Exeter Advocate, 1905-10-19, Page 6•
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THE PERSONAL TOUCII
Cod Has Ever Been Seeking to Come
Near to Us
And a mall shall be as a hiding
place from the wind, and a covert
front the tempest; as rivers of water
in a dry place. as the bhadow of a
great ruck it. & weary land. -Isaiah
xxxa., 2.
A roan needs sten more than ho
needs spirits. You can no more sat-
isfy the human heart with departed
sou Is than yOU Maur appease hunger
with kitchen odors. People want
people to love. No matter how per-
fect from the pedagogical point of
view, your plan of uplifting the mas-
ses by ideals tnay be you will always
find that they prefer to take their
ideals on two legs and with the
light of life in their eyes. They
would rather associate with the
most mediocre teen than with the
most highly interesting mummies,
and you will find them getting more
out of common people on the street
than out of the most porfect pro-
files in the art gallery.
No matter how perfect your church
worship may be in its artistic and
its intellectual appeal, its sensuous
aspects alone will never satisfy that
*amigo hunger of the human heart,
thatlonging that leads men to the
place of worship week after week.
The church may have much success
as a club. as an exposition of style,
fashion, and refined sentiments. and
yet fail utterly as a church unless it
gives men life. unless it somehow
comes near to than and opens itself
to them so that they feel hero aro
hearts that understand and ears
open in sympathy, here are warm
hamlet -asps, here is
THIS LIFE GIVING TOUCH.
Ordinary people cannot worship
abstractions. The gods built. of
fancy win only the forms of worship.
You might as well call on men to
fail before the books of Euclid set
on an altar as to expect humanity
to worship the hypothetical being
whoa& Sonne call the god of heaven.
Still less can then be brought to
adore the propositions of theology.
For worship Is but love, and you can
never learn to love a syllogism.
Ideas alone have power as they be-
come
econte personal. Manly a man is
worshiping the good in his tnother,
the gentle and sublime in sumo other
wuutan, or the heroic in some man;
and these constitute his religion.
These are people, and they satisfy
him as postulates and principles and
the properties of worship never
could. '!'hey not only set the good
in the glowing frame of life but the
touch his life with theirs; there is life eternal.
!something other than their goud-
nesr;, their line characters; there is
that which makes themono with
hint.
A Clod far off from man has al-
ways meant man far off from God.
And yet God has ever been seeking
to come near to us. It is mora than
a figure of speech that the bible uses
when it speaks of the most High as
a man, a father, a neighbor. a
friend; it is an indication of the
closeness of God to ourselves, of his
reality, of his identity with us. Wo
need not think of him as an over-
grown than, sitting on top of the
clouds; yet it is bettor that ho
should bo embodied in some imago
of the (orae that has always meant
personality to us than that we
should lose sight of the possibility
of approach and cotnmun•ion with
hien as friend with friend. Better
to think of God as moot with us
than not to know that the ono over
us all is In living touch with us all.
THIN J - THE GREAT TRUTH
that .Jesus carne to give the world.
There is no need to define what it.
may mean that God was manifest in
the flesh if we but sec in the man
of Nazareth the expression of all
that God is to man. He walked our
ways of c nrth to remind us that the
Father is still living with this fanc-
ily here; Ile touched the sick and
comforted the sad that. Wren might
remember the hand of infinite ten-
derness and power that rcaehes from
heaven for our constant help and
consolation.
Men could see the man Jesus; they
knew Ilim Its a roan; looking in This
eyes they felt the thrill of a human
life; in n word. He was real, person-
al, and human to thein. The simple
hearted and clear eyed amongst
them, longing for love, were drawn
to Him. Ily the personal touch Ile
taught. them the way of life, and
when they came to tea:h their new
found faith to others it simply
amounted to telling the story of
their friend and to tell of Him as
one still near to their lives.
To thein it was no strange thing
that He should say, If you have, soon
me you have seen the father. 'J'hoy
had come to know that. God had
become more than a theory or an
historical omnipotence; somehow
they came to see that as was this
.!esus to them, the warm. tender,
loving, helpful friend, so is God to
man, one whom Ile may love and
who must love !lint, one whom to
v know with all love's knowledge, Is
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
OCT_ 22.
Lcsr on IV. P,eluilding the
Temple. Golden Tex',
1 Cor. 3. 17.
LESSON WORL STUDIES.
Note. These Word Studies for this
lesson aro based on the text of the
Revised Version.
Intervening Events --Chapter 2 Is
devoted largely to an enumeration
of the principal men and heads of
tribes and families, priests, Lovite:i,
and others, who accompanied the
caravan of returning exiles from
Bali.lonia to Jerusalem. In Ezra 2.
61-613 the numleer of Israelites re-
turning is stated as 42,360 plus 7.-
83; t►ervants Hud maids, tanking n
total of 49,697 persons. Of this
number there were '200 "singing men
and women," that is, professional
singers. This company took with
them 8,13fl beasts of burden. of
which 8,720 were. asses, 736 horses,
4:33 camels, and 213 mules. The
first t hing necessary after the arriv-
al of the caravan nt Jerusalem was
the choosing and establishing of
h 's by the returning exiles. This
occupied some months. At last in
the seventh month the people rc•as-
sentbhr Jerusalem I to d t ut.nlrem ani at once
reinstituted "all the set feasts of
.Jehovah that were consecrated."
The beginning of the tutunl work of
the rebuilding of the temple was not
no simple a mutter. Cedars of Leb-
anon and prcemrrel stones were neces-
sary. and 1l w'as two y• ars nn(1 two
muretI,s longer before the actual
work of the building could be begun.
Our lesson story begins with the
events accompanying the laying of ;
the foundation of the temple.
1
Norse 10. They set -'That as. those
1n Oteu•gee of the building yet the
priests. Some ancient manuscripts
rend. "The priests stood."
'I'heir npparcl-Tho dress of the
priests consisted of short breeches
(l:xOd. 28. 42) made of fine linen; n
long cont with sleeves also made of
fine linen; it girdle. woven of the
some colors thnt were In the, veil be-
fore the Holy !'laude; a cap of linen.
On their fleet they wore nothing
(ceinie Elrod. :3. 3; :30. 27-29; Josh.
11. 13).
Sons of Asnplt with cynthnle-For
the assignment of Ins! runenlal
music to the 1.evites by i)avid and
of the cymbals specially In tho eons
of Asaph. compare 1 (;hron. 2f,. 1
with 1 (thron. IA. 4. b and 23. 6.
11. They sang one to nnoth,'r-
Prohnl.ly, ns hill been lee trodition-
nl interpretc1lon, this r..Irri to en-
liphonni singlrg in which two choirs
frig niternate pbrnses in response to
each other Stith 1•t,,ilne ns 1:qt:
21. 7-10: 101: 107• 1 la were suited
relief -hilly to .need: reen.t.•ring. 1,ur
limited knowledge. h•ew•ever, con•
corning early ,Iqw i•h nuglc Hinkel it
Im,wssiblo to Speak authoritatively
with regard to what music was used
and how it was rendered.
"For he is good, for his loving -
kindness cndureth forever toward
Israel" -These words aro probably
not a quotation front the psalms
but rather a liturgical response
used at. sacred festivals, upon whicl
the well-known psalm. Pse. 1:16. wit
itself bayed. ' t is verse is n marke
ftiltilbnent of the prophecy, .ler. :ia
10, 11, which compare.
12. Old men th.tt had seen the
first house -The "first house" re-
fers to Solomon's temple, which had
been destroyedin 3fi(3 13. C., fifty-
one years before. Evert sixteen years
later the prophet ilaggni (2. 3)
could still appeal to some who had
seen the former temple,
Wept. with a loud voice -In their
extremesorrow because of the com-
parative insignilicnt:re of the house
being erected to the former templeitt its glory.
1:3. Could not eligeern the note° of
the sl t of joy from the noise of
the weeping of the people -A Inost
marked difference of effect which the
inauguration of the building hnd
upon the younger people, on the one
baud, and the older people, on the
other.
Verse. 1. The ndversnries of Judahand lienjantin-The Sumaritnns liv-
ing just to the north, called adver-
snli.•s by anticipate!).
2. Since the days of tsar -bedtime
king of Assyria-loatenr-hadtlon nets
the son and succeeeor of Sennnrho-
rib. in the veer 677 iI. C. Sidon
had revolted fromthe authority of
Babyloniabut was promptly cap-
tured aid destroyed. end (mei her
c•lty, called "The City of Asar-ha•l-
don," was built in ils place. This
new city. logeher with the sur-
romeling count r1. was n,lonieed
with raptivee from Elamand ilabv•
Ionia, MOof these rn!etit'.':a teeny
settled ns Mr south ne the region
whieh we knnw ns Sammie. The
descen(Innte of Huse colonists. who
intermarried with the remnant
of Jews still dwelling in the country,
w'n' a mixed race, adhering partly
to the religion of the .Jews tad mirt-
h- to that of the Intel from w•hir!i
the colonists had comp. Ilernuse of
the feet that they were not .hews of
pure descent rho returned exiles
would have nothing to do with
them. 11'
'1. enkened the hands of the peo-
ple of Judah -Put obstnrles in their
wny. hindered them in their enter-
prise in every tnnnner possible.
l'►. (fired cotrnselors ngninst them
to trestrnte their perp +se -fen who,
for pnv. ninth" inletsrepres'ntatimns
before the king concerning rho pur-
poses and work of the Jews at Jer-
n'nlent
Dories king of Perent-Nei to be
c,enteer:eed with "Derlua the \fatten"
of Pim. 3 :31. The king hero re-
fcrr. d to was the third ruler after
Cyrus and the rwnl'ganieer of (see -
end) launder of the Pereira empire.
Heeiened from 322 to 348 it C.
(;rr•nce spots may he giulrkly re-
moved front clothing with the nit! of
It small pair of cel sons.
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CAKES ANI) COOKIES.
Chocolate Cookies. -Beat to a
cream ono -halt cupful of butter caul
ol.e tablespoonful of lord. Gratlually
beat into this ono cupful of sugar,
t'ic7► add ono-teinrter teaspuoaful
ed salt, one teaspoonful of cinnamon
and two ounces of chocolate melted.
Now add ono well beaten egg, one-
half teaspoonful of soda dissolved in
two tablespoonfuls of milk, and stir
in about two and one-half cupfuls of
hour. Roll thin and cut into round
cakes; bake in a quick oven. Uso
as little flour as possible.
Pesch Puffs. -Crush several large,
ripe peaches with a little powdered
sugar, cut puff paste into squares,
put some of the peaches in tho cen-
tro of each, then close the paste
nearly around it. Rake in a quick
oven, and sprinkle with sugar just
before serving.
Walnut. Cookies.-Croant one cupful
of butter with one and one-half cup-
fuls of sugar; add three beaten eggs;
put two cupfuls of chopped walnut
greats into one cupful of flour, and
add this to the batter. Sift ono
teaspoonful of baking powder and
ono and ono -half cupfuls of !lour to-
gether. and add the last thing. Drop
by spo tubus on buttered tins, dust.
with granulated sugar. and put n
whole walnut. meat on each ono.
Bake, in a moxterato oven.
French Create Layer Cake.-Crenm
one-third cupful of Nutter, add gra-
dually one cupful of :agar, two well
beaten eggs, one-half cupful of milk,
and one and three: quarters cupfuls
of flour, with two and one-half tea-
spuoufuls of baki. e. powder sifted in.
Bake in layer cake tins. Filling -
Three. -fourths cupful of thick cream,
one-quarter cupful of milk, on' -
quarter cupful of powdered sugar,
and the white of one egg; flavor with
vanilla and beat still with an egg
beaterli
Engsh Ten Cake. -Take two cup-
culs of flour, 2 teaspnonft•lw of bak-
ing powder, sifted •:ith the flour,
one heaping tablespoonful of butter.
two of fine sugar, a little candied
orange peel chopped fine. a few cur-
rants, and chopped raisins, and anis
all together. tient two eggs with
two tablespoonfuls of milk, add this
to the dough, and bake In rings.
Soft Ginger Bread. -Take one cup-
ful of molesses into which put one
teaspoonful of soda; mix with this
ono cupful of lard, and one cupful of
sugar beaten together, one egg, one
cupful of sour intik, three cupfuls of
flour into which sift one-half tea-
spoonful of salt. and two table-
spoonfuls of ginger. ilake quickly.
Almond Wafers. -Add gradually
two cupfuls of granulated sugar to
one cupful of almond paste. Dissolve
one-half a bevel teaspoonful of soda
in one-half pint of sweet milk; add
this and ten drops of bitter almond
flavoring; then work in ono quart of
sifted postry flour. Turn baking
pnns upside down, and wipe well the
bottoms; brush then lightly with
butter, and put the cake mixture
over just as thin as possible. Itun
thein into a moderate oven and
bake .until slightly brown. While
still hot cut them down throng!' the
nightie lengthwise and once across;
theet loosen quickly with a thin
knife. and roll each egunre over a
pencil. To bo perfect the mixture
trust be spread ns thin as tissue
paper on the pan, and the rolling
quickly done.
TO USE '1'111: ORANGE.
Oreeego Loaf lake. -Bent the ynik.e
of six eggs to a .renal with half a
pound of powderee(I sugar and two
ounces of softener! butter. Add the
grated rind and pulp of three
oranges. 'fake the pulp out with a
spoon, saving all the juice and re-
jecting the core and seeds. Sift
t4lgether half a pound of flour and
one teaspoonful of baking powder,
and stir it into the cake alternately
with the whites of the eggs Beaton
to n stiff froth. Poor quickly into
w.•ll greased tins and bake in n mod-
erate oven.
Orange lcing.-Prom n 3 cent loaf
cif 1 e:er's bread cat off all the
crust and grate or crucible the
in -
Ride as line {urss'1.e Peer over
it one quart of boil. ig milk, tell
11 quarter of n pound of butter and
the same of e.ngur. I,.•t it stand
!ways used accorlieglye and occas-
ionally they should have a shaking
in the ulnen sir. Two dusters should
be used for furniture, as a good
worker can use one hand and then
the other, and linger marks may bo
avoided by holding the furniture
with a duster. Each week should
bring clean ones into play.
Old sheets which have been cut
down and mended and are no longer
suitable for beds or cots, old print
dresses, old aprons, old hangings,
old cotton furniture coverings may
alt be trade into suitable sized pite:es
hemmed and used. but cheesecloth is
best for dusting and is satisfactory
when used dry for highly polished
surfaces. but for the remaining ar-
ticles it wore better to dampen it
slightly, roll as for ironing, allow
it to remain for a minute or t wo,
then shake out and continue. This
will entail several clean cloths dur-
ing the dusting process, Before they
dry they should be rinsed thorough-
ly and hung up. They may be used
again before they are sent to be
washed. :Mirrors or windows should
bo washed with alcohol and polish-
ed with an old piece of silk.
A stick with a round pointed end
is handy for getting the dirt and
dust out of the corners of the room
or window sash, or on the stairs,
and time and pains should be given
to this kind of digging.
Abut the walls and ceilings of the
rooms a long handled brush made
for the purpose is most satisfactory
and should be used every time the
r is given a thorough cleaning.
The paper will in this way be kept
looking fresh. lternovo or cover all
upholstered furniture and bric-a-brac
and before sweeping wet the broom
in clean water. Shake hard to re-
move the loose water before apply-
ing to the carpets or rug:;, (luring
the course of the sweeping gip the
broom in clean water frequently. If
caro is taken no utoisture will be
left and it will collect dustthat
otherwise will fly around the room.
The carpet sweeper should be emp-
tied after -each sweeping. and the
hair and threads picked •from the
brush. Sweepings should be burned
or put into the garbage. and not
thrown out to litter the steps and
yard.
SENSIBLE SUGGESTION'S,
To pour drops from a bottle mois-
ten the edge.
Milk used instead of %rater makes
puddings and pastry Tight.
When baking c•al:os place a layer of
salt tinder the mold. This prevents
burning.
If sherbet Is used instead of bak-
ing powder when staking madeira,
seed, or other plain cakes, they will
be notch lighter and of a delicious
flavor.
"Poverty cake." -Mix well ono
eapf"1 of raisins, halt a cupful of
butter, one cupful of sugar, One of
flour. one of sour milk, one tea-
spoonful of carbonate of soda, ono
egg, a little nutmeg, cinnamon, and
ground cloves. Bake in a flat treat
tin for half an hour.
Sick people don't like to be stared
at -they are morbidly sensitive; and
don't stand at the back of the led
to snake him turn his eyes round to
see you. Always sit at the bedside,
ter the patient fe.'Is more at rest
than if you stand up tali lesforo hien.
Don't w•hieper, and d',n't follow the
doctor pr a caller into the next
room; rho invalid will be absolutely
certain that you aro discussing him.
As any schoolgirl can testify, it is
n spcei:es of high at t to make really
fine grained, creamy. and surces:.ful
fudges. if the butter is reserved un-
til after the final testhas been made
and the syrup has Just reached the
"soft boll" stage. and then gently
incorpun•nttd; and If then, the whole
mass is turner) upon a marble slab
and swiftly turned hack and forth
with a griddle cake turner until it
Is cool, the desired consistency will
never fait.
FOOD FOR INVALID)..
A nutritious and palatable dish
for the ill is scraped beef. 'fake a
good piece of rate HO ak; lay it on
a meat boatel, and with n knife
scrape into tine bits. After remov-
ing all hard and gristly parts put
it into a pan over the tine and let it
remain just lung enough to become
thoroughly !wane! through, stirring
it tip from the bottom occasionally.
Season with n little salt,
Per cracker gruel pour ono cup of
boiling water over four tablespoon-
fuls of powdered crackers and stir
until snu,olhi. Add one cup of milk
tad return it to the fire. Let it
til cold. hen add 1'' • grat.eel rias • 1
of one. and the pulp and juice o'
two Targe oranges and six egg -
beaten light. Pour ltdo a bitterer
dish and bake one hour. Serve but
er cold.
lOrange Ple.-(irate the yellow rind
and squceee the juice of two large,
edeep-volored oranges, mix well and
save out a tablespoonful. Real go
tt cream half a pomp! of butter and
half a pound) of po'cd.•red sugar.
Add the yolks of six eggs beaten
light end the orange juice. Now stir
in the whites of four egt's beaten to
rt stiff froth end pour the mixture
Into pie plates (hued with {u I't paste.
/..11 kg! ill n quick oven. When done
spread with a meringue mnde of the
;whites of the other two eggs. two
'tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar.
and the tnblespoonful of juice, and
stand them in the oven to brown.
This quantity tt'lll make two pion,
DUSTING.
Certain rales must govern systo-
n,ati • (Meting. such as cleaning the
highest thing,* first, so that ow/-
loose
nyloose fulling dust may he removed
from the lower things afterward.
'hist should be gatheeel up and not
whisked from pine() to place. it
should he done quickly and also
ntethoelicnlly from a gtven point
right around. if the duster is kept
in n large flat pnd the dust is not
scattered and accidents are not so
likely to occur to small ornaments.
Certain dusters should be provided
for respective purposes, and then al -
Boil until it thickens. Season with
salt and serve immediately.
Onion gruel is excellent for cold
and many invalids are fond of it.
,slice down a few onions and boli
;them in n pint of new milk, elle in
11 sprinkle of oat steal and n little
salt;boil till the onions are quite
tender. Stip rapidly and go to bed.
A refreshing repast is egg eravel.
!lent the yolk of one egg until light.
with ..ter teaspoonful of sugar nett a
sprinkle of salt. Add a little flavor-
ing of nutmeg or cinnamon. '!`hen ;
stir in the white which has been I
:beaten until foaming. !'our over 0
th • hot milk and serve at once.
ICIIA'I' AltI' I('1: FLOWERS?
11'e have all neon upon our window-
panes gIistenit:g pirlw•e:g in frost of
trees, leaves, and flowers, but it is
not easy to decide how they Assume
such lovely forme and weave such
delicate patterns upon the glass.
There seem to he two distinct eines-
ex of thee° ice flowers, resulting from
different cant=os. The one resembles
hoar -frost, and fortns pretty pic-
tures as of trees upon the panes, tool
these are seen when the nir contains
but. little wntcry vapor, which set-
tles upon the cold surface of glass
in rooms not heated. The other and
more usual form appears when the
air is full of moisture, which settles
and freezes on the window -in -ones
like long, fairy needles. 'These form
with great rapidity. and those that
shape themselves first influence the
position and direction of the rest
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VtOU NG
8 FOLKS °
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1101113Y BOY'S NEST.
"Mother," said Bobby Boy, when
site kissed hint good -night, "1 wish
1 was a tittle bird and lived in a
little nest."
"Isn't this bed a Hiro little nest?"
asked Bobby Boy's mother. Sho
knelt on the floor beside him, and
put her head on his white pillow.
"Isn't this nice soft little bed. and
pretty alto comfort., and plump
white pillows nicer than sticks and
straws and leaves and paper, woven
together as the robin in the hilae
bush udket, its little house?"
"Not quite, mother," said Bobby
Boy. "1 want to sleep just one
night in a nest."
Bobby Buy's mother laughed and
kissed hint good -night again and
cuddled the bluo comfort about hint
and smoothed the white pillows anti
patted the yellow curls and told him
to go to sloop. Ile lay thinking
about how nice it was for little Mrds
who didn't go to kiud.•rgarten, and
had nothing to do but build nests
in lilac bushes. 11'lu•n he did go to
sleep at last, he dreamed about
nests with little biuo comforts in
them, and little brass knobs all
round the edge of them and funny
pillows made of moss.
Next day Bobby lloy was very
busy. IIis mother found hire build -
fug a bird's nest in the closet. it
was Nigger than the nest in the lilac
bush, for Bobby Boy was five years
old. It was made of pine branches
he had brought in from the woods,
and the feathers he had picked from
an old duster, and bits of Moss and
paper and string.
Night carne again, and Bobby !
Boy's mother tucked in the blue j
comfort and patted the white pillow
and smoothed the yellow hair and
kissed Bobby Boy good -night after
she had sung a little 'go -to -sleep'
song to hint.
Bobby lloy did not go to sleep.
He life very wide awake, watching a
big white moon shining through the
apple tree. Bobby Boy was waiting
till the house grew still, then he
meant to go out and build a nest. in
the apple tree. When the house grew
still, Bobby Boy crawled out of bed.
He put on his little trousers and
stockings, then he pulled the blue
comfort off the little bed and tied
it into a bundle. There were sticks
in the bundle, and moss and paper
and the feathers from the feather
duster. Bobby !toy opened the win- .
dow and crept out on n little piazza.
"Cheep, weep. cheep weep,' went a .
frightened little bird in the tree; '
then it flew away and screamed, for
it had never before seen a little
boy looking down into its tree when
tho moon was shining. The apple
tree threw one big branch up on the
011.4,
"Bobby Ilov!" cried his iatt.er.
"Bobby Boy. where are voity„
"Here, in my nest,•, called Bobby
Boy. Then father and mother climb-
ed out on the plates. His mother
was crying, and his father was bend-
ing down into the npp'.o tree, but ho
could not reach liubby Buys, '!'hen
everybody in the house waked up,
and a lung ladder went up to the
very heart of rho old apple tee.. and
Bobby Boy crept into his hither'
�
aruts. lie went to sleep in his OW$
little heed. with a hot water bottle
at his feet and 0 hut, woolly blank-
et wrapped about blit and soft white
pillows under his head; and the last
thing he remembered teas the big
moon looking at him through the
apple tree and saying: '•licbby Boy,
you're a goose. Isn't that lovely
bed bettor than a nest in the apple
tree?"
"1 believe it is. sir," said Bobby
Boy sleepily.
FORESTRY CONVENTION,
The Premier Nantes Jan. 10, 11,
and 12, 1906, as the Date.
'1'o the Public of 0 c Doin.• .'..t.s of
Canada:
Canada possesses one of the tersest
areas of virgin forest of ttny country
in the world and is ranked by Eucj-
'Hem experts 1'rst, or among the first,
of the Omen -tent sources of iho
world's timber supply for the future.
The preservation of the streams in
perennial and constant flow,
which is largely controlled by the for-
ests on tho watersheds, will have an
important influence on the industrial
and ngri:ultural development of t ho
l:oninion. The expansion of our
electrical and mechanical industries
:•.% ill bo ro ti!ated to a great extent
by water, to hieh forms the greatest
source of power in all cgentrios, and
some of our western distt lets are de-
pendent oa irrigation to ensure the
success of agricultural operations.
In alt the older provinces the clear-
ing of the soil has been carried to
such an extent that the ill effects tin
the water supply and on agriculture
tire clearly ntnrked, while on the wes-
tern prairies the need of s'tc'toring
trees for houses and fields is seriaes-
ly felt by the settlers.
The early construction of the
Transcontinental Railway, and of
other railways, through our northern
1.'rested districts and the consequent
('!,ening of those districts to general
traffic, will increase the danger from
tire which has already been it most
active agent of destruction.
'rheso conditions are not new; they
have from time to time received pub-
lic attention, anti during the Sessi•nn
just closed Parliament authorized the
summoning of a convention for the
more thorough discussion of She
saute.
I therefore hereby call a public con-
tention to meet in the City of Ot-
tawa on the 10th, 1 1th and 12th of
January, 1006, under the auspices of
tho Canadian Forestry Associti et,
and to this convention are specialty
invited:
piazza. Members of the Senate and ]louse
There was tho nicest place where of Commons.
five big limbs branched out. it was Lieutenant -Governors of the Prov -
just big enough to hold a little inces.
boy's nest, and Bobby lloy had leen Members of Legislative Councils aml
thinking about it for n long, long Legislative Assemblies of the Prov -
time. iie climbed) up on the branch laces,
and put his legs around it. exactly Dominion end
as he did when ho 811(1 down on the Officials.
banisters. Ile held the rope that Members of tho Canadian Forestry
was tied to his bundle., then he slid Association.
clown the big bran••h into the heart , Representatives of Lumbermen's
of the tipple tree. Once or twice the 'Associations.
little twi_.s whippcel hint in the ince, t Representatives of Boards of Train.
the tree creaked and groaned, and 1 itopresentatives of Universities.
the blue bundle stuck among the Itepresentsti%'ca of Agricultural Col-
br'nnrhes. At Inst he was down in leges•
the little nest, and he stood there Itepresent.atives of Farmers' Inso-
far a minute, breathing very bard. lutea.
Ile pullerd the bundle after hien. and iUepreso'ttati%os of Railway Cout-
it conte with a whack that almost Panicst
knocked him down. it was a good Representatives of the Canudi.tn
thing there were nice, rrrtn !wane/lee ,-!lining Institute•
• like n wall all around hint` or nndh;a
Bobby Boy would have tumbled to
;coeirly of Civil Engineers.
Representatives of Associations 1
the gro 1. lie whited for a utinute Land
Surveyors.
to test his breath bac!:, then he be -Ire• Representatives of Pleb and (lame
gnu to build his teat. it was not IAssoMntions and all ( thers who
ns easy to build a nest as in the take an interest in For, sIr•y.
closet,becnuw' things t bled to tho An invitnt' is also extended to
ground. All the sticks tell, un(1 a ithe Bureau of Forestry of the United
puff of wind curried the impel. and •States, rho .lmoric,tn Forestry ,is-
fenth' rs away. Tho utoss wouldn't sucintion and the State F itre,try
stay put, and nothing "'nud to Bureaus and Associations to send re -
want to he ntarle into n nest but the .presentatites to this Convention.
blue cotnfort. Bobby Boy ngnin be-1N'1Lh' 1111 LAURII'It.
gar to feel cult. co he spread it Ottawa, 21st .lugust, 1''203.
round hint and remitted (leen in his i
nest. iI was iery lonely anti quiet.. Tho suhie••ts to lie considered at the
The little bird came back and flew ;('utiyc•ntIott will by discussed under
into the top of the tree and said, 'the following di%;Munn:-
"('heop weep, cheep weep." ns if it 1. The Native and the Pellet.
were sleepy and tired. 2. Forest rt' in relation to Agricul-
To noun grew bigger and whiter tro and
Irrigation.
and brighter, and stared baldly at R. The Forest and the !,umber and
Bobby Boy through the brancho+ Pulp industries.
Bobby lluy didn't feel comfortable 4. '1'Ite Jlelntfott of o'er !wrests to
In his nest: a scraggy old bran.;. o11r other industries: itnilenys; \hitter
I'ro%inciel Forest
kept pushing his head out of its w•ce. Powers: !lining; Building 1 rad.w;
so he turned around nnel tried to Weed Working ilanufaettnes.
curl up in a new way, but another 3. Scientific lflc I•'ore.str•y and Pii est.'y
branch wouldn't let hint. it poked J':duco12(111.
into his back. it begun to gro.v Iry ih.' kindness of the erre-ellen
I
very cold, and theut•bt l w•hicti,l hallway Companies a single fare roto
through tho branches, and the moon over their roads On the certificate
stared at hint and said. "Ito!tl,y plan will probably be nll.,we l Bele-
't.•y, you're a little goose. Climb gates, reegardde:•s of 016i:harbor in
up the tree and go to bed." attenrlaencc. •
"I don't. brltei e i like sleeping 111
the free to -night," raid Bobby lion
to the roma. "It's tan cold. it
will be lovely. though, when it
grows wormer. and I can eat apples
all night.
"You're a goose," said the moon
(grain. "Go to bed!."
"All right, sir, 1 will." said Bobby
itov. Ile began to crawl up the
branch thnt led to his room. When
he was half -way up, he slipped right
hack, and slid away dote n intu the
heart of the tree. ile would linto
fallen to the ground 11 it had not
been for his shirt catching in a
shnrp branch. Bobby !toy was
frightened. The blue comfort hail
tumbled to the ground, and his
hands were so cold he could hardily
hold nn to the old tree.
"Father! Mother!" he screamed.
"('ome and get me' Come and get
met"
lie could see the lemp in his little
room, and he betted his mother give
such n cry It nenrly made hint fall
from the tree.
•'I don't err how Mrs. (lay can ef-
ford to went so males• tips in her
but '!'here is a row of them till
the way rotund the brim." "Afford
It? 1 wonder that she hnsn'tthe
who!) hat made of tips. l ler hits.
bunt' is n waiter in a big re:stnur.
ant, you know."
f
There was a young lady at Ringhnm
Who knew many songs, and could
sing 'ctn;
But she couldn't mend hose.
And she wouldn't wash clothes,
t)r help her old mother to wring 'em,
Little Willie (who hos an Inquiring
i nind)-"Topa, is there any such
thing as a sen -serpent?" Mr.
Meeks -"Not unless your mother
says so, Willie; i do not recall ever
having heard her express her •opin-
ion on the subject."
A short man always likes to stand
on his digelty.