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London Names Woman Curator of Reptiles. Miso Joam *=â€"zoer, regarded by z00â€" log‘sts z. oms of the greatest snake experts in the rorld, has been appointâ€" w1 curator of reptiles for the London Zoo. It is the first time that a woman has been appointed to a place of such respon«!bility at the Zoo. Miss Procâ€" tor, although only 25 years old, has for some time shown . conspicuous abllity in her chosen profession. Her grandfather was a great entomoligist. r;r mother, epeaking of Miss Procâ€" ter‘s work, said: "At 10 â€"my daughter bad Lor first snake as a pet. She also kept many Hzards and some of them were remarkably tame. One day she received a large crocodile as a pre sent, and we took it to Dr. C. A. Bouâ€" lenger, famous chief of the departâ€" ment of reptiles at the Natuaral Hisâ€" tory Museum in South Kensington. He was astonished at my daughter‘s koowledge of ephiclogy and offered to train her in the aubject when she left St. Paul‘s School. She became bis assistant when she was 1% years old, and when he resigned she was appolnts? to his post." Miss Procter read her first paper on snakes before the Zoological SBociety at the age of 19. She was a fellow of the society at 20 and was elected a fellow of the Linnaean Bociety, one of the foremost sclentific organizations in the world only a fortâ€" LARGE SHIPMENTS FROM MAYO MINES Production of Silverâ€"Lead Ore in Yukon Reached Nearly 9,000 Tons. Caterpiliar Tractors Used. The ore is hauled on sleighs a dis tance of about fortyâ€"five miles. There was used during the past winter for the first time in this district a "catorâ€" pillar" tractor, which has been found to bo very satisfactory. The intention is to utilize additional tractors next winter and it is estimated that the outâ€" put will be doubled and about twenty thousand tons of ore will be available for shipment during the summer of OR E HAULED FORTYâ€" FIVE MILES ON SLEIGHS. During the past winter there have bean hauled from the several mines of the Mayo district to the town of Mayo, on the Stewart river, for shipment atâ€" ter the opening of navigation, between eight and nine thousand tons of ore, which it is expected will average about two hundred ounces of sllver to the ton in addition to largo quantities of them have obtained ore containing values which will permit of shipments being made. The largest shipments of ore were made by the Keno Hill, Limited, the first company to commence extensive operations in this district. . This is the third year of their operations and each summer the amount of ore ship ped has excesded the previous year‘s shipments. Last winter another comâ€" pany, known as the Yukon Treadwell Company, Limited, developed their properties extensively, and the quanâ€" tity of ore delivered at Mayo for shipâ€" ment was almost as great as that of the pioneer corporation. In addition to the mining companies a number of Individuals are slowly deâ€" voloping their properties, and some of 1924 The l'."..t(‘tl S’-\"‘\' (;UV“KTHH"I” r.'lil' .‘:“-U“" ipmn en nelabicol sibvng uie ancemn in jal nationt w extending from Seward on the Alâ€"| Pat, proudly. 3 askan coast to Nenana, Alaska, is nwwl in operation. The ore from the Mayo| 3 dis t, instead of being towed on | (~ > scows to the mouth of the Yukon river | {*= k‘ #4 (‘. & 5) and there shipped to smelters, will be | / M 4 t earried down the Yukon river to the | / } /’ J mouth of the Tanana river and up that | ytf f NA l P stream to Nenara, where it will be? \ o "‘.) ‘ ,,/t transferred to the railway and them‘-}‘ f //, " '/: *# carriodl to the Pacific coast. Thi.s; \C % %,*â€"i means a reduction in the distance| k/ j ol\ from the mines to the smelter of ap~| \ y ’ proximately one thousand miles \\'i!h' ,y"’ the aid of tractors for hauling the ore | C o 4 t / from the mines to the head of n:wig:\-i ‘ tion, and by using the railroad from | ; W V \\ | Nenana, Alaska, to the Pacific roas!.; y t / \._ W B the cost of transportation of the ore 0 BP El A will be considerably reduced and \\'ill: â€"Z m EQ<_: uky enabl> a lower grade of ore to be 1st Doctor: Say Doc! We had bet. mined and shipped. ter operate onâ€"this patient at once. Miners Are Optimistle. } 2nd Doctor: Absolutely! For by to. Further prospecting on lands . not | NOTT® he‘.l realize he‘s getting well far distant from Keno hills, where the without }t..________ district, _ inste scows to the m and there ship earried down i mouth of the T stream to Net transferred to carriod â€" to th means a redt from the mine Stories About Wellâ€"Known People | "No#" said the surprised applicant. â€""It shore is strange how gemmen‘s | tastes do differ. Now, Mr. Clark," naming his former employer, "he say, \‘Job, one thing I demand is civil serâ€" vice to my guests,‘ an‘ he done gave me an examination right there, suh, an‘ that‘s the truth." Lady Louise, who is thirtyâ€"four, has one sister, Princess Andrew of Greece, and her younger brother, Lord Louis Mountbatten, some months ago marâ€" ried M‘~s Pdwinna Ashley, Sir Ernest Cassel‘s helress. principal mines now being developed are situated, indicates that the areas from which shipments of ore can be made are of considerable extent, and in some instances evidences of large deposits of low grade ore have been discovered. The first wife of the Crown Prince, who is in his fortyâ€"first year, was Princess Margaret (daughter of the Duke of Connaught), who died in 1920. The Prince has four sons and one daughter, a pretty girl of thirtoen years, who was one of the bridesâ€" maids at the wedding of Lady Patricia Ramsay. During the war Lady Louise nursed the wounded in a French hospital near Nevers, and in her probationary period insisted on doing her share of the orâ€" dinary rough work of the institution. Since the death of her father, who was formerly Admiral of the Fleet Prinee Louis of Battenberg, Lady Louise has lived quietly at Kensingâ€" All who are interested in this wonâ€" derfully rich mining field and who have watched the development of it since 1918, are as a result of the work of the last year, optimistic, and they feel assured that a permanent mining industry that will rank as one of the great mining filelds of the Dominion will be established. night ago. Last year, it is said, she was offered a post by the New York Zoological Scciety. and first cousin once removed of the King, the Crown Prince of Sweden, a widower, has for a second time chosen a bride from the British Royal Family. Sure of a Fine Funeral. A Baltimore business man asked an Irishman in his employ whether he was saving any of his money. "Sure, I am," answered the Celt, "I‘ve got $800 hid away in a safe place." By his engagement to Lady Louise Mountbatten, the second daughter of the late Marquess of Milford Haven One Job Wilson, the colored appliâ€" cant for the position of butler in a family living in one of the fashionable suburbs of Washington, strove to imâ€" press his wouldâ€"be employer with his entire fitness for the place. Then the gentleman saw a great light. He replied, "Yes, you are quite right, Job. Civil service is a very imâ€" portant and rather unusual virtue, so if you have passed that examination I think we‘ll consider you engaged." "But it isn‘t publicâ€"spirited policy to hoard money," remarked the employâ€" er, thinking to quiz the Irishman. "You ought to deposit it in a good bank, so as to keep it in circulation." "Oh, yes, suh," he said, "I‘s shorely well educated, suh. I‘s passed a civil service examination." "Sure, it‘ll all go into circulation the second day after I am dead, sor," said Pat, proudly. "Indeed," responded the gentleman, "that is very fine, I‘m sure, but I can‘t say that that will be of any particular value to me in a butler." Prince‘s Bride Who Scrubbed Floors. wAFAYS 47.n yf p A /, n 9 UV l\~ .,'ffi it s<ly} ® un i ® \'& fl‘ ~ + @6: m A Good Qualification. _ See that the smaller animals, also, | have water constantly before them.| Many little creatures suffer tortures! of thirst, because of the thoughtlessâ€" | | ness of their owners, and their restâ€"| lessmess is often a sign of a parchfed’ throat. Many cats and dogs can ask | for a drink quite plainly. One cat we know jumps upon the sink and mews | plaintively if her drinking cup is , empty. Do not imagine that milk will | inka the place of water. Milk is a | food, not a drink, and, while they will | | take it, if water is withheld, it often | | creates symptoms of overâ€"feeding _ when given as a substitute, as they ‘consume more than they can digest, in their efforts to get the water it | contains. Water is nourishing, cleanâ€" | sing and cheap, and the withholding ‘ of it is but laziness. Do not forget that animals, in hot weather, require a good deal of water. A little at a time and often, is the rule. Working horses, especially, need a drink frequently, as the pores carry off moisture rapidly on a hot day. Drivers should carry a pail in the wagon and not trust to watering troughs, as, unfortunately, they are often far apart. Not only does the comfort of the horse depend on the slaking of his thirst, but it helps to keep him in good condition during the trying summer weather. A large, shallow dish in the middle of the lawn, if no cats are about, supâ€" plies both drink and bath for birds, and they repay us by their songs,. In dry weather birds must have to travel far in search of water, if none is proâ€" vided by thoughtful friends. We fancy AN HISTORIC HALL RESTORED A noble example of early English architecture has been restored in Westminster Hall, which was recently re. opened by the King. With the exception of the Hall of Justice at Padua, it is the largest hall in existence unsupâ€" ported by columns, being 240 by 67 feet. It wal:mb)xlt by Richard II., and in it 10,000 of his followers were feasted at Christmas, 1398. In it Charles I. was condemfied, and from 1661 to 1681 Cromwell‘s head was exposed in it. When I have labored hard and long, until my nerves are frayed, composing bales of deathless song to meet the wholesale trade, I settle in my inglenook to rest nine hours or more, and bid the butler bring the book I bought at Johnson‘s store. Perhaps you think it is a work of high, uplifting kind; but no, the far famed classics irk and bore the weary mind. When I am feeling fresh and gay I‘ll read the deathless rhymes of seers and posts, wise and gray, who lived in other times. I‘ll grasp the large and leathern tome and read its message wise, until I dislocate my dome and founder both my eyes. One must be sound in wind and limb and loaded to the guards with every brand of pep and vim if ho‘d enjoy the bards. The grand old masters of the pen don‘t make a strong appeal to spavined and sadâ€"hearted men who‘ve wrought long hours with zeal. So when I lay my lyre aside I want a tale that tells how Bill the Bandit won his bride and stole the wedding bells. The presses grind out worthless books by countless tons and tons; strange tales of sleuths and crimes and crooks and prisoners and guns, And they are read by weary males whose lives are bleak and gray, and who would find in dizzy tales adventures far away. ; Creatures. Rippli f O Ne IN RABBITBORO RECREATION the "cup of cold water" mentioned in the Scriptures was not intended enâ€" tirely for the human race, but for any thirsty creature in all the vast creaâ€" tion. A Logical Mind. A gentleman who was a member of one of the aristocratic London clubs had his umbrella taken from the rack by some other member. Naturally he was offended, and promptly affixed this note to the club bulletin board: "The npbleman who took away an umbrella not his own on February 20 will please have the goodness to return it to the rack." The house committee did not like the form of the notice and had the member before them. "Why should you suppose a noble. man took your umbrella?" they asked him "Well," replied the aggrieved memâ€" ber, "the constitution of the club says that the members must be noblemen or gentleman, and he was no gentle. man who took my umbrella." Fresh Paint. Diner: My, how imiserably this place smells of frash paint! Waiter: Yes, sir, so it does, sir; but then we can‘t keep the young ladies out, you know. Two Springs. The one charm of the poor little English home was a spring at the foot of the garden. The little boy who romped and played in the garden often went to the spring to slake his thirst. Its waters wore always sparkling, clear and cold. And when his arms were strong enough he brought from the spring the water needed in the home. When he became older and the time came for the boy to guin his own livâ€" ing he had to leave his home and cross the sea. In this great land of opporâ€" tunities he found work and, toiling diligently, achieved prosperity. He reâ€" membered his mother, and his regular remittances permitted her to keep the old home and to live comfortably. After thirty years of absence the man went home. After welcoming him warmly his mother handed a pail to him and said: apring still flowing?" "Aye, aye, laddie," said the old moâ€" ther. "‘Tis the same as ever. ‘Tis like the spring of Everlasting Life the Father places in the soul â€" full and fresh and ready for all who will come and drink of it." The man hastened down the garden ‘ path to the spring. He drank deep | drafts of the water and as he drank he thought. His mother‘s words | "gearched the innermost thoughts of | his being." | "Here, laddie, take this pail and run down to the spring for a pail of water that I may make thee a cup of tea." "And I thought this spring had gone dry,‘ ‘he said to himself, "just because I did not visit it. O God, I fear that that other spring my mother spoke of has also become almost naught to me; not because it has failed; the failure is in me. O Lord, give me again, as in boyhood days, to drink of thy spring!" "Aye, aye, mother," said the man, lapsing into his boyhood dialect. "I‘ve been drinkin‘ deep of the spring. In fact, I‘ve visited two springs, mother," he added with shining face, "this and the other spring you spoke of. The water of one is as good as the water of the other, mother, and as free to all comers." "It is all right now, mother," said the man, "thanks to you and to the spring and to Him who gave you both to me." "Thou hast been a long time fetchin‘ the water," said the mother when he returned. "Aye, lad," she said, "I‘m right glad to hear thee say that;»for, from thy loud free words and what things I‘ve missed in thy letters to me, I feared that thee had failed to visit the Lord‘s own spring while in a strange land. But ‘tis all right now, and I‘m right glad." Whales measuring as much as 105 feet in length have been caught in the Antarctic. Londoners may soon be able to go to the Swiss Alps and back n tne same day by a suggested new line of passenger aeroplanes. His mother looked at him with glis. tening eyes. "What!" he exclaimed. "Is that old TORONTO The Origin of Popular Belief. _ Probably most people have, at some period of their lives, plucked a daisy and, thinking of one of the opposite sex, picked the petals of the flower one by one, saying at the same time, "He loves me; he loves me not." There are several modifications of this superstition of daisy picking, but it seems to owe its origin to the Scanâ€" dinavians. The very name of the flower chosen for this incantation is signifiâ€" cant of the origin of the superstition â€"day‘s eye, Angloâ€"Saxon, daiges ceage â€"that is the sun; and looking at the daisy the reason of its being so named is apparent. If the last petal picked coincides with "he loves me," all is well. If with "he loves me not," all is wrong. Freyja, the goddess of love in the old Scandinavian mythologies, and whose cult spread over northern Ger. many, had her home in the sun; and she thus became associated in the minds of her worshippers with the daisy â€" the flowerâ€"sun. Therefore it was most fitting to consult the daisy upon matters of love, The altars of FreyJa have long crumbled to dust, but young men and maidens still consult her symbolic flower to read the hearts of their loved ones, be‘leving, in the words of the popular song, that "Every daisy in the dell knows the secret, knows it well." "Pat," said the manager, at the end of the interview, "I am afraid that you awre not strictly honest." Honesty, An Irish youth applied for a situaâ€" tion as junior clerk in the office of a large firm. "Well, I‘ve heard some whisperings that you were a little untrustworthy when you were at school. I must have a perfectly honest lad here." "An‘ phwy does ye be thinkin‘ Oi‘m not strictly honest?" said the other. "Faith, an‘ O1 can show ye a certifiâ€" cate of honesty that will make ye change yez mind entoirely!" said Pat, as he pulled a sheet of paper from his pocket, The manager read it and then asked: "Who wrote this?" "Oi did. sir." was the renly. "And is a certifi writing a proof of 3 quired the manager "Sure it is, sir‘" said the Irish youth. "Because Oi know more about meself than anyone else, and if Oi wasn‘t honest Oi wouldn‘t have told ye Oi wrote it meself!" After a critical inspection of the exâ€" hibit the boy replied: It was little Arthur‘s first visit to the Zoo. "What do you think of the animals?" inquired Uncle James. "I think the kangaroo and the eleâ€" phant should change tails." Mrs. Worm : lte'mb-mhe;r, uow, don‘t get that knot in yourself untied or you‘ll forget what I‘m sending you fort The Natural Resources Intelâ€" ligence Service of the Depariâ€" ment of the Interior at Ottawa says: Comparison of the butter and cheese output of Ontario shows a condition of rise and fall in production in these two commoâ€" dities which may be termed exâ€" butter output was 7,559,542 pounds, it has made rapid and steady progress, until last year the tremendous total of 51,â€" 000,000 pounds was reached. On the other hand, in 1900 Ontario produced 131,967,612 pounds of cheese, since which time a gradual decrease in outâ€" put is shown, until in 1922 but 90,500,000 pounds was producâ€" ed. This latter condition is the more abnormal from the fact that the output of 1900 was valued at $13,440,987, while the much lower quantity of 1922 was valued at $14,932,000. Room for Improvement. sir," was the reply. a certificate in your own proof of your honesty?" in. A Poor Memory. Mn people elect, First, at least normal mentality. Subnormal individuals are utterly inâ€" capable of government. They need a benevolent autocrat to guide and govâ€" ern them. Third, but mere literacy as usually interpreted falls far short of being sufficient. Rulers of a nation (and such are all electors in a democracy) must be educated. They should all have at least high school training in history, literature, and all the comâ€" mon subjects on a school curriculum and also a knowledge of the elements of economics. » Second, a high standard of educaâ€" tion, the higher the better,. Illiterates cannot understand the problems of government. It is difficult enough for nonâ€"illiterates. Fourth, character, conviction, conâ€" science, a clear knowledge of right and wrong, and a desire to choose the right and reject the wrong, a sense of justice and a desire to see justice done and therefore a disposition to "do unto others as each would that men should do unto him." Judged by these standards what seems the outlook for democracy in Canada? The world knows the shock with which the United States people learned of the large percentage of their draftees who did not pass the literacy test. Would the percentage be lower in Canada"® Probably not. One province reports 17 per cent. of its children of school age not in school. Some other provinces will not be far in advance of the one referred to. Compulsory school attendance is laxly enforced in very many communities. Psychiatrists tell us about two per cent. of the people are mentally subâ€" normal. Probably oneâ€"third of these are 21 years of age or over. It is startling to contemplate 60,000 Canâ€" adian electors utterly incapable of exâ€" ercising the franchise. And they are multiplying twice as rapidly as norâ€" mal folk. Again it is a significant fact that only ten per cent. of our schoo! children are taking high school courses. That means that ninety out of every hundred drop out of school before or at the time of completing public school studies. So that at best only a small minority of our electors are up to the educational standards essential for sharing in the effective opet;nt!on_of democratic government, While by comparison with others our people may stand fairly high in character, integrity, dependability, honor, yet there is an alarmingly large minority who, through drink, gambling and other vices and through dishonesty ~practiced in business are far below the standard on the score of moral character. The counsel who represented the woman plaintif in a divorce case pleaded incompatibility of temper and represented the husband‘s character as "brutal," violent znd passionate," When the husband‘s counsel‘s opâ€" portunity came he described the lady as "‘spiteful, angry and waspish ." At this point the judge interrupted, "I beg your pardon, gentlemen,." he said, "but I do not see bility of temper," Money goes a long wayâ€"but seldon ‘"W“MM!&”“’. tte Insufficient Grounds any incompatt ite Py PÂ¥ 4 Who are the ten richkest me world? Henry Ford is easily 1 west, while Andrew W. Melion #ery of the United States °T was said recently to be the wealthiest. Who are the othe They must possess private : of over $100,000,000 to secure on such a list, and fortunes proportions are almost impos estimate with accuracy. Auth estimate«, however, supply th ing list of men credited with session of more individual weg any other group on earth of New York; and Minneapolis timber be added to the | have fortunes estim while there are at ll‘hl rulers whos« exceed this amount J. B. Duke, the t« F. Baker, of the 1 The Rothschilds, Gu derbilts, Weyerhauser «o not appear becaus #ly fortunes. The R has been estimated a ©00 to $500,000,000, Astors mt from $100, 000,000. MHenry Ford is possibly t man in all history. He has ne«ss income of $120,000,0( which, capitalized at 5 per ¢ gents $2,400,000,000. . He . per minute. Croesus may richer, since his famous gif eost $10,000,000, and that, today‘s terms, might mean $ Guns of Gold. John D. Rockefeller gave . ©00,000 to charity and to 1 before 1921, He is the hoa of the biggest group of wi ever produced by a sing! and his private fortune rank him second The Duke < 4s in land. H« fair, Belgravia leases of Bel; easily the ricl Sir Basil Z: tery man, bu! Menry Ford .. John D. Rocke! Duke of Wests Andrew W. M« Sir Basil Zaba Cario, and his frms are evon finance, shippir cult to say what The financ Gaekv impos mond and h hne is one He owns Hugo Stinne Percy Rocoke Baron H. M Baron H. 1w The Gaek was $1 £001b Where still you try To keep old things Old faiths and sen And flowers that k When bonnetâ€"stri mbout 145 million equare The sea covers threeâ€"f. earth‘s surface, or a t Romanc For you who love ther All these are loft, plair Meanwhile, there is ar ary activity reported in up of gardens by other MHampsteaa. C. P. Fitzgerald, in the imeteorites were fou pert metellurgist, and s from the sky exactly : diamondâ€"bearing | quart Bouth Africa. Me has to a laboratory for ins macertain _ whether th points really are dirarmon ghosts Who come again When you are th But for us all Each summer in The dahlia bloor Nodding in que Breathing of ol Lost days and n Romance gone | British Gardeners Diamonds of wh den a heavy substance whic tening points sones. The apparent meteo #ix by five inches, b pounds each, and are fragments of them will nemner ‘THE WORLD‘S The Breathâ€"Taking Figu H and his M orm 1 W llow SuI€ trad more The Dahlia. ead oom Dg c en t gie t th 00 .0 8t mbl W