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male, towards the construction of | ort Perry Railway. ectric Commission. Ring 2 he members of the Cabinet present besides the Right Hon. R_ were the Hon. Mr, Cochrane, Mr. Foster, and Col. Hughes, for South. Toronto, and Thomas Wallace, M. P. for present. di ) introduced the deputation. Mayor Hocken, after recall. Government's friendliness to public ownership, urged the necessity for radial facilities between the:c ity ana surronnding municipalities. 1 interurban services were to be found adjacent to American cities, promote truck farming and enormously increasing land: values, 5 pered by lack of such facilities. = Existing corporations. by j€ city and observe their franchise were Jat. he was not appearing as the represen- itlined the steps leading up to the recent do not serve the agricultural communities, he said: "We to bring the mixed farm products to leading centres. A "con- service from rural districts to the: city can only be operated econom. ically by electricity." 'He suggested that some such = body as the Hydro : ik, of Uxbridge, said there were two reasons for the road. Ig would serve a district at present without proper transportation facilities, and | would encourage farming: = For four months not one train serving the G. I, | R. Midland line had been on time. He pointed out that the railway would ery, urged that tha present railways did not touch I a lar number of villages 'in the Markham: Port Perry districts. Industries were suffering owing to lack of proper rail connections. Ls. MR.BORDEN'S REPLY { s We will give our most attentive consideration to tions put before us. = So far as the purpose you have in. mind is is its 'importance. We also recognize the importance i he soil adequate transportation facilities. You will re- "however, that the subject which you Dring to our attention involves, ts. of very potent consideration. "This is not the first application of thig ive had, and you will realize that if we embark on = policy of \ lo undertakings we will be opening up a pretty wide ques- ir resources ure limited. but we shall be very glad to receive your § in written form and to give then Careful consideration." W. Smalley, 'Duncan Morgan, chard, W. A. Webster; reeve and aie, Ww, Diabson, reeve and clerk of "Reach . FE Letters from a Self- Made Farmer to His Son Morrisburg, Ont. February 12, 1913 To James Tompkins, . Port Perry, Ontario. DEAR Tim,-- You tell me that you ain't had no time to fix up that windmill machinery, and that you're pumping water for them cows every day. There aint no doubt about you must be fonder of exercise than I thought you was. . You mind me in this here windmill business of a Kansas farmer what I' heard about once. He had a hole in the roof of his barn and he couldn't never seem to get it fixed. You see it was this way; when it was raining he couldn't fix it, and when it wasn't he didn't have to He minded me of them fellows what never did to-day what they pug off till to-morrow when they can get them the same day. You know tackling a nard job is just like a taking a hold of nettles the firmer you grips them the less they stings you. The best way to get a hard job done is to get right down to its Most generally you'jl find that the job's half done once you get started. "Taint no good making plans and talking. Lots of folks workg of their surplus energy that there way; and they ain't got nane. left for the job itself. I like a fellow as plans his work but I wants him to work his plan too. If he don't, he minds me of the church folks a Sometimes gets all worked up over the miseries and sufferings of ther heathen or the slum folks and by the time the service is over they is On such a dreadful state that they's too weak to put anything bigger nor a nickel on the plate. . There ain't a hard job that needs doing that don't medn a whole big saving of cflort when it's done. 'Take that there windmill busi- ness. 1 reckon to gu ss you could get the whole thing fixed up in three hours, and yet here you are a spending a extra hour every day puniping just because you can't make up your mind to do a three hour job-all at once. What's the use of getting high class machinery to save labor if you goes and lets it get out of gear? 'The world 1s full of over worked folks who is worrying and fret- ting and fuming when they might be having a real easy time if they'd only fix things up a bit what they's got right to hand. Anything what will save time and work had oughter be looked after as careful as you can. ' You know: most men folks is awful careless like. They don't do their work steady and sure like a machine. They leaves thir stuff what they's working with lying around Toose, and has to spend a whole lot of time a hunting for them when they needs them the next time, They tinkers up a job and thinks as it'll "do" for the time being and then first thing they knows they has got to do the piguey job all over again, and maybe get a new piece because they busted it fixtng it so careless like. Say if you was to buy a binder what missed twine every tenth. shieaf you'd think it wasn't much of a machine, no matter how nice it was painted. | Like as not you'd réckon that you'd get shed of it as quick as you could if you couldn't fix the knotter noways, ; There's lots of men what you'd' think was real up-to-date ma- Ty. to hear them talk; but if you was to hang round to see them i sheaf"or curry down a horse, you'd pgetty soon class them as second-hand stuff with a flaw in it, % ©. We go through an awful jot of motions most of us forthe amount 'we gets done. A self binder would have t6" hase u hundred motions "according. - This 'old wold turn round once four ho sady as a clock and a fellow's got to. go .by ns the rest of things if he 'wants to have a real ol jo keep stew steady or * something's "sure. to d down him. ) BENT Gs Pid it pile up and to travel there dri 7