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Tea, damper, a tin of bully beet apiece, and a big raw onion were disâ€" eussed in silence. Then pipes were lit, the fire was raked together, and in the still dark of a desert night they W" over the camp Bire. "PH take a Ime on my side," Dan gaid suddenly. "From the pegs at the They worked on, until the wate: in their tins was nothing but thick mud. Then, as the sun was sinking in the west, they drove in pegs to mark the limit of their toil, and shambled wearily down to their camp, It mght be an alluvial pocket, or H might be a lode of golden ore. A pocket would yield rich nuggets; but they hoped for lode ore. If they found anything lke that, they would ewn a mine. It was just the place, Dan Prescott said, for a rich find of quartz, veined with gold. ® Going on a Holiday: The inference was one familiar to every gold seeker. Somewhere nearer the hilltop was the store of gold, from which these tiny grains had been washed by the rains of cenâ€" turies. The gold bad been washed downhiil, spreading out fanwise as it went, By tracing the outer spokes of the fan uphill to the point where they joined the gold seekers might eventually find the source of the gold. Fach tin dish the men washed out awhowed the bare colour of gold, but gave no reward worth labour. The prospectors did not exepect immedâ€" lato reward; they bhad been toiling for more than two months with a more substantial object. They had found thses signs of gold at the foot of the hill, and, within _ certain bounds, up the slope of it The highâ€" er they went the narrower the bounds within which the golden prospecta‘ were found. The two prospectors. elad in dusty moleskins, with strong beards on their tanned faces, set doggedly to work with the last of the water, Dan Prescott carried his can to a mark set on the hillside, and washed dish after dish of the surface soll, workâ€" ing steadily uphill, Weatherby, beâ€" ginning at a parallel mark some disâ€" tance away, pursued tae same proâ€" ceas. a dry bed of hot stomes. During the brief rainy season of North Australia this creek was fed from some underâ€" ground river or lake, which gushed out like a spring at the foot of the hiil During the long dry season the ereek subsided first into a string ot pleasant waterholes; and then, as evaporat,on proceeded, into a dry eréek bed. The dry season was now well* advanced, and there was very Witle water left. (Just north of Parry Sound.) By the foot of Feathertop Hill ran Leopardwood Creek, now a chain of depleted water holes, connected by erâ€"Never country, 200 miles from the nearest cattle station. The camp conâ€" maisted of a gunyah, or shelter â€" of boughs, under which the ramshackle motor car, which had carried them #o far, was preserved from the worst of the direct rays of the blistering wun. A smaller leanâ€"to of the same nature served as an openâ€"air bedâ€" Â¥oom. The rest of the camp was a log fire, over which some primitive cooking utensils dangled from a cros 3~. TB 5 «o * We can give you the b whether you want to They slung the two fuil tins ot water on a pole, and, shouldering it, walked with the burden up the slope of Feathertop Hill, taking care not to spill any oft the precious fluid. The camp of these two Austratian goldâ€"seekers was for out in the Nevâ€" Restâ€"_ Play Fish "Dead finish all right," the other gold seeker agreed. "We‘ll need all that‘s left in the other hole _ for drinking." "This about finishes the water," sald Dan Prescott to his mate, Gorâ€" gon Wetherby, as he painfully scoopâ€" ed the dregs of mhddy fluid from the watér hole into a kerosene tin by using a pint pot as baler. D. J. McRae CHAPTER one For every year is a shorter year, And this the truth sublime: A moment misspent is a jewel lost From the treasury of time. Is the way to make it secure 10 day is the only day we have, Of tomorrow we cannot be sure; To seize the chance as it comes To day is the only day Three days later the two prospect. ors drove up to the bomestead of Beringa cattle station, at their last gasp. They could only point to their blackened, swollen lips; the last of the water had been required by the car, or they could never have reachâ€" ed this last outpost of civilization. TO BE CONTINUED 1 _"Not a day too soon," Wetherby remarked contentedly. "The water in the hole is about done. If our old tin uzzie turns sour on us now we‘ll do a perish in the desert. It would be just my luck to strike it rich at last «nd puncture the very next day." "We pull out at sunup tomorrow," Dan decided, "The luck‘l! hold, Don; take it from me." ’ Next day they measured out the reward claim to which, as first disâ€" coverers, they were entitled, They drove in the pegs, which detined the claim in the proper fashion. After that they beat the stone out of some of the quartz they had mined, leaving shapeless lumps of dull gold, "Cripes!" said Dan, surveying the result of his work. "We‘ve got a thousand quid, or more, in that heap} of stane." ‘ stone had been taken They took out a generous supply of the golden stone, as much as they could carry on two or three trips down to the camp. Then they set to work on the hillside above their find, throwing down earth and sand enough to cover up the face from which the "Don," said Prescott, with a funâ€" ny giggle. "Shake on it‘ Our bloomâ€" ing fortunes are made!" selves with !everiqh intentness. "Quartz!" gasped Dan Prescott; "And rotten with gold. Shot through and through with it. _ Gimme that shovel." They were both gasping now with the work and the excitement, Their faces were working strangely. in a few minutes Dan laid bare the outâ€" crop of a quartz reef, The stone was so brittle that they could break it with their bands; but wires of yelâ€". low go‘d ran throug? and througn‘ it, holding it together. selves Dan gave a jerk, and the pick came away, bringing with it some lumps upon which the two men flung themâ€" _ "Looks good to me," he said ; "gimme the pick." Dry sand fell away in gushes from his attack on the hillside, His mate Don laboured furiously with a longâ€" handled shovel, casting the stuff aside. They had not been working very long when tht point of the pick entered something more solid than looose earth; something which held it fast. Early next morning they were busy with stout cord, running a line up the hillside to define the fanâ€"shaped area over which the gold had been washed, At the apex of that fan, if their work was accurate, they ought to find the source of gold. They workâ€" ed, as goldâ€"seekers do, like men posâ€" sessed of tireless strength and inexâ€" haustible energy. Their operation brought them to a spot where the hillside reared it self almost perpendicularly for a height of some ten feet. Here the two converging lines met. Dan, the goldâ€" seeker of experience, regarded this scarp with a kindling eye, ‘‘Can‘t be thelped," Dan yawned. "G‘night." Five minutes later the pair were snoring. "Pity the water gave out," murâ€" mured his mate. % "And dig there," Dan agreed. "Only thing to do." "Only thing to do," Gordon Weth. erby agreed. "I‘ll do the same, Then we‘ll continue our two lines untit they meet," bottom, through those higher to the pegs 1 drove today." T oâ€"Day up, up Feature of the new schedule was the imposition of a fiveâ€"cent tax on 25â€"cent admission tickets to places of amusement. The former schedule left tickets under 25 cents untaxed. Toronto. â€" Operative for the first time last month, Ontario‘s revised amusement tax has brought the Proâ€" vincial Treasury almost three times as much revenue as did the old tax in June, 1934, Premier Mitchell Hepâ€" burn announced recently. The new tax yielded $239,271 last month, compared with $80,778 a year Ontario Theatre "This grade can only be packed by these licensed producers. The eggs must be sold in cartons, sealed on the farm with each seal identifying the source of supply. This guarantees that all such eggs are not only proâ€" duced under the best possible condiâ€" tions, but in addition have been careâ€" fully candled for every defect before being offered to the public." "The highest grade of egg is the Aâ€"1 grade, which is produced only on farms specially licensed after their premises have been inspected and their method of feeding and sanitaâ€" tion approved. "A great many people do not know, however, that an egg which is newâ€"laid is not necessarily a satisfac tory egg from the standpoint of flayâ€" or and yolk color. Uniform rations and controlledâ€"fed flocks will â€" alter the quality of an egg very material. ly, and at this season of year the demand for the top grade of eggs, esâ€" tablished under the eggâ€"grading regâ€" ulations, becomes quite active. "The discriminating purchaser beâ€" gins to question her source of supâ€" ply and sometimes goes to extraordiâ€" nary trouble to get out to the counâ€" try to obtain absolutely fresh eggs. "The reason for the graduval but steady rise in the price of fresh eggs recently," said W. B. Somerset, comâ€" missioner of marketing, "is that with warmer weather the reliability of the average run of farm eggs is called into doubt by many housewives. Demand For Best Product Shows Increase; Reliability Doubled In Warm Weather QUALITY FINEST IF GRADED In the Western United States grow powerful herbs, locoweeds, which have a weird effect _ on _ animals. Cattle, sheep and horses that eat them soon lose their muscular coâ€" ordination. They stagger drunkenly around for a day and may eventâ€" uaily die. ; Other plants, though undistinâ€" guished in appearance, are remarkâ€" able for their odors. Goats in Tenâ€" eriffe are fond of a plant which grows in rock crevices and exudes the musty odor of mice. Skunk of the plant world is the durian. Alâ€" though its fruit is reputed delicious through Malaysia, and it is said that Borneo head hunters will commit murder to get one, the fruit is perâ€" meated by a strong, unpleasant odor that lingers for days. An agreeable contrast is the umbrella bush. _ Its durable timber, _ appreciated _ for fence posts in Australia, has the deâ€" licious fragrance of raspberry jam. In South Africa one may â€" shrink from what seem to be huge red spiders lying on the ground. They turn out to be lilies. Equally sinister looking are that region‘s blood lilies, whose intense _ red blossoms and stalks are thrust up like the heads of dangerous snakes. Similarly, in hot desert canyons of the United States wanderers â€" have quickened their pace toward the curling smoke of a friendly campfire only to disâ€" cover it the deceptive bluishâ€"green branches of a smokebush. In New Zealand some of the barren mounâ€" tain sides appear dotted with sheep. Closer examination proves the large rounded gray masses to be haastia plants, or "vegetable sheep". Most interesting among _ peculiar plants are those which bear uncanny resemblance to something else. Cenâ€" tral Africa boasts a sausage tree, from| whose widespreading â€"crown hang what appear to be bologna sausages, and a "poachedâ€"egg tree," soâ€"called because of its huge white flowers with golden centres. Ausâ€" tralia presents as rival a tree whose thick based trunk tapers upward like a soda bottle, and the blackâ€"boy tree, which thrusts a spearlike shaft six feet above its shaggy crown of leaves. _ From a distance a group of these might be savages on the warâ€" path. (From a National Geographic Bulletin, Washington). Add another plant to the already large collection of botanical freaks. A Princeton professor recently found & new variety of evening primrose. Its claim to distinction lies in the fact that its buds develop to full size but never open. Africa Boasts a Sausage T r e e Higher ©net women enjoy. For extra energ{. try Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable bc;lllru.m.i. It tones up your general : Gives you more pepâ€"more Remember that 98 our of 100 women report benefit. Let it help The coming of the Mounted Police in 1874 and the railway in 1833 was graphically described by the speaker, who said she had lived through two wars and one rebellion. Her husâ€" band was a scout in the Reil rebelâ€" lion in 1885; her son John was in the Boer war and she had three sons in the Great War when her husband died. ‘ The listeners were told how the McDougal family came west in 1870. RecRev. John and his father, Rev. George McDougal, built the first church in Edmonton, a log structure on a hill overlooking Saskatchewan river, where McDougal Memorial Church now stands. HEALTH MEANS CHARM AND HAPPINESS At Pincher Creek, she said, the foundation for the great Alberta ranching enterprises were laid. She remembered the first service her husâ€" band conducted when they establishâ€" ed the first mission post at Morley, They crossed the country from Edâ€" monton by oxâ€"cart in 1873. Building a home beside a lake, work was immediately begun to erect a church. Within two years it had been completed, housing conâ€" gregations of from 400 to 500 Inâ€" dians. The little church still stands near the stone cairn erecter to the memory of the McDougals by the Southern Alberta Pioneers and Oldâ€" Timers‘ Association on the main road to Banff. Experiences of 60 years in Alberta were recalled at a church meeting at Pincher Creek by Mrs. John Mcâ€" Dougal, wife of John McDougal, pioneer missionary of the western plains. Recalls Days Of Pioneer Church In Western Canada no poultry manure has been spread and on which no poultry have been ranged for two years, a clean range, preferably one of alâ€" falfa, clover or bluegrass and white clover. The brooder house shou!d be moved regularly, to supply green feed and to lessen the chance of contamiâ€" nation. A clean range is one on which On the 28tn day it is advisable, esâ€" pecially when using forcedâ€"draft maâ€" chines, to remove the poults that have dried off to the nursery trays, chick boxes, or when available, to battery brooders, where they may be kept in a temperature of 95 to 98 de.â€" grees F. The shells may be removed from the traps and the unhatched eggs given more time to hatch. THRIVE ON RANGE 1 The poults should be confined un. til they are ten to twelve weeks of age, when they should be moved to On the eighth day, ail eggs should be candled, and all infertile ones reâ€" moved. If an old type or poorly venâ€" tilated incubator is used, the eggs should be candled again on the twenâ€" tieth day, and all with dead germs reâ€" moved. On the 27th day, the incuâ€" bator door should be closed and not disturbed again until the main batch is completed. Issue No. 29 â€" According to investigators at the Pennsylvania agricultural experimenâ€" tal station, bronze turkeys gave conâ€" tinued increase in growth during a 24â€"week period. Work carried on at other stations allows a 24â€"week growâ€" ing period for turkeys. Poults hatchâ€" ed on April 15 to 30 are of market age on October 30 to November 15; while those hatched on May 15 to 30 reach market age on November 15 to 30. One must not overlook the imâ€" portance of having turkeys finished and in prime condition at time of marketing. It may be necessary in some instances to allow a longer perâ€" iod for market before the end of a 24â€"week period. Turkeys‘ eggs require more moist. ure during the 28â€"day incubation perâ€" iod than do hens‘ eggs during their 21â€"day period. Birds Should Be Ready By Early Winter; Clean Alfafa Range Will Give Results HALF A YEAR FOR GROWING TURKEY we take the Times‘ word for it â€" greatâ€" great . great â€" great â€" greatâ€" grandcbildren and 21,844 direct deâ€" scendants, 84 of them over 100 years of age. _ But the Times mainly objects to the project of getting people to live to be 180 that it would "introduce an unreasonable complexity into family affairs." The Times works it out by arithmetic. _ "Suppose a man married at 25 and had four children, each of whom had four children, and so on ad absurdum or nauseum or infinitum as the case may be." Then it appears that a man of 180 could have 16,384 â€" we haven‘t worked it out ourselves, but What anyone can see, of course, is that if the Bolsheviks discover how to live until they are 180, they will have enough time in which to work a real Five Year Plan, the trouble about the other Five Year Plans being obviously that they take much longer than five years. FAperiments are going on in Mosâ€" 'cow, says the Times, the aim of which is to prolong the normal span of human life to 180 years. _ These experiments are going on in the Institute for Experimental â€" Mediâ€" cine. The Times doesn‘t say what they are, and perhaps it doesn‘t know. Neither does the Times throw cold water on the ability _ of thel Soviet scientists to produce thisl new longevity. What the Times does is to ask embarrassing questions about the consequences if the Soviet scientists should prove successful. The London Times, which views most of the news from Russia with an appraising, austere and somewhat skeptical eye, has just got word of something going on in that country which it regards as really â€" dangerâ€" ous. Time for a Real Fiveâ€"Year Plan Most of my work in connection with my newspaper column is deâ€" voted to helping to solve personail problems, but it seems to me not inapposite that, now and then, _1 should remind my readers of the scientific basis of this work. This letter brings this out very clearly, more than any words of mine could doâ€"because it is essentially practâ€" ical; it deals with an actual case, and thus bring the illustration to the fore in a very personal way. | I have quoted this letter, iNlustratâ€" ive as it is of many generous letters that I receive, because it proves be. yond any doubt that Graphology does reveal character, and in many cases also, talent. Experiments are going on a ‘rather selfâ€"interested person‘. in this connection it seems to me reâ€" markable that you should sum up my character by stating that you should sum up my character by statâ€" ing that you felt that the most suitâ€" able vocation for me would be that of nursing, because of the selfâ€"conâ€" tained poise that you say 1 have. I say you were remarkable because for the last 42 years 1 have been en gaged at nursing, including 15 years in Canada, and I have acted as maâ€" tron on several occasions, sometimes for fairly long periods. But, though I loved the work, and nearly always loved and sympathised with my paâ€" tients, I realise that always, in the back of my mind, was a fairly deterâ€" mined aim to acquire success and money". (From the Vancouver Province) I feel myself to be ai)soilih'tel;”t;t;e. That is where you state that 1 am "We think each one of the three analysis you sent is true and quite accurate. I myself am very conscious of certain of the traits which you criticised in so friendly a manner, and thank you again for the remedâ€" ies which you were good enough to outline. You say one thing of me in particular which aithough not al-‘ ways acknowledged by my friends, Yesterday 1 received & letter from & lady in England, who wrote me some time ago asking for a character analysis for herself and two of her friends. Here is what she says: let your fancy play upon SALAIA Infuse six heaping teaspoons of Salada Bleck Tes in a pint of fresh boilin water. After six :imnu stain liquid into twoâ€"quart container. While hot, cd 1%cmdfiflmulohdugunddnukod!lmS&mllnilwb dissolved ; fill container with cold water. Do not allow tea to cool before adding the cold water; otherwise liquid will become cloudy. Serve with chipped ice. HOW TO MAKE ICED TEA TORONTO the traits which you o friendly a manner, again for the remedâ€" were good enough to ay one thing of me The Sewing After the sewing been thoroughly oiled ter and stitch a few to take away any : may have been left ar mechanism. "Lâ€"CPeFCG Old people in the world, and there would be a lot of adver. tisements in the paper, beginning "Life Begins at 84." It wouldn‘t be a gay prospect for the people who had grown tired of _ life, despite those advertisements, at 100. On the whole, we shall hope that: the Inâ€" stitute for Experimental Medicine at Moscow will fall down on the job, 1 the implications of this project, you will see that it could be indeed, as the Times says it is, "very dangerâ€" ous." All the scales and proportions of our human life, as far as the passage of time was concerned, would have to extended in relation to this new expectation of individual survival. We should know, if we had a Pattullo government, for instance, that it was in, and we in for it, of course, not for the statutory limit of five years, but for the new statuâ€" tory limit, which we should have to allow, of about fifteen. There would probably be the conâ€" sequence of a terrible lot of badâ€" tempered old people in the world, and there would be a lot of adver. tisements in the paper, beginning' "Life Begins at 84." It wanlas‘. i" ed addressed envelope to St. Clair, Room 421, 73 A West, Toronto, Ont. Aij l be confidential. If you would like to Mr. St. Clair has to say character or that of y« send specimens of the v wish analysed, stating t each case. Enclose 10c cc specimen and send with 1 don‘t look for evidence of disâ€" guiseâ€"whenâ€" a person writes in to me for a character analysis, 1 take for granted that he is serious, and is being quite fair with me by giving his actual normal handwrit.ing, _ if one had to search every letter to see if there was any attempt to disguise the normal hand, it would take me six months to deal with one week‘s volume of mail. Happily, cases of this kind are rare, I am not criticis. ing this particular correspondent: 1 was able to convince him that graphâ€" ology is very helpful and he acknow. ledged this. But I have dealt with the case, in order to urge my readâ€" ers who write to me to write always in their normal hand. ’ Now in this work, in connection with various newspapers, the volume of mail is so large that is is not posâ€" sible to give to each letter the atâ€" tention that it might deserve, and thus, from the graphological angle, it is my practice to make a rapid summing up of the various characterâ€" istics shown in the writing, and then go on with the particular problem pre-‘ sented in the Jetter. !eot so very long ago, a Western reader tried to disguise his handâ€" writing, obviously in the effort ‘to find out wether I could discern the real from the false, From the point of view of learning something of the accuracy of what we claim for Graphâ€" ology this was perfectly in order. But, this reader went further than that. He had a very serious problem that was causing him a good deal of anxâ€" iety, not unmixed with unbappiness â€"and he requested my help in solyâ€" ing his problems. 2yA Sewing Machine, sewing machine has }d use a thin blotâ€" Â¥ rows through it surplus oil that around the needle , 73 Adelaide St. . All letters will e to know what o say about your of your friends, the writings you 1 proportions far as the _ concerned, 1 in relation birthdate in coin for each th 3c stamp. to: Geoffrey mq., _ g.0° P"OD0¢ and gymnastics. The officers were highly considerate and the usual army brusqueness was lacking, A high percentage of physica} fitâ€" ness was shown, for example, out of 163 applicants at the two inspecâ€" tions visited, only three were reâ€" jected. Credentials were closely scruâ€" tinized and recruits examined closely for traces of hereditary disabi.ity, and whether suicides cr insanity had (OP Wenneopmiee ies Aptupecity. ’ °_ ~TVG Fress correspondent who watch :d the tests at two Berlin centres found the young men enthuâ€" siastic â€" and cheerfully â€" undergoing more than half an hour of intense &“mpigc, probing and gymnastics. were potential soldiers from the class of 1914 and a similar number labor service men from the class of 1915. The examination was the most rigorous since preâ€"war days. A United Press correspondent who vatthsd the tbuths â€" BF | Jucs Â¥2..11.. Berlin. â€" More than 700,000 young Germansâ€"war babies of 1914â€"1915â€" started physical examination rcccl"fl,\ when the Reich started buildinz its new universal army. 1Of ‘the reornits mins shas mta ann 100,000 German That much remains to be ascerâ€" tained regarding‘ the movements of whales may be gathered from the fact that the very rare false kiler, a creature attaining some thirty feet in length was unknown in the living state in home waters untl] a huge shoal of about 150 individuais became stranded in Dornoch Forth during October, 1927. No more was heard of this species until a smal‘er shoal of some 20 specimens rroundâ€" ed near Swansea in the stmmor of last year. Sn prevalent in their fm;:wnlfixe; is 1_\’7 also were questioned about eir own consumption of beer and For example, there is evidence that in 1933 an exceptional | inflow of Atlantic water into the North Sea occurred, bringing with it unâ€" precedented swarms of minute plants which normally occur only in the warmer seas cof the western oceans. At this same period a tunicate, or sca squirt, generally associated with Inâ€" dian, Mediterranean and Atlantic waters, appeared for the first time in the North Sea, and these appearâ€" ances coincided with that of large numbers of dolphin. How far the various whales may be regarded as following food masses or driftin@ helplessly at the sport of powerful currents does not appear to be coâ€" finitely ascertained, but thore is !i+â€" tle doubt that such appearances are not to be dismissed as mere matâ€" ters of chance. The dramatic appearance of those leviathans, while mere curlosities to the average onlooker, is often a matâ€" ter of importance to the marine bioâ€" logist. ’ As in a previous report covering the years 1918â€"1926, 17 distinct speâ€" cles of whales are reported, but the species noted in the two periods difâ€" fer considerably, _ The reocent report mentions, besides the common porâ€" poise, the whiteâ€"sided whale, the whiteâ€"beaked whale, the bottlienosâ€" ed whale, true and false killers, pilot whales, Cuvier‘s whale and such whalebone whales as the humpbacks and rorquals. The great number came to prief off the east coast, and of several which ran â€" aground between Dcal and Bexhill one was taken alive and lived to grace the Brighton Aquarium for several months. Babies Undergo Physical T e s : The various maps issued with the report show at a glance which were the most productive "whale years" and exactly where the various speciâ€" mens ran aground. By far the commonest whale in our seas is the common porpoise, and during the six years under review 26 specimens gave themselves up. Although the remains were someâ€" times too battered for recognition, a very large number of species were foand to enter home waters. Dr. W. T. Calman, the keeper of zoology, points out in a brief inâ€" troduction the difficulties surroundâ€" ing the compilation of the report,. An arrangement was made by the muserm whereby the strandings of whales on the British coast were reported by the receivers of wrecks, Special leaflets and instructions were provided by the museum and sent to the authorities concerned as soon as a stranding was announced by wire, Often ent.re specimens or huge fragments were forwarded for identification, and casts or other preparations made. The average individual, who has seldom, if, indeed, ever, seen a stranded whale, may | be surprised to learn that between the years 1927 and 1933, 224 of these giant oceanâ€" going mammals were washed ashore on various parts of the Sritish coast. These "landings" have been reâ€" corded by F. C. Fraser, assistant keeper in the Department of Zooâ€" ology in the British Museum of Naâ€" tural History, in a document that is of peculiar interest. E. G. Boulenger, in London Sunday Observer, The average individual, who has Of Whale Stranded Sb #4â€"4â€"4