THE hi Th | : Lr TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1080 The Hot Weather is Here at Last WE HAVE A FEW FANS LEFT WHICH WE WILL SELL AT COST. HALLIDAY ELECTRIC C0. Cor. King and Princess - - ~ Phone 94° Davie & Barrett PLUMBING, HEATING and TINSMITHING All kinds of repair work promptly attended to. . PHONE 688 203 WELLINGTON ST. SLATEX SHINGLES SLATEX ROOFING WATERTITE ROOFING * See our window display. W. H. COCKBURN & CO. Corner Wellington and Princess Street. Phone 216. FOR SALE Large dwelling, well-planted artistic grounds, ideal surround. ings, watér front. Store with two fiats, King street. Large summer cottage, semi- furnished, Wolfe Island. Houses and lots, highest grade ia the city; reasonable terma. Life, Fire, Accident, Sickness and Automobile Insurance ef- fected. , . Victory and other Bonds bought, sold, and exchanged. J 0. HUTTON 67 CLARENCE STREET Phone 703. Martin's Garage We are fully equipped with first class mechanics to do all kinds of AUTOMOBILE REPAIR WORK ON SHORTEST NOTICE. ' Call and let us supply you with GASOLINE, OILS, etc. Country calls given best of attention. Storage for cars. J. W. MARTIN, Prop. 110 Clergy Street, Phone 1192W. Res. Phone 1705F. . lly ° Special Notice The Housekeepers of Kingston: Do not forget to call during the week of September |3th-18th and see the new Elec- tric Portable Sewing Machine at our store. It will be of interest to you, Watch the daily papers for further particulars. H. W. NEWMAN ELECTRIC C0. Thresher's Supplies BELTING (all sizes) BELT LA CES, CYLINDER OIL, MA- CHINE OILS, CUP GREASE PACKING. . LEATHER MITTS, OIL CUPS, VALVES, FITTINGS, ETC. . carried in stock at:-- LEMMON & SONS KINGSTON NN 187 PRINCESS STREET "Oats, Barley, Wheat, Rye, Buckwheat, Hay, Timothy, Red Clover, Alsike Seed. Write, phone or call for prices, advising what you have and your nearest shipping . point. : W. P. PETERS Office and Elevator foot of Princess Street. Phone 51 or217 Kingston, Ont. - - - | EN ee Fire on Thursday completely de- siroyed the frame dwelling of Gus Thompson, Tweed. The contents were & ioial loss. On Wednesday evening Peter Hunt, Brockville, passed away, following a protracted illness, in his seventy- fourth year, . | i | Three Great War Secrets Have Been Made Public To Astonish the World OOAALAAALALLLLS a oe GOL al yee WRITER in the London Daily Mall says: y Although the depth charge ' was the most powerfa) of the | weapons that checked the operations | of the U-boat, thus leading indirectly | to the collapse of the Central Powers, | I imagine that not more than tem people in every thousand weuld be able t0 explain just what a depth {charge 1s. Jack Tar himself, who | knows most things, could not tell you | how and where it came to be con- | structed. | Manchester University did, in fact, | make the first depth charge. It | would be inaccurate to say it was | invented by us; like the tank, the | depth charge is nobody's child. But | We can honestly claim that it was our | Engineering Department which ex- | | perimentally. developed the depth | charge to the commercial stage. |, It was one of the many qdd prob- lems set us by the Admiralty. They | asked us for a 15-in. bomb-thrower | which would project a weight of one hundredweight a distance of 500 | yards by compressed air. We supplied | it. They asked us for a shackle which | would stand a pull of one ton and | melt after being immersed in the | Water for a certain length of time. { It was a novel request, and prob- | ably the Admiralty thought they had Set us a poser. The object was to | discover a contrivance which would | 8hackle a mine and its sinker to- gether on the bed of the sea until & mine-laying submarine had drop- | ped all its "eggs," when, with the melting of the shackle, each mine would rise to the determined height, We solved that particular problem | with a sugar shackle -- by pouring melted toffee into a cavity dove-tailed In a metal shackle! It was so de- vised that it could stand a pull of | Ome ton and a third during the forty- { five minutes that the sugar took to melt, After the first year of war several men from our laboratory took up re- sponsible positions in H.M.S. Vernon, the navy"s. research department at Portsmouth, and it was through the Vernon that the investigations into the question of hbw to conquer the U-boat first came back to the Engi- neering Department at the univer- sity. | Two alternative.designs of mechan: | ism causing a heavy charge to ex- Plode at a fixed depth under water | Were gent to us for criticism, modifi- | cation and experiment, and, after | some months of patient experiment- | mg, we were able to hand over to the university instrument-maker the final design from which under our supervision, the first fifty depth | charges were made. Our aim was to produce a simple | mechanism, thoroughly , fool-proof, which would go off at the pressure at which it was set. The depth | charge consisted of a case contain- | Ing 300 pounds of T.N.T. (tri-nitro- | toluol) with an attached mechanism | provided with a flexible diaphragm | and a piston which depressed a spring i in such a way that the spring was | | compressed in proportion to the | the surface of the seh. | a simple arrangement | by a lever on the outside of th worked | e depth | | eharge the amount of compression re- | quired to fire the charge could be ad- | Justed to suit any depth--in practice | | One spring was released at forty, a second at eighty feet. The firing gear was so arranged | that a trigger was released when the | | Spring was compressed by the amount | corresponding to the desired depth. | The trigger fired a detonator; the de- | | tonator exploded the T.N.T. , and-- | that was the end of the U-boat. ---------- The Decimal Coinage System. Despite the manifold disadvantages | of the present system, enumerated by rthe many witnesses examined, the British royal commission decimal is not advisable, at the coinage system basis. Though the shilling-pence system is hard to learn, diffieult to figure with, and a serious cap to the export trade, the comminsion feels that the diffcultes of, veform would be ost insur Millions of contracts would have to be altered, in the first place. Then, to replace the present coins with new would re- quire the whole normal output of the mint for thirteen years, no allow=- ance being made for increased pro- duction. If one-half of the output were devoted to replacement, and the other half to meeting current de- mands, this confusing transition would take more than twice as long. ------------------------ An Extraordinary Wound. An extraordinary illustration of how hard to kill are some men, is given in the London Lancet, by Dr. H. J. B. Fry . A British soldier was hit by a German bullet on the left side of the abdomen. The bullet gouged the surface of the external iliac artery, penetrated the internal iliac vein, passed up this to the heart, Passed through the heart and lodged in the left branch of the pulmonary artery. An X-ray photograph did not show it; there was no pain near the heart, but the left leg became gan- its etreulation being cut present, to put present pound- the patient went into shock and died. He had survived this extraordinary wound a whole month. -- Earl a Commercial Traveler, In England it is again becoming the fashion for society people to go into business. Lord Carnwath, a Scottish earl of ancient is 8 commarcial traveler. A son of the Duke of Montrose has Joined a ship- firm in Glasgow, while a son of the Marquis of Ailsa runs an automobile repair shop in London. ---- F. W. Clarke, manager of the Merchants Bank in Athens the past few years, has been notified he is be- ing moved to Montreal, and with Mrs. Clark is busy packing his household goods. We regret to announce the death dt Mrs. Bdward Green, an old and very highly esteemed resident of Corn- wall, which occurred on Thursday, the 3nd instant, after a long illness, coinage has recently reported that it | 'upon a decimal | { f | { | DA Al Whose are the master minds be- hind the astounding' epidemie - of | crime which has recently startled | London? Jewel robberies and fur | thefts on an unexampled scale have i been reported to Scotland Yard dur- { Ing the last three or four weeks, and | the smartest minds of the criminal | investigation department are balled | by the facility and ease with which Blccessive coups have been accom- | plished." | It is women who are playing an | important role in connection with | these uncanny mysteries of the west | end, remarks the London Express. | The ultra-fashionable woman thief | has come into her kingdom, and Scot- | land Yard is becoming more and more | mystified at the extraordinary suc- cess which attends her daily enter- prises. The war infused a new spirit of | adventure, daring and resourceful- | ness into the woman crook, and things which in former times she hesitated to attempt are now mere commonplaces in her daily life, t manner of creature is the woman crook of Mayfair? She is not | the petty pickpocket, the purse | Snatcher, of whom one reads in the police court reports; on the contrary, she is 'a cultivated, accomplished, traveled adventuress, a woman of af- fairs, who dreams no dreams,' but deals in hard facts. You would never | Buess these women adventurers for what they are. { Take a peep with me into one of | the many fashionable Mayfair flats. | where live the genuine women of | fashion--and the spurious. A well gowned woman is sitting on a eom- | fortable sofa warming her silk-clad feet before a fire. The walls of the room are hung with fine old prints, the brocade curtains, the carpets, the lacquer writing desk, all savor of the refined, cultured society woman. And | the woman herself. To look at her | You would think she was sitting there | planning a dinner party or a week- end visit. As a matter of faet she | is working out in that quick brain of | hers the details of ome of the most | daring Jewel robberies ever foisted | on a great city. A knock at the door. A man ser- | vant ushers in a well-groomed young | man, and retires. The two sit chat- | ting comfortably together on the sofa, | for all the world like brother and | sister. By and by the woman rises, | adjusts her cloak, which the man | holds out for her, -and rings a bell, "My car." Down the steps, past the silent footman, into the glittering landaulette, and--off into the whirl | of trafic. Where are they bound? | Maybe it is to some west end restau- | rant, perhaps to the dark alleys and | § Streets of Limehouse Chinatown. They watch the doings of the big thieves and the little, the master crook and the petty purse snatcher, and bring their reports daily to the master brain. Henee your cracks- Woman is always posted with details ---she knows who is planning fur rob- | beries, and who has eyes on dia-, | monds, who would filch motor-cars, | and who will receive stolen goods. | She knows. That is the great point, and those whom she watches realize this to the full. Blackmail is a handy Weapon to the woman with the master mind. - She has but to command ald-- it is hers. If it is refused? Well, there is that little matter of the theft of a pearl necklace. Not even the most astute investi- | gator at Scotland Yard is at times | aware of the superwoman crook, for | she trades under a variety of aliases, | while her manner of living disarms'| suspicion. { ------------ Cricket Balls. ' Cricket balls are made of oxhide, cork, and worsted. © One oxhide will furnish enough | leather for about six dozen balls. | After the hide has been thoroughly aned, and scraped, it is cut into strips four or five inches d_ article jis | composed of four 'pieces from the | Same portion of the hide to ensure similarity of color and substance, The sections are next shaved to a uniform thickness and marked with a toothed wheel for stitch-holes. | When the holing process is complet- od, the sections are sewn together in pairs, The,fwo halves are next fitted with A eentre. This is made by binding strips of cork with damp worsted wp- on a small cork foundation, and then hammering it to shape and baking in an oven to strengthen it by con- s process It has been estimated that 300,000 new houses are needed in the United to house the popu- would have cost in 1914. of big houses in London but these are of no use to Thousands are for sale newlyweds, such establishments. found too costly to try to convert many of these houses into apart- ments. They now are monuments to pre-war and opulent family life in London, when servants were employ- ed by the dogen. ---------------- Jute Industry In Britain, The district of Dundee is the centre of the jute industry in the United Kingdom and practically all the raw Jute imported into the country, which averages 1,200,000 bales annually, is consumed thers, It is the staple industry of Dundee and employs nor- mally about 35,000 workers. 3 William James Barber, Huff's Is- (land, Prince Edward county, died at the Belleville hospital on. Friday from heart trouble. Mr. Barber was bora in Prince Edward in 1873 and had resided there all his lite. He was & successful farmer. Rev. H. A. Reid has tendered his resignation to the Cornwall Baptist church and has gince accepted a call to Oascode. DICKY CHANGES HIS MIND. ."Pgoh!" exclaimed Dicky, throw- ing himself down on the grass. 1 wish 'I were a great, big bird and lived in a tree. I'd build my nest on the highest limb of the highest tree on the highest mountain." "My goodness," laughed a merry voice, and Gocomeback, the travel elfin crawled out from under a bush | where he had stopped to speap to Busy Ant. "You never would be content with a nest like Robin Red- "I should say not," laughed Ky. "I'd want to live in the .very tallest tree in the world." "Oh, 1 know just the place for you," offered Gocemeback, and be- fore Dicky could ask and questions he suddenly found himself on the back of an eagle and was whisked through the air over mountains and seas to a tree on the top of a great high peak. Here on the flat place like the top of a table, measuring about six feet across and about four feet in thick- ness, lived Mama and Daddy Eagle. There was nothing around the sides, and Dicky felt dizzy as he peeked over the edge and down to the valley, miles and miles below. "And so you thought you might iike to come and live with us?" ask- ed Daddy Eagle kindly. you'd like our pretty location? I feel sorry for the birds who have | breast's, then." | to content themselves living in low- | er places. Can't be too high up for me!" and Daddy Eagle opened his great, big bill and laughed so loudly Dicky felt ke covering up his ears-- It was such a loud, screechy noise. "Well," said Dicy, "I think your { view across the valley and to the | hills yonder is certainly beautiful, but I'd like it much better if you could build a fence around the plat- form here. Where's your nest?" Mama and Daddy Eagle laughed right out loud, and even Gocome- back could hardly keep back a smile. "Why, all this is the nest!" he re- plied; On Daddy Eagle's Back. "Why, of course ,how stupid of me," said Dicky... '"You have a large family?" ; : "Yes and no," said Dady Eagle. "What we have grow pretty large, but we very seldom raise more than two babies at a time. Mama 'Eagle is sitting on two eggs right now." Mama Eagle moved over and show ed Dicky the two small eggs, shaped more like baseballs than like eggs, that rested under her feathers. "My goodness!" exclaimed Picky. "And you built this great, big plat. form for just two children?" "Four of "us, counting my wife and myself," declared Daddy Eagle, "We never yet have found it any too large. But don't worry, there's plenty of room if you'd care to live with us. I'm sure we could find plenty of time to teach you how to fly when we teach the others.) That is, if you'd care to stay with us." "No, I guess I wouldn't be able to stay very long," said Dicky, moving closer t othe travel elfin. The 'height made him dizzy and sick. "You see, mama doesn't know where I am. I guess we'd better go, hadn't we, Go- comeback?" Gocomeback laughed merrily, and shaking Mama ¥agle's claw they jumped on Daddy Eagle's back and were hurried home just in time to hear Dicky's mama calling him to lunch. . "It certainly was lovely up so high but dear me, I'd rather live on the ground in a house with sides on it," said Dicky after relating his ad- venture to his mama. WOMENS PAGE Miss Jessie Fyckes, B.A. of Mou- linette, went to Picton, where she wi be engaged on the collegiate "You think | - USED MOTOR CARS ~SCRIPPS-HOOTH 1920. ~FORD SEDAN, FORD URING. ~=FORD ROADSTER. ~MeLAUGHL IN TRUCK. Your 'tar taken as part payment. PALMER COR. BAGOT AND QUEEN. | VICTORY BONDS TO INVESTORS! THINK OF IT! . ACT QUICK! You can buy 1934 Bonds at 93, yielding 6} per cent., plus your chance of these Bonds ; going to par later on. Let us place your or= der. 5 MILLS COMPANY, 79 Clarence Street. The Velie 48 Has it Every convenience, every luxury you desire found in this car. One must try out this new motor to fully appreciate its unlimited possibilities. Unque ptiorfably, it offers more im- provements in motor construction than the industry has creat- ed in a decade. 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