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C AW # T Goods eparation %% ery pr° must be r breaks d a half ituam § * 1J _ damage hat‘s the Aete like i hing Why, der them. ihe boiling or evaporating is done in houses which are equipped with sanitary appliances, and the result is that when the sugar is ready for sale it is often so white and clean that people who rememâ€" ber the brown stuff they used to get when they were boys and girls refuse to believe that it can be pure. People who make maple sugar for the market have been compelled, like the dairymen, to adopt scientiâ€" fie methods. The sap is first gathâ€" ered in pails which are covered so that no leaves or dirt can get into them. The boiling or evaporating is done in houses which are equipped with sanitary annliances and tha in m be © pe Her daughterâ€"Very well; but I tell you emphatically that when it comes to buying the wedding dress, I‘ll select the material myself. To be in the "sugar bush‘"" when the spring is beginning and nature is unfolding her most delightful wonders is an experience that is never likely to be forgotten by the boy who is fortunate enough to be permitted to assist in gathering the sap and boiling it down, first to syrup and then to sugar. There is at such a time and in such a place & crispness in the atmosphere that is exhilarating. The early birds are too busy making the woodland ring with song to waste any time lookâ€" ing for worms ; the sprouts of the young maples take on a crimson glow that constitutes an attractive note of color in the general scene, and the squirrels bark defiantly from lofty branches that have not yet begun to bud. Will electricity b future ? Already it that it can act as Produces Artificial Heat, and Saves Human Organs. tem, and thus give mse to much overwork of wie organs, the artifiâ€" cial m.-fl-?firoducea the same heat at much fess injurious cost of the generat condition of health. These electric currents, he says, ras through the body without the east feeling. The current is of two or three amperes strength, and volâ€" tage of 1,000 to 2,500 volts an hour, and this amount of electricity equals oneâ€"third of the daily food value which should be consumed by one person. A married woman‘s description of her ideal man isn‘t anything like the one she got. NOTES ANDCOMMENTs Mrs. Fitzzwell (socially inclined) â€"My dear, I have picked out a husband for you. _ y ® x m ed with le=~ The princif the heat ene that much le into the bods He applied the first test to a man who was in bad physical condition. The patient at the time was eating too much animal food, but was unâ€" awble to work, was sensitive to heat and cold, and could not walk 30 feet without aid. His height was 5 feet 10 inches, and he weighed 110 pounds. After a series of treatâ€" ments he began to improve rapidly, and in a short time gained 30 pounds, was able to walk for hours without much weariness, and had, in fact, regained all of his normal vigor. L n st tr mM y e 1sh ELECTRICITY FOR DINNER. If nt H N 14 ne immen 10 Won‘t Stand For That. toubtless be made y parts of Canada that an industry w 0 LV wl it it energy « it 1Ear 10 KIN it f d f«c nversit +. Prench is rather iuthentic efi thod is called "« he applies frequg e human body, 30 1 eat having to be pr | materials hich : value rm it v [atigne rt were made to doâ€" maple groves they ss be made profitable hazard wa terials wh ind hatne s permit d uld I > the foo has beer a substi i extent scientist sensatio MA it d 0o in a more ould be absorbâ€" and discomfort. ectricity acting that it adds to the stomach so has to be taken . so tha be prod i )blained in that which A healthy less than a s during a would have xhibitor of in the 11 sod of t} en prove titute f. It he h U estab seems might B Ccur p D u 1g 10 | ‘‘*Money damages, however, were ‘not what the Arabs wanted. They | spurned the offer with contempt and \ demanded that the engineer be givâ€" en up to them so that they cou!d |\take his life in place of that of the boy. That was a compensation that |the general manager could not conâ€" | cede ; in fact, he had already transâ€" | ferred the engineer to another part of the line, fearing the natives might try to wreak vengeance. ‘"‘The delegation finally left when they found that the man would not | be produced, but they left with |\threatening gestures and warnings | that ‘Arabs never forget.‘ of a train on the main line, and both were due at Beltan the same numâ€" ‘ber of minutes apart. We had the |right of way, and unless we were |\very much behind time the mainâ€" | line train was always held for us. | There Was No Telegraph, vyou know, and the length of time that the other train would be held \depended largely on the discretion ‘of the signalman at the junction. | _ "I was not surprised that we were signaled to proceed, although we were five minutes behind time. This was largely due to the weather, which was foggy that morning. "You have never seen one of our Egyptian fogs. â€" They are worse than any I have seen in this counâ€" try. â€" The mists lie close to the ground and seem to be held down by the trees, where there is any 'fuliage. Not until the sun gets high do they begin to swirl about in the |air and finally ascend to the heaâ€" | vens like so many whiteâ€"robed spirâ€" "It was not unusual for a band of natives to gallop up on their swift Arabian horses, coming apparently from out of the sands of the desert, and then, as they rode alongside the train, take a pot shot at us, wheeling and going off at a gallop ]the moment the shots had been fired from their longâ€"barreled guns. Their |holy men used to make incantations ’and cast spells upon us just as they |did on any evil thing, and the igâ€" \norant natives thought that they | were fulfilling the will of Allah if they maimed an employee or threw a train off the tracks. ‘"‘The road had been built by ‘France when it held its protectorâ€" "A month later I was riding on a train which was nearing Beltan, on the main line. At the junction there was a triangle of tracks, the main line and the Kafr Hamza seeâ€" tion coming together at the poipt. A cross track from one to the other formed the base of the triangle. ‘"‘The train from Kair Hamza, to which my car was attached, was due at the junction three minutes ahead On Top of the Little Chap. ’:‘l'“‘t" His {ather, it chanced, was working j\::t in the palm grove and saw it all. 1(1““,: ‘"A couple of days later the f2â€" | time ther called at the office of the gem\ eral manager with a dozen of his clansmen, all armed with their lungl MR. rifles with inlaid stocks and chased| M you that de pe its "When our engineer received the signal to proceed he went on cautiâ€" ously, as was the custom, until we passed the switch into the main line. I stood in the open door of the bagâ€" gageâ€"car, having come forward from my own car, which was attached to the rear of the train. ‘‘The engine, two freight cars and the mail car had passed the crossâ€" over track and the baggage car was just passing over it when I saw comâ€" ing out of the mist the engine of the mainâ€"line train. a train off the tracks. ‘"‘The road had been built by France when it held its protectorâ€" ate over Egypt. It was a narrowâ€" gauge line, and it was not a partiâ€" cularly difficult task to make trouâ€" ble for the men who were trying to keep things running straight. "One day a little Arab boy todâ€" dled out from the cover of the palms which lined the tracks just as a train came along. There wasn‘t a chance for him and there wasa‘t time for the engineer even to shut off steam before we were barrels. It was the policy then to attempt to conciliate the natives, and the general manager promptly made an offer to settle. "It was evident that the signalâ€" man had given us notice to proceed and then given the other train the same signal, but instead of sending that ahead on its own track and causing a side swipe he had thrown the switch that sent it on the crossâ€" headâ€"on. . "For a moment I stood at the open door of that car watching cerâ€" tain death heading toward me. I was not afraid; in fact, I did not think at all that I remember. The feeling that in an instant more that engine would crush my life out seemed to fascinate me. : over "The next thing I knew I heard a crash and A Crackling of Timbers, the car careened and, as I glanced up at it from where I lay on the ground, I could see it slowly topâ€" pling over on top of us. Te DEMANDED LFE F0 LFf ‘"When the Egyptian railroad was first put through," he said, "the natives regarded it as a creation of evil spirits. They not only disapâ€" proved of it, but they attacked its employees. ‘"‘Then the guard who stood beâ€" side me grasped me by the back of my neck and, yelling, ‘Jump!‘ fairâ€" ly pulled me through the door on the other side of the train at the same moment that he jumped himâ€" gelf. Railroad in Egypt Regarded by Naâ€" tives as Creation of Evil Spirits. Alzakin, the former trafic inspecâ€" tor of the Egyptian Delta railway, leaned back in his chair and drew several long, meditative pulls on his nargileh. 1RAB SOUVGHT _ YENGEANCE FOR DEATH OF A soOXN. "I was considerably surprised a so that it was coming at us | _Mr. Lewis W. Clemens, prosident ‘of the Canadian Travel Club, has |ha,d the honor to be appointed a ]memher of the West ladia Commutâ€" tee, London, England. Mr. Clemens \has for six years been identified |\ with the development of closer reâ€" {lations between the British West \Indies and Canada. During that ‘time he has made a careful study | of their history, economic problems, |and their attractions and climate. ; In Jamaica, three years ago, he was ‘one of the explorers of the great stalactite caves at Oxford, near Baâ€" laclava, where the Spanish are supâ€" posed to have buried their treasure so long ago as 1655. |ed him to represent their tourist inâ€" lterests at the Toronto Exhibition last year, for be it known that visiâ€" tors are to the West Indies what new citizens are to Canada, and the Governments of the West Indies are all vitally interested in supplyâ€" \ing information to intending visiâ€" ‘tors, and he is at present cecupied lin working out a comprehensive | plan for the free distribution in \Canada of â€" authentic information for the island of Jamaica, where he | has speat much time. | _ Mr. Clemens was born in Port \ Perry, Ontario, and studied ari in |Toronto, New York, London and ‘Paris, but has since turaned his atâ€" tention chiefly to travel and writâ€" \ing. In addition to being president i "It was not surprising that the |engineer thought the Arab the reâ€" \gular signalman, for in their naâ€" \tive costume, heads swathed in | white linen and the figure entirely | concealed, one Egyptian looks very \much like another, especially in a thick fog. _ The rascal must have watched the passing of the trains at that point for days in order to know 1jusl how he could effect the most \damage in the shortest possible (MR. CLEMEN‘S APPOINTMENT. of the Canagian Travel Club, he was elected some time ago Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute. For several years Mr. Clemens has been making a thorough study of conditions, etc., in Jamaica, and is there at the present time. Gladysâ€"I refused Fred two woeks ago, and he has been drinking heavyâ€" ily ever since. â€" > * & Ethelâ€"Isn‘t it about time he stopped celobrating1 ‘"He had succeeded, for the cotâ€" tonâ€"fields which surronded the juncâ€" tion point were stained red where the injured had been laid, and the smoke which curled up from the wreckage testified that a good many of the piastres of the Egyptian Delâ€" ta railroad had vanished that mornâ€" ing. f His Spanish Majesty keeps from 40 to 50 suits in use, and a number of them may, in some litt‘e points, such as the cut of the revers, or in the height of waistcoat, go out of fashion before they have been worn more than two or three times, and in such a case they would be promptly put out of the royal wardâ€" robe, for King Alfonso, perhaps on account of his youth, is more punceâ€" tilious about being dressed in the most upâ€"toâ€"date modes than any other European monarch. ‘‘My mind went back at once to the Arab whose boy had been run over a few weeks before, and I reaâ€" lized that this was the way in which he had wreaked his vengeance upon the railroad. It was he who had given us the signal to proceed and who had switched the mainâ€"line train on the crossover track so as to wreck the other. minute later to see it settle and slide so that the door opening came diâ€" rectly over us as we lay together, and save for the heel of one shoe, which was caught by the edge of the doorway, I was absolutely untouchâ€" to be found, and we at first conâ€" cluded that, appalled at the result of his stupidity, he had run away. Later, though, we found him. He was trussed up with ropes, like a turkey ready for roasting, and was lying on his face in a tangle of fig vines a quarter of a mile from the junetion. "When we climbed out and had attended to the injured among the passengers I began to think about that signalman. He was nowhere "It was some time before the poor fellow could talk. Then he told us that shortly after he came on duty that morning a band of Arabs apâ€" peared out of the fog, fell upon him, and binding him so that he could not get loose, carried him to where he lay. The Jamaica Government selectâ€" Mr. Lewis W. Clemens. Alfonso An Exquisite. Malicious. One can get th@ news at Cairo much as you can in London or Toâ€" ronto. Papers are sold in the streets in various tongues, and Arab youths with bare feet and Qccidental enâ€" ergy tear round the city screaming extra editions. Cairo is alive and doing things. Egypt is a surprise and a transport. It is a wonderful country and undoubtedly has a promising future. Cairo is a delightful place to visit. It has all the attractions of antiâ€" quity, oriental color, and a polyâ€" glot population. Then it is up to date and prosperous. One may ride a camel if he cares to, but if he preâ€" fers he may use the railroad, street cars, steam launch or automobile. Everything is here richly to enjoy â€"electric lights and telephones, and all blends harmoniously with the most picturesque Oriental antiquity to be seen in the globe. The peoâ€" ple are neither quarrelsome nor morose, but sunny, jovial andâ€" dirty, of courseâ€"but intensely inâ€" teresting and attractive. Damascus, like Cairo, is at the head of an immense fertile plain. It is surrounded on three sides by mountains and through the city pours the fresh swift waters of the Abana River. As at Salt Lake City the waters are conducted to all parts of the city and bubble up at hundreds of fountainsâ€"not beautiâ€" ful, indeed, but useful. A little beâ€" low the city flows the Pharper, and these two streams, like the Nile, are employed to irrigate a territory as beautiful as it is extensive, and so unlike Palestine. It is forested and reâ€"forested, affording the peoâ€" ple a constant supply of timber. This timber is chiefly poplar and walnut, the former very rapid in growth and used . extensively in building. 7 But Damascus is much more than an agricultural centre, it is an imâ€" mense industrial _ and commercial city. . Damascus is the Manchester of Syria. The range of its manuâ€" factures is almost endless. We visâ€" ited a brass factory, where the emâ€" ployees were numbered by the hunâ€" dred. But most of the work is done along the streets or bazaars, whore the foods manufactured are offered for sale. Furniture, carpets, silks, jewelry, harness, shoes, tins, copâ€" per and silverware, trunks, valises and trinkets of endless design give employment to the natives and imâ€" portance to the place. Methods of manufacture are most primitive, and children of tender age lend their quota to the total. Electric light and street cars make the place look modern, but electric power is not ased industrially, nor is the telephone permitted here nor elseâ€" where by the Turkish authority ; streets are narrow and filthy, as in all Oriental cities, and th‘s city more than any that I have seen is infested by homeless, unhappy and quarrelsome dogs, who make the day unpleasant and the night hideâ€" ous. â€" Nevertheless, Damasens is a city of commendable enterprise. Its As the Nile is the explanation of Egypt, so the first high ground on the Nile is the explanationsof Cairo. The city is thirtyâ€"miles from the sea and is located at the head of a fanâ€" shaped delta. Just as London Towâ€" er was built on the first high ground up the Thames and determined the location of England‘s capital, so Cairo clusters about a magnificent elevation, with its citadel commandâ€" ing the entire region, while on the west of the Nile. at the very edge of the desert, rises another hill atâ€" fording an excellent site for those farâ€"famed pyramids where the royal dead once reposed, and where still we trace the ruins of immense temâ€" ples. The first great civilizations of the race arose in river basins, where the water which contributed fertility to the soil constituted the cheap and effective highway of traffic. There is an economic and enduring reason for Cairo. It is the Queen City of an extensive plain, whose fertility is as lasting as the river that feeds it and the industry of the pepulace. Industry, â€" activity, cheerfulness are characteristic of the Caironeese. The people have to work. Irrigaâ€" tion is a successful, but toilsome, method of agriculture. But it keeps men from the dry rot of idleness and its vices, and develops comâ€" mendable qualities. day unpleasant and the night hideâ€" ous. Nevertheless, Damasens is a city of commendable enterprise. Its people are occupied and Turkish misrule, notwithstanding it, enjoys a prosperity that is manifest and enjoyable. _ _ _ _ # Jerusalem owes nothing to the river or the sea. Its site was not chosen for commercial or industrial reasons. It was selected for straâ€" tegic position. Jerusalem was oriâ€" ginally a fort, and like Stirling or Edinburgh, qwes its qceation to j&s value as a place of defense. Davl s a fighting man, who won his kingâ€" dont by w?[ and retained it by the sword, held it for a stronghold. Solomon made it a splendor. Israel made it a glory as the centre of a great spiritual revelation and from Damascus has been alive a long time, and has promise of a long and useful career. Until recently, all were ruled by the Turk. Two of them are still under Turkish dominion. They all speak with voices of great antiquity and each has a message of its own. (By Dr. Marshall P. Talling, B.A., Toronto.) Cairo, the ancient capital of the Pharaohs, where Joseph achieved greatness and Moses slept amidst the bulrushes, has a population of 275,000 and is the largest city in Egypt. g # Jerusalem, the city of David, of Solomon and Jesus, 3,000 feet above and 36 miles distant from the sea, has a population of 100,000, and is the only great city in Palestine. Damascus, "the oldest city in the world,""‘ celebrated for it fabrics and unrivalled swords, associated with St. Paul‘s conversion and the burial place of Saladin, has a popuâ€" lation of 300,000 and is the greatest city of Svyria. GAIRO â€" JERUSALENM â€" DAMASCUS tor cars, and no telephone. Think of a city of 100,000 people without a daily paper! Jerusalem has but two little weeklies, which have no way of securing foreign news. The only ‘"foreign news‘‘ that reaches Jerusaâ€" lem comes once a week in half a dozen sheets, like hand bills, conâ€" taining abbreviated ‘"Reuter‘‘ teleâ€" gramsâ€"and these are censored. Jerusalem is rent by racial and reâ€" ligious divisions. _ Mohammedans, Hebrews and Christians; and the Christians are so sharply divided that at the Holy Sepulchre peace is preserved by Moslem soldiers. What is the future of Jerusalem to be! The people commonly and bluntly express the hope that "England" will take Palestine and do for it what she has for Egypt. The Zionâ€" ists look forward to making it again the Hebrew Capital of the world and are praying still for their longâ€" lookedâ€"for Messiah. Many Chrisâ€" tians expect Jesus to return to Jeâ€" rusalem to set up a temporal kingâ€" dom. Disregarding its future, the Jerusalem of the present is unenviâ€" ably unique, and the Christians who ought to be its light and adorning have made their centreâ€"the Church of the Holy Sepulchreâ€"a place for the disposal of relies, for the cultiâ€" vation of superstition ; and the colâ€" lection of gratuities from devout pilâ€" grims. Yes, and a place of sharp conflict and unchristian feeling. Over this same Jerusalem must our Saviour still be weeping. The most pathetic sight this citvy affords is not its idleness, nor filth, nor facâ€" tion, but its place of wailing. One cannot reflect upon its influence on the Hebrews and Mohammedans who daily regard it without feeling. Bomewhere he failed me, somewhere he slipped awayâ€" Youth, in his ignorant faith and his bright array. The tides go out; the tides come flooding in ; Still the old years die and the new begin ; But Youth !â€" Somewhere we lost each other, last year or yesterday. Bomewhere he failed me. Down at the harborâ€"side I waited for him a little, where the anchored argosies ride I thought he cameâ€"the steady ‘"trade‘"‘ blew freeâ€" I thought he came ; ‘twas but the shawod of me ! And Youth !â€" * Somewhere he turned and left me, about the turn of the tide. Perhaps I shall find him. It may be he waits for me, Sipping those wines we knew, beâ€" side some tropic sea. The tides still serve, and I am out and away To search the spicy harbors of yesterday, Somewhere he failed me, somewhere he slipped awayâ€" Youth, with hig ignorant heart and his bright array. Was it in Bados?! God, I would pay to know ! Was it on Spanish Hill, where the roses blow ! â€"Theodore Goodridge Roberts, in April Canadian Magazine. In 12 marriages out of every 100 one of the parties has been married For Youth, Where the lamps of the town are yellow bevond the lamps of the quay. But what supports Jerusalem? Not agraculture, for the great plains of Palestine are tributary to other centres. But if Jerusalem be not sustained by agriculture, neiâ€" ther is it by commerce, as Nablous, nor by industry, as Bethlehem, which is the head of the motherâ€"ofâ€" pearl manufactury for the country. Jerusalem is not a place of business. Half of its population is supported in whole, or in part, by remittances from foreign lands. And its magâ€" nificent buildings, churches, monâ€" asteries, hospices, schools and hosâ€" pitals are built in the same way. Its streets are lined by beggars and obstructed by a wrangling and inâ€" dolent people. _ Jerusalem has no electric light, no street cars, no moâ€" Ah, Youth! Shall I hear your laughter toâ€"mor row, in painted Olivio ? Somewhere I failed him. _ Someâ€" where I let him departâ€" Youth, who would only sleep for the morn‘s fresh start. _ The tides slipped out, the tides washed out and in, And Youth and I rejoiced in their wastrel din. Ah, Youth! Shall I find you south of the Gulf? â€"or are you dead in my heart? the loins of His great ancestor Jesus cameâ€"the incarnation of the Father and the world‘s great sacriâ€" fice. ~ Jerusalem, once a fortified stronghold and the centre of Israeâ€" litish worship, has become a sacred city for a large section of mankind. How to Be Happy. Mrs. Naggsâ€"John, have you read ‘‘How to be Happy Though Marâ€" ried w without reading it. Mrs. Naggsâ€"Well, how. Naggsâ€"Get a divorce. Nuggsâ€"Of course pot. I knoy Thibet‘s Logend of Eden. The Lost Shipmate. TORONTO HIVES |_Whilst travelling by express train from Colwyn Bay to Liverpool in | charge of a young invalid, a trained | nurse, Annie Kershaw, fell from the |carriage and sustained fatal inâ€" ‘ juries. ols 4 These are all tremendous quesâ€" tions and they all concern the purâ€" pose of life. God means us to ask them. _ I am sure of that and to keep on asking. Answer in its enâ€" tirety may not be given, but I beâ€" lieve we shall be able to see from which direction the answer is to come and we may even see it comâ€" ing now, though afar off. p IQFUN IPOM I4 NU CUVEInIy, _ JnNCPO In the First Place ‘xs one real, indestructible self, the we may all agree that men‘s faces man as he is, the woman as she is ; are turned toward the future. The in a word, their character. That future is never long forgotten. We!eludes the grave, that no one can look at our business plam for growth | bury. and development in the years to| What that character is to be lies come. Their future is our chief wholly in our hands. Remember it concern. In a certain sense we are is immortal and life is passing like never contented with things asthey |the shadow of a dream. What is are. The present lacks com lete-.it doing to you! Search your bank ness. The prizes of life, the ogjects account of life, not your calling list. most to be desired, lie in the beâ€" l!\'ot other people‘s opinion of youâ€" yond. Ambition keeps us on our that constitutes what we may call tiptoes, peering into the years to| reputationâ€"but you, the inperishâ€" «ome. able you. Jesus said that shall not Now I think there is something | perish. ced ie : Now I think there is something noble and stimulating in this forâ€" ward look. _ Things beyond our reach require effort, persistent, vigâ€" orous effort, before we can attain them. _ And this effort creatos strength and efficiencyâ€"in a word it builds character. You and I can develop into nobler men and woâ€" men through struggling with difiâ€" culties, overcoming obstacles, and when the difficulties have been conâ€" quered and the obstacles surmountâ€" A laborer named William Colthâ€" rope, of Gedgrave, Orford, Suffolk, died in consequence of being gored by a bull. . Annie Atkinson, a married woman employed at the Bell Beaming Comâ€" pany‘s mills, Blackburn, has died as the result of falling down a lift. Helen Guer was finedâ€" £50, or in default, 3 months, at the Mansion House, for smuggling 17 pounds of saccharine. What is the purpose of life! If one of you should reply that life‘s purpose is to achieve happiness then you must tell me why the lives of men and women are visited with so much unhappiness and misery. This query cannot be answered by deâ€" claring that for the major portion of his unhappiness man is directly and personally responsible. Even if this indictment was true the purâ€" pose of life, according to the theory of happiness as its end, has failed utterly of fulfillment. to be necessary for the best intenâ€" tioned person to make so many and such painful blunders? Why are the abnormal ways of life made so attractive, the glitter, the emptiâ€" ness, the waste of health and strength? Why, why is it all so easy 1 Why are right and wrong inevitably so mixed that nothin seems entirely right, nothing nfi wrong, and we are compelled acâ€" cordingly to choose the lesser of two evils. A farmer at Thorney, near Peterâ€" borough found a fullâ€"grown hare in a large ratâ€"trap. _ _ f A child of seven, named Mary Tugwood, was killed and her foster mother, Mrs. Florence Cogger, of Camberwell, seriously injured in a motor ‘bus smash in Trafalgar road, old Kent road. If the purpose of life is to be good then why are the ways of goodness left in such obscurity, made so posiâ€" tively difficult! Why should it seem The King has given £10 to the Destitute Sailors Fund. Lord Be‘lper has been reâ€"elected chairman of the Nottinghamshire County Council for the twentyâ€" fourth yvear in succession. A new casino on the beach at|°°" Blackpool has been licensed. Youths | 8 under eighteen will not be allowed]f’t'(, admission to the billiard saloon. |"" While playing in the churchyard at East Horsley, Surrey, a tombâ€" stone fell on a fiveâ€"yearâ€"old child and broke its leg. At the instance of the R.S.P.C.A., W. Roberts of High Wycombe was fined 14s. 6d. for cutting off a cat‘s tail last week with a meat chopper. Of the series of boat races beâ€" tween the Universities, Oxford has won 29, Cambridge 33, and there has been one dead heat. Mr. Percy James Fisher, London editor of the Berkshire Daily Chronâ€" icle, died suddenly while dancing at the Bishopsgate Institute. The death has occurred of Dr. W. B. Tate, for 54 years superintendâ€" ent of Coppice Lunatic Asylum, Nottingham. Among the mén accepted as Toâ€" cruits for the army last year, were three actors, ten dentists, two law students, six medical students, and seven surveyors. Fourteen skeletons, with the reâ€" mains of bronze wire wristlets, were recently dug up on the farm of Mr. T. C. Ratcliff at Chesterton, near Peterborough. > 4 T Twenty sheep out qf a flock of forty griz{ng fxst outs?lde Hflunting- don, were worried tq death by dogs. The Present Is the Battle Ground On Which Your Soul May Win Its Right to Live FROM MERRY OLD ENGLAY) Occurrences in the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Comâ€" mercial World. Mr. Herbert Paul, formerly M.P. for Northampton, has presented a row of houses in Finsden, his naâ€" tive town, for poor widows. NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHX BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. THE GREAT PURPOSE OF LIFF llity of the crops grown by different persons in the same locality, These differences are due to several causes among which the varieties grown and methods of cultivation practisâ€" ed are perhaps the chief. According to experiments carried on for years at the Experimental |l"nrm at Ottawa, Earliana, of which lthc:'v are several strains, is the best 'oariy sort, but Bonny Best, Cha‘lks‘ Early Jewel are also good early !kinda. Of later varieties Matchless Trophy, Livingston‘s Globe and Plentiful rank high. It is the early fruit that makes the profit. In growing plants what should be aimed at is the producâ€" tion of a stock, sturdy plant which will have some fruit set upon it when set in the field. After plantâ€" ing the chief work is cultivation, | which should be done both ways in lthe plantation . In order to protect tomato plants from diseases, of which there are several, they should be repeatedly sprayed, even when quite young, with Bordeaux mixture. These and many other points, which cover practically the whole field of tomaâ€" to culture in the green house as well as in the garden and field, are fully treated in pamphlet No. 10 of the Central Experimental Farm preâ€" pared by the Dominion Horticulturâ€" ist, Mr. W. T. Macoun. This work is for free distribution to all who apply for it to the Publications Branch of the Department of Agriâ€" culture at Ottawa. Are we doomed forever to things which as soon as they are gained cease to satisfy! In a sense, yes. What is the gain!? What is the purâ€" pose of it all? The purposeâ€"let me say it with emphasisâ€"the parâ€" pose of life is the creation of charâ€" acter. The best reward life can give you is not moneyâ€"although money in certain quantities may be essential. _ It is not friends, alâ€" though every man and woman reâ€" quires the exercise of their tenderâ€" er emotions, impulses of deep and abiding affection. It is not fame, position, pleasure. The best reâ€" ward life can give us is Character. ed, what then? Are we happy and contented! _ Do we settle down quietly to enjoy what we have atâ€" tained! By no means. We never attain precisely what we desire ; as soon as our fingers touch it we perâ€" ceive it is not exactly what we have dreamed of and we renew our quest, press forward into the future in pursuit of the vanishing ideal. We are by nature insntillfie and this world is one well calculated to keep us moving and to lure us onâ€" ward. I am using the word character here as a synonym for soulâ€"the part of you that never dies,. There is a part of us that never dies, and while we may disagree on names we are all agreed on the main fact. The body and all its desiresâ€"all its partsâ€"crumble, but the soul goes forth from it into eternity. There is one real, indestructible self, the man as he is, the woman as she is ; in a word, their character. That eludes the grave, that no one can bury. The Marquis of Londonderry has presented $250 to the benefit fund of the London Fire Brigade in reâ€" cognition of the prompt services rendered at an outbreak at Lonâ€" donderry House, Park Lane. Richmond Royal Horse Show, take place during the interval tween Epsom and Ascot races June 13 and 14. Almost anyone with a garden or farm in a temperate climate can grow tomatoes with greater or less successs, but there is a great differâ€" ence between the extent and quaâ€" What that character is to be lies wholly in our hands. Remember it is immortal and life is passing like the shadow of a dream. What is Bouthport Town Council have decided to open its art gallery on Bunday afternoon for the remainder of the spring Art Exhibition. Czar Buys Clothes in Russia. The Czar keops about 40 suits in wear, and wears each perhaps a dozen times before it is put out of the wiardrobes. The Czar buys all his clothes in Russia, and cach suit costs him from $40 to $80, while for frock coats and waistcoats he pays 875. On some of theCzar‘s uniforms the gold ornamentation and braidâ€" ing are worth alone $1,000. This ornamentation is never used twice, but when a new uniform is ordered the ornamentation is good for ahout It may seem a gospel of selfishâ€" ness, but all good work for others, all work that builds up the strucâ€" ture, lifts burdens, clears away conâ€" fusion and darkness is worth while and must be considered part of the purpose of life. But in the last anaâ€" lysis the supreme purpose is the creation of character. Marshal the forces of your soul and face hardâ€" ships bravely.â€"Rev. John Moors McGann. . servants 1 Dobbsâ€"Alas, noâ€"or}y to hire obbsâ€"Bo you‘ve struck it rich are now able to keep several TOMATO CULTURE. Quite Another Thing. )U ;o ® L3 y is B