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_ “Many escapes?” said the old ex- - Warder, “No, not a’ many—in my time. But I remember one.” And he ss Bazed with musing eyes into the fire. ae “ ee. eee 2 ee ‘Ugly sort of country, I call them moors. The crool furze and the broken bare rocks lik2 snaggled teeth. _ And yet people—people of high class _--from Lunnon and I know not where, want to come and stay there in the - Want to come. And build little bunga- lows and such-like. And live in gypsy caravans and tents. And loll about _ and paint pictures and the rest of it. Course, I am speaking of a good few years ago, afore moters was thought of and afore the little inns as used to call theirselves “hotels” really got to be hotels. There were one woman. noticed her much at first. Nobddy She were ed very much alike. But presently she got to be know’d, ’cos on a curus habit of her’n. She kept one of them bungalows, and after a bit she built a stable along- side of it. And presently there was a horse in the stable, and it were a pro- per horse too, a girt leggy stallion, black as your hat, with a long tail and mane as flowed in the wind like girt fans. And she used to ride the big ugly thing. It was riding! No finick- ing along the open ways, picking out the clean bits, but a mad gallop any- wheres, up and down the sides of the tors and over the dips and hollows, the goss and the bramble, as if she and the horse were one and both on ‘em crazy. Racin Not often did she slacken down till oe she were nearing home, but some- 3; times she did pull up that big brute to a standstill, and always on a little steep hill as overlooked the pirson- yard. I marked that after a time. We all marked that. There she would sit agen the skyline like a black marble figure on a black marble animile, still as if they was a graven image—till they turned, and then she would wave her hand. We couldn’t make out for the life of us who it were she waved to. And we never did, find out before ’twere too late. But naturally we got to *sus- picion her, and we watched her, her comings and goings, her little doings and what-not. Only she got no reg’lar habits. Morn, noon, and eve, it were all the same to she. Sometimes we’d see her at sunrise, sometimes inthe noontide glare, sometimes in the mists of twilight. And some said, and I were one of ’em, that at night she used to come and sit there in the moon- shine, so still she might ha’ been wrought of the rocks theirselves. And some said, and I were one on ’em, that they heard the thrash of the horse’s hoofs on the hard stones, and believed - as she passed close by in the bitter | darkness of the fore-dawn.: Well, so it went on for maybe three or four months. And then the sum- mertime come to an end, and all them other gadabouts were packing up for Lunnon. We watched to see if she likewise were packing up. And she were. The best of her belongings went back to town in trunk-loads, in wagonloads. Then the horse he went. And then she went. And everybody said that everybody else were a fool, and that she were up to no more mischief than the rest of they. And after that we sort of half for- got about she. , Then, one night it were in October, I remind me, there come down one ci them there white fogs as be like to the darkness of Egypt—a darkness that could be felt—such is common in them parts. And it come down go sudden as if the heavens had frowned. The men were all in the quarries, but afore we could round ’em up and put ‘em under guard two or three on ’em slipped away into the fog. We were took so by surprise, d’ye see. How- somever, we got ’em afore they stray- ed far, and marched ’em back. And then I suddenly found out as one on ’em were still missing. Hard ’twere at first to make out which 'twere. But we had the bells a-ringing and the guns a-booming to a fine toon, I do tell ye. And at last we found out that it must be Yanson as had done us. Now Yanson were a chap as we all liked _ and pitied. He were in for manslaugh- ter, ten year, and our view on the mat- ter were as it sarved the. scoondrel right as he had killed. And again he were so quiet and kindly and give no trouble at all. You couldn't a-help be- ing sorry for Yanson. Duty, howsomever, be duty. And it were our duty to cotch him. Else we'd know the reason why. So, we saddled horse, and away, scouring all the coun- tryside. “But though. them dumb creatures know’d the paths about them moors é6ame as if they had been cats as see in the dark, we had to go slow. Bach on us on his own lonesome, all going their several ways. I made my way towards’ that there bungalow where the woman and the horse used to bide in the summertime. _—s«Tf- you ask me why I went that way I * couldn't never tell ye. It were in- > gtinet, like, I reckon. Anyhow, after a weary while, I see’d a patch of bright- Fe fiess in the mirk, as if there be a fire burning. It were not just a single — if you unde ;tand me, but a AE : \ went for that patch, of brightness. And then something whopped up agen us—fair bored into us—out of the darkness, and sent my mare a strid- _ dling into a bag-hole where she come down with an almighty crump, and me on top of she. “But I seen who ‘twas. woman on that _ her'’n. ' ci ’ nme =" Per ye ore MEY MATE oh age weemingiig and a kicking a ss ESSA ‘un, She’d snapped a strap some ety way, and likewise slipped her bit and 4 bridle. Took me years—seemed years, ‘but likely ’twere only a minute or so to get her right and up agen. It were that big ugly stallion 0’ fat ie dhe as = ‘merricles happened as he u ; hap- 4{{ bening on them moors. A stiff breeze | - | Sprung up, and quick as yeu could} — summer-time. Right in the Whadow of the prison walls of the Gastle they just one of a crowd, and they all seem- wink the fog were gene. <A sneering, flaunting moon as looked as if she'd fair blue sky and turning the moor to a chequer-board of white gleams and black shadows, the little bungalow and the stable hard were what I thought to be a blaze of row of candles in the winder. Neg’lar beacon it were, for to guide him, Yan- son. I urged my mar? on; but the fall had bust her bellers for a bit, , and devil a canter could I get out on her, let alone a gallop. Still, I know’'d as Yanson-couldn’t get.very far in- his convict-kit, and I guessed, and I guess- ed right, as be was a changing of his clothes, getting rid of his irons, in that there bungalow. And she a-helping of him, no doubt. Now the ground” were so snappy thereabout that you couldn't hear nothen put the ringing o’ the bells and the booming o’ the guns. So as it were not until he be got hear fifty yards away as I heard him. Then I, see’d ‘un. I had not for her, and now—there he was astride of it, streaking across the open moor like the shadow of a big bird flying low. Yoicks, but I were after him! He'd got on a big black cloak and a big black hat, but I know’d him by the clean-shaved back of his head and neck ‘showing a pale line ’twixt the hat-brim and the collar o’ the cloak. “Goom opp, then, Cherry,” I says in the mare’s ear. “You harn’t got the pace on him, but you’ve got the hang- by.” By which I mean to say, gentlemen all, that she was not so fast as the stallion, but was more like to last longer. Ay, ‘twere a starn chase, as the sailormen say. At first my mare lost so much ground I thought as we’d lose sight. o’ the stallion altogether afore very long. But sure and sure my Cherry she got her wind back, and then she began to gether her four legs under her and jest by like the wind. In a sudden burst o’ speed she gained on ‘un, And then she fell away again. “Steady, lass, steady!” I says to she. “ "Tis a long row and a hard row as we ha’ gotten afore us. Ay, but we'll win out at the finish, sure-ly.” 3 And so it went on>~A hard, rough ride on a hard, rough course. And what with the black shadows as look- ed deep as the pit and as hard as the walls of the prison itself, and what with them white patches as looked like glazed granite and were jest peat- muck that you wallowed in up to your haunches—ah! it were crool hard rid] ing, and dangerous too. Once down, and she’d ha’ broke her back and me neck, for sure. It were go hard, hold hard, every inch. And then, jest in sight always, though times I cuyuld hardly make ’un out, were the stallion and poor Yanson, with terror behind ‘un, death all round ’un, and the jail afore ‘un all the way. Mile on mile we rode that gait, and now it were jest steady riding, ’cos we know’d as the horse as’ lasted the longest, and not the horse as went the fastest, would win that there race. Hours we went on. It were soon no more than jogging. And the moon went down and it grew dark agen, jest as I’d feared, and I lost sight of the stallion. But the mare had got the wind of him, and I jest let her g0 blind. And presently it warn’t so dark. Presently there be a long, low see’d that big black brute agen, and Yanson a-waving in his saddle for all as if he were nigh dead beat. They beant more than fifty lengths ahead by then, and both on us crawl- ing along at a slithering walk as if our two horses had gotten chilblains. And I outs with my pistol and shouts, husky-like:— “Stop, there, or I fire!” And at that he swung round on his saddle and fires point-blank at me with his own weapon. I heard the bul- let sing past my ear. But that was his last bing. For as he tried to ride on agen the stallion went down and he fell on his knees. I got off my mare and run towards ‘un. He had gotten up, was a-stand- ing there, straight and stif. Then, of a sudden, he whins off: his hat. I see‘d a sort of powder-bag fall off his head; you know the sort o’ thing them there—what is it—Pier- rots wear. And he bows as he clicks his heels together, and “Good morn- ing!” says he. And it beant in a man’s voice he speaks. And no more were ne a man, neether, but She—the woman o’ that there bungalow, Her hair fell in long black curls about her shoulders as she stood and smiled at me. * Me * 1 * “Well,” said the old ex-warder, “it was aiding: and abetting, o’ coarse. And I ought to ha’ had the law on her, spacially as Yanson, as were her sweetheart, got clean away.” But I hadn’t—no, I hadn’t the heart for to do it. She be sech a bonny wench. “And it all got tided over, some- ways. And then there were talk of King’s Clemcy, and I dunno what-all. “But this I do know,” said the old ex-warder, “ ‘tis the only time as I never cared as I were praperly put upon.” | — ‘ - Trees About Prairie Schools. A short time ago very few school districts in the Prairie Provinces planted trees about the school-house, but in the last three years the num- ber has been steadily Inaveasing. This year in Saskatchewan alone 150 schoo] districts will plant trees. Tho seed- ling trees are obtained from the PDo- minion Forest Nursery Station at In- dian Head, Sask. —- ds — ——- a We “were madé to radiate the per- fume of good cheer and happiness as much ag a rose was made to radiate its sweetness to every passer by. au “ays hap- done it all were gafly racing across the } And there, right ahead of me, were | by, plain as a pike-staff. And there| § fire, but which was no moré than a long ago} jaloused- as the big black stallfon were |. slit of white light in the sky, and 1) <= ® van 4 ei a > < e: “oy : eae ae 3 ae “ ‘aa - , — es | ie - st A f { ‘ j A t te < ; mi W 4 whe ~—e mon game, and they all denou “Yes,” he said,.“the weather’s pet. the woods, and creeks are wet, -and they quack no vain regret. e ' r<e 3 Soar ae = :s a? eee cia 3° : ; q bs i Co Res ult BR = mmo fh Gas} “ ie Sit . ees en GOOD FOR DUCKS —i—i—‘=ts Long the rain had been descending, and the town was like ‘a lake, and thie watls of people, blending, made the famous welkin quake. And when neighbors got together they pursued the com-. beastly shame. But to-day I met a gaffer who has comfort of his - own; he's'a sort of chronic laugher who is never heard to groan. | ‘pour, but the little ducks are happy as they never were before. And I think we should not quarrel with the weather, though it’s - wet, for the ducks are highly moral and deserve the good they . With your groans and hully-cheeings you disturb the public peace; yet I doubt if human beings count for more than ducks | and geese. Ducks are fond of moistened water and they like . to swith and dive, and on droughty days they totter, scarcely more than half alive. They are glad when rain is drumming on and your life seems slick as grease, you will hear no loud repin- ing from the grand old ducks and geése. the gander, there is weather for the hen, and man should con- trol his dander if the rain starts in again.” a — nced the weather as a bald and sappy, and the tireless torrents but they take whatevr’s coming, When the sun again is shining, There is weather for é | ||| Helping the Robins es ee ae eee i SE aia or Ao a el, a to Nest see _— a “* me — In a Bird-Lore census, taken no jlong ago, it was estimated that the| {robin was the most numerous Ameri- next. The robin; in one form or an- referred to the English robin as “Honest Robin, who loves mankind - both alivé and dead” the American robin, for the bird loves to nest not only in our gardens but in ‘our cemeteries houses, - + * the family of young rcebins was suc- lcessfully reared in this admirable sanctuary, DELVING INTO THE - ER’S LIFE. by Numerous Adventurers Are in All Cases Hard- Earned Money. of exploration, : which comes to the average mind. tion. back from the Antarctic. \ ' world at the same time. few might remember Amundsen and ithe heart of the Arctic ice. Always at Work. Here and there you might across an individual who had heard of Colonel Fawcett, who, by the by, is known forests at the back of Brazil. pedition, but this has returned, and will not start again for some months. Beyond these, there do not seem to |'be many explorers before the public (eye. Yet, for all that, there are al- | ways scores of explorers at work. You | will find them in the heart of New | Guinea, the delta of the Amazon, the | little-known places of Africa, and the tablelands of Tibet. Most of them are men whose names are absolutely unknown to the public, yet each is an expert in his particular line, and many spend their whole lives delving into the blank spaces on the map. ! They do not lecture; they do not write for papers; they do mot even re- port to the Royal Geographical Socie- ty. In fact, they do not court pub- licity ef any kind. For them explora- tion is the business of their lives. But it is always exploration with a definite object. Some are field na- turalists, who go out into the wilds for the purpose of searching for rare plants, such as- orchids. These are ‘found in the most deadly tropical swamps, and cther rare plants come from the wild mountains of Northern India.» and Southern China. Others for rare insects or birds. Then there are the collectors of wild beasts. The Zodlogical Gdrdens and menageries of the world are sup- plied by these men, who run the most appalling risks in the ordinary course of their business. animals as full-grown leopards, or the great apes, is not the sort of pursuit favored by life insurance companies, Paying the Extreme Penalty. A third-class consists pector in search of minerals, or of oil. There is hardly a corner of any con- tinent into which he does not pene- trate. Some of these men are mining experts; the majority are quite self- taught. You find them hunting for tin in the hinterland of Nigeria, for silver in the mountains of Mexico, and for gold in Arctic Amerca, Never a year passes but some of them pay with their lives for their daring. Kither they are caught and killed by natives, slain-by fever, or frozen and starved to death in the bleak desolation of the Alaskan mountains. . Your professional explorer is usual- ly financed either by his Government or by some very wealthy man who is interested in such work. An expedi- tion, such as that headed by the late Sir Enest Shackleton, costs a great deal of money. There ig the charter or purchase of a ship, the salary of, experts, the wages of the crew, and the provision of a vast quantity of’ stores, Cal WORLD'S SECRETS HARDSHIPS OF EXPLOR- Comfortable Incomes Enjoyed The sad termination to Sir Ernest! Shackleton’s cruise in the Quest has roused public interest in the question “Does it pay?” ts the first thought To answer this we must realize first the enormous fillip which the cinema has given to the profession of explora- It has indeed doubled, or more than doubled, the profits at one swoop, be- cause for eyery one person who will pay money to hear an explorer lecture a dozen will buy seats to see such | pictures as an expedition would bring Besides that, films can be multiplied ; to any extent, and shown all over the Asked what explorers were at work at present, most people would at once mention the men in the Quest, and a his daring and almost solitary dip into come just back from the depths of the un- There is also the Mount Everest Ex- The capture of such | of the pros- | expeditions were enormously expen- had an army of At one’ time he sive, for he always / carriers and natives. had as many as seven hundred men. sale, well. . His lecturing “our brought him al- During his lecturing tour in 1885 he is said to have cleared about seventy-five thous- most more than his books. and dollars, ; Is it Worth the Risk? the end rose the world. plorers is Dr. Nansen. Polar Sea to Greenland. _Uon in the first place by exploration work. This is Sir Harry Johnston, who became known to through his plucky attempt to ascend that giant East African voleano called Kilima-Njaro. It is plain, then, that exploration has its prizes, and there are plenty of men who are living at home on comfortable | Imcomes made by the discovery of a new tin, or oil, or gold field. Quite re- cently an oil-field discovered in North- ern South America brought its finder a fortune of over $250,000. ~e— Growing Corn for Ensilage. Corn has come to occupy a large place among the field crops of Canada, more particularly in the province of Ontario, where about thirteen million bushels are grown annually. In ad- dition to the crop for grain. Canada produces six million tons of corn for ensilage. Of this about four and a half million tons are produced in On- tario. It is estimated by Dr. J. H. Grisdale, Deputy Minister of Agricul- ture for Canada, that this forage crop is housed in’about forty thousand silos. In the March-April number of The Agricultural Gazette Dr. Grisdale has issued a statement covering the history, production, and utilization of corn in agricultural practice in Cana- da. In this the advantages of corn growing are enumerated. 1. It is an exceedingly cheap feed since, over a period of 20 years, costs have run from $1.50 to $3.92 per ton when labor and supplies were most expensive. 2. Large returns per acre. The aver- age crop in this period of time has been equal to about 5 tons of clover hay per acre, 3.. Best. crop 'manure, vas Ne 4. Best crop to use when breaking up a sod field, . | 5. Best crop for cleaning land, 6. Easiest crop to harvest as | weather conditions. 7. The crop most cheaply housed. 8. The crop most’ easily handled in feeding. ; 9. Best crop for supplementing dry pastures, . ep : 10. Best crop to help induce cattle | to consume coarse and: poor ‘roughage. | di. Cheapest and best . succulent food that-can be growm in the province , of Ontario and Quebec. : 12. The crop that permits of the carrying of most live stock per acre. | Referring to varieties Dr. Grisdale. ,mentions* Wisconsin No. 7, Golden Glow and Harly Leaming . as most satisfactory in Eastern Ontario, but he mentions having seen ‘an extra- ordinarily good field of Eureka grow- ‘ing in the vicinity of London, During , the past four years, when all costs _ were high, corn was produced at the | Experimental Farm at Ottawa at an | average cost of $57,62 per acre, or | $3.52 per ton, with an average yield of '16.4 tons per acre, ae -on which | to apply to He Valued Company, Two farmers met after church and ‘had this conversation: | “T hear you’ve sold your pig?” “Yes, sold him last Thursday.” “What d'ye get?” Captain Scott’s last expedition, which. he reached the in two hundred and seventy-five thoueand dollars. In Curious contrast, that of. Amundsen, whoss rapid dash for the Pole led to such wonderful success, cost only about one-tenth of this sum. | Of modern explorers, the one who Women in China never kiss, and when a- Chinese woman wishes to a I'd hardly got across her, you | O-% ies om . 4q¥ Ay, wheas ae * ‘4 4% Ree oes t ie ae ee ee Re ee ee Wee AG oo , show her affection she cocth- 4-—0h ! wt j ‘ . ° “ ro “aie ~ ‘ ‘ ei dae’ ’ 4 | Aid bast fram a financial South | > Pole, but lost his fife, cost about | five for the lumber in the pen “Thirleéu dollars.” “What'd it cost ye to raise it?” “Paid three dollars for the shote, and house and five more for the feed.” . “Didm’t make much, did. ye?” “No, but I had the use of the pig all summer.” lp merit ce | point of view Wig cede ge i kee Aah Ka eee Gore Se Tes =: Ui But he was financed by the news- papers for which he worked. Not only was he paid for his work by these papers, but his books had an immense “How I Found Livingisone,” beat all existing records.for a book af its type, and “In Darkest Africa” did almost as Another great African explorer was Sir Richard Burton, who, though ig- ‘nored by the public for long years, in to fame and a knight- heod. His books are still sold all over Almost the best-known of living ex- His fame dates ‘from the year 1888 when, in company wita three Lapps, he walked right across the gigantic ice-gap which covers Greénland. His attempt to reach the North Pole in the Fram be- gan in 1893. He hitched his ship to an ice-floe, and started to drift across the Another well-known man may be said to have made ‘his name and posi- the public: | mained go as long as they were con- The nesting robins may be assisted by providing nesting sites; a shelf up under the eaves, will often tempt them or a sheltered platform set on the limb of a tree. If there is a trellis in the garden on which a rambler rose- bush or honeysuckle climbs, one of these sheltered shelves cet at the top of it forms an admirable site for a robin’s nest. One can assist also by puting out nesting material. In the case of the robin the first requisite is mud—good, plain, old-fashioned, black sticky mud, for the robin makeks the foundation of his nest invariably of this. In sandy countries and dry weather the birds often have consid- erable difficulty in getting mud for their foundation. In one of her books Olive Thorne Miller tells of a robin that wet his feathers, then rolled in the dust and went to the nesting site, where he picked the resultant mud from his plumage and used it for the foundation of his nest. Most of us nowadays have a bird bath in the yard and it is an easy thing to put a dish of. clay or loamy soil beside this and moisten it to the right consistency. The robin will come and take it by the mouthful—poor chap, he has no other means of getting it—and begin the nest, perhaps on by shade tree. Usually the mud is built up like a shallow cup and then soft grasses—dried grasses of the pre- vious year’s growth—are embedded in it and skilfully built around until the completed structure is mud below but softly lined and built up with these grasses. From that time until the eggs are hatched’ the less human over- sight and interference the better, al- though the brooding mother bird will |be very fearless as the process of in- ‘cubation continues, but after» the ' young are hatched out a gentle friend- |liness wisely offered will be well re- ceived and appreciated. The task of feeding a nestful of young robins is a great one. Everyone of them will eat at least its own weight in insect food daily. FEarth- worms, rolled in grit, are well liked by the youngsters. Cut worms, inch- worms, mealworms—almost-any soft- bodied, non-hairy caterpillars may be given freely. Nor need one have any fear that the family will be pauperized by any such charity. This feeding will help the youngsters to grow up with very friendly feelings toward the human family and in no other way can you so readily gain the confidence of the parent birds. Oftentimes, disaster overtakes a robin family; for some reason the parent birds co not return to the nest and then the human neighbors must take charge of the young. If worms of various sorts are not readily avail- able, bread and milk will nourish the robin children very well. They grow up rapidly and presently will learn to fly, but although they by and by get their own food themselves they still will be very friendly with those who have fed them. They should be allowed complete freedum and will, of course, at the migration time, fly away south with their fellows. If your young robins survive the winter they will surely return to your yard and the delightful process of nest-building may be watched all over again, Robins, probably the same family, certainly their descendants if not the rete fet ean bird, the house sparrow coming other, nests practically all*over the _jcontinent of North America and the bird is one of the most friendly that | we have. The poet Wordsworth once | and the words thight apply equally to and upon our very Often a robin will select a corner of the porch,‘a nook under the eaves, or even go inside of the building itself. Recently one is reported to have flown in at the open window of a church during service and to have be- gun to build his nest on a cornice just | over the pulpit. The window was left partly open from that time on and the porch but more likely on the near- |- While riding one day with a neigh- bor in his ear we were unfortunate enough to run into a mud hole, The rear wheels, even with the chains on, absolutely refused to take hold, either me at first that we were in to stay; but I found that my friend was pre- pared for just such emergency. He produced from the tool box two pieces of trunk rope about ten feet long, two wooden stakes about eighteen inches long and a three-pound sledge. I wondered just what was “coming off,” but I soon learned. He drove a stake behind each rear wheel where the ground was solid. A rope was then tied to éach stake, close to the ground, run under the hub and tied to a spoke. My friend started his engine, threw it into reverse and the ear easily backed itself out of the mud hole. | - It is worth any autoist’s while, espe- roads, to add _ these articles to his equipment. Make Sure Spring Clips Are Drawn Up Tight. If any proof be required of the ne- cessity of keeping spring clips tight it may be found in the fact that neither dealers nor manufacturers will replace a spring that is broken through the centre bolt hole—the place where most springs give way, erican Motorist,” who goes on to say: “Breakage of this nature is taken. as evidence that the springs clips were not kept tight. The spring clips are subject to bending. in two directions, with the result that excessive strains are imposed at the weakest point, which in this ease is at the bolt hole. perfectly tight by drawing the -nuts up as close as possib’# with a wrench of such size that there is no question of their being tight. It is well also to bear in mind that even a nut se- cured by a lock washer will ultimately work loose; hence the necessity for looking over your spring clips now and then.” | Practical Paragraphs. In sedan bodies it will sometimes be found that as the windows are lowered they are broken by hard objects car- ried in the deor pockets. If the hard object is of some size it will strike the edge of the seat when the door is| being closed and bear against the door glass hard enowgh to break it. Getting out of a rut—When one of the rear wheels has got in a -mud-hole| r deep rut so that it springs, apply the emergency brake with a gentle pressure. This will give enough resistance to the spinning wheel so that the other wheel can pull. the ear, out of trouble. The decrease in engine speed because of the pressure of the. brake can be compensated for by) opening the throttle a little. Upholstery cleaning—Many sedans have broadcloth upholstery, and A Help To Autoists. —-—, g going ahead or back. It seemed to cially when travelling on country inexpensive. observes a contributor to “The Am-. “The spring clips should be seated | A‘ 9 owners experience difficulty in kee ing this in’ good | condition, In remo jing spots from brosdeloth the material ‘should be rubbed in the direction of — | the nap. This means brushing with — a downward motion on the trimming on the sides of the body and a for- _ ward motion on cushions and head lining. When the nap of broadcloth is standing up it is unsightly in cer~ — tain lights. It can be made to lie | . ~ flat by the handling deseribed above, — using a neil ora hand brush, Holding emery cloth—In polishing | some flat surface with emery cloth in- — stead of the file it will be found con-— venient to wrap the cloth around ‘the — file and bend-a bit of wire into a clip ‘form to hold the material at the lower + end. The cloth at the outer end of the = file is held by the fingers anyway, so that this does not need a clip. nears Rim cut repair—Rim cuts are often given up as hopeless by the car owner, each side of the break at intervals of | $s of an inch and far enough from Lace the holes with a cord made of six strands of braided fish line or any > braided cord about 8-32 of an inch in diameter, Seak this lacing in paraffin or wax to make it waterproof and then thread it through the first hole, wind ; aa it around the bead, through the second — hole and so on. Let six inches of the _ cord hang over on each end for tuck- — ing away. Fnally place a blowout patch over the lacing inside the -shoe to protect the tube against injury. — when the car has to be jacked up on coft ground and no support for the tool is handy take out the floor board or toe board and use.this. It will be found to serve the purpose admirably. \ Radiator repair—-To make a rood emergency repair of a honeycomb radiator, use a small bolt, longer than the depth of the radiator and fine enough to go through the hole in the honeycomb. On each end of this bolt a steel washer is placed, with a rubber | washer inside. Tighten the nut yo. this bolt and the rubber washers are _ drawn tight enough to stop the Jeak. ‘ This repair cannot be made on a ti.bular radiator, * From a Watery “Graveyard.” Said a flivver in the river “Mud and water make me shiver; ~ O, that fate should so have mocked me! Here I lie just like a roe, Had my owner, when he parked me, Locked me, thieves would not have marked me, 7 Just imagine how it shocked me. | When they pushed me off the dock! . F “I was young, I had endurance, Furthermore there was insurance; ' My equipment was selected— Extra tires, robes and tools. So they took me and they stripped mie, Everything—and then they tripped me, Just because my boss neglected ‘Very ordinary rules.” eS bi | — EEE a ee — Modernizing a Walled Chinese City ee | } reswanane 4} Through the resource and persever- ance of a white man Canton, China, one of the most ancient, and walled, and most backward cities of the back- ward empire, has now a modern sitreet transportation system of motor husses, modeled after the Europen type. The bring about of this is one of the big romances of white-man endeavor in the Chinese republic. In 1916, Tom Macinnes, a Canadian lawyer and promoter from Vancouver, went to China. Previous to this he had much experience with Chinese, having in his capacity of a lawyer drawn up the Anti-Opium Act for Canada in 1909 and the Chinese Imml- gration Act in 1810, Besides his know- ledge of law and of the Chinese people, he had a keen mind for promoting big projects. Arrived in China, MacInnes went lo Canton on business and while there traveled much about the eity,! which he found to be a primitive place, although it contained about 2,000,000 Same birds, have nested year after! year in the same site for twenty years, Fish and Snake Slane Weed in Place of Shoe Leather. Shoes are now being made of fish and snake skins. This substitute for leather is said to cost less, and to be practically everlasting. The skins are cut and fitted in the same manner as leather, and are used for shoes of vari- | ous shapes for both men ana women. In some parts of the country they have attracted favorable attention, and have become quite popular. Fn What Killed the Majority. The Plague met some men outside a town. Becoming confidential, he told them that his mission was to destroy a thousand people within the town, Later, one of these men said to him, “You went considerably beyond your orders, didn’t you? Instead of killing a thousand, you killed ten thousand.” “Oh,” said the Plague, “you're wrong there. I carried out my orders exact- ly and killed a thousand. Bear killed the other nine thousand.” a, Almost every little girl knows that if she is very, very good her hair will curl, but who suspected that, if we stopped salting our food, we should become black ent have flat noses? A yuropean gayant has it all worked out! Originally all men were black and re- tent to live on fruit and roots, But the Americans began to éat meat and became red, the Asiatics began to miis- ‘use milk and became yellow, and the Caucasians ate too much sait and so The best way out of a. diffieulty is ae a 2 Ly & oats ba turned white. inhabitants. Along one side of the city } flows the Pearh River. © Around the other three sides of the old city ra» an, immense fortified wall, in some places 45 ft. through at the base and from 20 to 25 ft. high. But for many years the population had outgrown these old fortified boundaries, and a new city had sprung up outside the cury, $2 ee walls. Countless narrow passages, rv | i a. Hak etreets. But they were a vast tangied maze a veritable modern labyrinth. Through a portion of the city ran canals, mostly made by the excava- tions to build the wall, some of them dug 3,000 years ago. On these canals sampan boats were huddled together, upon which lived a varying population numbering from 10,000 to 25,000. No other city on the face of the earth contained 80 Many people in so cramp- ed a space; and to serve all this great population there was no street trans- portation, There was not even a sitreet worthy of the name. His travels about Canton developed in MacInnes’ mind an idea. He saw that by tearing down the major por- tion of the great circular wall, room could be made for a magnificent belt- line boulevard around the old city, which would also serve the new, With this done, and a\few thousand of the rickety buildings swept away, cross boulevards could be made at a fairly reasonable cost, and the whole popu- lation afforded a splendid transporta- tion system. A system of wide boulevards wag built, on the site of the ancient wall, and where thousiands of rickety houses had formerly stood, The boulevards are from 80 to 125 ft. wide. Down the centre of each, for a width of 26 ft., right of way was given the company, — 3," firststhing to do is to resnove tha wh fending substance; water poured over the injured surface will do best, man has dropped so much caust’¢ veld or alkali on himgelf: that it has eaten through his clothes and is eating into his skin, a good plan is to turn the hose on him while he takes off his clothing as quickly as possible. When all the caustic has been washed off the. chemical antidote should be applied by irrigation or mopping; vinegar and water is best for an alkali burn, bicare bonate of soda solution for an acid burn. That treatment will reliave the | pain, and if the burn is of the first degree it may be all that is needed. Usually, however, it is advisable to ap- ply also an ointment of oxide of sinc or boric acid. | : ? be changed a8 often es the di from the wound loosen ft oe ee eS Sere nt ee oe bane teaben Sie © 5s idiveenee-aaees The original plan of MacInnes was to build an electric tramway of the type used in all Canadian cities. But the difficulties in the way of lowering stone bridges across the canals, and other reasons, caused the company to put in operaton a modern motor-bus system. This is now known. as the Kwongtung Tramway Company, and has received a monopoly to operate for 25 years is any part of Canton and its suburbs, for which right is paid $1,000,000. In the spring of i921, Tom MacInnes saw his dream realized by a fleet of Huropean motor buses oper- ating on the streets of Canton. There carry 30 passengers per car, onethiy: first class and two-thirds second class. Canton has begun a new era, a Cleaner, brigher city, yet still a nie- turesque and romantic one. oe eee +s te net ‘ \ Chemical Burns, Strictly speaking, a burn jis caused by heat, but the injuries that strong. acids or alkalies inflict are so similar to real burns thaé it is convente nt to call them burrs also, The injures caused by such caustics are of thred degrees. The first inciuges f:imrcte jo- flammation. and perhaps bilstesing the second, more or less eating awry of the skin; and the third, real des- truction of the tissues. mon caustics The most cor. ure strong nitric ex 7 sulphuric acid,._potawh or soda lye anl Ld \ . slaking lime; leas common are chisr-: ide of zinc and acid nitrate cf ner. 6 ae Burns of the second and third de grees should be snipped at the bottom Song bo let all the fluki drain. away; but care should be taken not to tear off the tender covering. Then, after the surface has been irrigated with a borloncid solution and patted d: sterile absorbent cot should be covered wW dressing—-ambrine atitutes—-provected ° of absorbent aig Sy Then, after the es “net 7 a a ‘ine or one of dected with a. Sad 7 “ 0 a but they can be repaired in the follow- = 2 ing manner: Drill a series of holes on Jack support—In an emergency aah. Se OMS eel, ay. 4 oe: io ae A pn Ke o- 4 " , : “ otidn Of. the edge so that they will not pull out. a ae