THE (suitor-midis cugianiliu

Child Welfare And Public Health

on Clallil “Ella”- lnd Public llenllh will Apps-nt- Weckl! in this Column. Furnished by lin- Lon-ul Ila-d Crmuo Ill-unch-

o+oeorovemooooovoeeeooe

" TOLD BY RADIO Ono of llie liealili talks area.

Vanishlllg American Bird -

tlonal Hookworm Dlaeaae - A Forecasting Catches of Fleh —l

Artlclea -—A Rubber X-Ray Screen.

der i-onZiirut-tlon for

Scientific Mlsllellalllisunday ScliooluLessoii

High-Presaure Boilera — Oocupa-Lesso“ l"

A Slow Fire -- Sunlpofa and . . q, o d ; Lakes-Timber oi the Amazon glflfl‘c‘.lo,i,fé,;_lilfof,f,r,f,ufi.§_“ or ‘ -—~Hawaitan Victims of Rabbits Lesson Tex‘__'___‘onhua L ML

The new power station. now un-IIYIQVYyrQGOl‘

“la Edlmn humanity and lll0'.V the

casted to fall fairs in Ontario by (m; "Star." Public health material from tlu- institute of Public Health London. Out, prepared by request of the Provincial ‘Board of llealtli though llr. .l. J. lilldillotou.

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What Disease Costs in Canada

A cow a year zipietve to be sick. nine million cows a year. is what it costs (‘auatllans to have the dis oases that afflict us. More

Electric lllUIIllIIHIlBFLCOIIlDRIl)’. oi church, h, the

Boston. Kilauea. lu ileiiigncil for an ultimate. capacity oi‘ about 300.000 kilowatts, but will ili-pend at first on two Zi2.000 kilowatt geiieriitorsi with three 1074 liourse power boil- ers, operation at 1W5 pounds steam preasuri- and a temperature of 700 den. l1‘. iii addition it will have a single boiler lo carry pressures up to 1200 pounds. 'l‘lie steam gener-

l October 21 QSRAEUS succioss

Golden Texts-Rove not l C0lli~

last lesson we learned

gave llsrairl special to iiiske- it a blbsflliliS to (fiilwtisn lsrael of God. siwoinilly ‘favored and commadoib to preach the (logpel to all nations. lii tn day's lesson we learn wliat Israeli did to ai-hlevl‘ its gloi-ioii-s YltKAlilXlY. For everyone. whom God calls ‘for gilltlltléll serv- ice does not aiivnys make. good. 'i'lie saline (ssnntlal Wliltlll brought lsraul success, will bring siti-.ce.ss to the younlg Christian war-rim

‘in the

Albbusineas, no matter how stable and succesdful, can only estimate their prospects for the future. All business, with one excep- tion-the business of life assurance. Herc there is no guessing, no estimating. but instead calculating on the basis of scientific cables. These tables, the product of eight decades of

o A SQiCIItifiC 15am For Profits

But it must be remembered that (liq m", tality experience of a capable compan, l; y" better than the foregoing, due not fflgrgiy M careful selection, but the advances being m“, by science.

A tropical oil that overcome; lepro", a

dog owcetbread that curea diabetes, the use of .

V , mm‘ ateil by this boiler will jiiiSflllllffiilgll (our fifths of all illlti cost is due u ‘)rr\ssllrl\ mmlcing tm-mnn (“Wop to infectious iliseasos—tllseasos (“mm "hm" 21m" kilowatts an,‘ Wm I 9111139“ llY Rlllll‘ "ll" “lllllallllll: be exhausted at. 3T5 pounds pros’,

experience shew the average expectation of life and on the basis of them a rate of premium can be struck that will provide safely for

adrenalin to revive the dying, radium an a cure lor cancer-Ahcse and a thousand continuing discoveries are lengthening life and at the

io-day trembling on the brink of the great adventure rim‘ Christ 1o which God. has culled him.

from our person to another. Let us understand ono another. This bill of S270.0ti0,00ti a year that

BIBLE THOUGHTS i‘;Li“iJ§2t§i.£II"f.§“2i§l2Z 22°23‘; - l FOR TODAY . . l borers, no it is the cost of human

(Conilliiued iirom -pago 10| i

"l don't know. She used to ilellnrtl Your father won't and he is ll"('i)lll(‘ my s:i.lvnlitiii.—

on the stage. like her, l'm sure." R “l shalt Anyway. she's Quit-r,

it cost (‘aiiadlaiis to be sick. is

loss ct‘ grain or corn from rust or

OCTOBER 21

.\.\'»l) St).\'t.l:~—‘l‘lie streiizzih and song.

sickness alone. and it is equal 1o the value of a herd of cattle ll,00li.00li strong at 830. a head.

Now stop and think. if we lost every year {Liilitillflti cattle. in (‘anada wlizit would you do about it‘? Would not every resource of the (loveriiuicnt. every lilarmer's

S'l‘llt‘l.\"rG'i‘ll l5 ill)’

Exodus l5‘. ‘.1

OCTOBER 22

sure and thcii, reheated to the or- iizlnal temperature of 700 ting" will

be used in the large. turbines. As l1llll‘l1‘ll"-l will“

the pressures of 150 to 200 pounds ordinarily used waste some 60 per cont. of the heat ‘value of th (ivfln with high superlicot. an im- portant siiviiit: is expected the liigliei‘ pressures. ll. is calcul’ ated that the cxllPfllllelll-lll pound troinpound

will produce one net kilowatt from ifltliitltll‘ .

131,600 liritish thermal units in tho

fuel. and that the INS-pound single-lly held as ever,

1200indcetl reheating plant ~. EiHQQQ-htlfilli

.\ftcr the. death of Moses. Israeli had been Wfl-llflC-Hlii‘; for foi't.y' in run wilderness. full of hardiships. The hardships had not been: triumphantly borne.

a C09,], lTliey liad murmured and rebelled

and gone to false Gods and been

from Wvrtllily tllllllllfilllld. And now Moses

lthrlii- great leader was d-eail. Why should they the more

under an untried ililllill under Aloses? The ‘rum-laud Land was still as HIPOIILLZ- zigaiust them.

expansion noirreliciittiig plant. will ‘What ivas to make them success-

Aii English boiler

require 15.100. operation will

. and wax, the new piece looked so

than l sm and she's been fll'()llll(ll lots of places. She can tell mel THE lDEAlI “'1\Y1-'ll\i‘y‘ whwihcr Yve got a good voice orilwllwd N" Fy one his Ilriglllloul‘; not. Miss Smith may play the organ land l\'(‘i'_\’ one said to his brother. in church, but. sho doesn't know alile oi‘ good t-uarage.~lszii.ali ~11: (i. good voice wlu-i slic hears one." '

"Seventeen siiouldwt judge tilde people." _ tlllfl‘ 'l‘illl'I TRUTH: ditty ilie

hwhy ‘mp4! 17 is 01d enough wltruili. and soil it not: also wis- get married?" tloni, and instruction. and undo...

There was ncfctock answer to Sllllllllllk-“lhfivllllllfl 331 2Z3. "115. so the mother sat silent.

What would I1uther's w-ife be °°T°BER 24 like? Her coming seemed Ominous lPElIlVElILAiNGE; For i... —Lauther said she had not been‘ in ‘lpllwl m“ “PM “'l11’ll l1" ("llallll the country for years. Would she m" pm" fills“ “ml llllll ‘illill llil-ll" like it? Most. likely nct. l1‘ slie liad 1"‘ l1“l-'1”“P-'*l‘$11l111 l‘-’¢ 11 been on the stage-

Her thoughts never went. beyond that. To her all people who liad been 0n the stage were in one class and that class was never spoken m among "ladies." vaguely she he- lieved all theatrical people ivickel.

OCTOBER 23

OCTOBER 25

HANS lillFlllltlGlFI‘:~'l‘liou liiatlesl. liillll to have dominion Wm‘ the WOflt-‘i of iliy hands; thou thus put all tiiliiizs under his lt-l‘l.r'l‘5il'llll‘.‘l S: ti,

(‘liih every Agricultural School be 59°11 l" llll illll lll set to work to stop it? to save that "any ‘l llremlurp M 3200 Imuudfl’

sgjnflooflou a will.‘ m “we those with superheat to 7R5 deg. F. li.000,l)tlli cattle‘? But $270,000,000 whether we lose it through cattle or sickness. if we were losing 3271i,0l)fi,iiflOavortli of cattle every your wouldn't it he better to spend $2T0,0li0,00tl to save them than to lose the money and-the. cattle too?

isn't it true then that it pays us to spend Slllthliofidliill to save thcin

slitill|ihflli to lose the money and the

cattle too’?

isn't it true llieu flint it pay us to spend $210,000,000 a year and lll‘ iveli than to stieud that amount as we do now and be sick? llut it ivould not cost $270,- 000,\i00 to rid (‘uiiadlaiis oi’ iiiosl of the diseases that afflict us. ll‘ we spend one tliirrl of what ii. cos-is us to he sick on Public lloullli lnozisursis. that is if we spent $10. a

there were no distinctions of. (70ll-PSi%Clflll‘£‘——8ll odd name, too-»- _ .,"., . __ ‘ _ ‘A had not been on the stage ions. be‘ Olugitfilljbtcéillglvi‘ blehoilyvlriilll Amy Talbot seized this as an ex- mind Live d“ maccf an, the G"! case for thinking she might have n; 1014,. M“; pom... qfn“ ‘m, escaped the evil lurking back oi ym,___2 Corinmrnm’ l‘? H’ ' l the lfootllizhts. Young Amy regrel- ‘ ‘ “ '

ted the bnlcfiiess of the new ‘. -.~'— tofls career. She wanted to think

OCTOB ER 26

OCTOBER 27

. _ . , 1W1)’ oi‘ thy

haid been too bHQl lor her to have vl)l‘l‘L'vpt.5_ so aha“ 1| talk or my

attained that. wondrous -.i-oi'ku.—l’szilliu 111i; 313 So each sa-t, wrapped in content —/—~-<oa>__...__

223:2‘ 0L1! 131g paeglvnind uiikzimvnjTlg Weather REMINISCENCE l ar 0g Lltfle Ones

Chapter 5 i

Lite at the Talbot farm ivzis al. ways lbusy, but in tln- two or

‘s 1. r ‘odtu the zl‘rl\'~

could fairly ‘see the increased ac 1Mfinfillqflvlhvflflillllps and colie, tiiilty- Am)’ hat. always bis-u a will 3,0’, p. :1‘ “ hill.‘ N liliir- stomach ‘is inK helper, but for llio two do!“ l l l ll. Hill‘ Ilvsml “lily h" SN" tore her brother's arrival she ta .1“ " _ ‘all’. "llllllllll l" "lllliil ly seemed to run zihout the lililFl-i, ‘H; l‘ h ll." , :""'.".'” m lwvpmg “'0 She made all sorts oi sul-Isi-stioin _ l lflnlm “ml Hwy “wlmlml m“ to tier mother as lo ihiiiirt * llmmwl" r"-z"l“"‘ l'l1’l""1‘"l~<- llvrnli

than“ _

. ii lllllls anl a t v

mlgm‘ be‘ (‘mm m lwllhm‘ “ll thvurllll 'l‘iiliiets' ‘llyil-lliliildhllyyui ‘luv’. < - » (vii-ind

shabby, OldlHSlllOXIIWI rooms. ‘)lrs._ylh_,“rn_g ‘r ‘_ ‘_ n’ Talbot was summoned lo the gar h‘); 61:0!‘ VH1) lit-ill ail f.» cents a rel the day rbalore they ivvri- li(_ill‘( "Bf? “llllillllh limit come. There was a. note ot vxelte- lmkml“ Ullh Zliiiilliaflil.1535353".l§?..“‘3;.'.'.41,155,111, 321w v ll led to this room under the eaves. l trhpcggr] know m“ H l. I I

' ' lllllolieost.

All old farm houses have jusil .. such a carrot. A \ "r°‘“""“ "ml “all ""1101 front the

few generational . _ _. , buck ‘they mmw away nothing‘ Th“Ifziiiallylgiltysgtzsfiiop.lhiie was pleased v i au went on flihfyllf

heavy mahogan feces that in our

recent period yo? overdccoruiionllrhcl lllfllse- laklm: flow“ l’l""ll"“‘l

were coaaidered ugly, were shiftcdllr: (‘Mngung rugs and Chairs "m"

to these unplasterrd cubb)’ holes/pl’. l.)r“mulml ‘will “ll” l-llilllfllii

Fortunately, the aintiqtio. tiealei- has F‘; ‘l MU” lfllllillli: oiTci-t. Amy

searched out and rescued 1110.51 or £25,‘,::;;:"l:f‘lt$'l‘l’ "llllf llltvllsh the e iuov rs, and ball];-

them now.

g-phi" is a heaunm] mm“ done movies at that. iii her Opinion Molina.’ Amy exwiaivncd, when m“ ‘llranrllfr [he “mm” “l” 111011‘ M‘, AJHAJFS figure appmwcd m luruituro ll Dosscsseti, and llis fin» tho room. "Don't you tiiiiil: we f“ ‘he ‘any “l” lllolll llllllv-‘l flllll might use this instead oi the wash ‘“‘*"h"""‘ “"1 “"11"

“and. wmch need,‘ “ahmng... lilrs. Talbot rather enjoyed ti... Mrs. Talbot ‘looked at. the piece “himlzlwl almmrllnu‘ "l. h“ holly‘- m- fur-um“... Amy [had drflvggvfl m V its something like izoiui: away the window_ she agrood ma! h ‘M vislliiii»! iii a new tilace," she said. iii a better state ot presorvatloi. M"- Tlllllot merely grumbled than the present ivashstaud, so the “>110” h“ lollml mm" ‘lll-lflcl ll-‘lfl tivolof them carried it down alonlllbfim‘ "mwll m" "l, ll“ "“'l11~‘llll11l1"l

with other things that Amy had pllfm“ as “m of Md lnumm and hérmw Feh table. the strip oi‘ irliiiitz, tlio -Wihen the gm haxi scrubbed oft tho "l" “lllillm ""11 Ami‘ liad ilvrmuzhl din and Wmhed the wood Wm] u“ down from the carrot, had started Airs. Talbot thinking. Tliuy wan. n“ m“ both Mood o“ w adnnrelfllld thoughts that liad been out of 4t. lllOF mind for yours. “lhllg an» "it looks somehow like a fine lhlllwll "ll “llllllllllllf- "l1" 1'01‘ fllfliiri”

hidy in a poor time's house.“ Amy tall“ ‘llfilllPll P11011111 lllflt were ai~ “m. and than bmshmp for thelrllllfly immaculate. slio kept remem- Illwch sounded odd in her earsalmllng Hm“ llllllF-‘l llllll W111‘? lilili Bhe was quite right, for the table.l‘lll’~'°li“ll-

with its beautifully grained darkl l‘lllll"‘l' “"5 llll‘ "ml tfllllfl. ili‘ wood. its perieci lines, the vurvodlwa“ bill" 111-“! 31' years size when legs and carved feet. was an exwllllll 111"“ ili "all had been married (‘client example- ol early Colonial 110i quite a year, lle liad boon a workmanship. ll. was the. girl's 1114101111111111.‘Milli’. Willi lorirr eves and

lune! for beamy “bowing imengéa fuzz oi‘ hair that izlistr-iiozl in the without knowmg anymmg about uhsuii, Slil- aul .lordon had been so proud at‘ liiiii. and tier only regret

she ‘recognized its superiority in} the flimsy decotflhions m; (m. nlnppillilll been that the ‘baby's eyes were modern pieces about her, ,l-'re.v like licr own and not. a fill!‘ (“your grandmoflm- hm] a 1m npllashinL! brown like his father's. still like this.“ Mrs. 'i‘all1o1 Hitlil,'.ll°w(‘\'t‘l'. as he grew llli lllti liélll‘ hm, mmd reaching back fll‘dden‘y\lhfl(l turned dark, All a any hp "an "m, the put‘ an "m4 m ,1," faghfllltlefl leased because oi‘ his largo lo "his than. She put it away when/mouth, an mid mouth that trenih»

h‘ '61" 0m m My“, and yo“, "a‘_htllod in a sensitive fashion when lic _.__..__...- lwas scolded.

Czinadiziiiltill weather is extreme.

"l" ‘lllll blléllll. and iiio next wet

iviieii We were

. , I .lordon iltanied only soils. she re- Y G I E N E memihercd. and had been frankly . ldisappointell when the second baby‘ r ‘ llmflll"l'""f“m'"l and the tlilrd were izlrls. He had \ VELWhirun; tbern loss slrlrl with Luther than

l B

éru with .lane, who was five years DOUGH

llutlier was always so good. where- .~'

Ti) U.\'lll<]l{S'l'.\.\'Di-wMake nit-l . other as a star, and her experience to umlr-rsiaiiil the

year fipir-t-e we would llilVO the lotlicr livo thirds saved for paying off our national ilelit reduciuzr taxes to almost nothing. growing ‘and flourisliiiilz as a nation in z~ ,\vay nu other ualioii has l‘\'l‘l' done.

(‘tint be disiie‘? \l.'0ll llt-‘lklll. Public Health ll\‘\‘f‘l' yl-l has liad $10. .'i head of popiilatitiu lo spend ‘on ]il‘l‘Vf’llllllL{ ilisoziise. Thi- ‘viiiciiii lioartl oi‘ llealtli has aliuut 20 eoiitr. .'i head; most local lloiirils oi lleallii have from l m-iii to Iili (rt-ills per liad to spend. i-Zuqni the Toronto ltoard o1‘ livallli never has liad mt‘ than S2 per head fnv l|('ll\‘l‘ piiiill health work.

_veai" atid we spend one trout lo tliirly (‘Hills ii year iii a futile, foot~ lloss. ion}: distant-o, negligent ziiii-mpi ill trimming off some of the llitipfiisl liruiir-lies of this ltirés‘: Now ii is up in you people lo lull al llli‘ roofs of dist-use, trot rid of it and ho lhflll‘ with this faiiiasiii‘ 'itlllt4f'll'~'“ of rlpvniliiig $il7li,llllll.lili|= Pl .1 ' lliv- tllozlsuf" of llllVlllK dis Haw and death l‘illlllllll1ll_l’ will: m: [and ziuioutzsl us.

iiuw about. llio loss iii lives iii iorrtiiv. in pain. ili sufftrriiigi’ We lalk iuusl. aliout lilo, war, we tll'l‘("

iiieiiiiil-r our heroic dead by m- ‘lllllllll! llilhliitzils lii their llll'lllill'_\_' and We do well. llut- the wui" did rot cost us iii cur-ii or lives any thing like ivluil holiness rust no

ili four years of ivnr we loal, ,‘,|i_. "ll" Yfllllll-t (‘niiadiuii boys, kitted l1)’ ill" ("iilliliflli enemy. Hut iii l0"? yclirs of lioavvu. illl>Pl‘('l1ll7&-l.w‘ and |lll"llll|iilllllIl just lhttsv- my“ kill iivuriy liali as many more iliau the. ivai‘ dill. \\'o. have, [mi the war only out-o, so fiii‘. liu! ivo have tuiii-rtiulosis and pin-ii- moiiln and typhoid and ("Dhtpflu and rlieiiiiiiitisiii and uiauy others every years!

What Disease Costs Canada

lilieiiuiiitlsiiiw/ls that an iu~ fat-lions disease too‘? Yes not due to cold or i-liill 0r any o1‘ those things. We iiow know Tllllllllllllhilli is duo lo germs it is preventable. and we can put rid of it. flllllfoly_ if we l-lo to it.

Vlell tliove it is, now what will you do to help the (lovernmcnt. get rid oi‘ infectious diseases?

l will tell you.

1. blcdicul School inspection. ‘.l. Public lioalth Nurses.

3. (Youuty llvallli Officers. full time.

4. and annual Adult inspection. ll‘ we inspect irlilldren llllllilillly to keep liioni well, why not 1,11,. older folk too‘! liiaybe the kids are worth more iliuii the. parents some. parents lliliik so anyway. liiit the (wider folk are uvirlli something lll‘(‘lll they"? You grown-ups ardiri 3/011 Worth kin-ping well’? is it only llie trlillrlrou that llfllltl attention‘! All right. biil ii’ you are sick or (Ho, what bet-nines n1‘ tiinsr sumo kills; while. they are growing tip‘: Annual adult lnsptictloh by your oivu family illiyslrlau tlich. as tho ltest menu's of all lo save 3270.000,- 000 a your. ‘

r, Almost Unbelievable You canliantly realizethewonder. _\ fiil improvement to your skin and complexion themirror villi-eves]

i0 you after nsin Gourautfa Orient:

lyouiiger, hut that. was because I filffiw- lns Jane needed t-onslnnr restraint ‘ i °l"“'l“" |and constant curbing of her rather -‘ [violent temper. l ll Jane had done things that her liparentslcould not approve of. Amy val growing restless end likely to

Cream for the f irat time. Whitevlflzsh Rachel. 6 Send I 0: [or Trial Sin F. T. MWIIM l Si!" M“? "v

.1» t.

Being an infection from tho soil. hookworm disease might be expect- ed to appear among workers com~ iiiir. in contact with the soil. ln

Australia, Dr. \\'. A. Sawyer nndflilhpir Own funjilngg

that it appears as an occupational

.’ii'i this time

'l‘lie Lord spakrfwirisc go over." ‘fliis was what ilfistinguishod this‘ invasion under Joshua from all hilt‘ years of Moses. God's chosen hour has st-rutrk. ‘They are golni; at the appointed lillllil, in obedi- ence r0 God. not llC-Cfiflllllg ~10 or uillluluoss.

"As 1 said unto Iilosrs.“ lsi-ael

disease rclitiPll l“ mll\llll~';_lll twoliilifi God's promise. The adventure llfflllll-‘l "l 11°11] llllllPll- h“! l” absent they are making lls not. absurd. It

from other mines. (pic-ta, 1t, is mostly confined to areas having over -l0 inches of rain-

of the spiritual irioiiocvs 1n. Their forclfziilier Abra-

work (‘.0 lit Lléi

ll.’ ll <l1"‘lll‘~‘l “llllifly l" suhoolliiaiui made similar ventures o1‘ tak-

tlio soil is zippavciit. few ‘BR110111- tural workers helm»? =1ll1l1lll"‘l-

The ,l.l‘lllll|l()ll1l‘ swan. the infill‘ North American p in...“ pqigflflltlll as extinct. but. the Zoological Socially llulletin makes known the fact that the. V-flilfllllfill l‘i()\‘l‘l‘llllll‘\li is eai't‘i'\\il.V Till-infill“? a small flock on a remote British l(‘oluuilila lake. ltvllllvfill "[9 lll llli- wiulvi" of 102021. this flock was li\i'l‘L‘l\Sl‘ll by two during W11‘ following yvaifl. ‘

(load and iizid years are experi- pnt-i-tl in the liei-riiii: fisheries. flllll ;||'1\ iliouizlit to show that the char- acter of llie setisoifs catch can hi‘ pvedictcil iii advance. iii a r000" lto lll(' Paris Academy of Sciences.

Pm lll. I.» lizmnls i-onii-nilr. that. instead‘

lot‘ lieintz inlliiriirred liy changing luurreutea of the (lulf Stream. Euro- lpeau ("tiusls are ivaslieil by varying iovvrlioivs oi warm wiitev due ‘t0 W“. 5\\lt\l\\t‘t' expansion of the trop- ii-al ocean. The surface layers oi’ ivarm ivali-i" greatly influence the

h‘ hull“ m‘ Hm“ “"90 Olll‘ lllly ll“ N". we r30 on ill-slut: Silly a hvuil tFiltlilVPlllPlllS of fishes. and it is lic-

fliovod that llll‘ North Seas excell- ‘llfilllilly liud _\'l‘lll‘ fur lll‘l‘l‘illl-'. in llfiill was due to the influx of water lliolli \\‘1li‘li\i‘l‘ null sailor than tliiii. ‘in which herring are habituated. llli 1022 llie entry of ivariner lay- ‘PTH of waiter into llll‘ North Rim lfroiii tho Ailaiiiiz- was iiiluzli less. From this llu- lill\‘l‘l“.’t1I‘ l>|‘i‘lll(‘l.flll la pond call-ii in the winter, and liliii-z oypoi-talitiii ‘v\’.'lt'l lis couriutloil lliai a study of the llixlliill (if lilu \\'lll‘l'l wait-r infill); ilnio flu» Gulf of tum-nay iii Adana lluay givi- u good liiiiii-"illlvi oi tvluil llll‘ iiext winter's atcii oi‘ herring

“mmunmflg m “'3 hmlmm‘ w“ H“ in tlu- North Sea \v'i‘. is‘. thus Gli-

alillui: fishermen 11> uirird aigaiui-it loss when the outlook is unfitvor- able.

A possible expluiialitiii oi many mysterious forest fires has been ilise V(?l‘t‘(l by it. \\.'. .\_vri~s from an investigation suugesioil by a logger of tho l<‘l‘uli (Ziviivt-‘r ‘ply ('0. A llli~fool while .' iron, Willi a broken ilip aull llil‘ llilliltlll" mice oi‘ iiaviiii: iii-vii fire kill -d.\vas lfollcil Jlillv 102:1. and IIlHlVG n solid but! section ‘.20 lei-t Iona: and l; foot in diameter was found to bo a hollow ayliiider with a Willi 4 tlnclitis thick. The firs was still smouldering at llie bottom of,th0 ilfi fool. i-liliiiney ii liad made. 'l‘iie.i's~ were no llrlituiiil: :u,-.-ii".~:, and, as the lroe was 000 fol-t or more from road or railroad. the only possible ‘t-tiiizrluslou l-iftvllltwl lo be that’tlie ,l‘ii'o iviilch swept ovi-i‘ the region Sept. Ii, 1022, liad remaineil iii this iror, slowly working down ward in the lllOilTUVOfill for nearly ten months.

Itcmarkable eliaiiizi-s in the‘ level of Lake. Victoria Nyniiza have boon attributed to movements of the adjacent land, bul. (‘. l’). l‘. Brooks. |in a publication of the London ilileteorolnizlcal (illlee, suggests sol- ar iiiflutiiice. lliizii levels nl’ this lake and Albert Nyunza seem to (lt'('.\li' durlui: pvrioils of sunspot iululma. The ziizroeiueiil is not complete, but. llll‘ sunspot varia- tions seem lo he iiiuoii more iii tic.» cord with the lake levels than tho rainfall variations.

'l‘iu- great Amazon forest region. with an enormous and almost. uti- touclieil timber iveallh. is found tn contain not a sliilzle. tree species that urows in tcmptiriite Norl.li Ani~ erica. _ iii American Forestry, S. .l. lit-cord estimates lliui the iium- iiei- of plants of tho Aiilllflnjlfltti zit l0,- 000. but it is bullnvorl that further exploration will double this mim- her, nnil that. tho woody plants alone will reach 10.000. Two-thirds of those are probably shrubs and vines. leaving 2,500 as tlie estimat- ed total of tree species. There is an entire absent-e of the conifers ~sueh as’ pines. spruces. firs. oo- dars, etnA-that constitute such v. prominent part. of the forests of the United States, rind there are no representatives o! the walnut. birch, maple and oak families in all that vast region. The important families that have become familiar are those of the. locust or pea. the cstalpa, the mulberry, and ' the