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The Automobile LAND OF EVANGELINK LURES MANY AUT0IST8. Nova Scotia is the province down enthusiast as well us i-ma-ll boat satt- by the sea, the 1/aiid of EvanRv'.im', '"K and cano.?ing. tiM oldest discovered part of North! And all of theae thinps the visitor AiTverica. It ic famous for its historic I may enjoy in a supcrl) summer c.i- .niate; long days of sunshine and the forts, its picturesque llshinK villuges; incoinparab'.e twili^hn of this lati- ft>r wide valleys and a hundred miles' tude. Thero is no excc:isive heat and »f app'© orchards; for literally a' the nights are cool everywhere. Hhou.vand lakes and streams. In one ' • of tho finest summer climates in the BALLAD OF A SYMPATHETIC World, the visitor finds jrolf and tennis,' MOTORLiT fishinj;, hunting, yachting and surf If your car is weak tnd whBC/.y â€" bathing, and the superb highways of though it used to l>e v) bi't^ezy, « Htoried and romantic coast. There If you're having trouble climbing Biv i:«»rly two thousand miles of fine' little hills; motor roads, half of thern following If the carburetor sputters and the the I'oaiit, which has a tale of priva-l differential muiU-r?, teer and pirate, phantom frigate and' And you do not dare repair it â€" for buried treasure to <»very mile. At' tho bills. eighteen tourist motor camps the visl- If you've tried your best to trade it tor n»ay find accommodations. and the dealers all upbraid it, Nova Scotia has the o'.dest Euro-! And deny it has tho value that you pean settlement on the continent north; think; of the Gulf of Mexico. In its ruined On a night that makes you shiver fortresses the student may retrace j take it down liesido the river, four centuries of American history.. Kiss it fondly, push it in and let it Here is Fort Anno and Fort Edward and IJeausejour, and tlie desolation of ruined masonry which was Loufc- bourg- â€" Louis the XIV's "most splen- did city"â€" -tho niightieat stronghold of Frfnch power in tho New World. Here Hie the descendants of the Highland t^cots who were "out" for Prince Charlie in 1745, \Vho subsequently found refuge in this New Scotland, and still speak their ancient Gaelic tongue. None of the waters in Nova Scotia fire preserved. Countless rivers, brooks and lakes provide trout and nalmon through a long season. There is moo.se and deer hunting in season; and tho best of duck nnd grou.se shoot- ing; and yachtiiifj for the blue water .sink. Why, you ask mo, hesitating, do I favor perpetrating Such a crime as this, advising it be sunk? You remark: "You hadn't oughter shove the car into the water While there's any cb;ince of selling it for junk!" But a car is worth befriending when its useful life is ending. When its will to tane tho hill on high has ceased; Would you junk a friend, I wonder, have him torn apart, asunder? You'd i-ather drown him first, to say the lea.st. â€" Harold S. Osborne. â- m I The Missing Wild Man. circus men are always looking for novelties to recruit that more or less amusing collection of "freaks,'*" genu- ine and nianufaclured. which is called tho "side show." One morning, says Mr. Gil Robinson In hi.s book. Old Wagon Show Days, the most remarkable-look- ing specimen of humanity I had ever \ seen came to the front door and asked for a Job. His hair was at least a foot ! and a half long, and his whiskers look- ed like a ha.v.stack after a cyclone. He was immediately hired as a "freak" and given a dollar to bind the bargain. John t'ricc. conducior of tha famous | "We'll call you the Wild Man of Yonk- Rhimney United Choir of South Wales i ers.' " I told him. which by 'ominand sang before the Tho fellow walked away, pleased at Klng'and Queen at Windsor Castle. I the Idea of breaking Into the circus Stories About WeD-Known People Exhibition â€" Before-and-After. "There was (rasa on her decHs six Cross-examining a boy whose arm Incbea lonj; when wa arrived at Cai- bad been injured In a tramcar accl- cutta!" dent. Lord nirkenhead â€" then F. K. : But the best story In Sir Bertram'* Smith â€" fisked him: "Would you mind book l« of a certain transport officer sbowiog the jury how high you can during the war. A cynical commen- lift your arm since lh« accident?" The tator on war officers one* observed boy raised it to the o>oiilder. that their llrst Idea seemed to be to "Now show us how high you could get a thing done, and afterwards to life It before the accident." Up went And out whether It was- a thing worth the boyVs arm, well above the head I doing. Sir Bertram's transport officer Lord Birkenhead's Insight Into the was of this type. boy's mentality had won the trarav.ay A number of motor-cars had to be company their case. ; shipped In a steamer that was already Forty-five Years of Sea Life. i full of cargo. The T.O. buzzed around. One of the most interesting of re- peered down one of the after-holds, cent books fs "Hull Down," in which and cried: "Take that thing out, and there will be plenty of room." "You can't take that out, sir," re- plied the chief officer. "That's tho it is- take It â-  Sir Bertram Hayes, K.C.M.B., D.S.O., I K.N.R.. chats al>ouf his forty-dve years of £ea life. He retired at the end of last ye*r, after commanding tho world's largest tunnel." j shipâ€" tho Majestic and he has only "I don't care what had one collision In all that time. Even out!" was the reply. this collisloa was not written down to But when he learned that thfi ship his discredit, despite the fact that he could not go to sea minus the propel- wr,i re.sponslhle for It. i ler shaft, which passed tiirough the The other ship was a German sub- tunnel, he agreed that room must be marine, you see, which he rammed found for the cars elsewhere. during the war. This gave him his | D.S.O.â€" Downed Submarine. Official, j Sir Bertram tells an amusing story of an American packet ship. In the days i when ships and discipline were not as! . . , . . . , .u nsi. „ ,, . .. ' pa. I dropped him as hard as I could they are now. Tho sailors did pretty ^_ " w >-. >-"" vi well as they liked, which meant they The carillon tower, containing 23 belLs, at SImeoe. Oiii.. which was un- veiled recently as a memorial to the lallen dead of Norfolk county. The total cost of $.30,000 wa.4 raised entirely by Individual and corporate subscription, the county council giving $1,000. The Chinook Talk. | Scorn Fear. What pidgin English Is to the traf- i Don't lei fear clutch at you with cow- Ackers of tho Chlne-se ports the Chi- 1 ard-hand: nook jargon ts along the Pacific coast W'ith head held high, march proudly and the north-western down life's land! You are a hero â€" if you will he one; of Canada states. The language, says a writer In Ad- 1 Small deeds or big herohally done venture, was already lu use wheu ' Shall win your knighthood! Lewis and Clark visited llie Columbia' And your strength will grow- In ISOu. Astor'a agents along the With every tussle, and with every blow- northwest coast and the British trad- ^ You strike at dread and all dread's Tackle the Bifjger Thing. Do not be afraid of tackling the new and bigger thing. In making a change spar<) no pains to make sure that you are hooking up with a bos.-* who knows how to pick men and knows how to trcal them, for then there will be such j:rr]Wlh and expansion that there will be lots of promotions before ono be- comes gray-haired. Join a team which I game. About one o'clock, while I was ' In tho «lde-show, the ticket taker call- ed to me. "Say, boss," he ers at Nootka had been handicapped j by the fact that fourteen languages, as different from one another as Engli.sh Is from Arabic, were spoken by the natives. The Chinook dialect, which was the aimplest, furnished tlio grammar of the jargon and also a few dozen of Its words, but the language, like Topsy, "just growed." - In Its ability to assimilate words It rivals English. It drew terse expres- kindred knavers. Over your head success's banner waves If you. but keep it flying! Don't lay down Your weapons. Don't let cravens drown With craven doubts the battle-cry of "Hope!" With every mile spreads out, a wider scope f work and usefulness for valiant wills. Then struggle on -until you scale these hills scorn to feel Tommy's Test. "Well, Tommy, what do you think of your new bouncing brother?" "Something's the matter with him. on the floor, but he wouldn't bounce." did nothing at all beyond making the j ghort faces with' eyes far apart are ship go; and the third mate, describing gaij t^ be the characteristic type ol the voyage, observed: 'people with musical talont. CROSS-WORD PUZZLE ,, , ..slons from tho dialects of the tribes ... . u 1 . u ^1^ .*! ' i that spoke it. A greU number of Its Which rise before you here 8 a man who claims he Is tho i o . j 'Wild Wan of Yonkers' and ho wants to get In for nothing." "Paas him in," I called. A gentlemanly appearing young fel- low, with short hair and a clean- shaved face, camo In. "You're not the 'Wild Man of Yonk- knows how to play the huslness game ers,' " I said, aquarely and successfully, and wIkisp captain sees to It that hir, team work- ers get freedom to develop Into star players. .> Henry VIII. was tho first mnii to la> down hard tennis courts iti Eur- ope, according to ono authority. i .. Tiny ukeleles, stringed instruments! Out of every ten Bibles sold by the like guitars, are bein^ introduced as British and Foreign Bible Society in handles for parasols this summer. 1924, roughly four were .-old in China. 'Oh, yew, I am," bo grinned. "But," I protested, "where are your whiskers and long hair?" "Oh," he said, still grinning, "I spent the dollar you gave ine for a .si ave and hair cut!" He bad shaved away his value to us. that Is, by the sounds representing the Remember "Blackest night proceeds thing spoken of. Thus tiktik means j dawn's day!" a watch; tiimtiim means the heart j â€" Lillian Card. beating; lumwatah is a rapids; wa-wa means to talk;heehee â€" but you can guess that. From the French Canadian voy- agcurs the jargon, (haraCteristically enough, drew many of its expressions A Pointer. The genial but overdue boarder came downstairs. ' "Gootf morning, Mrs. Monahan," he that relate to love-making, drinking, called out cheerily. "Did you ever see singing, dancing and the like. Thus: I lieebce, from lialser, means to kis.s; lahoutl. from la huutoille, means a bot- I tie or tho contents thereof; inahsie, ' from mercl. means thanks: inalleh and ' tan.'-e come from tho French words moaning to marry and to dance. I Kngllsh furnished some peculiar ex- i Book .\genl "Have j presslons. Oletnan, from 'old man," ^ rcn In school?" means worn out; kwahia and toUah . Farmer - "Yes!" are recognizable coins; waum-slck { Agent -"You're just the man. means fever, stick-hoi.se, a frame not buy them an encyclopedia?" dwelling; nose meaiLs promontory; Farmer "Waal, it might he all right Americans are Uostonnl; F.ngllshmeu 1 for the girlsâ€" but. by gum. the boy anything so unsettled as the weather ' we are having thesodays?" 1 "Well, there's your hoard bill," the landlady Informed him politely. Might Spoil Them. j Book .\genl "Have you any chlld- WTiy HTtBNATIONAl SYNOICATt. SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words o£ which you feel reasonably sure. These will pve you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each whito space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both. ain't no better than me - and I had to' ....>.iu<:iVf i/iMi.i »,i.:i 11 ol iiM." tiiii' \:i «. oiilt'iii.i c, lulu :i ..; l..e s.gning the piotocol. outhnving gas w.irfure. to which U7 natloiia agreed. of What J6hnny Hates. | "Do you like going lo school, .sonny?" I the sfr:ingiT Inqiured of sevcn-year- I old johnny. 1 "Oh, yt.i. sir." wa-i the reply. "I 1 like going well enough, and I like com- I Ing back. loo. What I hate Is slaying I cooped up there bjUvveen times." are Kinchorlchl" King George. Peltoii was the name of a crazy man ' walk to .school when I was a hoy who llvud at .\8l()rla. So mika Pelloii j means "You are craay." Tho Inability oi the const tribes to pronounce r, f and nasal n - In this re- spect iM in others they resemble the Chinese gives a curious twist to some Knulish words. Lice nnd gleaso nnd miipiiy, for rice and gieese and coffee. sound like thi- talk of an Oriental cookee in a lumber camp. f5ol JtlOB of last wMk's pui«le. V^ A GlcjsBo 1 M|Bu{n|6 A ts o W tpi P hi"" M ' S^W'^ *- A, N A, TJT â- ^ P TBgcJAlR ^ Y â-  l â-  rBS|p A R|K||vB o| SJTl Tro P â-  E R e:Ut 1 MT|S| T_H N o o K IxH D R A>B |T A T iL A B. 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