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1'iem.ple in the morning end 'Wine
GREEN yrs Y i your house on file It wouldn't make
RAY it easier sirePiy Ueeeuse you know you
iweeeret able to do anything to plot out
the fire. In fast, ib would be h jelly
By William Le Queue lot wore°, Still, we'll eat that aloe
.a.,.eesee.,owaseeeeesee •.see, Se eleango the eubject, When you get
"I know,» the bald. penitently, "I'ie
CHAPTER 1.—(Coned,)
"Still," said Menlo, "you've got a'
thundering lot to be thankful for too,
To begin. with, she'll wait for you,
said then if rieeeesetry, marry on two-
pence-halfpenny a year, and make you dict the alae° from Southampton to
comfortable on it, too. As far as her Stranreer?
father is owe—reel, she's very devoted. "Heavens! yes," 1 exclaimed, "and
anything. we capsized the cutter in the Solway
11c1
°ver do t)
toe111 and WOl n
f
. and You were laid' upin a farmhouse
ib Y
loss ly
,.. '' slo could 1
toenemy 111111'lf i
'tT QY
help it, as f easily s'potteti the night let Whtivarta with rheumatic. fever.
we dined with thein at the Gar}ton, Am Fever likely to feoget it?"
she's Bee t i 's p rived° u het mind to be Mrs. "I'm not, anyway, said Dennis,
Ronald .'EhvarG, eRonOr o?• later; that ruefully, "That rin u1:atic fever left
rise with a weak heart, I strained
it rowing up at Oxford, you remember,
and that fever 'business put the last
tenches on it for all practical pur-
poses."
Are, you sure, old malt?e I asked.
It seemed impossible that a great bra,•
"Well, there niy practice goes to the chap like.Donnis the. picture of health,
iiia it "as you.eay. (low long after the should Have anything seriously wrong
war is it goime to be before 1 could with hhn.
Uaelc frau Tnvarmall give me a
a champion swammeee a massive. of course give my kindest ret,ar"ls
young man of six•lloot-two in his • eliss McLeod. ---oh, and "the General,'
sooks,"°tilling' himself a crock, ire added, ne an, afterLhotigli't.
You remember that summer w0 (Tq be ceteetnnocl)
tris public schools' nrildle.weighb pot, (reale up,' I expect I s'bali be here,. And
I will swear!"
I in very gleet to hear yon say so,"
I
d "but the g that wor-
ries
thing
ries me. of cours,r, is the question aS
to whether ',have any right Le let this
• go on. If ever is declared--
"Which it will be, eaid•Dennis.
merry ane of Myra's maids, let nlon
Myra? And, suppoeieg, of course,
that I use the return half of my ticket,
eo to speak, and come back safe and
sound, my own prospects will be in-
finitely 'worse then they were before
the
Wer, The', law, after ell, is a lux-
ury, and no one will have a -•great deal
. of money for;luxulies by. the time we
have finished with it and wiped Ger-
many elf the map. Besides, if there's
no money about there's nothingto go
'to law over. So there you are, or
rather, there I' am.
• r"What clo you intend to do, thee?"
my friend asked. •
"I shall go up to Scotland to -mor
• row night—well, of ,course, it's to-
night, I shoull say—and see her
and -and--"
"Yes—well, .and—"
"Oh, and tell her that it must be all
—ell over. ' I shall say that the wee
will make all the difference. that I
Must join the ,ermy, and that she must
consider herself free to marry some-
one oleo, and that, as in any case I
might never cony° back, I think it's
the best thing for its both; that she
should consider herself; free," Tended
"Just like that?" asked Dennis,
with a twinkle in bis eye.
"1 shall try and cut it fairly form-
ally to her," I acid, "because, of
course, I must nupear to be -sincere
about it. I must try and think out
some way of making her imagine I
want it broken oil for reasons of my
own."
Dennis laughed softly. •
"You delicious; egotistical idiot," he
said. "You don't really inngine that
you could persuade anyone you met
for the first time even that you're not
M move, By all means do what you
thin;; is right, Ron. I wouldn't dis-
suade you for the world. Tell her that
she is free. Tell lee: why you. ere set-
ting her free, and I11 be willing to
wager my little all that you two ridi-_
culous young people will find your-
selves tied tighter together than ever.
By all means do your best to be a
goad boy Ronald, and do what you
conceive to he your duty."
"You needn't pull my leg about it,"
T saicl, though somewhat half-hearted-
"I'm not pilling your leg, as you
put it," Dennie answered, in a more
serious tone. "If ever I saw honesty
and truth and love and loyalty look-
ing out of a girlie eyes, that girl is
Myra McLeod."
Thank you for that, Den," I ans-
wered simply. There was little send
me-nt between us. Thank heaven,
there was something more.
"And so you see, you lucky dog,
you'll go out to the front, and come
back loaded with honors and blushes,
and marry the girl of your dreams,
and live happy ever after," And Den-
ons sighed,
'Why- the sigh?" I asked. "Oh,
come now," I added, suddenly remem-
bering. "Fair exch.ange, you know.
You haven't told me what was worvy-
ing you,"
"My dear old fellow, don't be ridi-
culous; there's nothing worrying ire."
I pressed him to no purpose. He
r'e'fused to admit that, he had a care
the world, and so we. fell to talking
of matters connected with the routine
of army life, how long we should be
before we got to the front, the sport
we four should have in our rest time
behind the tren•ehes, our deternhina-
tinn to stick toge`ehor at all mete, 'etc,
Suddenly Dennis, sat bolt upright.
"Clad!" he cried savagely, f'if you
fcgars weren't going, I could suck
tt But you three leaving me behind,
"Leaving you behind?" I echoed in
ertnnishment. "But why, old hn.en?,
r.:en't you conking too?"
"I hope so," said Dennis bitterly;
'I hope so w..1 all my heart, and I
i have a jelly goon shot at it, But
'T ' mow what it will be, worse lick."
But why, Dennis?" I asked again.
"f ;lon't understand"
Of reurse you clon't," he replied,
"int you've got your own troubles;
r:r1 llis:re's no point: in werryin:g about
me el an ease."
i begged, him to tell me; I pleaded
0•-. old friendship, and the fact that I
Keri taken hint into any confidence in
iia` eai•inle vicissitudes of hay ewe
lose affair et struck rhe at the time
feat it was who should have been
n Iehted to him for his patient synn-
. yaLhte mei help; and here he was poor
ole felbow, with a real, live trouble of
mr':, refacing to bather roe with
it.
"Se you've. just get to own up, old
m m " 1 nnlsned,
`Y1h, it's really. nothing," said Den-
nisnisei mly, 'I'm a crockthaat's
4,1, A useless hulk of unnecessary
lumber,"
}How; my beat chap?" I asked in-
s Dennisctedu,nusl
v Here a. e �� , Morn -
hare, who lone rant up a teepee for the
in ,our school days. and lifted
leeeD;; No 40—'2i.
"I'm ,dead sure, Ron; I wish I
weren't. Not that it matters much,
of °°thee; but just now, when one
has a chance to do,something decent
for•one's Motherland and justify one's
existence, it hits e bit hard, '
"Is it serious?" I asked—"really
serious?"
"Sufficient to bar me front joining
you chaps, though I'll see if 1 eau
sneak past the doctor. You remembee
about three weeks ago we were to
have played a foursome out at Ham-
den, and I didn't turn up? I said
afterwards that I heel been called out
of town; and had quite forgotten to
wire. •
"Which was extremely unlike you,"
I iiiterpesod; "hut go on,"
"Weld. as a matter of feet, I was
on illy way. I was a bit late, ,and
when I got outside Golders Green
'Tube Station I rain for a 'bus. The
rest of the day I spent in the Cottage
Hospital. No, I . d!iln't • faint.. The
valve struck, axed I simply lay on the
pavement a crunhpied mess of semi-
conscious humanity till they carted
me off on the ambulance. It's the
fourth time it's happened;" - v
Of course you had good advice?
I asked anxiously,
Heavens! yes, he exclaimed, any
amount of the best. And they all say
the same- thing—rest, be careful, no
sudden excitements, no strain, and I
may live for over—a creaking door."
"My old Den," I said, for 'I
was deeply touched, "Why didn't you
tell ins?"
"Plenty of worries of your own, old
man," he answered, more cheerfully;
"and, besides. it would have spoiled
everything. You fellows would have
been nursing me :behind' my back, to
use an Irishiism, and trying to prevent
my noticing it. You know as well as
I do that if you had known I should
have been a skeleton at the feast."
"You must promise me two things,"
I said' presently. "One is that you
won't try to join the army; there is
sure to be a rush of recruits in the
next few days, end the doctors will
be flurried, and may .skip through
their work roughshod. The ether is
that you will take care of yourself,
run -no risks, and do nothing rash
while we are away."
The first he refused. ' He said he
must do what he could to get through,
if only to satisfy lois conscience; but
he made me the second promise, and
seleninly gave me his word that he
would do nothing that would put him
in any danger. Then at last, at his
suggestion, we• turned in; he insisted
that I had an all-night journey in
front of lore. And so eventually I fell
asleep, saddened by the knowledge of
my friend's trouble, but somewhat re-
lieved that I had extracted from him
a promise to take care of himself.
Little did I dream th'et he would
break his promise to save one who
was dearer to me than life itself, or
that I should owe all my present and
future happiness to poor old' Dennis's
inability to join the army. Truly. as
events were to prove, "he did his bit"
CHAPTER II.
The Man Going North.
We "made" Richmond about half -
past eleven, and completed the . nec-
essary arrangements for the housing
of the boats and the disposal of our
superfluous fodder, as Jack called it,
for by this time we had all made up
our minds that the war was inevitable.
The 'bustle of mobilization 1101 al-
read'y,taken possession of the streets,
and as we stepped oat of Charing
Cross Station we stumbled into, -a
crowd of English Bluejackets and
Tummies and' French reservists in
Villiers Street. We parted Inc the
afternoon, each to 'attend to his pri-
vate affairs, and arranged to meet
again at the Grand Hotel Grill 'Room
for an early dinner, as I had to catch
the 7..65 from King's Cross,
I dashed out to Hampstead to my
flat, and packed tho necessary wear-
ing' apparel, taking care to include my
fly -boob: and my favorite split -cane
trout rod in my kit. I should only be
in Scotland for a couple of days, but
I knew that I should be fishing with
14Iyra in least one of them, and no
borrowed rod is a latch on ones own
i1
tried favorite. I snatched an ]calf -hour
or so to write to the few relatives I
have and toll them that I was joining
the army after a hurried visit to
Scotland to say good -live to Myra.
.And ,then I got, my kit to Den•nis's
rooms it Penton Street, Haymarket,
just in time to have a chat with him
before we joined the others at the
Grand Hotel: T found him hopefully
getting things really for a long ab-
sence, sorting out unenswer'ed letters,
putting away papers, etc, On the
table was an. open copy of a stores
catalogue. Ile had been trying to find
suitable presents for b•is two entail
step -sisters. Dennis invariably
thought of himself last of ell, and
then meetly et someone oleo's request,
"Well, old man," 7: meati, "how do
you feel about it now?".
"Rotten, Ronnie," . he replied, with
a rueful smile, "I've been on tho
'phone to my ally doctor chap, and
ho .thovted tvltly laughter .at rue. Still,
I shall have u jolly goad idiot etit
as soon as the thing is definite,"
"I only pray tv, :heaven," I said
seriously, "that no slipshod fool of
a doctor lets you through/'
"They won't let Mo in; old snap; no
such, luck. It's a ,ghastly outlook
What on eartle.ema 1 to die with myself
While the wee' 1a,'Sks?
"
won't be as badptie all that, Them
wig he 'thollsr•tnils of meat who Woni't
eeo eel t;kret war... 1 shanee be nivel
ht` you see very little different° sous
t�p4w» When the w e's in' Pull swing,
You (leis gS, aeltlrouglh you Wittit 'ter,
end net jolly bad 1uak, old. man. Debit
tibia& 1 don't ta#Iderstand, but, bottom
me, you won't Le the 4dty''n'esin loft
in London by a Million or twe,11
The Busy Man.
t h icer whom most peo-
ple
poet C a w p
p ,
-lay has
t ren tot h
rear tobus n d Y,
p 9 R Y
set down in a few words a living de-
scription of a typo of man we all
knew: "Ilealways seemed busier than
he was,"
We seo every day the people wile
surround themselves with a great elut-
ter—Moho live as in a barnyard of
Puss and feathers—who raise a dust—
whose p'r'esence means 'a clack and a
pother and a stew:
Do they always produce in proper.
tion ,to the furious manifestation of
energy? " ,
The slogan of the. age tis, I.n1
busy," Let us hope you are. The tele
life is cursed. It is far Vetter to be
overworked than to be und'erwvoked.
But is your .business vaheable? Is
anything useful coming out of it?
Or le it a mere flurry of the hands and
mouth, "a, tale told by an idiot. full of
souue and fury, signifying nothing"?
The man who ''seemed busier than
he was" was •doing 'his level best to
seem important. IIe was one of the
kind who "strut sitting down," IIe
turned a glacial exterior, a frozen
face, to anybody that die not look and
act as important as himself.
The modern counterpart of such a
man surrounds himself with buffers
lest any of his valuable time be en
croached upon. Of course, one must
turn e deaf ear to many comers. But
do the results always justify the tre-
mendous secrecy and portentous
solemnity?
Mang' burdens are laid on the shoul-
ders of the really 'busy people. They
are the ones who have the habit of
getting things done. They put things
through, The. procrastinating folic,
who do trot know which way to turn
and .cannot tell what to do next, are
likely to end by turning nowhere and
leaving things undone. Their calen-
dar has conquered them.
It is usually the small order of man
who keeps telling you how much he
has to do that prevents him from tak-
ing on anything more, It may well be
that Ins tine is us completely occupied
as he thinks it is. But a big man,
putting the work ahead of the way he
feels, has not much to say as to his
own symptoms and sentiments' in the
face of the things he has to do, That
is the real difference between big
business and little. In big business
the atmosphere is of promptness, dis-
patch, smooth and frictionless "func-
tioning," clear-eyed and well -poised
executive "efficiency." But the work-
ing of the machinery is a matter more
of thought than of talk. -
In fact, a good deal of time is wast -
.ed by smell people in telling big ones
how busy they are. Those who came
to the top -'by the route of hard work
and now seem to have time to breathe
and room to "take things easy" know
perfectly well the way they came and
do not need to be told that it is hustle
and bustle, strife and confusion, in
the severe coopetition round the foot
of the ladder. It makes those who
worked hard to arrive where they are
very weary to hear the constant com-
plaint of those unwilling to accept the
condition of human existence, which
prescribe that we must work for a
living to keep our self-respect, ee save
our souls,
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How to 'Cheoste a Becoinipg Hat. ing powder; 1 teaspoon venible, Grea•m
An expertovers these suggestions the butter, add sugar gractua ly, and
to till womeiri in selecting becoming egg well beeten. Sift the flour and
hats; odd' alternately with the milk Then
A'brim wheel rolls uie, gently on the atbd the vanilla, 'anti les'tiy fold in tho
eight side ' and down, -on the loft, leaking powder, sifted over to top,
Whether' trees is e lee° eleJelerrow brim Pour ?ratter in two greased Payer pans,
will depend on the face beneath it; I cover top ;with steamed pitted prunes
A stout woman, generally speaking, and sprinkle with nuts. Bake 30 to
40 minutes in a modorate..ovo . Frost
0n' than the
i n s
must wear w
ilei' bib n
a
t uneoo ed ..,fr 'bin . o • whipped
slender bibs, since width in the brim with k os g r
erelaan.
Prune Pudding -1 oup stewed
peones, se, cup sugar, 4 eggs, 1 teas
and height in' t11e crown will tend to
overbalance roundness of the face.
The short, slender woman wdth a
small. face should almost never wear spoon lemon juice. Beat the egg
a ]tat with a brim averaging more yolks and the segue until light; add
than three to time and a half inehds the chopped prunes and fold in the
in width., s'tifiiy beaten whites. Add the flavor -
The long -faced woreen, eepoci'ally if ing, pour into a buttered baking dish,
she is tall, should avoid the tall crown-
ed or till trimmed 'het. Site may,
however, wear a wider brimmed hat
than the short, slender woman.
The tall stdut woman is often nuns
nine in a laige.brimnhed' hat, because
Continuity.
Many persons have little power of
continuity in thought or action. They
arc constantly finding it necessary to
rest either their minds or their bodiese
they turn from one task to another;
they are desultory in their mental
processes; they think, but they get
tired before they have thought to a
conclusion.
The trouble is that they have never
found enytlong to deal with continu-
ously. The routine of life doesn't in-
terest them enough; the daily job,
whether it calls for mental or manual
effort, does not engage their thoughts
as a continuing process in the shaping
of which their faculties are employed
as well -selected instruments, Perhaps
they ere somewhat depressed with the
feeling that they are not particularly
well -selected instruments, that they
are 'razors 'being used as saws or
spoons being used as shovels, and than
the imposition of any greater con'tinu-
r d
ity of service on them than a1 ea y is
required would wear theni out so much
the taster.
But for his own happiness, eve4y-
one should try to achieve eontbnnity
of thought and self-expression. It may
be that for some persons such continu-
ity is not to be had, in the -daily voc0-
lion. The work may be of so me-
chanical a nature as to offer no ma-
terial for thought to work on, or it
may be of so uncongenial a• nature as
not to stimu'l'ate thought, Then there
ought to bo same avooation that would
supply both the Maaterial and the
ctimu.ius; ire a man's leisure hour he
eat be continuous. Every normal per-
son has a special and healthy interest
in something, yet few persons ever
:testes to pursue their special interest
irutel'bigenrtly. - Most persons dawdle
over it instead oi' working over it;
they eoen't eontiuteoue in dealing with
it, and consequenbly le never assumes
a definitoimportanee e,' communicates.
it real purpose to thein; lives. The
people who'bp' contentious thought end
eflorL• discover in their special inter-
est a purp'oso that is personal to therm
are pretty sane to snake their lives
happy' end fruitdul, 1lowever dull and
cbeooggrn'g nhay ho the daily job,
9NFQRMATION -
oe ,great neem itauee to nnerehants,
anantteactul'0r0 b1 any nevem J'3rteeese-
,od i.ti bootie 01 stocks ie given in our
special NeVemihcn ieetteii, Copy, will be
Oa !Brea on :t mast.
les O. BLACK & C4t.
OIb C.I' Ir, Eiuildinl , l'otento
bake in a moderate oven., -
Parisian- Sweets; oto lb. prunes,
lb. nut meats, ee lb. dates or raisins,
1 'teaspoon lemon juice, Put all
through the meat grinder; .add the
lemon juice 'and mix thoroughly, Roll
her height makes it posei'bie for her :out on a molding board 14 inch thick,
to weern 'hat which would make the Use. powdered sugar to keep mass
short; stout woman impale grotesque, I from sticking to the board, Cut into
Hats with insishropen hems belong
entirely to youth, Downward turning
lines in the face, are not desirable, and
squares and roll in powdered sugar,
Stuffed Prune's"—Wady, seek the
prunes for a few- hours and then
should, therefore; be not emphasized steam until the skins are soft: Re-
move the stones and stuff with nuts.
Serve with cheese balls for a saber.
Roll in powdered sugar and serve for
a confection.'
by downward turning mines in brims
of hats, "
For the person who wears glasses,
hard lines .and edges in hats should: be
studiously avoided. An edge may be
softened by a 'bias fold, a ribbon
slightly fulled, or a band .of fur.
A hat with a stiff monobonous edge
is nit likely to' be becoming to many
persons especially to those who' are
no longer young.
The most successful 'child's hat is
the soft, pliable kind which may be
pulled down on the head and subjected
to more or less rough treatment with-
out very materially injuring its rooks
and wearing qualities. Stiff, fussy (hits
have no place in the wardrobe of the
child. s •
For every day wear, •a Tam O'Shane
ter made from old dress skirts, 'coats,
or woolen materials will serve well.
The Palatable Prune.
With the approach of winter the
varieties of fresh fruits become fewer
aril we find ouruolves searching .for
new ways of serving the ever service-
able dried fruits.
Among these fruits, prunes, which
are merely a dried plum, lend them-
selves readily to a variety of attrac-
tive dishes: They furnish material
for body building and energy, give
bulk to the diet (which stimulates the
muse ler activity of the digestive
tract) alio supply acids and minerals
which tend to counteract the acidity
of the blood and 'body fluids and regu-
late the body processes.
' Prunes are economical and contain
considerable nutritive value. They
are a splendid substitute for children
for candy and sweets because in, ad-
dition to the high percentage of sugar
they contain iron and other minerals
useful in diet.
There are three simple processes in
cooking prunes: 1. Soaking to restore
the water lost in drying. 2. Slo'ty
cooking in the water in which soaked
until tender, and juicejsas been soaked
up by the fruit. 3. Addition of small-
est amount of sugar necessary to
sweeten without destroying the na-
tural flavor of the fruit.
The following practical recipes of-
fer a pleasing variety of ways for
serving prunes:
Stewed Prunes. -1 1'b. prunes, 1
quart water, 1-3 cup sugar, 2 tea-
spoons lemon juice. Wash the prunes
thoroughly; put in clean water and
let soak dor several hours. Leave thu
fruit in the water.it soaked in, cover
and cook slowly until the skins are
tender. Add the sugar and lemon
juice when almost done.
Prune Whip -1 soup strained stewed
prunes, 3 egg whites, 1-3 cup sugar,
1 teaspoon lemon juice, Wash, soak
and cook the prunes until soft. Rub
through a sieve. Add the sugar and
lemon juice to • the thick pulp. Beat
the ogg whites stiff, 'fold into the
prune pulp, plate' in a buttered baking
dish, and bake=20 minutes in 0 mod-
erate oven. • Serve cold with cream,
whipped 0005111 or a custard made
from the yolks.
Prune Dake -14 cup butter, Vi cup
sugar, 1/.,: teaspoon salt, 1 egg, Ye eup
mil] 1i/ cups 3 teaspoons bale.
Paint for Wall Decoration.
'The fiat wall paints now obtainable
afford immense variety of shades and
tints from which to choose. Delicate
French grays, light buffs, eream•..tints
and ivory whites for the bedrooms,
deli browns, blues and greens for the
dining -room and living -room, provide
an almost endlees variety of pleasing
conrbinutions to harmonize with any
desired color scheme. On the border
ac on the body of the fvalls attractive
stencil designs, which bring out in
relief the color combinations, may be
applied. The use of flat wall paints
is not limited to new work, • but is
equally effective on old unpapered sur-
faces or those from which old paper
hes been scraped,
A Grocer Who Startled
Science.
A village grocer in Kent, England,
some years ago came upon some pe-
culiar stones around his house. He
studied them intently and, as a remit,
succeeded in establishing the age of
mankind!
As most people know, our primitive
ancestors used tools and weapons
which are 'known under the names of
.eclitbic, neolitltic, and paloolitllis in-
struments.
The grocer who made the discovery,
Air, Benjamin Harrison, came to the
conclueiou that these stones would
throw cone light o11 the subject.
For fifty years, he made collections
of samples, a.ud by devoting himself
to their study managed to prove that
loran existed at least 200,000 years ago.
The stones he had collected were re -
les of ancient implements.
Mr. Harrison was content to spend
his life in leis native place, seldom
travelling mere than twenty miles
away. When only twelve years of
age he started his researches among
the chalk hills of the Downs, and on
the site of the old Roman camp at
Oldbury.
In 1919 Iris name was included in
the Civil List for "devotion to scientific
works;." It was stated that few men
whose scientific discoveries are of
real importance were so little known
to the community outside tho. select
circle of specialists.
At the thne of his death he had col-
lected five thousand specimens of
ancient atones.
One of His Gifts,
A sudden sound of whistling dis-
turbed the air of the class -room, and
the strains of "I'm hor fiver Blowing
Bubbles" floated over forty small
heads bent over forty small slates
"Who's that whistling?" scree meI
the teacher, as soon as she hail re-
covered from her surprise,
"We just maser," answered little
Jeclt McClay, with true, Scottish the
Perturbability. "Did ye no kin All cutl
whnstle?"
A good • business woman nsuully
drives a herder bargain than a man.
wand the worst is yet to come
When Lighting Matches
Was a Tricky Job.
Y
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Although million's of matches aro
rI jl
used every minute, few people stop 10
think 05 their origin.
Until the end Of the eighteenth cen•
eery flint and steel were need to ob-
rain fire for all ordinary purposes, and
it was only about a hundred years ago
that an attempt was made to produce
a suitable flame from cheullco.le.
At that time a Frenchnaan 'invented
a device consisting of a small bottle
containing asbestos saturated in sill
phurie acid with splints of wood tip-
ped with a miture of chlorate of pot-
ash and sugar. A few years later an-
other man improved on these primi-
tive matches by preparing them with
a mixture of phosphorus and magnesia,
wlrleh rendered them lose inilammpble.
Another attempt was a mixture of
piosphorue and sulphur melted to.
gether in a thin glass tube, This tubo
was kept well corked, and when a
Sight was required a 111110 splint with
a small pellet at the end Weis inserted
into the tube. When this was with-
drawn it ignited',
An Englishman named Solon Walker
invented the first practical friction
match in 1827. These matches took
the form of wooden splints covered
with sulphur and tipped with a mix-
ture of sulphide of antimony, oliiorate
of .potash, and gum. They were seld
in boxes of eighty-four, with a piece
of glass-paper and instructions on how
to get a light. '
A few years later another English.
man invented matches which, were
dubbed "Prometheans:" Those con-
sisted of a roll of paper three inches
long, with a mixture of chlorate of
potash and sugar and a very small
globule containing sulpburic acid at
the tip. One hod to break the globule
before it was peseiblo to obtain 0 light;
Forest Fires and Land
Clearing.
Most citizens are aware that prac-
tically all the forest provinces have
adopted brusih-bulniug laws which pro-
hibit the use of fire to clear land, ex-
cept during certain ninths of the year,
unless the fire ranger in the district
gives written permissiou to burn on a
stated elate. A patvrgraph has been
going the rounds of Clanatilfan news-
papers this autumn to the effect that
as a result of a forest tiro a settler in
the north country was able to clear
the debris off two acres and get the
land reaclj' for crop for twenty dollars,
whereas had he attempted to clear it
by -logging and without the aid of fire
it would Have cost him 3200. The in-
frence from tho statement is that had
this forest fire not broken c,ut the
settler would have had to use the
more expensive method. And the
paragraph went on to state that
forest fires wore therefore not wholly
evil The statement leaves out twn
important facts. In the first place
spittlers are not, in any. )tovince, i;ro-
hibited from losing fire to clear their
land. Settlers .are permitted, and
thousands in every province every
year avail 'themselves of this permis-
sion to burn off their "slash." when
the season and the conditions are such
that there Ie a reasonable expectation
that the fire will not escape from their
farms to the property of ether settlers,
The second point omitted is that every
forest lire, running wild, even though
it does not happen to result in less of
life, or to burn houses and barns and
other like property, ,burns timber
which would have been harvested by
091100 person for his own good load the
good of the country. Besides, some of
the worst forest fires in history have
been caused by escaped clearing fires.
There never was and uever will be a
good forest lire.
u Things."
"Little inns.
a
Tee deslin ea of melons !ewe ° .loin•
ed
on the most trivial things imagin-
able, Here are a few examples of.un•
usual Interest:
Tho beauty of Helen of Trey caused
a terrible war, and. "Ifinac ted a thous-
and selps, and burned the toplese
towers of Mime." 'i'lra .head' Misted
for ten years. "
The oak • tree that elheltered
Charles Stuart from his pursuers after
the fight at Woretster made possible
the return of the Stuarts to the throne
of England. '
The mole who made the molehill in
Bushey Park, that caused William M.'s
horse to stumble, find so brought about
the king's death, was long a famous
toast among tho eacobitos, The toast
was to "the little gentleman in the
velvet coat"
Then, again, the geese in the Capitol
of Rome saved the city by their time -
1Y quacking.
C t ckilh .
The beauty of Cleopatra lod to tee
Pall of..noble Mark Anthony; the steam
from Watt's kettle altered the world's
idea of locomotion; anti. tho wave -rip-
ples in a pond led Marconi to experi-
ment with the electromagnetic waves
of wireless tolegraphy,
Truly, from little things' do big
events derive!
Canada's Pension List.
Canada's annual pension list, in re-
spect to the late war, amounts to 330;
802,603 payahie'to 50,287 disabled sol-
diers and 19,411 dependents, accord-
ing to a report published by the De-
partment of Soldiers' Civil Inc-estee-
lisllment. They include allowances to
21,413 wivtc, 34,721 children 0001 178
1:'rents cf dieability pen:lenere and
1..142 c.hrl.3cea of dependent pension
era. Up to ,Tune 30th, 2.0,130 additional
pensicuere had accepted a Linin pay-
ment of- their ala tins weevil ceet the
government in all $3,127,0.,2; The to-
tal amount paid eta in p®:slum; up to
August 31sT last we„ $101,414.216,
e
(Diamond Dyes Don't
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goods. Diamond Dyes never streak,
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The London property owned by the
King as Duke of Lancaster has been
held by the Royal Family since 1210.
Roses were formerly the symbol of
silence, hence the Latin phrase "sub -
rose" meaning "miler the rose" and
se "in confidence"
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