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What's Your Driving Style,
X like to watch the ten go by
.A.nd see the different kind e of dravieg;
Some sit up straight with heads ffe
high,
Some crone-II—as on the point of div -
Some hide behind the steering wheel,
Content that just the Lead is showing;
Some look alive and keen as steel,
Some hardly know where they ere'
going.
'Some aignal to the cars behind,
While othere see to (mite forget it;
Some hog the road and do not mind,
Some try to pass—and then eegret it.
Some shift the gears with greatest
care,
But some make such a dreadful clash-
ing
I'm fairly driven to despair,
And wonder just how much they're
smashing.
And in the crowd I see each day
There are some who are very grouchy,
And there are many who are gay,
Some dress so well and some are
slouchy,
And where they conic from, where
they go
And 'what they do upon arriving
No one can tell; I'd like to know
NSW SUMO, though, get the cars
they're driving.
Home Repairing.
To the average small -car owner of
limited means tins are •the greatest
expense of upkeep, especially if he
lives in a rural district where good
plias are rare. In such a locality even
a nos tire will show bad cuts and
jogs after only a few miles of run-
ning. Loose rocks are the cause, and
many roadsaround small towns have
eatehes composed of this material.
-
edges of the hole with the knife. This
gives the new rebber MOM surface.
The next step is to cover the entire
cut with rubber 'cement, made espe-
cially •for vulcanizing work. •AS leeet
two satiate must be applied, and it is
Well to leave each coat dry for fifteen
or twenty Minutes. If there is time
to spare, three coats would be even
•better. These Should not be applied
too thickly. When the last eoat is dry
enough not to stick to the linen—le
may be tacky but must not be wet—it
is then time to apply the compound
or filler.
This is envuleanized tread stock.
Though a small quantity to usually
supplied with the repair outfit, it is
bettor to !buy it in pound or half -pound
rolls from a motor accessory dealer.
If the hole is large and the portion
of tread to be replaced is thick, the
stock may be cut int pieces roughly
the size of the hole, and packed in
layers. The corners and edges of the
hole should be filled by cutting thin
strips of tha stock and pressing them
into place with a toothbrush or SiMi-
lar strong non-metal tool.
If the compound is warmed slightly
before using, it will be found more
plastic. and easier to handle, Do not
allow the filling to protrude above the
surrounding tire sulface but make it
as level as possible, Slight inacur-
raeies are not important, as the rub-
ber will run together in the heat of
vulca.nizing.
All that remains now is the placing,
of the vulcanizer. Usually it is at-
tached to the tire by means of two
hooked bolts. Just insert a piece of
Melon was 64,305.
waxed paper between the tread and
the vulcanizer. To test the vulcanizer Moro than one and a quarter million
for correct heat, wet the finger and barrels of apples were exported from
it has been lighted about ten minutes. of these going to the United Kingdom,
bulk
touch it to the top of the iron after Canada last season, the greater
It should hiss at the touch. it is pointed out in a statement issued
The time required for cooking ga by the Department of Agriculture.
ut—Pwand the worst is yet to come
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Here and There in Canada.
The population of St. John, N,B„ is
estimated to be 67,050, based on the
new directory, which gives 2,340 new
names, an increase of 913 over last
year. Last year the estimated poine
British Pearl Fisheries.
Coming down the Highland railway
reeentlY, where the line runs along-
side the Tay, the writer saw two men
In a boat, one of whom was leaning
over the side, holding a sort of box in
the water.
A friend who was with him explain-
ed that the men were pearl fishing.
In An Antarchc Crevasse
Dauglieg )m.11400741 for hours over
a bottoroleas pit of ice while his arms
and legs gradually froze—that was the
experience of John Lecithin Copo, our-
geon and bielogiet to the Ross party of
the farackleton Antarctic expedition,
Dr. Cope, who is oue Englend'e
meet experienced Antarctic explorers,
heal been leading three men over a
dangerous' glacier and bad failed to
melee A narrow crevasse that was
bridged with snow. Suddenly he felt
the snow give way and fell headlong
through space, But twenty feet be-
low the edge the sledge hareem',
which he had fastened round hie cheat
and ithoulders, caught and held him
eleseended. Fortunately hie com-
minions saw fall and immediately
made the sledge :epee fat,
Cope looked rimed him, The ere-
vasee widened, downward until its
Wee diseppeared from view, and be.
low that—darkness and illimitable
depths!
"Are you all right?" came a voice.
"Yes, but I cun't get up; I'm hung
here.'
"Hang on then!" shoutecl the man
above, "We'll make a rope ladder."
With that he disappeared,
It grew colder and colder ia the Icy
craven% Coeseti initte tell off, and be
watehed tieem drop, striking the 100,
Mail they Meal/Peered. His bands
were *eon numb, and hie WY half
frozen. NoW and
the the roar ef 100
felling down some tar dietant creveeee
At lest the ladder was finisbed, and
broke the eilenee.
the men lowered it Meese Cope'e sense
af touch wan completely gone by that
time, be had to watch his halide to sea
that they clutched the rope aa he
limbed. Swinging backward and for-
ward over the pit, he gradually made
hl,e way toward the top. Put just be-
fore he reached it hitt harness came
off. If he slipped, nothing would save
bim from being dashed to pieces. He
was so numb and exleaustee that he
could not etreteli bis legs' far enough
to reach from one rung to the next,
He called up faintly to the men, and
they lowered the harnese until he was. charge of customs and Judicial 000 -
able to push his lege through it Half . trot of Baffin's Land and the territory
about it. Only a few Eskimoe are to
'dieting in it and feebly grasping the
rope ladder he WAS hauled the few re- be found there and it le the occasional
hours,
been aeugheg over that apparently
bottomless pit for three and a half this year on the construction of roan
in the province of Saskatchewan, ac -
The sum of $2,500,000 will be spent
port of call for traders!.
inaining feet to the surface. He had
cording to Hen, A. MoNab, Minister of
In the 1101Tittli CI: Canada
are born the (tlanditin of
Canada; and front them go
out into Canadian life,
Canadian men and women.
They go out with the stamp
of these homes 1111011
find 0+111Y as these homes are
what they should be, wilt
they be what they should
be.
Bits of Canadian News. I
,A 110'97 farthest earth R.C,M.P. poet
has been established at Pond'e Inlet I.
in the extreme north of Rafael -0 Land, !
Thie So now the Most mertherly poet!
held by the force of scarlet riders, the'
nearest to it being those at (Mester'
geld Inlet and Cape Burwell, at the
entrance of Hudeton'a Straits, A sole'
staff eergeant will be full police auth-
ority at Pond' Inlet and will halo full
Airplane Efficiency in Forest
Protection.
To have a small airplane, supposed-
ly big enough only for scouting and charged hospital eases uneer ite care,
the development of Alberta coal re-
forest petrol work, pick up fire -fight- of evhich 5,324 are in Canada, 276 in the
sources, The syndicate proposes to
era with tools and supplies and trans- British Isles, and 253 In the United
acquire a coal mine in Edmonton dis-
port them quickly to the scene of the
fire and thee prevent a conflagration, triet and by a special process trans,
sattnatne:th T08heindeoupraarezuotultisaisdeonot till: -
form the coal Into briquettes. It is
bas been the happy experience of at sanity and tuberculosis mete There
expected that a plant will be built
aro 900 psychopathic cases. imperial
shortly and operations commenced.
soldiers on this continent are taken
A co-operative marlseting scheme
care of by the Departmeut as well as
for the disposal of potatoes similar to
Public Works, Construction al 7,200
Bits Of Canadian News. miles of new trunk roads within a
wog three year period is planned.
A syndicate is being formed
The Department of Soldiers.' Civil
Lord Morris, late Prime Minister of
Re-establishment still has 5,86S emits -
N f dl d t it h Del t take u
least two of the forest services with
which the Air Board of Canada is co-
operating this Batmen, This co-opera-
tion has been established by the Air
Board with the federal and several of that already in farce in Michigan Pad Canadians.
Mineesota, will be tried out this year Durinfl 1920 the publications breech
the provincial forest eervices. The of the Department of Agrieulture
by Alberta farmer% accoating to J. H.
first instance of this prompt action oc- culated 2,262,850 publicatiens. The
carred in the Sioux Lookout district Hare, commissioner of maaketing for
was ,nade up of 15,715 reports,
the Alberta Department of Agricul-
of Western Ontario, where the Air 2:74.314 buileaes, '712,911 ;- easneable
The box was a "water glass" used for Board co-operates with the Ontario- um. o .
eliminating the surface ripple, and so , Department of Lauds and Forests. establishment of a grading station at hit". 117'092 PaulPhlet.' 1(1'''1.719
mime, 27,05S' leaflets, 022.316 an -
which all potatoes will be graded for
exansining the bottom of the river. 1Here the air patrol discovered a fire n ems cemeuts, and 64,743 r gricultural
shipment. Inspection will be given at
g„.!/.:ttes. in addition to postere and
When a mussel is seen, the fisher. ' under circumstances where speed was
Dernage done by these small etonesthe other end, potatoes ring through
A report as mac e Montrealman pushes down a length of stiff necessary if a disastrous fire, svas to be =aline Sets,
i3 only slightly less than that done patch is frequently underestimated. It?, _ in such cases subject to rejection.
tA rte.:IC.11-er, nanint settee's;
a England, stating that at the wire, thrusting it between the open I averted. It was seventy-flve miles
wilt7.iinileir 01-1111114.S, ai rived at NV:Jul-
ie broken glass. The usual result to can acetn•ately he found by experiment' '-'-'n-ent About twenty-five tons ef oil drilling
I Founder's Day at the Barnando's Via shells of the fish. These close at once ' from the base, and M less than three
the time ta a email patch of rubber , only. A deep hole will require hall, machinery left Peace Riser recently
neg. reeently ea mute (0 farms in the
lage Home, Sir H. H. Stileman men- on the wire, and so the creature is ' hours from starting two fire rangers
•Saelsatocu end Edinonten distriete.
tread totally removed', or a semicircu- an hour or more while small boles will were lighting the fire. They stuck to on board the steamer D. A. Thomas
Theee deep cuts are the beginning 00 I say a deep hole. The time of cook- girls to Canada, which was suspend- These mussels are of considerable I it and held the fire down for two days,
machinery Is being shipped by the
of New England Stetee, to which teey
lar cut leaving a flap of laose ruhber. • require proportionately less, Noticee tioned that the emigration of boys and drawn to tbe surface.
for tbe Fort Norman oil fielde. This
They came from the in',Ilea]. eezeres
. ed during the German submarine cam- size, and quite a fair proportion of - when they were re-inforeed by men
fabric', which in a short time wears Patch, and not by the suifface size. / paign, has been resumed, and nearly them hold pearls, though only a few !sent in from another point by canoe Canada -United States 011 Refining
eand pockets. Deep cuts expose the . ing should be gauged by the depth of ' had emigrated 010111 Eastern Cosee la
' 600 children had been sent out to join of these are sufficiently well shavedl and the fire was finally controlled and Corporation of Chicago, which, cora-
before the war. MLA DE them weee
through, and a blow-out is the result.1 When the vulcanizer is removed and, I extinguished. The cancemen bad pad- IlallY
i has already sent a large con- .
tamers at one tense art they are re -
23,000 already in the Deminion. or lustrous to be valuable.
ruts of this nature, enfortunately, do , the tire is allowed to cool for a few' the Yet tbe mere fact that pearl fishing ' tiled a day and a half to get to the fire. stgnment of machinery to thee north- petriating to resume their fulierg 'm-
etal goes on in a good many Scottish The second case was in Northern ' ern fields for the development of their cupations.
and Irish rivers proves that it must be 'Manitoba, where the Air Board is co -
worth while. The principal Scottish operating with the Dominion Forestry
rivers for pearl mussels are the Dec, Branch. Here a small fire was die -
not look bad—not nearly so bad as; minutes, the rubber in the patch
many less harmful bruises and scrapes, should be tested with the finger nail.
—so they are negleeteel. Thousands of : If it is possible to leave an impression,
tire e ere wasted' this way every year, the rubber is not cooked sufficiently.
St 'h cuts look formidable to the, If, on the other hand, it is not possible
owner inexperienced in making his! to make an impression, it has been purpose of the visit is to make an ex -
Mil repairs. It is useless to insertcooked too long, If the job has been ploration of the territory and to take
preliminary steps which would
hmake in the patch should not show Millsail
tread filler, so he sends the tire to awl done correctly, any impression you ---
lead to operations next spring.
when you remove the pressure. -
Rubber in a perfect repair should
of course be the same consistency as
A party representing the Hoffman
Pulp and Lumber Corporation, left
Sydney, NS., recently, on a tour of in-
spection of the company's timber hold-
ings at Hamilton Inlet, Labrador. The
repair shop or lets it wear as it will.
Shop vulcanizing- costs from ;3 to $5
and is entirely unnecessary if the cut
is taken in time.
Any tread cut up to two or three the rest of the the—that is, soft
inches can be quickly and success- enough to receive but not to retain
fully repaired at home with one of an impression. If the patch is under -
the small gasoline vulcanizers now on
the market. Tire-vukanizng to the
uninitiated seems a difficult process.
It is really simple to make a thor-
oughly satisfactory permanent repair
on any part of the casing, excepting
rim cuts in the tire febrie.
The main thing is to take the cut
in time. A tire that is cut through
the fabric must be sent to "the shop"
but if gray the rubber is damaged the
home vulcanizer is suffmient,
First, thoroughly cleanse the cut
with gasoline. Then, with a sharp
penknife, trim all jagged edges and
loose ends. In some cases a piece of
tread which is not torn clear off may
be stuck back into position by revel-
eanizing, but for holes up to an inch
in diameter it is better to remove all
loose rubber. Next, sliglitly bevel the
cooked the vulcanizer should 'be re-
placed and the cooking continued.
There are small gasoline vulcan-
izers on the market ranging in price
from $2.60 to $3.60 that will practical-
ly last aorever. The only additional
cost is f or tread stock. Gasoline is a
small item, as two tablespoonfuls will
cook a large patch. As a rule, a mea-
sure is provided with the outfit. Re-
pair work may be done in the even-
ings or on rainy days, to avaid inter-
fering with other work, although it
takes little time.
The great advantage in repairing
tires in this way is that no time is
wasted in taking the casting from the
rim. The car is simply jacked up, and
sufficient air let out of the tire to
enable it to conform to the vulcanizer
when it is screwed on.
How a Tape Machine
Works.
Those busy little machines, which,
clicking away inside their glass cases,
Print all the latest news on long strips
of paper, are one of the marvels of the
age.
Yet really they are quite simple.
They are in two parts—ono for trans-
mitting the news an the other for re-
producing it. One transmitter is call-
able ot working any number of repro-
ducers. At fit'et glance, the former le
not unlike a piano, wlth only thirty or
so black and sva4te keys. Each key re-
presents one letter or other sign, and,
on depression, completes au electric
ciretilt.
This current passes over the wire to
the transmitting machine , and ro-
tates in it a wheel, on which is a corn-
plete alphabet of lettere, Above this
wheel is another, which is merely sur-
rounded by a pad rine Between the
two wheels pulses n narrow strip of
paper upon Welt the message is go-
ing to be typed.
I As the type wheel presses up, fore-
leg the paper against the pad on the
wheel above, hey presto! the letter
required appears on the slip of paper.
Messages tire not sent very fast,
21)011t fiVe eecoids being allowed be-
tween each letter, yet oven at this rate
ft can be seen meltetwe aro written
In 260 different places at one and the
tame time, in tar quicker time than.
they Could be dispatched and received
by ordinary telegraph,
t Say, with Balza% in his garret,
When told that tin literature, which 'he
had chosen for lals calling, 911100 must
either be a king or beaten, 'Very
well, I wild be kingl"
At Sunset.
When work is almost done, I softly
steal
Up to my tiny window where I kneel,
And watch tbe sun in clouds of won-
drous light,
Sinit low upon the moors and out of
sight.
And while I watch this radiance, I
seem
To leRO myself completely in a dream,
That carries rne a million miles aevaY,
More troubled thoughts of work can
never stray.
My room becomes a bower, my house
a place,
The fairest lady would be proud to
grace;
Position, beauty, worldly wealth and
power,
Aro my possessions for this precious
hour.
Then, from my dreams I waken with a
e tart
"Muvver!" A voice is tugging at my
heart;
"Coining, dearheart," I call, and with
a smile,
I travel back from dreams to things
worth white.
--Katherine Parson%
To human being hus n second otom-
aelt; hut every boy has a second ap,
votito,
A keg of more than 85,000,000 in
world papilla:e'en has been trued to
tho World. WAS. Battle deult3)5
0,004,000, The ether loss v407aueed
by War eptdeintedi food baotskedee,
starvation anal the tan In the normal
birth rate, —
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will have to be established and hous-
ing accommodation. for a thousand the fishing are sold to local Jewellers.
A jeweller at Strabane gave $40 for a
pearl which was found in a small
stream near the town, and plenty of
pearls worth five to ten dollars each
are got every season. Most of these
fresh -water pearls are white, but now
and then very beautiful pink ones are
obtained. No special skill is required
in the fishing, and amateurs and hole
day -makers have almost as good a
chance et success as the professional
Spey, Don, and Esk, while another
centre of pearl fishery Is in Ulster, in
the Foyle and its tributaries.
Pearl fishing goes on regularly in
all these streams, and the proceeds of
men erected, The territory acquired
by the corporation covers an area of
148 square miles, and it is the inten-
tion to cut a minimum of 100,000 cords
of pulpwood per year.
Starting in 1911 with an output of
90 tons, the chemical pulp industry in
Britieh Columbia has increased year
by year until in 1920 the output reach-
ed 108,670 tons. The first year in
which mechanical pulp was manufac-
tured in the province was 1917, in fishermen.
which year 65,000 tons was turned out. These pearls are accumulated
In 1920 this had increased to 108,000 around a nucleus consisting of the
tons, In 1913 the output of paper was dead larva of the distoma, or fluke.
45,816 tons, This increased to 146,600 The full-grown fluke inhabits the
tone in 1920. The value of pulp and bodies of the alder duck or black duck,
paper production in 1920 in British but the pearl mussel acts as host to
Columbia, was $21,500,000, making it the young In a certain stage of their
one of the most important Industries development.
in the province. !
A survey will be made of the inus-1 Saving His Face,
kegs of the North this summer by the !
A recent writer on the old-time mete
Federal Department of Agriculture to chant marine says that the first steam -
determine their agricultural possibila ! ship to visit China was. the Jamesina
tiea. The question of developing the ' from Bombay. When she entered the
muskegs will be fully investigated Canton River and in accordance with
and experiments an a large scale car- old custom had taken on her Chinese
teed out, lf the experiments prove pilot at Lintin she resumed her course,
successful, several rich areas will be proceeding under steam against wind
offered to agriculturists, and the re- and tide, The pilot showed no curtest -
suit will undoubtedly prove of great ty and asked ee questions, Soon fe a
value to the western provinces. Perfectly matter -of -course manner he
began to give occasional directions to
Potted Voices. the helnismea----such directions as
Although Madame Patti, the great he 'would have given if the Jameslna
soprano, had passed her beet when the had been a selling veesel. That was
gramophone came into being, yet re-' too much for the British captain, and
cords of her matchless voice aro In be called the pilot's attention to the
existence, and were recently used to ' fact that the ship was propelled not
demonstrate the art of the great sing. by wind but by' steam.
er. "Oh," replied the Chinese coolly.
Many young people who are in- "It is a method that is no secret in
terested In music, or sing themselves, some Darts of the empire: it was cone
aek whether Sims Reeves sang better mon once, but it has now for some
than Thomas Burke, if Jenny Lind time fallen into disuse!"
sang as well as Tettrazini, or whether
Madame Clara Butt has us pure a can -
trait° voice as Antoinette Sterling or
IVIadame Patti. 010 coneertgons lea
teu atick up for their early 10V4313, but
Modern Forest Fire Fighting.
Groat as, has been the advance in
Rre fighting methods and equipment in
towns and cities Cairada in the last
holdings there. The movement of putter from ra 1 -
The value al bacon exports from tgh Columbia pepor Mils to New e las
Canada during 1920 was $34,000,000. land and Australia ha 3 ellown consiees-
An active cainpaegn he being -con lid- .
covered late in the evening. At day -able improvement ena trausportetion
ed by the Dominion Department of
light next morning the airman and companies are anticipating yet mere
two forest officers were in the air, ar- I increased activity, Ali ships now sail -
Agriculture in co-operation with the
provincial departments to increase
riving at the fire at 4.30 a.m. The , ing will carry frcm five hundred to flf-
trade and incidentally to maintain the
three started the fight immediately teen hundred tcne-cf poeer each.
quality of Canadian bacon, which ;
and by noon the fire was dead out. Prodection of all elasers ef real in
The Forestry Branch inspector for ----'''; Alberta during 1e2e a rannaltnii 0 7;
years ago procured for it a steady MAI
Manitoba praises the keenness of the
airmen in their work and records the
ket in Great Britain. '_010,845 tons, valued at $33 019,240, the
.A. gold discovery has been reported I highest in the coat mining history of
excellent co-operation between the to the Ontario Depsatmen ofMines 1, Alberta. Of the total eroducticu 130, -
two services. The present season will by A. G. Burrows. It is located near 594 tons were antracite, 3,419,021
do much to determine the place the Godreau, Ontario, a short distance , bituminous, 3,3693014 domestic coal
airplane is to occupy in forest protec- north of Lake Superior. A number of and 101,e22 briquettes.
tiou. assays have been made giving a gold '
Testing Canadian Woods.
The announcement has recently
been made that the Board of Works
for the United Kingdom has added cer-
tain Canadian timbers to the list of
value at the rate of $3L20 a ton and
quartz at .$48.80 a ton.
Efforts of the Department of Agri-, The new plant will have a capacity ot
culture to improve the varieties of !
, 40,000 pounds of fluid milk per day,
fruits and vegetables grown in Canada
are meeting with considerable success, and evill be of heavy mill frame een-
struction, costing approximately $300
officials a the department etate. Spe-
, 000. The procese, while new in Cana -
fruits. )31xperiments have also been
conducted for several years With p0- Eastern States, that is already in
operation but only on a small scale,
tatoes, tomatoes' and lettuce in an en- The value of Alberta's fish produc-
deavor to produce a strain which tion in 1919 was $33,330, the principal
would ripen faster, produce a larger product being whitefish. The sum of
yield, and be of better quality than the 1 $78,480 was invested in equipment and
ordinary variety. 1$3L102 in boats, while the number of
According to figures published by , persons employed was 1,062. Practi-
the External Trade Division of the ! tally all of the fishing is done in the
Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Cana -1 northern lekes. Great Slave and Lao
da's trade with the United States is 1 la Blobo are the two biggest pro -
reaching a more normal level. In 1920
while ex- ducers,
goods imported from the 'United States
were valued at 1860,909,487,
Welbeck Abbey May be Sold.
ports only amounted to $488,974,570,
with a resultant balance of $371,534,-
duresin
prheseeanevty btetaetniosn,ondelaanthd
1921, for the year ended June 30, the Duke of Portland says that he
genii°
917 in favor of the United States. In
will probably be forced to dispose Of
Canada imported goecle from the
his famous estate, Welbeck Abbey,
United States with a value et 1766, -
and find a new and smaller home, says
893,077, and exported goons valued at
$601,883,266, reducing tbe trade bal- a Landon despatch. He told his ten-
ance in favor of the 'United States for ants that the future was uncertain for
landed proprietors and prophesied a
the year to $264,459,811.
'wholesale closing dawn -of leave coun-
try houses, "It is no good living in
Forest Protection Advice
dreamland," he added.
From the Clouds., For centuries Welbeek Abbey has
Even old 'woodsmen, who might be been one of England's representative
supposed to be prejudlced in the op- ducal Beate where kings and princes of
posits direction, testify that the print- many lands have been entertained.'
The Duke said that the new conditione
ed notice, tho lire warning bill or poet.
er, is, the most important weapon with were the outcome of the war and that
which to fight forest fires. Keeping in the conditions which had been main-
tained for centuries were passing ,
away. He said that if it WaS for the
good of the country he certainly did'
not complain, but he fears that even!
if he is able to carry on a few years,
longer those coming atter him will
not, and he therefore thinks that there
will be a general distribution at the ,
great landed estates with the palming
of the present generation,
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A powdered mills factory is to be
shortly erected at Shilliwack, B.C., by
the Dairy Products Company, Limited.
those used by the department. That
the q
ualities of Canadian woods might Mal attention is being pa, d to the cul- da, has been perferted and made corn-
tivation ot apples, plums and other! mercially successful in. a plant in the
be understood and the timbers there-
by put to the beat possible use, was
the object of the Minister of the In-
terior, Canada, M establishing the
Forest Products Laboratories in con -
neaten with the Forestry Branch. The
laboratories are making mechanical
and physical tests of Canadian woods
and the results ere publisbed froiu
time to time as the investigation of
each species or group is completed.
The information obtained is proving of
great value not only to timber users
in Great Britain and other countries,
but. also to Canadian engineers, archi-
tects and builders. Beginning with
the more important species the in-
vestigation is to proceed until all the
woods having any commercial value
are tested. Bulletins 59 and 60, the
two so far issued on this subject, may
be had free upon application to the Di-
rector of Forestry, Ottawa.
A Scotch Inheritance,
An American professor who was
studying at Edinburgh University
roomed at the home of a thrifty
Scotch family. Each. morning Mrs.
MacAngue would come in with an age -
scarred dust -pan and a well-worn
broom and 'weep the floor, stooping
about the place in backbreaking dia
comfort.
"I should think you would find it
In voices aro long silent, and new ones
ooniparlson ht impossible, for their file years,
forest lire
a J02
atltr bettecluvaenvceen girneafitegrbtpinog, 1' ye,i,NitutIrded000tnne0
easier to use a broom," the professor
md°0orlit,i'n.gagreed Mrs. Mac- field the Forestry branch of the De-
partment at the Interior now prints a
close touch with every part ot its vast
completely different set of peaces
hold the geld. minion, provincial, and private forest I Angus, "but I bee the brush and I lute
each season, so as to keep the warn -
But the gramophone has ended that organIzatione are now using airplanes, i not the broom, l
my mithor having left I
poseer lannehott, railway speeders, i the broom to the eldest child, The Ings ea attractive and striking as pos-
phase. Tho new eingers to come can
automobile trucks, and portable gaffe-; youngest braether got imething but a sible. This !mason two new forms of
be compared vocally with the Bingen
. line pumps, besides the old reliable ! turkey wing," notice have been added, the first Is
at present holding the fleld, The
h 11 th • I oompeeed et sticketre to be placed on
tho wind-shielas of automobiles enter-
ing Dominion forests and the other ot
allpe of tiny hand bine to be dropped
by the men at the forestry air patrol
as they fly ever camps and picnic
Parties. One of those latter bears the
words "Citisenel Help the Perot
Service to meted your property by
being careful with ilre in the weeds.
home% spades, hoc, and wet sacks,
ors "in pleklo," and everybody will be
In their protective work, and are call-
able in the feture, even long after they
have passed away, to Mato their
beautiful quality.
Tot What would We not give to be
able to put Jenny Lind or Joseph Mass
or Madrona Patti on the gramophone,
and listen, as our fathers and tiotherti
did, to their entranoing 0engq7 'What
Wbuld "My Pretty jape," Sung by
Sires Rooms, ho valued to -day, or
"Caller Herren'," pang by Antoinette
Sterling, and bung as alto alone could
sing ii?
• .
ing men out to danger 'Naftali by means
of telophonee, heliographs, and ether
signelling apparatus,
Rrnplrees Largest Landowner,
The new Australian knight, Sir Sid-
ney Kidnien, la a golf -111000 man, and
not only a public benefactor but the
largest landholder in the Empire, He
controls over 82,000,000 notes, which
earry about a quarter of a million W-
ee WI Ailanji thousand horse%
• g
The Cleanest Town.
Which town le the dee:nest in 'the
world? Wo know several that are not,
Tho eleaneet town ht the world is said
to be Brock, In Hollarel. It has been
famous for its cleanliness froth time
immemorial, 'The yards and streets
are paved with polished stones, inter-
mingled with bricks, of various colors,
What la beautiful IS good, and who
le good will men be beatitiful.—Sap-
ph*.
Cle•operative3 Aerial Patrol—geometry
Branch Air @aril,"
Drive youreelf, not other%
Greet Steeple Climber%
The ,greateet steeple climber in Eng-
land is William Green. Ho has re-
paired fifty or mere eteoplee nd
tpites, and is tent for from all parte
of the kingdom. 0 -Xis groat achieve.
merits have boon in repairing the
spire of Salisbury Cathedral, which le
404 feet high; tenth Litietenehtee, 1160
feet, Geentharn, 820 feel ; and nsteeple
In Cambridgeshire, 280 feet,