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The Brussels Post, 1921-10-20, Page 7.CLEAR PROOF THAT ANIMALS THINK} ACTS OF DISCIPLINE AND LEADERSHIP. Horses Signal' on Approach of Enemy'- Military Regula- tions of African Baboons, It is interesting to ]snow that cer- tain -animals •x70 ,governed by what appear to be almost military regula-. tions. Among animals onlY the tare• garious, of : course, show qualities of 'leadership and discipline. - Wild horses obey their leader more I implicitly than any soldiers, hawiiiyor well satisfied. Mustangs are wary, difficult to approach and almost lm' po4sible to capture owing, tP the de- i votion with which they follow their leader and to a code of signals that I they never disregard. A short shrill neigh is the command to flee; a long I drawn, far carrying neigh is the rally. ing tall wizen the herd Is scattered: a squeal orders the stations to atand ready to Aglet off dangerous beaste, and a wild snort indicates the sight or scent of man. 'Pbe snort of a mus- tang can•be heard half a male, Different Forms of Defence. Certain movements are also Mims tent ae signals. At the first hint of danger the horse' that - detepts 10 throws his head and tail high in the air, stands motionless and gazes fixed- ly In tbe direction from which he am ticipates trouble. Lewdly drat is enough to put the entire drove on the alert. Should the enemy prove to be bears, wolves or any foe against which the horse can defend itself the "signal horse" dashes forward, prancing from side 'to side, rearing and striking the ground. ld their most dreaded enemy, man, be approaching the horse will circle far in toward the main body, and as he tarns for one la.,t look he will snort out a trumpet -like blast. Then with a rush, a roar and a clatter of hoofs the entire drove is gone— the leader in front, the stallions in the rear, the colts in the middle. Evan old, well trained worse horses when turned out to pasture will goner - ally select a leader and be governed by him.The drove commander may he an old and gentle mare or tate wildest and wariest. In the latter ease too herd often becomes almost as (Wilma to handle - as so many wild horses, Whereas the old mare will iceep her drove in the mostt-tractable condition. The peccaries of Mexico have a bat- tle cry that is never diaoheyel---a short, vicious squeal, quu:ltly repeated. That noise drives the little beasts frantic; all within hearing rush to get into the fray, and nothing senrt of death stops their charge. If the hunter does not shoot lits pecczry so that it cannot emit a single dying squeal his only safety lies in instant flight. The peccary has also a note that sounds the retreat. It is a grunt some- thing like the "Woof: Woof! Woof! of a bear as ha dashes away from danger. Aa American guide who lives in Son- ora, Mexico, can Imitate that note and. says that be can stampede a pack of the brutes at will with it. i yet to Corm'. BRITAIN'S LATEST BIGGEST LEVIATHAN IIOW TO LOOK„ FOR Under attunes" eitcumstances the flan or women who goes out looking 'for cherubic Anne auo dafiledity in finding; it. But this general rule finds am' exception in the eni�bomobiire t. Thal, driver of a metes ear probably ,has, his snare of troubles, but le often haes=a mess of a time locating them, Wire he akarts outt'ett search of the cause of a Mt of trouble, it seems tie be a very demon foo eluding the seemlier, Trouble wail 'hide in a of eambom lodged under a V tween vestals plugs, or eat a hes jeered Muse, or int d: pa'r't; a pvetozi ring, a ga what ' not, The motorist I lit the gaarre that the most iaanit things are tremendau• tent et Llano. Yet meet troubles ineucllen sting a ear may neatly belle quickly if the deliver goeea an a slystematesitasheor i• wan- dering ednutesuly about the e other TJaa'tss es is o'f'ten the the amateur owner. The h a driver 'Suri be de when t steps or acts up is to til• of the idea tlett he knows what the trouble is. Often he east fix elle -Womble in j ons mdmanbe, and he putters long time before he n>rake mind that possibly after all surnese Is not well hounded. The best way to proceed i trouble de to start without conc ivetd ideas as to what may be oral fellow a system in reality a- process of ell Remembers that to start a engine thee° tbivJga aro n gasoline, eons/enema= and a the right time. Remember, to keep it running it'is ne have iveter feu cooling, unZ an air -evened i.+ngirro, and esbaited en•. tiny piece atl vn, at. be - wire that rnt4,{t�L'11�i1teT sptpeoa caths corny dna#gmdfi- aly impor- t to open- ated quite f ter them tete bead! of wntrr nigine and custom of ran dicot thing he engine divest himself :predeelIy he is Ohre just aubqutt around. a s up ids tuts cock n •humtiang any pre - the trouble which is ntiniatio11. gasoline over rams— spark et alms, that e1ssary to sas it be oil for What To Do First. If the engine steps on the road and prerring the starter pedal fails -.to Meet St, es if one or two cylinders tress fire, the first thing to do is to get the C001,2s out cf she toolkit and crank ever the ernzem. If, with the gears in neutral, the engine cranks over hard, it irrlioatee a lack of hubri- catin'g oil, or a, Rack of water, which eats :slowed the engine to re:ec:h a tern sesture where the lubricant fails to perform its work. If the engine turns over fairly easy, it is not neces- eery to .'ook to ail or water trouble. The next test 'should be for com- pression. If tare driver is not exper- iern_e3 acrid is unable to tell simply by the resistance of the starting crank 22h�et:her each cylinier has compress gen, he elhouril epee all the petcocks except an one cylinder end turn the crarrt two, resolutions, noting if there is a ree:tsearr-e of one-quarter of a s rave'-uih on in the complete turtles. • Compre I -,ten occue eels on the one stroke of tee piston in the four-strcko cycle. Each cylindier shouse' he tested f l; CAR TROUBLE, int a Distiller mannercpenin�g all ped- co'eke e1feept on the ty.�ir:lar be)Jlg tested. See if the camprt:•azt:on as practically equal in all ry"Jtullera. If one cylieder has very weak or no compression 'the trouble is n$ to be in the exhaust valve. Examine the push rod' to sec if there is 'clearance between it and the Valve when the valve iseupposed to be doled, If there is, iho valve must be lifted out and the valve and seat inspected for carbon. Sometimes a piece of carbon will lodge on the valve Seat and', due to the hammering of the valve, will beconle fasteners to the valve ow scut. For, temporaay repair. it can -generally be melded) off with a knife, and the valve can be ground in on reaching the garage, Valve Head May Break. If the trouble -ie not in the exhaust valve it might be in* the inlet valva In aosno types of engines the valve Stead may break off and get into the Cylinder and when the piston cameo up punch a hole in the piston head. A pet -cock m'ey bo 'lose so that it will jar open sufill'eiontly to affect the com- pression and so cause the cylinder to mists fire, These troubles are usually confined to one cylinder , and net to the Whole engine. The gasoline Should be inspected next.. Is there any gasoline in the bowl of the carburetor? Is there gasoline in the'tan]c? Is the' shut-off valve in the line leading to the car- buretor open? Does the manifold Peak? Do not adjust the carburetor. If the engine has been running it is priseticall�y certain that the oasburetoe isnot out of adjustment. Inspect the intake pipe or manifold. Then put a tablespoonful of gasoline in each cylinder and, crank ower the engine. If this runs the -engine for a few revo- lutions -the trouble' is probably -in the gasoline system and leaves but the spray nozzle, which may have dirt lodged in it, ow 'the auxiliary air valve stuck as the remaining cause of trouble. The ignition shcul�d be inspected next. Test for a spark by •taking the wiro off any plug, monk engine with switch an. Sparse should jump to plug. Are batteries run down? Does the vibratos (if any) buzz. Is timer glean? Does timer rotor make good contact? Are any wires loose, burned, wet, broken, or elrart uircutted? Are spark plugs clean end are points one - fiftieth of an each apart? Does mag- neto armature revoibve? Is safety spark gap dem)? Are interrupter points clean and adjusted right? Do all brushes make good contact? Is distributer clean? Is distributer rotor lose, broken or retaking poor contact?. Check magneto wares. If the trouble eras still evaded' the caroler after all these pet'formnnces, better take it for granted that it will net be found1by further investigations except with" the ''este) of an expert -rom someservice station. THE ARCTIC NORTH OF THE DOMINION NOT THE BARREN WASTE MANY PICTURE IT. Region of Latent Wealth and 2otentiality Awaiting the Coming of the Settler. 10 the lamentable Ignorance which exists In many other countries re- garding Canada, her wealth and re- sources, and particularly on her cli- mate, hosts of strangers who know not the great land might be inclined to in- clude under the appellation the great- er part, if notthe whole, of the Do- minon unheeding Do- minion, ding Ike fact that there t• must be a summer of blazing glory be- hind its consistent world successes in wheat growing,'a bracing spring and fall to commence and terminate a lengthy agricultural season. There are doubtless; too, misconceptions on the mighty Yukon territory where for many years a eiilization has existed, modern In its every phase, and pro- gressing along the same lines as areas further south, But there, is an ,Arctic, north to Vanada, by which as Indloated that .territory adjacent to, and inside of, he Arctic dircle, a region where only )uporficial exploration has been car- ried on and for this reason is hedged about with a thousand misconceptions and false Impressions, It is indeed a region of cold winters, but also one of erfdeedingly bright warm summers. It it not the barren waste popular opinion has pictured it, but onoof luxuriant verdure and extensive vege- }allen, 1t bas a wealth of natural re. lourees and ether potentialities a de - Elided future asset of the Dantltioa. Ins ternational Interest being' particularly centered On this northern territory of Canada, it; Is now appropriate to look into lei features, Nothing bail aroused snap general and widespread lnterestin Canada for A tonsideroble lenngth of time at the disceke'ry, last Call; of 011 ifi the slide- • kenzie River basin, 'within the Arctic circle. The capital of many' countries is being investedin that area; in- vestors and prospectors are flocking thither by every means of transporta- tion; railway and rivers steamer ser- vices are projected; mushroom set- tlements ettlements are springing up all over its expanse. There is every reason to suppose that the strike is not merely an isolated flow, indications all over the area being of the same favorable nature, and there le every confidence that the many Companies carrying out prosliecting'and drilling will meet with the sante success. „ The MacKenzie. River Basin.' Knowledge of the mineral resources of the Mackenzie River basin is very imperfect and limited, but sumotent exploration of a specific nature . has bees undertaken to have encountered many -deposits of lignite coal and iron ore, which for exploitation axe de- pendent upon transportation facilities and agricultural development. Lignite of fair: quality occurs In the banks of the Mackenzie at :Fort Norman in a bed about five feetthick, and iron ore has been found on the Gravel River about four miles above Fort Norman. Another oogurrento was observed further north on the Mackenzie about thirty miles; south of the Arctic circle; ire ore occurs 10 the Bear' Mountain section' in company with deposits of lignato coal, It may spend absurd to speak of agriculture here, but one might' sug- gest to memory the sceptics who said that wheat would never be grown in the -Canadian North-West. The amaz- ing fact might also be pointed out that at far back as 1876 Wheat strewn by Roderick Mackenzie, : brother of the great exlilorer,. at Foit Chipswyan, which 14 to all intents and purposes within the Arctic circle, carried oft the first prize ,at the Centennial,klxposi- tion at Philadelphia, 'Phial, was,ln an era prior 'to Mire plains of, the south coming into prominence AS cereal pre, diners and bearing 011 most of tfte prizoe.. for the North American oonti- nent. Though Cur, at the present time, oohstitootee practically the sole Cone nlorbial. pl'oduct tlf this tjegion, there is every reason to stpposo that at tonne 'future thee, when the Millions.. till irtilliollit itiliiiIiiiii1111111114 of acres to the south of it, as yet un- productive, have been brought under the plough, this section will make a name for itself in agriculture. There is no reason why it should not. At. present development of an agricultural nature is limited to the gardens of the fur -trading poste legated about 160 miles apart along the Mackenzie. These gardens, however, demonstrate that potatoes and various other vege- tables can be grown successfully as far north as the Arctic circle. The. surprisingly luxuriant growth that wild grasses attain around the trading posts suggests the possible future de- velopment of stock raising, The excel- lent herd of cattle maintained by the Roman Catholic Mission at Fort Smith 1 many years, illustrates in the clearest manner the value of the wild, grasses for grazing and the adapta- bility daptability of the country to running of stock, ., A Future Most Promising. It requires but little imagination In the face of recent undertakings to foretell the future of the great tun dras of the Canadian Arctic north as the geeetest meat producing region Of the world which will make the palatable and nutritiens.meats of the cariboo, reindeer and musk -oxen fa miller to the dining tables of the globe. Three' islands in the waters of the North-West Territories: Southampton, Mansel, and Goat's, each with an abundance of fodder, have been set aside by the government as perpetual breeding grounds for reindeer and musk -oxen. Stefan/mu, thalamus Canadian explorer, has formed a com- pany with British capital and secured a thirty-year grazing lease on the south half of Bailin's land for the same purpose. The North American Rein- deer Company has a ranch of 78,750 square miles north of the Churchill River" to graze reindeer and cariboo upon for commercial purposes, whilst another large concession of -the North - lead has been secured by the Hud- son's Bay Reindeer Company, a eom- niercial organization with the same aims, The bleak Canadian north framed in perpetual ice and snow, the monoton- ous barren tundras of the Arctic circle are fictitious features of long harbor- ed, traditions having no substance in fact. This region is one of latent wealth and potentiality, largely un- productive as yet on account of lack of eicploitation, but fast being pene- trated and forced to utility. Canada has large areas to the south yet await- ing settlement and development and when these are producing to their' full capacity, the rich Canadian Arctic re- giogs will come into their own. MANY ARTICLES PRO- DUCED FROM COAL ONE OF NATURE'S MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS. A Substitute for Sugar, the Aniline Dyes, Powerful Dis- infectants and Medicines. In addition to what coal does for us by providing light and power, it gives from within itself vast numbers of the things which are most useful in our lives. To see how,these are obtained we must pay . a visit to the gas works, where coal goes through the various processes which turn it into gas and coke. Two other things—ammonia and tar—are produced when this is done, We all know the uses of the - first; but for a long time tar was re- garded as a by-product of little value. It would make road surfaces water- proof, and It would preserve wood from totting; but there its uses seem- ed to end. Now we know better. By distilling tar we obtain, first of all, carbolic acid, the most powerful of all disin- fectants. Tar also gives benzole and benzoline, which can be used amongst other things for driving motor -cars or for cleaning clothes. After them comes naphthaline, which moat of us know best in the form of moth balls. When sugar was scarce, a substitute was found by the aid of coal -tar, from which we get saccharine, that remark- able substance which, is three hun- dred times sweeter than sugar. Most people then, have eaten coal in the form of saccharine! Famous T.N.T. of Wartime. Better Farming Train Edu- .cates the West. The "Batter Farming Train" sent out through all parts of Saskatchewan this summer has disseminated agri- cultural education in a new and at- tractive way. There were eight Coach- es. Two were equipped with motor picture apparatus. The train stopped in scorns of small towns and on sld- ings, give exhibitions and farmers and their families crowded -to the shows, The pictures taken under agricultural experts of the provincial government showed every phase of farm work scientifically accomplished.' The gra- phic demonstrations of the motion plc. Lures taught farmers mora than many lectures. There were carloads also of pure bred cattle, sheep and hogs, The dairy exhibit was especially interesting to settlers in thediversified farming re- gion along the Canadian National Railways where stock raising Is be- coming a rival of grain growing and dairying 18 rapidly developing into an Important industry, Most of the pare -bred -bulls carried by the' train were sold' to farmer*. Moro than 4,800 farmers attended; the deiuonstrntions at the va"ious' stops, The lectures and the exhibits were fernished by the Sitakatehewau gov- b ffftfelit,. , - We needed a new high explosive for our big shells during the war, for we could not obtain in sufficient quanti- ties the materials for making lyddite. Coal supplied the want by giving us- toluol, stoluol, from which was made the fa- mous T.N.T. Perhaps, most wonderful of all, we get colors of surpassing beauty from coal. The only shade that occurs to you when you think of coal or tar is sombre black. Yet it is from tar that we obtain aniline, which is the basis ofsmost of the [lyes now used in com- merce. When aniline dyes were first discovered they were crude, harsh tints which gave Tittle pleasure to the eye. Now they have been developed] to such an extent that they give us colors of a soft delicate beauty. 011 may possibly supplant coal for heating purposes and for the driving of 'machinery. But coal will always hold ire own in other ways, for ail Lias little to give us in the way of by-pro- ducts. When we burn °coal we use it inthe most wasteful way possible, ob- taining from it less than a fifth of the heat which it is capable of giving out, and making no use at all of the colors, the eeseotuess, the disinfectants, or the healing medicines that are hidden within it, These Terrible Questionaires. Registration Ofifcer (to spinster)— "Your name, please," , Spinster—Matilda Brown," Registration Omoet "Age?" Miss Brown—'Have the Misseit Hill, who live next door, given you their ages?" Registration Oftaer—"No:" Miss Brown—"Well, then, I'm the same age as they." Registration Officer--"That`'will80." Proceeding to fill in ati'particularai he muttered: "Miss I3rown, as old as the hills," The Bayle is, en an average, trans- lated, lrubp abed ten new languages eve ., A flre•aaldrsh droll .ti'vh4dt "i8 sat ring- ing g ing by snioko orlon ie the, tritest fire- fill6vtiTtt6 ;ali>t43afle: - TRANSCENDS SEVEN WONDERS OF AT1QUITY. Stupendous Figures, Difficult to Realize, Used in Describ- ing Largest of Ships. The modern leviathan steainsblp, travelling . majestically At express aimed over tete oceans, transperting, dining and lodging a whole viliagetul of travellers, in defiance of the hurri- canes and tides, and yet at the same time obedient to the pressing of a but. ton en the bridge, transcends all the seven wonders put together of the world of antiquity, John Ruskin said one of many wise things when he declared the steamship t0 be the greatest triumph which the genius of man bas evolved, The Pyramids of Egypt, the Parthe. non of Athens, werebuilt by brains and hands; the great steamship needs for . its completion the agency of a thousand inventors, many human hands, and a thousand maebines, The Pyramids of Egypt remain sta- tionary, the last word in the wonders of antiquity; but the steamship never ends In its wonderful development, It goes from year to year multiplying in size, power, efficiency, and luxury of travelling. Its newest creatious make pigmies of all past standards of great- ness, Another wonderful milestone in the endless progress of its development from its tiny ancestors will be covered shortly at Hambuty, when there will be launched a new leviathan which will once more assume the title, gain- ed by so many of its predecessors, "The Greatest Ship in the World." Germany's Reparation. This ship, which is to be handed over to Great Britain as one of the penalties for going to war, will be named the Majestic by its future own- ers, the White Star Company, It is fitting that the ship should be- come the possession of this great line, inasmuch as at has been the pioneer in Britain of all the great monsters— the Aquitania excepted. The Majestic is to have a length of I.ieadly Warr Gases Changed to Perfume. Washington,—The dentd], ' poison gas dped th, Chemical Weveloarfare Sbyeivlce? has been turned to the moot peaceful of peace time ser - ince, it is learned. The fumes which devastated whole countrysides in the world war will hereafter be transformed into delicate perfdlnies to scent milady's boudoir, Experiments completed by the Chemical' Warfare Ser- vice have developed from the deadly phosgen gas, a violent scent that they as - is delic'a'te anal moresert lastjrlmoreg than 'bre orig- inal woodland article. Ben- zyl acetate, another of the war . gas products, has proved the source of a scent as fragrant as the jasmine itself. berth, and had paced the decks most of the time. Sure, and what do ye want a ticet from me 'for?" be asked, with a touch of snappishness. "Haven't I walked the whole blessed way across?" A Battle With An Octopus. Capt, Johnson, a Canadian diver, was at work on the wreck of a fruit ship which had gone ashore on a coral reef near Ruatan, Honduras. A new leak had developed, and it was neces. sexy to stop it at once, although the hour was 4 in the afternoon: Capt. Johnson called his assistants, tend they anchored the diver's- boat with the apparatus. On Itis way down Johnson noticed the rare beauty of the translucent tropical waters and the lovely color of the coral and the thousands of fish swimming about. As be was approaching the point where the work was to be done a long, dark arm shot across the face glass of his helmet. He had been in tropical waters before and knew the sign. It was the octopus—the devilfish—fear- ed by all divers. He gave the danger signal and was pulled up. 950 ft, This is very nearly one-fifth of At the surface he considered the situation. The ship was leaking bad- e mile, or one-fourth the height of Ben ly and could not be safely left thus all Nevis, the highest mountain in Great night. He called for a heavy harpoon Britain. and cut the handle, making a weapon If we compare the Majestic with about three feet lone. Armed with some of her historic ancestors, the this, he went down again to fight the rapidity of development is seen to be octopus and stop the leak. enormous. Slone he approached Ike snot The Majestic, will just be twenty- where the octnpus was hidden under two times the length of the Comet— the bilge of the vessel, As he ap- the first steamship launched in Great preached the ereaturc moved from the Britain in the year 1812. In tonnage under side of the vessel, gathering it. the Majestic would make 2,000 comets./ self for the attack. Her length will be four hundred feed There were but four or five feet be - greater than the longest ship of only tween the coral reef on which the forty years ago—the City of Rome. vessel had grounded and her side at She will exceed the length of the Lusi- this point, and Johnson settled himself tante and her great Tyne -built sister, there for the battle. It was not slow the Mauretania, by 200 ft, The Ma- in coming The creature extended one jestio will be 70 ft. longer than the of its long arms. Johnson gave a quick thrust with his harpoon, but the devilfish was quicker than he and snatched away the arm. Again the creature struck,' and this time it touched Johnson on the hip, On the instant it lost its arm, severed by a blow from the harpoon. - Then the fight began in earnest. The devilfish tried to envelop the man ship whfoh at present is distinguished by the title, "The Greatest Ship in the World"—the Aquitania, built on the Clyde in 1912. This inheritor of the Aquitauia's title will be double the length of the battleship Dreadnought, one and a halt times the length of the famous Queen Elizabeth, and 60 ft. bigger than the world's greatest warship, the Hood. in its many tentacles and the diver It is instructive to recall that after kept slashing with the harpoon. He the failure of the Great Eastern, built inflicted wounds enough to disconcert on the Thames seventy years ago, the creature and prevent it from en. which had a length of 600 ft., it was wrapping him, but for some time none considered architecturally impossible of the wounds were serious, to build a successful ',teasel having a At last, just as the creature bad length of 600 ft. conte to alarmingly close quarters, he He Walked to the States! managed to drive his harpoon Into the body. When badly injured the cuttle- the longest waves of the Atlantic were fish discharges a great quantity of 600 ft. in length, and that any ship of dye, which colors the water a jet this or greater length wound in a self in a velum black. Instantly Johnson found him- stormget herself in between two signal and was pof Ho up,He gave the waves and haus either a very bad It took some time for the dye to time or break her back. clear away so that anything could be This idea prevailed tor forty years, seen in the water. Then Johnson went and it was not until the Campania was down again. He did not have to renew built, in 1893, that the "fatal" 600 ft. length was again exceeded. Gra battle. The octopus was dead, The truth wast o b -- h Great Eastern a tern. was before her days. Her engines Ever Hear of a rt Loweratorev ? were not powerful enough to drive her The "lowerator" is a -new eontriv- through the trough of a turbulent sea, once, which has an important advent - To -day the 885 ft. Aquitania drives her age. over the elevator, inasmuch as it way unconcernedly through the wildest requires neither operator nor me0hani- stornts the Atlantic can whip up, cal power. 1t is for the rapid hand - Nor does the new Majestic, with her ling of merchandise en factories and 960 ft, Length, promise to be the last warehouses, and already itas been in - word in the building of leviathans, stalled in a number of large menu - Before the outbreak of the Great War, facturing plants and wholesale grocery a designer had prepared the sketch establishments. • of a ship to be 1,600 It, in length and The device works on an endless 160 ft, itt width, ohain, the weight of descending mer - All that retards the probable con- ehandise furnishing the motive power. structton in the near future of such a It carries a series of platforms, exalt of which is a row of strong steel rode extended outward in a horizontal plane. A barrel and a box, let us say, t are placed on one of the platforms at the sixth floor, Their weight causes them to, descend at rate controlled by a centrifugal governor to the ground floor, where the steel rods, passing like angers through an in. olined grating, discharge upon the lat- ter the box and the barrel. The bar- rel and the box thereupon roll down to the bottom of the inclined gritting, whit% serves the purpose of a chute, and ore ready to be loaded upon hand trucks or otherwise dealt with, There are enough platforms strung along the endless chain to allow two or more for each eatery, so that they are at allmes avalabl it i e 011 every 'icor of the building, The reason for this was given that monster idthe limited resources:of the world's harbors, and waterways to give accommodation; but harbor authori- ties are moving rapidly, and this bar- rier may ere long be removed. Perhaps in the long distant future we may see the evolution of a monster that would justify the application to it of the phrase employed by General Pershing to the American shipbuilders during the submarine menace of the war --"Build a steel bridge arose the Atlanta." Or, if one chose to walk the length of such a proieated'ship, might this story, attributed to au Irish emigrant, become applicable, Pat found hhnself assailed on ar- rival at New York for bit ticket. On the way across, the ship bedng ovsr- orowded, he had found ne sleeping - Baboons Have Sentries. Tho babooue of Africa have prob- ably -what are the best military regu- lations of any of the animals. While they are feeding in a dangerous place they set sentries, en every side—big, wise, veteran baboons that sit perfect- ly quiet and keep a vigilant watch. At a sharp bark of warning from one of these outposts every ape ceases his occupation; even the babies hush their cries. At another bark all cony resume work or play; or, again, the second note may carry a different message; then the leader gives an order and all retreat rapidly to the denser parts of the forest, when travelling these creature's have both a front, and a rear guard. A half dozen powerful apes scout well an front of the main body, now Inspect- ing the woods from the ground, now climbing to the tops of tbe tallest trees. It the traveller comes on a tribe of baboons he usually sees only one of the scouts, which bares his teeth sav, agely, barks once and,is gone. Further away the hunter may observe tate whipping of branches es the rest .of the tribe retreat so rapidly' that no man can overtake them. Sliould the ob. server happen upon the rear gum•d'lie 'will notice that they behave different. ly from the scouts.. -Not stlent'er cait-• tious, they constantly give quack, sharp commands, now angrily chiding some lagging youngster or giving an. other a slap and a bile, As far es we knew, the baboons are the only apes or other annuals that poet a sentry at 'tight. Commonly hey sleep in caves among tire. cliffs, and when all have retired you may 116 sure that one of their number 271111 be wide awake, sitting on .some exposed rock or other point of vintage. Not even the leopard, the most de- termined foe of the baboon, dares to attack them 0t night unless -he can ldll the sentry, Quito True, • Rudlsr—"Wlutt hae° beaome 01 the oid.fashioned word'eame?" lltlton---"I know what yen rhesus ppooplo.'ntake' 8o much is week, atowa- aya." "Y s, nothing s eves said aboat.aihy- body 'earnlug' methane these days,"