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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1912-4-11, Page 6TUE TIMESEXFi.. MODES OF THE MOmENT„ millittory Colors Are Dark This Spring. New Materials. Generally speaking, roillieery colt/re regtabt dark. Black and white combi- Oations are eXeected to hold strong, Cotton agaric or 'Turkish toweling effects ere prominent, Petticoats are little Mere than drop teitirts—nrirrow, short and in every in- ettinee wholly withoet trimming. There Is pa etentier skirt 'this sea - KM than the one that le cut in twei THE TWO neon swum pieces. This one Is just full enough to be adapted to thin materials, and it is' finished with a wide hem and tuck, JUDE) CHOLLET.. This May Manton pattern is cut in sizes from 22 to 32 inches waist measure. Send 10 cents to this office, giving number, 7317, and it will be promptly forwarded to you by mall. IP in haste send an additional tvro cent stamp for letter postage, which insures more prompt delivery. When cr4 dering use coupon. No. ....... Size Nalne ••••••*••••••• ...... •• ....... ••••• ....... ••I4 :Address • *I CHIC STYLES. Fetching Ideas In Spring Neckwear. Velvet Fichu. Rather a change from the usual or- der a things is a fichu of velvet, cut :with care to avoid a heavy appear- ance, over a form of pale ninon, the coloeing being straw and helidtrope. Another fichu is of extremely heavy old 'venetian point, tinted a grayish fbad a over aluminium tissue, with sil- vered fringe to finish it. A new and fetching idea for a collar is apiece of black velvet ribbon about RECEPTION GOWN. • A Supetb Velvet' • Creation by Worth. DEEP 'BLEB VELTET WITH ,ORXENTAL EM BROIDERY. Deep blue velvet with oriental em- broidery in shaded blues and blacks was used for this luxurious %own. Steel and jet fringe falls from the short sleeves and lower edge of the tunic. The decolletage is softened with al- most invisible flesh colored tulle, and two real lace motifs turn over on the dark velvet. Hint For Stenographers. A prominent physician is responsi- ble for this assertion: "Any young wo- man stenographer. quick and alert, can earn extra money if she willlearn medical terms and apply for the posi- tion of stenographer at the various medical meetings beld every week in large cities. It calls for a good educa- tion, some knowledge of Latin, and it will be necessary for the applicant to learn medical terms. and learn them quickly; also to acquaint herself with physiology if deficient in that study. There is a great demand for help of this kind, and because most of the meetings are held at night very few apply for a steady position, but it opens a lucrative one to the ambitious. A. line of this work would soon lead up to a very responsible position in a chemical house, where wages are usually the very best, because com- petent help is not always obtainable' for that office." Bonnet and Reticule to Match. No afternoon costume is all it should be without its graceful reticule, which, of course, is designed to harmonize with both frock and hat Many of the fashionable milliners are providing CHILD'S DRESS WITH ERONIV emOS/NG. three iuches wide, twisted around the top of a standing collar and tied in a small bow at the back or slightly at one side, with long ends reaching al- most to the waist tine. These are worn with suits and simple cloth gowns. Many of the newest side jabots are really not frills at all, but consist of a triangular piece c.if lace, suggestive of revers. Among other successful novel- ties In this line are those having the large revers on one side of a central strip of insertion, while the other edge Is finished with a frill of matching lace. The child's dress that Is closed at the frent is botb a smart and a practical One. It Is easy for the little wearer to shp on and off and it la the height of style. Tbe dress seen in the cut Includes an unusually attractive col - far and can be made from a variety a neater -tale. JUDI° CHOLLEIT, This May Manton pattern is cut in sizes for girls of eight, ten arid twelve yeamof age. send to cents to this office, giving rumber, 7201, and It win be promptly fon Warded to you by mail. If io haste send an aclditiOnal two cent stamp for letter postage, whichinsures more proropt dew • iivery. 'Mee ordering into coupon. e . 0(6,1040• SIZeta itt4lat* W0S1001.110410 000.0•• ei e • D. li;16.14eliwo 00 • •"*.00ica•.nota 401•1111,1011401**16"4111.40 • I, tittrioaS•ofiAtimigs.ii.; . Hit* OttAliartia ifilFrnams IN VIOLET .."•.gir BOW% • Touts. these reticules with their hats of a more dressy nature. The hat and lett- cute pictured are in shades of violet and rose pink, with touches of dull gold on the reticule. The frock is of ivory white embrolderedevelle, trimmed with chiffon in violet and rose tints, awl the White silk gloves have Vielet Old sotto pink erebtoiderierre IT WAS STONE IN THE BLADDER ••••••*••• GIN PILLS PASSED IT "rive years ago, I was taken down with what the doctors called Inflam- mation a the Bladder—inteuse pains •in the back and loins, and difficulty in urinating, and the attacks, which • became more frequent, amounted to unbearable agony. I became so weak that I could not walk across the floor. My wife read ha the •papers about GIN PILLS and sent for a box. Itrom the very first, I felt that GIN PILLS were doing me good. The pain was relieved at ()nee, and the attacks were •leeefreqeeet. , Ie six» weeks,,,tise Stone in the Bladder cameerewaye :When I recall • how I suffered and,how inew •I am healthy and able to werk, I cannot express myself strongly enough when speak of what GIN PILLS have done for me". JOHN IIRRIVIAN, Hamilton, Ont. Regular size, eoc. a box, 6 for te.so —at all dealers. You can try them free • by writing for a free sample to National Drug & Chemical Co. of Canada, Limited, Dept A Toronto. 88 1 Serious c Implication. "I know how u sy na pathize , with you, Mrs. Polhen is," said Mrs..Lap- sling. "My left e was affected once just as yours is .ncl 1 bad an awful time with it, le doctor 'said the trouble was dee he subjenctlre was granulated."—de igo Tribilue. They Jut Dr. George C. Creelman, president a the Ontario Aei ••ultural College at.1 Guelph, admits t, t in the following • *tory the juke we n Itiui For ten year 1 iaU held the posi- tion of secretary • the American As- et.ciation of Fair), institute Work- ers, but be foul t his other daties would not, permit 1 ns continuing m that office. 1. 1. at the annual tneetins hs WHPII: tr: 0.• just before the electee , officers was to be held, he eplu 1 that he would no longer be ab:e • .1 :t as secretary. The•other mends le eddied when he said that. S. Dr. Creelma erriphasjzecl the fact that he could •., I, continue as sec- retary. Again his statement was met with a einile, so he said: "Now, I'm serious. about this:, I really couldn't spare the time to look niter the work of' seeretary, and if you elect me to the office I will be obliged to decline it.", Once more there was a general,' smile. • After the first balloting, had been held, the doCtor learned why they had smiled. Thee, didn't elect hitn to the secretaryship again—they made hiin president. Beresford Wasn't Lost. Temagami is a delightful tourist' region and, being in Canada, is pet- ronized chiefly by Americans., while Canadians are in Europe, searching for a holiday spot. They tell a story in this cfierming lake district, and they tell it in whispers, of the time Lord Charles Beresford was there on a fishing trip. He was due in Toron- to for a public event, brt found the fishing and the sport generally so excellent that somehow or other a Message got; on the telegraph wire to the effect that Lord Charles was lost in the bush. His lordship, it is im- agined, was nob so much alarmed as Were his Toronto friends. Big game is in Temagami, too, and the writer, was an onlooker to the laasooing frone a little steamer of a fine black bear, who grunted disepproval of a rope around his neck, and mada for the. shore as rapielle as possible on being released, SCIATICA EXPECTED DEATH ANY DAY Another Case Where Life Was Saved and Health Restored by "Nerviline." It is because he feels it his solemn duty to tell to the worldhis faith in Nerviline that Victor P. Hires makes the following declaration: "For three years I was in the Royal Mail service, end in all kinds of weather had to Meet the night trains. Dampnesa, cold, and exposure brought on sciatica that affected my left side. Sometirnes an attack would come oxi that made me powerless to work. I was so nearly a complete cripple that I had to give up ray job. 1 was in aespair, completely cast down because the rnoney I spent on trying to get well was wasted. I was speaking to my chemist one day, and he recommended "Nerviline." I had this good limment rubbed on several times a day, and got relief. In order 2.0.2•Milmsra.momormvollto to build np my gen- eral health and im- RED prove my blood I used Ferrozone, one tablet •with each YEARS meal. / continued this treatment four months and wait) ured. I have used all kinds of lini- ments, and •can truthfully say» that erviline is far stronger, more pone- t.ating, and infinitely better than any- thing else for relieving pain. 1 urge c•veryone with lumbago, neuralgia, neannatistn, or sciatica to use Nervi - 1 know It will cure them.' 4' There isn't a more highly-esteerned !tl.P.:f T1 in Westchester than Mr, Hires. What he says can be relied upon. For, ix years since being cured he hasn't I had a single relapse. Don't accept any -1 thing from your dealer bat "Nerviline,". I 50 cents per bottle, trial size, 25c; sold 1 -verywhere, or The Ca.tarrhozone Co., I dengeton, Oat, R N CURE SIX L441 24 11.•;'•ClIS ! nri can painlessly remove any (Sore, i d eer hard, soft, or bleeding. by Putnam's Corn liXtractor. It ,e -l" -se burns, leaves no Scar, contains no !olds; is harmless, because composed nlv of healing gums and balms. Virty ',we:3 in 'Ilse. Cure guaranteed. Sold '• ail druggkits, 230 bottles. :01•;fitiao •• ".44 , t- - 'r PA.IPJLOiSS DUTY TO THE FORESTS CANADA IS FACED BY A GREAT RESPONSIBILIM Recent Report of Forestry Branch of the Department of the Interior Shows That of Country's Total An- nual Cut Drily a Half Is Ever Used —A National Calamity Can Only Be Averted by Great Care. In the Canadian West, where the Public domain is still an asset of the Federal Government, an effort on a large scale is being made to conserve the timber resources of, the country, says a writer in The Mondaal 'uncl- ad. This work of conservatir I I; en- trIlatecl, to the Forestry 13ranelz of the Deitixie 1 of the Interior. The re - Pert of the branch for the latest fiscal year gives a detailed account of the work. Much of this is of interest only to tthose engaged in the work, but mingled with thee reports of a tech - Ideal er deneetueeetal nature, is much valuable informetion of interest everyone interested in our timber is. sources — at 1 this iucludes about everybody who takes thought for the morrow of the people of Caoeda. Thee e must be conservellen 01 eur forest teseurces or the tune come when Canada will be a tirober'ess country; and it is the duty of t.. (Aorrunient to make a stand for ecertornic and become the great teacher of con- servation. The forest reserves of tho Federal tiovernment both teach and practice conservation. The forest reserves of the Dominion now contain somewhat more than six- teen million acres. The recent foreat reserves legislation was so framed as to include all lands reserved for parks as well as for forest reserves proper, and authority is given to the Governor in Council to set apart as parke,such lands within reserves as are suitable for that purpose. Consequently tife parks previously set apart have been included. These are !oho and Glacier parks in British Columbia; Rocky Mountains Park and Jasper Park in Alberta, whioh are now included in the Rocky Mountain forest reserve, and 13uffalo Park, also in 1 3 Province of Alberta. Irr Tolinection »with those reserves th officers of the Forestry Branch have three principal duties to perform —to preserve the forests from destruc- tion by fire; to supervise the cutting of timber where cutting is permitted; and to establish reforestation over depleted areas wherever such work of restoration is possible. Incidentally the officers of the branch perform oth- er important duties. They are always collecting information respecting the geography of the reserves, the exten,t and nature of their timber resources, the animal life found there, and they also do much to protecblhat life, and so assist in preserving the big game of the country. The rangers of the forest reserves are the most active workers for the cause of conservation to be found in the country. One of the best known of these offi- cers is Mr. H. R. MacMillan whose duties and work have made him an authority upon Canadian forestry. In his report to the Superintendent of Forestry, Mr. MacMillan goes be- yond an account of the work that fell imniediately under his hand, and pre- sente some general information re- specting the timber resources Of all Canada, the rate at which consump- tion is going on, and what will be the end if the existing system is persisted in. • According to Mr. 'MacMillan's com- putrition, Canada is consuming forest materiel at the rate of 2,896,000,000 cubic feet a year, possessing a value of $160,000,000. The quantity is that oi timber tut in the woods`to furnish the material neceseary for each class ()I products. Owing to the very great waete in the utilization of wood in Canada only about one-half of this wood cut is ever actually put into u e. That cut lumber, lath and shin- gles possessed the greatest value— eighty-seven and a half million dol- lars. while firewood comes seeond with a Ili tie more than one-half that iniefunt. The total value of $166,000,000 is 1, e I ue at the point of production. "This," writes Mr. MacMillan, "is if,•12A1 for every person. in Canada. In, 1ie 9, there were cut from Canadian ft rests about 400 cubic feet of timber Jur every inhabitant of the continent. Two-fifths of the lurolder of Canada» is produced in Ontario, one-fifth in Quebec; New Brunswick and Nova Scotia together make up the greater part of the remaining fifth, and but proportionately small quantities are manufactured in Saskatchewan, Mani- toba, Alberta and Prince Edward Is- land. The decrease of the forests f 0,n - ado, and the consequent decrease'in eyailable foreet products is nothing short of a national calamity. The forests of Canada stand chiefly upon hiude unlit for agriculture even in its most intensive form. They pro- duce a crop valued at $166,000,190 per year. The harvesting and first Tnanu- facture of this crop employs labor to the extent of $100,000,000 yearly, and probably almost as much more is spent in turning out the more highly manufactured lorms of »wood products. Iti addition to supplytrig a large proportion oi the population of Can- ada with their means of livIdihood, the products of the forest are for the whole population the obief source of heat and shelter, are the most int. portant raw materiels for the factories, enter largely into the constrhetion of peari,v all articles of human use, and furnish one-sixth of the total export 01Cal es nsadatb 1:1ne principles of forestry are Adopted 'by those who are responsible for the administration of the forest lands of Canada there is nothing sneer than that within a comparatively short period of years the forests of, Canada Will be se destroyed by fire, and WO ploitatien heedless of the future, that thee will be an insufficiency of ant' grade of timber for the carrying on of the works of the populatioli in thil #114.11r.)!' XRNEXTRAar Ft 1 WILD GoosE RAISING, • . • } ”6 • ,1 th,. Man Hai Wild Ducks For Use AS Decoys by Hunters. Farming wild animals! What with the rapid deorease jn all? kipds of game, and especially of the fur -bear- ing quadrupeds, it really begins to look as though this zoiglit be a S014114 commerciel proposition. •That is what the Canadian government is doing With the last remnant of the big buf- falo herds, and this spring an addition of two hundred calves is expected to the baud a bison in the huge .park at. Wainwright, Sask. Not so very long ago some enter- prising gentlemen in the west bred wolves. When the pups had grown to big, ugly fellows with an insatiable appetite for dead horse, they were shot and their heads'taken to the authori- ties for the bounty. A fifteen -dollar per was quite a profitable game until the law found out, Others go in for foxes or skunks. \. .41e in an application just come ,to hand at Toronto, al/request is,inade for a tract of rough land in Northern Onfarm everythw ing 'from bears to ea- sebt.ario whereon the grantee may When the Belgian hare craze was rife here some twelve years ago, many Canadian e had hutches in their back yards. Of course, these' last-named animals oan hardly be termed wild, but purehasers of the rodents at $25 a pair -were wild enough :when they found out what an unprofitable busi- ness they had embarked in. A well-known citizen, a greet sports- man with a farm on the Credit River, has had wonderful success in raising wild geese and ducks. He is a mem- ber of a duck-shoottng club, with large. leases on Lake Scugog, and here in the fall of the year the wild ducks bred In captivity are made useful for de- coying their roving brethren. Painted wooden imposters are usual- ly anchored out to tempt the wild ducks within range of the blind be- hind which the hunters hide. Of ten - times the keen eyes of the birds will detect something wrong in even the best of these decoys. But when a live duck "quacks" and flaps his wings, even the most skeptical of the breed are prone to think all is right. One of these tethered black d'acks is a very deadly bait, and th,e wild birds very seldom fail to answer his lusty call. "- Similarlythe wild geese are used in the spring of the year. Just as the ice is breaking up and the warm days of April make one long for out- doors, the grey Canada goose in thou- sands come into the feeding grounds at Lake Scugog to fill their crops with the remnants of last year's wild rice. It is then that Toronto hunters make their bags. Impossible to ap- proach in any other way, the Wary wild goose is inveigled to within gun- shot of- the blind by -the blandish- ments of the tethered. captives whose importaate honkings are not to be resisted. • • • Divorce at Deathbed. A. divorce performed at a deathbed seems at first blush an unusual and almost, useless performance. One was declared in the Western Hospital, Toronto, a short time ago. The parties divorced were Mrs. M. Cohen and her dying husband. Rabbi Gordon, of the McCord street wed University avenue Synagogues, granted the di-. vorcg. Among the. orthodox Hebrews it is • still a question of religious obligation to carry out the scriptural injunction that where a man dies without chil- dren, his brotl‘er must marry hie widow with a view to' continuing the fandly. it was to avoid this•obligation that this divorce in which neither party was complainant, and where there .was no cause save approaching death, was urged or felt. The woman did not wish to be bound to marry the brother of her husband a,fter his death, and so the help of the Rabbi was invoked. The husband died after the divorce, and the widow is free to marry whom she pleased Rabbi Gordon says That this is the only divorce which he has performed among his people In five years, and that he will perform no more save in suth eases. -unless given power• to do so by the Canadian authorities. • Cenada's Water Power. , The first inventory ever taken of the water powers of Canada was complet- ed towards the end of last year by the Commission of Conservation, w hoe., investigations extended ova .: perind of two years. The resu'ds of the in- quiry set rit rest any doubts that limy have existed as to the immense outlet tialities of Canada's water power es e factor in her present and future pride perity, says Caned:). It is estienaliel that in 1910 1,016,521 units of Imre- power were developed from w;it. power in Canada, 742,055 for eleetriee: energy, and the rest for :st inhli t, pulp and pipe- tnill uee, mut 1.h resources OE the country lutre scar ly been tapped. The Hen. (nig d Sifton,' who wits chairmen nf 1 .1 Conservaotion COnneiseion, hae slide that °Riede, posse's's twarly on of the -tidal available water powere the globe. A Loss to Art.. Two pictures that were much ad. mired at the recent exhibition of the CanadianArt Club, • notably thy "Sheep Shearer," by Horatio Wa:ker. and the "Magic Circle," isy le Bridgman, were dandle', d 14 trate,' to their home in the Albright 'Gail. in Bela lo recently. 'I he ' ore Walker was but slightly hurt, led the "Magic Circle,' . by Bridgemen. was inatrievably ruined, being sloe, - ed by beieg run into with a ehil,,tee.: train at ti.e Suepension Bridge. The, picture by Bridgeman (an old 'Por eel boy) was. felt to be it Inc %yeti; , I art, and its loss is ,one ,that cannot be replaced in the weld Swatie Carried Over Fa*" d Oid river men say moremelte are here this year- thanehee visited Nie - gala at ote tinte'ile the paet• two. do. ogles. Many- are killed by being Carried over the -ctitaract..,.. Twenti- three aead. swans were taken from the river below the' falla in OHS day • .:MEMORIAL TO:CARTIER,. Montreal Men Head Movement to • Honor Statesman. A national movement is now under way Ili Canada t9 erect a monument to the late Sir (Jorge Etienne Car. ter, Baft, who was cne of the Fath- ers of Confederation and an able lieu- tenant Of the late Sir ,16lin .A.• Mae. donald,' ill'Ft Prime AIWA of the 'Dom inioly of Canada. tit The mentorial, it is expeeteelle, cost lb the oeighborhood of $10d and will be erected at the bds Mount Royal, so riatned Sadclii Cattier, the intrepid Frenell explore who discovered Stadaconn (Quebec) and lloehelaga (Montreel s: and to wh9se family Sir George is said to haye belonged. Subseriptions will be taken, up ab over Canada to defray the cpst of the monument, which promises to be one of the laegest and best Canada. Sir Geprge passed ayin tondon, on tYtfty 20, 1873, two days before the. date set for his return to Canada. lie • had 'been- for sorhe time and had gene le ,Lonclo,n to seek expert' medi- cal assistanCe. Cartier's activities cover the politi- cal petiod ilixtending from 1844 t 1872, that is • to say, twenty-eight. years, That Perfekt was eventful. It was the following and the end of the Union i)f the Canadas and the begin-nil:1'g 54 confederation, which was to soote ef'.§ prise about the whole. of Britt* Not America from oceaw, to °bean., Tiotte! means that it witnessed, raanyt changes, many transformatione, nel struggles. The union was full of dap ger for us: Cartier, continuing the, made it turn to our advantage. work of Lafontaine, Morin and Tal built the eonfederation whicheesithode him, could never have been aCCORI. plished, to protect our rights and telt institutions, meanwhile founding new nation. • The name of Cartier is attached to all the greatest politica' events of that important period. Among others, let us mention the judieiary decentralization, the aboli- tion of -the seignorial tenure, the choice of Ottawa as the capital, the construction of the Montreal and Porto land and of the Grand Trunk Rail,' way, and, of the Victoria- bridge; the codification of the civil laws and of civil procedure, the application of the French laws to the' Eastern Town- ships, the modification of criminal laws, the Act of Municipalities of Lower Canada, the law concerning the registration oifice,s, the organiza- tion of our system of public instruc- tion, the foundation of normal schools, the creation of a line of oceanic steamships, the improvement, and deepening of the Saint Lawrence river, the digging of canals, 'the con- federation of the provinces of British North America, the acquisition of the Northwest Territories, the construe - tion of the Intercolonial Railway, ac- cording to Robinson's draught, the establishment of the Province of Manitoba, the entrance of British Columbia into confederation, the or- ganization of our military service, the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, etc., etc. More, than one of these measures would be sufficient to immortalize the name and memory of Cartier. If Na- poleon had not been such a celebrated warrior, could he have 'claimed a greater fame than that of being the author of the civil code of France? To end his glorious oareer; does Glad- stone seek more than the settlement of the eternal Irish question, which after all, is only a struggle for the possession of tthe soil?. Cartier was at the same time a legislator, a foun- der of constitutions and a paeific con- queror. A simple stroke of his pen added to his country regions as broad as empires. Our New Wheat. It is not generally known. says a Dom:11110n report, thet the thousand dollar prize awardee/ in New York City recently for the best wheat grown on the North American Continent, which was secured by a Saskatchewan farmer, was won by Marquis wheat. Marquis wheat is one of a number of varieties which has been produced at the Government experimental farm at Ottawa by a crossing of -Red Fife with various imported wheats of early' ripening habit. The early 'maturing paren't of Marquis was Hard Red Cal- cutta, obtained from India. • It was Isolated by Dr. Saunders, the,Domm- ion cerealist, by selection, inr,1903. After being grown for three years at, Ottawa, baking tests wera made from the crop of 1906, which showed that Marquis stands in the first rank for baking strength. This wheat was then transferred to the experimental farm at Indian Head for test under prairie conditions, where from larger teede in the field Marquis gave 42 bushels per acre, while in 1909 and 1910' five -acre lots at Indian Head yielded more than 53 bushels an acre, Simplified Spelling. • Here is a copy of ft letter which a branch' bank in a town in Western Canada recently received: Der Sir, --I am Lead up with Rama- tisman thee s Winter end can not go to Town. Can you and Wil you ex- tend my Loan an or, before 4 Monts more as I have lituld onley 4 load of Whete and have not got anof oute of it tu pay my Trasing bill. 1 sendt in Appleication for Patent on my Ilomestate the '22 of da,nuer together with my Cittuen Peppers and. hop tu get RecomandtiOn for Papent son, • and I Will then get a lone on my land and pay you up. • I hereby send you the Due Intrest. If you vont a new Not, plece make out one and send .me for Signature ikrid I will send it bak once. Hoping tu get a feherabill here from you I is as eVer You roe TrottIeY, • Entries From Every County. Some artistic soiil has been at- tempting to pia out the twelve naost beautiflil womeri in the world. We refused* accept. the. authority of any foreign artist oil 'fills question: Huh! There are halfra dozen just as haod- some women inr-well, gay Markdale —as• 'any he- hal named. He, hasn't seen thent anyWay.—Flesherton recently. Advance. THURSDAY. 1912 MAKING MAPLE SUPAR. Former Canadian likeessity Has Now: Become ‘antlxury. Maple sugar was first a luxury, then a necessity, and then a luxury WICEr more, And such itsis to -day, and such, it will continue to be so long as Can- ada contains maple woodlands, ‘vhicb.• it is to be hoped, will be as long as the country *Uncle, for if we lose our maple we will luso our national ern- bleni, and, iii many respects the fair- e 4tVA Qstaalrv l Nafirs aur rs forests. i Ugade by the bee , in fans: It was their only sweets and, des the wild fruits, their only hixury. The Indian is very fond of sweet, and as the supply vas limited maple spgar and maple syrup Aver highly prized by the Redmen, who%) diet, for the most. part, coos.isted ot • flihe game and Maize, or, as we hav called it after them, Indian cora. Not alt cultivated the soil and p eeseed 'Cern crops. In fact the guests and the Hurons were to intents and purposes the only exp • ents of their etude agriculture. And so, too, it was with the maid of maple sugar,, which. -01 cour • could only be carrieet„ on in district where the maple tree abounded an which Was only attempted by Indiana, lees afraid of work than was the avert , ege Redman, and also more enterprien Inge . , The Iroquois made maple sugar, ana. so, too, did some of the Algoncrati tribes, dwelling about the Gr a, Lakes, whereernaples abounded. T Indian process is described by the mous old fur -trader, Alex. Henry,* spent a number of years in tile la regions. He sew the Indians at wo• r ann6d5.he also worked with them, mak • sugar for his own use as early The Indian tapped the tree ;let,' 4 ling a channel across one side 9 near the base of the channel slopi somewhat downwards. In the lo end of the channel they inserted little trough, or spout of birch -ba which oonducted the sap from t wound in the tree to a bucket of ba resting on the snow at the base the tree, or on thedground, if sug making.had been preceded by a hea thaw. itAr In other buckets of bark, » the se, e was collected and carried to the eaxnhlj in the centre of the maple wood th had been attaeked by the savage s gar -makers. e , liere huge kettles, or cauldron's we slung over roaring fixes, and i .these cauldrons the sap was "boil down," that is the water was evapait ated by boiling until syrup was pi duced, which was reduced to suga by a little more .boiling. •• . After the Indian fashion, most the work, was performed by t • squaws. They tramped through. 1 snow, buekets in hand, gathered t sap, and carried it to the Boiliti Camp. They also hauled to cam most of the dry wood found, here there in the forest, wherever had been blow,n down by the s of the preceding season. Some the fires would be attended to b lazy braves, who filled in the by mending or making snowshoe now -and then sending out partiei A hunt and bring in neededesupplies o. genie. • The sap was boiled in iron kett1j. but there were no iron kettles int forest until white men came, so t before that time there could not ha been much sugar made in the Can dian forests. • The first • improvements broug about- by the white settlers in th, process of maple sugar -making wer to substitute a hole bored into ttee trunk of the tree for the channel te Indians used to cut, and a "spile" spout, made by punching the pith, core, • eut of straight bits of sm alder, and Which being inserted i the hole in the tree, conducted. 1 sap to the wooden bucket suspend from the base of the "spile" by me of .a wire hook.e-Montreal Standar A Good Answer. °.).% 4). • ei 4.1 Many a speaker has been floor by a question put by one of his he ers, and W. F. Nickle, the clev young man who represents King* in the House of Commons, nearl met that fate in a recant campafg Mr. Nickle, upon ending his speee said that be would endeavor to ape swer any question put by anybody 1 the audience. Hardly had he ma4 the offer when he regretted havi done so. A man—evidently an Iris man — whose 'face had a look meant trouble for somebody, ro from his seat at the back of the ha and walked down the aisle till stood near the platform. , "Mr. Nickle, you sayethat you'll ifl- swer any question put to you?" aS ed the man in the aisle. "I'll try," said the speaker, wo ciering on what line he was about Ibt be tackled. 'hen how much did your la*. eledticed .cost you?" said the que tioner. • For a moment Mr. Nickle flonn(14 ered. Than an inspiration came tO, him, and he t iswered: "Six weeks fity the hardest work I ever put in in tr life."--0anadian Courier. .,4 A Yukon Bonanza. A new gold discovery, regardaed as - one of the best since the days of the; Klondike discovery in 1898 ',was made the other week, about seventy miles'. from the mouth of ,Sixtyrnile Riverre: 120 miles southwest of Dawson anl, twenty-five miles from the Alaska, lin). The find» is said -to averrag, about $1 to the square ,foot of "beelli, rock. Some two hundred Men a4i:41i 'already gone on a stampede to stalc9; claims, notwithstanding a temperatuM of 30 degrees below zero and snow the ground fifteen inches deep. Canadian Shines at Oxfor.d. The Canadian scholar, H. J, Bak/ son of Allen Baker, of London, Ont was elected president ef the UniO Society of Oxford ti,niversity. taketel who recently eecured ?me of the mo important university scholarships, ii. - a keeir'politician and strong debate, and has the unique honor Of belixi the first seholar to occupy the preS dentin]. chair of the Union. Soda At?. t. University Athletic `,31iiti ,