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The output of silver in Canada in 1923, according to the final report made by the Dontrinion Bureau of Statistics, was slightly greater than in 1922. In 1923, there were 18,610,â€" 744 fine ounces produced, valued at $12067,509.00, lead him to believe they were **runâ€" ning away.‘‘ He took in the situaâ€" tion in a moment, deciding that if the horses smashed into his car there might be serious results. He stopâ€" ped the car and got out to head off the horses and bring them to a standâ€" still they reached the auto; but he seems to have forgotten to throw on the ‘break of his auto, which was heading on the downâ€"grade. The resu}l‘t‘ was that before Mr. Kramp reached the horses, the auto moved ahead, smashed the railing and went over the bridge. Fortunately there was no one in the auto although it is badly damaged. The horses belonged to Mr. Young, and were making their way home from the field they bad been working in. Mr. Young was leisurely following behind never realâ€" izing any one would imagine the horses were on the runâ€"away.‘"‘ para Liskeard Speal gest something y says :â€" **Another Calamity Gale: day last week ‘‘"CALAMITY GULCH*‘* SEEMS TO BE A VERY GOOD NAMTE was ariving down hillt when . r’ced a span of horses follo‘wi hind him going at such speed lead him to believe they were ning away.‘‘ He took in the tion in a moment, deciding that *Tli The examination of Aspirants to positions as engineers, firemen, conâ€" ductors, trainmen, watchmen and others directly concerned with the safety of trains, and the periodical reâ€"examination of successful candiâ€" dates, in these vital matters is the business of the railroads. In the Canadian Pacific, which provides an cutstanding example of the care with which they are conducted, there is a special department charged with this work. It is called the Time service and Vision, Colorâ€"Sense and Hearing Department. @‘There is a Chief Examiner for Eastern â€"lines and one for Western lines, each with a separate office. ' All applicants for the positions alâ€" ready referred to, which demand a high standard in vision, colorâ€"sense and hearing, are required to pass an applicant examination and, if sucâ€" cessful, must pass a further examâ€" ination at least every two years thereafter, and in some instances more frequently, according to the diminution of their vision or hearing. rThey are also reâ€"examined after any accident in which they are either directly or indirectly irvolved and which may have been caused by deâ€" fective sight, hearing or colorâ€"sense. In addition, following any serious injury or illness or severe inflammaâ€" tion of either the eyes or eyelids, they are again reâ€"examined and, not content with this, the regulations of the Canadian Pacific require them to face the examiner whenever they are slated for promotion. The tests employed are exhaustive and are so arranged as to approxiâ€" mate as closely as possible to actual conditions likely to be met with in their ‘work by those exarined. Apâ€" plicants for positions as engineers, firemen, conductors, brakemen and others similarly employed are reâ€" quired to pass the near and far visâ€" ion tests without glasses. If, at one of the periodical reâ€"eraminations, employees in these positions are found to be in need of glasses, they are allowed to wear them, provided they bring the vision up to the reâ€" quired standard. Applicants for other positions may wear glasses for Bear or far vision, depending on their Caution and regard for the public safety could hbhardly go further than this ! Apparently keard has ith, and it i4 rn:ame f¢ paragra OY Vision as Applied to Railroading the North Road, one Mr. Russell Kramp n hill when he noâ€" horses following beâ€" at such speed as to .\'mfih Road at New n named Calamity ild appear to be a _â€" At any rate the To Be Held at Matheson, Mondéy h from The New Next, August ith. Many Imâ€" would seem to sugâ€" _ portant Questions â€" » this. The Speakâ€"| Wt at The Associated Boards of Trade inâ€" cludes all the boards of trade from North Bay to Cochnrane, inclusive. Cochrane has not sent delegates to the last one or two meetings of the Associated Boards, but will have reâ€" presentatives at Matheson next Monâ€" day. It is also expected that North Bay will be represented at the meetâ€" ing. ‘The official name of the Assoâ€" ciated Boards of Trade is ‘‘The Temâ€" iskaming and Northern ‘Ontario Asâ€" sociated Boards of Trade.‘‘ It was organized to include all boards of trade north of North Bay and includâ€" ing that town. The Intention was also â€"to the organization equal interest in this meeting at Maheson. All visiting delegates may be assured of a pleasant and profitâ€" allle time. in a varying shade of red, green, yellow, purple or bluse, as well as white, all colors employed by the railways in their signals. The exâ€" aminer switches on the light and turns the disc, requiring the man to name the colors displayed as the segsments pass before the lens. In turn, small red, green, yellow, purâ€" ple, blue or white circles of light, in varying shades, singly or in comâ€" binations of two or three, become visible. "What are they?" asks the examiner. "Whiteâ€"blue and redâ€" light green and dark green," says the applicant. and so on. naming the QUARTERLY MEETING OF ASGOGIATEG BCARDS In the Williams lantern test the applicant is taken into a dark reoom. At one end of this room, twenty feet away, is the apparatus, consisting of an electric lantern on the front of which is a revolving disc containing a number of segments of glass, each Most interesting of the examinaâ€" tions is that for z2olorâ€"stanse. The men are asked to identify colors displayed by a Williams lantern and to pass â€" a Holmgren or Thompson colorâ€"selection test. _ The latter test is held in broad daylight. A large number of skeings of ‘wool of varyâ€" ing colors, called confusion colors because they are specially selected withl a view to confusing the colorâ€" blind, are placed before the examâ€" inee. The examiper tells him to pick out all the woois which have red, green or some Other color in them or perhaps to match them for shades. â€"The man obeys and in a moment reveals his weakness, if he has any. So, year in and year out, the Canâ€" adian Pacific continues these exhausâ€" tive tests which have as their object the maintenance of safety and effiâ€" _ It will readily ‘be understood that the entire system would be disorâ€" ganized if these men, many trave‘â€" ling long distances, had to renort to the offices of the Chief Examiners for their tests. The Canadian Paciâ€" fic therefore retains two special cars, one of the Western and one on the Eastern lines, which are speâ€" clally fitted as travellingâ€"test rooms and are continually on the move. It takes these cars two years to make the round of the stations within their jurisdiction, examining applicants and the employees of the company. These wool and lantern tests reâ€" veal to an astonishing extent the prevalence of colorâ€"blindness. Fully four per cent. of the applicants are colorâ€"blind without knowing it and will not believe it when the examâ€" iner gently but firmly points out the fact. As it is, of course, vital that all men whose positions involve or might involve the reading of signals and all applicants for those positions should have an accurate colorâ€"sense, 2s colorâ€"blind person has the slightâ€" est chance of passing. The number of men, applicants and employees, examined on a sysâ€" tem so enormous as the Canadiax Pacific is very great. Approximateâ€" ly nine hundred appear before the examiners every month on the Eastâ€" ern lines alone, and between 13000 and 15,000 employees on the Eastern lines come up for reâ€"examination every two years. The figures for Western lines are approximately the same. colors as he sees them. And in spite of all the gloomy views of the town knockers, they usuâ€" ally keep living right where they are in spite of all bad conditions.â€" Newark Advocate. AND THEY KEEP ON KNOCKING to include centres west of the T. N. 0. line. However, the distance to be travelled for meetings seemed to prove an obstacle to North Bay and that town has not ‘been taking part in the Associated Boards for some time past. Cochrane, at the other end of the area, also lost active inâ€" terest for a time. Now, however, with ‘both Cochrane and North Bay in line again, a particularly good: sesâ€" sion may be expected. Roads and schools will no doubt come in for much discussion, and these, along with the everâ€"important question of forest fire protection, can not be too much considered. ‘Mr. T. E. Godson, KC., Mining Commissioner, had the honour of preâ€" siding at the first case to be heard ingthe new court house at Haileyâ€" bury. . The furniture is not yet all in place, but the quarters are sufâ€" fficiently equipped to make it possible to use them for «court purposes. The case referred to was heard on Thursâ€" day last, and the occasion was disâ€" tinguished by brief lbut interesting addresses by Mr. Godson, H. E. Meâ€" Kee, H. L. Maght and J. A. Legeris. MAeG, L. di,. ylaght Aand J, A,. ‘LegTrIs,. Col. MceKee made reference to the apâ€" propriateness of the fact that the first case to be heard in the new court was connected with the mining inâ€" dustry, which is the prineipal indusâ€" try of the district. FIRST CASE IN NEW COURT HOUSE AT KAILEYBURY THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO * * * * t * % 3