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jstakois v i 7 7 skztaibmxurig 1 i bs for the- boys and girls partridge risks her like 1 jumped because right from under ay feet a little brown partridge that lad been sitting on her nest hidden jose under the vide of a big log in jjpile of dead leaves dashed away vain fright making a loud noise most hexpeetedly 8he had heard me eom- g when i was several hundred feet fyay and had watched me keeping ej quiet doubtless hoping that i md go by on the other side of the pi pwc were twelve little partridges ted up snugly under her wings she was anxious that no harm d come to them just as any other r would be she even might considered remaining very still oad gone by on her side of the wssiae i was six or so feet away jjse nature had given her brown ers very much the same shade vir as that of the dead leaves v i log in order that she might 7 lastly escape discovery when j n or near her nest knowing 1 ct she perhaps did not intend 3 saway unless it became abso- jbly necessary tut my big army shoes were tramp- j heavily as i came on right to ds her her heart must have been ng loud because she could easily ja escaped since she jygf5 when s still a long away but was she too lith her babies cbuldntrptck them up and run she was too loyal to run and leave in danger waited until i was about to lion her before she moved in the vitime in some manner she ex- ried the danger to her little brood instructed them what to do in j she had to leave them then las i was about to step on her a loud flapping of wings she nded to fly away but so slowly i raced after her whidn was just she wanted me to do in that she was leading me away from pabies and giving them time to xiahidingplaces i raced on think- sea might catch her but in a mo- lev she knew that her little part- ts were in all probability safely a and flew away from me easily the nowever nad sked her own ncs order to save them because she mor know whether i was the kind tioijan that always carried a gun whomhhe woods and shot at every thatwild thing i might see which i ana easily have done in her case pjshe flew so slowly at first acti she was g aw from go i thought of the little to idges which i was certain were sini nest since it was the time of outpar when partridge babies were pevound if one had sharp eyes and of ii back but the nest was empty c were broken pieces of egg shells vjby which were telltales- i de- ln aud tided that there were little partridges hidden under leaves and pieces of bark even in grasses partly covered with dead leaves close by i knew they were very young because the broken shells looked as if they might have been pushed out of the nest thai very day after a few moments of very care ful looking i found one little fellow partly hidden tinder a big dead oak leaf with his bill pushed down into the soft forest soil he was as still as could be he didnt make a move for fear he would attract my atten tion i picked him up tenderly looked at him just a moment then put him down gently because i could feel his heart beating and knew that he was badly frightened and slipped away being very careful shore i stepped for fear i might put my heavy shoe down on one i knew his mother was not far away that she was at that very mo ment watching and listening from somewhere and that she would come back as soon as i had gone and call softly i wanted to hide somewhere and watch her but she would have seen me and would not have come baek however after she had called a time or two first one came out of hiding then another and another j until all had come she clucked soothingly and they understood that she would spread her wings and keep j them waiyn until they were over their scare but one of them had something j strange about it she put her head down and smelled around it then pecked at it a most unusual thing for hhis little loving partridge mother to j do as much as to say i dont want you go away and she actually push ed itgaway with her bill as if punish- ing it for something it sat off to the side alone until the wind had blown i away a peculiar smell about it that j she could not understand but feared very much when the human hand had stroked it the odor of perspiration clung to it and she like other wild things had learned to fear very greatly the odor of human perspiration that by sad experience was associated with the frightful noises of guns and suffer ings from wounds and death when shot at she had never suffered in this manner directly but somehow understood from other partridges in cluding her mother that it is always wise to fly hard whenever this smell is perceived on the wind or about trees and stumps and to her amazement the odor was about her baby but the wind was blowing briskly that after noon and soon blew away the dread ful odor later when the little lone ly fellow crept up to his mother the smell had gone and she almost pushed him under her wings so happy was she she couldnt understand neither did he ssess of soimr rttlement plans disclc two ijjzsxl of 28940 men soughfen a fair start ruler j notm sought maintains supervision puttiers and invites im- f 5 1 exsoldiers to come into jbf j lnstrun to canada v 61 lnes wf of operation of the sol- ity of f lenient board of canada that pendenvinized for the purpose of sct- howevtlseharged canadian warriors fertilitinadian farm lands covering not dij 192 disclose a gratifying hs pjnce of the success which char- land r w001 former years hon o y6 further prove in a very rule a tnat ul en which though tho canadian army in war flow arc been carried into the years ptolem and the men who upon die- syria ngjected to find re-establish- mn o land have for tho steadfastly adhered to their asses tna v jd have uniformly been sue- leave you face of ttt tlmes katd been for jtf conditions house ofjer settlement board of with faminaccounted for the settle- v 8 a fds of the dominion of a perhaps anio men of whom 22648 ndministra wlth ioan6 nnd iv z92 crown aons court fidelity worf an settlement most respond p u year 1922 by easternie amounting to 193235- ii a botp mode ix ex- warriors v 9 hast provinces in the haste becaush alberta 26974934 father and fc j22739281 manitoba riush columbia 14 a tnntrf 7488660 quebec xauicj w921605 tl940122 and prlnco a cement b cf a lantern rtlont satisfactory knock over h of tho board tho very useful aras were considered a form is mactory from tho stand- of sheet ironncnts of loans which about three uyoar period in- past base of the laof these soldier farm- one inch higher them to complete is set on a smoocry much ahead 6t inch of coment i time some three hundred in 1920 hav ing paid off their total indebtedness in 1922 the province of ontario show ed the beat results with 73 per cent of the amount due by soldier settlers having been paid into the board tho district ofreglna in saskatchewan was second with 70 per cent of pay ments made the maritime provinces show 57 per cent paid and the prince albert district of saskatchewan 56 per eeot paid tho numucr of soldier cettlers who have given up their farms after ii trial amounts to 137 per cent ef tho total who have received loans or 107 per cent of tho total number settled under the auspices of tho board this is a very slight increase for the year just passed and indicates tiat the soldier farmers whose efforts were not to prove successful dropped out early tho proportion is gratltylngly small in view or the fact that the largo ma jority of discharged men ultimately settled were recruited from other trades and professions and in tho con sideration that the task of tho soldier settlement scheme wae not to devise a rigorously efficient land settlement scheme but to bo an agency of mutual ly beneficial civic reestabllshment settlement of 3250000 acres tho placing of the canadian army on the land has accounted for the set tlement of roughly three and a quar ter million acres in 1922 nearly 200- 000 acres were it is estimated in cul tivation on the farms of soldier set tlers at the average dominion pro duction of wheat in that year 17 bushels per acre this would have ac counted for nearly three mlwou bush els of the dominions yield which she would not have had otherwise and this is only a material advantage one must take into consideration the most satisfactory assimilation from cana das point of view in they absorption into civil lifo through the land of such a substantial section of the cana dian army tho work of tho soldier settlement board ts by no means accomplished in addltilon it ie continuing to main tain supervision and making periodical inspections of the men of the cana dian army who lavo been ssttled they ere extending their efforts afield in an endeavor to benefit in tho same measure other british armies and add further valuable eltlzeno to candae population on the land as a result of the efforts of a representative of the wttfekllkym psalm 42 by j lewis miiligan like as the heart othirst in desert dreary pants tor the brooklet and the soft green sod so doth my sja with todand sorrow weary yearn for thepresence f the living god by day and night my inmost heart isssiaken with grief and fearing while the scofferfffiav where is thy god that thou art thus forsaken v and in my shame i turn my face away there was a time when sabbeth bells were ringing i went rejoicing to the house of prayer joining with rapture in the reverent singing soaring on wings pf faith to mansions fair and now with downcast eyes and ever grieving i go reluctant and with heavy tread why 0 my soul art thou so unbelieving trust thou in god he shall lift up thy head the lord will yet command his loving kindness even when the day of toil is hard and long and when the night enshrouds my soul with blindness his presence shall rise in me kke a song board in india among officers of the indian army w5ro are being discharged witsi substantial pensions and gratui ties canada has received the first of what it is hoped might be a valuable flow of land settlers another repre sentative of the board ye in england making arrangements for handling the fund created by benevolent exeomier associations for the settlement of ex- soldiers in canada tfciere are some five thousand imperial exofficers in great britain with capital aggregating from 700 to 2000 each who are contemplating settlement in some of the british dominions and the soldier settlement board is taking steps to turn the minds of as many of these as possible towards canada little brown dog for a kittle brown dog who sees me down the hu to the car when i go to town and carries my bag with an air of pride as he trots sedately by my side and walls to see that im on all right and watches the car till its out of sight i thank thee for the way he tears down the hill to meet that car at night on hie mad little feet the car that will bring me he knows from town and tho joyous greeting as i step down a greeting the passengers hearr and see every one of them envying me i thank thee for the great true heart that is in his eyes tender and patient and brave and wise that makes him know when im sick or sad and knowing love me the more dear lad with a love unquestioned high and fine for ah of that luue dog of mine i thank thee minnie leona upton for practical use willie daddy why does the ani mal trainer wear such big whiskers dad so he eon board the hon in his dn i suppose eon dont say ill try say i will a spider first used the diving bell it is claimed that the diving bell was invented by a spider at least wo are certain that if it was not actually in vented by him it wae used by mm long before the hydraulic engineers made one for the eame purposes the diving bell ts a enpshaped body with an open end down which is let into the water the air is caught in the bell and keeps the water from ris ing beyond a certain level from any specified depth and of course allow ing any one inside to breathe and act as if he were on dry land the improvement oi the divingbell known as the caisson is a huge pipe that has compartments into which air is pumped from above tho spiders bell is filled more in this manner than in the other the name given to these little spiders is appropriate the naiads- of the family of arachnida a naiad will build a little house of waterproof silk hfeld fast by strands fixed to the neigh boring blades of grass and stones sev eral feet under the water he com pletes the entire structure before fill ing it with air as if he knew that tho air would tend to make it rise to the top and thus under the attaching of the anchors the naiad swims down from the sur face with bubbles of air and turns them loose in the airy structure the process is repeated eeverartlmes un til the little house is full of air of course theopen end of this house is down and tms has to act also as the entrance to it another peculiar thing about the naiads is that they never get wet they have thousands of small hairs on their bodies which hold and keep the air from being washed off when they entor water and so the air sticks and water cannot approach the water beetle is probably tire only other insect engineer in the naiads class it builds a waterproof nest under water but does not live in it it merely lays its eggs in the nest seals it up and leaves the mason bee as it name implies is a builder of structures of stone and mortar the nest is attached to al most any solid structure and actually does consist of small stones cemented together with mortar the house con sists of many cells of oval shape and into each an egg is laid the cell is lined with silken webs by the mother who gets out of it bv a hole in the top before leaving however she hermeti cally seals up the cell hmertaunrtjl v i by dorothy ethel walsh stripes turn around and form a border i i in tho artiole preceding this ono wa spoke or stripe materials and how they could bo ullllxed in color combinations today wc ar coins to show how they can be jeft to their own devices and a charming decoration be the result stripes aro many lime nufflclent unto themselves and they are so because they are of a dominating nature the well known tent of placing a line in front of the eye and noticing how the eye will travel back and forth along that line may be applied to striped material lines attract the eye and so striped ma terials often intrude themselves to an unwelcome degree on our con sciousness unless relieved by some diversified interest stripes become monotonous today therefore we are showlng- a sketch of a striped material which although not depending on any out- 8tt element was made varied as window draperies to break tho stripes dominating strcnatb a bor der with the pattern running hori zontally was placed around the in side and lower border of the draper- lea the effect is pleasing andj decorative they awoke to fame a new gown the wife i must dress at once dear the browne are coming over shall i put on the percolator the husband dont hotter you look all right tho way yon are it is not always rcccgniwml that sir henry frying stepped from obscurity into fame in one night he hod per suaded tie manager of the lyceum to put on the bells in which he was to play the part of mathias the manager was more thanfdubious of success but on a certain saturday night in 1881 the piece was put on with tie understanding that if it was not received with favor the theatre would shut its doors on the monday the furore created by irvings act ing of the part of mathias has never had its equal since says an biglish- writer not only london but the whole country rang with the news of his triumph he awoke on sunday morning to find himself the most talkectof man in britain andprob- abiy for the moment in the whole world a sm hutchinson had an almost similar experience the only difference being that his emergence into the limelight of universal fame was neith er so sudden nor so dramatic but it was the news from america that his book if winter comes was selling like hot cakes and that everybody was discussing it that made him sud denly famous the late mrs humphrey ward awoke one morning to find herself famous she had issued a book en titled itobert elsmere of which pos sibly few would have heard in the or dinary way but soon after its publi cation it had the great good fortune to fall into the hands of gladstone and its heterodox religious views awakened his controversial spirit which was ever on the watch for just such occasions the grand old man sat down and wrote for one of the reviews an ar ticle on the book the morning that review was published mrs humphrey ward awoke and found herself fam ous another woman had a similaijjwak- ening this was lady butler then mise elizabeth thompson a sister of alice moyneli the poetess she was only e girl when she painted her fam ous picture the roll call the broken remnant of a ragged regiment of inkerman heroes worn by disease decimated by famine ragged shoe less but still dauntless answering to their names in one hour after the opening of the royal academy exhibition the girl artist was famous it was- necessary to put a barricade round her picture to keep back the throng who wished to see it her photograph was- hawk ed about the street5 and eagerly bought by tens of thousands w5io knew little of art but who knew when an artist had reached their hearts i robert burns still the idol of scat- land madea similar leap into univj sal fame he had booked his passta to jamaica when his first volumo verses the famous kkmarnock ov hon isued from the press as tfc ands of other unheardof volumes lylng issued its effect was wellnigh magical lho stantly burns was the national pnjor he leapt at one bound into the pom tion ho has firmly held ever sinty the country murmured him from j to sea ploughboys and maids- vants who might be thought indftps ent to the rising of a now star in t poetic heavens would gladly part wl a weeks wages so they might becoi the proud and haippy owners of thj works of the new poet found out m z to ever they creep upon me ever they creep upon me unaware these laughing littue ghosts i would forget bringing a joy as bitter as regret they come and go as fleet as they are fair oftentimes mirth awakes them but swift tears run after them exquisite as the spring they stir some tender half forgot ten thing that erihoej like a song across the years across the long icng years that lie be tween yet fade as fades the lilac even glow- when thoughts of you steal cii to in tervene merging the then and now how- near how far how like ail loveliness you were anil are sweeter than drifting apple blossom enow elizabeth scollard m found out1 i housekeeper no sir there is no herr fritz here wo have french italian be and british but no germans london evening news too many rules the teacher- who gives her pupils simple rules outside of the authori ties for determining questions wheh confront them and particularly gram matical questions is apt to find that her rule disastrously fall to fit all casts once the county superintendent of schools was questioning the pupils of a country school he wrote on the blackboard tho sentence the fly has wings and nsked a class what part of speech each word was they passed the the without serious trouble what part of speech is fly asked the superintendent adverb shouted tho class in uni son wht fly an adverb yessir shouted tho children with great positiveness what makes you think it is an ad verb because teacher told us tint all words that end in ly aro adverbs chinese is spoken by nearly four hundred million people power transmission by radio recent experiments in an eastern united states engineering institute on power transmfesion by radio haveve- suited in the discovery of some inter- f esting phenomena it is known that wireless waves may be more or less directed in ono vertical plane they i have never been directed in a singlpp line now it is possible to so dirtew the waves that no one not in a siraigte line between the two stations con receive them this opens up pcs3iblij ties of power transmission j if the waves may be eo controlled that they are in a straight line there will be very little energy lost due tol promiscuous radiation hence if onoj kilowatt could be sent out very nearly i one kilowatt would le received why has no one ever done this before the f answer is simple wireless waves in use today are about 300 metres or longer these long waves are many more times liable to radsatfon and difi fraction than shorter ones tho prob1 lem therefore is to make short waves previous experiments have been con- 1 ducted with waves around 50 mete in length and now waves of tho u precodented shortness of 45 ccnlt meters liave beenproduced with aft apparatus capable of producing waver or say go centimeters it wouvd f comparatively simple to- make thc transmit power v tei another iliad 11 happened in the book department of a general store the customer ap proached a salesgirl with a request for a copy of popes iliad the talcs- girl went away to look for it pre sently she returned with a book in her hand we have no popes iliad fho iaid but wo liave an iliad is by hcmer though too late country policeman on guard at tho scene of the murder i tell e yo cant ccom in ere reporter but im a journalist ivo been sent to do the mnrder constable ycro too uuj tht murders been done s jl si- tji