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An Uncommon Mineral and its Varied Uses
Aevantasges and Dra:whacks of the Species of Clay Called
Bentonite in Roadwork and in Industrial Operations..
A no t -metallic mineral which pro ponies of bentonite forme the counitY
muses to be of considerable„ import-
enee when it has been further 'investi-
gated is the clay known as bentonite.
During the past season the Mines
„ Cranoh of the Department of Mines
'has had Mr, H. S, Spenoe, Mining .] a-
,, gineer, in the field remaking intensive
lnvestig ttioee as to possible economic
occurrences,uses and markets. Mr.
Spence will also review present con-
ditions and developments in several
roadways into a wet, sticky mass. e-,
search work is being carried on at pre-
sent with the bitumen sands of the
MVIoMurr'ay district 'a5 to the possibility
of using dile material as a waterproof
coating for western roads.
While its presence in the soil;is un-
doubtedey a serious clrawbacl in re-
gard to transportation, bentonite has
already .a few commercial uses. One
18 as a...filler "in the manufacture of
paper, for which purpose it is claimed.
industries 'on'which special reports to be superior to kaolin, at presefl
have already been. issued,
The occurrence, of bentonite in Can-
ada was first noted in 1911 by the late
largely used. There isa patented pro-
cess for its use in thede-inking of old
news print. It is also used as an in
Joseph Keele, ceramic engineer of the gredient in pastes for_ attaching paper
Departmnerit of Mines at Camrdse Al
belle, and later, along ° the Red Deer
River in Alberta and in the Nikola
Valley in British Columbia. As des-
cribed by Mr. Keele, bentonite, when
labels to metal or leather surfaces,
thus preventing the labels from eurl-
ing up and becoming detached. It, is
finding some use as a filler iii the lead
pencil and crayon industry, It has
tireshly exposed, varies in color from been used. as a `hoof -packing' in veter-
a light yellow to a light •olive green
with a waxy lustre. It is exceedingly
tine grained and has a soapy feeling
when wet. k In water it ,forms a jelly-
like mass. laehen. sufficiently wetted
it swellsto as mt$k as twelve timers•
sits original volume.
The research laboratories of Alberta
University -are reported to have es -
mazy practice.
Other suggested uses for bentonite
are: as a filler in rubber, leather,
phonograph records, cordage, pressed
and moulded insulating materials, and •
en cheap soaps; as an ingredient in
gypsum and lime plasters, and for
glazes in ceramics, as a water soften-
er,
a carrier of printer's ink, and as .a
—AND THE WORST IS YET 1.0 COME
ttblishel the fact that the presence substitute for fuller's earth, and as an
of bentonites responsible for the adulterant in cheap candy.
gtunbo soil of western Canada... The
laboratories have also reported that
as the bentonite content of the gumbo
soil con.stitutes the hardening element,
if a waterproofing material can be suit of his enquiries no doubt many
economically provided a high grade additional industries will•find a new for it means working ag'
y lumbering,
road bed can be° established. Tinder raw material available for their mane- topspeed from dawn till . dark,and, belew zero, yet he has put •it on re-
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present conditions the absorptive pro-facturing processes.
usually in intense frost. Lumberers Card that during that time he actually.
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_ _ -- --' -` live principally an beans baked with•
m Na-mn syrup. They' ser was coarse brown bread and sour
Man was -made to live outdoors. "Dear John -Meet me at the tryst g also eat quantities of steamed brown' wee, yet on this he built roads and
tine did not invent base burners, place at 6.30 this evening, without bread.• carted incredible weights of armor
steanr rail d apartment houses and Pale. And John answered: "In that It 's a mistake to think. that a lot of end baggage over extraordinary des -
things,
factory buildings. -, Men designed these le youth
things, ansi man must make the best manhood
neat rs necessary
of thein. But let us not overlook the
necessity of getting as :much good,
clean, wholesome fresh air in our sys-
tems. as we can,
Tile diseases most common from un-
wholesome .air • are influenza, pneu-
monia, bronchitis, diptheria, tubercul-
osis and colds. .Colds are the most
prevalent ailment and the most easily
avoided- It isn't the cold `wintry air
that gives you a cold;' it's your clumsy
effort to dodge it, the dootors say. It
is because we allow the germs 'to be
introduced into " our noses, mouths,
throats and lungs; and then don't ge't.
enough good air to. enable our bodies
to kill them. .
A medical man; declares that emn-
l�vees of a large institution lost 13, -
It is largely with a view to estab-
lishing the fitness for„ the above pur-'
posses that the investigations are being
carried on by Mr. Spence, and as are-
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Foods That Make Men Strong.
The hardest work in the world 'is
Stories About W ell4Known People
Princess on the Stage, to •Have settled .like a sediment into'
The youngest child of the late Czar the comparatively' small area o,f hiss
Alexander 11. of fus ia, 1'rineess triangular face, the forehead, empha-
Catherine Yourievsky, recently, made sized 111 its ,size by the long hail',
dwarfing them. 'i`be color of his skin
is upiformlypink, and he is` not so thin
as portraits of pini had ;led me to : ex-
pect, His picturesque .aspect was'
heightened by a distinctive manner of
clress, 1;3is double-breasted waistcoat
was cut low, revealing a hugs Ascot
cravat of black satie.--From "Por-
traits of Pen and Pencil." By Walter'
Ti ttle.
From Clerk to Playwright,
' Rober:t B. Lee" and "Oliver Crone -
well" are two of tho finest plays in
London; the..former is drawing crowds tia
to the Regent Tbeatre, anti the latter
is at Hie Majesty's, says an Luglisis
writer.
Tlie young man who wrote both of
Thames and avast area of London, I them, Mr. John Drinkwater, poet, dra-
found, "the Manxman," Time, which matist, and critic, began work as an
transforms us all, has not neglected insurance clerk, He stuck to lits desk
Sir. H. all Caiue. Ris famous• shock of for twelve years, and then the call of
red hair has now the peilowisb white' literature and the theatre became too
that is frequently reminiscent of for- : strong, and he launched out as' writer
mer redness. The well-known con- , aiid actor. ` He 'wrote "Abraham Lin -
tour of his distinctive anci luxuriant eoln"—an inspiring play --and. "Mary
coiffure is completely preserved, t Stuart"; he is, too, one of the leading
though the upper part of it is very � modern poets and the joint editor,
transparent, revealing the shape of his with Sir William Orpen, of "T•he Out-
entire cranium. His featuresyseemed line of Literature and Art."
her hest appearance on the music'hall
stags at the London Coliseum,
She and her husband were made
prisoners as soon as the revelation
broke out in Petrograd,
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Hidden by friends, she s r ,
lived .through a dreadful period of ter
ror, 'At one tine iserved•,as a maid
at an ;inn, and at another I passed as
the niece of a gardener and his wife,
doing all the cleaning and cooking,
and sleeping on bare boards,
"At last I managed to become at-
tached to :a unit of the Red Cross, and
so finally crossed the frontier."
As Half Caine Looks To -day.
Ina beautiful suite at this hotel, of-,
fording a wonderful view .of the
pio•er, who' has lived longer in the
'A•r :tic than any other. white man, ex -
is ad for months on.nothing but fish.
day he ,was out in temperatures
Not .in the Dictionary. ,the staple diet of the Roman sof-
I�ee ><n. Well. pork' and flap;acks (a kind of pan::
p g She wrote him a note which read: cake) eaten with maple . d ,
xicon of which fate' has re-
served for a bright
to make muscle:
• m h word as 'fare.' " , is The coolie, especially the Chinese,
no such who •lives on rice, is more. active and
�► enduring than the'Negro fed on meat;
and the Arab, . who lives largely .oaf
dates, is extraordinarily wiry and can
travel all day, in burning heat that
would kill a meat -fed man. ;He finds that to• sound one of the.
Strong, We'll; Say.
Wifie--•"Mercy, John, but some of
these highwaymen must be mighty
eee ee rl-ing 'days •m' year through ill- . strong.
pees. A ti erltilating system was put Iiuby=-"How so?"
in the building, an Its of one that
'ldi d the days lost were •Wific-' "The paper to
cut down to 10,114`a year.. In another held up an automobile with tofu men
factory 500 employees did the work it in it."
had taken 600 to perform after fresh
air was introduced as a factor in ef-
ficiency.
Maybe these figures • do not mean
much to you• What does mean a.great
deal, however, is your health and that
of your family. Guard it. It is easy
It merely means that you should sleep
with a window open every night: even
the coldest nights. Yon Should have,
some alecirculating in the room
wherever you are, and as soon as you
go out of doors you shouldnot hunch
down into your coat of furs. but throw
`:tip your:. head, -take a deep breath of'.
the crisp, fresh air, and put disease to
flight:..
Tinley Woods.
There's magic out in. Tinley Woods,
where Caesar's' feet once trod.
And folk have seen on Halow'en a
shaggy woodland god;
Thegoblins have made mischief there
since first the 'world began, as most present-day fathers do.' After
And now it is a Fairyland for Timothy twenty years of a domestic discipline
and Ann. • whichnever has wavered or weaken -
They've the cloudy twilit skies ed, King George has rather the re
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With woof of Make -Believe,
And no one but the night -wind ,hears
the foolish dreams they weave,
An knight is he of high degree, and
she the queen of all,
The trees become their,,.nMen-at-arms,
the stars their tapers tall.
And he forgets the .knives and boots,
tancos.
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Can it' Be True?'
A French physician has been carry-
ing on some interesting experiments
to- determine the amount of force ex-
pended in piano playing.
Among the strongest men in the iybite keys requires in -its doing an
world are the . Turkish porters. Two
of these have been.known to carry a
:grand piano up a -flight of stairs, and
one Will carry a load of,1001b..twenty
miles ;in a day on his back. These
menlive almost entirely art -dried fruit
and olives.. •
The Spanish , peasant works 'a11 day -
and dances •half the night on black
bread, onions, and occasionally a little
cheese; while the Italian, who is the
best navvy in the world, does hist
on atrequally simple diet, cif which £he
principal partis chestnut meal, onions
and fruit. • •.
Dr. Stefansson, the Canadian ex- epitaphs.
application of energy equal to that in
handling a weight' of something more
than two and va`balf pounds. For a
black key the weight increases to a.
lilt over three pounds.- To play Chop-
in's Nocturne in C: Minor requires an
expenditure of force equivalent to
nearly 40,000 Ms..
Ought pianists to be classified ;as.
artists or athletes?9 9
I norm Failings._.
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a. Mrs. A —"flow.. do you write refer-
encesfor your cooks?"
Mrs.' B,—"As I' would write their
A Mighty Four -in -Hand.
•Kingdom Ward,. who has returned
from Burma after eleven months spent.
in the Tibetan -Yunnan, marshes, made
a complete traverse, east to west, of
that extraordinary belt of the 'earth's
crust through which the waters of the
Tibetan plateau escape,
Here four of the greatest rivers of
Asia flow in a strip of mountainous
country not more than seventy-five
miles wide.
There is nothing elsewhere on the
earth's surface to compare with these
nighty rivers—the Yangtse, Mekong,
Salween and Iriawad-running paral-
lel to each other for a hundred miles
and separated -only by rock partitions
which in places attain altitudes of 25,
t
000 feet—London Times.
Fact vs. Theory.
Little Janie—"Mother, if baby was
to swallow the goldfish would he be.
able to swim like one?"
Mother—"Oh, my. heavens, no child.
They'dkill him."-
"But they. didn't."
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Mosquito—"Ha, I guess I'll park
here awhile!"
par -tan Discipline in
It has been evident to every intelli-
gent observer that the chief interest
of. King George during the 1Sast:twenty
years has been his children.
As •a' much younger man than he is.
to -day, ho sensed the „directionaffairs
were taking, the breaking clown of
the old, substantial :aristocratic, the
rise of a democratic spirit the like o
vehicle ne royalty bad ever faced be-
fore, and the need of a royalty.equal
to the conditions which have arisen.
To his children, the King has been
a Spartan father.
There 1st, nothing of the modern,
easy-going daddy about King George.
He does not enjoy the jolly, free and
equal companionship of his children
apectful love of his children, after the
manner of fathers and children half, a
century ago.
The formalities of royalty have not'
been responsible for this altogether.
But he has always Insistedon the for-
malities% That ieto say, that when
the Prince of Wales, when tie ;was
aud_she her pots and pans. ing with the royal• family in Bucking -
The music of the world is made by ham Palace, came .to say good -night to
d''i,mothys and Anne,
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Ready for the Worst.
An h•isimmari who was signing ar- Atter the formal good -night was said,
tides on board a sil.tp began to write they would -unbend- for a moment, and
his name with his right band; then, behave as father anti son. But the ir-
chauging the pen to his left hand, he
finished it.
' "So you can write with either hand,
Pat?" asked the ofcev..
"Yrs, sor," replied Pat. "Whin "I
was a b•dy nme father always said to
me: 'Pat, learn to cut your finger-
nails wid yer lett hand, for esome day
ye might lose your rightl"
the King, he entered the King's pre-
sence, even though it were the draw-
ing-roorn or the living's study, with for-
inanity, and addressed him as "Sire."
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ales. CAbb•-•-"MY dear, eve a bit of.
gr,s ip tltst'a too good to keepl"
:errs, itebb (-boldly)-""Put It ou ice
,And it won't spall,"
reverent atmosphere of the ordinary
intercourse between father and grown
son has never existed between the
Bing and the Prince who will follow
him,
• There is little or nothing of Ring
Edward jovial and beaming spirit in
King George. He takes most of his
character from his Danish mother, and
a little of Queen Victoria's active
sense of responsibility; IIe is an aloof
Man. leather a shy man.
Ho determined, after the manner of
a..shy and serious inan, that his child•
ren should grow up not merely with
a cease of responsibility to the state
but with characters adaptable to serv-
ing the state. . He was determined
that, note of •his children should grow
into bored and blase royalty.
When et Windsor• Castle, twenty
years ago, it was eittt.onlary for the
royal children to go, walking each af-
ternoon, And their walk took them
peat the cottage ota lady who iuid :a
Very beautifuland inviting croquet
The children.insisted on . playing,
and the nurses nd attendants asked
permission of the lady.
Day after day, the children came
and played with the greatest zest.
They held a long series of matches be-
tween themselves. The lady oiie day
staid to the attendants' ofthe children
that they should be got a croquet set
of their own—they seemed to enjoy it
so. •
"The King has refused to let them
have a set," she was told.
"But why? It is a harmless game."
"Oh," said the attendant, "croquet
is ,one of the, things the children have
to do without."
That was the King's system. There
were certain things which the royal
princes, must arbitrarily do without,,
just for the sake of doing without. It
was possible for them, naturally, to
have,,everything But the King arbi-
trarily refused them certain things,
It .has, been the same throughout
Loyal House
their - lives in all things. - They could
not do what' they liked or have what
they pleased. Thousands of wealthy
families have been ruined by it The
' . earthy classes of. England to -day are
spoiled by their boredom.
But the princes of Britain are not
spoiled nor bored,
Iii . every relation with life, in .theta
relations with people of every sort,
they are fresh and interested and un-
affected.
It is a triumph for King Georgeaat
some expense to himself,. For it is
known that the princes fear him not a
little, and that the royal family is go-
ing through that uneomforable stage
when a family of boys who have been
brought up under control reach the
age of manhood and Control must
cease.
The removal of the Prince of Wales
from -the family circle to quarters of appearances, have been used by the
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his own outside tbe palace was only I Bing to keep his children unspoiled in
agreed to after long delay on the parta spoiled world,
of King George, who has always been The King hiiinseif is a toiler. Ile
somewhat at a loss to deal with the
lively spirit of the Prince.
The Duke of York, who is more like
his father than is the Prince, is af-
flicted with a very severe stammer.
He sometimes bas to stop dead in his
speech and struggle painfully for
words. I spite of this, he goes out to
functions and makes, public addresses,
and generally takes, his share of the
burden of royal appearances. This is
another evidence of the King's hand,
King George's Highland
Home.
The Canadian tourist when in Scot-
land shquld endeavor to spend a day
or two in royal Deeside. Many tour-
ists visit the Trossachs mainly owing
to the spell of Walter Scott, but
though the Trossachs have undoubted-
ly a charm Deeside is. in many re-
spects superior. The crowning glory
of Deeside is Balmoral Castle, the
highland home of King George. The
castle , is beautifully situated in a ro-
mantic and delightful country. For
a few months in the fall "King George
is ineresidence and visitors flock from
afar`. The great event of the season is
the Braemar gathering, when sports
are engaged in and the kilt, the one
time national dress, is much In evi-
dence. Englishmen conte for the oc-
casion who have probably never worn
a kilt before and strut about in all the
glory of Scotia's mi trtial garb as to
the manner horn. The kilt is seldom
worn exceptat this time, when it is
the fashion. Ladies dress particularly
for the event and, their frocks are duly
chronicled in the press. The ladies,
as in other countries, are well ad-
vanced, but so• far they have not don
ned the kilt.
To the south of the castle stands
"dark Lochnagar"—a .mountain some
4,000 feet high—which is celebrated
by the poet Byron, who spent his ear-
ly,years not very far from it, Queen
'Victoria had a .-great regard• for Bal-
moral and kept it as secluded as pos-
sible. She would not allow the rail-
way to be extended, so that there is
a motor coach journey of eight miles
from the railroad terminus at Bal-
later. The surrounding scenery must
be seen to be appreciated. In an ob-
scure part of the castle grounds there
is a statue of. a faithful retainer, John
Brown, He was a great personality
and a prime favorite of Queen Vic-
toria.
A few miles from Balmoral is
Grathie Church, where the royal family
worship when in residence at Balmor-
al. Motor coaches come from all parts
and the church is invariably •crowded..
At other times it has been known to
have very few worshipers. King
George is a model landlord and he has
no more loyal subjects than his Dee+
side people.
for the Duke of York was most shy I From Balmoral it is a short run to
of public appearances. Consider these Braemar, which is in the heart of the
royal folk as human beings. And who mountains, It was here that Robert
ever heard of a man with a stammer
Louis Stevenson conceived and partly
who gladly spoke in public? But the executed his famous romance "Tres -
King, who conquered an instinctive sure Island." Here also he made a
distaste for public appearances, hand- beginning of the nursery verses which
led the clatter to the King's' taste, and afterward grew into the volume "Tho
the Duke of York enjoys a popularity Child's Garden of Verse."
not much less than that of the Prince.
Simple tastes, in keeping with royal
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has his of i.ce in the palaoe and has his
oftiee hours. Every document at gov-
ernnient that he is supposed to see, he
sees. There is nothing of the perfunc-
tory figurebead about him. There are
thousands of heads of great businesses
who know less about their business
than the Ring. He studies every bill
brought to him for signature, He rias
ministers and secretaries Closeted
with him to explain points of law ar
administration. • Ilistorans and essay- mated again in Prince Gau#ones. In
sats may say he Is a formal head' of
the state, but he doesn't .admit it.. ancient sun worship also the white
He investigates, studies, argues, elephant was a sun emblem.
checks overy'tlring.brought before him. The Ring keeps these sacred eel.
His reason is this: governments coma mals in great luxury. "But the owner.
and governments' go, but the King re= ship of one by a prince was- by no
mains. He is the continuity, of gov- means a piece of good luCk, for the
ernment, I king made war on him to obtain pos-
These things he has impressed an session, "Timis is the sauce of our
his sons, particularly the Prince of commiseration of anyone who has a
Walesa, in the frequent formal discus- 'white elephant.' on his hands."
cions he liar with his sons. He cate-
chises them on their studies (or used
to), lectures them on their duties, de -
pertinent.
A shy, reserved man, thrust into
kingship . unexpectedly, who has ild-
den the waves of a turbulent demo -
racy in his reign, who has seen 1n11 -
lions
ct his subjects ground and torn
in the mlghtest war of the ages ---sera.
A Live
Wire.
ing him.
Anti ,who has made a success of his "Thai; fellow fairly shocks you with
sons. - his energy."
God. ores the King!"Yes---he's a live wire.'
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Siam's White Elephants.
With regard to the phrase, "white
elephant," Mr. :Hermann Norden, in
"From Golden Gate to Golden Sun,"
gives some interesting information.
The white elephants are kept by the
Ring of Siam in the Royal stables at
Bangkok, and are not really white, but
merely lighter in color than the nor.
mai beast.
They are supposeri to be animated
by the spirit of same great king. or
hero. According to Siamese faith tits
soul of Buddha existed in the body of
a white elephant betore it was inear-