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These Are Trees of Life Br W. U WTiltUesery Tfe« •ncuni«at for our Arbor Day \» written arouiia tt>e Mediterrauean S«a, In letters v( barreu plaia anU stonjr mountaio. a mile bigb aLd buudrrda ot iDi!ea widA. Forests, woo<l«, and Crovcji aj>d trequently mentioned In tbe OM Toetument, not In the New. So aUo are »ucb troes aa the tir, cedar, oak. and pine. They were gone by Chrtot'a tide, and He knew Uiem not. Tbe Crusuderi cut down the olive (roves about Jerusalem to niak« aiege (Imbera with wblch to batter In hor gates. In Uie lon« turmoil which fol- Kiwed there n'e« no replanting, and tbo bills o{ Palestine took on that rock-covored desolation Iroin which tboee slope* are being painfully re- deemed to-day. The Dead Sea has no borderlnc toreata. The lifiht i>oil of Syria and Anatolia wa&hea frightfully beneath the rain when there are no mpvised forest roots to hold it together. Italy's problem of bleak mountains, raging floods, and dry summer gulches la modern. Stone cutting can give Italy bouses, but cannot give her soil. The only way to get that is to put the trees back on the hills. In southern Prance the farmers ter- race their ba/re cut-off mountalne and carry up In baskets the soil that has been washed down for lack of forest rootage to hold it. An American sol- dier saw this> and aald: "The French ought to love their country. They've made a lot of It by han-d!" They are carrying- the war of growth to victory over barren nature. The defeat of the Great Armada marked the end of Spain's foruts as well as of her na%-al supremacy. The Spaniard's "hatred of a tree" became a proverb and desolated the hill »Iopes of Mexico and Peru as well as of Castile and Aragon. Turk* and Spaniards fought many yeard, but their destruction of trees conquered them both. Fire bared the mountains of Maderla (which means woo-d), and the resultant floods have swept much of the soil Into the ocean. From An- gora to Lisbon the Mediterranean lands will never again support the human life they once did until the treea have been restored In France, as In California, troa planting has Improved the soil and softened changes ot climate. Man- made forests have aaohored the sands back of San Francisco end brought more rain to western Nebraska. Over much of the <>o-called "American Des- ert" trees now seed themselves. Both France and Germany have proved that permanent forests pay Just as tbe old Roman rugious have proved that dead woods mean dead lands. John Evelyn, friend of Bam Pepys, wrote hla "De Sllva," a forestry essay In Latin, In those most heedless days of ('harlo» the Second. That book planted a million oaks In seventeenth- century England, and from these were hewn the k-ools that rolled down to Trafalgar and ended Napoleon's dream of mastery on the sea. When Ed- mund Burke likens the policy and con- stitution of a great country to that ot the oak, he is praising steadfast hu- man wisdom which plants lor the needs of a hundred years hence. Our Individual part in all this Is clear. These life-giving trees are planted one by one exactly as they are felled one by one. The gigantic figures of our lumber needs and lumber losses all root back to the acts ot men who either care about trees and Increase them or are careless of trees and des- troy them. Much of our country's area Is owned a'nd much of It will al- ways give Its best service to the nation en woodland. That must be made the owner's care. Much can be done by lightening taxes on forest land, by making city, provincial, and national forests ex- amples ot the best art of tree raising, by proving that it pays to raise good crops of pulp and timber, by penaliz- ing heavily those abuses of greed and carelessness that turn the green wealth of our new continent Into the barren poverty of old Europe. But the base and driving power of this crusade for a better llfo will alwaj-s be found In that spirit of Arbor Day wherein, as Spenser's "Faerie Queene" has £aid: Much can they pranse the trees so straight and high, Ihe sailing pine, the cedar stout anl tall; The vine-prop elm; the poplar never dry; The builder oak, sole king of forests all. Photograph shows Livingstone's lirst view of the Zambesi, from one of the scenes in a new motion picture plfiv of the noted explorer's trip acrcos Africa, the exteriors ot which were made at the locale. DEVELOPMENT IN QUEBEC velopment. The most adequate trans- portation facilities are already pro- vid'cd almo.st into the heart of the area and there is promise cf extension. The area is adjacent to a huso block of SPRING RUSH' TO GOLD splendid agricultural land the worth PIPI r» PRFniPTFD I °' ""^'*li 's dellnitely proven. Much rUilA/ rRE^l/lV.^ 1 E-l/. ! preliminary work has besn done by • . I j the provincial goverr.m-ent already and _ J A • 1» 1 C »*1 ' ^f'"^'*' offers of assistance made to Increased Agricultural OSttle- settlars. , in every consideration Que- ment Will Follow as Natural I ^t". f '"'"1? ,«'=P«'-'«n'=° "^ ^^ «p"°8 which will bring with it as a natural Consequence. consequence increased agricultural set- ' tlement. The most reliable and conservative authorities predict something ot a rush to the Ncrth-western Quebec gold field with the disfl.ppearaneo of the smowB in the s^jring. The significance of th,ia to the raining Industry of Can- ada la at once understood. Us bear- Ilf/tJ^i^'rl \^^ .^°'.'* ^'fJ """^ f' A Poem You Ought to Know. hlb.ted their faith in its ultimate de- . „^ Retrospective Review " Thomas Hood, with his inveterate habit of punning, said, "1 have to be a lively Hood to make a livelihood." Editors paid him much for his fun and little for his fancy. Yet, anicng poets ot the second rank, A Busy Quceou Queen Mary ot Enrtand to by oo means what many goot peoote aUU hazily imagine a queen to be: a grtmX lady of much leisure and many prlTt- leges who occasionally wears a crowa Instead ot a bat. Sbs Is a bus? and useful woman, and in tbe sense of be- ing fashionable and a leader in ele- gant society she Is not a great lady at all. Social dominance in a wider sensa sho of course has; hut the Britieh "smart set" is not tbe court set. In the matter of clothes she followa the fashions "after a fas-hlun," but aha has no Instinct for style. Oddly enough. that circumstance add-s to her popu- larity. The great Brttlah public have long accepted the fact that to the wo- men of France and America belong na- turally style, chic and distinction; and the public rather distrust excessive elegance as un-Englibh. Their owa Ideal is that ot the Queen herself; clothes notable rather for good ma- terial than for the manner la which they are made or worn. "Many a thousand Englishwomen," says Mr. David Blumenfeld in the Montreal Star, "would rather not- go out than be seen in shoddy though fashionable costumes. Hats that cost pounds on pounds adorn Queen Mary's head, but their cost is by reason of tha stuH in them, and not on account ot the milliner's name. 'What Quean Mary wears to-day Paris never wore, ncr will,' was aptly said by one ot th» h.3 holds 6 secure place by virtue ot his ; ^^^^ ,^^_^^^^ dressmakers In the world. "Bridge of Sighs," "Eugene Aram, | ..^^^,^ q^^^^ j^ ^p ^y ^j^^ ^^.^j^^ and breakfasting in a tweed tailoit ^ , made coat and skirt. This meal »h« to influence legislation against sweat- j ^^.^^ ^.j^j^ ^^^ j^.^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^, in^" The followlne verses, extracted < ^^^ ^^^3 ^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^ j^^.^^^^ and "I Remember, I Remembar." His famoi!,3 "Song of the Shirt" did much ing." The following verses, extracted from a longer poem, show both the humor and the pathos ot Hood : front door seme fine spring morning your wife calls after you, "O John! I Ing upon the agricultural Industry ot want to have a bed of double petunias * Oh, when I was a tiny boy p • Q 1 I My days and nights were full of Joy, rreciOUS deeds. i jjy ^at^j ^.^^e bUthe and kind! Supposo ea you are going out ot the No wonder that I scmetimeij sigh. And dash a tear-drop from mine eye. To cast a look behind! London Bridge Built Century Ago. On March 15, 1824, one hundred years ago, the first pile ot the London Bridge of to-day was driven deep in- to the bed of the Thames. The pres- ent granite »tructure is the work ot Sir John Rennle (though his father actually designed the bridge) and was seven and a halt years In the building. This was becaueo work had to bo be- Kun In a hole. The authorities ot that day Insisted that Sir John build Im- mediately above the old bridge, the latter to be left standing until the new one was finished. Now, tha old bridge, built way back In eleven hundred and something, â- tood on a hill, the foundations of the piers being 28 to 30 feet above the bot- tom of the river on either Aide, this being the efCect produced ui)on the river bed by the scour of the tides, up and down. For hundreds of years Lon- don Bridge had been a kind of dam, 700 feet of the river'e 900 feet of width at low water being at one time occupied by piers; consequently the Iietsage of the waters through the many arches resembled a torrent. Eight hundred men were employed on tlie new bridge, and of thcne forty lost their llvas through accidents ot various kinda, The Corporation paid almost a million and a half pounds on the bridge and its approaches. It Is a tradition that you cannot cross Ix>iidon Bridge without /leelng a white bora*. Once upon a time one couldn't cross It wlthooit seeing also heads, human heads, fresh from the executioner's basket. Henry VIII. es- pecially was fond ot deroratlng. the bridge with heads. There Is a story I that the Bishop ot Rochester's head j wa^i placed on the bridge and remained fresh and lifelike for two weeks, bo ; that crowds collected to see the mlr- ; acle, an Incident which annoyed the 'â-  King so much that he ordered It j thrown into the river. This was done, j but they put Sir Thomas More's head I In its place. Quebec and the province's general colonization efforts la not so readily eeen. Yet it is pointed out that a gold boom which Is Justified by "eposits and the permanence of the camp is the greatest colonizing factor in the this season. 1 wis-h you'd buy some seeds to-day." And suppose, adds Mr. Allison Gray, A hoop was an eternal round Of plaasure. In those days I found A top a Joyous thing: that you should actually remember But now these past delights I drop, your wife's request and should stop at the seed store on your way home. In history of developing countries, as the spite of that strange feat of memory history ot other gold mining areas has you are Just an ordinary man ; you proven. This being the case, the Pro- know nothing about petunias. Until vlnce of Quebec should benefit In a your wife mentioned se&ia you thought peculiar manner. ja petunia was a gland! Pituitary or 'Twas papered o'er There would appear to bo no doubt Petunia, it was all the same to you. themes. You do know something about nastur- The taste I wrote â-  tium seeds perhaps; so, after guessing j dreams at the amount needed tor a flower bed, Will never soar so high, you eay to the clerk: | "Give me an ounco or two ot double My tootbaU's laid upon the shelf: My heads alas, is all my top, And careful thought Uie string! My kiteâ€" how fast and tar It flew! Whilst 1, a sort of Franklin, drew My pleasure from the sky! with studious about the permanence of the Quebec gold mining area. No new mining ] area has had more thorough expert In- • vestlgation and probably no rush in history has had greater Justification. ' my pleasant j I am a shuttlecock myself shows Th* world knocks to and fro^ Whilat it Is generally agreed that the petunIa seeds, field wIU develop sjowly, this develop- • To your surprise the clerk raent is assured and the ultimate evo- ^'sns o^ falling into a fit. When he My archery is all unlearned, lutlon of an industrial area of intense j ''^ recovered his power of speech he And grief against myself has turned Such an ! stutters. "D-d-doubl© p-p-petunia seeds. < My arrows and my bow! Of Praise. There i» a potency in p.-alse; Along earth's multicolored ways The threat of 111 fades In eclipse It one wears praifio upon the lips. The praise ot beauty, praise ot good, Of human klndnosa, not ot feud; The praise of love and not ot strife, For loving is tho right ot lite. Give me to go through all my day* With Prayer which U tbe soul ot Praise I â€"Clinton Scollard. Face It I Whenever a difficult taak Is youM, Just face it wltli courage, my son; Don't grumbl*, don't shirk â€" Got qwlckJy to work, And before you know Itâ€" 'tis done! â€" E. B. Brown. Listeners are learners. AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME « ( I W^TOf "iCUtt-'f -Vn ounce "Yes," you say, "I want enaugh to make a nice bed of flowers." "Well," says the clerk, with a glance of mingled scorn and pity, "an ounce of double petunia seeds will cost you, at a rough gues9, at the rate of two thousand dollars a pound!" It's your turn to stutter now. But you manage to explain that you don't want a petunia farm! You Just want a nice little bed In the back yard. activity a future certainty. area definitely established and con- tinually expanding furnishes a profit- able and Fure market for a certain amount of agricultural produce, and inevitably prosperous farming areas develop about mining territories. It has been pointed out that many of Quebec's farming settlers annually find their way across the Ontario bord- er to the vicinity of the Northern On- tario mlnlur camps. The New Mining Area. The new Quebec mining area Is pe- culiarly situated. Roughly the gold belt runs along the souUiern edge ot the Great Clay Belt, which, with tlie excei)- tion of the Prairie Provincasv contains the largest amount of unsettled fertile agricultural land in Canada. The area between tho trans-continental railway In the north and the Inter-provinclal boundary is somewhat greater than the Eastern Townships ot Quebec, one of the greatest areas of varied produc- tion In the Dominion, whilst the pro- portion ot arikble land is mucii greater. There had been very satisfactory ' great deal smaller than grains of sand, settlement In progress In the district ' People sometimes mix them with sand Oh. for the garb that marked the boyâ€" The trousers made of corduroy. Well ink'd with black and red; The crownless hat â€" ne'er deem'd an 111â€" It only let the sunshine still Repose upon my head! Why We Doff Our Hats. Most people extend the right hand on meeting a friend, but few realize "All you need is a packet ot seeds," that they are imitating the cavalier ot After breakfast, like the King, she has her corres'pondence to attend to. Every girl ot from fourteen to sixteen writes to the Queen begging tor her auto- graph; every lovelorn maiden in the la^t resort writes to her to expose her gaping heart wounds, begging for a word of sympathy; every pushing society matron or charity-bazaar dame tries to Inveigle the Queen into tha mr.shes ot correspondence. "When her correspondence Is finish- ed tho Queen will probably change her costume and motor out to a hosipltal or a children's home in which she may be interested or to a large factory where hundreds of wonten are employ- ed. Women's welfare although of- ficially a duty from the Queen's point ot view. Is as much a hohby with hex as any ot her private pursuits are." Domestic, motherly and wholly un- spectacular. Queen Mary Is loved for the traits that hava made her womanly rather than queenly. She has, how- ever, one unusual and most fortunate gift, a truly royal memory for nam»3 and faeea and for the characteristics and family histories that belong with them. "She Is very often asked by King George to come and chat in hla apartment with one ot those many notables who are requested to call at the palace from time to time â€" explore ers, men of science, famous foreign diplcmats and the like; and the Queen, without being prompted, will at once begin to ask questions about things that happened to the men fifteen, twenty and twenty-five years before." says the clerk. He produces a very small envelope, takes your fifty oenta and then re- marks. "Guess you don't know much about double i>etunia E<eeds. L<et me show you." He tears open the packet and care- the Middle Ages, who held out an un- armed hand as token that his sword was sheathed, and that he was friend and not enemy. Greater Than the Gtuter. Prior to June 2Sth, 1302, the day up- on which King Edward the Seventh would have been crowned, but tor a sudden attack of appendicitis, tha hlghes't honor in his gift would. In most people's estimation, have been You take off your hat when you en-, the Order of the Garter, and' it is s.tlll ter a house â€" but why? It is because the premier order of chivalry lu the the knight of old doffed his helmetâ€" . world. fully extracts a smaller envelope. "The *the most vital part ot his armor â€" when On that day, however, a new "Ord^r" seeds are in the Inner envelope," he h-e arrived to show that he came in was instituted, which, for •'^al distlno* explains. "But you'll have to look peace. And as he touched his helmet tlon, takes precedence of any other. sharp, or you won't find 'em. People on meeting a friend to show that he It Is the Order of Merit, which is Mmlt- often bring a packet back and say Itjwaa prepared to unhelm, his descend-! ed to twenty-four men and women ot was empty when It had enough seeds 1 ant ot to-day touches or raises his hat. \ extraordinary eminence. It confers no in It to start a garden. They are a ~ Even the clothes we wear are dis- j title, only tbe addition to the name tinct in showing allegiance to more an- of the magical lettere "CM." cient ones. What Is the Norfolk Twelve outstanding figures In out since the oonclus'lon of the war, with i when they plant them. That's almost j Jacket but a reproduction ot the chain- national life were originally selected a substantial agricultural which la Bwellng each year. south cf the field, the new lino ot tha | Canadian Pacific Railway penetrates an old-established farming section with twelve municipalities and twelve towns and villages. The farming popu- output, ! the only way tliey can see that they mall hauberk, with the belt for the To the , have planted them." j sword? The frock coat is the old time Well, here is something el8« that , \v«fenrok, which was worn over ar- may soirprise you, a true story about | mor. the seeds of a common garden vege- The clergyman's cassock is a sur- table. Some years ago the Equitable j vlval ot the days when almost all men Building in New York City was d<e- ' wer« skirted; while the wig which to- latlon of 10,500 has been successfully i troyert by fire that burnt tor three engaged In agriculture tor years, send- ! days. It was bitter cold weath«r, and Ing Its products down Lake Temlskam- 1 the shell of the ruined building be- ing. It Is e.'.tlmated that this area, , came ccated with Ice from the streams now given direct communication with of water played on it. On the ground Montreal, Toronto and olher markets, j floor was a bank. After tho fire a re- has over 70,000 ucrca of fine land yet ; presentatlvo of a certain larg« seed un'pro<luctive. company went to the bank to recover It is In this expansive area, of whidi ' tho valuables that the lirm had de- posited In the vaults. I doubt wht^ther you can guess which of tha valuables he w;vs most concerned about. It was cauliflower seed! Years bn- tore tho firm had developed a new variety known a8> "snowball cauli- flower." At tho time of the fire their Uie township* of Rduyu and Uolst'hatel form only a small part, that the Que- bec Oovornmcnit has for some time been concentrating Its colonization ef- forts, to find liome:i for the young peo- ple of It* older ftuin.s and alienated sous who are c<intlnually finding tlieir way back to their native land, t'ulonl- entire crop cf seed from tho snowball zBtlou lots have hpon broken, acreages cauliflowers of tho season before wca on each prei>«r«»d for incoming settlors, stored In the vault. It waa worth and houses and bams nrected. Colonl- statlon roads havj been built at great exponso and the mo«t advanced stops taken to prepare the way for the col- onists It is hoped to secure to popu- iHtn tho re«lou. Adequate Transportation Facilities. Tho development ot the gold mininc area must Inevitably set this coloni- 7utlon effort forward with oonsUIei^ble impetus. This has been the experience of Ontario, where some ot the most proRIHvrouH taniving settlenientv have evolved about the mining areas, where with the adjacent mining oommunlUos m^yvldlng lucrative markets, the long waiting of pioneen was considerably shortened. Quobec'a »llii:.tlon in this regard is l>oo.ullttrly advantageous. Both the pro- flnclal »ov«Tim«ot and the railways forty-eight dollars u pound then, and tho vault that the company hired was half full ot It. During the three days of tha flro the vaults had been expos<(>d first to the heat of the finntes; then they had be- come coated with Ice. Tho all-Import- ant question was whether th-e little germ of Ilto in tho.se precious seeds had withstoo<l the experience? A ger- mination test was Immediately made, and to the luunense relief of pveryono cxincerncd the Be«ds sprouted. If I were lo pray tor a laato which would stand me In stead under every variety of circumstance and be a source of happlnetui and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its Ills ... It would be a ta.ste for reading.â€" Sir John Herschell, day barristers don links us with tha time when every gentleman wore his horse-hair peruke. for this honor, but, with the death ot Lord Morley recently, there Is now only one left ot the original members. Admiral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour,' who is now in his eighty-fourth year. Among the present members ot this unique order are Mr. Lloyd George,' Earl BeaMy. Lord Haldane, Earl Halg, and Thomas Hardy, the novelist anil poet