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PSYCHOLOGY SHOWS FITNI $H
AUTOIST AT WIIIr.1 I.•
Psyeholegy new determines the hi-
ps°° of automobile drivers for large
corporations, Richard >r, 'Crepe su-
preme regent of the Royal Arcanum,
pointed Cut in a safety athlrese In
Chicago. The delicate instruments of
the laboratory indicate what a person
will do in stress of emrrgeney, the
i'raternaliet said.
"Good eyesight and intelligence aro
not the only requlsitoe for auto driv-
ing" said air. •Kropf, who is til the,
hears of the Royal Areanum'e riceidcnt
prevention campaign among the 125,-
900 members of that order en the Ile
itod States and Canada, "A driver
may he of a high mentality and still
be' unfitted for handling a car in •traf-
Ile. Psychology as demonstrated in
the toot laboratories of one of err
large taxicab companies is pnimira•
out the unfit.
"The examination of a prospective
driver includes tests which resemble
closely those used by the United States
Army. Tests aro also made on eteadi-,
ness of nerves in handling delicate:
instruments, selection of colors and'
other trials to bring out the qualiflca-1
tions nee�essary in a reliable driver.
"One of the most interesting is the
appliance for registering the nerve -a
fear reactions. The driver is seated
at a miniature switchboard in a Clark-'
eucd room and told to 'plug in' as fast
as he can. Suddenly a loud buzzer is
set off, varinue rays are projected
Within his vision. The reactions of he
repenter ere automatically recorded,"
GAPA(IN DRAINS,
The. clogeiee of tt drain in a garage
ll n nuleance which 1eee:te 10 a wet
and grimily floor, intutimut to tires
and ttir.a .. sble fen' the owner.
Garage dreins are usult::y of insuf-
fielent ttlze and inndequetfor
halfdiime the mud that comm elf the
A deekled improvement over serall
last -iron drains was recently mule by
one garage Owner, To hnalie Ude drain,
the drain melt of the garage was dug
up and ti bent iron Pipe eoneected to
the Isewi't pipe so that the end would`
prnjert rlaweward. The pnrnose in
title wa,• to eid'Ili- It:aeiel dirt and
grease to rug the pip', e 11 leiter
alone runnete r'.i i t'1 the 1,0.air pipe,
This so'.ved the teett
t; el" 'he P1170o
very satisfactorily.
'1'r provide a orate/tool or dirt resr-
e(,i eoterete racing Ws-, made
ale the pile in the fo'4twing man-
ner: A sheet -metal basin 'vs obtain-
ed, this being an old kitchen utensil,
which was eut nut at one lid(* to clear
the drain pipe.
Using this as the centre of the form,
concrete was poured under the farm
until flush with the garage floor.
While still platle, a east -iron grating
was set into the Concrete,
Whet: thoroughly hardened the
grate was rellllVed and the pan taken
out. It will t ! worth mentioning that
avoidanee of the conerete sticking to
the metal is :lecampliahed by using a
coating of cup grease on the surfaces.
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1•lere is' one of the most reren• tortIaits of the Prince of Wales, who 15
risiting his
ranch in western Canada. ,The picture allows the forceful char -
rotor and determination which is the foufidullon of a ]ting.
How Tramp'
Dy David lien'
"'Choy rail no scientific 13300 e'ruel," "I've /seen these fellows lit >ua0Y
paid Metter Rluglltelni, us eve sat out dilrcreut countries:, 'and 'lender nippy
on the after-doal3 of the steamer,' different names—as ltiarubouts In
watching the sea Oink over the distant North. Aldo, Ilervlshes in Central
mountains of Spain, "and ten afraid, Asia, Fiddle in India—but I never saw
Ws only too true, libr my own part, 1 diem anything like as bad es they
utast plead guilty to several do oda were ill *heron, Yon couldn't show
which were 1'aally.very Cruel, and one, your fuco out of doors without having
at leant, which might fairly be railed a swarm of tram around you Ina 1310 -
downright barbarious."' 1 wet, all 'claluol•ing for money and
'indeed!" rejoined 1. "Well, if any that, too, not as if they were asking
one but youreolf had told me that, it as a favor, but demanding It 1110
herr Profesaol', I should not -have be- downright robbers, And, indeed, the>'
Toyed a word of it." were not a bit better, and many of
"11 Is true, however," laughed good them a great deal wore°,
Madam Klugmann, whose plump, 5001 "Now It happened that a few days
ing visage looked Just like a reflection atter I fleet arrived, 111ad a visit from
of her husband's; and now that you an engineer in the Shah's /service. Ho
have confessed, Friedrich, you are had lived there several years, .and
bound to do penance by telling the . knew the language and habits of tbe'
whole story yourself." - I ?enema as well as, if he had been one
"So be It," answered the'doctor, with of them himself; and eo, like a good
a jovial grin. "'you must know, then, fellow he was, ho gave me all the in -
then about ten years ago, before abed formation he could think of about the
Gretchen here to look after me, I was !ways of the place, so that 1°Shouldn't
very fond of running from one out -of,' get into any serape through my Inex-
the -way country to another, and study perfenee.
ing all manner of letrange places and' "Among other things-, he warned mo
B,C. Timber P(ayrull
Tatsb $50,000,000
ti
The payroll of the eombiued British
Colnnlbie Jndnstrlea le not less than
$80,000,000, or close to one I undrd dole
lays per Capita of the wltolo population
of the province's men, women and
children, '
Tide enormous minuet amount re-
presents the total revenue for the last
three yore, that is to eaY, it costs lose
to run the province of B.C. lumbering
Industry for 12 menthe. This sunt al-
so: exceeds the total paid-up capital
of the three principal chartered hanks
in the Domnlnion of Caunda.
This estimate is not a rotiglt and
ready one, but is carefully calculated
from the latest statistics made avail-
. able by the Workmen's Compensation
Board, the Department of Labor, Vic-
toria, and the Dominion Bureau of
Statietlo8.
There are over 3,000 'firms exelu-.
lively engaged In the production,
'manufacture and handling n of 33,C.•
wood products. They may be divided
into three classes:
stn.: •ae reeled, So I thought it a great that I'd be likely to have a good deal
6.- -----•—=.-- ----- .- Ing e lib sport c -
f cock fighting but this picee of luck when I got an appoint. of trouble with these pilgrim beggars.
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las been mo:leriiIZeti, and is now 10001 as medical officer to the German ole said it was a common 401013 of
I I e no one can I,egetlan at Teheran, for I hard never theirs ea find out some European who
known its the "Oats"' -wit, , lately rd d it d at his door
cvpl'tln4111e
''1titlistiwou•d peep up euah a hd
SEA TERMS
been in Persia yet, and I thought this had nr. ve ',s own11.1
T ubbr r I • tram tale Dutch moaning a fine (bailee of seeing what it was and refuse to go away he gave
10 the early th':, of Deena) ravel
organia:etinn vs-' s,'c of ler r 110 t (-m-
ilk. •blip^
,' Inc ,
( crews,a pallia one hi
pur t u•,e - and tune of 1n r in 's for
anvipatlug duties. 113 t••nn•,'quence a
l:,rge number to bine tit sea terms
hace a tnilit.try • riein-
In early titner, the reek of admiral
was unknown. ani the cine f uflirer of
the squadron we,, cartel a constable
or Jnst0e. 'fhp term a lm!ral as now
used is derived i t'nnl the Arabic
"emir" or "entire' a eemmander (as
in "Amir-al-llahl:' ernlman-1er of the
.3)01.) The early 'English form was
"Amiral" and i,e still preserved ar'.
sash by the Fre•t:. 3' .
The rile captain is 11 t a naval but
a Military One, Originally (he real
captain of the -1 p tea '.1 tur.,,•3." A
military officer nus plat ei tut hoard,
though he knew melting of nautirat
luatirrv. ('radun!ly ht: iulpt.rznu0 in-
creased. while 11-x11. ri 3110 master
• dinrette-bee. prop; micas,. till 'ut -the
pre-enl day the lea office is be..
coming obsolete ( m113,71)111. ('01005
from the Spanish ('rine. 1•adr1."
The title of 1n cement le borrowed
,lire"tly from the eeeneh. unfl is meant
a- a 3411u•c•1icidcr, r•r (MP "00 10011 the
• I(?are of the raga(iia wltZll al'lent. In
farmer days ;here were no cadets, but
vnhmtr'=rs. but with the gradual ad-
vance of pol'tene-es the tern cadet
na- :teen-Trim/et trap, the French.
"1to:rtswein" 1. de•rivel from the
*6'0 Wein' ort-nt- The term
quru•te ,ins .t,,.. ne31 in both the
army and navy-. rl/pea„ 10 bo confus-
ing and anomal In the army, it is
the title of a commissioned °flitter who
performs iniporlar-t anti responsible
etudes. In the navy. he i=_ simply a
Warrant °Meer. t!irecting subordinate
duties.
In aid ships dna in olden
time, 1'le position wee a more import-
-mit 4)01', st (3111 11 :•n that he was coa-
st?, to Pe the fourth part of the
master lil�nre n('.f ;3) 01 guar1»rmae-
13,' ' a shown t tet' -
r the gttrart, ••ata. l+ e ii ll h H i c� -• a.r vt '.i wine
2'he /ship's (' t'k (vas once a great
the 'trig guns" of the navy. The pttctct ral,tl W:t. taken Wlii=e the special':' lawn, and there :oro Met:mess on re -
service squadron was at anchor oft Quebec. t
(•ord of his Bela i r l 0100 i I'm efficient
14"
preparations stf ort The ships stew -
The Fastest Antelope. •aril was originlI133 the r:tie,•rv.
The black buck, the commonest ante•' Tlrn terns latbr;erd and starboard
lope in India, is also the fastest. In- (clue from the Italian "g1u•,.t:t bore a"
and "grtr-lbl hin'da" which, by rapid de -
deed Mr. A. A. Dunbar Brander. in his . livery, became starboard and larboard,
book Wild Animals in Central India,' but owing to the strung similarity of
declares that the black bark is the s3' nd they were changed into st,'tr-
fastest animal in the world. hoard and port (Latin parte. to carrel,
Although the brach brach can be ti., 11 a of the terms in the original
teem letterer been the rause of many
stalked and nnehed Over a short dis- i.ccidents.
Mirage.
01,'33101. T follow the melt"•believe
1 rat:.
Weer. the ret-o'•goli rainbow
gleams.
An' fashion myself a runlance tale,
0' the stuff that the world nails
dreams;
I Fay on my hack on the %liver sands
0' the desert, on lonely nights.
An' I drift away to enchanted hada,
On snme tunny adventure flights.
I seem to forget. I'm a "desert rat"^--
Just a "drifter" adrift—artsnm,
With soma rage for teethes. an' a bat-
tered hat --
An' a login' ter homn•sweet-hame;
An' I dream that I am a Nabob line.
Or n Prince 0' the olden Pieties,
An' all the geld in the world la mine -•
An' I'm livin' in prhleeiy easel
An' the star feetted sky le my canopy,
An' my blanket -a bed to kings,
An' the wealth n' the world belongs
to me,
10' some planets --an' other things;
An' the wind e•singin' across the sand
Is a-playin' ma symphony airs,
flu the cactus hurtle. with a master
hand—
hest to make me forget my. cares.
Then I sudden wake to the world that
Is,
And the dream -stuff fades away.
An the sten (tomes up. with r, humin'
size
An' the ailv'ry sande turn gray;
I am hack again la the land o'reat,
le my raps an' atty battered hat,
But eontelucw, pard. I have got the
feel -
'!'hose dreanls'lt nems tree of that!
-Jarlitie lihtwers' lhingertord.
The total area planted to potatoes
in Oanada during 192a was 424,069
acres and the estimated yield was 52,-
1154,000 cantata. The final estimate of
the 1022 crop was 55,7.15,000 cantata,
Geusbee led produettnn h1 1924 with a
yield of 18,108,000 0001818,
tante by a. hunting leopard, suys Mr. • Gangway bas been handed down
Brandbr, it soon draws away and the from the days of the allelent galley of
leopard abandons the chase. More . the Phoenicians, Carthaginians and
over, the black buck can keep up his :pagan's, it having been a board whith
pace indefinitely. The value of a fly- ; ran along the whole length, serving as
ing start is well known in taring. and '3 passage for the rowers to and from
to what extent that advantage some their Beate. 31 was also used as a rest-
the
estthe cheetah, or hunting leopard. I van- ing .leave fe r the mast and sail when
not. say. If it were poselhle to start lea in use,
both animale together, after the first The c+,cktrit. 111 the lnwe.t 1,urtof
hundred years or 50 it would 0111y 1O the vessel below 103(140, 11134 dotting en
a question of by how emelt the buck a, lion for tate treatment of the wound-
ed. 1, derived front the old nays of the
was leading.
a toy, eewardty follow. _ like. , them. s0m0 money; and in the mean,
Anchor comes from the Latin "an- But when I did see what was • e me they hide -
chore." 600 I can't spy I was very much pleased sus howling -and screeching, that any
rllorw," or "'ttnc�ra;' which Zip t
B.C. consisted simply of e large stone with it, after all, The juruey through one would soon be glad to pay to get
with a hole through it: Thopeeuliarity Western Persia from Tabriz was slaw, rid of them.
A for driving them away, any man
ccossion of the most s ri g
] an endless• su
' rigging Y
a ship's • of s g g
O many ' 100
tions p
g
of I
o y
to
afiuer
on
them
venturedg
whovo rlay
i n
rides. imaginable,. upon (
bearing names derived from the trap- untromtoi•tabiq r de g p
pied° of a horse can only be accounted extremely bad horses, over some of would be Instantly murdered by the
that the early war- the worst roads in the world, and, in rabble of We town, so that tbey were
she tram ani,.
ships were
,named by soldiers as well .addition to 3.11fs, we had the certainty very awkward customers in every
as sailors, °'the natural consequences of getting wet and hungry regularly way.
beteg that they, the soldiers, adapted - -
some of their terms to meet their
fancy. Among the various ropes will
be found bridles, whips, bits, stirrups,
and the like
There Are Two Ways of
Marrying.
In spite of hi^, cherubic countenance
Benjamin Jowett, the master of Balliol
College at Oxford, was shrewd and
well acquainted with the ways of the
world. On two tweet/am only, writes
the Rev, A, H. Sayce in his reminis-
cence's, have i known of Itis being non-
plussed.
On one occasion he was staying with
one of the Eton masters, who had in-
vited his boys to breakfast to meet
the eistinguisbed guest Jowett was
silent throughout the meal, as was bis
wont when not called upon to enter- .
'Min members of the high Official or
aristocratic world, and when the
diners rose from the table, one of the
boys, a good-natured fellow and the
son of a country oquire, thinking that
the stranger must have come from the i
w
country and that his silence was o -1f
•ing to the fact that the topics of con-
versation, philosophy -and thelike, had
been above his comprehension, went
up to him and said, "It's been' very
stupid talking, sir, hasn't it? How are
the crops doing in your part of the
world?" .m
On the .other occasion a Balliol un-
dergraduate v. s ] id up with typ•hold'
fever, and his .slater exams to Oxford
to nine 1111u. Jewett kindly offered
her a revel in hie house, and there
she r eiteped until l:er brother was
tote -aloe est. On leaving she' thanked
tate muster fat his 1313110135 to her and
itrtdel that she was emboltleneJ by it
to ui le• a further call upon him.
Wool • 1•e marry her?
i Jowett got up from his chair, walked
up and down the room in an agitated ,
fashion and began to stammer out
!that it was impossible. But he was
much relieved when she went on to
• explain that what abe meant was that
'she was going to be married in a few
weeks and wanted him to perform the
•ceremony, 1
1
Knowing twenty-four books of the{
Old Testament by heart is an aCcom
plishment of a young rabbi in London.
He is ale() proficient as a portrait
painter.
i
1 During a z:irx voce examination a
school inspector asked the class if any-
' one could tell him the number of ex-
ported bales of cotton from America
for any one year. He got a surprise
when one bay answered: "Anna Dom-
ini 1491. None exported."
Class 1 (Raw material -2,853 firma,
Includes logging operations, pole, post
and tie camps, timber cruisers and
forestandtlm engier
bneersbfokere., sealers, inape0401'a
Class 2 (Manufacture- 555 firms, in-
cludes sawmills,' planing, lath and
shingle mills, veneer plants, sash ane
' door factories and concerns manatee -
tering B. C. woods into furniture,
Class 3 (Distribution, -413 firms, in-
cludes lumber exporters, wbole;alers,
lumber dealers, accountants, inspect-
ors and woodyerda
There is also a fourth class, which
plight comprise the tug -boat owners
solely 'engaged in boom and raft tow•
ing and the firms exclusively manu-
facturing logging and sawmill equip-
ment. (This clans is not included in
the•present estimate).
Fifty million dollars is a huge sum.
It represents at least one-third of the
total industrial payroll of the Province
of British Columbia and at a censer.
v alive estimate . proves the means of
support for at least a quarter of its
total population,
Natural Resources Bulletin.
The Natural Resources Intelligence
Service of the Dept. of the Interior
at Ottawa says:—
It is very doubtful if many of our
Ontario residents appreciate the ex-
tent to which the fur -bearing animals
are contributing to the wealth of the
province; both in the value of the peke
and in receipts for licenses and royal-
ties.
The town hall is shown in the university town of Louvain, which was In 1923 the furs taken in the prow-
spared in the wreck of the war, and the cathedral, which is now being re- ince were valued at $3,182,395, while
stored, hut which still shows its scars. trappers' licenses amounted to 551,-
- _- - ------ _ 277; trappers' coupons 532,860; rn-
'
r' :1
every day, supplemented by a very •
strong probability of being robbed and
murdered at any moment. • t
And even when I got to Teheran at
last, I did not find it much of an im-
provement. or the first week. what,'.
with the heat and the dirt and the bad
smells, and the constant worry of
brushing away dust that was just as
thick as ever five minutes later;' and
the excitement of being bitten all
might coag by every insect that came
out• of the ark, I was more dead than
alive..
"If there had been anything to sec
cr to do there, it wouldn't have been
quite so bad. But one couldn't go out
by day for fear of the sung or by night
for fear of being robbed, stabb$d, cr
eaten up by prowling street -dogs,
"As for the city itself, it struck me
as by far the most filthy and utterly.
uninteresting place that I had yet seen,
which was a great deal for any man to
say who had been all cross Western
Asia; and the sublime Shah, when I
was admitted into his august presence,
turned out to be a greasy little man in
big spectacles, who looked much more
like a lawyer's clerk than a king,
"But the greatest nuisance of all
were the 'beggars, who seemed to be
as countless as locusts; and of all the
beggars, the worst by far were those
rascals whom you mut have seen for
yourself when yon were in the East,
pretending to he pilgrims, and begging
money from everybody on the strength
of their being 'holy men'—holy pigs,
rather!
When 1110 "0-34110l.riti:-b nt,..1 stfuadrmt ),•rived Of Q110b00 they"ero greeted Iry thnilsands of interested eeeet
and Levis shores, here aro seen if.Y1.S. 1100d wad 11,314.8. Repulse. The equation reeently stilled for Newfoundland.
"This gave me an idea. I saw plain-' dian coupons 555,1911; fur deals a
ly enough that to pay blackmail to one tenses 551,001; and royalty 075,3113
of these rogues would only lay me The extent to which some of the
open to be preyed upon b3 a hundred species of fur -bearers are being taker;
more. So I made up my mind to give is evidenced in the number that are
the first that came such a lesson as being accounted for yearly to the tin-
weeld make all the rest glad to leave eerie Game and Fisheries Dept. Last
nee alone. year there were 478,020 mesterei re -
'I had not long to wait for an op- ported, while in 1922 there we c-
portnnity. The very next morning, a 888, and in 1921, 470,8611, or over el, -
tall, lean, ragged, dirty.ocking scare- half million in the three years.
crow, with one eye and a face lite a • In 1923 beaver were trapped 1" i,
monkey, came and squatted on, my ; number of 20,684; in 11122 there ve:''
porch, announeing his determinatlone 98,971 taken, and in 13311 thereo'-
to stay there till I gave him some 95,479 accounted for. It is met t 1 h •
money, and attempting to spur my . wondered at that, as the 11: pertrr.
charity by yelling out at the top of annual report says, beaver at., -
his voice various scraps of Koran, ported to be scarce.
•I. bore it as best I might until mid,. Other fur -bearers taken in:mg ale --
I
day,
le--
day, when -as I had expected—the ras- • able quantities in 1923 were muni
8 na and then I commenced' 634; raccoon 15,752; :hunk. ,at., 0.;
cal took p. ,
operations In my turn, ' weasel, 61,606; red fox, 12,3114; mor -
t "I was making some experiments in l ten, 4,704; otter, 8,997; fisher, 2,230.
electricity Just then, and had brought 1 While provision has been made in
with.me from Europe a very ,powerful; Ontario for a number of game saline-
slight
battery. I hitched the wire ; aries, very little attention hag he en
to the metal cup that the fellow held ;given to the establishment of lar s 0r sac
in his hand for alms, and gave him a j for fur -bearing animals. Thi1 e (' 1'
slight shock, Just enough to awake , tion, however, has not been overlo ete(1
hini. i by the department, and in the last an -
"Then I told him once more to be nual report the suggestion is (Wade
Off, and as he was beginning 40 ans-! that one or more such sanctuaries he
wer impudently, I let him bane it in , set aside in portions of the province
,real earnest with the whole strength ithat are suitable through ratural con-
ed the battery. i dltions to provide for the appaeetlt
"Oh, 1f you had only seen him! He' present need of conservation of all fur-
fiew head over heels, right down the hearing animals. Such °rens sleuth!
steps Into the street, and relied over be of sufficient size that the natural
and over in the dirt, kicking, roaring increase from the fur -bearers theroan
and shrieking like a madman. 'would, to a great extent, counter-'rt-
Hfe metal cup with all tit mon a e the 1 i:f 't that
e ey nc ergs num r.r o pe.:;
that he had begged that morning, have been taken out of the provinee,
tumbled cut of his hand, and a passing particularly during the past few
boy promptly snatched it up and ran years.
off with R.; and what, with that and
the two teeth whleh be knocked out
In lee fall, it was rather a bad morn-
ing's work for my friend
"113' wife always says 11. was very
cruel of me, and perhaps it was, How-
ever, my cruelty had 0t loot one good
result, for I was never troubled again
by tins, or any other beggar, so long
as I remained It Teheran."
A Mlstelto.
She—"Don't you think sheep aro the
most stupid croatnrea living?"
lie (absently)—"Yea, my lamb."
Do you have an antlmucasaar en the
hack of your chub? If So, do you
know why they call it nn antiMacas-
sar? Hero is the why; lora ago
people were just as afruld of gutting
bald as people are to -day, so great-
grandfather putnta0asspr oil on his
hair, but groat -grandmother, to Been
Lora, who lined tho:(3uoh00 her chairs, put the anti oh the moo -
ear. See?
The Right Splr;t,
"Several %.urapenit ca311)1 ee want
Prohibition."
"'l'lien why net lot 'cm have what
we're net tnaltleg any 3183) of, I say."
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