HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1922-4-13, Page 811 THE FUGITIVE
By Edwin Pugh
I
ere'
_ ,
"aiany eseepee?" saia tee old
Warder, No, 4 not a meny-e-in 1
thee. But I remember ono." And
teeeeel with 21u8log eyes leto the fire
ety
he
• Merieles helipeeea as be alereye bale
penfnea 011 1)11)11) MOM), A stiff ingeee
peeling 'me end i,111eir, tee , Yea eoela
wink the fog were.geee. Asneeeleg,
flaunting moon ae toeleed kts it she'd
Ono it all were gaily etteing aerese tbq,
'fair edeo,site eetel turning tee, inc 011 to
a elleeuer-beera 'of white gleams mid
elaek ehadowe.
• And there, right ahead of me, Were
the little bengalow and the stable hard
m he; la1n co at eiike-staff. And there
Ito w.ere weal', 1 tlht to be a lelaza0.1
IL fire, but Which was ee, flume lean: re
Be mw.cantpes ID the winder, l'te'lar
'(b 116acon it were, or, togide hint, Yal6
le sone I uegod my trial-) o», but the fen
oe bad beet lier bellere ,fora bit, and
ay devil a canter could I get out ou
a, let alone a eallepeeStill, 9 Ireow'd as
Yerneon (11ouldnee gut very far in his
tit einevletetit, and I 50)0021,111111 I gueese
ed right, as 11100011)0111310115 of hio.
w elothes,getting rid of his 111000, ID that
11 there eungalotie And she' do.h91ping
o of-hini, ho doubt, '
L
NOW, tee gama mwere see suaPPY
thereabout' 116111 You couieret hear
nothere but the 'ringing o' the bel1e.
and elle :boothing 0' tee alma e
So as it Were not: ehtil 9e be aot
er, 'near -fifty yaeds away as I beard alio.
'Then er zee'd• ean. I had long ago
jaloosed as the big black Stallion were
, not for her, and noeve7teere he Was
astride bf itretreaking acroas ,the open
a moor like the shadow of a big bled
- eying low.' . • ."
rYoicks, but I were afeer him! He'd
el, got' on a big black cloak' and a big
L ,jaacle hat, but I know'd "hint by the
11 eleafeshaved beak of his head and
- neck shoeteng a peie 'twixt' the
t haeheirn and the collar o' the cloae.
"Coom epee, then, Cherry," I says In
the mare's, par. "You. harn't got the
, pace on him, but you've got the bang -
Ugly eeort of country„ 'I 'dell the
10 00 re. Tee eeeol •furze 16031t
'broken hare i'ooke Bite enaeliled teet
And yet people -people of bleb cia
eau Lennon and X-enow net weei
want to come and day' there' ire ti
meaner -time. Right- hi ebe' shieloW
elle prison wales -of the Ceetio th
weet to come. AIM butte little' bUng
lowu
s ne ,euch-lilte. And Bee in gYli
caravans and teets. And 11111 abo
eaint pictures aralehe rest of le
Cowie°, I ani spealciug ee a ,good le
91'2 /'ago, .afeire motets was. thougl
aed afore theeittee Inns as lased i
can ebeireelves "hotel" really. got t
be liOtels.. '
,
There were` gee , woman. Nebody.
rie,tleed .her intath et terse She Were
j1.1fit a-erOWd, and they all see!
'el very enuell . alike. But, preeentl
she got to be know'd, 'ems on a .,ctike
habit 3)1 1ir'n.
See Itept ODE et them eungalows
and deter a bee she belie a stable along
bide oil it. And' preeazle sently taas
horse iia the stable, and it were a Pre
nee horse 'Moe' a glee leggee stallion
black as your hat, evith a long tail ati
mane as -flowed' in .the,evind Jeke gir
fans. And t.P- she useto ride the lel
ugly tang. It was riding!, aTei -fi&
ne
3115 aleag the open ways, picking ou
the clean bite, but,a.mad gallop any
-uP and down. :the sides ,Of tae
toes ;and 'over .tee alPe, a,nd hollewe
the goes' and the bearuale, as i1 she
and the horse web & one and both on
Not .often did she sleeken down tell
sire, were hear -big home, but some-
timee site; dia -pull. up that big briete•
to a etaadstill, anealways on a little.
-steep hill as overlooked ihe pirson-
earale I marked that .afterea time. We
all marked that. There seewohld sit
agen the skylinealike a "blatk marble
limire on a black merble-animile, still
as if they was a graven image -tile
they turned, and then she would wave
11013130(31,
We couldn't Mahe but for the life et
es who it were she wa-ved to, And lie•
abeeeedid find out 'before, eveere too
late. ' Due naturally we get' to sus-
picion Ilea, and eve Watched her, her
eoniings „and goings, 'her littledeeielgs
and -what -not Only site kot.no tegear
habits.kern, noon, and eve, it were
all' the saute to she. Semeelmes. weal
see ,her at sunrise, sometimes in the
,
neenticle glare, 'sometimes, in the mists,
of twilight,.., Ana sante said, Med
Were one of.'enathatat night elle'used
to come and sit there en ili,e meon-
Ohm, so still 'she might ha' been
etermeght .of the reeks theirselves. And
some said, aad I were one on 'eni, that
.they.heaed.the .teraeh of the bore's
,hoofs eieethe,harfil stones, end 'believed
as, she, passed 'cleseeby in the bitter
eilarkeeise of. the-for:adman.
Well, so it,went on, for mayliethree
e,r fair months. And then the sum-
martline come, to an end, and all thera
other gaelaboues .were packing up for
funtion. eye Wiateleed t� ,see it she
iikeerise.-were peeking up. And. she
were. The, beet. of her belongings
went liaea to town in trahleloaels, in
wagonloads. Then the horse be went.
And the she went.
And everybody said that everybody
else were a fool, and that She were up
to no mote miechlee than tee rest or
ee. And after that we sort of half fere
Then, one night it were In October,
I remind me, there come ,doven one
, .
ef thene there white foga as be like to
the clarkeeee of Egypt -a darkness
that could be, felt -such 111 eonirnon in
them parts. And it come down so
sudden es if tho heavens had frowned.
The men were all in the quarries; but,
afore We eould round 'eni up and put
'em under guard two. Or 1111'ee 011 'ern
elippedaway into the fog. We were
took so by surprise, d'ye Bee. Howe
somever, We got 'em afore they stray-
ed far, ami marched '010 back. And
then I suddenly retina out a,s one on /
'elm were still missing. Hard twere
first to make out which awere But •
we had the bells, 'a -ringing 'sad .the
1110 a-POOMMg`t0 a fine toon, I eo
By wheel, Pmean to say, gentlemen
all, that she was not so' fastas the
stallion, but Was more like to last
etwere a stare "chase, as the
sailor/nen saY. Ai first my mare lost
so much ground I thought ae we'd
loee eigat o' tbe stallion altogether
afore very long. But sure, and sure
my Cherry she got her wind each, ane
then she begaa to anther her four legs
under leer and jest by like the wind.
Ina sudden buret o' epeea see gained
00 ene.. And thetzeshe fell away again,
e'Steady, lass, -steady!" I say:s te she.
'Tis a long row and a' hard rew.ai
tve ha' 'gotten afore 011. .A.y, but we'll
win out at tee finisb, sure-ly."
And so it went on. A hard; roeig1i.
ride on a hard, rough course. And
what With the black shaelows al look-
ed deep as the pit end as hard as the
walls of the arisen itself,' aud what.
with *them' white patches as looked
like glazed granite and were jest pet -
muck thee you wallowed in ue to year
haeaches-ehl it were crool hard 11(11
hig, and dangerous to, Once down,
end she'd ha' broke her back and Me
neck', for sure. It eyeee go hard, hold
hard, every inch. And then, jest to
sight always; theugh times.- I could
hardly make, eneout, were theestallioe
and poor Yanson, with terror behind
'un, death all 'fauna inn, and the jail
'afore ein.all the way. .
Mile 011 mile eve rode that gait, ,and
now it we're' Jest steady riding, 'cos
we know'd as the horse az lasted the
longest, and not the horse as went the
fastest, would win that.there race.
I -lours we Went 011. 41 Were 119011- no
more than fogging. And the Moon
Went down .and it grew dark agen,
Jest as I'd feared, aid I lost sight of
the stallion. 113et -the mare had got
the wind of him, 'and 1. jesf let her go
blind. And presently it , warn t so
dark. Presently there be a long,. 10311,
silt of white ligat in the sky, and.
see'd that big black brute agen, and
Yanson tewaving in his saddle for all
as if he were nigh dead beat. ,
They beant name than ilfty lengths
ahead by then, ana1. both on us "ceawa,
ing along at alslitliering walle ae .11
our two berses lead gottele
And 1 outs with my -piste' ane shoute,
l(9)Sky-jilte :-
"Stop, there, or I fleet" .
And at that he. awung ihand on his
saddle and ' fires poinablank at ole
With his own weapon, r heard the bul-
let sing past my ear.
But hat was his last-bing. For as
trioct to ride on agen the stallion
ent down and he fell -on his knees.
I. got off my mare and Tun towards
,'un: He had gotten up,. was &stand -
:frig there, straight and stiff. '
.Then, of a sudden, he evhipe off his
het, 9 see'd a sort of powcler.liag fall
off his head; you know t.I4i)toot 0'
thing them a/mete-what is it---Plere
rote wear: And he bowe as he clicks
les heels together, and "Good morn -
leg!' says he.
And it beant in a man'e voice he
speaks. Arid no more were ne a man,
neether, but Siee-the woman o' that
therenningalow. Her hair fell in long
bIack,cuels about her shoulders ae see
stood and .seilled at me,
-And at last we foiind out that it'
ust be Yanson had done us. Now,
amen. 'evere char) as We all lilted
ndpitiee, Be were oemaieslaugh-
er, ten year, tete our view on ,theemat-
er were as .11' served the, secenalrel
he had killed Aril again lie
were so, ,quiet' and. kindly sand give no
trouble at all, Yoa couldn't a -help be -
Ing sorry for P013500,' ,
1 Duty, lioevsorneyer, be duty. And it
Were oar du*. ,to cotch ,Else we'd
know the reason why. So, We saddl4d
eoree, and away, ecouring all the coun-
xyside. But though teem dumb
reaturee know'd the paths aboutthein
nhors' eaine as -if ey. had been cats
tit see in ehe dark, we had toeeo slow,
each on us on b.15 OWD lonesome, all
ping' their several ways. _
I made MY Way towards that there
luegahew -where the woman and the
foree used tp bale ie the summertime,.
f you ask roe why I went that way
'oaldn't 'never tell ye, It were ea,
tinct, like, I reekon. Anyliow, after a
veary I eeo'd a patch of bright -
Res, in ,the merle, as, 12 1150)0 'be a fire
inning. It were. not juet a single
tele if you mide 110111 0111, but a
tset my rowels, to my mare and we efet
enterer that patch of "brightnese.
And 'then eemeteling Whopped up bat
gen uss-feir bored Into us -out 112 110' 'bet
pakneas, and eant niere mare a stride 'Yea
'Ing Into' a bog -hole weere she coree diet
mil with onealiMgthty Menne; and ling
0 OD top of she, • min
But eeen who awee„ were that (lien
mean on that hie' ugly stall on o'
'Well," sell the old ex-warelee,
wa's aiding and abetting, o'', coarse,
And ought ,to, had the law on her,
specially as Yanson, were her
s•weetheart, at clean away, 33u13 I
hadn't -no, I hadnit the heeid for' 5>
do lt. She be eeeli a bonnrwench.
"And it, all got tided over, some-
Waye. 'And then there were, talk of
Klngs Clerncy, and dunno what-ali,
er,aue thee do knew," said tee old
°awarder, " li-the Only time ee I
.nevee cared 00 I' were prapeely put
upon."
Trees About Oralrie Sehools,
slime time, ago very feW r;e11001
ride in the Prairie Provinces
uted trees about the school -house,
'in the 147st tbrree years the num-
has been steadily InereeeingeThis
r In Saskaiohewan alone 150 school
ilicts will plant trees. The seea-
trees, ere obtainoa from tho Do-
RipplioRtioto
4 ,$), wait Mason
WD FOR DUCK$
Lome tee lath had beee descending, andethe town was ,like
a lake, and the wudis of people,•blenaing, made 11111 famOus wentie
quaae.And when neighbors got tog`ethor they pursued the own,
me111 game, and they all denounced Ole weather as a' ball and
beastly shame, But to -day I met a gaffer wile had comfort 01 1)10
own; 110'‘11 a sort of chronic laugher wine is never heeerd to groan,
"Yee" lie said, "the weather's soppy, and the tireless teeeente
,peurabut the little ducks are happy as they never were be,fore;
And I think we e11e011 not quarrel with the weatahr, tineeeh lee
, wee for the 1)10135 are. highly moral and deoerah the geed they
gee "With e;eittr groans ana bully.cliceings you disturb the public
peace; yet I &MK if human beinb count for more than, ducks
,tted geese, Pucks are fond of nmistened water land they like
to swim and dive, arid on droughty days they ,totter, scarcely
More than halt alive. They aro glad when:rain-is deumming on
the woode, and creeks are wet, but they take whateer'e cointhge '
and they remolm no vain regret, When the sun again 5>' shining,
and your life seems ellele as grease:yea willdmar no loud reidele
big from the grand old ducks mad geese. There is Weather foe •
. ,
ihe gander,' there is weather for the,hen, and inan should coll..
trol'his dander if -the rain starts, in
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
DELVIN N .... .
G / To „E . expeditions were •. enontemelY exPer6
Til . sive, for he, always •Inia ea aemy of
e.' . carriers and natives, At ono time he
WORLD'S SECRETS had as many as seven hundred men,
But hewas financed, by the news-
papers for tvhich he woriceche Not only
was he paid for his worle by these
papers, bet his books had an inonense
HARDSHIPS OF EXPLOR-
ER'S LIFE.
"HOW I Pound Living,t,sone," beat all
existing records for a book et its teem
, and eIn Darkest Africa" did almost as
Conefeitable Incomes Enjoyed wen. .
by Numerous Ad.„„euturers
most more than his books. During
. His lecturing tour brought been ot.
Are in All Cases Hard- ,his -lecturing tour in 1385 he is saitlao'
have cleaeed about seventy-five thous,
, Zarneca moneY• anci dollars.
The eail termination- to Sir Ernest Is It Worth the Risk?
Shackleton'e cruise, in the Quest 'has • Another great African explorer -wee
1101e11publicinterest ta the question sir Richard Burton, who, though ig-
of exploration, , snored ,by the public foe foog years, -in
"Does it pay?" is the first thought the end 'rose to fame and, a law:glee-
which comes, to the average mind. hood. His books are 11111 eold all over
answer thiswe must realize first the world..
the eno,rmone fillip which the cine'ma Alniest the beet -known of living ex-
ha,s givea to the Profession of exPlora''P1Orers is bNaneen.' Hm
ie fame dates
time from the year .1888 when, in company
It he)0 indeed doubled, 011 1110110 than ewita three Lapps he walked eight
doubled; tee peeflts at one swoop, be:, across the; gigaotic , ice -gap ewhich
caase foe every 0033 person, WhO will covers Greenland. His attempt 'to
pay Money to hear 00 explorer lecture reach the North Pole in the Fran a be-
e eegen will buy seats to see . such gen in 1893. lee hitched. Iris sail) to ma
pictures eie an -expedition would brine ice -floe, and sterted to drift 001000 1130
back from the Antaretic.
Polar Sea to, Greenland.,
Aitother weleknowa. man may be
said tO lieee Made his name and posi-
tion in; the Rest place by explore.taen it and eitilful,ly built 'around :until tile
lIelning the Robilfte
to Net
16. a Xrd-Lolle Oenetub taken net
long ago, it W5eetitnetetletleet the
robin Was the most numerous Anierl-
lealtuxt.L4,1111,9 1.1houseosupoalirooll,.; coormatg.
other, nests practically ,a11 , over the
continent of North America and the
bird 46 000 9f tho mbst-Iriendly that
referred to the English robin aa
We 111)00. Tbe Il69t Vanfdswerth one°
'I-Immst Robin, who loves inarnldnd
ho
aro ti)otilwrlidvmanigttdeorpi; equally to
the American robin, foretiee Wed levee
1A71,Xc50142111eler0inZ danc0lIn' tipg'aoan'aeollurb120tee.i.y0
houses. • •
°I zobip
theptoer'lehA, '1.111.nsdelee'ciith'ae ceGervilLr, oar
even .go Mgide Of the building iteelf.
Reemebly one is reported to have
flown in at the open window of A
ehDreh during service and to have be-
gun to eneild leis nest on 45 cornice past
over the pulpit. The window was left
pertly open from that time OD and
the family of young robins was sue-
zsusuftuuloltyy.reared in this. admirable
The nesting robins may be_assisted
by providilig nesting sites; a shelf up
tmder tee eaves, will eften tempt them
or a sholtered platform set on the
limh of a tree. If there is a trellis in
the garden on which dearublea .rese-
bush or honeysuckle climhs, one of
these sheltered shelves eet at the tep
of h, forms an admirable siA for a
robin's nest-. One can assist also' bY
puting, out, nestbn material, 121 the
ease 01 the robin the first requisite
is niud-geoce Plain, old-fashioned,
black stielcy mud, for the robin makeks
the foundation of his nest inveriabfy
of this. In 'sandy connerie1. and dry
weither the birds often have consid-
erable difficulty in gettiog mud for
their foundation. I11 one of her books
Olive Thorne Miller tette of alroain
- W0.'0" others. then rolled le
the dust and went Ito neetine site
where he picked the resultant,. mud
from his plumage and used it for. the
fdendation of his nest.
Mose of -us nowadays have a bird
bath 'in the yard and .it is an easy
thing to put a dish oe clay or-leamy
eoil eieside teis and moisten, it to tbe
eight consistency,. The robin will come
and take it by the mouthful -poor
chap, he hes other meens of getting
ite-,and begin the nest, perhaps cm
the perch but Mote likely -on themear-
by,shaele tree:. Usually the mud es
built up like a sbalipw cup and. then
,Besides that, ,films MD. be maltiplied soft grasses -dried gressee,oe the ,pre -
to "an.y extent, and slebeen all over the vioue year's growth -are embedded in
world et the same time,
Asked what explorees were at work week. This is Sir leerier Johnston, completed structure 10 )11(211 beloW but
at preeent, 111011 people would at once who became Imown lathe public softly lined, and built up ,,with these
"mention the men iu the Quest, and a through his plucky attempt, to ascend graesee• Prom that tine un,til the
,few might remember Amundsen and that giant East. African volcano called eggs are hatched the less humae over. -
life daring 51131 1111001113 solitary dip hit° leilima-Klaro. • eight anel interference the bettee, al -
Always at work. its prizes, and there ere plenty of men. be very 105511058 ae, the Preee8e
the haert of the Arctic Me. ft is plain, then, that exploration has though the brooding mother bird will
, w 01
ho axe liviiig at honee on oomeeeteeee cilbation centinues, but alter the
across an Individual, who had heard
Here and there you might came e,emnee meedeee:2,e15 IQ,: dool.seeeeeyeee.a yieulem,:,are hate:lied' MAU gentle friencl-
knenve forests at the' baok ell Brazil. esren'erSaGmuet4aAemeseerieslirnght its illider
just backefrom theelepthe of the tine
of Colonel 'Frievcett, who,' by ea° by, la new the or oil, megold field. Quite as- line's wieelY °2ered ev3111 be well re-
cently an oil:field discoverecl ie Nolen. aeived and appreciated. e
e The task of feedheg a 'n.eseeeil of
rcbins 18 a great Gee. Everyone
There Is also the Mount Everest Ex-
pedition, bat elide has returned“and
evill not start again for eeme months..
'Beyond these, there do not seem to
be neatly explorers before the publid
of them will eat al lease- ite own
-Weight in inseot food ...daily.' Earth -
worries, rolled in grit, are -welt liked -by
the youngstere. ' Cut woems, inch-
wOrms, mealworms--41mest anY, s'aft-
bedied, nonehaiey caterpillaas May be
given fieelee . Nor need ofre have any
fear th.a,-t the family. will be pauperized
by any such charity: This ,feeding 113
help' the yonngsters toegrow ep with
veey friendly eeelings thwani the
11
12
a
Growing Corn for Ensilage.
Corn has come to occupy a large
place among the field crope of Canada,
eee., Yet, for ele that, there are al-
e m
ore particularly in the peovince of
ways scores of explowers at work. xou Onteurio, where Memat thirteen million
bushels are grown annually. In ace,
dition be the' crop for grain, Canada
produces six 1111111mi toils of 00311 for
df this aleeet four and a
half minion tons are produced in On.
eericeeeIt Is estimated- by Dr. a II
van: fled them in the limit er NeW
Guinea, the delta, of the .Anzaion, the.,
little-known :placee of Africa, and the
• ta.blelandee01 ,Tibet. , •
most of .theni ere men Whose naines
are absolutely unknoven to the public,
yet emelt is. an expert in his paeticular
Grisclalee.Deputy Minister ef Agrieue
line,and many spend their w,hole lives
ture for dana,cletethat this forage crop
delving. into the .blank spaces on the
is housed in about forty thousand.
1151 Marc - pat number of
They doanot lecture p• they do not •
Agriculture' Gazette De, Geisclale
Write ter' paper; they do not even re- has isseed a statement..ceveritig the
port to the -Royal Geographical Sociee
histor
ty. In fact, they do not court31181017,productidn, and atillzation of
leeity ce F,oe them explore- porn in agriculanal practiee in Cana:
da. In this the advantage's of corn
tion is the businese of their livee. ,
Bet it es-ielways exploratioo wiele a groWing are erzureerated,
definite object. some are 1. It is an eeceedingly cheap feed
sieme,,ovee a period of 20 years, coets,
turalists, who' go out into the winle
fee the Retype.° 01 searching for rare 11000. run from $1.50 to e8.92 per ten
plaas, Such ee,otehias. These are when tabor and supplies were meet
expeniive.
found' be- the most deadly tropical
scwanneee 'and ether eere plants come' Large returns per acre. Tee aver -
from the wild meantains qf No,reheere , evi them fellows.
ege crop in this period of thne has
been eqeal to about 5 Jena, of clover 'If your young robins suevive the
India and Southern Chente Others
13 pei acre. 'winter they Will surely return to your
yard and -the deligetlul process ef
8, Best. drop on which to apply ne,seehteilding may be watched ell over
henean eamily and in no Ohm. way oa
you so readily gain the eonfidenee o
the parent birdi. .
Oftentimee, dieaster overtakes
robin eamilye -.for 5001,0 reason th
parent birds ,do not returntothe nes-
and thee, the human neighbors nine
teke charge of the yoang, ef worm
of various sorts are not readily avail
able, breati and milk will n,ouresh the
robin chilaren very well, They grow
up rapidly and presently well learn to
fl3r, but although they by arid' by get
their cum f cod themselves the3rrstill
will be very friendly with those who
have fed them: They should be allowed
complete freedem Mal oZ course,
. .
at the migration time, fly away south
tor rare ineecte or birdee
Then there ere the collectors of
wila beaete. .The. Zoological Gardens
and menageries, of ehe world arc 'sale
piled by these men, Who run the most
appalling risks in the oedinary coulee
of their business,. The capture of such
euirnale as felegroeen leoparda, or the
great apes, is not the sent ot pueSeeit
faeored be life insurance compenies.
Paying the Extreme Penalty. a.
A thleafela.se consists' of the pros-
pectoe in search of minerals, or of oil.
There is hardly a corner of any cola
tInen,t into which he does not pellet- 11. Cheapest 'and best suctelent
trete. same of eeeee mee are miming , food that can be grown in thee province
meeree; ale maeoeity are quite of Ontario and Quebec.-' ,
55111101 -
4. Beet mem to use when breakieg .Robins, pro,bably the 'seine enmity,
UP a 8etl. field, certainly eheir deseentiants it not the
Beet cree foe.clearting land' , ..samo birds, halve nested year ;zeta.
6. Easiest erop to harvest as t
.weatlier- conditione.. . •
7 The Crop meet cheaply houeecl.
.•
8. Tlie crop mast eaally handled in
feeclieg, ,
9. Best crop for supplementleg dry
pailemes. ,
10. Bes,t• crop to, help induce cattle
tO consume obarse and peer roughage:
taught, The (3 -fee that permits of the
. Yea find thein letniang for tin in th,e coriling of Toosk ilyo stock Per aere.
liiinterland of Nigeria,foo'eilvee in the Bef.ereing 10 varieties Ele Ceisdale
nounteens of Mexico, and foe gold in mentimla Wie'collehe No, 7, Golden
lAneitee5e0enitnioefecualeeniNioavyoiL,,atth-yetialerirealeivaae! ,Galtoilvsfaealke,no'ay jilinarrilla5r-iteeraimionlgItarasso, mbotsztt
tor tifeir darieg. Either the , he eneneions haviog seen an, extra.caug,ht and killed by n.ativos, elain by ° ma' 1Y g°°(1 field of Eureka grew
-
fever, or froeoh mei stoved to death Mg in the vielnitY or London. During
in tee eleelt desolation of the Alaskan the past four years when all t
moun Mine, ' '• were highe corn was produced at the
Your profeesienal explorer is usual. Experimental Perm at Ottawa at aft
lee financee either by his (4,overnment aye -rage' cost of 557,62 Per acre or'
er he' eome veiy Weielt»y man who to 5352 Pee tee,, with an weerege Yield 04
16, 1 tens per a ere. .' ---- - •
Interested in such .work. An expedi.
tier., such as that beaded by the late
Sir Diest Shaeleleton, costs- a great, lie veined COMpatiy.
deal et iii,oney. There is the cherter Two Maniere met after clitteeli and
or puredd,ee of a ,selp, the ealaey o.f had this eonvoreatioe:
parte, terte tvagee 02 the crew, end' ''l bear You've 8°16 .Y001 r elge''
13, 5105101011 of a neet tonintity ',of "Yee, sole him lase Teuesday."
Mee, ,
"What dam got?"
Captein Scotia last expedition, 14 "Thirteen deilors,"
ii oh li o - , reached the South
ole, hut lo,,st his. lite, cost about
rex
ion Forest' eiursery Statioe at Jo, th
$eelr, .
, . ot
.A. Sash and theled genet MY mare
0 were aplunging and e eelcking
od 'un. Shieel snapped a. tamp
IY, and likewlee elipeed Iter tilt end
Idle.' Took Me yoiere-emeillea Yettee,
e 'Over° Only rpinute or so
to get her eight Mid ogen, .„
I'd hardly got acrose har, tis yen
Vth 1,11 ne teeee ^
-WO were made fo `radiate the, par. 1101r
funee, of good elteee and ltaatenese 01
netual az reee wee made to radiate
tte eeveietneee, to every pheeee
Women in China novel.' kiee, eoiel
waren -a Chinese WOMAD. 01543e. te
eleeNv her fiffeeelee elm gently neeeee-
."Whaled IL cost ye. to ralse it?"
"Paid -ihroe dollars for tile shote
Inindred seyen,tr-Ilve thousand rive for the lumber in the pea and
dollars. in curiouS Cciiltr a $ .thitt oe imeee and five more far the teed,"
Amentleen, evhcrea nalial (Melt ,f,ce tee
Pole led to such wonderful simoose,
east about pno-tenta ot this sum
Of modern explorer:5, the ono who,
did tram comuoinl point of view
"nidn,q, moko much, yo?" -
"No, lait I had the Trio at the pig ell
summer," -,
Tee beet Wey mit of a, diffloulty is
year ep. the smile Site for tweitty yeare.
FiSh.arid)SnAe SI i U d
ns. se, An
1 Place :of '116e Leather. -
Shoes are now ,being ,made of fisle.
and snake eking. Tele substitute, for
,leather i sake to cosi less, and to be
practically.,everlasting, The skies are
cut and lilted he t11 0011110 manner as
loathe' aod etre used for Eames of vari-
ous shapes for both me11 5,1111 110n1511,
en Some Parte-. seef the. country they
hayee attracted favorable attention
and have .beeonee quite populate.
What Killed thee,MaJoeity.
The Plague met some inon outside a
tewn. Becoming conedentlate he told
them time his miseion 1Fas to destroy
a'",thousand people within the town.
. Later, one of theee men seal to heti,
e'youwont coneiderably beyond your
oedeas, didn't you? Instead of killing
a thou.sandaYou killed ten thoesand."
"Oh," said. the Plague, "you're wrong
there. I carried out my ercler8 exalt.
IY,endelrilled a thotleand. Feet itilled
the other nine thousand." •
./aem .... eveey little girl lentwe that
111 tho is very, versegoed her hair wile
cuel, but wile sueppotdd that, if we
01.91.17011 food, should
become black and leave fiat noSes? A
Idurop an ri sevant has 91511 01513 051)
Orivinally mon Wore black and 050
10ii1s 119, az long as they Wore 0002.
telD7b 1.0 live OD fruit and roots, But
the Arnerterins began LO CAA. DP* /1114
bceame ecel, l31a Asiatics began to itilse
1110 'milk and [leonine yellow, end the
Caueasians nto too mach salt aria ao
tamcd w11110,
11, ZIelp afo Autoists
While riding opo day -wlth neigh -
in hie eme we were tunfortunato
enough to run into a MO. hole' Th'a
rear wheels, even with the chains on,
absolutely refused to talce ho/d, either
going ahead er back, It seemed to
rne at iirst that 'we., were in to stay;
but I found that Tny friend 0034 pre-
pared for just such emergency. He
P1105110011 'from the tool eox tw,0 Pieeee
of trunk ,eope about ten feet long,
two wooden stalres about eighteen
inches long, and a 1,hree-poun.d sledge,
eq.ei what wee eeomin
ofle" but soon learned, He drove
stake behind each rear wheel wile/
the ground was solid, A relie 011
then tied to each 'stake, elose to ill
grourie, 1.11.71 under the hub and tie
to a spoke, My friend started h
engine, threw it into reverse and th
oar easily' IPacked itself out oe th
mud hole.
It is wo eh any autoista while, °sem
y w it travelling on._ emmtr
001101'5 experience diffiellitY .11 keen-
ing ehie in good condition, resnov-
sprts from broadcloth the material
should be rubbed in the direction et
tho nap. This Means brusilhn w1th
a dewnwatd motive oft -the triinntingl
On the sides of the body and a
ward motion on cushions and head
lining. 'When the imp of becaueeletle
is standimr up it ie uesigliely in eer-
teen ligete, It can he made to lie
flet ey the heneling described above,
luing nail or a band bruela
Holding emery clothe -In polishing
g, Some flat surface with emory cloth in,„
15 steed oe the tile it will he' found 0011-
'0 eenient to wrap the eheeh etround the
0 file 'and bond tt bit ef wire' ate° a elip
e i'orin to liold the material at the lowele
end. The cloth at the outer end. of the,
is file is belt' by the fingers enyway so,
that tine, does not need, a eliP.
Rim cat repaire-Rim elite ere oaten
'given as hopele.ss by the Car eevnete
but ihey can be repaired in the follow-
.
Y manne.r: Drill a seeks of holes on
eeteh side ofetheebreele interva
r0411e, te add these inexpensive
articles toehis equipment,
ittake Sure Spring Clips Are Drawn
Hp Tight.
9
If ally proof be required of the ne-
cessity of keeping .spring elips tight
it may be fmand in the, fact time
neither dealers no manufaeteareas
Will replace a spring that is broken
though the centre aolt hole --the
peace where most springs give way,
observes a contributor to "The Am-
eriean" Motorist," who goes on to eaY:
"Breakage, of this nature is taken
as evidence theathe springs clips were
not kept tight. The spring clips,. are
eubject to bending in two deeections,
with, the result that excessive etrains
are imposeel at the weakest point,
s case is at the bolt hole.
"The spring clips' seettla be seatetV
perfectly tight by dreiwing the nuts
up as close as peed/foe with a wrench
of such faze teat there is no question
of their being tight: It is well also
to bear in mend that even a nut eee
alc011nordleci:tobgbYen.o:velr"1:07:41seprriwngill ;pi; 'ante:: •
woelc loote; lienice the necessity foe
. Practical Paragraphs.
In sedan bodies it will sometimes be
f ound that ae the windoeve are loevered
they are broken by hard objects ear- -
ried in the door pockets. 112 the hard
object is of some size it will Meek& the
edge of the soot whele the door 18 '
being closed and bear-againsi: the door
glass hard enough to break it,
Getting out of a rot -When one of
the rear vrinels has got in a mud hole
oe de'ep rut se, that it springs, empty
the emergency bra ke vrith a
gentle pressame. Thee will give enough
resietance to -the spinuisig wheel so `
that the othee wheel can pull the car
out of :trouble. The decrease in engine,
s,peed because of the pressure ciir the; E
brake can .bo compers,ated for 'by S
have broadcloth upholstery; alid V
I
opening the. throttle a little. E
' Upholstery cleaning --Many sedans
le of
a o an mall and far enough from
the edge so that they wen not pull one
Lace the holes with a Cord ntade of
six strands of braided fish line or any
braided cord about 3-32 ee an inch in
diameter. Soak this lacing in paraffin
er wax to make it waterpreof anei then
theead it through the first hole, wind
it arouna the bead, through the second
hole and so on. Let six,inchee of the
cord hang over on egeh end for 'tuck-
ing away, lenally place a blowou
patch over the ',acing, inside the ,shbe
to prated the tube agaimst injury.
Jack suyport--In •eznergency
tehen the car has to be jacked up on
soft ground and supporb for thee
tool is handy t,alto out the Rem' heard
or toe bawd and use this. It will he
found to serve the purpoe.e admirabeer,
Radiator repair -To make a good
einergeray repair -.of a honeycomb
ragater, esaa sraale haat, longer than
the depth., of the radiator 'end.efinee
en,ough to go theough the hole in tee
honeycomb. On each end ef this bolt
O steel washer is peewee with a -rubber
Washer Melee. Tighten the out .C1
thU 4.301.t an.d the rubber washers are
rawn tight enough to stop the leale,
This repair eannet be made on a
tubular radiator.
From a Watery ''Graveyard."
Said a flivver in the river
'Mud end water nAke me shiver;
0, that fate should so aaVe mocked
me!
Here I' Ile just Mee a rock.
Had my owner, when he perked me,
Locked me, thieves' eveuld not have
marked me,
Just imagine how it shoeleed me
When, they pushed Dle off the dock!
'I was young, I hate endurance,
Furthermore there \yea insolence;
IVIy emeipmenbewas .selected -e-
xtra time, robes and tools.
o theY took me artd they stripped me,
verytleing--and telex they tripped nee,
Just because my boss neglected,
ery ordinary rules."
rea-eeeerea-ea
Modernizing a Walled
Chinese City
Through the .resoUree and pees.ever-
enee of a White. man Canton, .Gleina,
0.00 of. the moat a.ncient, and walled'
and most backward citiep. of the, tack -
ward empire, has now a rno.dere street
trenspoetation systene enactor lezesee,
modeled after the Earo.pen type. -The
bring about of this is one of the „big
romatices of white -man endeavor in
the Chineze republic.
In 1916, To Macerates, a Colo:eine
lawyer end promoter from VancouVer,
went to China. Previous to thie te
had much. experience with Chines -e,
having in hie capacity of a lawyer
arawn up the AnteOplum Apt for
Pan,ada ioop and teo,Chineee linme
&eaten Act in 1910. Besides his know-
ledge of law and of the Chneeze
In had a keen mind for premoting big
--• •
„. The °original plan of, elecirener wee.
to build an electric tramway of the
type used in all Canadian cities. But
the difficulties In the way of lowering
stone bridges aatoes the canals, *and
otiber teeesons, caused the company to
-put in- operaton modern mottle -bus
system, ,This notv lenow-n as the
Iewongtung Tramway. teonipahy, ' and
has Deceived a monopoly to operate
eSr 25 Years is arlY Mat of canton aad
US. Aubtabs, foe which right, is ,paid
$1,000,000. In tee eprina at 1921, Tom
Machine% eaw bies' dee.= realized by
te fleet ee,Thulelleael meter beau °Me-
eting en tele streets of Cantu, Tirea
cerry 30, p111108058118 per caie ote-thIra
first ciao .and two-thirds secoad class.
, Canton has. begun a new era, a
cleaner, brighor city, yet still a pic..
toresque and romantic one,
k
by
Peolects. Arrived in China, MacIreees 1 nei
went to Ganton'on business and 1011110 to
there traveled mime, about tee cita eel
althouge, it cpatalued about 2,000,000
Inhabitaitts, one side of the city
1113-105 leo Pearl Reece Atotend eh
o111,er three Sides of tee old ,city ree
aneeMmenso fortified wall, le $0010
,places,45 ft.,theough at the base and
from e0 to 25 ft. high, But for .inrslaY
Years elae populeleo.n. had outgrown
theme fertified bolutclariee, and a
new city, had sprung up otaside the
wane,. Countless narrow passagesi
from 7- to 15 ft, wide,, composed the
e.ereets. But they were a vast tangled firs
e veritable' modern labyrinth. fend
Through a portioin of tae elle- ran 010
canals, mostly made by the eeceva- mal
Noes to belle the wall, uome of them eee
dug 3,000 years ago. 'Oil these canals t"r°
sampan boate., Were huddled together,
tenon lived a varying noPulation
numbering from 10;000 to 25,000. No
other city on the face of tlie earth
contained so many people In ea crairm-
eq snace; and to -serve all this great
population there was to street trans-
portation, There' was,' not even A
street 'Worthy •of ere name.
Ills travels about Canton developed
MacInnes' mind an iclea. He saw
.tha by tearing' &Own the major Por-
tion of the greet circular wall, mode,
coniel be Made foe e magnificent belt-
nno boutleya,rd. Wound tee old city,
which Would else serve the. new. 'With
%iris L/0110, and a' tow thousand oe 11110
rickety buittlings swept away, erase -
boulevards eauld ho mado et a fairly
reasonable ca,st, end the whole popu-
lation afforded a eplentlici teaneaemele
elon flelsteM,
.
.41: system of -wide boulevards Wee
Malt, ott the fate of. tho ancient wall,
aadeeleteee elioneaucis rieltotY eolteee
foieneelY Omni, TIM boulevard%
are from 80 ft, wide, n(3m) the
cenkh of arra, trir O. Width at 21) ft.,
right
611 WklY UtireD. the .eotnpftnyee
..,hondeal Burns,
Strictly speaking, a 110171 15 .eause.d.
heat, bet the injuries that strong
hs or alkaliee inflict aro so similar
real buena that it is coneeneeet to.
whice he found to be a pehnitive place, otts
I tempt littera aleo. The inineies
'Sea by 041e11 „gauslic are Of three'
gretee.- The first incomes. smi pie in-
fronstion ,and . perhaps :bale -tering;
sedan% mere or less entm:.; awcY
(IP
• lie
oilti-ethe ekin; and the.,thael, reel des
traction of, the tissues. The most COM -
MOD eauetice ere etrang nitric tunT
sulehuric-acite potash Or soda lye and
'slaking nine; nes VOIDMOD are (lame
ide of zize and acid nitrate of mar,
In the ceee of a chemical buen the
thing to de- Is to remove the oe-
ing subetaitee; water poured over
Injurea surface will' do best. If a
1 hos dropped so much caustle acid.
limn on himself that it bee oaken
ugh his clothes mid 100 15155> into
hts skin, te good plan is ici taro the.
hose on him while he takee „off hie
cloeleing as quinkly, as poisihle. When
tape 6auidle,11'ri,s been, wasbed oft dm
chemical antid•orte should be. applied
by ferigateon or mopping; vinegar owl
water le best for an alkali Miele blear.
b011Aite 'Of flOde. solution for - aeid
burn. That treatment will relieve tho
pain, bard It the burn Is ot the tint
degree 12 11109' be' all that is needed,
Usually, however, It' is adiiisable to an
ptly also an ointment et oxide of sine
oe hexed seta,
Barna of the indeed and third de-
togreraerlutlIdlebeimellantpdpactivillrittatwlIvirth:illal:
ear0 0110.111d be taken not to, tear oft
the tender covering.. Then after the
eurtain has boon brigate'd ,Voith
basin -add solution and petted drY With
eteelle abecirleleat °Often, the pare
Should be &wooed 'with te.
dressing--anfbrine or inn Of eal)+
stitutes-preteeted with. a(thlek lobr
ot absorbent oottan antt held $1),
bo 5l10.g 011 2031 t01 ifIre4.110.11:9e6,S1. ditt,ftSie 016:0140
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