\ SAVING THE RESERVES. How the Forestry Officials Care fo Canada's Timber. The greatest problem of Canadiax forestry to-day is the protection of thy forests from fire, and it is ene tha the Forestry Branch of the Depart ment of the Interior is trying hard tk solve. This protection has naturally «beer more fuily provided for on the fores! reserves than on the immense areai of forest which are still unreserved 'On these reserves there' is a force o! Tangers, permanently employed, whc keep up a constant and careful patro! of the beat assigned them. Like the other fire rangers, these post up no tives (printed on a patented sort ol cloth, practically indestructible) cau tioning against the setting of fire, warm settlers in the neighborhood of re serves against carelessness in setting fires to clear land, or for other pur. poses, and "keep tab" on camper: and sportsmen going into the reserves and impress on them the need of cau: tion in the management of camp-fires, matches, ete. But in addition to this special mea: sures have been put in practice on the reserves for the prevention of fires. In a word these measures com: prise the burning and plowing of fire- guards, the making of roads, the sup- |ervision of settlers in the making ol | their slashings and the disposal of | the resulting brush and the supervis- ion of the spark-arresters placed in locomotives which pass through the reserves. In the early spring, when the snow has gone from the open country, but while it is still lying in the forest, tha rangers burn the grass along the boun- daries of the reserves, so as to prevent fires from coming from outside and getting into the reserves. A total of niney-one miles of such fire-guard was made on various Dominion forest reserves during 1909. The rangers also supervise the burning by the railways : ---- -- _ ------------ | of grass and brush along their rights- ee oh o Of-way. ° ° Plowed fire-guards are also made the finish | Where possible, not only along the | boundaries of the reserves but also in *Sthat endures" | the reserves themselves. In making in fuel sav> Don't allow.a few extra dollars to pre- vent you from»taking the perfect-cook- ing, sure-baking, easily-regulated Pan- dora in place of a cheaper stove. In a season or two Pandora will pay the difference in the fuel it will save--and it will keep on Saving until it has paid for itself, an Pandora special flue construction makes fuel do double duty, Wide fire box is an- other fuel-economizer. "fhe steel oven heats quicker than @ cast oven, thus Saving still Further economizing features ained by the MeClary Agent, o> Poe e, fe Sale oF vent" | these guards a strip eight furrows | wide is plowed, and on the danger | side another strip, four furrows wide jand distant from the first strip four ;rods, is plowed. The strip between | the plowed strips is disc-harrowed in | Spring and fall. During last year the | Cypress Hills reserve, in Alberta, was surrounded by a guard of this descrip- tion, several miles of guard being con- | Structed. The railways have also |Plowed guards along their lines | where these cross the: reserves. As opportunity offers, the rangers | construct roads through the reserves. | | These are found of the greatest use- | fulness in case a fire breaks out. Not | only can men and supplies be convey- | | ed to the various parts of the reserve ; reached by the road with despatch, | but the roads themselves often stop a | gives woodwork a surface glass-hard, mirtror-bright, beautiful, lasting. Fine for floors, because M L Floorglaze can't heels, castors, nor GLAZE chair - legs M LL comes in tins of just the ' size you want. Seven- Floorglaze StayS teen colors in solid glossy; you can large size. Where the fire has reached ed to back-fire from. Along the roads. | too, the rangers can more efficiently enamels. Seven other ; : patrol the areas under their charge. colorsin Lacs that ad- imitate hard- | Wheelsman at night. ; compass and gazes through his glass- }es over fire, provided it has not attained a|or issue orders for a new course. large proportions, the road can be us- | Jim," he suggests. |in a kind of solemn chanted response. During 1909 almost two hundred miles | pass swings accordingly. IN THE WHEEL HOUSE, The Little Room From Which Freight- - ers Are Guided. Up in that roof-top cupboard they call the Wheel House on a big freight- er, the lake spreads out below you like avast level floor. A bridge spans the width of the boat at the bow quarter, and standing at one end and looking down at the 'water is like peering over a parapet from the roof of a three-storey building. You would not like to think of diving so far and less still would you care to fall. There would ensue quite a splash and. quite a shock when you struck that -flat,. cold surface from such a height, says 8. H. Howard, In the Toronto Week- ly Star' Lofty though this eaptain's bridge seems, dizzily high and su- premely commanding, there are times on the lakes when the spray from the bow mounts to this deck, and these windows, and coats the woodwork with twelve inches of ice. Those are the autumn occasions when--to quote one old hairy veteran in the service-- "your whiskers freeze to your chest.' From this lofty glass-walled box we look out over the lake plain as from a watch tower, and ordinary waves are reduced to wrinkles. It is a birds- eye view, this from the wheelman's windows, a panorama of lake floor and sky roof, distant wooded hills, and blue grey islands at the outermost edge of the circle where the level floor meets the great blue dome. The bow of the vessel breaks into the picture in front and the long ornamental bow- sprit points the course like a finger-- into the distance straight ahead. In this little cabin of the Wheel alt is comfortable and snug. The wind, which pours, in skyful volume to meet the boat, has been shut out of here by closing the windward windows, The others remain open and maintain a vigorous ventilation of verile, vital- ized Lake Superior air. A leather- cushioned bench spans the little glass- eyed cubbyhole along its only solid wall at the back, and sitting here with your feet up and your shoulders against the end, you have a com- manding view of the course, and of the wheelsman maintaining it, He, constant, faithful man, perches on a stool or stands, when stool-weary, his eye focused far ahead, but squinting ever at the compass. That restless in- strument wavers between sou'-west 20 west and sou'-west 22 west, but always a twist of the wheel brings it falter- ing to where it belongs, namely at sou'-west 21. There it floats in its dish of diluted alcohol trembling for a while until of a sudden when it swings away half a point, and the wheel has to chase it for a few spokes and bring it back. And thus for hours he "takes his trick," relieved by the mate at mealtime or by the other The captain comes in out of the wind occasionally, takes a look at the the lake; or the mate will blow in to borrow a chew of tobaeco "Put. her _ sou'-west a half west, SEN a RNS is getting scarce and shingles _ are not only higher in price, but they are poor in quality. f When you put a roof on your building, it isn't temporary relief and a medium amount of satisfaction that you want, but permanent relief and complete satisfaction. Amatite is a real mineral surfacec f rience at once what roof satisfaction is ¥ and what roofing difficulties can be pre- vented. 2s You will find that 7t needs no paint- kan ing or attention of any kind after vey it is laid. It doesn't pay to patch old roofs when you can get a new Amatite roof at scarcely any greater cost. roofing. 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A carload consisting of fifteen head of buffalo arrived at Wainwright, Al- ta. from Montana last week and wero furned into 'the government parks (hey will be used for breeding pur- poses as 'they are unrelated to tho 800 head 'which the park already, con-' tains. All the buffalo are doing well im the open and have not required feeding as yet. The calf drop this season was good. Special--100 pair Women's Rub- bers, regular price 70c. while they fast 65c. at Wilson's. kecae The village of Bridgeburg, is adver- tising for a teacher with a first-class certificate to teach continuation work amd the initial salary offered is $1000 The 'Methodist church at Ilderton valued at $6,000 was iburned to the ground on Sunday evening. The fire was caused by an overheated furnace. of road were cut along the boundaries of the reserves, at an average cost for a Toad nine feet wide of $12.73. Eleyv- also made into the interior of the Moose Mountain reserve in Saskatche- wan, and 78 miles of road cleared in the Porcupine reserve. By these and other measures the Management of the reserves is striv- | ing to do away with the constant men- | ace of fire. Further information on | these and other points may be obtain- }ed in the annual report of the Super- jintendent of Forestry (especially in |the report of the Inspector of Forest | Reserves) which ferms part of the an- |nual report of the Department of the Interior, lately issued. | { Hudson's Bay Survey. | Party No, 1, Hudson's Bay Railroad ;--the Pas to Landing Lake--have tak- /en off their tall boots for the season. | Engineer Clifford and gang have been _|out in the swamps and muskegs now for twelve months. They report pro- |} gress, and their verdict as to condi- | tions for construction on the Arctic line is being awaited with a great deal | Of interest at Ottawa. Engineer Clif- |ford says that except for a few en- Sornprad with blowing winds, which occasionally churned the water about | | his canoe a bit, his job in the north | was the best ever. He claims to know all the ups and downs of one-half the road from the Pas to Nelson River. He says it will be smooth going; "in fact, there are but few points on the whole section on which we covered where it will be at all necessary to make unreasonable curves in the line in order to secure solid foundation." | He adds also that $200,000 in bridge construction! can be saved as a result of his investigation. There is news for the farmer and the summer tour- ist in Mr. Clifford's resume of his sur. vey experiences. He tells of hundreds of acres of clay soil along the route which will put dollars into the pocket of the chap who is looking for a clean- up in real estate. Sturgeon, whitefish, |and salmon are plentiful. The Bad Translator Again, What would have happened if Sir Wilfrid Laurier's address on his recent | visit to Montreal had been published as a Liberal paper of fat city receiv- ed it, is a speculation which somehow didn't seem altogether pleasant to the editorial management of that paper. For the occasion, a French translator had been engaged, and as the Pre- mier spoke for upwards of an hour and a half, he was kept pretty busy. Concluding his assertions on the naval policy, Sir Wilfrid declared: "If Great Britain should ever go to war, which God forbid, ete." It was truly an eloquent appeal. But the transla- tion was not. "If Great Britain should ihe to war," it read, "we'll go to The Thoughtful Ostrich. The Arab has a curious belief that the ostrich lays twenty-four eggs, but eventually only hatches twenty-three of them, the extra egg being kept by the old bird for the purpose of feeding her young ones on. en tiles of sixteen-foot roadway was walks out on the bridge to observe the jangle of the wake and its general ap- | | pearance@@.d characteristics. By the |wake he<determines how much lee- | way she's making, how obedient his | helm and his helmsman are, and other | things. |empties the pilot house, and Jim turns ;to note the new course on his slate, ;and the time o' day by his clock on | the | wheel again and puts the bow back |where it belongs, and where by no |combination of circumstances does it fever seem willing to remain without | dressed. There was quite a sprinkling required no such work. "Ts she there?' queries the mate. "Yes, sir," replies the wheelsman. "Well, hold her there until. five-fif- teen,' says the mate. His bulky form nail. Then he springs to the his constant guiding and repressing hand. "Talking about sea captains," says Jim, "I've seen *em let me wobble two whole points off me course, and them never say a word. I've tried *em just for fun. We've had sea captains up here on the lakes--have some now-- but their deep sea trainin' don' help 'em any--not' up here. It's no good." Jim spat emphatically at this point, keeping one eye on the shifting com- pass face the while. Oscar Is Not Infallible. When Melba's manager told Oscar Hammerstein that he intended to take the great songstress to Western Canada, the inimitable Oscar observ- ed: "Impossible! Western Canada! Why, a banjo round the camp fires is' all the musie they need up there. There is not a town worth mention- ing. it would probably surprise Osear to know that something like a thousand people paid $5 a time to hear Melba at Regina, that there was a similar expansive and expensive house at Cal- gary, and that Winnipeg was so en thusiastic that the singer had to pay two visits. Also, an officer of the Grenadier Guards who happened to be in 'the Winnipeg Opera House at the first concert, declared that the crowd at Covent Garden did not look better of tiaras. Canada Badly "Laid Qut." The destruction of our forests re- calls a curious criticism made once by a prominent lumberman who was a member of the House of Commons, He alleged that Canada had not been properly "laid out." The seaboard provinces and Ontario should have been prairie and Manitoba, Saskatche- wan and Alberta should have been forest. The hardy pioneers who came from the old country could thus have been saved a lot of work, and the for- ests would still be in existence. As it was, they had to chop and log and burn and stump, while beyond them, farther West, was the wheatland that A Serious Objection. "JT see the young woman we met who was so anxious for a career hag married. I thought she told' us she was wedded to her art." j "So she was, but she got a divorce There pasesd out from the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Finkbeiner, Listo- wel, their only and beloved son Gor- | pneumonia, after a short illness of | neighbors will miss his smiling and on the ground of non-support." don, at the early age of 10 years, 4 months and 1 day, from typhoid three weeks. He had not been well for the 'past several months, and when the disease took hold of him he was unable to fight it off. Gordon was a very quiet, yet cheerful boy, and every one who knew him goon grew to like his disposition. He was kind to every one, attentive at school, and his eyes were always open to no- tice things. The family, friends and cheerful face . The funeral took place on Tuesday aiternoon of this week. We are pleased to state that Mr. Finkbeiner, who has been very ill for | the past eleven weeks, is improving, but the little daughter, Eva, is very low at the time of writing. Mr. and e Looking Inte The New "Chancellor' "teel Range is designed to It has . divided flue strip alone eve good service, top and down side of oven top. This feature guaran: tees perfect baking results, The grate also pulls right out and is easily changed from coal to wood use. Note the large warming closet that will accomodate a full dinner service. When you buy a "CHANCELLOR" you make a good investment. Mrs. Finkbeiner have the sympathy | Call in and get prices. of the entire' community in their sad | beeravement. 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