The Clinton News Record, 1925-05-07, Page 6Pea,
Ther a_e two distitacc types of mt., name
Back Tea ar.r., Green Tea. Both are made
.from the sarne bush and both are equally
pure. The dillerenee is in the process of
manufacture which Wvec each a different ,
flavour. BXack Tea after IF: le plucked is
withered and partially 'fired' or dried then
allowed to oxidize by being exposed to the
air. This gives Black Tea its dark reddish
colour when drawn. Green tea is immedi-
ately steamecis alter plucking, which pre-
vents oxidization. There are delicious blends '
of "SALADA" hi both of types and
nisi) a unique blend of Black and Green Tea
Tilixed. All are sold in. four qualities.
Nest-BUilding taught.
,rt is a common error to believe that
with birds the knowledge ef building
their nests is innate, It is a trade
that is taught to !every bird by its, pap
ents, and In just as systematic a man-
ner as men„ are trained to be builders.
Birds -are hatched with the Instinct to
carry little twigs and the materials of,
, whibli nests are made, but unless they
ar6 iristructed in the art of building
they will just drop them in a pile and
never attempt to weave: them into
PANELS FOR TETE STOUT
WOMAN.'
The stout woman can 'be as well
dressedas her more slender sister.
This straight-line ' dress with Tong,
tight or -bell sleeve, is becoming to any
Woman '
with 'generous proPortions. The
wide,: unbelted front panel helps to
retain' the narrow silhouette.
shovin, pattern No. 1042 is developed
in one Of the popular striped woolen
materials, and has Contrasting front
panel of plairt material. It is an un-
usually -useful' for it may se
suecessfully made up with pleaiiag
effeet M silk for afternOrm wear, and
in gingham or .Other -wash materials
for day -time. Cue in sizes 42 to 60
inches Mist, • Size 46 requires 43'4,,yds.
of 40 -Inch Material. • •
HOW TO onrmit PATTERNS. •
Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size Of such
patterns as you warit., Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrrdp
it carefully) for each number,and
address your order to Pattern Dept.,
ViJson Publishing Co., 18 West Ade-
llaide St.,' Toronto. Patterns sent bY
-return mail.
Eves Apple.
Who was it Who first declared 'that
the frnit of the -forbidden tree men-
tioned in the Bible wile all apple?
It La alinest needless to say that
nowhere in the, Scriptures does. anY
'statement of this sort occur, yet the
idea -that the forbiddeff.fruit Of Eden
wee an apPle seeini to allege friend
countenance in former days/ amongst
Qb learned ,Tews, ,-
I-Tortlettlinrists, later oh, were equal-
, by susceptible to the previiiling notion
that through the apple tante the curse
and, lto .perpetuate the error, name5
a specially line vatiety. "'Eve's Apple."
In -parts of Paleditrie a tree grows
producing frail. Whieb supbosed by
rainy people, to be identical 'with that
.eaten lag our .first plarents,
This fruit presents a beautiful ap-
pearatiee to Ale eye, but it canalises
In tho land 'en being tomiliedl-Doubt-
testi the deceptive appearance of the
hae caused it to be associated
th the Bible story, -
Aa17c, it Ceyfon, there geows• al. tree
'belilke the very significant ham° of
meaning "fckbiddert?!! This
tree Produces bleSsoma which emit a
delicate' and seductive perfulne: 228
fruits; 'are- beautifully coloaed. and
sadily ,41'ee.t.attelltio11, in:dug a dee
0,1"ftil5 On the outside !and a bright
The fruit, when examined, has
he 'aPaeinlance of having 0 -piece jijk
otit it. 7'This, circumstance,)d.
p1witk the fgetlef lt,i;!!beihg ,
ononv lefithe' Mohammedans, On 'their
Ehiat difiee'very of Cealoa, to look -upon -
1118 ae the twinkler frait, and to con.
i.keinselvo, in the (garden of
11111S, 'ell 18 - appagently tempting
fruit became tp thorn an object, of tho
ctcst veneration, and the Peculiar
dentation in 1 Was fegalioS as the
iliapieSSaf Evo'e i2La,'
• Don't ,inistithe egiitism Tor power.
It is atter the young birds have
learned to fly that the 'Older ones regu-
larly teach them the process of ihter-
weaving and liningathat Is nedessary
tO construct net. This is -most tom-
plicateci and a trade pecullaely their
own; it canaot be' imitated even by
men. fro arrange the 'little taiigs so
that they will besymmetrical and
strong etiongh to holds -the weight St
the mother bird and fent! or dye little'
ones to a branch. of a tree requires
good engineering -ability: The lilting
of -the nest is usually made of a much
softer material than that of which the
outside is made, and to place this ueat-
ly is also taught by the older 'Melia
Humming birds win often follow cows
foii- (lager to Pick 11 the soft hair with
vatich to Sine. their nests, and they
weave it,as compactly as a piece Of
flannel. Birds that have always been
in cages can 'never make nests and
are -pitiably clumsy even with cettea,
Wool and ntaterialathat has been given
to them.
That neat-builcidni is taught be also
true of those that squtrrels and Inlet:I
bu1ld as svell.es bees, Wasps and ants.
. The green ant of Australia is very
clever in the building Of its nest, It
appears' to consider It an irksoine (tidy
that 'can -be, hired out. A small milder
is therefore trained to do tidal` work
and note as' a servant in air- things.
The -green ants pay the" spiders 'for
their labors In a cola that they enjoy.
11 18 by giving them to eat a portion
of the innumerable little eggs that
they, the ants, lay. This is a Moat
agreeable arrangemedr; for all, Ulan
included, as otherwise the green ants
would rival' the rabbits ie overrunning
.Anstralia. s
For einade To-thorrow.
,Tust now we are hearing .magreat
deal about our forest resources, their
cOnserva.tion and their destrection,
The Federal and Provincial Govern-
ments, organized chills, Pulp and
Paper Association, schools, ehurches,
radio statins and. theatres are co-
operating .in enmhasiaing the Meese
•Sity of preventing forest firee and
tonserving oar Canadian forest re-
Seurges.
The potential vette of the forests
as a very great asset is being On-
phatically ,stressed, but the value of
the foreats as a scarce of employthent
affects us all vitally at such a time
ea the present, when the employMent
prohlnm is acute. Then; how many
Of oar industries, directly, or indis
rectlY, rely, on the forests for their
necessary equipment and supplies?
In connection with sports, such as
hunting and fishing, the value ,of the
forest is of first iinpOttarme, fOr if
the forests were deStroyed, e these
sperts wonld rapidly 'become not -ex-
istent. The beauty of the forests,
lakeS arid mountain, the abundance
of game and fish, attract many Visi-
tors and provides health and pleae-
nre, ,alto a large annual revenue, to
Canadians. ,
Fereetal grow, inatere, deterie-rate
and decay. Once a -tree has attained
maturity, nothing is to be gained by
postponing ita cutting. When cutting
the -mature tree, however, the protec-
tion of. the email tree struggling‘for
its existence nearby should be as,,sair-
ed, .The email trees of to -day aro
our forests of the future.
1)re C. D. Howe, Dean of the Fee;
ulty of 'Forestry, 'University et, To-
ronto, suggests that in each 'district
where timber rights are granted, the
average annual growth per acre be
aacertained, and_only the larger trees,
thisti extent not exceeding tile annual
,nibwila'of timber RS a c0101.0 10.er acre,
?e, eul. 'Our forests would be grOw-
hap in value year by year if this plan
we X0119\veg.
Thc ,planting of {RICS and 'shrubs
beithering fields
for_ windbreaks will, as the increas-
increases, become a means trf increas-
ing our wood supply mateiialiy,i and,
in the course Of years, May build up
A stand of Valuable timber, '
riflo!‘!-e' N.—ceded,
')"olinny i001110 Jnbf2 Af tc-• seatch•
ing one rcel-)t aol icotcr uutbl'
he had boos through ali,, all 1.01 suc-
cess, he oxelitimea'„,: •••,, •
"0 _clout 1 wish, 7, had amt3l1ier
p o ek'e i 11 in ig lithe 1 hp"
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:and tried to hess144
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c.ess who .ca1led,r*2 Btt9e.G.
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faq-ereco. Fee i4e.flest tiate -((00.
In. that moment Nepeese felt Go
pressure of 'the rock on her „shoulder, ,
and into!the eyes that had been glow-
ing Softly' at Baree_there shot a 811(1 -
den wild look ot horror.' And their'
there came from her,lips' a cry that'
, was „ not ilk@ any other sound Baree
had ever heard in Ile
piercing, filled with' agonized
fear. Pierrot did not hear that first
cry. But he heard the second and
the third-eanil then scream after.
scream as the Wiilow's tender body
was ,slowly erushedamder the settling
mass. '[-le ran' totard it with the
speed Of! the ,wind. The cries were
'weaken-dateg, away, He saw Baree
as he came lout from underthe rod( ,
and ran into the chasm, Rad Go the
same instant he saw a' part of the
Widow's dress and her moccesined„
feet. ''fie rest • 4o2!..her was hidden.
under -the' death trap. -Like a mad-
man 'Pierrot began diging. When a
few mornentslatea he drew • Nepeese
out from under the boulder she vvas
white 'and deathly Her eyes
w,ere„,closed, Hisshand 'could pot feel
that,ale wasliving, rand a great Moan"
of .iinguish rose out of Ills soul, . But
he kuew how to liight for a life. He
tore „open her. dross and fotind that
-She as not °gushed ea he had feared':
Then he tan- ilea• la_416'f, :When he
returned, the Willoarrtyes,'„were open
end alio vas 'gasping for breath,
"The blessed saints :! be praised!"
sobbed Pjerrot, falling on his knees
at her side. "Nepeese, ma Nepoesel"
*x.4,
otion 'ir,stone, ab: tile
B tree't,iyas lying.,' • ,
h
yard§ "away 'llaree vaS 'al-
ost ifilden In lie hollow, only the
p 02 hi shiny black. body, appear.
in g to...Beaver-teeth's scrutlitv. • 1'0
get • a better look! the 'old' beaver
spread his tlat tall out beyond him and
quarters, his •two, 'front . paiys held
squirrel-Illee • over his • breast. In
this pose' he Was fully three feet tall
Ile ' probably weighed, sforty poands,
and, ht SolTia Weas he „reeembled one.
ofthose fait, good-natured, eilly.looking
doge that ge largely,to stomach,. But
'its 'brain' was working with amazing
celerity, Suddenly, lie -gave the had
mud of the' dein a single slap with his
tail -and Ilaree sat Me. Instantly he,
saw Beaver -tooth and, stared. !BeaVer-
tooth stared. 1i'00%.0 full-hall'auttute
neither moved the thousandth part
(Tan inch. Then Baree stood up and
wagged 11) tail.
That was enough. Dropping:to his
fore -feet Reavertooth waddlecb leisure-
ly to the 'edge et the !dam, and pied
over. He was neither cautious nor"
In very grestataste nOW: . He made a
great'.00nioation in the water and
swam boldly back and forth ender.
Baree. When he. had done this 'sev-
eral 110105, he ougatraight up tha pond
to the' largest of the -three honses
and • disappeared. Five minutes. 'af ter
Beaver -tooth's. 'exploit word was -pass-
ing quickly ainong .the colony. The
stranger'-rareewas not a lynx. He
was not a fox,- Ile Was - not a wolf.
Moreover,..the -was Very young -and
harnaleaS. -
„
-a...CHAPTER IX., ,
.rmpelled by the Wildealarm oE the,
Willow's ter,rible cries and the sight
of ,Pierrot, &Calling madly toward him
from the dead body of Wakayoo,
Bares) did not stop relating until it
seemed as though hiS lungs Could not
draw •another breath,- When he Stop,
ped, Isa was Well out of the canyon
and headed for the beaver pond.
'Exactly-wherein...lay Baree's fears
it would ,he difficult to say -but Aare-
ly it was net because of Is,Tepeese. The
Willow, had ehesed hint hard., She,had
dung herself upon. him. Hi had :felt
the 'clutch qf her hands and the smo-
ther mf her soft hair, and yet of her
he *as not afraid! , It he stopped now
and then in his flight and looked back,
it Was to see if Nopeese was. fellowing.
He would aot' have .run bard front her
-alone. Her eyes and voice•and hands -
bad set something stirring in him; he
was filled with 10 gaeater yearning and
O greater' lonelinesca"lnevr-and that
night he drearde'd treubled drtutins.
' Baree' was glad twiten the (lawn
came. 'Be did not Seek tor food, but
weitt, doWn to the pond. There was
little Wipe and anticipation -in his
'manner 'now. .lIde rentembered that,
ail:plainly as anbafal Ways. cauldetallt,
Ilmisk and his playmates had told
him they wanted nothing to do with
him, 'Aral yet the tact that they were
there took away hie ioneoneeg, bit
s,vaamtore than loneliness: 'The- wolf
in him was,suhmerged.. The, dog was
Master. ,
- In one Df the' larger canals Baree
surprieell a big beaver towing a four -
foot catting of birch as thiek through
as a man's leg --half dozen brealt-
fasta and dianera and suppers in that
,one cargo. The four or live inner
barlc,s of the birch are What might. -be
eallec1 the bread and butter arid' po-
ttitoe§ of ,the beaver mean, while the
raose highly prized barks ef the Wil-
low and Young alder take the Place of
meat and pie.
I3aree smelled =Measly of the
birch nutting, afterethe old beaverlliad
abandoned it in flight, aim then "went
on. He Aid not Ink to hide himself
now, and at leatt half a dozen beavers
bad a good leek at him before 'he
came to, the point 'tvhere the ',pond
narrowed, down to the width •of the
stream, almost half a mile trainthe
dem, Then he wandered back' 'All
that moaning. he hovered about the
pond, 'allowing hitneelf,'Ope.nly.
thiar big mild-and-stielt strong-
hold,s the beavers held 'a council- of
war. t They were distinctly puzzled,
rt luny 'be that the beavers discus -
gad the • matter fully among them-
selve117"17t is possible that Unilsic 4nu.
his 'playmates -told their patents 'of
their adventures, clad of bow •Baree
Made no move, to harm them whea lie
could quite easily nave caught them:
It le also more time illtelY that the
old beavers who had fled from Beree
that morniug„gave an aceount of their
adventures, again ; eamhasizieg (he-
rmit that, the stranger, while frighten-
ing theta; had showif-no disposition to
attack theth, All this is quite Possible;
for lE beavers 000 make 'a large part
of a continent's history, andcan peva
form engineering teats that nothing
less than, dynamite can destroy, it is
only reasonable to supPose that they
have sOme way, of making one another
understand. '
However 111 may may be, courageous
old. Beaver -tooth took it'upoll himself
10 d the srspislitee '
It was early 111 tboo afternoon' that
for ',the third_ er fourth time Bare°
walked cut on the dam. This dam was
fully two latedred feet in, length, birt
at no point did the water run over it,
the civerfloweilnding 111 way through
narrow sluices, A 'week' or two' ago'
Baree could have crossed 'to theop-
'pestle sitit) of the pond on this dam,
but now -at the far end--Bea-ver-tooth
and IriS. engineers were, adding a new
section Of claim and in order Jo ac-
complish their work Iltote easilyi-they,
had flooded fully, fifty yards of the.
fow%ground on which they were work-
ing; • Thee main .clain held a- &Ischia.
doe for Bare°, al1 was' strong with
the smell of beaver. • The 'top di il,
-was high and clry, sod there were
iiollens of smoothly 00011 little 1101-
100701 11 which the be-avess hall ,talten
their smahaths. In o,i,of
no 'these hol-
lows' Bare° steoi.ched himself out, with
hip ems., on the pond. . Not a,' ripple
SliV0Cli ha'. Velvety. intoollnesS. • Not
a sound brolcoldie drowsy stillness of
the afterlfoon., •-iThe beavers iniglit
have been dead or asleep, for all the
stir they made And vet they kne-v
thatdiiiirce iv,aii,,en,the dam. Where he
'tog, the sun fell ia 'a Warta flood, and --
was ,t) ceinfortablo that after a time
he haa dirricilil7 in keeping his eyes
open .0 wit, c,.i 10, pond. • lien he
bioll' 00100),'
1002 ver..t o o ,01e11204 t..114S.
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5.
0HAPTEB.X. • ,
just as in the him of every' man
there is One big, controlling influence,
either' for -good or, bad, so -in the life
of Baree the beaver -pond was largely
an arbiter et destiny, Where Ire might
have gone if he had not discovered it,.
and what might have happened to him,
aree matters of conjecture. But it held
hint It began to take the placit gir-
dle old ',windfall, and in the heavers
themselves he found ,a companionship
.
which made up -, -17 a way, tor .1ils loss,
of the, protection and sfriendship of
Easan and Grey Wolf. »,
Thring this fortnightthat' followed
Beaver -tooth's exploit .on thr dam
Bares ate his meals a mile up the
creek, where thereawere .plenty of
e.rawlish. But, the pond, was home..
Night angays found hiiu there, and a
large Part of his' clay.' He slept at
the end of Me clam, or on top of it
on particularly clear nights, WA the
beavers accepted him as a' permanent
•guest.They workedin his Presence
as if he 510 not,exist. •
One afternoon, when the toboggan
was 'particulailly wet and slippery
from recent nee, Bareeowent up, the
beaver -path to the top of 'the bank
and began investigating, Nowhere
hado he foutid' thes beaver -smell„ so
strong RS 011 the He began
sniffing and incantionslY Went too far..
In•ansinstant his feat ahet from under
him, and. with a. single- wild yelp._ he
went shooting clown the toboggan. For
the Tecond• time in his life he found
himself sfraggling under water,• -and
when • aareinnte or. tsvo later he drag-
ged .1thaself sip through the soft mud
th the firmer footing oC the shore, he
had at last a yery well-defined opins
ton of beaver playa .
-It hiay be that Urnisk saw him. It
may be that very soon the 'story of
his ,adventure was knesvn by all the
inhabitauta- of Beaver Town. For
when Baree came' upon Umiak eating
his supper of alder -bark that evening,
sUmisk stood his ground •to the last
inch; mid, for th first dale they smell -
e11 noses, . tgleast -Ba.ree Sniffed
midi*, and 'Plucky little Umiak:Sat,
like a rolled -hp Sphinx. The. 'wag' the,
final cementleg -of their frienclahip-1
on ,Baree's,`
CHAPTER Xi.'
.11• 6!inilieb8 cafli
-Wetilf(dOtheeituse, 1i gagil!iithelii
prili,e!f for their' furs !,..b.e!,,,,,*ight
'told the Company innitei,Plainly
e kept the people of the trap-
•ait the edge et starvation throngh
inenth c•f, the whil:er, 'that he
*Ahern 'on their-Itneet with Ids
4liaiiirdS 1 their ,throats -putting the
truth in a. mild and mrctiy -Way---and
that he ,a1Witys- had a weniati, or a
girl, Indian, or halfbreed, living with
him!atthe Pest, Inn, Gregson enjoyed
his -vlatts too much at tae Bain. AI
-
ways he' ebuld eenut on tvie weeks of
coarag ilea'surett!' dnil in oddition to
that, Ms own womemf lieme wore
o rleh treaSure of Inc that sameto
them from McTaggart. '
, One •evening, a weekafter die ad-
venture et Nepeese and :payeo under
the rock, McTaggart at finder the
glow of an oil lamp in "store." He
had sent hie little pippin -faced English
clerk to'bed, anit he was'alehe. It was
Mat 6IX weeks .,ago...that, Plerrot had
brought ,Nepeese' on 'her, first Vis'It•tO
Lac Bain eine° '11.1,e'l'aggart 'had been
factor there, Slio had' taken! his
breath -away. 'Since then hp had, been
able to think of nothing lint her. Twice
In that sixeweeks he had gone 'clown
to Plerrot's' cabin.; To -morrow he was
going again. 'Marie, the slim Cree girl
•over is
h“callin, he had forgotten --
just ae,. a dozen othereabetore Marie
had slipped out of his memory. It was
Nopeese !now. He lad never seen any-
thing quite so beattiful as Plerrot's
Audibly lie •cursect. Pierrot as he
looked at 'a sheet of paper' under his
hand, en which for an hour or MOTa
Ise had been Making notes oat of w„gaim
and dusty Company ledgers. It was
Pierrot who admit in.his• way. Pierrot'S
father,i„accerding to thos'e. note, had
been a full-blooded _Frenchman.
Therefore Pierrot -was half French,
and...Nepeese was qualiter..„ French, -
though she was so.beautiful he could
have sworn there was not anoile than
di! drop or' two of Indian blood in her
Veins. If they had been all Indian-
Chippewayan, Creea0jilaway, Dog Rib
_anything -there would have been no
trouble at all in the matter.' He would
have bent them to his poWer, and Ne-
peese would have come_to his cabin
, -
as IVIarie came ok months ago. But
there was the accursed French Of it!
Pierrot and NepeeSe were different.
'1Vhile the loveig Nepeese was ehud-
dering -Over her 11111111115 exPerience
under the rock -while •Plerrot. stbil
offered, gratefal thanks: in his prayers,
for her, dellyeranbe And Baree „Was be-,
,egraing inoreeand more 0,,,figture at'
'the beaver-oenW,-13usit McTaggart
Was peerecitingsalittle schento 02 718
on u
wp at Post Licc Bain; about 'forty
miles aorth and'west. McTaggart had
been. factor at tad Bain for seven
y,es.rS'.IIL the. Comeau:is boolts.down
in Winnipeg he was counted it re.
markably sucoessful mail. The ex-
pense et his peat Was below the aver-
age,...aild his send -annual report of
finis Wee always ranked among, the
St, is.ttet ine, name, kept on e
-in main; office, ;was 'one notatioli
widelt said: a'Gete More mit of a dollar
than 'any nther man porth 02 Gbd's
Lake." . - • . .
The Indians knew why this WAS SO.
liimaNapab Wetiltoo-the
man-tlevil, This was ender' • their
bileath--a name whispered sipisterly
111 'the (dew of tepee fires, on spoken
Softly where not even,' the winds
might carry it So the "ears!iof Bush
McTaggart. They feared- -him; they
hatedhim They died of a tarvatimi
and eielineas; and the tighter Bush
leidTaggart clenched' the nagers of his
Wort rale, the more mealtlYi it seamed
to ton, tibI thcy le t o si as
tory. I-Iis was a small sonlehicicien in
he hulk a a brute, Which rejoiced
in power: And here -with .1,11e raw
wilderness on iour sides of hijn-his
power knew 00 Olin. ,T,he Big Com-
pany Wfle bebind 1sbm It 'tadmmle
hint icing of a demean in Which. thero.
was little law except hig, own, Arid
He smiled grimly, aad „hie hands
clenched tighter. After all, was not
ids power sufficient? Would even
Pierrot dare stand against that? If
`Blereot objected, he would drive him
from the cottary-from the trapping
regions fildt hacf acme 'down to, hint
al heritage- from father and grand-
father, and even before their day„ Ile
would, make of..Pierret wanderer
and an outcast,as he had made wan-
derers and nuteesits of a ,score of
others' who had lost his favor. No
,OtheiaPoat would seirte or buy from
Plerrot if Le Bete -the blank cross -
*as put after his name. That was
hispow,er-a laws„of 'the Facto= that
had acme down thrOugh the centuries.
It was a tremendous power for evil.
It- had brought him Marie, the slim,
dark -eyed Oree girl, who heted him --
Rad 151,, spite 01 110' hatred "kept hquse
fcia him", That was the polite Wag of
explaiuing -her presente if expiate:is
tions were ever necessary.
' MeTaggart looked 'again "at 'the
nOtes he had made on the sheet of
paper.. Pierrot's trappiegmountry, his
own property according to the 'com-
mon law ot the wilderness, was very
valuable, Durbig the last seven -years
he had received au average Of a than -
Sand dollars a year for his furs, for
Meraggart had been unable to cheat
Plerrot quite as completely as he had
cheated the Indiana. A thousand
dollars a year! .saPierrot would. think
twice before he g‘tve -that up. MeTag.
gart, chuckled • as ,he erumpled the
paper in his hada end prepared to put
Out the light, Under his close -cropped
shaggy been his reddish face blazed
with the lire. that wasain his blood. It
was' au eripleaaant free -like 1on,
Merciless, filled With the loolathat gave
him his netne o Napao Wetilcoo. His
eyes"gleamed, and he drew 'a quick
*bath 58 he put out the light.
(To be coatInued.)-
People Who Live on Stilts.
A, Visitor to the Landes, that strange
country which iles between the Gar -
'brine River and the Pyrenees., might
ahnost imagine romance had come
true should he eapg a shepherd or two
attitling across --the country mounted
on a pair of long sting, and parrying
O loog stiek Ib the shape of a scaffold
pole.
-, Not many years 'ago almost the
whole of the -populatiorigot the Landes
weat et stilt's, because the 'terrifftc
"tempests blowing fAin the Bay of
Biscay smothered the land with fine
sand, and stilts, beturme an absolute
nocess ty 'of o come tion. , '
To -clay the district Is greatly int.
proved by reason or the planting of
broom and pines, which has resulted
in the grawth of a forest, the ieessa-
don of dustatorms, and such •an im-
provemout in, the soil that the pea
sants have turned to agriculture, for-
, anorly impossible.
Nevartheleseaawitle areas still
Very sandy, and the shepherd still
goes'around on stilts, blowing a sitheig
Imre, and, when inclined to "sit down,"_,
loaning baelt onlis ,scaffold -pole, aad
knitting a stocking, or earving a toy
with ids clasp -knife.
hic znem!.,i,viounirttaCtatI,
Of/
*V.
." 1 .take it as a real comi>lirnent, because inoSt
Moinen do try to excel in their table linen.
_ "Of course, I tell them the -way I've found easiest and
beet is with Sunlight—just 'rubbing the-.1irieo, lightly - with
Sunlight, rolling it up and putting it to soak. After. soaking, _
perhaps a light rubbing hese ahd there may be called for, then_
just imse, and the linen is spotlessly clean.' 'Fine linens should
boorotectalrand never come into contact with anything but
the purest. soap.
•
"As a household soap there is nothing better or more
economical than. Sunlight. Every particle is pure soap, with
, -no waSteful Sur4gbt is mild and easy on the hands,
too." .Leyer Brothers thiaited of Toronto, make it. '
S -SS
QUEER IDEAS ABOUT WEATHER
Since the dawn of.civilization-sos
called -the weather has been a freit-
fulsource of Tool beliefs. Even tea
day, when the knowledge is almost to
be had, for the asking, 90 per cenL
of the, people believe that if wild 01111,Mals• have heavy or thin fur in the
summer it means a wenn or Old
winter. • .
Many actually 'behove that a deek s
wishbone shoWs how the weather'is to'
be ia the --coming season. If it rains
on the day known as St. Swithin's,
90 per cent. of the aperstitious be-
lieve thae 11 wilfraid- every, day for
forty days and there are really rnarty
who believe that i2_. the groundhog
sees his shadow on the_,day appointed,
for him to crawl out of - his hole and
look around he goes-Aick to sleep for
six weeks more,' because he knows' it
won't thaw I or a long, long time.
Few persons eller stop to wonder
how it is that a squirrel or chipmonk
can tell la advance what is going to
happen in -the winter that is to come,
and even if they do get that far they
have still to ,explain. -just how the
wild creature can melte his own fur
grow thiek or.thin to suit the weather.
As a matter of fact it is impossible
for ply being to tell :vhat is going
to -happen: All through history 'pro-
phets, have arisen and prophesied,
and of the millions that have been
believed in front time Immemorial;
each and every one has told what
was going to happen land what they
said, Would happen has rarely if ever
hliPpened.
. So far as we human' beings are,
cgncerned, there is only one thing
that is absolately certain, only one
thAt can be pr,emised with real
kn'owledg'e and that is that we human
beings are eooner er Tater to pasa
away io-what we call death, •
And so it is with the weather, Not
eyenathe most -remarkable machinery
.composing the weather bureau can
Itell whether it is going to rain or not,
even twenty-four. liours in. advance:
When the weather burette says it is
going to rain the next day, the
, chances are ninety-nine to one -that it
-will rein, but that is as close ab the
experts dart get. -It May snowthe
next day or it n1a31 bn-Wa0111 and sun-
.
shiny -nothing is certain. •
Weather men -in all •the cities oe .
the.conntry studythe rain elands, the,
moving cold areasand the moving hot'
areas and can figure outvery, very' -
well just -where therains may be on.
the morrow,- .•
7.. cold wave is explained best by
supposing it to ..be a big bunch of
very cold.air that.has come from the
North oPle and goes along jut
,a -gigantic ball; wifieh you can't see
bu,..whicli'you. can feel: Rain clouds
travel in -the sante- manner.
If the -observers out in Alaska see
great rain clouds movilig to „the East -
and dropping rain ds they go, they
leepretty certain that, tis the ciduds
.are- travelling, say, fifteen miles an
hour, it will rain 450 miles east in -4111
ten. hours, and so bri,, until the clouds.
have used themselvet PP."
Oft times a gigantic rain eloud will
start in the uppeli pint of the North-
west and tra'vel clear ticross the con-
tipei4t in a 'bort or sweeping -to -the -
south sainizeircie.'
When they find 'a, rain term trav-
elling like that; and believe it is big
enough to. last all the way from the
Pacific to the Atlantic, they prophesy
that: it will rain in- the letistron t cer-
tain' day, perlapi.When the rain
reaches a point tWenty-four hours
say, from Toronte, the weather mien-
tistsofind that it is Still going in the
same .direction and they announce
that te will" rain in Toronto the next
day. ' .
Usually this stateradat is found to
be tree, but not always, for you can
never tell what May Intiipen. The
rain clouds may get within. an lions
of Toronto and be struck by a stronger
current of iiii.cathing from the north
and goingssouth, 10 which case all
the'raln clouds are blown smith and
tile weather man is denounced as a
fake. This happens frequently.
Despite accidents, of this nature,
the weather bureau knows more .
ebout the weather than all the asoi-
onald and prophets diets were ever
known, more than ell the being's who
have aver lived --and yet even that
maryellou bureatT cannot, tell what is
going to happen to-morroiv.
And still there are people who be-
lieve that if a, ram's horns earl' in a
certain, direction we are' dtie for a
hard winter. •
Developing Instrumental
in Public Schools.
.There Is little troubt- thee the next
decade, 3v111 see the standardization
of instrumental procedure in the pith-
lic schools,. that an the children 'et all
the. people may. sSeure public -ex-
pense such, fundamental traiiiinrin
• - musie as can be consummated in the
twelve years of sebool life in 'con -
The hard part of being poor is
retutn he gave -beak te tile Com- .inf-A to. siiv6 Wlaile spending as 'much
Pans. hales- 210ee". ef''fiJte' as'idie rich do.
-
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11
teemage
goada .fisheraima , o. shOwn indipacling their, ea
el .itt!Imelteport.",i
junction with. the -academic mtbjects
which everyday existence .and educa-
tional' requirements demand.
This leads, us to consider music as a
vocational, subject,. a pbase which has
not reeeived much -consideration. The
demand. for experienced performers
;upon the' usual waft unusual Instru-
ments is aS•great to -day as in the past,
and die augmented orchestfla much in
'vogoe 111 Go *hite-soreon theittee is
commandeering all thesavallable plaia
The Canadian boy is just as web]
qualified td become it proficient per.
20011201' upo17, tho oboe, bassoon, French
horn and similar instruments -not in.
eluded in the solo i00V----as the boys
of Franco, Teussia, Italy or Germeny.
Given the same oppoel unities for
musical instruction, Itis safe' to ',hate
that 010 CR3000111 bay can beeome an
expert as leis foreigi coasint and bring
Lo lus art a corrosponding.oeuivalent;
.1 n - du cat Ion, morals, Meatier lima
'
Sage 7,00\VS 'VIM in many t- 0
southern Europe
Look Out for -Comets!
This shotiici he a comet year at all
the years since the canting began.
NO fewer than nine of theae myster-
ious objects are clue to puf in an a.p-
.pearance. Some of thent may come
be Mg enough to do any damage to
be big enottgli t odo any damage to
our globe in case of a colliaten is an-
ther matter-, Their- heads are of
solid enough particles, but their tails
are AilASilieSS itself,
Where they aPrang from in the first
place_ no one knowe. 'Opinions differ
as to whether they were sleet ont of
the stag or out of the giant planet
Jupiter, or frein one of the stars'. Vast
explosions arercertainly always tattles
Mace on the sun and stem, and 'those
bodies are 'perhaps most likely to have
given birth to tee comets.
Two of the tometa due this year
Were ,diSSOVered about forty years ago
and have not been seen Mace, thoegh
'they ;thoula have Dut 111 'everal ap-
pearances in the interval.
'Are they lest? Poinots aoraetintes
do get lost beams° another body iu
space, has pre.vainteir them coming
within range of our telescopes ag,Itin,
---
Prete-ottani
Tommy, aged ten., 050 a 'visit to his
his,grandManum,a GIG ,Country, bangs
111» littIo''llilt arid coals in theghallway:
No fear eg. berg:lats. AAA
Said "Voleasiy,,"witli. a, man's loot
0.2 czat in the 12111
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