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itiui'"*'! v -^>r7- e:,:;r The Automobile MOST OF AUTO BLAZES C AUSED BY BACK-PIRING. Automobi:«8 do not catch on fire , th»t there U no overflow coming from iwwadays as frequently aa they uwd j '•'I'^'^tor duo to poor seating of the .- .. , ^ J .u float vaive. i to. Manufaciurera have made them, operating a car at high «peed for about as nearly firepr>of aa poMib'.e. | , i<,„g distance may cause the exhaust ! nrick houses are also considerof'. quite pipe to become hot If it Is next to i fireproof. Yet the average home own- any wood, this may cause a fire, espe- er doean't care to take a chance en ] cial'.y if there is an accumulation of > insurance protection. He know* that ' grease and oil in the wodwork. To I sneh houses do sonaetimes bum. The minimize this danfcer do not drive con- 1 wise automobile owner realizes that , tinuously at top speed and keep the| there is a possibility of his'car bum- ] woodwork free from grease and oil. | ing up and gets insurance protection. | The exhaust pipe also heats up when : For when a car does burn the destruc- the engine is run with a greatly re- tlon is apt to be complete. Yet motor tarded spark. S'ometimes it will be- car fire insurance is inexpensive. ; come red hot and set the woodwork on \ ' However, when a brick house burns fire. Fires have also been known to; down the owner receives the full am- catch by opening the muffler "cut-out", oant for which it was insured. This in the starting up. This danger is ; is not true of the automobile. The greater inside the garage than out of! owner of a car destroyed by flames doors, since there ia usually more or j gets a sum which represents the actual leas spi'.led grease and gasoline on the - market value of the machine at the garage floor, time the loss took place. Such an ar- , ptauL in shobt cibcuit. rangement is really fair, fof on any ^^^j,^^^ ^^^^^ „, <.^^ ^^^^ ,,^^ other basis, whenever the owner of an I ^f^^rt-circuiting of the ignition or insured car got t.red of it and found ij,^^; ^^^^ ^l,^„ ^ ^^ bat- he cou.d not possibly se.l. at the price j, „^j ^ ^^ort circuit may heat he paid for the machine, all he had;^^ ^, ^^e wires red hot and burn off to do was to sUmuIate a convenient , 4,^^ insulation. If there is any accu- mulation of grrease or oil or gasoline fire. This would enable him to recup- erate whatever loss he had sustained through depreciation. KEEP DBIP PAN CIEAS. The most general cause of an auto- near by a fire is liable to start. Another form of fire insurance pro- tection which ought to be a part of the equipment of every car. ia one or mobile fire comes from back-firing, i two fire extinguisiiers. Some fire in- And the principal reason for back- surance concerns give a reduced rate firing is too lean a mixture fed to the to cars thus equipped, cylinders. When there is a back-fire i After having taken every precau- a sheet of flame comes from the air tion possible to prevent your automo- intake of the carburetor. If there is bile from catching on fire, it may some anything inflammable nearby it is : day nevertheless i>e found in flames, very apt to catch on fire. I It is worth while to have in mind what Gasoline vaporizes so quickly that if , to do on finding your car on fire. The there is gasoline in the drip pan there ' time required to figure this out after is apt to l>e a sufficient mixture [ a fire has started may mean a heap around the carburetor to make trouble. Vof twisted ruins instead of an auto- The idea is to keep the drip pan free 'mobile. from ga.soline. See that there is no | First grab your fire extinguisher, leak in the supply pipe or in the con- .'Locate the position of the fire and nection to the carburetor. Also see wo<rk the extinguisher to the limit. MR. JUSTICE THE HONORABLE JAMES MAGEE Who celebrated his seventy-alatii birthday- on March 26. On .\pril 9 he com- pleted 16 years upon the bench o( the Supreme Court of Ontario. Spring Fever. Natural Resources Bulletin. "Nobody Wanted Me." "(Joing through the Reformatory one day," said J. J. Kclso, "I stopped to speak' with a lad who was standing listlessly at a window. He had a sullen manner when first spoken to, but brightened op considerably and after a friendly conversation he was Green's FoUy. We put up a prize for the largest (isib, and the trip was over and done. And the money we'd paid when the fish was weighed, for Green's was the largest one. And the rods were packed and the goods were £tacke<l. and we'd only an hour to wait. asTced the question: 'Now, tell me hon- y^-^^^o. Green said: "Oh. 1 w&uld like to go for a few more casta with fote. estly, just what it was that brought you to this institution?' He was silent for two or three minutes as if review- ing his past life. His wiiole manner changed and tears gathered in his eyes. 'Nobody wanted me at home,' he replied. 'After mother died my father did not care much how things went, then he married again, and al- though they did not exactly turn me out I knew I had no place there any more. I got to staying out at nights with other boys like myself and we had to steal things to get along. I was up in court a lot of times but they did "Will one of you men come out with me?" But each of them shook his head. "We're packed our stuff and we've had enough, and the time's too short." they said. Said Green: "Take note. I will row the boat for the one who is game to go." Then Chappy rose, and he said: "Here goes. Get out In the boat and row." me no good and then I was sent here.' The sadness of his words, especially ; ^et Green now tell what next took the misery and heart-hunger revealed in his manner of speaking, was most touching. With the co-operation of the. He hooked a trout that was just about officials a home was found for him three times what his own catch with people to whom his friendless weighed. condition was explained. They prom- xnd those minutes flew oa the watera ised to do their part, and that they i,iue, which he'<s coaxed hia place with the first cast Chap- man made When, as a child, I had a "fever," mother gave me delicious cooling Of the many natural products which I drinks, laid heavenly touches of Ice on t^e world has learned to think of as ' head and handa. told me quieting tales i ^ ,. . ^ ^â-  I. J 1 . . .1 .iT„> .ij »~v. ' ^^nsidian, none is more interesting and kept away from all that could fret j or affright. than asbestos, according to a report ' To-day, I have spring teverl The , recently pub^shed by the Natural Re- doctore have no cure for it. The nurses ' sources Intelligence Service of the rather view it with contemiK. But â-  pept. of the Interior. This strange "Mother" understands â€" the Great . , , , . . „ vr„.i,_. „.i.™„ „.>,„_ „„™^ i^ v-„.„-=. i mineral, ot which Canada now pro- Motuer whose other name is Nature. | *^ To her I turn in my captivating d is- : duces some 80 per cent, of the world's I tress. I S'^PP-y> lis^ been known since the time j What a .Mother she is! .Never a of tiie early Romans. It is mentioned rebuke glimmers in her great wise ^V Marco Polo in the thirteenth cen- I eye»; never a doubt mars the wonder , tury, and even Charlemagne is sup- I of her grave smile. She just beckons , Posed to have entertained and mysti- ! to me and, knowing her high niisin- j ^ed his guests by committing his table trationa these many ytars, I follow. j covers of "asbestos" to the flames. I Upon my hot brow her breezes lay | The first modern attempt to exploit ! their fluttering fingers fingers that , asbestos deposits was made during the j feel aa laughter sounds, the sweet j year 1862 in the Aosta vailey of the I laughter of innocent children L'pon j ^t^'ian Alps; and almost simultan- my lips, athlrst for drink that shall '«»"sly with the exploitation in Italy I blefs soul as well as body, fall the , asbestos was discovered in the Pro- I *parfcllng fluids of her skie:^. I am ; vince of Quebec. In 1873 mining op- . given ineffable Incense to inhale â€" the erations commenced on a small scale. i Mother's own Breath - cs-sence of all ; The total length of the productive belt i her new-born flowers. For my tired which is situated in the hills of the so- I eyea. her :^iinshine and quiet shade, called Eastern townships of Quebec, is ! For ray restless feet, her green-brown about twenty-three miles, with a width I earth path.s. For my yearning ears, ^'arying from 100 to G.OOO feet in the 'her bird-song and wind voices. My , ^'^ck Lake area, and to 3 "4 miles in I fever is cured:- -Vda .Melville Shaw, j Coleraine Township. The formation . occurs in knoUs and ridges from a few ! hundred to a thousand feet in height ; above the surrounding country. .'V.n- I other deposit of less magnitude has ! been found in Deloro township, Ont. The commercial value of a.=bestos I depends chiefly on tensile strength, ' flexibility, fineness of fibre, dehvdra- Canada from Coast to Coast Summerside, P.E.I. â€" In order to stimulate the growth of the fox farm- ing industry along linen calculated to ijetter ensure the financial and econ- omic future of the industry, the Can- adian National Silver Fox Breeders' Association has established a modern ranch at Summersida, where the var- ious problems connected with the in- dustry will be studied. This experi- mental ranch is equipped with 70 breeding pens and there still remains adequate space for further expansion. The ranch has been stocked with hlgh- clas.4 animals, registered and pedi- greed, supplied by breeders in the vicinity of Summerside. I Halifax, N.S. â€" The Provincial Min- ' ister of Mines, in a statement to the ! Legislative As-wmbly, said that an ex- j pert had been surveying gold pros- pects in the province for some time, and tiie report was that large gold de- ; posits were yet untapped, comparing favorably with those in Ontario and other places where gold mining was being carried on successfully. Many years ago this province was a success- ful gold producer, yet the industry has dropped off in recent years and the annual production now amounts to about 750 to 1,000 ounces. It ia con- sidered more than likely that at a ; future date operators will give serious ' consideration to ways and means of ; exploiting the g:o!d resources of this â-  province. ! Saint John, N.B. â€" Orders for three ; carloads of seed potatoes have been ' placed with the New Brunswick Seed ' Potato Growers' .Association by par- ties in the State of Massachusetts, ac-] cording to tiie secretary of the Asso- ciation. Inquiries have also i)een re- ceived from Newfoundland, New Jer- sey and Ontario, and the outlook for general business this year is consider- ed good. Montreal, Quebec.â€" The progrram of new newsprint machines in Canada and Newfoundland for 1926 includes eighteen machines with a combined rated capacity of 1,71,t tons a day, ac- cording to a report issued by the! Newsprint Service Bureau. In 192.") ' there were ten new machines itarterf! with a capacity of 890 tons dailyJ With the exception of one machine of 100 tnns capacity, all the new ma- chines .slated for 1926 will be installed in Canadian mills. Hamilton, Ont.â€" P. V. Byrnes, pres- ident of the Hamilton By-Ppodueta Coke Ovens, has announced that fon- tracta have been signed for a battery of 35 ovens and that work will be com- menced at once. It is a little over » year since the production of coke under the by-product.s pruo*.i8 was started in Hamilton. The popularity of this fuel has been sufficiently de- monstrated, said Mr. Byrnes, to war- rant the company spending $J,,')00,000 and the increasing of the capacity of the plant to 1,000 tons daily. Winnipeg. iian. â€" Beginning on June 1, a corps of enumerators, 2,500 strong, will begin a ten-day drive to determine the pepulation of tiie three Prairie Provinces. This census is taken under the authority of the fed- eral statutes which provide for a cen- sus every five years, to fall each time midway between the decennial Domin- ion census. Thus a census ia taken on the Prairies every five years, while in the other prosdnces it is taken every ten year?. Saskatoon, Sask. â€" Saskatchewan now owns approximately one-third of the horses in Canada, having 1,169,953 in a total of 3,554,041. Alberta comes next with 849,939, while Ontario is third with i>44,138. Manitoba has 358,- 839, so that the three Prairie Pro- vinces have altogether 2,249,730 head of horses, almost two-thirds of the total number in the Dominion. Sas- katchewan has an average of about eight horses per farm. Vancouver, B.C. â€" Construction of the first units in connection with the buildings required for the new hop yards located in the Sumas reclaimed lands has commenced. Several thou- sand pieces of special lumber will be required for the trellises. Five hun- dred acres are being planted into hops this year. succeeded was shown in the fact that the boy willingly remained with them for several years, and at latest reports was doing well." Gave Up the Job. About the year 1600, during a b.iltlei between the Swedes and Danes, Bish- op Beldeneck, in charge of the Danes, began thinking how hard the Swedes fought. He bad with hhn a guide who had been living In Sweden and he asked hi* man "What foods do these Swedee I ^it down content in your shack or lent friend to share. Cost the fifty beans which were in his Jeacs for the prise changed hands right there. Oh, the moral's plain. When the prize Is yours, though you've still au hour to wait; When the contest's done and men say you've won. don't further risk with fate. Don't coax men out on the stream for trout. Hang on to the joy you own. and let well enopgh alone! ^^ Mre OB?" "WeW." SAld the guide, "They live mostly on bread and water, but when the corn crop falls they mix their water with gcouod bark, nor do they care much for cold or heat or hunger or thirst." ".\ha,'* said the Btehop, "A people who live on wood and who drink water | Wide-Spreading Oak. thedetll hlni>elf, far Ie»s man. will not The great Hooker cak in i:»lifornla be able to overw^me. We will go L-gn shelter 8.00O personi under its I tion temperature and temperature of Early Mapis Sugar. Early co'.onistfi in America le:«rni»d - from the Indians a crude way of col- lecting sugar from maple trees. home." branches. 1 j fusion. The long fibres. U inch or i more In length, possessing these quali- i tie.«. are used for spinning and weav- . ing into fabric?, and are by far the â-  mo.st valuable. The short fibre.-?, less ! than '* inch in length, are used in '• the manufacture of asbestos, cement. j shingles, etc. 1 Canadian asbestos is of the finest! i quality, and, on account of its softness, ! j siikincas and tensile strength, is in j ; great demand for all kinds of asbestos i I products, particularly for asbestos' ! textiles. j i Although deposits of asbestiform ' Ha 'Personally, I think the rising ^ minerals are widely distributed over! generation id going mad." 'the world, there are but few localities! She'They have nothing to get mad in which high-grade .spinning fibres } about. It's the older geiierBtioii that's are found in important commercial mad." quantities. Before the world war I ^, I Canada (Quel)ec) and Russia furnish-' nil ai>i * p i*^ rnoAl of the world's supplv of high oil Aias ;^-Ray. 1 grade asbestos. At present Russian Dr. J. K. Kore^ier a bYeiich »ur- 1 production is small and South Africa geon. Is the Inventor of a new method | (including Rhodesia) i.» the only other of aiagco-sis with the X-ray through j large source besides Canada. Other use of Iodized oil. The oil. it. is said, i countries which are small producer-i fuinlsliee a backsround for an X-ray j include- the United States, .\u.stralia. photograph. j Cvprus. Italy. China and India. Average Span of Human | Life on the Increase! When Magellan sailed around the globe in the sixteenth century, the average length of human life was thirty years. But in this ys".r, the avert.go length of life in the United State:; and Canadian reg:istratl n area is 54.0 years. But the century mark is not yet reacL;;-i by any <:ohsider!ih7o njmhe». However, centenarians 01c not ac.ire. The automobile is one of the bigjcetl factors in piomoting longevity ynn: car takes you out in tir? ope'i. into the air and the sunligh":. Thc.-o ?;0 nature's greatest curaiiv,? forces. .\l;-o. .according to the vi,al .statis- ticians human life has been lengtheiKd in the last decade in .America by cp- proxi;r.ately 10 per cent. The inoreise is iillected in all ages from 10 to .-lO according to recent in.^uran.'e figfures. Civilization ha.< greatly increu.ied the life span. Medical and other scici'.fxi? have done much to prevent a hi^ii find early death rate. .Soiiu- prophets have declare! th:it in the year 2,000 the average life ;rnn will be more than 100 years. Decline in Tonnage at U.S. Ports. Improved inethcds in handling grain at Canadian .Vt!a.ntic ports and the opt-'Uing of large coal fields in Nova Scoiia, the Shipping Hoard's Bureau of Ueisarih de<iares. have altered the position of Cnited States North .-At- lantic anil Great Lakes pons, "which have heretofore participate<l largely lu these movements." The reeult. it is said, lias been the estahlii-hment of a â- 'balanced Iralllc in eastboiind grain and westbound coal " for the railroads of the Canadian territory. KhuluaLions in loreigii commerce in grain, peuoleum and ccal. throng North .Vtlautic iM>rts the Uureau toun-i. "More than offs^^t the general increase ia hundreds of otuer I'onimoUitiea handled during the fiscal year 192,^." And Several Who Can Do Ottierwise. "A beautij'ul and loviug woman cat bring down heaven. " "True â€" and I know several who can raise hell. " Low Infant Mortality. From .Vew Zealand comes the re- port that a new low world-record for births was established there fer th€ bithd was established there for tha year 1924, tor which couipieto statis- tics have been compiled. Encourage- ment is felt particularly in a reduc- tion of deaths of infant.3 under on« month from 29 to 24 per 1.000. This gain is attributed to the fact tha'. pub- lic heath nurses are supplied witli tJi« naiueei and addresses of mothers with- in a few days of childbirth, so that of- fers of aid may lio extended immedi- ately. Dr. Truby King, founder of the Koyal New ZeaJanJ Society, is quoted by the report as placing the Irreduc- ible infant mortality at 30. The Shooting Star. Sh»H>ring star* are realiy meteors, or ^niaii bits of etar;. Great Benefit to Radio. Dlsicvpry by women .scientists of short elei'tro-iiiagnctir wavc« which It is elaiined will revolutionize radio- telephony, laiduvtelegraphy and photo- graphy. Is aiuiouncod by Prof Wein- berg, ot Ijeniiigrad University. Maria l-evitekaya, a physicist, dis- i-overed wavee measuring less than- four-tenilis of ;x millimetre (0157 of an liichi. while similar waves, esti- mated to be only thp 100th part of a miliimeire in length, were discovered bv Olagoliova .^rca.'.ieva MUTT AND JEFFâ€" By Bud Fisher. Augustus Mutt is Kidding His Better HaJf. ? f wH>, ^ou'R<E pc"inu€LV 5 HANiDSOlvve . •€