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HARVESTING THE HERRINGS Mwd* of Britain's Chief Industries. A\ni«n th* cold wludB of autumn chill th* air, the herring, the real Bri- tish flah. loumeya Bouth to wanner wat*ra, aD4 lay* Ita ecB> near tha coast, Tka Iverrtnc forms the chtaf flsb«rlao of the Unitad Kiucdom, and it la estimated that 3.200,000,000 ar« landed In Britain durinc one saaaon. Handrad* of flahinc oratt sail out from northern and aouthem porta to reap a harvest amongst the shoals as ther travel down the east cooata of Scotland and Kn<land. Follovrlajr on bobtnd the smacka come tha steam-trawlers, and only bj yielding up their catches can the fleet keep np with the shoals. In rough seas the transfer of the Rah U no easy task, and not a few accidents happen. The work Is very often carried out at night with the aid of artindal lUrhts, so It can bo Imagined how precarious the task becomes. With the swaying I trawlers, false shadows are thrown by I riKgIng and hulk, balking the llshera { when throwing the cases aboard. lu the small rowing boat, luw In the water owing to the cargo piled amld-| ships, the men leave the smack's side. At every pull of the oars the boat ' rises, then sinks In the trough of the ' sea with a resounding crack, like that I of a pistol-shot. Then strong arms are I needed to prevent the open boat from ! being battered to plecee against the ' steel plates of the trawler's side. With | wonderful balance, one of the tlaher- men stands In the rocking craft, wait- ing his chance to throw the cases aboard. It takes a keen eye and a quick hand to throw the heavy cases, when both boats are rising and falling ultemately, rocking-horse fashion. At Yarmouth and Qrlmsby at this season of the year many visitors come from the North. To listen to the mer- ry laughter and clatter as they wend their way from the station, a stranger would Imagine that they were plea- sure- trippers. Ere long the stranger wouM dlacover his mlatako. The sound of clogs upon rosdway and pavement; no mere pleasure-trip-! pers these, but HcdUlah flsher-lassles. ' who have followed their menfolk down . by trala to help In the harvest. With their broad Scots accent and colored shawl wraps, they are personalities to be remarked upon. i When the flsh Is eventually brought Into port, the women busy themselves at the cleaning troughs, being dressed for their task In oilskin aprons and clogs. These Industrious women are never Idle, aa, strolling to their work, busy hands are employed with knit- ting needles and wool, making "wool- llea" for the balms at home. Hustle and Sale. Out of the harbors round our coasts the creak of the block Is heard, and as the salla move up the masts the set- ting sun strikes upon the brown con- vas, turning them Into sheets of glow- ing red. The smacks move out of the harbor under the freshening evening breeze. As the morning mlsta begin to lift they silently glide into port, the water practically washing their gun- wale, the gleaming flah covering the deck planking. Once alongside the quay, the der- ricks are soon at work hoisting the re- sult of the night's catch. The shining heap grows with every additional bas- ket, and soon, In the brightening morn- ing light, silvery rays (lash out from the mass of herrings. The excitement grows as the buyers and their assistants get busy. Where- ever one looks there is to be seen flsh being counted, weighed, and packed Into barrels to be dispatched about the country. As the last load rattles away to the station, the spliiah of water from the hose Is heard, accompanied by the swish of mop and brooms, as the quayside and market Is cleaned In readiness for the morrow's harvest. Stories About WeH-Koown Peopk The memorial iu liru^iiiolH, iib-lxiuni, wliich marks the iipol whciu t^Jlth Cavell, Englisli nurse, was executed. Rome nee of the Ring. It Is ce«<taiu that the earliest .slg- nlflcance attached to the ring was that of authority. In very ancient times the ring was worn by dignitaries as an inaigula of their high office and su- preme command. It wa.'j a regular practice with the ancient Hebrews to s«al' all Important documents, the seal scrying much the same purpose as a signature does to- day. Even when they left their bouees unattended they 8«cured the door with a band and .soft clay, Im- preselng their seal on the latter. Thta ensured that no unauthorized person oouW enter in their absence without flrst breaking Ihe sieal and thereby I risking deteic-tion. ^ At first these sm',? wcca worn round the neck much an the w^cman of to-day ; wears a pendant to her necklace, but later they were inserted In the backs of rings and worn upon the finger. Chinese Women Thinking; Chinese women ore demai^ng a larger part in the affairs of their coun- try. I A Jolt for the Doctor. ' Doctor â€" "Did you tell that young i man of yours what I thought of him?" j Daughter â€" "Yes, papa, and he said I you were wrong In your diagnosis, aa ', usual." A Uong, Tenancy. Five hundred yeara to a fong time for a family to occupy the same houae. Tbla la the record of the family of which Sir Arthur Hazehlgg, St., who hss been appointed Liord Lieutenant of L>elc«8tershlre, is the head. Tha house, Ncaeley Hall, came Into the family away back in the fourteen hun- dreds . Sir Arthur Haze'xlgg is a form«r captain of the Leicestersiblre County Cricket Club. He ia still a good boxer and a flrst-class shot, while he 1» also a magistrate of "Inflalte under«tahd- iDg," ai> a friend describes him. When He Was Young. Charles Chaplin U applying his genius to music In his early days in England he and his brother and two other children formed a band known as the Hammersmith Hornpipers. "We picked up quite a lot of money," he once related, "from unmusical folk who wanted us to leave their pre- mises!" Charlie also learned to Imitate ani- mals, snoring men, and buzzing mos- quitoes on his fiddle. For Luck. Mr. Alfred Noyeer, the poet, who has just reached the halfway mark be- tween forty and fifty, published his j flrst book of verse wlien he was Just out of his teen*. Its appearance mad« him TOW that he would earn a Itvins THE COAL SITUATION It Is markedly evident that Canada's coal situation as It affects the great importing Bastem Industrial area Is changing. The raising of the duty on slack coal Imported from the United States an the troubles which have be- set production In the Republle this year, taken In conjunction with the favorable reception which has been ac'-orded to British coal Iniporta In the past two, years, have had the ef- fect of bringing to Oanada In the first seven months of 1925 a volume of Bri- tish anthracite in excess of the total Imports of this conamodlty in 1924. Taking the Canadian coal situation as it eilftted at the end of May, the last date at which complete statistics are available, the output of coal In Canada was 74 per cent, of the five- year average for the period, the im- ports of coal Into the Dominion 87 per cent, of the five-year average, and exports but 37 per cent, of ihe same average. Yet In the 1925 period Im- ports of anthracite coal from Great Britain totalled 96,047 tons, against 436,039, B» agaln»t 25,319 tons of the British product against 1,433,021 tons of the Americun in the previous year. In other words, whilst Imports from the United StatPfl remained practical- ly at tho same figure, Uiose from Great Britain In tho five months Increased by nearly three hundred per cent. Great British Increase for Year. Tha Invport of Hrilish coal has con- tinued substantially at the port of Monitpeal, and according to authori- tative figures, at tho end of July 246.- 316 tons of Weltth and Scoltlah nnthra- cllo had been brought to Canada, us against a total import of 219.327 tons Into the IV>mlnion In all 1924. Further- mn«'n, marking a departure In the Canadian coal Imporflnig businc'-U', 762 tons of British c^ko wern unloaded at tho Qiiel>eo port. It is clear that, favored by Cana- dian Impfirters iind oonsumn-s. Ihe product from the United Kingdom l.s gaining a firmer foothold on the Cana- dian market. .At the sanie llnio offorta are beinfc contlnuod towards cffftcling an economic provLilon of coal for Con- tnil ('Hnuda from lh« Wr.itern pro- vinces. The combined movements should gradually bring about an amelioration of what has long been the area's most pressing and Irritat- ing problem. Jingle for the Little Tot. Once a fairy came and played With a very little maid- .4nd the game wa^s hide and 8«ek. "Shut your eyes and don't you peek," Said the fairy, and she hid in a tulip. Yes, ehe did. Then fhls little girl so fair Hunted for her everywhere. Underneath the porch she crawled, "Hunko! Hunko!" tlieu she called, Which I needn't here explain, Is a sign the search Is vain. All tho yard she wandered o'er, Looked behind Ihe kitchen door. Looked behind the maplo tree. Everywhere she thought she'd be. Couldn't find a single trace Of that fairy's hiding place. Then »he saw a tulip sway Back and forth, in Juat this way. And she tlp-to«d up to see If the fairy there could bo; Out the fairy Jumped kerslam. Laughing, fihoullng: "Here 1 am!" â€"Edgar A. Quest. Forged Papers Aged. Criralnalsi are not often so thorough In their work as to discolor tho paper of forged documente, whan these are euppoBed to be some yeans' old. Such an instance, however, has recently come to light. An analyst's suspicions were aroused by what appoared to be brush murks on a yellow paper. Chemi- cal analy.sis revealed that the paper had been bnished with a weak Infu- sion of tea to give It the ago corros- I>ondlng to the forged, dale. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 41 12 â-  â-  >3 14 I 15 16 â-  17 - 18 â-  19 20 â-  21 22 I 23 24 â-  25 -â-  26 â-  27 28 â- 1 i â- â- 09 ^^â- P 30 â-  ''â-  32 dTMT â-  ?5 3(> 37 H38 3? m po 41 ..| 43 â-  44 45 46 H47 H48 49 50 â-  â-  51 52 J by wriUns poetryâ€" «a utoaiMagtr bold resoWal 1 He has one obarmlns anpentltloa.! by the way; he likes, when Uoturtng,: to bave bl» wif» In the audience, wear- ing a bunch of violet* for lu4L A Llfe-SavIng Pony. Although many people ar* awara that Harry Lauder, the Scotcli comed- ian, is « lover of animals, and that he has done a great deal to better the lot of tfae unfortunate pit ponies, the fot- towlng story, told by Sir Hairy him- self, will be new to many of our read- ers. "I was a pony driver In the coal mines," he has said, "and one day I wa» driving into the coal face. I was going through what they call a drift, and my little pony stopped where the roof was very high and very danger- ous. I wondered why the pony stop- ped for a second or two. Then I gave him a crack with my whip. "Immediately I struck him with the whip he turned round to the side ot the little tub I was sitting in, and I am not exaggerating when I say that about one hundred thousand tons of roof fell. Had It not been for the acutenees of the hearing of that pony we should both have been buried alive. I owe my life to that Shetland pony, and when I saw what happened I Jumped out of the tub and put my arme round his neck and I kissed him." No doubt the pony felt well repaid! False Notes. In deecriblng music, many famous writers have made "howlers'' of which the veriest amateur would be ashamed. Everyone knows "Come into the Gar- den, Maud," but how many have stop- ped to think of the orchestra which Tennyson described? It consisted of flute, violin, and bafleoonâ€" a perfectly imposs-lble comblnsition. Btit worse follows. In order to make a rhyme for "bassoon," the poet laureate described the dancers aa "dancing in tune." He confused "tune" with "time.'' Another famous poet, Samuel Cole- ridge, made an equaMy bad mistake. In his poem, 'The Ancient Mariner," he speaJra of the "loud bassoon." Of all the instruments in the orchestra the bassoon is the quietest; no one who lias heard its grave voice would care to describe It as loud. Charlee Lamb frankly confessed that he knew notliln^ of mus4c He said that he could not tell a soprano j voice from a tenor, and only knew a "thorough base" by its- being extreme- I ly hajs-h and disagreeable. No one I will doubt his ignorance of music af- ter reading that sentence, for he has ! confused the bass voice with "thor- ough bass," which is a musical short- CROSS WORD PUZZLE ., , , Every number in the form represents the beginning of a word, reading', ", oiliior horizo-ctajr.y or vertically. If there l» a black .-quare to the left of the' '" * '^'^'^ popular novel the hero is number, the word is hoi'izcnlal; if above it, the word Is vertical. The same . '° '^° habit of bringing out his 'cello number may of coumc begin both a horizontal and a vertical. The definitions 'and playing Beethoven's symphonies! fcr the correct Words to fill the form are found below, with numbers corres-'lt U not necessary to be an expert ponding to those en the form. Run through the definitions till you find one ' musician to know that a symohony is that you recognize, and put It m its proper place on Oie form, one letter for a week for an orche.str.i- wV'„ u i, eacJi whue square. This will furnish several c(ossx-lu^,3, to the word, linking l-!l?bt to "'=^^'"'' ^^''^ " *^ with It at right angles. Continue in this manner till the form is ccmipletelv '^*«'°'*' ^" hlted. If j-ou have sol"ved the puzzle correctly It should read both horizontally and vertically with wca-ds corresponding to the deflnltioiw. play a version of a symi- i phony on the piano or organ, to at- j tempt to do so on the 'cello would be Short Measure. Sharp Mald-"r)o you call this a pint?" Milkman -"Yes!" "Well, It won't do. When wa wsat condensed mlljc wo buy It at the grocer'.*." _ » Most of the chfCMO consumed in Knuland is produced within the Brit- ish Empire. On'.y twelve per cent, is I'oroiKrv. Horizontal. 1. In an entertaining manner. 12. IXtitlnes 13. A Russian girl's name. 14. The God of love. 15. Common level. 17. Heated' 18. To requecvt 19. A citrous tniit 21. Woe (Scotch) 22. I^eft end (Football abUr.) 23. An occupation 2.S. Tln(.3yrabol) 26. I'\>g 27. To ensnare. 29. To stop 30. A musical Instrument. 82. A metrical conuwsltion. 34. To prs3a«>rve In brine. 86. Exist. 38. A largo gMius of shell flsh (plural) 40. Grain (abbr). 41. The cover. 43. \ Jet of steam Issuing from a fla- Hure In the earth. 44. A southern constellation. 45. A den. 47. An epoch 48. Ran. 49. An ant (dialect). 51. .\ dcsprt nniimal. 52. Conutweil; t'sreae; coUeetod This puzzle took fcurtcen minutes you to tiolve It. Vertical. 1. A etandard of perfection (plural). 2. Of or pertalnlnig to Scandinavia. 3. Grasped. 4. Printers' measures. 5. Rupees (abbr.). 6. Unites. 7. Part of the verb "to be". 8. At this time. 9. To bite with repeated effort. 10. A coin of Italy (plural). 11. Ih China the oOlcial headquarters of a mandarin (plu.). 15. Saucy. 16. To defeat. 19. Splendors; sheens. 20. The final emancipation of the soul from transmigration (Buddhism) 23. One who stoerii a boat. 24. Flexible appendages '26. A represaiitatiou surface. 28. A ccoking vessel. 31. Surrounded with a wall. 33. Anything very s-malUslang) 34. A I'ong upholstered seat. 35. An infant's bed. 37. A Southern resort 39. Revolves. 40. To welcome. 42. Makes lt\;tt bright. 44. A girl's name. 46. A kind of ribbed fabric 48. An implement for stirring up a breeze. .lO. Tantalum (symbol). 61. To proceed. ^p solve. See how long it will lake ! ludi-crous. The absurd idea that it is pcsslble to I play tho piano or sing without tech- nique still lingers. Not long ago an eminent French writer wrote of a lady who played the piano, although she had never practised! She had a I won-derful touch, and played, amongst ) other p!eces, a Eitudy of Chopin's. As I it happens, th!.» study is one cf the most dlfllcult ever written, and even a Padepews^kl cc a Pachmaan could not play It perfectly whhout study! of the eartli's â-  Looking Ahead. Manufacturer â€""What's your Idea iu naming our product "Ouloul?' Ad Man "Free publicity. Six let- ters, all vowoIj. Within six weeks it'H ho in every cio?.3-word puiale that's tublished. About Some Customs. The origin of customs is a very in- teresiting study. Many of our customs are so old that we cannot trace them, but others we can.' For example, Gbaklng hands. This Is supposed to have originated In the days of chivalry. If two knights Join- ed their right hands, of course they were rendered unable to draw and use their sMrords against each other. In this way, shaking hands was a' token that they would be, for the time, at peace with each other â€" friends, and no longer enemies. Lifting the hat Is another custom that no doubt has a military origin. In old times, soldiers wore helmets, or Iron hats. To remove the helmet, was to put the head at the mercy of another â€" In other words, to show trusit and confidence in the honor of the other party. After awhile, to lift the hat, which was a remnant of the custom of re- moving the helmet, came to signify somewhat of the same thing â€" a tmet In the coirrtesy, the frieudsbip of the person met. Of course, it is nowa- days a mere act of formal politeness, and may not always be intended in its full sense; but that is ita meaning. "I bare my head to yon. for you are my friends; you will not take advantage of my unprotected state to do me any Injury." The military salute is said to have originated at tournaments. All tha , knights who had ridden, as they pass- ed the lady who had been chosen Queen of Love and Beauty, raised their hand to the eye, as It to shield -the sight from the dazzling toveliness of the queen. "Good-bye" is a form of the old and fuller expression, "God be with ye," as "farewell" Is of "fare thee well," and "good morning" of "I wlsih you a good morning." Bowing to another is a remnant ot military day«. When one army con- quered another, th»-conquerorB select- ed the chiefs of the vanquished side, or some of the principal legionis- or regt ments, and made them pa£<9 under a spear laid acros:» two others planted In the ground- Bending the head is, therefore, a sort of sign of humility before the person bowed to. Nowa- days<- H 1} a formal act, and 8.ignifie« only deference and politeness. In other countries other modes of eahitiation, and of showing poliitenese, exist. For histance, in Rome lands, two people meet, drop down on their kneea, and touch their noses together! It would be very rude to meet a friend 1 and not touch your nose to bis; he would feel that you did not care for him any longer. In early dayw, and in Eastexn lands, persons used to fall down on their faces before ethers, if they wished to fhow them great ro8.i)ect. Cu^Uonia are qu;er things, but it la well to obs/srve all proper ones; and, if any are evil, to try and correct them. IViUTT AND JEFFâ€" By Bud Fisher. Does Mutt Art Like n Blorminp P<-.'-'^dsr? W**!' Rftw^h-rl ( So BV 5>t6MIM& vjP iTH SfrP^TublOi ^(^ I \r Kwovo t womT 1 ^^'* BAtOW A(Vl& €&6i For, f \V€ f€ARS AT UeA^r.