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rh grain. . Smu t is a powdery * fungus 'Which forms a Lriygn dust; dut.it will be harmless in future, for all. threshing-machines are now pro- vided with an open-air outlet. 'Most people know .that some of the worst: coal-mine accidents have been caused by -al-dust, and that a dry pit ds far more dangerous than a wet ome. Mixed with air and heated to a "high temperature, coal-dust is as bad as gunpowder. The dust is the carbon or charcoal of the gunpowder, and the alr supplies the oxygen which salt- petrs gives to gunpowder. 3 Turned Into Gas There were so many of these dust explosions in old days that a law was passed compelling owners to instal a spripkling system, to clean up dust and grit, and to cover walls and floors with stone dust, which is' not explo- sive, © Why is coal-dust so dangerous? Everyone knows that a log of wood eplit in two will burn more quickly than an unsplit log, 'and that if you hop the log into-splinters it burns more quickly still. The reason is simple. Oxygen is necessary before anything can burn, the smaller the pleces of any com- ' ustible material the more oxygen it is in contact with and the quicker if burns, If it is in the form of dust, it burns so fast that it turns into gas. @ae takes up more room than a solid substance, so the result is an ex- plosion., In the case of coal-dust the explosion is so furious that it will exert a pressure of seven to eight tong per. gquare foot, wrecking the mine and killing everyone in its path, was found to be "smut" dust hi a =, A Glasgow Disaster - 'Starch can: be a dangerous explo- plve. At a big sweet factory in New York a workman, carrying a tray of starch on his head, fell against a stove, and the whole place went up Hike a. powder-mill, killing almost everyone in the building. Sugar is equally dangerous in cer- tain circumstances. At half-past eight one morning Paris was shaken by a thuriferous explosion, and the top of the great Say sugar refinery, near the bed Station, leaped into the alr, Fi pla. were killed or in- pured"™ Lo 00,000 'francs' worth of damage done. There are still people alive who can remember the:appalling disaster at the Tradeston Flour Mills in Glasgow 2, when two mills blew up and eat part of the neighborhood was itm At the time the source of the explosion 'was a mystery, but it is now. known, to have been dug to fine particles: of, flour floating in dry air, k When Oatmeal Flashes Up -dust was the cause of a very ad explosion at Ipswich some years 'ago, when a building six stories high 'and four hundred feet long. was Te- duced to ruins. The damage done was 'estimated at £60,000. + Even oatmeal has been known to blow up. At a factory near Waterloo Station, in London, oatmeal was being mixed in a_.bin when it flashed up, blowing all doors and windows out of theirodmiie In a linoleum factory the precau- | m tions taken are equal to those in a powder magazine, for cork dust is so light and floats so thickly in the air that it will blow up if it touches an unprotected light. Another danger is that cement and cork.dust," when mixed 'together, have, an. unpleasant way of heating until the mixture takes fire of itself.--London Tit-Bits. SRE Lb dei, Busmen on' Holiday Now To .Go Flying London Busmen, ignoring the. popu- lar idea that they go for bug rides on their days off, have taken to fly- ing in their free time. They have formed a flying club with a subscrip- Sting of sixpence' a: week... Circulars have been sent out to all the garages, ' 'and the omnibus company has con- sented to deduct sixpence a week from members' wages. There are already between' 1,000 and 1,500 mem- bers, and with the money from sub- scriptions they are going to buy an _ airplane on the hire system and em- ploy a fulltime instructor. Then every day about twenty members will have lessons. In addition to !} flying, gromnd instruction, mapread- « & ing and rigging will be taught, - es bP Ak» oh i . Bhe lived a little while, f t Then lald her life away,-- 'Between her folded linens In lavender it lay. ; Sometimes she went to touch #t % see that it was fair, fo imes in: sunny outher. Co ! She spread it il the - Hh iQ And folding it away WT Hm me!" she used to Wlgh, eet it might kave been! " now it's all gone by." a arol 'Ryria Brink (from the, 7 Made by the mekens of Kiaft Cheese and Kraft Salad Dressing g: P ii Owl Laffs Little Josie flew into the house one evening very late for the evening meal and hurried to her mother's chair. Little Josie--"Oh, mother, don't scold me, for I've had such a great dis; appointment, A horse fell down in the street and they said they were going to send for a horse doctor, so -of course, 1 had to stay. = And after I waited and waited he came, and oh, mother, what do you think? It was only a man!" i tee. And the next generation will hear dad tell about roughing it in the old days when a fellow had to feed the furnace by hand. ¢ Business Man (after interviewing his daughter's suitor)--*"1 regret 1 can- not see my way to allow-you to marry my daughter at present, but give me your name and address; then, if noth- ing better turns up in the near future, you may hear from us again." How Times Have Changed "You must wake and call me early, Call me early, mother dear," = .. That was often sald to mothers ™ * By the girls of yesteryear. But the girls now tell their mothers, As they go out for a spin, "You must wake up early, Mother, Someone's got to let me in" Neighbor--"Has your wife made home happier since she went to cook- ing school?" : Mr, Michael--""Much happier; we have both learned to deeply and pro- perly appreciate plain, simple restaur- ant food. The riother who. gpoils her child may 'be foolish but the mother who doesn't is unnatural. There was a time when a doctor couldn't figure much on success unless he was able to grow whiskers. Several exclusive, tea rooms are now serving paper weights with their meals to keep the: sandwiches from blowjng off the table. Every man should have a hobby, de clares someone, Perhaps, but it is better not to let your wife see you with her. The wise man never stops to argue with a sharptongued wife-- He beats it. Some wise man says: "A hundred hurry to catch up where one hurries to get ahead. Carl--"Honey, I'm knee-deep in love with you." Winifred--"All right, I'll put you on my wading list." Mrs. Huller--"Your husband looks like a brilliant man; I suppose he knows everything?" : Mrs. \Keeper--! Don't fool yourself. He. doesn't even suspect anything." Caller--"Does your . husband 4 get what he earns?" The Wife--"Yes; that's why we are always hard up." Miller--"That man is so honest he wouldn't steal a pin." Strauss--"1 never thought much of the pin test. brella." Try him with an um- If you are grouchy about being dun- ned, there ig a way to avold-it. 01d Ragson Tatters fro: . Brushvills; who recently returned from a long tour in his fiivver, sald: 'When I got back and looked in the mirror I thought I must be awfully tanned. But after I shaved and washed up I found it was just dirt." Maud and the Judge Maud Muller on'a summer day, Raked the meadow, sweet with hay. The judge who passed, exclaime 'What fun! « of them who doesn't know what a kiss means, but they always insist on hav- ing it repeated. en everything is dull, it's good business for a scissors gtinder, " apie -- Indian Coolies Declared Expert Piano Movers Simla, India.--Among the remark- able sights to be met with on the roads of the Simla hills, according to a correspondent of The Christian Belence Monitor, is the unexpected ap- pearance of a plano, borne aloft on the shoulders of six or eight coolies, who are conveying the Instrument to some remote English home among the hills. _ | plainly across the front what the fold- 'ler contains. Clippings are just lald AnEasyWay To Save Clippings Many women "ave discovered the value of saving articles clipped from newspapers and magazines. But the time and effort spent in laboriously pasting them into unwieldy scrap- books, which later become white ele- phants, often seems to overbalance the worth of the articles. So after a few | spasmodic efforts. at schapbooks, they [give up and ruthlessly throw away fhat would prove of value if it were A simple way to keep articles culled from such sources is by means of in- dividual or cross-reference folders, which may be had in various sizes for a few cents a dozen. A convenient size Is 9% by 1134 inches. Write in these loose. A suggestive list of folders is as fol- lows: Recipes, Interior decoration, flower garden, furniture, dresmaking, cleaning, serving, mending, entertain mept. Keep a pair of scissors in the living room and when reading have them at hand. Like everything else the value of the clipping habit depends a great deal on the spstematic perseverance of the individual. It will not be neces- sary to read through carefully an article that is for use only In the future. For instance, one need not spend much time in July poring over suggestions for a Christmas dinner. Glance through them and make sure they will be of value; then cut out the article and slip it into its proper folder to await its day of usefulness. To keep these folders, office supply The narrowness and st traffic, except the ricksha, with the congequence that the most amazing loads are seen along he roads, ap- parently under their own violition, The pahar! (hillmen) who carry these loads appear to be endowed with re- markable strength and endurance, as many of their loads are carried for the distance of a "day's journey." Hotels six and geven miles from Simla have all their requirements carried out dally by these coolies, who leave Simla In * [the mornings with loads of bread and fish on their heads, snatch a noonday gleep undet the deodars which clothe the hills, and return in the cool of the evening with their empty baskets. The men who carry pianos, however, offer the most striking picture. Their progress made up and down steep hills 18 made with a long, slow, rhyth- mic stride quite fascinating to watch. mei ---- Countryman and Townsman Quebec Action Catholique (Ind.)--It is strange that an ordinary farmer who will finish the year with a hun- dred dollars, with a bigger establish- ment than he had the year before, with improvements made'to his farm, after having paid all his debts and filled his reellar and: barn with provisions, will envy the lot of a commercial traveller in the town who earns $126 a month. He loses sight of the progress accom: plished to compare the number of dol- lars which the townsman can handle. 'Yet what a difference between the lot of each of them, even if the farmer has not put a penny aside. pa Ere Ptomaine Poisoning Rare We do not hear as much about ptomaine poisoning as we uséld to a few years ago. Not long ago every abdominal disturbance was called that, but ptomain poisoning is really so rare that most - physicians go through a lifetime of practice and never see a real case of it. A per- son with ptomaine poisoning has paralysis of the muscles of the eyes and inability to move the Mmbs. It usually kills the patient and if it does not kill him it leaves Lim perman- ently ecrippled.--Dr. Miles Peace and Civilization London Referee (Cons.): If civiliza- tion means anything at all, it means peace and security for the nation and the individual; failure to secure these primary necessities of progress ren- ders a relapse into the most hideous barbarism inevitable. And if the na- tions are to make peace and security safe for theoir peoples they must be prepared to look"upon their old war scars not as incentives to future re- yenge-but as eloquent pleas for friend- ip in the. common cause of civiliza- tion. Re a. AC Homeland Soil Parisi dre than * ope Russian noble now gic in Paris has among his treasures a small bag or box of ussian 80il that is to be buried with : Lis ja pathetic custom followed any and the Spanish royal family are observers of the old ritual. peat has brought to aris a Think what that hay is worth a ton It's surprising, boys, how and, the Infanta Isabella had panish soil from Ma- Fi Pe 2 with her some Spanish earth fect Hom" 68 'Own Sarin shovgh she girls can be at times. There isn't pue 'rests in French soil. Lu --Ca -- seers" ot the|h roads hereabout preclude all vehicular carry what are 'called transfer cases; sometimes lawyers' transfer cases. These usually cost about $2. But they are neat looking, strong and large enough to hold the cullings of several years' reading--that is, if one is an ordinary clipper. If one prefers to make her own transfer case she can do go by covering a very heavy pasteboard or very light wooden box with wall paper or cretonné. In the case of a wooden box, fasten the cover on with hinges. The transfer case must be kept In'a place which is convenient both for! filing the articles and for consulting them. The utility of the whole idea lies in having the "scrapbook" easily available, The clippings loosely laid in the folders, decided advantage over the ordinary scrapbook. new recipes'has been found very sat- isfactory. After the recipe has been taken from the folder and tried out or" the family appetite it can easily be thrown away if the verdict 1s against it. If, however, the family is In favor of having it again, it can then be pasted on a card and put in its place in the ricipe filing case, which many housekeepers use. Sometimes the recipe will need cutting down for a small family or stretching out for a large one. Or again, the consensus of opinion will be for a few alterations before it makes another public appear- ance, In these cases, when the recipe is finally adapted to one's particular need, copy it on a card in its corrected form before placing it in the file, without further trouble. This may where it will be ready for instant use gound like considerable. labor to an al- ready busy housewife but actually it is much easier than it sounds, It will gave one the disappointment of search- may be | painted red, thrown away at any time that their |the outside as in the day of usefulness seems to be over, a| ometer. A method for further taking care of highest } | motives are being fitted with these speedometers and recorders for re Soureh Jusposss, but the usual methods of sc MRS. LORING WOART BAILEY A resident of Halifax, Mrs. Balley crossed the ocean from Liverpool to Halifax more than 83 years ago, 1and- ing In the seaport of Nova Scotia in the Cunarder Cambria on January 16, 1848, : tm sna Recording Speeds : Of Fast Trains Indicators Keep Close Guard Against Bursts of Speed London. --On the Continent of Bur- ope it is a common practice to equip passenger locomotives with gpeed in. dicators to make certain that the speed limits are being observed and that no excessive bursts of speed are made by trains trying to make up for lost time, says the Daily Express. One of the most successful speed indicators used 1s of the Flamand type, so called after its inventor, the chief designing engineer of the East- ern Railway of France. This gpeed indicator not only shows the speed at which the locomotive is travelling from second to second, but also provides reliable data in the form of a chart record of the actual per- formance of any engine on which it is fitted, these logs being used for check- ing and research purposes, The indicator and recorder consist of a semi-circular glass- -covered speed scale with two movable hands, i -- in- passing the small quarter- mile pbsts along the line-sides with the help of a stop watch is not likely Bo, pe fovcrseiod at present, side of human life. profession that. it does Boclologist, the economist, the clergy- thre Improvements of which they boast are really vital, . of improving the human race. should that a mosquito can fly seventeen hours without settling Maybe he can, but he doesn't, the Princess Elizabeth is not immune | of her "very own." TUD BPPEArs as an undulating line ows long strip of lined ig SABY CHICKS paper, with a separate trail for the BABY CH OKS, BARI time taken on the journey. A- ks 10c, White and Several of the latest LN.E.R. 10co-| jet§"¢ ws Anconas te 'Ausored 1c. lets, 8 weeks old, 0c; 8 wee « Switzer, Granton, Ontario. Ea A i a E XPERT KODAK FINISHING, 2c A roll, any sive postpald; extra print; 80 each. Jackson Studio, Seaforth, . 65¢. ining the speeds of express ¥ closely watching the time UY TWEDDLE'S BLOOD-' chicks at these low prices the scason is over. Barred and it Rocks, 10c; Teenormd, 9c. "Started chicks two weeks old, 3c more. KE: i In lots of 500 20 Tess. .D. anywhere on first express Tweddle, Fergus, Ontai fo. an - SE "of Interest to All This ide. of eugenics touches every There 18 no REMNANTS not touch. L \ Obyjously it touches the lawyer, the 3 iio PRINIS, SITE = by Ontario, How To Cool Milk Cooling has long been recognized as one of the most important factors in the production of high-grade milk, but the best method of cooling milk on the farm is still a subject of discus- sion among dairy farmers, say dairy specialists at the New York State Ag- ricultural Experiment Station in Gen- eva in explaining why they are making a special study of cooling at this time, The work in the station dairy lab- oratory has had to do chiefly with a comparison of can cooling with cool- ing over an aerator and a study of the best size, insulation and type of tank for the dairy farm, It is explain- ed. tI is the opinion of these speciale ists that can cooling in well-constructs ed tanks is easier and equally as ef- ficient from a sanitary point OY view as cooling over an aerator. nian. It is so lofty an idea that the less important subjects should use it. as a touchstone to see whether + . This great ideal become a part of every person's re ligion.--Irving Fisher. etl Why 'Not Keep On Going? Saint John Telegraph-Journal (Ind.). A British professor declares SARIS "RRL Play House to be Given To Princess Elizabeth Most children, it would be almost safe to say all, have at one time or another desired to "play house." It is, therefore, a fair assumption that Length of Life For the length of life there is no law. The weakest thread will draw itself out to an unexpected lengh, and the strongest ig suddenly cut off by the scissors of Fate, who seems to take delight in contradictions.--Goethe. lifts' from the desire. Next year she will be able to play house with a ven- gence, for she ig to be given one It is to be the gift of South Wales on her sixth birthday, and will be a miniature complete in every detall. There will be hot and cold water, fires) light, a kitchen range--and even &| policeman (tu resident seated on telephone. "In fact, as house agents' doorstep at 2 a.m.)-- What's the mat- advertisements have it, "a modern ter? Lost your key?" residence, 4 rooms, hot and cold Mr. Henpeck--"N-no; m-my nerve." WOOL water, bath." The house has been designed by a Cardiff architect and built by a South Wales firm. All its. fittings anq furniture will also be made in South Wales. Pe -- one | - all being | operated mechanically and the other, { which is movable from | case of a bar- Marked By Moving Pen [ This second hand is set to mark tet gpeed allowed, chine also includes a small clock with) a single small hand making a complete) revolution every ten minutes, | Below the indicator there is a re-| cording mechanism by which the speed travelled is markéd by a moving pen on a travelling roll of paper. | A vertical transmission shaft is fit- ted from the dials and recording pen!. through the footplate into a gear box, | a further more slender transmission | shaft connecting with another gear box fitted on a small bracket by the rear driving wheel of the engine. Connection ig also made with the; connecting rod, and the mechanism is: go fitted that four impulses are given | during each revolution of the driving} wheel, Measured Accurately The speed Is thus measured accur- ately to within a quarter of a revolu- ing in vain for some favorite recipe which ahs been carelessly tucked | away somewhere and which refuses | come to light at the needed moment. To illustrate this method, a pudding recipe, cut from a magazine, was tried by one housekeeper and received with | tal loud acclaim by her hungry brood. But all decided that next time they would prefer "mother's own" special sauce to go with it. When the recipe was copied the original sauce was omitted and "mother's own" substituted. On another occasion the same housekeep- er found what she thought would be a delicious menu for a home dinner, It proved, however, that the dessert was too heavy for her family after the prescribed first course. So in copying the menu she added another dessert more to their liking. gery and sameness or housework of- ten get very irksome, an occasional visit to their box of clippings may prove full of inspiration as well as of useful ideas.--The Christian Science To housekeepers, to whom the drud-|. Monitor. BE i Summ | "Keep up Wages" New York World-Telegram: The richest man in the world cannot use more that half a dozen or so automo- biles and radio sets in a year, and, therefore, can contribute little to the prosperity of the concerns manufac- turing these commodities. But if: the rich man's profits for a year are a lit- tle smaller, and the wages of his 5,000 employees are maintained at a stand- ard which will permit the purchage of one radio set and one automobile each, the radio and automobile industries are kept on a profitable basis, they keep men at work who are in turn able to buy the commodities of the rich man--&o goes the endless chain of in- Get our JDrices dustrial well-being. 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