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- , this pastime--they all do. - Ing others to wait upon him. | English Roadside -- The road from Soham winds with what seems an exceptional number, of twists, like a plece of string thrown down at random, atross the undulat- Ig figlds of wheat, The ears of the bung corn stand free and erect their sheaths; no seed has yet ened within the green bracts, 'which are still soft and empty. Amongst the blue, luxuriant leaves there are scarlet popples. In some Places, as 'though thrown down by a passing gust, and along the banks which here and there separate the flelds, they are congregated in little elouds of color. In amongst the larger areas of wheat are strips of flowering beans whose magic scent lis as potent and as charged with sum- mer as is the wild fragrance of honeysuckle. On either side of the white roadway and along the tele- graph wires, corn-bunsing and wheat-ears flit for short distances, then pause for a few seconds to chat- ter and scold before they fly on again, This is a land of open sky, there are no hills or woods; the deep car- pet of the corn spreads widely over the earth. 'Into this carpet the blue of the sky sinks and is absorb- ed. It is absorbed, and at the same time, reciprocally, the very vivid- mess of its verdure renders the over- arching vault more clear and pure. 'White clouds are blown from the northwest, thelr shadows in mauve end purple flow silently over the flelds. The road winds across the gently undulating country till it comes to the little village of. Wick- en; it leads but a few furlongs be- yond the village, then lapses into a mere track, which skirts the fen. ». . From the village a footpath leads through a fleld of wheat and poppies. A very noble oak-tree stands in the midst of the field. It is now cloth- ed in brilliant, though pale, green leaves, which have mot yet become dark and hardened. Beyond the wheat there are broad lanes with high ledges. On either side arch- ing briars of wild roses are rich in buds and blossoms, the pink petals try of the North By Willlam Bleasdell Cameron Three thousand reindeer, the prop- erty of the Dominion Government are, at the present time, being pilot. ed across the 1,000-mile stretch thad separates Western Alaska and the Mackenzie River delta, in Northern Canada. If all goes well the goal will be reached by the fall of 1931, and with it will end the first stage in the launching of an ambitious pro- ject. Will the venture succeed? Its sponsors say "Yes," and if th are right an enterprise fraught with {bilities of tr expansion will have made an auspicious start.' A similar step, taken nearly 40 years ago at the instance of Dr. Sheldon Jackson, an official of the United States Government, has been the seed of a development so remarkable, and an industry of such rn agnitude, that it surpasses mining in importance, and 1s exceeded only in value of out- put by one other commercial enter- horns. The halr, extremely buoy- Bes the territory of Alaska--ity ant, makes excellent filling fo: life : preservers, and there has arisen a For centuries the reindeer, as a source of food, has been the main- stay of Northern Europe and Asia. The American Government, having acquired Alaska and with it respon- 4 ajbility for the wellbeing of its com- siderable native population, - cast about for a means of ensuring an ade- quate and dependable food supply. Seals and walruses, fish and game, were well enough as far as they went, but existing resources were uncer- tain, At times they were insuficl- end, if not unobialnable. Some- thing, the authorities decided, must be done to remedy this condition. Dr. Jackson studied the situation and concluded that the European reindeer, it adaptable to the country, would solve the problem of provid- ing an ample, always available means of subsistence for the Eskimo of the character of which they were are scattered upon the grass. A " path leads down to the fen, and each dyke runs laterally across the levels; their sides descend into the black, peat, and above the surface the wa- | ter there springs a small forest of water-violets. Along the banks grow yellow Iris and comfrey, reeds, mea- dow-sweet and water-plantain. At a lNttle distance there are deserted peat-pits which are filled with water; deep ponds with a profusion of water- Hlles and water-ranunculuses spread- ing over the surface. Maids-of- honor" and blue, thin-bodled dragon- files perch on the leaves; there are water-measurers and water-spiders. --B, L. Grant Watson. in "Moods of Barth and Sky." ------ Care of the Child "Why stould I have teeth filled that the child will lose anyway?" ex- claimed mother when advised to have her nine-year-old daughter's tooth fled. This mother 1s making a serious mistake. When her attention was ealled to the fact that her child was suffering pain, she replied: "That 1s mothing. All children have tooth- he." Here she is again in error. oo child whose temporary set of eth receive prompt and proper at- tention never has toothache. Furthermore, decaying teeth make #t impossible to masticate the food properly and this 1s quite apt to start a serious intestinal disturbance. It frequently happens that decayed teeth cause Infecion to the glands of the neck. Usually the child's sufferings make #t necessary to extract the decayed tooth long before it should be re- moved and this prevents proper de- velopment of the permanent teeth and will.interfere with the normal de- velopment of the jaw. Many a face has been so distorted as to mar the looks of the growing ohild and all because mother could "see no sense in spending money on teeth that must come out anyway." Of course, your baby has a habit of throwing his toys on the floor or ground and seems to take delight in Probubly you always pick up the toy and return it to him. It would be better to:attach the toy by a string to the chalr, perambulator, erib or wherever he may be playing. Then show him how to pull the toy 'back when it lands on the flood. In- sist upon his doing this himself. This will teach him self-reliance and nips in the bud that bad habit of expect Where he sits on the floor and toys Pe scattered beyond his reach do wot wat them for him, Urge him to go and get the one he wants, Assist him In creeping tg where he ean reach the desired article. It require only a few le.sons to teach him how to do this, but under ne consideratior give him the toy-- make him get it or do without it, Do it all real pleasant'y and he will thipk it is # game and will cheer fully fall into your plan. BH Fr > Germany's 1930 production of crude petroleum Las been estimated at 1. 050,000 barrels, breaking all previgus records, OB om ---- The happiness of Me consists in ae And life 5 in abor.--Leo fois accustomed. Caribou, a wild species of the reindeer, rovel the country in enormous herds. If they throve-- as they had done for as far back as the records ran--why not their man- controlled cousin? Dr. Jackson be- lieved the domesticited branch of the family would, and convinced the deer and a number of Lapp herders to Instruct the Eskimos in their care. The four-footed Immigrants fitted into their new environment as if born to it. They flourished on the rich natural fodder everywhere abun- dant, and their number has increased from the original 1,200 until there are today in Alaska almost 1,000,000 rein- deer, The reindeer is also a dalry-pur- pose animal. In Labrador, where there are a small number, Dr. Gren- fell has testified to their many valua- ble properties, includiLg with the statement that "the fresh milk of the does has supplied us with what is a vital necessity and one obtain. able in Labrador in no other way, while the excellent and easily-made cheese afford a means of storin, the nutriment in a palatable and assimil- able form without any outlay for a preserving plant." Carcasses dress round 160 pounds and have a value with the by-prod- ucts of about $30. The skins pro- vide the Eskimos with clothing and are converted by United States manu- facturers Into gloves, moccasins and day, in building long distance tele tween big Bell Telephone Company uses cables containing a hundred or more pairs of wires. These tiny wires enclosed in lead-sheathed cables replace the older type of open wire so familiar along highways. demand for the long neck-turfs for use in making artificial baits by pur- veyors of fishing tackle. nated that Alaska has pasturage for | cord. ,000,000 reindeer and that this figure will be reached by 1937. Canada two .r three years ago em- ployed the Porsild brothers--Danes born and brought up in Greenland-- to make a survey of Canada's so- called Barren Grounds with the view of determining their otherwise for reindeer ranching. The | brothers made a careful tion and their report was so favor- able that an made. to obtain the stock necessary for the "Let me sit down with you," I said, expériment, and they purchased tke herd cf 3,000 driven along the Arctic coast to the territory east With aeroplanes ahead to direct the course and to find the cholcest pas- turage, and reindeer in sleds hauling |" the camp equipage, the caravan left Alaska in the early summer and is now wintering Point Barrow and Aklavik. grounds in the vicinity of Kittigazuit. |, may be suited has yet to be ascertained--the Por- silds, within the limited time at their disposal, could cover only a corner of them--but in the opinion of Ralph Lomen, a pioneer in the industry in the Alaskan fleld, as time ago, "There ig room in the 1or- thern tundra of Canada for 12,000,- 000 reindeer and such a herd would be worth "$50,000,000. she started now In could have such a herd in 50 years." Fifty years is a long time, bat mean- | yim that there's $10 for him for every while Canada might be content with d a less number. What will science achieve next? To- ne lines along main routes entres of population, the Knife-hgrdles are made from the The Dominion Government eof!I suitability or investiga- immediate start was They were sent to Alaska animals now being of the Mackenzie. somewhere between How much of the Barren Grounds | to reindeer grazing |i: quoted some a modest way, | ¢ The Government had substantial the The strongest guar- more cross-arms on high poles, with their gleaming miles of copper wire, be- | the present-day method #8 to use a somewhat smaller polg with the cable suspended from art: 'wire. of wire in long distance cable, electric. current carrying the waves Instead of a half-dozen or |set up by your voice, must be revived ------e] other leather goois. and novelties it goes to buzzing around you, but the law protects a human pest and you have to stand for it buzzing around it is esti- | you until it leaves you of Its own ac- His house was old, his barn was old, His eyes had seen three times my Tho' they had looked Tell me, what is it kee»s the joy Then, like an old-time orator, ~ ; Ye I "The people never give up thelr liber- ties but under some delusion. --Ed- f mund Burke. !] perhaps they would be more apprect had arranged their sweeping expanees, coupled with the reports of explor- ers as to the character and extent of the vegefation found upon them. The reindeer, as has been sald, is a close relative of the caribou, and if the latter flourished there it was reasonable to conclude that the rein- deer would do Mkewise. These wild herds have been photographed at such close range that "wild" seems a misnomer, and many have seen pletures--veritable forests of horns over a living sea. A recent Govern- ment report gives their number as having been estimated at 80,000,000. | & Warburton Pike, an early adventur- er upon the Barren Grounds, tells of standing for hours at a stretch with the caribou streaming past on either hand, so near that he was able to pick out those in primest condition for slaughter. 'This herd was six days in passing his camp, and he re marks that he could not believe the buffalo on the plains in the period of thelr greatest abundance were more numerous than were the caribou at that day on the Barren Grounds. The cost of raising reindeer is trifling, estimated at §1 per head. A handful of herders will look sfter a herd of several thousand, merely circling them at intervals to prevent then from straying. They are round- ed up three times a year--in Febru- ary to collect and segregate the breeding stock; in June to mark the ,fawns, and in October to mark out ,and slaughter the animals tended | j for market, cm -- -- Kind words never die; i! they did, , ated. SEEEEESE Hig ide TONg messenger For long talks,-carried on by means the at defiinite Intervals al. 13 the route. Repeater stations, such as the one at London, Ont, illustrated above, are being erected at several points in On- tario and Quebec. The apparatus housed in these repeater stations serves to strengthen the voice cur- rents on their journey, so that one may now talk by telephone for prac- tically any distance. Owl Laffs You can swat an insect pest when The Philosopher saw him sitting in his door, Trembling, as old men do. And still his eyes seemed new, years, And kept a twinkle still; at birth and death And three graves on a bill. "And you will make me wise. Still shining in your eyes?" Impressively he rose, I make the most of all that comes; Seawood As Food Fancied By Indians Other Peoples in Canada and Elsewhere Use It for Food Purposes Among the foodstuffs taken from the sea the Indians on the coast of Britlsh Columbia put seaweed as. worth adding to the menu of an epi- curean, 00 ZCHOWCE BLENDS ~ Red Label & Orange Pekoe Stoneless Peach May Yet Be Realized Fresno, Cal.--This spring may see the sprouts that will be the forerun- the late Luther Burbank's dream of his later years. 'whom Burbank took in charge as his protege, on his place just southeast of here has planted abnormally small peach seeds, the discovery and gift of a Fresno well driller, The gift pits are about the size of a cherry stone. From it Henderson hopes to develop eventually the peach that was the object of many plant experiments by Burbank. Henderson already has many new plant developments to his credit. Among them are several varieties of the hibiscus that wil' live In a tem- perate climate. One is of the flam- ing red color that gave the tropical plant .ts name, the flaming hibiscus. In earlier years seaweed was "money" among British Columbia In- dians in the sense that it was used, to| a limited extent, as a medium of Par, ter between tribes in the northern in-| terior part of the province and other tribes living along the coast. This! barter has now practically disappear | ed; but if seaweea Is no longer money it remains in use as an article of In- dian food. For food purposes, especially among the Indians of the northern coast of The least of all that goes." Archibald believes the reason some As 800M | girls desire to get married in airplanes after the fawning season next spring [ig because their ego has them con- Government it was worth while to as the young are able to trav:l, the |yinced no man 20 earth Is good settle the point. He went to Lapland trek will be resumed, and by the |enough for them. to procure the material for his pur-|,;tumn the herd should be establish. Jose nq returned With 1300 Tetley "upon ifs permanent feelidE| Farmer (very sagrily) -- "Whatre omin' home with your milk pail emp- y fer? Didn't the old cow give any- hing ?-" His Son--*"Yep. Nine quarts and a kick." A certain hostess is highly indig- nant over the society editor's deserip- tion of her tco coarse luncheon. Lawyer--""Mr. Peck, your wife has been arrested and is being held in- Canada, If communicado. But the police chief is asy, and a little money: " Henry Peck--"Fine, fine, and tell ay he can keep her that way." Some folks are too good to be true grqunds, even before the Porsild in-| ng to, cheap to be good, vestigation, for believing that reindeer would find themselves as much at home on Canala's Arctic |. prairies as in Alaska; that enquiry, on you sore time." though expected to confirm such be- lief, was undertaken as a measure of prudence. antee lay In the fact that 'or as far back as anything was known of the Barren Grounds, they had supported i immense herds of wild caribon that Io Borrow it on nerve. Client (just acquitted on burglary harge)--""Well, good-by. I'll drop in Lawyer--*"All right, but make it in the day time, please." Your chances of borrowing money on securities is far better than trylng | Foreman -- "Now, Murphy, what about carrying some more bricks?" Murphy--*"T ain's feelin' well, guv- nor--I'm tremblin' all over." Foreman--"Well, then, get busy with the sleve." Internal Revenue Little Willle is a funny And eccentric little waif-- Swallowed all his sister's money, Sald that he was playing safe. Charles--""And you are absolutely ure that you love me?" Irene--"Heavens! Do you think I'd be sitting here letting you bore me like this i. I didn't?" : Sincerity is more important than genius or talent. Father--"Isn't that young man rath- er fast?" . ! Daughter--"Yes, Daddy, but I don't think he'll get away." -- The newest fad of choosing a dog to match the complexion ought to popu- larize the bull. To the ladies a charm- ing map 1s one Who makes them think are. A grouch should never be nursed lest it soon grow so strong it will run off all os | Sriendes est a few prizes £8 FuEwt 4 tov lise tor You can' "home Somebody to tell a sg British Columbia, the seaweed is pressed and partially dried, and in this form it will apparently remain in a satisfactory condition for a consider-! able length of time. Part of its value from the dietary standpoint is doubt- less due to its content of jodine, an element which research has shown to be valuable as preventive of such dis- eases as goitre, Incidentally, it may be noted that sea fish also contain a considerable percentage of iodine, and this is one of the reasons why doctors and dieti- tians recoramend frequent inclusion of fish ro the household menu, As a matter of fact, of course, cer- taln seaweeds are eaten by other peo- ple besides Indians, For instance num- bers of people in Canada and else- where like dried dulse, a variety of seaweed, and fn 1929 Canadian pro- ducers marketed over 100,000 pounds of this marine product and received for it over $10,600, On the Atlantic coast of Canada some use has been made of seaweed, in combination with fish offal, in pro- ducing fish meal, which is a valuable stock food. 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