The Clinton News Record, 1931-08-13, Page 6UND T
CORNER!
He had no plans and no
prospects—but Cupid
didn't .Garel
By Rowan Glen ,
In the hip -pocket of Barry North's
trousers ther'o.,.wae a aum of money
amounting to fourteen shillings .and.
itvenenco. In- a pocket of his old tweed
jacket there were four' -one -pound
notes. - Strapped on his broad batik
was a rucksack oontaining' all his
worldly iposseasions, save the ,clothes
and shoes which ho wore:
As he walked along a road in North
Buckinghamshire he was neither ban-
ns nor sad. He told himself that noth-
ing inttered very much; that, though
he was fed -up with things, he had
much for which to be thankful. Por
instance, he was healthy, and • only
twenty-seven, and he had no relatives'.
to:hother about, The son was'shining,.
and several fellow -tramps to whom he
had "spoken were. worse off than he.
And then, a few miles outside the
market town of Worley, he came on
a young gentleman who was to have
a tremendous influence on his future.
That young gentleman's name was
Billy Noakes; 'he was fourteen years
of age, shabbily dressed, and in very
obis distress:
Asn matter of fact, he was sitting
by ,the roadside, crying. And when a
boy of fourteen cries there is very real
anguish in his heart. When you are a
bit younger or older it does not matter
so much.
"Hallo, son!" Barry started, as he
halted and leaned on the ash stick he
had bought years earlier in France.
"Got the jumps? Well, tell me about
It?"
At first the boy would not do that.
Then he got the flavour of kis com-
panion's personality, and his fears
went.
"I—I've run away from home," he
said. .
'Have you?" said Barry. "That's
queer! It's exactly wbat I've done.
Only my home wasn't really a home.
It was a boardinghouse in London. I
ryas sorry to leave it, but a boarding.
house isn't a home. Sometimes I
dream about getting a home. It doesn't
look like that now. Look here, give
me your story and 1'11 give you mine.
That's fair! We may be able to help
each other. To begin with, what's
your name?"
When ,perhaps live minutes bad
passed, Barry said: `
"Right) Now we knoW"where we
are! 'You lived with an uncle and aunt
in a boarding-house, not unlike mine,
but cheaper. You loathed the uncle
and aunt and decided to make a get-
away. I understand! I was fourteen
once!
"My position is this—I'm a motoring
engineer who hasn't had a Job for
about eighteen months. That's pretty
tough, Billy. l've been i11, too. That
was what made the toughness. My
Arm couldn't keep me. So what am I
doing? I'm going on and on,"
By Oda time he was a hero to the
boy, even though he pointed out that
the police would probably be after any
disappearing youngster.
"But don't you worry, Billy!" bo
said. "Let's think the pollee will not
be after you.. It's thoughts that count,
you know."
G'ardenloyd tractors or machine-gun carriers similar to that shown
here' win bo distributed among the regular Canadian militia forces
after the\lmanoeuvrea at Petawawa Camp on August 13. The ma-
chine-gun is mounted where the small doors are open In front. The
one above fa to 'be taken around the country, for inspection,
he shared. with Billy, he said to him- ter,!' Barry said. "You know nothing
self: about me, and yet
="
"Beat thing you can doia to 'take "You haven't seen a newspaper, for
to the road again to -morrow. That nearly a week," she said. "I saw one
girl might be liable to give you heart four days ago. Billy's photo was in
trouble." it! But I wasn't going to give hint or•
* * you away. I loved you both,'
On the evening of his third day in Barry put a hand on one of hers.
Credways, Barry, who had been loung- "We're going round the corner!" he
ing in the inn garden, eaw Nurse Sin- said.—"Answers."
°lair come down the path. It was a
wretched moment for him, because he
had been told that the landlord was
definitely better and would no longer
need her services. That meant a good-
bye. .y
They met at the gate; and, meeting,
paused eye to eye,
"Well?" Barry started.
"Well?" the girl repeated.
"It looks as though this was to be
the finish of our friendship—if you'll
forgive my claiming friendship after
only three days. You won't be coming
back to the Soldiers' Arms for awhile
and, anyway, I've got to push off with
Billy in the morning. Will you for-
give me if I say something?"
She glanced at her neat wrist -watch.
"I'll forgive you anything if you
don't keep me now.- A'phone message
has come from Mr. Rankin, who's the
Big Man hereabouts—the : motor mag-
nate, you know. There's nothing much
wrong with him, but because I helped
to nurse him once he thinks I'm won-
derful. So----"
"A moment," he begged. "If I'm
never to see you again let me say
that seeing you, and tallying to you,
has meant—well, it's meant a dickens
of a lot to me. I'm sorry! I didn't
mean to put ?le tbing that way, But
when I get round my corner I'm com-
ing back to Credways—to try to ilud
you and say what I can't say USW.
That's honest,"
The slight color which had been in
her cheeks increased. Then:
"Honest?" she repeated. "Isn't that
a gaeer $Mord for you to use, Mr.
North? (lave you been honestein pre-
tending that Billy Noakes and you
were uncle and nephew, out on a bik-
ing expedition? Don't you realize the
risks you've both been running?"
He stared at her.
"}low the—I mean, how did you got
onto this?" he asked. "Billy hasn't
been yapping, bas be?"
She nodded.
"Yes; but l'd hate yon 1f you blamed
him, He told about everything only
because he and I Have got rather pally
—and because he thinks such a tre-
mendous lot of you, I do, too. A man
who will help someone else like that
must be a very nice man, But you
should have trusted me."
"It wasn't that I didn't trust You,"
he vowed. "But what hope had I?"
"About what?" •
"About you?"
She was going to answer hien when
Master Billy Noakes, who had taken
a bigger band in things than 118 real-
ized till much later on, came from the
inn and shouted:
"Mr. Rankin has 'phoned for you
again!„
"Right, • Billy!" the girl returned,
"I'm just off."
To Barry North she said:
"You haven't been very explicit,
have you? But I think 1'11 be in Cred-
ways for some time. If you really
mean to come back, Mr. North, then
come back before I leave."
"You mean—" —
"Nothing. • There'e this, though—
what are you going to do about Billy?
You can't have him tagging on to you
all your life."
"I'd thought of that," he admitted,
"He's a decent kid, and I'm going to
find out about that uncle and aunt of
his, and get an ollioial right to give
him a start in something. The only
trouble is saying good-bye to you,"
"Let's say the good-bye in the morn-
ing?' she suggested: "Morning is a
saner time than evening. But don't
think I'm saying au revoir to you be-
cause, at the moment, you're poor, I'm
not like that."
* *
On the evening of the third day of
their partnered pilgrimage, Barry and
NO put up for the night at an inn
called the Soldiers' Arms, In the vil-
lage of Gyredways. They were not very
welcome there, for it happened that
the landlord was abed with a fancied
illness of such importance to himself
that a doctor and a nurse from the so-
eatled cottage hospital had been called
in.
But, somehow or other, Barry man-
aged things; and when be met the
nurse, whose name he had discovered
from the landlord's wife, he said:
"It's like this, Nurse Sinclair—if you
think that my—my nephew and I
should clear out, we'll do so. What do
you say, Billy?"
B111y said:
"I say the same as you, But I'd love
to stay for a bit,"
The nurse, who -was young and pret-
ty, looked at them both.
"Very well," she remarked. "Sofar
as I'm concerned, yon may stay. But
don't put Mrs. Warren,—that's my pa-
tient's wife—to any troilble. She has
enough of it already."
Barry and Bi1Iy behaved very well;
lived cheaply in comparative comfort
and assured themselves and each other
that all was well. Privately, each had
disturbing thoughts, and the man told
himself he had been a fool and must
not let the folly expand.
"I ]rope 111 be seeing you again to-
morrow, Miss Sinclair," be said to the
nurse -hon she was about to leave the
Ina.
"Yon shouldn't hope that," she re-
turned, but smiled while she *Spoke.
"11 I come hack, it will bo. because Mra.
Warren thinks he .needs mo, and I
want him to think he doesn't. You
moan to be hole for some time?"
Barry'shruggea his shoulders.
"A day or two, perhaps," he said.
'I'm not sure. But I'm glad I took
a chance on the Soldiers' Arms. You
are the first. reelly"hnman being I've
'met in what seems years. .You Won't
understand that—but it's true!.- Billy
and I are planless hikers. . All we
• know le, we're in search of health and
3iappineee, and someone has said that
happiness is waiting round the cor-
ner,"
"Isn't `round the corner' always Pet
t E Yllr ue, �4, NeI'tlt?„
"I yon '� o$v. 1 on t tTrinic rue say-
ing was meant to be taken that way.
I think It was a sort of cheer -up ale-
Ban, moaning we'd only to push on a
little farther, and there, round the
corner, the road got easy and there
;were no shadows -on it."
1•Ie could not have told why he
What New York
lis Wearing
BY ANNLBRLLE WORT}IINGTON
Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur-
nished With Every Pattern
as well as smart
wear.
It's an economical ehoieet It am
bo worn all through the tall,
It's slimly straight and becoming,
A flounce that provides attractive
flare to the skirt is cleverly designed
to keep the silhouette slender. It.
shows a sharp downward curved line pianos anywhere you wish to go, pro- trapper, all along the southern fringe
from just below the right hip, It eon- vided a fuel cache is in the neighbor- of the now frontier from British Co-
oentrates its fulness ai either` side inhead. They are used to forced land- lumbia to Labrador. They explain
youthful kilted plaits. { ings when the thermometer registers why the Hudson's Bay Company has
Style No. 2633' may be had in sizes 10 below zero; they know how to been forced to push its posts further
14, 16, 18, 20 years, 38, 38 and 40 warm their engines under difficulties, and further to the north, even to the
inches bust.' and to fly by instinct and by their Arctic islands. Men dig for coal a
Linen, shantung, silk pique and silk !knowledge et landmarks over a des°- short distance from the place 'whore
shirting are smartly appropriate. tate country. Hudson died, and drill for oil almost
Size 10 requires 3 yards 39 -inch ma- Man. of the prospectors now are at the Arctic Circle. Tile trappers
terial with % yard of 39 -inch con- Young engineers or geologists, working are turning from the trap line to the
trastisting,on salary for large companies, hopping fur farm, and there is talk of a fishing
IiOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.' by piano from sflot to spot where industry in Hudson Bay as -largo as
photographs have shown interesting that of the North Sea. It may bo
Write your name and address plain- formations. Ono of Lire moot import. years before some of the dreams aro
realized, but the skeptic is shouted.
down by tile optimist of the north,
who ali<oady has deeds for proof,
The man who is'always celebrating
will never be celebrated,
for
Canada Drives Back
The Last Frontier
By RuaseliOwen, in the New York
Timor Magazine
Canada's northern frontier—the last
'frontier in North America—has moved
in the last 'two years 1000 miles near-
er the pole, It rests now en the fringe
Of those Arctic ialancla which used to
bo 80 lnacc'eesible, so far from civiliza-
tion, that the fate of Pranklin's expe-
dition among them is still a. mystery.
The north country, once thought it
land, of ice and snow, valueless except
to the trapper, has become the happy
shunting ground of ' prospectors; to
parte of it, honiosteadera are turning;
planes fly over it any time of the year,
its barriers are down -:to stay.
Mining, the hope of.anineral wealth,
has been the greatestincentive to this
northern movement. The rich die=
coveries of goldand copper a few
years ago in conjunction with the ad-
vent ot the airplane as a reasonably
safe Meana of transportation, gave a
tremendous impetus to northern min-
eral exploration. Planes flew all over
the north country. It le known that
they were disappointed in 'their'- first
inspections just west of Hudson Bay,
but whatthey have.found further west
they have kept pretty much to them.
selves. It is significant, however, that
a company has been formed to build
a railroad line from Churchill on Hud-
son Bay' west to 'Lake Athabaska,
where there are rich mineral deposits.
The airplane is the advance 'agent
of the railroad, and Canada, always
noted for pushing her railroad' In ad-
vance of development work, is gamb-
ling heavily on what the airplane will
find. And side by side with this far-
flung exploration for minerals there
exists thesteady advance of settle-
ment.
It is the advance of a machine age,
using all the tools at its command to
conquer swiftly a country hitherto in-
accessible. If it had not been for the
development of the air-cooled motor
these northern flights would have been
,impossible, and without the stimulus
of finding ore, and even coal, iron and
oil, it is doubtful if the railroads would
bo willing to spend L,Ige sums on pion-
eer buildiug. As it is, they aro large-
ly subsidized by the government, in
many cases government-owned and
operated.
The obstacles which they have faced
at times have been tremendous. At
first glance much of Northern Canada
seems an ideal country over which to
build a railroad. South of the bay it
is almost flat, rising slowly toward the
height of land, and then eloping gent-
ly down to the north. Its rivers are
broad and filled with smashing drives
of lee in the Spring, but they can be
bridged. The timber gets thinner and
shorter as one travels north and dm
ally disappears in the tundra. Fur -
titer west, of course, there are mown•
tains and broad valleys,but where
most ot the railroad extension has
been taking place the country is ap-
parently ideal. Canada, however, is
cursed with a surface known as MSS -
keg. It exists in large patches, al-
most everywhere In the North. It is
swampy, a. mushy masa of decayed
vegetation, the bane of all railroad
builders. Year after year the lines
take on a snake -like or rollercoaster
appearance and have to be reballasted.
Storms also make railroad 'work often
as clangorous as exploring.
The men who aro doing this preen-
caI exploration and construction are
as different from the old-time pioneers
—prospectors and trappers—aa could
bo imagined, The pilots aro young, ar-
dent adventurer's, who will take their
mid -summer
Destroyer --,Robot
The U. S. Stoddert, a radio -controlled destroyer, went !trough
manoeuvres without a man on board, off southern California coast
recently.
bridge or furnish water for power.
The hydro -electric planta stye built
to fill a real need,` but the 'railroads
are built largely on hope, and the
fever of mining. When one goes out
from The Paa to PIM along an 80,.
mile trip which taken more than MFG
hours by train, it is possible to real-
ize r.t�h�e lure of mining, the hope of
rich reward which has made these
towns spring mushroomlike in the
wilderness. In The Poe, which only
two years ago Was a wilderness town
coining money and tilled with labor-
era, engineers and prospectors, they
now play Badminton and wear dinner
jackets to dances, but Islip Pion is a
real mining town. The main street is
built on muskeg, and is humpy in Win-
ter and knee-deep in inud in the
Spring, The houses and stores have
dummy fronts run up to make them
seem larger in the, time-honored fron-
tier manner.
Prospectors have found more than
minerals in these areas of the once
"barren" North, In the Peace River
district and the Lake St, John coun-
try, areas wbich for years were
thought unsuitable are being settled
by farmers.
A map of the resources of this north-
ern country is dotted with markings
of copper and gold, lead and zine, sil-
ver, bituminous sands and oil, coal
and iron. Ore from the Coppermine
on the Arctic Circle is no longer an
impossibility. And between all these
points, extending almost to the mouth
of the Mackenzie River on the Arctic
Sea, lies the limitless forest, Year
after year the paper mills have been
growing in number and size, and re-
forestation is being done to conserve
their supply. In the Lake St, John
country there aro enormous paper
mills, and there also a little town, Ar -
Vida, has been built around a mill
which will tarn bauxite ore from
South America into aluminum, a mill
made possible by water power,
A little further west in Ontario the
town of Napuslyasing has been con-
structed as a unit, a modern, comfort-
able town, with all the household com-
forts and many of the entertaininents
of much larger cities in the south. It
has its moving pictures, its community
house, Badminton courts, hockey and
curling rinits. This town was erected
in a region formerly so desolate that
during the war it was used as an in-
ternment °anlp because the prisoners
could not possibly make their way out,
A paper mill was built and the care-
fully planned town grow around It;
a railroad was constructed over the
muskeg to Smoky Palls and 'a hydro-
electric power house built to supply
the mill.
There aro hundreds of such centers
of activity in regions which used to
be beyond the reach of all but the
:Clovelly
By DONALD BAIN
.The boats aremoored; the nets
are spread to dry;
Tho patient, panniered donkeys, pat
-
+ ter by, •
.
As all day long they beat the cob -
bre -stones
To music of hlgh.souading zy10-
phones.
Seen from below, the bowies hang
in air, e r
Bowered in verdure where the tech-
alas flare
A wealth of color, oyetywhere dis-
played,
On terrace, balcony and balustrade.
ly, giving number and size of such
patterns es you want, Endow 20c in
'stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully"' for each number, and
oddness your order to Wilson Pattern
Service, 78 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
* 8 *
Before Barry could find any reply to
the vague remark, Nurse Sinclair had
gone from the garden,
But she returned to the Soldiers'
Arms about nine o'clock to see,not
Noe patient, Mr. Warren, but Mr. Barry
North.
When she did see him, 4115 gripped
at the lapels of b,),e jacket and said:
"Are you a man Who never speaks
out? Don't you ever advertise the
kind or the good things you do? Here
have I been up to Mr. Rankin—only
to discover that you did a good turn
to.l)iin this afternoon."
"To Mr. Rankin? ' Who is Mr. Ran
kin?"
"Oh, geodnoss`gracious mel Don't
you remember my telling you I was
called to see him? And you helped
him to-day—made it possible for him
to, get to a Meeting he had to get to,
Ile wee driving bis own car, and had
a Ar01tItdsiv_n1 You came along and
helper! him, -
"He told me all about it, and I des-
cribed you. I did more than that, I
told him eomething of what Billy had
told me, There's a big job waiting
for you right away with Mr, Rankin.,
Barry. You needn't -leave Crodwaye
for a day or two, And you can look
spoke so. Spine absurd but quite do after Billy for a bit, if he's any good
iightfui-thing seemed to have happen- he'll be able to look after himself later
ed. to bit. Ronin later, when he wao ea—with Mr. Rankin."
drifting to aloep 11t the 1003 yvh1Cli ."you Meet. thick me an awful rot -
ant pioneers of this new North Is the
construction engineer, the man build-
ing the railroads and hydro-electrie
plants, a man who does not know when
he is licked, who will divert or dam
a wide, lee -laden -rare= to build his
The iihle-washed cottages, all spot -
lose white, •
The climbing rose and ivy -vine in.
site
To spread themselves and wave and
cling to throw
Their branches over s111 and portico,
The stone -stepped streets, for those
who would aspire,
Lead up, and up, and up and ever
higher,
Like ladders planted in a 0uaint de -
To reach this little, lovely earthly
Paradise.
Salt on their lips and sea -mist in
their hair,
The men are stordy and tbo women
fair;
Their ways are simple and their lives
are free,
The cliffs their home; their harvest
field the sea.
DIFFICULT DECISIONS - -
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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To Be' Let at Less Than $1 a)
Week to Relieve
Unemployment
London: -A Bill' introduced in..the!
House of Commons by Right }ion. Ar-
thur Greenwood, Minister of health,
provldee • for construction of 40,000
houses in rural England, renting for
joss than $1 a, week, ns part of a great
scheme to aid farm laborers andto •
relieve unemployment.
The bill has not yet completed its
passage through. the nonce. - it 'pro.
vides for as advance of 010,000,001
from the Government to rural muni-
cipalities. The State expects, bow
ever, to gain $26,000,000 by the re-
moval of 100,000 men from the dole
fund Otto, for gpnstruction_ of the
houses is expected to employ 100,000 •
men directly and indirectly.
The average, weekly rent of the
houses would he 76 cents or $1.12, in-
cluding local taxes,
Modern Dress Has Added
Years to Woman's Life
Chicago, 111.—Bobbed hair, lighter
clothing and now freedom have ad-
ded years to modern woman's life,
in the' opinion ot Dr. A. '1'. Boddoe
of .Dallas, Texas.
Speaking before the International
Convention et the Women's Benefit
Asaoeiatiou, attended by 11,000 de..
legates, Dr. Beddoe said woman's
average death age Is now 55, high-
er than loan's.
"The principal reason for the ex-
tension of the life span," he said, "Is
woman's now freedom. They have
now hope, new zest in life. Bob-
bed hair did away with the encum
brance of long locks and is health-
fut.
ealthfur. Lighter clothes have been Of
inestimable value as a health agent,"
Foolish Swimming
Border Catlett Star (Ind.): Drowning
tragedies, it seems, have little exemp-
lary effect on young swimmers. Wit-
ness the foolhardy adventure of three
local boys who sot out -Tuesday for
a one -mile awim down the Detroit
River, just for the fun of the thing.
Bast' Windsor police and lifeguards
are to be congratulated for halting the
foolish venture. Long distance swim-
ming races should be only for those
who have undoubted qualifications for
such achievements. Boys in their
'teens, generally speaking, cannot. in-
duige in each contest with safety. Cer-
tainly they go into danger when they
set out la a long race without attend-
ing boats to pick them up should they
get lute difileulttbs,`
Why?
Why 1s 1t when I try to get
Tho baby off to sleep,
While grate and mummy out the back,
Off to the pieturee creep,
That noises seem to spring around?
The little boy next door
Will start to play the cornet then,
or slam the garden door!
is
Ham and Diamonds
The lunch counter man goes to work
for Tiffany. -
First Customer—"I would like a
lady's wrist -watch."
Salesman (bellowing lustily)—"Ona
Waterbury on a handcuff, female!"
Second Customer—"May I see some
matched pearl necklaces, please?"
Salesman—"I've got just what you
want." (Bellowing.) "fifty oyster tie
more on a rope, line 'em up! Who's
next?"
Third Customer—"I want a ring—
engagement ring—platinum with a dia•
mond about two karate."
Salesman—"Corning up!" (Bellow-
ing. "One tin shackle with a glass
eye—two vegetables! Next!
Young Mother—"I want some Jewel-
ed safety -pins for — for — a young
baby's—er—garments, you know.'
Salesman — "Well— er—I'm sorry,
madam, but you'll have to go to some
one else. I'm new here,"—Life.
Large Orders Placed
For Ontario Peaches
Hamilton. --Orders for some 20 car,.
loads at boxed peaches for Western
the offices of the Ontario Growers'
Canada have.; been received through
Market Council, according to Charles
W. Bauer, secretar'y,_of the. organiza-
tion,
rganizetion,
The council, representing all the
fruit and vegetable growers in the pro -
"Ince, is making a.concentrated effort
to recover Ontario a market for fruits,
and vegetables in Western Penedo.
The commercial representative of
the Ontario Growers' .Market Council&
VMS sent west seine weeks ago to
promote and develop the western max-'
kets for Ontario fruit.` Already as a
1e81112 of his efforts, orders have been'
received for some 20 carloads of boxed
peaches.
Avoid "Herd Instinct,"
Or else two tbun'ring lorries pass!
Or some fool passerby-
Steps
asserbySteps off the kerb so that a tram
Must with its ru180 comply
And clang Its loud, disturbing note?
While Jenkins in the flat above
Will drop lois hefty boot! , '•
•
And even cats and dogs and birds,
All seem to do their best,
To add their mew, or baric,, or chirp
To stop the baby's rest!
12 really is a funny thing
How dumb the whole place seems,
Till Daddy tries to coax the kid
Off to the !cold of dreams!
—A, M. E. in "Anowors,"
Manchester' Holds
Clean -Up Camp aigo
°Manchester, 10ng, -- Nearly 600
1110:0 rocepta0les for junk have been
placed in the streets of Manchester
dnrillg the last 12 months in a big
effort to mnlye citizens more tidy,
and the total panther is now nearly
1000.
Tho improvement in the streets,
of wlhicil title is evidence, is regard-
ed es satisfactory, but little improve-
ment is noticeable in the parks, The
authorities are ltoldhrg in reserve us
n last rosoaraa against untidy citi-
zens' tiro power of prosecuting of-
fondere who Mayo litter in the parks.
Pelson In Poison ivy Not Known
77110 toxic properties of poison ivy
Ile in an oilysubetance present in all
parte of the plant, Thie. substance has
not boon isolated with certainty in any and Indianapolis, a postcard posted
chemical experiments so far per- in Natal reeenfiytravelled round the
formed, ! world• ata cost of 21e.
Says Chief Scout
Adelaide, S. Aust.-"Reacling, writ•
ing and arithmetic aro important,
but they do not matter so mucic as
character," declared Lord Baden-
Powell, Chief Scout, at a luncheon
tendered him' here by the Common-
wealth Club recently writes a cones.
Pendent of the Christian Science
Monitor. Character ° building, he
said, is the keynote of the Scout
movement.
Many of the boys, he went on,
were learning too much of the "herd
instinct" and were having every
thing done for them. They did
what was fashionable and therefore
began to lose initiative, resourceful-
ness and courage.
Shrinkage in Wood
The fact that wood sllrinke in vol•
um as it loses moisture, and swells
as it plaits up moisture, Is responsible
for most of the difRcultios experienced
in the manufacture and use of wood.
Much can be done through careful
seasoning and conditioning treatments
to control this so-called "working" of
wood, Among the activities of the
Forest Products Laboratories of the
Department of the Interior at Ottawa
is the conduct of reseayoh In this con-
nection and the distribution of infor-
mation in this regard to lumber pro.
ducers and users. .
Bronze Age Houses Restored
Constance,—A group of five hence,
reproductions of the pile dwellings
dating' ack to the Bronze Age (about
1100 B.C.) has been completed here:
The dwellings were reconstructed with
remains of the originals which were
found here serving as models. At
group of reproductions of houses lrom
the late,ce Age already 26 standing
here.
Ohio Fanners to Pay
Subscriptions In Wheat
Ottawa, Ohio. --The Lima Morning
Star at Lima, Ohio, has advised farm-
ors
armors in Putnam County that hereafter
they may pay for subscriptions with
wheat at the rate of 69 cents a bushel,
somewhat higher than the present
market. .
The paper advised its readers that
six bushels of the grain sent to mill
at Lima will immediately start the
paper to them. Wheat sells for 40 to
42 cents a buslieI here.
The Magnetic Compass
The magnetic Compass has been in
common use for more than 700 years
and it is more widely used today than
ever before. On the seas, under the
seoe, on, above, and under the earth
it is used for *!ding direction, It is
necessary to the sailor afloat or in a
submarine to the surveyoi`.„and .:ex-
plorer on land; to the airman who flies
overhead and: to the miner wlip'tjur-
rows below in deep pits.
Bearing -addressee in Sydney, .,
Singapore,- •141anolhestor, Saskatoon,
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