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By Andrew Stewart The two men were sitting at the 'table in the lounge of a well kr haunt in the West End of Lon- don, and they had fallen into talk. ° "It fairly beats me,' said the prosper- * ous middle-aged man, who looked what be actually A manufacturer from the Mi ek §'i8t can't understand how any man ¥ith his wits about his ever falls for this confidence trick 5 e was commenting upon a case of h 'kind, reported under big headings in the evening paper, which they had been 'discussing. His chance com- panion, a welldressed, hard-bitten fel- the other's incredulity. "That's just how I used to look at "It" he said quietly. "But you'll find . that it's always the smartest and most opfident of men who get nailed. They "psychological lines?" manufacturer. 4 "I mean that they study their vic. tims before they begin to work. They enter into conversation with a man-- queried the | "Excuse me," murmured the detec-: | Through the mirror in front of him, . the man from Birmingham saw the | detective in earnest conversation with | dered two drinks, returning with them | "I'm terribly sorry," low a few years his junior, smiled at' Work on mighty clever, psychologi cal' Pi less than three minutes he return- lines, these confidence tricksters." | four hundred. An cash on a deal to-day, and it'll i £0 back to Birmingham with me on the ten train." ? : tive, "I 'aust leave you; at ut Jouve, my colleaguo | his colleague, and thrilled with the conjecture that one of the gang might have come in." Then the detective or- to the table. ' . He set his own drink on the table and, in reaching over the manufac- turer's shoulder with the other, he caught the stem of the glass end the liquor spilt down his coat, he said con- cernedly, whipping out a handkerchief and wiping down the-front of the manufacturer's coat. "Thank goed- ness, it's neat spirit: it'll soon dry off. I'll get the glass refilled." He was back in a few moments with the drink, and, setting it down, he whispered: "My colleague thinks he saw one of the gang put his head round the door. I'm going out to con- " . "Not a sign of him," he said, in a tone of annoyance, "You'll forgive the liberty, I'm gure," he went on, taking the manufacturer's note-case frogn his own pocket, and handing it to him; "but you needed the lesson." ie ; army 'manoeuvres. Animal Lifein | A Machine Ag e Age By Clarence Day in Harper's Magazine The great age of invention was in prehistoric times, The era in which Flood or fire the dispatches must got through as shown here by a Probably he 'would say: "It seems to me you need only moderately intelligent beings to do all day of machines. With all the ani- mal kingdom before you; to train and develop, I don't understand why you |use for these tasks only men. In our participant in t he recent British .in the ice and snow, their meat ig as 'good as that of cows, and their wool | (the hard~but simple--work in this is not only as soft as cashmere, but it ! is also non-shrinking. | Yet, all we the wild musk-ox, When, some thirty = "| Prince Edward Island, 1,500; Q - the Arctic. These animals are at home| should have to do' would be to tame|crops have failed there are 76 muni-| jar to the wanted to use the Columbia to the = Aleu 'wherein lives the bulk ypulation. the . winter of sald these figures would. ot an inch of snow fell, but swelled in the winter months whi rains supplied, Some months, seasonal unemployment would become' 5 tora) of thirty inches of water, an increasing factor in the situation. | 1; such: 4 climate it is only to be By provinces, figires of unemploy- eypected that rich flower growth will A Em 2 | usher in the spring. The very first h. Columbia, $5,880; Alberta,' blogur to make its early debut is the. 5 Saskatchewan (cities and' pag hyckleberry, which appears about towns, 26,904, drought areas), 150,000; | Apri) §, The waxy: pink and white | Manitoba, 41, ; Ontario, 130,000; berry, arrive before the leaves, and: are decorative, 100,000; Nova Scotia, 18,000; New for tre romin Brunswick, 8,000, ; Their nectar is food g birds that pass in late April by the dozens the provinces. Registrations in urban 1 centres indicate 26,904 are withou! Bre well. known from Or Aleutians. The fruit he garden variety. A large variety of flowers blossom to the simi cipalities where 100 per cent. relief | Saskatchewan is hardest hit of all on their way north, and the berries - ~ of ten they get away with it. a colonial or one from foreign parts, for preference--and though he does not know it, they are probing him for his little weaknesses and foibles all the time. Soon they've got him placed as to type and apply the meth- od for that type; and nine times out I Still," down." he added, "we'll trail this bunch." | "Well, I'll be hanged!" exclaimed The manufacturer regarded the the manufacturer. speaker with increased interest. "We?! "And so you deserve to be," laughed | The other stared incredulously from the note-case to the detective. "How on earth did you get hold of this?" he demanded. "One of the pickpocket"s simplest ruses. I know and practice them all. took it when I was wiping you How d'you mean?" | the detective. "Why, you haven't even « th ther easily, "I'm examined it" Oh, returned the o iy "And [mm not going to," returned trom the Yard." the other good-humoredly. "I deserve we live is also an age of invention-- |42¥, when one of our inventions grew our stupendous achievements have tryannous,we did something about it. dwarfed all the past, in our eyes. But, |For instance, we had a lot of trouble of course, the inventions of old were With sheep. They bred far more rapid- more basic than ours. The inventions 17 than the specifications called for, of writing, and wheels; the invention [20d they got out of order too easily of zero, of needles, and wheat, and of 2nd needed far too much servicing. money were made by great men, And, But Wwe certainly did not allow our- aside from these, there were some Selves to be enslaved by our sheep, highly ingenious devices which were |Yaluable ag this invention was to us. made in a fleld we are wholly neglect-| We Were too self-respecting for that. ing to-day. We invented the collie. Just think of the man who invented | "You think you are Tio pina. the cow. It is hard for us to imagine | 48%, but you would be very increddious a home without milk; but once it was, it an inventor showed you how to man The pther's eyes widened. "What! i to lose aliything you've taken, for puts Beotland Yard?" he asked. ting me wise." His companion nodded. "Yes. I'm| «On I've not even opened it)" the usually put on to these cases. Sort of detective assured him. "By the way, specially work. We get to know the habits and haunts of these gangs. I'm half expécting they may show up here, to-night; or if not to-night, to-morrow or the day after, and they'll show the usual traces eof suddenly acquired wealth. D'you se that chap in the black felt, sitting at the far end of the bar?" he asked. "Yes, I see him. Why, d'you suspect him about this? answered the manu- facturer, tapping the newspaper con- taining the report. Tho deteftive laughed. "No, he's I'm not tired of your company, but you did say you had a train to catch." The other's hand went to his watch pocket, only to be withdrawn as a sheepish look overspread his featurcs, , The grinning detective dropped the watch into its owner's extended palm, "Convinced now?" he queried dis- armingly. | "I am," manufacturer, | The detective rose with him. "Well, I'll see you safely into your taxi, sir," he said genially, "That's very friendly of you," said not a crook. He's working with me." | "Pretty exciting way of earning & the manufacturer, his hand going to living," rejoined the manufacturer. hig breast pocket. "I think I ought to "Selling steel goods satisfies me,' give you a fiver for such a valuable thanks. Well, what about another jeggon." drink?" "I wouldn't think of taking it," re- "Thanks, I don't mind if I do. A bit- torted the detective in an offended ter, please," - tone, pulling the man's hand down. The dealer in steel signalled to the «1's my job to protect the public." very much harder to imagine homes with it. It would have been far easier for a man to bring his wife orchids, if she had desired such weeds, than milk, True, there was plenty of milk in the | world, but it was galloping around in the forest, in hostile containers, and it was the private and intimate stay of the animal's family. Then, a genius was born, who experimented with ani- mals as we do with milk, Why not have milk at the door every 'morning? The task was a hard one. Which | from the obvious choice. In some | parts of the world rien had tried to! use the golden-haired gweund-sloth; a' monstrous creature which they kept in caves and milked when they could. But, there were various objections to your coal mines with an improved breed of bears. could train our wild horses to give up nd become, instead, obedient carriers, years ago, they grazing lands 'of Africa, it didn't ap- parently occur to them to tame the wild eland instead of going to the tre- mendoug trouble of bringing in cows and bulls, which were unaccustomed to thie climate. - Let us open our eyes to the capaci ties and uses of animals. Surely they can learn to understand us, A dog | knows what a :-an says to it; why can't man, the more intelligent of the | two, learn/to converse with the dog. We could make a scientific study of he speech organs of animals, and gradually devise ways to teach them 'sounds. Yet, it we men of old | At present we dre attempting to breed robots, which can never be as 'animals. Animals could well do the kicking and biting and running away | effolent as properly bred and trained | reliable and gentle, you ought to find routine work for which intelligent it comparatively easy to train the bear to mine coal. You couldn't put him to work as he is, but, he has the men are now being used. And there is no reason why they couldn't be made to pay. Milk cows didn't pay strength and intelligence and a man- at first, but they do now: If we are like way of using his paws. You could breed for better paw action. You have a far better start here than we .had answered the chastened as the best animal? Cows were far with the cow. "There are hundreds of animals which you could use on your machines, You could easily school many species , to work in your mills. And once they | were schooled to.perform the same acts every day, you would have little the sloth; they have bad skin diseages trouble in' making them keep on for in summer, and occasionally their mili life. If some planetary steward could has a fishy taste. But the serious ob- |Dave directedithe affairs of the world jection was the fact that sloths are |he Would hawe made toilers of crea- monogamous, and commercially speak- tures that like toil, not human beings. ing, monogamy ruins a farm, For, |The industrious beaver, the busy bee, tunately, - however, that prehistoric the hard-working mole. Activity, yes, genius turned his attention to some but not drudgery. That is against waitér and ordered the drinks, "So you work in couples?" he asked, » 'No, not usually. But if our guess about this case is right, we're up against a pretty tough tough gang." Tha detective put his finger to his "Sorry; I meant no offence," sail the manufacturer hastily. "Sure, I understand,' rejoined the mollified detective, and he hailed a passing taxi, . "King's Cross," ordered the manu- rough, horned, fiery beasts who were, running wild on the plains. It wasn't any easy task to chase and catch this wild material from which the inventor hoped to develop a milk factory. Many | users disliked being kicked while ex- human nature. No wonder it depress- es and deforms you and leads to fierce insurrections. "Some day your descendants will marvel at your wastage of animals, leaving the woods full of husky beasts wise in our civilization we won't con- tinue to ignore the possibilities for in- venton in the animal world. American Hotels In - Billion Class Washington --' American hotels do a business of mors than $1,000,000, | 000 annually. Preliminary figires an- ! nounced bythe Census Bureau placed the 1929 receipts of 15,577 hotels at 1 $1,039,363,000. Those operating | throughout the year reported receipts 1 of $962,801,000; resort hotels, $76,- , 562,000. The census covered notels having 25 or mare guest rooms. It did not include apartment houses, boarding houses, clubs, Y.M.C.A's or Y.W.C. A's. | Of the 13,328 year-round hotels, 10, 907 operated on the Furopeah plan; Minister of Agriculture, who returned from Western Canada, katchewan. While the other prairie provinces do is sufficiently serious. In Manitoba, where there are 41,489 unemployed, approximately 28,000 are married men, 10,000 single men and over 4,000 single women. Alberta has 15,450 un- employed, of which roughly 9,000 are estimates at! tions. 150,000 the number of those requiring relief in the drought areas of Sas-' not face such a grave situation as that | of Saskatchewan, figures show that it' decorative of all the early bloomers, work, while in those areas where during the months of April, May and will be necessary. Hon. Robert Weir, yune at. sea level and during June, July and August at mountain eleva In fact, the writer has no- ticed seventy varieties "without any special effort. 3 4 | . 'The most spectacular spring flow- er in Alaska* is the skunk cabbage, "or the Alaska lily. It is the most | but 'unfortunately its well-known and , ridiculed odor precludes its use as a , cut flower. For more than a month these beautiful yellow shell , shaped spathes that grow seven or shelter the eight inches long and married and 6,000 single. Of the 38,-' spike of greenish yellow florets, add 880 unemployed in British Columbia a striling tone of color tothe woods. 5490 'are transients and 6,746 aliens,! The plants often grow two feet high according to the registration in that and are quite similar to their cousin, province. | the calla lily. The blosson, appear- ~ Coming to Eastern Canada, Ontario ing just before the leaves as a yel has the large total of 130,000. Accord-| low shoot similar to asparagus, is ing to the information secured through' the favorite food 'Bf 'both deer and registration, approximately 71,500 are bear. Bruin digs the shoot out and connection With the Ontario situation, above the 'soil. Senator Robertson said that it was» Another April product is the white estimated about 70,000 of the total marsh marigold, a handsome white number of unemployed had partial em- flower sometimes as large as a sil- |ployment. There were, however, about ver dollar, Its foliage is like that 70,000 in need, 'the majority of whom of the familiar yellow cowslip and are in Northern Ontario: grows much .in the same manner; eA {the root is thicker, irregular and They Say: -- quite: like wild ginseng. married and the remainder single. In the deer daintily nips it off just | Cold words freeze people. and hot words scorch' them, and bitter words make 'them bitter, and wrathtul words make them wrathful. Kind { words make people good-natured. Though they do not cost much, yet they accomplish much.--Pascal, The man who is Early in May comes the Johnny- {Jump-up or -yellow violet, and, along 'the coast; the 'small shooting star. - The habitat of this plant extends from the beach, where lie flowers in May, to the mountain tops, where the blooms are three months late. Its | blossoms are somewhat orchid-like, determined to, wity delicate pink petals, orange at | keep others fast and firm, must have the base and at the point of the ,one end of the bond about his own' asferoid; the stamens are deep pur- j DAsst=gleoping or walking.--w. 8.! ple, streaked with cream. Landor, ; Towards. the end of May there is It is not permitted to the most e dwarf dogwood, which almost equitable of-men to be a judge in his covers the ground in some localities. lips as the waiter aproached. EX- factyrer, turning to shake hands warm} periencing the pleasant thrill of a cot: y with his protector. "Good-bye, and spirator, the manufacturer paused and,' thanks again for your very practical taking out a bulging note-case, select- object lesson." ed a pound note. When the waiter| phe detective laughed easily. "Good- had given him his change and depart- | bye, sir; remember, the confidence ed, the detective leant across the man work by psychology." tracting the milk, and for thousands idling about, while you nearly killed of years men objected in vain to its Yourselves toiling, and grumbled at horns, But, it was a success, and with fate." a very few modifications we are still| So much for the man from the past. using the cow. for the production of If We ever try his suggestion there milk. will be some queer changes, not only table. "If you'll take a tip from me, sir, you won't make a habit of showing a Mr. Benjamin Consett, manufacturer of steel goods, reachéd hig home in Birmingham that night without mis- Another great thinker in the mean- time invented the hen. Instead of the tiresome search for small eggs in the in coal mines, but even in war. Al ready men are beginning to feel a bit lily-fingered about war. France, the 1097 on the American plan and 1324 on the mixed plan. Of the resort hotels 370 operated. on the European 'plan, 1537 on' the American plan and 342 on the mixed plan. avi veel Brink of Storm | Dark arms of storm are flung across the hills; - own cause.--Blaise Pascal. Judgment should be pronounced | with diffidence and consideration lest, as happens to many, the critics should condemn what they do not understand.--Quintillian, ! At the same time the wild lily-of-the- , valley blooms. It is one of the few , Alaskan 'flowers that has a sweet odor, and literally covers the rocky knolls near the shore, : With early June comes the arctic wad likg that in this kind of joint," he | adventure, His loyal wife was wait- said in a low tone. "If a confidence ing up, to share the cold supper, and man saw that, he'd start operations to listen to his account of his day in right away." | London. She listened entranced to The manufa®turer laughed heartily. ' nig story of his exciting encounter "No confidence trickstef® would ever with the detective. make a pigeon of me." | "He was quite right, Ben," she Tha detective studied him carefully.' stated emphatically, as he concluded. "No, I guess you wouldn't be easy to "you'd better give me the money now; pluck that way," he agreed at last.'and I'll lock it in the safe while you "You'ra too shrewd. Still, if I might finish your supper." 4 woods, this epicure provided mankind Most civilized of nations, is using Al- with large eggs in the home. It took ,serian troops. In India, in pre-British a long time to make the\change, but , times, some of the Rajahs used ele- eventually the odd breed of bird se- Phants. Why shouldn't we have regi- lected learned to go into egg produc. ments. of leopards to charge future tion. : | trenches ,and squadrons of carrion vul- In the Western world men invented tures to drop future bombs? It's a the Ilama and the turkey, In Asia | question of training. Wa cannot tell they invented the camel, as a freight |'til we have tried. Meantime we use car or van. And one of Henry Ford's Only a few Red Cross dogs in our predecessors, several thousand years ; Wars and an ever-diminishing number of horses and mules. The hardship say so, it 'wasn't quite discreet of you, with that amount of money on you, to make the acquaintance of a stranger and let him see what you had on you." With a pleased chuckle the manu- facturer answered him: "Huh! d'you think I'd have let you see, if I hadn't known you were a detective?" "There's something in that; but you've only got my word for It ghhat I am from Scotland Yard." . "By! Jove, that's so," admitted th other doubtfully. "Oh, 'I'm all right, said the detec- tive reassuringly. "Still, in your place I'd want proof. Why not call up the Yard and ask Inspector Jones whether he's !got two men--Parsons and Mar tin--at this hotel this evening?" "I won't trouble. I'm a pretty good around anyhow." ; 'The manufacturer took out his un- ned wateh and glanced at it. "I've got half an hour yet." ~ . "Well now, to come back to your risks, aside from confidence men, there's pickpockets." The manufacturer looked almost "Plickpockets rob me!" Oh, no," oot ut th. ine i TE ps not: but risk ere," hil "the car big sums like that, I'd ; say you deserve to Io 3 to a crook ig? is it? Well, that in- esn't frighten me. judge Of met; + Tell 'me some more dony. ; about your work." # a. "As long I'm not keeping you," . sald the detective. "I've got to hang}. IF detective. "No one ought If any little care of mine: Her husband smiled indulgently and handed her the note-case, "Right-o, my dear, Take them out and count them. There should be two | hundred-pound notes. one fifty, fifteen tens, and three or four pounds. Why, dear, what's wrong?" . His question came sharply upon an exclamation of dismay from his wife. She looked acros sat him with an ex- pression of infinite pity, and passed the contents of the case across to him; There were two ten-pound notes and three pound notes, wrapped round a pad of folded newspaper. : As he realized how he had been tricked, he remembered the '"detec- tive's last words: "The confidence men work by psy- chology." -- Pearson's Weekly (Lon- It any little word of mine May make a life the brighter; If any little song of mine | May make a heart the lighter, God help me speak the little word, And take my bit of singing, ~ | And drop it in some lonely vale To set the echoes ringing. | 1 It any little love of mine * | May make a life the sweeter, -- May make a friend's the fleeter, + It any little lift of mine may ease _ The burden of another, - \ God give me love and care and back, invented cheap and swift trans- portation by taming the horse. In contrast these early inventions make ours seem most despotic. Ours, perhaps, have added a little more com- fort than the old inventions, but, strangely enough they have added far more to our toil. Amnancient inventor | would be amazed at the wonders we've wrought, but he would. be equally, amased to see how hard we work. .\ Putters of the pigskin strength : To help my falling brother. ' Red Bradfield endeavours to | and suffering of wartimg is borne by practice started with a wallop when Bf 'block men. It seems as unenterprising as to use only men in our factories. HBvery generation' or era has its blind-spot. It is probable that this is ours. We behave in a blind, helpless way in the animal field, compared to our resourcefulness and iniative in the field of the machines, Look at the way we neglect to raise musk-oxen in The bréath of summer, warm and quiet, stills The birds, and, tall and motionless, the : trees' » Await the sudden tumult on thelr leaves, And all the earth, with emerald thirst, Is lying ; 'Waiting the windy sigh, the rush of crying From the throat.of storm, and small red foxes lain At the edge of their burrow, drowse and dream ot rain. --Franceg M. Frost, in the New York Sun. S sore The exhibition of "fat ladies" has been forbidden as vulgar at all future iocal fairs in Oxford, England. The greater the difficulty the more cinguefoil, usually growing In rock gory | in Surmounting it. Skilful crevices. The beautiful blossoms pilots gain' their reputation ' from are ap inch or more in diameter and storms 'and tempests.--Hpicurus. | of a lemon that shades to deep qo%e Who J, taught to five upon 1h orange in the center. It is one of - "i Alaska's choice blooms. Then there dom than he that has a great deal jg tnat odd and striking whorled rice- left him does to his father's care.--' root, a fritillaria with leaves otcurr- William Penn. ing in whorls. The root system forms 7 . Br -- y a cluster of bulblets, . often used by No Substitute for Tin- the- Indians \as food. The blossoms Metallurgists have for long realized occur in clusters of three ten at that the supply of tin marketable at the- tops of stalks hat vary in around present prices is limited, and height from one to three feet. They have bent every effort to produce a are from one to two inches in dia fields; electricity will spare them this | meter, a brownish red, striped with tate, The devices which thus control: Jellow, and have & most disagree the fish are stop signals-and were per able and penetrating odor; they are fected through experiments conduct: found mostly in marshes on either ed by F. O. McMillan 'of the Oregon Salt or fresh water. State College: He discovered that fish! White clintenia is another specta- are sensitive to small electrical eur. cular plant and forms great beds of rents and that it took very ttle power | beautiful lily-like white . blooms, to paralyze them;: that it took less to, usually "in the deep woods. The stop long fish than short ones; that' Yellow ponl lily also blooms in June they recover from shocks according' in June in Aaska, although it lacks to their vitality; that when they get the pungent odor of the variety found S00 Tusk Se got i the Bates. Yo tor 'Toot. high and chi color; that high-frequ Iw wo en fe ly a nae little effect. 'S80 by put found on the roadsides in July, and electrodes across the mouths! of gation ditches, with twenty-four areas... In the interior of Ala- he discovered that the fish avolt ye it eeu in solld yates somo: th nity. The signal wag ai gaingt imes miles or so across. n- Se Fic! bw. The sit : a " j other roadside. flower is the showy : ; | fos "of 'varying shades, often growing to ten feet and more in at, 'and . common allover south- 'follows its usual-propensity for burnt.