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{ wife." When she saw the beauty | that park; 1 th | | attractions guaranteed paints s : ae Forsleby . | most surprising. It is like all the other east coast cities--there - is. | | Worth, and it looks to be aisout a mile, ferry service each way, and the boat is | {always loaded. | East Palm Beach, compels the admir- "lation of the visitor. {deur and beauty "of the botanical | specimen along the walks give the : Sight seer new pleasures at every turn, 4 facing the lake, and between it and | water are two roads, both. cement {| ahead of the. Yankees. uty In I should never get her back to breakfast. That park was only one of the many entrancing Palm Beach ~The it; and fine paved streets and walks was stretch of water, then a long strip of land before the ocean is reached. The stretch of water here is called Lake: wide. 'There is a railway bridge over ferry boat also crosses. this water, and after breakfast, having visiied the incipal parts of the city, we took the ferry for: East Palm Beach as the Is: 11a lled There is a 20 minute | The magnificence of the scenery at There are won- erful avenues of trees, and the gran- The Royal Ponciana Hotel stands paved; one for-autos and cycles, and fthe other for pedestrians and wheel chairs only, Some of these chairs for sightseers are drawn by colored men mounted on bicycles, and they can make good speed on these smooth roadways: It is a statute that no 'horse shall be allowad on this "island, hence the. chairs, "You can't get here 1s an' avenue of Australian tching for a mile a , tumbled about, laughing {and good 'natured, The water was and your eyes and], drives this road constantly has at Comparing favorably with the progress. nouth were filled with salt water, I could not persuade my wife to come in: she said the sea was too rough; ut there is not half the fun when the utiful I shail not attempt to des- ibe it. © The road leading to this garden seems to be cut through'a perfect jungle of tropical vegetation. Every tree, shrub and vine seems to have its flower. Cocoanut palms with "fouts and blossoms, and fruit at all the stages between; palmetto palms; cab- 1 bage palms and myrtle trees ; the dial trée, the live oak anid the water oak; the magnolia tree and the bamboo, the latter of which will grow forty feet high in one year and then die; all kinds of hanging vines "draped in| Spanish moss, and other vines climb- ing up forming a canopy overhead | --these form part of the mass of veg- tation that forms a jungle so thick that your sight cannot penetrate it to adistarice of three feet. Tt would take me all night to write of thebeauties of Palm Beach. It is the best place for fishing that I had seen up to this time. I think if I Were going back to winter in Florida, I would soonér remain at Palm Beach than any other place I have seen-- one sees'more of life there. HORSE KILLED George Nesbitt Nar- rowly Escaped i" Death Mr, George Nesbitt, of Port Perry, had a close call down on the Raglan road dt the C. P,R. crossing last Iin- day morning. He was driving down to Oshawa in a light wagon. He had on a few bags of potatoes and a small crate of: chickens. When he was about 40°feet from the C.P.R. Cross- ing, he stopped to listen, but could neither see nor hear anything of an approaching train. Just'as he reach- ed the track, however, a train came speeding 'along and his horse was struck by the side of the engine. The animal was dragged around the cross: ing fence on to the track, with the wagon still attached toit. Mr. Nes. ed and: escaped injury; the ¢ was killed, and the wagon nto. kindling wood with ne wheel. Potatoes ere scattered along the nd oot Eom 1s accident was over, otatoes w e missing, y| was' reported to have some time narrowly escaped death at this railway crossing. We are informed that the C. P. R, have been notified of these conditions, but no action has been taken to rem- edy them. An overhead bridge should be built at this point, and this is a matter that the County and Township Councils would do well to take up with the Railway Commission, as the crossing is extremely dangerous. Mr. Nesbitt values his horse, har- ness and wagon at about $275.00, and will put in a claim for damages to that amount. x ------ 4 bt ee Crop Statistics Ottawa, May 19th, The Census and Statistics Office in a bulletin issued to-day states that according to returns from its crop correspondents, mtade on May 6th, about 19 per cent. of the area sown to fall wheat in Ontario has been winter killed, this percentage representing a reduction of 132,000 acres, i. e. from 694,000 acres, the area sown, to 562,- 000 acres, the area expected to be harvested. In Alberta, the other large fall wheat province, fall wheat has been killed to the extent of 15.6 per cent., representing 36,000 acres, which will make the area to be harvested 193,000 acres instead of 229,900 acres, the area sown last fall. At the corresponding date last year the per- centages reported of fall wheat killed during the winter of 1912-13 were, for Ontario 18 per cent. and for Al- berta 43.5 per cent., so that whilst the winter killing. of wheat in Ontario is this year slightly more than it was last year in Alberta 1t is 'very considerably less, this favorable result being attri. butable to the mild winter in the west, The total area estimated to be sown to fall wheat, including besides On- tario and Alberta, 3,000 acres in Manitoba, 78,000 acres in Saskatche- wan and 2,700 acres in British Col- umbia, was 1,006,700, now reduced by winter killing in Ontario and Al. berta to 838,700 acres. The condition of fall wheat on May 6th was in Ontario returned as 81.3 per cent. and in Alberta as 87.3 per cent. of a standard representing the promise of a full crop, the percentages on April 30th, 1913, being 83.4 per cent. in Ontario and 76 per cent. in Alberta. For all Canada, the condi- tion of fall wheat on May 6th" this year was 83 per cent. of the standard, or 103 per cent. of the average condi- tion of the past five years represented by 100. On April 30th, 1913, the corresponding figures of condition of fall wheat for all Canada were 82 per cent. of a standard or 101 per cent. of the average condition of the previous four years. The condition of the fall wheat crop this year is, in fact, super- ior to that of any year since 1910 when the record. was over 89 per cent, of the standard. : Upon the whole, spring seeding was well advanced except in the Maritime | provinces, where the spring wheat this | year is reported as abnormally late "iand in Quebec where not more than from 3 to b per cent, of spring seeding ? been done by May 6th. In Ontario at this about 24 per cent. of wheat, tr ent. of oats and 41 per cent, of bar-; ¢ and 40 per cent. |and was reported as | had been got 4 Svcs deposited in this beak draw the highest current rate of interest. Withdrawals of part or the whole amount may be made when reported last year on April 30th. Fox the five provinces of Quebee, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberra,. the proportion of seeding reported as: effected on May 6th was about 48 pest cent. for wheat, 23 per cent. for oats, 16 per cent. for barley and 37 pem cent. for all crops, The Hydro-Electric: Radial Line, Date of Submission of Agree-- ment Soon to be Set-- Sums to be Guaranteed The following article was clipped from the Toronto Daily Star of Friday May 22; When the representatives of muni-- cipalities along the route of. the To-- ronto-Port Perry Hydro radial and the Hydro-Electric Commssioners. next meet, they will set a date for submitting the agreement to the electors of the districts concerned. The work of construction will then be: started at once. Just where the radial will enter" Toronto, is a point with which the: meeting will also deal. Nothing has. been done as yet regarding a Federal grant, but the municipalities hawe been informed that the matter will come up this session. The various municipalities will se called-ttpon to guarantee the follume ing amounts which will be raised iby an issue of debentures : scarboro Tp, 10.4 miles $430,273.00 Agincourt 15,233 2% MarkbamTp, 19.4 miles 700.600.00» Unionville 18,720.00» 62,740,000 17,945.45 75,829.42 497,710.00 272,700,000 417,600.00 28,302.02 © 440,500.00 179,532.00 239,450.00 108,540.16 253,579.00 180,677.82 Mount Joy Stouflville Whitchurch Tp. 21.92 m Newmarket Pickeriug Tp. Claremont Whitby Tp, 14. Whitby Town Reach Tp. 9.8 miles Port Perry Uxbridge Tp. 11.56 m_ Uxbridge Town 10.27 m. $3,954,914.00 . ---- Women's Institute The Women's Institute intend hold: ing a meeting on Saturday, May 30, in the basement of the Methodist church, Blackstock, at 2.30, when . Miss Trench, of Montreal, will speak to the ladies on some of the following, subjects: Poultry Raising ie How to Make Farm Life Attractive: to Boys and Girls. Health on the Farm. System in the Household Needlework Demonstration, or how to prepare a complete- baby outfit at minimum cost, > A good program is. being prepared including an address by Rev, L Snell, radings und solos by Miss B Wilson, Miss A Ferguson, Miss Phena Brown,