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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1930-01-02, Page 2Clinton News -rt ecord CLINTON, ONTARIO il'errr:s.ot subscription --i2,00 Per year in advance, to Canadian addres'3S; e2:50 tothe'U,S, or other foreign Countries. No paper discontinued. Until all arrears are paid unless of the option of .the Publisher. : The date to .71iich every subscription is paid is denoted or ihnlabel. Advertising Rates—Transient adver- tising, 12o per Count line for drat insertion;•, it, for each subsequent Insertion. I4eading counts 2 lines: P “Iveimpmre,,. .,, ro.xrre�l. one ianeh,, with as "Wanted," "Lewey" • "Strayed, Ito,, inserted once tot 35c. each subsequent insertion ':6a Advertisements sent in without In structions as to the number of In: sertions wanted will run until order- ed out and will be -charged accord Ingle. Rates' for display advertisipe' made ecnown on application. `Communications intended for pub•. Dektion must, too.a gn. rantee of goo') feeth,''lie accompanied by the ,name of 'the writer, G: N. Hal, M. IL CLAh.. ' Proprietor. liJd!tor.. 'u M MT���A c RT BANKER A general Banking Business transact. ed. Notes Discounted. Drafts issued, Interest Allowed, on Deposita. Salo • Notes Purchased, H.": 1'. RANCE } Notary Public, Conveyancer. " leenanetai,`ileal Fstate and Fire in. surance Agent Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies, Division Court Office, Clinton. W. ERYDONE Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public ate. Office: , SLOAN-BLOCK DR. .1. C. GANDIER Odtce hours: -1,30 to 3.30 Into., 6.30 to 8.00 tem., Sundays, 12,30 to 1,30 p.m. Other helms ea appointment only, Office end Residence -- Vietorla St, CLINTON DR. FRED G. THOMPSONr Office and Residence: Ontario Street — Clinton, Ont. Oue door west of Anglican Church. Phone. '172 Eyes examinee and glasses fitted DR. PERCIVAL HEARN Office and Residence: Huron Street Clinton, Ont. Phone 30 (Formerly occupied by the late Dr. " C. • W. T^ ^mneon' Eyes examined and glasses fitted DR. H. A. MCINTYRE DENfISI- Otitee hours: 0 to 12 AM, and 1 Co 6 P.M., except Tuesdays and Wodnee• days. ONce over Cneadian National Express, Clinton, Ont. • Phone 21. • DR. IP. A. AXON DENTIST Clinton, Ont, Graduate of 0.0.0.5., Chicago, and 11.0.D,S., Toronto. Crown and Plato Work a Specialty D. H. MCIINNES - CHIROPRACTOit. Electra Therapist - Masseur Otllce: Huron St. (Few doors west of Royal Rank). hours—Tues:, Thurs,•and' Sate all day. Other hours biy appointment, Mansell OfOce—Mon., Wed. and Fri. forenoons. Seaforth Omee—bIon., Wed. And Fei. afternoons, PHONE 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of duron. 'Correspondence promptly answered. Imatediate arrabgemeats OM be made for Sales Dateat as Neve -Record. Clinton, or by calling Phone 203, Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. B. R. HIGGINS Ciinto,a, Ont, General.. Fire and Life insurance Agent for Hartford Windstorm, Live Stock, Automobile and Sickness and Accident Insurance. Huron and Brie and Cana. do Trust Bonds, AP;iointments made to meet parties at .Broceflold, Verna and Bayfield, 'Phone 57, IIIbrN•tr1ot4C 'LI" TIME TABLE r, :tins will errive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and roder!ch Div. Going blast, depart ' 6.44 e.m. " a v 2,50 p.m. Going West, ar, , 11;50 a.m. " " ar. 6.08 trip; 6.4;9 pm. ar. 10.31 pm, London, Huron & Brute Dl•;. Going South, ar. 7.40 die 7,40 a.m. e tr 0 4.0hi p.m. Going Nortif depart • 6,42 em. ar. 11.90 dp. 11,58 a,ni. trHE McKIILLOP MUTUAL Fire IInstarance Company tkrtd Office, Seaforth Ont Dle,SCTOR2: esident, James Levans, Beeahwood; , tee, James Connelly, Oederiahl Sear eaaurer, D. P. Mcllregar, 'Seafbrth. treaters: GeorgeMcCartney, MurrayyroGth- 's7omes Shouldiae, Walton; Mralb- elon, Bruaedeld• Wm. King, Soarorth; Robert Perris ISarloott: Jahn lionnetveir, Olrodhagenr Jas. Conelly eoderioh, Agents: Alex. Leitch, ellnton J. tv, Teo Goderleh: 'Ed, I3inchlay, Seaforth; T. A. Murray mgmendvllle. R, O. Jar - moth, .>Bredhayen.. •Any mnpeY to, be hail in nta r, nc nairl: ts ie'C'desiring (a 1uuua1''v, aCo(nn . Parties desiring`.to effect insuriinceor transact '•ether husthess will hrtuomnFli attenrtet] to nn nnnlie,attnn fn ant of f --1a show` officerse''ddreson, to their renflos; !ire peEEt: allies. T,o nss InnpRr.tett rt tri^ 'FIrealnr who li%'es nearest 'thy . •eC,, :BBGIN'HE12E TODAY. Alden Drake, formerly a sailor, grown 'soft and- flabby through a life of idle ease, ships aboard. the Clipper Orontes;as "boy," under the.eolnmaud of Jake Stevens, whose enmity he in- curs because of -a mutual' love for Mary Manning, a passenger, and the daughter Of the owner.,At Cape Town, Stevens is superseded by Drake, whose, lawyershave: seen to the purchase of the Orontes during its cruise, Stevens' is reduced' to the •rank of chief nate. Answering Mary's plea, ;Jake starts the Orontes through . the Straits off Java, where the sh'ip•runs on the realcm. Mary slips ashore with Ike, • the stew- ard, and Stevens goes ID search of her. NOW GO ON.WITH THE 'STORY Jake started off again assoonaiie bobbing head disappeared: He march- ed even the rough ground.ehuckling. Beyond the :rocky, shore the ground rose more gently and level. He' ducked around. a blunt face of volcanic debris, and came in sight of a long ,stretch of 'comparatively shelving beach. There was sand, ;Trees giew, and there was, plenty of .coarse camel grass. ' But far more welcome than trees or genies was the sight of the ship's missing boat;drawn up to a fiat rock a mile distant, and obviously -tied there. - • He walked •apidly•inland; until cer- tain of invisibility from the ship. Then he strode buoyantly along to- wards the boat. Where that -boat was, Mary was near. He knew the island. Knew she could never get far, so long as she remained upon it. He Sad been afraid that she had urged /Ice Saintly to ware' the Straits with her. That was no great undertaking for a sailor, or for a sailor's daughter, either, in the weather prevailing. ''A fine little air of wind blew on the Straits side of the island. It was no snore than twenty-four or five miles to Anjer, and from Anjer there -:vas a railroad to Batavia. But Jake wanted to have something to say about her making that trip in a ship's boat. Por that he had stolen beef and bread; for that he had swum ashore like a thief. There tl:rn to shfiii'k,, for she 'knew Jake Stevenswas a splendid. seaman, and 'would have never lost claim to the title but: for her.:'I thought I might as ~yell help you "with the boat. + •You'll 'need Somebody besides 'Iko. Arfd..there was another thing, • too, Mary. 'You 'promised to give me you"r'answer when eve got, ashore. We'll never'be fasteg ashore than we are now."; He laughed harshly, then bit-his.lip; for her -breast was heaving. agitatedly. "I•ought not -Co come for an answer now, I ,,suppose," he added bitterly.' "A' broken, .discredited.-" ' ' "Jake! Stop,. for mercy's sakel" she cried. "Are you trying to drive me: 'frantic? I ran:from .the ship to escape 'the awful- atmosphere of lin- 'pending misfortune, I }wanted nothing but -quiet, to think. Any, you'rnust come here 'to remind me of things I want to forget, And, as if that were :ot enough, you must needs charge me with being• a harpy!- Do 'you think, Jake Stevens;. that if •:the man I lovsd and wanted were in rags•'and disgrace a thousand time, mope hideous than your petty troulbee have made you, it would make a bit' of difference to my feeling;; for hire?'i 'Mary flung down the meat she; had been toasting. It fell into the,fire. Ike ran up and, rescued it. She no more seemed aware of his presence then if he had been out of eight instead of brushing 'against her 'dress to save the dinner. "Listen to rue, Jake," Mary went on more quietly. She turned, her hot face squarely towards him, and her eyes gleamed darkly. "You know I didn't expect to give you an answer under these circumstances. But I'll tell you one thing for your peace of mind, and that is, if I ever felt like giving you the answer you seem to want, I would feel far, far more like giving it to you now ;.hon if you were Captain Stevens of the Orontes still" She walked away a few steps, with head bowed. Ike had stuck the meat upright on a stick, and was now get- ting a boat ax from the boat to chop some small fuel. Jake stood watch - e. erAVP Yi�� Mk, MARY KNELT INTO THE SAND, COOKING A THICK SLICE OP HAM. was fresh water in the boat's bareca,jing her, with hope burning in his eyes. he knew. Who should know, if he did! When she .turned again he ventured: net? Hadn't he been a 'good thief i "Won't you tell me now, Mary?" mate? Very well. A good chief mate "No, no! Leave me alone, please. knows there is fresh, water in the A devil of ill luck seems to have pos- ship's boats. sessed me. I have ruined you, I have et They could sail. over there to Anjer ruined poor Ike. He'll surely get put before night. She would be glad in jail for running away witletne boat. enough to go with him. 'Wasn't she All I have thought about has been neglected and forlorn, as he was out- myself. Don't speak to me, Jake. Don't east and ashamed? Wasn't it all on look at me. If I ant permitted to ye - her account? And there was that mat -main here _so 'long, I will tell you my ter of an answer. What better coca- decision at this time to -morrow: And sion than this, to ask that answer? then I. either return'to the :Orontes to be chastised like a naughty child', or you shall take me across the Straits. I won't -speak to you again until then." She ran down to the boat and •climbed in. Jake gazed after her thoughtfully. As'for Ike, he held fast to his axe and stared at him just as thoughtfully. Ilse 'Saintly had a mind whish needed .e lot of stirring up be- fore he could understand that the man Jake was almost happy when he topped a gentle grassy knoll anis abruptly came' in sight of the boat again. Between it and hint was a stunted 'tree, covered with hanging, dead moss. The shore was covered with driftwood. Some pieces of tim- ber had been propped against the tree, Ike Saintly was carrying other pieces from th shore. And befo a the prop- ped timbers, which formed a rough repulsed of one day may be the wel shelter, Marknelt in the pebbly sand corned guest of the next. - cooking a' thick slice of barn, toasting it on a stick over a sm•iky fire of brine-, impregnated 'hood net volleyed sparks as well as smoke. She started up 'as Jake set a stone rolling under foot. Her eyes opened wide in alarm, Ike dropped all 'his load'except one stout bit of oak -or teak, and cane run- ning ,at her involuntary cry. ' "Don't"sing out, Mary i"'Jake cried. "No need to be frightened o' me, lass." "Go away!" she panted. "Go back! I'm not going with ycui Ike:" — "Hush, my girl, hush!" he soothed. "I've come for my answer!" • CHAPTER XXVI. —AND DESERTERS. �' Mary turned a flushed and smoke, smudged face to Ike and told him it was all right. A little of the desper- ate resolve faded out of the steward's white face. "I've brought stores for the boat trip, Mary," said Jake with an uncer- tain laugh, setting .down the dishpan with the beef and bread, The girl Wes regarding him queerly. She seem- ed excited. "You didn't mean to sail across alone, with Ike, did you?" he.demand- ed. She'shoolc her head, but did not answer aloud. "You were in a hurry to leave the Ship. You should have told me, Mary. I would have helped you. I've come tc help you now," "I want no help!" she cried, Jenne- timely, npa titntly, "What dict you follow me for? Haven't I been bothered enough with' broody ihen all the voyage?. Go back mid, eve' ., to ,save the shi5i's "I thtttiPubt ye!? ,'A d ,tinning away o git-b3 Java quickly,"Jake "Said. `'"I eevo been east adrift like' a worthless ti C2t,it ,'g ht, too,I!n, a damned pcor •:1,=,f,,,..t of a .,oiler." It was her "Better push these along with your stores, Ike," said Jake, :pushing'"the dishpan along the pebbles with his foot "We got pretty o' stores," returned. Ike, tmgraceeesly. "You keep what you got, You'll heed "em." ' "Don't be a` fool!" snapped lake angrily, He might be obliged to endure whines in a girl; but he could not tol- erate crankiness on the .part of a weaz- ened' little flunky. "Put the lot to- gether. No nest to make two camps' for one night. We'll eat together," - (To be continued.) , "I think I love you most because you remind me' so much of my first wife." :' 'i • "Yee, Welt I,; married you, I'M afraid -you'd -always be relninding mel ,of her,'' The Little Star Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder if ,yo t are, :Up above the footlight's sheen jForty-nine .. 0r .eei'enteen, Tasty Recipes • Rich Dark Fruft Cake -Ingredients:—Halt A hrcakfatteup- ful .of 'butted, three-quarters of a' breakfastcupful s of brown eugee, three;iivarters of 'a breakfastcupful each of currantS, eultauae, cendIed peel, half 'a breakfastctipful brown treacle, half a lireakfastcnpeul of milk, two heaping' breaka'stenpfnls of hour, 'half a teaspoonful of baking 'soda, . one teaspoonful of cinnamon, .two 'eggs, Mgthed: Beat buttes' 'and •sugar ,to• a cream, slowly. add other ingredients, and bake one and a half hoursin a moderate, oven.. Almond ]:ting; He'lf a pound of ground al- monds,' six ounces of icing sugar, the beaten white of one egg. Work all into a stiff bound of, paste to fit the top of cake, • and , leave till next . t"lay after putting on 'coke. ,Glace Ioingr Put half a pound of icing sugar and four ,tablespoonfuls of water into' -a saucepan, -stir until—dissolved. Be- fore it gets too hot remove from. the' fire and poiir over cake at 'onoe be- fore it sets, Rich Winter Cake Oteam half a -,potted of, lard and 'half a u ofm r n with .t res - Po nd ergs i e, w t h quarters of a pound of castor sugar. Beat ,in thee eggs (misled with.half--a• pint of milk).. ;Add. one pound each of raisins, sultanas, ctu'raats (clamed and well dried), and half a pound of figs (chopped small); .Gild two 'ounces' of almonds (blanched and chopped), aquarter of 'a pound of mixed . peel (chopped), half a -grated nutmeg, and due teaspoonful of mixed spice or powdered , cinnamon, Dredge in one and a quarter` pounds of self-raising flour and beat Well, adding a little more. milk, if necessary. - Place in two well -papered and greased tins, and bake for two and 'a half hours, lowering to bottom shelf 'for another two and a half hours to soak through and darken. Decorate with halved almonds and slices of, citron peel or use the following icing: Almond Ic- ing: Mix three.civarters. of a pound of castor, sugar, half 'a pound of ground almonds, one tablespoonful of ground rice, with two eggs and the juice of. lemon. Roll out and press. lightly on cake when cold, Sugar• Icing: One -pound of sugar, whites of two eggs, and juice of half a lemon. Mix with a wooden spoon and spread on cake "with a knife dipped oc- casionally in hot water. Exceli'ent Mincemeat Ingredients:—Three lemons, three large apples, one pound of ,prepared raisins, one pound prepared currants, one ound of finely -chopped suet, two Pounds of moist sugar, one ounce each of sliced candied citron, orange and lemon peel, one teacupful of cooking brandy (if liked), two table- spoonfuls of orange marmalade, Method:—(:rate' the rinds of the Iem- ons and strain out the juice, then boil the remainder of the lemon in a little water until retiacee to a pulp. Peel and remove the cores front the apples with an apple coir, and hake Diem, then add to the lemon pulp, Add the rest of the ingredients and mix thot•ougllly together. Put the mince- meat into a stone jar with a clone. Wine lid and store until required for use. Rich Mincemeat • Ingredients:—One pouniLof raisins, one and a half pounds of currants, 12 ounces of lean beef, one and a half pounds 01 beef suet, one pound o moist sugar, one ounce each of.cit- ron, orange and ;mien peel, half a grated nutmeg, a few apples; . one lemon, ono gill of cooking brandy. Method: Stone and cut the raisins into small pieces; then prepare the tenants ant' mix with the chopped suet, the finely-nilneed beef, candied peel, anti the grated nutmeg. Pare, core -and mince the apples and add to the other ingredients, with the sugar. Grate over the rin of the lemon and strain over half the juice. Mix the whole thorottglily together; then add 'the cooking brandy and mix again. Press the mincemeat into jars, cover tightly, and store'until required for use. Garden l cidenl The noon enaninlec! bees Beset the passive'eleven— But say no, more of buds. The green_ chameleons' hiss, The pool is brimming over, Through yew interstices" Deerfoal with coral eyes Stand earven' in 'surprise; The hound that rune alone Hey turned himself to atone fi The urns upon the wall. That let the waterfall Have whispered dripped' (Meisteti.. The basin that was elide 'Ilas narrowed on a side, The marble edge has twisted. Across its broken Iip The bm•nieeed fishes slip. "A black and'golelen gush Martel out into a brash Teat streaks the steno with sun: Soon, now, this win Tie done, The bark lagoon will dry And give the leaning sky Its deepest word to guess, The ful1•of emptiness. :Soon, now, this will be done, Chameleors will be grey. The deer will go away. ' The lonely hound will run. =-George O'N'eil, in "The Rooster." • White Colds s:ring Pneumonia to "heavy .void" is a Serious matter at tiny time,. bet especially Is i4 to be dreaded IS the fall and winter months, because it may "run into pneumonia". There are two kinds of pneumonia. That known as branchial pneumonia is most commonly met with in chil- dren or aged Person, but it may come at any stage of life. It has its 'beginning 'in a cold or perhaps' comes, as a sequel to whooping cough, scar- let fever, or 'measles. It gets its name from the fact that it usually, begins in the -bronchial tubes and gradually invades small patches of the lungs, A. still more virulent type is lobar pneumrnia. In this variety large areas of lung tissue are involved and there is a tendeuey for the inflamma- tory processes to spread from Iobe to lobe. Often it starts very suddenly. A history of a cough or cold that has been- persistently hanging on is not uncommon, but the lobar type of einem =Ma may wine on without such no- tice, especially after prolonged ex- posure to severe weather, • Quite of- ten it is ushered in with a chill, the firer runs high for a week' or ten days, then comes the "erten", and it the issue is to. be favorable, there will be a sudden drop in temperature loan- ing the patient terribly weak but in a fair way to convalescence. It is a deadly disease, though, and in all too many cases the favorable crisis never comes, . Pneumonia demands the very best medical help obtainable, not matter what it may c st in money and effort. At the first suspicion of this disease the patient should be confined strict- ly to bed so as to Mite all strain up• on Site heart. To avoid pneumonia, fight away all "bad colds". Don't :tolceate them. Never sit or stand around in wet clothing. Who" you come in from the fields shifted to the marrow, first take a hot drink, then change into dry clothing from head to toe, Remember that pie nonia is con- tagious ;therefore, if a case develops, treat it like a contagious disease , ul do noy permit it io "run through .e family." • The Only Way While walking out with May % dropped right on the ground, Asked her to teed --"cause in the house Her brother's always Monad. - Quite Another Matter If you tell a girl elle is sweet Your compliment has served To make her your friend for life. But, oh, ie you 'want to stir up strife Just tell her he is well preserved! Wer WEA Nod :illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Furnished • with Every Pattern By Annebelle Worthington One of the most practical fashions of the season for the school miss of -6, 8, 10 and 12 years is illustrated in navy blue wool crepe with beige crepe collar and- cuffs. The scallops of collar and cuffs are accented by vivid red taffeta' bias binding. Matching shade red bone buttons emphasize side scalloped closing of bodice. Red suede . belt completes this jaunty outfit. Style No. 2947 is made at a re- markable saving, for its the 8 -year size, it takes.but 2 yards of 40 -inch material with )y yard. of 32 -inch contrasting. The bodice has a one- piece back; front in two sections. Scone(' at sides and shoulders. The two-piece skirt is seamed at sides and pressed into inverted, plaits at either side of"frottt and attached to bodice. It is now practically ready to set sleeves into armholes and stitch collar at neckline. \\reol jersey in French blue with, collar and cuffs of blue and white chocked woolen is very smart. Beige ,and brown checked woolen with plain brown is sportive. lecalherweight ; treed in , mauve red' tunes' with plain red woolen can -be worn ail through the pall with - ,out a top coat. Orchid chambray ' with white Ipique, cotton broadcloth in geomej- iric print in red and white with plain white pique, red and white gingham }theck with plain white linen, and tan (sports weight linen with brown are attractive tubbable fabrics, HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as •you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it—carefully) for each number; and ,address your order to Wilson Pattern Service,, 78 West Adelaide St., Toronto.;, Patterns' sent by an early mai;,: 234' skp��� f I'',1aa O,rr�ange st The Shades of Jules Verne In that .mysterious region miles above the earth, known as the "etre- tosphero," where fewdaring onion Gee have ever penetrated, the air is" so thin that a human being cannot live 'without artif3bial oxygen, Yet some -authorities declare that the long- distance air lines of the 'future may be established there. Free of the re- sistance of- ah' -at ordinary levels, air- planes could speed across oeeaus and link continents at almost incredible velocity. • Recent proposals have been made to fly machines at such a height and speed,nA young German engineer, H. G. Perl, announced not long ago his plans for a 22 -foot, • half -ton bullet plane which he proposed .to navigate at an altitude of seven' or eight miles and at a speed of more than 660 miles an hour to_croes the Atlantic in 6 hours, An Austro•German experiment - earth and all. of the-turbulert'winds that threaten aircraft. With increasing height the air grows colder,,, until at air miles" alil- LOde a pilot may be soaring through frigid breezes of G0 or' 70 below zero. Then, ifhe .pushes upward, an abrupt change acmes at about seven miles altitude. ,It gets no colder; perhaps a little warmer. There are no storms, no cloudshe has left 'them far 'be- low. Where he has climbed, 'there is always sunshine, A, sky of a ,weird deep blue in which the sun shines al- most like the moon at night, tells ties pilot that ho is in that sunny, frigid, mysterious region known as the i "stratosphere." At a height of li miles or NO, 'the stars are plainly vis- ible while the sun is shining. Hp there at the top of'the sky the air fs so thin that It hardly supports the plane's wings. The motor, des- er, Professor Herman Oberth, .pro- Bite the "super -charger" that. pumps Poses a rocket ship many times faster, compressed air into it, literally gasps Is there really, any scientific basis for breath. But cpnstruct an eir- for such an idea? plane that could operate efticiently To -day it is possible to build an air- at such a height, and there is almost Plane that will fly 60,000 or 75,000 no ,limit to ilia forward'speed that it feet high, without recourse to rockets aright attain. The backward drag of or any such highly experimental i ale Pushing past wings and fuselage moans, in the opinion of one promhm has all but disappeared. ent aeronautical engineer who has 1 1, l•-oreover, smooth winds of great worked out the details of such a craft• spend are known to exist at high Other experts have endorsed the high -I levels, and these might be used to ad - altitude airplane as tate next logical , vantage by a high -flying ` airman. development in air travel. A great Sounding balloon observations at the German airplane firm is said to be , equator reveal a powerful east wind planning actually to build high -alit- between the altitudes of 3 and 11 tide planes with air -pressure Cabins" miles, which might add 60 miles an for passengers,' And eventually the hunt' to the speed 'of an airplane fly rockets and other inventions may i hug from Tampa to America. In the conceivably engine= the range of next. three miles upward a strong high -flying planes. !.west Weed was found. Above, the di- The iThe greatest altitude ever reached ,''ectiou was again reversed. Thus re. by a human being was achieved when gulter air lanes might be establilhe,l Captain Hawthorne Gray, of the, wherever the wind was found to be Army Air, Corps, soared in a lio11oon ' n`,o0t favoring to a height 'of 42,470 feet, He died ) Flying at 70,000 feet" say, a pilot when he attempted to repeat the could glide 'with motors siert off to ,e feat. Another pioneer into the 'un.' landing as far away as 300 miles. it known region was the German pilot, I would take hint inure than an hour to ~Nillyflight of Ne41,unh796ofer feet last \fay was a1 he could radio to the nearest steamer new world's record for` airplanes.i and Iand neat' it. From such flights as these, and from i Will such high-altitude air lines the records brought back by the free- soon replace infrequent, courageous flying "sounding balloons of the 17,5.1 dashes into the upper atmosphere? , Weather Bureau from heights up to Some ex;terts think so. Not long ago 20 miles, it is known that the air Igor I. Sikorsky, famous plane de - above the earth is at Least a`two- signer, predicted a "new type of air - story alfair, and that the second level plane with highly supercharged mo - has different properties from the first, tors and an inclosed cabin with air The earth's inhabitants live in the kept under approximately, ne mal„ bottom layer, or "troposphere," come pressure, to permit flying et high prising the first six or seven miles of altitudes with speeds of say 400 to the atmosphere. 'Within this thin 5500 or more milds an hour." --Popular layer occur the storms that sweep the Science, ' Romantic Days In S'sluth Seas Relics at Fiji Cannibals in the Edinburgh Museum London—In Fiji a hundred years ago life tru h g s cheap. War, tortnr•e, murder, and cannibalism were rife. Thanks to the heroic self-sacrifice of the early missionaries, ane to the es- tablishment of British rule, such hor- rors are now no more, but with them, alas! has passed away much that was admirable in the life and work of a race -of hardy and independent Island- ers. Some idea of the Fill that once was may, however, yet be got from the study of a -collection like that pre- served in the -Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, tyritee R. IC. in the Week- ly Scotsman, Savage Fiji was never free from war or rumors of war. liven in times of peace the Fijian went his 'way armed, for a capricious chief, or a private enemy, might at amt, moment make a treacherous attempt upon his life. Small wonder, then, that wea- pons are prominent in Fijian collec- tions. Their variety and ellaboration are astonishing. Spears, sometimes timed in •several points long, clubs of ten to fifteen feet long, patiently times in several points, long clubs of complex barbs, and ending -some- times in several points long, clubs of hard wood, carefully ornamented anti highly polished, their weight testify- ing to the powerful physique of their owners; and short knobbed clubs used as missiles—such were the Fi- Mans favorite arms before the Intro- duction from Europe of the still more destructive musket. Scanty Dress The sturdy well-built Fijian of these early days was a striking figure. Pic- ture hint in full dress his limbs as yet unhampered by unbecomig and un- healthy European clothing, his only garment a white or colored lion -cov- ering of bark -cloth,' -his !lark skin glistening with fragrant oli, his bearded face painted in Vivid oolors, h}s bushy hair carefully dressed and powdered. The usuat`'woman's dregs was a wait -band' with a short fringe of leaf -strips oz' creeper -seems. Though clothing was scanty, there was a profusion of personal orna- ments of pearl -shell, Plain or border- ed with wlealo'-ivory. , Neahlaces wore made of whales' tooth, sometimes cut and polished so that they looked like largo claws; , or of tcrtoise•sltell, sea - urchins' spines,- tooth, shells, and the like, 1 `'outlets, combs, •ear•ornamcuts, armlet's, garter's, 'and anklets of all' • torts of materials, with a finishing touch of fresh, flowers, might he used to add to the effect. To the dressing of 'their hair men devoted much time and attention. There was no uniform fashion, one dandy vying with another in the crea- tion of striking, and to European - eyes, often grotesque, coiffures. The Fijian cultivated his mop of strong, frizzy hair till it stood out rive or six inches from his head, then had it cut, shaved, or braided according to his own fancy, finally .sprinkling it with 'white or colored powders. It was to avoid disturbing these products of days and weeks 'of careful attention that the Fijian laid his neck at night on what seems to us a thoroughly comfortless pillow—a' bar of wood, or bamboo supported on two or more low feet. Bark Cloth Manufacture The manufacture of bark -cloth was one o ftbe many household duties' of the Mime wamett. The tuned -bark of a particular tree was peeled off in long strips and, after some prepara- tion, laid Iengthwise, one, layer upon another, on a flattened Iog. The wet bark was then thoroughly beaten all over with wooden mallets so as to felt the fibres intoa. kind of cloth, which could either be .bleached to whiteness in the sun, or deooratetl in colors by means of printing -boards, stencils out -from banana -leaf, or free- hand brushwork. By joining one Piece • to another with paste, pieces of cloth of any required size could be pro - deiced. Clothing, screens, and mos, quite ctn•tains were made of this ma. tergal, . • Another task which fell to feminine hands was the malting of pottery. Though the art was quite unknown in the Pacific islands: lying further • east, in 'Fiji it was, well advanced, Using only the simplest tools, of stone and wood, the potters contrived .to turn out a rich variety of well - made vessels, ranging -from small drinking flasks to enormous leu -gal- Ion cooking -pots, and including some highly ornamental and complicated shapes. After firing, while the pot- tery was still hot, It was often glazed by rubbing it over with resin. ti "That man looks perfectly eoatt touted," "He ought to' be. Ho has his wile, ter flannels- broken inantieigh eight to' of seal in the cellar."