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Marltete "Awaiting Articles Made from Canada's Maple
Trees.
Canadsl has teres areas of hardweod Wife with the result that while the
maple was net as strong as the hick•
cry it wart amply strong for the pm -
Pose. Th0'firm is question rtes car-
ried on an acHve campaign to inerease
the use of =Pie handles and leas sue.
castled in building up a largo trade.
Tlee Canadian Trade Conamisaience
et 1vi'anoheater reports a growing
trade and a large market for teat
blocks for the malting of steemaltora
lasts. These also ai'e made of maple,
and the amount of wood used for this
purpose .may be estimated from the
Mat teat two million Mee are required
yearly,
There era many other articles which
Might be produced from hardwood, es'
peciaily the timelier lines of wood
goods. Maple and birch are being
largely used for flooring ate interior
flesh, being 'Very satisfactory torthe
purpose. hardwoods can be used for
pulpwood; but owing to difficulties of
transportation and• the heavy loss by
sinking of; the logs little'is need In the
making of paper.
Maple, birch and beech are three of
our more important :hardwoods, but
elan, ash and heinlook aro also used to
a considerable extent, elm being es-
pecially useful in the cooperage ludas.
The above two suggostione from the
United If;ingdom may lead to ether
uses being made of our hardwood for-
ests to build up an increasing export
trade.
Preece, the; forested provinces ail be-
ing welt, stacked with maple, biro* and
beech. What utfes it pan be put to le
a problem which Is at present inter -
sitting all °maimed ar sed with the ut1112a•
tion and conservation of the forest,
says the Natural Resources intent
geneo Service of the Department of
the Interior.
Hardwood logging has been but lit-
tle developed' due in part tothe tact
that tbot'e tuts been comparatively lit-
tle market for hardwood logs, and'aiso
toile fact that they cannot bo floated,
down the streams to the mills as
readily as the coniferous species.
There me, however, many small fac-
totem in Canada using hardwood al-
most entirely in manefactur'e, while
many of our larger industrtea use
large quantltles of hardwood, The
growlug scarcity of tete better grades
of softwoods, however, i.& causing more
consideration to bo given to the use
of hardwoods ae substitutes for many
purposes, and the volume is gradually
increasing.,
That Oanadian maple 19 a very satis-
factory substitute for American hick-
ory
ickory for Media purposes has been de.
monstrated by a large Glasgow,, Scot-
land; firm of handle importers and dis-
tributors, The Canadiau Trade Com-
missioner at. Glasgow reports the re-
sulte of tests made as to the suitability
: of .Canadian rock maple for handles
for miners' picks, axes, and similar
Where do we go from here? A Jasper Park ranger pauses for a few
mouients to get his bearings and rest his faithful but weary steed.
Silver Poplars.
God wrote His loveliest poem on the
day.,
He made the first' tall sliver poplar
tree,
And set it high upon a pate -gold hill,
For ail the new enchanted earth to see.
I think its beauty must have made
Him glad,
And that Re united at it --and loved
it so—
Then turned in sadden sheer delight,
and made
A dozen silver poplars in a row.
Mist green and white against a tur-
quoise sky,
Aehirnmer and a -shine it stood at
noon;
A misty silver loveliness at night,
Breathless beneath the first small wist-
ful moon.
And then pod took the mueic.of the
winds,
And set each leaf a -flutter and a -thrill,
To -day I read His poem word by word
Among the silver poplars on the hill.
—Grace Noll Crowell.
A Poem You Ought to Know.
"He That Loves a 'Rosy Cheek.",
A dozen lines suffice to give a man
immortality in literature it they be
good enough, and it le certain that up•
on the following twelve rests the last -
Ing tame ot Thema Carew, Ho was
a contemporary of Shakespeare, and
died at the age of forty;-,
Ile that loves a rosy cheek,
Or a colas Hp admires:
Or from star -like eyes doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires:
As old Time makes those decay,
So his flames inutrt waste away,
But a smooth and steadfast mind,
Gentle thought, and calm desires,
Hearts with equal love combined,
Kindle never-dytug fires:—
Where these are not, I despise
Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes.
Life insurance in Canada.
Insurance ooenpaniesi in Canada, re-
corded a gratifying inoreaso in busi-
ness, In 1923, as, compared with the
previous year, according to a bulletin
Issued by the Department of Insur-
ance. Life insurance tesued: last year
amounted In value to $631,057,726,
made up of 3619,712,489 ordinary, 396,-
257,022 industrial, and $16,088,215
group. This compares very favorably
with the previous year, when the total
amount written was, 3577,581,503, an
increase of $53,526,228. The amount
of life insurance now in force in Cana-
da is --approximately the same as that
in force in the United States in 1890,
when fbe population of that country
was 65,000,000.
Canadian companies continue to
lead in the Amount of insurance writ-
ten, although competition from. Ameri-
can underwriters is very keen. The
amount of insurance written by Bri-
tish companies. was comparatvely,
email. Of the total'am:ount issued in
1923, Canadian -companies' accounteid
for approximately two-thit'd5, or,341:4,•
883,602.' Next in order of Importance
was foreign oompanies-mainlyAaneri-
can—with $196,918,968, followed) by.
British companies, with 320,256,156.
• There was an increase in the
amount of lapsed policies and a de-
crease In surrendered policies' the
aanounts being 378,562,536 and $218,•
429,860, respectively, se compared with
$57,152,885 and $231,636,935 respec-
tively, in the previous year-
• The report ss that the gement of
business in force at December 81,
1923, as 33,483,355,454, divided as fel-
lows: Canadian companies,: 32,187,-
404,047; Bnttish-cottsianies, ,397,879,-
001; and foreign eomeanfes•,$1,143,071,-
500. This is an increase sof 3202,009,-
043 over the amount in force at the
end of 1922.
Divers Tongues,
Mrs. Nouveau•Riche—"Tie's getting
on so web at schooi; he learns French
and Algebra, Now, Ronnie, say 'How
d'yo do' to the lady in Algebra."
Ibtn.ui c;;ndttione ler tete birds are looking up. 1''our Ontario school
boy:t lrruiliy detelay the results of many hours of hard work,
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Brush the Cloud Away New
Feat for .Aviators.
The fabled performance of tee old
woman of tho nursery rhyme who was
able to "sweep the cobwebs- out of the
Big" has, a a�clentle° parallel in the
ability of aviators under some condi.
tione to brush email cloud out of the
sky by repeatedly flying through them.
A fair sized summer cumulus of fair
weather cloud, may sometimes be ob-
literated- by about 20 flights through it.
While there la no adequate explana-
tion for this. effect, it is thought to be
due to a combination of the, stirring
effect of the plane' and especially of
the propeller, the carrying into the
cloud of warmer, unsaturated air, and
the warming of the air in the cloud by
the compression effect of the swiftly
moving plane. The method works Only
when the clouds are about stationary
in size, and fails when conditions are
such that they are growing rapidly.—
Science Service,
Tax Collector in Plane.
Airplanes were recently successful
4n collecting ' taxes from a tribe in
Mesopotamia that had refused to pay.
In the Garden.
Pink and white apple blossoms sud-
denly appearing, .
Making May lovely after a Iate spring,
Conatellating the air of morning with
their beauty,
Crowding. and; populating empty in-
visible spaces
Long before the leaf, their coverlet of
green:
Clarions of the world's unborn beano.
ful faces,
Reminders of the exquisite loveliness
that has been.
Perfect beautiful momentary blossoms,
I who am momentary could not long
endure
The tension of your beauty, the know-
ledge that embraces
Beauty yet to come, Beauty: gone be -
bore;'
'The uninterruptible implacable pro--
cession
Of Beauty moving onward from the
• Fountain to the Bourne.
Therefore I take comfort and walk for
a few paces:
By the path by which it goes Beauty
rehab- return,
—Oliver St. J. Gogarty,
world through thick-len4ed $',lasses, the
night Hon, Jolrn Wbeatloy, minteter of
erntt}atit, looks tele like a mtnlster et
the. crown than peritaps street of M
celleuguPs.
But appearances count f01' nottleg
In Mr. Wheatley's sight, He declined
to wear .a silk beat,whott visiting 131,10le•
Ingham Palace, remarking that he had
Meer been in one and hoped ho never
would,
06 Irish parentage, Mr, Wheatley is
a self-made man. He le grim and dour
—a typical Soot, For years he lived
in a (tingle room In a crowded teue-
ment, as one of a :welly of eleven, No
wonder hie cry is for mere housed
Secret at Youth.
Wonderful 31'llen Terry, the English
actress, wee is now in her 77th year,
es as full of vivacity as in iter young
days, and she takes a very active in.
terestin everything around her.
A altort while ago .there was a Ole.
cession on how actresses keep so
amazingly young.
"Well," said Mite Terry wile a
twinkle in her eye, "I think the rea•
son is this. ..11 women under thirty
like to think they are actresses, and
all actresses like to think they are un-
der thirty."
Which puts matters in a nutshell.
King Gorge tlkec a Jek4.
Weil, • MI'. Morrtsou, have you
brought year firemen's helmet with
yoa2" isald King George with a twinkle
In itis eye to 11. C. Manistee Leber
member of Parliament for North Tot-
tee#itaen, when be attended a court
function recently.
Morrlsoutells this story against
himself and aim the reason for the
IClug's jocular remark, It appears
Morrison in a recant speech said that
11 he bad known what gorgeous dress.
es and untforres were to be worn at
the Speaker's, levee he would have bor-
rowed a fireman's Menet,,
Werke—Not Faith.
The Bishop of London tells a' good
story ot a meeting be attended receat-
ly. He. arrived late, and when he be.
eau to offer apologies the chairman
said that all was right, because the
clock le the hall was not reliable, be-
ing usually ,minutes fest.
''I fear," said he, "it's a question of
faith with that clock, Bishop.'" •"Oh,
no," as the answer, "not faith, but
wors,w,,
Wouldn't Wear Silk Hat When
Visiting the King.
Rather "stumpy" in appearance,
with penetrating eyes that look on the
"'
An Underwater Flashlight.
When anything is dropped into a
dark cistern or a shallow well, or when
far any other reason it becomesneces-
Pary to make a search 3n dark water,
place a pocket Ilashlight in a glass
fruit jar and clamp down the cover,
with a new rubber ring in place. It is
of course important that the jar in -
closing the flashlight be absolutely
water -tight; otherwise the light will
be ruined.
The lens of the light should point
toward the bottom of the jar, end the
jar must be weighted so that it will
sink. Bind waxed cord securely round
the hook of •the jar by which to lower
it. The wax will prevent the cord
from sllppiug.
An interesting use of the under.
water flashlight can be made at night
from a boat, if the water is smooth or
if a "water telescope" is used. If the
water is fairly clear, fish below the jar
can be inspected, or the bettonl can be
examined if the water is not to deep.
A water telescope for use with the
submerged flashlight consists of an
open tube without a top and with a
piece of glass, fastened in :the bottom.
Its purpose le to provide an uncles.-
turbed surface without reflections,
through whichto gaze, The user
thrusts the closed end into the water.
Looking through it, he can see objects'
at a great distance under the surface,
Flsherm'en in the West Indies use the
water telescope, and the glass -bottom-
ed boats of the Bermudas and Sana
Catalina are built an the same prin-
ciple.
- He—"Well, what do you think of the
wide open spaces?"
She—"I never saw suns a mouth
before, I'll admit.'
Technique.
"Now, that -doesn't hurt touch, does
it?" asked the dentist kindly, as he
bore down on the buzzer.
"N -n -no," replied the patient feebly.
"The drill doesn't hurt so much, but
I'd be obliged if you'd keep your cuff
out of my eye."
Heat of Bismuth Crystal.
Heat will travel across a bismuth
crystal 50 per cent. faster than it will
in a lengthwise sl}rectian.
Tourist Traffic of the Dominion
Few people, Canadians or Ameri-
cans, appreciate the development
which has taken place In tourist traf-
fic to Canada since the termination of
the war. Various factors during the
years of hostilities combined to keep
holiday travel within the confines of
the continent, and since the signing
of the Armistice Canada, has .beepme
popular as a region of summer holi-
days and is growing lnereastngly ea.
Tho charm of Canadian scenery and
the adaptability of the wide Dominion
to every possible manner of outdoor
diversign have been their own beat ad.
vertisemehts, and, the nedrs of one
holiday spent eajoyebly circulated pro.
party, induces maty others to imita-
tion.
The development to a state of high
productive reyenue of this new re-
source of Canada's—the tourist—has
probably been wrought with greater
ease and rapidity than the exploitation
of any other of the Dominion's great
natural gifts, Students, of the Domini.
on's great mineral deposits, fisheries,.
fur -bearing regions and forests would
scarcely think of comparing the tour-
ist resource with thein in point of re-
venue obtained, Yet with scarcely
any oftort exerted tourist trains in
Canada has come in a material sense
to be worth more than most of them.
It Is exceeded by only three phases,
of agriculture, by matting, forestry'and
manufacture. It exceedg in,yaltie the
fisheries, the fur industry, electric
power and construction, It has come
to be ono of Canada's major resources,
Estielate of Dominion Parks board,
After a vary careful compilation 01
all the statistics available on the sub-
ject tete Dominion Parks Board esti-
mates the tourist traffic to Canada in
1923 to have ltsen worth $130,000,000,
which is somewhtit'ewer -than other
authorities, which have Weed At to
high Os 3200,000,000. The Beard ad-
mits that title is a conservative figure,
but even se it sets this item high iu
the- order of the Bourses of Canadian
revenue, In the consideration that
beyond the week of certain Govern•
menf branches and the transportation
companies, little has been done in
Caned% t0 encourage the tourist, it
powerfully sttggrgts to what great
Ihnits it might hftelllgontly he develop.
ed,
The potent therm end inaistent'hure
of every section of the broad f)omiulon
is evidenced in the tact that every 1.11'o"
elute of Canada shared snbstantlally
in the receipts Prem tourists, though
naturally certain areas benefited to a
Much greater extent than others; This
le not always n matter of greater at-
traction, but frequently depends upon
the extensiveness and patency of the
advertising et these regions, the con-
ventences provided for a holiday traf-
fic and skilfully brought too the atten-
tion of tourists, and many other fact-
ors. With the largely even distribu-
tion of Canadian holiday attraction
and 'the peculiar Iure of each sector
each province of Canada should be re-
ceiving a handsome revenue from the
holiday-makers who come to disport In
the Dominion,
According to the Board's statement,
British Columbia beaded the list last
year in the mater of money value per
province Irani tourists, the most re-
liable estimate from that province
baying placed it at 336,000,000, though
some estimates go much higher. Al
berta, which has several of the na-
tional Barks, 'including the Rocky
Mountains, which is every year prime
favorite and most extensively patron-
ized, is credited with a revenue et
320,000,000 from tourists, The prairie.{
provinces of Manitoba -ate Saskatehe
wan combined are estimated to have
received 310,000,000 from holiday ars
soiourning there,
Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes.
Coming to Eastern Canada, it has
been more difficult to get ilguroe for
Ontario, but taking into account the
vast stretch of emery front Rename
right through - to Ottawa, into vehicle
tourists from tete United States pour,
and also having regard to the treetop -
dims lure of Niagara Falls and ether
popular spots and lite very large auto-
mobile traffic, it is thought that 330,-
000,000 is fairly reliable. A like
amount is credited t0 Quebec, which,
in view of the tremendous extent to
which holiday travel to this province
Chas increased within the past few
years, and the great number et Ameri-
elan tourets who visit the cities of the
French province in the Summer months
t of the year, seems unduly conserve -
tire,'
( The estimate ter the Maritime Pre-
- emits is 310,000,000. Of this, 34,000,-
000 is credited to the Province of New
Brunswick. In the consideration of
the attractive qualities of the Annapo-
lis Valley, the Land of Evangeline and
otber charming and romantic spots in
this province, the sum of 36,000,000,
attributed to Nova Scotia, does net
seem an excessive antytunt. Alto-
gether, with the entre Maritime area,
a region of most exquisite charm and
appeal, with opportunity for every pos-
sible kind of holiday, 310,000,000 Is a
relatively insignificant amount to be
credited in a year.
There is accumulation of evidence
that Canada is becoming more popular
every year with those people et the
continent in search of diverting holi-
day. The breadth of the Dominion
gives a wid0 variety of natural beauty
from Atlantic to Peelle, and few coun-
tries can, within their eonflnes, offer
the tourist such latitude of attraction.
Coupled: with this are excellent rail-
road facilities, and a ileo system of
motor roads which is tieing continual-
ly extended. ;dere holiday-makers
are diseoveriug Canada each year, end
Canada's new resource, the tourist, is
rapidly Inereasing'in its valve to the
emtntry,
9111 ani'itnt1 'tu.tstnt of lilt ittlttltal "floral Ihtnt•e" le still kept tip at Cmn-
eel, in Wales. To the rhythm of n sprtglttly torte, temples dame' in nod out
of the ;[bore of all the houses ulcus a given rotate
Choice.
Be Elizabeth Colter.
Last week I talked to a sailor,
Who was young and wild and strong;
(Or, rather, he talked and I listened),
For an hour, perhaps—not long.
And Jena, whom I'd promised to marry
But an hour or two before--
Jens,
efore—Jens, who has lived all his stunted life
On a leaf -enshrouded shore.
Jens passed at a little distance,
And I knew that be frowned at me;
But I sat very still, and I listened,
While the sailor talked of the sea,
He used strange words that I do not
know--
But
now—But I saw brown feet on align sand;
His eyes were lent with the lure of
quest—
And
uestAnd he set! I could not'nnderstand—
But I sa
wda spaces i
wand flying
Ying
spume,
And ships in the lone black nights;
I saw with a poignance almost pain
The pas -sing of dim green lights:
I heard the wail of following gulls,
I felt the whip of the cold white fog,
And I saw a man In a dripping slicker
Bending over a log—
But I shall marry ,lens, you know,
And live in a prairie town,
Where never a fog -born blares in the
morning,
And never a ship goes down--
Goes
own—Goes demon to the sea with her sing-
ing crew,'
With her anchors up, with her sails s'
unfurled,
Where never a woman waits like stone'
For a man on the rem of the world.
And he asked me -Jens, I mean, et
course—
What the sailor said to me, 14
And what was the thing he talked
about,
And 1 answered "Poetry."
• --The Lyric West.
New Canadian Apple,
The utuch prized Wilder Silver
medal, the highest award of the Amen- a
can Pomological Society, the oldest
horticultural body in NorthAmerica,
has been awarded Io the Central Ex-
perimental Fame at Ottawa for the u
sixth time. The modal on this acre- $
eon was given for the Lobo apple, 1
ono of the many fine varieties ot Mc- w
lntosh Red parentage originated at p
the Central Farm. The Lobe is an ale s
elft very similar to the McIntosh, but 1
ready for use about a. monde earlier', h
thus lengtheutug the se+mon of apples.
of McIntosh appearance) end flavor,
It Itas peeved very promising 1101 only
in the provinces of Outerlo antl Que-
heo, but in the state of New .Jersey,
%hero It has been fruiting for severalyears,
4 ooil5mg
11 16 net wise 10 spend time 111 Yais
retrospect; no file 'pont Ilobinean says,
oiipping the sail alilege of the Mee,
If we 1'eeelleot the past, let it be to
fortify Mil Meal* for what assabead,
It le a fortlth.ate thing that memory
is 3eaeative; .that, 'since 15 cannot be
burdened with the wlsOle iteei, of what.
has neon, it cboosas and rejects 1n
time the painful tlfinge, Returned
frost a journey, we "bear in 'tnind" Its
satiefactiona; the dlseaauforts are the
last things we recall. Instead, the
happy reootlectlon la of the pleasantnc
folk eountered, the shared expert,ewes of laughter, ,delight, spiritual
profit std edifleatlon, The mind is
tilted, like a desirable Album, with pee
tures of things true, beautiful and
geed, that It is delicious to remember,
Let it be so in lite.. As the years
meat •let us agree with ourselves to
dteesrtl those bygones welch only be,
Plow! our day. We trust not let the meirretrievable hours of yesterday •
press to -morrow, which brings its own
pobleaus, its . own duties. A professor
at Johns Hopitlns University said:
What provokes me in the physical
laboratory is to find pupils constantly
looking back to previous problems for
the solution of the one before them.
They do not grapple with each per.
plexity as it arises. They are floored
unless they. can think 'of what they dirt
in precisely similar circumstances.
They who lead the rest are the onee
who are not forever reverting to pre-
cedents. They dare to . initiate, to
break with convention (when no moral
obliquity is involved)' end to be dif-
ferent. Respectfully they listen to the
accumulated &tore of the wisdom of
the ages and seek in history the light •
of guidance for our own epoch.' But
they do not let the previous course of
their own lives hold them back from
doing a new thing In a new way. They
do not tell themselves that they can-
not do things fax the poor reason that
they never have done them. They
look forward, because that is the di-
rection in which they mean to work,
proving by their acts` that they do net
tear the untrodden ways of the re-
gion unexplored that Ilea forever
ahead of the inquiring spirit,
A Soft Answer.
It seldom pays to answer harshness
with harshness. The person who
speaks unkindly to us feels unkiudly-
He is sick or tired 0r unhappy or wor-
ried; or possibly some one lies spoken
unkindly to 'him: He needs to be not
roused but calmed. To give a hard
answer to a wrathful person is the
height of folly. But "a soft answer
turneth away wrath."
We were visiting a gigantic sawmill
In Wisconsin. Otte of the filers took a
large saw and, laying it on the bench,
pushed it toward a grindstone- After
he had finished grinding it he said:
"This saw is made of uncommonly
hard steel, yet the grindstone I used
is one of the softest in the entire mill,
The atoms in hard steel are 50 com-
pact that the surface is very smooth;
you can find almost no inequalities in
the surface of a hard -steel saw. In a
measure that is true of all hard sub-
stances. Put a hard stone with its
even surface to a hard piece of steel.
and you can see what will happen—
plenty of scratching an dscreeching,
but no effective contact- The two hard
surfaces repel each other. The saw
of hard steel that is laid on a hard
grindstone comes off imperfectly
sharpened. But when the hard saw is
laid on the soft stone the rubbing of
the soft particles of stone against the
hard metal breaks down the ever sur-
face and provides the edges necessary
for sawing wood."
Almost daily the chauee conies be us
either to answer hardness with hard-
nse .eor to defeat hardness by means
of a soft answer. Instinctively we
tend to pay folks back in their own
coin, but the teaching of Christ is to
rise above Instinct and to return good
for evil. The soft stone is most effec-
tive against the hard steel,
The Captain and the Banjoist.
Ile was twanging a banjo outside a
London theatre, tor the pleasure of the
waiting queue. He had -played through
a scanty repertoire, and, having taken
up a scantier collection from one part
of the quene, he moved to another
part of it and began again. Came
trolling along, West -East -wards, as
xeeedingly well-dressed man. [each -
ng sight of the banjoist, he stopped,
walked across to the kerb, and was
seen in Memeonsereation with the
music -maker, The latter saluted, fro-
uenty, as he talked. Prseently, the
well-dressed one .slipped a silver coin
into the banjolst's hand, and moved
oa. "My old captain!" called the
musician to the interested crowd in
the queue ---"Remembered ate," And
he resulted his programme with great
gusto. His next collection rained pen.
les on him.: War ttmemtortes are stetlive,
Water Power and Fuel Power,
Of all the mechanical power now in
se in tamale for all eurposes, except
team railrodrls and motor cars and
crew, 70 per gent.. is produced ity
ater power and 30 per cent, by fuel
ower. The great relief to tete fuel
itua ton from water power develep.
lett over what it would otherwise
eve been is very apparent,
A Naw piderelo,
The teacher explettod the meamu.g
of an epldetule to the Mese very care.
fully, ending up by saying: "Su, you
000, an epidemic to &umetlahlg tett
Rereads," S1ie paused' e. moment,
;'New, O}sarne's" QM said, 'give tno an
eztmmple oS utt cyitteratc."
seed Charlie, brightly,
No iele t:,,. erss- ruined by speak-
ing the truth. -