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The Clinton News Record, 1921-4-7, Page 6fir'•=•^ %.--• -. m.wawru,,...^.i.�,.;+s'Maewr.nc.c.mpr.aw�ur,..�.rc�W •, '�1� The Secret of the Old Chateau 13y „DAVID WHITELAW. (Copyright.) How the Story Hogan. Vivian Renton and Eddie Idaverton, modern soldiers of fortune, have beau gambling with Hubert Haunter, . a Prosperous attorney m his London apartments. The two lose heavily. After their departure in the early morning hours, Renton retains to the house with .the Was of reeoveeina the lost money. He chloroforms I3axenter and' makes a vain search for the Money which is lying in an envelope on the desk, addressed to a hospital. Finally Renton starts to search the inert body lying on the hearth -rug end discovers' to his •horror that Bax- enter is dead. He hides the body on the roof. A second search rteveals the money in the envelope, efud en the desk he finds a curtsies old yellowed docu- ment which he copies and hides again in its secret drawer. At nightfall he makes good hie escape, CHAPTER III. Tho Parchment. For some time Vivian, having made sure that he had been unobserved, wallced on, his brain teeming with the scheme which had suggested Heel to him as he read the parchment. Carefully he weighed the pros and con, oblivious to the direction in which his steps were taking him -so that they took hm away from the house h Mortimer Terrace, It was only when the fog -chilled airate its way into his very bones that he rem- embered that he had not had a decent meal for twenty-four, hours. • Looking up, he saw that he was at the foot of Haverstook Hill. He hailed a cab that was descending the slope front Chalk Farm Station and was driven to the boarding house in St. John's Wood where he had been liv- ing for, the last few weeks. His land- lady, he told himself, would not think it strange that he had not returned the night before; her patrons were"for the most part inen recruited from the ranks of that Bohemia in which hours appear to have no meaning and whose goings and comings were only regular in their irregularity. There was little likelihood of his crime being known for some consider- able time, but Vivian. was far too well versed in the ways of criminals to take any chances. He allowed him- self time only to make a neeessary change in his toilet, bundle his few belongings into a kiniesug, pay his bill and 'shake the mud of the metropolis. from his feet. 'The fog still hung thickly over Lon- don as he nnade his way to Charing Cross and took his seat in a entree of a first-class smoker in the boat - train. This inclemency of the weath- er, together with the fact that a Dover mall boast had been forded to put hack into port the night before, after being in collision with a barque, was no doubt responsible for hint having the carriage to himself. He took a paper from his pocket when the train was weld under way, and commenced to read what he had copied from the parchment that was now lying hidden in the bureau drawee' in Mortimer Terrace, "Statement of Adam Baxenter, Solicitor, of the Strand London, per-' Gaining to the trust of the Marquis de Dartigny of the Chateau Chauville- made this 15th day of August in the year of our Lord, 1812. "I, Adam Baxenter' having by Gbd's grace now reached the advanced age of eighty-two years, and feeling that my bodily strength is wanine. think it but right that I should place on record the strange - eircwnstances which relate to tine 'small ehest which reposes in the corner of the strong room of my Strand offices. "For, in future ages, should no one lay claim to this, a son of my house might be tempted to look into, and - which God forbid -even dispose of its contents. I have given my word to the nobleman who entrusted the chest to nus that I will hold it intact and, moreover, make provision that it re- main 00, even after my death; that the seals shall net be broken until claimed by-otte who shall prove his right. "For myself, I . fear greatly that 'the seals will never'he broken until the Great Seals of the Revelations themselves are rent asunder, and all secrets are made plain. •- • "It is now nearly twenty years siit'ce the Marquis de Dartigny came to my office. I can call tomindclearly the occasion, " It. was a misty afternoon in October, and bade fair to develop into a foggy night. In fact, link boys were beginning to ply their calling; I ccu1d see the light of their torehes Irian' my window. - • "I was about to depart for lily home when a hackney coach rumbled up to my deer. I answered the su.mano»s myself (my clerks -:having alegady de- parted), and saw on the step a tall, aristocratic figure, which a moment later I learned was the Marquis de Dartigny, I drew aside to allow hian, to enter, and I saw that he was fol- lowed in by the driven of the Waal), who carried a small oak chest, abbot a foot square mid clamped at the Corners with'ir'oit. ' "Mn ''visitor, having ascertained that I' woe at liberty to receive him, paid the deivar, who mounted his box and drove off into the fog. "1 ant, of course, wtable hereto set down the exact .worcls whieli- passed between the Martluis and myself, I can only tell the story in a general way, and it was a story which held me spellbound, I can nee now the figure of my visitor leaning;' forward in Itis e'huir, Itis face pale, lined with sorrow and yet,--.posseseinig an un- bending .dignity beneath his ntiefor- tunes. 'IIe was dressed simply but elegantly, and he spoke English with difficulty. It was this, no doubt, that made his story long in rho telling, and eandies lied been lit before he left my office. "Marie lirissae do Dartigny, sieur of Chsnville-sur-Blois, was, as I stns- petted on first seeing him, an emigre from the furies of the Re•voluthm The storm had left him untouched, and he had retrained quietly ill his chateau, hoping fox the reaction that was so long in coming. Wills the execution of Louis; the ad aristocrat's hopes dried, and rather thaualeave his mem- try he deciiled to awaitwhat he now saw wee inevitable and to die, if need be, in the home of his ancestors. `It was only when his son -an offi- cer in the Petit Peres, who, after tak- ing,part in the defence of the Tuiler- ies, was proscni'bed-sent, under the care of her English nurse, his little daughter, a maid of four, to her grandfather, that the nobleman began to reconsider his decision.. Still, he delayed the evil day of departure. Gaspard de Dartigny, the son, had put himself at the head of a band of des- perate young men, mostly, lake him- self, officers in hiding, who became in their tuant the terror of the Terror - fats. Beauties on their way home from the sittings of the Convention, officers of the Public Safety, all came under the notice of this band of re- venge. They were less merciful in their methods than the Tribunal itself. They neither gave nor expect- ed quarter•, "He had, at last, insisted on his father taking the little girl into safety, and had himself furnished them with forged passports, and de- tailed one of his band to escort them to the coast. They were fortunate in evading the revolutionaries and reach- ed Fecamp, where a boot was in readi- ness to takethem over the Channel. They avoided the main ports, and were landed under cover of night at the little hamlet of Rottingdean, a few miles east of Brightheldnstone. Hese theyhad taken a cottage and had so far been unmolested. "Gradually my visitor led up to the matter that had brought him to my office, having been recommended to mei friend 'of his in Paris whom, however, he omitted to name. He wished to leave in my care the small ehest he had brought with him. The gallant old gentleman, having heard that his son had at last been Laid by the heels, had decided to return to France.. The chest, which contained many valuables and the key to the hiding place of the rest of his wealth, he did not think wise to leave in the care of a woman and a child. Per- sonally, he shad no fear for his own safety; he had known Robespierr when. the Tiger of the Revolution wa a lawyer sin Arras, and had on mor Dean one Occasion befriended him, A thought that he had but to interced with the strongest and most power fol man in France, to bring away hi son into safety, Little, did he know o the change the Revolution had made in Maximtilien Robespierre! "I put the chest .in my strongroom It was to lie there until he chime it, or, failing him, he would leav word as to its whereabouts, and he instructed that the chest should be given up, and the trust cone to an end, only when anyone giving tb motto of the family as a password should appear and lay claim to it. "The last I saw of the poor Marquis de Dartigny was that evening when we parted at Charing Cross, I to go to my hone in Regent Park, he to re- turn by the coach to Lewes. I can see him now as he bowed with an old-fashioned courtesy and strode off into the night, taking open his bent shoulders 'the hardships of a jeeraey and the dangers of Paris, in the hopes, which I know now were vein, of gao- 1 ng hfs son, "I had the story a year :Pater from a client of mine, who habeen in Peri'. during the years 1793 and 1794. Finding hiltnsedf caught in the whirl of the great upheaval, my friend stayed in the city, accumulating de- tails with the view to writing a his- tory when he should return to Eng- land, Hit credentials enab]ed'hint to epee a great deal of the inner work- ings. of the Tribunal, and he spent Many days in the Marson de Justice acrd at the sittings of the Convention. "It was from him that I lea -red news of the Marquis and his. gallant Sone -and a pathetic story it made. He was present when Gaspard de Dartig- ny and his lieutenant, de Perancour't- an officer who had served with Dum- ourice ••a'ppeared before the itifam'ous Foucluder-Tinville, ,.. The trial was a farce, and the two soldiers who had been responsible .for so many of Tin- ville's friends, were as good as c'on- demned as soon as\they ascended the ratlines•. Gaspard made en heroic figure, my friend tolci me; he had been weentled in his capture, and hie head was ringed with bandages. He laugh- ed at his judges and listened to the farcical formula of the law with a sneer on his lips. - "As se/Ate-see was promound ed,, a coauniebiotr had taken place among the horde of ferocious Paoielalrs be- hind the barriers. to old man forced h!h clay to the railing and called on the judges tor' mercy for this son, They s<tiy thft for a Moment the look of a great love shone et the fire of the condemneul main bifem, 'seeing his fwther' danger, and seeking to save bini, lee turned en trim With an oath, demanding of the judge wine than drunheo Citizen was who dared to eiganitn hdtlIhip with the de Dartigny's, asking why he was net at home with his chirldrert-- a, teniai* which frust Mee 'conveyed the imtend�ed triastsa�ge-- for beforo'atotio dentd be taken, the Mob, soma of w'h'eel wet* kindly at itoaa0, eltoset tetrad the old man and he grade his escape. Gannet* they e s 0 e Read Nature's Danger Signals. e Country folk are occasionally hor- - rifled to read of dOatltt in the city s i eawsed by eating eaim•ed food's. Im- I- mediately they vow a scdentn vow never again tae eat store canned goods. cl I As a matter of fact, a great many el£amilues would `6e safer eating the 1 commercial canned product than trust- ing to home cooking. For alas and e ataxic, mother is very often- mare careleoa and likely to poison her fam- ily, than are the commemcitl canner- ies whose fortune rests entirely on their'repatation for turning otlt sale, palatable products. There is the wo- man whom I saw go out in the gar- den, pick a pan of peas, bring them in and shell them, and then "dump" theist in a rusty pen to cook, without1 washing to renneve the sand'and earth,1 or even stopping to pick out the frits i of stint and' dried leaves. Anothe' 1 cook sent to the table home-made sausage,, after three minute's' cook- , ing, underdone and far: more datigex-i ours than properly canned omnn'tenzial produets. Por be it known to those cooks who think because they grow the vege- table and make the sausage that it, muse be safe, that the germ bo•tuhinus which caused the deaths in both cases,' is found in dirt and was first li•s-� covered in peels, after it had for sew, era years been aau.sing the deaths oft moony folks by sausage poizoningl Ili, mane, botuliimus, comes from the. Latin' word for sausage, botnhts, It is widely dissentin,.vted in- ntatur0; and your own i garden thick stay convey it to your table. Hence' the necessity fete care-• fully w'ashin'g all vegetables l,efoi?e' they aro served', and to kmg sure' that every particle of dirt of what -1 ever sort is remtoved. Pork -all emelt-ehou;'d be time - sed A otos i alrpeared again in the yjigage mainng int'juw'tes, IIe was distranglut with r misery and eufferinig, and, on hearing Ij TttaMJIET s1aLLs ff'n j4f, Usffi1 of tato ildsappttaraaiae .el los grand earn of all types; all ogre door cub ehild� y, $ct to Aeltvcr up to 000 mites, or tact , itis hrain seamed to ive wa tun of dame dltstinco tt you vnete in ea He would speak to no one, but for gent order op purchased. or purchase weans haunted the cliffs, pacing to and, I`•iac ratundect, fro, fnnttte't'isig to hinsee f end ablating 0 t`txt lCl ntachem of your own achoice 1 to look chant guar, or oak ua to hos 1st out over the yYYutars Of the take any oar to city repreeentative far Channel. Then, in the grvty light. of inanection. Very large stook atorays on a February morning, two fisha�rel +'t hanr,areakey's Used Car Market came upon his body washed up on"to 444 xoaae Street, ., Toronto bite little stony beach. • "I can only sucmiso that he had any, cursed him from the gradlnes, I lost his reason undler the widest of and 'mutated the esenbrii,'an hour latter tuts sotffenin;ga, alae ho would have comtnvnd'eated with mar, Grod rest lints noble old soul! "And now, for the past' twenty years the obest hate remained in my with a sante at the success of Ids ruse, et. the sntocese of p heroism cleat sure ly had no equal in than period of heroes. "On heairing this, I made up my strong room uneladuned. Sornawheee mind to journey to Roi:tingdean to in the world is that ilbOto maid, Site eeardb out, if possible, the reanaining will he a woman by bltis, perhaups mer- member of the de Da'rtign'ye, the lirf;tlte rigid, and aoatvetiart'es I think that some motel who had accompanied her grand. daty, when Land l my son -yes, and father into exile. I had no difficulty my seat's soil .will be dead, the rays - in hearing of them; the host of the tery tnny oomio to the' 11ght. White IIoa'se Inti told me the fade, "Until that day I enjoin ray heirs The English nuese, tt seems, died sod, to respect the trust, The given word den•1y a week or two before Ohristmas of Adasn Baxepter is given until the ' and the little girl, left friendless, had end of time. "(Signed) lee.eat tnd•onted by t'he wife of,the m�eda. mil man who had •been 'ei nimoeted., too late, to attend to the nurse. All my _ Orn bite -paretnne ut beneath the cad efforts to trace the doctor have been senator's signrttui'o , were . four en - unavailing; it appears ithat he haft dorsemen'ts, each with a nope to the been merely staying at Brightirelm- effect that the chest was stilt un - stone fax hie hearth, amid had 'been claimed. Arthur Baxenter had sign - driving t'h'rough the village at the ed in 1815, Arehibald Baxettcr in time t f the nurse's seizure. He had 1845, Edward' Baxenber in 1883, and been seen about the neighborhood for Hubert Barr Baxe'mber in 1905. a wo.eic or two efterwaud, then dump- The latter wan evidently the sign - peered, teleing' the child with him. ature of the main who now lay dead "Tile man also told me that, short- upon the roof of the house in Motttise- ly after the ee'v year, the old man ea Terrace. who had btoinght the chalet to England (To be corsbuoued "ADAM BAXENTE,IZ." Forest Revenues. Revenues from Crown forests are playing an increasingly important part in the several provinces. In New Brtntswick, for the fiscal year ending October 31, 19201 the forest revenues to the provincial treasury aggregated 81,387,005, or more than double those of the previous year. This increase VMS due partly to am increased cut, pertly to increased stumpage dues, and partly to a closer scale, In Quebec, for year ending June 30, 1920, the forest revenue amounts to 82,604,460,20, or 28.6 per cent. greater tthan during the previous year. It fa estimated that during the cuerant fiscal year Fite forest revenue to the' pro'vinclel treasury will aggregate around $3,000,000, which may •be in- creased to $3,500,000 during the fiscal year following. In Ontario, for fiscal year ending October 31, 1920, the forest revenue was 82,984,843, an increase of nearly 50 per cent, over the previous year. During the calendar year 1919, the 13ritislt Columbia tovernment re- cetvecl in forest revenue a total of 152,755,730. The importance of perpetuating these revenues, to say nothing of in- creasing theist, is obviously so great that all of the provinces would be amply justified in expending larger sums than at present upon the pro- tection of the forests front fire, Insects and dfsease, upon reforestation, and Growing New Forests. Citizens who read of the inroads of fire and the amount of cutting in Cana- dian forests frequently inquire anal - misty of foresters what the differeut government forestry departments are doing in the way of planting trees. This anxiety is a very healthy sign and shows the progress Canada is making in forest conservation, but at thte present time the question is not so important as this one: "What are we doing to protect our forests?" This is not bagging the first question, for a forest is not a dead thing litre a quar- ry or a imine, but a living thing mare akin to a flock of sheep. If the flock is protected, it increases fu numbers, and if the forest is protected 1t grows new crops of trees on the burned -over lands and replaces the trees cut for lumber. Lumbermen take the mature trees but, fire takes stature trees, sap- lings, seedlings, and even the soil in which the trees grow. In a country with such great areas of forest land and with such a climate as Canada, nature will grow new forests rapidly it only given a chance• But even if it were not so and planting were am ab- solute necessity to preserve Cauadian forests, what would be the good of planting if our fire protection were so poor that we allowed these seedlings to be burned up a year after they were planted? Planting both in Eur- ope and Canada is necessary 1n cer- tain cases, but it cannot be -under - !Mon an administration calculated to taken until there is reasonable as - 1 ensure Out -over areas being left in the service (a& them is in the settled dis- beet condition to produce continued tracts of tl?e older provinces) that crops of the more valuable tree these plantings will be protected from species, so far as that may be eon- tire, The first duty of Canadians is sistent witli the economics of the to protect their mature timber and situation. their young forests from lire. • 4; 'std.' ou.(rhly 'cooked, and if there is the slightest evidence of spoiling it should be very promptly thrown oat, The toxin -poison --developed by the growth of the germ -is so deadiy't'hent several instances are 'on record of women dying front simply tasting it bit of the :food before cooking it, to make sva'e•tt was not spoiled, Yet in :spite cif flue deadliness of botuliinnas, there is na reason •for any- one to die of botttIiam if the cook sitnplly uses het' tw'o God, gipett semses, - AUTO REPAIR PARTS I for most makes and models of cars, Your old, broken or worn-out Darts replaced, Write or wire us dcserib• Ing what you want. We carry the largest and most coatplcts, stook in Canada of etithtly bred Cr new parts and autoinoblto ogulpment,- Wo sttio C,6.1), anywhere In Canada, Satis- factory or refund in full aur motto, shower dtuta 8alOago Part dappty, ata -951.-_ rraffesin 8t., h'oronto, Ont. eight: and smell. Two good eyes will tell an experienced cook whether the can gives evidence that the food has worked. If the cyan has swoiden, eltowing.that gas has been generated inside; if you cat work the top up and down; if it is badly ruetcd, ors if Sen can Cee that it has been pane - timed and resoidered, discard it. 1f pour grocer will not take it back, write tb the canter who put it up and tell him. He will be eternally g••ate- ful to you, as the wart blew his busi- ness .pould' get would he to lave a death traced .to his products. If the can looks all right, but'"th.e gooilts when turned out have any trace of bad oder, -or do not look the right color, throw it out. Don't do as some cooks do, "dope" it up with seasoning so the family will not detect Ole hint of spoiling. The o.do'r from botulinus is so distinctive Diet if you once sntcll 3•t you Will never forget it. It is extrentteiy' disagreeable, and has been compared by some to rancid but- ter, ca' strong-eunelling cheese. If you can odd to this a s•:tggention of un- eleanlinees you may get an idea of what botulisms smells like. The odor is so sdrrtog that there are eases where eotks have (aided to notice. a less marked odor, after having discarited n tainted ran, and have cooked a can cf vege:rrblas also tainted, though not in stteh nt ad:anc'acl stage. The form- ation of gas is one of th.e first-indica- tione of the presence of botulism, se if, you open esou'r own canned products anti de'teot the presence of gas_ or leak- age yeti will be wise to throw it out. Don't melte the ntistalze, however, s,f giving this disenrclecl food to the pigs ct. elriokens. Ono farm woman Lett a valuable fiocic of chickens by feeding thorn a can of vegetable's which the thought was just "be- i inning to work." Of course, not all ,petted toed may contain it; and since the only way to know if it is present 5t by careful laboratory nteth•ttdc., men' rule shooed be"safety first," wb!,'h means to diecard anything which dime not look right, sme:i right, or taste right, If the food is "oft color" you will know It. In canning be trine that cvorytremg is thoroughly 'lean, perfectly sound, without specks or any bawl emote, and then that it is thoroughly cocked., Pressure, steam processing if proper- ly done, tFesatroy's saorce and germs. So for this rentor goads pert up in a eommtcmeiat canner, if properly mane aged,,. are safer thee those e'anned at tette by baling and not properly done, Renseanber that botulinus' int deadly, But Ince every other deadly thing; it hes been &meshed a set of Wettings by nature, head yottt• signals, bad color, had bad c , , ! Mete, reel you run no Bair, er, ti• '•. J a,,,,Ko r4•• 44 t, DAINTY COMBINATIONS FOR SPRING - AND SUMMER WEAR MADE, WITH A VIEW TO COMFORT AND STYLE ELIMINATES DIREC'TOIRE FULLNESS AROUND WAIST These remarkably constructed garments have all the comforts of a suit of combinations with the dIrectolro drawer style. MADE IN WHITE AND •PINK MERCERIZED HAMILTON STYLE '16611 'TRADE •rg a wr:..fit •, - ..n.... - t ,5ti A Startling Innovation. Wherever, in any part of Ontario, twenty or more persons wish to pro- ceed to a University degree without discontinuing their employment, facil- ities to accomplish their ambition are offered by the Provincial University so far as its finances and the size of its staff will permit. For years the University of To- ronto has had special arrangements to enable teachers to secure higher academic qualifications and the degree of B.A. without giving up their teach- ing positions. At the Match meeting of the University Senate these ar- rangements were extended and adapt- ed to meet the needs of people engaged in any ordinary employment. With only certain absolutely indispensable regulations as to size of classes, con- trol of staff, suitable equipment for scientific subjects,, and with only ordi- nary university fees prescribed, the opportunity is offered for the estab- lia0tmemrt of what may be virtually lo- cal colleges affiliated with the Provin- cial University. The course thus offer- ed is the "pass" or "general" course, the subjects of the first year being Ein'glish, Latin, French, algebra and geometry (one paper), trigonometry, and science, and those of the 'second, third, and fourth years being English, French, science and any two of his- tory, psychology, and political economy. This departure is in accord with the well-known democratic policy of On- tario's University. Its design is to make the advantages of higher educa- tion available throughout the Univer- sity's entire constituency. This 35 no "cheapening" of university education, for university teaching and examina- tions will be maintained at the tradi- tional high standard; but it does bring higher education to the people's floors -especially to the doors of those adults who have, for any reason, fail-' ed to avail theneeelves of youth's op- portunity for learning. To robtain a B.A. degree will involve just as much work as it ever did, but the extraneous obstacles have been rentovetl. It is such innovations as this, along with the notable work that has been and is being done in the. regular way, that entitle the Utrversity of Toronto to the most generous seppert el the Provincial Government, Makeshifts. Resourcefulness in fashioning make- shifts Is a desirable trait, but it is never a satisfactory substitute for a complete and well -ordered equipment. In fact, it is, usually the person with the complete and well -ordered equip- ment who is resourceful in fashioning makoshitts when the necessity arises. For one does net ordinarily come into such possession by chance or inherit- ance; the qualities -that enable a ratan to•acquire it include the very quality that enables ]tint to construct a Make- rItift when something goes wrong with the equipment. Thoroughness' Of knowledge is "anally the prerequisite to resourcefte ess in dealing with awkward situesions. Much labor-sav- ing machinery had its origin itt the ingenious devit.e contrived by deme workmen who wanted to save himself labor; but probably none was ever conceived in the mind of a clumsy and impatient apprentice who heel only halt Matted his job. There is no satisfactory makeshift for honest thought or for itcettrate Itnowledge, Smartness cleverness, evasiveness, disingennotienesa, all Wray offer their services to the man who shrinks from the effart necessary to 01 quire those lewdanmaatel attri- butes for successful achievement; They stay carry him on smoothly enough so long as there is no serious' opposition .to his progress; but when they bring itiat into conflict, ns they sorely Will, with some one wile It the equipment that he lacks, they will matte but a pitiable s]towiug. The It Inter who relies upon rhetoric and sophistry comes off badiy itt an on. minter t to With t tea slvn0attr who is 13 armed with a Mastery of the Nets, Whereas expertness !u creating makeshifts et a practical sort is a stark of a tvel'trainotl mind, react!- noes to adopt -manes/lift atonal pro. Maw; indicates not only an untrained mind but also ati undeveloped charm. Ler. Masicai Eyes for the Biel To the numerous inventions design - relieve the lot of the blind there is now added one more marvellous titan.any of its predecessors, It consists of an instrument -the op- tophone-invented by Dr. E. E. Four- nier d'Albe, of London, which enables the blind to see by sound, Until it was invented the only means by which they could read was by a raised type system, such as the Moon and the Braille, involving the Production of expensive and bulky boolce, and depending upon the sense of touch. The quantity of literature open to the :sightless was, in consequence com- paratively sinal]. It was sometimes difficult, moreover, for an adult blind pel:son to acquire the sensitiveness necessary to read such books. These disadvantages are overcome by the optophone, since it can Inc used with matter in ordinary print, as well as with typewriting. It is dependent not upon the sense of touch, but upon hearing, which is usually 'acute in blind persons. People who are armless, as well as sightless, can, for the first time, read any printed book or newspaper if it is placed on the. optophone. The wonder of seeing by sound is brought about by producing in a tele- phone receiver a series of musical notes farming tunes or musical motifs representing the various letters. A blind person puts oe a receiver and then places a printed page face downwards on the top of the instru- went -a glass plate supported by a stand. Beneath the plate is a tablet of porcelain pierced with an aperture - to permit the passage of light from a small electric lamp on to the.paper. The amount of light 'reflected or thrown back from the page varies ac- cording to the forms of letters parsed over in traversing a line of print, and in this way a selenium bridge in the instrument is exposed to successions of sets of light vibrations. Each let- ter is thus indicated in a telopltone by a characteristic sound, which is conveyed to the ear of the blind per- son by the receiver. • White paper, as the space between two words, may be represented by a discord, and each Iotter will alter the succession of sounds. But with the optophone now !n use white paper fs represented by s.)c::.:ce, and notes are sounded only as the light passes over letters. At first, of course, reading must Ire done letter by letter, as the character- istic sound of each is recognized. Af- ter a little practice, however, a blind person instantly and without con- scious effort Identifies the mote ex- tended motif syllables, for tall • sY t es, and even frequently -recurring words -such as "the," "and," "from," "of" -just as a telegraph tolerator interprets a succes- sion of clicks in the horse code. The ease with which experts can read Morse makes it probable that equal if not greater speed will be at- tained with practice in reading epic - phone sounds. Already it has been found that soma blind persons can read with the instrument at the rate of twenty-five words a minute. Recently, too, a comparative novice accomplished a remarkable feat. A girl was tested with. an ortltnary novel and Sir 'Arthur Pearso n' s "Light in g Darkness." Blind from birth, she had learned tate alphabet of sound in about seven hours, and, after two months' training, read passages from the two books -with which site had had no previous acquaintance -at the rate of twenty words a minute. World's Strongest Rope. What a wonderful contrivance is the spicier's web-ntaldng apparatus! By oceans of it he can lower him- self easily, rapidly, and safely a dis- tance severe/ hundred tines the length of his own body No rope that man can ntalce is, for its size, anything like so strong as the spider's web• The smallest rope that will safely bear the weight of an aver- age man is one inch in circuntberence, or a third of aninch it diameter. A spider only a quarter of an inch long will swing down from ceiling to floor, running out a line 500 times as long as himself. To equal the spider's performance a six-foot man would have to carry more than half a mile of one -inch rope! No man could car- ry the weight, Spiders' webs are used for making the fine crossed lines of telescopes and other delicate itstruinents with which • minutely accurate measure-, cnemis are made. The spider is placed on a tiny roll- er, which is shaken gently until he falls off and begins to descend, The roller is then turned so that the web is wound on to it, whilst the spider, who thinks he is dropping down, re- mains suspended in the air, 'I'Ite amount ofeweb that ono spider can mdse is astonishing. Even it his entire :supply It for the moment ex- hausted, be is very soon able to begin again,• Women! Use "Diamond Dyes.' Dye Old Skirts, Dresses, Waists, Coats, StockingsDraperies, Everything, Each pacgago of "Diamond Dyes" contains easy directions for dyeing any article of wool, silk, cotton, linen, or mixed goods, Baware! Poor dye streaks, spots, fades and ruins nma- terlal by giving it a 'dyed•loolc," t nor "Diamond Dyes" only. Druggist has Color Card. Why the Prairies Are Treeless. In a recent issue of the Canadian Forestry Magazine, 1133', R. H. 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