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Chi FOREMOST GaJiGia, It is also fro be noted that la
IN EDUCTION the . French.,summer school held .an-
uual1y at McGill, more than half the
,. students attending are from the
United States.
SMALL PROPORTION OF International Exchange of Teachers.
ILLITERATES- A'I°l.S, Any danger of Canadian education
becoming insular is offset by the.
-,» broadening influence of exchange ,and
Tribute Paid to High Standard travel. There ia an exchange of some
numbers each year of teachers be-
tween Canada and the British Istes, a
movement which is yearly increasing'
in popularity as its value becomes the
more apparent. The benefits of such
a system are augmented by the peri-
odical exchange of visits of groups of
educationalists during the holiday: eon
son, Thus in the summer of the past
year more than three hundred Cana-
dian teachers, from all parts of; the
Dominion visited the Britiah Isles and
the Continent in a body, from which
tour the future Canadian must receive
great benefit. --
Such a broadening educational in-
fluence is also effected by the numbers
of scholarships supplementing the
Rhodes awards, Fifteen scholarships
to study in Europe were granted this
year by the Provincial Government of
Quebec, which has at the present time
some thirty students from the pro-
vince studying overseas,. Two scholar-
. ships are awarded annually in Sas-
katchewan to some _ of its, students • to
attend a French university. This. year
the Lieutenant -Governor of British
Columbia made a gift of $18,000 to the
University of British Columbia to be
used in providing three scholarships
for five years to students to pursue
their atudies at French Universities.
The question of the education of his
children is one othat comes upper-
most in the mind of the contemplating
settler. He need have not the slight-
est
lightest apprehension can this score. The
formost educational authorities of the
world pay-tribute`to the high standard
of Canadian education, Not only are
the utmost facilities provided; but the
Government interests itself in com-
pelling rte citizens, to make use of
them In the nethermost corner of
the broad country a school is to be
found, and its highest seats of learn-
ing are within reach of every child of
the country. ,
of Education in the
Dominion..
"One of the things for which Cana-
da is most to be congratulated is that
eche has established a system of edu-
Cation that compares favorably With
any country in the world. Canada is
a nation of Mertes; cite has a remark-
ably small proportion of illiterates."
This was the ;statement of the Right
Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, former Minister
of Education- in the British Govern-
ment, on his recent visit to Canada.
It Is one which is borne out by the pro-
gress evidenced in education in every
part'of the Ddininion.
Canada's educational establishments
are up-to-date in every respect, as is
absolutely necessary in a country
which is most modern in all respects,
which is showing a remarkable de-
velopment in all phases, and whose
history lies in the future rather than
In the past. The Donation's industrial
expaneiori'is continually revealing new
needs,, and .educational facilities are
extended to meet them.
Canadian agricultural colleges, sup-
porting and promoting the country's
flrst Industrie are among the best in
the world, testimony to which fact is
frequently given by the visits of ag-
ricultural experts from all of the con-
tinent and other countries. The re-
search and experiment conducted at
these institutions has been of tre-
mendous value to the farmers not
only of Canada but the United States.
Now these colleges' are _receiving
greater attention from the British
Isles and elsewhere, and parents who
intend their sons for agricultural car-
eers in the Dominon are coming to
look with greater favor upon the pro-
cedure of sending these boys to study
farming at these colleges. The Alber-
ta Government, through co-operating
In the Overseas Settlement Act, is
training a number of boys at its pro-
vincial agrricultural colleges, from
which they will graduate to farms of
their own.
Special Phases of Instruction.
But whilst agricultural education is
'naturally very much to the fore as
promoting the Dominion's first indus-
try, education for. other phases of
Canadian development, which have a
great future foreast for them, is not
being neglected. For instance, Cana-
da recently came into line with the.
most progressive countries of the
world when jt was decided to establish.
a bakery school as part of the Ontario
Agricultural College, and this;,will be
an accomplished fact in 1925. Sas-
katchewan's reaization that is posses-
sed perhaps the richest anti most var-
ied clay deposits in the Dominion gave
birth to an ambition to develop a.great
pottery industry from them, and this
in turn resulted in the decision. to es-
tablish what is the first ceramic school
do the British Empire, under one of
the foremost ceramic experts of the
continent, which is preparing a num-
ber of young men and women in the
various branches of the work who will
be available when the time of indus-
trial development arrives. Again, the
rapid development of Canada's export
trade prompted the Dominion Govern-
ment to approach McGill and Toronto
universities with the question of train-
ing experts along this line with the
result that export classes have been`
established at both these institutions.
The high standard achieved andi
maintained in Canadian educationd
which drew the laudatory comment of
one of the foremost educational auth-
orities of the British Isles, has not I
been attained and is not kept up with- I
out considerable effort and zeal. In
the Western Provinces especially,'
where' settlement is rapid, and where
the incoming farmer encounters at
times elementary conditions, these are
naturally very great. Yet the stand-
ard of education in Western Canada
loses nothing by comparison with the I
older Eastern Provinces or indeed with
any part of the continent.
One School to Every 116 Population.
It was the boast of the Winnipeg
Board of Trade a couple of years ago
that there were more university stu-
dents in Manitoba in proportion to
populations than in any other province
of Canada or any state of the Union.
Alberta may be taken as a representa-
tive province of the West, and last
year its provincial university had 1,314
students, of whom 696 were in arts
andsciences and 109 in medicine.
There were 900 men and 414 women.:
British born•numbered 1,003, CanadianI
762, foreign 239, and 188 came from
the United' States. Omitting the high- I
er Institutions of learning, there were'
last year three thousand schools and
five thousand teachers in Alberta, giv-
ing one school to every 116 of the popu-
lation—men, women . and • children.
The High degree with which Cana-
dian education is regarded all over
the world is very well illustrated In a
survey of the registrations at our uni
versifies. In addition to students from
every province of the Dominion, from
N•ewfoundand tend Cape Breton, and
front a great many states of the
American Union, • others have come,
' trim England, Scotland, Ireland, and
Wales, Russia., Roumania, Poland,
Maly, Palestine China, Argentina, Aus-
tralia, New Zealand, South Africa,
A Foreign Entanglement.
Mr. Pester—"What are you fussing
over so •intently?"
His Wife—"I'm trying to fit this
Irish lace in a Dutch yoke."
Mr. Pester—"Better give . it up.
That's a job for the League of Na-
tions."
ations.,,
Was. King Charles Beheaded?
We have become familiar with the
historical, "higher criticism" which de-
prives us of the story of Alfred and
the cakes, of anute and his chair on
the seashore, of Ribin Hood and Maid
Marian, of William Tell and the apple,
and of many other favorite tales of
childhood; but when we are asked to
believe that the man who died at St.
Helena was not Napoleon Bonaparte,
but a substitute,, we begin to sit up
and take notice.
It is said that an officer of his body-
guard, a British naval officer, and Na-
poleon's old nurse all denied at the
time that the man imprisoned on the
island was the former Emperor of the
French, and it is further stated that
the real Napoleon was employed as a
waiter in a small cafe in Florence, and
died there. -
It has more than once been denied
that the Gunpowder Plot, with which
is coupled the name of Guy Fawkes,
ever happened at all, but was invented
as the only means of rallying th"e` peo-
ple to support an unpopular Parlia-
ment. So,- if that be the case, the fa-
mous "Fifth" is something of a fraud
on the English public. II
After this it will surprise no one
that Charles I. was never beheaded,
but was deposed and allowed to live
quietly in the country, under the name
of Edward Detmold, until he died a
natural death and was buried in Lon-
don in a quiet churchyard not far from
Whitehall.
The Hissing Iguana.
In the Pacific Ocean, about 600 miles
off the coast of Ecuador, lies a tiny
group of desert volcanic islands,
known as the Galapagos Archipelago.
Here among many creatures that have
never heard the voice of man, the do-
minant sound of life is the hiss of the
sea iguana, a. giant marine lizard that I
exists nowhere else in the world.
Darwin visited four of the islands in
1835 and found wonderful material for I
his "Origin of Species." The great
marine iguana grows to a length of
four feet and looks like its prehistoric
ancestors, some of which were eighty
feet long.
It Iives about the seashore and feeds
on seaweeds. At night it sleeps in a
burrow of the earth or in a lava ere -
vice, while in the daytime it comes out
and at low tido makes its way to the
edge of the surf . to feed, It will not,
live in captivity.
Starting Out Right.
Mr. Jones—"The doctor says that I
rnunt limit tray diet to soarfoods."
Mrs. Jones- --"Very well, dear. 1'11
bake a sponge cake for dinner.
—AND THE WORST 1 EX TO cm!
Where They Store Voices.
Unknown to many people, there Is
at the British Museum a collection of
gaamophone records of the voices of
famous people, including, the King and will run a serious risk of becoming
Queen, the Prince of Wales, and the stammerers or stutterers. Either that
Archbishop of Canterbury, to which or they may acquire a habit of eye
Cure Left Handedness and
Cause Stammering.
Children who are broken of left-
handedness by paretns or by teachers
-a series recording' the voices of Do-
minion's statesmen has just been add
One of the most remarkable collec-
tions of this kind is that compiled by
Professor. Dregger, of Berlin, who has
"filed" . the voices of some of the great- childhood is to retrain the sufferer in
est generals and scientists of the past the use of the left hand.. This method
twenty years. Thanks to a special has proved successful in a large num-
chemical substance, , the records, are ber of oases." There is a logical but
expected to last, barring accidents, for
ten thousand years,
Even more wonderful is the voice
museum belonging. to Edison, the in- upon the,iutegrity of the right side of
venter. It was the work of many the „brain in left-handed people. The
years, and contains recordsof the change from telt-handedness to right-
voices
ightvoices of men like King Edward, Ten- handedness in some unknown manner
nyson, Cardinal Manning, the late involves the aria of the grey matter
King of Italy, the Duke of Clarence, I of the brain which controls speech.
Lord Salisbury, and Gladstone. Stammering or squinting, or both, may
The latter spoke into therecording result. -
instrument on the occasion of a . big Dr. W. S. Inman, senior ophthalmia
dinner in London, and his voice,; send. surgeon of the Portsmouth and South
ing hearty wishes to the nventar, can Hants. Eye and Ear Hospital, England,
be heard as clearly to -day aa when he wbo is largely responsible for these
was alive.. • ea—ass discoveries, also. states that he has.
The King' of Italy's special,message collected one thousand cases.' of eye
takes the form of a request that Edi- squint, very few of which have failed
son should accept a decoration in re- to reveal the existence of left-handed-
cbgnition of "your having wrested an- ',ness or of stammering in some near
other of her 'most jealously guarded,relative. Going further, Dr. Inman
secrets from Nature, states that stammering appears some-
Tennyson recites, in fine, resounding times to have resulted even from an
attempt to make a right-hander use
tones, his "Ode on the Death of the
Duke of Wellington," while Browning both hands equally It is fairly
o
starts to read "How They Brought themmon, he says, to hear that asquint-
Good News from Ghent to Aix,"
and'
r er used to' be a stammerer or left -
squinting. So concludes a British sur-
geon after a study of over one thous-
and cases of these habits. The best
way to cure cases of stuttering or eye
squinting where it is known that left-
handedness
efthandedness has been broken up in
hidden relation between the sources'
of the two manifestations, left handed- l
ness and ,stuttering. Speech depends
then breaks down handed in childhood, without any
, with the faltering
A life and happiness. builder;
I put you in tune with the Infinite,.
and bring out the best that Is. In you,
1 restorelont;.:eoua•age and .staanina,.
and help you to live up to your ideals..
I' am that which keepa you fit, al-
ways at the top a% your condition, And
to keep fit, physically and mentally,
Is the secret of suceessand happiness.
1" am one .of the prime necessities
of a .orxnal life, that which helps t4
lay the foundations of your career,
your health and well-being.
I iron out yourwrinkles, rid yon of
care and worries, talre years off your
rn:N�•e you feel'Jike a boy, like a
girl, again,
I clarirfy your ideas, strengthen
your purpose, renew your ideals and
raise your standards all along the line
of your physical and mental being..
I have helped millions to find that
"other self," the bigger ma or woman.
that was buried under the accumu-
lated cares and anxieties of business
and family life,
- I bring you that which does more
than anything else to make you popu-
lar and magnetic. I do more to add
to your attractiveness than ail the cos-
metics and beauty parlors in the
world.
T snake you a healthier, saner, sound-
er, more vigorous, more efficient man
or woman, one who works on the
lever 'of his strength instead of his
weakness, who uses the bigger self
instead of th Tittle inefficient fellow
who spoils so many lives.
You can't afford to neglect me, for
I play a most important part in the
work of brain and body building.
Without me life becomes a dull me-
chanical grind. You become a ma-
chine. You don't live; you only exist.
Ienlarge your horizon, give you a new
outlook.
I am an insurance against p easI-(
mism, the "blues" and physical bank-
ruptcy. I enable you to store up re-
s ' a nobler which carries you safely
through tremedous emergencies, great
crisis in the battle of life. Without
the reserve that I give you would go
down to defeat.
I am the great antidote for depleted
vitality, the thing which breeds ner-
nousness, doubt, hesitatton, timidity,
uncertainty, vacillation—all the foes
of success. I build assurance "self-
confidence, boldness, decision, prompt-,
ness, courage—all the virile, positive,
success qualities.
I am that which gives you a new
birth, awakens you tothe joy of living,
-which renews your consciousness of
oneness with the One, and puts you in.
vital connection with Omnipotence. I
emphasize your consciousness of this
connection; and thus send the thrill
of 'creative force through every cell
in your body.
I make you fit for the battle of life.
Every now and then 'nations talk -a
great deal about "Preparedness." I
am ane of the surest means for build-
ing up your life defences, making you.
ready for enterprises that demand the
qualities of the good soldier—courage,
endurance, patience, energy, resource, -
fulness, persistence, the will to win.
I am that which nables youto get
the most out of life because I help you
to put the most into it. I multiply
your achievement and your happiness
by multiplying your ability, jacking up
your manhood, your womanhood, your
physical. and spiritual being by right
living, right eating, right thinking,
right recreation, right exercise.
confession, "So sorry, I cannot remeni_ trace being present when he grew up. ! I AM HEALTH.—O. S. M. in "Suc-
At present, since the discovery is a cease,
her it!" There follows a pause; then
the great poet .recites a few furtheerr comparatively recent one, there is
lines, to •end abruptly with, "It's muck to be learned concerning the
good!" The applause of those around exact cause of these relations between.
him is still heard.
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Old Gaelic Cradle Song.
Husb! the waves are rolling in,
White with foam, white with foam;
Father tolls amid the din,
But baby sleeps at home.
Hush! the winds roar hoarse and deep,
On they come, on they come!
habits. Fartunatly, since a cure may
often be made so easily by simply re-
verting: to the use of the left hand, the
sufferer will not be so anxious over
the discovery of the scientific reason
for the cures as he will be gratified
over finding a possible way to accomp-
lish the cure itself. A number of
cases which show the relation be-
tween these habits are described In
The Lancet.
Brother seeks the lazy .sheep, UninJurious Fasting.
But baby sleeps at home,An eagle can live twenty days with-
out'food, while a condor can similarly
Hush! the rain sweeps o'er the knoles, exist for forty days
Where they roam, where they roam;
Sister goes to seek the cows,
But baby sleeps at home. -
-Anon:
Dreaded the Peace.
Tame .Beasts Run Wild.'
The Mingo or wild deg of .Axaetralia
has always been a nuisance tp sheep
farmers, but since It is naturally shy
and cowardly it has been kept down
and in many places almost extermin-
ated. But now fresh trouble threatens
in Queensland,
It appears that a aaatiff. Which had
either lost rte master' or come ashore
from a wreck wet and joined a dingo'
pack, Inter -breeding- with them, it ban
produced a new type of dog much
more powerful and plucky than the
original, and too cunning to take a
Poisoned bait. This new dingo not
only -kills 'sheep, but even attacks Cat-
tle. It constitutes a aerious danger
to stc ok.
There are many similar instancese of
domesticated animals running wild
and becoming worse pests than na-
turally wild animate. A campaign has
been initiated by the Government of
British Columbia to clear the stock
ranges .of the wild horses which wan-
der in thousands and are a menace to
domesticated horses.
Under a clause in the Animals Aet,
stockmen have been given authority
to shoot wild horses straying on their
ranges, but owing to the risk of shoot•
ing their neighbors' stock this regu.
lation has been ignored. Now Mr.
Mackenzie, the Grazing Commissioner,
Is starting to round up and destroy
the droves of wild /torsos.
In the States of Nevada and Wash-
ington the wild horses have become
a terrible nuisance, and in Queensland
the "brumbies," as the wild horses are
called, are hunted down and shot.
St. Helena, a mountainous island of
about fifty square miles, was original-
ly covered with dense forest. In 1518
the Portuguese introduced goats,
which ran wildand, browsing on the
young trees and shrubs, destroyed
them. Thus there was no new growth
left to replace the older trees when
they died, and with the disappear-
ance of the forest the heavy rains be-
gan to wash the soil from the hillsides.
The present desert condition of the
island is entirely due to goats.
Similar trouble is in store for the
Santa Barbara Islands off Caifornia,
where tame goats which have run wild
are destroying the brush.
On the Galapagos Islands, wild dogs
descended from tame animals are des-
troying the curious native' fauna, es-
pecially the giant tortoises. They do
not attack the tortoises themselves,
but dig up and eat the tortoise's eggs.
Pigs that have run wild are another.
pest of the Galapagos. Pigs were in-
troduced into New Zealand by Cap-
tain. Cook in 1770, and increased so
rapidly that in the North Island they
made farming almost impossible A
single hunter could kill fifty in a day,
and twenty-five thousand were' Slats
by three men within two years.
Cats left behind by a whaler on
Chatham Island, off Ecuador, have be-
come a plague: .All are pitch-black,
and they infest the rocks by the sea,
living upon crab's and shellfish, and
never eating rats or mice.
Vancouver Woman Applies
for Captain's Papers.
Far the first time in the present re-
cords of the Department of Marine
and Fisheries, an application was re-
ceived recently for captain's' papers
for a woman navigator.
The application came from Van-
couver, and it set forth that the writer,
who had operated a small vessel In
British Columbia waters for five years,
was unable to take examination for
a master's papers owing to defective
eyesight.
The letter concludes by asking if
there would be any objections to "my
wife, who has served under me and
assisted in the operation of the boat
for several years. sitting for the ex-
amination."
xamination."
He Was Used to Jolts.
There was a head-on collision on a
certain railway, and many people
were injured. When the wrecker ar-
rived the crew began to search for
"Naturally you object to war be- bodies before attempting to move any
tween yourself and your wife?" of the ears and found an old negro
"No—that's normal enough—it's the Pullman porter fast asleep in the
peace that follows that gets my goat." wreck. The rescuers roused him and
China's Business Streets. = asked:
Business streets in China take their French Scientist Succumbs"Didn't you know that you were in
names from the sort of business t0 Disease. a serious wreck?"
transacted in them. "No, soh, boss," he replied. "I did
Professor J. Bergonie died recently, j feel sumpin' kind of jolty, but I
after many months of suffering, a t'ought dey was a-puttin' on de dinah."
martyr to science. His death was due i
to the effect of X-rays exposure dur- I
ing experiments chiefly directed to- i Electricity Keeps Fish from Death.
wards the discovery of a cure for can-, To prevent fish from entering irri•
ter. Prof. Bergonie recently received gation canals of the west, a method
the Grand Cordon of the Legion of has been devised by which electrodes
Honor, Marshal Potain presenting the are immersed in the water at the
mouths of the ditches
insignia on behalf of the French caw and an electric
eminent, in recognition of the profes . current sent through them. When fish
sor's services to medical science I swim in ,the vicinity Of these devices
Although his right arm had been they are subjected to slight shooks
amputated and three fingers of his which cause them to instantly dart
left hand sacrificed to the diseaseaway in other directions.
brought on by radium, Prof, Bergonie !
continued to the very end his fight; Using His Coat Hanger.
against the cancer scourge. Knowing I Bill had not had his new suit long
he had but a short time to live, the before the goat began to show creases,
scientist devoted his last energies to "Yon ought to have acoat-hanger,
drafting 'a report on a project for mak- Bill," said his lady friend. A few days
lug Bordeaux ibiggest centde ie later she asked If the coat -hanger was
Prance for radium research and the satisfactory. "It's all right," grumbled
treatment of cancer, I }illi, "but the wood hurts, my shoulder
Besides ills experiments with ra-'bladle and the hook shoves my hat
drum, Prof. Bergonie was noted for,
his development of an electro•mag over y eyes'
net which was widely used during the
war to draw steel fragments from
wounds.
An Indian in the treeless area, of 1'4oi•thero
•
o his home with a load of mass i'br fuel.
Canada is shown returning
Alaska's Pulpwood.
Baby Walks.
Young Mother --"Yes, baby has been
walking for three months now."
Male Friend ---"What's he been do,
ing? Walking across the Continent?"
The forests of Alaska underscion-
title management can produce a regu Among all vainglorious then, he who
lar annual crop of about two million is vainglorious of his nationality iw
cords of paper pulpwood. 1 the oompletest foal.
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