% 5 Is Uncle Sam's Most Reliable it< w Lighthouse Keeper. as It Rises In the Morning. 'Phe sun is the most trustworthy of _{nteresting. | The discovery of acetylene gas was 2 first step toward retiring the lenely of the little lights in faroff aces. Modern magic was not slow recognizing the fact that by the ap- of 'eertain well known scien- principles the lighting of the great : of beacons that girdle the coasts of the two seas and the gulf and cover great lakes and cvery navigable in our huge country could be --r : A The United States did not become in- acetylene beacon 8 a very simple but it depends almost entirely bi the "sun valve," which is one of the I In the first place, the source of light ¥ these lone beacons is dissolved which is stored under pres- sure in steel cylinders. One of these 8 can be charged with enough to last a small beacon three yéars. , however, in the case of float: Ing buoys, a six months' supply is all " is necessary, as such buoys are and painted twice a year. the size of the flame and Its of gas, it is very how long a cylinderful and how often it will need to all the care the sun valve does sun valve is that light a tchouds 1s that Night 8, according to the nature of the ng body. Sunlight upon dark os is converted into beat, and produces expansion. 'This expan- is especially perceptible In certain 4 In a carefully sealed and substantial ly mounted glass jar nearly a foot th and about one-fourth that iu di- a thick black rod is placed per through the center. It is by three slenderer rods of polished copper. . The big black.] od copper also and is coated with * ! jack to make it absorb light to greatest possible degree. 'The sup rods reflect light without ab- vi hy evenks concluded How the Toothsome Little Fish Is Taken In Fundy. = . The sardine i: a frequent article of 'diet upon Canadian tables, and how- ever much its flavor and handiness are appreciated but little is generally known of the processes through which 1% passes before its sppearance in the grocery. a ' The true sardine (Clupea sardina) is a small fish of the Mediterranean and derives its name from the island of Sardinia. This is the sardine put up in France. The sardine in Canada, the United States and Nor- way are the young of as (eiving (Clupea harengus), from five to seven inches in length. Z young herring come in on the coast of the Bay of Fundy in immense schools from June to October. are caught in weirs (pronounced "ware" among the fishermen of New Brunswick). The weir is a large, hoop shaped enclosure of stakes, brush and net, far enough out from shore s» that at low tide (and the tide in the Bay of Fundy rises and falls some twenty-eight feet) there will be from four to ten feet of water in it. A fence of stakes and brush known as the "lead" runs out from the shore to the Sale of the weir. ii in 4 young herring: coming in from the sea keep close to the shore. Strik- ing the lead they will not swim be. tween the brush, of which it is com- posed, but swim along it into mouth of the weir. running a weir lives close to it dur. ing the season, and as the fish fill into a weir on the high tide he in- spects his weir each high tide, and il he finds fish in it he drops the net over the gate. Usually the fish come in it he drope the net over the gate. Usually the fish come in on a night high tide. At low tide the weir is seined. A sein is a long net deep enough to reach the botfom of .the weir, with weights at the bottom and floats at the top. This net is stretched round the circumference of the inside of the weir by a man in a boat, then gradually drawn in until the fish are gathered into a practically solid mass. Then fish are dipped out bis huge cipnet with a long y hoop of the net is placed in the boat and the bag pulled in hand over hand, loading the fish into the boat. Some idea of the immense numbers of sardine which sometimes run into a weir may be obtained from the fact that as high as three hundred hogs- heads, each holding four barrels, have been taken out at one time. From fifteen to thirty hogsheads is consid- ered a fair catch, and anything over two hogsheads as worth seining for. The price paid to the owner of the weir varies from $3 to $30 per head, according to the abundance or scarcity of sardipe. On arrival at the factory the fish are hoisted from the hold to the dock and are sent down a sluice, Here they are deposited in brige tanks. From these tanks they the flaking ma- Shie, ih yp raises them to the ext and arranges m in a laye over large trays known as "fi These flakes are p in a large rack on 'wheels, which is wheeled in- to the steam-chest, where they are steamed for ten minutes. From the Soam-chest they are hecled into, the ing-room, where rare n Fy air blast. When dry tl are removed from the rack and the are carried to the packing tables, at which girls are at work packing the fish into tins. The tins and covers are stamped out of sheet tin hy ma- chines on the premises. Considering the immense number of young herring which ate caught in the weirs it is no wonder that many have predicted that the supply of herring would soon give out, but the fact remains that the season of 1911 was one of the best, if not the very best, in the his. tory of the sardine industry in Can- ada, the owner eof one weir making $5000 in two weeks. --Canadian Courier. His Reporting Days. During the days of his apprentice: ship in the field of literature Arthur Stringer was a rej on The Lon- don Free Press. His faculty for dra matic effect was already beginning to show itself, and he sometimes handed in copy more vigorous than discreet. Upon one occasign he was sent to write mw an wg Ho. Which several out-of-togn singers part. Mr. Stringer's article criticised one of them as "rendering Tosti's 'Good- Bye' with the sive cadences of a phenograph out of breath." Very naturally the editor made am objee- tion to such unnecessary compliments. "I we let that go in, her husband would-dynamite the building," Ber Was : 4 " "Then we'll compromise," agreed the reporter. "We shall say 'she ren- dered Tosti's 'Good-bye' indescrib- ably'." "That won't do, either." "Then, 'she rendered Tosti's 'Geod- | bye'. "Much better," said the Hits. satisfaction of geiting my down on for- an hour. 1 don't care rie whether yod print them or not."--Star Weekly. Edmonton Looks Ahead. Plans for. fifty years ahead that : es of 'beeity million dolues: have bee "Edmonton from a land oh firm. i 52 HA] r } £ £ re ih £ The man. , ; H the branches CARRYING TESTAMENTS, Thirty-One Thousand Canidians Are, ' Pledged To Do So. Two vears ago there were compara- tively few men and women in Can- ada who made a practice of carrying with them wherever they went a Bible ef a New Testament. To-day there are over 31,000 who are pledged to. do so, and every day sees ghe number grow, despite the dismal pro- ies of those of little faith, who ed to see thé effort die a natural death. Canada was the first country to take up this work in a thoroughly system- atic 'way, and to-day leads the world in every particular as far as the league is Joncornedy i A unique Yeature of the werk in. Canada is found in 'the fact that there are no fees of any kind attached, nor is there any cost to any church tak- ing up the work. Special attention is paid to the Sunday school work, and so simple is the league's plan of oper- ation, that it can operate through a Sunday school or any other depart- ment of a church without creating any extra machinery, or in any way add- ing to the burden of those interested. success of the league in Canada is nothing short of remarkable. There are over 31,000 members enrolled, and over 500 local branches. These branches are at work in every pro- vince of the Dominion, and almost every large city is represented. It is interesting to note that 56 per cent. of the members are young ladies under twenty-five years of age; that 70 per cent. are S'wday school scholars, and that Ont- -.. has slightly over 200 of mentioned. When the founders wanted a man to promote the league they picked Mr. Waite, » young man just finish- ing his education. That their choice /WaS a wise one no one can doubt af- ter reading of the league's success. As Canada wa e first country sys- Sematically to take up this work, Mr. Waite had to work out a system of promotion that would be wide enough to embrace a country and yet be ap- |, plicable to the individual branch, no matter how small. Mr. Waite brought to this task an organizing ability that one hardly ex- pects to find in on€ so young, and a gift of 'public speaking that has stamped him as ope of the best young men speakers in Ontario to-day. Asked as" to the prospects for the. work in Canada, Mr. Waite said: "1 want to say first of all that the league has come to stand, if will be a per- manent movement. Judging by our success to date, and keeping in mind the kindly attitude of all denomina- tions towards our work, I have no hesitancy in saying that within five years the league wilP have a total membership running close to the 300,- 000 mark, with branches at work in every part of Canada. When the con- ditions of. membership in the league are remembered, some idea of the value such a movement will be to the religious and national life of our country can 'be realized." Canada's Black Rice. Along the shores of Rice Lake, which separatés the counties of Peter- id and Northumberland, Ontario, ere is nnich life when the black rice harvesting time arrives. It is the sig- nal for Indians to move out among the rice beds of the Hiawatha Reserve, the Alderville and Hiawatha Indians usually muster forces about the mid- dle of September and repair to the mouth of the Keene 'river. Peterboro county, which has been the scene of rice harvesting opera- tions for a number of years, is prac- tically the headquarters for the band during the harvest season, and it is in elogse proximity to several of the larg- est beds on the adjacent waters. The sole right to gather the rice is vested in the tribes, whose Indian par- entage is unquestioned, and the primi. tive custom is one of the few that have withstood the changes of time. A visit to the scene of action on a soft September day is worth while and is the means by which one can see the Indian as he existed in the more primeval age. The twentieth century has robbed the old-time cus- tom of much of its charm; this is especially ' noticeable in the present- day garb of the redmen, but the old- "Sime pictu is still much in evidence at the noual gathering of the rice harvest. Simplicity and primitiveness--char- acterize the preparation of the rice for market. ' Trawlers Return, After sailing over. 16,000 miles in nearly four months the two pioncer steam trawlers of the British -Colum- 'bia Fisheries Co., have just-arrived at Prince Rupert. They are the "Canada" and the "Triumph." It was only after a very exciting voyoge that the former reached her destin: ation in-salety. Over 90 tons of coal were taken on at, Union Bay on Van- ocouver Island, load the boat down 10 the gunwales so that she became almost unmanageable in 40 miles of dirty weather between Banks Island amd ate. These forerupners of $he Sater ve fleet which will play fv im t part in building up prestige of Prince Rupert as a fishing port are of the most modern des and great interest will attach to Teport of their first haul, . LITTLE OVERSIGHTS, ~ Small Slips' That Have Cost Murden ers Their Lives. "The milis of the geds grind slowly', but they grind slmighty fine." Edward Jardine, an Ontario youth, paid the penalty of his crime on the gallows at Goderigh a little over a year ago. ° Jardine murdered a young woman in a particularly brutal man- ner. His mental development was poor; he was not suspected. The scouring the country for the perpe- trator of the fiendish crime. Jardine talked; he talked continually--of the crime--the brutality of it, and all its hideous features. His talk created 'suspicion, he was watched, later ar- rested, conflssed and was hanged. Jardine's idea in talking was to divert suspieion from too much. be 3 Two men were standing at the Un. ion Depot among the ¢rowd waiting to board the International Limited. A detective was standing on the plat- form. When the crowd moved these of the men, noticing the detective watching him, nudged his companion, and that nudge just meant eleven years in jail for him--costly nudge. He was arrested on suspicion, his de- scription wired broadcast, and a police officer came from Washington and got him, He was a notorious bank rob- A James Murphy, alias Brady, was a "erook" who loved good clothes, A store was broken into at Newmarket, clothes stolen. Brady was arrested, convicted, and gpent nine months making large stones smaller. Three weeks after his release a jewelry store was robbed, and over five thousand dollars in' jewelry and Money ti Next door was a tailor shop which w ound to have been entered and an ex- in suit taken. Brady was lo cated, some plunder found in his pes session, and the tailor's suit on his back. This time he got four years. Clothes 'were his weakness. If it had not been for a woman, Rice of the Rice, Rutledge, and Jones trio, would ly never have been hang- . After robbing toffices, mer- chants, and others, the three desper- adoes went to Chicago, where: they were traced by letters from Rice to this weman. They were taken to To- ronto, and while being Sign from jail in a cab were supplied with revolvers which were thrown into the cab in an old felt hat--presumably by a woman ~--it was never learned. Rutledge committed suicide by throwing him- self over a balustrade, falling three flights in the jail. Jones died in jail, the result of a bullet wound, and Rice paid his score in the jail courtyard. It was learned by the police that the trio had planted to break up, but be- fore they had carried out their plans the letters to the woman entrapped them, Was the weakness in this case a woman? Reginald Birchall, an Englishman, decoyed a fellow-countryman into a swamp near Wi and murder- ed him. He had interested Benwell in- some timber lands and had the young man send to his father in Eng- land for a draft. He shot Bove, intending to forge his name on the re- ceipt for the draft, and get the money. Birchall then Shreully ut off every identifying mark on well's cloth- ing, his ring, watch, and papers, but inadvertently dropped his cigar case. "I was utterly insane when I wards wrote in his diary. The finding of the case led to the identification of Benwell, and the ar- rest and conviction of the murderer. The list is.long of men who have gone to the gallows through seme lit- tle inadvertence in a well-laid scheme of murder--some apparently trifling accident that has developed into a giant of condemnatogy circumstance. Guy Curtis, Farmer. The name of "Guy Curtis" is em- balmed in the records of Canadian intercollegiate sport with an individ- uality all its own. Guy Curtis quit the game about six years ago to man- age a farm inherited from his father. Fifteen years had he spent at Queen's University, Kingston, registering in "Arts," session after session, without attempting to make an academic pro- gress. His devotion to rugby and re key finally won him a national repu- tation, and when about forty-five years old, he reluctantly. quit the university halls and:became a "retired farmer" in Eastern Ontario. The other day he returned to King. of his boon companions was Dr, Harty, now a wealthy y acting as an official' of lagen: Locomotive Co., and a well-known amateur sportsman. Guy paid him a visit at his office and listened ser- ously tu the dootor"s description of how heavily the cares of a large busi- ness weighed upon him since the old days at college. When he had ocom- pleted the , Curtis nodded with sympathetic gravity and observed ly: 3 "Jock, who blows the whistle when you're not here?"--Toronto Star Weekly. Fell 3,000 Fost. 5 police were without a clue, and were |' himself, but he talked 1 men also'moved, in and out, until one |. overlooked the cigar case," he after- | ston to renew old atquaintantes. Die. citizen, \ -D0AP Alifetime of disfigurement and suffer- ing often results from the neglect, in . infancyor childhood, of simpleskinaf- fections. In the prevention and treat- ment of minor eruptions and in yo © romotion of permanent skin and hair Realth, Cuticura Soap an Cuticura Ointment are absolutely unrivaled. scalp, sent post-free. Address Corp., Dept. 19D, Boston, U. 8. 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