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who camped at times where Port wed back and forth between the Lake Ontario. A trail led from It was a long tramp; but at that her 'connection' between Scugog told that at one time the Missi- pber of their enemies, the Mo- , Jib where the Kent property is situa ts were. killed. . But the legend ne of the war sobgs of the Indian Missisauga Indians settled on the 'The Government granted them Some attempt to induce them to live as 'and three barns were put up by Wm: Tyler, is Some in charge of the post, Mo Ph x killed. A hunt for the ie man, and no white man's life had been taken to avenge Indian's death. The Indian was "arrested, and after a preliminary heating it was decided that the trial would have to"be held at Presqulle, as the murder bad committed in that judicial district. rh BR I Te horses; wagon, seed, feed, and supplies for a day or two. These were all loaded on the scow and they were ready to start. They were living at Shirley at the time, and did not stay at their Island property permanently. The morning was so foggy that that there was some hesitation about starting out on the trip, for the scow leaked badly having been exposed to the sun. But the sun peeped out, and it was thought "that the fog would soon pass away. The big oars were manned and the trip was be- gun, Travellimg was necessarily slow, and when they were halfway between the mainland and the Island they were confronted by two diffi- culties--they were lost in the fog, and the scow was leaking so that only by pumping out the water constantly were they able to keep afloat. The fog had not lifted, and there was hard work for everybady on board. Some were at the pump and the others were at the oars. After rowing for some time and apparently getting. no nearer to land, they found themselvss. becoming hopelessly mixed up in the bags. Then they started to shout, and in this way attracted the attention of a family pamed Kester, who were then living on the south end of the Island. The Kester men answered the shout, and John Jackson was able to recognize the voices, learn where they were, and steer his outfit in the right diréction. Shortly afterwards, of course, the fog lifted. (To be Continued) Smit A Play for Fathers : Saturday Evening Post The frantic father in Brieux's play, Damaged Goods, proposes to take the law into his own hands, since "the law provides no arms against the man who matries an innocent, confiding young girl in sound health and befouls her with the heritage of his debauchery. He cries: "When 1 think of that man and his' infamous conduct I cannot control. myself! My daughter! A girl of twenty-two I" But the doctor replies: "Are you sure you have the right to be so in- flexible? Was it not within your power to spare your daughter this misery? * When the inarriage was pro- posed you made inquires concerning your future son<in-law's .income--yon satisfied yoursell as to his standing; but you omitted the most important point_of all--you made no inquiry concerning his health! Your daugh- ter might well ask you--who are a man and a father and ought to know these things--why you did not take as much trouble about her health as about her fortune." We wish every father with marriage- able daughters would read the play. Of course. they are already acquainted with its' subject-matter, as every one else is=-& subject which one is loath to 'speak of or even think about as having any possible relation to his own . But the playwright's art { brings it home. 'As it is there vitaliz- "ted, a father can scarely ignore it. The best weapon of reform, after all, 1s a The: Greatest: of Teachers ke iri parables. ©. Talks About Birds "THE ROBIN AS wititor. goes' : : ins, The bards ow life, and the ; shoots up., Then "we look for : return of the birds. They: come the warm spring | [1ongs to a bird which 1s much smaller than our Robin, and has its home far across the i The Robin arrives here .in March and remains until late in the fall They usually build their nests in the trees. The nest being composed of straw, mud, roots, and weeds, and lined with soft grasses and moss. The eggs, four in number, are a beautiful blue color. During the breeding season the male bird is a presistent vocalist, and; if the song has not much variety its heartiness and good cheer: render it one of the most agreeable of bird utterances, he sings the most and sweetest in the early morning and at the close of day. Many persons who cultivate cherries, grapes, and other small truits, are pre- judiced against the Robin, believing it to be destructed Prof. F. E. L.. Beal tells us that the Robins will steal fruit but they prefer wild fruit and whenever it is obtainable they scorn fruit that is useful to man. After a microscopic examination of the stomachs of three hundred Robins. They were found to contain forty-two species of wild fruits and only four or five domestic. Fruit is but a small part of Robins diet, and by the havoc he creates among worms and insects, he much more than' com- pensates for the damage done by his vegetarian propensities, the quantity of worns and insects he devours is hardly credible. One. Professor of Ornithology ex- perimented on some young Robins kept in captivity with a view of determining the amount of food necessary to main- tain them and found that each one re- "quired sixty-eight worms per day; each bird ate forty-one per cent more than its own weight in twelve "hours. 'The length of these worms if laid end. to end would be almost fourteen . Well may we exclaim at the exha labor of the Robin whose day is spent getting worms into the insatiable beaks at the rate of one morsel in every three minutes. . SRA Many people -who have "gardens think they are justified in Killing our. beautiful Robins, not knowing prehaps that there is a heavy fine im Robin shot or | first two by two, or in' would be nice to Latér on large flocks about the usefulness of our |itiwill be found that as a rule 'more good than hat