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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-09-23, Page 3FOREST RESERVES. Paper Read Before Casailion For. wry Association sit Regina, Pref. A. B. D. Reiss, A., M. F., of the Univereity of Torontos in hie paper dealt with the Dominion tomtit reserves. He showed that in 1900 the Parliament of Cana4a eetabliehed 21. fore et reserves. She Asa in Manitoba, four n Saskatche- wan, three in Alberta an4 eight lit the strip testy miles wide in Britian, Colura- bia, haotne as the railsvay belt. These areae were oet aside (1) TO provide lain - ben fuel, ties, poleand. other forest products required for the siettlenteut of Use country wed the d.evelopmerit of its eeeourcee; (2) To protect the hea,dwas tee of stream an regulate the flow of Weter in them for irrigation, trammor- talon and industrial purposes; (3) To aftorit•a natural :shelter for the vedette kinds of birds, fish and, game. These reserves entbrace areas as fol- lower /vIanitoba, 3,575 square inites; Sas- kateheevan, 740; Alberta, 185; Britioh Columbia, 890. Total 5,391 square miles. It weld, require a special act a Parlia- ment to withdraw any of the land from therm reserves for eettlement or other purposes, so that here is a great oppor- tutity for the Government to protect and improve this property. In the three prairie Provinces the re- serves are intended to supply nomestead- ere with building material, fencing and fuel, rather than, to' lux -Welt wood for the limber trade, In therm three Pro- vinces there is now a population of al- most a million' and it will not be many years before itreaelses ten millions. In the meantime the consumption. of wood for bending and industrial purposes will be enormous, and will retire all the lumber now growing on the reserves be- tween Lake Winuipeg anaethe Rocldes. There Is not nearly enough timber land reserved te supply the needs of this great region. The obvioes thing to do is to create more reserves and protect not merely the mature timber but also the young trees as carefully as if they were dollar bills. If the floor of this room were covered with dollar bills' he would be judged insane who wouldlet e fire get started amongst them, yet this Is the very kind of thing that is going on. in the ease of young tree growth. In Europe they say, "It is Only Turks and Americans (including Cana - (liana) tvho burn the forest." In the case of the Dominion forest reserves, • however, it is the policy of the forestry branch of the Department of the Inter- ior to do everything in its power to protect the timber from fire, to lessen the amount of waste incident to lumber- ing operations, to stop timber thieving, and to so manage the reserves as to se- cure continuous crops of timber from them. Other nations have been able to not only secure but actually to improve both the quantity ' and quality of the crop -so why not Canada? So far the great difficulty has been to secure men with the necessary technical training and administrative ability to take charge- of the work. In the United Statea the technically trained men are snapped up by the federal and. State Governments and the lumber and pulp companies as soon as they graduate. With the recently establisned forest wheels at the University of Toronto and the University of New Brunswick, it le hoped that men will soon be available for this work. Upon Mr. R. It Campbell, superin- tendent of fcgestry, Ottawa, falls the heavy responsibility of administering the Dominion forest reserves. Each summer he spends oonsiderable time in the field, studying the needs of the .localities in which each preserve Is situated, famil- iarizing himself with the actual condi- tion of the reserve itself and, studying how beat to protect and improve it. In thhi work he is ably assisted by Inspec- tor Knetehel and assistant inspectors Dickson. and MacMillan, graduates of the Cornell, Michigan and Yale Forest Schools respectively. Mr.. Ross then took up in detail the different reserves in the three pro- vinces'showing the location, size and cluireeter of each, and mentioning the problems connected with them. He noted that, the rainfall being only about one-third that of Ontario and • the average velocity of the -wind almost exactly twice as great, it is a difficult matter to fight fire in the western reserves. The only way in which they can be protected is to patrol them manner and whiter; to have efficient fire guards and have roads that will enable the rangers to get quickly from one part of the reserve to another. Last year 150 miles of reads was made along the boundaries and through different parts of the reservist. This work should be con- tinued. Last year twenty-five squatters were removed from the Turtle Moun- tain Reserve in Manitoba and given land elsewhere. The same is true of Riding Mountain Reserve, from which 120 squatters have been reznoved. The removal of these required great tad on the pest of the officers of the Forestry Branch, but without their re- moval it would have been folly to atteinpt to place the reserves ander Management. A great thing to be done now is to protect the young growth, have the dead timber removed and get tree growth started on the 4 CORNS°uRco • IN 24 H...,Ot)118 You ean ettinlessio remcree any -corn, entser hard, soft or bleeding, bY am:eying ntanaires Corn Extractor, it never Derma leaves no soar, contains no eelae ; is harmless beessuse composed Only ot healing gems sae Innate'lefty years in use. Cure eearauteede Bold by all eruggensi 280. hottles. maim suestautee, PUTNAM'S PAINLESS CORN EXTRACTOR open spots. Citing the case of the Turtle Mountain Reserve, where there is a bare patch of fifty-five square miles, Mr. Ross points out that It woula eost $204,000 to plaut this with nursery stock, so that it wilt be neceentra to let nature do her own seeding or find some cheaper metho4 than planting, Last year Mr, laneteliel tried the ex- periment of placing tree seeds in the long give and covering them with eand. The experiment has so far bee n success. fel, On the Spruce Wood e Reserve, east of Brandon, there have been planted 20.- 000 Scotch pine grown front seeds at Indian Head nursery station. From the swamps of tide reserve thousands of young tamarack seedlings have been obtained aud planted at Indian Head, and are reeking renutrkable groittie Lest year forty bushels of spruce cones were collected here and used for plant- ing on the different reserves. The Duck Mountain and Riding 'Moun- tain Reserves are important es regu- lators of streains in Northern Manitoba and as game covers, being the rorne of elk, moose, black and cinnamon beam, and smaller game. Referring to the Saskatchewan re- serves as a whole, Mr. Ross noted that the area is only 740 square miles, poorly timbered, containing less than 00 mil- lion feet of saw thnber and about 700,- 000 cords of wood. This is not much for a population of 350,000. He asked if the people should not begin to agitate for the creation of more forest reserves in the northern part of the province, To create timber land by planting nur- sery stock will cost a million dealers for six townships. If Mr. Knetehel's experiments are successful it will cost a x;aillion dollars for twenty townships. Would it not be better to reserve the timber land now existing and spend the money in increasing the planting which nature has done? . Mr. Ross calls attention to the water- shed known as the Eastern Slope of the Rookies, This contains 8,244 square milee, most of which is wholly unsuited for agriculture. He quoted from a re- port of Inepector MacMillan' who asks if coramon lumber costs $22per M, in the prairies now with a million popula- tion, what will it cost when there is a population of ten. million, when most of the forest land will have been cut and burned over? The coal mining industry of Alberta will require forty -fine billion feet of mine props e the product of nine million acres for sixty years. This says nothing of raieways, settlers and other requirements. These facts along with the need of Irrigation shows the need for turning the Eastern Slope into a forest reserve before it was too late, The new teacher glanced smilingly over the school and was delighted to see so many bright young faces among her new charges. "Now, children," she said, "so .that I may find out what you know I will test you on arithmetic. Maggie Wilkins, if I were to divide three bananas among seventeen boys, whet would be the re- sult?" "A riot," said Maggie, speaking up like a little- drum major. "Possibly,' said the teacher, "but that is not what I mean. Tommy, you may take the question. Three bananas Am- ong three boys -that would be one ban- ana apiece for each boy. Now, three bananas among seventeen boys would be what?" "Three bananas, mum," answered Tom- my. "I know, but three into seventeen is" -said the teacher. "Three bananas would go into seven- teen boys once and note over," said Tommy, confidently. It was then that the new teacher re- signed.-Harper's Weekly. • - * The if in a Shark Story. While swimming in the Gulf of Mexico with, a party of friend's during a cruise last week Editor Straub was fiercely at- tacked by a shark, and only succeeded it beating it off after a desperate strug- gle into shallow waten Miss Blanche wos swimining at his side, and. the poen sibilities of what might have been are rather appalling. Mr. atraub, Mise Blanche and Paul L. James were attempting a long distance sseini, during which Mr. Straub felt some object pereistently and sharply striking his_ person from enderneath, but not svisrlaing to drop out of the raee he mere. ly.struek under to drive off what he pre. Burned was some fish and. kept on hie way. Reaching his goal in shoal water, with the attacks keeping up, he wee able to give his assailant personal atten. tion, and found a ehark about 14 inches long ferociously yanking- away at the tie strings of his balling suit, as if &fly determined to devour him, strings, suit and all. If the shark had been just as firrocieus, and 14 feet long instead of 14 inches - but thet would have been another story. -Prone the St. Petersburg Times. 4 e hs‘ MA‘ ,440.444.0•44 \tIlttII 7 1 4-•"' rg. 1 0f SHOE POLISII Shines like the sun. Xs waterproof and permanent. Peeds and preserves the finest leather. Will not soil the daintiest garments, Hooker evert half as good4 tot. tout 250, Zee 214 4 • ;IZa ')-0( Tlie Baldwin apple first grew as chance seedlieg on the farm of it Jo Bali in eastern, Massachusetts and 1 later brought Into prominence by a 0 onel Baldwin, These fade are eteted it handsome monument which Was a years ago erected on the spot where t first seedling tree grew. 411 the milU of Baldwine evhich have been grown si the birth of this first tree in about 1 ere direct descondatts from it. In a rent bulletin of the Connectic State Experiment Station is emphasiz the danger of the introduction of wee by the use of feeds made up, la part in whole, of grain screenings eed sind Materials, which, as a rule, eontain great amount of weed seed. Th screenings vary a poll deal in quali Thus aa'analysis reeentty made of whe screenings showed about 30 per cent. flax and shrunken cereal, 15 per cent. foxtails, 8 per cent. of bindweeds it pigweeds, 16 per cent, of weed (seeds other species and 21 per cent, of de broken seed and sand. Sow rye for a cover crop on any la, that is idle and not to br used for a other crop this fall, Bare land loses 1 tility, while land in a growing crop go,i in fertility through the plants elladi the ground and the roots opening it to the action of the air and other d compoeiting agencies. With average cows and using t cream separator it is estimated th frons $50 to $75 per year can be SaV in butter fat with 10 cows. This amou will about pay for a good cream separ tor, and its usefulness Neill last for 111 years, making the buying of one a go investment. Being able to e ell the crea without hauling the milk to the inert ery also saves much time and labor. The colt should have a variety of feeds, so that it may build up the vari- ous dames of its body. Clover hey and wheat bran contain necessary mineral matter for the building of bone. Flax- seed meal in smeAl quantitiee is good. for keeping the colt's bowels in good condi- tion, and for. making the coat sleek. The value of sulphate of aramonia as a fertilizer was demonstrated in some German tests where marsh lands were fertilitzed with nitrate of soda and nil- phate of Ammonia, With both oats end beets the plants receiving sulphate yield- ed much more than those receiving ni- trate. These results indicate that on marah lands a liberal supply of lime, sulphate of ammonia may be advan- tageously substituted for nitrate of soda and confirms the wisdom of the practice In Germany. e. Cottonseed meal contains about 7 per cent. nitrogen, or nearly half as much as nitrate of soda. It is, therefore, called a nitrogenous fertilizer, but contains, also, some potash and phosphoric acid. According to Professor J. B. Smith, of the New jersey Experimental Station, the raost favorable time for spraying to kill the San Jose scale is in the early fall, when the leaves begin to turn yea ow. At this time the little insects are ctive and the spray does the greatest damage to them. An insufficient supply of bees will bin- der the setting of fruit. While other in. ects ntay take a part in the carrying of ollen, the fruit raiser must rely chiefly pon honey bees. Experience shows that, hough bees may fly two or three miles, hives should be within aalf a mile of he orchard or s_mall fruit patch. Strawberry Planting. Planting strawberries is a bit ref fine rt. You cannot crowd them into the round as you would cabbage plants, or hrust them down as rapidly as you do aspberries, but you must make a hole bout half as large again as the roots of he plant, when spread out in all direc. ions; in the centre of the hole let the irt be mounded, so that when the plant set on the top of that it will be a lit - le higher than the level of the ground, pread the roots over this and brush he hole half full of dirt; now crowd own tiglatly until the crown of the lant is exactly level with the soil; then ill tne hole full of soil lightly pressed, nd brush over the top dirt not pressed t all. The plant should now set exaet- y level with the surrounding dirt, and. he reason for this is that the runnersh hen starting should have noting, to inder them. The crowding down is an mportant matter with all plants, and he spread of the roots is vitally import- nt with the strawberry. The loose rt on top will serve as a mulch to re- ain moisture in the soil, and gather it rom the air. As soon as the bed is fin- ned there should be a top dressing or ulch of fine, rich compost. I suppose hat most of the planters would direct ou to use comraercial fertilizers. If you nsist on doing this you will find direc ion i in the bulletins of many of the xperiment stations. Irrigation is more essential for the trawberry than f or any other- meraber f the Rosatexte family. .A small bed ear the bowie can be attended to with ttle difficulty, but a email plot near he barn can often. be watered with hose rom the barn well. For a larger plot It elieve that tile drains offer the bes ethod. Distribute the water through e fields in pipes or troughs with small oles in thorn. A. -stopcock should be rovided to shut off the water or turn on at pleasure. The tile should be eep enough to ;escape the oultivator nil the plow -not leers than two and a all feet below the surface. If water tuts all the time you cen block up the wer end when you wish to have it per- eate the strawberry bed. Three-inch le is about what you want. The straw- erry is a greet lover of water, and it ot seldom happens that just as the op is full of promise a few. dry days in it. If watered by hand a hole mead be made by the side of each ant, and not less that a full quart of ater poured slowly in, until the ground. saturated; then 'brush dry dirt over O hole to 'main the rodeture and pre - at caking of the soil. One aids miter - ng will last three or four days. Sprink- ng strewberry bed does more harm tan good, mikes repteitted every feiv urs, /his plan is altogether too seri- us a job for a largo bed, and I recent.. cud that you be providea with under - Mind tileit.-E, P. Powell in the Out - Magazine f or June, , es • --- Probably -Oh. the Team,. 11 1111 YRS Qi - on ew bis ons nee le10 itt od do or lar 11 esti ty. at of Of nd of st, nd ny er- ns ng up e- he at ed nt a- tar o04a "Such Ignoraeoe is inexeusable1". claimed Autit 1/ypatitt. "My nephew Percival has been going to eollege nearly three years, and -when / asked hint tide Meriting whether he knew anything about Homer, he said: %Men A homer is a hit that's good for four basesi'" Tun FLAG. (Montreal Witness.) Another way not to bring disrespeet On one's /INT is not to decorat4 it eluirlet with it and levade fOiseigh e1t1e. Prom that to riding down aged pedestrians end then ratining nevey there is only a step. Grattlitetts inteleade is closely al - IN to fineeking eoweadiee. Ole efilideg rniz Js always on the go. i"Life a Perfect Burden" Untold sortorlogs from Biliousneos, lileadedies and infligestion. Cored by Dr. llootilton's Pills TO produce such striking evidence, eieh satisfyieg proof es Mrs. I(e 1). Du - pot gives bit her letter, snakes it self evident that in Dr, ilaruilton's Pills every suffering men and WOulan 1 of - ford A real cure for all stomach ail. Mesita From her home at Oak Poiut, Mrs. Dupont .writee a viviS and. tone];. uii account of her four years of torture with biliousness and indigestion, "My trouble was &at manifested with blinding headmehes and feeling of dizziness and aullneee in the head., knell dreadful turns ef giedineris cause over MO that at thilea 1 reelesl, and_ etaggered. These attacics were accompanied with violent pains in the otemach and disten- sion of the liver. Spots flitted before my eyes, aed to think of eating merle me miserable, It was tumble to digest my food, lost weight and got sleepless. When so low spirited and despondent that I despaired of getting well, I read of how Mrs. Holton had been 80 won- derfully cured by Dr, Hamilton's Pills, and got five boxes at once. To my de- light the first box of Dr, Hamiltanti Pills gave nie relief. I began to eita sleep and enjoy Illy meals. The stomach and liver petite passed away, I improved steadily and when five boxes of Dr. Ffamilton's Pills were used I was re new woman, cured, happy, well and strong." To regulate the system, to prevent and cure all disorders of the stomach, neer, bowels and kidneys no remedy can boast of the number of successful cures acconiplisbed by Dr. Hamilton's Pills; 25e. per box, or five boxes for $1.00. Beware of substitutes and imita- tions. By mail from The Catarrhozone Company, Kingston, Ont, THE CARE OF LAMPS. Hints on How to Manage Them to Get the Best Results. The following suggestions on the pro. per care of lamps are from a pamphlet issued recently by the London County Council: The oil reservoir should be of strong metal, properly folded and soldered at the joint and should not be of china, glass or other fragile material, There should be no opening between the reser- voir and the burner other than through the tube which holds the wick, and tide tube should be extended to within a quarter of an itch of the bottom of the reservoir and should have no opening into the reservoir except at its base. The burner should be securely attach. ed to the reservoir, preferably by means of it strong and well made screw attach- ment. There should be no openings through which oil could flow from the reservoir should the Itunp be upset. Every table lamp should have a broad and heavy base, to which the reservoir should be strongly attaehed. Wicks should be soft and not lightly plaited and should quite fill the wick tube without lia,ving to be 'squeezed into it They should be frequently renewed and before being put into lamps should be dried at a fire and thee, immediately soaked with oil, The reservoir should be filled witis oil before the lamp is lit, and the lamp should be kept thoroughly clean.'all oil should be carefully wiped. off anaall charred wick and dirt removed 'before lighting. When first lit, the wick should be partially turned down and then grad- ually raised, The -wick should not be tinned down, as there is then a greater liability to explosion in lamps of .uneafe construction. Lamps which have no extinguishing apparatus should be put out as follows: The wick should be turned down until there is only a swill, flickering flanie, and a sharp puff of breath should then be sent across the top of the chimney, but not clown it. Cans or bottles used. for oil should be free from water or dirt, and should be kept thoroughly closed. The Silent London Club. j. M. Barrie Is it member of the Ath- enaeum Club in Pall man. On hes first appearanee there, it is said, he once ask- edfor some information from it gentle- man sitting tear him. To his great sur- prise the -older menaber not only told. him all he wanted to know, but insisted on Mr. Barrie dining with him and tak- ing supper afterward, though neither of them knew the other's mime. Upon Mr. Barrie protesting that he could not possibly accept so mita kind - teas from a stranger the other immedi- ately replied: "Don't mention it; don't mention it. Why, I've belonged to this club for twenteefive years and you are the very first member •tvho has ever spoken to me."-Tit.Bits. "OMEN OWES IIER LIFE TO Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Vienna, W. 'Va. - "I feel that I Owe the last ten ydare of my life to Lydia Pinkham's Vege- table Compound. Eleven years ago I was a walking shadow. Thad been under the doctor's carebutgotriorellet My husband per- suaded me to try Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Com. pound and it worked Biwa charm. It re- lieved all my Paini misery. I advise all suffering women to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." -Mns. Dina WtEtatOrt, Vieritta, W. Va. Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound, Made from native refits and heti* contains no narcotics or harm- ful drugs, and to -day holds the record for the largest number of actual mires of feraale diseases of any similar Medi-, 011ie In the country, and thousands of Voluntary testimonials are on Ala in the Philtham laboratory at Lynn, from women who have been cured from almost every form, of female complaints, Inflammation, ul-. etratieri,displacements,fibrold tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, indigeation and ilerYOUS prostration. Every such Stifteting woman owes it to herself to eV% Lydia E. Pitakham'S Vegetable Compound a trial, if yea *Mild Hlcc speelal adviee about your eat% Write a conlideTi- tial letter to Mrs. Pitilthatei, at Lynn, Mass, Iter ftderiee is fite, tad always helpful, • n AK* NEW PONORETE OF110040, Philadelphia Hite Fifty-four Com plated er The elty of l'hiledelphia 14 elle of the Mat exteeeire useof eonerete In the world, it possesses, tither templeted or in course of eonstritction„ fifty-four con- crete bridges. These bridgeo have spani varying front 25 to pa feet. The standard specificatiene for Phila. delphia bridges requires that the on- erete khan be a 1-3.0 eampasition, That is, tile prOpOrtiOne are by measuranent one part cement, three parts coarse sena or gravel or stone sereenings and six parts crushed stone, Cleveland, Ohio, possesses whet is per- hao the very flatteet concrete bridge in the world. This bridge hes three hinge' of plates and avgleelair bearing: suit feces plates and. oast iron are emphaVei. TJ O hinges were greased before being put in plitee to avoid met. At the joints a half inch of pure Asphalt separates the concrete. The esesupesition of the con- crete is a 1/2-14.-5 ;mixture. Between mbutme,nt hinges the span is over 80 feet and the rise of the ;web, above thee° hinges is only 5 feet 114 ieohes, The Walnut Late bridge in. Philadel- phia, is one .of the most etriking exam- ples of conerete construetion to be found anywhere in the world, says Cassier'a Magazine. Interest focuses, of course, upon the central arch. This coneista of two ribs, each 18 feet wide at the crown and somewhat wider at the skewback. The depth of each rib at the crown ie ain feet. The clear span ir 233 feet, which is a longer epee than that of any other concrete arch in America. The roadway Is about 150 feet sleeve the surface of the watera of hte Wissaaickon Creek, NERVOUS DISORDERS Promptly Cured by the Use of Dr. Williams' Pink PHIS. If your hand trembles or is unsteady, remember that this is a sure and early sign of your nervous system being at fault. The mischief may develop slowly to a worse stage. You feel unaccountably weak and weary after exertion; you lose flesh; you turn against food and stiffer palpitations and indigestion after eating. At dines you are intensely ir- ritable, greatly depressed and easily wor- ried, Sometirsies sharp pains shoot dowe your spine and lege and probably nen- rale% robs you of your sleep at night. These are some of the troubles that in- dicate the presence of nervous collapse and. possibly paralysis. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have wou a great reputation by curing all forms of nervous disease. The nervous system depends entirely up- on the blood supply for nourishment; when the blood is thiu and weak the nerves aro affected as described. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills educate, inereme the supply of good red blood, feed, strengthen and tone the nerves, enable them to' perform their funotions and dispel all signs of a breakdown. Mrs. Jas. H. Ward, Lord's Cove, N. B.'says: "About two years ago I suf- fered so much from nervous prostration that I was little better than a helpless wreck. 1 suffered from headaches and a constant feeling of dizziness. The least unusual move would startle me and set my heart palpitaing violently. I had little or no appetite, and grew so weak that I was hardly able to drag myself about, and could not do my housework. In every way I was in a deplorable con- dition. As the medicine I had been tak- ing seemed to do me no good, my hus- band got a supply of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I had only been taking the Pills for a couple of weeks, when 1 seenz- ed to feel sonfewhat better, and this encouraged me to eontinue the treat- ment. From that on my strength grad- ually but surely returned, and in the course of a few more weeks I was once more a -well woman, able to do my own housework and feeling better than I had done for years. I have since remained well and feel that I owe my good health to the healing powers of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." Every other weak, sickly, worn out, nervous person should follow the exams ple of Mrs.,Ward and give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a fair trial. These Pills will send new blood brightness and energy to the weak and despondent. Sold by all - medicine dealers or by mail at 60 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brookville, Ont. THE CALF ON THE LAWN, I'm going to hitch this 'ere young calf Out hefe in my front lawn; Holt stay right here and clam Use grass till the hull blame thing :a chasm; He'll ehaw that corner off today Until he's et it bare, Ter mortar I will move his stake An he'll chew over there. Look's bad yer say to see a, calf Out in a ixtan's •ftont yard, An blattin like it barn yard On this stylish. Boolevard; But that there calf Shall eat that grass until I get hire tat, And if he feels like blattin Wy, I reckon he will blat. 'Viten I fust took my farni out here, This wuz a country road; Across the way was parsture Ian Ware buekleberrys growed; My calf VMS then hitched isi niy erd, Per the hull town's inspection, An' no darn enterpelein" dood. Own roiled .to make objectioh. Whet this road groWed to a village street My calf wui iti the yard, A.n' uow the street it swells with stile, A. eity Boolevard; But 1 win hitch thit 'ere yoting Calf Out hero oti my front lawn, He'll stay right here ail' claw the grass 'Till .the hull blame thing is &awn. Ton say the way I carry OA Makes the bull eity laf ; Well, let 'em laf, this 'era's my tante Ate this 'ere is Lily tall. An things have readied the puetyest pare The Worl' has over sawn, Ef an old duff can't let his calf Chew grass on hie owh lawn. Virell let 'cm let, this ale young. calf Shall stay here any how; An if I hear tise laf too hard, erot oet the *le ow; Itifelt seils both to the mite stake Rite here in my hunt lawn, An let rem stay an' chew the grills* ''Till the hill' blerse thieg is Owen. The Mimi who is on top an aftsrd to. look below and lend a 'helping hand. -e Florida Times -Union. The Kind that Pleases DIDN'T LIKE. What Unfavorably Impressed the Press Delegates. W. T. Stead asked the members of the., teadiutheTniiletinroartepeiniefsavaorreably in Great Brie Imperial Press Confere:bsleilishaetditsir Review of Reviews. The replies are grouped writers edwunder:the countries represeuted byth North America: 1, The extent of great wealth and luxury, and great want. 2. The people in the poorer quarters of the manufaeturing districts. 3. The unemployed. 4, The poverty and drunkenness of certain sections of the people., 5. ,outen drinking in the saloons. South Africa; 1. The _growth of luxury i71 upper and middle classes, It cannot fail to have a deterioreting influence on the nation. 2. The preponclerance of women, and the foreign goods consumed, 3. The outcasts ou the Embankment, and the squalid poverty of your great cities.. Australia: 1. The number of foreign waiters in the hotels and the habit of smoking at meals in the presence of ladies. 2. The croakers. 3. The Submerged Tenth, 4. The excess of luxury with the rich the extreme hardships of the poor. 5. The great gulf between the very rich and the very poor. 0. The poorest of its poor evidently a type slowly evolved through many gen- erations -for which no fiscal system is entirely responsible or is able to lift out of its- apparent wretchedness. I should say that any remedy must be slow in its operation. 7. The large number of paupers and the unemployed. 8. Sweating, child labor, drinking (es- pecially women drinking in hotelea. New /Zealand : 1. The overcrowding in the cities, their smoke -begrimed appearanoe, and the dirt and squalor amidst which the people are content to live. 2. The confessed inability of rich Eng- plarnodbletmo .eope with its Submerged Tenth 3. Socially the sight thee impressed me most unfavorably was a vast crowd of women and children, who lived in a narrow street in Sheffield, to witness the arrival of the Press Delegates at a cer- tain factory there. Their appearance was to me pathetic. And I should bra,oket with this the growing evil of ladies smoking in the dining -rooms of hotels and in the lower and the middle ela.sses. 2 The growth of Socialistic ideas. 3. The phyeical condition of certain Glasses of labor. • sr a RULES FOR TRAINMEN• WHEN FIDO IS ABOARD. Faithful Fido, en route, has become an object of attention by the interstate commerce commission. This solemn coun- cil has found time in its regulation of railroad affairs to turzathe limelight on conditions of canine travel. "Utiform rules for the transportation of dogs," is the aim of the rail govern- ing body: It appears that all seats of fare eates apply when Fick is beitig svhizted through the cinders. Some roads charge a, regular fare, and the poor dog must hold one end *1 -11 yard long ticket string in his mouth until the conductor man comes 'round. On other lines the pets are tagged as excess baggage, which ts injurious to the dignity of any pam- perep pup of good family. The members of the interstate corn- mereer cominission propose to end all this confusion by expressing dogs in the setae manuer on all railroads. The result of their conference probably -will be the classification of the animals as distinct from trunks, fruit crates, bicycles and lawn rizowers. While the dear betide are , "yip -yipping" ,from pleasure at this ex- peoteci boon, more reason for flea bitten felicity romps from another source. Expert Compiles Set of Rules. The demand for "uniform rules for the transportation of dogs" has been in- terpreted elaborately by a transporta- tion expert in Chicago who has worked indepeialently from the ixtterestate coni - mem oonmession. His version of the de - ?sired rules applies pitaticularly. to bag, gagmen in whose care the cameo tour- ist e are placed. The onlivance foliates: 1. Treat an English bulldog riding in your baggage car with firmness temper- ed with mildness. Speak gently to the dear, and refrain from comment on his leg parenthesis, Should he get loose and threaten to surround your skin with his Inc e you may call him a little rascal, but nothing worse. Also have a crow- batlito4nnidshng how a cinde Yir can find its 2. Skye terriers have a taking way, that the.v demand constant' attention, It isa' s way through this beast's face foliage and enter its eye. Should it whine, pito- ously, grope through the fur jungle and try to find the sore wick. It is said that the skye has two eyes, situated between and8. hogub.ntgl ye oblelileoswmthuestebearaw. etched with care, Reserve for such a dog a spurious corner in the corieh. It probably will grow over night, and you will be cramp- ed for elbow and maybe knuckle room. Blue Bloods Most Sensitive, 4. Never achlres a Hing Charles span- iel as a "mutt." Pedigreed dogs are sen- sitive, and one might languish from grief and die between block signals. 0. It is bad form to charge admission to natives along the line 4) step in and see a French poodle. Most of the villag- ers wouldn't believe there was such an animal even if they saw it. 0. When possible, diversion should be furnished the animals, deprived as they are of combination buffet -library -ob- servation cal privileges. Open the side door and permit Hector to bark at the cosvs. 7. The above provision ought not to be carried too far. Small town dogs have been known to au* around way dui .us, aching for a scrap with a travelling city purp. To arrive at the destinaton wt your charge bearing a torn ear may not lead to pleasant consequences. 8. Never worry that nervous women are liable to rush up in front to ineuire as to the welfare of their dardags. That's one reason why baggage cs res axe built "blind" these clays. Thus, for once the interstate roue mercer commission has been beaten at its own game. A NARROW-MINDED LA.vritIt. Ethel, the youngest of a large number of girls in a certain Philadelphia fam- ily, recently entered upon the duties of amanuensis to a Walnut street lawyer. "How do you like your employer, Ethel?" the young vontan was asked up- on her return home that night. "Oh, hear very nice," said Ethel, with faint praise, "but awfully narrowenind- egt, "In what way?" "He seems to have the idea that woe& can only be spelled his way."-Lippin- cott's Magazine. COAT AND GOWN OF Imo! CROCHET. Think of wholo ouit, of this denying it. And nrieeloss, too, in all Probability. Every women who tees tins photograph will look with long. ing oyes upon it, and maybe -who knows -some woman who ean crochet ‘ivleillosieLe it and in time make 'one fof matchless crochet! And think, too, of tile days and welts, perhaps months, it book 11 air of skillful hands to fashion it. Zi is perfectly beautiful, there's no The Angel Watch and Wrned, (British Weekly.) Prom far, 4 YOice, the sad. Son trying The dead is mine, and mine the dying. The dead are mine and the dying. AlleolvaeldithGeQdaeldA, nagheolveslothwelyd;ilYnign.g TII:namilereeeaincte,e'earrewlmiltieueanaduhdletaheeh eddy 11;7 The burden of the aad Sea's crying Again, a voiee, the Earth ilenYing Then each one clamours, wild and Give pp thy dead, for the dead are Of those who sat On. earthly thrones. The dead are mine, not thine, 0 Sea, Not thine, 0 Sea, 0 IAnd, not thine, Thy dead are mins and the dying. In vain, the Sea is still defying, And Barth, in vain, is still replying. The Angel of the Lord doth keep True watch and ward where loved ones sleep, My dead. are mine and the dying. A Prayer at Evening. Tide, Into Thy hands, 0 Father, we coin - mit this day. With bodies wearied with the stress ef toil and hearts hnr- dened by the weight of cares, we feel She chill shadows of depression and regret fall on our spirits as the zniets of evening darken, Clonfused and trembling in the gath- ering gloom, we grope after Thee, for we have stumbled in the rough places where our erring feet have wandered. Gather us, Oh, Father, into the corn. fort and peace of Thy embrace, May Thy forgiveness heal the wounds our mistakes have made and Thy com- passion overcome the sharpness of our woes. Rest us and all our dear ones, Father. The long day of labor is end- ed now, and our change -filled lives give promise of no earthly refuge Irene the earking cares, Oh, Father, give us rest this night and with the morn, if it be Thy will, may NVe arise re- freshed in body and eager for new service. In Jesus' name we ask these things, and Thine shall be the glary ever- more. Amen. Two Prayer -Lessons. (By. Robert E. Speer.) Our Lord despised hyprocrisy. No other sin is so constantly denounced by him. And especialy in prayer did he abhor it. To make prayer and the act of prayer to God; the more occa- sion for display or eelf-exploitation was to him despicable. And lie speaks out with stern condemnation in the Sermon on the Mount of the public prayers of hypocrites. "When you pray, pray alone to the Father in secret." Secret prayer is the test of true, strong life. -14'was the constant prac- tice of Jesus. We see him again and again going off alone to pray and often in the midst of the throng he was still alone in prayer. He knew what value such prayer has, and if he commends it and assures WI as ne does that the Father hears it, we may rely. upon his word. We shall miss the soy and spring seed steadfast- ness and strength of life if eve do not have the habit of secret prayer. Secret prayer saves us from loneli- ness. We can always have the com- pany of God. We need only to clue our outward eyes and open the eyes of the soul, or we can have both the inner and outward eyes open and be with God." Father," we can say, "My Father." No more than that will be necessary often, and we shall know that we are with a friend, And such companionship, which can be main- tained anywhere and at all times, makes life sweet and calm. Whatever is going on about us can not disturb us if we are in our hearts alone with God. The secret, place of the soul is ever with us. Let us live there. But in deprecating hypocritical pubs lin prayers and urging private and secret prayer, Jesus did not mean that sincere public or social prayer was not right and good. Exactly the contrary. The other text assigned, Matthew 18: 19, 20, holds out special promise to those who pray together. Its best blessings require many sharers. We only come to them when we come with others. Every father loves to have his children come to him together. Let the two, three, or four children in a home come in a body and stand be- fore their father and say, "Father, we love you, and we have come, all of your children together, to ask you for lornething," Why, before the thing asked for, the father's heart has overflosved . and he has gathered those ;children into his arms. "My dear children," he is saying, "I love you, let us go' and do just what you have come to ask." Well, the Heavenly rather loves His children more and not less than an earthlsr father. It is a blessed thing to have tho dear, firm assurance of Jesus, "Where two or three are gathered together in my natne, there am 1 in the midst of them." That is better than a prent. fee. Not, "There I will be," hut "There I am." We do not need to do any neking for his presence, If we meet in his name there he is, Of course he is. His name ie himself. If we meet in Christ in the spirit and love and character of Christ, there Christ must of necessity be. And se we can always find him. If we are lonely all we need to do is to find a. friend and be -with that friend in Christ and there Christ is. How eourd we ask mere than Christ has already given Us? We know now Where to find the Father and whoreftoot fxiins.dthe Saviour. That is enough FOLDED HANDS. (From the British Weekly ) toil no more-biy dee is (lone; How mita 1 Wrought I May not Initw: watch the low descending sun, And see the night approachiug, slow My clay's Work is as it must :WI, Vet labor's joy to more is navel The tools drop from my nerveless hand, My dins eyes see no mark or Hue. little thought to leave it so-.- Ittifireisited, to the plan untrue; Another day / thought to know, When 1 might change and start anew 3,Vith weary hand I now laast $es A.uother's skill shy task coniplets; The gift of woe is one from me -- The gift that makes all life re,HI sweet, The pleasant labor of the day, The following hours of voice:lie reht- Thoso froth my life have passed away, No longer has it aiesi or quest; I sit and wait -ed all the The happy' past Wore rbe stao.ts; With dimming saies -nod 131)1.11? powers, t live this life of folded handl;