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/^ . 4 iX Rescued From Burning Home CANADA Nova Scotia's Apples Nova Scotia's UJ3<; applu crop_ es- tiinated by the Dominion Department of Agriculture at 1.500,1)00 barrels. Is 15% below last year's 1.800,000- barrel yield and is of less satisfac- tory quality. Windstorms In last Summer caused a loss of 100.000 bar- rels. I'nfavorable weather In early Fall, marked by high winds and frosta. injured practically all the un- packcil fruit estimated at another "o. 000 barrels. Only aboat 60 per cent, of Ihi.s year's crop is of sufBclently Kood quality tor the export trade. â€" Sydnpy Post-Record. Love Is Strorg It has been disclosed that three members of the Dt' Pont family con- tributed $144,430 as their sul)scrip- tion.i to help defeat Roosevelt and recently the engagement of one of the I'll Pont girls was announced to th° youngest son of the President. Pmpi''» dar â-  in this Instance offlset the monied ammunition. â€" Brantford Expositor. out having It increased by careleaa m->torlsta. Because of thewe and other reasons the railway, are perr^ctly Justified In resorting to any an1 all means that will put a brake on carelessnesi: at the wheel. Ana prosecution Is un- doubtedly one it these. â€" St. Thcma-s I'imes Journal. Back to tae Old After a year's experiment Harvard University has dropped the word "catalog" and returned to the use of "catflogue." Thus another defeat fo- simplified spelling may be cata- ogued. â€" London Free Press. Tender-Hearted â- â€¢Stft-hearted fellows, soir.e of these hunters. They set forth to slaughter a deer. an4 instead sit up all night feeding the kitty." â€" San Francisco Chronicle. We have even known .some who spent hours and hours res ting and nursing their dogs.â€" Saiilt Sle. .Marie Star. THE EMPIRE Daylight Saving Tiie defeat o' dayi:sh( saving In lion 'u'> and four other We.'torn On ,tarlo centres is a deci-ive Indication thill thiii district '.vanis no more patiliwork quilt timi' znnes. Sliould the ,iiovl'-c<- as a ivhole iidopt day- ligli. s:-.vi,,t; the attitude might be difiorent. but :: Is hl.ihly iniiirobab'e that many >Vpstou> Ontario commu piMes will ruiieavdr lo carry out the scheme Indeperdeiitly Top rtd is UKSe »>nough. and self ccniicil -nough to • able to adopt daylril " -saving without mo much re- g â- â- > '. how it niuv affect outside interisis hi W »stern Ontario, al- tltoush the hal:':i<'e of population Is sw|- rini; from the lariii lo the ilrban Comm':M tv the fOi'ntr\.*i'Ie Is .stil! dontiiii'it ixnd be towns a:id cities -ri. very imI.Tatt'l.v related to the vi'.lj.is and lo•.v^»hl;ls. v.lier. day It.!;hl s,i.-*ns is rr;:ird.'( with great • i::T!-.-itv. â€" I..)iulori Fre<- l';os::. Sr;i:ih Ka!;s' pla:' lo tlo away with slot inatlilHej In lliat uiwii by liceus ins a:i such pkues of business as pioi rooms. restaiir;i:its. sMVice sta- tions. 1 tc at a oiiedollp.r foe and then loiitijria;; iheiu not to ha\e or opirate ;;auiblina (levi^â- e^. is i-reat- Ini; ivid.- !'.tien!}<>!i ir, o'hcr (owus. It looks ::s 'f many nrj;:i> i: alities w'll pas" l>y laws ilintia: t.i the SiKlih Fal's .'iiactn'init an i somewhat sim- ilar III the Toronto City by-Imvs. â€" St. M:"->-'s .I<M!rnal-Ais;Ls. We Are Not Worried If Ihia continent was ICuropean ra ther than North Ainei ii.an_ Caaa- dittns. as citizens ot i country which has yet to embark upon any really elaborate defensive program, misht shake in their shoes as ihey witness- ed Hi.ir neighbors adding to naval and military forces. Knowing Lncio Sam as i.e.- do and appreciating his time-honored friendship and brother- hood, they do not. however, feel any fear over what he Is doing in the way of protecting himself from pos- sible ..ttack. â€" Rrockvilie Recorder and Times Good Return A Alissouri woman advertised for a lms!-and. She got one at a cost of two ilollars He enlisted in th-j army and was killed. She got $3,UO0 In iu.siirance and will pet a widow's peniiioii as loug as she lives. Yet there are those who say advertising does not pay, â€" Calgary .\lbertan. I "Dreadful StuS" ! People who tune their wireless sets into any one of Australia's maUitude o, wave lengths must often wonder how or if. their controlling author- ities think. It is not often we are privileged to see into their minds. One. iiowever. l-.as given us a tl-et- iug glimpse behind the veil by admit- ting candidly that he is sometimes Uis; -"pointed with some of the broad cast programmes, and that he thinks croouin^ is "dreadful stuff." Fortun- ate, or easy to please, is he who is only disappointed sometimes. and the." only with some of the pro- grammes. He. however, reinstates his reputation for artistic taste who de- scribe's croonini; ;is dreadful stuff- •Dreadful stuff" is a very moderate and forbearing estimate of tiiat mo^t t.'iaaperatiag and dolorous noise call- ed Ci-oonlng. The only really satis f.ictory terms for it belong to the vo- cabulary that custom and the pol ce regulations do net permit in print for public circulation. The ian.iuage of <'U. troops in Flanders, of the i^llock lirlver. and the go'fer can nil provide su'table estimates of crooning. Siuie, however, they are forbidden, "dread- ful stUL " or, say, "abominable n' Ise" must suffice, feeble thouib they are. -The .-Vustralian. A <. N S' Pea-Sout< Fog Vancouver lias had so much fog this Winter that citizens haven't been able to look each other in the eye for nearly u month. â€" Kegina Lo:!;!cr-Post. Not a Claymore Flashed! !j. W. Brockington. K.C.. seemingly wuiiV'^ to bring on n war between the Welsh and the Scotch Ho. a native \Vol.-<hiimn. In proposing a toast at St. Andrew's dinner in Winnipeg, describ- ed ha.sgis as a "suial! sculptured im- age of the l.och Ness monster" and the best example of "gastronomical proportional representation 1 know." It he were cast on a desert island with a haggio! and were faced with either starvation or haggis, haggis would be his second choice. He said all of this without a blade being Hashed at his body or a drop cf bloodâ€" or Scotch â€" being spilled.â€" LMhbrldge Herald. At the Crossings ljailwa>s are iiiiit ju--;iiiied in re- Bortln?; lo prosecution In crossing ac- cidents where carelessness is to blame, as it is in the majority of cases. Apart altog'jther from the prc- voutioii standpoint, there Is the ever- present danger that trains might be derailed, and trainmen or passengers killed. Such dorailraenis have occur- red and will occur again. Whether or not there are derailments, schedules are dlS''upted by these accidents. Then the continual possibility of orossin,: cra:!>hes Is exceedingly hard ^n the aervous system of the engine tt^v, who endure enough strain wlth- C-4 Sparrows in the Crystal Palace Writes Ivanhoe in the Winnipeg Tribune: â€" The destruction of the Crystal Palace by lire removes from the British scene a building of his- toric importance. It was the re-erec- tion on a large scale of a glass pal- ace built in Hyde Park, London to accommodate the Great Kx ."oition of 1S51. In such an example of internation- al co-opetation the Prince Consort hoped to persuade the peoples of the world that in the lucrative arts of peace rather than in the destructive panoply of war lay their moral and spiritual salvation It took three J cars for Albert the Good to con- vince the commercial magnates of L'jndon and the mayor; of the indus- trial towns in provincial districts of the advertising value of his scheme, but. at last, after storms of opposi- tion, the money was subscribed and Hyde Park was chosen as the site for the exhibition. Both the Prince Consort and Queen Victoria were greatly taken with a (lesijjn submittid by Sir Joseph Pax- ton. It was on a vi.st scaleâ€" a con- servatory 1,008 feet long, 'Z\ acres in area, all of glass, to be erected on frames and girdles of iron painted bright blue, and high enough to in- W !;• :i llivi :;"i.l;l li;e iiou.- . . :.... ..:: ..;... ., M. i'uroi-io. neighbors rcsijued ilarjoiie d-d Uiliic. se>cu aionths an.! .. .'â- cu year-?, respectively, by carrying them down a ladder from the flaming second storey ot the build. ng. Mrs. Mead leaped from a second-storey windo'.v ai'!-,T plnjini lier baby in the hands oi ri'S-'iic-rs. elude ti-.tf trees g.^owing en the site chosen. It cost, £t,o40,000. Thii plan was adopted; the crystal palace arose us if by magic. Tticles of -omraerce from the ends of the eaitl. and mcchanica. inventions il- lustrating the progress of science llo'.ved into the iraniensi. show-place 'aeneath the .j'ass dome. The exhibition v.as an instant, a Ijrtd.glou.s s cc>!s.5 The Q'-.eet open- ed i: on .May 1, iSol. and wrote in her Journal that it was the happiest, proudest day of her life, ''the grcat- .ist ilay in English history." because this, her dear Albert's dream, was consuir..".::i;cd in face of stubborn op- position. Between .May and October a prolit of ilSG.OOO was realized and of this an-.pur: ilu- -'-ini cf £50,000 was used to buy thirty acres of land around abc\it the present Exh.bition Uoad in Konsinston. On this property stands today not only the .-Vibort Ha!! but a score of museums and educational institutions. The land thus acquired n 1852 is. of course, worth miUior.s today. During tne early course of tiie Groat ExI'.ibition there was only one incident that worried the Prince and â- .ho Queen. When the dome of slass was built over the trees of Hyde Park quite a ;;u:nber of sparrows were en- closed. -An unfortunate consci^uence was the trouble the birds caused the exhibitors of the marvels of art and industry. They complained to the superintendent; the superintendent did not know how to get rid of the pests. If he or his men attempted to shcot theim. the glass in the roof or sides of the palace would be broken. So the superintendent carried his problem to the foot of the Throne. He told the Prince Consort about the plague of sparrows and Prince .-M- bert shared his anxiety with the Queen. In difficulties Queen Victoria always sent for th Duke of Welling- ton; he was a plain-spoken adviser and he was a fountain of commons- sense. The Queen herself told the Duke about the annoying sparrows and asked him what should be done. "Try sparrow-hawks. Ma'am." he re- plied, with his usual sagacity. Louisa M. Alcott Was Not a "Mouse" Author cf "Little Women" Had .Ambition to be an Actress BOSTO.Nâ€" Lo.:is?. M .Alcott had by no means the characteristics of the shy little country mouse with whiuh -no has been so often cred ted, says a v. ritoi dealing with tl-e au'hor >>f "Little 'Votiion " .\.-: a matter of fact, in or youthful days she had an ambiti'ji: "o become an actress, and went so far as to stud., and rehearse and to !;r.,i i-.erself oait for the play- inf: of ir.ipor parts. Ho'o.evcr, she renounced that am- bition, '^ogar to v.-rite for news- papers, c.igatjed in teaching, and volunttcred for nursing during the Civil War. this service resulting in the writing of her "Hospital Sketches." whioii were really the be- ginning of her career as an author. Minor work followed, and then at t!ie reiiuest of a Boston publisher, she wrote "Little Women." Within a year of its publication several thousand copies of "Little Wo-tten" were sold. Soon its sa:cs quickened, and during the ensuing years several million conies have been sold througho-.it the Knglish-reading world. In tl'c meantime .Miss .\lcott had bcconu' actiuainted with the world at large by travel in I'lurope. visiting Ciertnaiiy. France, ^-witzerland and Blngland. She had met Jean Ingelow. John i>'uart .Mill. George Henry Lewes and other celebrities of the literary world and had thereby broadened her intcUectual horizon. She w-;eto many othe books. Drouth in Cliina has lowered water levels on inland waterways, includ- ing the Grand Canal, restricting movements of cargo-carrying junks. Fourteen Women Tell London Court About Shopping Methods LO.\DO-\. Ont. â€" Fourteen "aver- age" housewives, chosen at random from London homes by a sheriff's officer, trooped into County Judge Joseph Wearing's court recently to tell about their shipping methods. The lawyers wanted to find out whether a package of goods in a grocery represented in the mind of the average shopper merely a pack- age or whether they believed it con- tained a definite weight or quantity. So an officer, well equipped with subpeona blanks, knocked at duets in a quest for avjri'.g? ahopperi. One by one. 14 of them, coming from all secwbns of the city took the witness stand to say what quan- tity of ,: runes they would expect to get if they selected a package from beneath a sign reading "Prunes, 12c". , There were as many varieties of Some thought they would be getting a pound, or a half pound ; others, merely a package. But every woman, whatever she thought, got $1 witness fee for her opinion. This search for the attitude of the shopper-at-large started on a recent Monday, as an appeal brought by W. A. Bailey and Son, grocers, against a shortweight conviction was heard. Question to be answered was how the quantity of goods purchased is established in the mind of the shopper. , A start was made to get that opin- ion, but it did not get far enough to satisfy Jud;,'e Wearing. Instructed to bring back with him the first five women he met. Bailiff Harry Ha!! went to the street to find "average shoppers" while court waited. The five gave testimony, and again came the call for more of them. When court adjourned. Bailiff Hall was told to get some more and he did. By proper care and foresight there need be uo loss from the tags, or the 'vire that ho'di. the tag on the sack. One shoul . remove the wire and tax before emptytn,; the sack. If his la done and the tag jt In a safe phice, h.re should be no loss from thla. If you a: ! one of those who thoaght 'ariat and lasso meant the 'iame thing you have been '^adiy fooled. 0ns Is s aoun and the other a verb in the cat- tle country, according to Don McCar- thy, of Montana, in his book of "cow. boy lingo, rodeo terms, dude ranch jargon, range profanity and other Western expressions' published for the benefit oi posterity. V "lariat." according to the author, a rope often uspd 1 1 "lass- ' -irl- oi;3 animals A '"paint' Is a horse "splashed with se eral colors" \ hlla "rotten los^in' ' '-as nothL to do with a lumb°r camp. It means '"spar- '•i" " in the moonlight. â€" Wall Street Journal. Pioneer Aviatrix Clever Architect Pioneer Recalls Primitive Times Alberta Wcmc.n, Born in Huron County, Now 87 Years Old CHl.NOOK. Alta.â€" -The .(•â- â€¢.â- uians are Cjming.' is a message Mrs. Kliza St wart. ST-year-old plonker, has re membered for more than eighty years. Of the terror spread In OI<i Ontario by the Fenian raiders slie still retains a mind-picture. Though but C years old at (he time, a horse- man galloping up to her home with the dreu'i mt-ssage. ''The Fenians are Coming." was so impressed tliat sh-? ^ an not ;'â-  ivi-.-t. Farm women of today have an eas- ier life, in this i)ione»r s opinion. "What Aimld the modern farm wo- man, wiih !:> r •iliwor.' think of walk ing tiftooii nii''.'s to tr.ide her eggs and butter for the family groceries." ask- ed .Mrs. St.'.vart. Born near Owen Sound, in Huron County, she remembers how the farm women in her .iistriot took the long | walks to niark"t as 'a matter of course." There were few trips to town to buy clothes. They were mado at home. School days. too. have chan.ged. In hor youth, she said, the pupils didu t have wrist watches and claborato balanced lunches. â- 'When the teacher put his pail of bread and milk n the heater, we i knew it •.\as getting near the noon hour." Mrs. Sto-.va:-t. who has lived in the Chinook district for many years, when interviewed, was planning a trip to Rosotown, Sask.. to visit a sister who is S;' yoars old. Beware of Nails Ar.d Tags in Feed May Cause Damage And Loss To Cows When Eaten ".Vn ounoo of provenliou is worth a pound ' c;;re. " so runs the old adage. This holds j'.ist as true in carin.; for live stock as in throttling the locomo- tive. One cf the preventions ihat farmers often overlook is getting ri.l of all wires from the feed tags, or ' eepiag nails where they wii; \v< in- jure farm animals. The nails m.iy cause dania.ge or loss by being expos- ed after being driven in hoards, etc.. but are som 'times dropped into the fee' and swallowed. However, the probabiiit.v <-f injury from the nails is n.U as great as It Is to drop a fe J t^g wire where the cows may got it with thci. feed. Every sack of commoroial feeding stuff must h.-^ve a label on it. and In all probability the label will be tast- er. d to the sick wi' a wire. In em- ying the saoks. the tags are often "ropped into the feel bin. NEW YORKâ€" One .hears a good deal about .Amy Johnson Mollisoa and .Amelia Earhart these days, but only oud-tiniers will remem'uer Kath- erine Stinson. Twenty years ago she was probably the most famous aviatri.x in the world. .At that time she flew the wobbly temperamental "crates" that passed for planes in those days. Today she is the wife of Judge Migue! .-\. Otero, of Santa P"e. N'ew Mexico. The son of one of the State's best known territorial governors. Judge Otero was a famous aviator duri-ig the World War Since their marriage in 1927. the coupie have taken a vow never to sit behind the controls of a plane a^ain. and have kept it. Twenty years ago t^e story was diriercnt. Then Katherine Stinson, a mere slip "f a giri. tucked her long curls under iier helmet, buttoned her coat tightly about her gingham dress and barnstormed the country. She was the tirst woman ""sky-writer." .She l!ew the tirst air mail route from .Ve'.v York to Washington un what was then, an uncharted course. She Itoid distance and endurance records. The war came. Katherine tried to enlist in the air corps and was de- tiied admi.ssion. She llew her plane in the interest.^ of the Liberty Loan drives and the Red Cross. With her brother, the famous Eddie Stinson, and her sister. Marjorie. she opened a flying sol jol in San Antonio. Tex., btfore the war. Finally m It' IS Katheri.-ie Stinson drove an ambulance in France. The strain -if tiie activity was too great and she collapsed. She came to New -Mexico to recuperate and it has been her home for the past 1 (> years In iy27 she married Judge Otero ar.d designed the house in which they live. It was the prize-winner in a contest embracing typical Santa Fe architecture. She tried again and won anotiier prize in o.reiutecture, this time for the best design for a house to cost less than $tj.000. W age-Earning Dogs I'lK- g'li;' i'.i:; . -01" â-  t',> be much mis- ::;dtrstood. Crows pro'yably uiistuke tliem for egus. 'ow often one sees a â- â€¢vhite butertly ily to a jolf ball, pre- sumably mistaking it for another iict- terfly I havp known cows to swallow ;i ball, but what the took i. for is a l :osti.>'i bfvond surmise, perl^aps an I iible mi: '•-â-  on The most successful piokers-up ot speoiallv trainei' to tiio purpose. Thei- trainer tol.' me. nuiriy years ago. thes-' uno'otisldere ' trill"s that 1 have personally kicw n wore four s' aidols. that he had scoured over 60 in "ne .ays i-rk ovor two famous ;»outl:ern linl' The dogs, 'om 1 saw at work, V a marvel, but were excelled by o\w dM fat spaniel o.i my home links •vhich once reirievp,! IT balls from a siuulow pond one after the other. The particular new ball after which he was :it w.- . among the num- ber, to the grief of the player, who •ame from Sootla::<l. The dog's owner -vs the rioh-r by all the 17. -London .^poota''ir. "This cru-el king had a love-ly wife and ten beau-ti-ful child-ren," said the copper man, "five boys and five girls â€" whom be sold to the Nome King, who by means of mag-ic changed them all into oth-er forms and put them in his un-der-gropnd pal-ace to or-na-ment the rooms. Af-ter-ward the King of Ev re-gret- ted his wick-ed ac-tion so much that he locked me in this rock, then he threw (.he kty into the ocean, jump- ed in af-ter it and was drown-ed." "What did you do'.'" asked Dor- othy, winding the clock-work action. "When I found my-self im-pris-on- ed," he continued, "I shouted for help un-til my voice ran down; and then I walked back and forth un-til my action ran down, and then I stood still and thought un-til my thoughts rar. down. -Af-ter that I re- mem-ber nothing un-til you wound me up a-gain." "That's a very won- derful story," said Dorothy, "but let us go out in the sunshine. It's cold in here!" ""What IS your name'."' asked Doroth,-. as the copper man with jerky steps followed her out of the cave. "Tik-tok," he replied. '"My for- mer master gave me that name be- cause my clock-work al-ways ticks when it is wound up." Well, Tik- tok," said Dorothy, "we must find some way to leave this hill, for we are prisoiicrs." '"Why?" asked the copper man. "The Wheelers are al the bottom of the hill and threaten to kill us," replied the irgU '"There i.s no rea-son t> be a- f raid I f the Wheelers," said Tiktok. the words cominj; more slowly than he- fore. "Why net'?" she asked. "Be- cause they art ag-g-gr-gf-r-r-r â€" ** He ga^e \ gurgle and stoppet' short, waving his hands frantically. Then he became motionless. "Whatever is the matter'.*" cried Dorothy. "He's run down I suppose." said the hen. calmly. Dorothy ran around to get the key ironi behind Tiktok's neck but it was not there. "It's gonel" she cried in dismay. A ...H-