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touch as well zs he who travels the longest trails. Much depends upon the motorist. Accidents so it is reported have been traced to this numbing of alertâ€" ness. Often there is a tendency to edge the car toward the crown of the highway. And so gradually is this done that the driver seldom realizes that more than the allotted space is TH®% OLD FAMILY FLIVVER How dear to my heart was the old family flivver, What fosd recollections it calls in review ; The fenders, the windshieldâ€"ah, how duty Orig a mysterious power known to the automobilist as the "Spellâ€" of the Road." Few of the millions who have held a wheel for long journeys fail to escape its insidious influence. Some call it the result of concentraâ€" tion, others describe a lulling of the sonses as though the swift passage through the atmosphere was adminâ€" istering a narcotic. This, they say, is especially true when the sunshine is strong and the skies a:e clear. The spell may be cast in Dundas Praimes Edward Th a mysterious ; automeobilist a Road." _ Few have held a w fail to escape Some call it t tion, others de: senses 2s thon tow Lurking along th ways which travers H H Solution of last week‘s puzzle they could quiverâ€" * And how she did raitle, yes, even when new. THE SPELL OP Th the roug That ser I‘Y i that time I dr Of Clock as Bechive. f Wolv Church and is ce the The Automobile n the 6t I rememt empt Im im Soet. x‘ug ooft ~ A JoB 5 warg -:oancspoaub.e_m FoR THE NEWViLLE BUCLE , AND IL‘m GovunA SHoot Em < A FRow; PACE StoRYy RteHT Now!~* THIS RevouuT ton 18 A Jote â€" N0 Action AT AuL} > din s the DY ul ma y s he had an interesting pposed to have done lays of Charles II. but a single hand. (of wood) was put ition of the British ar, and the second ced about the same AND JEFFâ€"By Bud Fisher. Tom 8. Elrod THE ROAD. miles of highâ€" this country is known to the "Spellâ€" of the ‘nd when she‘d ackâ€"fireâ€" f the window ntly discover t glamor has P t even a hot in the barn aces of the on Prince the mystic travels the pends upon T very first the head d so are six miles n new sCoy hees the of h ' Does the average motorist keep to the right of the road as far as posâ€" , sible or crowd over to the middle? was the question considered at a recent iinvestigation. The answer to the |question is affected by the width of the road, curves, grades, slope of road 'sur!ace and condition of the surface adjacent to the pavement. This conâ€" clusion is based on observations of the habits of drivers on highways of | various kinds, widths and location. Points were selected for observation, |\ and the width of the pavement was | marked off with white paint into oneâ€" |foot sections, so that the position of passing vehicles could be observed. The formula of the ink used in printâ€" ing the notes is known to only half a dozen people. The chief ingredient is charcoal obtained by smokeâ€"drying the wood of Rhenish vines. Each note costs the bank roughly two cents to produce, and the average period of circulation is two and a half months. About 60,000 of the notes are printed daily, while every year 20,000,000 old notes are collected andâ€"destroved. than the of the road for automobiles, and 1.8 feet for trucks, with 1.9 feet clearâ€" ance between vehicles. Observations on curves showed that there is a general tendency to shift to the inside of the curve, particuâ€" larly by the traffic moving on the outside. Improper banking of the road surface, poor shoulders and steep embankments on the outside of the curve all tend to make drivers crowd to the inside. White lines in the centre of the road were found to be very effective in keeping traffic in its proper channel. It sati Truck drivers who, as a class, are sometimes accused of being road hogs, are found to be not guilty. Most of them were observed to drive a foot closer to the edge of the pavement than drivers of motor cars, and under all cireumstances they adbered more closely to the side of the road. Eighteen feet is found to be the minimum width of roadway which will permit passenger vehicles and trucks driven in the proferential posiâ€" tions to pass in safcety and with a reasonable amount of clearance. This will allow a distance of 2.7 feet beâ€" tween the outer wheel and the edge cere hely being occupied. Traffic, of course, curbs encroachments, but on a lonely road, with sharp turns, there is an element of danger. In most cases the cars were not passing other vehicles at the instant of observation. The investigation, therefore, indicates the road position preferred by the average driver. Few automobile drivers prefer a position closer to the edge of pavement than two and oneâ€"half feet and on meeting other cars the average driver will sacrifice clearance rathcr than drive closer to the edge than he instinctiveâ€" ly feels to be safe. have weren U AMPUAve It must be admitted at any rate that, P®" !" e horse is more nearly fool proof| t** & an the automobile. lâ€"and Th is one of the beautiful compenâ€" ms of life that no man can sinâ€" ly try to help another without ing himself. royal road to success would more travellers if so many t lost attempting to find short Wisps of Wisdom. Bank Notes. The pepperworts are a small group mg found. only in the hottest parts of the world, but they provide several useful 7 plantsâ€"some with medicinal properâ€": Pi ties. The plant itself may be twelve Al feet in height. Its berries are at first It is green, then red; when al this stage . won they are handâ€"picked, and left in the ‘com sun to yield the black peppercorn. is';”' It flourishes in the valleys and on ; soly the banks of the rivers in Java, Malâ€"| of i acca, Borneo, and Sumatra, whence it at t is sent to Britain under the names of tren five varietieeâ€"Malabar, Penang, Sumâ€", fess atra, Tray, and Tellicherry. | goo The heavier the pepper the better quality it is. All varieties are excoedâ€" ingly similar in appearance, but the practiced merchant differentates them by their weightâ€"the heaviest being Malabar, the lightest Tellicherry. The mixed pepper is ground by millâ€" stones or in a coffeeâ€"mill, care being taken lest the heat destroys some of the aromatic principles; if this occurs the pepper is known to the trade as "burnt." The important constituents of pepâ€" per in a physiological sense are the two alkaloidsâ€"piperin and piperidine â€"and its oil. 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Rubinstein was a tremendous worker. Paderewski conâ€" fesses to sevem hours a day, and a good deal of it scales and fiveâ€"finger exercises. Pachmann, Hofmann, Rosâ€" enthalâ€"all the eminent playersâ€"have spent many hours daily at the piano in pursuit of the enormousâ€"technical skill they were determined to acquire. There is no royal road to efficiency as a pianist. But the necessary pracâ€" tice need not be dull work. On the contrary, the _real immusician loves working at his ,e-(-hnlcal exercises and sometimes, even, prefers them to his ol immeits® 4 at the keyâ€"be tremendous w fesses to seyv good deal of exercises. _ P; enthalâ€"all th working . sometime pieces. stones, In all may c of the alkalod one. 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All rt he r has frequently been found to terated by means of a clever epper dust composed of faded r linseed meal, husks of musâ€" mund rice, or even ground olive s added to the gepuine article. cases, however, adulteration ily be detected by a magnifyâ€" s or a microscope. h great pianists pra nly way if succes Sara Teasdale C â€"exc But no is six, and of the oil on beautiful furs, I r, and the thirst, and periormers, . of onal â€" gifts . to ount of gift abâ€" the necessity continued work s practice hard uccess is to be There Was Something Doing in the Mexican Twilight. Caesar, the first of the Roman inâ€" vaders of Britain, had thought it wiser to come to terms with the Icenians rather than invade them in their sylvan fastnesses, and he made no atâ€" tempt to exact tribute from them. "They abode by their engagements and went well until the year 50, when e aggressive policy of the Propraetor Ostorius provoked a national rising. The Iconians were acclaimed as the natural leaders by reason of their 'supefior intelligence â€" and _ martial {spirlt, but they had trusted too much |to the good faith of the Romans, and | were caught unprepared. The rising was quelled, the Icenians were forced !to pay tribute, and the Roman general Prasulagus was set up as king over [ them. The Capture of London. i"_’“" Se° Toxnp‘e/ APOL a surlace at Suetonius, . the Roman Governor.g:g‘_ht avng!es to its path. This presâ€" hurried back from Angiesey to Lonâ€"| El €_ ‘a:'f: approximately as the don, collecting legionaries on his way,} q;‘?']ui: wi'fil s:;eted. but he soon realized that he was BOt) prous npout f of twenty miles an hour strong enough to face the British Inzoforezamci‘lle our ;;imes as hard as one the field. He fled from his capital, @Bd | qpryy yq s an hour, and a wind of the way seemed open to Boadicea to| timre-:.; "; g: ::]n hour blows abo‘_" nine drive the hated tyrants into the sea.) p ... as hard as one of ten miles an She advanced on London and captured | £ it almost without resistance. After| noâ€"â€"+~~~Mp oo â€"â€"me she had reduced it to as.hes antl left| V.V(a can never be the better for our scarcely one stone standing upon anâ€"| religion if our neighbor be the worse other, she took Verulamium (St. A!â€" for it.â€"Wm. Penn. > in those days the women of Britain differed little from â€" their menfolk. They were brougbt up to the same physical fitness, could draw a bow and endure fatigue with equal vigor, were not behindhand in intelligence. The queen prepared her plan of campaign with rapidity, and carried it out triâ€" umphantly. _ Marching through the forests, she immediately took Colchestâ€" er and razed it to the ground. Then she stormed the Temple of Claudius, which had been set up as a monument of British humiliation. _ After two days‘ siege she destroyed it so utterly that its site cannot be traced to this day. as the Wash, and the only facilities for travel were across the military roads of the invaders. _ Until the great call came for national indepenâ€" dence, Boadicea rarely left her home among the warlike Icenians, who occuâ€" pied what is now known as Norfolk and Suffolk. rallied round their queen and made alliance with the Trinobantes of Essex and Middlesex, who had suffered from the tyranny of Roman veterans quarâ€" tered at Comulodunum (Colchester). The moment was auspicious, for Sueâ€" tonius Paulinus, the [ oman Governor, was away in Anglesey, his garrisons were ‘scanty and scattered. When Queen Boadicea protested, she was seized and publicly flogged. Realâ€" izing that they were faced with exâ€" termination, the Icenians decided to die with arms in their hands. They To make peace more assured, Prasuâ€" lagus married Boadicea, the heiress of their royal line, and all went well until the year 60, when he died, leaving his great, wealth to the Roman Emperor in trust for his wife and daughters. Thus he hoped to save his kingdom and family from molestation. But the Roman officials disputed his will and declared all his property forfeit to thom as representatives of the Emâ€" peror. TORONTO Vigorous Womanhood BRiTAIN‘S WA RRIOR QUEEN 1 Story of Boadicea‘s Fight for Freedom. ootiniersimeveommmencefirmemmmpermnarren n pne na en mm en e n 00000001 ra rA®FAm ACIEMAT 1 Natural Resources Bulletin. _ The force of the wind ean be indiâ€" cated accurately by saying what presâ€" | sure it exerts (in pounds per square foot, for example) upon a surface at right angles to its path. This presâ€" | sure varies approximately as the | square of the speed. Thus a wind of twenty miles an hour blows about four times as hard as one of ten miles an hour, and a wind of thirty miles an hotur blows about nine times as hard as one of ten miles an hour. The answer to this question is likeâ€" ly to be misleading, says Nature Maâ€" gazine, because it is nearly always stated in terms of speed rather than force, and the two things are not identical. ban‘s) ard condeomned it to & sim ar fate. No quarter was given. But the British triumph was shortâ€" lived. Romanr colonists had extricated themselves from even tighter corners. Swift messengers sped along the wonâ€" derful Roman roads through the forâ€" ests to the uttermost camps in this outpost of Empire. By the end of 61 an army of 10,000 Romans had gatherâ€" ed together for a final struggle against the emancipation of Britain, and Sueâ€" tonius craftily occupied a position in "How strong was the wind?" is the question asked after a destructive storm. It would doubtless have been wiser if Boadicea had waited and starved them into fighting on conditions more favorable to her arms. But she was flushed by success and encouraged by the sight of her vast hosts, which conâ€" temporaries have computed at 200,â€" 000 warriors. She decided to give battle, and we can imagine the en« thusiasm as she and her daughters drove in their chariots through the Briiish lines, exhorting her subjects to avenge the outrages of their tyrants and strike a final blow for the freeâ€" dom and happiness of Britain. Death Before Dishonor. ‘ Meanwhile Suetonius harangued his men, bidding them have no fear of the multitudes arrayed against them, imnultitudes â€"whom he described conâ€" toemptuously 2s a mere horde of woâ€" m»n. Events justified his confidence. The battle soon degenerated into butchery. Sheep could not have been slaughtered more rapidly than> the British, No fewer than $0,000 of them perished, while the Roman casualties were returned at 400. Lo! there was the queen‘s chariot fleeing away into the forest. Suetonâ€" ius himself galloped in pursuit, deterâ€" mined to capture the British warrior queen and parade her at his triumph. Nay, but he was too late. Boadicea had taken poison from a secret hidingâ€" place in her ring, and when her foe came upon her he found that her proud spirit had fled. It was almost at the very point where the Panama Canal crosses the isthmus that Balboa also crossed it, or, at least, climbed to its highest point. He heard a wonderful story from the natives. They said: "If you climb those mountains you will get a sight of a mighty sea on the other side," and it was on September 26th, "stout Cortez"â€" must have felt when he gazed at the Pacific from "a peak in Darien," and knew that in all probâ€" ability he Wwas the first white man who had seen that ocean. Probably Keats has done more than anyone else to impress upon people‘s minds that Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, was also the discoverer of the Pacific, yet he was wrong. He ought to have written Nunez, for it was jJust over four hundred years ago that 1513, that Balboa actually beheld the Pacific. a narrow valley where it would be imâ€" possible for the British to employ their usually successful tactics and outflank the enemy. One of the finest sonnets in the English language is that which Keats wrote after reading Chapman‘s transâ€" lation of "Homer." The poet comâ€" pares his delight with that which Vasco Nunez de Balboa first saw the Pacific Ocean. Winds Are Strong. A Poet‘s Mistake. to a similar i The sight of a houcse being built in Grosvenor Gardens, close to Victoria ismtlon, recalled vividly the war perâ€" ilod when, the officers hotel, runs so | capably by the Y.M.C.A., occupled \ most of the triangular plot of grass | beneath the trees. But it was not anâ€" lother war which was the cause of ]this activity. It was none other than i London‘s first steel" house, according |to The London Morning Post. Auto Salesmanâ€""What type of car do you like?" Achill Island, off the West Coast of Ireland, has a population of over 7,000. The total produce of the land and livestock owned by these people only affords food for two months in every year, Among the recent visitors to the site was Sir John Baird. What struck the onlookers most was the entire abâ€" sence of the litter usually associated with building. There were no mortar plants, no brick dust fying about, no scaffolding, no cutting of stone for windowâ€"sills. "How many cows are Hi?" asked Hepry Mudge by. Freshâ€""Say, prof, how long could I live without brains?" 2 ‘None of ‘em. I just came in here to enjoy being among a few that I don‘t hafta jump from." The process could hardly be doâ€" scribed as building in the accepted sense, because the house is erected in sections. There seem i9 be four steel sections in each end of the house, and six in each side. The hou:e is three sections long by two wide; so the sections are built up «in two tiers jointed together. The roof a‘s» is made in sections. Half a doz»a boards, nine or ten feet by five, are put together side by side in the workâ€" shop, making a section. The roof, composed of a series of these sections, is hooked on to the main heam runâ€" ning the length of the house. Over all are laid red tiles of a warm shade, ingeniously fluted so that the overâ€" lapping shall not let in any rain. One thing seems coriain: With a reasonable number of men a town could be built in a week. One was ir resistibly reminded of the films showâ€" ing Canadian setters running up a prairie church or town hall. Windows and Walls. Masonry â€" walls are only as safe against exterior exposure as the winâ€" dow openings in them. "Whet time is it, Maud?" bocmed her father from the top of the stairs. "Fred‘s watch isn‘t going." "How about Fred?" % The Natural Resources Service of the Dept. ot th Ottawa says: _ "I ain‘s a milkin‘ any, Hen Missus, she‘s milkin‘ +ea." Canadians have a well established reputation for courtesy to travellers. During the coming season we will be called upon many times for informaâ€" tion about the particular district in which we live and about Canada in general,. Let us welcome our visitors and encourage them to return. As Canadians, we also should visit the beauty spots in our own country. Many of us spend our vacation across the line, when within a comparatively few miles are places which the forâ€" eign tourist visits and which we have never seen. Let us this year plan to spend our vacations in Canada; we will then more readily appreciate the reasons why so many United States tourists are visiting this country. . The newspaper understands that it is Lord Weir‘s project, and the object is to show London what a steel houseo really is like. The building is known as the single bungalow pattorn and will contain six or eight rooms, all on the ground floor. Allâ€"Steel House Prof d Please Start Gcme;;\an That remains t®be seen Wanted a Change Wait and See. The Worker. Erected in London Te aloke irces Intelligerce of the Interior at f these section main beam ru e house. Ov ( a warm shad that the ove n any rain. are ye wilkin‘, passing but the " n Anclient Lead Pipes Found Lead pipes laid down 2,000 ; Lgo by the Romans have boen f gtill in pesfsct condition, prot« m corrosion by the original ing of oxide. qui on Calga private projp years, the g1 fourishing. whis t} fe "The rul yesterday, said the W "It must day," Alic« jam evers other day, There > and it p1 mu, Lo pealized + diet is t\ Is usually or a glam the 1 +W 6« ling the and of a in 1 mar in 0 sum of t The y fully ha ried!" for th past. with « hearts in is fortified But she by the i "Oh, 1 a yB a y Our Tl No SEIZE THE DAY Planting in Calg Odd Oh How Sad