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AFETY BASIS ON ROAR) •FOUND IN GOLDEN RULE.
et the other tel point of spectin,g these human beings. Ile may
4s one of the greatest difficulties, be wiltiug to taloa eeltain risk as far
Wit ist oontronts many motorists at tine as his own life is concerned, but if he
present time. If the thousands of , givers any consideration to the point ,
people who drive autonlohiles on the;of view of his fellow occupants of the
Canadian highways could itl some way car he can find no justification for
be helped to have a groatvr epprecia- i auy tendency towards reck:essness.
tion of what is in the mind of the, His attitude toward the passengers in
other man it is quite likely that the! other automobiles • oft the road should
percentage of serious accidents would be similar.
• be greatly reduced. It is practically a Property owners are Included in the
Certainty also that there weuld be list of other fellows whose problems
much more enjoyment in motoring,.' need appreciation on the part of mo- `
much more pleasure in living far those torists. It is so easy for a person
wbo do not motor, and a distinct con- driving an automobile to quickly re -1
servation of good will for the whole move himself from any particular
Industry: piece of property that there may .be
In, this connection the question is a tendency on bis part not to give the,
likely to arise as to who is the other property rights of others the keen con
folio'w. The pedestrian is conspicu- sideration which otherwise would ob. i (
bully one of the other fellows. It Bain. At any rate, the motorist has
Ought to be rather easy tor the aver- considerable opportunity to damage
ague motorist to get the point of view the property of others more or less in
of the pedestrian because there are , connection with his automobile opera-
many motorists who still have occasion tions, which fact has been the source
to join the ranks of the pedestrians' of great annoyance to many people
ut certain times and, therefore, must i whose property happens to be close
be quite familiar with their mental re- Ito our mstly lines of automobile traf-
actions. There is, however, a differ-' #ic. There is evidence in some sections
Once in point of view between the mit- !that this annoyance is well founded,
terist who is temporarily a pedestrian l It would be greatly reduced if the
and the individual who very seldom 1 motorist undertook to get the point of
if ever becomes a motorist. To get view of the property owners.
the batter's point of view is much more Or INTEREST 'TO NATION.
difficult. However, it ought not to be; Society at large has a big stake in
an insurmountable achievement and,! the present automobile situation,' for
having been accotnpliehed, the motor- I any factor in our civilization which
ist is bound to have more consideration + has possibilities of being a definite
for those pedestrians who appear on Interlace is something of specialinter-
our streets and highways where he' est to the people of the nation as a
happens to be motoring. whole. While it is recognized that the
BLVERg.L POINTS of view, many automotive transportation facial..
Other motorists are among the other ities represent a. tremendous gain for
fellows whose point of view needs to society in the progress toward a bet -
be considered. Here the driver of any ter civilization, yet it cannot be denied
automobile ought to have little diffi- that the disrespect of many motorists
culty since their problems are the for the point of view of other people
same. If the motorists will consider represents a ,menace which must be
the convenience and safety of other taken into consideration. Fortunately
motorists; if he will apply the Golden the proportion of those who fail to give
Rale in his action respecting other proper consideration to others is not
drivers of automobiles, much good large, but unless, if possible, encour-
eught to be accomplished. In fact, it agement is given in the direction of
is hard to imagine any situation where greater attention to the rights of so -
the Golden Rule can be put into effect eiety as a whole the situation can be-
conte very damaging to our national
life. There must be greater respect
for the state as expressed in its speed
laws, its high valuation on life and
Should be thought of. A driver who its attempt to bring about those things
has passengers in the car he is oper- which make for the best interests of
ating has very definite obligations re- the people as a whole.
to greater advantage than in the auto
motive field.
The occupants of automobiles are
also other people whose point of view
Lord and Lady Willingden
To remove fat from soup or gravy,
strain through a cloth that has beea
soaked in cold water. -
Honors are like a crown heavy with
jewels; they are likely to oppress the
head they are meant to adorn.
Poet's Vision.
But poets should
Exert a double vision should have
eyes
To gee near things as comprehensively
As if afar they took their point of
sight,
And distant things as intimately deep
As if they touched them. Let us
strive for this.
I do distrust the poet who discerns
No eharacter.or glory in his times,
And trundle back his soul five hun-
dred years,
Past moat and drawbridge, into a
castle -court,
To sing—oh, not of lizard or of toad
Alive in the ditch there,—'twere ex-
cusable,
But of soma black chief,
Some beauteous dame. . .
Nay, if theres' roam for poets in this
world
A little overgrown (I think there is),
Their sole work is to represent the
age,
Their age, not Charlemagnes.
1—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in
"Aurora Leigh."
2,000.Year-told Trade.
Although gardening is generally
Iooked upon as the oldest trade in the
world, weaving runs it very close.
In a case tried in 1821, the plaintiff
claimed damages for the infringement
of his canvas-weavingg patent, but a
witness for the defense asserted that
the method had been known and prae-
tiled for over 2,400 years.
To prove this he produced some
cloth from au Egyptian mummy, the
thread of which was spun and twisted
just as the plaintiff's was.
Still waters run deep, but there is
no music like the Iaugh of a; swift -run-
ning brook over tickling pebbles.
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Robert Stone, poetmaster •of Pocahontas, at the base of Mount Roche
Miette, in Jasper Park. Tourists are familiar with, this halting place in the
vast national playground, and the postoffice follows the people. Mr. Stone is
seen sorting the mail for this frontier delivery,
Every Day.
it is not the exceptional manifests.-
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tions of beroism that get into the.1
newspapers whereof the texture of •
moat human lives, is fashioned. The
majority of us, a great deal of the
time, are not called upon to perforin a
spectacular deed that shall win the
praise and the meed of grateful
humanity and cause our name to be
taken on men's tongues with accents`
of respect. Life generally consists of;
little tasks and the humbler duties in
routine, and the glamorous adventures
for which we 1cok to the screen, the
stage and the romantic novel seem to
pass us by. a,
But it is well that normal life holds
to an even tenor and runs, quietly. If t
it consisted of thrills and alarms, we i
could not stand it any mere than we l
could endure to be on tiptoe all the'
time. They make a great mistake who
must always be on the go, who are for -.I
ever tense with expectation and are
never satisfied with what is, but im-'
patient to know what comes next, that'
shall be more exciting still.. It is like.:
searching the program of a vaudeville
performance, only to find that the cur-
rent offerings are dell and tame com
pared -with the dazzling prospect for,
next week.
They live best who get the most out;
of the pas•sdng moment, neither looking'
back with a vain, regretful retrospect
nor looking forward with such a strain
ed and eager gaze that they cannot'
heed what is round about them now.
We were meant to take each day as it
comes and to put into it all we have to .
give. The issue of it all we must leave
with .a Power higher than ourselves.
If we are forever waiting for the Super-
nal inspiration, the great and crown-
ing ecstasy, we may wait in rain, and
the last of life will come upon us find-
ing that we have made little progress
elute the first. The imperative 0011 of
to -day demands our instant obedience;
only after that is, there *arrant for
paying heed to what survives from yes-
terday or anticipates to -morrow.
To Pave With Rubber.
As an experiment a section of New
Bridge Street, .London., F.C., is to be
paved. with rubber.
Seven radiobeacons have been estab-
lished on the Great Lakes.
The Losers.
Patient, plodding ,bale and true,
Day by day and year by year;
Hoping, trusting, striving, too,
Against the shadow and the tear;
Brave and bright and high and sweet,
• Turning, when they lose, to go
Face to face with grim defeat
Forward in the way they know-
Hall the Iosersin the strife,
Soldiers of the golden Wei
Some are cast- by fate to -win,
Some have touined the holy charm;
Face to face -with roar and. din,
Bold of heard strong of'ar,ye e.
Little w ender ilia,. they smile,
Little wonder that they sing,
Rayed with roses•. every mile,.
All their journey bright w
• spring—
Hail the losers who laugh, too,
Rising hopeful, trueting, true:
Merry hearts have those that lead
In the hurIy-burly sweet„
Crowned with wealth of golden, deed,
Shod with wings of winning feet;
But the smile tbat wreathes the soul
Of the losers in the race,
And the songs that round thein roll,
And the light upon their face
Hail the losers, every one,
Meeting lose with smile and sun!
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Surveying.
The word "surveyor" has so long suggested that, by selecting the most
been applied almost exclusively to suitable types and growing them in
men engaged in running lines and per- favorable conditions•, it might bepos-
forming other primitive duties of the sible to make them a commercialpro
civil engineer that it is rather amuse position as a raw material for artifi-
ing to see it restored to its original cial silk.
meaning of one who looks down upon
a thing from above. The airplane has She Earned it.
done it. Canada is mapping mach of Tliis citation was given a French
its hitherto uncharted country from woman, to whom the Ministry of Agri -
flying machines. The photographs thus cuture awarded. the Legion of Honor:
"Madame Gatlin, widow, farmer at
Souvigny, working farmer for 45
years, mother of 14 •children, of whom
12 work on the land. .Two sons and
one eche-in-law 'killed during the war.
rden Aoeneh tions.
Certain plants harbor charmed ea-
sociattonis. done hold more than box-
wood, for no other. .paint has Its 'tra-
grance, Horns its wondrous, green, none
it.oxnuistte texture, There is boxwood
fair every alluring garden desire. Vlore
are box -edged flower herders and al-
leysbordered with hedges of boxwood;
there is boxwood in quaint scrolls and
patterns, and boxwood In pyramidal
Lorna and in ouriously clipped figures.
There are boxwood bushes left aal
beautifully unolipaed, and boxwood
growing wondrously into Leathery tree
forms.
Lilacs are se dear to us that we gees -
tion whether it is right to give them
but a second place in suck]. a list as
this. They have become genial dwell-
ers 'beside the farmhouse door and
dignified associates of etateiier build-
ings ae. well. They have become a
veritable symbol of ,Aerterlean domes-
ticity. It is strange to think of them
as foreign born. ' Birt -°so they are.
They came to Flanders eeveral 'cen-
turies. ago out of the Neer East by way
of Constantinople, and thence acr'os's__
the ocean to our shores. Snewberries
are closely associated with our grand-
mothers'' gardens. Althaeas and snow-
balls, mock -oranges and bridal wreathe
have many oldtirne qual&tiea. Of the
various vines, wistarias and honey-
suckles; even more than °llmbing
roses, have enchanting associations.
Perhaps pinks and sweet•williams• in
all their motley colors are held in s e-
cial favor. Then there ars Canterbury
belle and foxgloves, bleedingshearts
and valerian, stocks and heliotropes,
peonies and hollyhocks, zinnias• and
pot marigolds, forget-me-ziots and
violets, poet's narcissus and lilieszof-
.thevalley, and how many morel under the eiives; thrush and blackbird
lvie in friendly rivalry like the Meister-' has .been known for centuries, but
Flowers of sweet perfume, be es- singer of of old; s+ometimes-I hear the 4 curious] enough, its commercial a -
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pedally rase geraniums and lemon draw=ling 017 of a peacock strayed plication hi this -country has never.
verbenas, breathe many an old-time from the great hawse, or the laugh of been seriously developed, although
limited quantities are recovered each
year, some oi' which is shipped by
rail to the Eastern States. ,
Each tide brings in its quota of
leaves or blades 'which are torn by
the waves from the vast submerged
flats lying along the coast. The grass
is dried, cured and baled, not unlike
hay; and -with. about as much labor,
except that ncrop has to -be planted
or tended, nor for that matter even
cut. This free crop delivered in Eng-
land is worth from between $80 and
$60 per ton, and since the crop may
be .collected, cured, washed, baled and
placed on railway ears for about $16
per ton, it can, readily be seen that
the profits are only limited by charges
for transportation. • The importance.
of local :industries using eel grass
as a raw material can be at once
appreciated.
Uses for this species of seaweed
have been found from the earliest
witching embrace,times. Its ashes found in prehistoric
I know garden in a natural hollow caterpillars and spiders oil ail sizes villages' of Denmark are said to have
.ere we t been a source of salt. As late as 186•,
1geniaa ...11_,
here ev.e y cissys lends i.tself to toms spinning �Iu�wn to visi.� me, anti pla7rvt,
f dte
forms. 1 know a garden have to be persuad with infinite dif- a .writer records that hi the is,ati o
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of concentric Ovals that is full of quiet faculty to ascend their threads again: Jersey the summer cutting -time of eel
appeal, and allotter whore old apple There are files with beautiful irides- .grass was a holiday period similar to
trees upon the lawn give the encircling cent wings, beetles of .all shapes, some vintage festivals in southern Europe.
flower borders their grace.—Elsa Bele of them like tiny jewels in the sun- On islands where wood was absent,
mann, in "Garden -Making." light eelgrass took its place is a fuel like
To -day. I have lost my voracious ale peat; for those dwelling near -the coast
Silk From I ushrooms.` petite for books; their•language is less it was the earliest form of bedding; in
Will it he possible to obtain artificial plain than •scent and song and the
some districts it yielded an inferior
silk from mushrooms? wind in the trees and for zie +the clue soda. In the Channel Islands the ashes
It was announced recently that to happiness lies iu the wisdom of obtained by charring the wood are
analysis of a number et mushrooms earth. rather than in the learning of sold to fruit growers as fertilizer.. A
had shown that they contained a very men• .. As I write, the sun is few years ago a French company
fine type of cellulase, which is the setting; in the pale radianoe of the beached eelgrass and prepared an
raw material of artificial silk. When sk1• above there dawns the evening "embellage deluxe" remarkable for `;
treated these mushrooms are,convert- star; and earth like a tired child turns whiteness and elasticity, but failed to
ed pito a soft and silky mass which, her fees to the bosom of the .night. exploit it commercially. About 1883
it is stated, should be easily worked. . It ie a time of exceeding several patents were taken out for
Mushrooms grow quickly, and it is peace. I am most gdaddy in debt to all nixing with other fibre and reanufac-
the world; and to earth, my mother, -Luring a high grade paper, and during
for all hergreat beauty:•—The Road- the war when cotton was hardly to be
mender," by Michael Fairless,. had in Germany, its fibre was worked
into nitro-cellulose or guncotton.
The crops of eelgrass are now en-
tirely devoted commercially to uphol-
stery and' insulation, for which pur-
poses the raw material is in large and
increasing demand.
The qualities of eelgrass are peculi-
arly adapted to both these industries:
cured eelgrass cannot rot, at least for
,.RDEN PEACE
The garden is att el?tUtoine of peace;
Sun and wind, ream, flowers, and; bii'de
gather tits foto the hieseec nese of their
aGtiY4 kzst;txlolty• . When I }le
in my coal, its t room on,, ithe gaede'i
level, 1 look *tests the bright gTaes-
d1 verde =take-'- toe great red rpiio
bush iu la't'ish dlsazrray against the,
dark cypreee. Near bY, amid a tangle
of many -hued oorn-flowers I see` the
proinis'e of coming lilies, the sudden
crimson of a sofltary peony; and in
iovwlier e4,ate agaiuWt. the poor parched
earth glow tb,e golden cum of the
eschsoholtzias, Beyond the low hedge
lies, pasture bright with butterGupe,
where rthe cattle feed. Farther off,
where the seyWe has been, are sheep,.
clean and shorn, with merry, weld-.
grown lambs,; and intim farthest field
I oan see great horses, moving in slow,.
steady pace as . the taeiner •turns hie
furrow.:
Birds Are Comrades:
The birds are noisy. comrades and
old friends, from the lark which.
chants the dew -steeped morning, to
the nightingale that breaks the ,silence
of the most wonderful nights. I hear
the wis•dem of +the rooks in the great
eb e; the lifting lilt of the linnet, and
the robin's quaint l'Lbtle.summetr song.
The starlings chatter easelesely, their
queer strident voices, harsh against the
melodious gossip of the other b#rde:
the martins shrill softly as they swoop
to and aro busied with the' r nesting
Lord Portarlington
Who, during the strike, drove an en-
gine on the Great Eastern Railway of
England, Locomotive driving has a
keen attraction for some men of
wealth and leisure.
Natural Resources Bulletin.
The Nature1 Resources Intelligence
Service of the Department of the In-
terior. at Ottawa seyei
One of the least known and most
neglected of Canada's resources is a"
species; of sea weed that grows in the
shallow ocean waters off the coast of
the provinces of Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick . and Qtiebec. It is also
found in many other parts of the
world, and its usefulness to mankind
memory. I remember one tiny • gar-
den, where standard heliotropes rose.
out of beds of fragrant , fiowera, that
was filed with charm:
Not only the flowers themselves
count but their very intermingling and
their color. Flowers of mellow color-
ing, medleys of annuals, tumbling
masses of chrysanthemums, by old
doorways, are but a few suggestions
that will surely wake a score of lovely
pictures in`your"mind.
A garden ought to attain, even in
its first years, some feeling at age, far
this alone may lend it charm. This
aspect of a garden is sometimes due to
making use of existing conditions. I
Kaye seen an old well with rough stone
head and seeping handle become the
keynote of au old-fashioned garden. I
have seen a ageing—house under spread-
ing trees form a backgeound for a gar-
den whose coloring was as mellow as
the gray stone. I have seen old arbor-
vitae hedges hold a new :garden in be -
the woodpecker; and at night the bunt-
ing note of the owl reaches me.
To -day I am ou.tagain and the great
sycamore s+blowers honey• and flowers
on me as I fie beneath it. Sometimes
a bee falls like an overripe fruit, and
waits, awhile to clean his pollen -coated
legs ere he flies home to •discharge hie
burden. He is too busy :to be friendly,.
but his great velvety cousin is much
more sociable, and stays for a gentle
rub between his noisy shimmering
wings, and a nap In the hollow of my
hand, for he is an idle friendly fellow,
with plenty of. time at his own d1s-
posei• and no reepoasibilities. Looking
arrows I can watch the martins at
work; they have a stalling and a spar-
row for near neighbors, in the wooden
gutter.
A World In Itseif.
The great -tree 15 a world in itself,
and the denizens appear full of -curi-
ae-DT as to the Gulliver who lies taken
up bis abode beneath it. Pale green
taken make, when. pieced together, e
continuous, map that tells much more
about tive •country than an ordinaay
map would show.
The Norge.;
It is a smaller world than it was a
few days ago, but the mental horizons
of the nation have been expanded.
The time you need your temper
most is after you lose it.
Left a widow when expecting her four -
The Moon at Sea.
At last up rose the moon. She made
her coming apparent by paling the
stars in the southern sky, then by pro-
jecting a white mist of light over the
horizon. Anon her upper limb, red
as tire, jetted upward, and the full orb,
vast and feverish. as the setting sun,
sailed out of the sea, most slowly and 250 years, as is proved by chiding it
solemnly; fitting with her a black packed into the ,studding of a New
mist, that baited iter ]lite a: Circle of England house built in 1685 and' in
smoke; this vanished, and by degrees, perfect preservation when brought to
light in 1898;. it is non-infiammab'.e,
growing as it does in salt water the
combustible carbon of ordinary veg,
ta
-
tion is replaced b so much silica the
...
it can only chat'. Take a dried plt<ee
in your fingers, light a match and try.
A layer of eelgrass' quilt is a barrier
against the spread of fire: it is insect
and vermin -proof, iriedihle by mouse
or rift, and because of its saline and
ether. chemical properties no friend to
creeping things.
It may safely be assumed that we
have in Canada an'abiindairt and first
class raw material.. which is utilized
in Europe far upholstery rid to a vast-
ly larger extent in the United States
for insulating purpo es. Canadians
SO far have neglected the use of -eel-
grass in upholstery and at present
show little if any demand for this low-
priced materialwhich is peculiarly
adapted to . si we waste of fuel i
waste of ice.
The natural resources we• -have,
eelgrass is now shipped abroad as raw
material and used by those Canadian
consumers only, who"b"an afford to pay
the prices asked bit the re -importers
for i;he rnaxiufactnredi goods, added to
the duty o -f 25 per cent.
It would appeal' to bo an opportune
time for some alert inanufact`urer to
don•testiente this industry in aur own
countt•y, A little capital, simple ma-
ehinery, slight technical knowledge,
moderate org+attizing ability, and ups
to -date Skill in advertising sterni to.lie
the only requisites ;fox ,ablishing a
perceptible to the eye, her color
teenth child, with five still babies, she changed, the red chastened into pearl,.
her disk - grew• smaller and soon she
was well above the horizon, stinging
with a most clear and silvery splendor,
and making the sea beneath her his-
trous with mild light.: W. Clark. Rus-
sell.
courageously took up the dinning of
her farm alone. Although now 65, she
stili Works with her children."
There is a. lighthouse for each four-
teen miles of English coast.
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