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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-5-23, Page 7OADAX, 189 xfR JQ1Ilr Minn, MQl?TAPAL,. The people of Lower Canada have decided IA late years to celebrate their ,Arbor Lay in the fall of the, year, in the Month of No- vember ; this change of putting off our spring work to the autumn is something like a neglect of the duties of our youth and crowding those duties upon our declining yearn—this is not quice natural ; spring is the time to plant -the autumn the season to gather in that which was planted. "Come, gentle spring; etherit1 mildness come I the softening air is bairn ; echo the mountainsround, the forest smiles and every heart and every eerie le joy." Thne sang the poet of the yeaeore. Spring is the time of the singingof birds, the opening of flowers and the bursting forth of buds 1 Let Canadians then join in the universal hymn to the " God of seasoae " as they roll 1 by celebrating our Arbor Date, I planted me vineyards ; I made me gar- dens and orchards ; and„ I planted trees in them of bll kinds of fruits.' This we believe to be a true account of an arbor day nearly three thousand years ago, in the Holy land —in and around Jerusalem, as recorded by King Solomon. We learn from the teach - Inge of the past our lessons of to -day, and we can never know too much of the good done in the times of old and in the days of other years. What a beautiful picture 1 A lesson for all generations of men. 13ehold the great King, casting aside ter a day his Royal robes and joining with his people in the good work of making gardenia, planting- trees, decorating and beautifying the land, ; and then proclaiming to all peoples and lands— ' as recordedin Holy Writ :—,t I made me gardens and orohards, and 1 planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits." Therefore Arbor day in this and every land is jueb'a following in the footsteps and adopting the lessons as laid down by the wisest and the greatest of men—by King Solomon, Canada owes much to two men ; the late James Little, formerly of Caledonia,in the county of Halaimand, Ontario, where the writer first met him in 1846. His partioular, study or hobby duringhis long lifetime, was the preservation of our forests ; and no man in Canada from long experience, was so well fitted to write on the subject. • And the Hon. H. G. Joly has devoted much time and study to forestry and the planting and re- newing of our forests ; and, we believe, it was through or by him that Arbor days has become an established thing or fixed insti- tution in Lower Canada. Those Arbor days, simple and primitive though they be—will have a deoided and permanent effect for good, and will create a taste in the rising generation for the making of gardens and orchards and the planting of forest trees. A noble taste and worthy to be encouraged ; it instills a love of country— a love of home. Trees planted in our young days around the home of our youth stand like sentinels—beacons—that ever live and are always fresh in the memory of the wan- derer. The grow on and flourish and when .the wanderer returns in after years to visit the home of his youth—the scenes of his child- hood : the members of his family may all be dead or scattered—aa in the case of the Geld on the farm, above the young orchard ; The fields contain 10 acres eaoh, say 3 acrev. broad by 5 acres long—and to plant nubs 6 to 8 feet apart, about one inch deep --by the tepee side—all round the field—which would be 16 acres round ; mixing the nets—a but- ternut—an oak, then a hickory and so on. They could easily be thinned out is after years. He has reeolve3 on this for his fut- ure arbor days, taking one field each year, This is a simple way to props ate our nut - bearing trees and they would require no after transplanting, The boys ot Canada should make a note cf Oils and give it a fair trial. Tree's, groves and forests have, In all aqua of the world, received the partiouler attesta- tion and study of the Sacred writers and bave added grape and beauty to the paet,'e lines, notably the Palms of D avid. Who has not read of the "goodly cedars," the cedars of Lebanon, and the stately oaks. of Bashan ? Some of those giant cedars on the sunny elopes of Lebanon, which had with: stood the storms of a thousand years, may have been twigs or mere saplings on the rise of one or other of the great empires of the east, and were, centuries afterwards, still green in middle age, on the downfall there- of. How delightful, 'supremely delightful t just as the opening hurls are bursting forth and stray flamers, wildlinge of nature, are peeping up, here and there, by ditoh and fence side, to have a stroll during the silence of an early Sabbath morring, is May, through an old orohard in Canada, with blossom and bloom overhead and the song of birds h oar every tree around ; this is a picture which no pencil can trace, this is "Nature's Picture Gallery,' free to all without price and without money; afford- ing a rich treat to him who has an eye to see and atashtaste toappreciate the _beauties o f nature scattered around in wild profusion. Let Canadians thea join in the universal hymn to the "God of Seasons" as they roll ; by celebrating our Arbor Day, Lord Lonsdale's Trip. Lord Lonsdale has a stirring tale to tell of his journey through the Canadian North- West and the territory of Alaska. It is a tale of adventure from beginning to end in a region of mighty mountains running their parallel ridges far up towards the Arctic Ocean, and of wide -stretching plains oon- taining vast stretches as yet nntrodden by the foot of man. Ib' is a region of lordly streams like the Mackenzie, which, with its great feeder, the Athabasca, winds its way through a oouree of 2,160 miles. It is pre- eminently the region of great lakes, for among them there are the Great Bear Lake and the Great Slave Lake, having areas of 10,000 and 12,000 equare miles respectively, It is the region, at a certain season, of ex - Memo cold and of dangerous ice -packs. Lord Lonsdale had to weather it near Green Lake in a temperature of 40 deg. below zero ; and, within a radius of 270. miles be- tween Isle Lacrosse and Athabasca Lake, he came upon no fewer than 230 bodies of Indiana who had died of cold and hunger, It isaregionofwild beasts, too, and of wild men. Lord Londedale is an observing traveller. He known how to use, when on the march, his eyes and all his faculties. He has the courage to face obstacles and the energy to surmount them. He is no fireside ex - writer (the trees alone) which he planted in Plover who rosea heart when next door to early life are there blossoming as of old, in want. He has the gift, too, of being able springtime—bearing tempting fruit in sum- to tell over his experiences clearly and graph - mer, and crowned in autumn with their lo it y. According to the account of his frost -tinged leaves, closing the year in adventures which has appeared he has gorgeous colors, a prelude to a coming brought back with him a budget charged spring. with rarities and original obser' abion. Prob- Thepschoolboys and girls of the present ably, when, hislordship gets back to Eng- " day who have their tastes fostered and en- -eouraged, both by precept and example, will non only grow up having a practical knowledge of tree planting, but they will land—he expects to be there in June—ho will find time to get into early publication the complete story of his wanderings in the North Western and Northern Ter- -never suffer the trees so planted by -them to ritories. It was in 1882 that the lanuuiah or be destroyed; From every point- Dominion Government formed one of view the observance of Arbor day is good; of the northern region covered by both in its practical effects and its eduoat. the great steppes the four provisional -ing1n$nences on the future. The time is districts named respectively Aesiniboia, Saskatchewan Alberta,andAthabasca. he noh distant when every pariah or township ,T in Canada willl recognize the importance of G overament, a undertaking was for the con- venience of settlers and for postal purposes. They, were citified provisional "districts." 'Set the smallest of them is not much small- er than the area of the -British leles; and Athabasca is rather larger than that. The by cur city amateurs, far below their envier Canadian Pacific Railway and the, other tree planting and will celebrate Arbor day with enthusiasm ; thereby elevating the tastesby creating a noble rivalry in the rising generation to beautify our country. The roots are generally planted too deep position in the nursery or forest ; and, again, the trees selected are in moat oases too large for planting. Select young, trees and pleat them as near the surface' as they formerly grew, Go, look at our forest trees ; the roots in moat oases will be found running on the surface orslightly below. In many oases, in city planting, the trees are stick down deep like telegraph posts into the oold play foroing their roots it they grow a- all to grow upwarda in search of good soil. 'A young tree is a; tender thing, there- fore handle it tenderly, plant it carefully ; better to plant a dozen well than a.hundred carelesaly. •Our worthy forefathers found this country an unbroken forest. Their duty was to level railways that are projected will yet work a revolution on the surface ofthat hitherto comparatively little known region. The part of Athabasca which Lerd Lona dale creased must he wild, indeed.• When the ice broke on Lake Athabasca, he and his Indians took to the boat ; and he says : -" The ice was running hard --ab times forming dams. Oaoe we nearly all went under a dam which had packed the water up. If we had, not one of tie would have come out alive. In: Athabasca we loan ourselves two days in the fog owing to the Indians making a mistake. For two nights we were unable to sleep or 000k, as we could get no drift wood. It rained and. snowed alternately all the time. Forthe the forest—to make food producing farms next 800 miles we had difficulties like this and comfortable homes for us their children. constantly ; but luckily we were never more The giant tree fell betore the i•,turdy blows than four days at a time without food. We of their axes, giving place to cleared farms, again oame across Indians dead from star- -to smiling wheat fields and rich meadows ; vation, bub not in as great numbers as at theirs was nob the duty to heed the ory of :'— first. 1' reached the Great Slave Lake on "Woodman, spare that tree t" All shared'a June 1. the ice thea being solid, but the like fate ; the duty, however, of the present Peace River having broken up there was generation is to decorate and beautify those now treeless farms, by planting portions of. eaoh, by ditch and fence side, with trees, which will not only be pleasing to the eye, but will afford shade to the farm cattle and will oleo add value to the farms, for which a coming generation will thank us. Be al- ways sticking in a tree, in any plane on the farm, it will grew while y ou sleep. OUR OWN ARBOR DAY. The writer has kept to the old standard and has made the Spring of the year, the month of May, his planting season, by com- pleting a Dung orchard ot about thirty water around the lake for the spade -of about 100 yards wide." This paasageis afair sample the adventurous record. His lordehip's'in- tercourse :with the Eaquimaux, or " Huak- eys," of the region was not at all times very pleasant, especially when the long knives were drawn. But courage and a strong arm did their work there also, turning hoetilty into friendship. At least one account of the splendid waterfall, "beating Niagara," which Lord Lonsdale saw on the Hay River, has already been published in America. His lordship's scheme of getting to the North Pole " by small parties eatabliahing relay stations" is the very eobeme under consider - acres which he had commenced four years oration in connection with the proposed ago ; this planting was made on the family Norwegian expedition. homestead at Lower Lachine, better known as the "La Saile Homestead." La Salle had reserved 420 nares of land as a homestead for himself. This comprised the present Fraser homestead and the two adjoining farms to the East, bordering on the Ln Salle Common of 200 aoree, which La Salle had set apart. This common was parcelled out to the neighbouring farmers in 1835. This historical Canadian homestead has sentenced fe the attempted murder of a lad belonged to the wriber'a family for five gen. a few years younger than himself. The eratione, it came into bis possession a few young fiend enticed the small boy to the years ago by entail ; the first orchard plant- brink of a brook and then pushed him into ed in Canada was planted on this old farm, the water, Then he strove to force the head over two centuries ago. Suety years ago of his intended victim under water and there were over fifty pear trees growing drown bins. He would undoubtedly have there, they were nearly as largo as ordinary succeeded in his purports as the litble fellow elms. The writer made a aoiemi; resolve had already'beoome insensible , but for the when the old homedtead dame into his pos- session to plant a new orchard on the ground where the old one stood, and he has carried out that resolve under difficulties and without means which will', serve as an example for the young boys of Canada to copy. tti• PLANT 1311']'•3i1 usual # TREES, A Jesse Pomeroy in New Hampshire. John Jeaki, a Polish Jew, twelve years old, is the Jesse Pomeroy of New Hampshire. He has just been sentenced to, four years in the State Industrial School for Bloodthirsty cruelty, fully equal to that of the boy fl:nd in Boston. The offence for which he was opportune arrival of a man who rescued the lad. On another ocoesion young ,7eski was guilty of stabbing boys with a pocket knife, inflecting severe and painful wounds and has ftMakes You. Hungry )'](have used Paine's Celery compound and u has had a salutary effect. Itlnvlgorat. edtl a system malt feel • like a new man It improves. the appetite and facilitates dlges- tion." J. 1'. Cor- raNn, Primus, S. C. Spring medicine meansmorenow-a-days thanit diel ten years ago. The wluterof 3689-89 haslett the nerves an gagged out. The nerves must be strengthened, the blood purISed, liver Dud bowels regulated. Fame's 0elery0ompound the Spring rnefitoine of to-day—does all tine,. as nothing else can. Prescribed by Phyafciaie,r Recommended by Druggists, Endorsed by Miniatatr, GFuau'anteed by tha iffanvlalturers to by The Best Spring Medicine. "In the spring of tear I was all run down. I Would get up in the morning with so tired a feeling, and was so weak that I could hardly get around. Ibought a bottle of Paine's Celery Com. pound, and before I had taken 1t a week I felt very much better. I can clieefully recommend 15 to all who need a building up and strengthen - Big medicine." Mrs. is. A. DOw, Burlington, Vt,. Paine'e- Celery compound Is a unique tonio and appetizer. Pleasant to ,the taste, quick in its action, and without any in;urlous effect; it gives that rugged health which makes everything taste good. It cures dyspepsia and kindred disorders. Physicians prescribe it. $3.00. Six for 65,00. Druggist.. Wsms, Bicunnnaoie & Co., MOnrnn&L, DIAMOND DYES Color anyt;hrng cry color. Neter .raiir" Alwaysauret LACTATED FOOD The Physsic a s' favour ' A l'IIE 0F. ANYEXETEII TIME S PEARLS OF TRUTH. Boasters are cousins to liars. A grain of produce is worth a pound of -craft. Anger is like rain : ib breaks itself upon that on which it falls. We should live an though our life would be both long and short. The readiest and Surest way to get rid of censure is to correct ourselves. Seeming difficulties generally vanish betore faith, prayer and perseverance. He who reports to you the faults of others is likely to report your faults to others. Knowledge is like money—the more it is circulated the more peupla get the benefit of it. Politeness is the most efficient aid in the world to strengthen a good name or to sup- ply the want one. Every man feels himself stronger in his relations with others if he is burrounded with consideration, esteem, respect]. The darkest hour in the history of any young mania when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning ib. The man who sits down and waits to be appreciated will find himself among uncalled for luggage after the limited express has gone by. Doing good is the only industry thab,'pays full six per Dent. those hardtimes, inand y never "passes" a single dividend. Invest more largely in it. Have the courage to show your respect for honesty, in whatever guise it may appear, and your contempt for dishonesty and du- plicity, by whosoever exhibited. There are men who no more grasp the truth they seem to hold than the sparrow grasps the message passing through the electric wire on which it perches. Da not seek to be entrusted with your friend's seoret ; for no matter how faithful you may keep ib, you may be liable in a thousand contingenoies to the suspicion cf having betrayed it. The faults and weaknesses of others, in- stead of being woven into gossip, scandal, and useless ariticiam, should be used as danger signals to warn us away from the paths which have led to them. That tha universe was formed by a fortui- tous concourse of atoms, I will no more be- lieve than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabeb would fall into a most ingeni bus treatise of philosophy.—[Swift. The family is the miniature common- wealth upon whose integrity the safety of the larger oommonwealbn depends. Ib is the seed•plob of all morality. We express the nobelesb loginga of the human heart when we apeak of a time to come in which all mankind will be united as one family. The Empress of Austria's Travelling Bas- ket. The Empress of Austria possesses a travel- ling basket containing a complete batterie de anteing, including cooking apparatus, extract of meat, plates, dishes &2., which she terms her "bijou." Tha baaket is elegantly fitted up and well adapted to its purpose, enables itsowner to prepare an excellent plate of soup when on a journey, The Empress is very fond of strong broth and takes a pleasure in preparing it herself while travelling in the train, She then has reocurae to'her "bijou," seta the water to boil in her silver saucepans with golden bandlea, puts in exbraob of meat and other igredients,'and declares that no cook could provide broth more palatable and nourishing. The basket was oopiedfrom one ordered by Queen Victoria for the Empress Eugenie.. The Sultan of Zanzibar. After a period of prolonged aeolualon, caused by illness; during which the Sultan refused to grenb intervlewe to any officials, his Mojeaby• has received Mr. Hawes, the Acting British Consul. General, to whom ho accorded a meet cordial reception. The Sultan, in the course of the interview, promised, among other things, to render ansletanoe for the safe conveyance of the English missionaries to the coast. The letter have, however, already reaohed Saga. yomo from the interior, and Mr. Hawes hag despatched a steamer bo bring them to Zan - more than once been guilty of offering name- zibar, lees indignities to little girls whom he had followed into eeoluded ptaoee. He was also. once arrested fox' breaking and entering, but, esoaped through• a technicality. The The writerDae resolved to try a new kind' boy geeing to take delight in the moat fiend of planting next Pall. He intends to take a fah 'tote of oruelty. There are flies and flips. A dragon fly in emeralds and diamonds is mounted on a fine spring to tremble over beauty's hair and a mosquito in rubies and eras to head the i bh holds fs b goldenpin at `o s her onset. JOHN LAB TT'S Indian Pnfe 4/e and XXX Brawn utauf Highest eweras aha a'ledals for Purity and Excel- lence at Centennial 'exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876; Canada, 1870; Australia„ 1877; and Paris, France, 1878. TESTIMONIALS SELECTED Prof, a S Craft, Public Aualyea Toronto, says:--'" S and it to be perfectly sound containing to impurities or uduitar- atioh.e, and eau stronglyreoommend it as perfectly pure and a very superior wait ligoor,"' John 13 Edwaroa, Professor of Ohemistr , Montreal, says: "I Anti there to be remarkably souua ales, brewed from pure mit and hope Rev., P; J, Ed, Page,Professor or Chem ietry Laval tin .ver elty, Quebec. says :—"I have analyzed the Indian Pale', 1e manufacturedbvJobnl abatt, Loudon, Ontaz io, and have found it, a liglitele, ooutaining but'little alcohol, of a rain - :nous Raver, sad of a very agreeable mete and aunerior quality, and compares with, the best imported ales. 1 have also analysed the Tarter XXX Stout, of the same brewery, which is of e•ceellent quality;. its tlayor is very' agreeable it is a tante more energetic than the above ale, for it 1s a little richer in alcohol, and clan be compared advantage- ously with any imported article. 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