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| in Saskatchewan alone. y Henry Sotgins, ei St. "Maurice Forse Prective Ey t- always bear i in mind i the fire ranger is his friend, and is to he 1 out by giv- Lo his rd ie burnt ashes he is more or less of an | and fired with the maximum re- an minimum. danger and trouble. ranger is just as-anxious as settler that his 'should be. burnt hc using any damage or trouble. Proper Piling Comes First. [he first duty of a settler who wants slash, is to see if it is pro- at least 50 feed from timber or building and it e when possible to t, in. which case it e danger. Once this a duly appointed visit slash and gladly finds that the ed to avoid any possible danger g timber or buildings, and her conditions are favorable. C neve set fire to his | or when there is a blowing. He should al- : he evening. guishing it. I ver et fire to too many piles Id burn one or ee op ng E slash that he 0 to Burn lve pails and shovels with an- extinguish fire if it | Land A good time just before it is So e will be assured 1 ever run and cause . There iS no reason rning a slash. should e if he takes the ne-{- He should al- 2 \ never set fire when a A d is blowin To have the necessary help at | at hand to extignuish fire if it ould spread. To have pails and shovels with To never leave a fire "before it "is completely out. : ry fo burn during a wet Vy. taking precautions petoretang extinguish. a large forest by having the slash. tor the separation of the gas. The Bri- Then if ) wrong he will have N Very little prominence comparatively | 'has been given to the work done by Prof. J. C. McLennan, O.B.E., Ph.D, F.R.S., during the war." The ritish ad- miralty has so monopolized his services' that there are fears he may be lost to the University of Toronto. Among the , brilliant achievements for which he has ibecn responsible for, the production of helium ga s at the comparatively. trifling cost of 24 cents a cubic foot, has been one of the most notable. Helium gas higher rate than gold or platinum, radit m, -1t is about the only thing the war has reduced in price. It was discovered that the natural ga of this rare gas had been going up in the Fits of this separation pro- sess, iE When separ ated the gas is absblrte- ly non-inflammable. It is, therefore, an 'deal gas for balloons, airships and such uses. Had the process been known earlier in the war many lives might Have been saved which were - 'sacrificed to the perils of inflammable Huilets. After two years' experiments at Cal- gary, a plant has been established there iish- government appropriated $500,000 for the work. The capacity of the pre-| sent plant is 15,000 cubic feet of gas n 24 hours. A main plant will likely Se established south of Lethbridge so that all gas coming from the field may Se put thru the separation process be- lore the natural gas Is distributed for 0 sumption. elium is one of the lightest of gases bout equal in lifting capacity to hyd- 'ogen. It can be stored in cylinders| a ander pressure, and can be shipped | mywhere without danger. Its discov- "ry means a new era in ballooning, and aakes the airship. a certainty. = hE Are Huns, J ust : Same as Pigs Are Pigs "The Huns were Hirs 2,000 years 180, they are Huns today, and they will se Huns to the day of Judgment, and! -erhaps afterwards," said Hon. W. F. lassey, premier of New. Zealand, giv 1g his opinien of the regeneration "of he German people in the course of an ".ddress to the -members of the Cana-| i nClub at luncheon at Vancouver on uesday 'last. "| have no faith in the regeneration Hf the Germans," said Mr. Massey, who urther emphasized his distrust. of any sting. improvement in the defeated ed enemy by giving it' as his opinion that German chemists would be at work devising new methods of des- arrives. The most serious mistake made with regard to the conclusion of peace, in the opinion of the speaker, was in not dictating a victorious peace. jon the soil of Germany. 'Matter-of-fact li miss the mean- ing of life and its glory while looking at their feet instead of seeing the hope «which is set before them. | this addi "of the nsand ag» made by re- urned men have been approved, 'At 60 a cach this means the tak- ing up ot 800,000 acres of land. But the movement is only beginning to "get under way. If the scheme is not too badly 'knocked" by mistaken crities it is reasonable to suppose that between 3,000,000 and 4,000,- i 000 acres will, in this way, be taken up. Think of what it means to have tion to permanent settle- 'ment in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Twenty-five thousand such settlers getting an average loan of $4,000 would mean $100, 000,000 | put out in three provinces. Speaking at Regina recently Major Ashton; of the. Soldier Settlement Board, pointed out the possibilities scheme to Saskatchewan. Probably about 30,000 soldiers, he sasd, would return te that province, and the records show that 75 per cent. of them were either farmers or farm laborers. If three-fifths of them, or 18,000 took advantage of the Soldier Settlement scheme and 'had an average loan of $4,000 it would mean. the advancing of $72,- 000.000 for farm development work To date one- third more applications have been approved from Alberta than from Saskatchewan, so it is easy to see | what the West has to gain through the successful working .out of the Soldier Settlement scheme. : If the loan companies were to put out $50, 000,000. this year on farm loans in the prairie provinces what a wonderful thing i ould be con- sidered. With" any apprwiable meas- ure of success, the Soldier; Settlement Board will do better than th Com- pared with anything that the Wes ern provinces have done in the way of assisting agriculture through loans; even now the Soldier Settlement scheme is a great success. During the two years that the Saskatchewan Farm Loans Board has been in oper- probably not loaned more than $3,- 000,000. Still, both of these pro- vinces are claiming a great deal of before the Soldier Settlement Board settlement are wonderful. Using the Libraries. During 1918 more than 120,000 books classified as "Useful Arts" were lent by the public libraries of the Province of Ontario to the schools. ~ An inestimable amount of good was done by the libraries in assisting men and women in voca- tional study. : : The libraries are entitled to be rated as an essential part of the technical educational system of the province. . The libraries 'reach a larger number of people with tech-. nical books than will ever be reached by technical schools. They can also provide books on subjects that are not commonly taught in technical schools and can supplement the work of instruction given .in technical schools. The libraries can also serve men and women who can not, attend a technical school. - During the same year or Cana- dian National Library for the Blind circulated 5,101 books in the pro-- vince. The total membership for the. year was 572. Libraries were established in all- the military camps in the province for the use of the soldiers-in- train- ing. Each camp was visited by a representative of the Public Libraries Board, for the purpose of studying conditions and of arranging for the 'reception of the books and for their circulation. The purchase of the books, their preparation for use, shipping, _etc., were all done within a few weeks. 'About were purchased and B eived. as gifts. out ranged from 2350 umes each. Libraries were sent ing camps: to the Tollow- Petawawa, © Niagara i Camp, Deseronto, Leaside (R.A.F.), Fort Henry Camp, Camp © Borden (R.A.F.), Camp Mohawk (R.A, FY, London Camp, Beamsville (School of Acrial Fighting), Armour Heights (R.A.F.), and Brockville Camp. The following hospitals also se- cured libraries: Joy Convales- cent Hospital, Andrew's Con- valescent nl Davisville Orth- _opaedic, Guelph Military Hospital, 'Mowat Sanitarium, Kingston, Wel- lington Street Barracks, Ottawa, a al Muni Board, Beams- Freeport Hosr Jdogpital. @ . The circulat un of travelling lib- ies greatly increased. 8,000 volumes 0 i The libraries sent = 10 2, 500 vol- = water, Birds Are renting Daylight Savas In the World, The 'greatest daylight saver in the world----the Arctie tern! Many years before the illivhy Mortal began to puzzle his brain with a scheme to utilize an extra hour of daylight, the -Avctic rvern had is covered how it is possible to spend over _hulf the year in regions the sun never sets. mentioned: C. M. the lighting Could the above follow his example, problem would vanish nto nothingness. And this is how the ingenious bird manages: He has his summer Lome.in thy) Aretic circle; the Land of the Misl-. night Sun, where, for darkness is unknown. When he secs the sun making its way alarmingly near the horizon, finally dipping for a few hours each day out or sight, he begins to think of his winter home in the Antarctic circle, even though twilight "and- dawn still overlap .so that it is never dark. ; "This is God's own country in the summer, but it belongs to the Prince of Darkness in the winter," he says to himself, and bids Mrs. Tern and the children prepare for their yearly trip south. Nor do -they stop at Palm Beach, for the tern is one who does every-. thing thoroughly. If he wants day- light and sunlight, it "is not for an eight-hour day, but for tne whole twenty-four hours. If he goes south, he stops barely short of the South Pole. It is an eleven thousand mile trip, but the Tern family are good fliers and can easily make two. or three hundred miles a day without motor trouble, By the time he reaches the Ant- arctic, he finds his home basking in the sunlight for virtually the whole day. About June 15 he is back in his Arctic home. His summer estate is on the most northern land in the world, as far north as he can find anything stable on which to construct his nest. So arctic are the conditions under "which the terns breed that the first nex found hy man in this region, only ~aven and a half degrees frown the pol. contained a downy chick ihad been valued before the war at a ation it has not loaned much more Surroundex by a wall of newly-fallen Of than $2,000,000, and Manitoba has Snow that hey been scooped out of the nest by the parent. : : About fourteen weoks later, Aug. ust 25, when the lites terng ave 5 of Alberta contained about one per_ credit for what thay have done, and £rown, and have becom. experienced cent. of helium. The problem was to rightly so. Their work in this respect aviators, the entire famh, 'start out separate it. Millions of dollars' worth goes to show that the possibilities for that long journey to thu ;eoigng of greatest heat, across the ey, ator, the flame of the natural gas prior to as a means of promoting perinaneng and then on to {he southern edgy or the Antarctic continent. wh For many weeks} They «prox. , ably spénd a few weeks longer in) ° | their winter than in their. summer home, and this would leave scarcely Srehiy weeks for 2,000 miles, In the north, the midnight Sun, which has already appeared before heir arrival in the middle of June, never sets during their entire sta y : In their Antarctic sojourn the birds do not | at the breeding grounds. see a sunset for two months, and the sun dips only a little way below the horizon during the rest of the time, while broad daylight during the win- ter and summer, and with more day- light than dark during the and fall. : ox A second record they hold, atc champion migrators of the world. In order to cover 22,000 miles of their round trip in twenty weoks, 15¢ miles in a straight line must be thei: daily task, and this is nndoubtedly ' multiplied several times by their zig | zag twistings in pursuit of fo 'What their track is over this great distance no one knows. The great flocks of thousands and thousands of these terns which range from polc to pole have never been noted by ornithologists comipetent to indicate their preferred route and their timc. schedule. . They are graceful, long- winged, regular and hove ing flight. Firs cousins to the gull, they are gray sea birds with res bills. slender and and with ir. A New Landmark. trees of Rew Gardens car London. Already there is © course the famous Pagoda, new landmark will rise many feet i in- to the air above 'the Pagoda. giant flagstaff, weighing 18 tons, and 215 Ieel long, presented by the Brit- "ish 'Columbian Government to Kew: Gar dens some four years ago. ing in London by the R. December, 1915, it was afterward towed up the river to Kew, and is 'now about to be erected by Canadians in the --gardens.- Its first use; so Ii is said, will prebably be that of flying the Flag of Victory and Peace in "the forthcoming peace celebrations. ArT M.. S. P. in The Indian Caliendar, Among the Indians time is caleu lated by mcons instead of months, ry is eallcd "'the hard icon': x ry, i XNthe raccoon. moo as ~'"tle sore eye eon'; Api wl moon inv which geese lay eg ay, 'the planting moon"; oy 'fnoon on strawberries red"; July i ng "Novem bs iiling moon"; and De RF. moon." i. ; ber, "ithe d ~ Power Bo als In Rapids. Capt. Klaus Larsen, in motor boat Ferro, made a successt the o Sri fr om Except Mist, s the round trip of spring A now Jdandmark will shortly ap- but the 1t ig the | A clearing of well on to a lotions pair, a well made and nice black stocking, siges from 8 I-2 to 10. Se a : tockin eh or So Frnt ny 'upon th I said" 'Can for $1005 "Yer do not want a larg ~ Result === An : offer to the wo men 'A nice black stoc