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The Clinton News Record, 1921-8-4, Page 6The Secret of the Old Chateau -- --a-- By DAVID WHITELAW, r (Copyrighted) house with the man who herd oaused his cousin's death. The mystery of old Adam's document was a• mystery no longer, and the whole conspiracy up - peered clearly to the end'erstanding. IIe •stood there in the heil, his hams electehed Mier- the envelope and the scrap rf evidence, and asked himself the long lost Sylvia Dartigny bitterly how he was to get through the Ileeenees', his sure cions aroused, ae• remaining hems -how he was to sit copes Dartin's invitation to Adderbury at dinner, to take hospitality from the hands red with poor Hubert's blond. The thought came to him that he might make some excuse and catch the evening train to London, but he saw that there was no time to do so without appearing strange and at- tracting that attention to himself that wiser cotmsels told grim was net ad- visable. As he stood there the groom entered and, tipping the contents of the ,basket into a leather satchel, pass- ed out to his •b.icyele. Robert had had no intention of retaining Haverton's letter, but as the man entered he had crushed it up, together with the other paper, and thrust it into his pocket; it was out of the question to replace it in the'now empty basket. He turn- ed and went slowly up to his room 10 dress. • The dinner that evening was to he of a mare formal character than that of the previous eight, and Robert was glad that they' would not he alone; for the cnlrnel of intemperate halite had scce^ted, and one or two other men weuel be there, It would be some- thing to have those others to talk to; the time wo'.nld pass more rapidly and. the horror of his ordeal he lightened. He took his writing -case from his kit -bag and added the all-important item relating to the handwriting, ITe told himself that he would not look further than this -that he had ac- cumulated ample facts to put before Mr. Berwick, the private investigator whose services had so often been used by the firm of Baxenter when their work had taken them into the fields of criminal activity. Synopsia of Later Chapters, Dartin, in possess.on of Dartigny fortune, has to pay Haverton silence Money, On Stella's birthday Baxenter gives her the Dartlgny locket-Stella's mother recognizes the crest it beaus es the same as that cm a ring handed down from Stella's great-grandmother, Towers. He overhears a conversation between his host and Haverton. CrIAPT1t,R XVI,-(Cont'd'.) Robert wished that he eouhl, then and there, take. notes of what he had ° heard and' link 1115111 up with the other facts in ,what he called the "Dartin dossier." But it would not do to put on the light in his room, and he must possess 'himself in what patience he might until the morning. Tired as he was, he slept but little, and the first glimmer of dawn found • him awake. He put on a few clothes and, -taking his wilting case to the window, began his bask. He wrote for p5Ihaps a quarter of an hour, pausing often and looking out over the countryside, rosy with the coning day, his brows crumpled with thought. And then be leant bock at last and read what he had written: "-Item: That H. (who apparently has met D. •Mit.lately) shows an intimate knowledge of D: s billiard playing, D. having shown -ability in the past with long cannons. "Item: That.D. objects to being ad- dressed as 'Vivian.' "Item: That for some reason it is a matter of significance that D. and E. should hesitate to play cards with a. Baxenter. "Item: That D'e nerves are not what they were and that he is advised by H. to forget some unpleasant oc- currence." There was enough in all this to dis- pel any qualms that Robert may still have had as to his course of action. He took •paper and ,envelope from his case and wrote a letter. It was ed - deemed to Mr. Silas Berwick,, at an address in Shaftesbury avenue, and requested Mr. Berwick to call upon the writer at his Strand office at twelve noon -on the following Monday, es there was a matter toward, - in which his knowledge cf criminals and the ways of criminals would prove ver;: useful. CHAPTER XVII, The Owner of the Towers Smells a Rat. The time between tea and the dress- ing bell wan usually spent 'by those staying at the Towers in attending to their corresponeence, enabling thein to avail thentselees of the post basket on the table in the hall, with the contents of which John, tine groom, cycled into Barehester in time to catch the up nail from Birmingham, which passed •through at nine o'clock. The Letter which Robert had written in the early morning he hacl posted with his own hands at the little High street office as they passed through the town on their way to the Mayfield golf links the day before. There was a small ninehole course et Barchestor, but Dariin had not considered it wise to risk the sntbb which might fallow an application to enter the select membership of the Bareo'strian club. The links at Mayfield, after all, ap- pealed far more to•Mr. Baptiste Dar; tin and those who visited the Towers than, as he expressed it the "potty" Barchester course, and the society to be met with in the clubhouse of the larger place, consisting as it did of wel•1-t.o-do Mayfield residents, with a rprinkling of 'acing men, whose bank books carried infinitely more weight than Debrett, spited his tastes admir- ably. And so, much to Robert's relief, the letter 'he had written to Mr. Silas Berwick had escaped the scrutiny of prying eyes that would probably have been its fate had it been placed with tine other correspondence in the hall. He had been in the library since six o'clock, engaged in writing one or two business letters of minor lln- Dinner would not be served until eight o'clock -the solicitor welcomed the short respite from the hateful presence of the scoundrels downstairs. He began to dress leisurely, hoping that, by the time he was ready, one or two of the others would have ar- rived. He felt a little annoyed that he had been forced' to retain the letter addressed by Haverton. Its non -arrival at its destination might set the men -on watch :before his plans had arrived at fruition. He smoothed the envelope out and put it in the pocket of itis dinner -jacket, together with the scrap that now had assumed such importance to his case. His window commanded a view of the entrance -gates, and when Robert was dressed, he pulled up a chair, and, lighting a cigarette, watch- ed for the arrival of the guests. Meanwhile, in Dartin's little study, a dramatic scene might have been witnessed. The master of the house, pale but composed, sat at 'his desk, his hands clasping the arms tif his chair so that the knuckles stood out, little patches of white skin. Before hint, and far less at hhis ease, Haverton paced up and down the square of car- pet. Now and again he would pass his handkerchief with a nervous ges- ture across his forehead, and glance anxieusly at the man in the chair. Dartin ran his tongue over his dry lips, "You saw him, you say, Eddie, de- liberately steal your letter?" ."No,I don't say that, Vivian. I don't think for one moment that he meant 'to take it; he •h•ad it in his hand when John came in, and lie was taken by surprise and slipped it into his pocket. Perhaps there's nothing in it, after all. But I don't like Baxenter; he has a way of looking at one that Makes you want to ask 'him what he means -if one only dared." The speaker crossed over to the sideboard and busied himself with a tan•talus, "Have one, Vivian?" he asked. "Not now. What could he want with your correspondence, anyway? Who was the letter to?" norbance and a long screed to Stella, "Only mye tailor, Vivian; that's New these wore sealed and stanlp,:d what make's it so strange. Heaven end Robert crossed the hall to drop knows what interest it could have for het. As he stretched out, his hand he him! He took it over to the light and ave it little gasp and stead as though compared it with a small square of carved in stone, his eye; fixed and paper he took out of his pocket -book; sttrhne down at an envelope an the top I was watching him from the drawing- cf the little heap. Behind him the roost door. It was the look on his e. meeng ream floor opened a little way, Men shut to again softly, finally stop- riee e few inches ajar, Tembert turned slowly and gave a tc'rching glance to right end left as hn un ntttnnet1 his coat end thole out 1i! pocketcase, His fingers trembled 7t little as lee Slipped off the elastic lend and drew out the scrap of paper teen neons those already in the has - which Cantle had picked up in the room in Mortimer Terrace. Ho took gut the envelope from the basket and walked with it to the light that carve through the open clearway, comparing the hnnelwriting of t'he t=trpe•srniption with that on the piece of paper from his pocketcase. A casual glance had told hint that the caligraphy was similar, and now, as he carefully compared the formation of the letters anti ntimel-nls, conviction grew.untii it became a certainty; Dartin's hs,ndevriting he knew well -Haverton bird been the only other person wee had beau writing in the bhrsry dear afternoon, and Robert len Ffd that his quest was. ended, that he face that frightened me. I wasn't near enough to see what was on the paper! it was nearly square -folded this size." Eddie tore out a leaf from a maga- zine that lay ori the desk and nervous- ly folded it twice. As he held it out, it slipped• from his trembling hands and fluttered to the floor, and Dartin, as his eyes followed it, stifled back a hoarse cry that rose to his lips, For the paper had fallen beneath a chair - and memories flooded in upon the man at the sight. Through a mist he seemed to see the furnishings of that fatal roost in Mortimer Terrace. Just so had he dropped a squere of paper, the ruse that was to lead poor Hubert Baxenter to 'his death: Through the haze t'he little square of white seemed' to strand out with amazing clearness'. In Dar - tin's ears were the sounds that had risen to him as he stood on the gray roof beside the 'huddled' body of his victim -the 'murmur of London life awakening and the crying of the beasts risked :for no further proof than this, in the zoological gardens. For the He knew now, as sure as. thrnrgh it turd second time since he had left the been told elm, mot he ryas ate rho house in the terrace, the mental prc- --•— - - - tore. of it filled his vision. The little study seemed to grow darker., and he silver clock on his desk cut the air solemnly with its tick -tack -mm: - dor -tick -.tack! The sunlight 'that ,,;e;,,(m was flooding the lawns outside the Window darkened, and Dartin breathed again the foul air of the el -nit -up hoose of death. Ile pulled himself together with an effort and reached out his hand for the drink Eddie, had mixed and was holding out for hitt, and which he had but a moment before refused, As he gulped down the liquor Haverton crossed over to the door and turned the key in the lock, "And now, Vivian; he said, as he came back 'f hat is it ail about? Is there anyt1oing:_. ong, really, or is tit our nerves' What is it?" n— Only Dartiii was speaking slow- ly and with meaning- "that we must See td -might what is in Baxenter's pockotbeok, must find out just how mach he knows. Then we will decide lie* to deal wfrig triiiit 05* O, D,IN Atai MPAP4t,IN►iEQ uratic rta*r"`p TpRI}►MCt:CAkAf1A t ISSUE No, a1-'21, —..-and the worst is yet 'to come i .N`eIthi9•i-OY .n "Deal with him -you mean -I'll have no more killing, I-" Dartin turned fiercely upon the trembling man, "'Who spoke of killing, you fool? Leave him to me, Whose nerves are rusty now, eh'? Get upstairs and dress; let 'hint see nothing; he must not guess that we are onto his game. I'll come and see' you in your room before we go down. It'll be all right," But when Eddie had left the room Dartin sank back in hisechair and sbared out over the sunlit'' garden, a prey to the 'gloomiest thoughts. Like all men who ]ave by their wits, he was a mass of satperstition, and he told himself that, it was no accident that the pomp of paper had fallen as it had. That it conveyed a warning he did not for a moment question, and he 'knew that at last a net was closing round him. He had let the paper rest -where it hal fallen, and now he reached down and picked' it up, tearing it savagely into minute pieces, es though the in- nocent page of magazine advertise- ments were in itself a menace. For the first few months after the crime in elortimer Terrace he had been worried by his failure to locate the paper he had used as •a decoy. It contained, as he knew, only a few words and figures, notes of a game he and Haverton had played with a youth whom they had. enticed into a Soho gambling hell -was in fact, part of a record of their division of the Spoil they had taken from their pigeon. He did not for a moment think that there was any/ identifying importance to it, 'but it haunted him, (To 'be continued.) Nation Without a Language. Switzerland has no language of its own. The official languages of Swit- zerlanl are French, Italian, and Ger- man, all three being recognized as the "leather tongue" of the majority of the inhabitants. A majority of the people speak Ger- man, while the others use French and Italian, varying as a rule according to the proximity of the people to each country whose language they speak. Public documents and notices are printed in the French and German languages. In the Swiss national Parliament the members make tlteir speeches either in French or German, the members being as familiar with one language as the other. Statements front the President of Switzerland are furnished to the news- papers -in both languages. A thumb lost through an accident has been replaced by the patient's big tee, through the skill of a French sur- geon. Shocks for Ships. Elven in stormy weather the average height of waves in mid -ocean does not as a rule exceed thirty or forty feet. Sometimes, however, one enormous wave makes its appearance, amidst the rest. Why. this should happen no one can say. All we know is that a mighty mass of water rushes suddenly _to- wards, a ship at the appalling speed of over one hundred miles an hour. ' If the ship can meet such a wave with her bows she will ride over it, though .thousands of tons of water may be swept over her decks. But if the wave is following her and. rushes at her from the stern, she may fail to rise, Many a good ship 'has gone to her doom in this way, These vast mountains, ot water rise sometimes to a height of more than a hundred feet -as high as the t plre of e church. They have been known to extinguish the mast -head lights of sailing ships. Sometimes on a perfectly calm day there will be a sudden troubling of the surface of the sea, and without the slightest warning a wave 160 feet high will appear, England's Eyes of the Sea. Without the lighthouses erected around British coasts, and maintained by the corporation called Trinity House, shops would be in•tar greater danger while on the sea than they are 11011'. These lighthouses warn vessels of sunken rocks and jutting headlands, which are a danger to navigation at night time. The Lizard light, which is the last link'between Enngand and vessels sail- ing in a westerly direction, is visible for twenty miles, and gives warning of many cruel reefs, with which the coast of Cornwall abounds. The Eddystone, which is, perhaps, the best known of the English light- houses, stands on a rock off Plymouth, and has a range ot seventeen and a half miles. The light on Lundy Island carries thirty miles. Next in point of carrying distance is the light on the Needles, those sharp -pointed rocks off the Isle of Wight, This has a range of twenty-seven miles, •- The South Foreland eight is visible for twenty-five miles, and that on Beachy Head twenty-two miles. The sun, if it were a hollow sphere, wcuid hold a minim, globes as large se the earth. Canada's Industrial Centres Revenue in Canada is derived main- ly from the exploitation of natural re- sources with agriculture, the products of the farm, accounting for the largest 'stent in Dominion income. Industrial progress is, however, a necessary corollary to any national growth, and agricultural settlement in Canada has seen manufacturing activity striding side by side with it as towns have sprung up over the breadth of the land to meet the extensive demands of the farmer•, in the older eastern provinces there aro many cities and towns where industry leas conte to be the stain factor in development and which have at assured future of great importance in manufacturing. In the newer western provinces, where towns are periodically springing into being with the invasion of the agricultural- ist, industries are as rapidly brought into existence to meet their multifari- ous wants, Owing to the time taken in compil- ing and publishing. industrial statis- tics, these are at all times consider- ably out of date and the latest avail- able cover only the year 1918, since which time, in • the fever of post-war activity, there has been a consider- able expansion, a feature of which has been the reivarkablo hitroducdlon of so many foreign firths into the hone field. At the end of 1918, there wore 35,797 manufacttn•ing establishments in Canada with a capitalization of $3,- 034,301,915. These gave employment to 677,787 persons who received the suns oe $092,460,808 its salaries and wagos,n The cost of mate•lale used was $1,900,262,314 and the year's pia deafen $3,458,086,975. Scene idea of the repkd!ty oe expansion In Canada may be gleaned ibront ii comparison 0f these figures with them of 1915, at which time the'e were 21,300 estab- lishments; a copitalleation of $1,9114,- 108,212; 5.1.4,881 euployeos; ealnrles atd'wages anteun!itlg to $289,764,503: coat of materials, $$02,138,892: and a maductidt' et $1,407,138,140, A survey of the forty-four principal municipal cities and towns in Canada for the year 1918 shows that there were 12,796 manufacturing establish- ment with a capital investment of $2,- 010,910,944. A total of 514,747 people found employment alt wages and salaries of $460,609,582. These plants used $1,291,751,860 worth et materials and had a production of $2,340,689,- 994. The city of Montreal leads the Dominion, followed fairly closely by Toronto, and then at some little dis- tance by Hamilton, Ontario, and Syd- ney, Nova Scotia, these cities being the only ones over the'hundred million dollars in capitalization, Montreal had $465,401,450 invested and Toronto $39.2,945,178. These tour cities main- tain their respective positions also in regard to production. Four cities of the Dominion have a capitalization in exces of fifty million dollars, Vancouver with 198,434,303; Wenn!peg with $82,709,020; Sault Ste, Mario with $69,234,987; and Niagara Falls with $51,199;456. A total of ten allies have a capitalization between twenty and fifty millions; Lachine and Quebec, in Quebec; Welland, Galt, Peterborough, Brantford, Kitchener, London and Ottawa, in Ontario; and Calgary 10 Alberta, •Seven centres, Sherbrooke, Hull, Halifax, Fort Wil- liam, Port Arthur, Oshawa and Ford, haves industries in which capital be. twoen ton and twenty millions is in- vested. The remainder of the forty- four °entree have an lndustrlai invest- ntett between five and tell million dol- 1a•s, i30111 Mot tr l eToronto i oa ncl have an a,;iitill industrial production of more than five hundred million rlolllars.1 I-Ianilton and Winnipeg have prodnc- tiotts of over a hundred millions. Van- coltver and Sydney dxececl fifty mil. lion dollars in thole output. Seven- teen olt!es exceed "twenty millions and are under fifty militate its 'Production, 1 On:y rote' r, f bio remaining cities elle I ore under the leu nsf'li.ait dotter figure Ile life's 1tttfital Inlustrlt] output Jolly Making. It ds not u ctommon for householders to find difficulty in their jelly malting. Even the most oar'eful and experienced ,h4ueeholdero will fail sometimes when they undertake the mak'in'g of their' annual 'supply of jelly. Fruit juice, in order to make good jelly, must contain both pecbin and acid, Pectin is a substance soluble in hot water-, which, when cooked in the presence of sugar an'd acid end cooled,' gives the right consistonoy 'to jelly. Fruit for jelly nralcitug should! be just rope on slightly under -ripe, Wash and cut the larger fruit into pieces. Put in a saucepan, adding a small quantity of 'water according to the amount of juice in the 'fruit, To the very juicy fruits, such as grapes and currants, add only enough water to prevent burning. Boll slowly until well cooked. Death through a jelly bag shade of double thickness of cheesecloth, un- bleached cotton, or flannel. Measure and find out how 'tnudh 'sugar it is necessary to use for the particular fruit juice. To determine amount of sugar need- ed mix 1 bables'poon of juice with 1 tablespoon of grain'aloahol. If a firm jelly, forms, use equal measures of sugar and juice; if a loose jelly, % sugar, 1 of juice; and if a very loose jelly, 3b sugar and 1 of juke: The juice is allowed to come to a bail before the heated sugar is added The jellying point is' reached when the juice drops as one mass from the side of a spoon, or when two drops. run together and fall from the spoon as one. Pour immediately into jelly glasses. When the jelly is cold, pour over it a thin layer of hot paraffin wax. Ideal fruits for jelly making include the following: Currants, sour apples, crab-apples, and grapes. Raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries may be used in combination with apples. What Other Women Have Learned About Traveling. Same of the most enjoyable and _broadening experiences come when you are exploring cities and towns with which you are unfamiliar. Long trips cyan often be so arranged as to enable you to see the interesting things in the cities and the parts of the country through which you pass, with little or no extra expense. Some- times you do it merely by staying over, even while you are waiting for a train. Almost every large commun- ity has something distinctive about it --an institution, 'an industry, a 'build- ing, a thoroughfare, a place of public recreation, a colony or quarter, a work of art or a natural wonder. 13y plan- ning trips with the idea of observing in mind you can travel 'through beau: tiful scenery by clay and spend the evenings sightseeing in a city through which you may never pass again. Not only is it intensely interesting and instructive, but it is decidedly more restful than sitting or sleeping right through until you reach your destina- tion.• Tired feet have always been the bane of tourists. How many good things travelers miss just because their feet forbid further walking! None but a novice will wear new shoes on a trip; .en experienced traveler knows well tits value in dollars and cents and pleasure of wellbroken shoes with very low heels, broad toes, and arch supports if they are neces- sary. And no matter how tired a traveler may be, it pays to give the feet a salt bath just before going to bed. Chafe them well 'afterwards' to stimulate eirculation, then rub them with cold cream and dust them_ lightly with talcum powder. Foot powder shaken into the shoes is another great help; but even 'if you can do nothing else, change the shoes and stockings once or twice a day, Most persons travel so Tittle that it is well worth their while to make the most of the trips that' they do take. A little notebook may help, in years to come, to recall memories that would otherwise have faded. It may be a common memorandum pad or it may be a more elaborate affair. Divide it into sections with plenty of space for each topic, such as "Funny things I heard and saw," "People I m.et," "The eights we saw," and other things that appeal to you. But do not .be in too great n hurry to enter the items, Some things that seem interesting at the foment do not seem so well worth while the next morning, If you have to travel with a baby, have a harness and bells for it. The harness is a support to the child as well as a help to you, and the bells not only •amuse the child but acquaint others of its presence. Often the jingle of the bells in a crowded street car or elevator will cause other occupants to prove a bit and give the baby more breathing space. • Opera glasses aro a help to adults as well as a source of amusement to -children when traveling. With them you can learn neany interesting things about insects, bird's and plants, and you can sea the numbers on houses, the price tags om articles for sale, and the architoctura•l details of places that without theet wcuid he obscure, In picture galleries . they enable you while sitting at case to read artists' canoe, the nunebers atd titles of pic- tures, and to study the pictures as a whole, A candle is et convenience when you are timee;ing, especially if you ca'ry bottles with you, When you pack, [))rt Use, ,I.i,r.,9 intThr7 'r;srzl A.? e.,rs of ail t,rtco: all miles, acid sub- lect to htive„y no to 500 miles, or ar4't 191„.111of,'Circ se.tneaided. drst„n,e if yotr wren in air n5 / order 00 uurcliusrd, er parehahe ti 11I11t4 nlecltanie of ' your oISC r(110504sotcto1 I(r loos fiton r,e or ast Ince arty tcar to afar' :e e y fns lnritrtrur'Dry largo steak atway6 Nil band . 13reakrv"t i)s®d Cor Illzrkei 44112 ni'eb1'0 3.506., ' .wa•rftiSli light the emeglle and let the tallow drip routed the corks. You will then have the eetis'faeiion of knowing that the bottles will pot leak. It is a good pian •to pack the bottles in shoes; the soles pr feet the glee's, •and in moo of ac, cddent the shoes may retrain most of the contents of the bottles. Moreover, it is easy to find the bottles when you want Aherne Before you s er't on a short journey, eflnd out whether it will be .better to riheck yopr trunk or to send it by ex - prose. Prom the paint of view of eeon.omy of expense as well urs of nem ous strain and delay, it is sometimes ,quite as cheap to send baggage by express as it is to cheek it end pay the high cartage rates at •bath ends of the trip, A7 Boy in the House. A racket, a rattle, a rolhclking shout, Above and Ibplow and round' and' about, A -whistling, a pounding, es hammer- ing -of nails, • A building of houses, the draping of sails, Entreaties for paper, for scissors, for string, For every unfindaible, bothersome thing. A bang at the door, and a dash up the stairs, In the interest of burdensome !business affairs; An elephant hunt for a bit of a mouse Maiees it easy to hear 'there's a boy in the :house. But, oh! if the tops were not scatter - about, And''the house never echoed to racket and rout; If forever the rooms °were all tidy and neat And one need not brush after wee muddy feet, If one laughed out when the morn- ing was red, And with kisses .-went tumbling all tired to bed, What a wearisome, workaday world, don't you . see, For all who love wild Iittle teddies 'twould he; And I'm happy to say, though I shrink like a mouse, From disorder and din -there's a boy in the 'house. Your Ration of Air. We consume a great many things to keep aur bodies going. Of what do we consume the great- est amount? Food? Water? No; air is the thing that we need in tho great- est quantities. "Oh, air," you say; "but air weighs nothing, Doesn't it! Each of us usos more than thirty pounds of air every day. A man may live well on three .pounds of food and four or five pounds of liquid, but the air he breathes weighs four times as much as his food and drink put together. Every time we breathe we draw thirty cubic inches of air into our lungs; supposing that we take fifteen breaths a minute for the twenty-four hours of the day, we use no less titan 648,000 cubic inches of air, which would weigh over thirty pounds. One day's supply of air, for one human be- ing, would be sufficient to' fill 1,125 two -gallon gasoline tins; a year's sup- ply would weigh more than five tons. A small room in which a gas -stove or a fire is lighted soon becomes stuffy because a great deal of air is con- sented in burning anything. Quito a small fire will use up in an hour more than a man breathes in a whole day. A gas or coal fire needs about fifty pounds of air every hour, or more than a ton of air every four days! You can see now why it is so neces- sary to keep windows open. Proper ventilation moans a continuous supply of fresh air, Sitting in a stuffy room means starving the body of the thing which it needs most. 1itU.RSES �Aa 4%1'ntift. ' inospl.tel' Or.beer- ebles, In at'al alien with Bellevue and Atlled' Hospitals. Now York City, °Kers a three yearn' Course of Train - to young women, having the re- qu!red education, and deakrous or he- oomintr nursnn. '1'Itln hospital has adopted the ela1tt-hour system The puplie reactyive e`niforros of the School, exponeeetto atsd 110151 New TONS. i Ii'pr further information apply 90 the Superintendent. Sun Soar Rush' to Arctic Oilfields,. The rush to stake all claims In the Fort Norman, Northwest Territories, ilel'ds, has begun in earnest, and each day now sees the tide of fortune seek - ore sweeping northwara morn Edmon- ton, Fort McMurray, Peso; River Crossing and , outer palms, The marchers also include 5001013 of Oa perienced mineral prospectors bound for the sub -Arctic la quest of gold, Every town, ltantlet, tra•di•ng post and river is squlrtning with activity of men striving desperately to he the first into the Aretio with the breaking of the ice in the Creat Slava Lake. Na since the gold rush of 1897 to the Klondike and Alaskan gold fields has there been such an immense mlgra- 110n. But the Odyssey of the Yukon is be' ing rewritten in the present rush in terms of tnod•ern transportation. The o11 seekers• making their way north travel in modern sleeping cars to the end of the northern railways and thence in comfortable river steamers and motor launches, One Canadian oil company is sending its scouting parties into the territories in all -metal aeroplanes. The moment the traveler leaves the river highway, however, he is face to face with the still unconquered North. Portages must be negotiated with great hardships for those who are transporting heavy oil machinery. They get a taste of the once frightful "Edmonton Trail" to Dawson City, the grimmest joke of the gold -seeking northland, where men died by the scores or went raving mad, and where the survivors who finally struggled through. arrived at the Alaskan gold, fields on to two years late. But men have learned the perils of Um North since then and have taken advantage of the experience. Royal Canadian Mounted Police will nit per- mit persona to leave the "jumping off" places in the North• this time untess they are physically tit, pro; erly equip- ped for a year's :May in the earth country and well supplied with Rinds. The two chief ports of entry into the North are Peace River, about 300 miles ':,rthwest of Ldtnontmt, and Fort 1'. ei••"ray, almost an equal dis- tance true north. "Mind Your Ps and Q's." The expression "mind your is tine Q's,' arose in the printing house, where the small "p" and "11" in Itomat type have always confused the print• er's apprentice on account if their similarity in appearance when the typo is mixed or "pied." For this reason, one of the first in- structions nstructions given to the apprentice who aspired to become a printer was to "mind his "p's and "e's"-or, in other words, not to get then mixed so that they would be interchanged In print- ing. Additional emphasis was placed up- on tate phrase through the custom fn taverns in the Old Land of keeping account of purchases of beer and ale th'r'oughout the week by writing a "P" in the credit book for each pint of liquor sold but not paid for,' end a "Q" for each quart. On Saturday, when men had re-, ceivo,d their•r pay, they would be greet-. ed with the cry, "Mind your P's and Q's" --a gentle method of informing them that no more drinks would be, served until their acc0unte were set'. tied. Married men aremore trusesort111 thein single men, in the ratio cf 6 be 1, probably because of their increased' sense of responsibility, ------------ A Crewless Battleshi p OperateL by Radio A battleship operated witbou'. a man aboard is a hitherto unprecedented realization of the United States Navy Department, The U. S. S. "Iowa" has been equipped with wireless apparatus adequate to its complete centroi from another vessel at a considerable dis- tance. The bombing te,sts of the Army and Navy air fasces afforded the in- centive for the operation of a crew - less battleship, the "Iowa" nuulntuv- ring as an enemy boat -a target for dummy bombs from the air. Radical modifications have been made tit the power plant of the "Iowa" to insure 'its functioning without a man aboard. Tho boilers hays been equipped to consume oil instead of coal as fuel. The propelling machine- ry will function for a considerable length of time without the care of a machinist, Automatic devices are capable of dispensing fuel to the burn- ers and supplying water to the boilers, The matin engines may be started at a slow pace, and the ship forthwith abandoned. Meanwhile an officer, aboard the controlling vessel, has as- sumed direction of the proverbial "ship without a rudder." Tile apparatus for guiding the boat adrift comprises a steedard radio transmitter aboard the controlling ship, a receiving aorlrl on lhe "Iowa" with special wireless receivers, ampli- fiers, relays, etc, These, in turn, colt- vert radio signals into such a -form as to Itlanro tate operation of electrical equipment wlitoll controls the stearin.; guar and throttle of the main engine. 'rho initial wireless signal flashed from the cotttroiiing boat is letetcept- cd by the aerial oh the "Iowa, its re- ceptton being asknowledged by the radio receiver sit.uatecl well below the (lock. 'I he signal is amplified by vaetnmetubo ampllflens which operate 0e:tr00510 cnlit: e r•la .oa' a t'cli stn ys v 0 Y wt whlclt he turn geese impetus to a larger teles. The letter closes an electrical L.renit wlt,ch c1)010les at electrically pncemtllc valve. Whon titin valve opens. cnepressed air is ad- mitte;l to the throttle control of the main engines. Tito subsequent open- ing or this throttle speeds the ship to tis maximum capacity. The large relay referre,l to in the Preceding paragraph likewise givers. momentum to a device described as a commutator -the steering mechanism, The guiding gear embraces a standard steam -engine -driven rudder, the throe tie valve of this engine iie:ttg geared to an electric motor, 'Ina operation of this unit is thus capably effected, the electric motor 111 turn being respells. able for the stein engine driving the rudder to either skorbonrd of port 911 needs num dictate A gypo-compaes, electrically connected to rho control panel of the electric motor on the steering gear, provides a moans al automatic steering. The commutator has been c:tile:l the "mechanical brains" of the manless battleship. The scope of its totivities is quite era varied as are the respotl- sibilities imposed. nacho signals 0'0 re. calved, interpreted, and convoyed tli- rectly to the electric motor controlling the steering engine by the commutat- or, The latter duty Is ]ledged by the' proviso that the order he either star- board or port; otherwise, the gyro. countess is given control, The "Iowa" may bo halted by the transmission ot a signal of tett seconds' dutrattan.. The first absolutely radio -guided battleship in its adaptation as a mov- ing target for bombs, to all practical purposes, will maneenvre as an enemy ship just ea though a crew were aboard, War emelltions will be shun - fated. Shirting front a point say 100 miles at sea off the Virginia capes, tho „lova" wit. stove toward shore, 'stele bombing airplanes, alerting at the some hour, will go on a searching er- rand Having determined. the lecatlot- temn 1 tots 1 t it battleship, resit 3b b Will 0 the Y i, be dropped mercilessly thereel in tiro hope of foat!fyin•g lite ronteltion flint Tulare ware will be waged teem the. riir.