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'amy bond for § years, & Gurney T iden Ca, - pv ries WEATHER FORECASTING HOW THE EXPERTS KEEP AN i EYE ON THE PRESSURE. { Meteorological Bureau Men In Toren. to Let Nothing Escape Them In Their Effort to Solve the Mystery of Whether-or No It Will Rain or Scorch the Land--Reports Sent in From All Ove: the Continent. In a big, grey building on Bloat Bireet, in Toronto, sit a score of phy sicists, chemists, photographers "and astronomers. They are the men whose. daily business it is to tell a continent what is going fo happen next in the | drama pt weather. To these men, i day after day, hot over the wires eaging the Meteorological Building tick reports of the most universal and fluctuating stock in the world, say) Donald B. Sinclair i the Canadias Courier. Back on the Canadian farm in the early days there was sure 10 be a chap, who had a name for sorcery because of the accuracy of his weath er predictions. He was a famous rural character. He claimed that he could tell whether it was going to be a fine day for ploughing by the way the chickens ran through the yard and held their tails. The stramges| part of it was that people truste and believe him: and conducted theit menage accordingly. But mention the methods of rural prophecy to the odern weather-min---a smooth-faced | young citizen, a sciencé graduate ol the university, expert at tinkering | with giant telescopes with which hé observes the passage of the stars barometers for measuring the . pres | gure of the atmosphere on our heads! | delicate elocks which never run down, and by which he sets the pace fot | hundreds of clocks throughout the | Dominion. He will quietly laugh; but not in a high-brow, superior sort {of way; for he admits that like the | old-fashioned weather prophets, his | predictions are offer wrong, too. { To the entific investigator, weather to-day is almost as much of a mystery as it was to the odd youth back on the farm, who had enough poetry in his make-up to speculate about it. It does not seem to wan | to settle down and be nationalized and unified like Doukhobors, and Slavs and Galicians. When, three weeks ago, you could fry an egg on the pavement in Toronto, you had to wear -an overcoat in Edmonton. Tt defies international laws and boun- daries. You cannot keep it out by a | duty--or we would never have im- ported that hot wave of famous mem- | ory from Uncle Sam Often it gets marked down to 'bargain prices and | there is a weather glut on thé market of the kind you least expect and don't want. Weather seems to fail impartially upon the just and the ' unjust; upon the millionaire with a clinch on the stock market, or a shop girl with one suit a year, snd the sky cloudy; the fisherman in his dery ereaking out of Sydney harbor way down in Scotia; the swarthy lumber- jack, pulling on his sweater up in the Onfario woods; the prairie farmer, watching the dew glistening on his seas of No. 1 hard in thé early morn. ing sun; the trailsman among the muskegs of the Mackenzie. One thing science has taught about what we call weather. Appearances |are deceiving. The agile, cléan- shaven young 'nan who in a perfect- {ly business-like manner at the Meteorolegical Service Building writes | out a forecast for the wheat country | about Melville, Baskatchewan, never lances kywards, Whether the moon { has a ring around it, or how many | stars may be inside the ring, is a { matter of small concern to him; ex- cept that he tries to explain the movements which produce such phenomena as sun-dogs, moon-rings, | dry-weather haze and so forth. |. Weather is the condition of the {'atmosphére in a certain region at a | certain time. Often it is fickle, cap- | ricous, moody and inconstant--to | those who know nothing scientifically { about it. But to the weather-man, | the flow of the earth's atmosphere in { what he calls its "definite currents" | presents a mechanism of marvellous | intricacy and beauty. The .only way ou can appreciate his understanding nd sympathy toward weather is to { talk it over with him. The other day | I came aeross him at the Meteorologi- { cal Building in Toronto, telegram in {one hand, 'tracing lines with his {other over a large map scored with a network of red {| "How do. I forecast the weather? {| Why the weather works almost ac. cording to law; it's monotonous -when-you nounced, pointing to the map. "There's the Eastern hemisphere, | there's the Western. You see! Now {in each hemisphere are found two principal zones of atmospheric action: a zone within and just outside the | tropies, where the trade winds blow | with remarkable "persistency in one direction, and a zone in the middle latitudes, where the general move- ment of the atmosphere is from west. ward to eastward. It is within qd with this casterly drift that storms pass across Canada. Generally you will notice that weather changes come from the westward. Thé main part of the forecasting is to keep track of these zones. We have got instruments and equipment to do that. We receive daily telegraphic reports in this central Toronto oe, at the same tim: from branch sta. tions frem Dawson City to Halifax and from Maine to California. We sure, the temperature, the direction and velocity of the wind in every cranny of the continent. If the bar. ome¥er reading shows léw pressure in as eortain district, we know that more air it nested there, From the highest pressure district. to this spot, there wiil be a rush of air. By close atten. ton to our maps and instruments] we eamganye the extent of the eountfry ta he affected by the movement. That's weather pradiciion." A quiet wedding took pisce at home of Mrs. J. C. Stevenson, De- seronto, on September lst, when Mrs, Stevenson's brother, Murray Tuffman, was ubitéd in marciage to Miss Mar garet Wilson. : Zz ot ) got--to--knowrit, oo Rg. aha. know all about the atmospheric pres-. he a ', RENTING CHERRY TREES. You Can Lease One By the Hour, Day or Year in Nova Scotia. If you would like to take a gamble in cherries yot uld go to the fruit district of Nova Scotia, which is where Svangeline and her people lived be- "ore the deportation. They pride them- selves dn their apples down there, re- fusing t6 be convinted that any part of the world is outdoing them, and prand of cherries in particular, a large black fruit, with which they challenge the world. The Bear river district on Annapolis Basin is the centre of the cherry-grow- ing industry, and the marketing of the fruit has brought about an unusual custom. A buyer may around ear- ly in the summer, when the trees are in bloom and bid so much for such trees as he fancies. If his offer is accepted shat tree is his for that season. No one but the birds will steal his fruit. With them he must take his chances. ut if you are not a dealer in fruit a merely want enough cherries for home use you may happen around at any time when cherries are ripe and rent a tree for an hour or two hours or a day--whatever time you like. If two or more want the same tree the owner holds ap auction. The winner owns that tree for just as long as he specifies and po more, and it 1s up to him to pick what he cin. When he is through the tree is rented again. Tourists find this cherry tree gam- bling a pleasant diversion. Although the gport lasts all through the cherry season; one Sunday, when the fruit is ripening well, is set apart and excur- sions are made from nearby places On "cherry Sunday," as it 18 called, the orchards are thronged, picnic parties camp out under the trees, and at nightfall not a bird can find a square meal. Below a tree which has been rented by periods will be a group waiting for their turn, while those In the branches pick fast and furiously against time. It is all done in the best of good nature, even those who nave invested in a tree to -find7it stripped taking the misadventure in good part they raise one Life In the Wilds. High on the banks of the Fraser River, at British Columbia (where it runs swiftly, and is four hundred feet in width), we camped with a settler named Keller Keller was a host in himself. At evening, sitting round a log camp-fire which threw ghostly shadows among the trees, he regaled us-with stories and adventures innumerable which had befallen him through a wildly ad- venturous life some grave, others, gay, but one and all first-rate time- killers. Like so many others buried in the wilderness, he hailed from the United States, having been raised somewhere down on the Pacific Coast. The quest for gold enthused him early in lite, and he had searched patiently for the yellow metal from sunny Cali- fornia to ice-bound Alaska. He was in {far-off Nome avhen he first heard about the upper reaches of the Fraser River. "YI had knocked about Alaska and Prince of Wales Island without strik- ing much luck,/80 when I once more found 'myseli in Vancouver I started off for Fort George. 1 heard that there was some good mineral country up round Tete Jaune Cache. I got hold of a canoe, came up, and cruised around to see how the land lay. That was five years ago, and I am still here. Yes. I am in solitary state, Another frontier lad, Wilson, and a pard, have a piece of land about fifty mjles down the Fraser, and give me a call now and again, They're on the opposite sidesof the river at the moment. "Time has no worries for me. I don't know what is the day of the week, the date of the month, or the time, as 1 have neither watch nor valendar, and I'certeinly do not bother my head over it either. I just work when 1 ieel Jike it, and rest when 1 feel so disposed." --From The New Garden of Canada, by F. A. Talbot. He Carries the Mace. Lieut.-Col. Henry Robert 8mith, ser- geant-at-arms for nearly twenty years, is the most picturasque of the numer- ous officials of the House. He is custodian Mace, that emblem if author ch a fiery gentleman od C onee referred to as a chief wheel ommons dangling [ terror to many Col. Smith tiy«sergeant at arms He served in the ing ment a isi, Dele AS did Coli » brought fous up Western in & Oa ni/is noted aumbe of eascs - { & there that shou'd aus: the disind have a larger gumbor of cases of that trouble than Ler placed Bay ne asked a lo fonts doctor. "Yell 'they have up tiwre," was Mie Catiadian Courier Teappefd. "Well, we can Xo¥ married now at y time. Papa says he has got enough spare cash to give me a nice ry good sargeons doctor's answer.-- J 'He won it from me at poker last night, and now I haven't enough for our wedding trip." : T. B. Caldwell is in splendid form and carries the fight in North Lanark with buoyapoy and vourage, The Labor day celchration in Athens wus the mest event of the kind ever held in the village, a ru. to SEPTEMBER 9, 1911. SIR THOMAS TAIT. i ree ' The Man Who May Succeed Whyts | In the West. -3 Sir Thomas Tait, who is spoken of as the probably successor of Sir Wil. ¢ liam Whyte gs vice-president and western administrator of the TP.R is a big Canadian railroad man. abomt whom little known by Ontario people at large. Almost every other prominent railroader in the Domin- jon is the son of poor and unknown parents, but Sir Thomas had for his father a prominent Quebec- judges Chief Justice § Melbourne Tait, who for ye was a law partner in Montreal of the late Sir John Abbott. He also received the benefit of a sound education.' Stil he started at the bottom of the ladder. He wasn't a water boy or an engine wiper, but he began work for the C.P.R. as a lad in the audit departpent of the réad at Memireal, at three or go dollars a week. That he became che of the } big men in the railroad business is something entirely to his cradit, for railroading in this country is a line of work in which only ability counts : in the securing of fat jobs. Thomas Tai: was born in 1864, in a | little place led Melbourne, in the Province of Quebec; and, oddly | enough, he won his chief distinction in after years in the larger Melbourne around on the other side of the world. When Sir William Van Horne ar- rived in Montreal! to become general manager of the C.P.R., he asked the company's chief legal adviser, Sir John Abbott, to find him a suitable younggman as private secretary Sir | John recommended his partner's gon, young Tait. So the latter left his small job in the audit department and became the big chief's confiden- tial man. Te made good and stayed on the job until 1887, by which time the C.P.R. was daing business as a transcontinental lie. Then he was appointed assistant superintendent at Moose Jaw, in which pesition he had to have an eye over nearly the whole | seétion of the road. Two | was removed to Toron- dent of the Ontario and Quebec diyision In 1893 he be- came associate general manager of the: C.P.R. In 1900 his position was that of manager of transnc rtation In 1903 Tait was offe rad the impor- tant post of hilrman of the Victoria Railway Commission, & Governments | owned system in Australia. He ac. cepted the offer, and his management highly successful. During his year of control the Victorian iv lines showed a surplus of ! instead of the large deficiy pile up every year be- fore his coming. He became dissatise fied, so it was said, with the careless. ness of some of the road's minor of- ficials, which resulted in some bad accidents, and he resolved to give up his control of the Government-owned He resigned in November, and it was announced then that railroad work. Sir was last railway $1,000,000, which used to road. 1910, he had retired from ' Still, as he is only forty-seven, in. activity would seem impossible for him." He is twenty Years younger than Sir William Whyte ; Personally, Sir Thomas Teit is a handsome man handsome and dis tinguished-looking. .Inaec d, with his white hair and ju ficial expression he would have "looked the part" exact ly if he had followed his father's footsteps and gone on the judge's bench. While stationed in Toronto, in 1890, he married a daughter of Mr. G. R. R. Cockburn, a prominent Torontn citizen Sir Thomas was knighted last New Year's in recogni- tion of his notable services as head of the Victorian Railway Commission. JRE A" Canadian Ostrich Farm. Mr. Otto Brecker, a German, who has had practical experience as an ostrich farmer in South Africa, has purchased from the Canadian Pac Railway a large bl k of land near Wardner, in the East Kootenay dis- trict of British Columbia, and intends to establish there the first Canadian ostrich farm After careful investi. gation, he says that the natural con- ditions of the district are admirably suited to ostrich farming The native home of the ostrich is in Southern Asia and Africa. In South Africa the raising of ostriches for their feathers is an extensive business A few years ago it was estimated that there were nearly four "hundred thousand | ostriches on the ranches of - South | Africa. It must not be supposed that because an ostrich farm 1s to be established in Canada that Canadian farmers in general might grow rich by adding a few ostriches to their live stock. The ostrich thrives only under peculiar climatic conditions The 'Wardner di of British Col tumbia may have t necessary natur. al conditions, but it is no probable that many sections of Canada have, Now that British Columbia is start. ing as a rival of South Africa in ostrich farming, the next move should be to discover a great diame nd field "Rual-diamonds--ef small size. were found in British Columbia rocks 'nat long ago, and pronounced of high quality by experts of Tiffany, but no | discovery of practical value has yet been made. --Canadian Century. : am Sir Matthew Begbie and Prisoner. One of the best stories told of tha late Chief Justice Sir Matthew Begbie of British Columbia is one that was told soon after his arrival from Lon- don. He was holding court at Yale. A man was brought beigpe the judge. He was known to be-one of the toughs of that locality, and from the evidence iven it did not take Sir Matthew i to come to a decision. 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