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OPEN LirrERs'TOA FARMER
BY Bee', M. V. Kelly, C.S.B.
(Oentinued froin last week)
irrt, • thia, The most truly Christian.honies
la Money -Making Always Dangerouel I can recall in any walk of life have
Yeti net the city. attracts you -be-
cause of the opportunitlea it holds out
to your sons. Theymay embark in
Imine, or week np to a position,
which, In -the not -too distant future,
eseure them an heceine far be
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yea(' anything you can provide them
on the farm, This is altogether pose
aible;' others have done it. Why not
they also? They raay be one day
wealthy men. A good start once made,
money often multiplies itself. very
quickly. Your sons are probably just
the hind of fellows to go ahead, It is
not idle to imagine them one day liv-
ing :,in magnificent residences, recog-
nized by society, and surrqunded by
all the trappings of wealth.
Is it aesiam.ble? Is it really your
'been the houree of luduatrioue,weU
tondo farmer& There will be a real
consolation in flailing thia a matter ot
b'eneral, ,exPerionce, dernonetrating as
it does, that there is one occupation
in which worldly reward for toil does
not Interfere with one's spiritual in-
terest.
Of course, we cau both readily ad-
mit, when all is said and done, that a
farmer's wealth never leads to any
marked degree of buying or indul-
gence. He does: not ride in a parlor
car or take a holiday daily; he has no
vacations at the seesicle, nor takes his
family on a European tour., He may
go to the Phovincial or National Ex-
hibition, but a life -time repetition of
this makes no appreciable reduction
wish that it should be so? Do you eon- in his revenue; he may squander a few
ewer the posecssiou ot wealth a bees- hundred dollars on a Ford whcb serves
mg? $110,uki a young. mat keep thai., regularly- to facilitate busines's opera -
aim in vie*? Everyone gee= to say tons and very occasionally provide a
so; certainly no onoseems -afraid of holiday, His wife spends no hundreds
the prospect. Great numbers are on fur outfits, nor do his daughters
wearing their lives away ih the reea keep well apace of the latest fashions.
to gain, sun more and 'more, can His banquets, his club attendance, his
there be any gnestion about it at all? recreations and Pastimes afford little
Yes, this is about how the world rem. opportunity for extravagance or die
-
sons on the matter. sipatton. Do you know of one farmer
in the land who luxuriates in any of
The great problem with me has al-
ways been how the world continues
to square, these notions with the teach -
lags c•f the Gospel. Have you suc-
ceeded in overcoming that difficulty
Yourself? If you would like to see
your sons and daughters in possession
of wealth, do you Mad nothing against
it in. Holy Scriptures? Are we not
supposed to take Our Lord's words
seriously? And if we must take them
seriously, what do you make out of
such expressions as:
"How hardly shall they that have
riches enter into the kingdom of
Heaven?"
It is easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle than for a
rioh man to enter into the kingdom of
Heaven."
"Woe to the rich, because you have
your consolation."
Are these words not for us at all?
True, the world has actually succeed-
ed in setting them aside. Its follow-
ers pay no heed to them. To a cer-
tain extent, we all follow in its tracks,
apparently unaware of the real dan-
ger, though it is. the same Great Mas-
ter Who said: "I pray not for the
world." Ca.n you, as a christian fath-
er, contemplate moving to the city for
that reason? Can you suppose that,
should your sons become weaithy men,
the Gospel words will not apply to
them? If the possession of wealth un-
der any circumstances 'must be con-
sidered most dangerous, to the soul,
what about the temptation to gain
through. very questionable methods?
No one disguises his suspicions that
many wealthy men have piled up their
millions by taking more than their
share of the deal. It is, indeed, very
commonly supposed that many oppor-
tunities far doing so come in the way
of the keen, active business man, and
it is not at all surprising if temptation
its often yielded to. We see compara-
tively young men with huge bank ac-
-counts, and cannot help wondering
`what ability they possess, what work
they have done to get together in a
few years many times as much as the
most intelligent and most industrious
farmer of our acquaintance could hope
to call his own at the -end of a life
time. Procedures such as these, more
or less under suspicion, seem to be
regularly associated with business
prosperity. He whose first and last
aim is to serve God faithfully and eave
his owe soul may well think twice be-
fore deciding taa shape his future in
such a sphere of actteity.
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You may say there are those, in the
,
country who also increase their wealth
from year to year and who ,certainly
woulcl resent being classed among.
Gocl's poor. Did you ever know a farm-
er's- wealth to undermine his faith?
Can you remember among your life-
time sequainta,ncee one tannet, the
salvation of whose soul -wee 'being im-
perilled because of the amount of
nicnsy he was making on the farm? I
mast confess I have not. On the con-
trary, I ehould be disposed to say that
in every country congregation, the
tarnillea most attentive to their daily
duties, whose homes breathe an air of
prosperity, are generally the most at-
tentive to their religious duties. I
invite your -attention to this coracle-
s -ion, 1 know it is saying a great deal,
narticula,rly becaufee the reverse Pre-
vails so commonly in city congrega-
tione. Look asound and seeif your
experience,' docs not correspond with
these ways? It is not so hard to un-
derstand, after all, why the prosperous
-farmer is not carried away by
his 'The current's mailing me Northward,
wealth. He never has enough to turn. And the white water's mist in my
his. heed or lead him into dangerous
habits.
(To be continued).
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Canoe Song.
Sun on the water
And wind in the trees,
My canoe sliding into
The heart of the breeze,
They start to work at an early age in India. None of the Hindu lads shown in the act of weaving is 'more
than nine years old.
The Dog as a Carrier of
Disease. '
It is an unwelcome thought to many
who love th'eir.pets, whether cats or
dogs, that the animals, may on occasion
Ise e source of great danger to the Pe. -
sons who de -ell in the same house with
them. Nevertheless it is a feet and
must be faced in the interest of the
health -both of children and adults.
Children are in greater danger, for
they not only roll on the floor with the
clog and caress him but are more sus-
ceptible- to the disease that the dog
To a North Woods Canoe. Arabs to Establish
University at Bagdad
There's a clean, swift craft in the
Northland,
With the water -want in her heart,
And a paddle to bend her outward,
And a load for,the after thwart.
There's, a man for the other paddle,
A band lior th,e portage mire.
And aeaeh for the singing fly reel
And a song for the day -end fire.
Who cares for hunting
With rod or with gun?
I'lI capture- ioy
Where the green eddies run,
My band -on the paddle,
My face to the breeze,
When there's sun on the Water
And wind in the trees.
face;
The spruce deep's reaching to fold us,1111aY .bransinit.
As we swing to the camping place. Tuberculosis is not an uncommon
disease in dogs; they acquire it either
Give us earn for the lakes, from Perions• or from other
The wind at our backs,
And leek far wild. water,
And wings for long packs!
For only a wish can reach us now,
With nothing bat water before the
bow;
And nothing bat hubbies to mark our
trail, .
And only a m-ountain to catch our hail.
'—Evan A. Woodward.
Nene is a fool always, everyone
sometimes.
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The first splice in the new cable which is being laid between Alaska and
Seattle, a distance of 955
- At a Child's Bedside.
Isathere one who has net smiled
At the bedside of a child? •
If there be one, heehas missed ,
Earth's ,most tender euclia,rist.
Eager mind the:labour by hour,
Opened, blossomed like a flower;
To what secretahoveyeomb
Have these wondering thoughts gone
home? •
Little- hands and eyes Set free
From the day's immensity,
Now relaecea and innocent
in a questioeless content. "'-
Sleep then, sleep then, little guest;
Wo will house thee at the best;
Tiptoe, :tiptoe, on the floor --
Wake not God's Ambassador!
-Chri8tophdr Morley.
Carbon Black in Tires.
Manufacturers of automobile tires
are the greatest users of carbon blacks
which is obtainea .from natural gas.
No tale so good but may be spoiled
IT1 the telling..
Beauty' of Musical Tone.
In the Course 'et enme remarks he
made at a recent musical function, Sir
Heniry Wood said that comparatively
few people realize even yet the import-
ance of beauty of: tone. This opinion
must be regarded as soundly based,
especially when we remember how of-
ten the vast majority of listeners, to
music are content to ignore beauty of
ton -a, and to be pleased to the point of
enthusiasm -by details of natte,ical per-
formance from which beauty of tone
is lamentably abSent. In singing, and
in the production of miisic from every
known. musical instrument, beauty of
tone is the object of •the true artist's
efilort, and the display of other fea-
tures of his performance to the neglect
or at, the expense of. beauty 01 tone,
names the performer as less than an
artist.
•I believe that any great reformer
will find less practical discouragement
in the pposition of bad people, than
in the inertia of good. people.—A. K.
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I-Iydropb.obia is the most dangerous
and fatal of aft canine disorders, but
fortunately it is rare. A victim- of the -
disease, running amuck and biting a
number ot animals as well a,s, man,
may start an epidemic. It is, a com-
mendable pi'ocaution to have your own
dog vaccinated' again,st rabies. Sueh
forethought may save not only the
clog's life, but human life he well.
Ringworm is probably transmissible
from tae child- to the dog, and -Hee
.Kerl'Srl, though true mange iss, said not
to be. However, when a dog shows
mangy patches in his sidle be should
be kept away from the family and
should be treated for the eruption.
Dogs are susceptible to tapeworm;
and some of the worms the dog hat --
bees may grow 'in the human intuitMe.
One of them is email, but makes up in
numbers what it lacks he Size. Fleas
take up the eggs' of this worm and so
may carry th•ean to members of the
family. The bladder worm is the
most clangeroue- of the parasites that
the dog may transfer to man. It is
the larva 'of a species of tapeworm not
uncommon in theedrog-; and, though it
is- small, it often eocure itt ge-eat num-
bers. The symptoms are obscure,
since the dog tolerateeven laKge
numbers of the worm. The most cdin-
mon symptom. is an. itclaing under the
tail, which causes the animal to drag
himself along tale floor in a sitting
posture. The larvae may reach the
child when the dog licks the -child'-s
hands, or, worse, his. face and lips.
These larvae form cysts in the- organs
of the host as- an intermediate stage
of their existence; ,and it 15 the cysts
that constitute the danger to man. It
is a good plan to have a veterinarian
examine every pet. dog at regular in-
tervals. Or, if noveterinarian is to be
had, it will do no harm to give the ani-
mal a dose of worm medicine from
time to time.
The Trees.
The poplar is a French tree,
A tall and laughing tree,
A slender tree, a tender tree',
That whispers to 'the 'rein;
An easy, breezy flapper tree,
A lithe and blithe and dapper tree,
A girl of trees, a pearl of trees,
Illestae the shallow
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Tile oak is a Briyith tree,
a.nd not at all a skittish tree;
I A rough tree, a tough tree,
A knotty tree to bruise;
A drives-his--roots,`inideep tree,
, A what-I'fincl-I-keep tree,
1A mighty tree, a Blighty tree,
IA tree of stubborn thews.
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'Tile pine tree is our own tree. -°
A grown tree, a site tree,
The tree to face a bitter wind,,-
Thetree for mast and' spa.r;
A mountain tree, a,fine tree,
A fragrant, tu rp ent in e tree,
h. limber tree, a. timber tree,
And resinous with, tar!
—Christopher Morley.
First steps toward a return to :the
glories of Harun-Al-Rashid have been
taken by the Arabs, with the oncour-
agernont of the. British, in Bagdad,
where the cornerstone of 'a naw
Arabic university has been laid, says
a Constantinople despatch.
The learning of bOth the East and
the West se -ill be taught ir the Univer-
Sity, called Al al Bait which will in. -
chide eolleges of divinity, engineering,
scienee, law, education and medicine.
The building.whiehelms been started
will te,-a teribination of -Eastern and
Western architecture end will house
the divinity echool.
As the' Ministry o 'Moslem Pious
money,1Tuell10-reacisklaodt11
'1:e111‘ C.i611.6gtig
will ,.not be started for severaYyears.
A thousand years ago, when Geeford
and the Sorbonne were unknown, Bag-
dad, as the capital of the AbaSside
Caliphs, was a great centre of learn-
ing which, daring the Daek Ages in
Europe, saved many of the Greek
claeSics for the West. ' •
Firit Triple Escalator
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World was opened. hi Loirdoe' nt the . , "--.-,.
Bal11 -station on the subway, recently; '', . - ,
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replacing five lifts, old-timers, jVhich
have carried people up and down since
1900. The old lifts were quite igiadee
quath to nope with the modern rush
of passengers,.
The mechanism of the triple esca-
lator, which is proudly advertised as
being entirely of British constructeie,
has been reduced to the minimum. The
three escalators are in one shaft, a
tunnel of 27 feet diameter, and each is
worked by two 45 -horsepower motors.
The vertical rise is 48 feet and there
is a vertical speed of 45 feet per
minute, •
It is estimated that this new esca-
lator is capable of handling more than
twenty-four thousand, passengers an
hour. There are 180 steps on each
stairway, and the centre one is re-
versible, up in the morning for the
errival of city workers, and clown at
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Natural Resources' Bulletin.
The Natural Reeetiec.es Intelligeece
Service of the Department of the In-
terior at' Ottawa says:—
' The preelection of some of the baser
metals
in Ontario Jest year show such
large inc-rinses over t'no peeVious year
that they are worthy of Mention. We
hear mostly of Ontario gold and silver
produeteon that we often oveelook the
tact that -nickel, copper and lead form
a large propoition of the provincial
mineral output, and, for industrial
purpoees at Probably 'more import-
ant than gold and silver.
Nickel last year showed production
of 23,237,334 pounds, compared with
11,175,326 pounds in ,1922; copper
produced amounted to 14,420,244
pounds in 1923, and 4,503,358 pounds
in 1922; the output of lead 'in. -1923
Was4,612,313 -pounds, as againet 2,-
895,695 pounds in 1922. It is inter-
esting to note that the Sudbury dis-
teict -provides almost all of the nickel
and copper, while Ontario's lead pro-
duction, cernes mainly .from the mine
at Galata, on the ,Ottawa RiVer:
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Can you heat it? These eggs are a niillion, or more years old, and George
Olsen, Asiatic excavator, is preelding. at thems With never a thought of a gas
mask. They are 'supposed to have been laid by a dinosaur..
Yes, on the Golden 'Shore:,
Miss'Yoting---"I've promised to,mar-
ry Reggie as soon as he's nraden, for-
tune." •
ivllhs Sharpe—"Oh, its to be a union
of souls, I See." •
A man's world is as large as his
sympathies. There are still those
whose prayers include no more than
"nie and my wife and my son John
and his wife," On the other' hand,
there aro many who- have gone be-
yond the old Roman who ,said, "What-
Paroled Criminal Jars Faith
'6f 13ickens's Son
• Sir Henry Dickens, who as a Lon-
don magistrate has found in actual
life that the faith his famous novelist
father had in hum:an nature is not
always juAigeel, has- just commented
upon a ease that was firoUght before
him recently. Sir Henry some time
age remarked that he was determined
to'try a great experiment, with-- a man
who was arraigned before him.
Although the prisoner had a long
criminal record, Sir Henry paroled
him and found -work for him. Three
months later the man was again ar-
rested. •
"II, was one of the greatest disap-
pointments, I have ever experienced,"
said Magistrate Dickens. "I will
never try such a thing again)'
ever concerns hut's -lenity concerns me," , Persian Women Ignorant.
There is a world ,ct suffering outside .Only 3 per cerite. of the. women of
of huma„ity. Penile are able to read and write.
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Mineral pdactieon in the Province
of Quebeo during 1923, amounted In
value to $20,336,985, as -conffraged with
$18,335,153 in Elie previous year, ac-
cording to a report prepared by the
Provincial Department of Mines. The
value of produetIon last year was the
tleird hihest e v er reco rd e d, being ex-
ceeded only in 1920 and 1919. 'When,
it is considered that these peak years,
of procluctionewere the result of- ab -
no -meal conditions 'of inflation follow-
ing the war period, and that the total
value of last year was largely made
up of nonnletallies, production in 1923
was very satista,etory.
In common with other miner
provinCa3 in the Dominion,
Quebec was hard hit by elle s:larnp
-which followed the boom years of 1920
and 1919. Even at the present time
the production of inetallie ores er
than gold is intim- or less limited, ow-
ing to the low ,prices of metals and
the:cost of production. 1-loWever, incle
cations' are tbast this condition 15 grad-
ually being overcome, said recent de-
velopments in the Gaspe Peninsula and
Northern Quebec give peornise of bet-
ter conclitiouse •
The most pleasing feature of the
mining situation in. QUebed in 1923
was the excellent showing made in
production, in the asbestos, industry.
Shipments of asibestos last year
amounted to 216,304 tons, as compaeecl.
With 179,891 tons in 1920, the 131'0YiQl1B
record production. Tho value, how-
ever, is 'less, being only $7,364,259, or
an average price of $33.97 a ton. The
lower qualities were mere in -demand
than the long fibre grades,, the latter
having had to be stored. as stocks, on
-hand. Wtih improved prices, there-
fore, it may be expected that the, as-
bestos industry will be in a more sat,
isfactery position.
Mica Improved, Feldspar Satisfactory.
As stated above, there was a limited
production of metallic ores. The only
shipments recorded were 1,34-1 tons
of lead and zinc concentrates from
Portneuf -county; 3,558 tons:of cheona-
ite from Coleraine and. 68 tons of
ilmenite from Bele St. Paul. In the
non-oetailic group, -conditions weee
fairly -satisfactory. The, mica, inelifsley
showa marked improvement over •
1922. and 1921: . Feldspar- production
was satisfactory, -it being clear that
United,' States grinding plants are be- ,
coming mord and,mdre dependent on
Canada fon:their high grade felaspar
requirements,. Ochre is produced gong
the nontliah-ore of the Si. -Lawrence
River at points, adjacent to the C.P.Ilte
in Labelle, Montmorency, Port Nd-ur,
st. Maurice and Saguepay -depoeits.
The -valleys of 'the Ottawa and Gati-
neau livers contain molybdenum de
posits, which have produced consider-
ables' ore; those at Quyon 'may be spe-
daily mentioned. There is also a lot
of ,development work: being done in the
Kenagama Lake area. Magneeite„
mineral paints, silica, rock, soapstone
for furnace linings,all show increases.
While no particular mention, is -
made in the, report of gold mining in •
1923. considera-ble prospecting and de-
velopment work was carried out and
results augur well for the future Of
this industry. The new branch line ef
`Ca,nadian Pacific Railway to
Norelew,estarn Quebec, where the pros-
pective*gold-mining area is Ion -tea is
now in operation and will be of con-
siderable Ilea) to -the mining- intapeets,
Considerable development week -is
now in progress throughout the pro-
viace. In ad,dition ,to the prospactind
Dor gold in Western Queb-ec, experi-
mental work is, being carried on to de-
velop a method of 'selective concen-
tration whic.h would: permitethe sepa-
:ration of copper ore froth the pyrites.
The new asbestos manufacturing plant
of the Johns -Manville Company will
in all probability be in 'operation this
year. Presentindications are that
1924 -will be anOther successful year
for the mining industry of Quebec.
Sleeping Sickness Peril
is Gaining in England
Sleeping sickness is increasing rap-
idly in this country, and 649 cases
were notified by, doctors in the 'first
three weeks of April, against 468" in
March, 217 ih February, and 75 in
January, says a London despatch.
'While investigations into ,the cause
of the disease are being carried out by.
the Medical Research CotIncil, doctors
admit they do not know either a cure
or any means of preventing the
spread. Laege. towns appear to be
more affected than rural districts and
I the disease seems to spread westevard,
West India ISles Shol,i7n
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DocTo as Very Loyal to 11,zigland
Sit Eustiice Flounce, Governor ot
the Leeward Islaticle, on a recent visit -
to ldngland, told neporters,that he was
curtain the British West Indian pos-
sessions would never he ceclod to A I -
erica for war debt. The sentiment
the people was strongly against, sticii
a change of flag, and they werevery
loyal. to Great Britain,
Sir Eustace said also that despite
commercial loss occasioned by the
war and 'four successive years of
'drought, the future outlook of the
islands was excellent,
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There is feed fer thonght in the
saying of Bernard Sheekee'ethat the ,
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mord things a man is aShamed Of the
moat respectable citizen he is. ,'
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