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Local walkiug 5 one sundown on an «old upland road that ran over the edge mountain orchard. place I was very fond of visit. ing, ly because of the fine view to ~ be had there of the far-shining valley; ~PARly because of its solitude; partly the manner in which, from vantage, the watcher can @ stars march up the great ome of heaven, as if they were an- gels in ion, carrying tapers, climbing a mighty hill. I reached the asture just at the right moment. The dark-blue flower of twi- light was ning wide. The sky showed 1 anes, wan gulfs, sea breakers of misty red. In that high pasture I thought my- self alone; but presently, as I sat on the roots of a gnarled and ancient ap- ple tree, two cows with tinkling bells came by. They were followed by a tiny mountain girl, not more than five years old. I knew her well, but I hardly had expected to see her so far talk with me; and the cows, no longer urged, buried their broad noses in the dewy grasses of the hilltop, "What you doin' out here so late?" she asked, with womanly directness.) She, of course, had her work to do; but why should I be loafing around? "I like to watch the stars come out," I told her, "and I like to see the val- ley down yonder in the mist." - "Do you like them thiugs too?" she asked, in a tone more kindly than that in which her initial question had been put. "I nearly allus stops here when it ain't rainin', Idon'* get lonely when the stars come out." "Why do yo. love to watch stars?" I asked my tiny comrade, "I talk with them," said The child. "And they .ights mo home." In a moment she was gone over the fading hill, leaving me with another treasured memory about solitude, And I never look at 'he spangled heavens without recalling what that baby said of the stars--"They 'ights me home." the Ten Carloads Ordered o-be © Sold in Vending pare atipel a report received from Paris by 'One of the largest fruit importing, firms in France has placed an initial! ort, > sale of apples in France, according to, International Hair Dress a the decided recently, but many Parls ex- Department of Trade and a perts on the subject merely mumbled, | "yea? maybe," and adopted a policy ot » watchful waiting, Margaret RavDr, winner of ten-mile marathon and $5,000 first an approximate value of $18, 000, and its conclusions, despite the fact that is considering dealing in the Canadian' short hair admitt handicaps the fruit exclusively, Two thousand of the' wearers of aed hats and automatic vending machines will he gowns which date back toward the placed throughout, France, and the , period when the consort of the Third firm has also organized a series of pub! Napoleon was galivanting around Eur- lic auctions for the sale of Canadian' ope. ; i apples. Hercule Barre, Canadian] The hair will be drawn back from trade commissioner in France, work-' the cheeks and waves or curls will ap- ing in conjunction with J. Forsyth pear low on the back of the head and Smith, Canadian fruit trade commis-| on the neck, the congress decreed. order for teu carloads of apples with| Tho congress was pretty definite fa] away from home at such an hour. She] --Archibald Rutledge, in "Peace in the recognized me at once and stopped to | Heart." 'Nomads of the Sky lorikeets nearby. Just as soon as the flowering is over in one district, they --_ move on to another where the trees. (Animal Life) are bloofning, and in that way they Just as the nomad savage wanders wander throughout tha country, breged- to and fro about his wilderness, mak- ing in favorable localities when spring ing his camp here one day, miles comes upon them. away the next, according to the ever- Migrant birds form a stream like a fluctuating supply of the bare neces- tide that is always ebbing and flow- sities of life, so do certain birds pass ing. Only for a few weeks in the year, the greater part of their existence in When some are nesting, is there a moving around. Few birds are really Period of "slack water" before the stationery during the year; in fact, it turn. Birds are not only leaving for is rather the exception for a species and arriving from countries on the to be absolutely sedentary. Many, if other side of the world, but are mov- not all, young birds are great wander- ing from one state to another, and ers, being driven from their birthplace throughout the. four seasons move- by, parents or deserting it voluntarily ments of one kind or another are. tak- as soon as parental care bacomes un- ing plo c2. Nevertheless, we see little necessary. enough ©" migration actually in pro- In the autumn, when quarrels and 8&ress, and the ordinary man in the bad friendships associzted with mat- couatry might never suspect its exist- ing and nesting in the previous spring ence were it nat for the complete ab- and summer are forgotton, many birds sence of some species at certain sea- become gregarious, and forming into Sons ,or the periodical variations in compariaz, both large and small, un- the numbers of others. Migration dertake roving movements throughout takes place very largely at night, even the country--and even the world--to in the case of birds which ara not or- A peddler might be merry then--aye gure, a8 I have been. A-questioning down the couatry when | his are starred with flowers, And all the woodland singing, and all the meadows green, And never a lamplit window for to haunt his evening hours. For then he'd walk with Wonder, but now 'tis Sorrow old, A far faint voice that follows him, ' that goes with him along, And mocks him on the hillside, and in the valley's gold, And sweet in roadside gardens filled with autumn robin-song. prize at Canadian National Exhibition last month, for the second con- secutive time, is escorted through streets of Philadelphia, Pa. In triumph as a part of elaborate program. Life Dormant | Peddler's Song in Autumn ! Ah, 'tis well enough roving tn a world Million Years of summer skies! A peddler might be merry then, and not be sore at heart, U.S. Scientist Declares at AS- With gold and sliver trakots for to sociation Gathering *© match with laughing eyes, Cleveland. --Dean Charles B. Lipman And a little gray donkey and a high- of the University of California des- Wheeled cart cribed to the Botanical Society of America the nat re of his experiments that convinced him tha#"it is possible for life to remain dormant millions of years. The report, delivered before the bot- anists' meeting carried forward pre- viously announced conclusions based on the finding of living organisms in the interior of anthracite coal from deep mines in Wales and Pennsyl- vania, Belief of the California sclentist that | the organisms have been in the coal since it was formed from rotting vege- tation of coal-age swamps is founded chiefly on unsuccessful attempts he sioner at London, was responsible for the sale to the large French firm. The extent of the activities in de- veloping the French market for Cana- dian les is realized when it is seen that only 2,415 barrels of apples were exported to France from the 1929 crop found its way to that country. There were practically no shipments of Canadian apples to France previous to the 1929 crop. --ea Berlin Crowds Applaud French Film Berlin.--Twice every night, one thousand men and women of Berlin crowd ome of the city's largest cine- mas to applaud a film in which, with very few exceptions, nothing hut Now, this may not seem strange in any other country. But-after all that has happened between Germany and France, such an incident is worthy of note. It is not merely a slight con- versation that is carried on in French, On the contrary, one mass scene fol- lows another, and French songs, while 28,261 barrels ot last year's crop | French is spoken, writes a correspond. ent of the Christian Science Monitor." There were 24 nations represented in the competition for the best style of hair dressing, The first prize went to 'England, the second to Germany and the third to France. The United States was represented only in the judges' box. Eugenie Hat Blamed Eugenie Hat style was general ly blamed for the quarrel, for the long- hair style was more becoming in con- nection with the new dress and hat models. The short-hair advocates, however, were ready to adopt other styles for the winter. Several well-known exponents of long hair had been letting thelr locks grow for some months but they cut it all off again at the last minute, Some of them said they found short hair was much more convenient on va- cations and at the beaches. They said they would not worry about in- ability to wear the new hat styles with short hair and many milliners support- ed them. . rl ii The Birth of Jazz Strictly speaking there was no jazz music before the World War. At least, it was not known by that name. French cheers and the chattering of The word jazz was in use, however, in suit their feeding Buch-cats, 'larks dinarily nocturnal, and for (his reason and pariots are am ng thesis nomads of the bird world. Either as nomads or migrants, the| chats cover a great area of Australia' Still night, even from city streets and he said, the samples were shielded | OVer all of England, from usually escapes notice. Sometimes, however, the cries of the travelling flocks may be heard overhead on al made to force such organisms into the coal, In the grinding up of the coal and at all times in the experimental steps | in the course of a year, and they con-| to the lighthouses round the coasts from contamination. sume enormous quantities of insects. great numbers of migrants are often | Dean Lipman said: "I believe it is One spring I made a rough calculation attracted, under certain atmospheric quite possible for a cell like a spore of the number of insects consumed by conditions, by the blinding glare of the to remain in a' state of suspended ani- twelve families of hush-chats nesting In the radius of an acre at the edge of a tidal marsh. There was an average of three young in each nest, and a conservative estimate made between the time the young were hatched and when they had left the nest, revealed that those 36 young birds accounted for no fewer than 36,000 grubs and in- sects, It was impossible, of course, to estimate the number consumed by | the parent birds, Beauty of plumage and definite in-| dividuality mark the few families of chats in Australia. In point of colora- tion the crimson chat surpasses both the handsome little orange-plumaged chat and the common black and white member of the order. It is without question one of the dazzlingly beauti- ful birds of Australia. The forehead, crown, breast, and upper tail feathers are a brilliant crimson, while the throat is white and the back brown-- a veritable gem in the outback bush lands. The chats are unique Austral- ian forms. They belong exclusively to this part of the world, having no relation to the whinchat and the stone- | chat of Great Britain. They go about in flocks, and are most partial to moist localities, tidal marshes, and most frequently | the dry saltbush country in the in- terior, while, as its name would infer, the "desert chat," or gibber-bird, lives in the more or less arid areas in the north 'of South Australia, the west of New South Wales, and the country around Lake Eyre and Lake Torrens. All of them make their nests quite ' close to the ground, usually in tufts of grass, rushes, or briar bushes, and sometimes near the roots of tall thistles, 1 Many birds de.ire the company of their fellows in winter, and it is cus-! tomary to see large flocks of different kinds feeding in field and forest. The ' gregarious nature of the red-breasted "robins forces itself upon our notice a little time after the birds have finish- ed' 'nesting, but this flocking habit is; witnessed at its best in autumn, when the birds form into companies and un- dertake a well-defined migration from ! highlands to lowlands to escapes the rigors of winter. Often the males _ keep to themselves, and there is noth- | " Ing- prettier than a flock of these sprightly and gaily-colored little crea-, tures moving across the open lands, flying from one stone to another, then to the ground, and to another stone or -& fence, and so on, feeding as they go. City parks and suburban gardens are, 'frequently visited by these dainty win- © ter migrants. Probably the best example of no- _ madic migration are afforded by par-! | rots and lorikeets. Their movements, of the chats and robins, are SOT Boal of a the lorikeet, is found in such as river valleys and | "lanterns, when many dash themselves to death against the glass. | The movements of the nomads of the avian world represent incipient migration in the past, which never de- veloped in the species of their ancest- ors to any greater extent than that we now wines, nt A rane ce | Scots View First "Air Circus" Renfrew, ®cot.--Scotland had its first opportunity to see an "air cir- cus" recently when Capt. C. D. Bar- nard, British pilot, led an gerial | pageant at Mooroark Aerodrome 'here on Sept. The circus conslsted of eight ma- chines, including Captain Barnard's 12-seater Spider, an autogyro, and a French. Potez, which was making its first visit to Scotland. In addition to the aerial acrobatics and other carnival features, Mr. J. A. Mollison, who recently made a record flight from Australia to England, gave ex- hibition flights and practical lessons in aviation. Chinese Aviat 4 Gets Official Appointment Nanking--1iiss Wang Kwei-fen, the , first Chinese young woman to receive an American airplane pilot's license, has been given an executive post in the aviation administration of the Ministry of War. She returned re- cently from New York University, , Where she studied aviation and quali- fied as a pilot. She intends to work in Nanking only for one year, after which she will go to Europe to study technical aviation, hoping to agsist China to establish its own airplane factories, ---- Ancient Village Found in Shetland Glasgow--A prehistoric village ex- tending over several acres of shore land has just come to light in the "island of Shetland off the north coast ' of Scotland. Excavations were begun earlier in the summer and already relics have "been unearthed which point to a Bronze Age survival. It is expact- "ed that it wil be some five years before excavating operations are ' completed, sme en rin Aviation Laws Taught Los Angeles--College students at the University of Southern Cali . fornia are offered an opportuaity to study the laws of aviation in a new | ; course which opened here this fall" The instruction offered also includes radio law. CA AGE In Wales the maternal death-rate has been, during the past forty years, ' digg we find. about forty per cent. higher than that to. 'almost assured of and swift Wh fhe pion of England. tn Alico--*- thought you could keep a dzeret?" Mabel---"Well, I kept it for a week. do you think I am, a Suldutorage o plant mation, His studies warrant, he said, the be- lief the micro-organisms that he has made to resume animated life and mul- tiply are descendants directly from cells "dormant in the anthracite from the time of its formation," which geo- logists calculate is from 15,000,000 fo 200,000,000 years. i "Talkies" Used In Court Evidence Melbourne, Viec.--A sound film, specially recorded for thee purpose, was recently admitted as evidence in the Supreme Court of Victovia. The case was one in which $6500 damages was claimed by a Mel bourne suburban resident for nul- sance caused by noises in an adjoin- ing dairy. Before the hearing of the case a sound film recording appa- rags was installed on the premises of the claimant, and a record made of the dairy noises during the night. The judge then visited the studio and heard the talkie run through. Justice Lowe ordered the dairy proprietor to refrain from using his bottling machine between 11 p.m. and 7:30 a.m., and to refrain from causing a nuisance between those hours. Glider Flies 26 Miles Rochester, N,Y. = Mr, wley Bowlus, glider instructor at the Le- roy Airport, recently flew from Le- roy to Rochester, a distance of 26 miles, in a motorless ship, "Tis all but him have dwellings, over all the shires, sea to misty sea; And men will come at twilight to their own hearth's fires. And mice will build their winter nests beneath the wild rose tree. Aye! tis well enough roving when the land is bright, A peddler might be merry then, be- fora the swallow's flown, With never a lamplit window for to haunt. him through the night, And he and his little donkey on the dark road alone. --Hamis Maclaren in the Spectator. He--""I have something serious to tell you. I love you, dearest." She--"Is that all? I've known that a long time. I thought you were go- ing to tell me that you had a job that would support both of us." dl oe-- She--*I wonder why we can't save money!" He ~The neighbors are al ways buying something we can't af- ford." Salvaging of Treasure Nearly Accomplished French crowds sweep down from the screen and fill tha vast auditorium. The Germans gearcely understand a word, but they do not mind, laugh and enjoy themselves like child- ren while they discover 'that the French are subject to the same feel- ings as they are. And when Georges Milton, the chief actor in this: French film entitled Le Roi des Resquilleurs, makes a final bow from the screen, ! applause fills the hall. Leaving the cinema one cannot help thinking that' in this instance, at least, the moving picture is working for the rapproche- | ment of the people of the world, -------------- World Shortage of Soft Wood Predicted Jerusalem--A world shortage of -- Softwood in 15 years' time is pre- ogs terioatin dicted by Mr. Richard St. Barbe D 8 De g Baker, founder of "The Men of o| +. Veterinarian Declares a Ey, dre a a meeting here, writes a correspondent ment for 8 - of the Chrstian Science Mor . ent Park Avenue veterinarian who has In Palestine the Covernment | found that the canines of America are Forestry Department has done much ! being pampered and petted so much to conservu the trees, he said. The | that they are subject to fits of hysteria Balfour Forest of tha Jewish Na-'and nervous break-down. : Dogs, said tonal Fund was established out ot Dr. J. > od Kiealkl, sant slang tu voluntary contributions. pace of modern life. wners The "Men of the Trees" in Pales-' their dogs Russian caviar or oysters tine, he. continued, are now endeav- tures to stand up and take it. "What oring tc obtain concerted acton. Fi- on the half shell and expect the crea- Bantial support of some friends in | those, Joge need #3id tne sostor, is ngland and America has heen en. Taw mea 0g naturally carni- Listen, Wille a present of 10,000,000 yoroug, Hell degvuorate Bas ros | ree seeds was sent to the @irls' lar pussy cal e doesn't ge Nurseries of the Federation of Jew- Crepes Suzettes are not raw meat." a ish Labor by a Chicagoan. i i . "I see Jerusalem growing apace," Last Course Me: hi Barbe oouker wala, Xoetare Sl An English business man was taken should be provided." yt Io Tanch by a Scottish friend in A Sums "Now," said the host, as he called i) . the waiter, 'this is going to be a real 3%-Ton Machine Scottish meal. We'll have cockio- Carried by Plane ' leekie soup, finnan hadies, a haunch Perth, W. Aust.--A piece of ma. of vension, sheep's head, jam roly-poly chinery weighing 3% tons was re-, ! with brandy sauce, and a bottle of cently carried by air over 26 miles Whisky. No he Susaed Aa his geet = Sua to fe gold fields in New "well," suggested yd . nb uinea, according to Mr. O. 8. Lucas, who has recently returned here from in a feeble voice, "what about ordering the island, writes a correspondent 2 couple of, stretchers While you're of the Christian Science Monitor, | about it? Mr. Lucas found that the cost of living in New Guinea was high, bread being 2s. 6 d. a loaf, potatoes 1s, a pound, onions 1s, a pound, and meat 68. A bound of butter cost 4s. 9d. and a 'dozen apples 7s. 9d. Skilled Australian workers receive approximately £25 a month. The company has put a freezing plant in operation for the employees and also New Orleans, where its origin has been traced, perhaps twenty years be- fore the end of the Nineteenth cen- Y|tury. But it was used in the verb form and applied to a rudimentary syncopated type of music as a cue to | speed t up, or to enliven it. Some {years later orchestras on the west | coast began developing this type of music, and in 1914 a complete jazz or- chestra composed of two saxophones, , cornet, trombone, violin, banjo, piano and drums, played at Los Angeles. A | year later this music gained popularity in Chicago and a-banjoist and orches- tra organizer there nam2d Bert Kelly made an adjective out of jazz and call ed his own orchestra Bert Kelly's Jazz band. This appears to be the first use of the term "jazz band." See J Caution The hotel manager was passing . down the passage one morning when he saw the Boots kneeling at one of | the bedroom doors cleaning a pair of 8 lo "What ave you doing?' he asked. "Take them down to the basement at vnce and clean them there." tain rural disigich some ruins in inquired for the oldest inhabitant, and assailed him with such # host of need- less interrogations that the ancient '| personage lost his temper, and said; -- littleness of our home in space whem 'measured up t the total abr, stance of the untverse. 3 wandering about in space. A few pany, but the majority are solitary travelers. And they travel through a universe 'so spacious that it is am event of almost unimaginable rarity another star. For the most part each voyages in splendid isolation, like & ship on an empty ocean. In a scale | model in which the stars are ships, the average ship will be well over a million miles from its nearest neigh- bor, whence it is easy to understand why a ship seldom finds another with in hailing distance. We believe, nevertheless, that some two thousand million years ago this rare event took place, and that a sec- ond star, wandering blindly through space, happened to come within hail ing distance of the sun. Just as the sun and moon raise tides on the earth, 80 this second star must have raised tides on the surface-of the sun. But puny tides which the small mass of the moon raises in our oceans; a huge tidal-wave must have traveled over the surface of the sun, ultimately forming a mountain of proligious height, which would rise ever higher and higher as the cause of the distugbance came nearer and nearer, And, before the second star began to recede, its tidal-pull, 'had become 80 powerful that this mountain was torn to pieces and threw off small fragments of 'it self, much as the crest of a wave throws off spray. These fragments have been circulating around their parent sun ever since. They are the planets, of which our earth is one.-- The Readers' Digest. airtime camaiaan. Wood-Gas Used By Finns To Drive Automobiles Helsingfors, Finland.--The Postal Authorities recently ran an autcmo- bile entirely on woo!-gas from Hel- singfors to Petsamo on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Timber being available everywhere, it was not necessary to carry much raw material. The machine for con- verting wood into gas has recently been greatly simplified. The undertaking was most success- ful both as to speed and cost, and al- most immediately afterward a lorry firm started regular communica tions between Viborgz and Helsingfors ising the same motive power and so far is entirely satisfied with the re- sults. Trains also are mostly run on timber, for coal, which must be im- ported, is expensive. --ty Returned With Thanks As he was passing under a 1adder reaching up to the windows of was struck on the head by a large piece of putty. He picked up the putty and, racing Lp the staircase of the house, entered the room from which it had been thrown. He was con.ronted by three .| stalwart men, "Who threw this?" he demanded angrily. "I did," retorted the biggest of the three. 'What are ye goin' to do about it, ech?" After a moment's sober reflection the colonel! murmured: "Oh, I just thought I'd return your putty." ------e dp meen Lost A pompous old man, visiting a cer- wished to inspéct @ neighborhood, He "I'll tell thee a better way yet. Go straight down yonder, take fust tarn- ing to right, second to left, over four stiles, through a tater-field, past the Blue Bear, up Milestone I¥Il and over the common till you come to Windy Wood; go down till you get into ths middle of that ere wood, and then: ja "Yes, and what then?" furnishes slontris hens. "Impossible, sir," replied the Boots,| "Then Fm blowed if you won't be : i "there's a Scotch gentleman ont he | properly lost!" Study of Native Tongue gone and he's' hanging. on to they No Time West in & ¥ Hawick, Scot.--A proposal for the inclusion of Scottish literature in the, ° school curriculum received the en- i thusiastio support of the Burns Fed- eration at its annual conference held the lay uly aint teach- ars of Seotiand, saeskors 'sineo they This vast multitude of stars are form groups which journey in come for a star to come anywhere near to they would be very different from the = cently built house, the iraseible oS x f