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Geologists Construct it as Guide, for History of Earth.
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Days TOO Short.
When priin.ros•es are out lit Spring,
And small, Mite violets between;
When merry birds .sing on ,boughs:
green,
And rills, iTS' •oo'n as born, Must sing;
When butterflies will make side le'epe,
As though es'eapetl from Neture's
band
Ere p•E,rfeet quite; and bees will
&Sind
Upon their heads iu fragrant 'deeps;
When email clouds ere so silvery white
leech seems a broken rimmed
m0011-
When such, things are, this world too
soon, ,
For me, doth wear the veil oY nigh.
-William H. Dav'iee, in "C'o14eete•d
Poems.'
"The Sun Drawing Water."
As a'boy I used to see the sun shrug- .,
giing through narr'ow openings in
broken masses of upper and lower
clouds, and would observe bars of
A't 1 ' x Y -irk v light •extending sometimes both up-
ward and downward, but usually down-
ward 'an'd outward toward the horizon
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.JOINS "TOWN
superintended
VILLAGES"
Bankhead, Alta., station, being moved three mieeai.-from site its old s e to•Ban,if in, -'live hours, Gh'arles Ited-
uperintended the work, which included • th'e taskof: m'.oving 38 houses in 40 days Three villages,
S'ilve'r Centre, Anthracite at 'd now Bankhead, have thus eontributed, since 1884, buildings to the famous resort,
K"' G '- r only. My grandmother always' said at dock, of Calgary,
awe' ---
Present-day amphibians include the frog, uewt and salamander, But
these had mighty •anc'estors. One of them is shown here: He was known as
the Stegocephalfan and was about tb.e size of a present-day donkey. He
flourished at the close of the Era of Ancient Life.
Secrets of Science. the formative period when the crus, of +
By David Dietz. the earth solidified. Life upon the
earth originated during this period. 1
The geologist in piercing together The second era is known as, the Pho-
the story of the earth's history has terozoic Era. Life grew more complex
divided the whole history of the earth p
into periodsJust as we have divided duringin this hi period but a form of lifen
p o originated which had a backbone or
the history of man into ancient, me- spinal column.
dieval and modern history. j
The era which began with the catas- ` The third era was the Paleozoic Era
g or Era of Ancient Life. This issome-1 to the sun and closed with the
moment when the earth finally had a times called the era of fish dominance. 1
surface divided into- continents of This is because the fish, the first
solid rock and ocean, is known as Cos- ;bone, made its appenhance in this era.
Cos-
mic Time. 44
Theeriod when man became the ! But during the era,'the amphibians,
R animals' which were the ancestors of
dominant creature upon the earth, es
animal with a spinal column or back
zs•ent frogs newts and s'alama
tending up to and including the pre-
sent, is called the "Age of Man" by; dere also made their appearance. The
the geologist. Since man is a reason- amphibian is a creature half way be-
tween the•°fish and the• reptile. He be-
ingthe 'Age of Reason," or to give it a gins his life in the water and ends it
more formidable name derived from on the land. -- M
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the Greek, which means the same " °uc v"vac ,, he Paleozoic E
thing, the Psychozoic Era.
No one can hazard a guess as to
true reptiles began to appear.
such limes, "The sun is drawing
water; going to rain," S'ometimes the
rain came. to be sure, but sometimes
it did not tallow the "sign," so I cane
to look upon the saying as `
an interest.;
ing one, but moreo'r less unreliable
as a forecast.
Now the air always contains myriads
of minuteparticles' of dust from all,
so• rts of
souroe+s'-from burned -out„
shooting stars, volcanic ash, forest -
fires, and dust of many kind's caught
up from the earth and thoroughly scat-'
tered by the air 'currents. If It were
not for these particles and their way
of scattering the rays of sunlight, our
blue sky would not be of its• present
color, and it is doubtful if clouds as l
we know them could ever form. since
they would have no nuclei for their
vapor droplets to collect them.
We do not usually notice this dust,'
unless the air is hazy, or polluted by
what we know to be smoke or other
visible impurities. Yet it is there.
Similarly, we -do not usually notice the
dust in our hooses, unless some one
has been sweeping; but let a direct
beam of sunlight, as through the slats
of a blind, pour into the room. and in-
stantly we discover myriads of motes
flying about within its course. This
The fourth era was the Mesozoic Era proves that the .air in the room con -
how long Cosmic Time lasted. But °f Middle Lite. This is often tains vast nu15ibers of them.
geologists are sure it was hundreds of called the era of reptile dominance. If we tarn now to the' bands of
millions I'f years. During it, the reptiles were the domin- misty light seen diverging -from the
The Age of Man has lasted probably ant form of .life, reaching their great: sun, we may immediately 'conclude the
25,000 sears, est development in the gigantic dino beams to have become r'is'ible for the
The time which saurs. existed between , i same reason that those in the room.
Cosmic Time and the Age of Man is' Mammals or warm-blooded animals did; that is, the rays coming through
e se
called Geological Time. j began to appear at the clo of this the rifte in the clouds light up the dust
There- arevarious estimates as to • and va'par particles along their paths The Sky immense, bejewelled with rain
era.
---•---e-i:]ee:..lei1 -th of Geological Time. Pro -1 The fifth or last era of ;Geological so that they become visible. Thus, it of stens,
fessor Sehuchert fixes it at 800,000,000 Time was the Cenozoic Era or Era of is to be seen. that no -drawing process Hangs over us: -
years. Some geologists . are inclined t Recent Life, This was the era when actually' is connected with the phen- The stars like a sudden explosion pow -
to double that estimate. !the earth was dominated by mammals omenon gnown as "the sun drawing - der the zenith
Geological Time is in turn divided or warm-blooded animals, water." -Willis Edwin Hurd. With green and gold;
English Family Estates
Become Stock Companies
In 'a few years the large English
family estates, as such, -rill be no
more, according,tan eminent lawyer
associated with the Duke of Port-
Iand's estates. They will be . con-
verted into stock companies, as the
Duke's have just been converted. The
Duke of Portland is the tenth peer
of the -realm to take this course re-
cent:y and others are going to follow
shortly.
These estates are of an extent
hardly .known in. America or any
other country. They cover thousands
of acres, sometimes whole city areas,
or parts of counties with villages,
towns and boroughs in them. From
them the owners extracted, before the
World War, huge revenues, and,
thanks to the peculiar land -tenure
laws and the. laws of primogeniture,
they have been held by families since
the Middle Ages. No part was ever
sold• and the in'habitants were, one
and all, tenants of the lord --a land-
lord in the literal sense of the word.
But since the war the burdens of
taxation .on big estates is such that
estate after - estate has had to be
broken up or virual y abandoned. Es-
pecially the °operation of the death -
duties act has obliged heirs to sell.
Stars' at Sea.
into' five great eras. i It closed with the emergence of man
The first is known as the.Archeozoic as the ruler of the earth when the Age
Era. It followed immediately after of Reason began.
BUYING T HE HOME
Bridegrooms . I Feel Sorry For: . By a Furniture Dealer.
A young man and his bride-to-be
have just left my shop, and if I seta'
what I thought, two words -"Poor
chap!" would suffice. His greeting
when he came in. was "Good morning.
We've come to buy' some furniture."
By "we" he meant himself and the girl,
but his actual share in the selection
was negligible.
He said, "Yes' dear," a few times in
response to the girl's "We'll have that,
shall we?" but it would have made no
difference if he' had said "No:" or noth-
ing. He's going to be bossed. -And by
a slim little girl with blue eyes and a
dimple. But she had a very firm chin,'
Mother Must Be Pleased,
I mustn't smile when I'm doing
business, but i't's not always easy to
keep one's face straight. The other
week, for instanee, a young married
couple came in to get furniture for
their spare bedroom. Said the hus-
band, pointing to a single bedstead,
"That's rather nice- Shall we take i
it?" But his face was a study when
his wife said: "Oh•, no! Mother bates
sleeping on a single bedstead!" And
when she said, "We must get a mics
stuffed wicker chair -mother' doesn't
like those little straight -hock things,"
his jaw dropped and his pipe tumbled
to the floor. He may have thought a
lot, but he saki nothing.
things that -to keep them from fight-
ingl-I have kept well apart fn the
shop! E yr 'since a woman snubbed
me for suggesting that 'a certain car-
pet would clash with the upholstery of
a suite -"I'm furnishing my home in
my own way, if you don't mind!" -I
say nathin g
I touched on a tragedy once. A man
and a woman selected $1000 worth of
furniture. It was to -be sent three
days Tater. On the second day the
man came in looking ten years older.
What would .I accept to cancel the
sale? The woman had confessed she
was already married. I nearly said,
"Lucky escape; sir!" but refrained
when I saw the agony in'his.eyes.
The Ankle Corsage,
A novelty being introduced in 'th'e
wholesale trade is the ankle corsage,
made of small bright colored artificial
flowers. It is designed to be worn on
the right ankle.
Do not hurry if you can heap it.
Start to your work a little earlier in
'the morning and take yo'ir time. You
will not he tired when you get there
and you will work better.
I admit that the selction of furniture
requires time an,d thought, but the pro-
' ernes often leaves! Me_ limp, This sort
of thing happens regularly, A couple
come in, select furniture for, say, their ,
aittingroom and bedroom. That may I
take an hour cr more i
"What's the total so far?" I am'
asked, I give it, and then: "Oh, that's
too muck! There are the kitchen
things to get yet!" So all the picking
and 'choos'ing begins over again, and
there may be another, revision if the
final total runs' to more than they can
afford.
S'el'ecting the fittings' fora nest -for- i
two ought to be ahappy busitress, and
generally Ia. B'tit . there are excelp-
' tion , 'Myfriends- d
s oui„
laugh at a
suite like that!" snapped one prospec-
tive bride. "It's horrible!" One ward-
,led to another, and at Last the girl
stamped her foot avid said, "I won't
Marry you if this le your idea of furol
'lure,,,
't`as'tes, differ, of c!,"zrse, and I've Of -
tee slbecMer'ed when •a couple have
,picked ottt, to put together in a reone
A Song to -June.
Little happy month of June,
Gayest of them all!
Sweeter than the Springtime,
Fleeter than the Fall,
Prettier than winter,
Warm-hearted, bright,
Fashioned for our gladnes's--
Shaped for. our delight
Little happy month of June, '-
• While with us you stay,
In your honor we will put
All our griefs away.
Cares we'll do without them, •
_ Weeping and regret!
All these things we've clung to
We will just forget.
Ohr we're fond of worrying!
But, to be polite. •
While you're in our guest -room;
We will be as bright, •
Just as happy. hearted
We who were so blue,
Just aeeight and merry,
June, as you-
-Mary Carolyn Davies in Success.
Appreciation.
There are . so, many things we leave
unsaid
Until a man is dead,
All that we thought of him he has not
known -
Northeast, southwest and seilky Way's
pale- streamers
clash past in flame
The sky is a swirling •cataract
Of fire; on•high,
Over us thenskky up to the zenith
Palpitates with tense "glitter: •
About our keel the foam bubbles and
curdles
In phosphoreacent joy..,
Flame boils• up to meet down -rushing
. flame
IIn the blue stillness.
Aloft a single orange meteor
Crashes' down the sky,
-John Gould Fletcher,- in 'Irradia-
tions."
Misplaced Sympatte.'
Through ,the busy Glasgow streets
a stalwart policeman led : a little child
by the. h'a'nd, - s
A motherly -looking w•on2'an paused
before them for a moment. Then, in
a sudden burst of sympathy, she bent
.over the child and kissed her.
"Puirwee lamb!" she said. sadly.
"She looks sae could and starved like;
and she hasna been washed for a week.
Some folks canna be trusted) wi' bairns',
Whaur did ye fin' the wean, police-
man?"
"Find the wean?" mail the police-
man, angrily. "I di•dna find' her at a'.
She's 'ma ata haiin4-"
Man is like a tack -useful if he has
Then write biographies be has not a' good head and is pointed in the right
read; • direction but even though he is driven,
He must not reap the harvest he has.. he can only go as far is his head will
sown. --H: D. L. let him.
MUTT AND JEFF—By Bud Fisher,
MENN
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WOMEN
..OF OF TO-UAY
Factory Girl's Life of the Queen.
"Who Is she?" is the question .that
everybody will soon be asking- about
Miss Kathleen Woodward, who, . it is
announced, has written an authorita-
tive biography of Queen Mary, to be
published shortly.
A few years. ago Miss Woodward'
was working in a collarfactory in the
old Kent Road, London. She mane in
contact with that gifted personality;
Miss Mary M•aoarthur, and 'afterward'a,,
through her intereet and influence, be-
came a *Private secretary in - Fle'et
Street. • It was lir'tbe office of a daily
newspaper that the writer first Inet
her -a fine specimen of English girl-
, who in 'the course of only .a few
month had completely adapted her-
self to the new surroundingst
While engaged on daily journalism,
Miss Woodward melt the Marchioness
of Crewe, to whom, Pater, sheconfided
her wish to write the Queen's' life -
story.
The - Marchiou'ese, is one of the.
Queen's closest friends, andr--well, the
book has been written, and, what is
more, it has been read and approved
personally by the King and Queen.
A Secret of Youth.
"I have just reached my seventy-
fifth year, but I still feel young and
intensely interested in life."
So maid the well-known conductor
and composer, air Frederic Cowen, a
day or two. ago. Sit Mre leric mention-
ed that he began composing and i ay- -
i'ng before he was eight years' old. Hist
M,.
best-lcn'wn composition, although he
will probably not forgive me for say-
ing it, Is "The Better Land,"
"Have a hobby," is' hie advice to
those who wish to remain young. "And
find a jab to lose yourself inn" he add-
ed. , "There's bathing .l'ik,e work, the
right sort oe work, to stave off prema-
ture old age," .•
- Good for Doctors!
One .of the accomplishments of that
great physicians Sir Humphrey Itolies-
ton, oons•ists of writing in so aninute a
hand that he could, 'if he wi's'hed, in-
cribe the Lo'rd's Pra3ner on; a small sil-
ver coin.
His well-known book, "Some Medi-
cal Aspects of 01•d Age," had an amus-
ing result. The book was given by a
doctor to an aged! patient who
imagined she bad every kind of dis-
ease, The medical man lead (hoped
that the book would make her more
sens'ille. .4s -et happened, She dis-
covered in it the names of terse new
;disea's•es, and,. immediately.'oelled in
three new doctors to see of she had
them!
Grace Darlings of .To -day,
The Grace Darling spirit still lives!
Two lifeboat women, hailing from that
part of the English coast forever as-
sociated' with the memory of the fa-
mous heroine, have just received. re
warder' for gallantry. They are Miss N.
Stephenson,; daughter of the coxswain
of- the lifebela,t at Boutin, No•rtha'm-
b•erla'nd, and Mrs, B. Stanton, wife of a
s'econ'd coxs'w'ain,
Mourning in Korea.
The official mourning habit of
Koreans is white, and if there IS. a
death in the royal family all the popu- I
lace is compelled to wear the mourn-
ing
ourning costume, so for the sake of econo- 1
my most Koreans• dress in white the
year around. The white clothing re-
quires frequent washing and the/visit-1
or is apt to think that laundering is
Korea's chief industry. Along every
brook near the cittes, and. even along ,
the open drain f
p s o the streets. of Seoul,
you will see a bevy of women. cone
tinually rubbing and thumping gar, ,
menta Because of the necessity .of
frequent washing, many of the Korean
- arments are not sewed, but
instead
are pasted. together and are puaed I
'apart for each cleansing,
Egyptian Cotton.
Cotton. the commercial staple of
Egypt, is the foundation and backbone
of the prhsperity which the English
administration brought to Egypt. The
Nile Delta was found to be one of the
most favorable cotton -growing regions
in -the world. Cotton planters and re -
tellers of Egypt claim that their pm -
duct I's the finest in: the world, Elggyp-
tion cotton Is cream -colored or brown-
ish, while American is white. It is:
said to be more silky and more mer-
cerized thein the cotton of the southern
states.
Huge Tuna Fish.
Tuna fish caught in ,'laweigh
h
g p g
as much as 750 pounds.
Mountain Prayer.
High mountains, . teach inc to hold my
head'
U•p toward the sky,
Net to be •mos end' by little things
That vex and try!
And.swift brook,. teach me purity
And laughter, too,
Keep my spirit clean an 'deny heart as
glad
As the heart of you!
Tall pine trees, 'teach me steadfast -
Let me not fear,
But, roots sunk firm in the rooky -earth,
Let me grow each year!:,
-Eleanor Hammond.
Guide.
Who b'rough't me hither
Will bring me hence, no other Guide
I seek.
Mil'tan.
Hard on the Dog.
Landlord -"You say the apartment
is too narrow?"
Tenant -"I sihould gay so; why my
poor little puppy has to wag his tail
up and 'dawn, instead of sideways like
other dogs:"
Too Late
"Did you pop the question last
night?,, •
"No; I got to talking oil "burners
with her father end before I" -knew it
she went ouj,." - - •
,l 'aturiiel Re*niwe+r; .&Met n.
On • the sheltering St. Las fence
blrnf oonveniieht to ai4 the large cen-
tres of the Atlantic seaboard and the
waterway leading from the Great 1
Lakes lies a verdant, picturesque and
!?peached ,province of Granada,. Prince
Edward Island. By the Indians it
warn apekopriately called "Abegweit,"
meaning ," resting on .the ..Wave,",
probably owing to the prevailing
calmness of thesurrounding waters
and the serenity of the atmosphere.
Prince Edward Island is a verit
able garden country of exquisite pas-
toral , landscapes, magnificent ocean
beaches, splendid • country roads, ideal
farming acres, a perfect . summer cli-
mate, well:stocked fishing pots and
streams, good churches, schools and
harbors. In fact, the Islanders claim
that they have more postal facilities,
miles of railway, telegraph aria tele-
phone lines, more, rural- mail routes
and shipping ports per square mile
than any other province in Gitnada.
The first impression' .of the visitor
are described in a small folder re-
cently issued by the Department of
the Interior at Ottawa.
"The land surface is clothed by -
a
solid verdure intensely green. The
shores red as if freshly painted,
rise irregularly from the sea in
;sandy beaches and sandstone blufs.
The roads, which are pecu_i'arly.
red, too, meander pleasantly and
hazily over the rolling stapes and :.
thfough the' val'leys.., Where the,
,land has been covered by the fer-
tilizing musselmud the tiny pieces
of shelle, .glisten and glow in the•
sunlight like jewelry ablaze:
"It is a m'iraole of transposition:
Irish turf on Devon soils under an
Italian sky I
"A well distributed spriukiing of
woodland groves, old-fashioned vil-
lages, stretches of meadow unmar-
red by fencing, lazy brooks, wan -
dosing highways, quaintly colored
shores of terra cotta cliffs and slop,
ing beaches broken and indented
by the irrepressible ocean tides, all.
help to form a picture of singular.
charm - and loveliness, a:most Euro-
pean in effect."
prince Edward Island -is 145 miles
long and from 4 to 35 miles wide, so
that from any part one -is a:ways
within easy reach of the sea. The
unique irregularity of the coast has
producedanextraordinary ]eugth of
slaere line, amounting altogether . to
over 1,000 miles. Sea bathing may be
enjoyed everywhere.
The chief industry is agriculture
and horticulture. The land is prod-
igiously productive, and of a total
area of: about 1,400,000 acres approx-
imately one million is actually. under .:
cultivation.
Being situated in the midst of val-
uable mackerel, cod, lobster; oyster, ; y
and other fisheries, another' basic -
dustry capable of- great commercial
development is at hand. Prince Ed-
ward Island lobsters are famous and
in great demand.
In the production of rare. furs, the
Island has won a leading position and
is now the . world's chief source of
back and silver foxes for breeding
purposes. ,
Salvation Army Bonnett
Enters Fashic-n Ranks
The 'familiar semi -poke bonnet of
the ..,Salvation Army lassie entered
the rank of fashion. With the nom-
ing summer,
of milliners have c
hosen
the style for general feminine wear.
Trimmed'with velvet ribbon, the hats
have an old-fashioned
in great dema
n
mindfuhof the crinoline days, says a
London despatch,
In stra* and lightweight felt, the
fashionable "poke" effect is accentu-
ated by a droop over the eyes, while
at the back there •is a large turn -up,
instead of the cut -away appearance
that in the Salvation Army hats :eft
a place for the "bun" of hair. In
the extreme styles, the wearer's face
will scarcely be visib:e because of
the drooped front of the hat. In many
cases the -hats are made of the same
material as the frock or coat worn
with them.
When preparing potatoes for boil--
ing, choose ;them equal i,l size to en-
sure even cooking*. Avoid cutting thein,
as cut potatoes 'boiled are ,never so
nice as whole ones.
.Tley're Still Quite a Ways From Sunny Florida.
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