The Seaforth News, 1923-03-01, Page 6EY KATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARD
Copyright by Hodder and Stoughton.
CHAPTER XXXIX. I It was an eager, tremulous greeting
dew and sat there thinking, idly, aim -
Deirdre watched Davey geeing out of that Mrs, Cameron gave her.a lessly, for awhile. Recollections of P
Narrow Valley in the dint starlight of 1 It's you, dearie,"she said. I m Mrs. Cameron were always those of a
the ,early spring morning, the mob, • glad Msee you, indeed] What. can woman occupied with her home, her 1crd
Misdeed by Teddy andWthe doge, a you tell me' of Davey? He wee to have husband aon. Deirdre wondered]
stream of red wad brown and dappled conte home to us and I haven't seen how her father carte to be in Airs,
about her real self and make you love
her—even when you don't went te!"
The Sc]ioolnvaeter ti;r•ew, himse'f
beck in his ell ur.
fDeirdre gazed at him, then she tura-
ed away with a little sigh,
His face was earnest a mintier to her
now that', he was blind. Sias could see
his then/gilts in it, It was savored to
her, that thin, lined face, all its rever-
ence and emotion; but she mold not
bear to look a ib and feel that she
was stealing his secrets when his eyes
could not guard them from. her.
She went to the seat under the win -
tit the Huse
The Business of Housekeeping.
What "constitutes good housekeep-
ing?
Haven't we• women all asked only-
4elves that question .some .time in aur
lit*es—we, en whom the household de -
ends for its nganagernent?'
When we first take up luou.sekeep-
ng, of homonoaking=For one term
should eiihbraco,•the other, in order to
make hoesekeeping'really* good --how
hides before Min. The cones lifted hila for weeks" I Cameron's debt as he had said he was
their heads,.' bellowing protestingly;. There was ninth to tell and yet hew it was ho owed he's anything at e
their breath steamod before them m much that the girl, in her tender solncd- al:1. She seemed to owe him so much.
the chill air. The horses and dogs, tude for Davey's mother, conl+d trot tail]. ] The 'cows had gathered up to the
heeling and wheeling then, and the et would terrify her to know that fence near the bails for the mincing.
trampling hoofs of the herd, beat a someone had shot at and nearly killed They were lowing quietly, the sun-
wraith -like mts`t from the cold, acid t1.im, that Davey bad an enemy who' shine making a sum nonis mist behind f
still. sleepingearth. would go to these lengths. When he them; the birds were laughing and .t
Davey was to steer by the stare till was book with her, he sight tell her hooting Among t'he trees,
he seine to a point on the riot] that himself what had kept lint away; but Deirdre roa0 to go and do the mills
would give him a clear sad easy dos-thelimit, in but Steve burst open the door
it would stretch her soul to g
Cent el tlua sale yards on- the autskit•be of anguish, Deirdre knew, to tell herifrom the tap -room.
of Me1ltourne. It was too late in the now. A moment before there had been a
year to try the usual route. He was „ ho was earning!
Flatter of, hoofs on the shingle. Steve
to take a warding track on the edge "Yes, Davey told me G g; stood on the sheshold the muscles of
of the swamp that lay between the' home," Deirdre said, arising. j his face twitching,
southern hills and Port Phillip, Only I Her eyes met Davey's mother's with i "It's Pete M'C.ol1 from the Wirree,"
the blacks knew the paths through the thein: secret no secret; but 1Vlary Cam -;he gasped. "He says—thec'un gat
asy it all seeing! What is there to
worry over? Whet a bugbear our
mothers .have mads of a very simple
thing! Good housekeeping, in one's
early mareied days, consists in pleas -
ng "John,"; giving him what he likes
o eat, keeping the house looking
I
brown -feathered reeds and dense ti-' eron was thinking only of her boy, and Davey at.Port Phillip for duffing!"
(To be continued ) •
Women Can Dye Old
Faded Tlhifrngs New
in Diamond Dyes
Each. package of "Diemen&' Dyes"
contains directions so simple any
woman can dye or tint her worn,
shabby dresses, skirts, waists; coats,
stockings, sweaters, coverings, dra-
"Al, dear!" Tears welled in Mrs. paries, hangings, everything, even if
Cameron's eyes. "How glad I'l1 be." she has never dyed before. Buy
Deirdre went with her into the well- '•Diamond Dyes"—no oilier kind—then
known parlor, and they sat down and perfect home dyeing is sure because
talked together awhile. There was a Diamond Dyes are guaranteed not to
new and tender understanding between spot, fade, streak, or run, Tell
thein. Mrs. Cameron talked of her your
loneliness and the joy Davey's hums- druggist whether the material you
coining would be to her.
wish to dye is wool or silk, or whether
"Oh, I have prayed so, Deirdre," she it is linen, cotton or Mixed goods.
said. "It has nearly broken my heart
being without him . . what with the
long nights here, and the sorrow that l
has come upon us.
That was. all she said of the other
trouble, yet it had almost broken her,
tree-scrnies• Conal had tried to cross in her anxiety, although she realized
it once In the sutnnter and got bogged that Davey and Deiedrs understood
there, losing a more of fine beasts. If each other, slie diel not ask any ques-
Conal could not find his way across; tions] and Deirdre said nothing, think -
it, the Schoolmaster did not think that; ing 1t was for Davey to tell his
Davey could. It was only in case of mother.
untoward happenings that he advised! "I knew you'd be anxious about
trusting to the black boy's knowledge him," the girl said with a sigh, "and
of the tracks through the swamp, and : that's why I mune. He's gone oven -
taking to the cover of the moss -dark,; land with some of IVIaitland's cattle;
almost impenetrable, scrub that cover-- but he ought to be back in a week
ed it ;now, and then he'll be coming straight
Davey had given his word to the 'hese." •
Schoolmaster that if he met Conal he
would give the cattle over to him and
return to the hills.
"I'd give everything I've got in the
world if you'd never been brought into
this business," he had said, deeply
mo'v'ed, just before Davey rode out.
"Father's blaming himself, Davey,"
Deirdre said.
Davey wrung the Schoolmaster's
band.
"I wouldn't have' been in it, if I
hadn't .broken my word to you;" he
said. "I promised you when I brought
up that first niob for Conal, I'd clear
out after, didn't I? But Conal offered.
me the job, and—you bet I wouldn't and had taken all her fortitude and pa -
if
been out of aa moonlighting it." Ming either, and
wifeliness to endure. An insane
if 1 conal 've helped it: of blind fidelity was part of Mary
"But this business --I never meant Cameron.
you to be in it," Farrel said bitterly. When Deirdre was going she kissed
I never meant to be in it myself, her. There was lingering affection in
Davey. Circumstances were too strong the pressure of her lips.
for me, A drowning pian clutches a a,Agy •heart gees out to you, dear,"
straw, they say.' she said, "It's almost as if you were
Deirdre had ridden to the valley, my own child. I love you like that,
She had watched the mob go out Deirdre. It was good of you to come
acs•ae, the plains, watched until men, to -day. Now I will get Davey -'s room
cattle, ]gorses and dogs, a moving blur, ready for him ... and the little room
in the mists, disappeared, eltugether, ,
and the faint lowing of the beasts: ? cu used tp sleep •in. You'll be tome
tains to her no longer. , sig to stay with us again when lie
She waited impatiently for news of lames ahome, wont you? Oh, I could
witDavey, though she knew none could ti,o aldl'ell ea willhcomhaeaagai�to think
$n
come for weeks. There were few Deirdre laughed, a little laugh of WARM LOVE ASSURED
travellers on this overland track. shy joyousness. She corbel not tell
Citral and one or two others had used grs. Cameron that she would be ecru_ Father: About this young man
it, with Teddy to guide them if they ing to stay with her altogether soon. of yours—how do you know that
wanted to take the short out across "Davey will be able to get on better :after marriage his love will not
the scrubs of the swamp. There were with his father now," Mrs. Cameron .grow cold?
well-defined northern paths into New i continued giving expression to her Daughter: Impossible, father!
South Wales: but it was a long and! dreams. "e will be able to get Don- 'Hes the owner of sixteen tone of
round -about journey to Port Phillip gild to do what he wants, without coal1
from the southern ranges. m brut His father has 1st -
Message That Miscarried.
"Father," Deirdre said impulsively may -of the ways he had, and you
one morning soon after Davey ha.c� wouldn't believe how he laves the boy, In a certain church ane of the duties
gone. "I'm going to see Mrs. Cam- spiteg, strange, of the sexton was to blow ter the or- s
eron. I've been thinking Elle must he dourway favman has of lovingtsmile- gin. The man was deaf. and perhaps
anxious about Davey and wanting tunes, dear—hard to bear..It. s love all
news of him,"t on that account had fallen into thee `
en
"Shell be glad to see you, 00 doubt;" love—thathe t Wes tovmalte 1e eaayn£or sontew'hat embarrassing habit of quit -
which is net hard when every-
thing is bright and new, and malting
neself the most attractive figure in
he picture. That is• goad honsekeep-
ng and very good hoenenumldng,
John" is sure to be satisfied with it,
ed, if it continues, be never will have
ust cause for complaint.
By and by, however, little rifts will
wear in the lute. The wife may be
ust as anxious to please "John" as
he ever was, and jttst as desirous as
he was sit first to keep everything in
apple pie order; but children have a
vay of changing one's ways, whether
r not one wishes to change them, and,
vith all the best intention 1n the world
o keep up to a certain set standard,
he wine and mother will often find
erreif snaking compromises, and coni-
ng down a little from her first high
deals.
This is where good housekeeping be -
ins to stsoiv; for wordy keeping a
ouse immaculate, looking just like an
xhibition of furnished rooms, is not
eally good homemaking. One might,
e very uncomfortable living in them,
o spatter how orderly they appeared.
To my mind, good housekeeping
consists in snaking the best of the
ituation, in keeping one's temper
rider control when there is friction in
he kitchen, -and in trying day un and
ay out, to make peace and happiness
he paramount features.
If a woman succeeds in keeping her
arae in fairly good order, in supply -
ng well -cooked and nourishing meals
o the fancily at regular hours, in
eeping herself neat in her dress, and
n being quiet in her denieanere.she is,
o my mind, a very good housekeeper,
rid deserves much more credit than
he ever will receive,
For there is one thing quite certain:.
good housekeeper is only truly ap-
reciated when the home has lost her
tuner wholly or temporarily. Then
he fancily realizes how much depend-
d upon "Mother," and, 11 her life was
nada up of little things, how much
vase same little things meant to the
onifort and happiness of the family.
Many women would gladly run their
souses differently from whet they do,
if they had time to step and make
hinges they have in mind; but life is
o hurried, and there is so much to be
lone that, as they say, they just do
he best they can. If they really do
het, what more can they do until
ansa of their burdens are lessened?
A house that is orderly may not be,
after all, a happy ]spine, and goad
housekeeping means a lot ntore than
ust ability to live up to a perfectly,
Tanned budget.
The Wise Mother.
The child who is fortunate enough
e have -a singing mother has a richer
heritage than perhaps it may r'eal'ize
for many .a year.
The home where the sound of mask
s never heard is one. lacking in the
true essence of the joy of life for "Out
of the fullness of the heart the mouth
speaketh." And where there is happi-
sets and the apontaniety of_ apprecia-
tion of blue skies, golden sunshine,
green grass and of. the simple. kindli-
ness of. family ,anti neighbors, songs
will bubble forth as naturally as a
cold pure spring from the heart of
Mother Earth,
Modern methods of child rearing,
have little place for the bedtime lull-
aby. But the wise mother will fond
a place and a timeforit, for the child
who has not been cradiod in its
mothers arms and sung to, has,muss-�
ed much of the sweetness of life:
Very' small children seer] show their
fondness for music when they hear, 't
and are taken into eecoupt in it; In
this way a love of mime is fostered'
and developed, and when the child its
' old enough , to 'begin its musical
studies there is a feeling of entering
into •a familiar and keenly anticipated
land in plane of into a strange ter,• -
tory which means little: We are re-
peatedly told that the child is bor 1
with a social and religious nature. It
is equally trice that the normal child
is born with a musical nature as well.
Environment has much to clo with de-
veloping this,
he sand,r +ting his task before a hymn was fin-
'`Trtere's ere sufbject you wdn't sacrifiece one.
allve Deirdre and ,shed,
Speak to her of, though, Deirdre,' hej "Sometimes a man loves that way One Sunday a new ntiuistee ems corn-
Sheadded after a moment's hesitation, too" Deirdre said. ing, and the young lady who Played
know what he'meant. He did Sha had swung lila her saddle and bL
not want Mrs. Cameron to know that 'e organ -naturally wanted to appear I
his sight was almost genre. was looking away before her, over the to advantage. As soon as the service t
ls. Far a moment
"Yes, I understand," Deirdre said. her -emist-ves lane ond hbgis. Cameron's face had .stared she wrote a note, and,,'
Socks, as "sensitive to the keen air,
with t y delicate banding it to the sexton, told him to
the sunshine, the flu ripplings. w'it its grey -green eves, con-
ti pp gs' and tour, exquisite Biro of lips, loving and rend it at ones.
joy -callings of the birds as Deirdre Evidently the old elan did not catch I
loveableHer face had Trost its youth -
was, .
wars, rollicked gaily down the track to her words• correctly, for to her horror
Cameron's. His white stockings ful freshness, but its beauty was un -
flashed as he thudded along; his un- impaired, so tender its expression, so she saw him go to the minister after
synod hoofs fell with a soft beat on compelling and pure the light of het' the first hymn and hand hien tile note.
eyes, though a lonely soul looked out The minister opened it and read; 1
the grassy waysides. Deirdre sang
p
softlyto herself as they passed under.
the axehing trees. Her thoughts went Deirdre pressed her heels into the
drifting away dreamily to the time chestnut: she and the horse dioappesr-
whan Davey would come back and she ed among the trees.
would call going to Ayr'nnuir, "goingShe talked of Mrs. Cameron to her
home." fa Ch r
IRON
'BONING, with a Hot-
point Iron, betimes a
Irleasanttask. Thlsfamcus
hen is so constructed thee
ow simply tilt it back on
seheel's tend without hay-
natolift ',^•»n 1
6'tt vs -
the fired feeling ta.
Qnany woven 05perienee
after freeing, is , entirely
eliminated,
For pale by dee leis every
whole, --
"flans la camas" by
caasdienilds5raivyalcotrlate.,
proltol
ear ()ince, Ttec,de
o.
"It would break your heart to see very much excited.
the change in her," she said. i "Oki, mama," he cried, as soon as he
"But I can't see' her any more," he' got in the house. "irate spilled some
peanuts, and what do you think tate
elephant did? He picked 'Sin all up
given Davey'smother for the fact that with his veer= cleaner." e
Dan had lost his sight on her aecount. Minard's Liniment for Corns and Worts
Mrs, Cameron never seemed to realize
it and that had angered• the girl. Per-
_
"Beep blowing steadily until I tell you
to stop." -
Keeping the Floor Olean.
Johnny came back from tae circus
seed brusquely.
Deirdre realized the wound that she
had opened. She had never quite for
haps Mrs. Cameron did not know
what the Schoolmaster had drone for
her, Deirdre told] herself sometimes.
But Davey knew and she -could hardly
believe that Mrs; Cameron was ignor-
ant, though she never seemed to take
the Schoolmaster's injufy as a per-
sene] matter.
Deirdre looked down on his face,
dark and sombre now. Scarcely any-
thing of its old reckless gaiety was
left. Limes bad been carved on it by
bitter thought and brooding on the
utter night he wee travelling into.
She ru'bbeci her soft cheek against
hIf1Tell°' he a:.,id, with an effort,
"how she ooks:, Deirdre,"
"She looks" the girl said Hesitating-
ly. "She looks --I can't explain how—
as if something that burned inside of
her lAtt gore out{'
1Bile sine% beautiful ---like she used
to be," he hogged. "She used' to have
a way AY ]boldin at you that I never
Oa* twirl anybody i
Isis• leo ee wgs lrenSling,
"Yee," Deirdre said slowly. "She's
beattifui le she used to be, though.
her air's; gat grey its it . . anti the
soler of the plank oh•chide has' gone out .
of her eche Anel she loops at you that
way—I know what you mean—as if
she were eeelns .. , not only the
outside you, .... its her eyes , . and
the way heir lips lie together tell you
'1
,
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For the Winter Party.
Apple cake -4 cusps flour, 1 tsp. salt,
0 tsps, baking powder, 1 beaten egg,
4 tbsps. butter, 1 tsp, einnamon, 1
cup •sugar, 1 cup seeded raisins, ap-
ples, 2 cups milk. Sift together the
dry ingredients and rub in the butter
as for biscuits, add the besiten egg and
the milk, work to a smooth dough and.
spread on a shallow baking pan.
Spread the top with melted butter -and
4 tbsps. sugar mixed -With 1 tsp. cin-
namon. Cover this with one cup of
raisins and cover the raisins with
peeled, cored and sliced apples. Babe
in a moderate oven thirty minutes.
Orange and raisin compote -1%
pounds seeded raisins, 3 cups cold
water, 3 naval oranges, 3 pounds cur-
rants, 3 cups sugar. Prepare oranges,
cutting in very thin pieces with a
sharp knife. Let them soak overnight
in the water. In the morning pick
over end wash• the currants end add
them with the raisins and sugar to
the .oranges. Boil hard for about 2
boot and put in glass jars, closing
while hot. Serve with meat.
French pastry—>, cake compressed
yeast dissolved in 34, cup lukewarm
milk, VI cup .ahopp.ed seeded raisins,
% cup sugar, rind rinof 1 lepton,
2 cusps sifted flour, 3 well beaten eggs,
eup flour, } cup butter, % cup
seedless raisins. Add the % eup of
flour to the yeast mixture, ;beat until
light and smooth and place in a warm
place to. rise. Beat to a cream the
buttes and sugar and add to the well
risen spongo • with the 2 cups sifted
flour, beaten eggs, raisins and, lepton
rind. Mix well and fill welt] buttered
muffin -tins half full. Place in a warm
place until light and double in bulk
and bake in a moderate oven. Remove
from the oven and cover at once with
a frosting snide from the following:
1 cup powdered sugar, 11 tbsps. hot
water, 1% tbeps, orange juice.
Cream of raisins—1 tbsp. gelatin,
Si cup milk, 2 tbsip . cold water, rt
eup sugar, ifn cup chopped seeded
raisins, Ids cup finely chopped nuts, 1
cup hot water, 2 stiffly beaten egg
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until dissolved and add raisin ntaxxtuee.
Chill. When, mixture begins to thicken
add nuts and egg whites' and feed in
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Molds. Serve with yellovt sauce.
Yellow sauce -2 egg yolks, % tsp.
salt, 2 tbbps. sugar, 1 cup ]rat mills,
Se tap. lemon extract. Beat egg yolks
and add sugar and salt. Add' hot mint
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A Financial Courtship
Romance of Investments told
in. Clever Short Story
CHAPTER
When James Allen died, he left
two daughters a small but Com -
bitable home and fifty thousand
dollars of life insurance. He had
been a quiet, taciturn man, taking
no one, not even his own daughters,
into his confidence,: Not until he
was buried and his will was read,
did anyone have the slightest Meo
of.his possessions. He had held the
fosition of Clerk of the Court for
orty years, and had lived comfort-
ably, educated his daughters and
performed his duties as a good citi-
zen. His wife ]lad died four years
before him. It now appeared that
he had adopted early in life the idea
of living close to his income, says
ing enough each year to -pay his
life insurance premiums, and rely-
ing on the insurance to taste care of
his family when he should he gone
-rather a dangerous, but not un-
usual, milky.
Ile had never discussed business
at borne, and hls daughter's were
absolutely ignorant of the first
principles of finance. They had re-
ceived the usual common school
education, and were now well ad-
vanced toward middle life, Hannah
being fore -two and Mary, thirty-
two.
When the first shock of the un-
expected death was overcome and
they found themselves thrown
wholly upon their own resenrces,
they were staggeredby the weight
of the responsibility. It is true•they
had a comfortable home and a mods
without male" lith or kin. There
was no man, no near relative,' they
could' go to for advice, and, with
the instinctive dread of women of
exposing their affairs to outsiders,
they hesitated to take anyone into
their confidence.
It was the evening following the
funeral, and the two sisters, in their
new black gowns, wore seated in
the little lonely sitting -room, read.
ing their father's last will and tee
tament, which was -very brief, and
left: all be possessed to thea jointly.
"I never had the slightest idea of
flow niucli father had," said Han-
nah, staring into space.
•"Nor 1," said Mary. "We always
had enough, but we lived very
economically, ao I. suppose we ,can
go on all i'igh t."'•
"Yes, but you must remember
w'o don't have father's salary any
moa"Ti
Ccs ns tnLeiv; eI onnevwerhathought ?0"
And an anxious look came over the
face of the yotmger woman.
1lire •usenet. 1't isn't as though we
were yotnig and could go out and
teach of become stenographers.: We
are almog too old to begin now,
and it doesn't look, Mary, as though
either of us would get married." A
sacs little laugh followed the words
and the quick tears'aprang to the
gentle eyes of the younger sister.
The wood "spinster" was indelibly
stamped on both their good. -honest,.
kindly faces and they knew the
world would pass them by for
est -fortune, but they were entirely fresher and snore brilliant ones.
For the continuation of tl is very Mullen story, read
"A Financial Courtship," which tells what happened
to the two sisters and their legal adviser. We will
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COLD DEVELOPMENT
IN QUEBEC POS,
MATHESON DISTRICT OF
TFMISIAAMING AREA. .
Noted Canadian Milling Auth-
ority Speaks in Optimistic
Terms of Future
Prospects.
There would seem to be no doubt
but that -wiine advent of spring
something.'afth .a goldtlush will be es-
perieneed by Northern Quebec, and de-
velopments.in the mining of this pre-
Cions mineral of a :sltbstitAtlal nature
are to be expected. Discoveries: of
placer gold in the Matheson district
of the Temiskaming -area were report-
ed in the fall of the year, unci before•
freeze-up hundreds. of claims had been
staked ever a wide area. Whilst the
definite importance of these discover.
Ms, which are being investigated
thoroughly by the Government,. IIdL&
not been established, mining experts
are practically unanimous in the
opinion that Northern Quebec is on
the verge of a gold boom, and that
sooner ,or later' extensive develop-
ments will occur to plaoe Quebec on a
position nearer equality with Canada'eS
other gold-pooducing provinces,
Mining opinion has commonly ]teld
that there are perhaps hundreds or
millions of dollars' worth of fine gold
lying in the sand of Northern Ontario
or deposited away in the hinterlands
of James Bay and Hudson's Bay. Gold
has never been found in the Province.
of Quebec in paying quantities though
prospectors have always anticipated
making a strike. The possibility of
the existence or gold is Northern Qne-
bee has always .had credence, thio
area adjoluing the rich gold and silver
districts of Northern Ontario and ly-
ing in the same.latitude as the Poreu-
pine and Iii:rlclancl Lake fields as well
as tits newer ones of. Northern Mani-
tuba, •
Marked Interest and Activity.
Quebec mineral" exploitation, not
alone in gold but also- in other miner-
als, has been hampered in the past by
certain 'peculiarities iu the provincial
mining laws which tended to discour-
age prospectors. These defects were
recently remedied, and unprecedented_
prospecting during the course of the
summer of 1922, with its attendant
gratifying reports, has been the re-
sult. According to the report of the
Minister of Mines there was a marked
renewal el interest and. activity in
prceeeeting for gold and silver in the
Abitibi region end tate Towiskaming
district. A. very appreciable number
of new olaints were staked, whilst
three substantial American syndicates
initiated extensive development work
during those months.
According to the reports front Gov
eminent offices, .Inuadreds of claims
have been staked and filing is continu-
ing throughout the winter. Most of
the claims are being taken out In
counties not far south of Lake Abitibi,
about thirty miles south of the trans
continental road. It is a region which
has been surveyed from a colonization
point of view and traversed by roloni•
ration roads, though there is yet little
development of any kind• Thepro•
grecs of dile field should, however, be
largely free from the difficulties and
hardships, which have attended tiro
development of other gold areas., ow.
Ing to the proximity of the transcono
sinental railway and the rapid -con-
struction of rho Canadian Pacific Rail-
way to Les Quinze, at the northern ex-
tremity of Lake Temiskanliug, bring-
ing the promising area within ono
hundred miles of direct communication
with Montreal and Toronto.
Alining engineers, iu general, are
tremendously optimistic concerning
recent developments and future pros-
pects, Faith' in the possibilities of
Northern- Quebec ]las never wavered,
and theca was widespread satisfaction
at the molithsaiions in the Mining re -
mentions whiob encouraged morn ex-
tensive prospecting. To quote a noted
Canadian mining authority:"If Qtte•
bee is to have now, at last, its first
sub,stantiel gold comp, mining in gen-
cral throughout the province will be
,:tinntlated cte'neter before. The hie -
tory of mining shows that there le
nothing so potent as a suoaessful gold
cloy eta pmarot In aiding the develop-
nheut of the,nth-er minerals, Quebec,
with easy ac=Ca,S to seaborne traffic on
the St. Lawrence, is in a favored post -
for overseas tra-do. We may logi-
cally look to Quebec as an important
factor in Cantedseeoverseas mineral
trade in the future, and indeed in the
!heal• fulore." - ...
Marching Orders.
The piinul is full of floating ice,:
'Phe ground is frozen yet,
But go around in Bud & Bulb's
Without delay and get
Some nsoouffewera and clematis seeds
For our pergola arch;.
15'e'll drill the holes to stick 'em
So hurry 11p now --march•
We went some. good tomato plants
And onion sets ---and say!.
Beans, peas and spihaeh too,' we'll
make
Our garden right sway, ,
And with such early earn and .beats
and lettuce tally the starch .
Clean out of ell the nelghbors--but
Tut on yam' !RM.—it's Marcia.
"Flo'wer's open and clone according
to Iempet aterc incl not because- of the-
daylight,' says a French scientist,