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Canada has large areas •of,hardwood tools, with the result that -ensile ilia
Maple was riot as .atrang of the hick-
ory it was amply iitrong for the- pur-
Dose. The firm in question bee car-
ried ou asi active campaign to increase
the use of maple handles end has Auc-
oeeded in building' up ea large trade.
. The Qanadian Fred's .Co ereleedono•r
at • Manchea•ter. •reliorts 'a growing,
trade aid a large market for last'
block for the making of .shoemakers
lasts. Thesealso are made of maple,
and the ainoant of wood used for this.
purpose .may be estimated „frbm tale
factthat two million.lasts are required
yearly.
There are many other articles .which
m4ght be produced from hardwood, es
pecially e the smaller 'lines of wood
goods. Maple and birch are being
largely 'used for flooring and interior
finish, being' very satisfactory for the
purpose. Hardwoods can lie used for
pulpwood, but, owing .to difficulties of
transportation and the heavy loss by
slaking of the logs little is used inthe
making of 'paper. •
Maple, birch and beech are three of
our more important hardwoods, but
elm, ash and hemlock are also used to
a considerable extent, elm being es-
pecially useful in the, cooperage indu s-"
try.
The above• tw•o suggestions, from the'
United- Kingdom may lead to othee.
uses being 'made of our hardwood for-
ests' to build ; up an increasing export
trade.
forests, tiro forested . provinces all be-
ing well stacked' with maple, birch and
beech. What uses it ban be tett to le
a prablenm which is at present intete
eating all concerned with the utiliza-
tion and, conservation' of the forest,
says the Natural, Resoureee. Inte111-
genoe Service of the Department 'of
the Interior,
Hardwood logging ha* been but lit-
tle developed., •due in. part to the fact
that there 114,5, been comparatively lit-
tle market ftirhardwood logs., and also
to •the fact that they cannot, be floated
down the streams to the mills as
readily as the coniferous arpecies.
There are;. however, many small face
taries in Canada tiling hardwood el-
ineei,`entirely in' manufacture, while
many of our largerindustries use
lorge quentities .of hardwood.. The
growing scarcity of the better grades
of softwoods, however, is causing more
consideration to be given to the use
of hardwoods as substitutes for many
purposes, and the volume iso gradually
increasing. t•
That Canadian maple is a very Bettis -
factory substitute. for American hick-
ory for handle. purposes has been de-
monstrated strated by a large -Glasgow, :Seot-
:land,'erm of handle ihneorters and die-
tributors. The Canadian Trade, Com-
anissioner at Glasgow retrorte the re-
sults of tests made as to the suitability
of Canadian rock maple for handles.
for miners' picks, axes, and similar
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Where do we go from here? A. Jasper Park ranger pauses for a few
moments to get his bearings and rest his faithful but weary steed.
Silver Poplars.
God wrote Hie loveliest poem on the
day -
Ile ' made the first tall silver poplar
•
tree,
And set It high upon a pale -gold hill,
For all the new enchanted earth to see.
I think its beauty must have made
Him glad,
And that He .smiled et it—and. loved'
it so --
Then turned in sudden sheer delight,
and made
A ,utozen silver poplars in a. row.
Mist 'green and white against a ter-
quoise sky,
Ashimmer and a -shine it stood at
noon;
A misty silver loveliness at night,
Breathless beneath the first small wist-
ful noon,
And then God took the music • of the
winds; •and Amid set each leaf a -flutter an a -thrill, for roximately twath9rds, or $
Today I read His, poem word by word approximately
Among the silver poplars on the hill. 888;602. Next its order of importance
Grace Noll Crowell. was foreign companies—mainly Amei-i
.� --- can -with $195,915,968, rfoblowedi by;
A Poem You Ought to Know. Brill& companies with $20,255,156.
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Life Insurance in Canada.
Insurance companies, in Canada re-
corded a gratifying 'increase in bed -
nese i•u 1923, ass compared with the
previous yeas,, acciarding to a bulletin
issued by the Department of: Insur-
ance. Life insurance issued. last Year
amounted in value • to $631,057,726,
made up of $519,712,489 ordinary, $95,
257 022 industrial, and $16,088,215
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'Brush the Cloud' Away New
Feat for Aviators.
The fabled performance of the old
woman of the nursery rhyme who was
able to `'sweep :the cobwebs out of the
sky" has a s'cientiilc parallel in the
ability of aviators. under some condi,
tions to brush ;sinall .clouds out of . the
sky by repeatedly flying through them.
A fair .sized summer cumulus of fair
weather" cloud may sometimes be ob-
literated by about 20 flights, through it.
While tI are is no adequate explana-
tion for.this effect, it ie thought to be
due to a combination ef the stirring
erect of the plane and especially of
the propeller, the carrying into the
cloud of weenier, unsaturated air, and.
the warming of the air in the cloud by
the compression effect of the swiftly
moving plane. The method works only
when the cioude acre about stationary
in size, and fails' when canditions are
such that they are growing rapidly:—
Science Service.
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Tax Collector in Plane.
Stories About We1l,wn People
King George :Likes a Jeke.
"Well, Mr. Morrison, have you
brought y er fireinap's lielrzaet with
you?" said .Icing ,George with a twinkle
i"ii his eye ie, R.A, :1,1orriso>r„ Labor:
member of .Parllai ent for North Tot-
tenhani, when he attended , a •court
function recently.
Morrison tells thie story aga'inet
himself and also 'the reason for the
King's jocular remarie It appears
Morrisonin a recent speeeh said that
if he had known what gorgeous'drees-
es and uniforms were to be; worn at'
the Speaker's, levee be would have bor
rowed: a iireinan'& helmet.
In the Garden.
Pink and white apple blossoms sud-
denly appearing, -
Malting May lovely after a late spring,
Coeeteilating the air of morning with.
e their beauty, •
Crowding and populating empty is
visible spaces
Long before the leaf, their coverlet of
green:
Clarions oaf"the world's unborn beauti-
ful faces,
Reminders of the ;exquisite loveliness
that has. been.
Perfect beautiful momentary blossoms,
I who am momentary could not long
endure
The tension of your beauty, the know -examined if the water is not too deep.
ledge that embraces. A water telescope for use with the
Beauty yet to come, Beauty gone be-' submerged flashlight consists of an
fore; open tube without a top and with a
The uninterruptible implacable pro- piece of glace fastened• ;in the bottom.
cession Its purpose is, to provide an undisL
•Of Beauty moving onward from the turbed surface without reflections,
Fountain to the Bourne. .through which to gaze. The user
Therefore I take comfort and walk for thrusts the closed end into the water.
a few paces: Looking through it, he can see objects,
at, a great distance under the surface.
Fisheem�eu in the West Indies• use the
water telescope, ;and the glass -bottom -
world through thick -lensed glaSeele the
Bight Hon. John Wheatley', Minister' of
eminent, looks less like a Minister of
the crown than perhaps most ef itis
celleagues.
taut appearances :mount for nothing'
in. Mr. Wheatley's tight. He declined
to wear a .lila hat when visiting Buck -
Ingham Palace, remarking that he` bead
never been in one end hoped he nei'er
would.
Of Irish parentage, Mr, Wheatley
a self -mad. man: He ie grim and deux
—a .typieal Scot. For year he lived
in a sIngle room in a crowded tete-
went, as one of a family of eleveu. ,fie
wonder his cry is for more houses!
Secret of Youth,
Works—Not Faith,•..
The-I3lshop of London tells a good
story of a meeting he attended recent - 1
ly, e arrived late, and when he be,
eau to offer apologies. the chairman
said that' all was right, bet:eere the
clock in the hall was not reliable, be-
ing usually minutes fast.
"I fear," said. he, "it's a question of
faith with that clack, Bishop." "Oh,
no," was the answer, "not faith, but
Works."
Wouldn't Wear Silk Hat When
Visiting the King.
Rather "stumpy" in appearance,
with penetrating eyes that look. on the
Wonderful Ellen Terry, thezrg'iieh
actress, who is now in her 77th year,
is as full of vivacity as in. her yotang.
days, and she takes a very. active In-
terest in everything around her.
A short while,. ago there was a die!
cussion on how actresses keep - so
amazingly young.
"Well," said Miss Terry with t
twinkle in her eye "I think the rea-
son is this. All women under thirty
like to think they are actresses, and
all actresses like to think they are tin-
der thirty."
Which puts matters in a nutshell.
An Underwater, Flashlight.
When anything is dropped into a
dark cistern or a shallow well, or when
for any other season it beconies� neoes-
eaay to make a search in dark water,
place- a pocket flashlight, in a glass
fruit jar and clamp down the cover,
with a new rubber ring in place. It is
of course . important that the jar ia-
clos4ng the flashlight • be absolutely
water -tight; otherwise the light will
be ruined.
The mens of the light should point
toward. the bottom of th,a jar, and the
jar must be weighted so that it will
sank. Bind waxed cord securely round
the neck of the jar by which to lower
It. The wax will prevent the cord
from slipping"
An interesting use. - of the under-
water flashlight .can be made at night
from a boat, if the water is smooth or
if a "water telescope" is used. If the
water is fairly clear, fish below the jar
can he inspected, or the bottom can be
Airplanes ., were recently successful By' the path by which it goes Beauty,
in collecting taxes from a tribe in shall return.
•A4esopotamia that had refused to `pay. —Oliver St. J. Gogarty;
•1:
ed boats of the Bermudas • and' Sane
Catalina are built • on the same prin-
aiple.
He—"Well, what do you think of the
wide open spaces?"
She—"I never saw such a mouth
before, I'll admit.'
Technique.
"Now, that doesn't hurt much, does
it?" asked the dentist kindly, as he
bore down on the buzzer.
"N -n -no," replied the patient feebly.
"The drill doesn't hurt so much, but
I'd be obliged if you'd keep your cuff
out of my eye."
Heat of Bismuth Crystal.
Heat will travel across a bismuth
crystal 50 per cent. faster than it will
in a lengthwise direction.
ou rit `oTri
affc D•° of
can!
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Few people, Canadians r A.meri-
group. This oomeares very favorably cans; appreciate the development
with the previous, year, when the total' wh•
ich has taken place in tourist fret-
allsount written was $577,631;603, an fit to Canada since the termination of
increase of $53,526,223. The amount the War. Various factors during the
of life insurance now in force in 'Cana-
da is approximately the same as•. that years of hostilities combined to keep
in: force in the United States in•1890, holiday travel within the confines of
wken the population of that country,
was 65,000,000.
Canadian companies, continue to
the continent, and since the signing
of the Armistice Canada has become
popular as a region of summer holi-
lead in the amount of insurance writ -..days and is growing increasingly so.
ten, althaugh competition from Amer!, .The charm of Canadian scenery and
can underwriters is. very keen. The the adaptability of the wide Dominion
amount of insurance- written by Brl- to every possible manner of outdoor
tilt • conmeanies -wee'; oomparatively divenrnibbn have been their team best ad -
small. Of the total amount issued ,in vertisennnts, and the news of one
1928, Canadian. companies accounted holiday, spent enjoyably circulated pro-
414,- perly,'1 induces many others to imita-
teen, of high
The'elevelopment to a state g
productiv a revenue of this new re-
source It eCanada's—the tourist -hes
There was an increase in the probably been wrought with greater
amount of lapsed policies! and a de- ease and rapidity than the e±ploitation
crease in surrendered policies; the
amounts being $73,562,586 and $218,-
429,860, respectively, as oompared with
$57,152,885 end $231,6S5,985 respec-
tively, in the previous year.
...The report shows that the amount of
businese in force at December 31,
-1928, as $3,483,855,454, ;divided as fol-
lows: Canadian came
an
Biritish companies, $97,879, -Ito be worth more than most of them,
001; and foreign ooih'panios' 0,148,071,- et is exceeded by !only three phases,
er
506, This is an Ineiase rf $202,009,- of agriculture, by mining, forestry and
Manufacture, It exceeds in value the
i ti e fur industry electric
power and construction. It has come
to be one of Canada's major resources.
Estmiate of Dominion Parks Board,
After a very careful oampilatien of
all the statistics available on the cub
Sect' ,tlia 'Dominiokt 'arks Board- esti
Mates the toitmistViaiftic to, Canada in
1923 to have been worth '$136,000,0., 0,
which is sontewhatit'ower than at
authorities, w1ic1144,..,liave placed it le
high as $200,000,00.1:.' The Board It
mats that third is a cdnkervative fi en
.lfut ;even eo it seta kis. item lis;\tt A'
the order of, the sources of °tame, n.
revenue, In • the cons'Meraticn . at
beyond the work of certain Govern-
ment branches and the ti'anslior'ta tion'`
companies, little has - been done in
Canada to ehcourage thee tourist, it
lsowerfully suggests to What great
limits it might intelligently be develop-
ed.
The potent charm and insistent Iute
of every section of the broad Domuinlon
is evidenced in the .fact•tliat every ileo -
wince of Canada shared substantially.
in the rooeipts hentourists, 'though
nat(rally certain areas benefited to a
leech greater •extent than othtre. -whit
is not always b natter of greater at
"He That Loves a Rosy Cheek,"
A dozen lines suffice to give a man
immortality in literature if they he
{food .enough, and it ie certain that up-
on the following twelve rests the last-
ing fame of Thonmas Carew. He was
a contemporary. of Shakespeare; and
• died at the age of forty:--
Ple that loves a rosy cheek,
Or n colar lip admires:
Or from star -like eyes dtitlt seek
Fuel to tuaintain his ilres: •
As. old Time makes those decay,
So his flames -mu;st'Waste away.
But a smooth acid steatlfnst mind;
Gentle thought, and calm desires,
' Hearts with eciival love conibifted,
Kindle never -dying ires:e--
Whirethese are not, I despise
'Lovely, cheeks or lips or.eyes,
et any other 'of the Dominion's great
natural gifts. Students. of the Domini-
-on's great mineral deposits, fisheries,
fur -bearing regions and forests would
scarcely think of comparing the tour -
let resource with them in point of re-
venue obtained.. Yet with scarcely
.any effort exerted tourist traffic in
anies; $2,187; Canada has co in a material sens
e
traction, but frequently depends upon
the 'extensiveness. and patency of the
advertising of these regions, the con-
veniences provided fora holiday traf-
fic and skilfully brought to the atten-
tion
ttention of •tourists, and many other fact-
ors. With the largely even distribu-
tion ' of Canadian holiday attraction
and the peculiar lure of each sector
each province of Canada should be re-
ceiving a handeonne revenue from the
holiday-makers who come to disport in
the Dominion.
According to the Board's statement,
-British Columbia headed the list last
year in the mater of money value per
province iroan tourists, the most re-
liable estimate from that province
having placed it at $36,000,000, though
some estimates go much higher. Al-
berta, which has several of the na-
tional parks, including the Rocky
Mountains, which is every year prime
favorite and most extensively patron-
ized, is credited with a revenue of
$20,000,000 from tourists. The prairie
provinces of Manitoba and Saskatche-
wan combined are estimated to have
received $10,000,000 from holidayers
sojourning there.
Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes.
Corning tu Eastern Canada, it has
' been more difficult to get figures. for
Ontario, but taking into account the
vast stretch of country from Kenora
right through to Ottawa, into which
tourists from the united States pour,
and""also having regard to the tremen-
dous hue of Niagara Falls and other
amount is credited to Quebec, which,
in -view of the tremendous extent to
which holiday travel to this province
has increased within the past few
years, and the great number of Ameri-
can tourists who visit the cities of the
French province in the summer months
of the year, seems unduly conserva-
tive. •
The estimate for the Maritilne Pro-
vinces is $10,e00,000. Of this, $4,000,-
000 is credited to the Province of New
Brunswick. In the --'consideration of
the attractive qualities of the Annapo-
lis Valley, the Land of Evangeline and
other charming and romantic spots in
this province, the sum of $6,000,000,
attributed to Nava Scotia, does not
seem an excessive amount. t Alto-
gether, with the entire Maritime area,
a region of most exquisite charm and
appeal, with opportunity dor every pos-
sible kind of holiday, $10,004,000 is a
relatively insignificant amount to be
credited in a year. _
There is accumulation of evidence
048 over the 'nutount in force at tle
end of 1922.
Divers Tongues.
Mrs. NouveateRiche—"I-Ie's getting
on so well at school; he learns French
and .Algebra, Now, Ronnie, say 'How
d'ye do' to the lady in Algebra,"
1Zottsing conditions for the birds are looking up, Four Ontario school
boys proudly display the results of many bones of hard Work.
Choice.
... By- inti2.15-,.z"'cut
Last week I talked to a. sailor,
Who was young and wild and strong;
(Or, rather, lee talked and I listened),
For an Hour, perhaps. not long.
And Jens, whom I'd promised to marry
But an hour or two •before—
Jens', who has lived all his stunted life
On a leaf -enshrouded shore.
Jens passed at a little distance,
And I knew that he frowned at me;
But I sat very still, and I listened,
WbAle the sailor talked of the sea.
He used strange words that I do not
know—
But I saw brown feet on alion sand;
His eyes were hot with the lure of
quest—
And he said 1 could not understand—
But I saw wide spaces and: flying
spume,
And ships in the lone black nights;
I saw with a poignance almost pain
The passing of dim green lights:
1 heard the wail of following gulls,
I felt the whip of the cold white fog,
And 1 saw a man in a dripping slicker
Bending over a log—
that Canada is boiroming more popular But I shall marry Jens, you know,
every year with those people of the And live in a prairie town, in the
continent in search of diverting hole Where never a fog -horn blares
day. The breadth of the Dominion morning,
gives it wide variety of natural beauty And never a ship goes down--
from Atlantic to Pacific, and few eoun- Goes down to the sea with her sing,
tries can, within their confines, rotier Mg crew,
the tourist such latitude of attraction. With her anchors up, with her saili
Coupled with this are ;excellent rail- unfurled,
road facilities, and a fine system of \VIiere never a woman waits like atone
motor roads which le being c,onlintude For a man on 'the rim of the world.
ly extended. 'Alters holiday-makers Aud lie asked ramie—Jens, 1 mean. of
are discovering Canada each year, and
Canada'snew resource, the tourist,' is
rapidly increasing in its value to the
country.
course—
What the sailor maid to me.
popular apo s and a ye y g And what was the thing he talked
about,
I answered --"Poetry."
-..-The Lyric West
mobile traffic, it is thought that $30,-
000,000 is fairly reliable. A like'
And
New Canadian Apple,
The nmuch. prized Wilder Silvet,
medel, the highest award of the Amore
can Potnoleglcal Society, the oldest
borltcultural hotly In North America,
has boon awarded to the Central Ex-
perimental Farm at Ottawa tor the
sixth time, The medal oe this oeca-
sloe was given for :the Lobo apple,
any of the many fine varieties et, Mc
Intosh Red parentage originated at.
thee Central' Farm, The ILobo is ate ap-
ple very siinllar to the McIntosh, but
ready for fuse, about a month eariter,
thus- leugtheniug the season of apple&
of Mcitltosh appearance and flavor.,
It has proved very Ineer isiug not only
in the provinces of Ontario and 'C ,ue-
tack, but in the state of New jersey,
where it has been fruiting ,;eves)
years.
Mrs,
Tb e ancient •custciu of an anm ual "Floral Dance is still `Relit up ni Corn-
*oll i11 Vales, To the rhythm of a sprightly' tulle, couples dance in and nut; No
iiYt;nc*�itm.ui:we tett
g
of the doors of all the houses along- a given route,
uined by spew.,.,