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PowcrDcvclopment Canada
The Aiinia,ter of the Interior in hie'
annual statement regarding the de-
velopment, distribution and use of
hydro -electric energy in Canada, re-
ports, an .,e :ceptionelly substantial
growth during 1924. More than 300,-
000
00;000 horse-po'.ti er of new installatioiss
were adclerl 'inring the year, involving
some $45.001.000 in capital expendi-
ture and bringing the total installation
in the Dontin oda to a figure of 3,569,-
275 horse -power. This does not, how-
ever, give a complete picture of the
situation as many large projects were
carried well toward campletion and
will when 'finished in 1025 bring a fur-
ther addition of 600,000 horse -power
to the country's total. This indicates
remarkable progress and is concrete
evidence that the advantages to be
secured frcin the development of low-
priced and lasting power are being
realized and exploited throughout the
Dominion in a way that should pro-
vide a decided impetus to industrial
-development in the near future.
During the past year the First World
Power Conference was held in Eng-
land and the fact that, including the ,
British Dominions, some 40 countries
participated therein is significant of
the influence of motive Mower in mod*
ern.life. It has been stated that the !
real wealth of any country lies in the
capacity of activity economically justi-
liable and in so far as Canada is con-
cerned it is water -power that has had'
possibly the greatest single influence
In this direction. Practically the •
whole industrial activity of the Do-
minion is based upon power produced;
from water and when we consider the
output of a single manufactured pro-
duct, such: as power, or of the produc-'
tic. of Canadian, mines which water-
power makes possible, it is evident
that water -power is qualified to • share
with agriculture the basic role in our
national prosperity. The year just
past .gave ample ,eyidence tftat power
development is proceeding apace and
that it will beooree an eve greater
contributor to the real weal of `the
Dominion. ' A •
• A brief review of the principal acti-
vities indicates that work was carried
forward in practically every province
with the.projects of largest magnitude
in Quebec and Ontario.
Quebec led in installations added
during the year with some 175,000
horse -power comprised chiefly in the
developments of the St.• Maurice
Power Company on the ST Maurice
river, the Norther Canada Power Com-
pany on the Quinze river and the
Montreal Light, Heat and Power Con-
solidated at its Cedars plant on the St.
Lawrence river. There were also num-
erous 1-.rge projects nearing comple-
tion among which may be mentioned,
the Duke -Price Power Company de-
velopment on the Saguenay river, the
Hemming Falls development of the
Southern Canada Power Company oti
the St. Francois river and the Ottawa
River Power Company's development
on -the Ottawa river near Bryson.
Ontario came second with some 132,-
000 horse -:ower .added during the
year, most of which was comprised in
the work being carried out by the On-
tario Hydro -electric Power Commis-
sion, notably at its Queenston-Chip-
pawa development on the Niagara
river, the Cameron Falls development
on the Nipigon river and !mailer de-
velopments on the Trent, Muskoka,
Beaver, and South rivers, Consider-
able _ activity also took place In the
Northern Ontario mining held, the
principal new development being that
of the Hollinger Consolidated Geld
Mines, Limited, on the Abitibi river.
Other work of considerable magnitude
was ,completedby the Canadian, Niag-
ara Power Company at Niagara Falls
and the Backu.,-Brooks Company at
Senora.
In other provinces many activities
of importance were also carried on, In
Nova Scotia, more than 7,000 horse-
power were -added during the year;
chiefly in the development of the Nova
Scotia Power .Commission on the East
River Sheet Harbor. In New Bruns-
, wick the New Brunswick Electric
i Power Commission energetipally pur-
sued its studies at Grand Falls" on, the
1St. John river. In Manitoba' thecity
of Winnipeg had work in progress
which will add considerably to the -ca-
pacity, of its plant on the Winnipeg
river. In Alberta, the Canadian ,Na-
tional Parks Branch, Department of
the Interior, 'completed and 'brought
into operation its plant on .the .Cas-
cade river to serve Banff. In British
Columbia no new installation. was "add-
ed during 1924 but extensive works
were under way by the British Colum-
bia Electric Railway Company in the
Stave Lake region and by the West
Kootenay Light and Power Company
on the Kootenay river which will be
effective in increasing the total instal-
lation in the province during 192.5..
In addition to these activities % num-
erous projects were commenced or are
in immediate prospect which should
keep abreast of the demand for power
and maintain the healthy growth
which has existed during thig past few
years.
The Maharajah of indore
One of India's wealthiest and most in-
fluential princes. While still a mere
boy, he was nailed in 1903 to the
throne of the old Mahratta state, but
it was only in 1911 that he was invest-
ed with full ruling powers under, the
name of bis highness Tukaji Rao Ma-
harajah Holkar of Indere. He has
been a frequent visitor in Europe and
is an accomplished horseman and ten-
nis player. In India he is seventh on
the Iist of ruling princes, being en-
titled to a salute of nineteen guns,
having 1,150,000 subjects, mostly
Hindu, and an annual revenue of
$2,000,000.
Winter Trees.
The trees are not afraid to lay
Their lovely sheltering leaves away.
'Tis only little folk who fear
To let their naked souls appear—
Small folk who cannot be at ease
Without their small amenities.
Before the crisis of the frost,
By elemental tempests tossed,
The timid spirit meanly cleaves
To the dry remnant of its leaves,
Nor reads the beauty of the trees'
Clean spiritual traceries.
Amid the murmur and the stir
Where gossip messengers confer,
The fluttering leaves provide a shade
And a convenient masquerade
So perfect In its shimmering sheath
It seemly shows the form beneath,
And birds, like thoughts, may harbor
there
And all the world be unaware.
But when the crystal crisis comas,
And all but naked truth succumbs;
When crookedness is not concealed,
And nested secrets are revealed;
When branches bare against ,the sky
Stand out in simple dignity—
Then let the shrinking human heart,
That with its sheltering leaves must
part,
Renew its courage as it sees
The beautiful nakedness of trees.
—Marion Brown Shelton.
Dyed Silk,
It is reported that by injecting dyes.
ittto stikworm cocoons a French man
of seleace has caused the siikworme
to spla colored threads. All shades,
it is said, can thus be obtained, and
moreover. the colors will not fade,.
The experiment is interesting, but
Whether the method can be used for
'commercial purposes is another mat-
ter. Injecting dyes into thousands of
silkworms one at a time would be a
good deal like inooulating all the iteaa
on a dog with the germs of sleeping
sicknest,.
Speed ofRacehorses.
Running horses with jockoys In the
saddle travel at a rate of almost fort'
chiles sh hour,
How Animals Take Their
Night's Rest.
Why does a dog usually curl ro'lind
several tines before lying down to
sleep? A scientist states that in all
probability the habit is a survival of
a time when dogs were jungle animals,
and that the proceeding was useful in
forming the grass into comfortable
resting -place.
'The ways in which animals' spend
their nights rest are a study that has
been somewhat neglected. Until re-
cently it was thought that the orang-
outang sleeps on its sides, like the
ehampanzee and other apes. The
orang-outang, however, shares with
man the distinction of being the only
creature to sleep on its back. The
smaller monkeys' sleep on their perch
.es, with their iingere tightly closed,
as if they were" gripping a branch,
Giraffes sleep with their long necks
laid along heir backs. Horned ani-
mals, such as :deem sleep with their
heads held in the normal position, as .
when awake. Horses often sleep
standing, and many are never known
to lie down at night. Animals with
short, sturdy legs, such as the pig, the ,
rhinoceros, and .the. hippopotamus,
sleep on their .sides, as they cannot
bend their legs under them.
Bears have no favorite mode of
sleeping; you may see them dozing at
the Zoo in all sorts of queer postures,
including sitting in a corner on their
hind legs.
The sloth, a species of monkey,
sleeps suspended by all fours from a
branch, while the great ant -eater cov-
ers its body with its bushy tail, so
that only its toes are visible. An Aus-
tralian bat sleeps hanging by one claw,
folding its wings into a kind of tent
that is both lightproof and waterproof.
Opium Needs.
Medicine requires only 500 tons off
opium per 1,000,000,000 people annual-
ly.
Rolled stockings have been used. by
the women of Zagreb in the Croatian
hills for centuries. The peasants of
this country are dressed in a style
which makes them appear like folks
in a picture -book land. The waists
and skirts of the women are all white
with much red embroidery up and'
down the front, around the waist and
across the apron. Stout white hose
with rolled tops and ribbon garters
fi11 in the space between the skirts and
moccasin -like slippers of soft leather. !
Around the head is worn the. Slavic
shawl,
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Now That 1 Am Old.
Now that I am old
I will sit and rest me
In my chair before the hills,
I will sit and warm nae
At the greening of the hills;
Por they have known the first of life,
They will know the last—
Still will rest a blessing
On the hills when man is past.
So I will sit and warm me
At the greening of the hills,
I will sit and rest me
In my chair before the hills,
Now that I am old.
—Elizabeth Thorne's.
The Human Finish.
If the prophecies of scientists are
fulfilled, then in a thousand and eighty
Would Like to be Shown, years the human race will have
Mr. Justwed , "I. love you so much changed into a type of animal much
I'd die for you." inferior to the highest order of apes,
His Wife—"So you've said before, and just a trifle superior to the lowest
but- you're such a procrastinator I'm type of savage.
afraid you'lI never make good.' The process of degeneration has
'� -? i been ''stealiiiy proceeding for the last
Finding Fish Froth the-SkY. ' ( thousand years. Eash generation has
it
Three flying boats were lent by the
had less hair than the generation pre-
Air Ministry to the Department of
Ceding it, and to -day, as is evident,
Scottish Fisheries for five weeks dur baldness among men is the rule Once
it was a phenomenal exception. Within
ing last summer. 1 the next hree hundred years the hu -
Their task was to see if shoals of man race may hairless!
herring could be identified from the
air, and they surveyed the fisheries of Teeth are going rapidly. The exact
the east coast of Scotland from Peter -proportion of those with arcial mo
laic is unknown, but it must be very
head to Sh the y, high. ,„Wisdom teeth now fail to come
Although the experiment was inter- ata
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• in many cases, and when they
esting, it was not subcessful. The do appear they are very late.
United States and the French Gevern- Our jaws are much smaller, and
ments had carried out trials; of the even if, as is the case, our skulls are
sane kind with great success, and the larger, that holds no comfort. Large
reports of their pilots were of value. heads do not indicate better brains:
to the trawlers, but in Scotland, owing Our !eyes are going, gain; and in
to bad weather, it was impossible to time will be gone. Seventy
obtain useful results. 1 per cent.
Tile cause of the failure is simple of the population, so it has been esti-
mated, wear glasses.
enough. Dining the day the herrings Our ears, however, are all right, and
lie deep down, sometimes as much as hearing is one of the senses which has
sixty fathoms, only rising in the even not deteriorated. But that is not a
ing, when.the light is bad. Even with good sign. All animals have a very ,
a cloudless sky and a calm sea the highly developed hearing power!
ocean bed off the Scottish coast does
not reflect much. light. Stature has noticeably decreased. 1f
there should be another war, there
The Unknown Color.
would have to be another revision,
downwards, of the minimum heigbt for
i've often heard my mother say, recruits.
When great winds blew across the bay, So the end of the human race, as
And, cuddled close and out of sight, -lemons, is assured unless—well, the
The young pigs squealed with sudden only salvation for the race, so the
fright
Like something speared or javelined,
"Poor little pigs, they see the wind."
—Countee Cullen.
Well, But Did He?
Sweet Young Thing (coming in with
attentive partner from room where a
hard bridge match has been in pro-
gress)—"Oh, mother, I've just cap•'
tured the booby!',,
Mother ---"Well, well! come here
and kiss me, both of you."
scientists say, is to cease eating cook-
ed foods!
So,. even if the matter is not person-
ally urgent, all who wish to provide
their quota to the saving of humanity
know' now what to do!
Industry Employs Many.
The building industry employs near-
ly one-fourth of all the skilled and un-
skilled labor inmthe United States.
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One of the fishing boats on the ea
With ice, as she; lay in her home port.
rn r oast of Canada is she wlx after a
Roman Britain.
There are in Britain many splendid
monuments to the genius of another
people, versed in the art of empire -
building, and who at one time held
sway over the whole of the known
world.
This year, however, has been. .an
eventful one for the students of Ro-
man remains in Britain, and the re -
cont discoveries have awakened wide-
spread interest in the relics of the
roman occupation.
Several valuable finds have been
made at Folkestone, where two Ro-
man villas are being excavated.
Traces of the Romans have been
found at Yeovil and Margidunum, a
fort midway between Leicester and
Lincoln, has been explored.
But perhaps the most significant
sign of reawakened interest is the de-
cison by which the Wall of Hadrian
has been scheduled as a national
monument and taken under the care
of the Board of Works.
•. -Longcenturies have passed since
the Emperor Hadrian spent a year in
Britain, arranging for the wall from
the Solway to the mouth of the Tyne
which was to keep the Northern bar-
barians from the fertile lands under
Roman rule. But the great wall still
defies wind and weather on the lonely
moorlands, and, but for the temptation
it has always offered to builders in the
more populous districts, it might have
been practically intact throughout its
1 whole length to -day -
Nature's Night -Club. •
People often wonder whether plants
and flowers really sleep. They do;
some a night, others during the day-
time. When a flower sleeps it closes
its petals; when a plant sleeps the
leaves droop and lie closer together
for warmth,
Flowers that sleep by day are wide
awake during the hours from dusk to
early dawn, when the moths sip their
honey, and in return carry pollen from
one blossom to another.
There are some owers that, although
they sleep during the night, seem able
to doze when a storm threatens dur-
ing the day.
I1 they do not close their petals
and slip off into a light sleep when a
shower came the honey would be,
washed away, the pollen would be ren-
dered useless, and the velvety petals,
which attract the bee in the first
place, would be drenched and drag-
gled.
Leaves of evergreens do not droop
when they sleep because they have a
tougher skin, and in many canes a
shiny one, and do not require extra
warmth when asleep,
There are some owers—the crocus,
for instance, that sleep not only at
night, but all the winter under the
ground, in the form of a bulb.
All early spring flowers, too, are spe-
cially hardy, and most of . them are
protected by a tough sheath round the
bud, which only bursts when the sun
is strong enough to kiss the sleeping
beauty into life,
A Pectalxa> , Flsh..
Lying iixnp aftd dry% ou e iiaebmon.
ger's slab: the hurbot% to perbsee the
least interesting of fish. Whe swim -
'ming ;in an artificial sea, or el ing on
the sandy bottom, it is the most at-
tractive of all• the denizens of. this
rnock ocean, and, whether at s est or
in motion, has an air of vigilance, vi-
vacity and- intelligence greater than
that of anynornially shaped fish. This
is in part due to hi.-; habits and in part
to the expression of the at fish's eye:
This, which is sunk and invisible in
the dead fish, is raised on a kind of
turret in the living turbot, or sole, and
set there In a half revolving appar-
atus, working almost as independently
as the "ball and socket" eyes of the
chameleon. There is this difference,
however, in the eye of the lizard and
of the fish—their is of the chameleon
is a mere pinhole at the top of the eye-
ball, which is thus absolutely without
epression.
The turbot's eyes are black and
gold, and intensely bright, with none
of the fixed, staring, stupid appear.
Iante of ordinary fishes' eyes. It lies
(upon the sand and jerks its eyes in-
! dependently into position to survey
any part of the grouud surface and
Ithe water above or that on either side
at any angle.
It it had light rays to project from
its eyes instead of to receive, the et
.feet would be precisely that made by
the sudden shifting of the pointed ate
uaratus which casts the electric light
from a warship at any angle on the
sea, sky •or horizon.
The turbots, though ready, graceful
swimmers, moving in wavelike undue
_ lations across the water, or dashing
off like a flash when so disposed, us-
ually lie perfectly still upon the bot
1 tom. They do not, like the flounders,
cover themselves with sand, for they
mimic the color of the ground with
such absolute fidelity that, except for
the shining eye, it is almost impossible
to distinguish them.
It would appear that volition plays
some part in this subtle conformity to
environment, for one turbot, which is
blind, has changed a tint too light,
and not at all in harmony with that of
the sand.
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Can Chlorine Cure Colds?
Can colds and influenza be cured by
the simple process of inhaling chlor-
ine?
hlorine? America's., new treatment for
colds is said to be as easy as, but
much more pleasant than, having a
tooth extracted or one's hair cut..
You simply enter a "gas chamber"
(comfortable lounge) into which is
pumped chlorine, and while you read
an illustrated magazine .the sneezing
ceases from troubling and the dire la
complete. Five cents worth of chlorines
is said to be sufficient to cure seven or
eight people.
President Coolidge is reported to
have been cured in this way and in
the course of a test at Washington it
is claimed that 75 per cent. were cured
immediately.
British medical men are unmoved
by this "sensational discovery." Dr.
Cox, secretary of the British Medical
Association, smiled somewhat scepti-
cally.
"There is a certain amount of truth
in It," he said, "but it is grossly ex-
aggerated. The cauacity of the pub-
lic to be taken in by this sort of thing
is simply amazing.
"There is no universal cure for
these germ diseases, and anyone who
has the idea that chlorine can do all
that these people claim for it is under
a delusion.
"The treatment of inhaling gases is
very old, and has been tried by medi-
cal men for different purposes. I do
not know that chlorine has been used
particularly until recently, but It is
no more certain to kill the germs than
a great many other things.
"This treatment has been .known to
medical men here for some months,
but it floes not appear to have taken
the profession by storm, either here
or in other parts of the world."
A Fain Talk.
Robert Browning said: "I count.life
just a staff to try the sours strength
on." What did he mean He meant
that life is not just something to play
with, something to juggle with. It's
a much bigger business than that.
Life is a training ground, where a roan
makes himself fit to run Life's big
race and come in a winner.
And what constitutes a winner in
Life„ race? Money?' Ferro? Honor?
Pleasure? These have a place, but if
they come in first, any ono of them.
Life's race is Iost---for you. If the
maid; himself does not pass the win-
ing post first, with his head up, bis
heart light, his eye clear, Life's race
has gone to a rank outsider, Many
a Man who has matte money and posi-
tion is only an Also Ilan in the eyes of
the Sudge. The man who is riot Cap-
tain of his Soul le only a crock in
1'Life's handicap, That is what the
! poet Meront, and :he was right!
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Forbidden Word GOrne.
A little party of young persons can
have a lot of fun playing a little game
known es "Forbidden Words." It is
better used as a forfeit game, but
works equally well as an "It" game.
Agree upon one word, if you are
older make it two words,_and this
word, or these two words, must not
be used by anyone for a certain length
of time. `
Suppose you select the word "You."
The first person to tese the word "You"
must pay a forfeit or be "It," and then
try to catch some other member of the
party.
"'You" is a very good word for the
purpose, because it is used so very of-
ten.
One very funny way to play this
game is to snake all players -who be.
come "It" go and stand in a corner or
sit on a settee to be known as the
"It Seat,"
Among a group of jolly persons this
game is very funny.
Epitaph for Joseph Conrad.
Not of the dust, but of the wave
Elis final couch should be;
They lie not easy in a grave
Who once have known the sea.
How shall earth's meagre bed enthrall
The hardiest seauuan h
---Coofunteetem P, Call?ullen.
Camphorated oil applied en a soft
cloth will remove marks on a polished
ieb'o caused by licitflishcs and elutes,
When choosing apples trace the
heaviest pones, They will b's tire bes:
fruit,