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K I I I Amazing Races Against Time The meant remarkable performances completing the suit by 7 p.m., In plenty . at Southampton in coaling tho White of time for tho baronot to don it pre Star 1!ncr Homeric by hand In record paretory to sitting down to his even time, and in refitting thn Majestic for Ing meal. tcr trip lo New York In about thirty ; At one time the Great Eastern Kall- working hours, stand out as concpicu- ; way Company performed the feat oua examples of what can bo accom- \ building a locomotive and tender c pllshed when htimaa energy as well as the goods type in nine hours forty- mechanical appliances are put to the ' seven minutes, test against time. In shipbuilding yards and otter con- Allhough the present age excels InUtructive indualrles one sees woric the art of hurrying in matters in ; speeded up by tho use of pneumatl which machinery is used, It is surprls- , and other tools for which mode Ing how Kmart our ancestors in the (science U responsible, and road c AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME early part of tbe l;.st century could be when occasion necessitated their "get- ting a move on." For oxample, In 1837, when wool was spun on the old Jennies and woven on hand-looms, a jacket r.nd vent were completed at Ettrlck Mills in sixteen Btructlon and repair work has been greatly accelerated recently by the use of mechanical appliances. The papermTTking trade can boast of eome famous feats in the way of quick work. On one occasion three trees were felled at 7.36 a.m., and bur vuaiuiOl * i oi Hiiiriia muw iu IAVWSJ hours : but In 1816. an American paper , rled to a factory, where they were having re.-orded that "at a woollen fac- > sawn into pieces about one foot long, tory at Hollidny Ccve the wool shorn | They were then conveyed to five de- from the back of a sheep In the morn- flbrators. Tho wood-pulp was run in- tag was washed, carded, spun Into ' to a vat, mixed with .tie not altogether yarn of eighteen cuts to the pound, harmless but quite necessary chernl- woven. dyed, fulled, dried, shorn, and ; cals. and the proceas flushed; the made Into a coat and worn, all in the "quid pulp waa sent to the paper ma- space of twenty-four hours." the same chine, which at 9.34 turned out the feat was performed in England in . first completed sheet of paper, on. twelve hours and twenty minutes, hour and fifty-nine minutes after the Subsequently a Canadian firm accom- ' first tree was felled, plished the work in nine hours o*d a The manufacturers then took the- pa|ter to a printing establishment two miles away, and by 10 o'clock the trees had been converted into news- papers ready for delivery. Shoe manufacturers, too, dUplay wonderful keenness In beating re- cords. In the United States shoes have been made in sixteen minutes; In the Midlands of England In twenty min- u..., u . . MTCF ... "tea: and at the Agricultural Hall. la- vide the wool. From a neighboring ! lington, when the leather passed factory- tho wool was rerurued as cloth through fifty-three machines and re- quired tho attention of sixty-three peo- quarter. There is the well-known case, too, of a Berkshire baronet who bet a hun- dred guineas tlat he would dine at soven o'clock In a suit of clothes inado from wool which had boon growing on the sheep's back the pame day.. As the but was covered, the expon- ent of th art of hurrying directed that operations should begin at 5 a.m. with the washing of sufficient sheep to pro- late in t; afternoon, but early enough to permit of a tailor and his assistants ple, in thirty-five minutes. ADVANTAGES OF CANADftSQJMATE LIGHT RATHER THAN HEAT MAKES PLANTS GROW. Human Energy Developed to Highest Degree in North Says Stef ansson. With the shortening fall days and the approach of winter months, once Ontario and In Quebec, Is Agoing agln arise. In foreign publications I *"* * * A * thnt ' , llke ** .rgumonU .nd opinions as to the da- Norttw.it. were once considered nn- alrablUly or disadvantages of Canada'. Inhabitable and uncultlvable, are now ^j ^ proving desirable and productive. We w*o lira In Canada are quite I Back in the early nineties wheat attaded with our winter climate; we \ Brown a thousand miles north o. the know It la both desirable and advant- ; International boundary took first prize JSZi nd that without It we could 'at tho Chicago International Kxhlbl- aot hope to mlM the finest hard wheat J Hon. since when settlement In that In t^e world and the splendid crop of Ua has been steady and expansive, aturdy healthy, young men and wo- When Canada Is possesses of a popula- men Farmer, know that bracing cold tion of eighteen millions Instead of weather puts bone and muscle, fat and , eight aa at present, this quest on of bide on horses and cattle; lumbermen uncultlvable Northern areas owing to and trapper, that .now solve, their excessive climate, will Have faded Just word, for, as time goes on. conditions in Canada change, and with further northward cultivation and colonization the so-called Arctic climate Is being driven farther North. To any who have read Stefansson's article on cli- mate In the February, 1922, World's Work. 'The Livable North,' the follow- ing quotation will be familiar; to those who have not read it, it will be of In- terest. Old Beliefs Broken Down. Before quoting from that article, however, let us Just Joint out that this question of excessive Arctic climate and unproductive Northern "areas IB fast losing Us foundation. Settlement In the Peace River country, in North- transportation problem; while to the lover of outdoors sports, winter time In the same way as the question of the fortuity and llvablenese of the North la Canada Is a season to be antlcl- "eat faded with time and experlmen. I,atl. Finally, vital atatlstlcs bear Ration. But let 8t.tan.aoo speak for out the fact that nowhere in the world himself: will a healthier class of children be "We have pointed out that the found than In Canada, and the state of | growth of grass and other plants Is health of the younger generation* Is measured not by the length of the summer In months, but by the number of > nur< of sunlight, and that there Tory best Indication of the advan- tages of the climate. In a vrry eulogistic article on Cana- da In the October issue of the Inter- arc ns many houre of sunlight In three months of Arctic summer as In six ternatloual Institute of Economics of New York, one of Canada's great drawbacks Is HI,."- ! ; be the climate. "Ootmiopolta," wtio writes the article, says: "Ciu.adu'n chlpf dlfia'lvantago In Hint her farthi-r northern climate renders ier products lev* diversified than America's by which hn mnuns of t-4um th United Ktatns and grips gifeut arum In frosts that fornvnr for- bid cultivation of thnm." On tho face of It, thin would Henm to be fact, but It would !> difficult to con- flnre 8t'fannnon and othor recent Northern explorers of thin fact. "For- vi-i " us applied to cultivation and liv- ing conditions In Canada Is a. doubtful a growing time ns the careless j rp:iso:>f-r assumes them to have. This I In one of the fundamental <-onsUl*>ra- ! tlons which explain tho universality I nnd luxuriance of vegetation in the North that Is always so startling to the traveller w'.:o gos North with a I mind furnished with Ideas derived from school geographies." "It ne>ms to be light rather than heat thnt innkrn n plnnt grow fast. Rut 1 If It were hnat, the polar plnntR would ! not be badly off. A fairly simple i mathematical calculation shows that | from thn flnrt wr<tk of June to the | Hucond week of July, tho erth at sea Invol receives from tho sun more heat PICKED OP ACTIVE SEA MINE The flhlng vet**! Scorpio recently picked up a llvo mlm; In Its IIKM oft Boairboro, Bnglend. Hhe wnr, taken to liarbor and laolatnd wlnllo tli tiring apparatus was removed. Tbe mine anrt the nitraoteil mechonlsm we shown per square mile per day at the North Pole than at the Equator. In moun- tainous regions, su -h as Greenland, there is left over from winter, stored BUOW to counterbalance locally Uils tremendous downpour of heat; but on Uie far more extensive polar low-land* of Siberia, Canada, Alaska and the Canadian Arctic Islands, there Is no stored-up snow to temper the summer heat, which explains the stories tra- vellers from tlies* regions tell of the unbearable swelter of the Arctic sum- mer and explains such weather bureau records as 100 degrees In the shade at Fort Yukon, Alaska. Examples of Unconscious Humor. "The speeches in Parliament of Sir Edward Blake and others are now classic in Canada and are there tie best known examples of unconscious humor. Tbe English language was taxed to Its capacity In showing the obsurdity of the building of the Cana- dian Pacific Hallway. The argument said In substance tbat the expense of building the road would be so great that, even were we to accept the most optimistic view of what the resources of the Prairie Provinces might de- velop into, even so a reasonable freight tariff for carrying them to the Atlan- tic would never pay for the axle greii.se of the freight cars. Opponents of the road were willing to concede that If anybody had the incredible fol- ly to squander that much money the road oould be built. They admitted further, that it could undoubtedly be operated In summer, but submitted that It was preposteroun to suppose thai it could be operated in wlntor, and there followed the self-evident conclusion that the railway could never be profitable, for 'nb enterprise can be profitable if it Is operatod only half the year." " "It Is hard now to realize that this argument was applied in good faith to the district which is now, with some justice, called 'The Dread Backet of the World,' and to a railway which Is commonly conceded to be the great- est of all railway systems. "Human energy, mental and physi- cal, Is developed to the highest degieo In the Northern climates. It may also, In some cases, be developed to a high degree in Southern countries, notably on plateaus and where the sea brcetes blow freshly. Wo need not go into any such elaborate arguments aa those of Ellsworth Huntlngton's book 'Cli- mate and Civilization,' to prove to any thoughtful man thct so long ns we have a competitive civilization and so long as public opinion continue* to allow tho energetic and the powerful to take whatever Oiy wish from ths lethargic and the weak, so long will the North cotlnue to dominate the Routh an It Is doing to-day, for It pro- duces th one crop that mattara- men of niiilooplnf rnorgy and restless am bltlon." Twle* Nothing. Thoma* WRS not the brlghtai in, 'ii 0.11 earth, and, try aa he might, he i could not HI, rr, (>d In obtaining a ltua-| Uon. At loot a bright Idea occurred to him, MI- \\iniiii offer his eervloee free for a fortnight. On t.heee trnw ^fr. Ikoy BMngelatoln omgiitiod him. The fortnight having expired, Tliom- ns> ;i -Anil for a "rise," 'Vai is your preaoni (Hilary?" "Nothing, sir," said Thomns. Mr. Klngelstaln contemplated the lad. "Veil, my poy. your vagwi i doub- led!" And Thomas wad qulto uaitlsllntl - until ho had ii'jni time to think over tho generous offer, Unexp&xtai heHft, bombs, and otlir "live" wwr smivetvirs to the number of 6,600 have beon picked up In Furls fcroeta M'UI. -i! the beginning of this year) It is Bupg-esttd that ownors of tfvwe dangerous artiolea Are n <tamp- " thm te gt rid of tibm. A Man to Admire. The factor of Barriere Post, Hod- eon's Bay Company, Is an exceptional man. After reading Mr. Ralph 0. Btodd-ard's article In Outing, we should say that the factor his name la Als- ton probably would do well anywhere either among th polar bears and In- dians of the ice floes or among the lions and blacks of the Jungles. One winter evening, writes Mr. Stod- dard, the factor, who was returning to his store, noticed that something, ap- parently a barge dog, waa following him. When he looked round again ha thought that the animal was rather big for a dog-. And it seemed to be coming pretty close to him. Then he understood. It was not a dog; it waa a polar bear! Alston had no weapon of any sort with i.'iin; be bad nothing except bin lantern, and he knew that if he tried to run, or If he ahowed any signs of fear, he was lost. So, turning round, he walked toward the bear, waving the lantern In his face. The bear reared on its bind legs and waited till he waa only a few feet away ; then It dropped to all fours and sauntered off bluffed! But Alston also knows how to "call a bluff." Once during a very cold win- ter he visited eome Indian* who were perhaps eight days' Journey from Port Nelflon; with him he took three of his own Indians, two men and a boy. When the time came to start back one of the Indians whoso name waa Ooorge complained that he was not feeling well and said that he WM not ready to start. Alston was Batlsfled that there was nothing the matter with the fel- low, but that he nln, pK- wanted to stay and visit a little longer with the In- dians at the encampment. 80 ho said to him, "All right, we shall return without you." The first day after the three had left the encampment tho Indian boy came to Alston with a small bag that con- tained about one olr.y's rations. "That to all we have," he said. "Why Is that nil we haveT" demand- ed the factor. "I laid out plenty of pro- visions." "Oeorgo take them." was the answer. "DM you see him take them 7" aeked Alston. "Yes." "Well, then, why didn't you tell me?" The Indian boy hnd no satisfactory anwor to give; It waa evident that he an well as tho third Indian was play- Ing tho game with the one who had stayed behind. They had supposed that Aletom naturally would return when he found thnt he had no provisions, for the temperature was down far below rero. Rut Alston knew that If he did turn back hie prestige with the Indians would be Arlously injured ; eo he took the provisions and divided thm into three portions. "Now," ho said to the two iiniiniiM. "take your pick. We are going to Port Nelson, I wnnt you to realize that whon a white man sets out to do a thing ha do0 it!" They nindo the jroirney In hitter cold weathw in four daye with only one day's provisions and arrived thorough- ly exhausted at Port Nolsori. The In- dUin man had n frozen foot. What a pity It could not have been the Indian who had remained behind ! The Language of Bees. Can animals and Insects taJk to each other? A German scientist, Profeaeor Karl von Frisch. when making tea-t^ on bees, discovered mai.y interesting facts about the system of communlca- i Won adopted by these creatures. He placed a dJsli of sugar solution on> a table by an open window. A bee came along and, having stolen aa much ! as ho could carry, flew away. Before long tfce dish was coveped with bees. The sugar was removed and most of the Insects disappeared. When the dl&h waa replaced, the swarm return- ed. By touching the back of each bae witflu a spot of color, It was discovered that the later arrivals were not es- corted by those who had been before, and it waa concluded thet they must have been sent. The next step in the investigation was to study tbe behavior of the bee which bad discovered that the sugar fcad been replaced In the window. When the creature returned to the cost it handed over its load of mi gar to the workers, and then executed a curious dance, describing clrcliea and other figures. The other bees watched care- fully, and attempted to touohi her. When one of the beee which bad been marked succeeded In this, it flew ont immediately and went to the sugar. The unmarked bees soon ceased to pay any attention to the discoverer of the sugar. Then the experiment was repeated with two di^hee, one white and one yellow. Both were filled with sugar and left In the window. The bees were marked with white or yellow, ac- cording to the dish to which they flew. The diefbea were removed and the white one emptied. Afterwards both were replaced in the window. The full dish was discovered by a yellow bee, which returned to the nest and repeat- ed tbe dance. Both white and yellow bees then flew back to Uieir dishes, the white ones of course; finding- noth- ing waiting for them. All this showed that bee language Is able to convey information aa to the presence of food, but that It cannot describe the position of the find unless the place 1s already known to the re- cipient of tho messagei. The language, la obviously founded on touch rather than upon hearing. Making Ends Meet in Music Education. The problem of making "ends meet" while continuing their education In music is often the most pressing ques- tion which confronts* the students of to-day. Yet many timee the very peo- ple who need it most pass by an op- portunity at their doors and gohig far- ther afield to make money fall dismal- ly. As one instance: In the city of Ot- tawa there is a good conservatory with efficient teachers. Just twenty miles or so away on the line of the railroads 1 a little village that Is the centre of a flourishing farming community, and in this village a claas of twenty-four pupils walta In vain for a teacher to take the place of the one whom they have lost. Each of these pupils is willing to pay fifty cents for a half- hour lesson, wbdle one family in the village offers free board and lodging for a day and a night each wek to any teacher willing to go from the city to give lessons to the children The railway faro to and from tl-.iis village amounts to one dollar and fifteen cents Tills leavee a profit of ten dol- lars and eighty-five cents for approxi- mately one day's work Almost the same story with tho eamo Inducement for a teacher holds good of another vil- lage In a different direction up antong the Qatineau Hills, but it would not be quite ao convenient for a student to go there as to tbe first p<ltice It might, however, be well worth while Fifty cents a lesson my not be much to some teachers, but flien wl-at about the opportunity for rendering real service to these children who lire still looking for taelr music teacher? There must be muity other IVttle vll- lugps In Canada In need of help from the music teachow. What about it'.' Are we going to neglect our little friends In the rural district* of this great Dominion? Tobacco takes ita name from the; Island of Tobago In the Caribbean Sea, where it waa discovered, but "nicotine" waa the name first given to tobacco in France through the intro- duction of the hwb lo Catherine <"* Minlicis 'by the Ambassador to Lisbon, I Jean Nicot. Poisons You Eat Every Day. . How many people who were startled. by the recent epidemic of food poison-- lug realize thet dally most of us con-' mii: > poison with our mal9? Bacon, for example, which figures aw most breakfast tables, contains a email amount of saltpetre; it gives the rind. Its coloring. Take a dose of an ounce or so of saltpetre, and even if you do not die you will have a decidedly un- comfortable time. An ounce of saltpetre has been known ro kill a perBon In two hour* wv; :! medical records contain numer- ous Instances of people having been made very 111 by mistaking this sub- stance for some other form of salt. Mention of salt i. rings to mind the little known fact that a favorite Chin- ese method of commuting aulclde IB by taking a cupful of the common table vairtey. In any more than email quantities salt is a viol wit gastric ir- ritant, one of Die effects of which I* the setting up at fatal inflammation of the fto.'uaeh. Another cult of which most of as partake fairly freely ait some time or other l oxalic add, a distressingly powerful irritant and poison when taken In enmclent Quantities. It 10 found in rhubarb amd sorrel, and gives both their pleasant thiret-quenchin* flavor. Bloaters and kippers are not infre- quently preserved ID a preparation containing formaldehyde, which i liable to bring about stomach trouble and rometimss worse effects. The amount used to curing fish, however, IB so small as to be almost negligible. Even your Iced Christmas cake can- nut be absolved from the charge of be- ing poisonous In a slight degree. That delightful almond flavor, appreciated by moet people, la a 0tgn of the pj<0- seoLce in the icing of pruseic add, loss than one ounce of which Is sufficient to kill two or three people in a very sbort time. Many of the cheapest kinds of Jam contain arsenic, as do inferior brand! of sweets and confectionery. Then, again, such familiar items as cloves, nutmegs, horse-radish, and cer- tain herbs are poisonous If taken tn large quantities. Black pepper contains an alkaloid poteon known aa pipeline, while the cayenne variety, better known pel* haps as red pepper, is even more pot- ent as a poison, A csae was reported in which a wo man swallowed half an ounce ol cayenne pepper and died in agony s few hours afterwards. All doctors' agree that over-lndulg> ence In tea or coffee, owing to the cat fein these drink* contain, is decidedly injurious to health. On Crusoe'* Isle. A holiday on Robinson Cniroe'e t land will be possible in the near fu- ture. The charming Httle island of Juaq Fernandez, where Alexander Selkirk spent four year* of his life, and whos story led Defoe to write his famooi masterpiece, 10 to be transformed Into a holiday resort. It belongs to the Chilian Govera ment and can be reached by steanui from Valparaiso. The Island Is thirty. six square miles la extent, and Is heavily wooded with s<plendld tre feme, orange tree, myrtles, and san- dal wood. U te mouDtalnouss and full of ravines and torrenta. Crowds' ol wild goat* roam through the under- wood, and myriads of humming birdi chat among the ferns. The climate li aald to be Ideal. At Cumberland Bay, where Selkirl landed, is the Island's culy hamlet, Sas Juan Bautisita. A modern hotel is U be erected here, and a bi-weekly-steam' boat sqrvfc* Is to be run. Naturar.y, the great curloslUe* ol th'O Island are the places where Robin eon Crusoe, according to the story, pn*l the best part of his life. First there Is the grotto where he mad hto dwelling; Ills carpeted with ferns aw! ollmb'.nR plants. All around it grow* the pologony, a curious plnnt, from whose gigantic leaves UP made hli crockery i>hites. dishes, soup tureens and even washing basins and tank* There U the lit tip bay hi which hi used to moor hH boat, anil tho plat eat on which he built his cabin. * - An Ideal Memory. Mrs. Ese "Decs your !ui.<baml re member the anniversary ct ycur mar Mrs. Wye "Never: so 1 remind him of It In January and June an:l ge: two presents. " A Slight Error. A travaUor rushed up to a stranger a railway station Juat ns tho train about to fltnrt, nnd n*.kcd : "Are you going on, this train?" "I ami" was tho reply. "Wll my frlond," said the traveller, "you might do mo e favor. I have two big trunkst and tlvoy always make me pay oxtm for one of them. Would 'you rntad taking one, K will cost j-ou noth- taft" "But I Jiavn't a ticket!" naid the stranger. "I thought you said y<M were going by this tntlnt" exrlnlmod the travel- "Tee, I ami" wa tho answer. "I'm of the company's Inspectoral" a a \ * k. :] QUAINT ELECTIONEERING IN ENGLAND Mrs. .1. Tudor Roes overcame the difficulties of electioneering iti ,the unique lisliing town of riovolly by climbing Its *teep streets ou a donkey. The picture shows bow the streets ar built