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The real history of the gigantic modern indusâ€" try which exists toâ€"day dates from 1909, when the Dominion Steel Corâ€" poration was formed by an amaigamaâ€" tion of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company and the Dominion Coal Comâ€" The iron ore, coal, and fluxing maâ€" terials which are found in abundance in the Maritim» Provinces of Canada have given rise to the iron and steel industry of that area, which has deâ€" veloped to be the greatest of the Mariâ€" time‘s industrial activities. The growth of the industry has been gradâ€" ual but steady, and its history over the past bundred years has been one of progress towards giving the area signal renown in this regard. The anâ€" nual production of this industry is about $35,000,000 per year. i Nova Scotia has numerous deposits | of iron ore of limited extent, some of which are of considerable value, but profitable only as they complement | othker sources of ore supply. In other | necessary materials Nova Scotia is | likewiso well favored, there being plenty of !imestone for flux in various ; parts of the province and several imâ€" portant coalfields. In New Brunswick several deposits of iron ore have been discovered, but the majority are as yet of little economic importance. As this province has not the coal reâ€" sources of her sister province, the iron and steel industry is not so important as in Nova Scotia. The Maritime steel industry bhad its emall origin at the hands of English | capitalists in 1825 when ore in Annapoâ€" | lis county was developed. Deposits at | Stallarton, Woodstock and othor'j places woere subsequently developed | . by entorprising concerns, the industry ’ , At a point 284 miles north of Sewâ€" ard, Alaska, is a railway bridge farâ€" ther north than any other in America. The tramp started to walk away, and with a look of disgust replied, "Let the man who planted them dig them. ie knows where e put them." ers. The boss, being short of help, asked the vagrant if ho wanted a job. The man of leisure replied, "Sure! What do 1 have to do?" ers. The boss, | asked the vagrant The man of lei What do 1 have tc "Dig Potatoes." The tramp sta One day while a farmer and his men were digging potatoes, a tramp came along f,"d stopped to watch the workâ€" a&tor was to live, while if thoi -ié;; gg;ned down the beaten man was In old days the thumb was recogâ€" nized as an important member, and it has always had a special significance. In the Roman duels upturned thumbs were a sign that the vanquished gladiâ€" small ones. How large is your thumb? If it is big, you posess a sign of inâ€" teMectual strength, good judgment and & firm character. But if your thumb is small, it indicates that you are one of those people who act first and think afterwards, and who are ruled by the heart and not the head. The thumb is the most important part of the hand. Without it the hand is alâ€" most useless. Consequently, it is not surprising that occultists attach such value to it. The ruling impulses of man, judgment and passion, are to be found in it. | 1 Noune Cardn zn n apinglats Cxg Py ol uds when the wheel is replaced. The best method of doing this to to turn the bearing up tight and then revolve the wheel a few times by hand, which qvercomes any tendency to backlash. â€"C"T Tnoro wil Dt no Wheel _ bearingsâ€" wheel is removed the removed with it, and bearings must be a when the wheel is rer & N. Sm o Oo, NeWe mmn' opening allowed. Before removing the jack the gears should be shifted toi neutral again,. ! Te hold up timer wiresâ€"It is ad-} visable to hold up the timer wires on' the Ford engine, to keep them {mm‘ becoming drenched with cil and also | to prevent their rubbing through by | aswinging loose. Take two pieces of' tin,. about six imahas Lnno saw Lo _ Wtmaginatifit w ie aus s a 54k 12 tin, about six inches long and drill a hole in the end of each. Catch them under two of the manifold studs. Now loop the lower ends around the wires and there will be no further trouble. Wheel bo.rh‘sâ€"!:very time a wheel is removed the bearing cup is wurerie coman B seele ues & ___"* and the crank hay been left home in the garage, the motorist still has methods of getting the car going. The best way, perhaps, is to jack up one of the rear wheels and turn it by hand with cluteh engaged and high gear shifted in. The spark should bo‘ retarded and only a small throttle matnivuns sibe o5 eln o ccessful men of business, scientâ€" toolâ€"users, and so on have large bs, while poets and singers have Knows Their Haunts. Tellâ€"Tale Thumbs. Maritime Iron and Steel Industry , and consequently the be adjusted properly is replaced. The best > pieces of and drill a The iron and steel Andustry of Nova Scotia is now concentrated under the management of one concern, owning its own mines of coal and iron ore, proâ€" perties sufficiently large to enable proâ€" duction to be carried on for centuries. All necessary raw materials are situâ€" ated in Nova Scotia or Newfoundland, making a thoroughly selfâ€"contained inâ€" dustry, entirely British as to the origin of raw material and manufacture. | Sydney, with $150,000,000 invested | in its industries, is the great centre of | the Maritime steel industry. _ There are six blast furnaces with a combined capacity of 1,600 tons of pig iron daily, ten fiveâ€"ton open heirth steel furnaces and other complete equipment. The output of the plant is in excess yearly of $36,000,000. The plant at Sydney Mines comprises 150 coke ovens, two blast furnaces and other equipment sufficient for the continuous operation of one furnace producing 300 tons of pigâ€"iron a day, five fiftyâ€"ton open: hearth furnaces and complementary equipment. There is a manufacturing plant at Trenton for turning out forgâ€" ings, car and locomotive axles, polishâ€" ed shafting and bars, industrial rails,| railway plates and structural steel. shapes. Adjoining this plant is one for turning out steel, wooden and comâ€" posite cars, the present capacity of the plant being 25 steel frame box cars : per day, whichâ€"can easily be doubled. ; and Coal Company and the Halifax Shipyards. Its effect was to centralize the control of all the large profitable coal areas of Nova Scotia, the iron ore deposits of Wabana, Newfoundland, and an adequate number of limestone quarries under one management. The corporation has approximately 37 colâ€" lieries, with a combined yearly output of 6% million tons, or 93 per cent. of the output of the who‘e province. The iron deposits of Wabana are practicalâ€" . ly inexhaustible The Halifax Shipâ€" yards, located at one of Canada‘s most | important ports, is an important user‘ of steel products and heavy marine forgings, which the steel subsidiaries in the merger are equipped io provide. Teacherâ€""Tommy, why do you spell bank with a large B?" Tommyâ€"" ‘Cause pa said that a bank was no good unless it had a large capital." "It is that," said Mike, glancing at the address. "It‘s upset I am intoirely. My brother Mike‘s dead. I can tell by his handwriting!" | A blood irrigation device is the means. This is a pump whereby the blood is drawn from one arm or leg inâ€" |to a series of rubber coils, where it ; can be treated by heat or inoculation 'wlth serum, and returned to the body through the other arm or leg. About a month is required to change a black skin futo a white one, the‘ change being accomplished by the inâ€" troduction of white corpuscles and thef elimination of black corpuscles in the | biood. | Mike was working diligently on hial But there are many people in whose potato patch when he saw the postman | case it is impossible to find any very coming up the road, bearing for him a OPY!Ous reason for their bouts of blackâ€"edged envelope. | sleeplessness. A doctor may, of Mike became uneasy, and showed it. ©OUTS¢, be able to find some physical "Hope it‘s not bad news," said the APDOrmality which would account for postman. ithe insomnia, when treatment would "It is that," said Mike, glancing at be directed towards the cure of thlt‘ the address. "It‘s upset I am intoirely. | particular aberration from health. In the experiment on rats a change of color occurred at the end of fifteen Up to the present color‘tramlorma- tions have been conducted with rats, and they have been successful. A young Brazilian scientist, Octavio Felix Pedros, has invented a device whereby Negroes can be changed into white men without dificuity. Don‘t slide the rear wheels when stopping; rubber pavement polishers are too much of a luxury. The steering wheel is vastly importâ€" ant, but it is well also to give the grease cups an occasional turn. Don‘t drive too close to wth‘ei;:;fb; edgeâ€"trimming is a fine institution for pie crusts, but too expensive for truck tires. Use your brakes when getting "spotted"; platforms were built to lead f_rorq..not for bumping posts. Don‘t forget to watch the other fellow ahead; a slow stop on your part nearly always costs you a punctured radiator. w vertising. Street car tracks are nice on springs, but hard on tires, and steel costs less than rubber. Don‘t neglect a loose part, even though it seems to operate more freeâ€" ly that way. Don‘ts for Truck Drivers. To insure better care of its motorâ€" trucks by their drivers, one company operating a fleet of trucks keeps the following list of don‘ts posted in a conspicuous place on its loading platâ€" form: Don‘t try racing with a touring car; your truck was built for strength, not for speed. I Wash your truck frequently; .i dirty car can spoil a lot of our adâ€" Making Black Men White. From the Dead. Quite True. The drink may be either hot milk or water, meat extract, beef tea, or, of all things, ordinary tea. Tea, which in theory ought to increase wakefulâ€" ness, has practically the opposite efâ€" fect in many cases. It must, of course be made in the ordinary way in a teaâ€" pot, and when passed into the therâ€" mos care should be taken to exclude all tea leaves. Add milk and sugar, it desired, when serving. A breakfastâ€" cupfull in the small hours ofter turns the scale in favor of proijonged slumâ€" ber. When everything else has failed, a simple cupful of something uot in the very early hours of the morning will often soothe the weary mortal into slumber. It is only necessary to see that the hot drink is in a thermos by the bedside, so that the wakeful one can help himself or herself when the limit in waiting for sleep is reached. Nevertheless there remain large numbers of restles folk, the cause of whose involuntary nocturnal vigils reâ€" mains obscure and indefinite. _ Even at this season cold feet are & common cause of wakefulness; this calls for warm socks, and even for a hotâ€"water bottle in bad cases. Any kind of mental exertion involving close concentration, such as a study of a difficult problem, argumentation, laâ€" borious creative work, and heavy brain work of all kinds, last thing at night should be avoided by all who have difâ€" ficulty in going to sleep soon after got-l ting into bed. mish t 0.3 4.i cadicc l \â€"\fl\l, RECUT! itis, and so on. Some of these causes are avoidable, and can be avoided. Painful conditions like neuritis can be specially treated, when sleep should follow the removal of pain. Common causes are overâ€"fatigue, unâ€" suitable food, overâ€"smoking, anxiety, external noise, "stuffiness" of the bedâ€" room, extremes of heat and cold, neurâ€" There are almost as many remedies for sleeplessness as there are for seaâ€" sickness. In either case, the difficulty for the sufferer is always to hit on the right one. What cures one fails to alâ€" leviate the other. CMmwelline tomr Hints for the Sleepless. i k 6 s #%2 /( S ’/ ‘ f i v y @ ‘( ‘ ' \ in Ac@>@IE\GPD\ i \â€"Sâ€" i h »* mere W ; !l‘f»ffiim (2 NS fit’â€"â€"/ N Lfifm eâ€"@Aind the worst JUST AS THE VILLAIN WAS ABOUT TO FORECLOSEâ€"_. PyiCrelytr, {Z , ‘*‘Qv‘*‘% © > ___ pPfal V [â€"4 Lr1 Coffins are spoken of but the Bible. "How is your new man aAâ€"gettin‘ on ?" "Well," said the farmer, "he broke two handles yesterday!" ‘Workin‘ so hara?" ‘"No, leanin‘ on ‘em!" "Come along, dear," she said. "Aren‘t you hungry ?" "Yes, mummy, very." "Then why don‘t you start?" "Ohb,"said little Pat. "I‘m just wait ing for the mustard to cool." Patrick did not usually wait long before he attacked his food. But one day his mother noticed that he was sitting resignedly before his plate of beef. time of the Purlu;:'. imageâ€"breakers. that is known to be in existence was made in 1493. It does not seem to be the fashion to present them any more at christenâ€" In both these sets Our Lord is reâ€" presented, but not Judas Iscariot; his place is taken in one set by Paul and in the other by Matthew. The oldest hallâ€"marked apostle spoon also in Ben Johnson‘s works,. There are only two complete sets of thirteen apostle spoons in existence now. One is owned by the Golismiths‘ Company, London, and the otherâ€"is in the posâ€" session of Corpus Christi College, Camâ€" This custom is mentioned in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher and _ Until the time of the Commonwealth it became the custom for wellâ€"toâ€"do godfathers and godmothers to give a child a complete set of thase spoons, or less, according to their means, With the poorer classes the child very often got only one silver spoon, with & figure of his patron saint or that of the giver. ‘ In the reign of Edward IV. the spoon is mentioned in English literature. Apostle spoons came into fashion durâ€" ing Edward V.‘s time, and became very fashionable as christening pre sents. The most ancient piece of hallâ€"markâ€" ed British plate in existence is the spoon. The New Hired Man. Statues on is yet to come custom dwindled at the A Long Job. , who were great TORONTO yo‘ Enforcing Discipline. While a detachment of Ameri negroes were hiking through a -m French town, a chicken, unawere of the appetites of American darkies, crosed the road in front of them. With much seal a soldier broke from the ranks and set out in pursuit. * s‘Halt!" belowed the officer in ctarge. Both fowl and negro only acâ€" celerated their paces, . â€" "Halt! Halt!" repeated the officer. The dusky doughboy made one _Hait! Halt!" repeated the officer. The dusky doughboy made one plunge and, grasping the chicken by the neck, stuffed it, struggling, inside his Shl{t...w’ s hi huge "I didn‘t tell him he was wrong," said Mary, loftily. "Well?" ventured bher mother, inâ€" terrogatively. ‘"Mother," she exclaimed, on coming home from school, "our teacher said today that the earth is round." © Spared His Feelings. A little girl has been deeply conâ€" cerned about the possibility of ascerâ€" taining the exact shape of the earth by «means of synchronized wireless messages. A few random experiments seem to show that the term "globe" is not quite a happy one, and that Mother Earth may indeed be pearâ€" shaped. Mary has been duly impressâ€" log of wood; and buildings wl be made with girdérs that are no heavier than bamboo poles. Clay bas another advantage over steelâ€"it does not rust. When clay is used, tenâ€"inch guns will be lifted by four or five men, as they wfllAwglxh no more than a large firm in the world, the Carnegile Steel Company of America. He says that common clay will be used to make all those things which are made of steel toâ€"day. Clay contains iron, aluminum, and a substance known as "silicon"; and it can be made as hard and as use‘ul as steel, when dealt with in the right way, which is by using oxygen. ‘The price of this gas makes the process impossible for the present. Some time in the next fifty years a great change is to take place in the manufacture of guns, ships, buildings, and so on, according to the Head Reâ€" search Engineer of the greatest steel "It‘s wonderful to be a trfénd to children. The wholo street would miss youâ€"" "Haven‘t you ever thought of it? It‘s such a happy way to think of it! It‘s wonderful to be a friend to children. They‘d miss you, the whole street would miss you, if you weren‘t here." The old man looked after her and then looked at the dime that was lying in his knotted hand. Putting it into his pocket, he slouched back into his old attitude; but there was something different in the dim eyes, a shado less of hopelessness and indifference. | Therkt" The old man stared at heér in dull u}onishmont. "I dunno," he mutter _ Cousin Allie tied the string of the blue balloon carefully round one of the buttons of Marjorie‘s coat; but she was not thinking of Marjorie. "It is such a beautiful thing to be doing," she said to the old man softly, "makâ€" ing little children happy with clean and beautiful things, even making a street corner happy!‘ You must love doing it. So many people haven‘t time to make children happy, and so mlny‘ others do the wrong things." ; He shook his head. "I dunno. I nc):,on it don‘t make much difference." "They‘re right pretty," he answered dully. things," she said, watching while he detached a blue balloon from his bunch. "I never have outgrown my love for them." Cousin Allie, looking into the tired old face with the dreary eyes, felt a sudden lump in her throat. Gay daneâ€" ing color in his hands; little dancing children aH round himâ€"and a face like that! "They are such beautiful Marjorie gave an ecstatic skip; she knew that ber cousin would underâ€" And then one day Marjorie Allen dragged her adored visiting cousin to buy of the old man. "I like him," Marâ€" jorie declared. "Then we surely must buy of him," her cousin Allie replied. "We‘ll buy a balloon made of a little plece of the loons; his only forwardâ€"looking thought was to buy an occasional hot dinner; his only emotion was bitter nees toward the younger men who sold balloons and toward the other old man whom the children never called old. "Older‘n me, he is," he would mutter to himsel{. "Five years older‘n me. . And acting like be was forty!" | _ The children were right of course. The balloon man was oliâ€"old because on his long journey through the years he had lost the beautiful comrades of youthâ€"love, hope and ambition. The persons who for a little while had taught him love had become a dim memory; there never had been anyone except her. For a while he had tried to do things for her sake; then illness had come. For years he had sold balâ€" ‘:}hvo the children a favorite colâ€" The children, whose eyos are clear, called him the old balloon man. On their way to school there was another man who looked much like him except that his eyes were bright and twinkâ€" ling; they never called him old. â€"â€" _ The Balloon Man. Guns Made of Clay. ?" heâ€"panted.~~"An‘ll Tearn t whensde captain says bhalt, oring to picture the existence of Job to his youthm. To this end he was dwelling at length upâ€" on poor Job‘s sufferings and the futiliâ€" ty of medica) treatment. A small boy who had been absorbed in the tale hgld up his hand. "What is it, Willie?" asked the supâ€" erintendent. "Have they tried Dr. Bmith?" asked Willie, naming the family physician. DUSETIET NT C usn 20e TO9s EVINONL, folk, have also attacked the sea thus, almost unbelievable stories are told of the adventures, out of all accord with the twentioth century generally, which these real "sailors" have gone through carrying out at sea the work of the | sleep every night, means life To ; judge by their actions and record alone, they see absolutely no terror in | the seaâ€"it‘s an old friend of theirs. | For the last few years these people have had every possible incertive to | explore the floor of the ocean. Day afâ€" | ter day all sorts of stuff is washed up | to them from somewhere in the water. Some of the treasure that has been washed up on the coasts of the British Isles is amazingly interesting. It comes from all sorts of countries. ‘ But things of great value have been | washed ashore from the sea of recent | years, since the bottom of the sea has ‘ been so full of really valuable stuff.| Again and again these tough, tawny | skinned, hard fisted, slow moving sailâ€"| ors have risked their lives and boats | with a carelessness bred of custom, searching the great craggy fringes of their island country for whatever booty or loot its merciless roughness ‘ tes exacted from the sea. Scores o!i Not so long ago a bell buoy belongâ€" ing to the Canadian Government was washed up on the shore of the west coast of Ireland. The Canadian Govâ€" ernment made a present of it to the town body who found it The fisher folk around Britain, a hardy body of people to whom the water, on which they gaze every mornâ€" ing and by which they are romred to seas, and has been rescued after the manner of storiee which have set many an Englist. boy and young man dreaming of treasures to hunt down anywhere in the world. Of treasure trove! m most other countries. | _ This light will retire before the ap. _ _Neediess to say, a great number of | PrOACh of man, and will pursue his ro. l the ships which at the conclusion of | treating figure. In its stationary form the war were lying at the bottom of | ROWeYer, it gives no heat, and for this the various big ports and harbors have | reason is supposed to be a phosphoresâ€" been raised. Dozens of trawiers and °Dt YApOr. Because of its fondness emall tramp steamers in quite shallow f0" Cburchyards and marshes this water around the coast have been | ZNht has always arresced the fancy of dived down to and examined. The | the romanticist. majority of them were carrying metals Phosphorescence is the most «pecâ€" and other things of war utility. Hunâ€" t8tular ii{minant of the tropics. dreds of tons of various war materials | Th®"® was a striking pageantry of roâ€" have been rescued from the bottom YAY!NE lights on the waters of the and long since been turned into impleâ€" | Strait of Malacca at three o‘clock in ments of peace. Many an automobile th® MOrning of June 19th, 1909, Light now rolling through the streets of Lonâ€" | W@Y%* Pediated for a great distance don is built of steel which in it earlier | O & Central point like the spokes of stage of development as pig iron lay & NOrizontal wheel. at the bottom of one or other of the _ M Of the surface of the Bay of There is perhaps no nation in the world which can be so easily thrilled by the thought of delving into the fasâ€" cinating sea, and the tremendous length of their seaboard gives a great proportion of Englishmen more intiâ€" macy with the sea than is the case in Mope for Job. ‘he Sundayâ€"school lesson was on . The superintendent was endeayâ€" the coastsâ€"more than 2,000 treasure hunts, with the scenes in every case varying. Some are lying in the rocks off the Shetland Islands, where almost Arctic conditions prevail; others are in shallow water off the gorgeously picturesque Atlantic seaboard of Ireâ€" land. stirred even hard headed business men since the termination of the war to place the adventure on a business basts and make searching the depths of the sea a profitable business. They have tried to steal the glamour from wild and intimate contact with nature and cloak it around their commerce. Result of German Destruction. The coasts of the British Isles are fringed and embroidered with nearly sevren million tons of British ships sunk by the Germans during the war. That means to say that there are more than 2,000 wrecked ships lying around All around the British Isles at the ’ present moment, and for the last few years, the seas have been dotted with sunken treasure about which it is alâ€" most impossible to think without weaving mentally some wild and thrillâ€" ing adventure. The entire idea and scene of men diving down to the utterâ€" most depths of the sea, through the greeny seaweed and hordes of swiftly gliding fishes, to the slimy rocks at the bottom, arises vividly before the mind. ‘The bare thought of exploring j the intricacies of a dented, broken oci embedded ship under the water has The romance of treasure seeking, whether it be on coral islands, in the Rockies or in the awkward spots chosen by the ragged bheroes of Mark Twain, always seems to stimulate that streak of adventure with which most men are blessed. ‘ Fishermen‘s Trawlers Suffered Most and Many Have SEVEN MILLION TONS OF FRINGE ALL BRITAam:| """i e = | Much Loot Washed Up. d thrillâ€" ' Abodes of Evii. ea and‘ A similar absence of heat is a charâ€" e utterâ€" ;aemuc of the ghost fire, fox flame, gh the | or badger blaze which the peasants of awiftly | Nippon regarded as the manifestations Thrust the nutylnu.uw.. onbnulldusundforsm. Rg@: move and polish with sandsoap ang |_ It was a different and more ter; ify» | ing conflagration that turned the night ’ white in the Straits of Sunda n Augâ€" ust 26th, 1883, for forty miles around. , The eruption of the volcano of Krakaâ€" | teo was an immense wall of flame with | bursts of forked lightning darting | through it, and blazing serpents 1 layâ€" f ing over it, as the hungry firas below | burst forth in tongues of dazzling | brilliancy, Electricity did incredible \things in the heavens; balls of fire ' rested on the mastheads of ships, and lightning struck the mainmasts, No | illumination has ever equalied this coâ€" lossal spectacie. ’ Bome of the tropical forests seen. at times to be lit with fairy lanterns that take the forms of plants and birds with pbhosphorescent leaf and plumage, Nature‘s lamps are truly wonderful Ikey and his small son were wallb ing down the street, when the formet hiappened to glance at the boy‘s boots, *Vot boots are those you have on * Amazingâ€"But True. The late Sir Wyville Thomson wrote that after he left Cape Verde Islands the sea was a blaze of phosphoresâ€" cence. "There was no moon, and a}â€" though the night was perfectly clear, the lustre of the heavens was fairly eclipsed by that of the sea. |: was easy to read the smallest prin: sitting in my cabin, and the bows shed on either side rapidly widening ridges of radiance so vivid as to throw the sails and rigging into distinct lights and shadows." Miles of the surface of the Bay of Bengal at midnight on November 218t 1897, were also covered with myria / of lights which revolved with seark light regularity. _A similar mov ing phenomenon | was witnessed on the eastern horizon of the South China Beas from near Natuna Islands at 12.40 in the morning of August 12th, 1910. Phosphorescent Pagentry. This light will retire before the proach of man, and will pursue his country, and sometimes rising high in the air, occasionally separating into emaller flames, which advance, retire, and combine in complicated â€" moveâ€" ments, &s it rolls onward and vanishes beâ€" tween two bjlls near the lake. The natives dare not go near these balls, and regard the valley as an evil abode. English folkdore contains much mythical narative about ignis fatuus, to which the fire balls bear some slight resemblance. ‘The gradual disâ€" appearance of this apparition during the last century may be attributed to the draining of marshes. It has been variously christened Jack o‘ Lantern, Will 0‘ the Wisp, and Spunkie, and its light appears as bluish, reddish, greenâ€" ish, or yellowish, merging into purple As a rule, it is found in a fixed posi tion shining steadily cither close to the ground or a few feet above it, and illuminating the surrounding | reeds and grasses, and has been also seen in motion bounding rapidly over the Iod minds of remote ages they wove ; terrifying impressions, from which sprang a host of superstitions. Little wonder the "firebreathing mountains of Baku" excited the terror of the East. The whole country around Baku has, at times, the appearance of being enâ€" veloped in flames. ‘The fire seems to ' roll down from the mountains in large masses with incredible velocity, and ldurln( clear, moonlit nights in the last eight weeks of the year a bright blueo ,llght is observed at times to cover the | whole western range. "This fire does | not consume," says a writer, "and if a , person finds himself in the middle of | it no warmth is felt." expand from a few inches to the height of en ordinary man as they move towards the hills in the vicinity. According to a legend, two human beings embrace within each fire bail of invisible agencies. Legends record the presence of movable balls of fire on & lgkoiln the province of Omi that Only rarely do we get glimpses of the wild lights of nature, of the flashâ€" ing furies of the night and the shining glories of the day, Upon the untutorâ€" To Remove Rust.