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due any second now over there," and he pointed to the opposite side of the platform. There was a pause. And suddenly, almost diffidently, the little old lady put out her hand and laid It gently on the other man'g rough sleeve. "Never mind." she said, softly. The llUle old lady atood on the out- .. Your molher wll , be waltlng , or you , Homecoming By Helen Treveljran klrU of the great, roaring station. -! know .- A nd then, as .- . , hesitant and confused. The hurrying though remembering something, she crowds and the noise left her fluster- turned 8W |fu y to her son. 8.1 after the peace and quiet of her .. But Mlke doeg Ulat mean you ' re village. She paused and looked anil- ' B0 |ng away again?" ously around A kindly porter, spotting the frail figure, with its wisps of grey hair un- der an old-fashioned bonnc-t, darting helplessly to and fro, went quickly to her assistance. "Want a train, missus?" he asked. "Oh!" She turned a startled, grateful look upon him. "Oh, thank you no. That Is, well yes, you see, my son Is coin- ing from Scotland and I do not know where to meet him and " He beamed. "That's all right," he assured her. "Come on. Follow mo." She obeyed willingly. Across the vast expanse of station they went the long swinging strides of the kindly porter, and the small, He nodded. "Oh, but for how long, dear boy? 1 can't bear " Abruptly she pulled herself together, and asked quietly: "For bow long. Mike?" "Not long, mother a year or so, perhaps. I know, I'm sorry.' Ho saw thes agony of dismay in her face and It was like a knife thrust In his heart. "You see, I've got to finish my my Job. mother." "Yea, yes, dear, of course." She had complete control of horself by then, and was entirely mistress of the situation. And both men marvel- led at her courage. "Well, there that will be your train in now. I'erhaps you had better be tripping steps of the little old lady, j taking your places." She was so thankful to have him there! she did not attempt to follow them, helping her, making a way through ' nor ,HJ they suggest it. the pushing, purposeful throng, which Neither did mother nor son take every now and t/:en threatened to even a parting kiss of farewell touch overwhelm her. At la t he came to a o f one another. It had always been standstill and steered her to the back ; tnat way . otherwise they could never of n slowly surging queue. j nave j, orlle i t . "There, you'll lie all right, now." he j The guard waved his flag and blew beamed again, and hurried off, leaving . n | 8 whistle, and she stood waving the her to nod her mute thanks. | ] arge pocket handkerchief until the M"n, women id children pressed forward, and she clung grimly to the Imitation moleshln coat just in front Of ll'T. Thep neared tho barrier. "When Is It due? When Is It due?" nearly every train became a distant curl of smoke. She could not cry, because the tears had turned to crystal In her eyes. Very slowly, Mike lowered his left hand from his forehead, and handed "That was great of you," he said. "Tit-Bits." other person i-iquired of the tired man the warrant book back to its rightful standing there, and hardly listening to owner, hi* reply: "In three or four minutes." !!> kept repeating It wearily. Poor thing, though' th<> little old lady, the train's coming means noth- ing to him beyond so many more him- dn-d tickets and passes to be clipped, collected, and checked. And she made a point of not asking what time the i was due, althc , h her h<>art beat furiously and she longed to hear his cold, reassuring "In three or four minutes." Once on the platform she let the crowd pass and leave her a little be- hind, for that was how she always lik.-.i it to be in the great Important Basket Ball Players Cover 2 1 /: Miles A basketball player travels about two and a half miles' during a game At Aldershot Manoeuvres Locating Knocks An Instrument for locating knocks an be made from an old telephone re- iciver and an iron rod. Procure a dls- :arded telephone receiver, remove the magnet and Insert an iron rod about wo or three feet long. Thread three- uarters of an inch of the end of the od and screw a small nut all the way own on this end. Then place a piece jf round fibre on this end and screw another nut on the end of the rod to lold the fibre securely. The fibre A sniper of Greys in action during Aldershot, England, war manoeuvres, recently, in which 15,000 men took part. The largest scale operations since the war. Prince Edward Island The Hollow The In-"jn name of Prince Fdwara It is quiet here. Tree shade Island, Canada's is'and province, ii| Is a cool place. I will rest "EpaK\vit" meaning "resting on the! Easily In the shadow. I will lie waters" according to the Geographic On the earth's breast, Board of Canada. The island was ' And look at what sky I can see known in early times to the French ThrouR'- leaves, or perhaps look as "Me St. Jean" and to the English At dandelions bowing gravely almost a mile less than hn thinks he' as "St. John's Island." In order to To themselves in the brook. of ln>r life a littlo apart, a little .separate. And for this moment she had lived, and fought to live, for thTee long, ach- ing years. Without a word from Mike, and only The actual distance was measured at Depauw University with the aid of a device known as the pursuit-meter, by which every movement of a player could be rocorded with considerable accuracy by an observer. The result is announced In the research quarterly of the American Physical Education Association, by Lloyd L. Mosseh- smith and Stephen M. Corey of the 1'sycholosy department. They found that a player moves prevent confusion with St. John's,' Newfoundland, and Saint John, New Not thinking of this thing or tha Brunswick, an Act was passed in 1780 thing, naming the island "New Ireland," hut I will lie as the name had already been used, it j And forget the road I have trav 'le was disallowed. Eventually in 17H81 over the island received its present name, t To look at the sky. after Edward, Duke of Kent, father j of Queen Victoria, who was then in Perhaps I shall forget the brown blu command of the troops at Halifax. Over the brook I just climb her stern belief In him, her Implicit more than 11 feet every two minutes, faith to keep the fire of courage j From the first to tho last four-minute bright throughout. While peo-j period of the first half of the game the distance covered falls from 1,5C1 to 9S4 feet. The player Is never as even suggested having heard of him active again as during- the first four pie pestered her with searching ques- tions, hinted at hidden truths, and being seen in bad company. And above it all her faith had triumphed, and to- day that triumph would iind Its reali- zation. The home was waiting, and sln u.n ready. No matter what had h"!d him silent and away from her, the future, would bring recompense to both of them. The signal dropped. And tho little old lady's eyes filled with tears. It was ridiculous, Hho told herself, to shed tears for happiness and never bo able to cry for unhapplness. But she couldn't help it. She reflected. The tears always seemed to crystalize with sorrow and flow with Joy. The thundering majesty of the magnificent express was blurred to her; only the music of It rang clearly 111 her ears. Sho rocked a littlo on in :.'. black-booted feet as the waiting crowds intermingled with the eager arrivals, rushed together and were lost In those curiously thrilling mo- ni'-iiN of meeting a'nd bolng met; and who dabbed quickly at her eyes with a large whlto pocket handkerchief. Hecatiae whatever happened, he must not disgrace Mike. And there he was "Oh!" There were no words, no time or place for words, only a fierce hug to say everything for them. After a brief moment they fell apart and stood gaz- ing Into each other's faces. And sud- denly she saw the other man Htandlng so close behind him. Her look passed to Mike and then back again, Inquir- ingly. "Ah, yes. molher, I must explain everything." She remembered afterwards think- ing how different those flrst words, were from what she hnd planned and hoped. "Look!" And with his left hand ho opened his coat and showed her the warrant book of a detective. "Why, Mike ?" And then her ', eyes travelled to his right, Imprison-! ed arm, and Him saw I ho handcuffs on j the wrist. "Why. .Mik' 1 -?" It was almost a whisper. "That's all right, .wither," he blus- tered, laughing. "Don't look so | scared," and ho put his freo arm round her thin shoulders. "It's my Job, sou? That's why you haven't heard from me for so 1 IK. I've boon minutes. He reaches almost the same level again during tho third four-min- ute period of the second half but fin- ishes the gamo at a decidedly slack- ened pace. Nova Scotia. * Briefs A littlo self examination brings to most of us a verdict of regrets . Folly briiiRS more lost hopes than It will ever brin;c fortunes. The dangers tho mind fours most rarely appear to view. As high as the trees are high. I'erhaps I shall forget time And lie here forever, forgetting How soon it will be Before I must leave this hollow Reluctantly. Lynn Rijrgs, in "The Iron Dish." Rain is Healthful llain has fallen nearly every da THE CAR OWNER'S SCRAP BOOK Ity G. W. Donald Mud Hole* With one wheel In a bad mad hole, the car will usually be as disabled as though both wheels were In the mod, as the action of the differential cansei the one wheel to spin. To get oat ol such a difficulty, proceed as follows: Disconnect the emergency brake rod on the wheel which rests on solid ground. Then pull bac'c the brake lever hard, which will lock the wheel In the mud hole. By letting in the clutch, all the power will be applied hould lie of sufficient diameter to hold to the wheel on solid ground, which .he rod snugly in place. A fairly heavy j will usually drag the other wheel out Drass spring should now be placed on of the mud hole. he end of the rod and secured with a j Toning the Horn nut. The pitch, or tone, of an electric When the fibre and spring have been , norn can be ralse( j or lowered at will astened In place, insert them Into j by ^ f n ow i n g method. After re- he receiver In the position formerly j moving and taking t' - horn apart, leld by the magnet. Cover with tape . p , ace , he d | apnram> or disc, from the hole at the other end of the re- j whicn tne sound j s produced, on some celver, where the rod passes through, j smoothj hard sur f ace . Then hammer Next rcpl? ; the dlaphram and ear- j ] lgbtl y aU around the edge of the disc, piece on the receiver and he sure that This ralses t he tension in the center, the diaphram presses Irmly against i whjch causes , L quicker and higher the brass spring. I pitch i tone. If one desires to lower Now by taking soundings at differ- hft , tch hamm6r a few n gh t blows - with the re-! in the centre of the disc. Celluloid Curtain Lights ent parts of the motor ceiver to the ear and the other end of , the rod resting on the motor, the | knocks in the motor will be magnified. ! The best way to clean and renew making it very easy to locate the celluloid curtain lights ! first to use source of the trouble. , ''"an vinegar, applying it with a soft i piece of cheese cloth or gauze. Keep Repairing Cracks in Engines . {he vlnegar away f rom the curtain Small cracks or holes In the water mate rlal, as it might discolor It. Then, Jackets of an engine may be closed lf tne lights are scratched they may be by applying a paste composed of renewc d by applying acetone varnish, glycerine and litharge. Mix to a con- ( wn i cn will restore them almost to slstency slightly thinner than putty ; their original transparency. and work into the opening while the , Leaks in the Top engine is warm and the cooling ays- Qf ^ car ^ tern is drained. The engine should not ^ be used for a few days or until the Then add water to form a fairly heavy , paste. After mixing this paste, allow It to stand for a few hours and then rubber In place. Repairing a Spark Plug When adjusting the gap of a spark apply. In about two days this mix- pi u g ( the outer electrode will soma- ture hardens, forming a substance times break off. rendering the plug greatly resembling cast iron. ; useless. But it is not necessary to rr. . fur I throw the plug away. Merely bend How to Make a Grease Gun I ^ ^^ e , ectrode 3Q that u gtanda A very serviceable grease gun can be constructed from an old single cylinder foot pump. The lower ( t<) t[]e Quter , hel , setting tne t() the ugua , gap gpace when the Engjne stop , Sudden |y It is not want of thought so much as fof mon(hs pas[ , n Englandi but lolllshnoss makes many torgettul. From a horny hand of toil conies tha rich.'st harvest'of content. Most players estimate, that the t There is one thing in tho world our foes never envy us our bodily suffer- ings. A meddling mind is mure to be feared than unlawful intruder*. distance covered in a gamo would bo about threo and a half miles. - .> --- Singing Waters sky, And all tho hills Hashing falls, And loud from strath and nl.' (all liy Tho voico of water calls One loud and crashing deluge Is the I '' Religion are laced with A ^^ ......^i,,,,- ( .,, ns i s t 8 not of I"' rur the many things ho Is In doubt of and as we tries to believe, but of tlu> few things ha Is assured of, and Ims no in-nl >f effort for bcllc-viiiK. Carlylo. tn.'dical authorities say the summer as a result, has been unusually healthy. Tests made this year In Brighton. Margate, Yarmouth, and the Isle of M;I:I show that the air Is charged with ozone to a degree Impossible In a hot summer, and a Harley Street specialist has stated that the air of London has probably never been of the pump is sawed off just above | SomeUmcs when out oa tne roa d the foot piece. Then take a f f the engiue will stop suddenly without large sized funnel (one that I made apparent tauae It u pro bably due to ot heavy gauge metal) and cut r O ne of the following troubles: No gaso- Just above the spout. Solder the f Hne supp , y Spark pmg broken Elec . nel to the bottom of the pump c y'"- 1 tric circult ( i lsconn ected at some point, der. I A. broken wire. A loose terminal. Oil or light transmission grease can Timer troub i e be drawn Into tho gun by putting the end into the oil or grease and pulling To Clean the Glass on the handle. To nil with heavy ! Try dipping a clean cloth in gaso- grease unscrew the cap and remove line and rubbing lightly over the wind- the' plunger; fill the gun with grease. ' shield and windows, thon polishing then replace the plunger and cap. I with a dry cloth. The vniri! of singing water; and tho deep Long-buried wcllspring that has sli-pl HO long In the dark cavern of my heart, from sleep Wakens again to HOUR. Wilfrid (iihson in tho Commonweal. Bread of Lite Geodetic Bench Marks The method of the Geodetic Sur- rey of Canada, Department of the Interior, of noting the various eleva- linns ah. iv. sea level throughout the --_ A _-, -, Britain To Discuss Effect of Movies on Youth Birmingham, Bag. T'.io effect ot motion pictures upon children Is to be discussed at a national confer- ence In Birmingham within the next' few months, according to present I The bread of life Is lovn; the salt Dominion takes the form of affixing jot life* is work; the sweetness of life,' three-inch bronze tablets to suitable poetry; tho water ot life, faith. | permanent walls or bases whenever fr | necessary. By reference to one of Reason ' tli>'s,> bench marks, as they are call- If wo do not reason we are bigots; cd, tho elevation above sea level of If we cannot we are fools; if wo dare any part in Its vicinity can be as- not wo are slaves. Dr. Black. certalned. 8,000 Miles By Canoe -v .- plans. Several inquiries of tho ready have been started in sort al- F.nglish towns, modeled after a study made In iilrmlnghani and explained In the report of the liiriningham Cinema In- quiry Committee. What i ..V" "When ho'a flvo miles up In the !r and his gasoline gives out." Nature Thoso who have obtained the far- up and down the country- all over tho the. t Insight Into N.nturn havo been In place. after after, well, criminals nil IIKCS linn believers In God. Whe- and such and 1 tracked thin one down well. In Scotland, and knowing I'd have to' * - bring him thnnii;h I<ondon on tho way' Sorrow to prison, I couldn't resist, sending you N.illiin^ so increases one's revor- a wire to bo here so that I innld once for cilhors na n great sorrow to see you If only for flvu minutes. Just en i'g tclf. It l-achos one the depth wo changed trains -our next Is o( liuir. "i nit -.ire. Charles Huxton. A Discoverer There is one man known to history, and long lllustrous among his fellow- men, who in his own meditations had reached the conviction that there was a new world far across the sea, and no disappointment or vexing delay could expel that conviction from his earnest mind. Neither the frowns nor the neg- lect of monarchs, neither hope defer- red, nor the terrors of the deep, nor mutiny, nor tempest, nor death, could turn Columbus from his resolute pur- pose. On he pressed In spite of them all serone amid the tempest full of hope when all around seemed to tell only of despair; and he stood at last Many a man has 'a pood memory for tu * sh " res of a Iovelv ' 3land ln tne "Who was the- inventor of the wireless?" "Don't you know thut? Any fool could tell you." "That's whv 1 asked you." faces and a bad memory for debts. Some men are so self-confident that they are unablo to distinguish a cheer from a jeer. ocean the discoverer of lands whose discovery has changed the history of the world! Tweedie. Pi.'kini; winners Is usually a losiug game. After leaving tho land of midnight - :"i ard travelling 8,000 in!.. canoe to Nassau, Hahamas, "Kskiinn t h u-lle" (C'uarlle Plann i. lick) and his two children arrived a .'!. -ivU'o, F:a., havl-ig hltcl: Irked by vessel from Nassau. Sun Electrons Cause Blue Sky New Light Experiments Indicate Cambridge, M.;<s. K'.e.ctrons which show only thin colored lines, streaming from tlia nun may be the Dr. Cohn points out that at the upper . cause of our familiar but my.sterlous layers of our atmosphere electrons ! blue sky, Dr. Willi M. Cohn. of the' continually arriving from the sun and | University of Berlin, has concluded as Ions of the gases which form our air ; the rosult of his experiments In which meet In the intense vacuum of space. |a blue light very similar to th:\t from Since under such conditions In his . the sky was prodtu-od in the labors- laboratory the blue light which Is so tory. Dr. Cohti U doing h!t;h tempera- like the light from the blue sky Is tor- ture research at the A. 1). Uttle la- mal, he believes that the blue of tha boratorles and will start researches at heavens may, at least partially, have Harvard shortly. . the same cause as that of the labora Dr. Cohn expei Imente 1 in Berlin tory. with cathode rays in a high vacuum. Since the time of Newton scientists formed in a tube similar to the x-ray have speculated ou why the sky Is tube. He allowed the stream of elec- blue. The most successful explaua- trons, which Is the cathodo ray, to tlon heretofore has been that of Sir meet larger electrically charged par- .T.ihn Tynilall and Lord Kaleigh In the tides ot matter, known to scientists last century, which considers It due to as Ions, which aro formed either from sunlight broken up in a particular a piece of radioactive metal, such as way by spherical particles in the at- thorium, or from a gas. The blue- light mospheiv. Dr. Cohn states that his appeared where the electrons, and the theory does not conflict with the older i MIS panic together. une so far as direct sunlight I* con- This bliieliRlit can bo broken up by cenud. He points out that tha Tyn- prisms to form a si.rvlrum or "rain- flail-Ray] inn theory would expect the !>.>w" of continuous c lur, j:i-t ixs is ! nht fr.ir.i the sky la b,> polarized so found In snr.Ughl. The blue, light ih.ii all its wav .M would vibrate in a from the clear sky also s!:n\\ < ,. cim- iviri'.cnl.ir way. Tha !Uht produced linuous tin-drum. i\ltl:oir;h :,asiv. t Dr. c :: :: i In :h- laboratory Is not such us tho air this li ;ht ] is , i, ,i,i.| (',;>. i-,lit is only partly tlmnm'n, have quite diaY:v:il s;>-i';' . :-,.i n.i'ly uot.