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ts to ilMon . the "p‘,n' the her haw & ts® As at previous sales, the important status of the Canadian auction was widely recognized by both vendors and buyers. Furs for disposal came in inâ€" areasing vyolume from all countries producing raw peltry, from all over the Canadiana Dominion, the United States, Russia, Siberia and other counâ€" tries. The September sale saw the gathering at Montreal of the largest number of fur buyers since the incepâ€" tion of the Canadian market, Itself autâ€" ficient indication of the growing imâ€" portance of the salm®. Some three bundred were present, seventyâ€"five per cent. being from New York, others #rom Canadian contres, and repreâ€" sentatives of English, French, German Swoedish, _ Russian and _ Japanese houses. & m â€" ez EPC Tris growing tendency . of forelten t " "_~ _:‘ & buyers to come to Canadian saies is | that good tha best indication of their permanenti for the win character and firmness of estapigep. | wit undou ment. â€" American ard other foreign | for the tray buy ers generally volce complete satisâ€"| faction at the manner in which the | Montreal sales are conducted, their| Tommyâ€" sound business methods and atbfue-;prlmenl?" tory conmduct throughout. Their opiniâ€"; Pawâ€"â€""A on is fair‘y uranimous that the past;iri?!:!s eut Te seventh periodic Canadian fur sale was held at Montreal in the midâ€" dle of September, at which hailf a milâ€" Hon raw pelts were disposed of for an amount totalling $1,500,000, making the total receipts of the sales since their inauguration in 1920 in excess of $13,.000,000. _ In its every trait this last Canadian sale has given furtber and more convincing evidence of the definite and permanent establishment of the naticnal fur auctions, their ability to assemble what is undoubtedâ€" ty one of the finest aggregations of raw peltry in the world, and power to attract discriminating purchasers from all over the world. In the opinion of those best entitled to make ‘"orecasts in an industry subject to the most inâ€" consequential vagaries, the national Canadian fur auction is now permanâ€" ently and securely established and a tfoundation has been laid sturdy enough to withstard the tempests to which the industry is frequently subâ€" Letty‘s husband appeared only on Bunday, when she drove the children to church. He usually sat in the back seat with the littlo girls, while Letty and he youngest boy sat in front. Once whon the horses were restive Letty wt in the wagon during the service, Letty was six feet tall, redâ€"headed, bony and known as "a hard worker." Every woman in the village begged for her services during spring and fall cleanings, but Letty nearly always re fused. She did not mind the pesky chores that women have to do, she said, but she could not stand them around the house. Letty would someâ€" times agree to come if the houso were left at her disposal. Even then she had to be coaxed because her farm took most of her time. The farm was rockâ€"cursed and hilly. It would have seemod a pi#tiable thing to see a woman struggling up a hill behind a plow if one did not know how woll fitted Letty was to do it. Many a man would run if Letty doubled her fAst or aimed a kick. Letty‘s sole in congruity was her reluctance to part with her skirts. She pitched hay in a oneplece contraption made of black brilliantine. would be, and how ear would last, A small leak or crack in the waterâ€" Jacket, cylinder or eylinder head of a gasâ€"engine can often be remedicd thus: Put a bhandful of salâ€"ammoniac into the water. Run the engine till water boils, then drain. This will rust shut the leakage. y . GC thanged only in starting. paint "I The appearance of a muddy place, E. Hart: rough spot, or steep hil (even though | end. washed and rocky) is a signal for lmnl Never to speed up that the car may obwinke.n he‘p enourh momentum to carry it over wateyr fr the chbstruction in "high." But, my!| it falls . The damage he does do to his car and free. If the Escomfont he causes himeelf and use a sm: other rassengers! No wonder, to use‘ sponge. his own languago, "the automobile is stream s not suited for making long trips." | mud spo: If be would but change to second In other or low gear at the right time, how of a fend much more pleasart riding with Fim and. Th Friends often te‘l you they made a certain automobile trip without changâ€" ing gears. This can mean one of three things: The roeds were very good, a hasty trip had to be made regardless of rowd conditions, or the person made a trip over rough roads just to brag about it. Manufacturers have made it easy to change awromcbile gears for a purâ€" pose. One reason is that cars may get unmder way without subjecting the motor to full load at low szeed. Anâ€" other and just as important reason is that cars may be alowed to travel at varying speeds to suit road conditions. I have a friend who thinks gears PP Sedis wrorshndins!> Fur Auction More Firmly Established Practical Paragraphs. > _3 OG wvere Yery good, had to be made regardless itions, or the person made rough roads just to brag ‘s Wife. much T MM| _ Never let mud dry on the car if you obtain can help it. Play a gentle stream of over water from a hose on the mud until » MY!) it falls away and leaves the surface | Now this is the strangest thing since s the world began: You tell me that you are a bad and a vioilent man; ‘ But I see only ® | _ A child, little and lonely, | Orying with fright in a desolate place | apart. The tendency in the prices paid at the September auctions was considerâ€" ably higher than at the previous May sales. This was due largely to a smallâ€" er volume of offerings and the general belief that there were no accumulaâ€" tions of skins anywhere. The keen demand for peltry at the present time is evident in the fact (bat ninety per cent. of the skins offered for sale were disposed of. In the opinion of the largest buyers the tendoncy to rise will exist for some time, at leasi until the next winter‘s catch comes in. wnmrdln; the winter‘s catch, it is too early in the season to make any predictions as to yolume or quality, wiich will not disclo. > themselves unâ€" til the fall of the first snow and the commencemert of trapping operations. Irrespective of these two factors, howâ€" ever,. it is apparent from the foregoing that good figures will be precurable for the winter‘s catech, a11 the scason will undoubtedly be a profitcble cne for the trapper. seven sales at Montreal have laid the secure foundation of a permanent naâ€" tional fur auction which will progress without fear of successful assailment. Whilst it is recognized that, in comâ€" mon with many other other Canadian enterprises, the Canadian sales may lack the unlimited finances available to similar concerns elsewhere and this results in certain handicaps of a minor order, foreign buyers point out that Canada possesses many varieties of furs which are not procurable elseâ€" where, and as long as she holds them within her confines she can draw the world‘s buyers, who will come where evar they can secure what they want. These handicaps are not sufficient to appreciably draw away from the flow of raw peltry to Montreal. Compared with the status and operation of fur auctions elsewhere on the continent, foreign purchasors of furs express the most entire satisfaction with the Montreal sales. violent man; | _ Another queen, Adelaide of Italy, afâ€" But I see only # x ter her escape from the rebels, had to A child, little and lonely, | tramp through forests and over rough COrying with fright in a desolate place TOAds, begging bread from peasants to apart. â€"keep herself alive, before she arrived in rags at the house of a loyal friend. While I am known as chaste and reaâ€" _ But if there is tragedy in banishment sonably good ; | there is also humor. One African king But you are blind to my virtuous wo. Who was driven from home spent the manhood ; + ;rest of his life quite happily. Whken Somehow you see, he was asked whether he regretted the Dragged out of the depths of me, _ 10ss of his throne, he replied: "Someâ€" The wanton that every woman hides in times I miss the daily sacrifice of forty her heart. men and women in my great temple. â€"Aline Kilmer. But really the sight got very dullâ€" iE Nee it e ie e e esnt nsc C most of the victims died so tamely! T2X | Now I am not troubled, and live in "irml Est blidled | peace." This monarch received a y a | daily allowance of ten shillings with | which to keep up his regal state! F wl P h ,| _ The late Sultan of Turkey amused c cgre foul d‘:'uz‘x;":)’r’eaa'pz‘r"‘;:;;zi:’t ;h;xhimself while in exile by writing letâ€" tional fur auction which will progress fers to the ruler who has succeed'ed without fear of successful assailment. P‘ Pointing out how likely it was Whrilst it is recognized that, in com.! that he (the new Sultan) would be asâ€" mon with many other other Canadian asseinated. 1.“'” cheerful prophecies enterprises, the Canadian sales may worrieds lthelr dmf“::nt' a;xd t‘he deâ€" lnck ho unfltited Anauces available | PAOT AAIR) ‘Aerfrod much ‘pleasure But now that Letty‘s brawn and muscle hbave been crowned with a moderately priced sedan she is afraid to drive it. She sits in the tonneau wearing a hat and veil and reminding me not a little in appearance of a scarred and fringeâ€"eared tomcat I know when he is forced to lie on a gsilk cushion. George, at the wheel, looks as if he had at last come into his A mighty useful addition to the tool box is a bar of ordinary laundry soap. This material can be shaved off with a penknife and the slivers be kneaded into a very fair putty to be used in repairing leaks in gasoline or oil lines. Obviously such a repair is only temâ€" porary and must be made permanent when the motorist gets back to his while George occupled the one seemed at all surprised. free. If a hose is not available, then use a small, compressedâ€"air sprayer or sponge. In using a hose, play the stream so that it will not strike the mud spots directly, but from the side. In other words, begin, say, at the end of a fender and work toward the other end. This plan will remove the mud much more quickly. Now comes the latestâ€"have your ) farm name painted on the farm mot.ori truck. Most every city truck adverâ€" tises the owner‘s business, and wbyi not let the farm truck do the same*? | That is what T. E. Hartwick thought! when he bought his truck, and he: stipulated that the marufacturer| paint "Linden Grove Stock Farm, T'I' E. Hartwick, Proprietor," on the rear Spare tubes should be carefully roliled up flat, the interior valve paris having been removed, z> that all the air may be forced out. The valve parts should then be replaced and the tube packed away in a greaseâ€"proof bag containing a good sprinkling of French talc. Extra casings should be kept in a good tire cover, protected from light, sun amd dust. Defined at Last. â€""Paw, what is woods where t on the booch h trees cre the forest are no No Think twice before you speak. Even then, nine times out of ten, the world will not lose anything if you keep quiet. Glad to Help. Boy Scout (small, but polite)â€"May I accompany you across the street, madam ?" Old Ladyâ€""Certainly you may, my lad. How long have you been waiting here for somebody to take you across ?" Many monarchs who have lost their thrones have suffered terrible hardâ€" ships not only during their escape, but also for the rest of their lives. Most pathetic of all was Ranavolo, Queen of Madagascar, exiled in 1897, who spent her last years with one solitary atâ€" tendant in a tiny room in a thirdâ€"class botel in Paris. In France, during the hundred and fifty years before the Republic was esâ€" tablished, only one king was still on the thromne when he died. Many other countries have records almost as bad, and even a Pope has been driven into exile before now. Within the last century and a half four Spanish kings have had to fly for their lives; a queen, too, grandmother of the present ruler, was forced to leave Spain. The latest king to lose his throne, Constantine ("Tino") of Greece, has created a record by being driven from power twice within five years. Greek monarchs have always been unlucky, but the royal house of Spain has suffered even more. mss t ue P s sEA WALL OF OBSELETE WARSHIPS, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _0 _ _ _ _ _ A novel use for obselete warships has been discovered at Dartmouth, England, where they are ranged side by side in the line of the new sea wall, and filled with rubble. The old destroyer, "Jed," is here seen being mergoed into the wall. sâ€"â€"2nd the worst is vet to come C@C&tFwellingt+or Kings Out of Work. | _ Storks and herons can claim records ' in old age, for a famous naturalist has | racorded the cases of two of the formâ€" ‘er creatures who built their nest in the same place regularly for forty years, ]and of a heron who easily passed his half century. Ancient writers tell of rooks that survived until their seven hundredth year, and of ravens that reached two hundred and forty years. How far these statements are correct we canâ€" not tell, but it is certain tha creatures of the air live much longer t:an mamâ€" Swans have been known to attain their second cerntury, and even in capâ€" tivity nightingales and chaffinches have lived for more than forty years. From time to time startling acâ€" counts are received of longâ€"lived aniâ€" mals and men, but their feats are put far into the shade by birds. "Well," said the manager, "hang up your hat and consider yourself enâ€" gaged." "I‘d be glad of it, sir. If a firm isn‘t satisfied with the right kind of boy it isn‘t the right kind of firm for the right kind of boy to be in. It‘s time I was starting work if I‘m going to work, and if I‘m not, it‘s time I left." "What wages do you think you should have?" "Seven dollars a week." "The other boys have been paid only five dollars." ‘"‘How many boys did you have last year?" asked the applicant. "Nine or ten." "I thought so," said the boy. "That‘s the kind of boy you get for five dolâ€" lars. I‘m not that kind. I come, I hang up my hat, and stay." "But suppose we should dismiss you ? "One where there is as little work and as much pay as the firm can stand." "No, sir; nobody gets exactly what he wants, but it doesn‘t hurt him to expect a good deal." "Do you expect to get the kind of job you want?" "I‘m not like most boys," said the applicant. "Most boys who come here are willâ€" Ing to take all work and no pay," conâ€" tinued the manager. sir?" he said. "What sort of a place do you asked the manager. The boy entered the oflice briskly, removed his hat, and turned to the manager. "I understand you require a boy, 9 Veterans of the Sky. Wasting Time. want?" Nall Dye is a Hobby. tramsnguhod. . 1204 Finger nail dye is a hobby of all the P k fastidious women of the better class in Turkey. Not just polish or pink paste | A Banquet is used, but actual reds and gilds and | The proverb of blues are applied "Not a thing." "Just the man I want. Tell me what you think might be the matter with my car. The experts that have come along kave all guessed wrong, and I thought perhaps you might be able to guess right." "Boys will be boys" and "a leap in the dark" are two more sentences inâ€" vented in the neighborhood of Westâ€" minster, one by Lord Palmerston and the other by Lord Derby; whilo a phrase that was much in use during the war came, appropriately enough, from the exâ€"Kaiser, who coined the expression "the mailed fist." A Last Chance. "Know anything about an automoâ€" bile? Another politician to whom we owe a part of our language is Lord Roseâ€" bery, who was responsible for the phrases "clean glate" and "lonely furâ€" While Mr. Asquith was not made ; famous by a phrase, one will always ; be connected with his career. "Wait | and see" long since became historic. | Mr. Gladstone‘s moct famous phrase is now in general use, for the remark, "to advance by leaps and bounds," was originated by him. He found it impossible to make himâ€" self heard, and at last sat down with a parting shot. "Some day," he shoutâ€" ed, "you will hear me!" And it was not long before this prophecy was fulâ€" filled. Another maiden speech that inâ€" cluded a sentence destined to become famous was that of Disraeli, afterâ€" wards Lord Beaconsfield. For some reason members in the House became angry and kept interrupting and shoutâ€" ing at him. His famous remark occurred during his first speech in the House of Comâ€" mons. "Mr. Speaker," he said, in his wellâ€"known draw!, "I am not an agriâ€" cultural â€"laborer." Fellowâ€"members gazed at his immaculate attire, and then burst into laughter. is required to produce the first sensaâ€" tions. Then, as the drug takes a hold, the pleasant dreams which were preâ€" sent at first change to nightâ€"mares of a terrifying nature. At the end of a monthi of daily cocainetaking the vicâ€" tim is a slave to the drug, and has no power to discontinue its use. A single phrase was partly responsâ€" ible for the fame of the late Earl Spencer. Ho was well known in his day for his smartness in dress, and his collars were said to be the highest ever Coca leaves are yellowish brown in color, and from one and a half to three inches long. The South Americans chew them mixed with lime and plant ash, a mixture which is claimed to have great sustaining powers both mentally and physically. A coca chewer rarely lives beyond thirty! Yet the leaves yield only five per cent. of cocaine. A few minutes after "doping" with cocaine the mind is happy, the body buoyant, and conversation voluble, When reaction sets in, a larger dose Fifty years ago cocaine was almost unknown. Now it is recognized as a valuable drug, and as a preventive of pain when used by the surgeon for small operations on the nose, mouth, ears, teeth, and other surface parts. It obviates the use of ether or chloroâ€" form, deadening pain and producing elation of spirits for a short time. Cocaine is made from the leaves of the coca plant, which grows in South America and is now cultivated in India and Ceylon. The leaves are soaked in water, and the resultant liquid, when chemically treated, yields the crystals of cocaine. ‘These crystals have a bitter taste. The cocaine is converted into a hydrochloride, and in this form may be used as a powder for sprinkling on the parts to be operated upon, for sniffâ€" ing into the nose, or for injection into the skin. Made Famous by Phrases. Plants That "Murder" Men | The proverb of the crown and the uneasy head miglt we‘il be twisted to | apply to a Central American president. iCert'.nfnl}' the presidert of the Hondurâ€" [as that Mr. J. H. Currie describes in (This World of Ours could not have felt :nt his ease for very long; there was ; too muchk revolution and intrigue for | that. And that, exactly, is what thousands â€"you may be cnoeâ€"need in their orâ€" ; dinary lives. The look forward! What | you see, and press toward, may be | something small, or romothing big. It !may lie at the ond of next week, next {month, next year, or further on still, ;But you must, if life is to be worth |living, have sometsing to which you ‘ecan look forward. The light returned a feow moments| later. The consul was sitt‘ng celmly | in his ckair; beside him sat the presiâ€" dent, wiping the sweat from his brow ; ; every other man in the room was on his feet, guarding himself with drawn revolver. | Once, says NMr. Curie, ttere was a banquet at Tegucigaipa, the cap‘tal. The man who happened to be presiâ€" G@ent on that day attended it ard sat next to the consu! of the United States. In the midst of the banquet theelectric light failed, and the room was p‘uaged into darkness. Ferring a plot, the president sprang to his feet, bui the consul seized his arm. "S‘t down‘" he whispered. "It is safer." _ > Quite True. Bobbyâ€"*"What is that which occurs once in a minute ard twice in a mo ment, but not once in a hundred years ?" Tommyâ€"*"I don‘t know. I‘ll give it up." That to which you should look forâ€" ward, and fight to reach and grasp, you must settle for yourself. Be ambiâ€" ticus, but don‘t stretch beyord your strexgth. Remember, when work scems hard, and the days are long and dreary, that everything beccmes easler, and can be borne if you have romething to which you cen look forâ€" ward. Why, even now, it helps you through the day and its worries to lock forward to knockingâ€"of timeâ€" and heme! Extend the principle, and life is transfigured. Look forward‘! If you fought in the Great War, don‘t rou remember how eagerly you lookel forward to your next bit of leave? In all the imud and misery, that it was weich kept you going, wasn‘t it? be Natives of the East seem to be imâ€" mune from the bad effects of the drug that are noticeable in Europeans. This is believed to be due to the fact that it has been in use for so many generaâ€" tions that the native constitution has become inured to it. A parallel is to be found in alcobol, which, when given to races that have never tasted it beâ€" fore, is far more deadly than when taken by Europeans. No, ncot the food, nor the discipline, but the inability, on account of the length of your sentence, to visualise mentally the day when you would be free. it would be too far ahead for you to grasp. There would be nothing to which you could look forward. It is not a pleasant subject to conâ€" sider but if it should so happen that temptation came to you, and you fell, anrd your sentence was five years‘ penâ€" al servitude, do you know what would be t*e hardest part of your prison life? You would sink into a slough of| mental apathy until, as the _vearsg passed, the day of your freedom came , as a pinâ€"prick of light at the end of a | dark tunnel. | Tten you would revive. Hope would supplant hopelessness. Freeâ€" dom is in sight! The distance has been shortened, and your mind can leap it. You‘ve something to which you can look forward. The drug habit is not confined to Cocaine. Many people are victims of laudanum, morphia, opium, and hashâ€" ish, which preduce dangerous sleep. At least three of these drugs are obtained from the same plantâ€"the sleepâ€"bringing poppy, which is cultiâ€" vated in Turkey, Asia Minor, Porsia and India. Crude opium is the juice of the unripe poppy capsule, and from it we get morphia and laudanum. . The latter, by the way, is many times more powerful than opium, and used mainly in the form of an injecticn under the skin. The juice of the drug is obtained by scratching the green capsules with a pin. The juice is then removed to the factories, where it is made into cakes. In certain districts the natves cultiâ€" vate opium for their own use, and in malaria) districts the drug is taken as preventive against the malady. In India there are recognized facâ€" tories for the manufacture of opium and the British Government obtains as much as five million dollars a year from taxation. The opium year opens in September when the preparation of the land for the reception of the poppy seed begins. The soll is ploughed at intervals of ten days until the middle of October, when sowing begins. Bobby â€"*"The letter M." A Banquet in Hondures. Look Forward. TORONTO l The "Chronicles of the St. Lawr |ence" also contain a description of a ’myll.efloua disappearing vesool seen off Cape 4‘Espoir, and wiich vanishes ‘amid the noise of bottie. She is said | to be the spirit of a Britisch flag hip j which was lost unaceonntably, |_The lumbermen of the same great river relate that a warninz of bad | That the combined soa and land tank, about which so much epeculation 'oxllted during the war, should have | been forecasted by a phanthom ship is indeed strango. This is the spectre ! varsel of Porthourno, in Cornwall, and in icobert Hunt‘s "Romances of the West of England" there is a descripâ€" |tion of what a local inkabitant witâ€" |nessed during one of its escapades. | _ "On it came from over the sea. | Glided up over the sands and steadily | pursued its way on the dry land. On i it went to Bodelan and turned towards ;Chygwldcn, and there vanished." Truly weind‘! "What‘s your busines:"" the Kast erner asked after a while. "We‘ll, stranger," replied the hospitâ€" able Miszsour| person, "I‘ve retired from businese. 1 don‘t have to do nothing for a living these days. I‘ve got five head of gals a‘working in the factory over there." A Captain of Industry. A bale and hearty looking Missouri c‘tizen sat on a drygoods box, whitâ€" ting a «tick, but he made rcom for the sericlogist from the East and they readily engaged in conversation. A young woman, according to a conâ€" temporary, was describing to one of her friends a great chagrin which she had undergone. "I was just alimost killed by it," she said; "I could have cried myself to death." "Did you cry*" asked the other. "No.} dust was fjuct wottize ready to Bct= measures aore k&9t ‘n mahogâ€" any boxes, which are scaled down, put into & leaden case, and then placed in a cavity in a stone wall of the Comâ€" mons. It was the copises that were exâ€" amined the other day. it was found that the Imperial Yard was shorter than it s>ould be by a tenthousandth part of an inch, and that the pound was heavier than it should be by 2.86 thousandths of a grain. iPossibly the discrepancies were due to chemical changes in the standards themselves. & The standards were legally fixed in 1824, and placed in the House of Comâ€" mons, but were destroyed when the Houses of Parliament were burned down ten years later. New standards were made and handed over to the Board of Trade, ut accurate copias were placed in the Commons. "Did you cry*" asked the other. "No, i just was just gottizg ready to when the @nuserbell reag." The Speaker and a grovup of Governâ€" ment oflicials gathered round m box and tock from it a pound weight and a yard measure, and after examining them with the greaiost reverence and care put them back again. The objects were the Parliamentsry copies of the Standard Brit‘sh Pound and Britich Yard, on which all our weights and measures are bosed. Ceremony. A ceremony which has not been perâ€" formed since 1892, and will not be carâ€" ried out again for another thirty years, wes observed in the Britis‘» House of Commons a short time ago. This being so, it is not surprising that the sea also possesses Its quota of legendary uncanniness. One evening in the following June, after a severe storm, se wes seen coming up the river. The inhabitants were overjoyed at her return, but something uncanny was noticed about her, especially as she was sailing against the wind. To the onlookers‘ consternation che gradually faded away and disappeared. Longfellow has marked the occurrence in poetry: On she came, with a cloud of canvas, Right against the wird that blew, Until the eye could distinguish The faces of the crew. A good deal has been heard recently about the appearance of ghosts on land. Many a village baes its haunted house or lane, duly regarded with varying degree of awe by the inhabitâ€" Another strange sea ghost story is that during January, 1647, a vessel left New Haven, Commecticut, but was never heard of again. And the masts, with all their rigging, Fell slowly ome by one, And the hulk dilated and vanished As a seaâ€"mist in the sun. There is the famous Flying Dutchâ€" man, or phantom ship, of Vanderdeckâ€" en. What truth there is in the fre quent reports that it has been sighted it is difiicult to say, but historically there is no doubt that rather a hotâ€" tempered man of that name many years ago left Holland for the Bast, by way of the Cape of Good Hope. to be the spirit 0f a Lritish flagâ€"hip which was lost unaceonntably, The lumbermen of the some great river relate that a warning of bad weatlier is given by the sppearance of an antique caravel, which proceeds unâ€" concerned up the Gatpe Falls, where no other could follow. The story is that, meeting wit. bafâ€" fling winds, he swore a terrible oath, in consequence of which the Divine wrath decreed that be should for ever endeavor to weather that headland. British Parlizment‘s Phantoms of the Sea. An End of Grief