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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,
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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
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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
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regulations as to size of classes, con-
trol of staff, suitable equipment for
scientific subjects,, and with only ordi-
nary university fees prescribed, the
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cial University. The course thus offer-
ed is the "pass" or "general" course,
the subjects of the first year being
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well-known democratic policy of On-
tario's University. Its design is to
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tion available throughout the Univer-
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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
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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. Camp-
bell, Director of Forestry, Ottawa, dig -
cusses the question "Why the ?rallies
Are Treeless." lie reviews tato vari-
ous theories which hold that the
Prairies always were treeleso, and sets
forth different facts to show that the
prairies most have been covered with
trees In past ages.. On broad lines
he
agrees will the late Prof. Ii, Y. hind,
and the late Prof. John Macoun, that
the prairies were cneo covered with
trees, and were reduced t0 their pre-
sent condition mainly by fires. Like
these authorities, too, he believes that
tree•growt', can bo restored to most of
the prairie area when the fire menace
has been removed.
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