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^ . i fm iim im . ^/m ' m t*n f â- â- > ii^n m'lt'utSS Canada from Coast to Coast Halifax, N.S. â€" A new process for the rapid freesir.,; of flih is reported as successful by the Atlantic Experi- mental Station for Fisheries. Fillets «nd fish were frozen in strong brine in 60 minutes, whereas the ordinary process of refrigeration take* from 24 to r.O hours. Saint John, N.B. â€" Fish exports from Canada continue to increase. In the twelve months ending August, 1926, the total value of flsh shipments from the Dominion was $35,892,462, its compared with $84,962,900 in the twelve months ending August, 1926, and $30,13.3,415 in the period ended August, 1924. Montreal, Que. â€" A cable from Lon- don, England, states that the London County Council is to set up six wooden houses made of Canadian lumber, after the Canadian pattern, as a try- out. These houes, semi-detached, will be erected under the supervision «f the Council's architect at the new estate at Becontree. Toronto, Ont.â€" There is an urgent demand for trained or partly trained help for the lumber camps just now. There is also a considerable demand for farm labor in various parts of the province. Winnipeg, Man.â€" The capacity of the grain dryers of the Government elevators in Saskatchewan will be tn- ereaaed immediately from 20,000 to 60,000 bushels pelr day, according to Leslie Boyd of Fort William, chairman of the board of grain commissioners. Regrina, Sask.â€" More than 20,000,- 000 bushels of wheat have been handl- ed by the Saskatchewan pool elevators to date despite, unfavorable weather conditions. The pool elevators broke their own records recently when they • unloaded COS carloads, or the equival- ent of 850,000 bushels of wheat in a 'day. The Saskatchewan wlieat pool j now has 575 country elevators in op- eration and six under construction. Lethbridgc, Alta. â€" Concord grapes are being: successfully grown in Al- ! berta. The Hutterite colony, south of this city, gathered 17 large baskets of luijty fruit this year from South Dakota plants. Vancouver, B.C. â€" The first ship- ment of Brit'sh Columbia apples to the United Kingdom aboard an "apple ship" â€" S.S. "Narenta"â€" went forward this week, 20,000 boxes of the frviit. Space has been taken on three refrig- ; erator lines to carry 300,000 boxes of this year's crop. Efforts are now being ; made by apple producers to obtain a I refrigerator ship that will take from i 100,000 to 200,000 boxes to South Am- erica, thus openi'ng up a new market for B.C. apples. The Opportune Moment For Immigration Effort. agrricultnral prosperity to Canada for years to come. BY C. W. PETERSON. It is clear as daylight that the psy- chological moment for a country to lB^::ich a comprehensive colonization campaign is when her agriculture has oefinitely entered the upward swing^; ^^ ^ „^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^i^^ S^r- Western history and the experience of . .^^^ ^^^ ^,i„^^ ^^ ,^^^ ^„ liberties, those who have been m close touch i ^^ ^.^^ ^^ ^^ ,^,^^_ j^^ ^^^ ^^ with colonization work there Pomt j^^^^^j^ ^g^^,^ ^^ everywhere at once, unmistakab.y to the fact that failure: ^^.^,.^^j ^j. ^^^^ ^^ j„„^ .^gtj^g ^ ^^ ^n^k I a n H la vhjx f*^<kn t-^ka^ nKiiTn /« ' fk. r/\ The Elizabethan Housewife. Thomas Tusser gives the character of the good country housewife iu his "Five Hundredth t'oluts of Good Hus- bandry." Practice teaches her how to govern her household, and she SURVEY MONUMENTS Inoreuing Importance of These Being Recognized. In man'a earll'%«t civilization naiural creased, iha Increasing value of mora . boundariee such as rivers, ranges of permaueut survey muuuments was re- hUls, or dense forests nerved to limit cognized. A post consisting of au the territory over which neighboriug iron pipe with the centre core fllled , bands of hunters chiimed rights of with cement, with a foot-plate to pre- j proprietorship as against all others, veut It from being pulled out and hav- { NVhen the family became the unit as Ing a bras.-i cap oa top to receive th«» ' Ulatlaguished from the tribe and when proper loacrtptlou for the coruer, waa I rastoral pursuits were engaged in BOT-e division of laud among the varl- I oua families was necessary. These i boundaries or dividing lines were no ' doubt first roughly defined but as population Incretised and individuals became more and more Interested in design^-d. and is now In use on all Do- minion lauds surveys. This post is durable and is not easily removed. Be- ing planted flush with the ground it in referenced by pits or a mound in or> dor that It may h« readily found. These monuments have proved very ALAN COBHAM Over whose return after a 28,000-miles flight London has gone wild. The actual time was 320 flying hours. The de Haviland machine he used was the same Iu which he flew 17.000 miles to Rangoon and back, and 16,000 miles to South Africa and back. the acquisition of wealth it was necte- eauisfactory and the boundary lines cf sary to actually mark the division farms or lot* thus marked are relative- lines. Hen:e the an and practice of ly permanent. There are, however, land surve}'lng came Into existence large areas iu western Canada not so and with it various types of survey , well marked and Dominion land sur- monumeuts. | veyors in the course of their other Early Survey Stakes. ' duties are putting down as opportunity ' offers some of these permanent survey posts wherever they may be worlclng. Extend to Arctic Ocean. In Western Canada where all the original land subdivision has been car- ried on under instructions of the Sur- veyor-Genera! of Dominion Lands, De- ThuB these survey i>o»t3 are not all «n the land is the greatest obstacle to sharp eye into u'lswept corners, de- theeffortsof the various agencies de-j^jj ^^^^ ^^^^ jj^^^ .^^ ^.U,ch she voting time and money to furthering i ^^^^^ j^ advisable for h.ir retinue to immigration into Canada. It is also I shift their linen! She la up at cock- a trite ..laying, but in strict accordance ; ^^^^ f„ ^.^^^ rising en the part of the with the truth, that the successful set- ^i^tress ruins even a good servant. tier is cur most eifective colonization! At once she sets all to their tasks- egert. Common sense upholds both; ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ,,^njp_ ^^me to pe«l nish- of these assertions. Canada can now|gg ^^ ^ ^^^ ^g candle-wicks, others â- with confidence enter the field with a ^^ spin or to card or to seethe brine. vigoi-oua effort to lar^ly augment her' producing population and with the added assurance that in no period of her history were the opportunities r-ore favorable for getting the fullest I g^rvanls wptl, though not daintily: all possible va.ue for her expenditure on ^^^^^ ^^ i^^ij. ^vork properly are sure Sho herself serves at the break- fast for men and maids, dealing out a mess of pottage and a morsel of meat to each. She believes in faeding hor C^ada Has Second Largest List of Broadcasting Stations. Sixty-one foreign countries, geo- graphical divisions, or territories are listed as possessing more than 360 broadcasting stations, according to a compilation of foreign radio broadcast- ing stations. Just issued by the Elec- tric Equipment Division of the United that object. The time is favorable for a great, forward looking colonization and agri- cultural development policy, because a'rriculture is undoubtedly now in the of a good meiil, and she lilcea to hear her maids singing as they go about their t-lsVs. . . . She ^supervises very carefully the bread baited for her establishment. There's An Old, Old Saying. There's an old, old saying of long ago That helpe when the spirit Is faint and slow; Some one aweary In far off years Fashioned it softly, with grateful tears. In the morning, mountains; In the evening, fountains. early "sweet bough," At the break of dawn there are hills : supplied by consular officers and other! (Is the tree that we used to climb to climb I represenUtives abroad. Recent sta- growing there now?) As steep as tl»e stars and as old as tlstics of the Bureau of Navigation of -And 'russet.;. ' whose cheeks are as time, the Department of Commerce placed ' freckled and dun But onward and upward the brave . the total number of broadcasting sta- ! -*-s the cheeks of the children that partment of the Interior, the earliest ; confined to the subdivided areas of the survey stakes used were of wood, but western provinces, but are being it was even then recognized that a ' placed at many other points. There more permanent form of marking was ' le a considerable number along many advisable and very soon thereafter of the main waterways of the North- iron bars were used, first at township ' west Territories and of the northern comers and then at all section cor- \ portions of Manitoba and Saskatche- ners. Attached to the early type of ! wan. They extend for instance from iron bar at section corners was a j Waterways, a railway station ihrea square of sheet tin on which the sec- . hundred miles north of Edmonton, to lion numbers were stamped. These â-  the Arctic Ocean, and there is another tin squares, hov.-.-ver, proved so at- 'â-  connected series from The Pas to tractive to the Indians who often made ' Lake .\thabaska. The locations of all necklaces of them, that tliey were i these posts are accurately recorded, later on discarded and a bar with aland they serve as references fv. all squared solid top on which the infer- i other surveys, explorations or 1 . ;^il- mation for the corner could be stamp- gationa of the adjacent areas, iu the ed was used instead. These iron bars mapping being carried on by the Topo- were far more permanent than wooden graphical Survey In Ontario, Quebec, stakes, but they could be easily pulled New- Brunswick ana Nova Scotia, out and many of them were used in an : these permanent survey posts are be- unauthorlzed manner as tethering Ing placed at all prominent points and stakes. I are available for futur* reference for As land became more valuable and all surveying and engineering pur- as the amount under cultivation In- poses. Apple Harvest. Comfort me with apples! States Department of Commerce. This j Bfing the rlpo meilow fruit from the I list was prepared from information and process of entering an era of greater New bread is wasteful, and bread prosperity. It is estimated that there which has been kept too long goes 19 a total world area of 13 million mouldy; it is her pride to achieve the acres of arable landi and that it takes golden mean beFtween the two. She> the products of 214 acres to sustain has no use for extravagant meals, each head of population. This would j even when guests arrive: three dishes provide the bare necessities of life for 'are enough to entertain a friend. No .5,200 millions of people. It is esti-' scraps are wasted; with the bones mated that with the present rate of they are thrown to the dogs when the increase this number 'vould be reached i meal is over. well within a century, so that babies i She makes her own candles, and now born would witness the struggle saves feathers for the beds and pil- of mankind for bare existence or lows. ... In the evening supper Is wholesale starvation in years of ex- ' not served until she knows that the tended crop failure. Of course, snchj cattle are all housed or settled for the! a calamity will be averted. The pres- 1 night, and that no clothes put out to | ent world-wide decrease in birth rate i dry have been left in the garden to | is n:'.ture's corrective. ' be stolen by passing vagrants. She j Agriculture the world over has de- Mocks up her dairy and her ches.t and, veloped through the crude, ruthless Puts her keys carefully away at bed- j directive agency of the law of supply "me- -After supper all are dismissed , and demand. The farmers have, inj'o bed, and no candles are allowed in obedience to this law, for several de- j •"»"», hayloft or shed, cades suffered through demoralized 1"^ winter at nine and in summer at prices due to an oversupply of agricul-l *^° tural products. But the reaction is i To bed after supper both maidens and now unon us â€" the pendulum is swing- 1 men. ing the other way, and we have defin- â€"From "Elizabethan Life in Town heart goes. There's a halt with the dark, dear repose. In the morning, mountains; In the evening, fountains. The hill of life is a lifting way. But the long trail levels at dip of day. tions in the United States at 534. aj Canada follows the United States in number of stations, with a total of 54. Australia has 24; Spain. 22; Mexico, 20; Germany. 20; Sweden, 20; United Kingdom. 19; all of which are owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Company. holding a monopoly; France, 19; Cuba, 18; \ad the dusk is sweet, and the night â-  Brazil, 16; Finland, 12. i.s blest j Stations have been unofficially re- With dew of dreams and waters of .ported throughout Russia, wlilch has rest. play iu the sun; â€" Comfort me with apples! I Comfort me wlih apples! Gather those streaked with red. that we call "morning ligh-f." Our good f.ither set, when his hair liad grown white. The tree, though he said when he [ planted the root, ,' "The hands of another shall gather the fruit;" â€" Comfort me with apples! In the morning, mountains; In the evening, fountains. -Nancy Byrd Turner in Youth's Com- pauion. ReeJization. If I could think some goodly thoughts To cheer the heart of any man; If I could voice some helpful words To reach the heart of any man: It I could do some kindly thing To ease the pain of any man; Then I would know my mission fllled Of teaching love to every man Comfort me wiih apples! no stations or meter lengths listed in i the compilation, but the Electrical! Equipment Division states that it is ' doubtful whether there are stations ' Go down to the end of the orchard, outside Mos-cow, Odesso and Lenin- 1 and bring grad, which have been heard in other! The fair "lady-linge-rs" that grow by countries. There are seventeen Rus- the spring; slan cities in which stations are be- : Pale "bellflowers," and all lieved to be operating. pippn burnished with gold. Like the fruit the Hesperides guarded of old;^ Comfort me with apples! Miss Kate O'Brien Young Irish woman writer, has wen great di^tinotion iu London with her first play. "Distinguished Villa." It wan U!-st banned by the censor, but after modification i>assed and was en- thusiastically received by a first-night audience. One of the most variable Canadian export products is hay, according to the Natural Resources Intelligence Comfort me with apples Service of the Dept. of the Interior. Get the aweet "juinetta," so loved by Exports of hay vary roughly between â-  the bees, 50,000 and 500,000 tons annua'.ly,' And the "pearmain" that grew on the chiefly to the United States, Britain.j queen of the trees: â€"Eugenie du Maurier Meredith. ' France, Newfoundland and the West! And close by the brook, where they i Indies. In the latter islands Canadian! hang ripe and lush, -> There might be less enthusiasm for | hay has to meet competition from Go and shake down the best of them hiking if motorists were more chary sugar cane leaves which are used as a! of their offers of lifts. 1 fodder and sold at very low prices. itely entered an era when food pro- ducts of all kinds will command a pre- mium in the world's markets. It would be absurd to argu« that in the face of constantly rising commodity prices, which will be maintained through the org:anization of industrial labor, prices of the basic necessities of j life should decrease. I repeat that} agricultural returns for the coming! half century will rise to an increas-l ' Ingly satisfactory level. This tend- ' ency is well on th3 way even now. > This prediction is not visionary. It hai a definite, historical background. ' Wheat, Canada's great, staple export, â-  is, more or less, ths controlling factor *ln all agricultural prices. The com- and Country." by M. St. Clare BjTne. We Always Find Time â€" â€" To do the thing we want to do If we want to badly enough. â€" For pleasures easier than we find time tor duties. -â€"Dies hard for the man who baa to loaf and kUl it. â€" To listen to the man who has a compliment for us. â€"To get our boys out of Jail, even if we did not have time to chum with them. â€" To knock an administration even when we don't have time to vote. â€" To do the regretting after we negloct a friendship for lack of time. 'paratively low wheat prices that have 'prevailed until the past couple of; Canny. ycArs cannot be regarded as in any An uneducated Scotsman made a . A-ay normal. Canada row enjoys a fortune. One day he and an aiquaint- j . virtual monopoly of the sole rsmiining ance wero talkhig, when the latt»rj . undeveloped hard wheat acres. Our caid to old Duncan: j wheat should, and presumably will, -ycu don't know enough t-i go in- "command a considerable premium in dcors whe^n It rains. Why. you can't ! the world'.? market. Europe consumes oven E^e'.I 'bird.' " < about 600 million bushels of import "U-u-r-d." said Duncan. I wheat annually. She now produces 50 [ "i tell you you don't know anythin*. per cent, of the entire world wheat why. If ytva had to spell to make a ' cro|) â€" about 2 billion bushels. She living voud have be«n dead years ago. imports only about 35 per cent., con- fil bet you c fiver you cant spell' â-  sequently the European peasant vir- -bird.' tually is the controlling factor in ! ru tak' ye. " r?>plled Duncan. world wheat prices. Because for every I After the mcn^y waa put down Dun- bcshel of overseas wheat placed on can said, "B-i-r-d." tho world's bargain counter 2 busheU j "That Is not the way you spelled It . of European wheat must be sacrificed,, the first time." • and there is a very distinct limit toi "i wicina betUn' then." ' tho ability of the European peasant to I 'sell his products below cost. He must ,turn his attention to something else, which he will do and prices will go 'up. Aside from the economics of the ' wheat situat'on, there is nothing in history to warrant the belief that jiricJS will not remain permanently on (Jte sa'.isf'ictpry basis of the last two ifir?. whrcl. wll'i ensure reasonable Universal Language. "Can your baby brother talk yet, Bobby?" asked the aunt. "Well, yes, " replied the little boy, "but not In words." If your name is not in the social column, look for it in the police rec- ords, and be glad you are out of both. all, â€" "maiden's blush:" â€" Comfort me with apples! â€" Phoebe Cary. o Color Scheme in London Hospital. Activity in New Gold Field. The rate oC progress iu the Rouyn mining district, Quebec, is indicated in reports recently roceive-d from Dr. H. C. C-cok? cf tho Geological Survey. In addition to the mining operations being carriedi on at tho more import- ant propertifs. assessment work and detailed exploration are being done on most of the groups uf claims within the possible copper-bearing area. The I district (o which attention is particu- larly directed at pres'cat is thp great j triangle whose corners are the Home I pj-c:;Erly on the south, the Waite-Mont- Adoptlon of a c..l.>r scheme for hos- gomery claims on Uie nortli. and the pitals has made St. John's Hospital In Aldsr::ou-.\IacKay discovo.-ies S or 9 Shepherd's Bush the cheeriest cf Lou- '""'•« to t'»* «'6«t of the Hom^. Many don hospitals. ,compaci«3, amo.'ig which :Might be The secretary and matron wy that ; mentioned the l.'onsoiidateJ .MiaJng Mr. Walsh's Ideas that rnstful, health- > an'-l Smt-ltiag ConipEny, .\rM .AUnlng giving colors should replace white ! '•'""'»"".â- ''• Duprat Mine", Sfid;i(:oiia, walls and red coverlets, has been car- and the \ ietola S:.-adica'e. have one ried out by them with excellent re-', Rr more prosr.*:ct;ng partiw in this suits. DelicntP shades of grjen. yel- ! district. Uoads and trails have beer, low and mauve iu the wards. w,~,rked cut. and .small crseks cleared of logs out by a color expert, iiave proved so ' an,! bruBh ;o permit the passage of beneficial that patients leave the ''.«»- caisc.s. so ihat ranst, of this ones In- pital three days sooner thari beloro tho .".cocssibio district can now bj ire- chaage was made. Their tempers are 'versed without undue difficulty. A Letter, the colore 'n:Iuen:s sleep, .md . tele;)i:cn;" !i;:.^ bas rerrnt'y l>?e;! cr^rt- in one case. aftT placing an ipsomuia : ed to conn'P.;t "ii** various canrps with patient In a mauve :oi;m slet^p ca:.ne within au hou.-. thi* oftic'uh saS.! . <.â€" I) nconsciouj H luuor. 1 •ti« The unconscious humots ar best. This is one of the tilings w'licii actually happened iin.ier ni" observa- tion at the Central Hall, V>'ps!m.Tster, a few nights ago. sbvs .". corrnapondent In the Christian AVorl;!. The aiidi^uce, ' before iha meeting ^vr•..•i â- .»p?a», -.vas , singing some lusty cl.crujjs, ani was ' In the middle of ore of thtm wiien llio ; side door opened, and the sp»sker» and other Important person" s'.rearond on to the platform. Tbt-re tliey wr.re marshalled to tholr places br t!:8 busy secretary eafh other nn;i with the nntsid.^ world, so tUaf cne <'sn now Mft a recr'.vcr In Tcronfo it .\Tontr>3! and cJ)taln the ;.'l!'.<t twv,;; irou; any of xhi prlacipal lamps. IVveio} incuts other than ti:uS!KCt- In? are iargsly marking time i>€ndi.ig the completion cf the railway, which is bolr.g rapidly jiusheJ. althongh d^ laycd considerably Vy th> uuaeJson- r.bly \vc?t weather. The grading Is now wol. -jnilrr w;iy, and it is eAiKKriei that thd rail-s «H1 be laid into Kouyn by the 15th cf November. The :x>ad under construction by liie Quebec Govemir.tni from Makamik to Rouya is Iu much the eanie condition. .Tip imrth hslf has bsin gmdfd and „. , . „ . 'surfaced, iird is uow ;« use. and work • The Bishop cf Omu-SS wi.l ^,, ,^^ g.^,„^ ,,^,f sit on the right of the Chairman. . . . " 'Sir Alpha Beta, wil you iv.r.-y f. -^ I . ward?" and so on; and while all this ' sbephordlni? was pro- reditu ''••i par- j I ticular chorus which the aud'ea;;; wss 'â-  singing with all 'heir might a;u! r:;ain is '..>ci3g pusbej as rapidly as po'slble. THE GREAT SUZANNE uv:ui«i v^^uu.us «u.,... i ... nuj v.i.... â„¢b» . .*.:tvrding to nn authority, the dog singing with all ihelr might aad r:.ain is tU n:ost in^eilipen* Eirira!, th« Above is a photographic study of .Mile. Lenglen, In the Toronto »uU» of ^^^ "Bring them in' Bring '-htm ia! ' monkey coming EeccaA Ike horse .<- the tennis champion. ( Bring them 1-lu trom the fleidt cf aial " cup>.>« third plac«^ izl =3 'a s I