HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-8-5, Page 6Gasoline ExDonee Reducible.
A writer in Motor Print, gives the
following advioo,011 keeping down -gas
aline expense:
motor dead and the clutch out, or the
shifting lever in neutral: If the let-
ter is done, then the motor mush be
started and ,the clutch theft brought
Gasoline is elastic; a gallon will to a speed higher him that of the car In these days of war, the greatest On board wore 2,201• passengers and
drive a car almost any distance . This be r the gear can be re-engaged. brains .of the world are vying with crew, while the 'vessel' itselfhad` cost
is food for thought for those that are opt on very rough roads, it one another in establishing records } well over one million pounds t build.
takes lesspower to drive a car with ? o
worrying over the high price of fuel. for newer and more invincible ways of , Yet ill a moment she became a help -
by taking a few simple precautions;' Vines well inflated, Use the tire •killing! less wreck.
iEa a resounds to the clash of arms
MARCONI'S WIRE- 1wirefess saving rho passengers and
TELEGRAPHY. �j�J crew of a vessel was that of the Delbi
LESS 1 ELEGR,API 1 ' in 1917 This vessel stranded offthe
coast of Morocco, and became a total
w ecic. The fact that among the pas-
sengers were the Princess Royal, with
HAS DIRECT"LY Se1VEA {y1;1 L her husband, the Dula) of Fife, and
their two daughters, drew great pub
lie attention to this wreck.
While the Republic was the instance
which first drew attention to the Pow-
ers of wireless, the story of the Titanic
excels fb in drama. .On her `maiden
voyage across the Atlantic this gi-
gantic liner struck an iceberg in mid
ocean on the night of April 14th, 1912.
OVER 5,000 LIVES.
Stories of the Greatest Life -Saving
Invention of the
Age,
FRANCE'S PLANT
FOR WAR SUPPLY
L 5 CREUSOT'S OUTPUT SUR-
PASSING EXPECTATIONS.
It Is In the Centre of Iron and Coal
Region and Well
Situated.
Lo Creusot, the centre of France
war munitions works, where the out-
put of an iron torrent with which to
deluge the Central Empires of Europe
is said a French Cabinet °Mee : t
be 'surpassing all expectations, is the
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OUR FORESTS AND THE WAR.
Much Timber Will be Required for
Reconstruction Work.
The economic importance of the
It is possible for every owner to re -
way.
age often.
The principal Powers of the world d' by z o
duce greatly the consumption per Drive with the spark advanceL as aro in a death -grip; every corner of
mile.. far as possible usually this is all the D The wireless operator sent iia call subject of a war geography bulletin
If the car is run too slowly or fast, way' Retard it only when the motor —or, to be more up-to-date, the burst- for help broadcast into the air, and from the National Geographic Society. forest resources of this continent will
there is fuel waste -16 m.p.h. is a knocks. ing of shells. What science can do to it was answered by the Carpathia, Like the famous Krupp works of be greatly enhanced as a result of the
good average, Dont allow your power to be wast- help in the terrible work is being done which vessel steamed as quickly as Germany, Le Creusot's vast ordnance 'van. Enormous quantities of timber
Until now the average motorist has ed by leaky valves or piston rings. by every scientist—save one! possible to the rescue. But before she factories owe their origin to the or -are necessarily used for military Mar -
been careless about the amount of Always shut the engine off when There is one man whose name had reached the scene of the disaster ganizing and inventive genius of one ppooses, in addition to what is unavoid-
ably he used because it was compare- the car is standing. A great deal of stands out amici the conflict for what the Titania had sunk. Out of the two family—the Schneiders.' At the out- lY destroyed in the fighting zee.
feel is wasted by idling—more than he has done to save life. While others thousand odd human beings 712 were break of the war the Schneider Iron The shortage of tonnage has made
tively cheap and was a small percent- g it im racticable for the needed sup -
age of the total car expense. motorists realize. destroy he •preserves saved from the lifeboats of the ill- Works employed more than 15,000 p p
Make sure that you are getting all n Chevalier Marconi,
, workmen and their great shops, cover- plies of timber to be furnished on any
the gasoline you pay for; some own- P to h ing hundreds of acres of ground, were large scale from Canada or the Unit-
ers are not. Watch the counter on connected by a network of nearly 40 ed States, and, as a result, heavy cut -
the pump to see that ft re eters the cars, one driven in traffic and the belongs the credit of saving life all perished from exposure. miles of railroad tracks. Since the -ting has become necessary in the bel-
tin
other in the country. Running on over the world, since to his .great in- But it •is not possible to mention war this plant has been enormously Ifgeront countries. While England is
correct number of gallons, and that low gear, slipping the clutch, and the vention thousands of people owe their even all the most remarkable rescues increased. not generally regarded as a forest
the operator does not tamper with it illing of the motor when sbanding are rescue -from maritime disaster. effected by wireless. There was the Le Creusot owes its importance in country, and has made relatively little
while filling your tank. Further- the causes. Volturno, which caught fire one the manufacturing and foundry Indus-
more,forestry, be certain that you obtain full t With a Short History. thousand miles west of the Irish coast ' Y to the fact that itis in the centre still in England and Scotland a con -
measure; some gasoline pumps leak. of one of thericheet coal and iron min- siderablo amount of timber, mostly on
It is necessary to check the amount in is still short. As recently as 1899 eleven shape want to the ing districts of France. The coal beds royal and private estates. The impera-
your tank by freqeunt measurement. of this region were discovered in the' tive necessity for utilizing this 'tim-
pleasant days of summer g g g g
Or, if this. is not feasible, it is advis- 13th century, but it was not until 500 ber has resulted in the despatch of a
able occasionally to buy a gallon in a had t d Ireland t k b Storstad d years later, in 1774, that the first iron battalion of Canadian woodsmen to
can of your own, and measure the greetings between Canada d Eng works were established. 'Sixty years cut in France and in Russia. In Bel -
quantity when you get home. 462 tater the Schneiders, Adolphe and Eu- gium, the Germans have cut a large
Most cars can be operated with a gene, established their first workshops proportion of the timber and have
leaner mixture without affecting the
The Titanic Disaster.
Traffic should be avoided. There is And this ma is ca i
an astonishing difference between the who invented and perfected thewon-
amount of fuel required by identical derful "wireless" telegraphy . To him
fated' vessel. And it is quite accurate
to say that, but for the wireless call,
most, if not all, of these must have
The history of wireless telegraphy and in answer to the wireless appeal
Warm Weather Battery Hints.no less than
With the messages were first sent from Eng- rescue, saving altogether 521 lives.
comes a tendency for every motor car land to France, while in 1902 the Then, again, when the Empress of
owner to overlook the necessary care "waves" he mastered carriedwas struck by the ors ad a
an
Eng-
land. -
of certain parts of his car which can't
be seen.
One of these parts is the storage But the side of wireless telegraphy
battery, and because of the important with which this article deals is its the modern usages of war have niul
part it plays in starting, lighting and fromthe sea. nothing
ignition, too much emphasis cannot ,, s on recordof"wire-u twat
less being employed by a ship in dis- till the coming day of peace. But
be laid upon its caro, tress occurred on March 3rd, 1899. brief mention may be made of the
During the summer, a storage bet_On this date the R. F. Matthews ran Lositania, when 704 lives were saved.
tory should receive pure distilled into the East Goodwin lightship dur-
water at intervals of a week or ten ing a heavy fog. The weather
days This is necessary because of
condi-
wireless call ended in the saving of
lives.
But the instances are endless. And
here, and the little hamlet formerly usd it in military operations or ship -
production of power; some motorists l power of saving life a tipped them Of this period n thing
may even deem it advisable to run - The first ca e as yet can be written; we m st t
with a very lean adjustment, notwith-
standing a reduction in hill -climbing
ability or speed. The exact adjust-
ment must be determined by trial.
An auxiliary air device which may
be attached to the manifold and op-
erated from the dash should be used.
It will be found helpful when running
with light load, along a smooth level
road, or down hill. When the motor
is used as a brake, the suction on the
carburetor is reduceal to a minimum
by opening the auxiliary air device
wide.
The car shoud run easily. All the
bearings should be well greased and
free. It should be possible to push
the car without difficulty with one
hand on a smooth level surface. The
importance of reducing friction to
the minimum is shown by the fact
that a racing car in good condition gravity mentioned, it will gradually
may be pushed with one finger. run down and refuse to turn over a
The wheels should spin readily, starting motor or operate the electric
which means that the bearings must lights.
be free and the brake banns and By watching these two most import -
shoes must not drag. ant things, any car owner may ex -
When descending long hills, the peel, the very best service from his
car may- be allowed to coast with the storage batteries.
A Fine Record.
tions would, in the old days, have ren- It is no idle boast of the Marconi
the evaporation of the solution which dered the work of rescue very difficult Company that wireless telegraphy has
gives the battery its life. If this.if not impossible. But the R. F. Mat -
solution is allowed to leave a portion thews was equipped with what was A word here as. to the call used—
of the battery plates exposed to the then enovelty—Mareonf's system of S 0 S --is not out of place. "C.Q D,"
air ,these plates will deteriorate and wireless telegraphy. Messages were the original call for danger, was
the life of the battery will be greatly sent ashore, and speedily brought life- adapted from the old "all stations,"
shortened. boats to the rescue. or general, call of line telegraphy.
Another point to consider is the During the next ten years instances But at the first International Wireless
hydrometer best to iiietermine specific are •recorded of wireless aiding ships Congress it was suggested and ap
gravity of the solution. This test in difficulties, but not until 1909 was Proved that a better call was "S 0 813,"
should always average 1,280 and in public interest really roused in this which, by its arrangement of dots and
cases where the car owner does not matter, dashes, is different from any other
want to make the best himself, he call.
can have it made free o£ charge at Called to the Rescue. "S 0 S" has no special meaning. It the transportation of munitions it is
any Williard Service Station. If the On January 23rd, 1909, just is nointended to express "Save our sufficiently iemoved to be well beyond
battery is allowed to go below the years after the case of the R. tenF. souls!"or anything else equally dna- the danger zone. It is 136 miles, in
Matthews, the Florida rammed and matte. This call is an international an airline, south-west of Belfort, a
Al -
sank the great White Star liner the one, and has the same meaning in all fortress of the first class on the
ACROSS THE BORDER
WHAT IS GOING ON OVER 111
THE STATES.
Latest Happenings in Big Itepublle
Condensed for Busy
Readers.
BeaverdaIe, Pa., has a hen Bd years
old, still laying,
The hector, naval collier, sank
nine miles off Charleston lightship.
President Wilson appointed Judge
John II. Clarke to the Supremo Court
Bench.
One man was killed and damage of
$500,000 caused by fire in the New
York State Arsenal, New York.
The Lorain Crystal Ice Company
is furnishing ice free to poor families
needing it for sick children.
An automatic telephone bell scared
burglars from the home of Professor
A. E. Greenhalgh at Hazleton, Pa,
T. B. Thompson, of Huntingdon,
Penn., has a stalk of rhubarb with a
leaf 35 inches long and 3G•inches wide,:
Get rid of the Englieln sparrows by
oiling the street—the birds don't like
to get oil on their feet, a Pennsyl-
vania scientist says.
Girl deposited $3,000 in bank as
guarantee she would marry him, de-
clares man who has sued for money
because she wouldn't.
Mrs, George M. Phelan, of Berlin,
N.H., claims to be the first woman
in New Hampshire to shoot a big
black bear from an automobile.
Read Nichols of Bath, Me., aged
94, had green peas for his dinner a
few days ago, picked from his garden
which he has cared for himself.
known as Charbomeiere, began to
ped it to Germany. At twenty-two, Mrs. Mary Wool -
grow. In 1841 it was a town of 4,000 The result of all this over -cutting aey; of Omaha, is the mother of
people; just before the war there were twill mean a heavy shortage of rim- seven children, six of whom are liv-
35,000 inhabitants, nearly half of ben for reconstruction purposes 'after ing, and the stepmother of seven chi] -
whom were employed in the armor- lite war, when it should be possible 'dren.
plate factories, the gun shops, the to make large shipments from this, William Allen, Cleveland, Ohio,
locomotive works and the ordnance continent. This will mean a largely gardener, was fined $10 and costs for
plants. It was one of the Schneiders increased drain upon Canadian for -tieing a robin to a cherry tree to
incidentally, who revolutionized war- ests, and serves to emphasize the ne- frighten away other birds who sought
ship armament in 1876. Up to that cessity for still more complete con- 1 the fruit
time the most progressive nations used servation of this tremendously vale- The annual economic loss suffered
wrought iron for protective armor on able asset, if Canada is to take full by the United States from typhoid fe-
their ships. Schneider proved the advantage of her opportunities for ver and malaria aggregates $965,837,:
superiority of steel in resisting the world -service in this direction. 639, according to estimates given the
penetration power of projectiles. The greatest enemy of the forest Senate.
is and always has been fire. It has Six hours after she finished a sing -
Well Situated. been estimated that the average an- ing and dancing at a Tipton, Ind.,
is s forest fare loss i this country theatre, Mrs. C. act Davis, a vaude-
is sufficient to pay the interest on the villa actress, gave birth to a baby boy.
recent Dominion loan of 5100,000,000. Robert Bacon, former Secretary of
To reduce this loss, it is necessary State and former Ambassador to
not only to grant larger appropria- France, has been commissioned a
tions for fire -ranging services, but also
to reorganize such services in a num-
ber of cases, with a view of securing
a dollar's worth of protection for
Le Creusot is admirably situated W.
with respect to the French frontier,
for while it is not so far from the fir-
ing line as to occasion undue delay in
OLD-FASHIONED COURTESY.
An Incidernt in the Life of the Late
Lord Strathcona.
It was characteristic that he ad-
hered all his life to old-fashioned
politeness in letter writing. He long
shrank from the use of an amanuen-
sis or a typewriter as being a breach
of courtesy. IIe patterned the open-
ings and subscriptions of his letters
on the old Hudson's Bay model. Even
the longest or most official letter he'.
persisted in writing by hand at en al-
most incredible cost of time and pa-
tience. On one occasion, which Mr.
Becltles Willson notes in his "Life of resources to Canada. The volume is
Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal,"fa report of the proceedings of a con -
at least considerable physical suffer- i Terence of the Committee on Fisher-
ing was involved. He had had the les, Game and Fur -bearing Animals of
misfortune while in Scotland to frac- the Commission, and contains a fund
ture one of the bones of his right' of information regarding the present
wrist. IIis arm was put in splints, i condition and the necessity for pro -
and while chafing under the restraint 1 tection of Canada's fish, birds and
be seized the occasion to make a voy-1 mammals.
age to Canada by the way of New! Canada is taking a prominent part
York. In transit his arm became in the international movement for the
worse, the inflammation spread, and I protection of wild life. A Migratory
he became unable to leave his berth. I Bird Treaty between. Canada and the
On arriving at New York he was met United States is under consideration.
by Sir William Van Horne, who found Through the influence of the Commis-
Iiim in a very feverish and distressed sion of Conservation and other inter-
state. Nevertheless, he insisted on sts, bird reservations are being creat-
ed, where the birds may find safe
nesting and breeding places.
The fur -bearing animals of North-
ern and Western Canada are being
Republic, off the Nantucket Lightship,
some thirty miles from the American
coast.
The story of the loss of the Repub-
lic is the story of the pluck of Jack
Binns, the wireless operator. Binns
guages• saes front, and is 175 miles south of
Another aid in saving life, allied to Verdun. If an invading army should
wireless telegraphy, is the direction- succeed in'passing either of these bul-
finder. By switching on this 'simple warks there would still be Dijon, with
apparatus, the operator can indicate its eight detached forts, guarding the
on a compass the angle from which approach 50 miles to the north-east.
at once began to send out the urgent a call comes so accurately that the Paris Iies to the north-west, 236 miles
call for help, "C n D." Through the
vessel can be steered by it, As he distant by rail.
Q writer been forced to practice of writingrt from own g rsbe turns his indicator round the points Supplementing its railway connec-
hisboundless the magic letters sped,
lifelong g ingrecorded byevery wireless roomy- of. the compass the equnds wax strong- tions, Ln Creusot enjoys the trans -
letters and apologizing for doing so, er and stronger the. nearer hegets to
«er for hundreds of miles. And in an- portatnon facilities of the Canoe du
And in every case," concludes the
narrator of the anecdote, "the post- swer ships changed their courses and.
script was longer than the body of the hurried to the scene of the disaster.
letter." Sixty miles away was the Baltic,
separated from the sinking liner, with
FISH, BIRDS AND GAME. its two thousand human souls, by a
dense fog. And from half -past seven
in the znogning till half -past six at
Special Bulletin From the Commission night the Baltic scoured the surface
of Conservation, Ottawa. of the ocean on its errand of mercy.
A report just issued by the Com- All through the long hours Binns sat
mission of Conservation, "Conserve- at his instrument sending out.mess-
tion of Fish, Birds and Game," directs ages and directions to the ship coming
attention to the great value of these to the aid of the Republic:
accompanying his friend immediately
to Montreal, where he was induced to
put himself in the care of a surgeon.
What preyed 'upon his mind most was
that he had a number of letters to
After a Day's Search.
And then, in the evening, after a
day of zigzagging 200 miles on the
ocean, the Republic sent the welcome
word to the Baltic that they were, war to Great Britain has increased
close together. The look -outs on the from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000, the
ships could see nothing, but the wire- ! financial editor of the London Morn -
less operators knew. And so the pass- ing Post predicts that if the war con-
engers on the Republic were saved byltinues to the end of the year, at the
means of wireless telegraphy. new estimate Great Britain will have
to raise in loans the enormous sum of
$5,180,000,000, adding:
"These are stupendous figures, but
—and while by no means overlooking
second lieutenant in the Twelfth New
York Infantry.
Patrolmen Martell and Mahoney and
Building Inspector Corcoran of An -
every dollar spent. It has been stated Sonia, Conn., claim to have seen a par -
on competent authority that at pre- rot which manicured its nails with a
sent more money is wasted on forest Pennknife.
fire Protection, for lack of proper August Renquist is still a harvester
supervision, than is expended ad- at 60 years. Although he owns a 160-
vantageously. acre Missouri farm, he is working in
The importance of the forest in the the wheat fields at Salina, Kan., for
internal economy of Canada is shown 54 a day.
by the fact that the average total And man who is reminded of a
value of forest products of Canada is drink will want one, Secretary
in the neighborhood of $180,000,000, Daniels believes. That's why there
e correct degree. Centre, five miles to the east. This or an average wealth production of are to be no more cut glass wine ser -
Nowadays the Atlantic is peppered waterway joins the Saone and Loire. about 525 per head of population. vices in the United States Navy.
with vessels carrying wireless, over The former, rising to the north in the
Nearly $8,000,000 in direct revenue The American Field Ambulance,
two thousands ships being equipped. Faucilles mountains a few miles be- is' received annually by the federal which now has 150 ears in service,
And as the number of these increases low Epinal, flows south and mingles and provincial governments from the 1'has been made an independent unit
Marcoeni has robbed the ocean of much Theeril of the sea grows, less. s waters Loire, thewth the t river
Rhone in Lyon. tic] owed timbeor lease of r cuttinrg
and ofrom 1 a separated
atfrom the Neuilly, Flamm.ulance
so Loire, longestt-river Prance; y organization
of its terror;Old Neptune is slowly rises to the south and flows north- royalty and stumpage payments mala Hay fever report estimates there
being muzzled. west into the Atlantic. upon timber so cut. Some . 6,00E aro 25,000 sneezers in New York who
sneeze seventy-three times a day for
This 15 not the first war in which wood -using industries in Canada are
the Schneider works of Le Creusot i open en upon the supply of
timber
have played an important part in fur- cut from non-agricultural
nishing France with arms. During lands.
the conflict of the Crimea and the The importance of preventing the
Franco-German war of 1870; the Tac- continued destruction of this great re -
tortes produced enormous quantities source can scarcely be over=omplia-
of munitions. sized.—C.L. in Conservation.
While Le Creusot has practically no
historical association of its own, it is Moon as Weather Forecaster.
only a few miles .south-east of Putin, fortune to meet, let us strive to meet
directly dependent t 1 forty-two days each year—a grand
WAR MONEY IS CIRCULATED. total of 76,650,000 sneezes a year.
But a London Financial Expert Fears
Inflation.
Commenting upon Chancellor of the
Exchequer McKenna's statement in
Parliament that the daily cost of the
Only a few years ago such a disas-
ter as that of the Republic could not
have had so satisfactory an ending..
Doubtless some of the passengers
would have been rescued by the ship's the serious position they represent --
boats, but exposure to the January ' they must not be regarded as so much
weather must have levied a heavy toll capital entirely ' lost, because,. quite
even on those. Instead, every man,' apart from the eat Wit to which the
woman, and child was safely brought figures are affected by advances of
to land. some hundredsof millions to our al -
rapidly exterminated. This is clearly This splendid rescue brought the use lies, much of the expenditure may be
answer.shown by the present report. To se- of wireless for saving life well before, said to simply represent the cirduia-
"But," urged his friend, "you can cure their more adequate protection, the world. Shipowners at once began tion and distribution of capital
employ an amanuensis:" the Commission is advocating the to see the necessft f h h
"I've never done such a thing," amendment of the North-west Game
Lord Strathcona declared emphatical- Act to place responsibility for its ad-
ly. "It would give great offence I ministration upon the Dominion
assure you, I have always written Parks Branch, which already protects
my letters myself, .and I must do so the animals in the Dominion National
KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE.
Pick Out the Gleam of Light From
Dark Paths.
Since we all have more or less mis-
the famous Augustodunum of the Ro- The moon plays an important part it in the right way. Why sit down and
mans, celebrated for its famous in sign telling., All kinds of weather bewail the 111 luck that is ours? Why
schools. The 62 towers and most of hang on the changes of the moon. As turn our sorrow over and over again
the old walls have disappeared, and a matter of fact, you and I rather in our minds, seeing in it ever new
the town now occupies only about half like to see the new moon over the phases of misfortune? Nol Let us
right shoulder. To be suro, we have stand up beneath its weight, no matter
how heavy the load may seem, and,
with our eyes fixed on the glimmer of
light, let us .valk swiftly out of the
dark paths into the sunlight,
Once we have learned to walk on
the sunny side of life, darkness will
have no further terrors for us, for WO
will carry our sunshine around with us
in the depths of our hearts. The sun-
ant, A circle about the moon means shine of the mind is far warmer and
a storm approaching. The number of brighter than the sunshiino which the
stars within the circle tells the num- see and feel with our physical senses.
her of clays which will elapse before Once wo have gained the true sense
the storm begins. Farmers tell about of real mental eunshiae wo will have
planting corn in the old of the moon. the means to pull ourselves out of
every slough of despond without any
outside aid. For just as Bunyan's
"Pilgrim's Progress" Was mental, so
it is with all of our journeys through
life. What we really accomplish must
fret be worked out in mind,
Learning to pick out the gleam of
light from the dark path, learning
how to avoid the sloughs of despond
and how to walk in the sunshine is
not easy, but even the attempt at
learning these lessons brings its re-
ward Of happiness and pence. Every
little effort in the right direction
brings such beautiful returns that the
only wonder is that so few of us make
the effort.
the area of itt most prosperous days.
It was here that the Christian martyr,
St. Symphorien, was put to death in
179. This too, was the scene of St.
Leger's sacrifice, he who as the Bishop
of Autun led the nobles in revolt moon to determine if the month is to
against the tyrant Ebroin, Frankish bo wet or dry. The Indians used to
"Mayor of the Palace." When the say that if you could hang a powder
city was besieged in 678 and its fall horn on the curve of the new moon
was seen to be inevitable Leger, then the month would be generally pleas-
calIed_ Leodeger, surrendered himself
to his implaccable enemy in order that
the wrath of the conqueror might be
y or awing t err throughout the country. It is, in fact,
vessels fitted with it. Marconi had to the possibilities of inflation visited solely upon him rather than
creat- upon tho whole community. Untouch-
fully proved his right to the honor of ed by this rapidly accumulating debit, ed by -the valor of such a sacrifice, Eb-
saving life: to say nothing of the more difficult roin ordered his followers to put out
The following year after the saving the Bishop's eyes, subject him to pro -
problem represented by payments to
of the Republic, wireless telegraphy neutral countries, that we should siva longed torture and finally behead him
was put to still another use. In the heed.
no faith in the baleful influence of this
sign, Still, it is just as well to be
cautious about offending her ladyship.
Farmers study the shape of the new
now,"
But after conaiderable argument he
consented to' try the experiment.
"At least I must sigh the letters"
Parks.
The future of the fisheries of Can
ada is dealt with in an able manner
by the highest authorities in this
autumn of that year an American in- special "So vast are the ramifications of Single Women Lack Food.
yenta. named Wellman set out in his all the r The London Mornin Post u
dirigible balloon, patriotically called' problems incidental to. financ- g quotes a
was his stipulation. "Put the pen be- country. That they are of great pre the America, to cross the Atlantic. In ing this greatest war In history that Danish statement to the effect that a
sent value is .eco theory the idea was good; in practice only by the appointment of a war g. eat number of German Bingle wo-
ttveen any fingers, and, although it gnus but there is finance council tofu o man have arrived in Denmark seeking
wiil perhaps be'a little difficult and also a potential value in our oceanic it went wrong. Presently Wellmann P sod of the boat employment. Accordin to the state -
financial to+
painful, I must certainly sign the let- and inland waters which, upon 'de_ and his hand of devoted helpers found, financial and business exports. in the g h, a
pais themselves driftm went,: the women say that it is nearly
impossible for women, except mothers
with children, to get food in Ger-
many.
Vindictive.
"Did you ever moo a woman - that
was tongue-tied?"
"No, but I've seen lots of thein
that ought to be."
.i,
The'wiee girl fears a man far more
than she does a raceme,.
Be sure you are right—then pause
a moment for reflection.
Myself. velopment, would mean the creation g aimlessly about
So the totters were dictated, and of new industries. To meet this con -over the wide Atlantic, with apparent-'
, when the sheets were brought to him clition, the Commission is suggesting ly little hope of rescue. But the wire-
less operator with the balloon eirc-
ceedod in calling aid to the stricken
airship.
the invalid begged to be left alone to
consider them and affix his signature.
A pen wee fastened between two of
his disengaged fingers and a bottle' of
Mk placed on the table,
Whoa, a couple of hours later, the
pecretnry entered to dispatch the cor-
i• espondence,. he fond that to every
letter Lord Strathcona, had added a
ostserfpt, scrawled slowly and pain- The fewer scruples a ma '
ally, explaining how and Why the more drams he, takes. n tias the
vocational training and simple demon-
stration stations for the fishermen,
that they may take advantage of the
most practical and modern methods of
their tailing.
The report is replete With illustra-
tions applicable to the subject mat-
ter,
Wreck of the Delhi.
This was 000 of the first cures
where two of the marvels of the age
--wireless telegraphy and airships
dame into dented,. Since then wire-
less telegraphy has been adapted to
all sorts and sizes of aircraft.
Perhaps the next notable ease of
country can our resources be mobi-
lized and organized to the fullest
possible advantage, both during and
after the o'er."
The reason a married man wears
such shabby clothes may be that kis
wife wearsbetter ones.
Though the Canadian National Ex-
hibition only dates back to 1879, the
first Exhibition, from which the C.N.
1 , grew, was established in Toronto.
in 1846.
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As early as 1882 a State deputation
from Ohio visited the Canadian Na-
tioual Exhibition looking for pointers
and they have bean corning from vari-
ous Statts evermince, many of the
United States fens being modelled
along Toronto'linev,,