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Practical Paragraphs,
Emergency starting — When 'dee;
electric etarting system refuses to
start and the crank has been left
home in the gerage, the motorist still
hes methods of getting the car going,
The best way, Perhaps,vs to jack up
one of the rear wheels and turn it
by hand with elute'''. engaged and high
gear shifted in. The ;spade should like
retaieed and only a :maid throttle
opening allowed. Before removing the
jack the geaes should be shifted to
neutral again.
To hold ftp timer wires—It is ad-
visable to hold up the timer wires on
the Ford engine, to keep them from
becoming deenc**d with oil and also
to prevent their rubbing through by
swinging loose. Take two pieces of
tin, about six inches Tong and drill a
hale in the end of each. Catch them
under two of the manifold studs. Now
loop the io' er ends around the wires
and there will be no further trouble.
Wheel bearings Every time a
wheel is removed the bearing cup is
removeel ter th it, and consequently the
bearings must be adjusted properly
When the wheel is replaced. The best
'method of doing this to to turn the
bearing up tight and then revolve the
wheel a few times by hand, which
overcomes any tendency to backlash.
Don'ts for Truck Drivers,
To insure better Dare of its motor-
trucks by their .drivers, one company
operating a fleet of trucks keeps the
following list of don'ts posted b a
conspicuous place on its. !ceding pia -
form:
Don't try racing with a touring ear;
Tele truck was built for strength, not
for speed.
Wash your truck frequently; a
dirt' car peau spoil e lot of our ad-
vertieing.
Street\, ear tracks are nice on
springs, but hard on times, and steel
costs less than rubber.
Don't neglect a loose part, even
though it seems to =oeerate more free-
ly that way.
Don't forget to wwateh the other
fellow
ahead; a s1owstop on your part
nearly •always costs you a punctured
radiator, '
Use your brakes when getting
"spotted"; platf•orme were • built to
lead from, not for (bumping posts.
Don't drive too close to the curb;
edge -trimming ie a fine institution for
pie,crusts, but too expensive for truck
tires.
Me steering wheel is vastly imporet-
ant, but it is wellalso to give the
grease eups an oceasional turn. ..
Don't slide the rear wheels ,when
stopping; rubber pavement palieher's
are too much of a luxury.
Tell -Tale Thumbs.
How large is your thumb?
If it is big, you posesa a sign of in-
tellectual strength, good Judgment and
a- firm character. But if your thumb
is small, it indicates that you are one
of those people who set first and think tions have been conducted with rats,
afterwards, and who are ruled by the and they have been successful,
heart and not the head. A blood 'irrigation device is the
The thumb le the most important part means. This is a pump whereby the
of the hand.; Without it the hand is al- blood is drawn from one arm or leg In-
mosta useless. Consequently, it is not i to a series of rubber coils, where it
surprising that occultists attach such can be treated by heat or inoculation
value to it. The ruling impulses off with serum, and returned to the body
man, judgment and passion, are to be through the other arm or leg,
found in it.
Successful men of business, scient-
lats, tool -users, and so on have large
thumbs, while poets and singers have
small ones, •
In old :.• days• the thumb was recog-
nized as an important inember,, and it
has always had a special significance.
In the Roman ,duals upturned thumbs
were a sign that the vanquished gladi-
ator was to' live, while if they were
turned down the beaten man was
killed.
Making Black Men White.
A young Brazilian scientist, Octavio
Felix Pedras, has invented a device
whereby Negroes can be .c1 anged into
white men without difficulty.
Up, to the present color transforma-
4-- Knows Their 'Haunts.
One day while a farmer and his men
were digging potatoes' a tramp came
along and stopped to watch' the work-
ers. The bass, being short of help,
asked the.vagrant If he wanted a job.
The man of leisure • replied, "Sure!
What do I have to do?"
"Dig Potatoes,"
The tramp started to walk away,
and with a look of disgust replied, "Let
the man who planted them dig .them. Qutte'True.
He knows, where ha put them." Teacher --"Tommy, why do you spell
"> bank with a large B?" •
At a point 284 miles north of Sew- Tammy—" 'Cause pa said that a
ard, Alaska, is a railway bridge far- bank was no good unless it had a large
then norrth than any other in America. capital." t
About a month is required to change
a black skin into a white one, the
change being accomplished, by the in-
troductian of white corpuscles and the
elimination of black corpuscles, in the
blood.
In the experiment on rats a ahange
of color occurred at the end of fifteen'
days.
From the Dead,'
Mike was working diligently on his
potato ,patch when he saw the postman
coming up the road, bearing for him a
black -edged envelope. -
Mike becameuneasy, and showed it.
"Hope it's not bad news," said the
postman.
It is that!' said Mike, glancing at
the address. "It's upset T am intoireiy.
My brother Mike's dead, I can tell by
his handwritix g!"
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flints for the Sleepless.
There are almost as manyremedies
for sleeplessness' as there are for' sea
sickness, In either ease, the diifieuty
for the sufferer is always to eft qtr the.
right one. What cures one fails tetese-''
leviate the other.
Common causes are over -fatigue, u4 ,
suitable food, over -smoking, '•anxiety;
external noise, "stuffiness" "ot the bed;
room, extremes of heat and cold;. neur-
itis, and so on. Some of these causes
are avoidable, and can . be avoided
Painful conditions like neuritis can be
specially treated, when sleep should
follow the removal of pain.
Even at this eeasoe cold feet are -a
common cause of wakefulness; ; :this.
calls for warm socks, and even foe ee
hot-water bottle in bad cases, • Anee
kind of mental exertion involving otos
concentration, such as' a study • of
difficult problem, argumentation,.,t3
borions creative work, and heavy bz
work of all, kinds;,. Iasi thing atsed
should be avoided ,]leech who le
Acuity in going to sleep soon who,
ting into beds.'
But there are many people in , these sets Our Lord is 're-
case it is impossible to find any z s 3, but not Judas Iscariot; his
obvious reason for their :bouts s' taken in one set by Paul and
sleeplessness A doctor may, ot the other by, Matthew.
course, be able to lied some 'physical The oldest hall -marked apastle spoon
abnormality Which would account fore hat is known to be in existence was.
the insomnia, when treatment would ade in 1498,
be directed towards the cure of that i" It does not seem tobe the fashion to
particular aberration from health. present them any mare at christen -
Nevertheless there remain Iarge ings. The custom dwindled at the
numbers of restles folk, the cause of time of the Puritane, who were -great
whose involuntary nocturnal vigils re- linage -breakers,
mains obscure and indefinite.
When everything else has failed; -a A' Long Job.
simple cupful of something eat in the
very early hours of the morning will Patrickdid not usually wait long
often soothe the weary - mortal into
slumber, It is only necessary to see day bis mother noticed that he was
hat the hot drink is in a thermos; by 'sitting resignedly before his plate of
the bedside, so that the wakeful one "'beef.,
can help himself or herself ween' the "Come,alang, dear," she said. "Aren't
limit in waiting for sleep is reached. You hungry?"
The drink may -be either hot milk yes, • mummy, very-"'
or water, meat extract, beef tea, or, '"Then what' don't you start?"
of all things, ordinary tea. Tea, which' • "Oh," said little Pat. 'tern just wait -
in theory ought to increase wakefule lug for the mustard to cool."
ness, has practically the opposite of 4i
feet in many cases. It must, of course • The New Hired Man.
e made in the ordinary way in a tea- `wHow le your new man agettin' on?"
ot, and when passed into the they: " "Well," seia the farmer, "he broke
los care should be taken to exclude two bandies Yesterday!"Il tea leaves. Adel milk and sugar, if' 'WorkiiY so Bard?"
esired, when •serving, A breakfast- . "No, leenin' on 'eine'
upfull iu the small hours otter' turns
he scale in favor of prolonged slum
er.
Statues on Spoons.
The mvst ancient piece of hall -mark-
ed British plate in existence: is the
saloon.
Tu. the reign of Edward IV. the spoon
is • mentioned in Englis�e literature;
�ipoetle•s�poons came into fashion dur-
leg .Edward V.'s.time, and became
very fashionable as christening pre-
sents. 1• '
"'Until the time of the Common• realth.
its °becanne ; the custom for' well-to-do
godfathers• and godmothers- to give a
tend a complete set of the.se spoons,
er lese,' acoording to their means.
With the poorer classes, the child very
;ten got only one silver spoon, with
gure of hie patron. saint er that of.
e•giver,
This custom :' is mentioned in the
s of Beaumont and Fletcher and
e.Ben. Johnson's works, There
1' two complete sets of,.tbirteen
'spoons in.existe;nce-now- One;
y-' the Goldsmiths' .Company,
d. the other ora in the .pos-,
orpixs Christi College, Cam -
before 1ze attacked his food, But one
Maritime Iron and Steel Industry
The loon ore, coal, and fluxing ma-
terials which are found in abundance
in the Maritima Provinces of Canada
have given rise to the iron and steel
industry of that area, which has de-
veloped to be the greatest of the Mari-
time's industrial activities. The
growth of the industry has been "grad-
ual but steady, and its history over
the past hundred years has been one
of progress -towards giving the area
signal renown in this regard. The an
nual production of this industry is
about $35,000,000 per .year.
Nava Scotia has numerous deposits
of iron ore of limited extent, some of
`which are of considerable value, but
profitable only as they complement
other sources of ore supply. In other
necessary materials Nova Scotia is
likewise well favored, there being
plenty of limestone for flux in various
parts of the province and Several im-
portant coalfields. In New Brunswick
several deposits of iron ore bave;been
• disoceeered, but the majority are as
yet of little economic importance. As
this province has not the coat re•
sources of her sister province, the' iron
and :steel industry is not so important
es in Nova Scotia,
The Maritime steel industry had its
email origin at the hands of English
eeipitalists in 1825 when, ore in,Annapo-
lie "county was developed. • Deposits at
Stellarton, Weodsteek and other
pieces were subsequently developed'
lay enterprising con.oerns, the industry
on a whole psssing through many vi-
eissitudes and tribulations. The real
History of the gigantic modern indus-
try which exists to -day dates from
1900, when."the Dominion Steel Cor-
porationwas formed by art amalgama-
tion of the Dominion Iron and Steel
C'onnpany and the Dominion Coal Com-
pany,
• The greatest develepnzent in the
Nova' Scotia steel and iron Industry
was the formation in 1920 of the 13rT-
tisli Eereire Steel Corporation with an
authorized capital of $500,000,000, This
was a merger of the Dominion Steel
:ozr
Corporat, the Nova Scale Steel
and Coal Company and the Halifax
Shipyards. Its effect was to centralize
the control. of all the large profitable
coal areas of Nova Scotia, the iron ore
deposits of Wabana, Newfoundland, b
and an adequate number of limestone + p
quarries under one management. The
corporation has approximately 37 col- a
iieries, with a combined yearly output d
of. 6%' million tons, or 93 per cent, of c
the output of the whole province. The t
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iron deposits of Wabana are practical-
ly inexhaustible. Tho Halifax Ship-
yards, located at one of Canada's mast
important ports, is an important user
of steel products and heavy marine
forgings, which the steel subsidiaries
in the merger are e:iuipped to provide.
Sydney, with $150,000;000 invested
In its industries, is the great centre of
the Maritime steel 'industry, There
are six blast furnaces with a combined
capacity of 1,600 tons of pig iron daily,
ten five -ton open hearth, steel furnaces
and other complete'equ.ipment. The
output of the plant is in excess yearly
of $36,000,000.. The plant at• Sydney
Mines comprises 150 coke ovens, two
blast furnaces and other equipment-
sufficient for the continuous operation
of one, furnace producing 300 tons of
pig -iron a day, five fifty -ton open
hearth furnaces and complementary
equipmernt. There is a manufacturing
plant at Trenton for turning out forg-
ings, car and locomotive axles, eolish-
ed shafting and; bars; industrial rails,
railway plates. and structural,, steel
shapes, Adjoining this plant is one
far turning out steel, wooden and oom-
posite • cars, the present capacity o£
the plant being 25 Steel frame box cars
iier day, which can easily be doubled,
The iron and steel industry of Nova
Scotia is now concentrated under the
management of one concern, owning
its own mines of coal and iron are, pro-
perties Sufficiently large to enable pro-
duction to be carried oil for centuries,
All necessary raw Materials are situ -
aced in Nova Scotia or Newtoundlazid,
Making a thoroughly selt•eontainec in-.
dustry, entirely British as tothe origin
ofraw material and znaniifacture.
Q,offlns• are 'spoken of -but once in
the Tiele:. ` :•s
JUST A$ THE VilLAIN WAS ABOUT TO FORECLOSE --r
The GTheBallon ]hose ereS Man. eloar,. � II
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called him tbo old bzzlleon Meee on ERIGE ALL• BiliTN
their way to school there wee Aaotixar
;nen rebs leelted much like elm except
that lea eyea''avere bright azztl tereile
lin.g,;, they never called elle Old,
Tee clriidr•en were right of course.
The balloon znau: was old—old because
on els' long journey through the years
he had lost .the beautiful comrades of
SEVEN MILL/ON TONS
SHIPPING LT.
yo>}th--•love, hope aria ambitlon. Thet
F><shexrn,�>�l s Trawlers Suffered
pers,oas who for a little whlle had
taught him lova had become a•dim. Most any ve
memory; there never had been anyone
except her. For a While lie bad tried
to do things for trier sake; then eines5
had come. For years lie iiad'sold ,eel
loons; his only forward-Tookin
thought was to buy, an oceasianal bo.
dinkier;'; his only emotion was 'bitter
nerd'toward the younger men wino sol.
balloons and toward the `other old me
whom the children never called old
"Older'n: me, he is," he would mutts
to himself. `:Five years older'n me
And tidiertidierlike he was forty'"
And then one. day Marj•arI Alden
dragged her adared visiting cousin to
buy of the old man, "I like him," Mar=
jorie declared.
"Then we surely must buy of him,"
hoer cousin AUIie replied. "We'll buy a
balloon made of a little piece of the
sk,,
y,
Marjorie gave an ecstatic skip; she herknew that cousin would under-
stand.
Cousin Alfie, looking into the tired
old face with the dreary eyes, felt a
suddenlump in her throat. Gay danc-
ing oolor in hie hands; little dancing.
children all round him—and a face
like that! "They are such beautiful
things," she said, watching while he
detached a blue balloon from his
bunch. "I never have outgrown my
love for them."
"They're right pretty," he answered
dully.
"Have the children a !write col-
or?„
He shook his head. "I dunno. I
reckon it don't make much difference."
Cousin ,Alfie tied the string of the
blue heligon carefully round one of
the buttons oi' INtarjorie's coat; but she
was not thinking of Marjorie. "It is
such a beautiful thing to be doing,"
she said to the old man softly, "mak-
1ng..little children' happy with. clean
and beautiful things, even making a
street corner happy! You must love
doing it. So many people haven't time
to make children happy, and so many
others do the wrong things!'
The old man stared at her in dull
astonishment, "I dunno," he mutter-
ed.
"Haven't you ever thought of it? It'e
such a happy way to think of it! It's•
wonderful to'be a friend to children.
They'd miss you, • the whsle street
1vould miss you, if you weren't here."
The 'old'oldman . looked after her -and.:
then looked at the dime that was lying
in his knotted hand. Putting It into
his pocket, he slouched back into his
old attitude; but there was something
different in the dim eyes, a shade less
of hopelessness and indifference.
"It's wonderful to be a friend to
children, The whole street would
miss you—"
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Guns Made of :Glay.
Some time in the next fifty years a
great change is to take place In the
ma.nufaeture of guns, ships,• buildings,
and so on,' according to the Head Re-
search Engineer of the greatest steel
firm in th'e world, the Carnegie Steel
Company of America,
He says that common clay will be
used • to make all those things which
are made .of steel to -day.
Clay contains iron, aluminum, and a
substance lm•own as "silicon,"; and it
can be made as hard and as useful as
steel, when, dealt with in the right
way, which is by using oxygen. The
price of • this gas makes the process
impossible for the present. •
When clay Is used, ten -ince guns
will be lifted by four or five men, as
they will weigh no more than a large
lag of wood; and buildings will be
made with girders that are no heavier
than bamboo poles. Clay bas another
advantage over steel—it does not rust.
Spared His re-efings.
A little girl has bean deeply con-
cerned about the passibility of esoer-
taining the exact shape of the earth
by means of synchronized wireless
messages. A few random experiments
seem to show that the term "globe"
is not quite a happy one, and that
Mother Earth may indeed be pear-
shaped, Mary has been duly• impress-
ed.
"Mother," she exclaimed, on coming
home from school, "our teacher said
today that the earth is round."
"Well?" ventured her mother, in-
terrogatively.
"I didn't tell him ho was wrong,"
said Mary, loftily.
Enforcing Discipline..
While a detachment of American
negroes were hiking through a small
French town, a chicken, unaware of
the appetites of American darkdea,
crosed the road in front of'thom. With
much zeal a soldier broke front the
ranks and set out In pursult.
"Halt!" 1iedewed the . officer in
oharge. Both fowl and negro only ac-
celerated their paces.
"Halt! Haiti" repeated the ofiioer.
The dusky doughboy made one
plunge and, grasping the Woken by
"the neck; staffed 14 struggling, inside
his, shirt,
"There!" he panted. "Ah'll learn
you to halt when de Captain says halt,
dis-bedient
Been Raised.
The romance of treasure seeking,
whether it be ozz coral islands, le the
Rockies or in the awkward rivets
choaezr by the ragged heroes of Mark
Twain, always seems ti stimulate that
streak of adventure with which most
roen are blessed, •.
All around the British Isles at the
present moment, and for -the last few
years, the seas have been dotted with
sunken treasure aboat which it is al.
most impossible to think without
weaving mentally some wild and
thrill-
ing adventore The entire
idea and
d
scene of men diving down. to the utter-
most depths of the sea, through the
greens, seaweed and hordes of swiftly
gliding fishes, to the slimy rooks; at
the bottom, arises vividly before the
mind, The bare thought of exploring
the intricacies of a dented, broken or
embedded ship under the water has
stirred even hard headed business
men since the termination of the war
to place tee adventure an a business
basis and make searching the depths
of the sea a profitable bussnese. They
have tried to steal the glamour from
wild and intimate contact with nature
and Cloak it around their commerce.
Result of German Destruction.
The coasts of the British Isles are
fringed and embroidered with nearly
seven. million tons of British ships
sunk by the Germans during the war.
That means to say that there are more
than 2,000 wrecked ships, lying around
the coasts—more than 2,000 treasure
hunts, with the scenes in every case
varying. Some are lying in the rocks
off the Shetland Islands, where almost
Arctic conditions prevail; others are
in shallow water oft the gorgeousi3
picturesque Atlantic seaboard of Ire-
land.
There is perhaps uo nation in .the
world which can be so easily thrilled
by the thought of delving into the fes'
cinrating sea, and the tremendous
length of their seaboard gives a great
proportion of -Englishmen more inti.,
mercy with the sea than is the case in
mast other countries!
Needless to say, a. great number of
the sbips which at the conclusion: of
the war were lying at the bottom of
the various• big ports• and harbors have
been raised. Dozens. of trawlers and
small tramp steamers, in quite shallow
water around the coast have been
dived down to and examined. The
majority of them were carrying metals
and ether things of war utility. Hun-
dreds of tons of various• war niateriaie
have been rescued from the bottom
and long since been turned inta imple-
ments of peace. Many an automobile
now roiling through the streets of Lon-
don
ondon is built of steel whioh in it earlier
stage cd development se pig iron iay
at the bottom of one or other of the
sees, and has been rescued after the
manner of stories which, have set
many an Englisl, boy and young man
dreaming of treasures to hunt down
anywhere In the world. Of treasure
rove!
Much Loot Washed Up.
The fisher folk around Britain,
hardy body of people to whom the
water, on whioh they gaze every morn -
ng and by which they are roared to
sleep every night, means life. To
edge by their actions and record
alone, they see absolutely no terror in
the sea—it's an old friend of theirs.
For the last few years these people
ave had every possible incentive to
xplore the floor of the ocean. Day of--
er day all sorts of stuff is washed up.
o them from somewhere in the water.
Some of the treasure that has been
washed up on the coasts of the British
Mee is amazingly interesting. It
omen from all sorts of countries.
Not .so long ago e. bell buoy belang-
ng to the Canadian Government was
ashed up on the shore of the west
oast of Ireland, The Canadian Gov
rnment made a present of it to tee
own body who found it.
But things of great value have been
ashed ashore from the sea of recent
ears, since the bottom of the sea has
eery so full of really valuable stuff.
gain and again these toughy tawny
kinned, hard fisted, slow moving sail.
rs have risked their lives and boats
ith a carelessness bred of custom,
earching the great craggy fringes of
heir island country for whatever
ooty or loot its, merciless roughness
as exacted from the sea. Scores• of
truest unbelievable stories are tole of
he adventures., out of all accord with.
he twentieth century generally, which
hese real "sailors" have gone through
arrying out at sea the work of :the
elture. But others, ,les: ronentlq
Tk, have also attacked the sea thus.
Helm for Job.
The Sundayeehool lessen was oil
Job. The superintendent was ende se
oring to picture the painful existence
of Job to his youthful audience; 71
this endthe was dwelling at length ems
an poor Job's sufferings and the futile
ty of medical treatment.
A small boy who had beetn nbsarbecl,
in the tale held up Iiia hand,
"What is it, Willie?r' asked Uhe eirttl
erintendent.
"Dave they tried Dr. Smith?" ask
�W dile,
naming the fatally phystoiea,