HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-4-23, Page 7ese ke Trees of Life
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'Phe areument for eur Arbor Day is
written :trowel the Madge:veneers eea,
In lettere of barren plain ad stony
mountain, a hale high ad Itundirede of
elles Wide. VoresteA woode, anti,
•groves are Frequently mentioned
the Old Teatament, not in the New.
fiit) ales are such trees as the lir, cedar,
oak, and pleas They were gone by
tahrista time, and He knew them not.
Tim Orueadeal eut down the olive
grye e about, Jerusalem to make siege
timbers with which to batten in her
gates. In the long turmoil which fol-
lowed there was no replatiting, and
,the bills of Palestine took on that
,reelecovered desolation • from which
them: slopea are being painfully re-
deemea to -day. The Dead Sea has no
bordering foresee.
The light soli of Syria and Anatolia
'washes frightailly beneath the rain
when there are no mused forest roots
to hold it together.
Italy's problem of bleak mountaine,
raging floods, and dry summer gulches
is modern. Stone cutting can give
Italy houses, but cannot give her soil.
The only way to get that is to put the
trees back on the billa
In southern France the fermere ter-
race their bare .cutaft mountains and
mar,' up In baskets the soil that bas
been washed down for lack ef forest
rootage to hold it. An American sot-
dier saw this and said: "The French
ought to awe their country, •They've
made a lot of it by band!" They are
eaming the war of growth to victory
•over barren nature.
The defeat of the Great Armada
marked the end of Seattle: threats as
well as of her naval sueremacy, The
Spaniard's "hatree of a -tree" became
a,
proverb and desolated the hill
slopes of Mexico and Peru as well as
of Castile and Aragon. Turks and
Spaniards fought 'natty yeses, . but
their destruction or trees conquered
them both. Fire bared the mountains
of Maderia (which Maine wood), and
ths resultant floods have swept much
of -the soil into the ocean. From An-
gora to Lisbon the Mediterranean
lands well never again support tee
human life they once did until the
treag haye been restored,
In France, as in California, trete
Planting has improved the eon and
neatenedugas, of elanatte. •Mita
-Made toreste have anclwedtbe Sande
beck of San Franeisce and broliglat
more rain to aestern'Nebraskse Over
much of pia amealled "A:merietin Dale
ert" .trees new eed Used eelveg. Botti
Prance and Germany have proved theit
Permaneat 'forests pay just as the old
Roman regions have proved that dgaa,
reoe3s medo 1ead lande.
John 'Evelan, friend Of Sam, Pews,
wrote hitt•aDe Siam," a ferestry assay
in Latin, in those Most heedless due
o abarlee the, Eiecteid, That boots
planted a Minton oaks in seventeenth-
oentury England, and frone thele were
lesiva the keels that rolled, down' to
Trafalgar and ended Napoleon% dream
of mastery on the sea, When Ed-
mund 13urite' likens the' policy and con.
stitutlon of a great country, to that of
the Oak, he is, praising steadfast Ism
man wisdom which planta ter the
needs of akunarea Yams hence.
Our iediaidual part in all this IS.
cleai. • These etre-giving trees are
planted one bas one exactly AS they are
felled one by one. The gigantic figures
of our lumber need e and lumber losses
all
root back to the acts Of men who
dither eare about trees and increase
them or are carele$s. of trees and des -
trey them. Much of our country's
area is °wired and Much at it will al-
ways give its best service to the nation
es woodland. That. must be made the
owner's care,
Much, can be done by lightening
taxes on forest land, by making city,
Provincial, and national forests ex-
amples of the best art of tree raising,
by proving' that it pays. to raise good
crops of pulp and timber, by penaliz-
ing heavily thesteabusee of greed and
carelesenees that turn the green
wealth of our new continent intothe
barren poverty of old Europe. But
the base and driving power of this
crusade for 4 better life will always be
found In that spirit et Arlam Day
wherein, as SPenser's Queelie"
has said:
Much can thea Manse the trees so
straight and high, .
'the sailing pine, the teaar stout and
Tho vine -prop. elnlth'b peal& never
dry:,
The builder oak, sole king of forests
all,
London Bridge Built Century
Ago. -
On March 15, 1824, one hundred
years ago, the first pile of the London
Bridge of to -day was driven deep in-
to the bed of the Thames. The pres-
ent .granite structure Is the work at
Sir John Rennie (though his father
actually designed the bridge) and was
seven and a half yews in the building.
This was because work had to be be-
gun in a hole. The authorities cf that
day insisted that Sir John build im-
mediately above the old bridge, the
latter to he lett standing until the new
one was finished.
Now, the old badge, built way back
in eleven hundred and something,
tithed on a hill, the foundations of the
piers being 28 to 30 feet above the bot-
tom of the river on either aide, this
being the enact producia upon the
ertver bed by the scour of the tides, up
and down. For hundreds of years Lon-
don Badge had been a kind of dam,
700 feet of the river's, 900 feet of
width at low water being at one time
occupied by pieta; consequently the
passage of the waters through the
many arches resembled a torrent.
Eight hundred men were emplo3red.
on the new bridge, and of these forty
lost their tivee through' accidents of
various hinds. The Corporation paid
truest a milliou and a half pounds on
the bridge and Its approaches,
It is a tradition that you cannot
cross London Bridge without seeing
white horse. Onee upon a time one
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Photograph shows Livinastone's first view ef the Zambesi, from one Of the scenes in a new motion picture
play of the noted explorer's trip maces Africa, the exteleors of which were made ett the locale.
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DEVELOPMENT
IN QUEBEC
have endorsed tbo gold area' an'ti el' A Poem You Otight to Know.
Waited their faith be its ultimate del
velopment The most adequate trans- aA Fletrespective Review."
Thomas, Hood, with hie inveterate
portation facilities are already Pro -
area ie adjacent to a, huge block et i t 1 h f
1111vabelit;°Iit oodpunning,toinae.114( 0' "Iahaliviseeltolbohodo.'9;
vided almost into the heart of the area
and there is Prorate.° of extension. The Miters paid him muth for his fun anti
• A Busy Queen.
• .1;;140041 Mary of aglmiu4 is by no
11:atallY0 P:0:6PraTaaltiiti
at Meek ledgers) and AllanY PriYI*
lege$ alio occaelenally Weare a ereera
instead of a bat. She is a busy. and
iniefpl,wppisn, end in the eease o bes
ing faelileuable and a loader In ear.
gent soelety she is not a great lady at
lic.cebe tsflAlts.oduprInseiliIT:.;1"13abut Wtlilde.erltriettlieltSe
"assort get" is not court sea
In the meteor of Moth -ea elle' Fallows
the faehlene "atter a fashion," but 'ebe:
Ilea no Inetinct or style-Oa:Ile enalegh,
that circumstance adds to her point
The great British Imbilhave
tth Columbee recorded its banner year6
e
lona accepted the feet that to the wee 'Ilia sae:sent ewelee months le freely •
mat of Trance and America batons pa- Ilredietefdolrasthhoetidyrolusgria.p:opexetmefoosrt tho
turally style, ale and destinetioni and indeatry vadelt will create yet another
tile public rather distrust exeeesive record
ex -
elegance as un -English. Their Own traordinary activity in all I:a:maws of
desi lo 1ieilij
thli:b714(luetri°101111°
notidorather fprgoona.eeetreY00iaiepor d :rev14
thteeriyaloxtehamnadfaer.otra,se,omrnanner in 'which fahorthitli eipraosaeunett titelmeitieveisitthenttheanadeativiallmd.
LUMBER INDUSTRY
OF BR. COLUMBIA
1923 BANNER YEAR IN
PACIFIC PROVINCE.
Heavy Demands Of Orient and
AntInudea/Denotes Increased
Prosperity in the Future,
In e923 the lumbar industry
"Many a thousand ansessavemen," as wide a circle es ever, With our -
says Mr. David Blumenfeld in the Prising rapidity British Columbia has
Montreal Star, "would rather not go 00442133W the other erovinees of Cans
out than be seen in shoddy though ada as a lumber producer, and despite
hPQeatidn,ci'5bu°tnthpeolurnceols
fashionable costumes. Hats that cost the consistent healthy growth of other
tadribyQzmueeounmoatrthel of the provieram raseureezz, the lumber
Ina:male each year, cantinues, to be
stuff la them, and not on account of the most valuable source of its export
the milliner's name. 'What Queen and revenue.
Ti.ather scaled in the Provinoe of
British °Mumble. in 1923 amounted to
2,642,280,000 feet as cemparied with
1,899,158,000 feet in 1922, an increase
of 34 per cent. according to the state-
ment of the Minister of Lands. Water-
borne saipments from the cosset in
1922 were 273,146,800 feet and In 1923
substantially greater. In 1923 the lum-
ber .cut of the prevince was 1,178,647,-
000 feet worth ;16,428,218, and in 1917,
1,191,712,000 test worth $22,109,301.
SPRING RUSH .TO GOLD selendid agricultural land the worth
Yet, among inets tbe secena rank, ,
Mary wears to -clay Paris :sever NOM,
nor will, was aptly said by one of the
FIELD .PR,EDICTED. of VebICIS ' IS daffillitelY Pooaela Macll he bolds a eecure place by virtue ot his
preliminary' work has been done by ,,Briege of sighs," "Eisgene Aram," most famouedressinaltens in the world.
the provincial government already and "The Queen is up by nine o'clock
• • 1116. and breakfasting in a tweed tailor-
eiaeiei offers of anieett.000 mode to °ad "I Remember, 1 Remember."
Increased Agricultural Settle- settler*. In eyery consideration Qua lMu's "Song of the'Sbirt" elld snuch made coat and skirt. This meal she
to Maumee legislation against "sweat -
Merit Will Follow as Natural
Consequence.
The moat ratable and conservative
authorities predict something of a
rush to the Northeyestern Quebec gold
field with the disappearance of the
' snows in the spring. The significance
• takes, with the King and with any of
her sons who may be at home, After
breaktaet, like the King, she bas her
correspondence to attend to. Bvery
girl of from fourteen to sixteen writes
to the Queen begging tor her auto -
u xper enee in e sp ng t ,,
consequence Mere:teed agricultural set- from a 1°11ger poo
m,
• }minor and the pathosof flood:
c Th 11 ing , extracted
m. shaw both the
whi611 will bring with it aa a natural a ' ° r° °iv verses,
Oh, wheal was a tiny boy
.
Precious Seeds. My days and Meats were full of joy,
My mate e were blithe and Irina!
Suppose as you are going out of the No wonder that I sometimes sigh,
of this to the mining industry of Can- front door some nee spring morning And dash a tear -drop from mine eye,
ada is a once understood. Its bear- your wife calls after you, "0 John: 1, To cast a look behind!
Y
Mg upon the agricultural induetry of want to have a bee of double petunias I
Quebec and the province's general this seasen. I wish you'd buy some A hoop was an eternal round
colonization efforts le notoutt-t tharratraea4y i Andse nedsd toi-iday," adds Mr. AiMon Gray, A top a Joyous thing:
Of pleasure. In those days I found
seen. et it is p
boom which la Justified by, deposits , that you should actually remember But now these past delights I drop,
gdolil
an the permanence of the camp is i your wife's request and should stop at My head, alas, is all my top,
the greatest colonizing factor in the !the seed stare on your way home. In And careful thought the string!
history of developing countries, as the spite of that strange feat of memory .
I -
history of ether gold mining areas has ; you are just an ordinary man; yon My kite—how last and far it fiew!
proven. This being the case, the Pro- , know nothing about petunias. Until Whilst I, a sort of Prim:Odin, drew
vines of Quebec should benefit in a ' your wifemeationed seeas you thought My pleasure from the sky!
Iseculiar. manner. la petunia was a ,gland! Pituitary or 'Twad papered o'er with studious
There would appear to be no doubt Petunia, it was all the same to you. themes,
about the perznanenee of the Quebec
couldal 'cross it without seeing also
beads, human heads, fresh Oxen the
executioner's basket. Henry VIII. es:.
pecially was fond of del -orating the
bridge with heads. There is .a _story
that the Bishop ot Rochester's head
was placed on the bridge and remaineti
fresh and: lifelike for two weeks., so
that crowds eotheeted to see the mite
axle, an incident which annoyed the
King so much that he ordered it
thrown into the river. This was done,
but they put Sir Thomas Mere's head
in its place.
Of Praise.
There is a potency in pealse;
Along earth's, multicolored ways
The threat of 111 fades in eclipse
It one wears praise upon the lips.
The praise of beauty, praise of good,
Of human leindltese, not of feud:
The praise of love and not of strife,
For loving is the right et life.
Give me to go through all mY days
With Prayer which is the soul of
Praise!
—Clinton Scollard.
Face it!
Whenever a difficult teak Is yours,
just face It with courage, my son;
Don't grumble, don't stark—
Get quickly to work,
And before you -know it ---'tis done!
—E. BYOR•11.
Listeners are learners.
—AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME •
gold mating area. No new mining
at the amount needed for a flower bed, Will never sear so high,
.
no mg, in, you say to the clerk:
vestigation and probablY
historhas had greater Justification. "Give me an ounce or two of double My football's laicaupon the shelf:
y I
You do know something about nastur- The tasks I wrote — my pleasant
tium seeds perhaps; so
area has had more thorough expert in - alter .guessing dreams
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Whilst it is generally agreed that the a •
.
field will develop slowly, alit develop -I
To your surprise the -clerk shows The world knocks to and fro.
reent is assured and the ultimate evo- signs of falling- into a fit When he My archery is all unlearned,
lution of an industrial area of [Meuse has recovered his power of speed: be And grief against myself bas turned
activity a future eertainta seee en stutters. "D -d -double p -p -petunia seeds., My arrows and my bow!
area definitely establisbed and con- An 00000l
tinually expanding furnishes a profit-
"Yes," you say, "I want enough to Qh, for the garb that marked the boy-- the palace from timeti
to me--explor-
able and sure market !or a certain
make a nice bed of flowers." 1The trousers made of corduroy, ere, men of science famous foreign
amount of agricultural produce, and "Well" says the clerk, with a glance ' Welt inled with black and red; , d tiptihoorauat ve
tsainucgl pr
theolutits;d7will d that ouc
eCueenc;
inevitably ,poes.peeoee fanning ems of mingled scorn and pity, an ounce The erownless hat—neeer deem'd an w
develop about mining territories. It of double petunia seeds will cast you, I ill— begin to ask questions about things
has been pointed out that many of at a roagh guess, at the rate of two It only let the sunshine still Chat happened to the men fifteen,
Quebec's farming settlers annually Repose upon my head!
thousand dollars a pound!" twenty and twenty-five years before."
It's your turn to gutter now. But —ea_
find their way across the Ontario bord-
er to the vicluity of the Northern On- you manage to explain that you don't I Why We Doff Our Hats.
a nine little be,d in the back yard. !Ott meeting a friend, but few realize Prior to June 26th, 1902„ the day up -
"Ali you need is a packet of seeds," that they are imitating the cavalier of on which Ring Edward the Seventh
says the clerk. 1 the Middle Ages, who beld out an un- would have been crowned, but for a
He produces a very small en -velem), ' armed hand as token that his sword sudden attack of appendicitis, the
takes your fifty cents and then re- was sheathed, and that be was friend highest honor In his gift would, in
merks. "Guess you don't know much ' and not enemy. most people's estarnatiOn, have been
about amble petunia seeds. Let me You take off your hat when you en- the Order of the Goatee, and, it is still
show you." ter a house—but why? It is because the premier order of chivalry es the
He tears open the packet and care- the knight of old doffed his helmet— world,
fully extracts a smaller envelope. "The the most vital part of his armor—when On that day, however, a new "Order"
seed e are in the inner envelope," he he arrived to sbovr that he came in was instituted, which, for real distine-
peace. And as he touched his helmet tion, takes precedence of any other.
on meeting a friend to show that he It is the Order of Merit, which is limit -
was prepared to unhelml his descend- ed to twenty-four men and women of
ant of to -day touches Or raises his hat. extraordinary eminenoe. It confers no
Even the clothes we wear are dis- title, only the addition to the name
tinct In showing allegiance to more an- of the magical letters "0.1VI."
graph; every lovelorn maiden In the
lest resort writes to her to expose her
gaping heart wound's, begging for a
word of sympathy; every pushing
society matron or charity -bazaar dame
tries to inveigle the Queen into the
magma of correspondence.
"When her correspondence is, finish-
ed the Queen will probably change her
costume and motor out to a bosaital
or a childeen's home in which she may
be interested or to a large factory
where hundreds of women are emploY-
ed. Women's' welfare although of-
eclally a duty from the Queues point
of yiew, le as much a hobby with ber
as any of her private pursuits are,'
Domestic, motherly and wholly un-
epectacular, Queen Mary is loved for
the traits that have made her womanly
rather than queenly. She has, how.
ever, one unusual and most fortunate
gift, a truly royal memory for names
and faces and for the characteristics
and family histories that belong with
them. "She is very often asked by
King George to come and chat in his
apartment with one of those many
notables wbo are requested to call at
tario mininr camps. want a petunia farm! You Just want Most people extend the right hand Greater Than the Garter.
The New Mining Area.
The new Quebec naning area Is. pe-
culiarly situated. Roughly the gold belt
runs along the southern edge of the
Great Clay Belt, which, with the excep-
tion of the Prairie Provinces., ecataillS
the largest amount of unsettled fertile
agricultural lend in Canada. The area
between the tranemontinental railway
in the north and the inter -provincial
boundary is somewhat greater than explains. "But you'll have to look
the Eastern Townships of Quebee, one sharp, or you won't find 'em. People
of the greatest areazeof varied prattle- often bring a packet back and say it
tion in the Dominion, whilet the pro- was entpty wheh it had enough seeds
portion of arable land. is much greater. In it to etart a garden. They are a
There has been very satisfactory
settlement in progress In the district
!since the conclusion of the war, with
a substantial agricultural output,
which issooting each year. To the
south of the field, the new Hee of the
Canadian Peelers Railway penetrates
an old -established farming section
with twelve munietpalitiee and twelve
towns and villages. The farming popu-
lation of 10,800 bee been successfully
engaged In agriculture foryears, send -
Ing its products down Lake Tenaskane
ing. It is estimated that this area, I came coated with lee from the streams
now given direct communication with ' of water played 00 it On the ground
floor was: a bank. After the ere a re.
presentative of a certain largo esed
company went to the bank to recover
the valuables, that the flan had de -
floated In the vaults. I doubt whether
3'011 eel, guess which of the valuables
Ire Was most roncerned about,
It was cauliflower seed! Year:: be-
fore the extu had developed a new
variety imam as "snowball cauli-
flower." At the time ot the fire their
entire crop of seed frost the snowball
cauliflowers of the season before was
stored in the. vault. It was worth
forty -sight dialers a pound then, and
the vault tbat the company hired was
licit full *0 11. '
During the three due's et the tiro the
vaults Mal been rearmed first to the
heat of the flames; then they had be-
come coated with ire. The all-import-
ant question was 'whether the little
germ of life in those precious seeds
luta withstood the experience? A gel
anination test was inellediately made,
and to the Immense relief of eVeryone
concerned the seeds sprouted,
If 1 were to pray for a taste which
would stand me its stead snider every
variety, of cirffirmetance and be' a
&mires et happiness and elmerfullieas
to Me tinatiali lire, rind a shield against
Its Ills . . it would bo a taste for
reading: -Sir John Herilehell,
great deal ,smaller than terains at So.tul.
People sometimes mix them with sanaectent ones. What is the Norfolk
when they Platt them. That's almost jacket but a reproduction of the chain -
the only way they can see that they mall hauberk, with the belt "for the
have planted therm" sward? The frock coat is the old time
watenrcer, which was worn over ar-
mor.
The 'clergyman's cassock is a sur-
vival of the days when atmoat all men
were skirted; while the wig 'which' to-
day barristers don links us with the
time when every gentleman wore his
horse -hair pereke.
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RWLAR FCLUER .
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Well, hero ta something else that
may surprise you, a true story about
the seeds of a common garden yoga
table. Some years ago the Equitable
Building in New York City was des-
troyed by fire that burnt for three
duys. It was bitter cold weather, and
the shell ot the ruined building be -
Montreal, Toronto and other markets,
has over 70;000 acees et flue land yet
unproductive.
It is In this expansive area, of watch
the townships of Rouyn and Boisehatel
form only: a small part, that the Quo -
bee Government has for some time
been coneentratiag its colonization et -
forts, to find homes teethe young peo-
ple of its older trims and alienated
sons who are continually fleeing their
Way beak to their native lead. (Jolene.
zatiou lots have been broken, acreages
alt eacaprepared tor incomilag settlers.,
and houses andemezie tweeted. Coloni-
zation roads have been beat at paent
expenrie and the most advaneerl'stePs
taken to prepare the way for the Col-
onists it. is honed to secure to popu-
late the region, ,
Adequate Transportation Vacillate.
The develops:met, al the gold mining
area must. inevitabl3r eat this relent-
zation effort forward with considerable
impetus. This has been the esperience
of Ontario, where some of the most
prosperous farming settlements have
Volved about the tuning areas, where
with the adjacent mining' conotnezitles
providing lucrative merkets, the long
waiting of pioneers Arai considerably
'aliortened.
Quebec's situation -1u thiS regard Is
peoullerly advantageoue. Both the pro-
vincial goventulent sbil the railweye
Twelve outstanding ligures in our
national life were originally selected
for this honor, but, with the death of
Lord Morley recently, there is now
only one hat of the original Members,
settle:Aral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour,
who le now in his eighty-fourth year.
Among the present members of this
unique order are Mr. Lloyd George,
Earl Beatty, Lord Haldane, Earl
and Thames Hardy, the novelist and
poet.
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Export Trade Expands Rapidly.
Ab exhort trade in British Columbia
lumber has developed very rapidly and
is yearly showing great increases In
volinntaand value. Shipments of the
province's lumber now find their way
to many parte of the world, the coun-
tries of the Orient being partioularly
heavy buyers, The principal markets
are in the 'United Kingdom, United
States, Australia, Japan, Mina, South
America and New Zealand. In the
year 1923 shipments were also made
to Montreal
d' anto the South Sea Is -
ds
The lumber trade with Japan is
showing a eurpriaing development and
trade between that country and Yam
coulter is 'expected to break all records
to 1924, Japanese requirements fel'
the year include 250,009,000 teat of
lumber, the greater part of which it Is
expected that British Columbia will be
called upon to furnish. Already orders
for some 26,000,000 have been let. An-
other gratifying trade feature 1, the
tendency of lumber exports to the
'United States to increase, the Repulse
tic's imposes in 1923 being more than
twice as heavy as in the previous year.
These are the largest factors in the
anticipated twenty per cent. increase
in the province's lumber cut.
Extension Pulp and Paper industry,
Tho astonishing manner 111 which
British Columbhes lumber export trade
has developed Is revealed in a survey
of trade figures over the past few
years, To harken beak only to 1918,
between that date and 1923 an In-
crease ef over 470 per cent. is appar-
eat, .and between 1921 and 1923 an fie
crease of over 150 per cent Exports
of ltunber from British Columbia, in
1918 amounted to 84,000,000 feet; in
1919 to 108,000,000; in 1920 to 147,-
000,000; in 1921 10 189,000,000; 1u1922
to 285,000,000; and in 1923 to 480,000,-
000,
In connection with the lumber ea
tIvitles of the province it is. interesting
to note the development of the pulp
and paper industry of Fattish Columbia,
which is likewise being extensively
built up on demand from countries of
the Orient. There are six pulp and
paper mills established in British Co-
lumbia, and in 1928 the provinciel in-
dustry is reported as having had a
prosperous season. Its prospects in
tho present. yeas are said to be even
brighter. A great deal ot attention is
being paid to the province far the es-
tablishment of new mills and the pro-
vincial Minister of Lands. is authority
for the statement that 1924 would
Probably see three new mills at least
established.
Lumbering and mile and paper ac-
tivities have rapidly moral over from
Central Canada to the extreme west
and British Columbia forests have
come Into their own. 137 reason of the
heavy demands *0 the countries et the
Orient and the Antipodes, and the like-
lihood of their continuance end ins
crease, there is greater prosperity
tamed for the {meet prodnets industry
of Canade's Paelfic ('oast proveice,
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A Cate el ye m.
The Distressed Newest—PM, mother,
,lack just phoned that I should have
flannel cakes for supper and—and all
the time ere elosetl, and the only itaie
net in the Ilona: is Jack's tennis trona
058 -5011 asey're nearly newt"
They who tire pleased themselves
must always please.
0.411.**•Allp
'he Victoria Falls, in Africa, are
tho ilnett in the world; they are 420
feet high, more than twice the height
of the Niagara Palls,
Cruel is the world,
Then be thou kind, even to the men: -
tug thing
That crawls ami agonises in its plane,
As thou in thine
Robert lenottanam