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DON'T TAKE THINGS FOR GRANTED.
Qne of the first rules hi automobile tered up• enough Courage to slip be-
ing should be to take nothing for
granted—until you have -first inspect-
ed to find out. Inspect first, then it
is a whole tot more logical to expect,
If the fellow who spent half an hour
looking for his glasses hadinepected
his nose - on his own face he would.
Have found' them there .and saved him-
self a lot of trouble and time.
Taking • things for granted in the
automotive world is ons of the great-
est difficulties the pian has toface
who is trying to locate trouble in his
' car. This is true whether he is an
amateur or an expert. A number of
cases will -prove this point.
Every one knows better than to
crank the engine with the switch off,
yet I recently saw a motorist waste
twenty minutes this way. The igni-
tion switch. was set in the centre of
the lighting switch handle. Therefore
the absolute position of the ignition
switch key varied according to what
lights were on hence the error; yet
this motorist looked all ovei his en-
gine
ngine before he discovered the trouble.
Probably :being •absent-minded had
something to do• with it; he had just
left his office for the day and was
en his way •home, which demonstrates
that the thoughtless or preoccupied
Man is much fnore likely to make.
Wrong assumptions than the alert
mean.
Recently an old automobile me-
chanic was . riding . on an inteeurban
car when the latter was held up by a
motor car stalled across the tracks.
There was a big crowd around the
'machine trying frantically to push it
out of the way. For some reason the
rear wheels were locked. No amount
of effort would budge the car, and it
was too large to lift and carry.
Push Out the. Clutch.
The mechanic got off and watched
the proceedings He found that the
gear lever was stuck in low gear, and
inquiry as to whether the trouble was
due to jammed gears or some other
serious defect could not be •answered
by the owner or any •of his helpers.
He began to wonder where the trouble
was, while the others struggled; hut,
being old in the game, the thought
flashed across his mind, "Take nothing
for granted." Therefore, the first
question to determine was whether
the whole difficulty might not be
solved by pushing out the clutch. This
" seemed to 'him too good to be true. He
hesitated to suggest it,, ,but the more
he thought about it the more he be-
came :convinced; and finally he mus -
hind the wheel and command 'the rest-
ing crowd to push, The car glided
off,' to the astonishenent of efery one.
It developed -that the owner of the
oar had become excited when he stall-
ed the engine on the crossing with the
lever stuck in low: In his , feverish
haste he tried to push the car off,
instead of shoving out his .clutch and;
starting the motor, and as the crowd
collected they accepted the locked
condition of the rear wheels as some-
thing which could not be remedied..
Looking for the Crank.
A motorist of ten years' experience
bought a used car. He took delivery of
it late one rainy afternoon. The forme
er owner told him the tar was com-
plete, the only thing missing being
the key to the tool box, which he
promised to 'avail him early the next
day. The motorist got •a couple of
friend:,° and started for a rifle. Finally
they stopped for dinner. When they
came out the owner put his foot on
the starter pedal, but it stuck. He
pulled up the floorboards, but could
not reach the mechanism, The only
way was to crawl under the car, and
this avis out of the question because
of . the mud. They looked for the
crank under the rear seat cushion and
under the front seat cushion, but
could not find it, Quite naturally they
concluded it must be in the locked tool
box or else the former owner had
neglected to include this very impor-
tent item. They tried to locate- a car
of the same make in some neighbor-
hood garages, without success.
They jacked the car up and tried
to crank it .by turning a rear wheel,
but the compression was too great,
so they tossed the jack into the ton-
neau and started in search of some
one v*Iio would tow the car to start
it. Eventually they got the engine
going. When they reached the garage
the owner slipped his hand into the
tonneau and pulled out—not the jack,
but the cranki.
The worst is to come. Next morn-
ing a mechanic, who had been in the
business long enough to know better
than to make univarranted assump-
tions, was , ealled.in. He pressed down
the pedalwithout success;' then, for
no logical reason but simply beecauee
automobiles' were second nature to
ihini,he pulled up and the pedal carne.
Then he pushed and the starter work-
ed. The owner was nonplussed. Later
he admitted that hehad thoughtof
pulling up on the pedal but assumed
it would do no good.
THE SEED INDUSTRY
OF THE DOMINION
CANADA NOW EXPORTS
SEED TO GR. BRITAIN. ..
Western Provinces Possess
Soil and Climate Adapted
to .This Product.
Though unaccompanied by extensive
or loud:voiced publicity, Canada Inas
been making a pleasing progress in
the production of seed both for a
rapidly developing domestic consump-
tion and an expanding export market.
Whilst this industry may not feature
yet' in the public mind as distinctly
Canadian and so be nationally import-
ant, 'it
mportant,'it is a fact, perhaps not generally
known, but supported' by the most ex-
pert authorities and borne out by ex-
haustive research ante experimenta-
tion, that Canadian seed is second to
none and that grown on the fruitful
soil of the Dominion assures greater
propagation and larger and more
. sturdy orops than that brought to ma-
turity on other parts of the American
continent.
With Canadian farmers consistently
tarrying off the highest honors for the
production of cereals on the continent
it is but natural that the successful
growers should receive a demand
front a wide area for their prize-win-
ning product, and so far 'their sales
have been limited only by the amount
of seed available for export. Seager
Wheeler, the Saskatchewan "Wheat
Wizard," for instance, bas no trouble
disposing of his record-breaking
wheat at $30 and higher per bitstel,
whilst. the grain of other Canadian
winnows .of international honors has
had the same demand and itis gone all
over the continent to raise tbe stand-
ard
tandand of those areas.
With Oaundjan'agricultural progress
ozone greater publicity achieved and
markets secured throo.gh the efforts
of the genii -innate departments of Ag-
riculture and .Trade and Commerce,
the export trach; in pure seed has
witnessed a steady and sturdy growth,
tend the figures of 1920, recently pub-
lished, indioate that :a oonsiderable
step In advance of the Previous year
have been taken. rt the wide export
itield shipments have inoreasod 'very
largely to the United States•, Great
ritain, France and My/four:diancl.
Ol4vee alone accoui au0,;d for shipments
a..gr'ege'ting abolat bait a million bush-
els with a value of five and a bait mil-
lion dollars and to Ireland alone lip-
proxini tely 100.000 bus. of iia.] ft IMO
gaecl worth dl 000 0;~0 were exported t
In British Oolumbia field root and gar-
den vegetable seeds . amounting to
150,000 pounds were marketed through
the United Seed Growers Ltd.
Encouraging the Home Agriculturist.
The work "performed for the home
agriculturalist was even more import-
ant. For instance, 75,000 pounds of
mange], . swede turnip and field carrot
seeds grown by Experimental Farms
were sold at current wholesale prices
to farmers organizations and individ-
ual farmers, it being deemed advisable
to confine the marketing of this seed
to Canada so that Canadian farmers
have the exclusive advantage
of using this high quality product.
Demonstrations conducted with this
seed on 117 farms in Ontario and Que-
bec resulted in showing the superiori-
ty of home grown seed over the for-
eign. Seed laboratories are now main-
tained by the Dominion Department
of Agriculture at Ottawa, Winnipeg,
and Calgary, and at these points some
28,000 tests were carried out and grain
examined for vitality. -
Whilst the industry in Eastern Ca-
nada has been on a firm and substan-
tial basis for some years through the
efforts of individual farmers and those
of the Experimental Farms and much
seed has been produced for distribu-
tion among farmers, Western Canada
has of late yearns proved itself to pas-
sess the qualities' of soil and climate
peculiarly adapting 'it to this interest-
ing side of a.ga iculture, and this area
bids fair to surpass all other parts of f
the continent in this regard and be-
come its premier seed producing area.
As merely an example of the supreme
qualities of this region might be men-
tioned the hundred bushels of six -row
barley which was imported into Al-
berta from Idaho in 1916, where the
variety had been grown and improved
on for a number of years and was
known as the highest yielding barley
in the state. Sown in Southern Al-
berta on a twenty acre patch it pro-
duced seventy-five bushels to the acre,
and later sown on the Dominion Ex
perituental- farms at Lethbridge and
Lacombe the plteneiuenal yields of
109 and 114 bushels -respectively were
obtained; surpassing,by a great pert'
tentage tho best ever achieved in its
native state.
Alberta offers splendid opportunities
for pure seed production on a large
scale, according to the best experts.
'Meat, oats, barley, , peas, ilex, rye,
alfalfa, sweet clo er, red clover,
timothy, Nome grass, western rye,
and seeds of many hinds of vegetables
can be graven in different parts., of the
in prciltable quantities and
exoaptional quality. Last spring
seven seed centras for the matltiplicai-
tion and die•trtfertinn of' pure seed
wero estab]:elmil in the p ovince, anti
it Is ealirnat�a,t thee this fall there will
an
the worst is yet to come
1
0� ..r llln5.4ow
add
be between 75,000 and 100,000 bushels
of pure seed in Alberta. In the irri-
gated district of Southern Alberta
particularly, success has been
achieved in the growing of seed, more
especially alfalfa, yields .of fourteen
bushels to the acre having been re-
ceived. .
Thriving In British Columbia.
In British Columbia the production
of pure seed is a thriving industry
which is yearly becoming more profit-
able, and on the Pacific Coast flower
seeds are grown extena1. sly andex-
ported to all parts of the world. . In
certain coast districts of the province,
seed houses have established farms
or arranged with local farmers to
grow flower seed for the English and
continental markets. The previously
prevalent belief that English grown
seed was superior in producing power
to that grown in Canada has been. ex
ploded as a result of extensive experi-
mentation, and now, in contrast to the.
importation which took, place at one
time into Canada, the Dominion is ex-
porting heavily to the British market.
When Canada can produce . crow,,
whihh surpass other countries,
judged by.ntern•ational contests
exhibitions, it must naturally Jell
Where Suns Are Bunched.
In the constellation Hercules is an
object that looke like a hazy star. Not
until very recent years was it sup-
posed to.be anything else. As reveal-
ed to the new high-power telescopes,
however, it is a congeries of suns. '
The distance of this cluster of suns
is so great that a ray of light, travel-
ing 186,000 miles a second, would re-
quire 360 centuries to reach us. In
other words, as we may view it to-
night, we behold it as it was 36,000
years ago—a date since ewhich man-
kind has emerged from the cave -
dwelling period, acquired the use of
tools and developed all of his succes-
sive civilizations.
The cluster Is not even a part of
our universe, properly speaking—that
is to say—of what we call the Milky
Way. It is a distinct and isolated sys-
tem. At least 36,000 of the suns con-
tained in it are individually brighter
,than our'own sun, and' the most bril-
liant of them exceed in light -giving
power 1,000 suns like ours.
The distance of the cluster from the
earth is about 200,000,000,000,000,000
nines. ,It seemato be egg-shaped and,
may rotate about its shorter axis. Ob-
+•'servatfons have proved that it is 1120V -
that the seed from. which these crops Ing toward us at a speed of something
spring be of superior quality. That like 200 miles a 'second.
they are recognized as such is evi-
denced by the wide demand for seed
which exhausts the supply of prize-
winning stock each year. With the A living memorial, distinctive and
extension of growth this industry must majestic: and different from any other
became of yet greater national iraa that has been dedicated since the
portance to Canada.
Giant Tree Dedicated to
Unknown Dead.
No Balloon Trip Complete
Without a. Slide Rule.
Many of us have read stories of bal-
looning which proceeded on a conven-
tional plan. At some stage of the
journey the balloon descended to such
a low level that ballast was thrown
out with the result that the balloon
shot up so high that it was necessary
to let gas escape. The balloon would
respond so faithfully to this that it
was necessary again to throw- out
More ballast, and in this manner the
balloon continued a wild and oscilla-
tory 'career, until the basket was cut
loose, and the adventurer was rescued
by a remarkable series of events to
become the hero of his tale.
This type of adenture has been ren-
dered obsolete by a form of slide rule
invented for balloonists by the U.S.
Bureau of Standards. With this new
device, the setting of a slide and the
reading of a scale tells the pilot how
much ballast to discharge to rise a
definite amount, or how much gas
should be released to drop to a certain
level below. While the rule is simple
in appearance there seems to be no
practical problem in balloon naviga-
tion that cannot be readily and
promptly solved. with its aid,
No Longer Appropriate.
An Indian named Man -Afraid -of -
Nothing married a white woman in
Montana not long ago, and in one
week after the wedding he applied to
his tribe to have his name changed,
or at, seas uric ed recently in
Yosemite National Park. It is a tab-
let of bronze set at the base of one of
California's famous big trees. This way from the rifle at no less than
giant of the forest, towering above the Fire and the Forest.
2,700 feet a second -
ordinary timber that surrounds it, ' '
When the 15 -inch gun of a battleship fire is a good servant but ;a bad
stands henceforth as "a memorialeto master. Fire under the saw -mill
the unknown dead" who gave their ; is fired, .the pressure in the breech is
lives in the great war. A peculiarly more than twenty tons to the square boiler turns frees into comrsodlties
inch. The shell of such a gun.weighs useful to man, but fire In the forest
'fitting'fittingceremony marked the unveilingf a ton, but the enormous force bedhind does no good to any one and ininres
of this tablet. Water from the cry-, it sends it on its way at more than every one. Fire not only destines: the
stat -clear stream of the Merced that ; 3,000 feet a second. living forest but it often so burns up
flows: through the park was sprinkled The greatest velocity ever reached the soi] that it prevents another f'•rest
upon the tree and the tablet, to sym- was that of the Big Berthas which growing in its place. A Gimp !ire is
bolise the purity of the devotion- of bombarded Paris from a distance of a servant but a forest fire is a tyrant
the men who died to the war and
whose names remain unrecorded. The seventy miles. Their shells. travelled master. Let all citizens •e -he ;;tit Inca
.
at the rate of 5,000 feet a second—or I the forest for business or pleaeur be
rock at the foot of the tree on which more than 3,400 miles an hour—and I careful with fire.
the tablet'was placed was taken as a
symbol of the permanence and the pressure in the gun must have i
strength of the principles for which
the men fought, and the tree, which it
is hoped will live through generations,
was cited as emblematic of the living
and growing gratitude of the nation
for the supreme sacrifice made by its
sons in the war,
An Indian told us this: "Every
swimmer ought to know how to keep
cramps away. Our tribe knows it anti
haspracticed it always. Before plung-
ing in, vigorously rub the pit of the
stomach with dry hands. Rub it hard
fora full minute, and then dash cold
water all over it and rub it hard for
another minute. Now you axe ready
for your dive. To dive or go in with-
out this preparation is dangerous. in
our tribe we are taught this as little
boys, and we never experience
cramps.'' Also, it is important to re-
member that Indians never go into the
water within two hours after eating,
A ne tura1 and Must real Progress in.Canada
Victoria, B.C.---Community life, with
the conveniences and pleasures of
greater human intercourse, are popu-
lar in the ranching and fanning die-
tracts of • British Columbia and some
sixty new 'communities have conte in-
to existence in the past year, bringing
the; total number up to 2,209. The new
settlements are largely created by the
occupation of new lends by soldier
settlers.
]Edmonton, Alta. — Investigations
conducted by experts at Alberta Uni
versity have satisfactorily proved the
possibility of making a building ma-
terial out of straw. By a secret pro-
cess chopped straw is mixed with
other ingredients and the resulting
Composition is said to be a material
capable of withstanding snare severe
tests than concrete. 'With the enor-
mous quantities of straw available
from the grain crops of the prairie
provinces, little economic use of which
is made at present, the success of the.
new material may revolutionize the
building trade in the West.
Regina, Sask.—The largest crop in
the history of the province and its
second largest wheat crop is predicted
for Saskatchewan in the latest official
crop estimate issued by the Dominion
Bureau of Statistics. According to this
report crops will run as follows:
wheat, 11,651,622 acres, average yield
14.9 bushels per acre, total production
174,424,781 .bushels; oats, 4,884,000
acres, 37.2 average yield per acre, to-
tal production. 181,723,496 bushels;
barley, 427,798 acres, 26.7 bushels per
acre, total production 11,455,691 bush-
els„ flax, 366,858 acres, 8.2 bushels per
acre, 3,030,638 bushels total produc-
tion; rye, 1,038,507 acres, 13.6 average
yield per acre, total production 14,-
140,227.
Winnipeg, Man. — Nearly 25 000
young persons on Manitoba farms are
now members of the Boys' and Girls'
Clubs, according to a statement of
the Manitoba Department of Agricul-
ture. The total, it was added, is con-
siderably in excess of that of 1920.
About 200 boys' and girls' club fairs
were arranged at the beginning of the
season this year. Of these about 130
have been held and approximately 75
will take place within the next two
months.
Ottawa, Ont,—With the object of as -
sisting the entry of the 'best cities of
immigrants into Canada the British
Immigration Aid Assoeletion has been
incorporated. British born subjects: 01
good health and character am to be
assisted by loans of money or other-
wies• to migrate to Canada, from any
part of the world, but especially from
the British Isles. It le the intention
of the company to lease or purchase
farm's and have homes and equipment
ready for settlers. It is proposcd to
acquire a revenue for the purpose of
the Association from the gifts by will
or donation and from the membership
fees In addition to collecting moneys
advanced to immigrants.
Montreal, Que.---Montreal, the first
city of the Canadian Dominion; is mak-
ing a strong bid for a million popula-
tion, and at the present rate of pro-
' grass Is due to arrive there in a couple
of years, having made the first three-
quarters of that figure in good time..
The latest directory population of
Greater Montreal is 839,704, an addl-
tion of 38,488 in a single year. Iit
1914, when the war broke out, the city
had a population of only 625,000. Iu,
1891 it had less than a quarter of a
million people. In fact, its rate of in
crease during the past twenty years
has been no less than four hundred
per cent. The Canadian metropolis
is now the fifth city of the American
continent, being surpassed in numbers
only by New York, Philadelphia, Chi-
cago and Detroit.
Fredericton, N.B.—Census returns
for the Maritime Provinces show New
Brunswick with an increase of 10.29
per cent: in population; Nova Scotia
for the ten years had an increase of
6,55; while Prince Edward Island has
gone back to the extent of 5.54 per
cent. The population of Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick and Prince Edward
Island are 524,579, 388,092 and 88,536,
respectively.
Halifax, N.S.—The lobster fishing
season on the Nova Scotian coast,
from Halifax to Si. Mary's Bay inclu-
sive, will be extended this year, ac-
cording to word received here from
Hon. C. C. Ballantyne, Minister of
Marine and Fisheries. Lobster fish-
ing will be legal in that section. from
November 1 to December 15, after
which date there will be a recess until
the regular season begins on March
1st.
Bullet's Big Push.
When an ordinary- shot -gun is fired,
a tremendous pressure is set up in
the barrel by the explosion of the
powder charge. As a rule the .pres-
sure is about two and a half tons, or
5,560 pounds to every square inch of
the surface of the barrel.
A locomotive, drawing an express
train weighing three hundred Mons and
carrying hundreds of passengers, re-
quires a pressure of less. than 200
pounds to the square foot to drive it;
yet to kill a single rabbit or partridge
we must use a force twenty-five times
as great.
In the case of the rifle, the pressure
driving the bullet is more than fifteen
tons• to each square inch. The actual
push against the head of tbe bolt is
about four tons. Naturally this im-
mense driving force produces a ter-
rific speed. The bullet is sent on its
Droughts.
Meteorologists who gave
warning two years ago that
a period of dry years was
beginning, are not without
justification. Droughts in
China, Russia, Central and
Western Europe and in
parts of the United States
recall the predictions. That
there is a cycle of rainfall
alternating with the eleven -
year period of sun spots is
not yet proved, but that
terrestrial weather in a
general way is influenced
by solar changes is quite
possible.
J
Good Feeling.
A lovely old feeling to feel that you've done
Something each day to bring some the' sun.
A lovely old ferning to feel that your heart
HAS striven all day to give laughter a start:
A lovely old feeling at last aid at test
To feel that through all you have stood to the test.
A, lovely old :Feeling to have done whaty ou could
ror somebody's comfort and gladness and good.
A lovely old feeling to feel that you've borne
To somebody's darkness a glimpse of the molln
A lovely old feeling to feel that you care
Ellough to ioteel down and thank God in a prayer.
beeu over thirty tons to the square The Discovery otcBorax.
inch.
It was in Yellowsaane Park, \one
His Best Contract. ing, that the wonderful pre'er v , nve
A prominent business man says I powers of borax were first disco, ..red.
that the beat contract he ever got was A wandering prospector in that de -
one he lost. It was the lost contract solate though picturesque region cure
that set him to thinking, to invest!• across the body of a horse which. al-
gating the cause of the lose, to in- though it must hare died long before,
vestigatiug himself, to finding the was perfectly sweet.
weak places in himself and in his bud -
the
around foe an explanation of
Hess methods. It was the lost con- the pbenomeuon, he found that the
tract that taught him the Jerson of animal was covered with a layer cf
Caution, of carefulness in his proce• fine dust which proved to- be borax.
dure, a lesson that he could have gain- He realized the commercinlrivalue of
ed In no other way. his dtscavery, and sold the secret to
Frequently our successes, especially a large packing firm in Chicago.
when they come easily make us care-"
less, over -confident. It takes a loss, a
The Departing Guest.
failure, to force us back into careful- Scorning my hospitality,
ness and right methods,. We often Was ft youth that fled from met
learn more from our mistakes than A lilted moth smote the window sash;
from our successes, from our failures
than our triumphs. Experience is a
severe, bitter school, but it teaches
the needed lesson as nothing else can.
—New Success.
Meaning of "Snob."
The word snob is not, as most poa'-
sons suppose, stere slang, but is of
respectable, even distinguished origin,
for it is the abbreviation of sine n0bili
tate. once the designatlon et English
university members who were not of
the nobility. It was. the pretensions of
those men that brought the word intra
in favor, for they aped the manner
and clothes of the nobs. .There are
nobs and snobs in the schools• to -day,
not by accident of birth, but because;
some boys and some girls recognize
the true standards of gentility and
some do not.
Thmds, tables, chairs and stools are
shown in Egyptian carvings as fax"
back as '4,000
The fire fell into sudden ash;
I heard a creakiug dawn the floor.
I beard the shutting of a door.
I caught a tread of passing feet.
Ye saw no one g'o down tate stre ct:.
Was it youth who et0le away
My happy guest but yesterday!
-Harry ere p,
What would wr, do withc,ut bels?
They mall us to meals, to the telephone.
to the door, w diurch and to fire's.
When we marry the bells rirt , and
at cur funerat the bells tiro tolled. We
put them astound our tow's neck. We
would consider Sleighing unsatisfac-
tory unless thri bets c+;e:1. Our
clevlts ring out :i.1 time in ,:,'lir, and
ants of all t.,ole r•. ,, atrrertuc,�"t :ry
bees. Ail woIl-1,ohace4 lr,.:motieee
have theme and tro' ees, i•ung them to
make us jump. If it 4i'e.tt•,41. ri for q our
uiolning alarm •clt:cl:. ,;,ii a•,, Of 'IS
would be late "or nock. Greet are tee
bells; Di.itg-dinig: