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A Poem You Ousht to Know.{ Surveying the Seas. al W th The Chair King. Tl.ese is a man in London who car is to have given more rest to the blic than any other man in the untry. He is Mr. W. M. Shanly, the ho.r King," whose chairs dot the val parks and cther open spaces of mdon. With more than 30,000 chairs Wembley, Mr. Shanly now has out 150,000 under his control. The terprise was started seventy years o by his father, and he himseif has n‘trolled it for forty years. « Mr. Shanly supplied chairs for garâ€" m parties at Windsor Castle in the ys of Queen Victoria, and since then Buckingham Palace for Edward iL. and the present King. Holidayâ€" akers at a number of seaside resorts «o use his chairs. to him sÂ¥ spider in h Would the Britain‘s Greatest Passenger Port. poace Would the editor ple was a sign of good Niark Twain replied:â€" "nding a spider in ~either good luck nc you. The spider was over our paper to see is not advertising. so o that st W P & The Uses of Advertisement. W U Making Lord Baifour Blush. bably the most famous bachelor day is Lord Balfour, who has perâ€" itly shunned matrimony, in spite mor‘s efforts to couple his name that of some fair lady. This nic" singleness has not been mt its amusing side. Once when as Mr. A. J. Balfour, he was stayâ€" t on hotel when a postcard was zht to him. It read: "Baby going icely. 1 really think she has v=. or four vessels of average tonâ€" c. The jettiew are to be constructâ€" on piles, and will face ocean wards, bling the biggest ships to sail in \ ont of the docks at any state of D Y water in four hours in a t 1g4 whict home then t of the new floating dock, on st estuary, are 580 acres of mudâ€" vhich are soon to be reclaimed he sea and converted into a new Here will be built five of the t pcean jetties in existence. will be 1,000ft. long and 300ft. and fitted to berth two superâ€" or four vessels of average tonâ€" Mi nen laughingly call the Hampâ€" own the "mushroom" seaport," ngs are to be accomplished durâ€" » mext few years which will Southampton the finest seaport ding a spider in your paper was | r good luek nor bad Inck lorl The spider was merely looking | ur paper to see which merchant; advertising. so that he can $0 , t store, spin his web across the : and lead a life of undisturbed | ever ar!orward."\ ‘ sh the tim not blush uld have eath colé m} Adv e will come a time, my 10 ( 1 read our stars aright ot linger by this porch i1 th did on ono 0Cc2, i the great hamo [issourt paper a saying that h« in his copy of the the editor plea i th Stories About Wellâ€"Known People n € known m port itely » Prince of Wales opened iting dock at Southampton seal of supremacy upon eatest passenger port. ssal floating structure, the its kind in the world, can er liners completely out of Goodâ€"Nnght! in S Accuracy us. Til < time wer of ‘s supm_'-!iners now have Southampton. To rise vely short time from an m coast town to a vast tion connecting Britain intries in the world has t‘s remarkable achieveâ€" ng Conven > succinetl ve to say & « been muc ut it is que tkers at the h twentyvâ€"five 1 by Sir A. Con agile hand eight of ring ilifted eves, n# braids of hair erfect mouth, nestled thereâ€" ains me, then‘! e light again JOn st was editor reader wrote had fcund a lcomed by irn how to o the lady t very emâ€" iiscovered B. among thing engers use y dockland the buildâ€" ithampton, ness quar lo AgA1T adâ€"night And l, AD 1y irrounded h in the stionable : Internaâ€" i put the ian Mark T1 it if To veats ight ssue this this th 18 A Peeress as Hotel Director. The ranks of business have received an interesting recruit. She is the Marshioness of Carisbrooke, who has jJust become an hotel director. _ The scene of her labors will be Strathpefâ€" fer Spa, about seventy miles from Inâ€" verness, where many people go to take the medicinal waters. There was a space for the name and the place underneath. The Jew reâ€" garded it for a second "or two, considerâ€" ed the matter carefully, and wrote: "Â¥es," A Jewish immigrant was asked to fill up the usual form. The first quesâ€" tion on the paper was "Born?" Lord Carisbrooke is also interested in business, being a director of a great shipping line. He was, of course, formâ€" erly Prince Alexander of Battenberg â€"he renc ing the w of Queen usual in t in the N Army. F comic sor friends. Plans for the most complete survey of the ocean ever attempted have been inaugurated by a conference repreâ€" senting scientific branches of the United States Government «nd allied institutions. One or more ships will be fitted out with a complete laboratory and equipâ€" ped with the latest scientific apparatâ€" us for the first cruise. The sea botâ€" tom will not only be mapped, but the composition of the water, its density, temperature, and currents which afâ€" fect the distribution of marine plant and animal life, will be studied at all in Miss Manchase at all who loved t Mr. Hardfaxâ€"* that lets me out.‘ n have become tntere furniture, and that section has receiv« treatment from / th T) pths. Fiveâ€"sevenths of the surface of the rth is covered by water. This water ca can produce more food than all e land can ever be made to yield, d one of the purposes of the expediâ€" n will be to take an inventory of ch food possibilities. Madeâ€"inâ€"Canada Davenport Sold to Egyptian Princess yptian honored at riro. _ The states tha in No he sho Wemb! e of tt id into 1 Danger râ€"â€""He never loved ot at first sight." And love is blind. So ‘s, Princess Fatma e letter announcing 1at many celebrities restud in this type of t the Canadian trade ied remarkably good Ai owing of Strat ‘ev Exhibition igent n city is eviâ€" nany far corâ€" indication of ) a local comâ€" ent announcâ€" cing: ‘Len years ago grapefruit was alâ€" 'ities;most unknown in Europe. Now it is )e of | coming into favor as a breakfast deliâ€" rade | cacy in England. The British now imâ€" good | port large quantities from the United nuh-' States, and brokers=in London report that the demand is steadily increasing n t To brighten earth a little while; One year to fill my Maker‘s praise; ;One year to fill with work my days; O_ne year to strive for a reward l When I should stand before my Lord. |I think that I would spend each day, | In just the very self«wame way l'l‘hat I do now. For from afar |\ The call may come to cross the bar lAt any time, and I must be Prepared to meet eternity. So if I have a year to live, Or just one day in which to give A pleasant smile, a helping hand, ’A mind that tries to understand | A fellowâ€"creature when in need, l’Ti& one with me,â€"I take no heed; ;But try to live each day He sends ‘To serve my gracious Master‘s ends.‘ Mary Davis Reed, Hagerstown, was awarded second prize of 25 in the conâ€" test recently conducted by the Baltiâ€" more flvening Sun. She received the prize for the following answer to the question, "What would you do if you had only one more year to live?" "If I had but one year to live, One year to help; one year to give; One year to love; one year to bless; One year of better things to stress;} One year to sing; one year to smile The secret of making sugar perfectâ€" ly white was discovered in a curious way. A hen which had been through a clay puddle went with her muddy feet into a sugarâ€"house and left her tracks on a pile of sugar. It was observed that wherever the tracks were the sugar was whitened. Experiments were made, and it was discovered that wet clay could be used in refining sugar. The sugar was put into earthen jars, of sugarâ€"loaf form, and clay was put over the tops and kept wet. There were holes at the smaller end of the jJar, and the moisture soaking through the sugar dripped from these holes. By this means the sugar was made beauâ€" tifully white. Sugar refining is now so big an inâ€" dustry that wonderful machinery has been devised to cope with the huge deâ€" mand; but the secret so accidentally disclos=4 laid the foundation of the process in use toâ€"day. In France they are making bricks of ordinary loam. Soil that contains from five to eight per cent. of clay is put into moulds and subjected to great pressurc. The bricks are said to have a resistance of six hundred pounds to the square inch. Hen That Helped Industry. (Wy§P NT 4 »3 7/’ / 4 L TINMALE: A\ ce / s N a /"/{Ka'; N ¢ \\\\\\\\\ es : g \\\\\\\\\\\\\\:‘ ‘\\\\\ \\\\\\\\ AND THE WORST is YET TO COME One Year to Live. * â€"=â€"f <~ AMN T PE Y D =â€" & S a%s m\ > . // $ss +2 _ Sbugmmeageete m mees, were | Where You Must Vote or Pay $10 Fine. All Australian citizens must vote in federal elections under penalty of $10 fine for failure to go to the polls. This, in effect, is the private members‘ bill which bhas just passed the Ausâ€" tralian House of Representatives and Senate. That the bill, which was not backed by the government, enacting compulsory voting should have passed into law without exciting much inâ€" terest was Jargely due to the fact that the experiment already has been tried out in the state of Queensland for more than nine years. The penalty for failure to vote seems small, but the existence of such a penalty has had a tonic effect on Queensland voters, according to figâ€" ures of polling in the recent state elecâ€" tions. Not more than 75 per cent. of the Queensland electors took the trouble to go to the polls up to 1915, when the compulsory voting law for the state was passed. The percentage then jumped to more than 88 per cent.. This high figure has not been quite mainâ€" tatned, as the percentage of voters in the election of 1920 fell to 80. This percentage, however, compares favor‘ ably with the states where compulâ€" sory voting was not enforced. According to figures for the most recent elections in other states, the proportion of electors who voted was 54 per cent. in New South Wales, 68 in Victoria and South Australia, 67 in West Australia and 66 in Tasmania. Between a fourth and a half of the electors also failed to vote in federal elections. Compulsory â€" registration, which has been enforced throughout the commonwealth several years, was but a prelude to the compulsory votâ€" ing law now enacted. Large But Sensitive. The Scottish comedian, Sir Harry Lauder, has a fund of laughable storâ€" ies with which he agreeably occupies the pauses between his lilting songs. For example: "Yon‘s a great place," said Sir Harâ€" ry, speaking of a north country town that he had been visiting, "and I had a great reception there. Everything was just great and the women to» â€"â€" some of them. In one street while I was there a tramcar collided with a milk cart; two milk cans were upset into the road, and the milk splashed across the strect. §oon a crowd gathâ€" ered. A very short manâ€"just a wee bit smaller than myself{â€"was standing behind a stout lady, so that he couldn‘t very well see what was happening. When at last he did get a glimpse of the milk flowing in the street he exâ€" claimed : When at last he did get a glimpse of We live in deeds, not years; in the milk flowing in the street he exâ€" thoughts, not breaths; claimed : | In feelings, not in figures on a dial. " ‘Lumme! What a waste! ‘ |iWe should count time by heartâ€"throbs. "The stout lady turned and glared at He most lives him, ‘Mind your business,‘ she said Who thinks most, feels the noblest, sternly, ‘and don‘t make personal re-' acts the best. marks!‘ " â€"Balley. ‘st, Canada‘s winners in the Empire‘s Bonniest *MBabies‘ competition, were nted to them by Hon. John S. Martin, Minister of Agricu‘lture. than 75 per cent. of the electors took the trouble polls up to 1915, when the voting law for the state f The percentage then ore than $$ per cent.. This "IT love the tea "when her ‘wild waters In terrible splendor, crest on creaming * crest, * Or when she wears upon a tranquil breast The ethereal jewels of the Southern Cross. But when she broods in silence on the loss Of all her mirroredd stars I love her bestâ€" Mysterious, veiled; when there is neither west Nor east, nor wave nor wing of albaâ€" I Doctor Smithers‘ dental chair was tipped so far back that escape was imâ€" possible for Miss Jones, a spinster with a considerable reputation for converâ€" sational ability, Wads of absorbent | cotton were tucked beneath her [tcngue, some patent appliance held iher jaws apart, and all the lower half | of her countenance except one back i tooth was concealed under a rubber | dam. failsâ€" To see a ship sped on toward golden sands Of my desire by spirit winds of dream, While fair there flashes on her phanâ€" tross, Upon the invisible ocean then I seemâ€" Beyond the fog where mortal vision tom sails The light of undiscoverable lands. y â€"Mary Sintom Leitch The patient‘s mouth was full of water, speech was impossible, and the the poor, naturally talkative lady was suffering agonies of discomfort. _ The engrossed dentist paid no heed to her squirmings nor to the appeal in her eyes. Fortunately, however, the patient‘s hands were free. Groping to her bag on the table near by, she brought forth paper and pencil and wrote: Help!â€"Help! Let me up for air‘! I‘m drowning!" A blue light placed above the windâ€" screen will enable the police to disâ€" tinguish at night any of the magnifiâ€" cent new Daimler cars belonging to the King. No star is ever lost whose light We once have seen; Only obscured sometimes by clouds That drift between Us and its radiance, which shines Calm and serene. No hope of ours can ever die, Though buried deep By doubt or fear or unbelietâ€" It does but sleep! Awaken it! Have faith it will Its promise keep! A fine spectacle was présented when the Boy Scouts, repre! eniing nCaTl) every nation in the world at the great jamboree at Copeohagen, Denmark saluted the king and queen of that country during a review. With courage, keep your goal in sight, And toward it, still Keep climbing upward, ever up, Though steep the hill, There is no height we may not reach, If we but will! â€"Ida May Thomas in "Success." "We Live in Deeds." Fog at Sea. Last Resort Courage â€"Batley The Chinese lover of birds, . says Herbert Beardsly, writing in the Naâ€" ture Magazine (Washington), does not permanently confine his pet in its prisâ€" on cage, but he takes it out with him on his walks, carrying it on a stick, to which one of its feet is fastened by means of a thread long enough to alâ€" low it ample freedom of motion. Where the shade of some stately tree bids him welcome, he makes a balt and permits the bird to perch and swing on a supple twig, watching it even hour after hour with interest and apâ€" preciation. We read.further: "The whistles are manufactured with great cleverness and ingenuity in Peking. They are two distinct types, those consisting of bamboo tubes ;placed side by side, and a type based _ on the principle of tubes attached to a gourd body or wind \est. They are lacquered in yellow, brown, red and . black to protect the material from the destructive influences of the atmosâ€" phere. The tube whistles have either two, three, or five tubes, The gourd whistles are furnished with a mouthâ€" ‘ piece and small apertures to the numâ€" ibex' of two, three, six, ten and even thirteen. These varietios are distinâ€" guished by different names; thus, a iwhiszue with one mouthpiece and ten ;tubes is called ‘the elevenâ€"eyed one.‘ | The materials used in the construction 'of the whistles are small gourds that serve for the bodies, and several kinds of bamboo for the large and small | tubes. u "One of their most curious expresâ€" sions of emotional life is the applicaâ€" tion of whistles to pigeons. These whistles are very light and are atâ€" tached to the tails of the pigeons by means of fine copper wire, so that, when the birds fly, the wind blowing through the whistles sets them vibratâ€" ing and produces an openâ€"air concert. nexeau«â€"â€"ifpac« ons A committee, including Lord Curz< Found growing on a slope of Mount| the Duchess of Bedford, Sir H. Set« Everest, at a height of 20,000 feet, a| Karr, and others, took steps in 1906 wild rhododendron has been successâ€"| form similar game reserves in Briti fully transplanted to Kew Gardens.| East Africa. Until this specimen was found, scien-‘ In less than twenty years wonder: |tists believed that plant life could results have been obtained. . E l not exist at a greater height thnn‘ phants, which in that part of the wor 17,000 feet. ] were almost extinct when the reser The new apparatus can, for exâ€" ample, keep the temperature of a | room within a quarter of a degreo of | the value desired, and can keep steam | pressure from»changing more than |two ounces per square inch. Jt can ialso regulate electric current, speed, ]dampness or dryness, density of , liquids. vicosity and vacuum. The Deepest Hollow. The deepest hollow known in the lands o. the world is the one in Palesâ€" tine at the bottom of which lHes the l Dead Sea. The hollow containing this | salt lake is actually 1,300 feot below | the level of the sea. A mechanical device so sensitive to pressure that the breath of @ child directed into a funnel can releage enough power to lift many tons of weight, and so sensitive to temperaâ€" ture that the heat coming from a man‘s hand held near a metal strip will affect the same result, has been perfected in Sweden after three years of experimentation and through tests in actual use. Chinese Don‘t Cage Birds This remarkable multiplication of power is, however, only an incidental feature of the apparatus, which takes the place of a man in an industrial es tablishment, opening and shutting all sorts of regulating valves automatiâ€" cally and with an accuracy that no human being could ever achieve. simplest of all mechanical principles, namely the harnessing of a flowing current of water. In other words, if it is desired to open or shut the valve of a steanf®radiator in a room, this work is done by turning on water pressure from one of the water pipes of the| house, instead of turning the valve byi hand. This new regulator, which was inâ€" vented by a Swedish engineer, Ragnar Carlstedt, is based on one of the Many of the stones forming the rockâ€"work surrounding the Great Lake at the British Empire Exhibition are portions of Old London Bridge, disâ€" covered during recent excavations. Canada possesses the only comunerâ€" cial source of helium in the British Empire. Alberta natural. gas conâ€" tains 0.3 per cent. Development of aviation should render this extremely valuable as a nonâ€"inflammable gas for dirigibles. 4 it 4 Remarkable Device Invented by Swede. TORONTO â€"During the past three centuries man has absolutely exterminated many spegies of wild animals and birds. Sterrer‘s seacow, biggest of amphiâ€" bians, is extinct. The American bison is almost wiped out, and in Britain the bustard has been quite exterminated. Mankind, however, has now awakenâ€" ed to the knowled: > that this sort of thing is sheer, wanton wickedness, and that all creatures except poisonâ€" ous snakes and others absolutely harmâ€" ful to man deserve protection, In the old days kings made "paraâ€" dises" where orly the king and his friends might hunt. Toâ€"day sanctuarâ€" ies are being created where no huntâ€" ing at all is allowed and where wild creatures can live and increase in peace. The movement is worldâ€"wide. It beâ€" gan with the British bird sanctuaries and has extended to the United States, Canada, Australia, and Africa. Ameriâ€" ca‘s first sanctuary was the the Yelâ€" lowstone National Park, It is no less than 3,300 square miles in extent. The park swarms with bear, elk, antelope, and other animals. The States now possess more than a score of reservations. One, the Flatâ€" head, in Montana, contains a few surâ€" vivors of. the bison south of Canada. The States Forestry Department has control of the reservations, and emâ€" ploys a small army of keepers and rangers. Canada has a Director of Wild Life, who spends his time travelling from one national park to another. Huge areas of the most beautiful mountain country have been set aside as parks, and not only the buffalo, but the beayâ€" er and many of the rarer furâ€"bearing animals which at one time were alâ€" most extinect are rapidly increasing owing to the wise protection accorded them. _ The Canadian Buffalo Park fringes Battle River, and contains 180,000 acres of land. In less than twenty years wonderful results have been obtained. Eleâ€" phants, which in that part of the world were almost extinct when the reserves were formed, are beginning to increase in numbers, and all the various species of buck and antelope have multiplied enormously. The area of these Afriâ€" can game reserves is almost equal to that of England and Wales. "Pioneers! O Pioneers! Once upon a time there were brothers who had adjoining 1: They quarrelled and were as st ers. In bitter years not a word pi between them. Their spirit had forced upon their children. Th« ter were as those who had never each other. In felling the ancient forest they left a strip of it between the spaces of sown land. It had help« keep the families apart. By an« its timber was cut and sold. its Un houses erg we of the Voices Now, one day, there we of like age working near opposite sides of the fen time they worked without When the day was near spent, being lonely, one of the boys shook a greet; ing to the other with his hand. That lifted, waving hand was the white flag of the clean heart of youth. It said, "Let us be friends." Up went the other boy‘s hand. Slow ly they approached each other and met at the fence. Their hands touch ed. Then these words: "I don‘t know why you and I hate each other, do you *" "No, I don‘t. Let‘s try to m: fathers stop hating." "I am afraid that they are to learn anythinb," said one, "But we are not," said the "The thing we shall try to tea« is not hard to learnâ€"â€"(hat tl brothers," So the boys went about the : each had given to the other : day, it came to pass that the were sowing in adjoining flel by the fence. for one of them stopped and called in a loud voice: "Brother!" That word put an end io the long quarrel. _ The brothers met at the fence and made a breach in it, never closed, and embraced each other. As they strode along, tl scattering the wheat, they their thoughts the seed of better than any reaping 0 bandman. And lo! it fell for one of them stopped an« a loud voice: May we not hope to hea with its content of healin will, shouted across the f« world?â€"Irving â€" Bacheller Woman‘s Press." in the British Museum is an almanat that is 3,000 years old; it is supposed to be the oldest in the world. It is writtea like all other Egyptian manuscripts, on papyrus, and was found on the mummy of an Egyptian, who had treasured it apparently as something sacred, for it is of a strong religious character. Under the days, which are written in red ink, there is a figure followed by three characters, signifying the probable state of the weather. It is not entire, but it was evigently torn before its owner died, B;yond clearly establishing the re‘ga of gamâ€" eses the Great, it contaizx mothing else of any value. us Saving the Wild. ber was cut and sold, and barns and fields and re then visible from eith strong fence between rang across the opened hb , one day, there were tw _age working near togei te sides of the fence. _ The Oldest Almanac. to hear this word, healing and good the fences of the heller, in ‘"The m a ke I shou British h yÂ¥ them + a@ro at n U D in st n M K# t e $ 4¢ »44 Wa