HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1922-4-13, Page 7THE FUGITIVE 1
4Will Pugh
"IgsnY csearies?" aeitt the eid 0N.
warder. No, not a malor'•—in MY
t no Hat 1 xemembee one And he
azed with nuoitng eYee into the Me,
'illY sort of eenntrY,. '1 411 th(ial
moors,Tho groat ,furro alla the
Yokere'. rochs like snagated heeti.
nci yet people—people, of high claee
from Lennon and I know nOt where,
want to come and &tar; there in the
nonorgione. Right:hi the ehm.10.17 (d
ho prisen walls -of the Cale they
wantto come. And build little Mange-
lOWs and .such -like. And liVe in gypey
Caravans and tents, Andloll abotit
and Paint pictures and the pest of it.
Counso, I tun speaking of ae good few
Yemes age, afire motors .was. thought
of aed afore theintle Mae as used tO
call theireelVes "hotele" really. got tobo boths,:
There, were one woman, ' Nobody
neticerlher muell at first. She were
Juet one of a crowd, and they all seeM,
•ed very -much . alike.. 'Bet Presently
- She got to be knowel, ices on a -el -111M
habit of- herea
' She kept one of ,thein bungalows,
and after a ha': she built a stable along-
side at it. ,Andepreeently, there Was a
hereeja the stable, and it were a pro -
Per horse tab,a girt leggy: stallion,
Mack as your hat, with a long tail and
=mane' as -flowed in the_wind.fike girt
faits, , ...Andshe used -te, ride' the, big
ugly thing. •It was riding! No -finick-
ing along th'e open ways, picking out
the clean bits, but,a- mad gallon 'any-
wheres, up and down the pities 'of the
tors and over :the dipseaod hollows,
the goes' and the bramble, as R she
and the horse were one and both on
'em crazy. ' ' ' •-• ,- .
Not often did she alacken,dowa: till
.she„ were nearing home,, but some-,
times she, did -pull aro that big brute -
to a Staedstill, and alWays on a little
'esteep hill as overlooked the pirson-
I marked that ,after!'i time. We
all marked that Theta .slie" wet& sit
agen the .sicylinel,like a black marble
ngtire on a .black marbreanimile, still
as if they .wasa graven imageg-tilI
they turned, and' then be would wave
ber hand,
WO,einaldn't Make out for the life Of
.
as wholt were she waved to. •-• And w,e,
deveredid find, otit before 'twere too
late. • - Burt naturally we got to sus-
. Nolan her,. (1U we \hatched her,: her
comings :and goings, her little doings
, and what -riot; Only she got. no reg'dar
habits, -Morn, noon, and eve, it were
all the same .to she: Sonaelimeg we'd:
see her at sunrise, sometimes, in the
noontide glare, sometimes in the mists,.
of twilight:, .And some ..taid, and 1
, were one of 'eni, thatat night she used
to come and- sit there. in tlie inegio-
ahine, so stiff she might ha' • been
'wrought of the rocks theirselves. And
Some said, Rudd were one: on 'em, that,
they heard .the thrash , of the horse's
heofe on -the hard stones-, and 'believed
as _she passed closeby in file bitter
...darkness. of. tlae!.fore-dawn. '
so it went On for Maybe; three
o.r lunar months. -And than the sum -
come to an end, and all them
other gadabouts . were packing up for,
Lanham We lwatehed to see i(1. she
likeivise were packing' up. - And she
...were. , Th& best, of her belongings
went Leek to town in trunk -loads, in
wagoulowis.' Then the horse he went.
Ad then she grent.
, .
And 'everybody said that' everybodY.
,
else were a fool, and that she were liP
to no more miSchief than, the rest of
- , And after that we sort of half for-
got about the. . •
. . . . . ,
.' 'rhea; one night it were in October;
1 remind me, there pomp dorm one
•cf, them there white fogs as be like to
'the darkness of Ilgy,pt—a darkness
that could' be fe1t-7suoh is common in
them parts. And it dome' down so'
,suddon as if the.heavens. had browned.
Thegnen were all in tha. quarries, but
afore We goithl round 'em Up and put
'pm tinder guard two or three en 'em
'slipped away into the fog. We were
'took se by surprise,. Wye see. How-
somever, "We got 'em afore they stray-
ed far, and marched 'ean back, And
-
then 1 sneddenlyr found out as One on
,,em were still missing. Hard' 'twere
At ffett to make out which 'twere. But
we had the bolla 'a -ringing and .tho
mos a -booming to a fine toan, 1(10
e11 ye.
'And at last we faiand out that it
..1
est be Yanson as tad done us. Now
Yttn.son were a chap as we all liked
nd pitied, ISa were in formanslaugli-
er, temyear, and our view,on aheemat-
ter were as ft served the; scoondrel
right' as he lied killed, And again he
were so quiet and kindly 'and give no
trouble at all. You couldn't a -help be-
ing song far Yailson. -•* • "-
Duty, howserneyer„ be duty. And it.
were our duty to cotele ii5in. ,Else we'd
know the reason why. SO, we, saddled
horse, and away, Scouring all the, cOun-
Lryside; But though timni dernb
creatures know'd the paths about them
moors sable as -if they:had been cats
te gee in the dark, we had to"go slow.
Each on us on his own lonesome, all
their Several ways.
I'm/file raY Way towards thatmthieire
: ,aleW ;where the woinane .
ite
)1.
t
1' g. o bide in the sun/me/time..
silY. '''vent t1 -1a- tewrea,4;n
,An.ye,0\v1-
,
MUld .i.gg\ii-t,t.iill'3'e.51.7aft,er a
RI 'all
A. 'II 'patch, of iirIgh.,-
gthere be a fire
a single
me, hat ,a
ti
I
onorrielee littiopoued ae be elgays hap -
petting -on 'them moots, A fetid breeze
eermig up, and quick ea YOlt 001110
wink the fog Were gone, A elieerieg,
daunting moon its looked too if she'd
done it all were gaily raelme across tbe
fail.'bine sky and turning tho moor to
51 ehequer-board of white gleame and
it e
blachadowe,
And there, right ahead of me, wove
the little bungalow mai the stable bard
bY, plain as a pike -stele. And there
were what 1 thonaht to be a blaze of
eve, but ovhlell was PO mora nan a
_row of candles los the winder. IloaThr
Veacon it wm
were, foe to guide hi, Yail"
San., I urged my mai.; on, but the fedi
had bum. her bellera Sol; abjt ana
des -iia canter ceuld I get out on her,
let alone a gallop," Still, 1 know'd as
YenSen couldn't, get Very far in his
convict -kit, and I gueseed, aidI guess-
ed right, as no was a changing of his
elothee,'getting /Id of his irons,' in that
there bungalow. And she' ilielping
egthim, no doubt. ' •
Now the ground were sosnaPPY
thereabout- that, you couldn't hear
eothen bet the ringing o' the bells
'and the botiniing 0 the guns.
• So he it were not. until he 'be got
near'fifty yards away as I hoard him.
Then I see'd.lum 1 lead long ago
Juloused as the big black stallion were
not for her, and now—there he was
astride -of itrstrealting across the open.
/neer like the shadow of a big bird
YoickS, but I were after Iiim! He'd
got 00 a big black ciocloakaed a big
;black hre
at, but Itao'd 'him by -the
,elean-shaved bable of his head aad
neck showing 'a pale hue 'twiect • the
hat -brim aud the o' the cloak.
"Coons. Orme then,' Cherry," I Says in
the mare's. ear. "You harn't got the
pace on 11110, but you'are got the hang.
BY Which; I' mean to say, gentlemen
all, that she Was not so • fast as the
stallion but was more like' to last
•
Ay, -,twere a starn "chase, as the
sailormen ,say. At flrst my mare lost
s9 much ground I thetight as, We'd
loae. sight o' the , stallion altogether
afore very long. But sure, arid sure
TO Cherry she got her wind back, and
then she began to gather ter, foui legs
under her and jest by like the, wind.
In a sudden burst o' Speed she gained'
on ',un. And then she fell away again.
"Steady, lass, Steady:" f say.s to she.
" 'Tis a long ,rowand it hard row as
We ha' 'gotten, afore es. 'Ay, hut -we'll
win out at the finish, sure -3y."
And' so it went on. A hard, roUgh.
,ride on a hard, rOngli course. And
what with the black shadows ae look
-
ed deep as the Pita:rid as hard as the'
walls of the prison itself, and what
with 'theta white patches, as looked
like glazed granite and were jest pea
muck that you wallowed' in up to icier
haionehes-Lithl itWers creed hard ridl
'hog, and dangerous too. Once down,
and she'd broke her back and me
neck; for sure. It were 'go hard, hold
hard, every inch. And then, jest iu,
sight always., theugh times-- I could
hardli make 'un out, wale-the:stallion
,and poor Yansen, with terror behind
'un, death' all fa:Mud 'un, and the jail
'Mere 'en.all the way. .
Mile cm mile We rode that gait and
now it were jest steady- riding, 'hOs
we kuow'd as the horse as lasted the
longest, and not the horse as -went the.
fastest, would win that.there race.
Houle we went on, ,jt were seonano
more than jogging. • 'And the moon
Went:down -and it grew dark agen,
jest as I'd feared, 'and 1 hist sight of
the stallion. ;Bet the mare lad got
the wind Of himgenici Iejest let her to
blind, And presently it' warn't so
dark. Presently 'there be. a lens, loW
slit of white light in thee sky, and I
tee'd that big black trate' agen, and
Yanson a.waving in his saddle ,for all
as if he:were nigh dead beat. '
They beant more' than fifty lengths -
ahead by then, nesi. both on us 'crawl-
ing eking at a • /dithering' walk as 11
oer two- horses. had gotten Chilblains.
And I onto -with my mist& and shoutS;
• .
' "Stop, there, or I fire!"
And at that he eWung round on his
Saddle and • fires point-blank at me
Willi his own weapon, r heard the bub
let sing past my ear. , -
But that •cvas_hie last. bing. For as
he tried' to, ride on agen the stallion
went down and he MII•on his knees.
1, got Oft nay mare and ren towards
rum He had gotten up,- was aretand-
,ing there, straight' and sraff.. , '
„Unice, Of a sudden, he Whips off his
hat. 1 see'd a sort a powder•bug fall
off his head; you know thg .esTt 0'
thing them .there --what is i
r
ots wear; And he 'bows. as be 'clicks
bit heels together, and 4Good morn -
log!" says he. ,.
. And It beant in a man's voice he
speaks.' And no more were ne a lean,
•neether, but Slie—the woman o' that
therelungalow. Her hair fell in long
Iileclacurls about her shouldert as she
stood and .smiled at me.
"Well," said the old ex -warder, ''it
was aiding and abetting, g coarse,
And I ought to ha' had the laW on her,
apacially as ,Yanson, as were her
sweetheart, gal clean //Way. But I
hadn't—no, I hadn't the het- for' to
do it. She be gehli a bonny- Wench.
"Ansi It all got tided over, ecahe-
wags, 'And thee them Over° talk of
King's Clerncy, aud dunno what -all.
.
But thie 5 do know," Said the old
ex -warder, " 'tie the only thne as
neves- cared -as 5 were praperly Put
upon,"
Trees About Prairie Schools,
A short time, ago very few school
strtete in the Prairie Provinces
anted trees about the school -house,
On the get three yeara the mom
her Ilea been steadily inaregaillghTilie
'year in Saskatchewan alone"1.50'Selgeol
diet/gets will plant trees, Tho /mati-
nee' trees are obtained front the DO-
nil/Wien Palest Nursery Station at r„,
dfan Head, Seek,
We were Made to 'eaditito the nor'
fume of good cheer and happiness as
math as a rose Was made to radiate
Its Sivii'elneSS, to every paSeee by.
Women in China neVer hiss, anti
when a Chine.se woinsm wisho.s to
show her affeellon she gently
fire and we di
"IfOinese,
tilioriped up Im
tAn 'out of the
mere seride
she come
and
0 'tree. It ware that
eetaaii.. sill thst big ugly stalilon o'
Js fitteli and they'd gone. My mare
Elk; were aplunging end a, ticldng
siort She'd snapped a,strap peone
ray', end filtenrise slipped her bit end
Teolt mis yoare---seetned years,
tit likely Were only a minute or so
to got her right and up /igen, •
I'd hardly got -across her, as ;YOU,
ev PP,", 0-o 0' '
MOpr.)
• •41,L,_,_
GOOD FOR DUCKS
. .
LOW,' the rale had been cleseeading, and.the town was Ilka
a lake, end the wails of neopiee blending; made the 16.01,915 Welkin
Willi:O.' -And when meighliore got. together they Pursued tho
moa game, and they all degouneed the weather as a bald and
mastig shame, Bet to -day 1, met a gaffer whe hae comfort of hie
awe; he's, a sort of clgeinie laugher who is never heard te groan.
"Yes,"' he. eeid, "the weather's Saepy, arid the tireless 'torrents
pour, -bis( the little (lecke are, happy ae they novel, w.ere, before.
And I think we should not quarrel' with the weather, thoegh it's
wet, fore the:clucks are.highly moral and deserVe the goad they
get With your groand and bellygyeeinge you dis,turb the Public
1e5100; yet I deabt'tf humatt beings covet for more than (lecke
.arod geese. Ducks are foird of moistened water end they like
to swim and &lye, and on, 'droughty stays they ,totter, scarcely
more thee half alive. They me glad -whet-Craigis drununing on
the wo'ods', and creeks ere wet, but they take whatevy'e coming,
head they quack DO vain regret. When the sun again Is ehleing,
and your life /means .sdick as grease, You will.licar no loud ropier
inggrom the grand old ducks and geese. There is weather for
the gander, there Is weather Lor the hen, and man Should eon-
trol his dander if -the rain, starts in again."
I "22 t
DELVING INTO THE
WORLD'S SECRETS
HARDSHIPS OF EXPLOR
ER'S LIFE
Conekor table Incednes Bajoye
by Numerous Adventurers
Are ;in • All Cases Hard -
Earned Money.
The sad termination- to Sir Ernes
Shackleten's cruise in the Qmast ha
re/mut-public interest in the (mettle/
oe exploit bOD,
'Toes it pay?" is the first thofigh
whieh, cantos to the average mind,
ttihoeTn:enia!noT677M611.Sthfil-fli*e'ewniiiluesht rtimieliczten;efi'liT's'a
has given to the Prefeselon of explore
It has Indeed doubled, or more thin
doubled, the prefits at one.swoop,
cause _for eyery one person who will
pay Money.to hear an explorer lecture
a deem ovill 'buy seat i to 5e0 Stioli
pietnrea arrexpedition Would bring
back from the Antaretic.
;Besides that, films can be multiplied.
to an)' extent, and shall all 0701' the
world et the same time, , •
. Asked what, explorers were at work
at present, moet people, would at onoe
'Merution the men in 'the Queat, and a
'fen, inight realm/0er Aniundson and
.lila daring and almost solitary dip into
tke heart of Arctic i„Ce,
--
expeditions were enormously expen-
sive, foe he, alvrays had an armY of
carriers and nativea, At ono time he
had as many ab sevenluedred men.
_But he was financed. by the news-
papers for which he worked. e Not only
was he paid for his vvorlt by these
papers, but lois books had an ihnnense
"How 1 round Diehigge,one," beat all
coasting teeords for a book rit its type,
e and t'In Darkest 4frica" ditialmOst as
d well, '
His lecturing tour brought him al-
most mare than his books, During
..his lecturing tom In 1885 he is said -to
have cleared about seventy-five thous-'
and dollars. '
t .1s.lt Worth the Risk? a
5 • Another great African exploreirwas'
Sir Richard Burton, who, though ig-
nored,by the public for Mug years,in
t the end rose to fame ands a knight-
hood. His hookS are still sold all over'
t • the world. .
eAlnicst the best-known of living e.v
- „planers is DieNaneen. Hia faille dates
.1 from. the year 1888 when, in company
erWith,-; three LaPps, he walked right
- &aims the • gigantic ice -gap
covers Greenland. His attempt to
reach the•lercirth- Pole in the Pram, be-
gan in 1093. He hitched hie ship to an
iee-floe, and started to drift acrosa the
Polar Sea to, Greenland.
Another well-known man may. be
'said' tb have made' MS- name and:poli-
tico in the first place by exploration
work: This le Sit Harry Johnston,
who became knoWn. -tigethe public
through his pltieky attempt to ascend
that giant East African volcano. called s
' TO, •
It is plain, than, that exploration has !t
its,prizes, and there are plenty of men
who are living at home on coniforte.ble
incomes inade,by the silseovery.,Of a
new tin, or oil, et...gold field. Quito re.
cently an oil -field diseovered in. North,
'ern South' alinericalircinght sin -der
a fortune of over $250,000.
"
Growing • COM . for Ensilage.
Corn has' ,chone to occupy a large
place a:Meng the field erMianf Canada,
mare particularly in the province of
Ontario,. where about thirteen million
busbeis are grown annually. In ad-.
dition tO the crop far grain, Careada
Produces six naillion tons of eons for
*Silage. Of this about four and a
halt million tons are Produced in On-
tarloge It is estimated' . by Dr. J. H.
Grisdale.Deputy Minister of Agricul-
thee far danada,.that this forage mem
is housed in about forty thousand
silos. In the March -April lioniber of
The Agricultural Gazette Dr. "Grisdale
has issued a statement cavering the
•biatork, prod/MG:0m and :utilization Of
corn in agricultural practice. in Cana-
da. In this the advaletagee of corn
grooving are enuineraterla
. •
,1. It is an. exceedingly Cheap feed'
sihce, ,ovea' a period- of 20 Years, costs,
have run from 5,1.50 to, Kee poi ton
when. labor 'and supplies were angst
expensive. ,
2. Large returns per acre. The aver-
age crop in this period' of time has I
been equal to about 5 itona, of elOver
hey per acre,
3. testa crop on which to apply
manure. "
4. Best crop to nee when bmaking
up a sod. field, ,
5. Bast crop fon cleaning- land,
6. Ilasleat crop to^ harvest as hi
we.ather co,aclitions.. •
7, The crop meat cheaply housed.
8. The crop -mast eadily handled in
.reapc.iii.3nt•st. erep. for suipleinetting dry
11"10t1.11Bees4 • crep to, help induce cattle
•
o consume coarse and peer roughage:
. Cheapest anti best succulent
ood that can be grown in the province
of- Ontario and Quebec. g
12. The crop that, permits Of the
Always at Work,
Here and there. you might' come
acroes an individual, who had heard
of Colonel .Faorcett, ovlioc by the by, is
just backefrom -the -depths of the •ung
known forests at the back df Brazil.
There Is ale° the Mount-Ilverest Dx-
pedition, but this has, retarned, „and
will not start again for 'same months.
'Beyond these, there an not seem to
be niany explorers before the publte-
egeg, Yet, for all .that, there :are al-
waya scoree of explorers at work, 'Von
find them in the heart nf NeW
Oulnea, the delta, of the Amason, tho
;little-known:places of Africa, and the
,thbhelands, of.Tibet. '
Most of them are men.whose names
are absolutely unknoWn to the public,
yet eaoh le an expert la his particular'
line, and many spepd their whole. lives
deelving. into the blank spaces on elle
map. ,
They do \not lecture; they de not
,;1-"ItO for Papers; they do not even re:
Pert to the 'Royal Geographical Socie-
ty. In feet, they do not court pub-
licity of any ltind. ror them explora-
tion is the, business of their lives.
, But it is always exploration wite
deenite object. Some age gield na-
turalists, iota' go out into the wild
far the purpose of -searching for rare
plants, such as 'Orchids. These are
ffeend in the most deadly tropical
.swerepi, 'and ether rare plants come
from- the wild mountains ef Northern
India and Southern China. , Others •
for mare inseets or birds:
Then there are 'the collectors of
wild beasts. ..The. Zoological Gardens
and menageries. of the world sire sup-
plied by these men, Oho run the most
appalling risks in the ordinary counse
of their Misinesst The capture of such
animals a,s full-grown leopards, or.the
great apes, is not the siert of purshit
favored, by life insurance companies.
Paying the Extreme Penalty..
A third=class consists of the pros-
pector in Search of minerals, ar of oil.
There ia hardlY °Meer any eon- t
tthient ,into Which lie does net pene-
trate.. Some of theee men, are mining
experts; the majority are' quite, self -
l•flpxyao the Robins
to Nest
In is Bird -Lore eensus, taken Mt
leng' ago, it wee cetimatcd'that the
robin was the most menerous AMor -
Can bird5 the leallee SpiirroW coMibg
next. The robin, one form or an-
other, nests practically .all over the
.continent of North America, and the
bird .55 ono of -the meet, felergily that
we have. The Reef, WOrdsovorth once
referred to the liloglieh robin as
"I-Ionest Rohin, who loves mankind
both alive and
and the words might apply 'Squally to
the Arnmican robin, f or the 14rd loves
go nest not only In our gardens burio
(our cemeteries and upon our veey
Often a rebin will select COrnSr of
the porch, a meals under the eaves, or
oven go inside of the building itself,
Recoatly ono is reported to hare
fleVIM in at the open window of a
church dozing service and to have be-
gun to hund his nest on .ti cornice just
over the, pulpit. The window was left
partly .open from that time on and
the family of young robins was suc-
cessfully reared in this admirable
sunetuary.
The nesting robins may beeessieted
by providing nesting sites; a shelf up
under the eaves, will 'often tempt them
er a sheltered platform seb on the
limb. of a tree. If thege is a trellis in
the garden on which a rambler rose-
bush or heneyeuclele climbs, one of
these sheltered shelves set at the tOp
of it forms an admirable .6,1,6 for a
robin's nest. One can as-sist also°14
/luting ant nesting' material. In the
case of the „robin the first requisite
is mud—good, plain, old-fashioned,
black stick' mud, feu: the robin rnakeks
the foundation of his nest. invariably
of :this. In sandy countries' and dry
weiitlier the birds eften have consid-
erable difficulty in getting' mud fOr
their foundation. In one of her books
Olive Thorne Moller telds. of erobin
fleet wei Igh• foathers. then -rolled
the dust and went to the nestins`s" sit
miere he ineked the resultent, mud
from his plumage enclosed it foe the
fclundation of his nest.
Most of -us nowadays have a bird
bath in the yard. and ...it is an easy
thing to put a dish of clay dr leanly
soil heside ethis kind moisten it, to the
right consistency, The robin will tome
and take it by the mouthful—poor
chap, he has no other means of getting
it—end begin the rest, perhaps en,
the perch but More likely on the -near-
by „shade treee Usually the mud is
boilt up Eke a thallew cup and then
soft gra,sses—driecl grasset,of the pre-
vious year's growth --are embedded in
it and skilfplly.,built 'around until the
coigne/et! structure is mud below but
softly lined, and built up „with these
grasses. From that tirno until the
eggs are hatched the less human over-
ight and Interference the bettet, al
bough the brooding mother bird ovi
in very fearless as the proeess of in
A !tell- A t
o oiste,
While riding one day with a neigh
bur 41S Oat WO We're to/dextrin/At
enough to l'on into a land hole, Th
rear whoele, oven with the chairia on,
abeolutely refused to take hold, either
going 'ahead oe bad/. Seerned to
me at first that wegwere in te stay
but I fund that My friend was pie_
pared f or juzt sueli emergency. He
produced from the tool box two pieces
oi trunk rope about ten feet long
two wogien etakee about %eighteen
Inches Jong end a three -pound sledge.
I, wondered just what was "coming
off," but I eoon learned. He drove a
stake behind each rear wheel 'where
the ground was solid. A rape WaS
ellen tied to each "stake, elose to the
tgor"anIt'poll'uten. ult11)dyel..f litendhuis'taarntedd thicids
engine, threw it into revmse end the
car easily: baelted itself out of the
mud hole.;
It ie worth any auteist'a while, espe-
cially when travelling on.. counta'Y
roade, be ndd , these inexpensive
articles tof.„his equipment. ,
Make Sure Spring dips.' Are Drawn
UP Tight.
e,
la any Proof be reOuired of the ne-
cessity of keeping .spring elips tight
it may be feend in the. fact that
neither dealers nor manufacturers
replace a spring 'that -is broken'
through the centre bolt hole—the
place where most springeggive way,
obeerves a contributor to "The Am-
micao' Motorist," ;who, goes mete say:
"Breakage, Pre this nature is taken
naos tevkirlepetn tde gthhthtphheespsallialiggs
ciipe ware
clips OSSe
s,,,,bie,ot to bending' in, two directians
With the re,sult that excessive strain.;
in ase amposed at the weakest point,
Wit'oh in this case teat the bolt hole.
The spring gulps; theuld be seated.
Perfectly tight by dra?wing the nut's
up as close as Possibhg with a wreneh
of enchrsige that there is ne geettion
of their being tight: It ie also
to bear in mind that even a nut se-
onred Jaya look •,k,vasher will ultinintely
work loo -se; henrce the aedessity for
looking over your swing clips now •
and then." •
oWeere experienee diditrelier keen -
this in good gonditiom TeMOV.
leg eecte from breedcloth the material
o hPlaa rubbea in we aLreotien et
(1-10 gap, Thls sstegn j)Ing rawitibg
on the sidee of the liecly anti a ;ear-
thling. Whoa the nal) of PrO141"11
ward motion on cushions and head
le standing up it ie unsightly cer-
tein lighte. It can be made to lie
, flat by the handling deeerlbed above,
uning nail Or a hand brush.
Helding ornery cloth—In pOlieloing
;mem flat surface with emery obith inr
',Lead the file it will be found coe,
venient to wrap the cleth around the
file and bend a bit of Wire int° a elin
form to hold the material at the lower
end. The cloth al the outer end of the
file ie held by the fineere anyway, eo
that this, does not need a clip, '
11
enhation continues, but after the
young are hatehed auto, genble friend-
. liness 'wisely offered will be well re-
ceived and appreciated.
' The task of feeding a neatful of
secant rebins is a great ono. Everyone
of them Will eat at least- its own
-weight in insect food .tiaily. Earth-
wornis, rolled in grit, are well likedtv
the youngsters. • Cut womms, inch
worms, mealWorms—almost any sof 1 -
bodied, non -hairy eaterpillars-inay he
given freely. Nor need one have any
fear that the ittandly, will be pauperized
by any such charity: This feeding will
help the yotingsters toegrow.up with
very -friendly feelings howard the
he-man:family and in no other way pan
you eta readily gain the eonfidence of
the parent birds'. „ •
Oftentimes, disaster ovegtakes ,a
robin family-; -for some reas.on the
parent bircla do not return(o the nest
and then the human neighbors nmet
take charge of the young. If worms
of varieus sprts are not reed* avail-
able, bread Mid milk will nourish the
robin children very web. Thei grow
up rapidly and presently ovIll /earn to
fly, but although they by andlye get
their own food themselves they ostill
ivill be very friendly with those whe
have fed them. They should be allowed
complete freedom and will, of, course,
at the migration time fly away tooth
,avatli their fellews.
32 your yoange xobins sin:vivo the
wieter they will surely return to yoor
Yard MA the delightful proces's of
est -building may he watched all over
taught,
carrying of most live stock per acre.
Referring to varieties Dr, giristiale
You find them hunting for tin in the
hinterland of Nigeria,,for silver in the
mountains of Meglee, and for gold in 1
Arctic Amerce. Never a year passes
but some of them pay with their,lives
for their daring. Either they ate lh
caught and killed by natives, slain by '.,u•
fever, or frorah and atarveci to death '
in the bleak desolation,of the Alaskan
menntaine,
Your professional explorer is usual- E
ty, financed either by his °over/nue/it
or bY awn° very wealthy Man '1'ho IS
interested ixi %eel/ ,work. An expedi-
Hen, such as that ha
eded by ,the late
Sir Eliot Shackleton., costa a" great
deal of money. Thero is the charter
piirchlise of a ship, tho salary of
eexperts, the ovegozr of the crew, arm
the peovisioh of a va.st quantity :of
otheaS, ,
, Captein Scott's le,st expedition a
Which boa' reached the death
Pie, but le,st hit ^ lite, 4ost nbout
tore hundred Mad seyenty-fige thensand 11
dellara, In curierra Cent/net, that of h
Amentisen, Whose raPid &tele for the
Pole. lett to such wOliderfill secees,e,
coat only about One-tenth ef this elan, 51
Of modeen beplarers, the ono who
le hog /rem ileaaeial peint 0f. view
t:
nentiona Wisean.ein No. 7, Goldgn
Glow and Daley reaming aa most
atisfactory in Eastern Ontario, but
e Trientlans •having seen an extra-
rdinarily good field af 'Eureka gro'w-
eg in the vicinity of London. During
ke past four yeare, when all costs
vere high,' corn was produeed at the
xperimental Ftbrin at Ottawa at an
verage coet of $57,62 per acre, el:
3,52 pee tonewith an average Yield o
8,4 tone per acre. '
He Valued company.
'I'wo farmers met after church and
had this conversation;
"I hear you've sold Your Pig?"
"Yes, ,eold him last Thpreday."
"Whet d'Ye get?"
"iliirteen doilura
."What'd it cost ye to raise 10?"
"Paid ihree dollars far the shote,
go for the lumber in the pen and
oiiso and five MOTO for thgfeea,"
'131dia't maim nItt ch,did ye?' •
"No, but had the ttSe of the pig till
tiorner."
•
Tele beet Wag Out ef 55 clifflatlItY is
ggegh'ie
Rabble, probably the same family,
certainly their descendants if not the
same birdge have 'nested year after
year iu the ea/no site for twenty yeara.
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Fish•and-Snalte Skins Used int
PlaCe. of Shim Leather,
Shoes are noov beteg made or fish.
and snake Skins. This subStituto for
leablier Is said' to cost lets, and to be
practically everlasting. The skins are
cut and fitted in the tame manner as
leather, and are used for Shoes of varb
mia shapes for .both men, anuewtimen,
155 sorne parts mf the country they
have, attracted favorable attention,
and have become quite popular,
What Killed the,Piajority,
s
Tho Inane inet aome .inen outside a
town. Deem -11111g confidentiah he gold
them that his mission o'Vas. to destroy
aethousand people' within the town.
Later,one of these men said to laion,
"Yoe went considerably beyond your
orders, didn't you? Inatead of killing
a thou:sand,' you killed ten thousand."
"Oh," said the Plo,sue, "you'ee wrong
there. I carried out My ordera exact,
iy eandekilled a thole/and, rear killed
the.other nine thousand." .
4lM.1)F4t,evory- little girl knowi that
115 s,he is 17 eXy, Vemogood her hair will
Curl, but who suspectdd that, if we:
stepped salting oil' food, we should
become ;black and have fiat notaiS? A
gaeeogeae servant lathe it all worked euitl
45,1 'mon wen) black end re,
InAined AS leng ae they were cen-
tent to live on freit and toots, Beat
the Americans began to eat Meat anal
become red, Ole Atilatice began to tas-
use Milk end beealno yellioW, and the
Ciaticasians, nte toe Much ealt, and eto
turned white,
Practical Paragraphs.
In sedan bodies it wild sometimes be
found that at .theovindows are lowered
they are broken by haa:d objects ear-
ried in the door pockets. If the hard
cbject is of some size it will strike the'
edge 'of the seat wheii the door is
being closed and bear against the door
glass hard enough to brealc it.
Getting out of a riit—When one of
the rear wheels her, got in O. mud hole
or de'ep rut so that it Springs, apply
the emergency brake with a
gentle pressure. Tills will give enough
latee to the spieling whee1 so
that the other wheel can Pull the car
out of tronbee. The deereaae an engine
aimed because of the pressure of the
brake , can , he compensated' for by
opening the throttle a little.
' 'Upholstery dee/Ling—Many sedaret
have broadcloth upluilstery; and
Rim eln roPair—Rim cuts are often
given up as hopelese by the car owner,
but they can. be repaired in the follow-
ing manner: Drill a sceie-e of holes en
each- side of,the.brcals nt intervals of
of an inch and far enough from
tloo edge so that they win not pull out.
Lace the holes with a cord -made of
six strands of braided fish line or any
braided cord about 3-32 of an inch in
diameter. Soak: Gale laeing an paraffin
0/' wax to make waterproof and then
thread it through the first hole, wind
11 arciund the bead, throng/1 the seeonal
hole end so on. Let six inches of the
cord hang *vex 'on each end for tuck-
ing away. Fnaliy place a blowout
patch over 'the loans inside the shee
to pretebt the tube against injury.
Jack •support—In an 'emergency
ovhen the car has to he jaeked up on
soft ground and no support for the•
tool is handy take mit the floor boa.rd
or, toe board and use this. It will he
found ta seeve the purpose admirably,
Radiator repair—To make a good
emergency repair of a honeycomb
radiator, useee small belt, longer than
the depth. of the radiator hand efine
enough to go illough the hole in the
honeycomb. On each end of this bolt
a steel washer is Placed, with a Tubber
washer inside. Tighten the nut on
this 'bolt and the rubber washers are
drawn tight enough to etcp the leak.
This repair gannet be made on a
tabular radiator.
From a Watery "Graveyard."
Said a, ilivver in the river
"Mod and water make me shiver;
0, that" fate should ea hai/e mocked
me!
Here I' lie just like a rock.
Hael any owner, when he parked me,
Lacked me, thieves' would not have
/ter mcl
Just imagine bora it shocked me •
When they pushed me off the dock!
"I was young, .I dad endurance,
Furthermore there was insurance;
-My egnipmenhawae selected—
Extra tires, robes and tools. •
So thetook me amid they stripped me,
Everytliing—and then theyetripped one,
Just because my boss neglected
Very ordinary lilies."
Modernizing a Walled
Chinese City
•J
Through the ,resource a,n,c1 persever-
anee Of a Whiteeinan 'Canton, Chitia,
one. of the meet ancient, and willed,
and niost' backwarcl citiesof theabaelo
ward ,empire, has now a m.o,.dertt street
transportation systeth ormotor busses,
modeled after the Duropen type. -The
brink about of this is one of the big
roma/ides of white -man endeavor- in
.the Chln,eze republic.
In: 1916, Tom 1YR/climes, a Canadian
lawyer and promoter from Vancqu'Ver,
went to China. :Prevtotta to this he
Ita.d much experience with Chinese,
having in his' capacity.. of . a lawyer.
drawn up the Anti -Opium Apt fOT
'Canada in 1809 and the.Chinese.
a-ratio:1 Act in 1910, Besides his know,'
ledge of law and of the Chinese people,
Ise had a keen mind for pad/noting big
projects: Arrived in Cnina, Machines
went to Canton on business end while
there, traveled much about the city,
Which he found to be a primitlye place,
although, it centained. about 2,000,000
inhabitants, Along one side Of the city
flows Ole Pearl River. Around the
other three edcles ofthe old ,city rag
an Aimee/Ise fortified wall, in toMe
ploances'45 ft, through at the base and
„fit
20 to 25 ft. high, But for many
Years the populationhad outgrown
those old fortified botinclavies, and a
new city had sprung up outside the
wallah Countlose narrow ,
fan/. to 15 ft, wide, composed the
streets. But they vitro a Veit tangled
n/aze a veritable Modern labyrinth.
Through a portion of the city ran
carialt, inottly maclo by the exeavrt-
fins to Mated the wall, some'of thein
dug 9,000 years a,go. 'Oil these canals
tampon boats. were huddled together,
mion whiciti Ilyed a varying population
noinhering frona 10000 to 25,000. No
other city on tile thee of the earth
oantained se many people in ao cfn-MP-
erl a space; and to -Serve all Ole great
popelation there WOO 110 ifteest 13.4178,
pertation, There' vias1,' net even A
street 'worthy .01 the name.
Hie .travelg about Canton developed
elm Mic/nnes' mind an idea, He saw
that. hY tearing 'down the' moor por-
tion of. the greet circular vrali, -room
cOuitt be made for a magnificent bebt-
llsss around the oid city,
ovirich Would also eery° the neva With
Gels 'done, and ao few thonatuall of the
rickety buildinge swept away, erase,
botilateriela could be Made At a fliirly
.easontable coat, and WO Whale 1701)11.
lal.1011 af/Ord0d a splendid transParta-
Von syStenl,
A. egateni of -Wide botileVarde Weg
bath, ou tho site Of, the ancient -wall,
and whoa() Cnentantle of rickety honsee
had fermerly Mead. The boUleratalt
are from 811 - to 101551, wide, Down 03
eolgre of ono% foe a width of 25 ft.,
right 08 way 10510 given, the .company,a
, The original plan of, Reef/meg' was
be build an .electric tramway of the
type used in all Canadian cltlee, But_
the difficulties in the way 08-19,wering
stone bridges egress the candle, 'and
other reasons, caused the comeang to -
pet in operaton a grede,rn motorbus
system, This -is now known as the
Xwongtung Tramway Oompany, and
has ,ieceived a monopoly to operate
MI. 25 years is ady part of Clanton and
its,,suburbs, fon whiah right_ is , paid
81,000,000. -In the Spring of 1021, Torn
Mach/nee saW irie dream realized by
a, fleet of •Tiononeen motor buses oper-
ating on the streets 91 Cantina. These
tarry .30 passengers per caio one-third
ffret claaseand two,thirds second olase.
'Canton hes: begun ,a new era, a
cleaner, brigher city, yet still a- pie-
inte.sque and romantic „one.
Chemical Burns,
Strictly speaking, a burn is amused
by heat, but the injuries that strong
acids or alkalies inflict aro so slinilar
to real burns that it is convOnitgat to -
call them Mara also. The illjurtee
meek by such ,eaustics are at three
degrees. The first inanities simp:e in-
' nammation and perhaps hila tering',
the second, metro les.s e.atong awr y
of -the skin; aud tho„elaird, imal dos-
trilotion oath° tissues, Tho MC/St C01:1...
men caustioe Ire strong nitric and
sulphuric acid, potash,. Or soda _lye one-,
'eking lime; less crenate are Odor-
ide of zinc and acid intrata of mor -
'In the case of a chemical burn the
first thing to do is to remove- the oh
fending suhstance; water poured mew
the Injured ,eurface will de best. If re
man has dropped so meet) ea/untie Wel
or alkali on himself that it has 051,051
through ble clothes and is' eating into
hiS skin, a good plan le to turn the
hose on film while he takes off hia
clothing as qtafetely, as nossible. When
aiIttia oanstle,h'es beeh washed off the
chemical antidote should be, amnied
by ifeigatiou or mopping; vinegar and
water Is beet for an entail burn, bicar-
bonate 'of soda solutien for P4 acid
Mgt, That treatMent will relieve tho
Pogn, end it the burn Is or tho ti2ot
degree it may be /al that is /leaded.
17seally, however, it is,atileable to ap.
pay alto en elatMent of: oxide Of sip
or boric aolb
Annus ot the betond and third de -
greet abould be snipped at the betioni
to let all Gm mad drain away; btit
care sholtid be taken not to,toar oft
the tender. covering, Then'oto 110
th
etiree hap boon irrigated vitt a
bordc-acid soautton and patted dry 140
otorilo absorbentcettoo,... the phInt
1511125111 50 ovvered with a tn
51(r0Ofiintl*-4111lb1'IDIO Ofate of
atitutos-rprotoeted with a,tiLialf
of absorbent cotton, e11e4 444 /ft o15sic
Willi s bandage, Th e tlte214
be changed se Oteit ale the digolteVI
from the wound '10,09)3 it,