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, not for gaudiness; "hut because paint 't last a week the desert. They aré surmounted | i el flagstaff for the royal pen: There are grips on the outside "outriders" in white robes to cling] to, while the King fs 'passing through crowded cities. 'The, harem "¢ars are part of a fleet - of. eight royal vehicles ordered from "the Star Works in Wolverhampton at 'a cost of-$55,000, They include four large touring cars for the King and capable of making 65 miles hy nd two huge open cars of pt type to carry the _ bodyguard of fifty armed men, which will accompany the King and his "wives wherever they go. The whole fleet 1s finished fn polished aluminum. Each ear will be able to carry a "of sixty gallons of gasoline, as Imes have "to miles without passing a Ml- they. haye extra s because of the "ney BOL As a great city develops in ita in: habitants certain fnstincts of alert- ness 'that 'are usually but embryonic in small 'communities, it inculcates vast patience, resignation and fypdif- 'ference. Late one afternoon recently, © at one df the most congested Broad- - way corners in the Times Square dis- trict,' an ul "heap of large, own- i partly shed pasteboard box: es had been deposited 1 nthe middle of the sidewalk nea rthe curb.. There it sprawled. But pedestrians stolidly - detoured; i ntheir home-going hurry, and probably few asked themselves: "In what other town in the land could an obstruction so informal "and so supremely inopportune be encounter- "| ment, help some other Ak oo h Dr. Williams' Pink Pits are sold by all Medjetny fualete ot sent by Blood," - which contains many ugeful health hints, will be sent free an re: quest. Unde Sam's Jo Sam's Best Customer / Figures on inion in the Dovctdent that at the present moment Canada is the largest consumer of American pro- ducts, replacing the United Kingdom in that positions For the first eight months "of 1927 Canadian. purchases. amounted to $544,063,208; those of the United Kingdom were less than $18, 617,389. As Great in has hither. to been the largest single export mar: ket for American goods of all sorts, this means an interesting change in the ecorfomioc situation. 2 Much as this may mean to the United States A perhaps means more to Canada, It would not have beén possible for the Dominiony to buy so much if that country had not been in such 'admirable condition financially. The truth is. that: Canadian business' has "beén healthy and. prosperous and is 'stil climbing. In -agrieuiture, in manufactures and in mining the con- ditions have been such as to warrant sound expansion, The great wheat of 1925 start- ed Canadian hgriculture upon: a mew capeer. of prosperity. It came at a time when world 'prices for grain were satisfactory. ' As those prices continue reasonably good In the world markets there is no reason why this advantage should not continue. Water development has provided cheaper power for the factories, which in turn have been able to employ more 'work: ers and turn out more goods. That this prosperity had been national rath- 'er than local has been made evident through reductions in income taxes. - Automobile ypurchases in the U. 8. for the period covered.by this survey aggregated about $22,000,000 in value. There / were - corresponding purchases of motor trucks and parts for replace- In the same period American exports of cotton goods. to Banada ag- gregated 88,000, 000 pounds, as against {a total 'of 76,000,000 for a- correspond: ing period last year. . If estimates | made by the Department of Agricul | ture. are correct, Canada is now. buy- !ing about two-thirds: of all her foreign goods in the markbts ofthe United 5 Canada {s 'a good: customer of the | United States, so: also; is: the United | customer of Canada. of Commerce at Washington. indicate. - The new air language , naturally enough, a hybrid showing ancestry dm | many quarters! This is what gives | the romantic philologist. his ik cons the sea, for In stance, we 1s owe the designation of a plane as a (ship, referred to as she; the fact that a plane has a cockpit cabin, as the may be; that she has a. rudder and a pilot; that she cruises, leaves a wash, sometimes yaws, finally flies fnto an airport. To the natural inhabitants of ithe element we lave so boldly and suc cessfully invaded we, of ¢ourse,.owe the term wingé and its French cousin, aileron--that auxiliary surface of the wing. which functions in banking 8 'ship for a turn. We come back to earth for words when we talk about smooth, rough or bumpy alr. These are, by 'the way, perfectly serious terms, descriptive "of real conditions, as. a columnist discovered recently when he was corrected for venturing the idea that air travel would have none of the Theonvenienves of riding over ai" unever roadbed. : rowed, vartous other terms from the Franch' for our air vocabulary, The peasant farmer whose hay barns were pre-' empted by wartime forces gave us our hangars. 'Fuselage, by which ws denote the elongated structure to| which are attached the wings and tail unit;% nacelle, which fay shorter than a fusélage and does not carry a tall unit; Isngerons, the fore-and-aft members of the fuselage framing, are words found in French dictionaries as well as in our own. Another is em- pennage which {ncludes the stabilizer, fin, rudder and elevator. Runways and airways are obvious terms; obvious, also, Is the expres- glon "to wreck a plane" Not so "wasl{ ont" or a pilot may be squeez- ed into a forced landing and wash ouf his landing gear on dry land. By the! the air 1s not related to the engine nor comparable to the {inadvertent process cursed in. motor cars. Stall ing in the air refers to the-very dan- Lgerous act of allowing an airplane to fall below the speed necessary to sus- tain controllable flight Other familiar experssions take on new meaning; in the air. Even the rapidly disappearing Puritan: should not quarrel over the "leg" of & night, * nor the purist sniff at "dope," which |' is the official nomenclature for the liquid that is appHed to the cloth of airplane members to increase strength: and produce' tautness, So, too, the old: headline writer who re: members *when a: hop nothing but a Saturday night: dans at a Sum- mer resort, and when a e:off was a4 bit of burlesque or. mimicry" should bé Informed that Jenny is not always a girl's name and that not all crates - carry' oranges; Jennies and crates, to ap terms with au of airplanes, The airmen war appropriated num: bers of. other words from our common nd given © 'meanings whishihas refers to certain 'elevators, refer to either: side of 1 same token, stalllng an airplane in ™& / Bre » + contemptuous FR ---- Independence Abroad This little voyageur Is typical of modern wo) She goes atravelling and returns \ihaccompanied from Paris and London. She is Isobell Duff-Stuart, daughter of Brig-Gen. Duft-Stuart, of Vancouver, and when the cameraman on the Cunard liner Ausonia shouted " 'tention!" she did her military "best--then disembarked at Montreal to. take train for home. V Bn Cen which have [wo or more sets of wings of substantially the same area placed one in fron of 'the other and on about the same level. The , exceptions are the glider, which has no 'power plant; the kite, which is propelled by a towline and relies on the wind moving past its surfaces for support; the helicopter, whose suppert is derived from the vertical . thrust of propellers; . the + ornitbropter, which has flapping wings. 3 Unquestionably th alr age witha specialized _Yoshiulary has | has begun. "Sherlock Holr Holmes" Wins Another Case Sir Arthur = Conan Doyle 'After 18 Years Frees Oscar Slater London. --S8herlock Holmes has won his greatest case--the rescue of a convicted murdered from & term of life imprisonment. In the House of Commons, Sir John Gilmour, secretary of #ate for Scot- land, announced that the government | would release Oscar Slater as soon as + "guitable arrangements could be Crug The announcement Theant Sir Ar- thur Conan Doyle, creator bf the great detective of fiction, had won a years- long fight on Slater's behalf. Fighting definitely to win freedom for Slater; Sir Arthur had investigated the case from every angle, using the methods. of deduction and analysis that, in his stories, had made Sher- Jock Holmes a world-famous char acter; In December, 1908, the aged Miss { Jane Gilchrist, alone in her Glasgow flat, was miirdered and her body was ro obbed. ' Four. -days ator Aa. brooch like hers was recovered from a pawnshop in which Oscar Slater had pledged it. Slater had a bad record and police began a search tor him. He then sail- i "THE ONLY MEDICINE BABY HAS BAD" ! submarine, Mr. {mdded, were "completed fn last 12] - | months. 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Baby's Own Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or direct by mall at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. ----------t--. Sign of the Times The habit of drinking to excess has become unfashionable, even repre- hensible. Jt is likely that, with the passage of years and the growth of | wider interests, mankind will discard the alcohol habit, wil seek stimulation in natural exercise and in wholesomé pleasure.--Melbourne Life. --t Grocer--"Don't you find that a baby brightens up a housebold wonderful | ily?" Woman Customer--"Yes, we, ; have the electric lights going most of | the time now." AND steamer Rensselaer, during-a recent | Prank near! are 80 easy and perfect IF you use the samekind of dyes Profes~ sional Dyers use, Dyes that are | t up in highly concentrated, | : Boely powdered, soluble form. No work to dissolve them. ! Never any shaving, scraping or crumbling them up. 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Usually in Great oer Mi level, ol. meas: sticks Britain a lite term prisoner {is re- en' fliers speak o ng they¥jeaged after 15 years. the 'above "earth of - | the: bottom: of the lowest cloud lev, (or flippers) atécquatry was kept advised of Mis find- aT 'cause the yng. ~ The announcement recently | nose: of theiiplane to. 1ife/ whenev * But 8ir Arthur persisted in his fight and he used his knowledge of pub- licity methods to see that the whole was the segucl. 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