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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-04-19, Page 6LUMBER FOR THE WORLD ,ct ADA IIAS THE 91treiTEST WOO PULP VOlaESTS 0;i1 Ate:ell:en Coecespen. cleat TaIi Alleentt ibe (re 1t Wealth of, the POL111511D1.41. 1X11[10,11i0ii seeted one. o • "11,-, Aplieno Eeltre tetratiedrole kites, 1.13stog the IiitItc0,4 1USU1ki1",rar4r, Of 11k3 'e lflI., .'Oefer to ' the • 1tt1o1ere0..eereat (4. the eit'Anaditaidorettsion. begtiee AtiantiO ud cjid at the llaiettita en-ea:thine .froin east to vvest.'14r, Enor, 11,z111 mitiek;, (-at ;voter, front 'Ottawa ia inks Chielesei Ate -i cool -fleeted. ' Starting in Nova Scalia and New! Dronswicig you look down on eneugh! , tug tree's* to cover tile State of Messa.1 chu;-etts, There are lumber mills ice, and the proprietors of the Londont newspapers are nutting up .pulp millei there to supplioethespeper 'for theegreat. eta reading constituency of Europe. Ge.. einTr, westward we fly over the vast for.' 'psis of Quebec, and into, those of On- tario from , where a great „part of our white pine reev comes. Here, the foreels extend irom the , shores of Lake Superior. and 'tweet , northward. -te those of Hudson Bay, and go on to the. WeSt, 0.11110§t to the setting sun. They take in . the Lake of the Woods region, and then switch to the north and skirt the wheat !belt, until 'Wet" lose, themselves in' the giant woods tae, Rockies and the Pt -Leine. , Britieh. Columbia hae the same climate and vegetation as Washington and Ore- gon, and its tree,' a tle surpassed by none in the world. They are sometirites forty, fifty, or sixty feet thick; a single leg will load 0 ear, (1114 one tree cut into bonds may make a train load. lim- ber, which will square two or three feet and make a• log sixty feet long, is spoken of there as i.a tooth -pick • and such toothpicks are expprted all over the world. This British Columbia tim- ber belt is almost untouched. .14 has ted and yellow cedar, white and yellow pine., red fir, maple and oak. It is one of the Mostvaluable pieces of woods left on the North Ameriam continent, WOODS ABOVE. THE LAKE'S. Flying back to the east fet; us look for a moment atOthe wOode beyond the great . lakes. Above” Lakes Superior and"Hu. 'lath is an extension of the forests we,had • in Wisconsin and Michigan. Fully • one- third of the trees are more than one hundred "years old, and many have seen several centuries. They consist cf white .pine, birch and maple • and other hard woods, with a strip of spruce at the north yast enough to make the wood pulp for the newspapers of generations ' te' come. 'Four million pine logs are floated down every year to .this city of -Ottawa, and other millions, go to the . great lakes and across to the United States. .1.. The Dominion is doing all it can to ' preserve the trees: On some of the public- lands •the regulations are now such that. no trees, belowea fixed : size vire be cut. The timber is sold only when it is ripe. If these arrangements. are kept in force, they will give.Ontario a forest reserve :of 40,000,000 acres, it is estiMated, bring in 830,- COO.:000 a year., .• Canada hasset aside a number of na- tonal parka. In two nf its Rocky Mountain reservations it has almost as *much as we have in all our national parks, and in Ontario there are 'COO acres of such' reservations. The Yoho Park on the Pacific slope is forty miles long- and fifteen iniles wide, and the Rocky Mountain Park, along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, is ninety-six miles long and forty-six miles wide., The Algonquin. National park, in 'Central Ontario"; contains 1,200,000 acres,' and northern Quebec has- a na- lional perk of more ',than a million and a half acres. The Canadian govern- , ment guards its*. forests against 'fires and pays . half the wages of the!tire rangers on timber, lands' leased 19tim- bermen, , ' s, Canadalhas some of the -greatest wood pulp fores,ts. on earth. North of the pine belt there Is a strip 9,f spruce and pop- lae which runs across the greater part of the continent. It contains enough' trees of the right sort to supply the ,newspapers of the .world for ages. In- ct€64, it could furnish enough to almost paper the globe anti leave some to spare. hi the Lake St. John basin of the Pro- ..‘`.-Vitice of 'Quebec there is „a, wood Pulp 'area as large as the State of South tar- " ',cline; on whieh are now standing 100,,- O00,000 cads of pulp wood. A half-mtl- lion tons of pulp'could annually be made from that forest for an indefinite perlon; and this is only a patch on the whole. Sir. Alfred I faemsworth, the proprietor of the LondOn Mail, ha s bought large tracts of atirtiaci timber hi Newfound- liareLewhere he will make Ilia. paper for his many publientions, and the Lloyds, the owners of the Shipping jlegister, an- other London newspaper of wide circu- lation„ hav'e also invested in pulp for- ests. • TURN LOGS Pfif;P. Canada has now ,thirty-nine mills, which are annually turning out 275,- 00t; tons of wood pulp, a large part of which goes to the ,UnitedtStates. I went through a pulp nilil here at Ottawa, which was grinding spruce logs to pow- ., (ler, reducing tlieni to pulp, and final. ly turning thorn into paper. It was making toxiat rolls of newttpaper, ettell ao big around as a hogshead, tittd it was Also turning ti' l'.1 into paper bags.' 11 la Operated by the Ottawa !liver, xhhh fornishee many thous:arid hawse e power atid runs 1U 10110, factoriee 'and paper, btggest -pulp mills el the i'vorld, er. I aria told. are theee of the I.alot Su- Tior Corporation fit Satilt Ste. .Marie, Cauada. 'fliese iiW0 tnahe both me- chanieal .arel chemical pulp, tut -411'1g Outs a, big produet ',ellen in full operation. irigeitty ,vialt to thetn Ilin tneehani. cat works only were taxiing, and the out. ,put 'tvas 100 tone per (lay. A litindred' tune, helve -Nett, givee!(1('.i. ()f the amount of paper nia(le. It takee about, a cesi of wood to no&e, a ton of pulp, ts Iota if the roll avhieli weighs tha leer r! apisad -out like a carpet, woul Over any it paveinehla to the length et gitree and a half lintel. TAG pulp, ceenes met in the flame ef FROM MEE TO NEWSPAPER, ecoceat peratoetee ottace e--32aLe goateo goonei LOCOMOTIVE SOON TO GO stoma io haw, lesestee ia tteo- renring, ememingteisf es„ enep124,,cmK %my RAPIDLY. e9ormotte etanee estd geell gem-- M:11,1g, '14 rematncd, bewevee, for our ago 10 rf1,11 U2.0'30 IXC(Attilt;Te3 OPQn4 (ilad to peeeeit taele eceneete to n/i tilc) II Lit that el avtatt thront'A the* Wat, Polo mitl =telling the roechinee seentz nevespeperee out es* ease ie, s. flae epeuee limber ,is cot in the foreets, doz- ing the winter end tloat(ei „await, tite iiver.i to Lnkt), ,',7;uperio.r and tleinee 1.roughte to „ the Senile; s • ...The hies aio of esteems diametere, 'these waked derma, my stay were a feot or a uot end a htt1,tlucia.. he twit' was taken,tiff by planing? machines Lind they were carried oat endless belle hi the mill, All the maeldnery oyes moved by water and the books realty fleeted in the running brooks on their Way to their readers. The mills in which thee logs are ground are about eight feet, in diamet- er and not more than, eight feet high. Each has a great grindstene in it, againet which the logs (are pressed by maehinery in such it way :that they- Vie; ereduaily pulverized' tie the s'ton's move around at the rate of eoa res ()lotions. per minute. As the meld. grinds off the dust retie dewn into the Water inside the mill, and when it comes out, it looks like chewed paper. It is now wood Pulp, and has only to be purified and uried into e sort of a Cardboard before it is ready for the market. I opened cne of the mills and .tOok out a hand- ful of the pulp, then grinding, It was clean, but hot; and I asked the engin- (er whether hot water was needed for making it. He replied that the -water went into the -mill ice cold, but that the friction of grinding was so great that it soon boiled and steamed. -GOES TO READERS OF WORLD. After the 'pulp mites from the mill it iS, forced through wire strainers and then carried over wide belts of the finest wool- en felt. It is so • thrown uporiIhese belts that it coats them. The particles stick together, forming a kind of cardboard, which dries as it gees 'en to the various n-lachines, and finally comes out in great rolls ready for shipment ,over the world, to be. made intonewspaper§ Which we have served up to us every morning at out breakfast' tables. The: best wood pulp, however, is made by a Chemical process. In this, manu- facture there is no grinding whatever, The logs are cut into chips and put•in- to an enormous 'steel' tank, which is filled with sulphurous .acid and steam. This works on the wood as the stomach, works on food, and finally digests it in- to a pulp. The difference between che- mical pulp and mechanical Pulp is aboutthe same as the, difference 00- tvVeen short staple cotton and loog staple Sea Island cotton. The .chemical 'pulp has a longer, ,fibre . and et 'makes a stronger paper. • The tank used for making chemical . pulp at Sault Ste Marie 'is, almost 100 feet high, and ,the moStecomplete of , its kind in existence. REMARKABLE INVENTION AN AIR ENGINE WIIICH MAY KILL THE COAL TRADE. Atrietlicm Paillebasb Are Makillg le ebonue Ativantanes Over Steaue. Flee years,' ago noa(a opeeator 01 cmpottohnog iothienee • soide In ten tore Yoare' tittle it willhe 'dillictrit to rind te `steam- locomotive- am the trunk lino (if the east,' When found it -will be on tlee, see:to hi p Ue'en/. have been, die- pateekliy the pleetrid neAor.". ' 1 lit.env 41 1, Was et. n id vvith inere thrifty, Even railroad operators who foresaw a re'N elution, in motive power thOught the limit should he placed et twenty years, if not t. quarter of a cen. tery: The reVolrition meant so' 'Buell. Not only in their view, before • this could be done, must a complete change Le made in methods', track construction and organization, but influences of,pow- or. which would naturally WI' eXterteit lo a continuame, of old ways and old Methods, must be overturnecL, Apt but half of the.period named,<Ity,"this seeing man has expired, and tWrevolu- bon is in progress. ON NEW YORK LINES.. The Process' of electrifying the rail - „roads centering at New York is under way. Already a',prtion. of the Long Island Railroad ie being operated by elec- tricity. while:111e labor of electrifying other parts is being steadily pushed. Similar, wolit is being done on the lines at the New York and New Haven. The operetion of the New York Central so far em- as Croton is onlyawaiting the completion of the terminal improve- ments in Manhattan. Though noVeh- lir announcement has been mad c of the fact, it is well known that the Pennzyl- venia contemplates the moving of pe. trains by electricity between Philadel- phia and New York when the tunnels under the North River are comPleted. Now the Erie takes a step in the sante direction, while the Delaware and Hud- son is experimenting with ,a new style cf electric motor. New Inventiotlf Will Propel a Locomo- tive or Vessel Without the Use of Steam. Arrangements are now being made in a *greater revolutiop than .that -whicle England to test a new tape of engine; rjjichif it proves Successfuleanay cause which resulted aeon the discovery of the steam engine or ' of the application el electeicity to motive power. The patentee is a Lancashire, man, who. has jdyeady achieved some. success as an in en r. This new prodOction lie describes s i triple.econamic air engine end if the liintor can justify all Ids claims the business of the coal miner will he practicallY gone, as far as Indus4 trial requirements are concerned. „ Suirimardecl, the elainas for the new *engine are as toilows..—The econoinie ail engine Will Save the- use of coal and all cost of fuel; it, will take the place of steam, whicb will not be required to keep the pressure of air constant; it will DRIVE .A LOCOMOTIVE, 'propel a ship, work a mill forge, &c., without, using either gas, water,coal, electricity or oil, and it will entirely pre- vent smoke. The economic cylinder will be more Powerful than any other type of cylin- der of equal diameter; it will save the ose of large boilers and not more*than Iwo will be required for large works. With two or more boilers 'filled with compressed air up to the preseure re. (wired in each boiler theeconomic cy- linder will keep up the pressure of air, if setto work. In leasomotivee and other high pres- sure steam boilers the wear, and tear is considerable. elt is . caused by the fires, the use ofenirty water, and the constant changing of tempeeature and pressure, all having a tendency to pull them to pieces and cause serious reftts round the rivet holes and •other parte cf the boilers. This wear and tear will be avoided by the use of the air engine. While this still remains t� be proved, the doing away with the us e of coal in ernelting appears to be AN ACGOMPLISHED FACT. Mr. J. Corbin Weld, Deputy Governor, of the Canada Cottlaanv, who is now in Lenclon„ says that he bad itist.received 'hiformation ofan important experiment, which resulted in proving that smelting would be successfully achieved by elec. tricity. - The experiments weee made, not by a body of men 8cettilig,16 lioatott Com* pally, but at the expenee of the Canadian government with •eview or the develop- ment of the iron ore industry in rtie*-On. lora) district. -He hadreceived informatimilliats the reeults of the exprimente were delbrite end coneitiaive, and that the treatment ef ore by electricity could e profitable/ and lucratively 'tarried (Pit. rather like that ,',,ung Doti: bleday.- lla 0. ttood tirm told 12 teed It ear4J renal", , up chine' tiOrtle---flagelliceal Ilaa I Suet niatttog. teen kieeing you, toti . FOR SAFETY OF WORKERS A FRONTIERSMAN LEGION PREVENTION OF SENILIt _ EXIIWITION OF APPLIAN'CUS OLGANIZATION -POSSESSES MANY ELEIIENTF.4 OF ROMANCE PRINENT ACCIDENTS. 141fany ()oleos Seen to Protect Vseerlioyee envoi pees -Wheels and Saws. , e -A permanent PkIiiiaitiort Of ,practleal, appharices to pisnrent aecidente to ewer- atorS of maehines ine bet:to/lee has befIll establitehed in letteie at the ConSeevator. lee des ntV et Metiers: . This ..eXiXibitiGa Was ollicially opened early in Octet:ether ha M. -Loubet, President of the Repub- lic In the exhibition areinstalled the more common Machines found in -fac- tories. The' niachine,s are in, motion, and o practical demonstration is .given daily by an official in charge. The variOns ruaehines have been chosen by the ,, ad- ministration .of the conservatoire as representative of their class, and are equipped with the most improved ap- pliances for the prdvention of accidents to the operator, One IlUNS first of- einethe airran ainents added to protect thus -opera r improve rather than injure theeappear- once. of the machines. In every in- eatance the safety appliances are graceful and sightly; at the same time they are arranged with' the greatest posible elin- r licitY and economy, and it is apparent that the improvenients, though of great Nellie both to the' employer and to the employe, must add but a Mall per cent. to the cost of the thechine. A. brief re- cital of some of the more common ma, chines found in the collection will give a comprehensive idea of the 'scope of the exhibition and the general idea elabora- ated. THE WHOLE SYSTEM. In the present outlook it would seeM as if. the only purpose was- that of illOV- ing the suburban traffic by Aeetrical power. It is merely the first step in. the coming, revolution. The other steps may not now be apparent, to the general public, but they WV clearly visible to railroad men. Alrelttly the New York Central has begun the preliminary work of electrifying its western division. When both ends ..are" operated by elec- tricity it will be but a short time before .the same power will 15b applied to the 'middle sections. When one road is wholly operated by eleetric power other roads will follow. One road will not te permitted to enjoy a monopoly of the advantages resident in applied electrie city. s ITS MANY ADVANTAGES.. " If no other 'advantaged were secured to the travelling public than that of. in- creased comfort and clearnioese, the te- volution would be justified. Egemp- hop from,, coal dust and neat smoke would increase travel. And that would be the advantage gained by the ccfm. pany. This is not a fanciful considera- tion. Railroad operatives now' declare that increase of comfort and conveni- ence in their ,cars has been followed by such increase bf receipts as nil' justify the expenditures entailed. But there are other advantages in the way �fin- ereased speed and economy .of opera- tion that commend the power to rail- -road men. In the whole realm of direct- ed energy, says the Brooklyn Eagle, there is not to be found such waste Es is made in the application. of energy stored in coal. But 10 per cent. of that energy -is secured. Ninety. per cent. goes to waste. It is true thatsas yet coal must be consumed to generate electricity. But the power thus obtained is- ire much larg- er prOportion than when taken directly from the coal. WITHOUT USE OF STEAM. Of course, the ideal condition will be reached when electricity can be provided without the aid, of steam Power. It will not do, in view o' he past, to conclude that the , discovery • of the means • bY which it can be done' is not in the near future. As It Is, however, the science of electricity has advanced to that stage ,when it is recognized as the most eco- nomical of efficients in power. The main Winne is that the revolution in motive poWer 18 In progress. The next five years will be a memorable period in the history of electrical propulsion. • EDUCATION AND BURGLARY Methods of English House -breaker Have Much Improved. Education, says the tread Constable of Livxerpoote England, in his annual re- port .on the city police, which has just teen issued, certainly has had one ef- fect upon crimes of dishonesty in that it has to a certain extent eliminated pen. sonal violence as an Etccessory circum- stance. MIs of violenee only add to the dangers of [120 burglar's or thief's enters Prise, and edocation, introducing better methods to him, as to the honeet work - 1111212, has enabled him to avoid theinoel. thee by a more educated study of details or by changing the character °Chia evritne from that of larceny to that of fraud., Either course decreases his den - ger, and the .latter generally increasee his prnins—swindiing, wheteher it be b means of a lying prospectus, a mislea ing trade description,- an 211)1)0121 for a 1 ogus charity, or any Other false pre. tence is both Safer and more profitable than "A tenting a man's cash and valu- e -4)10e by breaking into MS lo 11.0 1:11001d114 him on the head. Per8onal honesty and profeesional or trade tett- anon seeem under the 8tress of modern eempetition to afford less proteetion to the rights (ifprO)erty than they did yt are ego, and something more is want- ed, if the, honeet and dishonest are to compete in life on. anything like equal terms. .„ CONCLUSI,‘"Ii. L"(iiittel ,lerie invested all hie meeey tit Falet.p. ho you think he'll mato. any- thing .of "No doubt Weed, •rit. lie always Wino s‘• 401'i3 titei,f any. fleeciiira to be (lancet 4 , FLY -WHEELS AND SAWS. Flywheels within .the height of the operator are surrounded by high sereens cf substantial wirework. If the wheel is small, and a screen impracticable .the spokes of the flywheel -are 'hidden by light plates that make it impossible for the clothing Or person of the operation •to become involved in the wheel. Horizontal saws are entirely protected b3 an ingenious arrangement somewhat on the plan of the sticks of an ordinary fan, and, can readily be swung, back- ward or forward tesadmit work of v,ary- ing sizes. Ribbon or band stitys are in- cased .in angle- pieces .or practical box- es wherever it is- possible for the opera- tor to come in' contact with the blade, All gearing to lathea is enclosed, and a practical and readily detachable cas- ing over the end gears permits the change of these gears in the .screw, cut. ting machines, Emery eavheels are closely incased and the operator 'protected from injury from the, dust. and flying particles:. ' Drills, planing Or mortisirig machines are closely ',protected at all Parts, . and it- would seem that a. determined effort would be 'required on the part of tne, operator to secure injury: , KEEP OUT SKIRTS.' In •spinning .and knitting machines special attention is taken to Paotect the skirts of 'femele operators, all the run- ning.naete being tightly enclosed. In general, one remarks that all belt- ing,. gearing and. wheels coming within - reach of the clothing and person .of the operator Eire well enclosed and protect- ed by casing4., br screenings. Because es, the - liebility of the em- ployer for All injuries to the, employe, more attention is paid to the protection, Ea the workingmend in . France an other European countries possibiy, n ., tha in America.. A EMPLOYERS LIABLE. In France the law presumes -that the accident is due to the negligence of the employer. A workingman receiving permanent, injuries, preventing alio] from work, is entitled to an annual in- come of two-thirds of his salary; for tem-. porafor'iocapecity he is entitled to claim one-half of .his salary. If the workrrian dies from the result of an accident his wife is entitled to a yearly income of per cent. df. her late husband's salary if ehe (,(0S not, remarry, and a child re. reivessolficen per cent. of 'the deceased Workman's Salary until arriving at the age of sixteen; if two chiMren they'res cente 25 perecente if three, 35 percent., and if four or more, 40 Per cent. It will be' seen, therefore, how great-- ly it is to *the interest, ofothe employer in France to seek for and adopt safety fleViCer in Iris factory: It is also a di- rect. object Pa., builders to make safety to th6 operator an important. consider& nen in. planning of machines. The Ftench machioery builders have already brought safety in machines to IL high oegree of perfectien. • The machines found in the: conservatoire exhibition are roachirtee actually • on the riittrket and are loaned by the manufacturere. . LOYAL TO HER FATHER. Young Highland Woman Would Not Disclose Her' Affairs. A young Highland wgman named Mackenzie has elected to. go to prison rather then disclose the affairs of hr e deceased father. The case is a remark. able one in the legal annals of Seote land, and many there are who are dis- posed to" sympathize- with . her in her ti 0121)10.4, Oft' who admire her for her 1)11101(.• n George Macitenzie was a furniture dealer att Stonehaven, ICincardineshire. His daughter vo)ts ordered by the sheriff to hand her father's books to the trus- tees of thereetate. She refused to obey. he sheriff warned her 4‘that disobedi- -.knee of such an order was a serioue ( I - fence, tend owe her six days to ronsider lier position further. It NOW plainly tin. den -good° that if she 8till refused' to give up the books she should be imprisoned, At the end of six days she was as on. Athlete in, before, and theematter 10N11110 entlitteras:,ing, because lioltody could he fettle' willing to takes. or(( prison'. Eventually the ellen f under einem. entered tho Court. and with great dia. ettllY 1VrSliatled tO 1111(1011(11(6 duty. Meant:painedby a tcn(lant, Miee Mit; then eon. , veyed to 111&1 1)1'I 'efinn A iberdeen. Mts. Naaget: ttneee 1 have al perfect' eight to my opinione." gel "Ceetoinly you have, my dear), And if you tally RePt them to youreelf I trd Lanednto •Cittailiketata and. litany Notable !Alen !lave Deeded to, Jelin. 'PrObably ornanionIn zati. the %weld poseeSses ,eleoliatts of ,roolatilen -n areat 11,degree ae this mew itssien just formed m 1' 11(1101 ' 418 ObjeCt 1Wh011y petriotie end its 'mem- .bers are paeueiated for the promotion:a! imperial interests in little of pewee, nod for inip'erial defence in time of war. The °Metall definition of the terra "frontierstrittri" states it "locheles then trained and qualified by previous come reeled military service, or by working, tainting or fighting in wild `cotintries, or at Sea, who for various reasolis do rot, or cannot serve in the existing mil- itary forces of the Empire, end who are not prepared by 'vestal of tempera- ment or -vocation to submit themselves. to the prattler( routine of military 'ells- cipline except in the time of war.' 'Under conditions the legion has already gathered into its ranks men whose collective adventures in all parts t.( the world would, if set „down on pa- per, make more thrilling and absorbing reading than any volume of fact or fie-. time ever published. EMIL OF LONSDALE CHAIRMAN, en • The Geral Council consists of ex- perts—financial; military and judicial -- and representatives of eall vocations of the wilderness and of the sea. 'fhb chairman is the Earl of Lonsdale, who himself hes had experiences. which fall to the lot cif few men. His collection of hunting trophies at Lowther Caen° is supposed to be the finest in the kingdom, The chairman 9f the Executive. Court.- ell, Sir Henry Seton -Karr, is -a famous big game hunter and was one of the pin. neers of that sport in Wyoming at a time when he was liable himself to be bunted( by red -skins. • Mr. M. H. De flora's career furnishes cne of the most reinarkable stories of the present agb. One Of his little -exploits was' the cutting out Of the battle ship HuaScar from Peru, but that is by no -means the .moste exciting of his adven- tures. - • ' Captain Walter Kirton has been prospector, gold miner, engineer,' guide, scout, hunter, seamen, correspondent ond a soldier. t FOUNDER OF THE LEGION. The founder of the legion, Mr. ,Roger Pocclek, has the extraordinary record of baying filled -thirty different vocations in his. nignly adventurous life, includ- ing those of trooper, cowboy, seaman, with the Yokohama pirates, captain of a pole train and scout.. Mr. Morley. Roberts; the distinguished novelist, is another member of the coun- cil. He was a sailor the greater portion 1 his life and left the, merchant service es a master mariner,. . TWo of the greatest journeys of recent tames were those 'made by Captain Har- i y De Windt and Captain E. S. Grogan, both of whom are in the legion. Mr.12 I3ovemain Ballontyne is an old cowboy, and a South -American explorer, whose 'name is Colonel S. 13. Steele,is known far and wide in Canada. He is the *hero cf remarkable feats of bluff which tam- ed the fighting tribes of -Western Can- ada without .fighting. • - Generals Sir .Reginald Hart, Sir John French, Sir Edward, Hutton, Sir P. Maurice, Sir E. Brabant, Admiral Prince Louts of Battenberg, Admiral Sir Percy Scott, Sir A. Conan Doyle, Mr. Rider 'laggard and Sir Claude De Crespigney are a few who are aiding the legion. , The British War Office has recognized the value of such an organization to the Empire and, Jtheegfven its approval, and alrea4y,ft fj stated, that correspon- dence has elicited the fact there are six thousand men ip different parts of (he Empire who are ready to enroll them- selves in the legion. •••••••••-•••••••••••÷-.. GROWTH OF LONDON. Book Issued Shows Startling Figures dt Immensity .of City. The immensity of London, is well il- lustrated in a volume just issued by the London County Council .entitled Statistical'. Abstract 'for London, 1905." It is an amazing compilation and shows that the British metropolis still holds the first place ampng the,greatest'cities of thehWerapidity Tof the growth of London during„the last century le shown by the fact, that while in 1801 the population was 1,114,6.14, it had risen .in 1901 to 0,581.402, and these six and sa hall mil- lion people live in 928,008 houses. Nothing is More impressive to the visitor to London than the enormous volume of -the traffic. Londoners' pro- pensity for „cheap locomotion, Is strike' ingly- indicateeby. the Vast number of tramways and omnibuses. Of course the tramway and omnibus statistics for 1904 do itot adequately represent the traffic of the present day, as since the conipletion of the.new tithes new electric car tracks, have been opened. There were then 201 miles of -tramway' lines open, and during,. the year 557,947,846 passengers were conveyed, while 288,- 065,214 poesengers travelled on the two principal Omnibus companies' vehiclee. The lettere, book packets, Moe dellv. ered by the 'postmen amounted to 1,108,. 091,000, and '28,864,600 telegrams were desPAritilCilnieted. restirig idea of the different sources of London's wealth may be gathered from the gross annual assess- ed value of the income tax in 1904, housee, etc., amounting to eC15,053,851 ($225,271255); trades and professions be- ing X74,800,453 ($374,062.265), and lho profit .of public compuniee, and other ititerest, and profits amountiug to (,C1.13,-: 534,N5 (a717,67,2,775). HE HAD NOT LOST IT. • A London hues -driver had shouted, "'loll °born!" tilt thespassenger on the ecat behind him coual no hewer resiet the teMptation to make at '•jole. "Excuse me," mild the passengere"but haven't, you dropped sometliiitice eee wot vOterq di1'at returned the driver, Itelnly, "lint 'lower nthel. Multi pich it tip when we get to Iloa- turd Street," t'A3101.7S • PllYSICIAtal WRITES. ON,, -.7 TIIE LENOM -OP 1141W,. ,s- 8ielantee Crialaton 'Omen Says We Art „Entitled* in One .1fitestiOre(1 11 1), eteecthe 1 Years,.,oisia ir Ja nceiter of .Entat . S‘hies Crielitort Browne" lyiga.„ !lucre. vieihor iiolunticy, Verne§ es fele' lows 011 the' lengthof lounatt' life in Iris, 1-'01(..,(liteery"TzhileauPri:siy, elittli(11,innt.(iif eSnetiniiiviiatYi'o' i;i8 11.4. ('iirtittlaw3Iii 1 ttli(ititril teolr'ee,Ilrfo'NiNt-1,(111'10101111-101[1011av °e1('1)-11111-1.;1 re'Y;fr ' Dian men.' livery child should he brought 'up impressed with the bitiiga-. Ooze of jiving to a limuired, and should be taught how- to • avoid the 'irregulari- ties that tend to frustrate that laudable antbitani. -To lengthen as well as to strengthen, the lives of the people is, the object of preventive medicine. • t;ertaiii great now sures- that lie beyond its scope are first cf ail neceseary,if we coold prolong the - days of the maeses of out. people. Re- gular employment must be secured and poverty diminished by our statesmen and economists, 89 that we may 310 longer have amongst us thirteen ntillione on the verge of hunger and dying in multitudes BEFORE THEIR TIME. It old age- is to be attained, a good, seafrt in life mustbe given, and hence the iMpOrtance of these questions infant feeding and milk supply. If it Is' to be reached by a- proper proportion rf wayfarers ia sound condition, we meta' reduce the prevalence of thOse infectious, diseases whidli carry off so many of the young,' and often cripple where they do not ill and we mustsee thatour chil- dren have a sufficiency pf food, and al sufficiency of teeth with which to eat he ir it is to be wisely pursued,' we must' foster the self-respect and •arrest the de- generation of Our people by giving them accent houses, and promote their physk. cal development by, affording .thern fa- cilities for exercise. Peculiarly destra.ble it is that we should, warn the public against these cattses 0E: .... premature senility .whidh-operate with,: disastrous effect when childhood is over.1 I am net prepeared to indulge in any! .general denunciation ,of alcohol, Doti there can be po question that an exeress: of it" does make men old before their' time. It induces oyer -excitation and ex- haustion of the nerve -cells, and (11S0 vas-: cuter paresis and arterio-sehlerosis Whichl is the main fe,atore in pathological se -1 nility; and it is especially apt to do this! if indulged in at ,a time when the tissues!) are approacheng,the natural limit of THEIR FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITY... Whatever tends to diminish disease is' conducive to longevity, but in our , ene deavor to promote it we enlist have re- gard to • Mental/ as wellg as to .bodily, hygiene. A ,g1-.6"Ot 'deal of premature de- cline in force 'and eoergy Is due to aster - use of the brain -and nervoos systern., Dr. McLane Hemline/1 says that Arnett-, coins break down at an earlier age than Europeans, especially from nervous ail- ments, and he --Attributes this to their etruggles for the rapid accumulation el wealth, to .the competition and ambition ee which \etre lately stimulated by agita- fional newspapers, to the worries and', anxieties of business in Which men im- merse themselves without recreative re lief,' to hustling, (neer •eating, -Insured- ent exercise and luxurious living gen-, erally: If we are to lower oilr'death rate and promote old age we must return to sinie plicity and tranquility of life. • -MINEISOWING C1U,J,ISEIL A NeW Style .of Vessel Added to tht, British Navy. The quaintest -looking warship .,in the British navy 18 the -small miser -Iphi- sgenia, which has just been converted in- to a mine -sowing vessel. Along .either sidte, of ' her deck are two rows o f • ele- 'Neared rails, in which numerous submar- ine. mines are slung. Three iinceeof roil project - over the. vessels stern,. the ntines being dropped overboard, from them as she steams along. The...Introduce tion 01 a mine -sowing ship into the Brit- ish fleet Is an experiment undertaken as a consequerice of what was learned ,durtng the war- in the ,Far East, and' the idea is that the Iphig,enia would be able' to. mine °Et' channel or ether narrow wah ers far more effectively than could te done by steam launches. SNAKE HUNTING WITIVNOSES.. When the Australian aborigine is puSte e • e't and can find no either gallica The eatehes snakes for food.With his won. dealt' brown eyehe can See the faint- est trail where a snake, ,has zig-zagged through the dry moss and leaves. At night-time his broad nostrils take Up tha chase, and„ .stooping down 'among,. tin bushes,'avith a. tough forked stick in his . hand to support,.hint, he lolloWs the „. track as unerrinly as a bioodhound, When 11e0. runs a snake to eaeth, if he cennot surprise it in the open -end kill it by a sudden biOw 01 1118 stickehe squats ever its hole, making a, lowhis- eing or whistling sound with his lips. .5toori the minim puts its -heed out, of the hole and peers round. In an instant fife Rieke(' sticl«lescends and fixes it, to the ground by the lock'and the black fel. low, eeizing it behind the head,' so- that it cannot bile him, drags It outof the hole, and either twists itshead off" pothole it on, the ground till its back • le broken. TIME TO KNOW, n ta"dneY atulle0h ‘av y' ftinl‘ttlyr: r :1(191 41)a,Ygtill' the olher evettiog." • corning lone) so often." "What, watt it', Bella?" 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