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mm FROM ENGLISH MOORS Old Kngland Is lusUDCt with Idylls ot kings and poets, pilncis and »linp1e folk, and In no part are lhe«t« more Cwmuuu to tb«.lr environiix-iil and tti«lr people than In Uevuu. Of Ira- Tellng tn Kugland Willtam Wintera haa said: "Theru »houl(l b'U no lub.v- orab1« route, for lUc cMof i-hurni ot English tr«v«l U liberty of cai)ilcp; , rich with the lllerury lulir^rltanre of ' KnKllHli balluU, folk houk, pluy and ro- ' iinnce. { Slowly winding downward from Uila ! valley of tlit- Tjooniw I caaiK upon a !>«c!ii(ie<l coicigo tiKked against one , of t!iB blivck inoorti. In (rout of it, [ spannt-.l by an old itoue hridgR. was u j ' little t9(r<>am of which Coleridge might ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES A noise like of h hidden brook In the leafy month of June, ftud whichever way you mrn you are : have sung •ure to tlnd •oiii peculiar beauty that will reward you; (iu«»t." FV>Uo'wlng his advice I had B<rani- bled OTer the : ock Ijound. ]a<ged coast i That to the sh^eplng wood* all night of north Drvcn until I had found my ; Singeth a quic-i tune. way up the Lynn and H.igworthy val- 1 leya and had com;.' out at la-f t uikjo the j The hoatesB of the cot canio out, greot- lofty table-land 'ying between two | ing me wi:h ruddy face and genial Tale*, with nioors roiling away on j smile, and bearing a truy on which eltber side to the tree crowned heights | wi>r« strawberries, a bowl of I)evon- Inoloplng this remote and silent spot, sliire cream and toast, enongb for a Pr<jni Childhood I had l>6en familiar j i)!utoon of King Charles' troopers who, with those riiCKed scene* through j no doubt, had known the sweetness of Bluckmore, Kin^Hley and Hardy. With this fare. She might have !>««» Moth- tlieni I had wanMtred in thought over I or llidtl or Ijorna's aunt â€" she seemed Ihese iK-athtr-covorod moors, the pur- so a part of that story of long ago In pie interspersed with the sunshlne-yel- j which 1 had been romancing through- low of the Korse; had scrambled over out the day. the cllfls of the bordering coast with i As 1 looked out over the moors from Us coves and s^ciuestercd cuves; and luy garden seat, watching the light had made arqualntajice with hardy ', and shadows "on summer hills that folk of tlio district. While the actual ' lie." Wordsworth's lines came to my valley lacked some of the precipitous- thought: neftx and wildnew of Blackmore's set- ting, it was ••a.sy, as I surveyed It, to fill In any dicrepanais* with imagtnarr detail*. WTiat a wrongliold this spot might have made for outlawed gentry of the Plantagenet and Stuart kings, I tiiought, r.s I made my way from the mosa-growu Klulce-way along the peb- bly bed of the little stream which divides the plateau! And then, as it to substantiate the Impression, on either side of the stream wore revealed half-buried semblances of what once were huta. No wonder that Blackmore ' Hero are sweet peas on tip-toe for a and 'iingsley and Hardy could ^pin ' flight: romanc-es with such backgrounds! In •â-  With wings of gentle flush o'er a deli- A siirface dappled o'er with shadov t flung Prom brooding clouds; shadows that lay in spots Determined and unmoved, with steadj beams Of bright and pleasant sun«hlne Inter- posed. And Keats himself might have written of the shower of sweet peas climbing over the trellis of the old cottage: these surroundings, the past with Its j rough and hardy living. Us Mother Melldrum, Tom Faggua, and Carver Doone returned and wrapped me about like a cloak. Suddenly my reverie was Inttrrupt- ed by the bark of a sheep dog and then by the voice of his mistress, who informed me that these foundations And To cate white, taper fingers catching at all things, bind thean all about with tiny ring*. j A Strange Object bought to light. FROM DEL HAVEN TO GRAND PRE The sun had long dipped behind the clouds and hung its rod cap on the hills ere I moved from that old- faa- were the luJns of the old Doone huts. ; hlonud garden. I dropped slowly down And I thought of Ix)rna as I had often ' among the shadows of the moors, seen her through John Rldd'.s eyes: | watching the long black wings of night "By the .sih- of tho streiitn she was i creep across them; listing now and coming to mo, even among the prim- roses as if she lovnii them nil; and •very flower looked the brighter as her eyes were upon tla-ni. . . . The pale jleam o/er the western cliffs threw a shadow of ligijt behind her sun were lingering." My first view of Grand Pre was afar off from the little village of Del Haven on the opposite shore of the Basin of Mlnas; and owing to the wonderful fascination of this western shore of the basin, it was some time before the drive of a few miles, partly along the course of the Qaspereau, was made for the closer Inspection of Grand Pre. One has the sensation of being on the "Then the orcharda that dot, all In oi^ der, the green valley floor. Every tree with its boughs wefehed to »tructure, earth, lilce a tent from whose door again to the soft bleating of sheep or the far call tf the shepherd-woman on her lonely fastness. I watched the strange lights that como and go over the moors, fleeting and Illusive, till as if the; they came no more and the world was left to darkness and to me and ever to planet Mars, when In this region ofU-heat and oats and rye which exhale Nova Scotia, the tone of the beach and the richness of the earth. One may shores 13 so unmitlgatedly red. Then, drive to the top of Blomidon and look too. the shrinking of the water In the down upon all this beautiful garden as basin twice a day to a width of some [ jj jigg fg^j. below In ground, Its crest alone lit up by the rays of the departing sun; and perhap. I j^„j ^ {J^^^ ,^^ forth.-yet the signs far out on a dike, still In a flood-tlde ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ' ^^ of sunlight, may be iseen an old-fas- hioned ox-team with hay wagon atr tached. . . . When one finally makes up one's mind to leave this loveliness and drive from Del Haven to Grand Pre, what other loveliness Is the reward! What wonderful orchards! .... Fields ofi Yet it WBP not alonii John KIdd and that gallant company of romancers and bis visits to this haunt of the Dooiies I roeta who have drawn iii.spiratlon for that w re now fllling my thought, but j their lyrics and tales fiom the siibllo rather was it the moors. For their Old atmosphere, that lingers over downs, .^ World atmosphere lingers in the dark the deep valleys, the llllle rlbbrns „( i "^'"'^^ shadows and follows along the rofky I streams running among the lush green torrents that tunible down from the i meadows, and the hedgerows and wooded lillls; their associations :ire| winding lanes. ..I ..cj itv. uoiun lu squares of many i five miles less tlian It is at high tide tints. . . . When the Gaspereau la â-  parallels very well the strange be- 1 met on the way to Grand Pre, it has ' havior of the canal on Mars, as It is ; become a gentle atream flowing i describwd by homo astronomers. . . . ; through a peaceful vallev. . . . The ' The hank.s all along this western ; ^ver starts a little lake of the same • Bide, limiting tht, encroachment t,f the name. ... For the first few miles, ' For the Lonely. Aloiip; And In a world of friends! Rave you ever tried to imagine what it would b( like? "Woo to him til at la alone when ha falleth." Everybody dreads being alone. Anything loet Is full of dis- tress. A dog that has lost his master is frantic with anxiety. A dog is a social animal â€" like ourselvesâ€" and loves friendship as iniiy ns he is a real friend. Most of Uiose who read this will be ! anabk to realize fully how lonely some j people are, for moat of us have been | able to find H way out of our dlfllcul- ! ties. I When w« have Ijc-^-ii with our backs ' to the wall we have iisually been able to ask a friend for help, and that help j has been forthcoming. i But try to imagine your life without a single friend ; none to sthy to bear i the uiiburditihig of your heart and i with no iMiilonce wiUi your n isfor- ! tune. Try to think what It would be | like If every star In your social sky Was It Murder? He â€" "After we defeated them In the boat race we took their sculls away and hung them In our boathouse." She- "Oh, horrible! Why haven't you all been arrested for murder?" I tide, look as if they had been caretul'.y cut down with a huge knife, so straight I up and down are the Hues. . . . The vary in height, but they are never very lofty, though the land nhove them is imdulutlng, ending lu the ridge, which . . . forms the Im- l)oslng and peculiarly beautiful Cape IJIomidon, five hundred and seventy feet in height, with Its red sandstone wul'.s and battlemented top of gray trap rock, and Its growth of solemn 11 rs. Hed, red everywhere are those banks, and at their base, as at the base of HloniWon lt.selt', stretehea the red beach, as smooth and s-eemlngly ae level as a floor . . . The tale Is told at Del Haven that If one were at the outermost edge of the beach when the tide turned, he could not walk fast enough to keep from being overwhelm- ed by it, so rapidly does It rise. . . . The magic of low tide when It oc- curs near sunset in tlia-glowiug after- noon light. Is hardly descrlbable In words. Patches of dampness left on the beach by the receding tide refract the light lu such a manner that the whole atmosphere becomes radiant with melllug rainbow tints. . . Ulomldon looms somber In the back- Silver Poplars. His loreltest poem en the I God wrote i day went out «nd you were encircled with j He made the first tall silver poplar •a Impenetrable gloom. You want to give your frleuciHhlp aad no one deelree it; .vou ask for eom- radeahip and no one rt'spoud«. There are many llvee like that. Have you ever htiKxl In a crowded chy street and tried to realize what It would lucfin to be absolutely alone, without friends, money, rn experience? Th»re are soitt â-  pt'oplM lil<e that, tirely f^1endIe!^e and alontv Charles KlngMloy was u very gixxl- tampored, sympaihe^ic individual A wonian onoe asked hliu how It was he' f^^^^^ poskoaeed so '..vlng a dl8po;.ltiim. and,' nuoise sky with a look of profound tbankfulness. ' ^.^hinmier and he replied: "I once bail a friend." f«B, and BO say all of us v,hen wo think of tiio best In our lives. Il:id It not been for a friend who helped us wbMi we neednd help anl heard us when we ral'tvi we should have been in tliB world tnday hopeless and for- k>rB. It Is up (o us '<• be ns friendly a-- we C4UI be to the lonely and unfortiiiiato. If we could bear the sighs of the lone- ly and know the eniptlnees of many a llto around us, we ehnuld respond with- out beattatlon. We should be more toter&nt. more kindly, and, moreover, we should reap where we had sown tree. And set It high upon a pale-gold hill. For all the now enchanted earth to see. I think Its beauty must )uMre made Him glad. And tl:at He smiled at It and loved It BOâ€" ®°' ' Then turned In sudden H.ho.3r delight, and made A (loiEen silver poplars in a row. green and white against a tur- bine it stood at noon ; A misty sliver love'.lness at night, Hrcaiiilesb beneath the first small wist- ful IllOoH, and as it flows through the settlement of Canaan, there It a wild beauty and grandeur in the scenery. It rushes Impetuaualy between two lofty and al- most perpendicular hills. . . . When llnally the valley broadens out It be- comes a most poaceable little river, and when it nears the Basin of Mlnas Its waters mingled with the tides from the salt marshes. Bliss Carman has pictured all the beauty in this fine poem, '"Fhe Valley of the Gaspereau," with the loving touch of one who was born In this land: The great ropes of red fruitage and russet, crisp snow to the core. Can the dark-eyed Romany here have deserted of yore Their camp at the coming of frost? Will they seek it no more? Who dwells in St. EJulalie's village? Who knows the fine lore Of the tribes of the apple trees there on the green valley floor? "Who indeed? From the blue moun- tain gorge to the dikes by the sea. Goes that stilly wanderer, small Gas- pereau; who but he Should give the last hint of perfection, the touch that sets tree BYom the taut string of silence the whisper of beauties to be? The very sun seems to have tarried, turned back to a degree. To lengthen out noon for the apple folk here by the sea." â€"Helen Archibald Clarke, in "Long- fellow's Country." Royal Horse«hoes. The custom of taking a hors«^shoe as toll from every King. Queen or Duke OIL DEVELOPMENT IN WESTERN CANADA By O. O. Ommaaney, M.E.l.C, M.LOJU The search for petroleum in Weat-I ern Canada, first undertaken about) 1884, and prosecuted in various •«»{ tlons of the country with ^ulet p*r»l sisteuce and â- pasmod'ic ontbursts ofl enthusiastic energy since that data, has! to-day reached a phase of greater in-l terest and promise than wver before.! Since 1884 over 400 wells tuive been! started at various points in the Pralrlei Provinces and the Mackenzie River' Basin, many of which have not been' computed but which accumulatlvelyi have added to and<K>nflrmed the con-' â-¼Ictionâ€" now alnaost underlying these TloUonâ€" now almoet a certainty â€" lougt eatertaloed, that somewhere, underly- ing these vast areas will be discovered! perolenm pools of commercial size. This conviction ie not the outcome of uninformed optimism but 1» based en known geological facts and on re- sults of Bucceesfal oH exploration la; tho United States immediately to the fcouth of and almost up to the tntciv national boundary line. That thei same strata which hare contributed! •uch great production In these adloIn-| !n( areajs extend under a vast territoryi in Canada, from the international' boundary to the Arctic Circle, id known, and even wltliout the evldencej of recent discoveries, he would be a pessimist indeed, who would expect to And these rocke, so prolific of oil ira-' mediately to the south, to be barren! and unproductive north of this imagin-' ary boundary line. To-day we have sufficient proof that na/ture has sbown> no such discrimination. The Turner Valley Field. In the Turner Valley some 35 miles south-weet of Calgary, favorable located and drilled some; fifteen to twenty years ago, resulted in a small flow of oil. Activities in this field led, in 1914, to an oil boom' In that district out ot all proportion- to results obtained. In 1924, RayalitV No. 4 was deepened from 3,175 feet to 3,740 feet, and at that depth a very, large flow of gae, under extremely high pressure, was encountered cariTlng; with it crude naphtha ot 70 deg.' Beaume. So important has this dis- covery proved that a separating plant was built and a pipe line was con- structed to the Imperial Company's re- finery at Calgary, 29.4 miles dis'tant, and during 1925, 156.766 bairely of naphtha were sold, the sales averajr- Ing 430 barrels a day for 365 days and during the first part ot 1926 as IiIrIi as 579 barrels tor 90 days. This remarkable discovery has rtinm- lated development tn that field, and' work Is now In progre&s on 15 new! and reconditioned wells and m.\ny new. wells are planned. It Is believed that the Royalke discovery indicates the' existenoe ot a much larger oil pooi" than previously gurpo.*cd lying at^ greater depth, and It is anticipated; that several of the wells now belngj drilled will tap the productive horiron about in July of this year. Mackenzie River and Edmonton Field.' A few years ago the Imperial Oil "The crowds of black Sipruoes in tiers from the valley below. Ranged round their sky-roofed coliseum, mount row after row. How often there, rank above rank, they ^ have watched for the slow there are more than a hundred! horse- who rtdes through Oakham, the county j Company extended their exploration* town of Rutland, is a very ancient one. â-  •'"''tb^ '" "i? Mackenzie River Basiu.l The right to claim the shoo originated : where the probable productive strataj in the time of William the Conqueror, i He nearer the surface than farther; and was supposed to encourage peop'e I south. Their drilling operations at| to patronize the local trade of aboeing. i Fort Norman had the important effecti In the great hall of Oakham Castle ;»' proving these strata to carry ollI Silver-lanterned processions of twi- light â€" the moon's come and go! liow often as if they expected some bugle to blow, ' Announcing a bringer of news they were breathless to know. They have hushed every leaf â€" to hear only the murmuroufl flow Of the fvmall mountain rivea sent up from the valley below! . . . where structure is favorable, thus aiv-' ing encourageme-nt for search farther, south in -Alberta where the oil rocks are at greater depth. Yet another field has added to the growing weight ot proof of the v.ilue' of Western Canadian oil fields. At Walnwrlght, the British Petroleum Those who put the l«ast iinto life wells have proved oil saturation In the are usually the most dissatisfied with ! sands ot abotit 2,200 feet and brought shoeft. Including one from the present Prince of Wale«, from EMward VII., Queen Victoria, George IV., and Queen Elizabeth. Some of the ahoee "are glided, but otirars are ordinary iron shoes. what they get out of life. And And tlien Uod took the music of the winds, fie! each It-uf a-Hutlor and a- thrillâ€" Tv-dav I read His poem wi>rd by word Among the silver poplars on the hill. - Grace Noll Crowell. Chri*tian4ty should be «> presented In tl:c lljfht of fuller know'.edxe that th* b AS of e lucated opinion will awing 1 ! ascaiu t« the Christian position. â€" The Anfio-Saxona g«ve nentes to Riiih<>p of Birmingham. many localities from their sup^.o'ed j â€" -*--- ra««inbl*n«ea to p«,rt« of the human .<^.Uiri^tied Knen should always be body, aa hea^Kand, a ne«k of land, a | soak tl in cold w^er so that the old tonciM of l*nd, the moiKh «.f a ri.. r, ' starch is .softened aitd rentoved In the th« brow of a hill, the foot of a hi 1, i Nva&hir.it: othorwite there Is a i»ni- •n arm ot the km, and to on. j ency fc.i it to turn yellow. in a production of 75 barrels a day. The oil is heavy, ranging from 18 deg. to 24) deg B. The Edmonton Waln- wrlght oil well at 2,23S feet has brought lu a producer of 150 barrel*' a day. On the Interprovlnctal boind-, ary east of Walnwrlght, O. S. Humej •of the Geological Survey, worke<.l dui^' ing 1925, and his report Just published Indicates striictural conditions here In certain areas very favorable to the presence of oil. Throughout the Prairie Provinces Konie 44 wells have boon drilled or deejvened since the be- ginning ot 1925. This brief rtvlr^w shows th»t the 8<*arch for oil it today being con- tinued along couservutlve lines based on sound information and the experi- ence of past years. It is no longer a problem as to whether oil exists or not )a these areas, it has becxime a question only jOf tappli'^ the hidden reservoirs at the right iwlnts. ] Alberta production for 1925 reached i the important tlguro of 189,432 bar- i rels, and for the first time exceede4 ^that of the Ontario fields and alon* ; exceeded the total production of Can- ada for 13:;4. Th*-*s figures speak for ; themsp-Ive-. of progra-ss made. New Hritish air liner, largest In f immercl:^! air service, launched reomtly at Coventry .V.radiome. Its s'is may bo judged by the motor car below It is called the Argosay and Is propelled by triple engluos so that the failure of one will be negllflble. Th« plane will carry 20 passenfers, j English aa She It ftpoka. "TMe K » pretty backward s»rln§i" "Yes. it Is the most bath^ll waatMf t'vs ever known at this tisM of 7••l^^