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1% i2 *4 ** m "Sure," said he, as he turned away, It‘s just my luck. I am never ill when 1 ought to be." An Irishman was one day looking inâ€" to the window of a drug store He noticed that all the drugs and medtâ€" eines were baing sold at a reduced ag 3 A Question of Terms. Isaac Blumstein had a toothache. A friend recommended a dentist So Isaac went to his office. But on the door he read: First visit, $5. Subse quent visits, $2. This was pretty tough for Isaac. He thought a minute very hard and then hbe opened the door and walked in with a chirrupy : "Good moming, Doctor! Here I am is less than at their tops.w This construction causes of the car to bear directly construction but would also cause a great resistance to the turning moveâ€" ment incident to steering. To overâ€" come these faults the front wheels are given what is termed underprather, that is, the distance between them at the point where they touch the ground x% i% PC on th ar T} wh If Ridiculons, this ruling that must wear a twoâ€"piece bathâ€" Simply increases one‘s lugâ€" know. one How so?* couldn‘t possibly g me envelope, my de uggage Increased 1J Out of Luck. th the n STEERING GEAR REQU IRES PATIENT STUDY [} JNTROL FOR DRIVER Cor th d irecti n W uls rab mpared wit ‘ertain thing the desire n the weight on a line get such the driver n in which . â€" It is the monstrated r can raise for a short for weak ) cause a AP laced in erage pins. & ith Pat was seen to get up and look at ter the car and say, "Now what do ye think o‘ that? Whin ye stand in front o‘ thim, they run over ye; and whin ye git out of the way to let him pass, they twrn around and kick ye." is on record a case of the death of a | fox from such a blow. | _ The force of the swan‘s wing blow is [emphasize\l in a story from Buckingâ€" ‘ hamshire, which rocords the attack of ‘\a male swan on a boat being rowed near the nest. The pinion struck the gunwale of the graft, and as a result was laid bare to the bone, being stripâ€" l pod of both feathers and skin. The car caught up with him, and, just as it was passing, the driver had occasion to turn off down a side street, As ho moved the steering wheel the car skidded, causing the back end of it to swing around, striking Pat and knocking bhim down. Caught Both Ways. Pat was standing in the road when he noticed a motorâ€"car coming up the street. Ho stepped back a little. There is a traditional impression tkat a blow from a swan‘s wing will break an average man‘s leg, and there e1, are about. The male swan is very) pugracions then, as a bather in the Thames found to his cost quite rooent-‘ ly. from one side of Canada to the olher! Perhaps no other things have S\lCh! in huge flocks at cortain times of the POwer to lift the poor out of poverty, year, and at very high altitudes. | the wretched out of misery, to make] It is not safe to tease or seek fa. the burden bearer forget his burden,‘ miliarity with swans in summer time | the sick his suffering, as books. l whon cygnots, as young swans are call., *n mmnmmnmmmmmmmmmnmmemem Don‘t Tease Swans. Swans can fly at the rate of 100 miles an hour. No onme knows how long they can keep on the wing, but the trip from Scandinavia to Britain seems to be merely a pleasant flutter. They paess from one side of Canada to the other in huge flocks at certain times of the year, and at very bigh altitudes. Une other peculiarity of the stecring mechanism is worthy of consideration. The tie bar which connects the two front wheels is attached at either end to the arms that form part of the steering knuckle. These arms, instead of being parallel and thus making the tie rod the same length as the distance between the steering knuckle and pins, are set at an angle which makes the tie rods shorter than this distance. The result is that when the car is turned, say, to the right, the rightâ€" hand wheel is swung more to the left: than the leftâ€"hand wheel. Each wheel,! therefore, follows closely its proper arc. The reverse is true when turning. to the left. | gear. The trails along. Omne other mechanism i The tie bar front wheels which can se observed in a castor on a bed or piano and the same which enâ€" ables one to ride a bicycle without placing the hands on the handle bars. For this reason if the tie bars between the two wheels should become disconâ€" nected, straight abhead steering and even slight turns can be made through one wheel attached to the steering gear. The other front wheel just castor effect to the front wheels. This rake consists in placing the steering knuckle pins so that they are further toward the rear at the top than they are at the bottom. The result of this when steering is that the centre of turning is a little ahcad of the point of contact where the tire touches the road. This is done so that the drag incident to pushing the wheel along the road is back of the centre of turnâ€" ing. The result is that the wheels will always point directly forward, unless interfered with. [ This action is the same as that which can be observed in a castor on This does not apply to the rear wheels which, in practically all cases, are directly parallel. ACTION UPON WHEELS. In addition to foregather and underâ€" gather, the steering knuckle pins are given a slight rake so as to give a with the stcering knuckle pin. Thereâ€" fore no leverage is exerted. This undergather would cause excessive wear on the tires if both wheels were pwinted straight ahead, or, in other words, were set parallel. To prevent this wear the wheels are given what is called foregather, which means that they are slightly closer together at the front edge than at the rear. There is only about threeâ€"eighths of an inch dil-‘ ference in the measurement, but it is important that the front wheels toe-inl that much. wak‘ C ‘(: C {Xx * > EE% x wi> iC .);..- : / k â€" ( is THAT ) ~|TULL: hA \\ \g"{\, UNDE K c ) ~| TL HAVE yJu To U CNDERSTAND‘ Some animals sleep with their eyes open, others with them closed. Nearly all fish belong to the latter class, as do also hares and snakes. Salmon and goldfish are said never to sleep at all. The posture adopted by the domestic cat is typical of many other animals. Foxes and wolves sleep curled up with their noses and the soles of their feet all close together and often covered by their tails. Even such a bulky animal as the sloth sleeps upside down, banging by its four feet and with its head tucked between the forelegs. water, and during its slumbers padtiles itself with one foot in circles to avoid drifting to the shore. cleeping Upside Down. _ | A Little House. Every kind of animal, including I‘m glad our house is a little house, man, seems to tave adopted some parâ€", _ Not too tall nor too wide; ticular posture in which to sleep. | I‘m glad the hoveming butterflles The ordinary man sleeps, either on Feel free to come inside. THE REPARATIONS® DELIBERATIONS "My greatâ€"grandfather occupied this seat when the ference commenced."â€"From London Opinion. Loi As I do my daily walking, to neduce my ample size, I hear people knocking, knocking, finding fawlt with other guys. Jasper Jinks a house is building, and intends to paint it green, with a stripe of ornate giding round about each window scneen. And the knockers stand and view it, watch each timber put in place, and they cry, "Ob, cheo! Beshrew it! Such a house is a disâ€" grace‘ For the doors are out of kilter and the chimney is too low, and the winter rains will filter through those shingles, don‘t you know; and he‘s gone and put the cellar where the attic ought to be, and it sure would jar a feller, such a crazy house to see." Jasper hears the idle jeering of his neighbors, at the fence, and hs heart is doubting, fearing, he has fantods most intense. And his pleasure is departed, all the pride he lately knew, when his building job was started, with a cozy home in view. And his Jaded soul grows sicker as he tolls on day by day, for the knockâ€" ing of the kicker drives the worker‘s Joy away. There should be a law imposing fifty years in yonder pen on the gent whose dreary prosing chills the hearts of fallow men. Sleeping Upside Down. RipplingRhyme l oo $ ergunck THE FAULTFINDERS IN RABBITBORO l:M ‘:‘:O t wl o 9 : ECC Mnfi reol it / f >A » c 2 ,('_/-,/," § o o oo e e 4) ~ ep xiX (A (‘*" / "x B2 .s.) a ?(&“{â€" E. .glcl.if(%:rig & i:j,/// j \-° P% s" * .-\-?: Fyrem e ‘}’. s 1 };’.\,o * * «i K * 5 A Y 2 us [ y> ;.?: / 8/ 2 *%2 7" f j € e\= Ti | w & m £ & > : ; l 2s *k ‘ s w r y "Wherefore, when we build, let us[ think we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, not for present | use alone. Let it be such work as our| descendants will thank us for, and let! us thing as we lay stone on stone, that| a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will: say as they look upon the labor, and : wrought substance of them, ‘see this our fathers did for us,‘ "â€"Ruskin. | The earliest known surgical instruâ€" ments are copper knives found in a tomb 1500 B.C. . Our little house is a friendly house It is not shy or vain; It gossips with the talk‘ng troes, And makes friends with the rain. Signs of Summer "Confound this sticky flyâ€"papert" d Ni hy sA | @ *‘?fiffi;@“f 5 ,= it ,{’ ‘y", is \\\ /SL’ 4 lg\,»,”f % 'S’ L y‘ * it 8 fi.'f’ 4 [ / w\ 1 8 ’I ,_‘i., s e e ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO the Reparations Conâ€" The Laurentide Co., Ltd., of Grand Mere, P.Q., have about 20,000,009 white spruce seedlings and transâ€" plants in their nursery. The earliest known physician lived in the third Egyptian dynasty, 4500 B.C. | In Turkey any youth and maden who can walk properly and can understand the necessary roligious service are alâ€" lowed to be united for life. In Spain the intended husband must have passed his fourteenth year and the wife her twelfth. In Switzerland boys from the age of fourtean and girls from the age of twelve are allowâ€" ed to marry. In Greece a youth must have seen at least fourteen summers and the girl twelve. In France the man must be eigliteen and the woman s@‘xteen, and in Belgium the same ages, In Germany a man must be at least elghteen years of age before he can marry. In Portugal a boy of fourteen is considered marriageable, and a girl of twelve. From a corruption of the Angloâ€"Saxâ€" on we get the phrase, "as mad as a hatter." It las nothing to do with a "hatter," really. The word "mad" in AngloSaxon meant furious angry, or even venomous, and "atter" meant an "adder or viper." Thus the whole exâ€" pression really means "as venomous as an adder." Marrying Ages. In Britain thise age at which parties may legally bind themseivas in marâ€" rlage is fourteen in the case of boys and twelve in that of girls. threats of mutilation. AM the teeth of one Jew in Bristol were extracted to satiefy the King‘s rapacity. "Worth a Jew‘s eye" probably came from the fact that King John extorted large sums of money from Jews under "Kicking the bucket" is a phrase that owes its conception to the days of the great gold rush to California and Australia in 1849â€"51. Many unfortunâ€" ate seekers after gold, losing their all in an unavailing effort to find the preâ€" cious "dust," committed sulcide. The suicide tied a rope to a beam in his hut. Then, standizg on an upturned bucket, he would adjust the other end df the rope round he neck. When all was ready he simpy kicked the bucket from under his feet. ‘ | be towed dnto shoilow water near Penâ€" i'zance. forty mives away; he requested the dectroyer to sem1 out tugs. Soon afterwards a tug and a drifter arrived 'an-d Captain Gronow made the lines ,ras-t forward. Juct as he was completâ€" |ing his difficult task a big sea poured {over the bow and dashc1 hm on his back against the sharp point of a parâ€" avane, an instrument that is used for cutting mines adrft. The blood began to flow from the wound, but in his exâ€" citement he did fot notice it. The expression, "a pig in a noke," originated in Northampton Market, when some wags put a cat in a bag or poke, and sold it as a pig to a counâ€" tryman. When the buyer opened the bag, out jumped the cat, This also gave rise to the exprassion, "letting the cat out of the bas." The gale was blowing harder than ever Two hours later the bow of the Vinovia was three feet under water, and the engine room and boiler ranm At five c‘clock in the aftarncoon a German torpedo s&ruck the ehip and killed seventeen of the crow. A Briâ€" tish destroy>r came up shortly afterâ€" wards to take off the rest, for the freighter was badly damaged and was sure to sink in a short time,. ‘The comâ€" mander acley4d Captain Grenow to go with them, but the captain declined and said he thoug‘"t the Vinovia could During the wer, on December 23, 1917, says a wr‘ter in the New York Times, the Cunarni freightar Vinovia of seven thousand tons bound from New York to London was about ten miles off Land‘s End, Cornwall. For three days it hai heen toung about in a heavy sea w1 a etrong northerly gale The tumbling seas had smashed the lifteboats and the rafts and had carried the fregments overboard, and the steady pourding of the waves bad broken the t%eor; the captianâ€"his name 4s Gronosw â€"â€"had been working with the crew for two days rigging a jury tiller in its place. A little brass beil that was caught among some ficating wreckage once eaved the life of a cap:ain who, true to his calling and fearloss in the face of ccath, would not dosert his sinking ship. Origin of Familiar Phrases. engine room and boiler room Saved by the Ship‘s Bell | _ Faith is something and enthusiasm | for something make life worth living. 6 "Wouldn‘t you in} 'fl'l"e"fl older than she says?" « Randall . "Wiat do you mean by such conâ€" duct?" his employer asktd him, "Why,‘" te replied simply, "I thought I was sold with the coalâ€"I was weighâ€" ed with it.‘ After putting it in the cellar he taken up his quartors in the kite} from which the cook could not get ] to leave. It was his first morning at the coalâ€" yard and he was instructed to deliver a load. As he failed to return a search was instituted, and he was discovered at the house where he had delivered the coal. "I won‘t Faith is Thy hanied I‘m into the boat and brought him to the drifter whore they wrappod him in blankets. ‘Then the craft made all speed to Penzance. Cap tain Gronew was unconscious for twentyâ€"four hours efter his resoue. it was midzight on Christmas Eve when he opemed tis eyes for the first time. a lantern the eailors in the dingy saw the unconscicus captain half supported by the canves awrings; his hair was frozen, and there was blood on his face and neck. man‘s head on the bridge of the Vinâ€" ovia for lim to strike the hours by the wheelhous» clock. By the light of At half past twelve on the morning of December 24 the lookout man on a dri‘ter making for Penzance heard what he thought was a small ship‘s bcil tink!ing every now and then as if it were close by on the surface of the sca. He caÂ¥sd the skipper, who stopâ€" ped the small craft, and they both lisâ€" tened and heard the bell distinctly. Tlis dinghy was lowered, and two of the crew pulled in the direction of the sound. They found a quantity of wreckage am‘id which was a small bress be‘l lashod to a wooden frameâ€" the bell had been fixed over the wheelâ€" it was pitch dark, andl the weather was very cold when the tug and the drifter cast off the lMnes from the Vinovia. _ When the tug came near enough Captain Gronow _ shouted through a megaphone to the skipper that he would stand by the stip to the end. It came at half past eight. The csptain was on the bridge, very weak, for he had lost much blood and had suflered from fatigue and exposure. As the Vinovia «ark under his feet he grasped the canvas awnings with the wooden stamchions that the shock of the torpedo had cast loose. ‘ wore flooded; then the eea poured inâ€" to the cabins and the hold so that it was impose{ble any longer to tow the ship. It does not require much imagination to visualize the things which would reduce the fatigue of the housewife and improve the family life; a stool or high chair and a rockingâ€" chair in the kitchen, with comâ€" fortable, restful chairs elseâ€" where in the home; running water, in order to eliminate the carrying of water from a well or outside pump; a midâ€"day rest period; the services of a comâ€" munity nurse; prenatal care for mothers; proper and suffiâ€" cient clothing to meet all emerâ€" gencies and opportunities for recreation, are not luxuries, they are necessities. sayâ€"but time will tell." Tellâ€"Tale Time Part of the Loot. ne kitchen, not get him he had "Fear is only a void, because it is the absence of anything coustructive. It is a kind of gap between one‘s courâ€" age and one‘s resources. If you can make a contact between the two, fear goes. "The strange part of ali this is, that fear is something lacking in ourselves. We never really fear anyhody eise, Woonlyhuzhu'omny not be equal to him. Isa‘t 4# eurlous?!? Think it ooE m mmme TT be afraid morally. A man will be a hero on the battlefield and shrink from bis wife. Each one of us has a pet cowardice. "We are all cowards, more or Men who are not afraid physicall "I have always been somew‘rat of a believer in fear, just as 1 have in worâ€" ry," he exp‘ains. "I have known a number of people who have written books about it, showing how to get rid of it, but I have fuund them to be just about as othor people are. Upon ocâ€" casion, they would run if any one said ‘Boo!‘ to them. sources and our courage, says Tom Masson in "That Silver Lining," and If we can make a contact between the two, fear goes above, a O Canada, my country their place With the great ones of the earth, And the bigh faith that doth inspire their hearts Counts their flag‘s honor as life‘s greatest worth, Counts their flag‘s honor as life‘s greatest worth. â€"Translation by B. Morton Jones. 2. Neath Meaven‘s eye, beside a mighty stream, Great grow thy sons, as they of greatâ€" ness dream, For the race they spring from is full of pride, And a blessing hails their birth, And the powers on high have prepared theme # Thy simple bistory. And thy boid hearts, filled with de voted faith, Will guard our homes and our liberty. O Canada. 1. O Canada! The land our fathers found, How bright the garlands on thy fore head bound! For the sword thine arm hath in battle borne, And hath raised the Cross on high; And the poet‘s pen finds its highest _, O Canada, unlike most great songs, '|wu composed backwards. The tune a Y2S made first. It was in 1881, at a 8 great convention of 8t. Jean Baptiste F in Quebec City, when a call aroseâ€"from ; the delegates for some gort of nation ; | Alizing hymn that should express the , aspirations of the Frenchâ€"Canadians , as a nation in Canada. A committee was struck, with Judge Routhier as | chairman, for the purpose of getting , a â€" Frenchâ€"Canadian composer to do ; this, on behailf of the convention. The only Frenchâ€"Canadian composer capâ€" f able of such an ‘inspiring task was Calixte Laveilee, a famous planist then ‘living in Quebec. Bo quickly was it : ali done, so much after the manner of E.M inspiration, that the very next day | the composer sent word that he was ', ready. When the committee called upâ€" on him they found that he had comâ€" ‘ posed not one, but four or five meloâ€" ‘dies, all of which he played on his plano. Unanimously they accepted the _ melody since become so famous as the voice of the Frenchâ€"Canadian race, _ Catching up the inspirational mood of the composer, Judge Routhier at once wrote his memorable verses to fit the tune, and, before the convention broke up, both words and music were enâ€" thusiastically acclaimed, adopted and sung. Within a few years thousands of Frenchâ€"Canadians had learned this majestic hymn, but it was almost twenty years before it got up as far as Ontario, where it was used first at military tattoos in Niagara Camp, later as a marchpast in the reception ac corded the present king, George V., in Toronto, when A. 8. Vogt, then conâ€" ductor of the Mendelssohn Choir, ask ed a bandmaster, "What is that won derful thing?" On being told, he made a note of it, and a few years late: much tianks to the admirable choral and orchestral setting, eand English translation, all made by Dr. T. B. itich ardson, of Toronto, who had become familiar with the plece when an oficer at Niagara Camp, the Mendelssohn Choir gave the first choral perform ance of O Canada, Since that time, scores of AngloBaxons have written English versions, one of which is now in use in Ontario schools, and a dozea composers bave written various arâ€" rangements for choirs, men‘s voices, quarteites, etc. But the original Laâ€" valleeâ€"Routhier setting survises as the greatest of them all, and by long odds one of the greatest national hymas ever known under any flag.â€"Musical Canada. M Our Pet Cowardice. only a gap between our just as I have in Qori . _ "I have known a le who have written and my love more or less. physically will man will be a Start e heaven of y Io your «#~ beark the cow enough 1 The farmer looked a replied: "Wait about h supper time. The fite the dining room then a in pesce." 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