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VIII: OLE) FAMILY' VLIVVER,
How deer to my heart was the old
family flivver,
What fowl recollections it calls in
review,'
The fenders, the windshield—eh, how
' they could quiver—
Anti how she did rattle, yes, even
• When new.
How well I remember the very first
flet tire
The first empty gas "tank, the head-
lights SO dim;
How sweet was the sound when she'd
buck and then Iniek-fire--
And that time I drove her six nines
on the rim!
In fancy I see her alone.in the barn -
lot; •
The paint is all gore and so are
the gears.et
The. motor is lifeless—not even a hot
spot—
But the, flivver's first glamor has
• 1-c.d. through the years.
The old battered flivver,
The rust -covered flivver,
The rough -riding flivver'
That served us so well.
-Torn S. Elrod.
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THE SPELL OF THE ROAD.
Lurking along the miles of high-
ways whiek traverse this country is
a •mysterious power • knaffil to the
-
automobilist as the "Spell of the
Road." Few of .the millions •who
have held a wheel for long journeys
fail to escape its insidious influence.
Some call it the result of concentras
tion, others describe a lulling of the
senses as though the swift passage
through the atmosphere was admin-
istering a narcotic. This, they say,
is especially true when the sunshine is
strong and the skies nre clear. ,
The spell may be cast in Dundas
or in the wide open spaces of the
Prairies, and the driver on Prince
Edward Island may obey the mystic
touch as well as he who travels the
• lorigest trails. Much depends upon
the motorist.
Accidents so it is reported have
been traced to this numbing of
ie is a tendency to
edge the car toward the crown of the
highway. And so gradually is this
• done that the driver seldom realizes
that more than the allotted space is
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being Occupied. Trade, of coerse,
curbs encroaehments, but on alonely
road, with simep turns, there is au
element of danger.
Does the average motoriet keep to
the right a the road as far itsessos-
sible Or crowd over to the middle? was
the question considered at a recent
investigation. The .•answer to the
question is affected by the width of
the road, curves, grades, slope of road
surface and condition a the surface
adjacent to the pavement. This con-
clusion is based on observations of
the habits of drivers on highways of
various kinds, widths and location.
Points were selected for observation,
and the width of the pavement was
marked off with white paint into one -
foot seetions, p9 that the position of
passing vehicles could be observed.
In most cases the cars were not
passing other vehicles at the instant
of observation. The investigation,
therefore, indicates the road position
I preferred by the average driver. Few
'automobile drivers prefer a position
closer to the edge of pavement than
two and one-half feet and on meeting
other cars the average driver Will
sacrifice clearance rather than drive
closer to the edge than he instinctive-
ly feels to be safe.
Truck drivers who, as a class, are
somethnes accused of being road hogs,
are found to be not guilty. Most of
them were observed to drive a foot
closer to the edge of the pavement
than drivers of motor cars, and under
all circumstances .they adhered more
closely to the side of the road.
Eighteen feet is found to be the
minimum width of roadway which
will permit passenger vehicles and
trucks driven in the preferential posi-
tions to pass in safety and with a
reasonable amount of clearance,. This
will allow a distance of 27 feet be-
tween the outer wheel and the edge
of the road for automobiles, and 1.8
feet for trucks, with 1.9 feat clear-
ance between vehicles.
Observations on curves showed that
there is a general tendency to shift,
to the inside of the curve, particu-
larly by the traffic moving on the
outside. Improper banking of the
road surface, poor shoulders - and
steep embankments on the outside of
the curve all tend to make drivel's
crowd to the inside. White lines in
the centre of the road we found to
be very effective in keeping traffic in
its proper channel.
Clock as Beehive. -
A new elock was set going In the
tower of Wolvey (Nuneaton, England)
Piiish Church recently.
The old clock had. an interesting
history, and is supposed to have done
duty since the days of Charles II.
Originally it had, but a single hand.
The. second dial (of wood) was spilt
in •eemmemealition of. the British
Victory at Trafalgar, and the second
. hand was intraduqed about the same
There is a record of its having been
repairethin 1740. When the old clock
was removed recently workmen discov-
ered at its rear a hive of dead bees
and between forty and fifty pounds of
honey.
A still more interesting fled was
that of a valuable Rein of fifteenth
-century glass.- It had been reduced
to fragments in the old mullion of the
wiudow, and was covered by the
wooden face of the clock. Tradition
has it that the Cromwellian soldiers,
marching from Coventry to Leicester,
knocked out the glass of the window,
and that the portion recently discover-
ed was left lying about, when new
glass was introduced.
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Wisps of Wisdom.
The man who gives up goes down.
You are rich only as you enrich the
lives of others
Avoid the pleasure that holds -the
penalty of future pain.
Half the value of anything to be
done Is doing it promptly.- .
Dou't be content with taking things
as they come; 'go aftei- them. .
Flowers bloom whether anyone
looks at them or not. Have you less
seas's) than a flower? •
The royal road to sucoess would
have more travellers if so many
weren't lost attempting to find short
cuts.
It is one of the beautiful compen-
sations of life. that no man can sin-
cerely try to help another without
helping himself.
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Bank Notes.
Greater privacy 'surrounds the mak-
ing •of notes for the Bank of England
than almoSt any other undertaking
connected with that great -institution.
The paper on Which the notes are
printed has been made hi, the same
factory at Laverstoke, Hampshire, 1! or
over two hundred years:" It is pre-
pared entirely by hand from specially
selected rags, and is washed and re -
washed in spring water • used /or no
other purpose.
The formula of the ink used in print-
ing the notes is known to only half
a 'dozen' people. " The. chief ingredient
Is charcoal obtained by imoke-drying
the wood 01! Rhenish viffes. 'Each note
costs the bank roughly two cents to
preduce, and' the average period of
'circulation is two and a half months.-
About 60,000 of the notes are printed
CROSS -WORD PUZZLE
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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD PUZZLES
Start out by filling in the Words of which you feel reasonably
" sure. These will give you a clne•to other words crossing them,
and they In turn to still others.' A letter belongs in each white
space, words starting at the - numbered squares and running either
horizontally or vertically or both.
HORIZONTAL
• 1 --Charge •
6—Thoroughfares (abbr.) .
8—Got up
12—A suffixmeaning "pertaining
to" • •
13—Poundag'ain
14—A vegetable
15—ire
17—A limb
18—A weapon
20 --Conjunction
23—Abbr. for title of a physician
24—Frequent
26—Mending
28—Kind of tree
30—Eagle
81—Parched
• 33—A serpent
35—Part of the foot
37 --Possesses .•
39—City in Illinois
40—Very large city in U. S. A.
41—Tilt
42—Brief poem
44 --Thirsty •
45—Instrument for writing
47—Emmet
48—The reply (abb.)
50—Removing dust
51—Reverentlal fear
53—Toward
55—Conjunction
56—City in Nebraska
59—An incalculable period of time
61—Joln
63—Small rug
64 ---Shrill cries
65—Bag
66—Open spaes
67—Consumed
61—Happening
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4—Muslcal Instrument
•2—Trave1ed fast
3—Mass of cast metal
4—Make a mistake
5—Watering place
6—Large city In Canada
7—Total -
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9 --Musical entertainment
10—Ocean
11—A planet
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tive degree ,
19—Paid (abbr.)
21—Proceeded rapidly
22—Finish
25—Style
26—Feared
27—Getting larger
29—A common bird
33—Perform
34—The seed of an orange
36—Also
36—Point of compass (abbr.)
37—Coal-scuttle
• 38—Firmament
43—City in Michigan
46—Fruit of a tree
47—Also
48—Snake of the
49 --Condition
61—Get up
52—Upstanding
54—Exclamation
65—Lipon
57—Blemish
68 --Silly fellow
59—Period
60—Formerly
61—Employ
I 62—Reddish brown
boa family,
A Peck of Pepper.
Many people imagine that white
pepper... and black are two separate
and different varieties of plant spe-
cies, but this is not the case, Black
!pepper is the dried immature fruit of
the plant Piper Nigrum, while white
I pepper is the same berry without its
black outer husk.
The siepperworts are a small group
1 of the alkalods is six, and of the oil
one.
Pepper has frequently been found to
lever
trick. Pepper dust' composed' of faded
eaves or linseed. meal,
mus-
tard, ground rice, er even ground olive
stones, is4added to the genuine article.
In all eases, however, adulteration
e may easily be detected by,a magnify-
ing -glass or a microscope.
found only in the hottest parts of the,
world, but they provide several useful
.plants—some with medicinal proper.; Pianists Who Practice Hard.
ties The plant itself may be twelve! All the 'great pianists practice hard.
feet in height. Its berries are at first It is the only way if success is to be
green, then red; when at this stage 1:won. These great performers, of
they are hand-picked, and left- in the ; course, have exceptional gifts to
sun to yield the black peppercorn. start with. But no amount of gift ab -
It flourishes in the valleys and on. solvee the artist from the necessity
the banks of the rivers in Java, Mal- of immense and long-oontinued work
at the key-boaed. Rubinstein was a
tremendous 'worker. Paderewski con-
fesses to seven bours-a day, and a
good deal of it scales a.nd five -finger
-exercises. Paclunann, Hofmann, Bos6
etithal—all the ,eminent players—have
speet. many hours daily at the piano
in pursuit ef the enormous technical
skiil they were determined to acquire.
There is no royal road to efficiency
as a pianist. But the necessary prac-
tice need not be dull work. On the
contrary, the real musician loves
working at his technical exercises and.
sometimes, even, 'prefers them to his
PloPeS.
acca, Borneo,- and Sumatra, Whence it
is sent to Britain under the names of
five varieties—Malabar, Penang, Sum-
atra, Tray, and Tellicherry.
. The heavier the pepper the better ;
quality it is. All varieties, are exceed- i
ingly shnilar in •appearance, but the
practiced merchant clifferentates them
by their weight—the heaviest being
Malabar, the lightest 'Tellicherry,
The mixed pepper is ground by mill- i
stones or in a coffee -mill, care being ;
-taken lest the heat destroys some of
the aromatic .prineiTlee; if this occurs'
daily,. while every year 20,000,000 old the pepper is knoWn to the trade, as
"burnt"
notes are collected and destroyed.
The important constitueats of pep -
It must be admitted at any rate that Per in a physiological sense aro the . When. I look on beautiful furs, 1
Sage grows wild in many parte of the horse is more nearly fool proof two alkaloids —piperin and piperidine -think of the fever, and the thirst, and
southern Europethan the automobile. and its oil. The average percentage the pain.—Sara Teesdale.
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• BRITAIN'S WARRIOR QUEEN
The Story Of Boadicereg Fight for freectforri.
Many fsOntleners, eee every day in ban's) awl condemned It to A similar
life, set at the entrance to Westinin- fate, No quarter was given.
star Bridge, the statue of e woman in But the Britise triumph wee ;short -
a war -chariot. We know that this is lived. Rom:en coloniste had eitricated
Boadicea, a British sineea of old; we themselves from oven tightee eorners.
are vaguely aware that she did some- Swift meseengers aped alOng the won -
thing fey the sake of British Indo. ,derful Roman roads. through the for-
ests to the uttermost camps in this
outpost of Empire. By the and of 61.
an army of 10,000 Romans had gather-
ed together for a final straggle against
tile emancipation of 13ritain, and Sue -
tenths craftily omeletl a position la
a narrow valley where it would be im-
-possible for the British to employ
their usually successful tactics and
outflank the enemy.
It would doubtless lilveo been wiser
if Boadicea had waited and starfell
them into fighting on conditions more
favorable to her arms. But she was
flushed by success and encouraged by
the sight of her vast hosts, which con-
temporaries have oomputed at 200,-
000 warriors. She decided to give
battle, and we can imagine the en-
thusiasm as she and her daughters
drove in their ehariots through the
British lines, exhorting her subjects
to aveuge the outrages of their tyrants
and strike a final blow for the free- ,
dom and happiness of Britain.
pendence—but there the knowledge of
most of u$ ends, eays fin English
writer. Her story le, in truth, obscure,
tboutkintow.isone that every Briton ought
Buddug or Bodicca, better known
as Boadicea, was the last native ruler
of Britain. Budclug is Welsh for Vie -
torte, and the Welsh claim. ,her as
their heroine and have _placed her
among their national worthies in the
marble gallery of Cardiff City Hall,
though there is no evidence that she
ever travelled so far as Wales..
When the Romans Came.
In her day the greater part of Eng-
land was a jungle, the Andeedsweald
ehoked communications in Surrey and
Sussex, vast forests including those
of Epping and Hainault stretched
northward from the Thames as far
as the Wash, and the only facilities
for travel were across the military
roads, of the invaders. 'Until the
great call eame for national indepen-
Death Before Dishonor.
denee, Boadicea rarely left her home . _
Mes.nwhile Suetonius harangued his
among the warlike Icenians, who occu- -men, bidding them have no fear ot.
pied what is now known as Norfolk the . multitudes arrayed against them,
and Suffolk.
Caesar, the first of the Roman in-
vaders of Britain, had thought it wiser
multitudes 'whom he ,deseriberl -con-
temptuously es a mere horde of wo-
men. Events justified his confidence.
to come to terms with the Ieenia.ns The battle soon degenerated into
rather than invade them in their butchery. Sheep could not have been
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Ivan fastnesses, and he made no at-
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--11 were returned at 400.
I Lo! there was the queen's chariot
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theIcenians were acclaimed aswhen
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8,000 of them
slaughtered more rapidly than the
fleeing away into the forest. ,Sueton-
.empt to exact tribute :from British. No fewer than 0
them.
31`11,ey abode by, their engagements and iTerished, while the Raman casualties
;went well :Until the year 50, tits,
e aggressive policy of the Propraetor I
'stories provoked a national rising. 1
les himself galloped in pursuit, deter -
natural leaders by reason of their
mined to capture the British warrior
superior intelligence and martial queen and parade her at his triumph.
spirit, but they had trusted too much Nay, but he was too late. Boadicea
had taken poison from a secret hidieee
to the good faith of the Romans, and
place in her ring, and when her foe
were caught unprepared. • The rising •
was quelled, the Icenians• were forced came upon her he found that he!
to pay tribute, and the Raman general proud spirit had fled.
'Peasulagus was set up as king over
—
them. . A Poet's Mistake.
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One of the finest sonnets in the
lagus married Boadicea, the heiress ef
English language is that which Keats
their royal line, and all went well until wrote after reading Chapman's trans.
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the year 60, when he_died, leaving hlation of Homer." The poet corn"-
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great wealth to the Roman Emperor his delight with that which
In trust for hie wife and daughters. "stout Cortez" must have felt when
he gazed at the Pacific from "a peek
Thus he honed to. Save his kingdom
in Darien," and knew that in all prob.
and family froutmolestatiou. But the
I ability he was the first white man
Roman offiCials disputed his will and
declared all his property forfeit to who had seen that ocean.-
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Probably Keats. has done more than
them as representatives. of the Em -
anyone else to impress upon people's
nunds that Cortez, the e onqteror oi
When Queen Boadicea protested, she. Mexico, was also the discoverer of the
te• have written Nunez, for It was
termination, the Icenians decided to
Pacific, yet he was' wroug. • He ought
was seized and publecly flogged. Rea):
just over four hundred years ago that
Izing that theY were faced with ex -
Vasco Nunez de Balboa first saw the
pacific ocean.
It was almost at the very ' point
where the Panama Canal crosses the
eterans quar_ isthmus. that Balboa also crossed it
the tyranny of Roman v
point. He heard a wonderful story
. or,. at least, climbed to its highest'
tered at Comulodunum (Colchester)
from the natives. They said: "If you
climb those mountains you will get
a sight of a mighty sea on the other
side," and it was on September 26th,
1513, that Balboa actually beheld the
Pacific.
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To make peace more assured, Prasu-
peror.
Vigorous Womanhood.
die with arms la their hands. They
rallied round their queen and made
alliance with the Trinobantes of Essex
and Middlesex, who had suffered from
The moment was auspicious, for Sue-
tonius Faulinus, the Roman Governor,
was away in Anglesey, his garrisons
were scanty and scattered.
In those days the women of Britain
differed little from their menfolk.
They were brought up to the same
physical fitness, could draw a bow and
endure fatigue with equal vigor, were
Winds Are Strong.
not behindhand 1 intelligence. The "How strong 'ivas• the wind?" is the
queen prepared her plan of campaign question asked after a destructive
with rapidity, and carried it out tri- storm.
umphantly. Marching through theThe answer to this question is like -
forests. she immediately took Colchest- ly to be misleading, says Nature Me-
er and razed it to the.ground. Then gazine, because it is nearly always
she stormed the Teniple at Claudius, stated in terms of speed rather than
which had been set irti as a monument force, .and the two things re not
of British humiliation. • After two identical,
days' siege she destroyed it so utterly 'The force of the wind can be MO -
that its site cannot be traced to this ,cated accur&tely by saying what pres-
day. sure it exerts (in pounds per square
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The Capture of London. foot, for example) upon a surface at
Suetonius, the Roman Governor;
right angles, to its path. This pros-
' sure varies approximately as the
hurried back from Anglesey to Lon- square of the speed.
don, collecting legionaries on his way,
Thus a wind of twenty miles an heur
but he soon realized that he was not
blows about four times as hard a& cue
strong enough to face the British iu
of ten miles an hour, and a. wind of
the field. He fled from his capital, and thirty miles an hour blows about eine
the way seemed open to Boadicea to times' as hard as one of ten miles an
drive the hated tyrants into the sea. ,
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it almosl without resistance, After'
sho had reduced it to ashes and left We can never be the better fcr our
scarcely one stone standing upon an- religion if our neighbor be the worse
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