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Locomotive Megaphone Whistle Directs Sound Beam Down Track No More Shrieking Whistles Will Be Heard in the Middle of the Night Latest Device Condenses Sound to One Spot Daring Photographer Dallas, Tex. Speeding locomotives in the quiet of the night screeching whistles interrupted sleep. This soon may be a thing of the past as the result of successful tests with a new train whistle, built like a mega- phone, which throw* sound directly down the right of way, so no one clo.se to the tracks can fail to hear it. But the sound is reduced on eitVer side of the track. The device has been de- signed and built by employees of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad. Officials and mechanics have devote<i several years perfecting it. Work was started by C. T. McEl- vaney, for years superintendent of machinery on the Katy. His son, C. T. McElvaney, jr., now general round- 1 house foreman at Dallas, continued experiments, and through his efforts the whistle has been perfected to a point 'here tests are hailed as suc- cessful. McEivaney's whistle, which has been placed on two fast passenger train locomotives on the Katy line, has an amplifier and sound director which looks much like a headlight. Warning notes are produced by six pipes, with low and high notes so blended that they produce a maximum warning with a minimum of annoy- ance. Because of softer tones and the fart that sound will not be heard all over the countryside the whistle is expect- ed to benefit not only train passengers but also thousands who live along the right of way, especially in large cities. Churchill to Have Screening Feeds Modern Apartments Officially Graded Centralized Heating Plant Will Furnish Heat For Homes and Business Buildings Winnipeg. Development of the townsite of Churchill, Canada's new- est seaport, on Hudson Bay, terminus of the Hudson Bay Railway, is ex- pected to start next spring, according to information reaching Canadian Na- tional officers here. The entire townsite at Churchill is owned by the Province of Manitoba and it is to be developed along modern town-planning lines. No property will be sold but, instead, there will be long term leases subject to reasonable re- vision at stated period*, such as every three or five years. Engineers are uow at Churchill working out plans for water works, water mains and sewerage lines. The town plan will specify locations of public buildings, schools, churches, railway station. hotels, business streets, residential section and recrea- tion grounds. Adequate surveys will be made this year. A compact settle- ment is planned with tin initial resi- dential construction possibly in the form of apartment houses, heated by a central plant that would also furnish heat (or business blocks and public buildings. Settlement will adhere to a carefully devised town planning scheme with proper safeguards made for future development and attention given to recreational facilities. Many applications from those who wish to establish business houses of all descriptions at the new eaport are being received by the Manitoba Gov- ernment. Three or four hotels and restaurants and a lumber yard will mark the Initial construction at Churchill and work on these will prob- ably start this month, when the sur- vey will, it Is expected, have been com- pleted. Chemical Is Invented to Halt Bad Cheques at Teller's Window \ Indorsing a cheque that has been tampered with will be like signing a warrant for hU own arrest to a per- sou presenting Huch a cheque at a bank that uses a new protective sys- tem recently developed by Dr. Julian Block in Chicago. A concealed ultra- violet ray lamp is used In conjunc- tion with a photo-electric cell and other little-known apparatus. Detection of a raised cheque Is In- stantaneous with this device, and the apprehension of the person present- ing it can be brought about .simultane- ously, according to the inventor. Explaining the system, Mr. Block said: "A bank needs only to have its cheques printed on paper treated with an infinitesimal amount of a certain chemical which does not affect the ap- pearance of the paper in any way, and to Junta!! a small ultra-violet ray producing apparatus beneath the coun- ter at its paying toiler's window. The chemical employed may be applied 1n the ink used in cheque writing in- stead of in the paper, and ia thus adaptable to protective chequ-writ- ing machines, or it may be applied to both the ink and the paper. "The moment a cheque made with paper or Ink so prepared is offered at the teller's window equipped for this process, the invisible ultra ?vlolet rays produce a fluorescence which makes the genuine figures shine out bril- liantly, while any alterations In the figures or other writing, erasure* or other signs of tampering show up as dark, non-luminous spots on a glow- ing field." Parents Should Ignore Tantrums U. S. Children's Bureau Gives Nine Essential Rules Washington. What the U.S. Child- ren's Bureau considers the nine es- sential practices of a good parent are contained in a recent publication of that bureau entitled "Are you train- ing your child to be happy?" They are: 1. Tel! the truth to your children. 2. Keep your promises, good or bad. 3. Decide which things are most Im- portant for a child to do and then be consistent about seeing that he does them. Do not nag him about little chines that do not matter much. 4. Do not say "no" one time and "yes" the next time for the same thing. 5. Hreak up bad habits by keeping the child so busy with interesting things to do that lie forgets the old habit. C. I'ay no attention to him when he tries to get what he wants by temper tantrums or by whining. 7. Keep cool and quiet yourself. Speak in a quiet voice. 8. See that ha gets things (if they are good for him) only when he is quiet and happy and polite. 9. Show the child you are pleased when he trios. First Quality Now Designated As No. I Feed Screen- ings" Canadian farmers will be particu- larly interested In the following state- ment issued by the Seed Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture: Screenings shipped for feed from terminal grain elevators are now be- ing sold under grade certificates, un- der the new grade standards and de- signations provided by the Canada Grain Act or regulations thereunder. Standard Recleaned Screenings, con- sisting essentially of broken wheat and wild buckwheat, are now desig- nated "No. 1 Feed Screenings." A second quality of these screenings which, in addition to the wheat and wild buckwheat, may carry appreci- abe nuaatlties of wild oats and coarse j grains, Is designated "Xo. 2 Feed Screenings." This grade also allows a slightly greater tolerance of ball mus- tard than No. 1 grade and would be specially serviceable for feeding sheep. The product formerly known as. j "Oat Scalpings" and consisting main- ly of wild oats, but with small per- centages of domestic oats and barley. is now designated "Mixed Feed Oats." Terminal elevators, needed for the storage of wheat, are carrying sub- stantial quantities of these graiu by- products which are. in consequence, being offered at much lower than the usual prices. Mixtures of barley and wild oat, finely ground, are available | at 89 cents per cwt.. sacks included, delivered at Montreal, Sorel and Que- bec. Any dancer from the presence of weed seeds in these nutritious grain by-products would be corrected rea- sonably well by fine grinding with high power hammer grinders, and this fact, together with the low prices at which they are now available should render them profitable to the Cana- dian feeder, eve* at the present low prices for animal products. Issued by the Director of Publicity. Dorn. De- partment of Agriculture. Ottawa. Ont. V ' ' H. B. Crtsler, Seattle photographer, who trekked across Olympic I'enin- sula, unaccompanied aiid unarmed, with no food or firearms, bolts a few juicy morsels of a marmot caught hy his own ingenuity, on a mountain top. Unpublished Longfellow Poem Given To Museum of Peaceful Arts Important Addition To Astronomic Data Results of Study by Dominion ; Observatory of Diffuse Gaseous Matter in Stel- lar System The presence of very tenuous ?a.->'.s ; in the space between the stars, pre- ; ~~ I viously indicated and discussed by! A four-line poem by Henry Wads- j wrote, often visited the Dodge pot-' othe rs. was definitely proved at the I worth Longfellow, written wheu he tery and was interes? . t*ta| Dominion \strophysical Observatory was IS. and believed to be hitherto ! Mr. Dodge fashion Clay nto various] at victorlai B . c about aeren vearg unpublished, has been brought to ' forms, probably b' ' p ' light as the result of the gift to the. write his poem "K d to Museum of the Peaceful Arts, New there. York, of a seventeenth-century pot-j ter's wheel. The wheel, now on ex- 1 hihition in connection with the mus- mos" of hU maturer years, leaving eum's "Men and Machines" exhibit, is the gift of Ambrose Swasey, Cleve- | land machine tool and astronomical instrument manufacturer, and his nephew. Frederick D. Swasey of Port- land, Me. , ago. It was then shown that stars of I J j the highest temperature from 30.000 j to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, of the Longfellow, he said, wrote the four, great ; st mass to about 100 , imes > hues, similar in heme to the 'Kera-: that of the ^ and Q( an , ntr , ngic ; the slip of paper on which it was written on the potters whee Mr. Dodse touud it and made a plaque, on n a thousand times sun. wore rushing a()ouc directions through which the poem was inscribed. vears it hung over the wheel, , (J . ffu3e For but tionar >' m < h * ='* p /?? The ase u * matter wl <* ' l)eUeve(1 ' , finally it was sold br Eben Swasey and in a letter accompnnvfng th, who*!.! M* partner. Rufns Lanwon. who later! be ot "> same Composition a: - the " arth - f wa *?*""*. b> V ** <* certain lines in the spec- the elder Mr. Swasev explains that tried to buy it back but could not dla- the whee! originally belonged to B-n-! cover the whereabouts of its pur- jamin Dodge of Exeter, X.H., who started a pottery in Portland in 1801. which later passed into the hands of Frederick Swasey. whose father, tho late Eben Swasey. bought the busi- ness of Mr. Dodge. Longfellow, In chaser. The poem follows: No handicraftsman's art Can to or art compare; \Ve potters make our pots Of what we potters are. Non-Skid Rugs Will An Experiment in Spain As an offset to the new State text- which ar* being introduced into Non-skid rugs, to help siivi' .10 mi* of the thousands of falls which statistics show to occur annually from the. slip- pery proclivities of the ordinary ar- "Just to think of Columbus going over two thousand miles on a gal- leon." "Get out. man. Columbus didn't even have a car!" The dialogue Is between a small | girl and the proprietor of a corner shop. "A targe tin of salmon, please, and will you book It?" "I think there is some mistake. Your sister came for one a quarter of an hour ago. Surely your mother doesn't want two?" "Yes. it's all right. She sold the other one to go to the pic- tures." We. the people, dont' want to gat rid of nur prejudices. Find Under Westminster Abbey Portions of Original Edifice by the United States Bureau of Stand- ards. Comparisons were made, a bulle- tin of the Bureau reports, between an ordinary untreated rug. a rug treated with a commercial preparatiou design- ed to make It less slippery on its un- derside, and a third rug backed un- derneath with a commercial material used as a rug underlay. The ordinary rug slid down a polished inclined plane, the Bureau reports, when the plane was tilted at an angle of only 18 degrees, not an unusual slope for an inclined walkway. The treated rug stayed on the polished plaue repre- sonting the floor until the tilt was :!-' degrees, a liitle more than one third of the angle between horizontal and vertical. The rug provided with the non-skid underlay clung still more tightly, not sliding off until the polish- ed plane had been tilted to over 54 de- grees, substantially steeper than a one hundred per cent, slope. Were this slope the sidof the niountaiu it would be impossible for human beings to climb it except by using ropes, cutting steps, or otherwise employing the technique of professional mountain climbers. Determinations of the co- efficient of friction between rug and floor also were rnado by the Bureau, confirming the easy skidding charac- ter of the ordinary rug and the effec- tiveness of the two-non-skid expedi- ents. Doris (expectantly): "You've seen Father? What did he say?" Tom: "Er er er I'm not certain whether he said, 'Take her, lad.' or 'Take care, lad:' "Christian Science Monitor. Pt < tre of these hot stars and was shown to be widely extended throughout the system. About four years ago Sir Arthur Ed- dington was led, by the proof at Vic- toria that the hot stars were in rapid motion through nearly stationary j gases, to investigate theoretically the ! physical properties of this gaseous ' matter. He was able to show that it must be almost unbelievably tenuous, Italy by the Fascists to make young! of thousands of times higher vacuum Italians militantly nationalistic from than an incandescent lamp. Indeed their primer days, comes the news of the whole vol'ime of the earth would an experiment in international educa- ! contain only about a quarter of a tiou for children beginning its third ! pound of such gases. He showed fur- year in Spain. There, in the Spanish j ther that these gases behaved in an International School at Madrid, under , almost paradoxical way. that although th Association for P!uriiingual Edu- cation, children almost from the cradle to college attend six hours of classes and games daily in four lang- uages Spanish. English. French and German. Thus, presumably, they will think, speak, and act internationally from the a-v of 3. Moreover, in the true international temper the school asks criticisms and suggestions from educators in all part of the world. Professor Pedro Salinas of tun University of Seville is chairman of the executive, committee. .> "Than you think you won no per- manent place in her heart?" "I'm just a notch on her pet golf club, thats' all." First Packard London. The remarkable discovery has been nuule of portions of a church about eight and a half centuries old benenth the floor of Westminster Ab- bey, and a problem which has puzzled many archaeologists may shortly be solved. The find was totally unexpected anil was made by workmen who were alter- ing the arrangement of the heating apparatus. A tine piece of eleventh century wall noV stands revealed and it is hoped that it will be possible to follow up the clue and perhaps to discover the original dimensions of the Norman nave, a subject over which archaeol- ogists have fought many a battle. The present abbey building owes its origin to Henry III. It took the place of a church of totally different style with large round arches and heavy massive columns characteristic of the Norman builders. N The early church was opened in the year 1065, and was the gift of Edward the Confessor who was struck down with his last illness almost at the moment when his great church was being consecrated. external space was so cold that a soiid body placed in it would fall to about ! 450 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, [ the molecules of these diffuse gases j were so far apart, about one in every cubic centimetre, that the radiation from all the stars would give speeds to these molecules corresponding to a temperature of about 20,000 degrees. Eddington assumed these rare gases were uniformly distributed ia the space between the stars but there was no proof of this uniform distribution iior knowledge of the motions. While the early observations at Vic- toria furnished the foundation from which Eddington deduced the physical properties of this gaseous matter, the final observational completion of the whole structure has just been definite- ly proved that this diffuse gaseous j mat-er is uniformly distributed throughout the stellar system. It has also been shown that this matter is not at rest as previously supposed but partakes iu tha most beautiful exact wny in tha orderly and majestic ro- tation of the stellar system around a very distant centre, the most convinc- ing proof of the similar rotation of the stars having also been obtained at Vic- toria. The demonstration that the space between the stars contains very dif- fuse gases, the theoretical determina- tion of its density and temperature, and the final proof of its uniform dis- tribution and itj participation in the rotation o fthe galaxy, form a striking example of the effective combination of theory and practice. The develop- ment of this Interesting advance in our knowledge of cosmos may justly be considered as one of the romances of astonomy and forms an important Canadian contribution to science. Soil Improvement Train in Quebec 10,000 Farmers Visit Train in Course of Tour 1,000 Soil Samples Tested A soil improvement train has just completed its three weeks' itinerary through southeastern Quebec, having started at Coaticook on September lota and finished at Vercheres on Oc- tober 4th. The train was organized by tha Quebec Department of Agriculture in co-operation with the Agricultural Colleges in the province, the Seed Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, and the C.N.R., and was pan of a campaign now under way iu Quebec for securing greater yields from a more inteJlient and more general use of agricultural line and commercial fertilizers. Ot the four coaches which made up the train, tli*> lirst was used .is a laboratory where samples of soil, brought in by visiting farmers, were tested for acidity, and recommenda- tions given as to the approximate quantities of lime required according to the results of the acidity tests. The second car was devoted to de- monstrating the advantages from the proped use of agricultural lime; the third, those of commercial fertilizers. while the fourth was the lecture car in which leo:ures wero given by the officials in charge on the use of a -jr.- culrnral !!m and commercial fertili- zers. Upwards of 10,000 farmers visited the train in the course of its tour and about 5.000 soil samples were test- ed. (Issued by the Director of Pub- licity, Dominion Department of Agri- culture, Ottawa.) "I can't see why they have a man to steer from the rear oC the fire de- partment's ladder truck," said Mrs. Tellum. "Well, it's a necessary thing, I suppose." replied Mrs. Back- sent, "but I agree with you that it's not a man's work." Collecting Tree Seeds For Prairie Planting AJ a result of the efforts of the boys and girls of Dauphin, Manitoba, there will probably be several million new trees sprouting <n. Canada's west- em prairies next year. Again this yeur, us iu many years past, tha school children are helping Mr. F. J. Smith, Supervisor of the Riding Mountain Forest to collect seeds from the Manitoba maple trees in tha vicinity of Dauphin. After collection, the seeds are shipped to the Forest Nursery Station of the Department of the Interior at Indian Head. Saskat- chewan, where they are planted in seed beds to germinate. The seeds may be planted either in the autumn or the following spring and the next spring following, when they have been in the seed bed eighteen or twelve months, as the case may be. the young seedlings are lifted and set out in the permanent plantation. T'ae seeds collected by the Dauphin children filled 139 sacks. This figure does not seem large, and even 3.058 pounds (a ton and a half) :s a reason- able qiintity to grasp, but when It Is considered that a pound of Manitoba maple seed on an average contains 13.000 tree seeds, the number of seeiN in this collection reaches the stouml- ing total of 39.754,000. Of course, many of these will not germinate and of those that do, a proportion will die without having reached maturity. Nevertheless, it is a conservativH estimate that as a result ot the chil- dren's efforts over twenty million more maples will eventually help to beautify many fnrm homos in Mani- toba. Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Silk Tassels Popular Liimlon. Silk tassels In gay colors are the latest thing for modern furni- ture in place of handles. They are made to lit in with the color scheme of Uu> room, and can be changed with th seasons ami the curtains. Free Glass Eyes, Made to Order, Are Given to Canadian Veterans Toronto- \Vith the exception ofi easily replaced In east! of accident. Germany, Canada had the only Gov- Dr. Taylor told how at the end ot ernment which has brought about the the war Germany vas the only conn- production of made-to-order eyes, and this work had grown up since the war. Dr. Clifford Taylor, director of try producing glass eyes, and service men in need of them had to send to a German firm in Now York to be artificial eye-work and optometry of fitted. In case of breakage they had r Miss Molly Brown, seated in flrst Packard car built in 1S99, will be driven from Detroit to Bethlehem, Pa., to be placed in Lehish University on exhibi- tion, lu 1S99 this car retailed at $1,^60 and present ;rade-in value is 16 cents. the Federal Government, told mem- bers of the Progress Club recently. Every ex-service man in the Domin- ion at the present time in need of glass eyes may procure thoni free of charge. Two replicas of each eye were made so that they could be to take tho trip to New York over again to obtain another eye. "Seven out of tn persons need glasses," Dr. Taylor said: "three out of ten have them. The average citizen never stops to consider th< of blindness."