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The Exeter Advocate, 1924-11-20, Page 2FOREST AREAS IN PRAIRIE PROVINCE'S he Timber Supply—Manitoba Forest Covered. Misapprehension Exists as to t 70 Per Cent.e To many Canadians as •well as others the name Prairie Provinces, by which Manitoba, Saskatohewau and Alberta are known, implies: that they are de- void of forests or tree growth of any kind, says the Natural Resources In- telligence Service of the Department et the Interior. Such, however, Is not the case with any of these provinces. There are large areas of forested lands in each, while in Manitoba fully 70 per cent. of the total area is• under forest cover. Recent estimates of the commercial timber stands of the three provinces range from eight to eleven million acres, and the oommaercial saw -timber from. 33 to 42 thousand million board feet. These estimates. do not include much of the northern area, where the growth is more or less of a scrubby nature. This latter, however, con- tains a large potential supply of pulp- wood. The Forest Branch of the Depart- ment epartment of the Interior has segregated considerable areas in each of the pro- vinces as forest reseries. Of a total reserved area of 31,926 square miles, 18,894 square miles is in Alberta, 9,303 square miles in Saskatchewan, and 3,729 square miles in Manitoba.. Most of this forest reserve is composed of land unfit for agriculture, and the ob- ject of the Interior Department in es- tablishing the reserves has been not with the idea of keeping the timber and other resources contained within them out of use, but to supply, in per- petuity, the largest quantity of the best timber that can be produced. A certain amount of fuel and building logs are given near -by settlers, and Permits are given, 'for a ncniinal fee, to cut timber for domestic, community aiad various other purposes. The forest products of the three prairie provinces in the aggregate for 1922, reached a large figure. The lum- ber cut amounted to 90,157,000 board feet, 24,737,00 lath were cut, also 487,635 cross ties, 37,403 poles, 5,529,- 657 fence posts, 496,380 rails and a 1 large quantity of other forms of forest product. The total value of the out- put for 1922 was $8,443,231. There was cut for fuel purposes 1,213,936 cords of firewood. Wood is not so generally used for fuel in the settled portions of the Prairie Provinces, as in eastern Canada, owing to the many areas in whioh a local supply of coal is available. Natural gas also provides a fuel supply in a number of districts, particularly in Alberta. The protection of the timbered areas from forest fires is one of the chief ' cares of the Forest Service, and for this purpose fire patrols are maintain- ed both on the reserves and on the ad- joining timbered areas. Aeroplanes are engaged during the fire danger season in patrolling, and good results have been secured in fire prevention. i Through the efforts of the Tree Planting Division of the Interior De= pertinent the reputation of the Prairie Provinces as being composed of bald prairie land promises to become ob- solete. Millions of young trees are being planted annually about the farm homes, and in many districts the out- look utlook is broken by wooded areas, which add much to make homelike conditions for the new comer to his prairie homo. 1 Naval Definitions. Fatham A measure of six feet, Turret A tower for the protection of the gunners, Crow's nest—A perch for the look- out ookout at the masthead. Armament—A, term expressing col- lectively all the guns of a ship. Jacob's Iadder--A short ladder with 'wood rungs and rope sides. Capstan—A machine used on board ship for lifting heavy weights. Bow chaser—A gun mounted in the bow to fire on retreating vessels. Bulkhead—A partition separating compartments on the same deck. Cable—A, long, heavy chain used to retain a ship in place at anchor. Binnacle—The compass box of a ship, with alight to show it at night. Gangway --The aperture in a ship's side where persons enter and depart. Displacement—The weight in tons of the volume of water displaced by a ship's hull. Barbette—A fixed circular belt of armor for protecting the guns in a re- volving turret. Knot A nautical mile of 2025 yards; equal to about one and one-eighth statute miles. Monitor—A low, nearly fiat -bottom- ed armored - vessel, with one or two turrets, each carrying two guns. Bridge—A platform above -the rail extending across the deck for the con- venience of the ship's officers. Conning tower—An armored tower where the wheel, engine, telegraphs, etc., are located, and from which the captain is supposed to dircet his men during a battle. Bullets That Fall Like Rain. Looking across the Thames to the Surrey side at Waterloo Bridge in Lon- don, there may be seen to the right a Huge round tower rising out of a jum- bled collection of wharfs, sheds, and chimney stacks to a height of about 200 feet. This is the shot tower of Walkers, Parker, and Co., Ltd., the Lambeth Lead and Shot Works. The general public knows little of the purpose of this structure, and as a rale regards it as a kind of compli- cated factory chimney. But it holds the ,secret of shot -making for sporting cartridges and other purposes in Eng- land. Briefly described, the proem is to &op from different heights hot lead ran through a devlee somewhat like a colander, The falling shot In the course of this process drops into vats of water at the bottom of the tower, and when it is removed it has taken on its spherical form. The discovery of this method of pro- ducing roducing shot in large quantities at high speed has been attributed to a man named Watts, about the year 1787, at Briseel. .At all events, it was in the end purchased by Walkers, Parker for $50,000. The records are to the effect that Watts ascended the tower of St. Mary's Church, Bristol, on a hot -day. Over- come by the heat, or some refreshment somewhat more potent, he fell asleep, and in a drea.m saw himself dropping melted lead to tahe ground, where it took the form of pellets. Much im- pressed, he made experiments at home, and the shot tower is the indirect result. f A new type erf storage tank for gasoline is spherical in shape, as pres- sure is more equally distributed over the entire sphere. Did you ever realize that by yield- ing instead :of resisting, by giving in instead of being stubborn, a being a stickler for an apology, , you disarm the resentment and awaken the 'bettor nature of the Odle who has injured you? Many people ,have: thus gained the good will of one whom they had • Seals and Camels Have Real j Trap -Door Noses. Most of us when we go in for diving have very unpleasant experlense of getting our nostrils full of water. Na- i ture did not design man to be a diving animal, otherwise she would have been! as clever with his nose as she has been with the seal'& The seal is, without doubt, the clever - et diver in the animal world, and his nose is a very ingenious contrivauce indeed. Each nostril is provided with muscles which close it hermetically at the owner's will. And the shape of the nose is such that when the nostrils are closed not a drop of water can enter. With seals the closing of the nostrils at the moment of diving has become an automatic process. This is wonderful enough, but we I can see a still more remarkable appli- cation of the same principle In an animal as far removed from the seal , as chalk is from cheese. The seal is a wate- animal. The other owner of trap-door nostrils is the camel, an inhabitant of the driest parts of the world, the waterless, sandy deserts. Now why should the camel require such an apparatus? He is not troubled with water, but he is troubled with dust; not the dust that we see in this country, but the fierce, blinding dust storms of the desert. These are so violent that tiny par- ticles are driven into the works of even the mostly finely made watch, which becomes at once clogged and useless. If the camel. had not nostrils which were perfectly dust -tight, he could never endure the dreadful sand and dust storms. The Day of Rest. "Why does he sit so far back in the shadows in church on Sunday?" "To rest his eyes from sitting so far front in the stage Iights in the theatre all week." A Gift That Backfired. Brother Allen had in his store an old-fashioned, ornate silver table ca,s- ter that no one would buy, though he had marked it down to "only $4." When the sisters of the church asked for contributions to the good pastor's donation party he put in the silver 'monstrocity, taking care to insert the digit one before the four in order to make the gift seem valuable. ' The party was held with its .shower of good things. Little Mrs;. Elliott, the pastor's wife, gazed ccuriousiy at the caster and .its plethoric tag. "It's too rich for us!" she said. "Especically when the children need clothes': and we all need food. I'll go and ask Brattier AIlen to take it back and let us have the fourteen dollars'. worth of other things that we need so badly." Hank Evans, the village gossip, was in the store when she ' came in ,with. the high-priced donation. So, rather than betray himself to 'Hank's biting. tongue, Brother Allen sent 'fourteen dollars' worth of goods up to the par- son's house—almost a dray load of the cheaper but more 'comforting things that the little woman had selected ;' Morale A clean gift, like a clean en.- gine,'will* not backfire, The fear of what'peci$le will think of us is a very ooninvou cause of slav- ery, And the nervous anxiety` cull() ve$ether we. de not please is a strain which wastes theenergy of the great. regarded as an 'eb#my.—O. B.. Marden. ar part of mankind," •w--.TIU T xE WORST IS YET TO COME 1„ . lot 1.1 1 ccs `ce 0104. /1_7" i �► Qlreh The Little People. The Lord of the Little People, Gentle and very wise, Walking His woods In the twilight, Harks to His children's cries And His tender mouth Is wry with. pain And terrible are His eyes. The snare that has throttled the rabbit Jerks to his dying strain; Trapped by his rush -thatched dwell- ing, The muskrat whimpers his pain; And here the bird with the shot - mashed wing Hidden three days has lain. The Lord of the Little People Wistfully goes His way, Seeking in vain His children; Few and afraid are they Of the mighty beast who has ravished the world With his hunger to slay,'slay, slay. Lonely the fields at twilight; Empty the darkling wood, There, in the woodchuck's burrow, Dead lies an orphaned brood. Here, where the bob -whites towered, Are feathers and gouts of blood. The Lord of the Little People, Who may divine what stirs His heart, as He seeks in the twilight The songs of His worshippers, And hear but whimpers and squeals of pain From creatures in plumes and furs? The partridge rots in the woodland; The wild duck drowns in the sea; Beasts on the wide -flung trap lines Perish in agony That the monkey thing with the wea- sel's lust May wallow in mastery. The' Lord of the Little People, Who can His thoughts surmise? Cattle and small gray donkeys Heard His first baby cries. He knows, He knows when a sparrow falls And terrible are His eyes. By teaching we learn. Not to com- municate one's thoughts to others to keep one's thoughts to oneself, as peo- ple say --i's either cowardice or pride. It is a form of sin.—H. G. Wells.. Did you ever notice that the chap who is always carving his initials, 'upon the fence, trees, and his desk at School, seldom, if ever, writes his 1 name upon the age in which he lives? He commences carving too early, and gets tired. Wanted: A Hymn Censor. Very strong representations have i been made by an influential Buddhist e committee in Ceylon against the con- t tinued singing, in its present form, f "Frons Greenland's Icy Mountains." The hymn, as everybody knows, re -,•i grets that "Ceylon's Isle" is a spot where "every prospect pleases," and "only man is vile." The Cingalese strongly object to being .called "vile," and there is much to be said for their point of view. It appears, indeed, that in the first draft of the hymn, which was written in tweny minutes, Java was the island chosen for special "vileness," but Cey- lon was substituted as being more tuneful in sound. During the course of a children's ser- vice at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, Canon Adderley was leading the child- ren in the singing of that favorite hymn, "All Things Bright and Beauti- ful," but, coming to the third verse, be said: "Children, don't sing that verse, because it is a lie!" This is the verse which he objected to: WHAT FOREIGNERS CALL INSULTS We have all heard of the adage that guests and the host -a far greater in "one man's meat is another's poison,". suit than drinking a health in water, but it is not so well known that piane and that Is pretty serious in France,. nein differ almost as much as food, In Germany has scme curious forms of greliious observances, for instance, sea insult. To begin with, to offer a rose, how the Christian takes off his hat or any other flower, without any gren when entering a church, while the Mo- or leaves with it, to a lady is to deeply hammedan keeps on his hat and takes insult her, though why this should b off his shoes so is not known precisely. The Foreign Office in England one The German students, are formed in - time received a 'complaint through the to corps, some ofwhich are fighting Chinese Legation in London that the corps, and others. not. Each corps.lias minister representing .Her Majesty in. its distinctive cap, and when a mem- China had insulted the Chinese Cabinet. ber of one meets another in the street There woo great excitement for awhile it isetiquette for each to doff his cap. but investigation revealed that the Should the other not respond a com• only conduct of whioh he . had been plaint is made to his corps, and a duel guilty was thumping the table at is fought --,a real duel, with" abres ter which he was sitting. to emphasize a pistols, not the fencing duel which is, remark. In China it is a. grievous of- pastime in Germany, for the insult is fense to thump the •table, and because nearly the worst that can be offered. the British Government refused to dis-; There is one worse, and that is spill- cipline their representative, the Chin- ing or flicking beer over another stu- ese diplomats were exceedingly angry. dent purposely. No apology will wipe In this country if a friend iso visiting out this offense; nothing will except a another and stays to dinner, he may duelto the death, or d duel which is ask for the loan of a, hair brush with- continued until one of the combatants out giving offense, but in Hungary he is too badly wounded to continue the may ,not. fight. A minor insult is to refuse to To attempt bo borrow that useful ar- drink with a student if invited, or to tiele is one of the greatest insults refuse to respond with "Prosit" when which can be offered to a Hungarian, he raises his glass and says' "Ich Kora- and one which will in most cases me'vor"; but this is more a breach of cause a duel good manners than an actual Insult: In France there are several insults We might finish with two Spanish which the unwary foreigner mayoffer examples of kcurious insults' In South without knowing it. For example, he America. Thefirst of these Is to re- may be visiting a friend, and may put fuse to smoke a. cigarette which an -- his hat upon the bed. This is a griev- other man offers you after he haa bad our form of insult, but why is not it in his mouth; and the second is to known; it is a very ancient one, and refuse drink out of the same glass so, probably, results from an old super- that a man has just drunk from, or, stition. 1 worse still, to wipe it before drinking. Again, there are two ways of pour- There are doubtless many other un - ng out wine in France, as everywhere known insults which Canadians may Ise. One of these is to hold the bot- - commit without knowing it, and that le so that while pouring the thumb is is why they should be very careful to acing the tablecloth. The second way learn in advance something about the s to hold the band reversed—and this manners and customs of the people s a great insult to the assembled among whom they intend to travel. "The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate— God made them high or lowly, And ordered their estate." 9. returned missionary from Jamaica and Old Calabar says that Dr. Dodd - ridge's description of heaven in his well-known hymn: "No midnight shade, no clouded sun, But sacred, high, eternal noon." will make anyone shudder who knows what it is to be exposed to the sun of the torrid zone. He says: "The man who wrote these lines must have lived far north, where a glimpse of the sun was a rare favor. "I once met a black boy," he con- tinues, "sitting under the shade of a palm, taking shelter from the sun's glare and the dazzle of the sandy, sea- side road. I said: `Did you ever hear of heaven, my boy?' " 'Yah; boss!' "What sort of a place do you think it'll be?' " 'Guess it'1I be a mighty cool kin' o' show, boss!' said the little chap and he knew more about it than some hymn writers." An avalanche that swept across a road near Rochetaillee, France, not long ago, dropped a huge block of ice that contained the carcass of a wild boar. Just how the boar becafne im- bedded in the ice is not clear, but probably it was caught in the slide, and the mass of snow closing round it, solidified and thus converted it into cold storage pork. i The remarkable'achievement of Miss Mabel Green, blind typist of Lon• j don, :lies behind• the pubiteation of a book recently, the entire manuscript of which extending 'to 40,000 words, she took down in Braille shorthand and A Poem You Ought to"Know. Living on Seeds,. Ode to Autumn. You sit down to your breakfast and .John Keats enriched our literature t begin with porridge; ' the oatmeal is with five of its greatest Odes. The crushed oat seed. You ge on with "Ode to a Nightingale" is perhaps the toast, which is made from the seed of best known, but the following, though wheat, and with these foods you drink the shortest, :has the perfection of a . Coffee, which is a decoction of the flawless gem: 1 crushed and roasted seed of the coffee Season of mists and mellow fruitful -1 shrub. ness, Has it ever occurred to you to con - Close bosom -friend of the maturing rider the extent to which seeds enter sun; 1 into the diet of the whole human race? Conspiring with him how to load and !All our bread is made of seeds, either bless j of wheat, barley, rye, or corn. Eastern With fruit the vines that round the races, who do not eat bread as much thatch -eaves run; To bend with apples the mussed cot- tr g, trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd,- and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'erbrimmed their clammy cells. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy for soup and as winter vegetables. store Cocoa is also made from a seed. And Sometimes whoever seeks abroad our condiments, with the exception of as we do, live la gely upon the seed of the rice plant, boiled instead of Id" We ourselves eat enormous quantities of rice, both as a vegetable and as a pudding. In Central America, the whole 'Popu- lation from II/lexica down to Southern Brazil lives mainly upon corn„ either cracked and cooked as hominy or ground into flour and made into•bread and. cakes. - Among our most prized vegetables are green peas and broad Beane, both the green seeds of cultivated plants, while dried peas and lentils are used may find Thee ,sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft -lifted by the winnow - ing wind; Or on a half -reaped furrow sound t salt, nearly all come from seeds. Mus- tard, pepper, and nutmeg are well- known examples. Nuts form a considerable proportion of the food of the human race. We eat walnuts, chestnuts, Brazil nuts, asleep, and hazel nuts, which are all seeds of Drowsed with the fume of poppies, different trees, • while thy hook But by far the most important of Spares the next swath and all its nuts is that of the coco-palm, . from twined flowers; which is made margarine and 01,, and And sometimes like a gleaner thou hundreds of tons of which are used dost keep in the manufacture of cakes and con: Steady thy Iaden head across a fectionery. Almonds are also essential brook; to the makers of cakes and sweets. Or by a cider -press, with patient lam, Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours. Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou haat thy music too,— While barred clouris bloom the soft. dying day, And touch the stubble -plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful chair the small gnats nrr urn Among the river Bellows, Borne aloft Or sinking ue the light wind lives rig disK; And full gcr,zvri i inabx lour! bleat from hIUy b1 urri; !fad€ e criek< is ging; and mew with trelelee s•,oft 'Ther'edbreSet, whistles €.'roan_ the 'gar- dassn n t trft, Ansi' gafhetitra :a\/elifeWe fwlffs i iri fhrhoskrr};;, . 1`1004 Ji Ott to poi anti s. Illeyerl'Ii�ftit'ixdi; er�sj•eetnre '.e'Erie iIUN on t.ailtee'd tear§ carrying CChinesesol- riser.; Ornt ort ;tt, reel liarndite have Inst been provided. The 'floodlighting orete,ctors were egtr'pped, with 250- 250- weftlanais, .anal a considerable nnum- beror these prajaetors were •mottnted on several railroad cars used to trans- port detachments of soldiers. Good work was clone by; this means in re- clrfcing the number;: of bandiVattacics upon railroad trains on the Tientsin. Pukow railway. landiscovered. e, "My friend, are: you travelling the strait and narrow path?" in silence: the man banded over • his card, which read; "Signor Ballancio, Tiglitrope Walk - faultlessly transcribed. ` er." Hard Luck. Iiug---"Gaeat Scott, old man---" Warm --"Isn't it terrible, I swaliow- ed a hairpin on a bet!" A Canadian Wembley. I Even, when the 'Brit'ish Empire Ex. hileition Is over, its memory will still be preserved in Canada, where the latest railway -station, fifteen miles" ffatiLh-woot of Gx;ancl Prairie, Alberta, t has 'been givon the name of Wembley. This is not the first time that places in Canada }lave been named after well• known persons and places in the Old Country. There is a Beaconsfield and a Gladstone in"'Manitoba, an Asquith post/office in Saskatchewan, and a Bonar Law station in Ontario. Revel- stoke, British Columbia,' is another case in point. It was named after" the first Lord Revelstoke, of Baring Broth- ers, who took ager"the first bond issue (fifteen million clol]ars) of the Cana. dian Paeffie Paihva.y. In addition to these there are the classical examples, of Iludson Bay, named after the explorer; and Wind- sor, Woodstock, Chatham, and '.1 Lon- don -on -Thames in Ontario. The last- named •suitably 'enough, is in 11lideie• sex County, which provides another ee ample. Ontario also boasts a Gies, gory and a Glencoe.