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Lor Balfourha.ppinlon,
There, is a story goitre round about
Lord Balfour discussing .tlie adylsibiii-
ty Of on bachtelotn with, Sir
Robert. Hoene.
l'he proposal put forward was that
the tax should irn.ei ease proportionate,
lly for eive+zy ten years of Unmarried
life.
"Yeas"- remarked the Chancellor of
the I7xch+equ+er, with that canny smile
of fids, "in: your cruse you would have
to pay about 440 a year."
Lord Balfour was quiet for a mo-
ment, and then replied; "egging( it's
worth L"
"Haiti"
This is being told of President Haat-
ling: He wa,e beiht,g driven to an im-
portant meeting while a tremendous
attorrnt was raging. The hailetomes• rat-
tled ,oar the roof of the carriage: Mean-
while a baud, undi'ssnayed by 'the
weather, began to play,.
"That 18 the most realistic music I
`have ever heard," said the President to
a friend in the carriage.
"What are they playing?"'
'Hail to. the Chief,' " saki Mr,
Harding; "and they are playing it with
real hail:"
His Own "Double!"
Few modern statesmen are the sub-
ject of so many good sitories as M.
Olemeuceau, wlto is eighty-one. Here
is 'one of the latest.
The other day he went round the
street markets' of Paris testing prices,
following lass usual habit of seeing
things, for hians"elf. Asking an. old wo-
man at ane of the stalls the 'price .of
same carrots, he was told `sixty cen-
times.
"They are too dear," he protested.
"I will give you fifty."
The woman looked at claim a minute,
perhaps to sere if it wasworth while
,baggileg, and three •e'aid ,
"VeeY well, Yee shall liege them foe
fifty, because, Otey little olid urian, you
resemble our good M, Olemenceau."
Shocking the Queen,
When Lord •Claud Hamilton_., who
has retired from this chairmanship of
the Great. Eastern—was first present-
ed to Queen "victoria at the age of
four; he was in a bad temper, for the
Queenwas occupying the family house
ia. Scotland, .and ire had ben turned
out of +lis nursery to snake way for the
T oyal :ch'ildmen.
toad Frederic Hamilton relates that
his mother, after telling Hen' M+€tjesty,
"This is my second boy," said to
Claud,' "Make your bow, dear," but
"my brother, his heart Estill hot witihdn
him at being expelled from his, nursery
instead of bowing, stood en his head
in his kilt, and remained idle that"
The Boy Knew!
Much of the success of Chauncey
Depew, the veteran humorist, springs
from, the fact that many of hie best
jokes are bold against himself.
During a reoent after -diener speech
he related the story 'ofa boy on whose
father he, Mr. Depew, once paid a call.
After +h'ts departure the father turned
to the boy and said, reverentially: "Do
you know who. that mean is? He: is
Chauncey Depew, the world's greatest
story -teller."
The result Was that when M. De -
pew called .again he was met enthusi
as'tdcally by the boy, who exclaimed
joyously, as soon os the visitor enter-
ed the room:
"H<alloa! I know all about you!"
"Really?" remarked Mr. Depew,
slightly taken back by the vociferous
nature of the welcome. "And, pray,
what do you know about nee?"
"Why, you).* the world's biggest
liar—father says so!"
APP # EXPORT IN-
DUSTRY OF CANADA
CHIEFLY TO THE BRITISH
ISLES AND EUROPE.
Dominion Possesse x r Tracts
•That
olis ancl'
In the 'yea`
4,046 813 barr
valued aa':s2
Nova Scant
433 betels
rens,' Quebec; 35,0'
Brunswick, 33,000 b
the Nova Scotia .yield " estimated at
1,577,000 barrels; that of British Col-
umbia, 795,000 barrels.; Ontario, 1,151,-
000 barrels; Quebec, 61,600 barrels;
and New Brunswick! 41,250 barrels
making a total harvest for tlhte Domini-
on
ominion of about 3,625,850 ba reals, a slight
dec.rease from the 1921 production, but
an increase over that of 1920. Further-
more the oro is stated to be uniform-
ly clean and of good' quality.
Government records stow that there
leas been a substantial increase in ap-
ple production in Canada •in recent
--"years, and that the culture is experi-
encing a consistent growth. In the
year 1901 all orchard and small fruits
in Nova • Scotia were worth only §1,-
407,369 iu production, in Ontario $7,-
809,084,
7;809,084, in Quebec $2,564,801, in New
Brunswick $394,337 and in British Co-
lumbia $453,794, makings; a total value
for the Dominion in that year of $12,
629,385. By 1911 tlhie value of orchard
fruits alone in Nova Scotia had risen
to $1,548,855, in New Brunswick to
$264,915, in Quebec to $1,189,926, in
Ontario to $5,568,870, and in British
Columbia to $1,082,481, making, the
total value in the Dominion of orchard
fruits that year $9,653,047. Whilst all
the Canadian provinces have exhtibited
gratifying progress in fruit production
the greatly increased volume of the
crop at the present time is largely due
to the development of apple culture in
British Columbia, which was a neglig-
ible factor at the beginning of the cen-
tory, and whose Okanagan Valley
alone this year is expected to account
for 2,281,000 boxes of high quality
trait.
Exports in 1922.
Exports of Canadian apples in the
fiscal year 1922, which would include
the disposal of the 1921 crop, amount-
ed to 1,845,955 barrels valued at $8,-
865,379, as against 1,358,499 barrels
in the previous year worth $8,299,099,
and 873,882 barrels worth $4,242,219 in
1920. The United Kingdom is the
principal importer of Canadian apples,
taking more than two-thirds of the en-
tire crop. The United States is the
next t customer, followed by the
ollow^in ••the order named: Aus.
, Bermuda, Newfoundland and
ealand The rapid growth of
fanapple"exort . industry.
g'ed „f • nigh fact that in
feted to only
1Y410 to 32,304 bar -
1915 t+j117g36 ba);relst'
a § apple z>mp'ket 'lien' in the.
European continent, .more especially
In the -British Isles, to which practical-
keiEgthe entire Canadian export trade
flndkits";;t ay at the present tine. Of
Nova Scotia's, total exports of 1,288,-
241 barrels and 6,494 boxes in 1921,
1,171,827 barrels and the entire box
shipments went to various United King-
dom ports. There is a great apple ex-
port trade developing on the Pacific
coast via the Panama Canal to Europe,
and last year 500,000 boxes of apples
travelled from. Vancouver across the
Atlantic by this route. This year ship-
ments are expected to be materially in-
creased,
ncreased, and faith in the permanency
of this traffic and its expansion is indl-
cated in the provision en steamers
sailing from Vancouver to Europe of
refrigerator space for carrying 600,000
boxes of British Columbia apples. A.
new feature of the Canadian export
apple trade to Great Britain may be
added this year if the Ontario Govern-
ment carries out its. plan to send ship-
ments of the provincial apples+ direct
to the British markets, following up
the success it has achieved with its
peach and plum shipments.
U.S. Canada's Competitor.
With a comparatively small propor-
tion of the land in Canada adapted to
apple culture under cultivation, it may
be thought that there is not sufficient
encouragement to increase apple pro-
duction in view of the limited ey/Eent
of the Canadian export nearketa''As a
matter of' fact, with intelligent de-
velopment and commercial aggression,
the. British market would be in a posh
tion to absorb a considerably greater
volume of the Canadian product.
Whilst the United Kingdom may be
Canada's best apple ouetdmer it octet-'
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AIRWAYS IN EUROPE
Coantivereaayair rotates• in Enrolee are already well developed, ss• the map
sstiows, rp+here are five air trtaiites between Leaden and Pati three; of whish
are British -owned, all there *Another Binisilt liflle fiend tettitioii ttr Clalttgtie;
via 131,tises1e.
brlie it ow,
pies the same position with regard to
the United States. Annual exports'
from the Republic to the British Isles
for the past ten years • have averaged
1,099,412 barrels per year, or 65.8 per
cent. of the total annual apple exports,
of the country. The United States ap-
ple export trade is negligible in com-
parison to its production, but at the
present time is occupying the British
market in competition with the Cana-
dian product, wlhiich meets. on a basis:
of equal tariff. With an increased
Canadian production, there is little
doubt that Canada could secure the
entire market, even if it were neces-
-sary to give the Dominion product a
preferential entry.
There are gratifying indicationsof
developing interest in apple culture in
Canada and there is ample room for
such expansion. There are yet unset-
tled other Okanragan and Annapolis
valleys which only the years to come
will make known to the world. In New
Bunswick, for instance, which has a
vary small output in comparHon with
its •possibilities, interest in apple grow
Ing tis reviving, "and the St. John. Val-
ley is doaeebt$ess destined to take its
plane. °wrthethe .fr eappixe reg
the onttnent. In 1921 Nova. Scotia
had 'the richest year In its hir+`ory,
frorn:the -standpoint .of apple industry,
and ,more than $6,000,000 was left in
the Annapolis by foreign buyers. Even
the Prairie Provinces are proving that
they. can grow excellent fruit, and; ac-
oordiu",g to government authority, Mani-
toba this year has a crop of apples ex-
ceeding anything yet achieved there.
Scan there will not be a province is
Oans,da but is raising apples sufficient
at least for its own consumption.
Progress -Always.
The peoeineists are wrong. Progress,
at least material progress, despite the
jolts rind s epsy in, the end always ad-
• Tn re still'existted a few years ago
a country that did not know the elec-
tric telegraph. It was the mysterious
land of Tibet. Now it is all changed.
As iu:�the most civilized canariesTabet �" w possesses its'telegraph sea
to i' ,,e first telegram cianfainfngztlre
sa the Graind,Lama,to the Tice -
TO has been tran�amitted;
Neaghe re w
"'R rong; Progt,.
RADIUM SPRINGS IN THE ROCKIES
This picture, taken in the Kootenay National Park, shows the radium
hot springs which are considered by experts' to canteen, the highest radium
content of any known. s+17ri;ngs, The temperature :in three pool ranges up to 118
degrees Fahrenheit and the daily flow is 750,000 gallons', They are situated
on a part of the 6,000 mile highway from Calgary to California.
• The Leaf.
It lay upon the frozen road
A li+alf •a mile from town,
Beneath a wind stripped maple tree,
A leaf of withered browns,
Just like an. empty pocketbook
A careless. hand threw down
Leo! it was filled not long before
With glinting yellow gold
Of morning sun and goldenrod
And ehineinng silver odd,
Of moon and stags. and gleaming frost,
As much as it cowid 'hold.
But spendthrift aintum.n, wild young
blade,
In coat of scarlet gay,
Soon squanderedlit on gaudy crotfies
And prodigal elispiile r,
*lid When it .411 was spent he flung
His empty pun -se 'away.
Minna Irving"
Pot of Potatoes.
The total petate crop et nearly all
ootuutries ill 'reported. to be 128 per
Cent, larger this year teats last.
Radio Per Dutch.
A radio station has •been erected at
Malabar in the I.)titeh Weet WestIndies', for
direct • commmntcation with Heltlastd.
!Oak'sTennis Rackets.
Steel fratnes. for tennis rackets, are
Made at +a speed of ten ar minute by
nvaeli•laery in a New Jersey factory.
_w Y s_rrn.
A Hearty Statesman.
Lille a vice from the Middle Ages,
says the Weettmingtsr Gazette, has
spoken Bisn3tmeks cook, who is still
alive and in retirement at Danzig. The
old gentleman taloes us back in his re-
miniscencee to that eupeptic states'.
mean. who remnrloed a few weeks be-
fore hist death, "I willingly leave every-
thing to my' heirs' except my wine cel -
lam, I grttdge them those,"
That was the Biemttrck also used to
bosat that he had &unit twenty thous-
and bottle of champagne between the
ages ot twenty and eighty. From his
cookwe learn .that Bismarck's fever-
lee
avorire 'dish when he was past seventy was
crabs with mayottnais+e or, if be could
escape the eye of hie muetir~harassed
physician, 'a d+irsh of lobsters, When
the s+tateeman's -appetite' was a little
jaded telegrams would be sent to
Boreliardt's in Berlin, and the Ham-
burg express would s'l'ow up as it pass-
ed tlhiroitgh b'-rie+driclistmh while some
special dell+eacy wes handed off to the
statiten master,
The whole nation seems to have
taken :a kind et merle in the appetite
of the wonderful old masa. On his
eightieth birthday he received so.
many touching gifts from his country-
men that It was months before they
could all be epoxied. Plovers' eggs, a
special weakness, came from ever!y-
wheee; an eighty -pound cheese carne
ftYofti-Ali+gnu, and, ibtappfest thought of
all,: fr'ont a sausage factory at Gotha
came eighty metres of tho best Wurstl
The Expert
He knew the other fellow's work much'
hatter than hie One
A her chap 'Should do he
And what tl:>e� other
readily made known.
He shad a lot of time to tell tele netigh^
boa' how to work,
But when the had to task lt,iunself, he'd
very po'nept'ly s+htrk.
He'd' tell the plumber how to plumb,
he bakery 'how to bake;
He'd girve a banker friendllry tipe one
money hie could, make.
He buttted into evez':y+tbing tbat came
across hie view,
Except the• most important allege—
the Jobe' be had to do.
He'd tell the lawyer, Blow to work a
hard and knotty case;
He made a nuisance of himself •when-
e'er he showed his Pace.
Wheireem he ,rent bis gave advice in
wisdom's' lordly t8n;e—
An expert he In every iiaze of were ex-
cept his own.
Grander Than Niagara.
A traveller destcribes• the wonders of
the Victoria Falls in Xthodesia. •
"They are not only the grandest
waterfalls'," the says, "but also the
most sublime spectacle in t'ble world.
To say that the river Zambesi mea-
sures more than, a mile in breadth
where it rushes, over the peecipice in
a roaring,, snow -White drop
400 fleet, and to throw up columns• of
spray to some 2,000 ;feet visible fifty
miles distant—this is to say nothing.
"Nothing, at least,:' that conveye any
idea of •the magnitude and beauty of
the Falls.
"
"Only by eamparisons can any idea
he given of the grandeur of Zambesi's
fall Anyone wino Inas sees Niagara
may gain some little notion of its un-
known, untamed, unspoiled rival by
imagining s+ometh:ling nearly twice and
a half ast hii{gh and twice as wide.
"And, as this, is. a practical age, a
comparison of the amount of honsie-
power running away in each case is he
teresting. Niagara's horse -power is
7,000,000, the Victoria Falls show 30,-
000,000 hors' -power to run to pic-
turesque waste!
Fir-st Round the World.
Who was tine first man to sail round
the wrorilid?
Most people would claim the honor
for. Di"ake, but as a matter of fact a
Spaniard perfumed the f'eeat fifty-
eight years• before the great English-
neaansr famous. voyage. He was Sebas-
tian del melds voyage took
place jt
rdr, oral a e
iiis `a• .-
as^captain of o
agellanfs• expsditiotte, 1L
1619- . Tale oth
81 Ik u
listed what he:::, .et Dart e•aey.
started with. seventy men,. but 131s -the
time he reached home in 1522 only
eighteen were left. ' me others had
been carried off by disease and pirates.
It took him nine weeks to get round
the Gape of Good Hope, and his ship
was so leaky that it was, only by a
miracle that it remiained afloat. When
the intrepid explorers reached safety,
they made a pilgrimage through the
streets of Seville in: the rags in which
they haat arrived home, to return
thanks for their escape from the ninny
dangers they had encountered.
Teaching Violin to School
Chilaren Cl ocs.
Mr. Harvey Joatte+a, the e.d+itor of
Canadian 'Music Tattles Journal, hal
been writing his impreeted+on!s+ of the
resent national (or internal) con-
ference of music supervisors held in
Nashville, • Trent-, where the Musical
instructors in the siohooge of Amerloa
came together to give end to gather
suegestign:s that might peeve lie9.pfu1
in their work. This to what he has to
say in regard to the teaching •af the
violin,. 'to setlool nhVldlu e+n;
"It was the writer's priviilege at ehe
Nashville oortf+er+enee to see violin in-
strttation. cea':riied oar with a class of 42
public school children. They stood
four abreast, tete ,teaeher in, front, and
at the bask was a pinniiet' at a ,grated
plana, The lesson started out by run-
ning the tcal+e in this fashion—play-
ing C four times, D fear times.; E
four times; and so on. It can be readi-
ly inia;glned that even a dry exercise
like this being'done by 42 fiddles at
once, gives the boys and girls a feel-
ing almost the. same as that of playing
in an ca teen:a. 'ibe teacher is able
to go up and down. the lines, to see
that each ohdld is holding the violin
properly, correct any„ dstak+ee in bow-
lag,
owIng, and make suggestions individual-
ly. As violin playing depends so much
on having a true ear, the class work
is paatenarly good to accustom the
ear to the 'proper pitch.
"After certain exercises were gone
through the class played some simple
melodies they had been. studying.
Then, by way of a change, the violins
and bows were placed on ale floor end,
a mow tune was taken. up. The teacher
called on first one and then another to
read this out laud, •not+e by note, seed:
tying the counts for each note, indi-
cating rests, accents, etc., and when
ever one made a mistake the ottere
held up their hands .to shorw that they
had noticed it. Thee pant of tible clews
was •conducted very mace like that is
the ordinary readying class. Not only
do the venin classes have the advent
age of that class spirit, and the bene-
fits
enefits derived from each one wanting to
keep up with the others,which is also
true in the piano class, but violin
pupils derive wonderful advantage
through having their rehearsals to-
gether. One can readily understand
that the boy otr girl practicing daily le
a violin class has' considerable advant-
age over the pupil praoticing alone al
home.,"
Veteran Trees of Mammoth
Growth.
One of the "big trees" et tlie famous
l'laripos+a group in. Californfa has been
lightning and d e ,t ",1^ed,
e are.
Looking Out For Number One.
A Yuan had rented a held from the
owner with the stipulation that the
rent was to be ens fourth of the crop
raised. At harvest time the owner of
the laud was amazed to find that he re-
ceived nothing at .all from the renter,
and he naturally remo+nsta-ated.
"How's thee? Wasn't I to get a
fourth of the Drop?" he demanded in-
dignantly.
"Yes, you were," the tenant replied
candidly, "but as it turned out there
was only three fourths of a crop."
Which a-entin+ds us of tee man who
promised, to gime a neighbor one of a
litter of pigs when tee youngsters
were old enough to leave their native
sty. Some weeks later the neighbor
asked whether he might come and get
the pig.
"Well, now, that's too bad," said the
other. "You know the pig I was sav-
ing for you died."
The f ev{' tthat< renm.itr: are
ed anti : casette y nmeslrveti
o"klly uatowhat
•
Tlecteg °t'�'Ad� - oa¢1
"_ appearance for at leas t cen-
turies
These trees were there before, Abra-
ham was born, and though we judge
stomte of them, from their shortened
summits, to be in the last thousand
years or so of their lives, the majority
of them will probab,y outlast West-
ntms+ter Abbey and the Tower of Lon-
don.
There. are cypress es in Southern
Mexico that were alive and �lcurisiliing
when the Great Pyramid u -as being
built about 3,600 B.C. Ons et these
trees, standing in a c•urchyard near
the town of Chepultepee, was recently
estimated by an. Ame -icae expert to
be at least six thousand years+ cid.
It was noticed one hundred years
ago by Humboldt, who measured it,
and found that the girth of the stunk
at a height of four feet from the
ground was. 126 ft.
Ile caused a tablet recording the•
fact to' be fixed to the tree. This tab-
let is now almost completely covered
with new bark, showing that the lace,
despite its, great age. is still f, , owing.
There are yews in Engi nil entice
were stalwart trees before C' =esar
landed.
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many
Dictionaries are forbidden entrance
to Turkey because the Sultan is usual-
ly mentioned in such books, and that
is
,contrary to Turkish law.
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