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Dallas, Tex. Spesing locomotives s Will Be Heard in the Middle of Device Condenses Sound to One Spot . in the quiet of way, 80 no one close fail to hear it. But al years perfecting Wor was started by * T. McEl- Jaen for years superintendent of hinery on the Katy. His son, C. Bn Meulvaney, jr., now general round- 'house foreman at Dallas, continued experiments, and through his efforts has been perfected to a ey 'here tests are hailed as suc- cessful, McElvaney"s whistle, which has been placed on two fast passenger train locomotives on the line, has an amplifier and sound director which looks much like a headlight. 'Warning notes are produced by six pipes, with low and high notes so blended that they produce a maximum warning with a minimum of annoy- ance. Because of softer tones and the fact that sound will not be heard all over the countryside the whistle is expect- ed to benefit not only train passengers but also thousands who live along the right of way, especially in large cities. 'Churchill to Have Modern Apartments Centralized Heating Plant Will Furnish Heat For Homes and Business Buildings Winnipeg. -- Devel t of the townsite of Churchill, Canada's new- st seaport, on Hudson Bay, terminus ' of the Hudson Bay Railway, is ex- pected to start next spring, according to information reaching Canadian Na- tional officers here. The entire townsite at Churchill is owned by the Province of Manitoba and it 1s to be developed along modern town-planning lines. No property will be sold but, instead, there will be long term leases subject to reasonable re- vision at stated periods, such as every three or five years. Engineers are now at Churchill water mains and sewerage lines. The town plan will specify locations of public buildings, schools, churches, railway station, hotels, business streets, residential section and recrea- tion grounds. Adequate surveys will be made this year. A compact settle- ment is planned with the initial resi- dential construction possibly in the working out plans for water works, | Screening Feeds Officially Graded First Quality Now Designated As No. 1 Feed Screen- ings" Canadian farmers will be particu- larly interested in the following state- ment issued by the Seed Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture: Screenings shipped for feed from terminal grain elevators are now be- ing sold under grade certificates, un- der the new grade standards and de- signations provided by the Canada Grain Act or regulations thereunder. ~ Standard Recleaned Screenings, con- 'sisting essentially of broken wheat and wild buckwheat, are now desig: nated "No. 1 Feed Screenings." A second quality of these screenings which, in addition to the wheat and wild buckwheat, may carry apprect- abe quantities of wild oats and coarse grains, is designated "No. 2 Feed Screenings." This grade also allows a slightly greater tolerance of ball mus- tard than No. 1 grade and would be specially serviceable for feeding sheep. The product' formerly known as "Oat Scalpings" and consisting main- ly of wild-oats; but with small per- t of d ic oats and barley, form of apartment houses, heated by a central plant that would also furnish heat for business blocks and public build Settl t will adh to a carefully devised town planning scheme with proper safeguards made for future dévelopment and attention given to recreational facilities. Many applications from those who wish to blish b h of all descriptions at the new eaport are being received by the Manitoba Gov- ernment. Three or four hotels and restaurants and a lumber yard will mark the <4nitial construction at Churchill and work on these will prob- ably start this month, when the sur- vey will, it is expected, have been com- pleted. ) ] i | Parents Should Ignore Tantrums U. 8S. Children's Bureau Gives Nine Essential Rules Washington.--~What the U.S. Child- ren's Bureau considers the nine es- sential practicés of a good parent are contained in a recent publication of that bureau entitled "Are you train- ing your child to be happy? They are: 1. Tell the truth to your children. od . 2. Keep your promises, good or bad. 3. Decide which things are most im- portant for a child to do and then be consistent about seeing that he does them. Do not nag him about little things that do not matter much. 4. Do not say "no" one time and "yes" the next time for the same thing. 6. Break up. bad habits by keeping the child 'so busy with interesting things to do that he forgets the old habit. 6. Pay no attention to him when he tries to get what he wants by temper tantrums or by whining. 7. Keep cool and quiet Speak in a quiet voice. 8. See that he gets things (if they are good for him) only when he is quiet and happy and polite, 9. Show the child you are pleased ' wasn he tries. yourself. -| prices for animal products.--1I is now designated "Mixed Feed Oats." Terminal elevators, needed for the storage of wheat, are carrying sub- stantial quantities of these grain by: products which are, in consequence, being offered at much lower than the usual prices. Mixtures of barley and wild oats, finely ground, are available at 89 cents per cwt., sacks included, delivered-at Montreal, Sorel and Que- bee. Any danger from the presence of weed seeds in these nutritious grain by-products would be corrected rea- sonably well by fine grinding with high power hammer grinders, and this fact, together with the low prices at which they are now available should render them profitable to the Cana- dian feeder, even at the present low juley morsels of a marmot caught by H. B. Crisler, Seattle photographer, who trekked across Olympic Penin- sula, unaccompanied and unarmed, with no food or firearms, bolts a few his own ingenuity, on a mountain top. A four-line poem by Henry Wads- worth Longfellow, written when he was 16, and believed to be hitherto unpublished, has been brought to light as the result of the gift to the Museum of the Peaceful Arts, New York, of a seventeenth-century pot- ter's wheel. The wheel, now on ex- hibition in connection with the mus- eum"s "Men and Machines" exhibit, is the gift of Ambrose Swasey, Cleve- land machine tool and astronomical instrument manufacturer, and his nephew, Frederick D. Swasey of Port- land, Me, In a letter accompanying the wheel, the elder Mr. Swasey explains that the wheel originally belonged to Ben- jamin Dodge of Exeter, NH, who started a pottery in Portland in 1801, which later passed into the hands of Frederick Swasey, whose father, the late Eben Swasey, bought the busi- ness of Mr. Dodge. Longfellow, he Unpublished Longfellow Poem Given To Museum of Peaceful Arts tery and was Interested in watching Mr. Dodge fashion clay into various forms, probably being inspired to write his poem "Keramos" while there. Longfellow, he said, wrote the four lines, similar in theme to the "Kera- + mos" of his maturer years, leaving the slip of paper on which it was written on the potter's wheel. Mr. Dodge found it and made a plaque, on which the poem was inscribed. For years it hung over the wheel, but finally it was<%old by Eben Swasey and tried to buy it back but could not dis- cover the whereabouts of its pur- chaser. The poem follows: No handicraftsman's art Can to or art compare; We. potters make our pots Of what we potters are. Non-Skid Rugs will Prevent Stumbles Nomeskid rugs, to help save some of the thousands of fall¥ which statistics show to occur annually from the slip- pery proclivities of the ordinary ar- ticle, have been studied scientifically by the United States Bureau of Stand- ards. Comparisons were made, a bulle- tin of the Bureau reports, between an ordinary untreated rug, a rug treated with a commercial preparation design- ed to make it less slippery on its un- derside, and a third rug backed un- derneath with a commercial material used as a rug underlay. The ordinary rug slid down a polished inclined plane, the Bureau reports, when the plane was tilted at an angle of only 18 degrees, not an unusual slope for an inclined walkway. The treated rug d by the Director of Publicity, Dom. De- partment of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ont. FEEL RN: 1 FESS "Just to think of Columbus going over two thousand miles on a gal leon." "Get out, man, Columbus didn't even have a car!" ------ ens The dialogue is between a small girl and the proprietor of a corner shop. "A large tin of salmon, please, Mand" will you book it?" "I think there is some mistake. Your sister came for one a quarter of an' hour ago, Surely your mother doesn't want two?" "Yes, it's all right, She tures." We, the people, dont' want to get rid of our prejudices. -- Find Under Westminster Abbey Portions of Original Edifice London.--The remarkable discovery has been made of portions of a church * aboiit eight and -a half centuries old beneath the floor of Westminster Ab- ~ bey, and a problem which has puzzled many archacologists may shortly be The find was totally unexpected and was made by workmen who were alter- + ing the arran t of Se heati; Bt. aratus. : fine piece of eleventh eenitury wall | th 'now stands revealed and it is hoped nave, a subject over which archaeol- ogists have fought many a battle, The present abbey building owes its origin to Henry IIL. It took the place of a church of totally different style with large round arches and heavy magsive columns characteristic of the Norman builders. The early church was opened in the year 1065, and was the gift of Edward the "Confessor who with his last illness 'almost at the that it will be possible to follow up the clue ana perhaps to discover the moment when his great church was being consecrated. sold the other one to go to the plo- original dimensions of the Norman i struck down | stayed on the polished plane repre- senting the floor until the tilt was 32 degrees, a little more than one third ot the angle between horizontal and vertical, The rug provided with the non-skid underlay clung still more tightly, not sliding off until the polish. ed plane had been tilted to over 54 de- grees, substantially steeper than a one hundred per cent. slope. Were this slope the side of the mountain it would be impossible for human beings to climb it except by using ropes, cutting steps, or otherwise employing the technique of professional mountain climbers. Determinations of the co- efficient of friction between rug and floor also were made by the Bureau, confirming the easy skidding charac- ter of the ordinary rug and the effec tiveness of the two-non-skid expedi- ents. DY SE Doris (expectantly): "You've seen Father? What did he say?" Tom: "Er--er--er I'm not certain whether he sald, 'Take her, lad,' or 'Take care, lad!' "--Christian Science Monitor, An Experiment in Spain As an offset to the new State text- books which are being introduced into Italy by the Fascists to make young Italians militantly nationalistic from thelr primer days, comes the news of an experiment in international educa- tion for children beginning its third year in Spain. There, in the Spanish International School at Madrid, under the Association for Plurilingual Edu- cation, children almost from the cradle to college attend six hours of classes and games daily in four lang- uages--Spanish, English, French and German. Thus, presumably, they will think, speak, and act internationally from the age of 3. Moreover, in the trus yternational temper the school asks criticisms and suggestions from educators In all part of the world. Professor Pedro Salinas of the University of Seville is chairman of the executive committee. "Then you think you won no per- manent place in her heart?" "I'm just a notoh on her pet golf club, thats' all." First Packard Miss Molly Brown, sented in first Packard car built in 1899, will be driven from Detroit to Bethlehem, Pa, to be placed in Lehigh University on oxhibl- | charg, tion, In 1899 thi¥ car retailed at $1,250 and present tradedn value is 16 cents. were made so that wrote, te, otten visited the Dodge | pot- his partner, Rufus Lamson, who later) Chemical Is Invented to Halt Bad Cheques at Teller's Window Indorsing a cheque that haa been Parra < of the paper in any way, tampered with will be like signing a --- warrant for his own arrest to a per son presenting sich a cheq at a and to install a small ultra-violet ray producing apparatus beneath the coun- ter at its paying teller's window. The bank that uses a new protective sys- tem recently developed by Dr. Julian Block in Chicago. A concealed ultra- violet ray lamp is used in conjunc- tion with a photo-electric cell and other little-known apparatus. 4 Detection of a raised cheque Is in- stantaneous with this device, and the apprehension of. the person present. ing it can be brought about simultane- ously, according to the Inventor. Explaining the system, Mr. Block said: "A bank needs only to have its cheques printed on paper treated with an infinitesimal amount of a certain chemical which does not affect the ap- loyed may be applied in the ink used in cheque writing In- stead of In the paper, and is thus adaptable to protective cheque-writ- ing machines, or it may be applied to both the ink and the paper. 4 "The moment a cheque made with paper or ink so prepared is offered at the teller's window equipped for this process, the invisible ultra?violet rays produce a fluorescence which makes the genuine figures shine out bril- liantly, while any alterations in the figures or other writing, erasures or other signs of tampering show up as dark, non-luminous spots on a glow- ing fleld." Important Addition To Astronomic Data Results of Study by Dominion Observatory of Diffuse Gaseous Matter in Stel- lar System The prasence of very tenuous gases n the space between the stars, pre- viously indicated and discussed by others, was definitely proved at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory at Victoria, B.C, about seven years ago. It was then shown that stars of the highest temperature from 30,000 to 60,000 degrees Fahrenheit, of the greatest mass up to about 100 times that ot the sun, and of an intrinsic brightness over a thousand times greater than the sun, were rushing about rapidly in all directions through diffuse gases which were nearly sta- tionary in the stellar system. The gaseous matter which is believed to be of the same general composition as the earth, was recognized by the ap- pearance of certain lines in the spec- tre of these hot stars and was shown to be widely extended throughout the system. About four years ago Sir Arthur Ed- dington was led, by the proof at Vie- toria that the hot stars were in rapid motion through nearly stationary gases, to investigate theoretically the physical properties of this gaseous matter. Ile was able to show that It must be almost unbelievably tenuous, of thousands of times higher vacuum than an incandescent lamp. Indeed the whole volume of the earth would contain only about a quarter of a pound of such gases. He showed fur- ther that these gases behaved in an almost paradoxical way, that although external space was so cold that a solid body placed in it would fall to about 450 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, the molecules of these diffuse gases were so far apart, about one in every cubic centimetre, that the radiation from all the stars would give speeds to these moleciites corresponding to a temperatura of about 20,000 degrees. Eddington assumed these rare gases were uniformly distributed in the space between the stars but there was no proof of this uniform distribution nor knowledge of the motions. 'While the early observations at Vic- toria furnished the foundation from which Eddington deduced the physical properties of this gaseous matter, the final observational completion of the whole structure has just been definite- ly proved that this diffuse gaseous mat-er is uniformly distributed throughout the stellar system. It has also~been shown that this matter is not at rest as previously supposed but partakes in the most beautiful exact way in the orderly and majestic ro- tation of the stellar system around a very distant centre, the most convine- ing proof of the similar rotation of the stars having also been obtained at Vic- toria. The demonstration that the space between the stars contains very dif- fuse gases, the theoretical determina- tion of its density and temperature, and the final proof of its uniform dis- tribution and its participation in the rotation o fthe galaxy, form a striking example of the effective combination of theory and practice. The develop- ment of this interesting advance in our knowledge of cosmos may justly be considered as one of the romances of astonomy and forms an important Canadian contribution to science. iol iigiass "I can't see why they have a man to steer from the rear of the fire dé- partment's ladder truck" sald Mrs. Tellum. "Well,. it's a necessary thing, I suppose," replied Mrs. Back- "but I agree with you that it's Soil Improvement Train in Quebec 10,000 Farmers Visit Train in Course of Tour--1,000 Soil Samples Tested A soll improvement train has just completed its three weeks' itinerary through southeastern Quebec, having started at Coaticook on September 16th and finished at Vercheres on Oc- tober 4th. The train was organized by the Quebec Department of Agriculture in co-operation with the Agricultural Colleges in the province, the Seed Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, and the C.N.R., and was part of a campaign now under way in Quebec for securing greater yields from a more intellient and more general use of agricultural line and commercial fertilizers. Of the four coaches which made up the train, the first was used as a laboratory where samples of soil, brought in by visiting farmers, were tested for acidity, and recommenda- tions given as to the approximate quantities of lime required according to the results of the acidity tests. The second car was devoted to de- moustrating the advantages from the proped use of agricultural lime; the third, those of commercial fertilizers, while the fourth was the lecture car in which lectures wera given by the officials in charge on the use of agri. cultural lime and commercial fertill zers, Upwards of 10,000 farmers visited the train in the course of its tour and about 5,000 soil cumple® wera test ed.--(Issued by the Director of Pub- licity, Dominion Department of Agri culture, Ottawa.) WED -- Collecting Tree Seeds For Prairie Planting Radio Noises and Small Golf A kot. Mr. Al Sinton, a serious, slightly built man, makes the noises for the Columbia Broadcasting Systera, and the other day he showéd us how it's done. First he grasped Sv cheap dessert sp and clicked together: swords clashing He a duel, If you actually clicked fencing foils together before a microphone it would sound like auto fenders colliding. He picked up a berry basket and twisted its frail wood in his hands. "Cops smashing a door with axes," he said. Remember when you hear the doors gg down in a police raid that it's r. Sinton solemnly mangling a berry basket. He thumbed some cornstarch in a bowl, that was men crunching; STOW underfoot; he twisted a rickety kitchen chair--wind in the rigging of a ship; he squeezed a. leather billfold --a door creaking on its hinges. The effect of a waterfall is got by rustling' tissue paper in the hands. Now and then Mr. Sinton comes upon brilliant successes by accident! A' noise like the Chicago Fire was urg« ently sought by one 'of the big hours. He had taken a dress shirt from i sheath of heavy oiled paper one even= ing, crumpled the p: per up, and was about to throw it aside, when his ever alert ears pricked up. He crumpled the paper agai... "Eureka!" he ex- claimed. "The Chicago Fire!" A log fire is made with isinglass. The noisemaker scrapes a toothpick on a file to get the creak of a hammock swinging, twists one glass tumbler inside another for the screech of auto- mobile brakes, cranks a coffee-grinder to achieve the noise of a big factory ac work, and twangs an elastic to get the sound of William Tell's bow. Mr, Sin. ton has to make the sound of the ar. row in flight with his mouth. It took a lot of rehearsal to get it exact'y right. The sounds of oarlocks and sleighbells are the only ones that have defied Mr. Sinton's ingenuity. He has to use the real articles for these. He does it in a far corner of the room where explosions are also made--Mr. Sinton smacks a bass drum with the flat of his hand for these. Mr. Sinton has invented a machine that will make 1t looks like a victrola but 83 noises. is bigger. It has sheet iron for thun- der, dried peas on a drumhead for rain, all kinds of whistles, bells a= | givens, and a resined string which Mr, | Sinton pulls to get barks, cackles, crowings, and r ars. The harder he pulls the string, the bigger the ani. mal that answers him. "LILLI2UT" GOLF. Getting dilligently to the bottom of | this miniature golf course business, wa find that it was all started in Chattan. ooga, Tennessee, hy a Mr. Garner Car, ter, who owns a hotel near there. The Tom Thumb idea came to him about three years ago. He had a regular As a result ofthe efforts of the | boys and girls of Dauphin, Manitoba, there will probably be several million new trees sprouting ou Canada's west: ern prairies next year, Again this] year, as in many years past, the school children are helping Mr. F. J. Smith, Supervisor of the Riding Mountain Forest to collect seeds from th Manitoba maple trees in the ity of Dauphin. After collection, the seeds are shipped to the Forest Nursery Station of the Department of the Interior at Indian Head, Saskat- chewan, wherd they are planted in seed beds to gérminate. The seeds may be planted either in the autumn or the following spring and the next spring foflowing, when they have been in the seed bed eighteen or twelve months, as thé case may be, the young seedlings are lifted and get out in the permanent plantation. L The seeds collected by the Dauphin children filled 139 sacks. This figure does not seem large, and even 3,068 pounds (a ton and a half) is a reason- able quntity to grasp, but when it is vonsidered that a pound of Manitoba maple seed on an average contains 13,000 tree seeds, the number of seeds in this collection reaches the astound- ing total ot 39,754,000. Of course, many of these will not germinate and of those that do, a proportion will die without having reached maturity. Nevertheless, it 1s a conservative estimate that as a result of the chil- dren's efforts over twenty million more maples will eventually help to beautify many farm homes in Mant- toba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, PINNED | DRE Silk Tassels Popular London.--Silk tassels in gay colors are the latest thing for modern furni- ture in place of handles. They are made to fit in with the color scheme of the room, and can be changed with not a man's work." the seasons and the curtains. Free Glas: Eyes, Made to Order, Are Given to Toronto--With tiie « exception! of Germany, Canada had the only Gov- ernment which has brought about the production of made-to-order eyes, and this work had grown up since the war, Dr. Clifford Taylor, director of artificial eye-work and optometry of the Federal Government, told mem- bers of the Progress Club recently. Hvery ex-service man in the Domin- don at the present time in need of glass eyes may procure them free of .Two replicas of each eye they could be Canadian Veterans easily replaced in case of accident. Dr. Taylor told how at the end of the war Germany was the only coun. try producing glass eyes, and service men in need of them had to send to a German firm in New York to be fitted. In case of breakage they had to take the trip to New York over again to obtain another eye. "Seven out of ten persons need glasses," Dr. Taylor sald; "three out of ten have them, The average citizen never stops to consider the possibility of blindness." golf course in connection with his hotel and also a clock-golf arrange ment for practicidg putting. One day it struck him that it would be mora fun if the clock course were spread around more, with trick hazards. He tried it, and there you are. The idea of using cottonseed hulls for grass he got from an American named Fair- bairn. When Fairbairn went down to his cotton plantation in Mexico he was lost "without his golf, until he 'noticed the lawnlike texture taken on by a layer of cottonseed hulls trodden under his peon's feet on the loading plate forms. Carter applied the idea to his miniature course. His, too, was the happy thought of dyeing the cotton- seed green. Carter is still amazed at the success of his casual invention. He hardly ever plays golf himself and has been heard to call those who do "dang fools." He has sold his interests in the patent rights for a couple of hundred thousand dollars, the patentable part of the idea being the use of the dyed cottonseed and certain of the haz ards. The course at his hotel, how- ever is now one of the most elaborate in the country. It cost $40,000 and is called Fairyland. The people who made Tom Thumb what it is today, in the north at least, are the Townsend Brothers of the Na- tional Pipe Products Corporation. Wm. Townsend was visiting his friend Bobbie Jones in Atlanta and they paused to watch the players at a min. iature course. Townsend at once saw the commercial possibilities. That was last October, and look where things are now: 6,000 courses in the entire country, operating under the Tom ratents, and nobody knows how many cperating outside the patents. The most profitable and colorful are the two behind the Roxy Theatre owned by William Fox, where Broadway cavorts after the theatre. These bring im about a thousand dollars a day pro- vided the weather is good. i} an. sn Soft Shoulders In turning around on a road which has soft shoulders, and many roads do when autumn"s rains fall, the daa- ger of getting styck is 'entirely elimins ated if the driver remembers to keep the driving wheels on the hard sum face. It does not make much differ ence if tha front, wheels sink a bi 8g long as the rear pair has traction, BX A highland ferry-boat laden passengers was caught in a sud squall when half-way across the 1 "It looks gey bad," said the man, "Pll tak'yrer fuvos nee, If y& please.' --London Tit-Bits