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By EUGENE JONES.
CHAPTER IV.
"Shut up supposing! Two lives
against three hundred—I want a fire-
man."
The dispatcher mopped his face.
"No use; none of 'em would go!"
I turned about. There were a couple
of firemen who wore off duty loung-
ing along the rail.
"Volunteers!, Will . ith.r of you fire
for me?"
But no voice answered.
A sudden rage filled niy veins.
"Look here!" I yelled, "You bunch
of white -livered apologies for men, I
want a fireman. Don't you under-
stand"? Don't yon hear me? It's to
save the Limits -3! It's to save the
reputation of the division! Some-
body's got to. We may pull through
rn rigat, --"
Only silence greeted rhe, sullen,
shamefaced refusal. My eyer became
blurred; the blood was pounding at
my temples, my fists aching to strike
out, to feel quivering flesh beneath
them. Perhaps I was a little crazy.
for a moment—
Then a clear '+oice from the door cut
through the tension, a woman's voice.
We turned.
Shirley Winston stood there, and
she was speaking to me, ignoring the
rest contemptuously:
"Mr. O'Kelley, you get ready. Get
the line cleared. I'll find you a fire -
Mall in three minutes. Never fear! In;
three minutes!"
Before I could answer she was gone,
Bashing off drown, the hall.
Pop was already at the key, his
assistants taking his orders on the
jump. 1 elanced at my watch and
waited. Wire talk, stuttering fierce,
flew in every direction. Freights were
ordered to sidings, passenger trains
stgpp,.
e . e keds and shunted, out of
th`e'way. The nerve force of the en-:
tire division trembled with sudden
feverish energy—energy which must
clear the line for a race against death.
In precisely four minutes. I heard
the shriek of my own loeomotive in {
the yards, a warning whistle for me
A hu ry. But • ti11 Pop delayed.
"Just a moment," he begged. "Just
a— There! Now go to it! Number
ane hundred and thirty-five is elear
at Biltmore. Go to it and—God bless
you!„
How Shirley could be sure of find-
ing a fireman ready to take such
chances was beyond me. All 113;new
was that the fate of three hundred
people, the fate of Jim Duval, and the
ppiness of a girl I -Loved as a daugh-`
ter hung in. balance.
Old ninety-nine, the biggest oil
burner on the division, had been
uliunied to the main line. In feet, as
1 flung myself at the cab steps the
drivers turned. I Ieapt for the throt-'
tie, shaving the fireman aside.
"Give it to herr" I yelled. "All s'he'll
takel" Then, as the yard lights slip -
/Ad past, my eyes rested for a second
en the figure in. jumpers bending over
the oil valves. What the devil—
"Shirley!"
She turned a soot -begrimed: face to
me.
' Yes," she said -calmly enough.
"Why not? I tried to find a fireman.
There wasn't anybody around.. To
hunt them no would have taken
time--"
"But think, girl, the risk!"
She clenched her hands.
"Risk? 1 loos Jim Duval. Don't you
understand? What's my life worth
"without him? If we can't save him,
we'll save his momory from disgrace
—save those people on the Limited.
You go on and drive your engine. For-
get a girl's firing for you. Anybody
can fire an oil burner. Just remember
those poor souls on the Limited—if
you care for me, for Jim!"
Never before had an engineerman
been placed in such a predicament. To
stop and hunt up a fireman meant
certain disaster on the mountain; by
going on I might be carrying this wo-
man to her death. It was her life and
mine against the Limited, her love and
bravery against the fate of Jim Duval,
I turned my eyes back to the flowing
darkness, and asked the L-ord to guard
her, the wind whipping the words
from my mouth . . , Shirley firing for
me! Shirley sharing the perils of a
lone locomotive chasing a runaway
on the big grade! What a situation!
When we passed Biltmore we were
doing qty -five miles an hour. At
Ardon I could only judge the speed
bytherush of wind. Lighted houses
leapt out of the void, swam by;
freights in the clear echoed the crash
of our passing; old ninety-nine sway-
ed, trembling in every fibre, gathered
herself in ever-increasingeffort and
hurtled on, a blacker spot in a black
night. While behind me, silhouetted
against the glow of the furnace, stood
the slim figure of the girl, watching
the steam and oil gauges.
'Toward us spun the track out of
the tunnel of brilliance cast by our
headlight. The green of semaphore
lamps were passing jewels; now and
then I caught a picture of a white face
pressed against a tower window. All
the division knew! All the division
were watching for us, praying for us!
It was a race against time, a gamble like a speeding ghost out of -the dark -
with the Fates controllingsthat run- ness, and I would reach for the whistle
shut my lips
away. If the Limed .should and jerked t'he be held , cord. We no longer could reckon time;
up=l
throttle !back the last notch'. we•ii the world became a dark place through
were doing eighty miles an hour. The I which we. -thundered at a sickening
engine rocked, screaming like a thing' speed, mindful only of whatlay ahead.
on the curves, righting herself with' If a semaphore had .been set against
dizzy plunges. us, we could not have stopped! The
Even to me a veteran. that ride fate' of a division was riding that
was the most hairbreadth •I had ever lught, and in the balance hung three
undertaken. And the dangers were! hundred lives!
real enough. Once a . tardy freight
pulled into the clear with her caboose
only three hundred feet in front of
us. Splitting a switch meant instant
death for both Shirley and myself, but
delay meant an equally horrible end
for the Limited on the mountain. As
it was, the runaway had a tremendous
start, yet I knew seven o -seven to be
a slow engine. Therein lay our hope.
Oval -burning, with a small tender ca.-
pecity, neither her boiler nor her fire-
box would long sustain any great
'Speed without a fireman to keep up
steam. And there was another dan-
ger, too -somewhere around a curve
we might find her stalled, whereupon
our chances of escaping alive would
be about equal to the proverbial snow-
ball.
How much of this the girl compre-
hended as she stood there over the
oil jets, her slim young body braced,
icer hair flying loose like living flame
in the glare of the furnace door, $
had no means of telling. Yet surely
she realized the odds against ust himself he would die. He continually
Surely the same knowledge which en- raids the nests of weaker insects and
abled her to hole the steam as steady brings them back as prisoners thus
as a rock just under the two hundred
mark must have whispered of fearful
possibilities!
Was Jim alive or dead? Was he
helpless on the runaway, unable to
reach the throttle, or was he lying
somewhere behind us by the track?
What had become of his fireman?
A PARADISE FOR SKI- ' N•
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e ere
A Paradise for Ski -men.
Preparations are already being made
for the annual carnival to be held at
Banff amidst the glories of the Cana-
dian Pacific Rockies. Banff is ideally
situated for winter sports and this
season the dates have been fixed from
January 29th to February 5tih India
sive. The Secretary writes that the
programme is to be considerably ex-
tended. He says:
"Our Ski Hill has now been com-
pleted in accordance with the sugges-
tions made by the world's champion,
Anders Haugen, of Brooten, Minn., and
we are confident that a new world's
record will be established on our Hill
this Carnival. We have decided to of-
fer a substantial cash prize to the man
who can beat the present world's re-
cord and to supplement this cash prize
with a further prize of e10.00 for every
foot or portion of a foot by which the
record is broken on our hill. We will
also follow the same principle in con-
nection with the amateur champion-
ship only in. that case the inducement
or reward will be in the shape of an
especially attractive prize. We have
at the present time four different
jumps, so that we will be in a posi-
tion to stage competitions in all class-
es of this very spectacular and hair
raising sport,
"We expect that ladies hockey will
be a very important factor in our
sports this season. We have already,.
bees advised that the ladies of Van-
couver, under the leadership of Mr.
Frank Patrick, of professional hockey
fame, expect to compete. The Re-
gents, the Champions of Western
Such were the questions pounding in
my brain, gouging to the roar ce the
drivers. Trestles, cuts, fills, long
stretches of glittering right of way
whizzed past and were forgotten.
Every moment or two the white -
striped board of a crossing Leaped
(Concluded in next issue.').
Ants That Keep Slaves.
The ant is man's greatest rival. Ants
have asocial life, a power of combined
effort, and a marvellous variety of ac-
tivities that enable them at times• to
achieve something like an industrial
cvilizatian; •
Before man knew enough to take to
agrculture some ants. of America were
farming the soil. In. politics, also, ants -
are advanced. They have tried every
form of Government, including social-
ism -and militarism! Their numbers
'are not so great an this country, nor
are they particularly fleree, but in
South Africa , ants are amazingly
numerous and are a danger to man.
The red ant is a typical soldier; he
does nothing but fight. • He has 'very
powerful jaws and is generally strong,
yet he, cannot get on. without a slave
to feed him! If he were left to feed
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Canada, of Calgary, the Patricias, also
of Calgary, a team from Edme on, a
team from Vulcan, .Alberta, and per-
haps teams from. Winnipeg and Ottawa
are all expected to be on hand and
compete with Vancouver and Ottawa
for the Championship of Canada. A
very elaborate trophy, together with
ten very attractive and costly prizes,
will In. all probability be announced a
little. later In conneotion with this
event.
"An ice palace will be constructed on
a basis far more extensive than any-
thing heretofore attempted and Vhs re-
sident engineer of the Dominion Gov-
ernment le now at work preparing the
plans fox` same. We expect this pal-
ace, when illuminated, will be a view
that will long live in the memories of
those who will be fortunate enough to
visit us and see it. The palate will be
stormed at different times during .the
Carnival by representatives of all the
Amaamemaleassmierseerenneatatas
What is Ether?
Of all the mysteries that have puz-
zled science, none has seemed less
easy of solution than that which con-
cerns the etherof space.
It has long been obvious to phytee
,elate that space must be filled with
something of a material nature. 'It
cannot be seen, or felt, or perceived
by any of our senses; but it must exist
arise how could energy be transmitted
through it.
We get light and heat from the sun.
These are forms of energy, and so like-
wise is eiectrioity. Energy must have
a vehicle for its transmission. We.
;mew that waves( of light frond the sun
leapinge upon the retina of the eye.
They are called light wades, lint, 'of
eonrsu , there is na light Without an
erer
There is a zebete.fiee that fills all
'eleeee. We ettenOt peh'eetee it ireceeee
it:has tis moleouler structure. It don--
glue nrr atoms. But we, do know that
it is elastic; it has waves of known -
length and measured veracity.
Thief substance, oiled the "heti-
iifeateres ether," it 4brointolr •trans"
ra the tact
we inter .., f In
jpttxent, as Y jlil,,,l�o
that light conies thro9(h it to tib & n
stare at tmtathomable di8talldee•, If' it
Mere I$ %d' up of tnaisettlea, like ma-
terial bodies, such transparency would
be. inconceivable.
It is called a "fluid," but it does not
flow. Apparently it is stationary: 'The
earth, travelling at a speed of eighteen
miles a second in its journey aroiind
the sun, does not disturb the ether in
the slightest degree. If it did so;`' the
light waves that come to us from the
stars would be disturbed.
r..
What, then, is this strange intefste1-
lar substance that transmits the solar
energy on which all terrestrial activity
depends? Science believes that now,
time, able .
for the firm t , it is o t give an
answer to the question.
The ether is the substance out of
'which everything in creation is made.
The rocks are made of it; the• plants
are` made of it; you yourself are made
of it.
Materiat bodies of x11 kinds are coni -
posed of molecules. These molecules.
are inade up of atoms in various ar-
raaigeinents. lJach atom contains a
less or greater number of "e0;ecteone,"
which are ,revolving at enormous
Speed.
Molecules differ; atoms differ; but
the elections are all exactly the same
siibetance. They are tiny packages et
ether.
solving the servant problem and keep-
ing himself well supplied with attend-
ants. '
There is a species of ant in Aus-
tralia called the bulldog ant, because
of its extremepugnacity. It will light
anything and everything. If one of.
these ants le accidentally cut in half,
one half will actually fight the other
half to the death.
That ants should be able to kill" a
snake may seem incredible at first.
When an enemy is sighted the alarm
is given at once and the whole com-
munity of ants arises in a body. They
set upon the reptile, striking their
snipers into it at thousands of points.
The attack is. made with such splendid
ooncentration and in such enormous
numbers that the snake has no chance
of escaping. When the snake is dead.
the ants will tear off the flesh in small
pieces, taking all away with them ex-
cept the bones and the skin.
In the forests `of Africa a dreaded'
insect is the bull -ant. Every kind of
beast or reptile will flee berfore .this
peet, These lints march though the
forests in >l column about tab !aches
Wide and miles long. Any creature
overtaken is at once attacked, Na -
avert overtaken by them will seek re-
fuge in the nearest river,
Twelve officers • hold the rank of
Heal -Marshal en the British Army, the
only non -British holders being Max-
shal Foch and the Emperor lape i.
Poland, the recreated State, consists
Of 120,000 square'milds, with' a poiaitle,
titian of 21,000,000.
MInard'8 Lininient Relieves Colds, etc"
different sports indulged in, and it is
expected that the fireworks display
on these occasions will be most in-
teresting.
"Special attention will again be
given to art and fancy skating, and
competition in these items on our pro-
gramme promise to be very interest-
ing. The Connaught Skating Club of
Vancouver, with a membership of 'al-
most three hundred, has written say-
ing that the Club will be well repre-
sented, and if we could be assured of
some entries from Eastern Canada
and 'the States, together with the as-
sured entries we will have from Win-
nipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Saska-
toon, this feature of our programme
would be one of the biggest events
ever attempted in Canada. Applica-
tion will be made to the Amateur
Athletic Union of Canada to have all
these contests representative of the
Canadian Championships."
Before ;Mary Begins School.
Give a ehild the idea of size with a
nest of boxes, with a set of books
graded by sizes, with blocks, with
spools, with tin pans. Any set of ob-
jects in series will be the materials
for a group •of play lessons for which
the words . "large" and "larger,"
"small" and "wiener" are the keys.
Along with size come length and
height. Following sizes conies shape,
taught most easily by sorting out all
the blocks of a kind or all the beads
of a kind from -the usual boxes of
blocks and wooden beads which are to
be found among the playthings of
most children. They all love to pick
out shapes by touch, finding in a group
of objects hidden under an apron in
the mother's lapthe twin of an object
they hold in their hands, then, when
they have the .idea, ; doing the same
from piles of -their own making. They
are interested in likenesses and differ-
ences. This interest is, indeed, at the
bottom of most play suggestions for
little children. Through it we start
the child on the training of his sensi-
bilities. In discovering differences and
noting them ,and, in performing op-
erations which. make ' note of them
through touch or sight, the child is
developing these powers which are at
the momentawaiting development.
Other plays with duplicate spools or
blocks introduce the idea of matching
things, selecting one and finding its
twin. Them we •eome to sorting and
here are opportunities for a variety
of plays, Mieefrom the kitchen supply
closet brown, white, and speckled
beans;. provide three receptacles into
which to sort them. 7Vlake a p'I'ay set
from your button boat. Children's
delicate finger—tiers, are quickly sus-
ceptible to differences in texture. Go
to your piece bag ' and cut •squares
(patchwork size) of cotton, flannel,
velvet, corduroy, burlap, chamois skin,
leather and silk, to be sorted into
pieces of each kind, first by touch and
sight, then by touch 'alone. Color
plays come in a natural sequence, em-
ploying at fillet only the primary col-
ors, red,' oran e, yellow, green,blue
andviolet, '
The whole secret of home education
for little children is tor, the mother to
meet awakening instincts 'an rpowers
with play suppl;s arut play sugge--
flows. To meet his needs she has only
to get his viewpoint and. travel with
him the road crf investigation and ale.
predation of the 'intereeetuing world
about him.
for a ball, while the colored ones rep-
resent the men.
The object of the game, as in base-
ball, is to get as many run as possible
and to prevent the opponents from
getting any. There may be several
players on a side, but four is a good
number.
A player on the side that is at bat
first takes the white counter, places
it beside the home plate and snaips it
across the table as far .on fair ground
as possible. Then he takes a. colored
counter, representing the runner,
places it beside the home plate and
snaps it to first base. The side in the
field watches the white counter; -the
player nearest to the place where it
lands 'snaps it to first base se quickly
as he can. It is a race to see whether
he or the base runner will land" his
countere in the first -'base cup soonest.
If the white eounter is pocketed first
the runner is out. If the runner lands
his first, he is safe. He may then go
.on snapping for the second cup, or he
may wait.
The game ,proceeds rafter the fashion
el real baseball. When the second bat-
ter is up he may bunt the ball by
snapping the white counter only an
,eighth of an inch in front of the plate.
While the other side •scrambles for it
he snaps his colored counter on to-
ward first, and the.ruiner at first base'
hurries on to second. The white. coun-
ter may eatch the runner who is.going
to second and jump into the cup at
the same"time. If it is a tie, the de-
cision goes to the runner. Now the
white counter is rushed back to first,
which the other runner is still strug-
gling to reach, The runner is put' out.
Another player goes up to the bat.
This time there is a -scramble to put
the runner out at third; it fails, but
he is caught a moment later at home
plate. The next batter, we will say,
is put out at first, then the other side
has its inning.
Tiddledywinks Baseball.
Tiddledywinks ,baseball is amusing
for a stormy afternoon or for an
evening party. Tho dining -room table,
covered with a silence cloth or a thlck
shawl, is the diamond.• Small glass
pups represent home 'plate; fiz'st,, sec-
end and. third bases, Ow ' of tlie`sinall
white tiddledywThkb counters 'nerves
.The Empty Spool.
Thread was at first sold in hanks,
as knitting wool is now, and -ladies
had to loosen the .skeins and wind • it
into little :'balls. But a progressive
thread manufacturer, James Clank,
got a wood turner named Robert Paul
to make ,. few wooden',spools in the
early eighteen hundreds, and then
James' Clark himself, to accommodate
a fair cuebomer, • would sit' down at a
weaver's pirnin his own shop, while
she waited, and wind . the skein of
thread ori it for her. He charged her
half a cent for this eourfesy"
When the spool was empty she
brought it back to him wad he wound
.it full with thread ,again.
The fourth •generatiohn of Clarks
are now making the cotton thread you
use to -day. 'Clive the courtly old head -
tees fellow, Seines Clark, a'Passing
thought . when you *now away,. the
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The -Latest . in:Knl tit
She. COIIioelii. Wool. Yiook, entitled
"ball aril winter Sports,. No. 1." is
ohuol5 full of the niftiest androost
up-to-date color illustrations and
knitting directions for Winter wear.
Cnpea, vests, roads, sweaters; stoolc-
loge, toques, et5,'• •
Send 16o in stamps for copy
Belding -Cortical, Limited.
Wellington Bldg., - Toronto, Ont:
next empty spool. Ladies 'could not
do that in 1812,
There were plenty of other things
they couldn't do and. wouldn't do in
those •good old days. Thrift came na-
turally and of necessity in a world
where inventions were not looking to
waste and comfort. Wooden spools
were never thrown away; a thimble
basted a lifetime, and ono needle was
often all a household afforded. It was
kept as carefully as 'such a treasure
deserved to be. kept:
One bonnet, one shawl, one dress did
almost a lifetime, too, for material's
were hard to obtain and dressmakers
few in number. When women wove.
their own clothes. -and the clothes of
their families they did not encourage
frequent Mange hi fashions.
Nature Study ht Winter.
... Start the little folks in nature •study,
Bey a bulb or two and start them in
a glass bowl of warm water, with a
sprinkle of sand and a few pebbles in
the bottom. Have the children watch
for signs of the first shoot, •and re-
ward the sheep eyes which see it first.
Let each one have a pot, of earth, an
empty can with a few holes punched
in the bottom will do, and give them
, a few seeds to plant in their own can.
Give each • child a different seed. Have
them keep records of the planting,
'growth and development of their
plant. A double lesson may be. taught,
than of nature,tand the spiritual lesson
of the resurrection. Get out 'doors
every day, if only far five minutes on
the porch. You need the fresh air.
Bundle the kiddies up and send them.
out, no matter what the weather: The
crying lack of the average Canadian
adult and ehild is fresh air..
The Fairest Thing.
The fairest thing God ever made
For human eye to view
Is God'sdear sky by cloudlets strayed,
White isles and sea of blue!
Forever move without a sound
Those floating hills of snow;
But whence they come or whither
bound
Only the wind can know.
The fancies of a myriad men
Have mused upon the sight!
And wondered as they gazed again
And felt their hearts grow light;
Something unnamed that pureness
vast
Doth filter through the soul
To strengthen and to guide at last
The spirit.to its goal.
Thank God for what no man can know,
What utters no replies.
By meeting mystery we grow
To be mare truly wise.
Not darkness only bars our ways
And 'wilders most our thought;
The truth may come in such a blaze
It dazzles, is. not caught.
So daily, hourly, let me learn
The worthiest• lore to win,
The line where knowledge back must
turn
And faith her path. begin;
Let us peruse the book of space
Where time's a thing of naught,
The fair blue sky that veils the Face
By whom all things were wrought.
•
Minard's Liniment for Burns, etc.
Highest Railway Stations
in Canada.
The highest railway stations, with
their 'elevations,' in feet above sea-
level,
ealevel, in the respective provinces of
Canada are as -follows:
Nova Scotia, Folleigh, 612 feet;
New Brunswick, Adams, 1,204 feet;
Prince Edward Island, North Wilt-
shire, 311 feet; Quebec, Boundary,
1,860 feet; Ontario, Dundalk, 1,705
feet; Manitoba, Erickson, 2,063 feet;
Saskatchewan, Senate, 3,171 feet; Al-
berta, Mountain Park, 5,820 feet; Bri-
tish Columbia, Stephen; 5,332 feet;
Yukon, Meadows, 2,924 feet,
COARSE SALT--
LAND
Ai. T --LAND SALT
Bulk Carlots
TORONTO SALT WORKS
C. J. CUFF - TORONTO
It takes a joint of beef to
make a bottle of Bovril.
OVRIL
NEVER
PROFITEERED
Haig lint changed aince 1914
Same Price, Saone 'luaBty,
SaxneiQuantity;
CONTROL 0F' FORTS
BY TRAINED MEN
RECENT ACTION OF ON.
TARIO GOVERNIVIENT.
Places Administration of the
Forests on Crown Lands Un-
der Practical Foresters.
The opportunity for the beginning
of a new era in the forestry situation
in Ontario was created by the recent
announcement of the Proviucial Gov-
ernment that henceteirtii the timber
administration of Crown lands will be
under the Provinaial Forestry Branch,
instead of comprising a' separate or-
ganization, in which no foresters were
employed. This is the most important
development which hasyet taken
place in the forestry situation iu,On-
tario.
By this action, assuming that its
logical consequences will follow, Oa-
tario aligns herself with_the provinces
of Quebec, British Columbia and. New
Brunswick, - which had already recog-
nized the necessity for taking thought
for the future by making foresters re-
sponsible for the teeir'nical adm.inistrae
tion of Crown timber lands. A pertia'
example had been set by the Dominion
Government at a still earlier date,
when the Dominion Forestry Branch
was placed in charge of the timber
administration on Dominion forest re-
serves in the west, exclusive of the,
licensed lands or timber limits.
Nova Scotia has practically no
Crown timber lands, her forests hav-
ing ' passed . into private ownership
many years ago. The need for a pro-
vincial forest service there is based
upon the opportunity for the develop-
ment of better forestry practice on
these privately -owned timber lands,.
and upon the urgent need for a great-
ly
reatly intensified system of forest protec-
tion,
roteation, to Dover all the forested area et
the province.
Printe Edward Island is not a
forest province, practically the whole
of her land area being under cultivar-
tian.
Beginning of New Era.
Ontario is then the last of the forest
provinces to recognize the necessary
and logical connection between forest-
ry
orestry and foresters. The recent action^
should, and no doubt will, mark the
beginning of an era in which the full-
est practicable consideration will be
given to so regulating the methods of
cutting on Crown lands as to leave
them in a condition to produce an-
other crop of valuable timber specie
It has beep demonstrateel that log:ing
operations in which cutting is. not re-
gulatedwith an eye to future pro-
ductivity are generally -destructive to
the quality and quantity of the future
growth. Each area requires to be care-
fully studied in advance of cutting,
that the method of treatment to be
prescribed may be adaptive to local
conditions and at the ,same time be
pracicable from the operator's view-
point, to say nothing of being reason-
able from the viewpoint of additional
cost involved.
. Ontario Is to be congratulated upon
the progressive action taken in thus
far recognizing the need for techni-
cal administration of Crown timber
lands. The Provincial Forestry
Branch has, a great responsibility and
a great opportunity for public service
in the prospective addition to its pre-
vious work of forest protection, of the
inauguration of forestry practice up-
on the great areas of Crown lands
which have now come under its juris-
diction.. Progress will necessarily be
slow; economic conditions must be
fully recognized; and it will take time
to develop the kind of organization re-
quired far so large a task. Public
sentiment is now undoubtedly fully
ripe for the development of this situa-
tion
itustion along the moat modern lines. It
must, however, make itself actively-
felt,
ctivelyfelt, in support of a really progressive
forest policy.
•
Has the Earth a Tail?
Opposite to the sun there is a very
mysterious glowing patch, which is
thought to be attached td the earth as
a comet -like tail.
The highest regiontr of ode
phere consist: of very light gases, an
the impression is that some of thea
were driven' away by the sun or byl
other means,•and that they stream off'
freed the earth into space just as the
light gases do froni the head of a large -
comet.
Naturally, such a theory has .aroused;
much controversy, and has• led to all.
sorts of ingenious suggestions. One,
of these is that a swarm of lueteoru.
(of the kind we know as shooting -
eters) keeps us company through.
space at a distance of aboht a million
miles; or•four times the distance Of the.
noon. But a tailed earth is an ideal.
vehicle for lmaginatve flight.
F
,.It might be argued that if our globe.
has a tail
wh' should not planets.
laneta.
Mercury and Venus, and/ even Mars, ,
have one. Well, perhaps they have,
for all we, know to the .contrary: Our'
earth's tail would be eeueh more easily •
seen by usbecause of its nearness and..
brightness.
Airplanes to Survey Africa.
It le proposed to adapt the were -
plane to further discoveries in 'Dark --
est Africa.
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