The Seaforth News, 1924-02-28, Page 2For the -.,
Boys and Girls
i 1 He Serves Best.
He serves man well who speake to hi
10 truth
1 Of humanthfr;ailties—sins of age an
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1 Who tells the story of sad, huma
woes
To each and all, as on through lif
{ he goes.
!But let one teach Buell bitterness o
al 1 life
are Or name but ills with which the eartl
is rife,
And trough the breadth of an un
gracious land
Will come abuse from each an
every hand,
THE CARE OF BIRDS. caged birds is the presence of sin
bloat girls enjoy owning birds but, red insects, mites, which, if they
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riot ,many understand how to choose not exterminated, sap the life of
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what feed to give them or how to care. is troubled with mites, remove it fro
leer them when they are sick. I the cage, scour the cage with ker
hen you'buy. a bird:make sone and scald the perches. Air
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that you get one that isyoungand
exterminator in it, end take care
healthy, If it is a canary, unless you fill all the crevices with the powde
Want one that has already learned to In the evening place a piece of cant
sing, •choose a long, slender bird less flannel, with the furry side in, ov •one year old, with smooth, thick .the cage, Mites leave the bird.
feather$ that he close to the body, and night and return to it at daylight; r
rosy, tranaparent. feet, For a singer move the cloth before daylight, ai
choose a male bird that is ten months you will find the insects clinging to
or a year old, and. that has a variety Use the cloth every night, and sea
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He, too, serves well who speaks of
r, love alone;
ons Extrolling virtue in each stick and
ver' state—
at Who, in his ;praise of everything,
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id The ripe revenge offended Nature
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From every side, for such a teacher, l
'it every day, until you have got r
Make the cage comfortable and of .the mites.
keep it clean. Place the perches so If your bird is in good health, i
that the bird has room, Do not use feathers will be smooth and thick a
n painted cage, for your bird is likely will lie' close to its body; its eyes td
• to eat flakes of the paint. Clean the he bright, and it will move brisk'
cage and scald the perches frequently, If it not well, It will sit in a corn
Since birds that have nothing else to of the cage with its feathers puff
occupy their attention will sometimes out, and with dull eyes. Never lot
pullout their own feathers, arrange sick bird lie on the floor of the sag
it few, playthings in the cage to divert a it in
it needs a soft ,nest, Place
f,he bird's attention from itself. A padded box and cover it with a warm
key- on a ring or a clothespin will light cloth.
serve, Parrots are easily amused by
small wooden ladder with a bell owners in the 'health Few caged parrots are kept by the
attached to the top rung; they. like y' cleanly con
leo climb 'up and ring the bell. , ticn that results in bright pruma
When and vivacious monologue. The faille
you have settled your bird is frequently owing to ignorance r
an a sanitary, comfortable 'cage teach ther than to carelessness on the pa
alt not to fear you. The best time to of the pet lover.
gain its confidence is in the morning,' For example, dealers have bee
when you clean the cage and feed the known to tell the purchasers of pa
bird. Talk and whistle to it and ac- rots and cockatoos that birds of tho
eastern it to'seeing your hands and species do not require water either
!Ice close to the cage; but novo gent- drink or for a bath, yet one of ti
If yon trove suddenly or joggle most necessary requirements of P
t > cage, yon will frighten the bird. ! ly's existence is coal fresh water
hen accustom it to being handled.' generous supply. There should be
eh it every morning by removing separate cup for it in the cage, an
L. upper perch, putting one hand the contents should be renewed
i'' de the cage, and following the least twice a day.
.1 with the other hand from the It is true that parrots seldom a
t• Ade. When you have caught it wiling to take plunge baths, but eo
1, it. rest comfortably and give it a kind of bathing is necessary in the
le toss leaf or a slice. of apple. After health, and runny birds enjoy it
y..., have done that a few times, try gentle shower from an atomizer, A
hr;- }ug a piece of lettuce just outside parently it recalls the heavy nig
open door of the cage; the bird dews that in their tropical birthplac
will soon hop to your hand, ! voovide the usual means for the
Next teach it to fly round the house nblutrcns.
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that will give it healthful exercise Regular diet is most important, ell
and a sense of freedom, Open the breakfast should be crackers we
door of the rage every morning; the softened in milk. A half teaspoonftil
bird will readily return to it when it of condensed milk in half a cup o
is tired, water makes about the right mnixtur
Cleanliness and proper diet are es-` Condensed milk is less likely to sou
eential to the health of all caged birds, in the digestive process and is the
Make your bird bathe every day. It fore preferable for birds of the pa
will do it more readily if it is allowed rot family, the digestion of which
lilirato fly round the room. If it still) slow,
seems opposed to taking a dip, place; For the seed cup mix one part of
8 fresh lettuce leaf in the bottom oft hemp with three parts of sunflower
the tub; it will jump in to investigate; seed, and fill the cup anew every d
and probably will bathe willingly. t Avoid giving much hemp or raw mea
ea however, detest bathing. If: for both of them are heating food
you have one that refuses to take a 11
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bath, spray it occasionally with an: out its feathers, which is a habit 0
atomizer, 1 parrots.
Do not feed your bird on seed that! A bit of fruit each morning shoal
has a sharp taste or that is gritty.l be included In the dietary. The grea
Rape seed, which tastes sweet, is the er the variety the better. An ossa
best, ,with an occasional lettuce leaf signal raw carrot will be appreciate
or a slice of apple and plenty of fresh,! too.
cold water. See too that a cattle -fish] During the afternoon the bir
bone is fastened to the cage; the bird should have a dry cracker and a fe
will sharpen its bill on it and prob-= nuts of any sort at hand. A sweo
ably nibble . at it, and the salt taste red pepper is an excellent tonic.
will stimulate the appetite. Scatter the parrot will eat it, a morsel of ra
bird gravel in the cage and renew it onion now and then is an excellen
three times a week. A- bird 's gizzard specific against colds and other dis-
grinds the food that the bird eats, and orders.
the gizzard cannot do its work without! Tropical birds especially must be
gravel. The proper food for canaries carefully protected against draughts
it a mixture of seeds—four parts 01 and sudden, changes in the temper-
Sieily seed, three of German rape, two- ature. Never leave the cage of a Par -
of India millet and one of Turkish rot out of doors at night even in mid
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maw. Watercress, plantain, chick -]summer. Parrots are extremely sus -
weed, a fresh fig or the yolk of a ceptible to bronchial pneumonia. The
hard-boiled egg with cayenne pepper -cage should hang in a room of eve
sprinkled on it are relished by canar-1 temperature, but anything abov
ies and. given from time to time, will seventy degrees is too warm.
make sufficient variety in their diet, I A cuttle-fish bone hung in the ea
Never feed hemp seed to canaries; it' is helpful at molting time as well a
fattens theta, causes them to molt out useful in sharpening the bill.
of season and impairs their singing! Few lovers of pets aro aware that
Dower's, Parrots and macaws need a besides learning to talk a parrot can
stronger. and more varied diet than be taught a number of tricks: to
r•arraries require. Crackers. and bread shake hands, ring a bell, climb a Iad-
-dry or soaked in condensed milk der, kiss its master or mistress, and
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and water in the proportion of one-' so for.
half teaspoonful of milk to half a cup -I In teaching a bird rememberr how
ful of water—are good'for them, and extremely nervous the creature is
to are apples, lettuce, celery tops and with which you have to deal. Unvary-
an occasional lump of sugar. A sweet ing kindness and patience are neees-
red pepper- or an onion is an excellent sary. You will find the parrot much!
took for a parrot. 1 more receptive after breakfast than
Do ad hang the bird sage out of before it. Accustom it first of all tot
doors in warm weather; sudden being released from the cage; then tor'
changes in the temperature may bring perch upon your finger or hand.
upon house birds Colds, bronchitis or Never squeeze a parrot in handling it.
pneumonia. At night cover the cage After each leeeon reward it with a
with: a' light cloth; sleeping birds are piece of some fruit and talk to it In
peculiarly susceptible. to the cold. I a low but cheerful voice,
Birds sometimes suffer from sprains To teach it to climb to your shoal -
or rheumatism. To cure them bathe der pin to your coat or dress some -
end gently rub the affected parts with thing that the parrot likes to eat.
warm water with which a few drops
of arnica have been mixed. a, -
If your bird has inflammation of I
the feet and legs, the probability is 7
that the perches are too small or that
the bird's claws are too Iong. If the
fault is with - the perches, buy new
ones; if it is with the nails, clip them.
Hold the bird In one hand, and with a
lraix of sharp scissors clip outside,
and away • from, the small red vein
that you will see In each claw If you.
hold the claw' against the light., Trim
each nail smooth, If you clip the nail.
Lao close, dip the foot in warm salt Up-to-date,
water, *Melt will' cheek tile, pain anti Bug .. ,.Weil if here lout one or
the bleeding, those indoor lee skating ricks nyeA/loi e& #twists to the health ofl heard about!"
11 "Groot always lilted fat girls, and
he has finally succeeded in getting one
for a wife."-
"Yes, love will Sind a weigh,"
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Rare laurel growths and full-fledged
angel wings.
He is most loyal, both to great and
small,
Who points the bitter and the sweet
in all;
Who, with true reason, measures
earth's. dismay
With balanced weight of pleasures,
glad and gay.
For him both censure and applause;
may ring,
And only years frill meed of justice.
bring;
But Tiuie must mark him truest to
mankind
Who to no virtue and no vice is
blind,
Laura Sheldon,
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Wolf hunting in Russia before the
War was often done with wolves
which were kept. in captivity and re-
leased only to be chased down by
mounted huntsmen and swift hounds.
A Morning Wish.
The sun 1s just rising on the morn-
ing of another day. What can I wish
that this day may bring to me? Notil-
lng that shall make the world or others
Pberer, nothing at the e .pews of
other men; but just those Pew things
which in their. coming do not stop
with me, but touch me rather, as they
pass angather strength:
A few friends who 'tinderstanil- Inc,and yet remain my friends.
A work to do ,which has real value,
without which the world would feel
the • poorer.A return for such work small enough
not to tax unduly any one, who pays,
A mind unafraid to travel, even
though the trail be not blazed.
An understanding heart.
A sight oe the eternal hills and un -
resting sea, and of something beauti-
fel the hand of man has made.A sense of humor and the power to
laugh,
A little leisure with nothing to do.
A few moments of quiet, silent iuedl
tation. The sense .of the presence of
God:
And the patience to wait for the
coming of these things., with the wis•
doth to know them when they conte,-
Canadiati'Teaolter,
The World's Biggest Parks.
Hyde Park, London, is considered
large by most people, although it
shrinks to small proportions . when
compared with' Richmond Park. But
it is on this side of the Atlantic that
one Inds something really big in the
way of parks. Jasper Park, for fu -
stance, between Yellowstone Paso and:
the Saskatchewan River, contains
5,000 square utiles, whilst Yellowstone
Paris, is Wyoming, .runs . to 3,575
square miles.
The large seze of these parks can
be realized when it is stated that the
English Lake District, which some day
may become the National Park of Eng-.
land, does not exceed 500 square miles.
It would be difficult to determine
where the most beautiful National
Park is situated. The Yosemite Park
in California excels all' others in the
height of its trees, the depth of ata
waterfalls, and its 2,000ft: high cliffs;
while the Yellowstone includes a lake
7,78811. above sea -level and four times
as big ea Windermere,
New Zealand's Southern Paris at-
tracts thousands of tourists, for it is
situated amid scenes of wonderful na-
tural beauty. Yet it may be doubted
whether Revelstoke Park in the Roolty
Mountains, dominated by snow-capped
peaks and fast -running rivers, does
not win the prize." •
A. slender acquaintance with the
world must convince every man that
actions, not words, are the true cri-
terion of the attachment of friends;
and that the most liberal professions
of good will are very dar drone being
the surest nmrks of it.—George Wash-
ington. '
e World's Most Famous Family
f Tho man who signs Iris name has been borne by great soldiers and
sailors, scholars and statesmen,
writers, and so on through 'a11 the
varied• fields of man's activities ever
since (end no doubt long before) Sir'
Thomas Snaith, etateshian and Greek
scholar, flourished in Tudor days,
Open any dictionary of biography
and you will see Smiths• by the hun-
dred—from Sir John, a famous six-
teenth century soldier, to Donald
Smith, Empire -founder, who died Lord
Strathcona and Mount Royal; and on
the way you will encounter such'well-
known names as Adam Smith, Sydney
Smith, and the Rt. Hon. W. H. Smith.
And there are many Smiths living
to -day to carry on this great family
tradition; a glance at the pages. of
"Who's Who" . will reveal their names,
with their achievements, by the hun-
dreds. There Is, too, no social circle
that cannot point with pride to its
Smiths.
Throe Smiths, including an ex -Lord
Chancellor, appear on Britain's roll of
peers, which also includes a Smith:
Barry. There : are eight Smith' bar -
Gnats, not counting a Smyth and a
Smythe, and forty aare knights of vari-
ous orders.
"Smith" has every right to be proud of
d his signature; fol' it Is tbat, beyond a
it doubt, of the world'a most distinguish-
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istinguish
_ ed family. Almost every civilized land
d, has its army of follow -Smiths, 1n vari-
ous guises, from the Russian "Slrmith-
d =ski" to the Mexican "Smith," and in
w them all tho name is rightly 'hold In
t honor,
Tf In the British Isles, as in Canada,
ea the Smiths stand alone at the head of
t the clan -lists, Even Jones, Brown and
Robinson must pay their homage to
them.
In England, of every 72 persons you
meet, one writes the name "Smith";
in Scotland, the proportion, strange' to
say, is etill greater -1 to every 70;
while even in Ireland the name takes
fifth place on the list.
Well might the Late Rt. Hon. W. H.
n Smith Bay: "I am proud of my name,
e, for I am a member 01 the greatest
family the world has ever known, not
ge merely in point of numbers, buten its
services to humanity."
Certainly no other family has pro-
duced so many men and women of dis-
tinction. British history for many a
century bristles with the name. It
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By DOROTFIY •! ?IIEL WALSH.
The Sun Room.
The sun room was the fourth had to bo Introduced Into thin Small
room in the group we have de-
scribed In the two articles preceding
this one. We have demonstrated how
a numberofrooms may be tiedto-
gether by lntroduring some' color
common to all. The bride shouldse-
member that this will bring about
thebest resulte' in decorating her
Mime. Nevar Should she select
the furnishing for• each without
taking the others Into considpra-
bolt, .
To -day's illustration shows the
sun room,`'w-hick was situated on.
thewest side of the Itvhig '.room.
Be.9.use warm colors were used In
the• living room' some warm sabre
one which opened off It. Out be-
cause its exposure- was west and it
was restricted In size It was thought
best to' have the decorations neutral
In tone: The dining room offered
the cool': color. but green could' not
be reppetecl too often throughout
the group Therefore the furniture
was made 51110, sand colored cur-
tains with green hands were hung
at the windows and green cushions
Were placed on the .chairs... All four.
rooms described are In relation to
each other. We will give a: detailed
description of their decorations In
our nett week's articles and ex-
plain to the brirh. to be how fur•
ninhings can be made to balance.
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River of a Thousand Secrets
The news that Sir Edward Elgar,
the famous British composer, has sail- t1
ad for the Amazon, galls attention to re
this remarkable wonder river of South p
America. Two important scientific co
expeditions have also been dispatched cu
to investigate the numerous mysteries
of the Amazon, and., judging from re- p
cent discoveries, Sir :Edward should s
find the Inepiratfon for more than one b
symphony, e
Distinctly weird and uncanny are
to floating islands. In the upper
aches of the river portions of land,
erhaps an' acre or two in extent, bo -
me detached. and float away on the
treat: -
Then you notice another unique
henonrenon: the yellow water is:
freaked with patches of green, caused
- the greenish waters of the Tapajos
mptying themselves into the main
ream, A peculiarity of the great
ver is the various colors of its
eters.-. First you sail in jet-black
water, then emerge into an almost
white, then green, and finally a deep
olive hue.
No river in the world contains' such.
mous fish as the Amazon. There is
e man-eating pirautha. Although no
-gar than a herring it does not host=
to to attack anyone venturing into
e water. en Manaos you can find na-
ves minus fingers and, toes which
ve been nipped off by these farina
s creatures, His particular spoke was his basis
Ile the primeval foreste you encount- for steering. Of course, the correct
tree of every shape, size, and des- position of the spoke vaned with Mr-
iption, There are rubber trees, oumstances. It would be in one place
eenhearts, ,cedars, and hundreds o1 if the wind were aft, and another 'if
thers known only to the bushmen,
winging down from the branches,
noting upwards from the earth,
rawling over the ground, are limes,
nes, and creepers, some delicate as
lken threads and othere as thick as
x-Inoh hawsers.
Should you venture into the forest,
u meet surprises at every turn, In-
nocent blades o1 grass which cat like course, he steered by judgment and
a keeu i;azor; beautiful orchids so experience,.
lovely that you are tempted to pick His skill was still more evident iu
one and then suddenly, from hidden headwinds, when the ship was tack -
recesses, .
a horde of ants swarm forth ing. She' had to be kept as near to
and bite. Viciously at the offending the wind as Iiossible. The mechanical
steorman was Inclined either to keep
the ship's head too far away from Um
The Amazon is 4,700 miles long, st
Many of its tributaries have Heyer r1
been explored, while there are huge w
tracts of primevial foreste on its
banks into which no white man has
ever penetrated,
As the explorer and scientist pushes
his ,way up these tributaries and: ven-
ih
tures into the donee forests, he 1s al -lea w
ways stumbling across new enders,
Recently they discovered a new tree tit
which has been given the name of the ti
"Turpentine Tree," because when tap-
ped
ap ped it yields pure turpentine. In a ' ole
like' manner a new variety of the i
"balata" tree has been found, from the ,
latex of which manufacturers are now '�
making soles for boots and etrong
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coverings for electric cables, 01
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Floating Islands.
Sir Edward's destination Is Manaos, eh
the "Paris of the Amazon." This city c
Iles a thousand miles up the river, yet vi
the stream here is two miles wide. et
You enter the river at Para, and then ei
for a hundred miles pass through the
Narrows, water lanes crowded with yo
large and small islands clothed with
tropical vegetation. When darkness
falls the silence is broken only by the
harsh cries of howling monkeys; but
what impresses you most, perhaps, is
the soundless electrical storms Illum-
inating the
lluminating.the dark jungles and streaks
of ellver river,
When you emerge into the main
channel you are in a river as wide as
the English Channel at Dover. It is
so crowded with large and, small Is-
lands, however, that you fail to recog-
nize the immense widthgf the stream.
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THE MAN AT THE
WHEEL .
A cunarcl liner Is now steered across
the Atlantic by means of a gyro pilot
Apparatus _ christened "01d Metal
Mike" --.which automatically keeps the
ship's' head on the course desired.
This is; tlte.latost wonder;of the sea,
and to those who are old sailors and
put in many hours' work at the wheel
In deep water ships t'.a change is
startling and rouses memories of the
struggles of long ago. What would
the skippers of the famous clipper
ships, the Cutty Sark, Thermopylae,
James Baines, etc., have thought of it,
they who passed sleepless nights'. on
the poop to make certain that the men
at the wheel were taking advantage of
every puff of wind to create another
record?
• Later, sailing -ship men thought it a
great revolution to hoist topsail yards
by steam winches instead of by the
combined weight and 'chanty singing
of the crew. By that time steamers
were common; but no ono, in all my
experience at sea, ever suggested `that
mechanical ingenuitty would ultimate-
ly steer a vessel without human aid.
Britons the .Best Helmsmen,
Steering was an art in "wind -Jam-
mers." Some men were extremely
proficient, others hopelessly inept, In
those days the hands on British ships
were a mixture of different nationali-
ties, and ,Britishers generally made
the best helmsmen,
On joining a ship, the first . ques-
tions a real sailorman asked an ap-
prentice were ;"What's the grub like?
Iiow does she steer?" The wheel, •as
big as a man, was on the poop over
the rudder, and• there was always one
apake brasstipped,, which, in a certain
position, -indicated that the rudder
was amidships-straight;fare and aft.
But that did not mean that, with the
spoke so placed, the ship would go
etraight, Each ship, according to its
build and rig, its draught, and the dis-
tribution of cargo In the, holds, seemed
to have her own whims and fancies
about steering, and, with wind and.
sea acting and counteracting on the
forward movement, there was plenty
of scope for fine judgment on the part
of the man at the wheel. `
hence, on every wheel on every sail-
ing -ship of a respectable ago were the
private narks of innumerable sailors
—notches, crosses, diamonds, squaires,.
and so on -surreptitiously Masked out
of the wood with sheath-lcuives,When
a man went to the wheel by day he
would look for his own ntarlr, and by
night would not be comfortable until
he had fingered it.
Changing With 'the Winds.
Wonders of the British
Museum.
The British Museum, the treasure -
house of tha ages, celebrated its one
hundred and sixty-fifth birthday a few
weeks ago.,
Ask any Londoner to direst you to
it, and an seven cases out of ten the
eorreot route to follow will -be immedi-
ately forthcoming; but haw few of
those who can supply the information'
have ever themselves passed the great
stone monoliths, brought from fat' -
the
win were abs
d w am, After a helms-
man, who knew kis job, had become
acquainted with the tricks of a ship,
he would•, on approaching the 'wheel,
note the exact direction of the wind
and reckon where his marked spoke
should be. "Unlike the pian who mere-
ly gave the ship so. much helm, one
Way or the other, to bring her to her
hand.
Sometimes you encounter a huge
antbear, engrossed In tearing a dead wind or too close, losing distanco'in
tree to bits, lopping up swarming ants the one case and making ledway in
with . his yard -long -tongue. Fierce the other.
Jaguars, ocolets, monkeys, and a host The real sailor took a special pride
of otter creatures abound In this won- In following a middle course, running
derail world. as
close as could be to the wind with-
out a shiver of the sails, By wetting
handsome sum, some excavators : of
ancestors -entitle, perfectly 'willing to
prove descent rond_royalty,
Many vieltore have mat, Cupid and
their fate in the British Mn mita. A
chance word, a directing flnger;`a
his cheek, or by watching the chang-
ing ripples on the sea, he could some•
times sense an alteration of ten or
fifteen degrees in the direction of the.
wond, and be ready for it. After a few
weeks out of port the officers, without
stray glance—and friendship has be.scoking at the man, could tell who was
gun] Love'and marriage have follow- tithe wheel by the way the sails were
ad, dratireng, so much 'opportunity was -
But wandering eyes need guidance there `Lqr dndivlduality in the art of
even in the British Museum. A one- steering,
time exhibit is now no longer ,exposed T .,Wheel's "Kick."
to view, It was an Egyptian mummy In heavy:wl ether, steering was hart
commonly credited with the power of In
physically:' t• More that once 1110
edacting the "evil eye" t all who etahe 'writer has been flung right over the
b their glance to rest r it. The wheel, owing to the "klok" given to it
mbar' of tragedies it is reputed to by a heavy sea smashli on to the
ve inspired makes t still -a subject rudder. If a, man lifted h,'5 -,foot o8•
griiesomo interest, the brake to move the wheel, iti `lvteolti
-a~ sometimes whip round at'a tremenel
100 -Mie -An -Hour Birds. •nus pace.: Consequently,t
One hundred runes an hour is oath• tackles had, ti«.
Eo be attached to the' steering -gear: '"4
g to seen'eetirds! They can keep it During cyclaues, or exceptionally
all day! Indeed, the vulture can, strong gales, two m -en were constantly
d does, do this speed. So do some at the wheel. -
le of ducks and greenwings• When Ships were hove to under
Theae are all large. birds,: but' the starm sake some captaine would have
feats ,swallow makes •ninety miles the wheel lashed and seed' the ''men be -
hour when migrating, and can keep low, But that was seldom done, al-
feats
l
-op for king stretches, The eagle, though may attempt to steer' with the
ceedingly powerful but rather.a Pon- ship Flint WY' making leeway was of 111•
del
Slyer,. does about fifty. tie use. "Wearing" a ship was always
Carrico' pigeons can cover long dis- attender] with discomfort and possible
utee at an average of sixty -hilae an danger,
u• r, and slur •aontmon crow, who Let us eay the wind was worth, and
ms to lounge across the sky ata the ship, heading E.N.E, bad to be
y pace, really does about twenty brought round 10:W Y.W. The Belot
e miles an haler, had to be
put over, and her head
brought round to the south. She fell
off before the wind and got into the
trough of the sea.
-9L, the weary,. dreacry hour's seine
of us spent In steering silips and -Halt
!ng sailors of ourselves! And now
seience steers a lirerr across the At-
hamat mimic
famed Easter` Island, which stand at qw
the entrance?
There areha
people, however, who ha
spend their lives within its wails. of
They are engaged on never-ending
Quests among the ntitlions of books in
the Library. That silent Library. with
its rows of polished desks and forty. In
seven miles of tome -filled shelves is,
at first sight, a depressing place. Yet nn
wonderful romances that have thrilled kine
theworldhave bean hatched there. Hundreds of those,wbo annually de
pore painstakingly over its volumes
are engaged in obtaining the loeal. is
color for their stories, which May ex
range from "Iourpeuny shockers"' to
full-length novels. de
In the museum, tao, may be -round to
professional "searchers". who delve ho
among documents and books far clues
to family treasures—mythical tree- see
sures, for the most part. One man, las
now : decrepit and grey-haired, :has'
been diligently searching' for
years, for evidence to 'prove: :his right
to,laade possessed by another.
Then there are other## who, do a ra-
ngier trade la 'supplying genealogical
trees to Americans anxious to boast -
a coat -Of -arms. So long,lys the Amerf=
cans aro Wealthy tlt'ey need nevem
covet thin to vain! Indeed, for a
•
liiv An ordinary pig-
eon will do about the same.
Tho wild goose does one hundred
for hours on mita aand our friend the
tiny sparrow. *does about. twenty Fin,
hour, although it can fly at this rate
for very short periods.
Eye service that depends for fidelity
upon the.employer's presence is mere-
ly 'stealing, .
lentis Without the exerotse:.of 050