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w w ce us en se n Minor trieis have been experienced In pleaty by the i®ince of Wales durâ€" Ing his proljonged tour in Africa and South America, but they have never in any way deprorsed his good spirits. Indeed, some of these little trials have afforded his royal highness a good deal of . musement. For exâ€" ample, at a village on the veldt in ample, at a village on the veldt in South Africa, a native woman showed the Prince with some pride her chiklâ€" ren, six boys and one baby girl. The interpreter informed the Prince of their names. When he came to the baby girl he told the Prince that the child was yet unnamed and that the mother would feel deeply honored if the Prinee would name her. The request took th. Prince comâ€" pletely aback. He was tor a moment quite unprepared with a suitable sugâ€" gestion. But his royal highness was only nonplussed for the briefest space. He suggeated the name Dawn;, it was recotved with delight by the mother und the baby was so named on the &no spot One of these little entertainments was a native wedding. The ceremony had been hastMly arranged to take place so as to coincide with the Prince‘s arrival at the village. ‘The Prince anticipated being able to take a day off and enjoy some houre of really needed rest when he reached the village. But on his arrival he was presented with the invitation to the wedding; he at once agreed to accept it and duly keeping of public engagements, had to be sacrificed in order that he might attend some entertainment got up unâ€" expectodiy. Old «‘aptain Bradford, with whom I once sailed, was wont to relate an adâ€" venture of his with a pirate off the Isle of Pines. It happened long ago, when the spot was the most dreadful resort of villazky to be found in the It was a fairly frequent trial of the Prince during his tour that the days set apart to give Lim a rest from the resort of villaxy to De TOGNHU IM MTZ whole world "I was before the mast in the brig Atlas," he said, "and we were lying at Kingston, Jamaica, when six pirates were hung there. Some of them, as they stood under the gallows, made confessions that were enough to start one‘s hair on end, and after this very little was thought of in our forecastle but the danger we must always be subâ€" ject to while at sea from such wretchâ€" es as we had seen strung up with their shoes on. "At nmight 1. would lie in my beorth and think of it. What a horrible thing it appeared to me, as vision after visâ€" ion rose up in my imagination that such miscreants shou‘d be out on the lonely ocean, committing awful crugk ties where thero was no hand to stay them! And sometimes, in that nerâ€" vousness which a person feels who es awake when he ought to be asleep, I would see it almost as a certainty that, soon or late, the bloodâ€"thirsty monsters would cross my path. "After a time, getting a freight of six hundred barre‘s of Jamaica rum, we sailed for Havana, and, as our course would take us around Cape St. Antonio, at the west end of Cuba, we would undoubtedly pass within sight of the Isle of Pines. "There was much fog in the Caribâ€" bean Sea, coming up generally at evening and hbanging about us until late in the next forenoon, and so strong with every one was the appreâ€" hension of pirates that, whenever toâ€" ward nightfall we had made a vessel in the distance, even our captain seemâ€" ed to feel relleved as the mist came rolling over the water to shut her from sight. us, we saw, off our starbcardâ€"beam, a number of mountain peaks, apparent!ly far inland, while, nearer to us, a line of dark treetops appeiced above the wayves. "Light breezes and calms made the passage long and tedious, and it was not until ten days after leaving Jaâ€" matca that one noon, as the fog left MUTT AND JEFFâ€"By Bud Fisher. That‘s By George H. Coomer A Kiss for the Cride. DELIVERANCE ‘HE PRINCE NAMES A BABY the Isle of iPnes,‘ said the bestowed a kissâ€" dutyâ€"on the bride At cne little town the Prince had agreed to play a round of golf with a local champlon. On his arrival at the links the Prince found that an enorâ€" mous crowd of all sorts and conditions of persons had assembled on the course to witness the match, This was somewhat disconcerting for his royal highness, who never plays up to his best form before a big gallery. With Midget Clubs. But there was another cireumstance still more disconcertingâ€"his royal highness found that he was expected to play rot with his own clubs, but with a weird collection of "irons" not more than a foot in length. The Prince put up with a bad de teat with the best of grace, gratefully accepting the strange clubs that were presented to him after the match. This was a necessarily difficult task and kept the Prince‘s secretarial staff at work day and night. Thke Prince himself remained up one entire night settling the details with his stail. The worst trial that befell was the long delay in Chile, necessitated by the unexpected heavy snowfall in the Andes. That delay meant the total upset of the Prince‘s program in the Argentine, which had to be rearranged by cable. A great trial to the Prince in conâ€" nection with all his tours has been the long train jJourneys. His royal highâ€" ness‘ restlessness of disposition makes him detest sitting still for hours in a train. He wont play cards and does not like reading. When it is practicâ€" able the Prince alights from the royal special and takes anything from a fifâ€" teen to thirty mile walk, while the special is sent ahead. During his preâ€" sent tour the Prince in this way has walked several hundreds of miles. captain. ‘I meant to give it berth than this.‘ ‘We looked toward it with a kind of interest which I have no desire to feel again. It bore northeast about fifteen miles. ‘AM the afternoon we lay becalmed, though cccasional breezes roughened the water at a distance, and toward night there appeared to seaward the upper canvas of a vessel, standing in, as we judged, toward the land. "That vessel was a pirate, we had good reason to believe, for, although her distance from us made it imposâ€" sible to determine her character, or even her rig, the course she was apâ€" parently steering caused us to look at each other with very sober faces. We could gather hope only from the exâ€" treme lightness of the breeze she seemed to have. "We had two sixâ€"pounders, and theso we loaded. I remember how the powder and the sixâ€"pound bails and the grape and canigter looked as we brought them up from below and put them down near the guns. That evening the fog did not set in. The night continued clear till almost daybreak, and the anxiety with which we peered through the darkness and listened made the long hours dreadful "At last the fog came, and sunrise soon followed. A faint breeze sprang up, and the brig moved along at the rate of two or three knots. How glad we weree to be making headway, alâ€" though so slowly! to us "Plrate or not, there was hardly one chanee in a thousand that the vessel we had seen, now that we were changâ€" ing our bearings, would fall in with us in that thick atmosphere. "Some of us were aloft, rigging out the foretopmast studdingâ€"sail boom. How much better we felt, now that the brig was moving and we could be doâ€" ing something to help her along! But suddenly we stopped in our work and looked around with a start. My heart became like ice. A confused sound of voices at first reached us, and as we raised our heads, a topsailâ€"schooner, full of men, loomed through the dense fog, not thirty fathoms from us. "She was off our port bow and standâ€" ing athwart our course. And what a crew she had‘! Seventy or eighty shaggy scoundrels, that looked frightâ€" fully murderous as we caught sight of them through the mist. Neithor vessel was moving faster than the ordinary walk of a man, y'et before the crew of either recovered from their surprise, the schooner passâ€" kissâ€"another unexpected | a wider ed athwart our bow and we athwart her stern, while the hole that each made in the fog closed up as if in quicksand, We knew that the pirate would put himself in pursuit of us as speedily as possible, but to do this he must go in stays or wear, and would not gather headway for some minutes. We heard his blocks creak and rattle, heard him ease off the sheet of his heavy mainâ€" sail, and square in the long yards upâ€" on his foremast. . But we, too, altered our ccurse. " ‘Fife!‘ he cried. "The whole deck felt the shock as the cannon went off. The heavy charge of round shot, grape and canisâ€" ter struck the boat in the bow and graked her fore and aft. Scattering five _or six feet wide, it swept before it ievery man of her crew. l "Such was our sense of relief that | we foremast hands cheered wildly; | but the captain was not the man to _crow till he was out of the woods. At once his stout rammer was at work, 'and he waf just sending home the last _of the canister when the mate, from ‘the other side of the deck, called hurâ€" riedly out: For half an hour the suspense was terrible, and then hope revived, but it was only to be destroyed by a comâ€" plete dying out of the wind. "Should the calm endure until the passing away of the fog, what could save us? We were eight men, with two cannon, against eighty men, with a dozen cannon. "Soon there came the sound of cars. The pirate‘s boats were looking for us. Our captain was a man who never inâ€" vited danger, but whose nerves were steadied by it when it came. " ‘Some bere to the guns, men,‘ he saidâ€""all except the two lookouts. You take charge of‘the port side, Mr. Greense,‘ he added to the mate, ‘and I‘ll stand by the starboard. Hark! They are close to us!" ‘‘The fog was breaking and we could now see for a hundred fathoms. "As the captain spoke, the oars sounded very near. Then a voice cried out in Spanish: " ‘El brigantino! El brigantino!" "And instantly a boat crowded with men came shooting out of the mist astarboard of us. "What a moment was that! Captain Brewer stooped quickly to the sixâ€" pounder and ran his eye along its top. Mr. Hall, our sacond mate, stood close by his side with a burning portfire ard swung it to give it life. The captain elevated the breech of the gun, then lowered it just a little. The glowing match was almost touching the powâ€" der. The Palace of Justice at Locerno, where the security pact was signed. It was the first time since the war that the German flag flew beside those of the allied nations. " ‘Here they come; Here they come." "We locked around, as Mr. Green, in almost insane excitement, threw himself down to sight his gun. Quickâ€" ly he gave the order to fire, and off went tho sixâ€"pounder, the charge As to the pirate vessel, as we saw | nothing of her after the squall, she ; probably never righted, but sank with | all her crew. | Sees Taurus Companion of Sun. The astronomer Luyten says the sun is moving through space at twelve [and a half miles a second toward the far off star Vega, and is taking our | earth and the other planets of the soâ€" tXax' system with it. Measurements of the stars outside show an apparent motion in the opposite direction. But !in the case of one star in the constelâ€" |\lation Taurus, the bull, Dr. Luyten ftlnd.fl this motion absent. The only | explanation he fincs for this is that this . star is moving in exactly the same diâ€" rection and with the same speed as !our own sun and is a companion to our sun. The best time to save the criminal is before he becomes one. It costs lessâ€"saves money, time, patience, social machinery, instituâ€" tions of all kinds. Crims and its solution is largely a matter of efficiency in child;protecâ€" tion. The criminal was once a child. Sal vage shou‘ld begin farther back. We can win boys to a good lifs by exampe and companionship. Prevention is a‘ways more importâ€" ant than reformation. Esrl of Ronaldishay, eldest son of the Marqu‘s of Zetland, one time viceâ€" roy of Ireland, who succeels Earl Reading as viceroy of India. He wes former governce of Bengal. Prevention of Crime. iA L212 203 MR 4022A 1MR a cotocateivaiih ocb efi There is considerable enjoyment forstrator from an automobile service a woman in taking out the family car station and have him teach her. Tbes; during the week while the men folks men are often glad to do a litt‘e 0 are at business, for a litte drive into this work, and. one should not have the country and getting away from the great difficulty in finding such a perâ€" daily routine of housework occazsionâ€"| son. e ally. If a woman knows how to drinl The best way to make a beginning she wil doubtless make use of the is to have the rear of the car jacked car for errands, meeting her husband up and the front wheels blocked so at the station, if the home is in‘ the that there is no danger of the car getâ€" suburbs, or â€"taking the children to ting away. When learning tQOPeTI“ school. _A car will come in handy an automobile the first step is to beâ€" many times. icome familiar with the engineâ€"how mt on Nop C3 stoso i4 â€" ond how 16 OO0Bâ€" According to statistics, one woman out of three, of those families having automobiles, knows how to drive. This, I be‘ieve, holds good on‘y in the counâ€" tryâ€"not so much in the city. There is no reason why more do not drive, unless it is because nobody seems to find the time and patience to teach . them or they are "going to some day." | Porhaps the family housework seems‘ to postpone the start. With the pm-l ent day it is not a difficult thing to| learn how to drive. I Only a few years back if one did not proper‘y manipulate the clutch one would start with a terrific jolt almost enough to knock the driver through the windshield, but nowadays the moâ€" torist can almost let the clutch in without taking her foot right off the pedal and she will not receive a jolt, although this is not a good policy and will in time injure the mechanism of the car. If the feminine driver‘s husband or brother wi‘l not teach her, and if she is still anxious to learn, and if she is not near a good autombile school, which would be the best place to go, she can engage the services of a good chauffeur, or, better still, a demonâ€" Money, money, money that jingles in my pocket, To buy a golden locket Or a house that.keeps the rain out, Or a gown to gaily floutâ€" But may it never buy for me a friend. Money, money, moneyâ€"so much will money buyâ€" Titles, great and high, Jewels rare and olden, Pleasura fair and golden, But cannot buy a sunny day. Money, money, money that many live and die for, And the weak and wistful e for, That‘s after all so futile, Compared with things worth while, O may it never swerve me from high heaven. "Well, Nrs. Tyler, I wish you ali you wishes me." "An‘ who‘s saying nasty things ‘ now?" smapped Mrs. Tyler. It might be supposed that a forest fire would turn night into day by its huge illumination, but «uch a fire proâ€" duces so much smoke that the oppoâ€" site is the effect over very large areas. A recent big forest fire near Lake Huron was estimated to cost shipping companies $50,000 by reason of their vessels losing so much time in the dense blackness. At Portland, Oregon, some years ago, all lights had to be on day and night for a week, although it was midâ€" summer, as the sun was completely blotted out with acrid and dense smoke. Even navigation thousands of miles out at sea has been serious‘ly interâ€" fered with by the black masses of smoke that have been blown from a fre ranging over many square miles of forest on the mainland. Ingrained Hostility. The proverb about leading a horse to water is illustrated by this story of ‘two old women, livipg in an English village, who had sustained a mutual quarrel with zest for many years. After taking an immense amount of trouble, says Sunbeams, the vicar of the parish succeeded in reconciling the two cld women. He even induced them to meet usdc: the vicarege roof. In bis drawingâ€"rcom they shook hands. After an embarrassed silence one of them soid: Turning Day Into Night. INSTRUCTOR ALWAYS HANDY. Jefe‘s Reshearsal Wos Indeed Realistic. The Automobile wWOMEN SHOW HIGH SKILL Money. TORONTO â€"George Elliston SEVebt ORREEC MWM OR CCC ting away. When learning to operate an automobile the first step is to beâ€" come familiar with the engineâ€"how to start and stop itâ€"and how to conâ€" trol speed. Regarding starting the engine, conâ€" sult the instruction book that came with the car, and if that is not obâ€" tainable, secure another from your local dealer. If he cannot furnish you with one, write to the factory and give them the motor number and where you bought your car. Having learned to start the engine, the woman should become familiar with the different speeds, which vary with the different cars. Most cars have the standard shiftâ€"first speed, left back toward the side; second speed is right forward; and third speed is straight back; reverse is left ‘ 8 F a. en sNIEK ud 4 C se "eam dn 0 t ineiotn ts ce ] forward. In other words, visualize the letter "H." The upper left of the letter "H" is reverse; the lower left is first speed; the upper right is secâ€" ond speed; and the lower right is third uoS e dhlicads Mrscsatalilsemmntite td it â€"icciataty eneed speed and the line drawn across the two paralle} lines is neutral. UMAbuIN: cA cAduetoent ieves vores If a woman will try these things she has made a beginning to learn how w operate the family automobile. The number of women driving cars is inâ€" creasing rapidly. Many authorities say that women make better drivers than men. They are more careful. The bountiful crops which the Canâ€"| adian farmer has this year reaped and which have made his heart glad are, fortunately not the on‘y harvest that has shown a material increase in‘ Canada in 1925. The Fisheries Branch of the Dept. of Marine and Fisheries! reports that the fisheries production: for the first half of this year exceeded that of last by over $624,000, being nearly $9,780,000. The increase was large‘y in cod, salmon and lobsters, the latter representing neariy oneâ€" third of the total fish caught for the first half of the year. It must be remembered, however, that the open season for salmon on the Pacific coast is not included. â€" Canada‘s Natural Resources Harvest. So much for the fisheries. The mines of Canada have a‘so been showingl some big production. For the first half year of 1925 the output was larger by“ over six million dollars than a year ago, or over 90 million dollars. Ad-} vances among the meta‘ls were genâ€" cral. Go:d rose to a new record. Lead passed the high mark attained in the first ha‘lf of 1924. Nickel production was we‘l maintained. Copper was up a miliion pounds. Silver showed inâ€" creasing values. Zinc followed the trend in lead to a‘most double the output recorded in the first half of 1924. Cobalt production continued to improve. * Canada often boasts of her great resources, and apparenty with good reason. But resources lying fallow satisfy few wants and contribute but little ‘o the actual wealth of a nation. It is through the deve‘opment of reâ€" sources that prosperity comes. Your mind is not at aill like a maâ€" chineâ€"all readyâ€"made and auiomatic. Ask any doctor and he will make this plain to you. No, yeur mind is more Hke a gerden. It is the use you make of it that counts. You can grow these fine plants in your mindâ€"gardenâ€"courage, initiative, imagination, willâ€"power, kindness and knowledge. You can have a garden of ideas and skills and efficiencies. What a garden Newton must have had! Or Darwin, or Huxley, or Veverhu‘ms, or Pasteur, or Carnegie! If you let your garden alone it will go to weeds and grass. That is the usual crop. IN DRIVING AUTOS. Your Mind is a Garden. AID TO BECINNER. ie service sures of skiing, of hockey, OL SRKALW!AE) tol;opning, snowâ€"shoeing, or of the \long tramp on a keen frosty day with the snow sparkling in the sunlight, with the languor or lassitude induced by the warm climate of: the south? lEven in her selection of immigrants : Canada â€" favors those of the more ‘ northerly countries of Europe owing to their greater energy and activity. | Canada‘s winters are one of her assets, and this is becoming more genâ€" erally recognized. Her people are enâ€" abled to rebuild their bodily vigor deâ€" pleted by the heat of summer, they are able to indulge In an entirely difâ€" ferent range of outside sports, thus | broadening their exercisés, and, with the passing of winter they can look forward to their summer again. These |n.re many countries, but there is only | one Canada, znd Canada is a good | country to live in all the year round. Twenty-fqu; of the famous fighting fish of Siam, survivors of recent batâ€" tles, have just reached the London They were imported by Mr. G. Bruce Chapman, and arrived glowing with glory, the bodies of an equal numhe~~ of vanquished warriors testifying to the ccombats that had ensued during the journey. In Siam, contests between these litâ€" tle fish are organized under recogâ€" nized rules, and many a fortun> has been won and lost in wagering on the issue. Before slavery was abolished in Siam it was no uncommon occurrence for a backer to stake his own liberty on the skill and valor of a fancied fish. When fighting they become brilliant with metallic hues of _ red, green, orange, and purple, and dart repeatedâ€" ly at each other‘s fins or gills until one shows signs of wavering, when the umpire stops the fight and the more courageous of the two is acâ€" claimed the victor. whistling over the pirates without hurting & hair of their heads. They paused, hbowever, for a momentâ€"a fatal pause for themselves. " ‘HMaul that gun out of the way, you there!‘ shouted the captain. _ ‘Catch hold here, some of you, and help rouse this cannon across the deck! Bear a hand! Avast! So! There! Stand clear!" "Great as was his haste, both hand and judgment were steady. The pirâ€" ates, gaining heart, were close upon us. His eye ranged carefully along the piece, and with an aim as true as death, he once more called out: * "Fire!‘ "The effect was dreadful. Two or three only of the murderous villains remained alive, and these were quickâ€" ly riddled by our small arms. Nlhlrll Resources Bulletin. "Then for the first time we observed that the day had become almost like night and that a tremendous squall must be at hand. "With rain, thunder and lightning, the tempest broke upon us. Our topâ€" gallant masts and all our light sails were carried away, and our topsails and courses split to ribbons. "We knew that the pirate was to leeward of us, as, before the squall came up, he had fired now and then a gun to keep his boats iaformed of his position. As the fog was scatter> ed and destroyed, the schooner was seen running off before the wind, but from some cause she broached to and was thrown on her beam ends, while the Atlas, scudding under bare poles, passed her as*she lay. To Prevent Cloth Tsaring. When sewifg on buttons that will bave a great strain on them it is wise to put a plece of old kid glove under the .material to which the button is sewn. _ This will prevert the coth tearing away. "The duration of the blow was not more than fifteen minutes; and when it was cver, bending a few spare sails which we happened to have on board, we succceded after a time in reaching Havana. XÂ¥ .2 ~tuard "You and your sister are about the same size, and you look exactly aike. Twins, gren‘t you*?" asked the visitor. " ‘Course not!" .xcluimndr To;nx;:y indignactly. "Shbe‘s a gir‘!" The anciert Romars bad systems of shorthand. Downing Street.'in which the Britâ€" ish Prime Minister has his residence, was named after Sir George Downâ€" ing, "a sider ‘with ail times and changes, skilled in the common cant, and a preacher occasionaliy." He was sent by Cromwe‘l to Holland as Resiâ€" dent there. After the Restoration he espoused the King‘s cavee, and was knighted and €ectod M.F, in 1661. 1.is and Fighting Fish. A Different States Ancient Shorthand. »dily vigor deâ€" summer, they n entirely difâ€" » sports, thus ses, and, with thevy can look At the rate science disease and perfecting tation there is a poss may soon know how thousand years, notw fact that toâ€"day he twelve years, of the Oof "three score and t say, a baby born fiftyâ€"eight years everyone as a "r twice as long a lived at the time A noted C Fritz Haber, that men w live for ten his belief or body has â€" agents kno teriorate 1 science ca prevent . t! agents fror projonged : awre replace in the claimed century Anot! fesso chen finds Bucen of the dies, tinue: @d one by one Bolving Myste Many times _ eitovk org wweod th fre €1 la1 the forg men &1 ph METHUSELAHS t} #1 stre ledg men Brig Be be 20 up wh he ing ELo he Bus den bas awn d of the rus! time the ehurch, tw whe gailery, ea&0n maL i with the coy but @tubbor I would rather be awas Howeves, the gift shows which is akin to charity «ue covereth a multitud will suppose the old . 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