of comfort ' in riding. Practically every owner of a oar would be unwilling to use a substitute for (caseate, even though the substl- °bile is sus - inns of fire o in the good • might not oc- le the tires are a pressure the tar quipped with [staid n peewee -tie tires, e discomfort to paa- is excessive rattling o the ear, the heavy vi- m:sti nuts and bolts and o shake the entire ear to es. When rounding •a curve, if the it is soinewltat rough, the tax has a strong tendency toward going side- wise, like a erab, and there is addi- tional d neer ce skidding on smooth, wet pavements. A lot of this sort of trcuhle ease be avoided by not keeping the tire pros- eure quite as high in hot weather as in cold, Considerable heat is gen- erated by rolling a tire over the ground. This heat expands' the air in the tire and increases the pressure. In the winter -time' this heat ie, ate - sorbed to a large extent by the cold tote were cheaper or even though A atmosphere and the cold, wet pave ave a greater nunvber of melee per meats; therefore the pressure does ggallon if the result were going to be not waxy so much, In theat summer atmospheric the leek of smoothness in the running of temp are very *hot, the atmospheric ,he engine. And while it cannot be temperature is high end the heat, gent, taken for granted that a little less t o anyid is frictions is not carried oft, air iter the tires 'makes them wear out to ap0ent Ore extent, much £aster, i1 at all, even if this On a ng ha trip I noticed the car result were sure to obtein, the added ed t e • rating hardfothan usual. I test -comfort securest would doubtless, be no the tires and found, they were shove worth more 'to the owner of the care normal inthe pressure.irRarer letting ea aur than whatever little -extra cost there Disame of n air the lar rade easier. might be involved: find out Siert Twelve Pounds. For all-around comfort it is logical To Sad out just what the d}fe preen- to conclude that a slight decrease in in pressure would be I took the pres<- stare of each tire the next morning be -1 pressure fn hot weather is desirable. fore leaving ;the garage. Afteer rolling Certs ugiy this ,prooedume cannot darn - about forty miles at an average speed age to tires to any considerable ex - of twenty-five miles an hour I took int' because after a few miles of tite pressure again. It 'had inrrea�=ed drivnny, in warm weather the pressure about tvtvve pounds in each fire I `r�1 equal that recommended try the Moxtvfacturers of fabr c tires last ,t l m.oet .exacting manufacturer of terse, tinct their tires be kept inflated in ae- l and any overheating die to this cause cotdance with their specifisoftens, If ] Woulct'be a matter of very 'short dura this 'lie done, how over, In bet weather t1on. espeaiaely, the tires have very little! Use Common Sense. resiliency; and discomcfort and some-! In foot, I have knaw•n of some tire times even rearoger, due to the terzlen' saie:men who are quite insistent upon cy cf the car to walk off : e e road, is � a certain pressure being maintained the result, This, no doubt, in a larges to the tires they sells and yet who measure, accounts for the popularity make it their invariable practice to of the card tiress, in which -consider-I deflate their tires about ten pounds in ably lees pressure may be maintained ace wentime, These salesmen cer- wit'hout dans. he to the tire, !thinly want the greatest possible tire Of couree it is generally known that.,nileage. It is safe to follow their molt: fabric tires aro (tweezed by conception el a combination of nine - underinflation than by overinfiatiorelage, safety said comfort. This is br'nnse the fc mer breaks down the simply using eemnon sense methods side walls of the tire throagh running! in regard to tires in the good old flat, while overinflation meetly causes! summertime. How It Worked Out. Mrs. Brown was tired of the borrow- ing propensities of her neighbor, Mrs, ! Smith- First it was some household utensil she wanted, then some small! artlele of grocery. The other day a I knock came to Mrs. Brown's door. It I was Mrs. Smitll'% little girl. "Please mtdiier wants to know,' site said, "if; you will lend ter some pepper and the i big flat iron?" Mrs. Brown was de- termined to stop bet neighbor's bor-31 rowing. "Tell your mother I've got other fish to fry," she snapped, and} the little girl went away. It was not : long before she came hack. "Please,` mother wanesto know if you'll lend Ij her some of the fried fish." f In Kind. In many of the rural districts where money does not circulate with! great rapidity, services are pale for "in kind." Farmers, for example, will give Potatoes, eggs, etc., in payment for debts. A young surgeon, who had oc- casion to operate in one of these dis- tricts, hopefully approached the hus- band of the patient and asked foe his fee, which amounted to $100. "Doc," said time old man, "I haven't much ready cash on hand. Suppose you let mo pay you in hind " "Well, I guess that will be all right," replied the Young doctor, cheerfully. "What do you deal in?" "Horseradish, doe," an swered the old man. World's Most Wondrous Canal When rho Panama Caval was open- ed about seven years ago, there aeont- ed little likelihood that it would ever be inadequate for tho world's cotn- merce., but experts are agreed now that it will have to be widened or sup- plemented by another canal. The weight of opinion Is in favor of cutting another waterway, net et Pa- nama, but along the Nicaraguan route —from Greetown, in the Atlantic, to San Juan del Sur, in the Pacific, via Lake Nicaragua, The total length of the new canal would be one hundred and eighty-three Holey, Ile„un in 1381', and o pt:ned in 1914, the Panama Canal cunsiats of about twelve miles of sea level and thirty - ono relies of belts and °angle. In the see -level sections the width is 500 ft., Ald in lisp 0 13 pardons it ranges at bottom from 800 ft, to 1,000 ft. To r u b n int tl ro from g o t aces to ocean necessitated the removal of 252,133,000 cubic yards of soil, and teecontinuous Workfug o1 ono hundred and one steam navvies, eaob of welch could lift ten tons of material ata time. I-Iuge iodise had to be constructed, In all, there aro twelve, arranged in pairs, with forty -sax gates, containing 60,000 tome of stool, The concrete used in the locks totalled 4,600,000 «sate verde, One of the MOSS nnruvuty Limns ? r 5gi0 viorlt wesi'ts, ^ out, a great gash, about twelve smiles in length, through the Culebra hills, When the (ratting Was. .made at the ea inar y elope, there were such enorhtotts land- s}idae that the Drench engineer/ abandoned the job in despot•. The Americans, on taking it UP, eat a deeper and wider channel, but the slides oontinuod, and fieete of enor- Mous dredges, each capable of Tentov- thg 14,000 tons of niatertal a fitly, could not keep pace with then, Indeed, when the shovels removed more soil i then had slipped down, maters were no better, because material began to rise front the bottom of the cutting just as if it wore being pushed up by , hydranlla power. In the end the difficulty was over- VMS, but only temporarily. Since the canal has been opened the cut has filled tip frequently, the soil on one accasiun rising to a height of sixteou Met above j the water levet, 1. :lie greatest ';3 i0 work in etc cart. 000-lal ist the Gatlin Dant, whiclt is en mea - 1 na n,, e barrier one and a half miles In length, half a mile wide at. the bottom, 1 and one hundred Leet wide at the top, With gates in the 1ni,idie capable of discharging the overflow at the rate of 187,672 cubic feet per ascend. This structure contains 28,000,000 cubic yards of nutterial, Tim h Pa- / unfelt side 0 f making the ka• 1 Hama Canal Is a romance In itself. At one time forty thousand portions were eugagod upon it—enough, if lined up and touting hands, to forst a living link between the Atlantic and the Pa- Milo--andamong the workers was dis- tribeted a largo proportion of the cost of construction, which amounted to about $500,000,000. One can realize that the now natal. wile beet stupendous undertaking: and (ilia oil Will ',ail' ke bf1IIhi5i't "alto gineering skill as wallet ail csormous expenditure of time and money. But that it will be a commercial sec - 0066 cannot be doubted, .Tho dietetics from the elide of the Nicaraguan Oan-i al to San Irratrtcisco and New York will . be flvo hundred miles shorter titan l from the elide of the Panama Canal, I and in connection with the fitoilltation l of transport it is good business toy spend millions for the sake of saving I minutes, ...and the worst is yet to {) e; --rf{;- Wesilir-yiror p HIGH STANDARD OF FARM PRODUCTION CANADA WINS PREMIER AWARDS FOR WHEAT. Survey Proves Dominion Pro. duces the Finest Crops of Cereals in the World. Frequent articles in the public press have dealt with Canada's international victories in carrying off the premier awards for the production of quality wheat on the American continent con- sistently onsistently for the past ten years, as well as the greater number of the honors for oats and barley. The contention in these collated facts is that Canada produces cereals which are second to none the world over, and in the face of the evidence their, is no gainsaying this, Whilst Canada comes into open com- petition with the world in the quality of her agricultural produce of all kinds, and can grow on her fertile farms crops of rho highest grade, she isetnable as yet to enter into compari- son in the matter of total production. A vast portion of her rich agricultural land, amounting to many millions of acres, and forming potentially one of the world's great farming areas, is undeveloped and 'awaits settlement and the plough before producing to capacity in the manner that has made the quality of Dominion crops famous. Canada can, however, come into ac- tive competition with other countries largely agricultural, the United States, for example, with respect to the fertility of her land, its growing quali- ties and those of the Canadian climate and farming season. Compared as to average production, she makes a very fine showing. A comparison between Canadian and United States produc- tion for the past three years shows that Canada has maintained a high standard in all the crops she culti- vates, and has in the majority of cases exceeded the average achieved by the older producing country. The Centre of Wheat Production. It Is net so long ago since agricul- turalists scoffed at the idea that it would be possible to grow wbeat pro- fitably in Canada. Canadian farmers answered this by taking most of the premier honors for this crop at inter- uaticnal exhibitions. Not only that, but it is apparent that the Dominion preserves a higher average production throughout the countryin both spring and winter cariettes than the United Stites, taken as a whole, In the year 1(20, when the production of spring and winter wheat to the tatted States wa.t 10.8 and 16.3 bushels per acre re spretively, Canada secured an average of 14 and 24 bushels, In the previous year, 1910, with a ,United States pro- durtion of 8.8 and 14.9 bushels, Cana- da's average yi 1 s per acre tv 10 9.50 and 2175, To go back another year, they compared 16.2 and 10.2 as against 10.75 and 19.00 111e 111211ed States ob- taining a greater Average Yield of spring wheat in that season. A comparison oP the respective yields of the past three years 111 oats indicates that Canada, although she secured most of the international bon, ore for the quality of her product, lees fallen slightly behind the 1Z^= Atnte^ ' ---� +trr ttt'Orfigd production per acre, Whereat in 1920 her average predate, Hon woe 88.50 beetlela per aero, that on the pnated States was 36 bushels. Iof ilia United S us -year, when she pro- duied 20,25 bushels, farmers across the line managed to achieve 29.4 Welt.. ole, In the year 1018 the yields stood at 84,7 and 28,75 with the United Statea in the eaeettdonoy, The sante slight difference is recorded in barley, the average yields being 25.0 and 24451 22,4 and 21,76; .26.8. and 24,60, Ant When we pass on other agri- cultural production, the comparisons read differently, and, with few excep- tions, Canadian farms are found to out -yield these of the United States, In rye far instance, when the average yields per acre over the United States during the years 1920, 1919 and 1918 were respectively 13.7, .12.6 and 14;2, Canada obtained harvests which brought her averages up to 17.50, 13.50 and 15.25. Adventures Into the Unknown Courting Death in :Search of Nature's Secrets, The spirit of .adventure Is abroad an a}titude tbax raa'etactimla of the air agidtt. Instincts whtela had to remain dor, :mini -during il,e wet aro reviving, The Vat Unknown is calling. Its earliest manifestation way the recent tremae - ileus development of spiritualism. I What is therein the Great Beyond? 1 What beeome:a of us when we reach it? New mon are turning their attention . to the more material side. What sec- rets dots Nature yet withhold from us 1 011 10110, 011 sea, and in the air? Great uncharted waters, mountains so high that no itumnn Meng has over climb- ed thein, islands found and last again, submerged continents, mysteries of, animal and bird existence --here 1u abundance is scope tor the bold ad- venturer who counts everything, even { his own 11fe, well lost if he can add to the store of human knowledge, The Men That Britain Breeds, Such Wren have never been wanting ie Great Britain. Cook, Bruce, Liv- ingstone, Scott --our history Is full of 1 the names of brave Britons who, with the Call of Romance In their ears, i have faced Melte of the utmost peril Without them the British Empire— even the world itself—would not have been what it is to -day. Ever fence the Phaeniclans, nine centuries before Christ, navigated the Mediterranean, passed through the Straits of Gibraltar, and founded col- onies in Asia Minor and Africa, the work of exploration has continued Explpration has moved to some ex tont in cycles. First, there was the fascinating k fiwhat seas and lands the world contained, When The eastern islands have never been explored thoroughly. Who Imams but that had beentasaccoofmndingplished broadly, that they may contain some precious men began the task in detail, and we mineral which will transfer them into had such discoveries as that of the a new Ei Dbrado north-west passage to India. Then came the quest for the North and Woman Among Cannibals. Buckwheat, Flax, Hay, dc. Buckwheat is not raised extensively in Canada outside of the Maritime pro- vinces. Nevertheless, judging by the Mat three years' respective produc- tions, Canada can grow this crop mare profitably than farmers across the in- ternational boundary. In 1920 Cana - diem farms secured an average produc- tion per acre of 23.75 bushels, whilst United. States farmers reached a yield of only 18.9 bushels,. In 1919 Canada's average yield was 23.50 bushels against that of 20.6 across the line. Again, in 1918 a comparison is found to be in Canada's favor with 20 75 bushels against 16.5 bushels. In the production of flaxseed in 1920, the United States grew an average of 6.2 bushels to the acre as against Canada's 5,60, but in the Year 1919 Canada had the slight advantage of 5.00 against 4,9. There would appear to be no doubt left as. to the greater suitability of Canadian land to potato production after a servey of the come parative figures of production. Against the United States average of 109.6 bushels• to the acre last year, Canada produced 170,50. Her yield in 1919 was 153,50 against the 90 bushels reached across the line. When the United States produced 95.9 bushels in 1918, Canada achieved 142 busheis, Slight divergencies only are ob- served In the hay yields. of the two eottntrfes, both in the tame and wild varieties. Taking the average of all the hay produced, the United States secured a slightly higher production in • 1920 when the yield per acre was 1.34 ton against Canada's 1,30 tan, The ad- • vantage is substantially Canada's in the two previous years, however, with averages of 1.65 and 1.40 against 1.36 and 1,15. This comparative survey should be broad enough and cover a sufficiently' extensive period to for man accurate estimate of Canada's merits as an ag- riculturally producing country. Cana- da has not only producd the finest crops of cereals in the world as ad - aimed in the open competitions with the first farmers of the continent, but maintains, for the greater part, a auperlority in the average yield of the crops she produces. Only wanting is the further growth of settlement upon her fertile tracts. bringing other mil- lions of acres to the sane fruitful standard, to give the Dominion the lead of the world in aggregate produc- tion, Tenement Amenities. Mrs, Clancy was returning from shopping, and, with the crush and the high prices, She, WAS in. ne elensent humor. Aa she approached DDr oa ed the door sato saw Mrs. Murphy, who occupied the street floor, sitting at her window, "I say, Mts, 1t111rphy,” she called out in deep sarcasm, "why don't ye take your ugly mug out of the windy an' put your pet monkey in its place/ That'd give the neighbors a ohance they'd Like," Mrs. Murphy was, ready for her. "Well, now, MIS. Clancy," ate re• t¢r'g , "it 16as calx .thea mornIli abet i olid that very thing, an' the police- man came along am whin ho saw the monkey ho bowed and shmiled fin' eatd, 'Why, hire. Camay, whin did ye inove downetatrs7" The moon is "Mining awla0t" from its cel'culttted oleate in the eky Sar Borne uzlltnoven mean, say the astronomers. Tide Uayited Kingdom Idle more we, Wien werkots in pr'oporit:on to the population' than any ,other country in the woaftt causes insomnia, lose of appetlte, and rapid nceeleratiun of the heart' heats. Movement becomes diiileult, and yet the last four thousand feet of the mountain will probably cull fir the hardest labor. A Two Years' Teak. Every preparatinn that science can devise has been made for this new ex- pedition. But it is posathle for men to overcome the limits net by Nature? Experts differ ail to whether suocess will be achieved, or not. At all evoute, it cannot be accompllshed in lest than two years, Already one of the party. Dr, Ke]lax has died on the journey, A third and of British explorers has gene to investigate the wonders of Nature in Spitzbergan, a group of islands lylug in the Arctld Acean be- tween Franz Josef Land and Green- land, What were 003e thought to be valuelese waters in Western Spitzber- gen are now, owing to British enter- prise, yielding large quantities of coal. This time attention has been turned to the eastern section of the islands, and scientists from Oxford University are examining the habits of almost un- known Arctic bird and certain forms of marine life, A special study will be made of the beautiful birds called the grey pharalope and the purple sand- piper. The males of these species build the nests, sit on the eggs, tend the young --in fact, except that they do not lay the eggs, they are the "mothers"'o2 the Tanllly, This visit by leading scientific men has all kinds of romantic possibilities. South Poles, veritable magnets of death --until Man triumphed at last. In most of these enterprisesBritons have played a leading part. The un - Unaccompanied, and In search of unusual material for her next travel book, Mrs. Charlotte Cameron, F.R: G.S„ has left Sydney for the islands conquerable spirit which spurred them of New Guinea, This intrepid author - on is as strong and virile as ever. Its ess proposes to extend her stay for new phase is a desire for scientific some months In a region where can - knowledge of unknown forms of life in niba}s are not unknown, and is hope lands already discovered, fol of discovering an uncharted island At the present time four great in the South Seas. Time, it was only schemes of exploration are in British recently that Mrs. Roslta Forbes, the hands, The :most important of these Englishwoman who, disguised as a ne- ts that undertaking by Sir Ernest tfve, penetrated into the secret oasis Shackleton- of the Sahara desert, returned from No one will be able to read the de- her perilous adventure. And, but a tails of the wonderful journey to be few weeks ago news was received that begun shomthe expeditiou under the leadership of witht feelingrtlyby iliathis bloofad courseous moreexplorer Mr. John L. Cope had landed in Ant - quickly through his veins. Romance, erotica, and begun its five years' pii- adventure, danger, the solving of see- grimage amidst the coldest winds that rets never yet probed—the mere con- blow. temptation of it all is lutoxieating. Surely, it may be thought, when Lost Island of the Pacific, these missions of adventure have been Ina ship aptly named the Quest— kicompleted, the world will have given a vesei small enough to be swallowed . all its secrets! Nothing 02 the u pin one of the funels °t the Acqui knd. There are parts of Canada yet. taros—Sir Ernest and his band of comparatively unknown. Stefansson, scientists will embark on a voyage a Norwegian explorer, is at work in of thirty thousand miles In the Atlantic, mesa parts now. Pacific, and Polar seas. nabs remain to be climbed In the He will explore a petrified forest 1n Himalayas seventy mountains of over South Trinidad: visit Gough Island, 24,000 ft., and over a thousand of 20,- in the Atlantic, where an effort will be 000 ft. In the Arctic there is, north made to ascertain whether there is a of the Behring Sea, an area larger submersed connection between Africa than Greenland waiting to be explored, and sail in Antarctic Nobody knows whether it consists of and America.: waters south of South Africa through land or water. which ne ship has passed for ninety parts of Africa are still almost un- known, The Upper Amazon is almost years, a closed book, and the same may be This last named adventure will pro- said of parts. of Central Asia. In Jae - vide him with nearly four thousand an, again, two new tribes were des - miles of unexplored seas. Ho will die- covered in the mountains only last cover 0616 islands and gulls, perhaps y,r volcanoes; and, perchance, animals never yet seen by man. Making his Secrets of the Sea. way to the Weddell Sea, he will look Then there aro the illimitable doors for new whaling stations in the Sautlr of our oceans. Man knows nothing of Sandwich Islands and South Georgia. these. He Dan go no deeper in his Turning east, he will land on the submarines than 300 ft. below the sur Bouvet and Beard Islands, and it is Pace of the sea, yet the average depth possible that he will find traces of the of the ocean its 12,000 ft. There are southern fur seal, now almost extinct. "pits" in the Sea even deeper than Next, Sir Ernest—whose second in that, and one (in the Pacifier in which command, Commander Ward, is a des- Mount Everest itself could be swallow- oendant of Captain Cook on his moth- ed up easily. er's side—will go to New Zealand, and It is reasonable to assume that even from there to the Pacific, where it is at these enormous depths there islife intended to seek a lest island---Tunaki. —life that could nott exist nearer the A search will be made for Dougherty surface, 'What weird term does it island, aud, if possible, a Ianding will tape? Man has conquered the air. One day he will descend thousands of feet be made upon it to ascertain whether it could be used to assist wireless com- munication between New Zealand and South Anstice, The return Mime af- ter this extrnordivary voyage will bo made by way a1 Cape liorn and the Atlantic, The Quest is to carry with it a sea- plane, which will be the oyes of the Aeient suhditate} for quinine in the expedition. When the ship is in the treatment of malaria, Ice -packs, the seaplane will ascend and glean valuable information as to what A malignant malaria is the nurse of is ahead. it will be able to save weeks r este of Bernal, in Indio, and it was recent] ]earned that t rho native tribes ascertaining thecutvw of 0 f time bya. b the coast, Thus scientific. discovery use as medicine for it a tea. made from the leaves of a forest tree known leads us forward irresistibly. Our to botanists as Vitex pedunculeses, conquest of the air is to assist its to A British army surgeon, experdment- make fresh conquests in the Unknown, in with it, found that the malarial At the present moment another band parasite disappeared from the blood of intrepid Englishmen is attempting a feat hardly, if at all, less bold, The object is the climbing of that monarch of the Iifmatlayas, Mount Everest, the into the sea and discover the wonder- ful secrets that aro waiting to be re- vealed, Fee: the Call of Adventure is eternal. --ea - New Cure for Malaria Found, Discovery has been made of an ef- when doses of the leattinfusion were administered. It la hoped that the ac- tive principle, when extracted from highest mountain In the world. So the leaves (aa quinine is exta•aoted resentful have the natives in the from cinchona bark} will, because of vicinity been against former attempts its coneentivttioad, prove even more to climb Mount Everest, which they believe to be full of evil spirits, that 00 white man has been within fifty miles of the mountain. What tho party will have to endure no one knove procisely, but blinding snoW-storMe, deep precipices, and hugo aval1111ched will •be met le certain, Jimmy "It'ather, yesterday at In addition, there is the fact that no school I made 100 on my studies;' lima being has yet onetime higher I+'ether—"That was tine; what study than 24,591 ft„ which is the retold of did you make it in?" the Dube of the Abruzzi. i;vereet Jimmy—"Fifty en Spelling and 50 ttiwena 20,000 ft»,in height, At such on arithmetic. satisfactory. The new drug line advnneages over quinine, being a stimulant rather than a depressor, having no bitter taste and being suitable for children or luvallde, 100 Por Cent, 5"°°O-RYeRt Engti8hi Gardena. The meat statement by fila Duke' of Devonehire that his gardens alone east hint, Jo norntnl times, $60,000 tl• year, gives ono an 1mprettelvo idea et the demandsmade on 1ho OW4018 01 great lileasure-laansee in the Old Land.' It is difficult to say which Are thud' most costly gerdetls in Great Britain;; $ but'nenr the top of the list are certain, ly triose at Welbeck Abbey, Lord Bute% gardens at Cardiff entitle, the world-tanzoue gardens of Chatsworth, and time of the Ilothchiltle, on which gold hate been lavished litter water. One gets' an impressive idea 01 tine extent of such gardens ae these when we learn that the ltltchen-garden alone at Welbeck covers thirty acres; that the houses lit which poaches, epticoter and nectarines are grown 'stretch for a quarter of a Haile; and that to stock then coats as much as. $50,000. When a millionaire sets lits heart on making himself a lordly pleasure -garden 'we may be sure that he reeks little of tete OOet, ' It bas been said that there are a score of noblemen in the United Kingdom who spend more every year. on their gardens than would pay the edictal salary of a Cabinet Minister. Further than this, there are, on the best authority, more than 6,090 "seats of the mighty," or at least of the rich, the gardens of which cost their own- ers anything almost from $2,600 a year upwards•; while ' there are es many more wbich demand between $1,000 and $2,500 for their maintenance. On these 10,000 British gardens an annual sum estimated at over $10,- 000,000 is spent for labor alone. An.' other live million dollars at least goes in the purchase of seeds, pleats, and manures, and the genorol upkeep of the gardens and glass -houses. To this must be added the tens of thousands of gardens of the well-to- do Glasses, on which sums ranging from $100 to perhaps $500 a year are spent; and the hundreds of thousands of more modest gardens, each, how- ever, a source of pride and pleasure to its owner, which cost only a few dollars a year. • Storms of Stones. On a recent peerage the parson- gers aboard the big Cunarder, Sex - men., were treated to a magnificent spectacle. A huge mass of incandes- cent rock saute hurtling out of the sky and struck tate sea a couple of* miles from the ship, fltn,^ing up a great wave and a tall column of snake and steam. This. meteor must have been of very unusual size, for radio operators noticed disturbances in the ether for twenty-four hours before its arrival. Still, it was probably no larger than several known to have fallen in past times, such, for instance, as that un- eurthed by Professor Ward some years ago in Mexico. This is so Targe that it tools twenty-eight men a whole day to partly uncover it, It weighs about fifty tons, and is ninety per cent, pure iron. In October, 1.908, four great. meteor- ites fell into the sea off Cape Race, and were seen by the 00ieers and crews of the X'limn}x liner, St. And- rew, and of the S.S I3razilia, The largest struck the water within a mile of the St. Andrew. The chief officer estimated its diameter at fifteen feet, and says that it had a blazing tail a anile long. In December of the fallowing year, 1907, the people living near Bellofan- taine, across tee lite, saw a great ball of "Are flashing across the heavens, and this was followed by en explosion heard for miles around as a mass of rock struck the ground near a house occupied by a Iter. Westhuveu. The Moue, was set aerie and burnt. down. Later the stone was dug out from the pit wide!' it had excavated. It was twelve feet in diameter, and had buried itself to a depth of twenty-five feet. There are on record a number of in- stances of meteorites falling .In the British Isles. The largest of these, which weighs fifty-six pounds•, fe1I near Bridlington in the. year 1790, and may to -day be seen in the 13ritish Museum. Here may also be seen abate three hundred of the email aerolitee which fell near St. Clears iu Carmarthen shirr in May, 1903. Life's Compass. In sailing life's eccentric sea, the cemselenea is to you and me a compacta by which we knew the beat and proper course 1..0 go. The aiming needle points to right — and b• • try with all u • r aud tong we , our might, we may not turn this needle. back or justify another trick. However oft we turn nr+tie, for heed the pointing compass guide --with wind and tide we drift apace, ignoring conscience for a space. But even as we shrift our course does conscience gutde us back by force; the, needle points --and does not fail to indicate the better trach see Strangers On Both Sides. Dad was sought out by Little Dorothy, who for some Veneta Or other 1104 developed an interest in family trues. "Deflate," elto halted, 'wave we any poor telattonit'?" "Nee that I know of, Dorothy," woW1 the reply, "Well," continued. the 0b410, «hive we any with ones?" This .tithe dad's teeponOs was mere ampitatl4. "None that l new deb Willa."