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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-12-02, Page 6• ON. the roytnM dd. as of a vend�g! of Toronto, Late Di* Office, lllLititaf7 Mari*. n, Only Mkt hours at tt,,, Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, from one to 2814-18 R J. R. FORSTER liar, Nese std Throat In Medicine, University at LI O Assistant New York Opbthal. aSid Aural Institute, Moorefleld's rand Golden Square Throat Hos- London, Eng. At Mr. J. Ran- Seaforth, third Wedges - in each month from 11 a.m. to p.m. 53 'Waterloo Street, South, ord. Phone 267, Stratford. r CONSULTING ENGINEERS James, Proctor & Redfern. Ltd. a M. Proctor, B.A..Sc., Manager 26 Toronto St., Toronto, Can. !Ridge.. Pavemen ...cintt arw rk , sewer- age 9,.t®.. Takne Hell., Hou.h.g., Faotorts. arbi- traNer. Lttgatioa. Oar Fem.—Usually paid not of tin money .. save aur alien .. MERCHANTS CASUALTY CO. Specialists in Health and Accident Insurance. Policies liberal and unrestricted. Over $1.000,UUu paid in losses. Exceptional opportunities for local Agents. 904 ROYAL BANK BLDG., 2778-50 Toronto, Ont. LEGAL R. S. HAYS. Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Do- minion Bank. Office in rear of the Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Money to Nan. t.+ J. M. BEST Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Office upstairs SMT Walker's Furniture Store. Main S treet. Seaforth PROUDFOOT. KILI,ORAN AND HOLMES Barristers, F elicitors, Notaries Pub- lic etc. Money to lend. In Seaforth en Monday of each week. Office in Kidd Block. W Proudfoot, H.C., J. L. loran, B. E. Holmes. VETERINARY F. HARBURN, V. S Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College, and honorary member of the Medical Association of the Ontario Veterinary College. Treats diseases of all domestic animals by the most mod- ern erincinles: Dentistry and Milk Fever a specialty. Office opposite Dick's Hotel, Main Street. Seaforth. All orders left at the hotel will re- esive prompt attention. Night calls received at the oMce JOHN GRIEVE, V. S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All diseases of domestic animals treated. Calla promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich street, one door east of Dr. Scott's office, Sea - MEDICAL DR.. GEORGE HEILEMANN. Osteophatic Physician of Goderich. Specialist in Women's and Children's diseases, reheumatism, acute, chronic and nervous disorders; eye, ear, nose and throat. Consulation free. Office above Umback's Drug store, Seaforth, Tuesdays and Fridays, 8 a.m. till 1 p.m C. J. W. HARN, M.D.C.M. 425 Richmond Street, London, Ont., S pecialist, Surgery and Genio-Urin- ary diseases of men and women. DR. J. W. PECK Graduate of Faculty of Medicine McGill University, Montreal; member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; Licentiate of Medical Conn- ell of Canada; Post -Graduate Member of Resident Medical staff of General Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2 doors east of Post Office. Phone 56. Mensal', Ontario. DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and residence, Goderich street east of the Methodist church, Seaforth Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DR. C. MACKAY C. Mackay honor graduate of Trin- ity University, and gold medallist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Ontario. DR. H. HUGH ROSS" Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office—Back of Do - Minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5, Night calls answered from residence, lietoris street, Seaforth. AUCTIONEERS THOMAS BROWN Licensed auctioneer for the counties Of Huron and Perth. Correspondence octan ents for sale dates can be' Made bi calling up phone 97, Seaforth eeThe ExPositor . Charges mod - rate and satisfaction guarantee& R. T. LUBIER to tined auctioneer for the to Strom Sales attended to to ail of the, eoenty. Seven years' err i. in Manitoba and _years' reasonable. Phoebe No. Oftkilla P. 0, 11. len Iturs I(ot hu4iS• ago the people of Peru set' aside.* week for the celebration of•tbeir centenary of independence. At the same time at Tfollo, a little hamiYt In the Andes' and the site of the highest railroad station In the world: there was a flag -raising cere- mony lu honor of one Henry Melggs. Outside of Peru hardly anybody has heard of Henry Meiggs, except rail- way Mindere and engineers. These exper.a regard him as one of the .host brilliant of their brotherhood. Ile built the highest railroad In the :,,,rid, in the. course of which be haul to perform some amazing feats ..f engineering, and to -day he is re- vered by the Peruvians almost as teeiteli he were a saint. .Meiggs did '444t 11,4- .0 see the railway which he .1 planned brought to completion. •1i• liv.•d long -.110/.11,141 to know that groatest obstacles had been sur- ❑cented, and that he had paid la rt, at least, the debt he owed to �:ciety. 11,•ury Meiggs was an American al,t n.tw service tie an engineer in Civil War. Later on he went Califuruia, but he wee not in ,ekes way and cause near to desti- 'utiuu. Then one day he got a jab cl,•rit in a bank in San Francisco. :I,, handled afore gold in au hour !ban lie had ever earned in all his 'rte. He was teinteed and he fell. the day he disappeared and slntul- lauen�sly a shortage was discovered his accounts. The bank searched r,ig and far ter Meiggs, for it is a gleet Ole with banks that those who ,vend le shall be punished, not more their awn crimes, but as an ex- inl,i, to others who may also be • :r;,ted. Bu'. the bank's detectives snail nu trace of Meiggs. He had n::d.• his escape by ship, and one day in feel he limned up at the Peru- ' len ;eel of ('. Mao. From there he 1, ; •:.,p to Lirua, where he ••.1 d ,we to a quiet lite In a I ll • seemed to be a man of 1. Cay of means and complete .s.irt-, bit: he used to spend many 1.44s traveling in the mountains. t turning he would draw plana el make notes. Nearly a year pass - •d in these explorations, and then , day, accompanied by the Amer- ' i Consul. he appeared before a •,,eih;•r of the Peruvian Governutent nd unfolded his plan for a railway ehieh should stake accessible the ,1.141 en riches of the Andes, tap iso- 'Iry{valleys and bring the people of Ile interior country closer to the eta. The idea was not a- new one. Various Peruvian engineers had been Ilde to surmount even on paper the _e:ueudous physical difficulties in !teswrvy. The Peruvian Government h•w:;ht at first that Meiggs was tun•ly another visionary, but a 'e refel examination of his plans ;armed that he had conquered .bstach s that had bathed others. A preliminary surv,-: „ ..,Ade nd confirmed Meiggs' - Ind years after arriving in the country he was given the contract o build tie railway. It is known tow as the Peruvian Central, and e, only 247 miles long, but to- .vhere else In the world is there such another 247 miles of railway. It passes over forty-one bridges, threads its way through sixty-five tunnels and makes twenty-one zig- 2ags in its climb toward the top of lie mountain. Front Callao, which 's at sea level, the road—climbs to I'wfio. which is 15,855 feet above 1, and the trip Is made in nine hours ind a half, which is good going when use considers the grade, the turns .nd other obstacles to swift travel - lig. Iu the early stage of the con- -ruction a force of 10,000 men was engaged, hundreds of whom were :cit led as the steel was carried up the mountain side or thrown across the .Peep gorges. At the famous Chaupichaca Bridge 't runaway engine struck a derrick car ind a dozen Americans were hurled ,ver the abyss. To this day part of the wreckage may be seen from tlfe car windows. Many workmen `died of some mysterious malady In the dis- trict surrounding the Ver. ugas Bridge, one of the loftiest in the world. It is impossible for human beings even now to live in this re - cion, although persons passing through it are immune from the at- tacks, which tbe`• Peruvlan doctors have been unable to 'explain. At one place on the line Meiggs had to eon- s ruct a tunnel beneath a river in order to avoid constant washouts. At another place a tunnel was bored through a mountain in order to di- vert a river, whose bed was requir- ed for the railway. Whether Meiggs ever paid off his debt to the Cali- fornia bank we do not know, but Peru valued his services so greatly that rather than surrender the fugi- tive she would have gone to war. Peculiar Facts and Figures. China holds the world's record for legal executions, twelve thousand of which are estimated to take place Yearly. The population of Scotland (4,882,288) is three times what It was in 1801. The number of women exceeds that of men by 185,482. The whale has the thickest hide of any creature in the animal or reptile world. In some places the skin of the larger specimens is two feet thick. In the Channel Islands sunshine is enjoyed during 39.9 per cent. of the time during which the sun is above the horizon in the course of a year. A Large Spider. The in spider largest sthe g p world was discovered at Sumatra; Its body was nine inches in circumference, and It bad lege seventeen inches in length. • Aldershot, England, has a school for training steeplejacks. Ohllldrer0 OA STO IA TUQN».. Now Modern Science 1844•ttl. `Milos of IJghtntng• Though the moat ;mprassite and one of the most common of meteoro- logical - sounds, thunder Is ouch iaunderatood. It la clearly due in some.. way to lightning and Dr. W. J. Humphreys nxplalus that sudden and intense heating and molecular dlmoclatton along the path of the discharge -pro- duce abrupt expansion, simulating a violent explosion, and this sets up a compression wave traveling outwards like any other sound wave. The sound Is prolouged chiefly by the length of 'the discharge path away from the observer --occasionally flue uile8 with a thunder duratton,of 24 seconds—though echo may have much effect. The great variations in the rum- bling are very largely due to the .crookedness of the path which starts many interfering sounds sltuultan- eously from many equally distant points, but interference may also re- sult from a rapid suecesalon of dis- charges, and sometimes (rum reties - .ion by mountains and other objects. Thunder is widow heard more than 15 tulles. Cannon firing is of- ten heard farther, but the sound hi more concentrated, and the air is stiller and denser. The uaturee of lightning is also equally misunderstood, In school tneny of us were taught to believe that lightning is caused by one cloud striking against another. In other words, the suggestion that lightning is a form of frictional electricity was firstly Implanted. This Is a far-fetched truth. The eleuien' of truth resides in the fact that lightning is the result of an accumulation of static electricity sud- denly discharging, and frictional electricity is also a form of static electricity. Lightning occurs not only between various objects on the earth, such as trees and a cloud, but also between two clouds of different potential. Discharges occur, too, from a lower to a higher stratum; and often rain will discharge a cloud silently; in such cases the lightning ceases with the rain. In all cases, however, thick, dense clouds serve as conductors of elec- tricity. And as we know that dry air is a poor electrical conductor a dis- charge cannot take place unless there is a ladder of moist air between the earth and a charged cloud or between two clouds. Fropr the layman's point of view, there lee two main kinds of light- ning, forked lightning and sheet lightning. Forked or chain -lightning may be a mile or more in length, and usually descends in a zig-zag course. Sheet lightning is but the reflection on the sky of distant elec- trical discharges. Sir Oliver Lodge distinguishes lightning foto two distinct types which he named the A and the B flashes. The A flash occurs, accord- ing to Sir Oliver Lodge, when an electrically charged cloud approaches the earth without an intermediate cloud intervening. In this condition, the discharge takes place directly be- tween the cloud and the earth. The B flash, however, occurs when another cloud intervenes between the cloud carrying the primary charge and the earth. The two clouds then form a condenser; and the discharge from the first takes place into the second. Now the free charge on the earth side of the lower cloud is sud- denly relieved, and a discharge from the latter to the earth follows. But it takes such an erratic course that no known lightning conductors are an adequate .protection agklnst it. A Levelled World. If all the hills on the earth were used to fill in all the valleys, we should have a world as smooth as a billiard ball, completely covered with an ocean 8,700 feet deep. That depth is called the "mean sphere level." The Atlantic ocean has an average depth that differs little from that level, for, comparea with the other great oceans, it has an unusually large area of comparatively shallow water. First comes the shelf-like "continental slopes"; then follows, at much lower level, a vast plain. of a uniform, dull -grayish -buff color„ flat and featureless as the desert, un- marked except by an occasional rock or wreck, or a recently laid cable. This. plain .continues with hardly a break until It reaches the great mid- Atlantic ridge that extends from Iceland as far south as 63 degrees south latitude and that roughly bi- sects the ocean. The ridge runs al- most parallel with the eastern con- tour of Europe and Africa. Occa- sionally the ridge rises above the sur- face. The Azores, St. Paul's Rocks, Ascenslcgt island, the Island of Tris- tan da Cunha, and the Gough islands are all parts of it.—Christian Science Monitor. Degamning of Ramie. In a recent issue of the Indian Textile Journal the invention of a new process for degumming ramie fibre is reported. The process is past the experimental stage, as 1,000 pounds of ramie can be treated at one operation, producing from all qualities of grass a strong, durable, and thoroughly degummed fibre, which has been satisfactorily dyed and spun. Ramie is reputed to be lite strongestt of all textile fibres and especially suited for all purposes de- manding endurance of hard work, such as sail canvas, fishing lines and nets, boot laces, and shlkarl cloth. The ramie plant grows wild In moat parts of India. Camel's Breath Is Strong. The breath of the Monogolian camel is so strong that it affects the health of the camel drivers and these men are said to be invariably short, lived for this reason. With a -kick the camel will overturn an automo- bile, and its bite generally,results in poisoning its victim. When its teeth take hold of its victim -the animal gives - its lower jaw a twist which -- tears awaythe flesh and introduces a poison Into the wound. 9NS jr.tOrr C A1/1110111tiA Malt GroW ill :' ITR emAcropevisiaco OU QO its .... .: Clovers,. Pepe sod Vetches -i4"'R rip Nttrolati`t Froth the Ain-diood • Bacteria 'Win Woa'k for Yqs-- Determining the Nead aF- opal; seal ieeeylzers. ,contrtbute4 Or Ontario tlepartmant. of Aviculture. Tomato.) Nitrogen conte money when pur- chased through the medium of the chemical t,'tllizer dealer, usually about twenty cents a pound. Sots of our farm9,9 are spending from ten to forty dollars per acre a Year for nitrogen to increase crop-produption. With live million pounds of nitrogen floating as a gas over every acre of laud such expenditure may not al- ways be juetitied. That altrogen is highly vatuabie as a plant food is appreciated by comparatively few of dug farmers. if those who do appre- cia:e its value are willing to pay twenty cents a pound for it, and these ere the men working on email areas with intenelve culture crops, why don't those larger area farmers who have a few billion pounds of nitrogen doatlug above their farms wake up and get at least ;4 small quantity into the soil of the.r fields? The Fertilizing Value of 'Legumes. Legume plat.ts such as the clovers,` peas and vetches, together with the bacteria that are parasitic on the roots of thin r'ass of plants. forts a link between 12,e nitrogen of the air and the plant food nitrogen of the soil. This link is an implement al- ways available to the farmer. A ton of alfalfa or clef er or vetch hay may eontain as muvh as fifty pounds of nitrogen. The roots that go with the alfalfa plants covering an acre may euutalu as nether as three hundred pounds of nitr'cen. The roots of the red clover or tetch plants that cover an acre may contain as much as one hundred and filly pounds. The roots from wheat, cern or oat plants cover - Ing an acre nI l contain twenty-five pounds of nitr,gen. The Bacteria Work for Notting. The point 1'- a great quantity of nitrogen is collected by the bacteria which alone work on the clm-ars, peas, vetches and other legume plants. With one million dollars' worth of nitr'gen over every acre of land would it not be good policy to make sufficient use of legume crops and their parasitic soil bac- teria to at le:,st provide the needs of the farm in crop production. The nitrogen accumulated by growing legume crop° is taken largely from the air, while the small quantity accumulated by corn, oat@ or wheat roots Is gathered from the °oil. All Gain and No Loss. There is no loss of nitrogen in growing legumes but considerable gain. There is a distinct loss with all other classes of farm crops. Plan to use clovers, peas and -vetches and thereby tap the fertility supply now resting above your land for future use in the sot; e[ your fields. If you can figure out a rotation to suit your own special needs and have legume crops growing two years out of tour there will be little used to worry about the nitrogen supply.—L. Stev- enson, Secretary Department of Agri- -culture, Toronto. ABOF'r SOIL FOODS. Ueterrnining the Need of Chemical Fertilizers. The appearance of the growing leaves and tissues can frequently be taken as an Indicator for the pres- ence or absence of nitrogen to suffi- cient quantity to satisfy the maxi- mum demands of plants. A yellowish 'Inge or a dull green is an Indicator of abundant nitrogen. Drouth and excessive moisture may also cause the yellowing or weakening in the coloration of foliage. Failure of clover on lagds that at one time pro- duced .good yields may be taken as an indication of a shortage of lime and phosphorous. A decline in the wheat grade after years of wheat pro- duction can generally be attributed to a shortage or failure in the phos- phorous supply. How to Make Experimental Plots. However, these generally observed conditions are not sufficiently accur- ate to be a definite guide, and shpuld he supplemented by a miniature field teat, - using square rod areas with various chemical mixture applica- tions. This {a accomplished by' sim- ply staking off a representative area one rod wide and six rods long, and dividing it into six plots. This done apply before seeding on plot •one, nitrogen; on plot two. phosphorous; on plot three, potash; on plot four, nitrogen and potash; on plot five, nitrogen, potash and phosphorous; plot six, potash and phosphorous. The adjoining soil will : serve as a check plot for all areas. By watching the plots during the crop season and the following two years, a fairly defi- nite conclusion relative to the needs of the field can be secured. Every soil area should be studied by Itself, since the requlremente of one field may differ from the re- quirements of the field adjolnipg,— L. Stevenson, Secretary Department of Agriculture, Toronto. Gestation Period of the Cow. The gestation period of the cow is nine apd one-third months, or two hundred and eighty days. Sometimes a breeder figures It as nine months to the day, and then worries because it seems to run over a couple of weeks and the calf is not born when supposedly due. For example, cow bred on January 1 would be due about October 7 and not. October 1. A cow bred -on February 1 would be due about November 8, not on Nov- ember 1. The date of calving lr found by counting forward the two hun- dred and eighty days from the data of service. N THE MUSE I111 116 Gomfc rt and Conv� Neese* for .the Falr,Wer's-W1 . Wtiteb Indoors Pwn$ed. Fran Out. door )Vela.—Row to Do the Job ..ilp- ate Pomp. gave Te asld ERgy on • (Contributed by Ontsrto Department of Agriculture, Toronto.) The writer recently described. In these columns how to safeguard the farm water supply against contamin- ation. All will agree that thfe mat- ter should receive foremost attention. La this and subsequent articles var- ious means for getting the water. whether well, spring or or cistern water on tap in the- fy(rm home will be described. In' the first place I desire to emphasise the tact that It is frequently a very common thing - for the farmers' wives to carry the, water from the pump over the well to the house, where the -pump could be located inside the house. attd all the, labor of carrying water avoided and without very little more labor expended in pumping. Distance of House Pump from Well. Note this questio,p,. When can the pump be located to •one side of the well, and how far away? if the water supply is no mare than 150 or 200 feet from the house, and the level of the water at the supply, say the well is never more than 20 or 22 feet below the level of the ground level at the house, the pump may he put inside the house, and the water drawn In quite satisfactorily. It would not cost very much to make this change In the pump arrange- ment, and consider what a great sav- ing of labor and time. inconvenience, and exposure to bad weather would be effected by merely moving the pump inside. Perhaps you have never thought of this matter. How about 1t? Then, too, the well can be more securely guarded from surface con- tamination than when the pump Is directly over it. The Majority of Wells Are Shallow. In many districts of our -;ountry the majority of the wells are shallow and within a short distance of the house, and readily lend themselves to the pumping system described above. It is the nearest approach to water on tap, and the, system should be far more common in the rural districts than It is. If In the future some time an up-to-date water sys- tem should be installed in the home, the water line from the louse to the well would be already Installed, and no changes in it would be necessary. Hints on Installation. Before passing on, a few features concerning installation of the water pipe to the well or supply should be emphasized. These are: The best quality of galvanized pipe should be used, the joints in the line should be { absolutely air -tight, the pipe line should be deep enough to be always sate from frost, the pipe should slope slightly towards the well, and thtr?e should be a check -valve and strainer on the bottom of the pipe in the wall in order to maintain the pipe line full of water up to the pump itself ' and to kgep back sticks, stones, etc., that might clog the pump valves. The sloe of the pipe (inside diameter) should be at least one -halt the dia- meter of the pump cylinder, the greater the horizontal distance water is drawn the larger the pipe. The type of pump used may vary con- siderably. The ordinary out-of-doors pump may be used. In this case the pump would be located in the wood- shed, for Instance, and installed over a dry well. This consists of a shal- low pit cribbed up securely in which the pump cylinder Is located, and it has a tight top like an ordinary well. It would be a much easier matter to repair the pump cylinder than when pump is over the well, and much easter to protect the pump from frost In severe winter weather. A Bingle or double acting low down force pump similar to the type used on threshers' water tanks might be used. It might be located fa the cel- lar or any convenient place inside; no dry well would be necessary in this case. Have a Good Quality of Pump. Even the kitchen pump would serve the purpose very well if it were somewhat heavier in construction and better designed than the cheaper ones of this class. Another type would be the semi -rotary pump which is fastened securely to the wall of the kitchen or pantry at one side of sink. It 1s operated by a short handle moved back and forth in a semi -circular manner. The same pump at the kitchen sink may be used also for pumping up the water from the cistern by having a three- way valve installed in the pipe line at a point just below the sink. When the valve is set one way, the well water can be pumped Into the house, when opposite the cistern or soft water can be pumped. In this short article an endeavor has been made to explain a few simple and inexpensive means of re- ducing the labor of getting the water into the farm home, in others to fol- low more 'up-to-date systems will be dealt with. Our Department ,at. the College solicits inquiries regarding the problems of equipping the farm home with water uyktems, plumbing, sewage disposal, lighting Systeme, etc. Write for a copy of Bulletin No. 267; It is free.—R.- R. Graham, O. A. College, Guelph. Aunt Ada's Axioms: Someone bas said that a farm is a business with a home attached; but the best farms are homes with a bueluess 4ttached. Rim, maple, or even nut trees and fruit trees are good t6 plant along highways. The objection to fruit and nut trees is that they may be broken down by over-sealous collectors of frult. Thiel 15 not apt to happen If they are common on the highway. A Hindoo girl is oottsidefed an old The Ohio Federation of WoMen's maid if slte'1e not married before she (nabs has beg= a determined gght is twenty years of op. , ' against tuwightly billboards. #aS °crag WE have r$il,, ortroont of the rat* •travtlte a, A d; '!Petrie§t Christti O Cards that you r tad' the chance of buyinti, Get -Went noW, have your, name printed, an them, without extra 'cost, put ' themin the envelopes that go with.them, address them and then they are all ready to mail a week or a day before Christmas. No other remembrance is more acceptable and no other of like value can be purchas- ed at so little cost. See the samples at The Huron Expositor Office SEAFORTH MODERN BANDITS ROB' BY TRUCK LOAD A part from the crime incidental to the illegal selling and smuggling of whis'cey, there has been no such crim- inal development in the past few years as that of silk robberies. In l4ew York the total value of the silk stolen in the past half dozen years has probably been almost as great as the value of the stolen automo- biles, and there is the difference that, whereas nine out of every ten stolen automobiles are 'filched with- out the aid of violence, the silk robbers are veritable bandits,,ki'll- ing if necessary. to get their loot. In fact, the condibione that- have prevailed in and about New York, since the war sent the price of silk rocketing, have been much the same as conditions that used to menace the merchants in Mesopo- tamia hundreds of years ago, and which made Dakota notorious forty or fifty years ago. The road agent has now -established himself where population is densest, not Where it is most sparse. He operates in New York City, which claims to be the lurgest city in the world. Silk has always been a favorite booty with the robber. It is valu- able; it occupies little space, and it ie easily disposed of and hard to identify. There are many silk mills in New Jersey and Pennsyl- vania towns, and their product is nearly all sent to New York. Formerly it was sent by train, but the robberies were so frequent— whole cars being looted at one time —that the insurance became almost prohibitive, and the Silk Association decided to transport the valuable cargoes by .motor truck. The crooks, who as' receivers or robbers had been preying on the •industry, knew when the first truck -load started out, and for a time the robberies were more numerous than ever. Sometimes the truck would •leave at a point 200 miles from New York and proceed along country roads. Obviously there were scores of spots suitable for a hold-up and hold-ups became frequent. Then the merchants sent armed guards with their trucks. The bandits responded by shooting the armed guards before they could fire. Nowadays the trucks go in a veritable caravan, a dozen or a score of them together. I•n front is an armored car containing guards with rifles or shot- guns on their knees, and in the rear is a similar armed car. So far no successful attempt has been . made to attack this convoy. But the robber- ies have not stopped. The bandita have :merely altered their plan of campaign. 'Instead of attacking the trucks on the country roads, they wait until they have reached New York City and have separated, con- fident in the protection of the police. They sometimes wait at the ferry slip and when a spotted truck lumbers aboard, three or fair 'bandits follow it across the gangplank. On .several occasions they have held up, bound , and gagged the driver, taken possession of his wheel and driven the captured car off the boat. In some of these cases there has been obvious collusion between the driver and the robbers, but in other cases they have succeeded by their boldness, because the drivers know that these desperadoes would as soon shoot as not, and that re- sistance is likely to mean death. In one case the bandits, vborking on lonely streets, had women confeder- ates. As a truck passed along the street the driver noticed a comely woman apparently . in difficulties with her car. Gallantly he stopped and offered to help. He was warm- ly thanked, and after he had remedied the derangement, was proffered a drink of whiskey from a dainty sil- ver flask. He accepted, and the next ,moment (lost consciousness. The whis- key had been drugged,• and when he was revived his truck and its thous- ands of dollars' worth of silks ,had disappeared. When silk prices dropped, the bandits turned their attention to other article's such as leather goods, woollens, auto- mobile tires and accessories and furs, all of which are transported by truck in and about New York, to the extent of thousands of loads a" day. The owners of these goods have been ob- liged to send armed guards with the drivers,' as though they were. trans- porting specie from the mint. 1Re- volver battles in the .streets are not uncommon. When the robbers make a haul they have little difficulty in selling theirIunder. There ore thousands of dishonest merchants 'in the market for these goods at a re- duced price. Trade -masks and other evidences of identification ars altered. Some of the bandits have warebouaes where they can store their plunder And dispose of it as .market conditions warrant. The writer of the Jessie James stories of to -day, hf he wishes to conform to the probabilities, will, present his °cense in the streets of New York City. ACTIVITIES,. OF WOMEN. The postoffice, pensions and labor ministry departments in Great Britain employ 8,000 women. By running 100 yards in 11 4-6 sec- onds recently, Miss Elizabeth Linea of London, England, established a new record for women runners. In Abyssinia, a wife has the privil- ege of abusing her husband and also the right to divorce him at pleasure. In three. States, 'Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York, and in the District of Columbia, the white females outnumbered the white males it 1920. The judges of the Cleveland, Ohio, courts report that they have found women juries more generally satis- factory in every kind of case than men. Miss Francis Stevenson, private sec- retary to David George Lloyd, the British 'Premier, is considered 'one of the most brainy women in Eng- land.. The first woman to serve asa mem- ber of a lunacy commission in New York State is Miss Helen V. Boswell, a graduate of Washington College of Laws. Raising chickens covered. with down instead of feathers is the specialty of Mrs. C. F. Gregerson, of Oakland, Cal. The birds are natives of China. Girl students at Harvard university were allowed to purchase football tick- ets this year for the first time in the history o the institution. Mrs. Frederick Daliiel, who has re- cently returned from alai&game hunt- ing exposition in South Africa, is con- sidered the premier American woman huntress. Maud Adams, the actress, has given her home on Long Island to the Ro- man Cltholic church to be used as a home for poor and dependent Catholic children. For the first time in the history of trapshooting, the women dovetees of the sport will be given national rank- ing this year by the Atnerican Trap- shooting Association. At the elections to be held in Canada on December 6th, women will, for the first time enjoy the rights of full citizenship anti will go to the polls on equal terms with the men. w n k a Princess Ka a a o , a lineal de- scendant of Queen Liliuokalani, of HawaiiUnited States is Ha now in the where she will complete her educa- tion in one of the California uni- versities. 'Miss Thelma Jorgenso, a California college girl, who raised 350 varieties of dahlias in her back yard, is the rec- ord holder, for this kind of flower cul- ture. Miss Susan Brandeis, daughter of United States Supreme\ Court Justice Brandeis, has been appointed a spe- cial assistant to David L. Powell,.whe has charge of investigating building monopolies in the United States. 5 NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE New in the furniture line is a com- bined chair and telephone cabinet, the top of the latter serving as a small table. That he has rediscovered the an- cient Egyptian process for mummi- fying bodies is the elaim of a Paris physician. South African mines yielded more than 11,400,000 tons of coal last year, an 'increase from 1919 of more than 1,200,000 tons. - Price tags for goods to be sold in stores can be marked at a speed of 3,600 an hour with a new electrically operated machine. Motion pictures of highways and highway building in the United State, are being used in a good roads cam- paign in Argentina. A tiny photograph can be inserted under tht top of 1 new button for men's clothing to which it is attach- ed by ,snap fasteners. y Japan usee about 1,300 tons of pre- Krum flowers a year in the manu- fiicture of incense, mosquito externi- indtora and insectpo wdere. With a new thermometer for indus- trial purposes the temperatures can be read as far as 160 feet away from the recording bantam. A light Engl led Au- tomobile has a y- that Boats on water and can be propelled With blades fitted to its rear wheels. The outside of a window cart be washed by a new lever -operated de- vice supported by the sill and manip- ulated from inside a room.