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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-4-23, Page 7e 1 R !NOTE$ ANI) COMIYIENTS The tittle be.wn faun of Japan are not :setts led with !Meetly renown. Tlu'y ewe preparing for a world's fair in Tokio in 1012. 'Tho exposition l Lo aped April 1 of 'that year amt lust for sex rmonlits, and it will be under the direc- ;tlon of the government, which will .guarantee alt expenses, The idea of eel govennnnent Ls not ,so much to pro. 'vide an intermit:owe or universal cx- ;pt.sition in the proper sonso of the term iris to set. forth in concrete shn,ps all that Japan has been able to produce to ,the arts, ntanufneLui•cs, and agrlcutiur- .nl staples, It Ls taken for granted, however, that the dations of the earth 'will compote with the natives In me- icllanlcal appliances, Industrie) products and works of art, At lost they will le: afforded every opportunity of doing :so In order to promele the compett- Alen of foroleenc1\s, the Japanese govern- ment proposes to erect three special 'br.lhddngs: the Clattery of the Sciences, 'the Palace 4t Education, and the Palace of Electricity, These three bufidttgs 'will be entirely given op to foreign na- tions. Resides this, tate foretgn gov- ernments will be allotted space free of •expense H they desire to erect build- ings for tlse exhibits in their own styles •ct architecture, Every single govern- ment in, the Japanese kingdom Ls ex- pected tee oontributo generously toward this huge enterprise. The central gov- ernment etinady has appropriated about_ 6.5,000,000 lo\vaed the erection of three buildings for foreign exhibits and Is :prepared to spend still larger stats. --w The wood famine spreads. An Au- stralian corporation has just received ,a concession from the Russlan govern- ment to take out 30,000,000 feet of tim- ber a year from a forest to Siberia, 900 noes tt'on1 Vladivostok, to be'del.ly- €red in Melbourne, about 8,000 miles away. No other lumbering operation illustrates so vividly, perhaps, tho pinch in the Umber supply all over the world. Every year timber Cruisers are going further afield and cutting trees which, 1, former times of abundance, they passed because of the inaccessibility of the forest. A•leantttne somebody hos found tete great forest of Xenia In Af- r•:ea. it Is the tropical continuation of a line of forest running through Cape Colony and Dae Transvaal. According to a recent colonial report of the survey, it is 287 miles long ,by eight broad, anti, comprises a million acres of timber at a height between 6,000 and 9,000 feet -above sea level. It is estimated that the total value is 8115,000,000. The smallest things visible to the eye are theaters. Few p*oplo would think It, but the wiseacres say it Is so. Great as many of the stars are in actual size, llaetr distance is so immense that their .angular diameter becomes insensible, THE SIN OF SELFISHNESS It Is a Fatal Barrier to Any Enlargement of the Life. "And if thou draw out lhy soul to eflon think of It as wholly a matter of the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, business shrewdness; we look to tlnd then t , shall. thylir r i � h 1ht iso n olsi.uril Y SI:CCCS� IIA[ snlislaatiOR Jr f".il o\Vin � % a i and thy darkness be as the noon clay.* y 6 —Isaiah, lvhit„ 10. 11 is the things that draw us out that lift us up. The measure of any 100 Is in 010 extent to which It goes out to the fnteresis of other lives, the extent to which sympathy is cultivated and in- telligent service Ls 1'endetled where it Is most needed. The difference between the wise and the ignorant is in the range of the knowledge, the expertonce, and lite In- terests which each La able to use. The difference between the great life and tic little ono Ls similar; the former ands nothing foreign to hent; the latter tluliis Iiia horizon usually by living wholly for himself. If you desire greatness only for your own sake, Indeed, it you ateo•thtnicing of either greatness or of yourself you never will find It. Tho lives that have been flung away in sublime abandon, those that have poured themselves out In answer to love's imperative are those that have found the full life. Selfishness is the saddest sin, the one that seems to underly almost MI others. It. blights with its first breath nil the fair flowering and rich fruitage of any life that yields to U. It compels 04 to lose our legitimate prizes by snatching greedily et all the prizes; 11 insures, pain by leading us to seek ONLY OUR 0\VN PLEASUTIE. Under how many guises comes this form of soul suictdel One calls It cul. - turd, another ambition, another seS1- respect, yet often each docs but mean that the lift has only one end, its own advantage, every action but one Jllo- tive, personal advantage, and console ence asks but one question, What do I mice by this? If in every act, in every hour you are thinking first or only of yourself; if you have adopted the policy of car- ing for "number ono" as the guiding prinetplo in life, you may make money, you even may make a reputation, but there are some other things you will not make, sorne other things your mercy Carnot buy nor your reputation secure. You will not make [•lends; you will not mnice joy or life or an endur- ing name. .Somehow in the press of Life we too closely the rules of business, by play- ing the game of life with an eye single to our own glory end personal profit, But In what way Is such a life, no mal- let what Lis profits may be, better than that of any gulley slave chained to the oar? 11 is not tto life that seeks only to gather and rake In, 11 Is the Lite that ra- diates, gives out, reaches its iutereets, thoughts and helpfulness to ever widen- ing circles, that grows, that finds life, that knows Its Joys, that really Le cul- tured, developed, educated. This Ls the vital principle of the Chris- tian religion, but we too often have ob. stewed it \VITII OUR SELF-SL"EICi.NG. flow often has religion meant simply the passion to insure the individual's soul against some dreaded punishment, 01` to secure to the individual some pe- culiar pease or joy. The surest way lit miss any such blessings Is to sock Bleat for themsolvee and for ourselves alone. Ile who lets others into his life en- larges thus his own. Ile who opens the doors of his heart to the needy, the lonely, tate sad, the mourning, finds that as they bring In their sorrows and their tears fair [lowers of joy spring up about hint, the cheer he gives them be- come en greater measure his awn, and the love ho gives away becomes his choicest possession. The man who went about doing good, 'who had no thought save for the needs and cares of others, is the one who, above all others, found the full and satisfying life. He who knew so well the way of life called on no man to save his own soul, uttered no shrewd precepts of self-preservation, but taught by a lite of self -giving the secret of full !Luing. There 15 only one way to discover whether this philosophy is best or not, try it for a while. Try thinking of the helpless, planning pleasures for drum), lives, bearing some loads for weak end weary backs, being willing to Lose your own life, and see whether he was not right who said, "IIe that loseth his life shall and it." HENRY F..COPE. TTL. S S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL -26. [Jessen FV. Jesus 'reaches Humility. Gulden Text, John 13. 34. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. (Based on the test of the Revised and they approach to tate condition of Version.) geometric points. The minute disks King and Servant,—After spending they appear to have are imaginary of. the Sabbath at Bethany and at its close attending an evening tenet in his 'Sn- ot, Jesus proceeded early next morn- ing an his journey toward Jerusalem, in company with his disciples and other festal pilgrims. A rumor had already rca.chod the city that he was coming, and an eager,enthusiastic multitude hastened out along the highway to meet hire. Now at last their opportunity to make hila Laing OCe11K$I to have arrived. And ,emus did not this time repel ilieir enthusiastic acclaim, but rather planned sdelibcralely to augment the dignity and trtulnph of his entry Into the capital ally. Itis lime has at last fully come. (le accepts rho royal homage tendered him by the populace, nor ono forbids their, try of "Rosana to rho Son of David!" As king ho enters the city, and as Icing must the hierarchy of the nation at Inst accept or reject him. In him, therefore, is the .prophecy [malted: "0 daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee; he Is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding up - tin an ass, oven upon the foal of an ass' (Zech. D 9). In chapters 13-17 of John's narrative are recorded parting wards of Instruction and counsel ad- dressed by Jesus to his disciples 011 the 01'0 of his poselon, Much still remain- ed to be said to those Wren, who in the near future were to carry on in his stead• tho work of establishing and building ftp his kingdom upon earth.. Ile must choose the most important, and that is that the altention and thought of his disciples bo ccnt0r•ed once more upon himself, so that in the approaching lioua• of 111oie sore, disappointment, when the lingering hopes of an earthly kingdom acre to be shattered, they might still cheese the memory of him, and cling lc him by faith until the dawn of East- er morning would bring a new and gtonllous massage of hope, ant a larger vision of iho \duster's mission upon earth. 1n our lesson passage it Ls his example of self-abnegation and sorvice that 11e svould have then Consider, 05 in subsequent purls of the conversation which. follows immediately upon the events beim nnrratOd it is 10 himself as the tvey, the hatlh, the life," and as "tho true vino" that ho calls atten- tion. :feels of radiation. SENTENCE SEIIMONS. \Vandet•Ing thsugllis seldom find safe harbor. Every honest doubt ripens into larger to 0th. The hemt of all reform is the reform of the heart. Souls are not titled up by preaching -down 10 thein. • A. frowntng brow often indicates ar shrieking head. Too many sow sapid and then pray :for strawberries. What yottare when no one is look- ing is what you are. There can be no moral muscle with- •out moral struggle. 1f you would load you must be wil- ting to bo lonesome at tines. There are loo many churches trying lo win the poor by courting the rich. The value of your religion depends ion how much of yourself is invested In it. No man on win righteousness who will not tako some risks on his reputa- lion, 11 doesn't take long to discover all 'kinds of good In anything that hoe gold 4:11 It When a preacher tries to bo a star the is sure to shut out somebody's sun- IIghl, Tile heart is best nourished when we^ rare mintstoring to the needs of our .m eigls ors. Ito who expects to die like a dog 11stI- 'rely goes to his expectancy long be- fore Ise dies. The hope of this world does not lie Jo the stall fed saints who are fatten- ing or. sermons. If yen would flied gladness yot1 must ploy Ilfc's great gaffe with eagerness and 10tness. Saline folks are starving because they don't know the difference 'seems die. Wks and a dinner. ` -.1, CAUGHT ON TILE RUN, 1'11e judge listened. intently to the ,mules story, The plan was the plain - Ulf, and lied eha'god his wife with cruel and abusive treatment. Ile was a .8111(111 mien, and his with—well, it was al least evident that the charge nested 0n a basis of possibility. After the pinlntiff had finished his testimony the judge decided to ask a <iuestion, "Mr, Proublo," said he, "where 'did you meet your wife, who has treatod ,you this why?" "Well, judge," returned the .man •s0mewvhut meelcle, "you see it's th']s way, I never did meet her. She just Mild . of ererloolc tae." Verso 1. Now betorc the feast of the possover-That is, before' the regularly appointed day or tins for the feast, Testis knowing—Stile, or because, ho knew. Ills hour was Como—Until, which tired ell live ,peels against Itis life on the part or his menthe had necessarily been futile, Tlis own ---Those wise had becomesuoll by choice through fates tri him. The expre4elet. must be taken tegettler With the phrase, that were in the world. Be- ing in the world they wero, neverthe- less, no longer "of the world," but members of the kingdom of heaven, of which 11e, their Master, was Icing, Unto the and—Margin, "the utter- most." 2. During supper—From John 13. 29, and 18. 28, it seems evident that the fourth evangelist wishes specifically to d stinguish this supper from the regular Passover feast, which on the day of crucifixion was still to be eaten. Mat- thew, Mark, and Luke, however, ail apealc of this meal, for which duo and special preparation had been made, es the regular Passover feast (compare Matt. 20. 17-30; Mark 14. 12d26; Luke 22 7-30). Perhaps the key to a cermet understanding of these apparently di- vergent statements is to be found in the words of Jesus recorded by Luke: have desired toeat this passover with you before I' suffer: for I say unto you, I shall not eat it, until it be fulfilled in Use kingdom of God" (Luke 22. 15, 16) —the legatee Passover being thus anti dilated by ono day, since Jesus ]cnety that on tete morrow he m11st suffer and The devlt having alrendy put into the heart of Judas—This fact is here Intro- duced to explain the subsequent refer- ence to the betrayer. It also serves es a background for a further reference to one Lord's magnanimity and loge, our Lord's magnanimity and love. 3. From God . unto God — Both phrases aro emphatic from their post- tion In the sentence. 4. Riseth from the supper—,Before tba meat was oompletecl, as is clear from verses 12, 25, and 26 below. Perhaps the disagreement among the disciples concerning which of 1110111 should be "accounted to be greatest"' (Luke 22, 241 prompted Jesus to interrupt the course of the meat in order to settle forever this question by his example of humble and humiliating service. Lnyeth aside his garments—'flee loose 00101' m0u00, together with the girdle, both of which would be in the way in ;performing an act of service such as followed, 5. Regan to wash the disciples' feel— Thus performing for them the menial ;service. of a slave, Thcro could bo no misunderstanding tho intended mean- ing of this act on the part of Jesus, in view of the "orients controversy in which they had just been engaged. 6. Cometh to Simon Pelev--,Apparanfly in regular course, several of the disc 0iples having already submitted to the act of Jesus. Dost thou wash my feet?—ln Tho ori- ginal the pb'on011ns stand togethenr In sharp contrast. The remonstrance is characteristic o1 Peter's impulsive end outspokon, though loyal and, devout, nn tura. 'y, What I do thou lcnowest not—Again the personal preemies, ao emphatte, in- dicating a contrast. Peter's false Mt - veiny had hl'ought svilh It unconsclotis presumption, Jest's reminds frim that his knowledge, as a disciple, of his Mastr,s plans 10 too incomplete to war- rant his poeshng upon the consistency or Inconsistency' of the present act, Thou shelf understand horeetler—The telt significance of the Master's act and 'Memel° became Weide, to the disciples '0' later, Peter ns well as the othershetidl- Dents seem mere prone to commit >etn 11014 lesson of humility, suicide than any other people. About 8, No part with hie,—A word of solemn 2116 Deem per million die yearly be sok vvrarndng fe Peer, the impart of which endo, \hied is n0Arly teebl0 the average 110 is net slow do greep, ten' Iailgland, N• Not my feet only -.-Peter i8 as I j:ulsite now in 1111 01110 du001141s 11.0 seers prevt'rusly in the ether. '1.110 sub stay on the word "wash' which: Joe lied seal in a 1wof,kl mewling, h for Pester shod a Jluud of light up the deeper significance of what his el ter w:rs doing. 10, do that is bathed neodellt not a ti wash, lits feet --Jesus 14 11010 spertki 111 figurative language, The sense his wards seems to be: "Ile that is ready surreruterod to i'ue ns thou 'neu,letlt but to giant against ('(01115 matte' and temptation fees wallet t That he rentaill as 110 Lee clean ev whit," And ye are clean—A remerkablo e generous tribute te bea^tdoyatly h:s disciples. 41.ICnew him that should betray h! Knew what kind of a nota tit he Judos, the U110leal1 one, who later lraycd bltn, was. Jesus had fathom the character of each of hie disoi,11 and realized what even at this tit was going on In the mind of the o who should shortly hasten from his, pt sto carry to its conclusion lhoda p:tot and purpose of his heart, 12. Sal down again—Greek, "reclined t\pparontly the others had not aloe hem their places et the table, to whl Sous new returned.Know ye what 1 limo done to you, Tbne Is precious and Jesus. utast ma sure that the lesson he "bus oLlempt to teach has been understood by as one present, 13. For so I am—Jesus was never 1 fore, more eleoriy o0nsolous of his vas and dignity lha.n now. 11e errs 1t. emphasize that dignity ire, order 111 there may bo no misunderstanding 11 act of humble service. 11. Ought to wash one arothcrs f'e —Words rho deeper mewling of elite is that disciples of Christ are. in ell 111 minty and utter self-abasemnnl le sem to serve one another. For the dL iple in their time and under the 011011(1 un ditinns under which they lived, the r hortatton might well have a more liter meaning also, hardly so, however, fo Christians to -day, 15. An exampio—Whieh lay not much in the form of the service es the spirit which had prunipted it, Jesu taught both by precept end by ,persona example. Of the former method hi parables are the most ilhtstrtotls ex anlpies, of the latter this incident o washing the disciples' feet Ls perhap the fest illustration. In the hands, o She Master Teacher of alt ages bot methods wore eminently and perhap equally effective, 16. A servant is not greater than bi '[.ori—A solemn docrnratiort which' hat already bean made to them before, n the beginning of their apostolic week recorded In Malt, 10. 24, and para! le' ,passages. One that is sent—Greek, "an apostle' The literal English egttivnlenl 1s here used in ;place of the familiar Gr word, which among us has come to ed in a slightly different sense. 18. 1 know Tesus desires to have n roam for doubt as to his previslon n the betrayal, which it Is essential thin the disciples shall not regard, when i comes to pass, es a defent of his plans lie that eateth Amy bread—Or, "he the cateth his broad with me'—a 0omn10n pledge of friendship. rn'. ulie W4 ail On a' 110 01 al- ar) 1tl- 1l, ln•y nil of nr 11.1 eel les ug, ng, sum 'e- ric rd uh n kg, ed e• ids to al Lst 1- lc 1- x - al so s It 3 rL• be us BUCCANEERS' TREASURE. . Revealed by the Sea on the Portuguese Coast. Treasure-trove secreted by Portuguese buccaneers in bygone days has been re- vealed near the seaside village of Para- delha in a remarkable manner. The vil- lage is being slowly washed away by the action of the sea and buildings have been undermined from. time to time. A storm of more then usual severity swept the coast the other day, and a portion of the foreshore at Paradelha was washed away. According to The Secolo, treasure of various kinds was thus exposed b the astonished fishermen, who first believed 111at'it had been sent to them miraculously. There were many (ancient gold and silver doubloons, jewelled crosses, finger rings of quaint antique pattern, ear -rings, gold and silver medallions, portions of silver censers, and other fragments of church plate. All the people in the region hurried to the spot, armed with picks and spades, and have sines been digging feverishly for treasure. Some of then have been rewarded with further discoveries. Ons mean secured gold coins vahted at 11180. All the male inhabitants have deserted their work, and none of the fishermen 'hos left port since the first discovery was made. T'ite Portuguoso buccaneers who har- ried the Spanish Main were in the habit or burying their booty along 1110 oast, and the tr'easur'es unearthed et Pam - dense undoubtedly form a portion of one of their hoards. ALL THE SAlil", TO I1E1. The mistress looked dejeelodly at the latest domestic, just over, ante willing to begin at only four dollars a week. "Whet can yott do?" she asked, with no hope in har heart. "Annething at all, sural" rues the en- couraging .response. The nni,slres1 glanced about the room, There seas everything to be done. "Could you fill the lamps?" she ven- tured, "I oan thatl" and Ilse lamp was seized ie a stout embrace. Then, with the air of ono wishing ,above all else to suit the possible whims of a new em- ployer, rho paused and asked: "And is it gas or taller you do be liking 11 filled w'id?" MADE QUICK WORK OF IT. Chauncey—"[)rnes her tauter object le your calling?" Itarold—'il-e kicked only once," NEWS O? THE DINES LARGIS $LABS OF POW META[, ON 'Tilts' CROW RESERVE, Aloat Foul' hundred Native Silver hinds on Montt+eal (liver eieclion of James Township. Onlffley \V, 1)Ickson has just returned froni u trip le the Montreal River and reports great activity and ctnsidel•ablo °Neit:MS.111 in 1110 nCW uaup 011 acount al roe finds, A um thin has been Made oft the lY'illinu's claim, very oleo to Mu Beeley elaun, and Saki to be equally es good es Koeley's lied. Nu - Il ecuus rrput•l$ have 1,1111 circuluted regurdirrg offers for the Beeley claim, but the writer has it on very good author tont Kcelcy arluully refused $125,000 Pn the. tut ou \vh1oll lieu now bugging cru every dey, writes a Cobalt corres- pondent of Me Globe. The slakeig eumbeti in the neighbourhood of 500 already llav e extended over Beaver Ms untain and stoking Ls now being drew to tete south of Bcaver Mountain to the mouse .of the Malabichewan River '1'lle striking, done to dale has been principally on Shepherd's timber limit where an abtundarco of tine timber baht pine and maple, Is to be found, Bat Johnson tins been living In that district twenty-four years, and runs a general stere, which IS a great conven- ience to prospectors, and Montreal River pl.:ltoelee Is only one and a half mikes from ,l•,hnsone store. There is a forming dishier near at hand but tete territory Is very rough and broken where, tho mineral 1105 been found. 13ontn's farm has been surveyed in town lots and it is caleulafed that a healthy town will spring ail. FL'om present indica- Iic ns and on nccotmb of easy accessibility this now belt, is bound to be a bnsy pinto) during the sunnier prospectors teem the upper district can land at the ionnlh of the Montreal River daily from ffaileylnu•y, and parties C0111ing from frit south ea) make an cosy nip 'iitfrom M11115Wa three limes e week. NATIVE SILVER FINDS The new maps ere out of thoMonlreal three section of James township, and show a.pptoximatety 4100 native silver ands, which is considered a very much better showing than woe made in Cole- man toeibsbip, at a similar stage of ciovcioptnent. A particularly good showing was made last year on the west stele of the river in 'tile southeast corner of James township,' where the lucky Godfeey syndicate has six veryva- ll:abbe claims. A and made on one of these claims last November has lust been made known, A meeting of the Lucky Codfrey syndicate is -being called at once to orange for the development of the property and probably to lake oula corload of ore, which can be bagged from the surface on the big new vein dis- covered last November, and which is from six to eight inches in width of solid metal, smallite and n101001it0 and native silver. 1t is calculated that be- fore the end of 1908 there will be equally as many stripping minor in James lown- sbip'and surrounding districts as there are in the township of Coleman at pre- sent. This calculation is based upon active development work being carried on on the veins which show shipping ore on the surface. RECOGNIZE TLIE 0[,D ABITIBI. The old Abitibi or St, Denis proper- ly, in Lot 8, Concession 11, Lorraine lewnehip, and formerly owned by Jo- seph Fortier, of Montreal, has been sold and reorganized as the Big Fissura Mining Company, with a capitalization of 82,000,000, owned and controlled by capitalists in Bh'i lingham, Ala. Jos. eph Heeley, an experienced mining man (run Idaho, and who had charge of the properly under the former owners, Is now In charge. At a distance of 200 feet from the main shaft, a narrowvein rich in native silver was found on the surface, a cross -cut will be run from the the main shaft at the 150 -foot level to lap this vein, and it is hoped shipping ono will be found. Superintendent Leysen of the Townsite, shipped a car- load of oro this week to Dolore, and left on Wednesday night to lento after it. The main shaft is down 130 feet, and a considerable amount of develop- ment worlc is being carriers on at both levels, and oreis being blocked out. LARGE VALUES IN SILVER. dround vmwr cn7110-1110 unBadergger Is provingdeeloptheent mineotok he very valuable. A considerable am- ount of leaf and native sneer has been found in the big 18 -Inch vein which for- merly carried no values, The wall rock Is also slowing good values in places, Assays hl excess 01 8,000 ounc,nu 10 the tor, have been initen recently. Surface pt'csPecLing has leen started on the lot Inst of the 111g Pete vein of the Cohelt Central. A new vein two feet in width of calcite end welt-nrinor- nlized, carrying silver values, has been found h1 this prospecting work, and is Mine will be sunk on the ee\v mein, A carload of concentrates trona the milt will be shipped out 11tis week, The Crown Reserve properly has been (110. centre of a greet dent of 01levest recently on acceent of the new end rich fed at a distance of Mend. 40 feet item the originnl discovery, which showed n vein 25 inches In width, and very rich its native silver, in fact, limp slabs of pure metal wore taken out. The epin. the has been expressed by messy in the camp flint the ore is the 11ohesl over mined 01 the ennnp, and that the vein is ono of the beat yet locale,l. All assns of (vee 10,00 ounces silver to the ton was taken recently, and it is reported that a carload of ore will bo sent out during the nest fete days which trill. eclipse any shipment over sent out from the ramp in so tar as values to 1117'1110 eIon nrc concerned, Tho Duchess Properly iri souillrastel'n Colcmen is row'ned and mien -Aloe ere, vanity by New Yo111 capilnlisli. Dur- trsp Ilse. last year several lh0ns1ld feet or lrenehi 5 111a t1011a, loeiIing In 1111 sono Vilely Yells. The properly is closed down 'nl present, and arrange- meal.e Will elsel.ly be mnde fine nn up - k: dale plait, when the underground ux+rk will be resumed with an Sterna (0100. WILL GO ON DEVELOPING. Superintendent Charles O'Connell the Green :Meetlun has been In New Yor recently on business, and 11 is state Mai urrangements will bo mnde to .1' Stine operations 411 the properly at a early dote, On lire lied Boclt, Super! tendent Thomson Is keeping up the d vcloprnent work with the usual forea 0 obout 20 man, and some good result are expected to be reported at the Ile Hock during the corning summer. You correspondent has received advice freer the owners of tie. Cobalt Contact tha arrangements have been completed Install Etre compressor plant and to g ahead with the developmeht worlc o the pr00et•ty w]tl. en increased force The nesulie attained at Lhis prolerly date have been most satisfactory an the property or 'r e p pe y sh r rid join the list of reg Mar shippers during the summer. TD North Cobalt Mine is still closed down but prepar•lions in the way of coal an other supplies are being made to re sumo operations at an early date 21 to continue during the summer, Th Ruby Silver which adjoins The Rock, has not been in operation sin lest November, but has been for sale It is stated on good uthorlty that un less some sales now in view material. Inc, the owners will make arrangements to operate Mir property on their own account. On the Prole of Cabals work hes been closed down all winter. ORE REDUCTION COMPANY. tett of •k d 0- n n-' e - f • n 10 0 W d e and d The Red co The plant of the Ore Reduction rem - pony on the Nipissing property is now completed and in operation. Thies plant was built by one Cobalt Concen- trators, Limited, and the plan is a dry process, similar to a Dour milling pro- cess. A small amount of ore is being tun through every' day in an experimen- tal way, and, while the work being dere is portly experimental, results have been satisfactory, an Lt is hoped by the middle of the month to have tate plant running to its full capacity of 100 tens per day. The ore being run through is from the Kendall dump an the Nipis sing 01L IN THE FAB NORTH.. Keeps Oozing Frorn Ground, but Its Source Hard to Find. "The country that one passes from Athabasca landing down in the Amite Red River is full of vegetation," says writer in the Geographical Journal, "and will in my opinion one day be set- tled, In all the mission gardens at line different posts that I passed I saw wheat and barley growing, potatoes, lettuce, turnips, carrots, and every kind of ve- getable that one grows In one's own garden at home. "The country is thickly limbered near the banks of the river, and there are few places 113 which you do not find large patches of prairie. You pass by a great outrush 05 natural gas, and oil is oozing out for miles along the river bank An earth movement has taken place, resulting in a line of fault, which is narked for more than one 'hundred miles along the bank of the Athabasca River. "Out of this oil hos been oozing w•edo not know for how long, and no one has yet found the reservob' of oil which may exist there. A German noble, the Count von Hammerstein, hos spent a great deal of Isis own money and time in try- ing to find a reservoir, and I most etn- oerely hope that be may he successful. "Coal and asphalt are to be seenevery where, and there are great salt, plains not far distant," THE SHRINKAGE 011 TIME. Disappolntnenl 01 the Man Who 'Went Back le His Boyhood home. "I got a great shock last summers' said the man who has been inmlersod Ia business in a distant city for thirty years, "when I made my first vtstt to my boyhood home. All rey life slnco I left the country I have loolced back on those childhood scenes with a great deal of reverence. Everything connected with those early clays loomed largo In tho hind. 'Tho river 'that Stowed through my grandfather's farm was something mag- niltcent, the house wvas a mansion, the .1'005 grew to extraordinary proportions, the garden was mighty roomy, the or- chard was the greatest over, in foot he whole scheme of life was on a largo scale. "New 1 was wont to toast of those scenes to any of Illy fiends wino would oensen.t to be bored, They couldn't sl'tnv me anything in the country line but 1 was ready with a remark begin- ning, '\Vell, when I was a boy,' and 00 on through boast after boast. "1 hero stopped all that now, for when I went back Last summer 1 found that it was just an ordinary farmhouse and the river was a .tiny, lazy stream, and the orchard was shall, and there wasn't much left of the garden, I 11.1511 f Main t gong back at nil. It was 11111011 more comfortable to keep that Picture in Iho mind and inllc about it to my heart's content,. Tho subjects of con- versati0u aro fete enough as (1 is," THE .LUCKY \\'IIEL•'LS, The only wheels of fortune you \lay play with certainly; And pin your hopes of .profit to Are "wheels of i.udustry." "Yes," said At', Pater, with ill.eolt- culled pride, "my youngest boy makes 54'.I11C alnerl remarks et lianas, Only recently he *skeet me what it menet to Le an apprentice, I told him that it meati the binding of one 1)015011 to an - ether Iv agreement, and that one per- son so Lound trod to smolt the other ail he one" of his Iracle or pi'ofesslon, whilst the other had to watch and learn how illhtgs were cion, and had to make himself useful in every way p,is- sihle. "\What did he ;say 10 that?" ask - re one of the atttlience, "\\'hy; °flet' a few mingles the young resent looked as et me and saki: 1114'11 1 suppose yotl"re n.pprcnliccd to uiolhe4 aren't you, dad?" MADE BOWS OF HORN WEAPONS OF THE NORTH AMERt, CAN INDIANS, Wood Not the Only Subeeence teed-,,. Bone and Deer horn Also Fiquree. The bows of the North gmericnn fa - diens were made of wood, bone.or horn. Sometimes the bow was trade of it single piece of wood, sometimes of rev erat pieces; perhaps it was .,oi wooel alone, or 1t might bo backed by sinew or 1y the skin of 201000 animal, accord- ing to Forest and Stream, Tile Ina- terial for the weapon was gathered' whenever it was possible, and a man might have in lees' lodge u number of sticks each of tvhich he intended uLtt- mutely to fashion into a bow, or, If he dict not' live long enough for this the Low would descend to his heirs. As the most Important implement of hun- v leralu0red, warrior, the bow was highly, Bowes of bone were made sometimes of sections of the rib of large anlmulu, spliced and glued together, and were usually backed by sinew. Those of the antler of the elle were sometlines iii a single piece and at other times in SW - lions, bevelled at tho ends and neatly glued end spliced. Bows of horn were erten mudo 0f several pieces similarly glued end spliced, but the horns of the mountain shop were sometimes cut In- to long slender rods, which were laid together, glued, and backed by sinew. SHEEP HORN 'BOWS. Another type of sheep horn bow was in a single piece, the horn being cut in a spiral front base of horn to point, this spiral being steamed or boiled and then straightened and caused to dry, straight, Bows such as those were un. usual, but they were also very power- ful and never wore out. On the other hand, it is said that bows made of bone cr of antler were more for show than for use. -They were good to look at, and for a time were effective, but after a few years became dry and brittle. Next to the bow, and, in fact, so much a part of it that it cannot be sep- arated from it, is the arrow, a oom- piex implement the development of which we may lmag(ne to have been very slow and which no doubt was well advanced toward its present form before the bow was thought of. Wo may fancy the arrow to be the out- growth ora simple stabbing instrument, which developed Into a dart to be thrown, similar to certain toys still in use among the children of our plains Indians. MAKING THE AnnoW. The arrow consisted of three essential parts, the lead, the shaft and the fea- thers. Sometimes the shaft was oom- pound, consisting of more than one ,piece of wood. The ,primitive head was very varied. The feathering is comparatively a modern invention, so much so that to -day traditions exist as to its development and tate various steps toward tine improved feathering of modern tunes are given. Even within the lest forty or fifty years the children among our self -der tribes have employed very primitive forms of arrows, using in their hunting 05 tittle birds arrows without heads and having merely a sharpened, fire. hardened point; arrows without fea- thers, and again, arrows feathered after nn earlier method, of which, as alive Uses' by adults, We know only by tear dition. The bowstring was usually made of twisted sinew, sometimes ,put on the bow green and allowed to dry there. fn the south -wrest, however, the string was sometimes made of vegetable fibro. fn other sections it might be made of strips of raw hide or intestines of ant. mats.. POINTED_ SKULLS. Admired by Some Tribes, Who Secure Thain by head Bending. Tho egg-shaped heads of some of the natives of llalelnda, in the New ttehri- des, were once thought to be naturally' conical. For that reason scientific men decided that the Malekirlans wore In the lowest rung of the human ladder. Later it was found that the conical heads were produced as the Chinese women distorted their feel, by beetling them in infancy. The egg-shaped head is still fashionable 01 Maiekula, w.hero sons extraordinary results are achtov- ed. - "A conical head," says a writer in 111e National Geographic Magazine, "re - Mats from the forehead in such a manner that ono is amazed to know lis owner of this rema.ricable pirolll0 preserves his or her proper senses, such -rs they' aro. 1 could not h, however, [hal 1111 0110101001.1 1 0.003 supposeeard i4 of (0ct 1110 intellect in any stay. "'1'110 con cal shape is produced . by winding strong sennet cord spirally about the heads of young babies ant tightening i.he coils from time to time. A piece of plaited mai is first put ort the head and flu cord IS r011e11 0001 Ellis, so as to give it a good purchase, The crown of the head is lett to devel- op. in the upward and backward fash- ion that is so much admired. Ono [ears the poor babies suffervery match from the p104105s. The child t sow was [trniful and Crying and looked vs 1f it were constantly In pain; but the mother, .forgetting for the moment het leer et the strange while woman, show•e,b it (0 mo quite proiltlly, pointing out the .cords with a smile. "Slue had a lnornlnily shaped 11oad. herscif and it seemed that she had suf- fleet by her paten1'e neglect of finis important matter, for star, was marrieit 1c 0 .man w•h0 tuns of no particular ac- r0lnit. A y°sung girl who ens standing beside bcr had evidently hail a more careful Mother, for her head was ale 014)51 suga•lonf shaped. It Ls' inter• rsting to 'know that this: well brought up young \meson Wel mimeo(' a chief.' Alien 'weaning some nc4uainteneeer Alan Is anxious. 'se out t?lom.