The Clinton News Record, 1921-11-10, Page 6THE MYSTERY OF THE
GREEN RAY
By William Le Queux
that we have had sonno very jelly
Beside Still Waters, times together in the past, and if we
I are tell going to take out our seethe -
The youth in the multi -colored alization Iiapees in the Atkins family,
blazer laughed. I it is just possible that we—wlli, we
"You'd have to come and be a I May not be all together again sacral
nurse, sog is aed. year"
"Oh, I'd go as a would 't I?" I d "t1.nd you, Jack?" caked Dennis. '
look hale ini uniform, i, wouldn't I?" the "Oh, down stream for me" said
waitnni siBereh in swell'. I Young Curtis. with what was obvious -
liqueur one savagesaswallower) his y an effort at his usual light-thearted
bankin one ndgulp.mehe manner, "Think of sell' the beer we've
bablt his cltaix, and rose from the I got left." But the laugh with which
table.he eccom'panied his "'remark was. not
"Sillycloudenoughneass," he said, in a' calculated to deceive any of us, and
voice for the object of j am afraid my clumsy speech head
hi: wrath to hear, "Let's get out-11
set hunt thinking again. So we went
side:' i"ashore;' and had a ntgitteep et the
The four of ue rasps, paid our bill, l M•a *pie;.Where the flippant youth was
and went out, leaving the youth and'
'announcing to an arlmiring circle that
his flippant comparator., to Aug s t the' if ho had half a dozen mals to go with
For it was Bands Holiday. August the him lie wouldn't mind joining the
sin , k though it was)fit leaving scouted
CITAi?Cl.lt I.
the end of the three months slue came
an to town to see Whet it Was all
wo'n't. Clad, hew glad I was to see heal"
"1 bet ton Were," said Dennis,
alae)) "Ant What day' �u
synipathe y
mean bytelling me you'd got nothing
to Wory abes tet Nod that)Mane
just getting things going
look like. doing really wall, along
comes thus wrotehed weir, and you join
the army, mod such practice uas yen
have goes to the devil, Iit'ss rotten
luck Ronnie, rotten luck,"
"It is a bit" I admitted with a sigh.
My little alit of hatvl••tairaed. mecum
had meant a lot to me.
(To be continued.)
the
third., 1p1�l and I abut,, array himse
the shorte,t and most uneventful o village in an unavailing attempt to
all our river "amities,' it is the one
. which we are least likely to forget.
On the Saturday Dennis, Jack Curtis,
Tommy Evans and myself had started
from Richmond on our yearly trip up
the rivet'. Even as we sat ut the two
Punts playing bridge, moored ,t our
first ra,nupnrg-pla: e below Kingston
Wait disquieting rumors reached us
in the form of excited questions from
the occupants of pasoeing craft. And
new, as we •reee from the dinner -
table at the Magpie, Sunbury, two
days later, it seemed that war was
inevitable. •
"What I civet understand," growled
Dennis, as we :topped into one of the
punts and paddled idly across to the
lock, "is how any you?g idiot can
treat the whole thing as a terrible
joke. If we go to ewer with Germany
—and it cactus we mutt—it's going to
Good Ifeevensl who levetiw
what it's going to be!"
`:Meaning," said Tom, who never
allowed any thought to remain hale-
ex•preeec•d,."megning that we are not
and they are. We have to
Eye 'Items.
Thoufands can see the sante object,
at the genie time. That seems noth-
lag extraordinary, yet rosily it 1s a
miracle! It is only possible' because
in the wonderful scheme of things au
object throws off from its surface mil-
lions of rays In all directions. Each
person, according to his position,
.seizes literally, on one of these rays,
and travels along with it, ocelerity, to
the object. '
The eye is pained by a sudden light.
Why? It is because the nerves of the
eye are hardened with rays before the
pupils have had time to contract and
receive them,
Again, if we have a well -lighted
room and go into the street, every-
thing seems much darker than it
actually is. That because the eye
pupils, contracted indoors, have not
had time to clilete and catch the lesser
rays outside. "Getting used to the
dark" is merely waiting for. the pupils
to dilate.
Cats, Owls, and Tigers see in the
dark because they have the power of
enlarging at will the pupils of their
eyes, and thus collect all the scattered
rays of light there are, Which are pre-
sent even in "darkness."
Do ave know why we can see our-
selves in a mirror? It is net because
the mirror is a mirror, but because
the rays of light from our face, strik-
ing against the glass, and unable to
Pass through it because of the "back-
ing," are thrown back again to our
eyes. They rebound, in short.
Finally, with two eyes we apparent-
ly ought to see double, and we do! But
the two images fall on the two retina:
simultaneously, and are combined in
one. There's snore in the eye, than one
would think!
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41,1
Remember Student. I and rvmokepipe daneii'ee's aevd light
Trooping to school and college have paper, When fuel is 'burning freely
just gene many young men and wo- adjust the dampers,
men to spend e season away from Attend to fire regularly, If low,
home for the first time an their lives, Put
on coallittle
-cl If a lenge
Fawns mad mothers are snore os of glowing fire is used.
rt
less girls s to know how their boys In severe weather fill last thing at
and girls d. h,he new will stand- night. The first thing in the morning
bilatjes•, and whether they gh'"•
the physical strain; but 'if they ave open dasnmpers amid add a little oda .
p Y When fire is burning wise, they will not show toe mue'h and' add more coal.
t
anxiety on that point. Youth hes the Clean ash -pit daily. A short, swift
happy ddy of seeing of i much at stroke of shaker sifts ashes through
the good and t- p little the that In mild weather have a bed
a trustedyoungpersongrate.grate. iso a •groat extent. yeas weather, shake till a glow ape
But itp welle desperatelytremember ' thatpears. Always leave .grate set level,
op -
young people get hmn'eKeep firepot full. You get better
sick, and frequent letters from Name
help wonderfully. Then, too, every heist if coal is even with door in front
young person likes to got "lets of and a little high in the back. Never
sna'i'l," and if the home folk rise to the poke fire bed,
occasions, much of the loneliness will
roundan half a pound of butter, we
end spent the
night ut tin the -downstream,
backwater. No
one suggested'cards after supper, sand
we ley long into the night dascussing,
as thousands of other people all over
the country were probably discussing,
conscription, espionage, martial law,
the possibilities of invasion, and the
probable duration of the war. I doubt
very much if we sinned have goals to
sleep at all had we' been able to fore-
see the events avliieh the future, in its
various ways, held in store foe each
of us. But, as it was, we plunged
wholeheartedly into what Tommy
Evans described as "Life'•s new inter-
est." We positively thrilled at the
prospect of army life• •
"Think of it," said Jack enthusi-
asticaslly, , "open air ail the time. No-
thing to worry about, no Work to dalb,
only manual labor, Whyi
to be one long holiday. Hang it! I've
laid drain -pipes on a farm— forefun!"
It was past once o'clock when we got
oat su,ppe'r. • And our appetites lost
prepared,. nothing by the prospect of hardships
st }p straght into the ring inytreeoed 'a'h'oah we t sa• ed -saber lightly since
to tweet an opponent olio has been .-s tli` t'y et ,I ,pp ; tat eir
kc' c,w �l - i -
r the 4 n�of star s
lav fo st7f
*ht and c tali
getting yearly rpt,att'Su mess.
Lerd knows how many years " I i Oli$r atattlet the 0101 Olathe bay -
"Still, you know." said Jack, who t ewe. niers y, gcl4''edr, flaver gee'
his
in'vaiiably found the bright spot in am,n�'�1'ivf c slw WI -eV gat.u'�clf'' )atm,
diel any good bsaTwfi 1t'olkl' tosyl;' elf l rif�a�li and
everything, we never winding -
"We
on g
-bed." which
he mu
•ai�.0
• �re pay � cream,. as a nation until we were 1 c
"We shall be pushed lhia time;" I!up_Ri`JTti,•lI;]y_.isryA.,iil,_11te_lxtnrnitig..l'Ie
vrp e'i; "nee if we do go to war, are would have shouted with laughter load
eh°tll all 1•e wanted." you told him that in less than three
weeles he would be dashing through
the enemy's lines with despatches on a
red-hot motorcycle. And Tommy --
poor old Tommy—well, I fancy he
would have been just as cheerful, deem
old chap, had he known the fate that
was in store. icor to him was to fall
the lot which, of all others, everyone
—rich and poor alike—understands.
There is no steed for me to repeat the
story, Even in the i -u h of a war
whidll'l has already brought forward
some thousand's of heroes, the
reader ed
willremember theglorlaus exploit
of
Trace being maintained now; and, in -(Corporal Thomas Evans, in which be
c'r^•1 in view of the circumstances, I won the DC.M., and also, unfortun-
v h Sunny Monday.
"And wanted at once," Tom added,
"Which brings me to the point
which inept concerns us," said Dentis,
with a serious face, "What ere are
gain; to do?" „
"It seems to me, I replied, "that
thr r !a cn•ly enc thing we can do.
If lbc• Gaverrar:eut declares wear, it is
in your cause r tel mime; and mho is
to fight oar battles but you and me?"
"Thut's it, opal man, ersaetly," said
Dennis. "We roust appear in person,
I'm
afraid
as you lawyers would say.
there Is not the =lightest hope of
shaukl prefer to say there is not the
slightest fear of it. We can't honor-
ably keep out, so let us hope we shall
step in at once,'
Jack's muttered "hoar, hear" spoke t comrade, a clean, honest, atre,a' '. or -
for us ell, and there was silence toe ward Englisiemean through and
a minute or two. My thoughts were i through
ately, gave his life for his country. It
is sufficient to say that three men in
particular will ever cherish his mem-
m'y as that of a Loyal friend, a cheery
very far away from the peaceful vai-
ley of the Thames; they had flown, in
fact, to n still more peaceful glen in
the Western Higlslantls :but of that
anon. I fancy the others, ton, were
thinking of something fee removed
from the ghastly. horror of war. Jack -,se did so we stood up, as' well as we
was sitting with an open cigarette -1 could under our 'canvas read?, arid'
case in his hand, gazing wistfully at armee "The King"; and I fancy that
the bank to which the had moored the in lire mind of each of me there was
As .for Dennis and myself but I
em .ceaniug to that.
llaving finished our early morning
supper, we turned in for a few hours
sieep, Jack and Tommy in one boat,
Dennis and I in the other. But before
Can Bees Tell the Time?
A French expert declares that bees
are able to tell the time.
This ingenious Frenchman conduct-
ed aninteresting experiment. lie be-
gan by breakfasting in the open air at
seven o'clock, partaking of light pre-
serves. Precisely at ten o'clock the
table was cleared. At the midday
ureal no sweets were served; but at
four o'clock in the afternoon there was
a light lunch with sweets.
Within a weep all the bees in the
neighborhood seemed to get mind of
they r
what was going on, to cam
e in
such swarms that they covered the
table, and the meals had to be served
indoors.
For weeks the visits of tiee bees
were as regular as clockwork. They
omitted the midday meal because no
sweets were served then.
Subsequently a jar of jam was
placed in a Window for the first five
nmiuutes of every hour during the day.
Within a short time the bees made
hourly visits with such regularity that
the time of day could be judged with-
out reference to a clock,
boat. There was a "little girl" in the
question.. Poor chap; I knewhaxl exactly
what he was thinking; ir
sympathy! The silence became nn-
r-emfortable, and it was Jack who
broke it.
"Give me a match, -Tommy," he ex-
claimed suddenly, "and - don't talk so
mech." Toni, who. had not spoken a
word for several minutes, produced
the matches from a capacious pocket,
and we all laughed rather immoder-
ately at the feeble rally.
• "As to talking," said Toni, when
sour tu caall sd l
re-
stored, yeull seemto be
leaving
me to say what we all know has to be
said. And that is, what is the next
item on the program
"I think we had certainly beitee de-
ci;'e drains began.
"You old humbug exclaimed Tom.
"You know perfectly well that we've
<tl decided what wo ere going to do. a
•cabestet meeting, y'know, he mu -
It is mercy the question of putting it, nsured d'owsily.. ti<nd by way of com-
i'i r -.l s, In settee way or otherewe,prnnnise i pulled the primitive draught
intend t? regard the casco Rex v.
Wilhelm as one. in which we person-
er ,ata eancet•necl. Am I. riaht'e"
:'r: roil ."1 p'crsiblc, • said' Jack, who
heti quite reecvered his spirits.
"C•p 'which case," Tom continued,
more than one schen name silently
coupled with that.toasst. Then, for
the first time in my memory of our
intimacy together, we solemnly shook
hands before turning in. But, try
as I would, I couldn't sleep.. For a
long time I lay there; in the beautiful
silence of the night, my thoughts far
away, sleep farther away still. Pre-
sently I grovelled for my tobacco -
pouch.
.'Restless, Don?" Dennis asked,
himself evidently quite -wide awake.
"Can't.sleep -at ally I answered.
"But don't let me disturb ydit,"
"You're not disturbing ane, old man.
I can't sleep either. Let's light the
lamP and smoke."
Accordingly we fished out our pipes
and relighted the acetylenes lamp,
which hung from the middle hoop.
Jack turned over in his sleep.
• "put out the light, old fellow. Not
a:shin' • tnach'me is run
by a gasolene engine or some other
no vepower,
' about the size of her
weekly washing. But when ansa is de-
pendentease ens a mo-
tiveere ass a
for,then it behooves
the housewife to study up ay
means of making the weekly washing
r.
usingoilcloth - or var-
iouss the weekly washing
may be lessened to quite an extent.
oilcloth apron for kitchen en
number of dish aprons.
good-sized 'bib apron made ofoil-
cloth, a convenient place a
in thedat will' e• a
for the man of the house when he is
llcin and caring for the milk. Oil-
cloth pion bibs for the children to
keeping their clothing clean. quite a .
Self.
The use ofpaper 'ov e, No one is expected to like toilsome
etc., artllicles
bes foundra comparatively
While labor. The only benefit we get from
thesearticles are com'pam.atively cheap it
it might net be wise from an econ-
omical standpoint to use them every
day, but it is a good plan to keep e
supply on hand to be used when there
WHAT
TRIS LIFE IS
The old Duke of Argyll used to tell
an amusing story In this connection:
He was once remarking in the I'ligh-
}j lands on the beauty of a copse of oaks
WE MAKE ®N on a mountain side, i
"Yes," said the laird, "hut I think
they Would. cook prettier still to the
THEREFORE AVOID MI- corner of a banking account!"
As the duke pointed out, he felt that
TATION_ if the question of 'Sntrine'le. value of
the timber was concerned, it seemed
to him that more real wealth wee re -
Think and Create for Yourself. presented by the oaks stapding on the
It Will Add Immeasurably landlord's land than a mere ink mark
in an account -book. But the laird evi-
to Your Enjoyment. dently thought otherwise,
After all, everything is useful to
trey Rhodes. Most et us pass our
mechanical round
interests that we magnify to
thoughts and days. The big crowd of
involuntary existence hardly
requiring any original thought, sheep-
ishly
0 L-
ishly moving In a narrow rutsoul-
destroying routine; devoid of new
thou
alto en pil-
grimage,llow it to degenerate in-
to a tedious journey, affording
experience.
fact thatthere is noth-
ing new in this old world of ours, but
all the same the oldtruths
explained to each generation
along. An today we
with which cto
ourselves that we have almost forgot-
ten of work.
It is the opposite of toll, and that is
ail'ia
Presents of various sorts should "Away with blue Monday "How little we make of life con -
somebody somewhere. We all know
Follow the student, and take off the Lets snake the day sunny, I adoring what it offers," said a friend i that even dirt is only matter in the
keen edge of hunger that a healthy, With the aid of our wits, i of mine recently. wrong place, Our greatest treasure
hearty boy or girl feels in a college We surely can do it."! That is 'perfectly true writes Geof- ie iendoubtodly the noble heritage
boarding, house. Tho box of apples, When one s w 8 in a mo i 1 of trivial Bleeping in the very drops of our
ed. chic of , thejelly,eiiiththe bigrfit timeblood. Deep down in our beasts and
chicken, eeTr ,'tthe bfruit maelsinery Pum i td ane to iE fill our minds, beneath the fleeting fancies
ed
c
cake, thethe ntooki pie, 'the nuts and pop not so oonceaned and ideas of the hour, lies a wealth
homemadeorny Cookies fat hee fruit, the us live an of wisdom and experience gathered by
the cheese, pickles, upon elbow gr 1 t hes our parents and their parents again
ngingerbread
l-y taffy,cod sszed of soul
the ly g good things
and all the other Bower and th g ' before thein, bequeathed unconscious -
yet
good domes costtvery little; faintly to maasli d Y g Py by thorn to us, their children.
yet are so welcome to the young sbu- W sand ideas or original thought. All this eperience and wisdom is
dents! Even if the young folks 'heave Instead of m i g life joyous therl this when needed: but s
a little spendeing money for luxuries, smalls we a inure give it an opportunityd: of wertsin
tY rding few in- to the give
it before it can obef avail -
the lis things taste better than I fitixl that by '1 1 th f retests and little 1 o able fore use, Thatr means we must
anything else. purpose.
It may boa occasionally stand aside from the
avail -
It is also well not weigh down ,k'l h use
down the absent ones with cautionsr An pr t th have to be noise and the bustle of existence to
and reminderstsacrifice
that father and munmtzes the give ourselves time for thought,
I have to dWp get you through A p d '1 freshly exp Feeling, thinking, doing. They must
school,em and wo expect youn to make clotltu, hung t t as it comes g And
i h amuse
avall share our attention in turn if we
the mast. of your opportunities." If the barn or 1 d dairy U h ndy so many toys w wish to make the most of enr talents.
the young people are in earnest, their Keep Moving All the Time.
t will. show their attitude to- int g R ten how to play. We must cease to accept our ideas
standing Play is not the.c 1 from our neighbor ready made. We
ward their est, opportunities; if they are cloth ap
net in earnest, they 'might as weal wear at the table help wonderfully to t another thing fmustrom think things out for ourselves.
go home. Let the youngsters workit will add considerably to cur enjoy -
out Y h t e1 napkins I The Way to Your Better Se meet of life, and increase our mental
out their adlege life unhampered erect b
bce-
feel ant
admonitions. co Make them powers tol an extent arenas: beyond mental
feel th.et y eterme confidence in them I lief. To use our brain is to Improve
and their determination to succeed.
And then remember that a little
money gift now and then helps out
wonderfully. At school, as at home,
our elaborate machinery is that them. An old prcverb says that "What
takes the drudgery off one's shoulders.
But work is what gives the zest to
play. If all work and no play makes
Pack a dull boy, all play and no work
is infinitely worse.
We are surrounded by opportunities
for enjoyment for ourselves and our
fellows. All we have to do is to take
advantage of them.
We all crave for the same thing,
only seine call it happiness, some
health, some wealth. If we take the
trouble to define our wants we shall
find that they all come to the same
thing. The millionaire only hangs o
n
to his money -bags because he can use
them to procure health and happiness.
If he goes about the job intelligently
he is quite as sensibly employed as
the poorer man saving a few dollars
to take his family 'on a holiday. May
they both be successful!
After all, what does the magic word
success itself mean? All these terms
so much in use are purely relative In
their interpretation,
I May be fairly successful at writing
an article for a newspaper, but I am
sure that I should be a hopeless fail-
ure on the Stock Exchange. I know a
man with a big banking account who
has been what is called successful in
business; but he is hard put to it to
express himself clearly in half a dozen
lines on a postcard. He would cer-
tainly not be a success as a journalist.
We all have our little triumphs and
our little failures; stepping -stones to
our better selves.
Indeed, what is sport but placing
obstacles in our own path, just for
the sake of the tun of overcoming
them? That is the spirit to cultivate.
Enterprise, initiative, will -power, ye -
solution, call it what you like, it is the
sane, time determination to face facts
boldly and not timidly like to child in
the clerk.
A Heritage of Wisdom.
Self-knowledge and self-government
ere the two requisite qualifications for
tite enjoyment of life on this planet.
'We have to remember that we live in
an emotional world of opinions end ;9
not in an Aladdin's cave. And it is
• ,,arsenal estitnaticu of things that reed,
don't expect to he cf much as -
curtain between the two boats, and as
I set up to do so I noticed wo
start that Dennis wore a worried look
I had never ,seen before. I lay back,
got my pipe going, and availed for
him to speak.
I \Vendor," he said presently,
unexpected expenses come um, end the i is sickness or extra work to be done
stwdent 'oho has Itis allovntneo figured and one has little time to spend in
washing clothes.
I find that the general washing is
also greatly diminished when, through
the week I gather up end wash the
small pieces, such as hosiery, hand -
money for them are soon lett out. Not kerchiefs, doilies, dishtowels, small
that excessive spending should he end pioees of -children's wearing apparel,
courag'ed, but rather that the country i etc. It takes but a little time to wash
11 d toseyet the
general
• neeof the
boy or girl should net be co p a number
pial the wallflower merely for the weekly washing will be noticeably
lack of a dollar or two, :smaller if this is done, A small wash
Have the young people home as i tub, a stout toy washboard, the kind
often asyou can and make the ova- that usually sells for half a dollar, and
sion one of rejoicing and encourage-
ment. Praise them all you honestly
eon, and be'hopeful for the future,
so close as to preclude anything foe
omergeneies will have a hard time of
it unless he can get work. Little so-
cial occasions spring up as if by
magic, and students who have no
New Canned Food.
A newly patented kind of food, put
up ready for the housewife's instant
use is prepared by mixing fine -chopped
meat with milk and a little four. The
paste thus formed is -filled into molds
and exposed to heat, whereby the con-
tents undergo slight shrinkage and ac-
quire a sort of "skin." The molded
masses are thus easily dropped out, to
be thereupon put into cans, which are
sterilized and sealed.
s'semeee to our King and country tf through the clouds of smoke that
a", 51 gallivanting up to Wallingford, hung imprisoned beneath our shallow
,,i originally intepeed. The• question, roof—"I wonder if .there would have
been any ever if the See'mans smoked
Jamavana?"
"Wh:aet's worrying you, Den?" I
asked, ignoring his question.
"Worrying cue? Why, nafhist g.
I've got nothing to, worry about,
*ghat about you, though? I don't
want to butt in on your private at -
fairs but you've a lot more to'be
worried about than I have,"
"I? Oh, nonsense, Dennis," I pro-
tested.
"None of that with nae, Ron, 'You
know what I mean. There's no point
in either of us concealing things. This
war is going to make a big difference
to you and Myra McLeod. Now, tell
me all about it. What do you mean
to do, and everything?"
"There isn't much to toll you. You
know all•,about it. We're net engaged.
Old General McLeod objects to our
engagement on account of my posi-
tion. Of course„frees quite right. He's
very nice about it, and he's always
kindness itself to me. You know, of
course, chart he and my ;father were
brother officers? Myra and I have
been chums since she was four. We
love each other, and she would be con-
tent to wait, but, in the meantime—
well, you know my position. I can
only describe it in the well -worm
phrases, ',brieflese barrister' and 'isn-
pecun'i'ous junior.' There's a great deal
of truth in the weak old joke, Dennis,
about the many that are called and
the few that ata Uriefdd,• Of course
the General is right Ho says that I.
ought to leave Myfa aabsoleteiy alrano,
and neither write to her nor see her,
amid give her so e'liaicte to meet some -
Ono bice, acid) ell that --someone oa'Iso
could keel; cher aneeng pier own set.
Bet I trioti that on -ca eat three
menthe; I didn't ans'wer hot letters.
or write to het','amdl r Wea ied myself
to (teeth very nearly about it, But at
therefore, remains, shell we go be. d
by train ---if we can find the station
here—int ehail we punt baick to Rich-
mond?”
I don't think we nre':1 worry about
that" solid Demes. 'I vote we go
back by river;' it will be more conven-
ient hi every way, rind we can leave
the heels et ivlcseems. If things are
not prat black newts think they are we
omen step on 'heard again} with a light
heart, or four light hcarts,at you
prefer it, and Start avid.
you say, Ron?"
"I should prefer to paddle back," I
eoplicel. "Ii would be a pity to break
up our party immediately. I don't
want to be eentisnental, or anything
of that sort, but you chaps will agree
Care of Furnaces.
Keep all heaters clean. Soot and
ashes reduce effective heating.
Leaps cause drafts and consequent
loses of heat. Mend them with cement.
To build a fire: Close all dampers,
shake grate and remove ashes.
Put in crumpled papers. cover with
kitrdlings )seise) crisp -cross to admit air,
then a thin layer of coal, or hard
woad, if wood is used. Open ash pit
Dyed Child's Coat
and Her Old Skirt
Buy "Diamond Dyes" and follow the
simple directions in every package.
Don't wonder whether you can dye or
tint successfully, because perfect home
dyeing is guaranteed with Diamond
Dyes even if you have never dyed be-
fore. Worn, faded dresses, skirts,
waists, coats, sweaters, stockings,
draperies, hangings, everything, be-
come like new again, Just tell your
druggist whether the material you
wish to dye is wool or sills, or whether
it is linen, cotton, or mixer, goods.
Diamond Dyes Bever streak, spot, fade,
or run.
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a largo pan with a cover to be used
as a boiler, are the utensils I find
handy when washing these small
things.
When doing general washing I find
a swab brush valuable in removing
dirt and grease from heavy overalls,
men's shirts. underclothing, etc. Many
times a machine will not remove these
entirely and it is necessary to rub
them on. a washboard, By placing the
soiled part on a board and rubbing
with a stiff scrub brush the work can
be done better and easier than by rub-
bing with the hand.. �^
Clinched it.
Aunt lane, who was a spinster, came
to visit Ler sister and fang's y of four
children. And from the very first
auntie was very mucic given to offer-
ing advice to her sister on the way to
feed, dress and treat children gener-
ally. The sister listened in perfect
good humor, but not so Sally, her ef-
ficient helper, And frankly, Sally said
so. "Look here, Miss Jane," she be-
gan, "What do old maids like you and
me know about raisin' children? We
ain't never hail none and a person has
to have -children to know how to raise
them," Aunt Jane smiled a tolerant
smile. "Oh, not always, Sally," she
returned. "Now taste those little
chickens out there. Don't you thinie
you know more than their mother?
You feed—" But Sally interrupted
Iter. "Yes, ma'am, I feed them, if
teat's what you mean. But I ha•fn't
never 'yit taught any or them to
scratch --have I?"
the worst is yet to come
New Life Preserver, Makes
Sinking Impossible.
A new form of life preserver, soon
to be placed on the market, consists of
an inflated rubber sheathing covering
two air -tight curved metal chambers
and resembles a large bologna saus-
age hinged in the middle. It is worn
around the neck and will support n
weight of 500 pounds. No impediment
is offered to swimming, but when ef-
fort ceases time body assumes a perpen-
dicular position, with tine chin above
water.
The fastest trains in the world are
su.id to be two on the Great Western
Railway, sa'h,Iuh at certain stages of
their jou'rneye travel at a speed of
78.5 mince per hour,
ivliitard's Liniment for Colds, etc. gives them their worth, nothing el,,e,
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we don't use, we lose.•' So, on the con-
verse, what we use to advantage, we
improve immensely,
Get at the why and the wherefore of
everything. Don't be satisfied with
hearsay evidence. Follow the scieattic
plan. It is the only common -souse
method of learuiag one's way about
the world. Sift all facts given you
and eliminate the rubbish.
When at last you have the pure
metal refined from rho alloy, study it
well and see what you matte cf it. It
will repay you. Weigh up evidence as
the baker weighs the loaf, and then
you will have something definite,
something useful added to your store
of knowledge, Systematic thought is
a bracing pastime.
A disorderly mind is like a stone in
your shoe; it will give you no peace
till you put it right.
When all is said and done, Lite it
self is the supreme proof that with
all Its troubles it is a gift worth hav-
ing.
Only don't mark time; always ad-
vance!
Minard's Liniment Used by Veterinaries
Bamboo has been found successful
as a reinforcement of concrete piles
for use along a Chinese railway. Four
strips of green 'bam'boo, tied together
at 1 -ft. intervals with square loops,
also of bamboo. are placed at each,
corner of the pile and ran lengthwise.
with it.
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