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The soapweed, or SPaaleh haYeaet.
iloUrishes la weetern gatleaS, Sellth-
ero ColOradO, Ariel/11a1 New Mexico
end Texas, 'Until a few years ago it
was regarded simply as a troublesome
weed. Farmer and ranch owner took
great pains to exterminate it on ac-
e/WA Of Its habit of spreading over
large Areas and killing off other vege-
tattoo.
But Men a science discovered that
what was despised as a weed is reallY
A plant laving market value as a raw
material for soap, The discovery was
due to the fact that for a long time
Indien and 'Mexican wamen lieve used
deeoetion of soapweed for toilet
purposes, parteeularly for weehing
Die hair.
R is espeeially fulled for this pur
O5 e because it le wholly f ree fruit
alkali Soap manufacturers have
found it excelleut for tenet soaps tui
•eoe.ps intended for waelting' woollens.
Ordinarily one man can hervest a
ton of soapweed in a day. After cut-
ting the plants are allowed to dry
for two or three m melts, and the
are baled up in the ordinary broom
corn baling machine.
As a result of inquiries from the
United States the feasibility of cunt-
, vatlug black mint in this country for
the production a menth 1 crystals
and oil is the subject of a special re-
port by Vice:Consul R. R. Dieltover,
of Kobe, Japan.
Several atteltipts to import blacic
mint plants have been frustrated by
the long journey across the Pacific,
during which the plants have died.
Once arrangements were mode with
a steamer purser te care for the
Plants and they arrived in good condi-
tion, but were killed by disinfection
In entering the country. The consu-
late now is attempting to obtain.mint
seeds, a difficult task, since the plant
ts cultivatee almost entirely from
Two widely different climatic areas
are devoted to the cultivatim of mint
in Japan corresponding to the north-
ern Pacific Coast of the United States
and to Virginia. and Ord). Carollea.
About 92 per cent, of the Japanese
mint is grown on the Hokkaido Is-
land, where the aveeage winter tem-
perature is 22 -agrees and the sum-
mer tempereture 60 degrees, with
rainfell of hay -eight ches. The
remaining 8 pee cept. of the Japanese
crop is, grown on .Nippon, where the
' average temperatures are 38 and 5
degrees, and -Tile Average rainfall e2.5
inches, -
The mint .plant, 'requires a light,
well -drained sell. The roots are
planted at theeenta of November, The
plant attainte 'full, growth during the
summer montlist aud is cut in ate
July-, duringeatigueteand in early Sep-
tember.
A physician ''once. exclaimed: "Who
but an elid Yankeewoman would ever
have invented a rhubarb pie?" His
voice and manner, no less than his
language, empleicl a contemptuous
mental essoeiatien of acid hers with
acid temperaments: ."Tinct. Rhu," he
had so often. preseelbed that it phre-
lY naedicinaIesuggestion was over-
powering. 'pessibly he had expee-
ieneed the pangs and penalties ,of
thubarhpie in egeess,
' Yet rhubarb pie, in moderittlpe is
iyhelegoane as it is delicious, Yan-
kee hdriselteepers of today may as
fairly resent the aspersion cat upen
their desserts D. ,tiat upon their di-
,
SIR WILLIAM'S
WILL
1211WOOMMINIIMeRWS
"Not in the very least," he replied.
"The home scarcelY tonched- tee. Now
you have opoken of the Affair, Mies
Bramley, I shoUle like to apolo-
gize for my exhibition of temper
yesterday. Of course, it was uupardon-
able. I ouglit to have remembered that
there were ladies present; but I am
afraid that I an uot a particularly
good-temperee man and Dust I lose
wy heed too guleldy." He eithed as
he thought of the old days when he
and his father bad faced each other,
both angina with anger, with a paselon
which, billeted so fiercely in the veins
of both of them. "I'm afraid yoa were
very much upset and annoyed,"
The words, the planner, were so un-
like those of an ordinary fisherman
that Clytie felt faintly surprised, and
unconsciously responded as if she were
addressing an equal -
"I think there was some excuse for
you," she said. "e•ou were anxious
about the child, and -and no man
likes to be struck, can tamely endure
a blow YOU and Mr. Carton lost
your tempers; and I have no doubt he
regrets his part in the affair as much
as you do. Would you like to tell him
that you are sorry for having been so
-so rough with hint?"
"No, I shouldn't," replied Jack, with
a grim laugh, as if he were foreed
to speak the truth.
Clytie laughed, and blushed slightly.
"No, I suppose you wouldn't; and, if
I were in your place, I Should be as
reluctant to own that I was in fault.
But you see that your bad temper has
robbed you of the advantage you
would have galued,"
"That's so," assented Jack, moodily.
"It's not the first time It has cost me
got into the boat; and Jack silently
reeved them back.
As Lord Stanton was helping hini to
haul up the boat, his lordship said;
"Look laere„ Douglas, Mlee eicelle'a
been telling nee about the Pluelty way
you saved that kid yesterday. She
said it was eplendidly done." What
Mollie really remarked was, that she
eouldn't have done it betOr herself.
"You're the eort of man 1 like, And I'm
going to take you an for good. Sonia
to me you're a bit above the com-
mon or garde a fisnerman. Plug
to employ you to -to" -the lad loolced
about hint ae if he Were rather puz-
zled -"well, to help me witn thts
blessed jetty. So consider yourself en-
gaged an foreman, head cook and bot-
tle -washer, or whatever you like to
call yourself, till further notice. We'll
settle about the eerew next time I
come down,"
Without waiting for eaclje; accept -
awe or refusal of this 'vaguely des-
eribed position, the lad hurried up to
join the two girls; but suddenly and
with something extremely like a
wink:
"Of couzee, you'll hold yourself in
readiness to take the young ladieg
boating when they want to go. And I
dare say I ehall want to row round to
Pethwielc pretty often."
Jack cold nothing; he felt as if
he were not equal to speech, and he
lit his pipe and stared, thoughtfulee
and frowningly at the pebbles on the
beach.
CHAPTER XIII.
'Yell don't let the grass grow under
your feet."
It was Mollie who spoke, and she
was seated on the old quay wall at
Pethwick, her long legs swinging, her
tam-o'-shanter all on one side. Besido
her, also seated on the wall, but ..nore
decorously, was Clytie, with a book,
which was turned, page downward on
her lap as she gazed thoughtfully out
to sea.
Between them, lounging on the quay,
with a cigarette in his mouth, was
Lord Staunton, to whom Mollhea
complimentary remark was addressed.
"No; why should 1?" he responded,
laoking up at her with a smile. "I:m
net a horse, But we've done a elot
in the time, haven't we?" he added;
complacently, as he looked down the
valley 'road, which only a few weeks
ago had been so quiet as to seem it
road througla a valley of dream, and
was now all alive with man 'and Carte,
eciMethIng."
Clytie regarded him calmly, thought-
fully,
"You do not look like a bad-tem-
pered man" she said, and more to her-
self than to bine
Jack laughed, and the color rose to
his face. "1 ant certainly not in a bad
temper at this moment," he said, "and
I can geneeally keep my head unless
I'm hard pushed; but after a point 1
lose it entirely, and I don't know what
I'm saying', or doing."
Clytte remembered these significant
words, thee admission of his, in the
after -time,'
"You nnist guard against it," she said,
"Forewarned is forearmed. That
sounds like a copy -book heading," she
added, with, a sMile at her own banal-
ity.
"It's very good advice, anyway; and and humming with the sound ' of
thaak you," sale Jack, quite humbly. voices, shouting, laughing, men calling
There was silence for a minute or orders to their horses and each other,
two; Clytie's thoughts returned to mingled with the "chip, chip" of 01130
their usual subject, and presently she On stone as the masons cut and trim -
sale, withsudden interest: med the hege•blocks which would be
:
"You have been in Australia?" used for building the new jetty.
Tire. question came so unexpectedly "Yes, you have wrought a change,"
that Jack was almost guilty of a said Mollie. "I'll give you due cred-'
Mart; but he was on his guard in- it, Lord Staunton."
stantly, and he replied promptly, and, The lad colored with Pleasure, then
of course, •quitely ealmlY, turned and looked up the road, whence
"Yes, 'raiss," came the sound .of a horse coming
She leaned forwareher chin in her
down the hill, a horse ridden at eithat
hand, her eyes resting on his with a
barely repressed eagerness. Jack seemed a. dangerous pace by a rider
thought she made the most beautiful Who at in the saddle as if he had
picture he had ever seen. been born there.
"Do you know it very well?" she "Douglas deserveo his share. We
asked.
shouldn't have been where we are if it
"Fairly well," -he replied; "it's a hadn't been for hint, you know. Now,
lerge place." he pushes, the world round, if jou
"Yes, I know," she sale, with a sigh. like! Never knew suck a fellow!
"It would be very difficult to find Give him an order, and he's on to it
anyone there, would it not? I mewl like a knife; and he is simply as
Anyone who had become lost, or did chock-full of ideas of his own as,;—a
hot wish to be found." puddings full of raisins."
"Well, it would," said Sack. He was "Was it his idea to begin building a
prepared for what was coming, and jetty in the autumn, so that the Will-
is tone was polite, respectful, but by ter storms could wash it away as fast
no means an interested nne. as you Put et up?" said Mollie, de -
"Do you happen to know a place Mnrely. •
called alintona?" asked Clytie, after a "There YoU are!" exciaimed Staiatore
pause. triumphantly. ."That's just what -I
"Mintona?" he repeeted, as if he
were trying to recall the name. said; but Douglas knew his book, As
he says, most of the bad weather
think I've heard of it." comes after Christmas, in these Rafts,
She breathed a little sigh of disap
pointment, "You have never been not before; and, of course, the thing
there? No; it would be too strange a to do was to haul down the material
coincidence if you had, I -I ant. try- while the roads are good, and get the
Ing to find someone who is there, ey granite round by sea while the weath-
used to be there." Ws fine. Then, by the time the we
Jack nodded. "A man?" he asked. season comes, we shall have the sheds
"Yes," replied Clytie. She hesitated up, and the men can work under shel-
for a Moment, then she said: "R is ter and everything ready to begin
Sir Wilfred Carton. But it is very building in May or June."
probable that he did not bear that "I see," said 1ol1te. "Oh, wise
name, that he was living in Australia young man!"
under an assumed name." Stanton laughed. as if there were
"Ah, yes," said Jack, thoughtfully; somethini deliciously witty in her car -
"there aro a great many men over castle comment,
there who don't eare about their real „ ,
On, hes wise enough, you bet!"
names being known."
"I am afraid that is the ease evith he said, his eyes wandering from Mol -
this gentleman, this Sir Wilfred," site lie to Jack, as he came down the hill.
said, witit a sigh. "It's my opinion that that fellow is a
"That is ir William Carton% son?"
genius; there's no end to the things he
S
knows, and no end to his resources.
said Jack, quite steadily, his eyes
fixed on the flower in the bosom of He bas got this business in hand, as
her dreee. if he'd been used to it all his life; and
"Yes," said Clyde. "He left England he sends the thing spinning along as
some time ago, and though letters easily as it -as if he were shelling
have been addressed to him at this peas. I heard one of the men call
Mintona, no reply has been re- him a masterpiece. They were talk-
ceived, nothing has been heard of him Ing of the way he had got the timber
-but it le net very likely; the coun- down the slopes; made a kind of
try is no large." She dropped back shute, you know; quite a novelty here
with a eigh. -and they look up to him, Wren the
"Yee," eald Sack. "It's like the good oldest of them, as If he were a sort of
people here who ask anybody, when general."
they've come from London, if he has .General servant!" murmured Mol -
met theit cousin, George." lie. "He see= to be able to do any-
Clytie sullied. "It was rather foolish thing and everything."
or Me," she' admitted. Stanton laughed. "That's It! Noth-
"Not at all," said Jack, hurriedly. Ing comes amiss t� him, He was up
"What sort of man is this Sir Wilfred
Carton?" he aeked, as if he were de- in the Towers the other day, and he
shone of helping her, if he eould. doctored one Of the horses, just as if
Clytie gave a little shrug of her he'd been a vet, you know, The eoache
shouldero, and her browe came togeth- inan said ---1'
er With a touch of impatience. "That he Was a. masterpiece," cue in
"Ole I'm afraid 1 can't describe Mollie, "It's a good word. Ildeecan
hitt," she said, "1 haven't seen him ride, among other things," she added,
since he was a boy. Ile was a very lowering her voice, for Jack was very
goodelooking, handsome boy," ---with near them mow,
fine presence of mind, Jack Succeeded "Rather! The other day he was tIP
In keeping his countenance, which at the 'rowers he, got on an 111 -temper -
looked absolutely wooden at the mo- ed beast o fa colt, a wretch I would-
ment-"but..a very wild one. I Should n't mount for love or meny."
think he had grown up--" She "Stone thing."
Paused as if doubtful 'how to eontinue
end Douglas took the frills out Of
her deseriptiOn. Jack came to her aid. tem la as pretty a half -hoer tussle as
"m Douglas!" Douglas!" called Stanton; hut
Jack did not bear him, and, riding
down to the men, dismounted and
Joined them.
"His lordship did not deiga tO
stop," remarked Mollie blandly.
"Oh, be didn't hear," maid Stanton
easily.
Oh, come," said Mollie, with MI air
of relief; "It Is comforting to find
that he has one defect -that be is
deaf."
"Oat ears like a lynx," said Stanton
easily.
• "And eyes like a hawk, and a nose
like a fox -hound."
"He's gone into lits shed, office,"
said Stantou. "I wonder— Vactise
me a moment," he broke off, as he
went quickly to the 011ie°.
gneiss. •
'rhe,pleplant hap a recorded history
of• over eceir •centetries. It was first
cultivatedin tile ,white walled gar-
dens of Morocco and Algiers, amid
fruits .and fkvwers and fountains and
was brought thence by the Moors to
Spain. • •
Not until 200 years later did rhu-
barb realty become lenoWn to English
gardens, -whente in dtte time it Was
rbought those of America to be
employed first as a titeture then as a
sauce, and to attain final apotheosis
inpie.
Rhubarb, apart from its usefulness,
hes values for its beauty. The giant
Chinese variety, with its enormous
leaves, is often employed 135, land,
epape gardeners to produce bold sub-
tropioal effects; • nor do they ill'irays
disdain the -chaerns. of the more mad -
est pleplaut itself,. of which the tall,
graceful spikes of white flowers and
large -leaves, deeply veined and stain-
ed, are a$ certainly handsome as the
tucculent stalks are palatable.
"Lord Stanton appears to have
caught a paragon," remarked Mollie;
"a sort of Admirable Crichton. Well.
I euppose there is some exeuse for
hie enthuslasne. Douglae is rather a,
wenderful young man, isn't be?" said
Mellie reflectively.
'qEi he?" said Clytie, lotting up from
her book, "Yes, I ouppose be is.
"Yeti don't like hint?" ouggestea
Mollie.
Clytie, looked up again, as if With
faint surprise,
"Not like him? Why do you say
that, Mollie? I don't dislike lathe Why
sh.ould I? Indeed, 1 think he is rather
.nice young fellow; and we know
that be has plenty of pluck; and that
he Is very good-natured and kind."
"Yes, he's that," said Moille, as if
she were conceding a point. "How -
wee buss, may be, he is always ready
to take you for a row or a sell."
l"yake us," corrected Clytie absent -
y,
"Didn't I say 'us'? Of course, And
he is very good to that kid."
Clytie laughed, "You mean Polly,"
she said, `Kid' is scarcely the word,"
"Sorry. I don't mean to bring a
blugh to the face of my proper sister.
Kidis a word which I learned from
the Young gentleman who has now
gone to worehiP in, the temple of his
divinity.; and who will probably, for-
get. that he has left two ladies wait-
ing for him."
"You learh a great many slang
words from Lord Stanton," said Cly -
tie with a laugh.
"I do, I do! But I'm teaching him
soMething in return -manners. He's
rather a backward. pupil."
"Well, he has rather a forward mis-
tress."
"lent I shall succeed in time; per-
haps when I ant a white-halred old
woman." ,
"Do you propose continuing the les-
sons for so long a period?" asked Cly-
tie"demurely.
Mollie colored. Now and then she
found that Clytie's wit matched her
own..
"I shall see. But we weren't talking.
of that hobbledehoy, but oe Mr. Doug-
las. The men ea1l him 'mister' now,
you know. 'He's not a bad sort, though
I do .chaff Lord Stanton about him."
OYSTERS ARE
IN SEASON NOW
And Here Are Some Way to
Serve Them.
What COMFORT LYE
•
Cpsfort Le is a very powerful
eicanser. It le used for cleaning up
the oldest end hardest dirt, grease, eto.
Comfort Lyo f na for making sinks,
drains and closets sweet sad elen.
Comfort Ly' Kills rats, mice, roaches
and insect pests.
Comfort Lys will do the hardest
spring cleaning you're got.
Comfort Lyo is dood for milking sosp.
'Ws powdered ,perfumed and 100% pure.
is splendid For dium-
Nirerth Knovving'.
To preserve the natural color of
greens boil as rapidly as passible, and
without covering. A little sugar ad-
ded also Seems to help.
Never let an umbrella, dry standing
point downward. That rusts rode
and rots cloth at tile tip, Open it
wide, leaning it downward on the han-
dle.
• Fin up nail boles ivith putty or a
mixture of glue and fine sawdust
pressed in firmly. When dry yarn-
Ish over and the places will not be de-
tteoerbtlee'ediolalYbaked bread has a tendency
rne soggY if left lying flat. Turn
the leaves on side or end.
• A few pieces of paraffin heated and
poured over the holes of an old piece
of tinware and allowed to harden will
put it in shape to hold anything cold.
If lettuce is cut off above the ground
the roots will grow again and the let-
tuce will be more tender, and ready to
use more quickly, than if eeed Is
planted each time.
Mlnakes Liniment Relieves Neuralgia
*OA
1 SOIENTIPIO JOTTINGS,
lertashine massage le said to cure fallen
%rialto.
"No," assented Clytie. "Ile seems
a patticularly good sort. Polly wor-
ships him. But that's not Wonder-
ful, He is so good to her. I should
think," she went on, almost to her-
self, "he had a warmer heart than
most men. Have you noticed how
he treats his horse?" •
"No," replied Mollie, looking straight
before her.
Olytie laughed softly. "And you are
usually such an observant young per -
San!"
"Oh, only of things and persons I'm
intergted in," retorted Mollie inno-
cently', but 'with a sharp, sideways
glance at Clytie.
"Look. There it stands, quite free;
and it will stand there until he comes
to it; or, if it should wander a little
way, it Will come directly he calls it."
"That's a trick," said Mollie, with
a disparaging shrug of her shoulders.
"And the horse has learned it in a
fortnight," remarked Clytie.
Molle laughed. "You're as bad as
Lord •Stariton," she declared, "and
Polled."
Clytie's gray eyes opened witit sur-
prise; then site shrugged her shoul-
ders and returned to her book.
• Stanton had entered the shed and
found Jack examining some accounts.
• "Oh, Douglas," said the lad, "do you
think you could give us some teal I
know you keep some crockery here,
and it's such a deuce of a climb is to
one of the cottages; besides, they
make such a fuss, and the ladiee
would have to tramp down again to
the boat."
Jack lookedeup -with no great readi-
ness.
"I've only the roughest kind of
,croclus here, Lord Stanton," he said.
"Anything will do," said the lad.
"Here, I'll help you!"
"Thanks," said Jack. "I've get to
cheek the stone tally before the men
knock off."
(To Be Continued).
A velem supply of perfume for milady
Is now carried in s,beUOw finger ring.
A rubber washbasin Adds into a pack-
age, which maY be carrieti hi the Vest
pocket.
SKY A,PRONS.
Owing to censorship, details of the
invention of the wire sky aprons used
so extensively in aerial defence dur-
ing the latter monthe of the war were
not available. However, we are now
informed in Popular Mechanics of the
methods employed in this, system,
whieh, by the way, is a British inven-
tion:
"Balloons were sent up in groups of
tbree or more to different elevations.
The anton of wires they supported
might be likened to certain, Japanese
beaded portieres., except, of course,
that the individual " strands were
Smoke clouds have been found to ef-
fectively Screen the moYeinents of troorez
and. boats.
boar's tusk, and hag the double Or set
trigger. On the side of the stook ar0
carved with a Jackknife the words,
"Boon's Tru Pren"; en the erednut
stock the Wilds D. B., and five most
signifigant and sinister xtotehos, each
notch standing for "One good InJuu."
At the lower end a the stock is a long
and deeply cut gash said to have been
cut Wien Indian tomahawk thrown at
Boone e` What happened to the Indian
if3 not recorded.
The rifle, badly broken in 4bipenent,
has been repaired and Is now on ex:
hibition.-Bxcbange.
Hun Palindrome.
The longest single -word palindroutee
in the Dnglish language are said to
be "reviver" and "rotator," each con-
taining seven letters. A friend of
out's has elscoVered one of nine let-
tersters, viz., "detauted," which may
or may not be in the dietiQUarieS.
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MUSKOKA. 1'A1040-011111 TO TWO
hundred addle wood, stogie or crop*.
Ferule, bUildinge, renege, mares* Meaty
co., BoxIA Broxebridee.
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T F YOU DelSIRE TO tines TOW%
farm or couutry borne, send me fall
perticulars, and have descriptIOn Pub"
imbed in my new catalogue. If you aro
in the mariget to buy, descrthe your
wants and eee what I more to offer. No
expense whatever to you maw I effect
a ante. J. D. Biggar, Realty Broker, 100
Clyde Block, IIamilton, Ont.
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HELP WANTED—FEMALE
LJ AlTgligargfrat WggX;Ovigitit's;
!Mare time; reed pay; work sent aitY
The Germans, however, have a palha-
distance, charges pate. Send Mame
dronae at no less than thirteen let-
tih nal MantlfaetUrinit
ters, "reliefpfeller," meaning relief -
columns. -Boston Transcript. WANTED--SWART GIRL AS DIM«
s• erat in good home. Apply at one*
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to A,Trs 11 13. Cottoe ' 146 W s Mitt ter
A very acceptable substitute for butter
may be made from potatoes at 5 ooat of
about 10 cents a pound.
A canvas tent erected Inside the gar-
age keeps the car free from dust while
standing between runs.
The work of the British Guiana Re-
search Staten of the Now York Zoologi-
cal Society, which was interrupted by the
war, has Just been resumed, three mem-
bers of the staff, headed by Director
William Beebe, having recently arrived
at the station,
Some recent investigation of the tem-
perature of leaves made in the deserts
and mountains of Arizona and in the
Santa Lucie. Mountains of California
have resulted in the discovery that leaves
show a very rapid change of temperature
at times. These fluctuations are almost
constantly going on. Changes of from
one to three degrees C. were observed in
from 20 to 60 seconds, and if a moderate-
ly strong wind is blowing the change
may account to five degrees in thirty sec-
onds.
The Automobile Association and Motor
Union, Fanum House, Whitcomb street,
London, W. C., is offering a prize of $5,,
000 to the inventor of a method by which
coal -gas can be used as fuel for automo-
biles. The conditions governing the con-
test are that the eontainer for the coal
gas must not occupy more than nineteen
cubic feet of space, its weight must not
exceed 140 pounds, it must contain the
equivalent of two or three gallons of
With a Relish to Accompany
Them.
September brings the first oysters
for the season, and because we have
done without them for four months,
we serve them during this month on
every possible oceaelon. An Oyster
and celery Baled is cptite delicious and
quite unusual, if anyone is looking for
a variation from the customary wnys
of nerving.
To one pint of oysters, take an
equal amount of celery ie,ut into small
tubes. Scald the oysters in their own
liquid until the edges begin to curl,
then drain and cut in halves. and mix
with the celery, Cover with Wench
dressing and oet on the ice box for a
half an hour, until thoroutetly
Drale again and mix with belled 04
mayonnaise dressing and serve on
crisp lettuce leaves. ,Giarnisit with
olives.
A LUNCIIION
One dozen oyaters will make e helm; lutieheon Melt for four or five
eicald tbe oyster:4 in their
own liquer until the edges curl, strain,
and cut Into three or four ph cee, Malt
tWo eableepoontuis ef butter in a pan
and Wend with it two ounces of floor.
Pour on a cup of milk, and when
thick, add the oyster liquor. Hcat
two eggs well, and stir them into it,
and flavor *Alt salt, cayenne, a little
nutmcg and a teaspoonful of lemon
Juice. Add the oysters last. Butter
small indiridUal molds and fill witu
the mixture. Stir gently for twenty
Minutes.
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axone in Curing Quickly.
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NAME
ADDRESS ,,,,
ROW MANY STARS?
An Estimate of Those in the
Universe.
evapinsimmourammasouloommassmicesaggamzassuirsznesk,
loseemenems.
spaced several yards apart and weieee:
ed with plumb bobs.
"One of the most, beneficial efffects
of the scheme was its pronounced in-
fluence on the morale of German air-
men, who knew not where they might
encounter the menaciee wires. Strik-
ing one of them evhIle Dying at high
speed might have serious consequenc-
es. It might cripple one of the
controls, wrap around the propeller,
saw through a spar, or, if it happened
to be one of the main anchor cables,
shear off a wing. The aprons are
said to have spelled the doom of a
number of night bombers and to have
caused others to make forced land -
"In guarding London, the atmos-
phere was divided into three defence
strata. Between the ground and a 'cer-
tain elevation the aprons gave pro-
„tection. The artillery barrage form-
ed a curtain of deadlinees across the
middle area. Above that were the
night duty fighting 'planes of the
Royal Flying Corps, waiting the
ch,auce to attack.”
We think of the multitude of the stars
and would in all probability say that on
a dear, frosty, moonlight night we seo
millions of them. In reality, on such a
night. If we leave out the tette), lumin-
oue Milky Way, we see fewer than 3,000
distinct stars. In the whole starry
sphere of which We .tee only half at toy
given time, there are only a score of first
magnitude stars, beginning with Sirius,
the brightest or them, and including stars
like Orlon's right shoulder and left knee,
Betelgeux and Rigel, Vega and Arcturus.
Of stars of the seeond magnitude, like
the remaining Mar of the Dipper, Mere
are in all sixty -nye. Or stars or the
third Magnittlde, like the remaining star
of the Dipper, where the handle joins the
bowl, there are 100. Of the stars of the
• fourth magnitude, under 500; of the fifth,
just over a thousatd, and of the sixth,
the extreme limit visible to the naked
eye on the best nights, something over
2,000, making in all fewer than 5,000 eters
visible at any time to the naked eye,
while only half, Or about 2,600, can be
seen at one time.
But even an opera, glees shows a great
many mare, end larger and larger teles-
copes diseleee more and more. Yet they
seem limited In number, at least if It be
true that the light carrying etifer does
not itbsott and extinguish the light of
the most remote. For if they were really
infinite rin number, anti thdr light came
to be impeded, the Mght sky \Yenta., be
unifointle. luminous, Whieli It is not. SO
that a smell telescope Which shows stars
down to the ninth magnitude will add
about a hundred thotteand stars to those
Isible to the naked eye, -while the
largest telescopes will shoW stare down
to about the sixteenth unte.naude. Ara-
i/1110gs star chart ineludes between 200,-
000 stars counted and plotted by hand,
Vitale the inodern photographic survey
In whielt the stars are made te may
eheroaelves, -goo( up to the high figure of
10,00,000. It is computed that the best
optical mean( which human genius tan
devise nitty shoW 100,000,000 attes. If thief
be, as is supposed. close to the total or
existing Illars. And if N't? tellititaber that
the populatioh of the, earth Is computelt
to be eoreesvitat in wee!. of 1.500,000,00e
Mtn it follows that there Is only one atm'
for wit fifteen persons, or, taw, e. ster
for each three families aby no means
suit • vast number as most people sup,
nese.
gasoline, and its cost to the motorist
must not exceed $10 Or a yearly rental of°
525.
14100ELLIVNEOUO
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FOR. SALE OR EXOILANGE.
11 eyACRES ON PROPOSED eige11W.AY
at Brantford; splendid brick house.
12 rooms,sultable for two families; 'hot
and eold water, bath, ete.•'also fun line
of imPlements and stock at fair V41119..
tions. What have you to offer, toWn
citysproperty or smaller farm. Partiee-
lars, Edd. Roberts, R. 11. No, 4, Brant.
ford, Ont.
POULTRY WANTED.
14ENS WANTED, ALIVE, InefeER 5
," pounds, 20 cents a pound, -over 5
;pounds, 24 cents. Coekerels, 4 pounds or
over, 22; ducklings, 10; pullets, 2 pounds
or over, 29. I pay express. NO deeuc-
Akin for shrinkage. Samuel Lewis, 607
Dundas street •west, Toronto.
Then and Now.
A correspondent wants to know if
the American enlistments and losses
were as great in the Civil War as in
the World War which has just closed.
In the Civil War, the Northern States
altogether enrolled 2,820,272 men,
while the Confederates are believed
to have had a total enrollment of 600,-
000, their reports being both incom-
plete and inaccurate. There are said.
to have been 112 battles in the Civil
War, in which five hundred or more
men were killed or wounded on either
side, and there were in all 1,882 gen-
eral engagements. On the Northern
side 110,070 men were killed in battle
or died of wounds, while 248,458 died
of disease. The South is believed to
have lost 100,000 in the struggle, maks
ing the total death rate on both sides
upward of half a million. In • the
great war just closed the United Staten
mobilized considerably over four Mil-
lion men, and sent more than :t -WO
millions overseas, of whom more than
a znillion and a quarter actually 'en-
gaged In combat. Of the total, 61,000'
died of wounds, only a handful by dis-
ease, while about 200,000 were wound-
• ed. It will thus be seen that the
American losses were nothing like as
great as in the figitting front 1861 to
1865. Nevertheless they were engag-
ed in greater battles than during the
Civil War, for almost a million Ameri-
can soldiers fought in the ArgOnno
battle, while at Gettysburg, the great-
est fight of the Civil War, there were
only 158,343 men engaged with. total
casualties of 51,112. -Halifax Record-
er.
The Eugenics Record Office at Cold
Spring Harbor, L. I., Is engaged in build-
ing up an analytical index of the inborn
treits of American families, especially
witha view to studing the inheritance of
such traits, tracing their recombination
in given pedigrees, etc, Down to the
beginning of last year the office had go
file 624625 caiels indexing individuals vtllu
are described in the archives of the bi-
tallish:tient on the bast of surname., nat-
ural trait .and geographical locally. An
elaborate classification of traits kats been
worked out.
/By taste, man is enabled. to detect one
/part of salt in 640 of wet& and of qui-
nine, one part In 152,000 of water.
MInard's Liniment Cures Dandruff.
M Inard's Liniment for sale everywhere
•
Gave Revenue Officers Tip. ,
Revenue officers who arrested an
Atlenta, Man with fifteen galloas of
whiskey in his motor car, found he
had a letter from a Georgia farmer,
saying that the writer had "some very
fine pigs fat...sale at the low price of
e7 each," and that "the sow had a lit-
ter of thirty," a remarkable thing in
the animal world, On investigation,
'they found the sow to be a complete
moonshine still and the litter to be
thirty jugs of high-powered moonshine
whiskey.
"A thoroughly bad lot?" he said.
She flushed, and bit her lip.
"I don't know," she said. "I know
tothing about him. No; why should
you think he was a bad charaeter? It
doeen't follow." She pulled herself up
and eaught her lips again, as if Slat
were annoyed with herself for talking
itt this strain, on such a private mat-
ter as Sir Wilfred's character.
"I beg your pardori, nettle," Elaid
3ack. "Otte meets so many men in
Australia who are right down bad
Iota."
Clytis broke in upon hie apology
by °ailing to monis. Jack rowed in to
OM Ind IiolM end Lott stat,uton
I've ever seen; and Pee been through
the riding -school, you know."
"And didn't be cure a smoking
chimney, mend the clocks' and set e
broken leg or two?" asked Mollie.
Stanton. laughed. "Pon my word.
I think he's equal to all that. Any-
way, I haven't tried him at anything
he's refused as yet."
Jack rode by, raising his hat, 'but
ReareelY glancing at the group rm the
wall. He had exchanged his fisher -
' t fr riding -suit, ,,,1
mane
looked now decidedly more like a 1 just because a man is slow to
Yeast squire than the foreman of the agar, don't Jump to the tonolusion
PatitiVIck Jetty -works. that he Isn't *low but enre.
EDIMATIONAL
-
Rifle 'That Boone ;Oarried.
Daniel Boone's rifle, a genuine old-
fashioned flint lock, carried by Boone
on many a perilous trip in the dark
and bloody hunting ground of Ken-
tucky and on his famous Indian hunt-
ing expeditions, was recently brought
into a hardware store in a small town
in southwtstern 'Wisconsin for much
needed repairs. It is now the pro-
perty of a Mr. Rafter, formerly of Mis-
sissippi, who recently traded his 2,300 -
acre plantation for Wisconsin pro-
perty and has moved his effects north.
The rifle was given him by a doctor,
to whom it had been given by an.
aged hermit living in the mountains
of •Tennessee.
The rifle is a formidable affair, a
real "long rifle," one of the type that
gave the nickname of the "long rifle"
to our vtestera frontiersmen. It has
a barrel 46 inches long, is 45 calibre,
a flint lock with a patchbox of inlaid
silver, and weighs ten poueds. The
end of the butt is set with a wild
Aleemewasiwamorn
The universal Mouth Antisep.
tie for Pyorrhoea. and Soto
Gums.
Heals and hardens bleeding
gums at once and tightens the
teeth.
IV/e01U.IMON '0 With Wash
deodorizes all decomposed
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the consulter, who asks Advice he nev-
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praise he does not merit; the...com-
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the talker, who talks only because he
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in
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WEENIVIMMINNEMINNEMINIMMIN
Baby's teething time is a time of
worry for most mothers. Baby's little
gum become swollen and tender; his
bowels get out of -order and conste-
nation, colle or evell diarrhoea sets
in. To make the teething period easy
Baby's Own Tablets should be given
the little one. They sweeten the stem -
act; regulate the boweland keep
baby good natured. Concerning them
Mrs.. Mareel D. Le Blanc, Meminm-
cook, West N, B., writee: "1 have
Used Baby's Own Tablete for the past
eix yeare and have found them Indis-
pensable. To my mind nothing can
equalempeethyeieg niallayinginteetbingtIliveeefledvebrbt abce-
without them and can strongly recom-
mend them to other moehers." The
Tablets are sold by medicine dealers
or by mail at 26 centa a box from
The Dr. Williame' Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont.
. 4•p
Small Things Once Precious.
• THE GAS BAG'S GAS.
By far the lightest of all known gas-
es is hydrogen, and that is why, 'when
used -to fill the balionets of ' an 'air-
ship, it gives a greater "lift" tlaan any
other gas. Hydrogen is much lighter
than coat gas, although that, in Its
turn, is immensely lighter than ordin-
ary air.
But both hydrogen and coal gas
have one very serious disadvantage.
They are inflammable, and when mix-
ed with a Certain volume of air are
highly explosive. -
There is only one other gas which
at all compares with hydrogen for
lightness. This is "helium," a gas
which exists in the air we breathe,
but in very small quantities.
To give some idea of how small let
us put it this way: Supposing yoa
could multiply the atoms of a cubic
foot of air so that they -were big en-
ough to see with thenaked eye, then
let them pass at the rate of 60 a min-
ute, it would he only one in three
mouths that a helium atom would
come by.
Yet helium is plentiful enough in
the upper layers of the atomsphere,
'We know that because the flash 8
made by meteors as they enter •the
earth's atmosphere give the "spec-
trum" of h el ium when Watched
through a spectroscope. We know,
in the sante way, that the atmosphere
sof the sun is chiefly composedof
hydrogen and helium.
The Americans have discovered a
methed of making helium gas in large
quantities, and they propose to Use
• it for the purpose of filling the great
gas bags of their enormous new dirle
• ibles. An airship filled with helium
would be safe from any inflainmable
bullet or other fiery device. Icor,un-
like hydrogen or toal gas,- it will
neither burn nor explode.
In the reign of Henry VIII., a needle
was so valuable a thing that an Eng-
lish comedy was written about the
loss of one. In the reign of Queen
Elizabeth( a. pair of gloves were held
to he a fitting gift for the sovereign.
Henry IV. of -France, a poor and
a frugal monarch, committed one ex-
travagance, which was commented
upon by the court and noted down in
Sully's memoirs. He used as many
handkerchiefs as he required when
he had a cold in his head.
• i•
Our Language.
Though a fawn May grow into a
buck, gender conditions being, right,
there is no known process Wthereby
farvnIng and bucking can be made to
resemble each other, Somebody says
the Philippine Islands cold supply
enough food for the human race if
transportation gould be arrange& No
doubt, Also hades could furnish heat
Lor all the world's cities if a pipe
line could be constructed and main-
tained.
The Difference.
6eienee is concernedwith the libellee,
distaneee and magnitudes of the stars,
and with problems touching the intes-
tinal parasites of the flea. Art, lit-
erature and religion s,re concerned
only with mankind, with the elenien-
tal, the universal, the eternal; With
the dream, the defeat, the romance of
life.--iDallas Lore Sharp, in the Atlan-
tic.
Wood'. Liniment ourss atom, 'Etc
Even in the business of buying and
selling experience many a Man triee
to be a profiteer.
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