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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News Record, 1924-06-12, Page 2, WAYS kt 5 Ifle licTAG T „ D. AleTAGGAitT eTAGGART BROS BANKERS anent' Banking 13iialitess transatt- eaa ,NoteC Discounted. Drafts isseed. iter.t Allowed on. Deposits. Sale 1'3oteo Purthaoo3. H. T. RANCE Notary Public Conveyancer. Flattnoltil. Real Estate and Firo In. suratteo Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. " PiVi,sion Court Office, Clinton. BR)IDO.INE Solicitor, Notary Public, etc, _ , Office SLOAN BLOCK - CLINTON DR. 1. C. GA1VDIER Ofliee Hours: -1,30 to 3.30 ,7.30 to 9.00 p.m. Sundays, 12.30 to 1.30 min. Otherhours by appointment only., Office and Residence •-•-, Victoria St. DR. WOODS resuming, practise at „his residence, Bayfield. 011ie& Hours: ---9 to 10 a.m. and' 1 to 2 P.m. Sundays, 1 to 2 part, for con- stiltation, DR. H. S. BROWN, L.IVI.C.C. Office Hours .30 to 3.30 p.m. 7.30 to 9.00 p.m. Sundays 300 to 2.0,0 p.m. Other hours by. appointment. Phones Office, 2181V Residence, 2151 • DR. PERCIVAL HEA1RN Office and Residence: Huron Street ' Clinton, Out 'Phone 69 • (Formeily, occupied by the late Dr. C. W. Thompson). • Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted. Dr. A Newton Brady, -Byfield Graduate Dublin University, Ireland, Late Extern Assistant Master, Ro- tunda. Hospital "for Women and Child- ren, Dublin. Office at residence lately occupied by Mrs. P,arsone. Houral.-.---9. to 10 a,m.'6 to 7 p.m. Sundays -1 to 2 pair. • DR. A. M. HEIST Osteopathetle Physioian.• Licentiate Iowa and Michigan Stete Boards of, Medical Examiners. Acute and chronic diseases treated: Spinal adjustments given to remove the cause 'of diseaete. ,At the Grehera House, Clinton, every Tuesday forenoon:- • 60-3MP. G. S. ATKINSON _D.D.S., L.D.S. Graduate Royal College of Dental. Sur- geons and Toronto ElnivereitY. DENTAL SURGEON alas office hours at Bayfield in old Post Office .Building, Monday, Wed- nesday, Friday and SaLurday .from '1 to 6,30 ,in. DR. W. R.'NIMMO CHIROPRACTOR CLINTON-- ' Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. 10 to 12 a.m., 2 to 5 pane ati 7 to 9 p. SEAFORTH— Monday, Wedneaclay and rridaY. 10 to 12 a.m., 2 to 5 p.m„ 7 to 9 pan. Phone 68 Clinton, Ont. DR. MeINNES Chiropractoe Of Winch='will be at the Rattan - bury Henee, Clinton, on 'Monday and Theilaity forentions from 9 to 15 each week, Diseaises of all kinds successfully handled. 5.22-12e , .CLINTON 'NEWS RECOR c,,,,,TON, ONTARIO Terri:la-of SubscriptIon—$2.00 Per Yeitr ill advance, to Canadian adtireasesi $2,50 loathe,U.S. or other foreigri Ne paper discontinued until all arrears are nitid unless at . the option of the publisher. The mite to which every subscriptien Is paid is (1.Q110ted on the label. Advertising Rates--Ttansient adver- ,tiecineine, 10 cente Tier nonpareil line for ileei insertion and 5 cents per line for each subsequent imor-1 tion. Small advertisements not to 'I exceed one inch, such as "I.ost, 'Strayed,' or "Stolen " etc. inserted once' for , 35 cents, ancl each subse- qaget insertion -15 cents. Communications intended for publi- cation most, as a gua.rantee of good /alth, be accompanied by the name of the writer. GaE.,liALL . R. CLARK, Proprietor. • M. Editor CHARLES B. HALE • Conveyancer, Notary Public, 'CommM- sioner, etc. REAL, ESTATE AND INSURANCE HURON STREET - CLINTON M.- T. CORLESS ' CLINTON, ONT, Distr5t Agent •_ .The Ontario and Equitable Life and Accident Insurance Co, West Wawanosh Mutual Fire ' Insurance. Co. Petabliehed 1878. , Piesident, John A, McKenzie, Kilmer. dine; Vies -President, 11. Lt. Salkeld, Goderiela; Secretary, Thos, G. Allen, Dungannon. Total .amcnint of insur- area nearly 312,000,000. In ten years * number of policies lave increased from 2,700 to 4,590. Flat rate of .32 Per 31000. Cash on hand 321.000. • ft L. Salkeld • Godeinch, Ont. J, Turner, Clinton, Local Agent.. GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements. can be made for Sales Date' at The Newsatecbrd, Clinton, or by. calling PhO0eee03. — Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed, - B. R 1-IIGGINS Clinton, Ont. General Fire and Life Insurance. Agent' for Hartford WincIstorin, Live Stock, Autoraoblle and Sickeeris end Accident Insurance. Huron and Elle and Cana- da Tenet Bonds. Annointments made to meet partie,s at Brucefreld, Varna, and Bayfleid. 'Phone 57, The 'McKillop Matual Mr. Pinker, and. he Pass -ed her to be Fireue neatly bit in the face by the door' 01!IRsrane-C0—pany mthe telephone' box' he started, Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. allcl faced a dainty little lady whoso Di rtEcToRy: tail, hair tell loose over her shoulders. Vvesicleut,"James Colincely, (4orlerielo "There's hh reply'" hesaid,de's- 'Vire, ;fames Evans, lieechwoode Sec.- pairin.gly, "This telonlione, eervice— Trearierer, Tees, IL Heys, Seatorth. One" as realized -that it isvas a man 1)irectere, George • McCartney, Sea- facing her, Than withea.little laugh - 105511; D. la McGregor, S'eaferthl" J. 0. "I beg your pardon, but I'm in "midi , Grieve, Itraeten; Wm, Ring, Seafortli; ,aat, M. Mc/liven, Clinton; Robert,„a Feeries, " uerlock; John Benneweir, Hrodliagen; "Perl'al) 0001130 ../e11).'" 'Pinker stig" Jae. Connolly, Goderich. , Agents: Alex. Leitch, Clinton; J. W. "I came to 'getany brii•r dressed," she 'Yee, Goderieb; 50, eelnehray, Sea, stated the ,olivlous a,fut looked at him forth; ala: Obeeneya Egmonevine'; R., with eppealine, eyes', "and nag nest, re. tarinuth,,Eraciliagen. membered that I've left all my money Any money to be paid in may 1)6 aeoel „ . pate 370039)11 clothing 'Co. Clinten, '"" L,eave -a ring or soinething as, secur- er ab Cutt't.; Grocery, Goderien" , Parties desiring, to affect Ineeratteo it'," Pleker Suggested, or tapered ether business will be She shooll, heal \"s gaIne. promptly a ttencied, to' on application 1.5 back to, rlrege—I've brought nothing I any of fee ebrive e B • 'Pee n'e post °Inca' -Lcisses "i think.---peehape sew Snspeoted by the Director Who, lives Xinntlent the scone. , tested delicately. TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 6.25 min. 2.52 eon. Cciing West, ar. 11.10 .a.m. "• ar. 6.08 dp. 6.51 lam. or. , „ 10.04 part. London, Huron ta Bruce rev. Going South., ar. 7.56 dp. 7.56 am, 4.15 p m. Going North, depart 5.50 p.m. 11.05 11,13 atm 4. A MATTER OF NERVES By P. Charles Vivian. Ilar, Warrington , Pinker's visitor looked, and wfiladeciclealy nervous,. It did not need such diezernment as: Mi. Warrington' pinker' ponsessed to de- cide thai "Edgar N. Smith" was not that visitor'e correct name; he heel- Ateri over answeting to it; and, and- gether, he Wae net hinisein—thie. In more seriges'than one. "Mr, Smith," •• saia Pinker at last,• "the business ot a private inquiry agent is one, which does not admit of wasting. aver -much time. May I ask you—?" e "I—er—that is, we -1 want to get the Ostroleuka diamonds out of tile country," Smith replied.' ' "I'm shaken all to pieces,". he said, "and so would you be, -it you'd tarried half a' Million. for a fortnight, knowe 5g that three, men were waiting- for a chance to slip a knife into you to get that balk Million. I want to haled the case over to a man- I canleust, and know that it will be -handed back to nie at the gangway' of thee Cakonic 'when the snore bell rings, tomorrow." "Where are • tIttr Ostrolenka dia- monds?" Pinker asked. For answer, Smith took a flan leath- er ease from his pecket, He opened it and the genes bleeeed up -at Pinker. Then he elosed the 'caseagain and held It ,out. ' "Will you—save my nerves?" •he asked. • . - Pinker took the cese, • "The boat train?" lie asleed "Eleven thirty .trotn Beaton," Smith teld him. ' "Ann this case le to be handed back to you at the gangway of the Caronic when the shore bell rings tenet:Trona" „ Smith nodded assent, and ,looked in- tensely relieved. ,"Ily the iway,", he 'said, "tome and, look out of the 'win- dow—this isn't 'Imagination ',„on•ety part." He pointed, as they stoed by the window, eeverallY at three inen who lounged in the street, inoonspicuous in the ,traftle. "They have followed me all the way," he said, "end they'll be It Liverpool to -morrow," "If You'll go, bow, ,Mr. Snlith, CLI witch, you out aim see how tb.ese Men behtere,"-he said. Watehing, he, saw a tourth indivtd- nal come in, to one of the three vrhom Smith had pointed out to him, and en- parently, ask or a light from the other's cigarette. liavIng get it light, he stopped to talk; the other two hit off Yellowing Smith, tinobtruSiVelY. Mr. Warrington Pinker buttoned his coat over the enee Of dia11101111S, put ou his het," and went Ont. Ho bad not gone a hundred, yarde before he real - feed that the two men were following him, just as their confreres had fol- lowed Smith --and he had the dia. monde en him, Coeaciousness of their value made ,11103 realize how it was that Smith' had loin his nerve., He turned a •corner and walked ioto' 0, iblaliket et tog, tbo 'sudden -swooning London fog that theme down treacher- ously and WW1 danger to one placed as be waseplaced, Before him was a Lai hairdressing establisloneet, , and .Mr. Warrington' Pluker walked straight in, on the principle- of any port in a tog. . He saw n cash desk, and beyond it telephoiee box; beyond that were two- doors with -panels et frosted glass announcing that on the lett of the es- tablishment attended.' te ;the 'COI/CUM et gentle:Men, while beyond the _right hand.floor ladies. submitted tte merest waving' and similer proce,esep. e 'The Jody behind the cash desk •beamed on AliNT MARY FINDS THE GHOST. There never was a 'ghost' that could not be explained some Way," said Aunt Mary, after Tommy Tucker had told her about the strange arid epooky noises be had heerd in the night. "Let h me tell you my first ttnd lasI "1 had just moved. into a house in m a lovely "it of town ev ime there were many big and old trees, in which birds of many kinds built their nests, In the middle of the first, night I was awakened by a brentp? in the dining l'00111 next to My bedroom. I got up, searched the rooms and, then tried te figure out what would have bumped, I was alone in the house and had no pets of any kind to move about, I had been assured that there were no rats in the house. And I was euro it was not burgiarse—all the doors were locked and the windows ell shut ex- cept one in the diniog room, which was down a little from the top and which I had not been able to shut. "After I went back to bed, bentp/ it came again rind again bum,p! the two noises -following 'each other within a second or too. 1 heard nothing, more that night. "For nearly a week I was awakened 6very night toward dawn or disturbed if awake by th'ese,noises. One night, when I had left a few dishes 'on the dintrig table, I distinctly heard them 0/ink! Was this thee a hungry ghost? "I lead to stay in the house alone for two weeks till my family joined me and I didnot enjoy the prospect very much as" every -night the noises continued. "Oim night I was so nervous that I made myself a clip of coffee and some ftoli oasit---'(-,-ietlaces;calarnedtallyeninewrnonin jgb, about. bed, to try to get senile sleep.. When latercleared.away, the dishes I had used, the night before 5 found a int of Crust I had left, (teethe 'floor, a cup tipped. Over and On the tablecloth a little, bench of pretty , grey ,fur "That day a woman who, had lived in the neighborhood all her life came to call uponn, tne and I told her my " 'Squirrels I,' she said laughing, 'Our trees are full of them. The People who lived here before you 015 had a little crippled son and they he trained the squierele to come 'in through the top of 'the window in the dining -room—they never closed it,— and go to him for nuts!' • "Then I understood. That window had been open so long 11 was stuck fast. • • "That night I left a handful of filberts on the table and sure enough, When I looked the next mornhig—I never got up very early—they were gone--carriocl away in the cheek - pockets of my wee neighbors. ',rim lit- tle grey brothers, not finding their boy friend, whisked out of sight when- ever they heard me coming. The bumps 1 heard were their soft, plump bodies dropping down on the floor as they' leaped from the table. "After that I made friends with Grey Brother and Grey Sister and their 11ttle folks arid the dining room window was always left 'open at the top, when possible, for their easy coming and going. • I bought nuts thi quantity for them and for years en- joyed my friendly ghosts in grey." —Bessie -Borth/right. "Oh, would you be so good?—its Only till I get beck' to 'my flat—I'm variety artist—when rrn in work:" s "Then," gitid Mr. Warrington Pinker, reflectively, "I gather that you 'are not in work at the present time,' She shook her lead, rather doleful- ly, ;and her Looe hair waved with the movement., ' "I shall be only ton happy to otter my services," said Mr. Pihker. He emerged from the hairdressing establishment half an hour later, and steed in`the lighted doorwaY,,swaYing vlaiblya the fog had thinned, and from the oposite side ot the street tic(' men, chatting together, could sea Mee He ritood, swaying in that drunken fas- hion, lentil a policeman loomed through the late afternoon gloom, add then he lurched leeward into the street, eannemingeinto the policeman. "Now then," s.aill the representative of 'the law. "Look where you're go- ing." "D'sgratliful pleeshulan drank.— 'Sheerly shtlish!" hiceuped Mr. Pinker. "Gerrout way, conshbl—repert y011— drunk." He staggered, made it grab at the policeman's arm and collapsed on the pavement. The policeman gathered Min up, with difficulty. "Yon Come along o' me," e bade, "Legge!" Mr. Pinleer bawled, loudly, "Got go Liverpool tartoilrow," "Never you mind about Liverpool—, you come along o' me," the policeman ordered, ahd began conveying is cap - Two men followed rill the Way to the polka naticin, and saw ,Mr. Pieleer seetely inside, Then they stood and gaped at the entrance for a time, and, 'finally one moveSi off while, the other remained on watch. llfr. Pinker 'peld his line and the Goetz next morning making one in r. s,lutracefaced procession that wee "weighed oft" with the 'rapidity of ex- perience by the stipendiary. It WAS barely ten -thirty when he emerged trinil the court, tor a tip and a word to an insnector Whom he knew had Placed him high up on the list of drunk andtdisorderly °nest Outside the court .11,e•looked round until he enW the two men who bad felloWed him the night before, and then he got' to the edge Of the pavement and .ptopped the first taxi that „carrel, along, "Eustou, as quickly as.irott co,n make it," he ordered. But When he reached the station, he seeurea in no great hurry, I -Ie lounged into' the booking halnelooked all round it, 3113c1' tor sortie tithe seemed to he Waiting, although the boat train pas- sengers were riling toward their plat- form. Of the two meh who had fol- lowed Mr. Pinker so assiduously he took n onotioe at all, but eeemed_ to be waiting for ,soine'one elem. Satisfied at last, Philter got himself a ticket fee' IA151.1)001, and, leaving the beet erain to its town aevIcee, went toe the 11 o'clock expresS., On this lie found an. empty compartineet, in which he seat- ed himself, delibeilately inviting trou- ble. The two men patrolled:the pIet• form untll the expreee Wna 011 tile point of 'starting, and then they bundled Mtn lthe Pielfeles compart- ment. Ile eregercied them- with mild toleration, put hin'hand nee to, feel the breas•t Pocket of his coat, and then folded his anue ou his chest mill ap- peared to doze, The two Men fidgeted, and one of titerri pttt; his hand in the inner 'breast poolct , of his overceitt. Mr. Pinker took a trimming papa' form bee poetic ea - a kindly policeman had obliged. litm with it,- 'before he paid his 11110 --- read, Among the smaller 11005 iteMS Wan .0110 detailing a mysterious, assault. on a, aOattfin Edgar N. Smith, who had been set upon/by two Men, the preced- ing evening, .under eover at the fog. 'Phe neysteey "of .the affair, 11,- seemed, was tool: OtnlOtlVe'10r,tlle eseault, tor though the two nen Ladled plenty of time. to take all they' wanted before ,Smillieieoriee attracted a pofice- . man, they had-takeh,nothing. And; in the fog, they, had .gol ceca.r awriy. So much 'Ma I'initcr rearl, wIth the • . paper- hela 'my high before Ms' feee, and then he necame oware of a eweet- sicklY odor. He saw Me. Shorter ot the two men: stand :up before the ! dem of, the compaitment„ ruel. sudden- • -, Large groupe ol cuu spots, some (1 ufficient size to luila 'the etietli /teal itliefft'overerowiling litiVe re centlyt, appeared, inateato that a new Period '01 solar activity, has bel,un Every eleven and -a half Years large areas of .the isun become complo,tely !covered_ with spots, while betweet iheze maxima, as was the etfee las .suinstair, Weeks arm time may elapse without one 'making Its appearance. The spots that have been recently Observed were at a 'Nee 'ilititilde 01 the sun's, surface and 51,14 this Pie that identifies them as the foreritoners Of thenew period 'rather. tlian hang 'over's-front the Perioa that has recent face. And that was all that'ear, Pink- er remembered until th,e voice of a train attendant reaehed his ears, 'tell- ing him. lunch was served. , 'Be looked around' the compartment, but he was alone. 011so hie, beets Were unfastened, his vest was unfastened, though his coat bad been pulled round hent so that this. elitiatla. not' attract no- tice from any one ,paseing the. com- partment. When .he came to take stook of himself, he found that virtual- ly everything required refastening. Be went along to the end 'of thec51and endured the Me41,table refralts of the anesthetic to which he had been eule Meted, after which he obtained a stiff brandy and soda., At the. terminus he secured a taxi, andegleve as direction *OW berth of the Carmelo., He got cart in the shadoW of the big, veSe.el and went along toward tlite gangway; There, at its shore end, stood Mr. Edgar Isle Sinith, in 'company, with two more 50,I—Mr. Pinker got behind tee etanchled re crane, Air ho 'wee not reedy for them yet. .He Saw hie tWo'retithful'a 'attendants the train foliOntIng stille-they were there to see the , and. ot the adventure, he knew, and deanite , the eeplitting headache that owed them, Me'Plhleee A. bell rang, and the featilliar cry.— "Aely more tor the alive?" tame to Mr. Pinker, He -stepped otit trent be- hind the stanchion, and Mr. Edgar N. Smith Minuted 'tit seeing him. • Mr. Philter came 'forward; and raletia beckoning arm. At hitt signal the little lady Irene the hairdreenees, Woking vel7 neat arid trimocamelto him from amid the little •M'Overl that had -come to see the departitre of the Caronice She handed to Mr. Pinker a Rat mather case, which. be in turn paSsed on to gr. Edgar N. • "X 51111111 you'll lind them all oorrectio litr. Pinker said. "But even now I don't tudentatid why yon wanted me," the lady of tho' hair dressing: establiehment asked: "It had to be somebodeoalisolutely, unconneeted with 'either me or with the owners. of the stones," Mr. Pinker told her. "I got ,myseit loolel up last nighrto give them the impression that I still had them, and 9)00 02 the party assured themselves that Smith hadn't got them ea himeethey got at hint in the tog. Finding you in that *ey— elid finding you out of work, too—was goasend. Chance is the biggest ele- 111 0nthl "ieuteeshe insieted. "I. page by my eyes, as a rule, rind you could. no more steal the Ostrolen- Ica diamonds than _yen eoula 6101(1 the Venus de 'Milo," Mr. Pinker tOld her; "and if you think you would care for this :tort et thing', there's no heed for eon to consider yourself out at' work. I am in need lie; descended, to' particulars quite outside the 5130750 al: this, episode, ; ly the otlier Ivan 51152151 his epaper I asele "eine preeseil ti cloth egelnet 1)15 Wee ,Ilughie. He's gone. to echool, wee Ituglile, eels' him net four, -- Sure I sant tile, Yright war; ie him aVlieli lie left the door, Bit liS took .3 hand o' Denny, Ali' a hand o' Dan, Wi' Yews owltl eoa.t aPen hh11-- Och, the poor isiee man Ide out tbe guavas( lignite, More stout nor, 51111); , An` lroutie right an' ,steatty taes titetted int '1 watched 111111 15 the corner 0' the big .turf slack, ;.• 411 1102111550 Iris feet went fhrril Still his head turned haelis." 3 -lo evrie leolrlii'eeveuld I call 111111-- 0 eh, iery Iteatt was woe-- - • Sum it's lest I en evttliout hint, Burhe IS0 51 go, ' , follewed .ro 1110 then in' Itrlien lhoy pseocSl-11bye God hell; nen lie Waa oe'yine annybe so was .1. ielizabetli 811505, '10' "33,e 11 See, 111 Donegal.'" , • .a 7- .Vireete 01 omen., ,is sontetatnes. 1:1- trieved, waste of heelth seinen) waste of time Boyer.' 17 ly ended. At the beginning of the cycle a few appear, ,toward tbe poles of the Mina then, as they increase M number, their average poeition comes neater and. emerge to the solar equator, Which, ranee the SIM is a roteting body, correstonds to tho &Mater.' of the earth. About '1917- the spots were most nemeroura After that their num- ber decrefueed, until in 1922 tbat could be seen were close to the equat- or. ' Thus the 50153 affords astronomers 01)- portunity. Of studying a star at rela- tively close range, only 92,000,000 miles away. This seems near when we recall that the nearest other star ie about six trillion miles. away aud that its light takee more thanefour years to reach us, while „Cott ot the sun takes -only about eight 'minutes. • , The spots are the most noticeable features 01! the sun when the,y ere pre- eent, and large Ones May be seen with relatively, slight optical aid. 'At pre- seut the spots are probably tee small to be seen without it .small telescope, but when they become more numemila a good pair of binoqulars should re- veal them. Of course; one should never look at the sun without some prOtection for the eyes. This might consis.t of a piece , 'densely fogged potographic.film, which may be held in 5100111 ef the binocelari. ' Abaret10/1, leidema fe melt in two Mat113 111115 ef et—tafeeolfi inth ens.:IfI*4, That sort ,of tleetn, x15 idleleette Pereenat Iibsr5y,'bi0tt- 55 Itsolf in definime p1 the.• eorthe land 'etr 55 11)5 opinien of th04eighbor hood. It le the attituao mktietio who flings the adorn ful chal1enge4 don't rare what Orly say," only .teadtis.cover that noneaef us. Qatl milord "b. be In- dependent of our own reptitation---a thing very slowly iipbuilt, very 'swiftly and easily torn dawn. "Abandon" in the reproachful sense. finhlice 30 a00,E110Stt 50 Ills voicee that recall and warm,. a blindness Lei kiml, grieved 'faces ,of „those that cared for us, a haranetie of heart teat no rebuke impresses, It is a reoltlessness that isolates tho willful cane beyond, some pale that civilized • aaaiety has reared against 1114aboragin9) oi5)11 nates m . Eut there is an abate:Ion of quite am other kind, ernineettiy eafe and some- times ancesealey, a thin,e to be coin- metelea. Thee is the spirit of pure joy --the ,surrender to a careless http- pleess,that sings and laughe, is in love with life' and 1,0 glaa of the world as God, made it and gave it to us all. That . seri of abandon, gleeful and mirth -evoking, Is vanted everyWheee, Its bringers are welcome in any com- pany.' How richly the world rewards its tree humorists! Not .thOSe 0110 raise a laugh with clumsy or .coarse buffoonery,' hobmailca and dolt -headed, but those who send through a close, tense, heavy atmosphere the pure and cleansing wind of shear delight, ftom which all faces take the radiant bright gleam -es earth tekes the sunlight in thO morning, . They 'are net living. properly. who e,annot play—who meet be forever serious. It IS as nraoh-iiif duty to take part In innocent 'fun and to further wholesome amuseneept as to ,rule a country, orrun a bnsiness, or sit in a heavy -jowled wiebecre conference of learned men who, 'having seen and known the world, are rid ef their 111u- Phetograph In§ 'Sun Spots, When -viewed with suffiCient magnify' log Delver tb:e typical -sun spot is seen to consist of 'a dark" centre, called the "unibra," and a ligterdeorder, the "pen- umbra." Actually, however, the ap- rarently dark umbra is brighter and • hotter thou an electric are light,. but it seems dark by comparison with the rest of the'sen. A photograph of a sun spot through an Instrument called the. "spectre - heliograph," an invention of Dr. Hale, ehables the observer to tune in on one wavelength ef the sun's, light, to use a radio anaiogy. Such pietUres allow- fee diStrihntion of ator One ole, Meat, elleh as, coldien or hydrogen, on the son and reveal et.deflialtely sbiral structure of the' sbot.' 31 02 in this way that their nature has been .detrermined, aud 'they are either khown to be 'great oyelones or ternadoes. in the outer gaseous layer of the sun, , Assoolatect with the activity of the surf, ,ae revealed by the presenee pr absettee 01 spots, are .numerolle, other 'phenomena: Ot most interest to earth - livers ts. the relation between atitefn and our le?exage temperatures.' 31 1108 been nofieed that the earth is ap- preciably cooler at the thne of /spot maximum than at the neinimum, and thtS may seem sureneeing, because the spot& indicate inereesed solar activity, However, Ibis supposed that at sueli ectiVe times large quantities at smell nartielee Of some 'kind, are thrown out around' the' sun and .that this acts as a screen toreduce radia- tion to the earth. Support is given this view by the Met thnt the coronai which 01511 only be seen at the time of 11 totut eclipse, 'sterns, to epeeist of ellen, small prirticles and Is nreeh more exteriblve° at the time ot -a. large num leer of spots. ' - Magnetism of Spots. One of tlie most frnitful Una% of re- eearch in the stni-in recent years has been M connection with the magnet- ism pf .the Spots, and this sehjece is dis- euesed 51 leegth in the last chapter of Dr. Hale's 'aew beolr, "The Depths of the Universe." This study M eos- sthie because of the so-called "1680- niaa effect," by Which the dark lineS, visible in the polar ispectrum When it is -viewed In It spectroaeoPee alineer to be, seine lute two or 11101% Components When the light IS passed thraugh the field of a powerful magnet: These meteorite have ohly been, de- veloped in recent years, arid the re- cent inactive* period ,08.. the sun has pre- vented their complete application. As- tronomers at the Mount 'Wilson 015- servatory are, therefore, Looking for- ward to the active period that is ale proechIng, and in the eext few' years eur knoseledge of this important body sheela be greatly- augmented:a-James StOkley, ' A Facer! , Ilere is a -Story of the London tube, told 111 the Tatter, A. certain -man who had never eonsidered himself as hand - Some liked to think nevertheless that the lefty expreseleo of Ins lace inore Ithenconleeeented, eor aey deficiency in bemire.. Accordingly, going 110010 in the cube one evening, he "Wan 11111011 1 gra titted to see aMan on the seat op- p-ogiie Min produce a- notelmelt ana start sketching his face. T -Ie leaned across' to the, samteher I and salol genially, "I Seal 7'01.1 are an artist,'sir." The 00190 smiled., "011, in a intmliie sort of way," lie 50311100 .0 deeigtr these grotesque door knockers," ' Nasty Nieknames. "1 hope thee don't give my little boy <do,- nasty nielmainee in school?" "Yes, motliem they eall 1115 Cerne." "HoW dreadful! And why do 'they ctill you tbatT'; " 'Cause I'm always at the feet OE Ole elass," , Mystery In Chinese Gongs. . maitufactuie by the ancient, Chinese- of 'gOngs and ieni.tores., with blleir perfect tonee, 5,ill reinainS a, eys Lei y to 1110, eateme ',aorta, aitliouali their chemica1 compesition etas been • • iletermined. Let us give playroom, therefore, to the fancy and encourage a nimble wit and a fertile imagination among us. The tired world needi the raillery -and reveling that are innocent, and scat- ter their new, sweet influence in place of old anti evil things. a Ftapping Coat Makes Eche. In a cave in' the Pantheon at Rome the visitor, by only Rapping his coat, can create an echo like the teport of a Mg gen: • JM!s Sat'aPskrill —,s49004ay, catier meg .0e get SoItn real Medicilieleffele thie. 11 is a highly eolicentrated extract. of Sateen' Vainnble naatieinal inatediente, pure mai wholeeorne. The doee ie email, only a teaspoonful tine,: topes a day.. gdooaneemparala le a wonderful ' cf, acre nye' and kidneys, prompt; in gjving /chef, 11is pleasant to take, agreeable to the stomech, givea oo 11)5111 of new life. Why not tey ? War- Scarred' Frolas. Then -will a quiet gallica' round the And settle . o11 those evenIng'fielas 4171 -10 -re 00111011 watch the illow,,Itorne- enming men Acroee brawn acres lisoloSi ant _ant no moie; ' The sound o5 children's feet be on the When lamps wee lit, ana etillness deeper falls Unbroken save wbere ;Otte en their Mane ki',e munching- Patiently upen het stere. • Ouly a scat beside the, paet'ure gate, A I;Orna.p.il naleecl tree upon elle hill, "What thaes remembered, -will rennin'. %them atm Of long disastrous days,they knew of Till these, toe, Yield for sweet, tutees- . liceried things, And a man 5210515115,1.1 woman Bente and sings. —David Morton. , His Foolish Thingra nl-telti'''; emh s ai Ev d; 'Be°gegnt s one .agog la"s5 ca if they hitenened but yesterday. When eIstellaiptiakde0s!nntlYsellliQoY6111--°°otif uidaanY2y--ooft ninterY * yolithful and triter, actions, and how I got married—I can't . help smiting and thinking luny many toolieh things I've doee." . . AiM ieoegs wondered why 1111 wife treatea him coolly after., Bic visitins hest gone. An uncommon Noun. • The grammar lesson-. proceeded ‚smoothly enough' 'until the , teacher aske4 small boy what kind of a. noun "trousers" was. "It's all uncommon noun," wasthe reply, "because it's singular at the top and plural at the bottem," Anqestral Estates Under mer 501110 under 'the hammer," mys a; mesotteato.frsoviansLogldir ana the caurt, his ments et auctioneereand estate agents "Tinian Who study the advertise- life mune to, mean 115 life of the es - historic houses and must teel many nano of regret ,on (1°,1,1A. firm of' eeeing week after week the lists Al writer in the Quarterly Review or Lon• end self-contained. With the 18th estates which he had no lack of eelf-cenfidence. Re - Men seen° from the 1711 -to the michIlla of the 19th. centery may have been, tablished and affluent ...Whatever the pursuits ot the Eng,. rally 'Self-supporting auCtioneers who transact oficiency was modified, but throughout e .. c,entury that characteristic of eelasuf- perhaps a q.uarter of this, busitess haeitiiPteeertio:re',Inuatsrlt of -the food, clothes well as the dialect, have soial since 1918 1,416;271 acres—I household goods awl Furniture, the and area between the size of IsTorfOlk tar Were local and characteristic. "The amusementa, too, the dances, songs and getnees while varying from district to district, generally flourish- ed throughout the rural area. In mach the same way, the great house, an of 55 PrOlierties in Scotland, apd no ac- ten it was called, was self-sufficient,. mint is takeel of hundreds of lesser! The producte ot the peek, farm and houses. ' e 1 gerden, still -room and brewhonie, , "Assuming that . this represents 'tl.' bakery and curing chimney, furnished e fourth part of the total transfer, about i the family and the servante withenany GOO capitel seats, have changed hinds luxuries and with all the neceseities. anel a,total "acreage exceeding 6,500,000 "Over pretty well eve17 one of these small estates a squire reigned, and it was natural, an, Wen as desirable, that he. should be a little Deviathan an embodiment of what he rated. He wee ownera—somo 170,000—this 600 is a the local father; he felt a proprietary verY moll proportion. This transfer interest in the welfare of every one does, however, represent a most seri- of his dependents, as he did in the pros - economic weakening of the backbone verity of his land. He felt responeenle of country We; namely, the increasing fee the care of his folk; his mind and poverty of the old. squitmarchy , in Ms time were in great measure de- whoin, more than in any other' section voted to their Welfare and to the all- ot the 'community, the rural life of ministre.tion of justice, his judgments Begland preserved its fine character- being rather those of a father than of . istics, a inagletrate. "nem 1688 to 1892 the country "Today, beyond conferring a slight. gentleman governed the state; he had traditional prestige, the Possession of " the -prestige as well as the power, and land is of little conseguence to, nor so 'Qs process began. through which social organization. Wealth, and the retirface of the country was appor- wealth alone, seems to be the ultimate tioned out; for it success:fel men wish- standard of the doniluant element in ed tee progress Mather, theywere conn society. The centre ef gravity has pelted to nay land; anti 56 tlie country shifted to the towns," eee and Litcolnshire. The transfer of capital represented by this amount is £22,208,164, In 1918 that flrm dis- posed of 44 Important country seats; In 1919 of 52; in 192005 93; in 1921 of 19; is 192 of 85, not including sort - acres, representing it transfer of some '489,000,000, and in area eiceeding that of Wales, and Cheshiee &imbibed. Yet out of the total number of land- There isn't a member of the family need silver Teem indigestion, sick headaches, biliousness, fermented stomach, etc., if he or she will take Chamberlain's Stemac i and Liver Tablets. They cleanse the, stomach and bowels and stimulate the liver to healthy activity and tone up.the whole system. 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