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The Brussels Post, 1924-3-19, Page 2Leather Industry in Canada Canaria laOng one of the great cat- vie , 3,954 wages. pens llingtel 54,302 978 Whole twere titeraleing •countries/ a the world, it is Pntd only natural that the leather industry shovel vecupy a position of much i 3. polrtan1ain the -industrial lite 0f the country, and it le Interesting to note that the value ot production in 1922 ahewe 0, substantial Increase over the figures Por the preceding twelve months, The value of production of the tanneries in 1922 was $24,291,884, compared with $22,906,628 in 1921, These totals are exclusive oY the value of hides and clans tanned for Qum - tumors but include the amounts re- ceived by the tanneries for'oustom wore. An analysis of the pt•oduotion value. shows that, of the total, "sole" leather amounted to $9,175,420. Tho output of "upper" leather totalled $10,497,8131, of harness leather, $1,845,131; of other leather, 91,702,164; of wool, hair and glue stock, $210,834, and of other pro. ducts, 9290,734. Capital invested in the, industry In 1922 amounted to 932,818,775, which was opportioned as follows: Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 9286,000; etuebeo, $4,554,426; Ontario, $27,852,- 404; and Manitoba, Alberta and Bri- tish Columbia, $125,885. There were The number ot•estabUshtnents. In 1922 was 116, which is it deoreaae come pared with 1921 but an Increase of 16 tanneries compared with 1920. ` On• tari0 and' Quebec, with 39 and 65' tan- neries respectively, may be said to be the centre ot this industry in Canada, The ltvesteck yards at Torouto and Ivlontreal annually bandle ltundrede of thousands of livestock and provide an a1undent source 01 material for pleats in these provinces. The re- maining setabll$bmenta are spread oveingr3;he N Newminion, Noa Brunsw ck, 2 Scotia Manitoba, 2; Alberta, 3; and British Columbia, 2. The leather export situation during 1922 was vary satisfactory. The value of leather, unmanufactured,_exported from Canada during the calendar year 1922, was 95,091,384, an increase over the previous year of over a million dol- lars, The Import situation.also shows an improvement; the 1922 figures. showing, a decrease compared with the previous year. Imports in 1922 total led $3,764,929, compared with 94,059,- 222 in 1921 and $8,107,528 in 1920. Fine leathers formed the major share of the imports, accounting for nearly one-third of the total value, employed, during the period under re- He—"You wouldn't love me any more if I had a million dollars, would ?„ She—"A n n o -- March Mornings. March mornings! Each a brimming cup That dancing Phoebes fllleth up— A drink to start the blood to race And prick the feet to trip apace. March mornings! When the darting sun Leaps forth, a clear new oonrse to run Like nettled steed that feels the spur And bounds with every pulse astir. March mornings! When the boisterous wind Retorts the whistling lad in kind, And kicks the fuzzy cloudiets high Like footballs on a field of sky. March mornings! Let them come apace To show old winter's run his race, And that the world is all awing And waiting for the call of spring! —Maurice Morris. Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. AND THE WORST 18 YET TO COME a 119111111111;IU The Useful Tin Roof. "I'm Jiggering on putting a tin roof on one bedroom of my house," an- nounced Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge at the auction. "Roof leak?" asked an acquaintance. "Nope, not specially. But with a tin roof I can hear it rain in the morning, and won't have to get up till 1 feel like it." Dehydration of Canadian Fruit In the past Year a great step forward aver, beYond the reach of conene lees Ilan .Hetet taken in cieteonetrating to fruit gravers how dehydratign can save ter use much of the fruit that, at certain seaeone,Stets the market or la waeted, Gaye the Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Department of the Interior. Realizing the need tor some immedi- ate action to be taken to resist the marketing of the Worming amount of fresh fruit, the Department of Ag- riculture appointed a committee from Its various branches which had to do win- structed tedh neto gatherruit information and re- port. The committee was composed of menta Farmsbald, direetor (chairmen);of(leo, E. Macintosh, fruit commissioner; 0, S. McGillivray, chief canning Inspector, Health of Animals Branch (Secretary) Dr. F. '2, Shutt, director chemical la- boratory dtvls1on, and W. T. Maloun, Dominion horticulturist. As a result of its interim report, the estimates of the Department of Agri- culture for 1923 contained an item of 910,600 "for experiments to dehydra- tion of fruits and vegetables." During the year three experimental. plants were erected, namely; et small model laboratory plant at the experimental farm, Ottawa, operated under the di- rect supervision of Dr. 'Shalt and M. Macoun, a semi -commercial plant at Penticton, B.C., and a medium sized commercial plant at Grimsby, Ontario, The two latter were erected and oper- ated under the supervision of C. S. McGillivray. It is known that dehydration pro- cesses vary in efficacy according to the climate in which they are used, and Modern Ways. Mr. SPendix—"Any installments due today?" dear, T think Mrs. Spendlx—"No> the system. adopted by the Canadian not." government is the result of a personal on these lies is in evidence. It may Mr. SpendI!x '"�Y payments due 011 visit to California and Orbgon, during I be noted that there is no antagonism the house, the radio,. the furndture,the which every. assistance "towards a come' caanere and dehydrators, as rugs, or the books?" plate survey o1 the condltioris was will- t Mrs. Spendix—"No." ingly given, and especially by Profess - Mr. Spendix—"Then I have ten dol- or A. W. Christie, of the Agricultural lars we don't need. What do you say Experiment Station of the University we buy a new car?" I of California. c Hundreds of ecenoelY. In all cheer areel/. t n megeed Of beet content le ossential, and still more ea the practical expert- 'PEACE RIVEN COUNTRY once of operators who by touch and eight can ten to a eieelty the line that ° OF NORTH ALBERTA, separates correct dehydration from , of fruit orchard in CalitPrnie; the "e*One of Few Remaining Re' TJ1E, AS '.�WES MAY T,BEE`1EST's cooking. Twee men Owned 490 Gores saved $190,000 by knowledge and personal attention, the other lost 990,- 000 by lack of care, The Penticton plant was bought .in California, and, with oer'tain modidca-. was set up sorts on the Continent for Seeker After Free Lands. The days Eor ruslhte for houtesteads tions to suit the climate, in western Canad.t 1120 praoticaily and sucoesefully operated last yoar. ovor and the Army of invaders in At the end of the season a ilio elate search of frlee Governrnont rands upon troyed most of the Government deity whIelt to rile dtvindles each yoar as drated fruit, but the plant wee saved. I the extent ofs°111110 ava lable tor Pcn Pioneer - provide The little fruit that was saved wIll, settlementgradually provide sample0 for the l3rltlsit Em -1 ing, and all that it means, 15 a, pha50 pare Exbibition, There Is little doubt 1that is rapidly passing, and 'Western that these will weather the critical at- tention of the hundreds of wholesale buyers who will be sure to examine such products with unbiased commer- cial acumen, British Columbia growers havb sag, arty 00 -operated in the work, They Canada has rapidly taken on petit of a permanently ostahlisbed and prosperous agricultural area with all the 001nf0rts and canvoniencee of modern life, To secure. land in any large homestead block the landseeker must travel far, but in certain see - know full well that distant markets I tions, even yet, lino fertile agricultural are' to be their salvation, and realize lands are procurable for the filing and that, though their acreage had he ottltivaticn duties. creased tenfold in the last few years, Tho outstanding area of these is nn the present market is but little larger. doubtedly the Peace River country, The Ontario growers, having a large popularly termed the Last West, population within easy r:Page, are na- which comprises a verylarge area of turapy less anxious, but are by 00 the Province of Alberta north of the means blind to the importance of de Athabasca river and to the north and hydration, west of the Peace River ns far as the Co-operative prpacking and marketing, 60th patalcl of latitude north, which as proved by •the California Fruit Ls the northers boundary. of tike pro• Growers Association, is esaentiat to vine°, and west to the boundary and continual success. In Dritish Colum- the British Columbleeline. J. K. Corn- bia 96 per cent, of the fruit growers wall, an outstanding pioneer of this hold together and in Ontario progress area, who has done much for its de- velopment, recently drew up an ac- count of the agricultural and timber resources of this country for the Al- berta Minister of Agriculture, in which be claims that 80 per cent. of the district 15 capable of the same kind of agricultural development as any part of the province"further south. the market for the one product does not interfere with the other. So far the Defilement of Agricul- ture has not had time to develop its special domestic dehydrator, nor to un evaporating processes handle other fruit than apples, pears, Bad English. A Berlin newspaper man was re -peaches and plums, but the loganber- "You are an educated man," said the cently fined for quoting eggs' at 150 have been tried in. the United States etc., will apiece after the. goy and elsewhere, but the most satisfac- ry, raspberry, cranberry, Judge, "but this is a disgraceful crime billion marks tory are re -circulating Processes, with have their turn. If the housewife you have been found guilty of. Have ernment had fixed the price at 180 the application of warm. moisture to realizes tate value of having spinach, thing to say before sentence?" billion marks. He explained that be the air current, and the electric vee- and other fresh vegetables from her had had to pay the price he had nam num; The excellent results claimed hone garden for winter use, an excel- lent type 01 domestic dehydrator is now on the market, while the Depart t of Agriculture likely pro- y u nl, "Only this, your Honor," replied the pedant. "Whatever the sentence may be, for heaven's sake don't end It with a preposition." "Only ed but the judge told him he was "at - for the latter system, and extending tempting to raise the price art to fish and meat, are at present, how - An Area of Great Growth. With the exception of the Granite Prairie and proper Peace River coun- tries, he states, the country is more or less wooded, poplar and spruce be- ing o- ing the principal trees. There is Plenty of rainfall and the winters are not any colder than any ,Part of Cen- tral Alberta. Snowfall will average mon is lie 1 to ro not over two feet a year, The wholo duce a model at a pries less than. the country ems at one time overrun with You i I wouldn't love you _ any more � Bible patented article Lands bush or wood buffalo, a band of about ---- Untouched Farmer $ e� ® In preparation for the. growing In he two thousand running wild there at Passinor Ages • Leave 1 1. 1L B �.+ dustry of dehydrated fruit, and indeed ti the Present time, and this is taken as The lordly camel loses somewhat of for the marketing at good Prices of I a strong argument for the fertility ot except fighting, the it of scorn when a oar approaches any fruit to be oaten. fresh or canned, it the soil, it being Pointed one that advised to on tho Plant the best varieties only, and even prairie le the old days xis the best face a temporary loss is making anching country By William T. Ellis not carryon, the his aorchardists are strongly but there can be no where tbe buffalo ranted Always the P._=t victim—and the always enestion ab reign,heexact date of Tut- _^ b 1tt ng In the —the Arabs say the camel is so the ultimate vi0t•x' - that shade, talking ng haughty because he alone knows the Pl i question shoat the reign of the plow. Land. hariteg the summer, there need the cheap t AIlah vary pious to r ti did 0 t the women do favorite voeation of men seems to e sitting 111 or playing games. Feminine labor is bound to be in a land where extra workers are secured by the simple process ofemar- rying them. So the time and strength of two women', may be spared for the dreary drudgery of grinding up a few handfuls of grain in a heavy stone mill which they laboriously turn. The The sheep and Their Gentle Shepherd. meagre measure of the Eastern"peas-i ant's lite is illustrated also by the 1 The tails of the sheep are huge Pitiful smallness of the store of wheat i lumps of woolly fat, as broad as the that serves the family for food, sup- sheep themselves and as long. as they plemented by cheese and an occasion- are wide. In the centre of this big al dish o2 mutton. The variety of an tail grows out a smaller tail of regula- ordinary Canadian's fare would seem tion sdzo and sometimes of a different untold luxury to these people. I color. Black sheep are a common Though the monuments of old Mara- I reality hereabouts, though the prevail - thus have had their boastful inscrip-! ing color is white, even as that of the tions obliterated by the gnawing tooth capering goats is. black. of -time, the simple contentment of the Sheep in the East are shepherded, unsling farmer folk, who have persist- not herded. A Christian's thoughts ug .I ed throughout the passing of all em grow tender as ho watches the flocks pires.and civilizations, is revealed by and their gentle -eyed shepherds; for the stalling faces of both adults and complete children. A childlike happiness seems to mark these primitive peoples. They do not know that their lot is hard, for they have experienced no other. Their wants are few and easily satisfied. Wealth is ordinarily rated in terms of flocks and herds and donkeys- and camels. Now and then the insidious West bas invaded the Arab farmer's home. 'I saw a family moving consist- ing of two camel's loads of goods, in- cluding tents and tools; and on the top of one camel's burden proudly rode an American sewing vmachh ineof thf the hand -operated type, only kind used in the East, where pee, pie s.it on the floor. As usual, the man of tho family rode and the women. walked behind. France has brought good' roads and safe to Syria and has forbidden the general carrying of arms, so these Arab farmers work without wearing guns and pistols and knives and clubs, as they used to do. n e'n to -day. In the early days ranchers seeking location so where it was known buffalo ranged in the winter. At various trading' points in this area, cereals and vegetables of all of Bible lands. ' Occasionally, in Anatolia, I noticed a For more than 4,000 years conquer- , m00em steel plow in use; but, true to ars and empires have been sweeping 1 tradition, the farmer was guiding it to ant Pro over these oldest of inhabit- with one hand. ed parts of the earth; and before every, Past and Present invasion the farmer has been the ear- ! Coutrast Is perhaps the dominant ltest to suffer the destruction wrought %note of these realms of greatest his- 04 flint embedded in its under side. by imperialism. Yet to -day It is only toric antiquity. Over against the Then, for weary hours on end, the the farmer who pursues his way in the ruins of Marathus, which lies in the sled is driven round and round over unchanged fashion of ages ago; the great plain north of the present Trb the grain, the feet of the animals— oncevery names and times of some of the t poi!, in Syria, 1 Pound a perfect picture they may be donkeys, horses, cows or once victorious empires are a matter 'of the living present amidst the dead, oxen; I never d have seen camels or of dispute among bookworms. I past --or perhaps 1 should say of the employed, probably because el the Anew I have partly been traveling S5 orld ;lit,ti<hatpast cha changes lila athust the dead present has seen! ' 0110111011 tires which they wear for feet over this oldest part et the 0 aiding in the separation of grain and mostly off the beaten tracks. For I All the splendors 4eSotIn hore astreets from hus]t. It is usually the childreana illustration, I am just back from a vaunted themsel work to ride the threshing teed, journey throughout the length and ( and hot-blooded sten, who are now but f one may see whole families crowded breadth of Phoenicia, which lies along; names in books such as Sennacherib"on a single sled. the eastern shore of the Medlterran-'and Alexander and Saint Paul, trod Of course by this simple prates® al eat, from Gaza, whose city gates Sam.' these streets in the fresh. Proud Ro- I ar-threshing apparently older than the don stole, h Antioch, that once name su• I torte that hs mada these deepe in the ilded rataint he 1 Practice of beating with a flail, which city, first athe disciples of lssus o ay the stone is in vogue farther south—much grain were icalledecChristians• An both dwellings ware arock; and even acuriosteir ty to be visit- sinks into the ground and Is otherwise bin recent months seen b of edged lost When the work is done the straw have within discussed, What sorton the tie known ed and dis stacked or carried away backs of camels or donkeys—the orig- inal hay wagon. Processions of these straw -laden camels, usually led by a man on a donkey, are one of the com- monest sights of this season in the Elie Caucasus endwa1114. amidst the seas a huge sankon e grasshoppers, holy Land. Chopped straw is the or- Nowrulns of Western Persia for the contrast. Around these dinar/ fodder for stock in the Near rtes heedless of East; it is the nearest approach to suc- ase ou yand as of these j .ins t 4 ruins, fesd- Only a fragment beguilingHess of the Pamoua experiment of t. indicated by the simple statement 1 them as at the rooves that lap the in a horse on sawdust gone from the Garden shore of the neighboring )viedit rra n removed that I have go When the straw has been Edenaitdown to the land of Patotee ean, the reed huts, harvests gra engrain, from the threshing floor the wheat Is Valley and to the Leland of Patmos, ed in huts harvesting the grain. ready for the winnowing, This la done John naw the end of all are of the same type as the' f tossing when Saint They by the old-fashioned method o g things. I mention this background, not i farmers who used to go forth from wheat and chaff tato the air with a that the reader may share the bumpsf hlarathua, for now, as then, in the'.threatpronged wooden pitchfork so And the bugs that I have endured in `Eaet the farmers do not live on the . thae the chaff blows away and k, the his behalf, but only to accredit the ant I land but in villages and towns. In 1 wheat falls to the ground. 'big observation I desire to make con-1harvest fire three Arab helpers coma { In the midst of those busy harvest scenes, I saw "two women grinding at a mill," sitting in the doorway of one of the reed shacks. Few scenes in hundreth name o ; e Moslem can recite the ninety-nine fire wood of the many inferior trees. beautiful names of God, but the bun- It is well known that when first-class dredth is the camel's secret—and the greengages enter the market they find stolid little donkey,'who has carried few buyers, because the housewives the civilization of half a dozen mil- have already filled their shelves with 11 wish plum, which lenniums on his back, grows panicky as the automobile draws near. An Age -Old Threshing Scene. Threshing is as wasteful as'it is primitive. On a bit of relatively hard earth the grain and straw are thrown down, and animals are hitched to a sled that bas a hundred or more bits the well-known an ran +•� regions of Greece. I have traversed tools did these pr istd extensive people eruse and Turkey and sojourned i e° sndly !tandress a 1 Bathey eid the How d ock in Egypt. I have also been through I cutting? Arabia and Meeopotamfa into Bagdad 1 The only living thing that my atm - and Babylon, and have crisscrossed t panion andt the Id found in d ih li Owning agriculture in Bibio lands. Farming and farm folk have sur• vivod and overcome the ages, They Bible lands better illustrate the prim!- But th sw high ere still plowing T11 and sowing and f for- glimpeeeyofbpr Christiana as nal scald of Iter than ate It tells ;way that runs along the coast has Mg amid the ruins of> In the home life of these farmers, Live the !brought its own troubles, in the form midis day of 1 The rat of all, that the women are1 g cities which Ink first ed automobiles which n lac era Pte in the b o¢• ass o Cher f dem ant either the o p s tenantry far g 1 workers.. This, is no oou y pridt deemed themselves permanent! which is p and all-powerful. It is cuneus how the goat's hair tents of the roving Bedouin feminist. Thera is no kind of work, fly past, searing children and animate. books seem to have missed this poinolesslyin mud vi loges Thebeen eedchange- ,of the triumph of the farmer. It struckf MO first upon leaving the buried tem-, nursery is aattdornic-rinbedr000m, athero taboo pies of Sakkara, in Egypt. On the u _ Wail re one of thora, painmba 1 saw a clear I use thousands often withr a amoretthan ones ifs, could: picture, in oolo20, painted of years ago, of an Egyptian farmer 1 easily be placed in the 111100100 of 9110 plowing. In a little while, after May- averagen then wheatwhich has been this Sakitttra, 1 saw a living farmer1s'h a crooked stick and is not very 1 lowed, with who might havo .posed tor this cry , p Dynasts so altailar were the fen andres. fertilizedeer a andtilo w ted anrltofell, tenthe onlygrain in Dynasties had risen and Fallon and {} P been forgotten, but the type of melba- little patches, Bible lands are for the ary man had Demigod throughout the II most part Stonyground. sickles, Ther byng g eget, Not only that,. but the living 1 is done by 'been, hitched to the plow of the liv-1 neighbor of smithy skill. Four bits of Ing man, were n0 different Iron" those bamboo aro worn over the knuckles of that has trodden the steno 00105 in the left hand of She reaper to facilitate past centuries, as pictured on the grsaping the stalks of vein, sickle; , rare notate, woman and children wield t walla of the tomb, Still n 'ladling, tho plow itself was the same, T have more than an Drs 0 to 80g 0 R th sed wooden beans that : following the pe form of sharps Iliad hope portrayed lir rotors at least ; stalks Pharr hound hands lures missed. small sheaves and he ;4,000 years before, and that Is still the; grain an ro undltu on thele skids. I3d etrevailfng ngrl.aulturet implement 1 Il ;o there is no rainfall 1thetaides i>230- throuebout Asia. Archaeologists ,a t,e. from the East, as they have been com- ing for ages, bringing their simple tools with them. What one sees to - a poor sort of yellowish been grown 1a dumped on the market earler and kindsonhave entire area forprge err e pr such a low o ee that it brings no plentiful supply of long grass, Cattle • profit to the grower. and horses do well and are Compare- Lively ontpara Lively tree 'from diseases, whielt are, "A Thing Of Beauty." in fact, almost unknown in the north. >� Wheat, has been grown tor' forty Years Below are the opening lines of at Mermii,lion, which is a point 300 "Endymion," a. poem written by John miles north of Edmonton, and Wheat, Keats when he was twenty-two. It which in 1876 took the world's prize was severely criticized in the "guar- at the Philadelphia Centennial, was . torly Review," and when the poet died grown at Fort ChipoWYan in an even at the age of twenty-five Bryon wrote: higher latitude. Who k11ed John Keats? Soil and Climate Superior. 'I," says the' 'Quarterly, The country 18 described as alluvial So savage and tartarly, and decompooed vegetable matter s0(1. " 'Twos ono of my feats." At least one-half of the cultivable soil in Northam Alberta lies in the section described. The centre of the Pro- vince of Alberta is a point 95 milds north and 25 miles west ot Edmonton, which gives some idea of the tremen- dous extent of land that is available for settlement in the future. There is loss actual acreage that is tot tit for cultivation in Alberta than in any other province of the Dominion. here before his eyes is the compos As a matter of fact, he died- In Rome picture Which was 6o familiar to Jesus ot consumption, telling' his friend Sev- that it found words in his good Shep- ern to place on his tombstone: "Here w hard parables. Again and again I have 11es one whose name was writ in watched the procedure as we drove I luster:' filled rho highway, the shepherd, in It has proved to be carved so rapidly toward a flock of sheep that idturn that can never be erased,eep and large on the rock of Mere - head roll and long camel's hair cloak and carrying a staff, walking 1n frontl A thing of beauty 1s a joy forever; of ahem. At the blowing of our ran I' Its Loveliness increases: it evi1l never he lo colts horn does he leap .: frantically i Pass into nothingness; but will keep about, beating his creatures this way A bower gnat for us, and a sleep and that in heedless terror as do tile Full of swont dreams, and health, 'and donkey drivers? No, for he is a good nuiet breathing, ' shepherd, and the sheep know 1181Therefore, on every morrow;. are we voice and they follow him. So he 1 wreathvne walks quietly off the road to one side, A flowery band to bind us -to the earth, sometimes not oven looking back, and Spite of despondence, o(, the inhuman his sheep crowd closelyatter him. 'rhedearth strange sounds behind them merely Of nobs nature% of the gloomy days, sdrive the sheep to keep cleeer to their. Of all the unhealthy and, o'er -darkened shepherd. Lo, In a minute the road is clear, the sheep are sate, and the shep- herd greets the noisy car with a kindly smile of curious inter'es't. As in Abraham's Day. ways Made ter our starching; yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away tbe pall So it was in the time of Ohriet. So From our dark spirits. Such the 81111, it was in the time of David.' So it was the moon, of. Abraham. So it wag Trees old and young, simrouting . a ih the time boon rt s !tad Y hb ac re tc that et retch ages t xdaft °. such da o rngut theunsheep; .e beyond the beginning' at written ills For sial $° she P' wen of Deell's TIcafi Canyon, near Batikllead, A remarkable view is rho Alberta, Can you plektilt the reek ft/milieu from which the cut gets its 0ahne? tory. The farmer and his fields an licks continuo unchanged, preserving the ageless traditions and overearning the world of pomp and 901901-. IP these simple term folk ma the plains et blit' rathus, looking out on the Mediterran- ean toward the 10201' and storied lit- tie it tit; island of Arend, with its springs of fresh water rising up in the salt sea, were cursed with the sophisticated mind of the cynic, they might sneer at the multiform ruins of Phoenicia and Greece and Rome and Alsyrla end Per, sla and Egypt that sarrounti them, and cry, "Behold the dead! diet we live, unchanged and endofeatabie, a symbol of the eternal triumph of. the p1a1n porn pie who toil with Nature and depond upon Nature alone for sttistonance. The ages are powerless against us; our children play about the empty.iontbt of the kings who owe ruled the world overblown. and pr001111m111:tix.ulielyee inenarlal.", This area, it '1s claimed, has few Superiors as to soil or climate in Can- ada. , The country' is comparatively free from wind, and btizzat'tls aro un- known. During the growing season a sun -dial will burn a card for 19 hours. Grain and vegetables require two to three weeks less to nature than le Central and Southern Alberts. This 1s 021 accaunt of the daylight and the sunlight. There is a sufficient gttantity • of merchantable spruce timber in the country to take care of ell Its local ro- gnirementa, 'With the green world they live in; awl clear rills That for themselves a cooling covert make "Gainst the !tot season; the mud -forest bralte, Rich with a sprinkling 01 fair muck- rose uckrose blooms; And such toe is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the nighty dead All lovely talcs that we haveheard or read; ' An endless fanntain of Immortal drink, Pouring unto us frntn the heaven's brink, . 1,n losing fortune, e, many a lucky elf hes found himself. The blest that blows loudest is soon The dawning of a really progressive area for the Peace River r1untre was heralded when the Canadian Pacielc Railway took over for operation the o- Edlnonton, Dnnvegtut and British Co- lumbia lumbia hallway, wl1it•1 penetrates the southern tootles' a of • the territory. Since thee time 'there hoe been a Palrly steady htllux of settlers and a embe13 del -tette agricultural development. This is the 'Last Hirst, and those Who 'know it may be %teemed for term- vng it the "Best West." It is one ot the few remelt-tiug r11.0ulti eh the con- tinent for the Deeper atter free lands, and acrording to oh !Ito 0rsoriplieos which cunt! oat o '• hitarea, aml its already noteworthy a,dileventent in a brief development history, some of the best of t'anada, frau+ uti agrlcltiturui point ot view, bus ye: beet reserved. New sliver coins ;t etlt to be put' into circulation in A astrie are to be Galled the "schilling," "doppel-schil- ling," and "half-schltliee," out of con. plitnent to Great Britton, to whom Austria owes her rcge,ieration.