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<ge _ Two n?ol"l and I purc.h;;gcd ai esummer of 194. The :E'-E;F'-;l fifif‘fi This may sound like a f: Tee it workked onp ery a4¢ : I had an idea tnat siloâ€"painting was a difficult task, co when I put up my cilo, six zears ago, I hit upon the plan of painting it before it was pui pp. This may sound like a fairy story, the present cost of operating a tracâ€" ter, I find it difficult to do so profitâ€" , unless the repair costs are kept fil to a minimum. worst offenders. Ignition trouble ahould be remedied at once, as it will Rrot get any better by neglect, and may eause much expense latey, Any type of tractor or motor with which I have had experience wil} deâ€" Uver its maximum 'g;mnr only so long ankt is kept proper .cooled; and while â€"‘Ivo-ftbeut‘:ow!ummddonot‘ directly affect the cooling system, the will do so in time if neglected, ‘With Faulty ignition causes overheating at times. ‘This may be due to a namâ€" ber of cmusesâ€"broken or defective spark plugs, poor wiring, short cirâ€" euits and im?roper timing being the Bad valve settings will cause heating and loss cf power, and are indicatea by a peculiar open sound of the exâ€" plesicrs, and by blue smoke being blewn back through the carburctor. By taking off the cylinder head, griadâ€" ing the valves thoroughly, and removâ€" ing any carbon doposits, this trouble een be ccrrected. I eurs, stop the motor at once and tighten up the clutch, Too much, too little, or improper grades of lubricatâ€" img oil oftem cause overheating. You «an detect this by the smell and by the unusuai amount of smoke. Lubriâ€" eation trouble must be corrected at‘ ence to avoid damage to the motor. radiator should be kept full at all times; as there is no more cooling surface on the average tractor than is absolutely necessary. Keeping the fan belt tight will help, too. One of the worst things to cause everheating is a alipping clutch. This ean be recognized by a slowing up in the traction, the speed of the motor remaining unchanged. When this ocâ€" wsually quite expensive, but it is cheaper than buying a new one. There are many other things that will cause overheating on most tracâ€" tars besides poor cireulation. But if the cauce is not removed at once, bad cireulation will result later, owing to the fact that boiling crystallizes any minerais in the water. For this reason the radiator should never be permitted to boil if it is possible to avoid it. The I Painted My filo Before It Was wp small leaks. This practice, while it may serve the purpose for a short time, paves the way for expensive reâ€"‘ pair bils later. A great many of the, goâ€"called radiatorâ€"repairing flvids and: powders are but little better. _ When‘ anything of this nature must be used,‘ shave up fine a bar of coarse laundry| svap, and put it into the radiator. This will stop small leaks in a few hours,l but for a radiator of the honeycomb' type I do not recommend this method. The best way is to locate the leaks and have them soldered. After the radiator cnce becomes thoroughly| elogged there is little to do but to' take it to an expert cleaner. Tits is I also want to caution against putâ€" ting bran, corn meal, or other foreign substances in to the radiator to seal A funne! used in handling lubricants should never be used to fill the radiâ€" «tor. it is certain to carry oil in with the water, which will form a thin film all over the cooling surface. This film will catch and hold any sediment that is in the water, and clogging is then well started. ‘ Eiss rG find that soft water is much better than well water for tractor use. Ditch or river water should not be used under any circumstances, as it always contains sediment. lodge much sooner, causing clogging. AsAaAprevel!fivo against clogging I of order cacler. The reason for this is that most water contains limestone er other minerals which are crystalâ€" lized by the heat. The surface through which the water passes in a honeyâ€" comb radiator being much smaller than in the other type, sediment will I have used both types of radiators on farm tractors, and I find that while the honeycomb type will cool more effectively than the pipe system, so long as they are kept in good working erder, honeycomb radiators get out time or other, the results of which eften do not show immediately. My not inconsiderable experience with tractors has taught me that the cooking system is of considerable imâ€" portance, requiring more care than the average person would suppose. I have had my share of troubles due to poor eireulation. _ In hot weather I find my tractor is especially apt to overâ€" heat, and if it is not looked into at ance there is liable to be serious trouble later. Most tractor overheatâ€" ing is due to carelessness at some essfully. purchas | ihe pores are open, and absorb so \‘ much more of the oil than the color | pigment that the color is left on the | surface without enough oil to hold it. ’ Consequently it soon wears off. Some | painters take paint with an equal ! amount of linseed oil, and apply it to new wood and allow it to dry well | before putting on the first coat. With | wood preservative the same results | are obtained as with a primer, and | the cost is less, Besides, there is the | advantage of preserving the wood from the destructive action of the \ silage Juices, Brushes cost so much now that it pays to take care of them, When they are to be kept overnight I remove as much pdntapponiblebyrfl:bkgon an old board, then hang them in water. This is important, as the bristles are An efficient, attractive house is an eccnomic asset for the farmer, T useless extravagance as some i"eém‘% think. going to use tb1 again in a week or two, I dip them in kerosene, painting this on an oid board, then hang them in a pail of kerosene. Before I use them again I elwavs remove the coal oil, v easy to get out of sha; # simply placed in the water, It is not a plan to keep them in wnt more m a day or two, If brushes are to be kept for a long period of time, I clean them with turpentine or gasoline, then waesh thoroughly with warm water and gogp, and hang up to dry, If I am Though I am not an expert painter, I can offer a few hints that may prove helpful in doing outside painting. I found that the wood preservative acted in a double capacity. I purchased all the preservative my dealer had, which was only enough to cover about oneâ€" third of the silo. I put these panels on the lower part of the silo. After six seasons I am satisfied that the preservative was a profitable investâ€" ment. My only regret is that I could not buy enough to cover the entire surface. I can easily pick out the panels that were treated with preserâ€" vative, as they are less in need of paint than the others. The explanation is that in painting new wood it should first be primed. Another advantage I found was in trimming the silo. This advantage apâ€" plies only to pane} silos. I was able to have the ribs painted white, a disâ€" tinctive style in siloâ€"trimming. The average silo looks very bare and plain if painted a solid color. It is next to impossible to have it any other way unless it is painted before it is built. I believe that I had the most attracâ€" tive silo in our community after it had been painted in this manner, Now for the figures to prove that I made money. It would cost toâ€"day two days‘ labor for two painters, or $28, not considering the paint. Now, ’what did it cost to paint it before it was erected? The hired man was getâ€" , ting $80 a month, and the boy $40 per (month. At this rate the labor cost‘ for painting the silo before it was put up was just $4, which makes a saving of $24. You may say that I could have painted the silo myself, even if it was up; but this would be imposâ€" sible for me, and I believe for many other farmers. _ Very few farmers _have ladders long enough to reach the top of a tall silo, and besides, it is practically impossible to paint a silo from a ladder. A swinging scaffold is not to be found on many farms, and very few farmers would care to use one. The great majority would pay the extra $24 rather than risk their lives on a swinging scaffold. I don‘t know how much of a job it is to paint a silo, but I do know how long it would take a firstâ€"class painter to do the job. The hired man and my son painted our 14x30â€"foot silo in just six hours per coat. They applied two coats in addition to the wood preservaâ€" tive, which I will leave out in my calâ€" eulations. Several painters told me that it would take two good painters a day to put on each coat after the silo was erected. The greatest time is used in putting up scaffolding. In most instances where speed is desired, and on extremely high work, a swinging scaffold would ‘be used. | The boy put the panels on the bench and took them off while the hired man did the painting. They soon developed a great deal of speed. My son would open the crates, put the panels on ons end of the box, @nd take them painted off the other end. He then stood them on end to dry along the side of the barn, the second layer being set out at the bottom about two inches, so each‘ layer could dry uniformly. I had stored the panels in an empty haymow. The first rainy day I set my sixteenâ€"yearâ€"old boy and hired man to painting the silo. It took them about an hour to get started, but they soon made up for lost time once they got‘ their system going. They used for a bench an old store box, six feet long and three feet high. the idea 0 crecting it. painting the silo before tike rhody, the sationt alethents ¢ yision at Ottawa, testifies that ¢ the deliberations of the comp Canada‘s standards for 1 the basis of discussion, b:ones af TCOs vis10 make its final report at the World‘s Poultry Congress to be Eld at the Hague, Holland, next month, Mr, W. gtandards for seep as a basie for in creased consumption. (This commitâ€" tee, representing fifteen different countries, met gome months later, reâ€" viewed the entire situation, discussed tentative standards and took note of eggs graded in accordance with existâ€" ing' standards. This committee will Increased consumption was one of the chief topics of discussion at the last International Poultry Convention held in Londen, England, in 1919, By resolution of that convention the difâ€" ferent governments were requested to n.-gned_aleg‘tes‘toammitmtooon-} ed as the greatest force in promoting uniform and profitable production. Judging contests will be a feature of the competitions. An appeal is made not alone to the local farmers but to the people generally to do all that is possible to aid in the movement so that Canada may secure and maintain the premier position in a market that imports five hundred million pounds of bacon annually. tion between members of the boys‘ and girls‘ pig club who enter exhibits at the school fairs. One object in this undertaking is to encourage the comâ€" munity spirit, which is justly regardâ€" | _ Necessity knows no law and while the war was on speedy delivery of the articles needed was oftentimes of more consgideration than the price. Besides, there were immense losses through the submarines which inâ€" creased both the demand and the urgency. Now that trade is returning to something like its normal) condition price and quality have again become the allâ€"important consideration. In recognition of this the Live Stock Branch at Ottawa, in conjunction with the provincial departments of agriâ€" culture, are making extra efforts to maintain that quality in Canadian ibacon that years ago procured for it a steady outlet in the British market. The prime importance of these efforts is proven by the fact that in the calâ€" endar year 1920 our exports of bacon| reached the respectable total of $34,â€"| 000,000, As a step in the direction indicated and to stimulate interest in the type and quality of hogs that proâ€" duce the kind of bacon acceptable to the British consumer, attractive prizes are to be offered for competiâ€" International Standards for such as tariff. routing-s, car ocean space, and so on. swed every Monday and Thursday during the fruit shipping season. In addition special circulars are disâ€" tributed ibearing on special matters, WO O 0 " mt NR * sioner in Great Britain. Apples being the foremost exporting fruit from this country receive particular attention. A telephonic news letter is also isâ€" especially at Ottawma. One of the most useful, as well as one of the most necessary, is the service in conâ€" nection with the federal Fruit Branch. Sixteen years ago the branch comâ€" menced issuing monthly reports from June to October, showing commercial fruit otditions, crop reports and market alues. These consisted of { only a few mimeographed sheets. As time went by it was found that these | ’were neither instantaneous or full enough. The reports were therelom! increased in size until now they oom-p prise from twelve to sixteen printed pages, dbtailing fruit crop condition-’ in Canada, the United States, and all competing countries. Notes are also given on transportation, the package situation, insect and fungous diseases and other relative matters. The data for theso reports are supplied by federal ahd provincial officials and by the Canadian Fruit Trade Commis-' Booming the Export Bacon knowledge of the aggregate or averâ€" age current prices. Toâ€"day all this is changed and facilities are forthcomâ€" ing for knowing what is being paid inâ€" the world‘s markets. "In other words market intelligence kas become of the utmost #nportance to every man engaged in the sphere of producâ€" tion. . Markets intelligence services have been established at many centres Possibly few people ever stop to consider how far and how deeply gubâ€" Kcity has entered not only into our social life but into every day busiâ€" ness. _ Our forefathers went about their affairs in their own way, keepâ€" ing note perhaps on the transactions of their neighbors, but heeding little in a practical way of proceedings outâ€" side their immiediate cincle or district. If orders came in from a distance prices were quoted and the goods How the Fruit Trade is Naâ€" tionally Served and IMPORTANCE OF of Canada is concerned, eupply, Weather conditions during blossom time have much to do with the setting of the fruit, If the weather is clear and warm, bees are active and crossâ€" pollination proceeds rapidly; wot, cloudy and cold, the insects are not active and usually a poor set of fruit is secured, Stmong, cold winds may often prevent the bees from cross-l pollinating one side of the apple trees and this may account for the set of fruit on only sone side of the trees. Actual counts and observations at blooming timé have shown that the honeyâ€"bee is decidedly the most imâ€" whnthmtlnfl:ewmkotponhnt- ing the fruit flowers, Many counts have ghown that from seventyâ€"five to lingting the blossoms it rubs its dusty bod; ag&ns;"t};q organs of the flower and crossâ€"pol ]in_efion is accomplished. The numerous white, showy, flowerâ€" clusters act as a guide to the insects, and may attract them far away, When a ‘beo alights on a flower, the insect‘s hairy body may be covered with polâ€" len from another variety of apple. As the bee works its way down to the bottom of the flower to get the nectar, Failure of some varietien of apples tontfmitmybeduetolackofpol- lination, _ Somé varieties of apples are selfâ€"sterile, and cross pollination is absolutely essential if a set of fruit Js to be obtained. Other varieties are only partly selfâ€"sterile, and egain crossâ€"pollination is necessary, What is true of apples also apâ€" plies to other tree fruitseâ€"such as peaches, plums, cherries, etec. A beeâ€" less country must in time surely mean a fruitless country, wheat; but where the nights are very warm, the corn should be eliminated. Whent'bon'urhtsaroverycoufeed the cracked corn exclusively. . Bear in mind that inferior feed of any kind 10170 Imat inferior feed of any kind is not profitable at any price. The midâ€"day food should be a mash, neither wet nor dry, but just enough liquid to moisten the mixture which should consist of one part wheat bran, one part cornmeal, one part hulled oats. Add enough flaxseedâ€"meal to allow a teaspoonful for each hen, a tablespoonful of salt, and a like amâ€" ount of flowers of sulphur, should be added for 100 hens. Stir the mixture thoroughly before the liquid (preferâ€" ably sweet milk heated to scalding temperature) is added. The flaxseedâ€" meal and the sweet milk are valuable substitutes for meatmeal. Do not feed more of the mash than the hens will clean up readily, The evening meal should consist of eq:n.l quuxtit_iea of cracked corn md’ 81xX ounces of solid food a day. The grain feed, except the mash, should be fed in a good, clean litter which should be at least six inches deep. Thus, the hens are forced to exencise. This promotes vigor and utility. The proportions of the grain fed in the litter should be made to conform to the climatic conditions; for instunce,‘ during very warm weather, less corn swhould be fed, and vice versa when' the weather is cold. However, it is safe to feed a wellâ€"balanced scratch food for the morning meal. Carefully nete the increased numâ€" ber of eggs in the different pens and gradually add to the rations in proâ€" portion to the number of eggs laid. The 200â€"egg hen wil} require nearly flock and segregating the prolific, stronger layers in a pen, away from the others, also cull out the secondâ€" best layers and place them in a sepâ€" arate pen, leaving the poorest layers in the third pen. Feed the best layâ€" ers their regular amount of the same kind of feed they have been accusâ€" tomed to (about four ounces a day to each hen), reduce the rations of the next best lot to about three and oneâ€"half ounces. The third pen or poorest layers should be fed about flnj_ee ounces a day. Bees Help Fruit Growers. 'her first laying year. The average weight of the aboveâ€"named breed -ta' about three and oneâ€"half pounds each; therefore, the hen consumes about! twentyâ€"six times her weight in solidl food. The weight of her eggs is a little more than four times her| weight, or six pounds of grain for each pound of eggs she produces. It has been proved that the less prolific layers have weak assimilaâ€" tion; therefore, the more food conâ€" sumed the weaker the eggâ€"producing organs become. The remedy, thereâ€"| fore, is to feed the hens according wf their egg production, which can only ge done by carefully trapnesting the The average ~soâ€"called bredâ€"toâ€"lay hen of the Mediterranean breed conâ€" sumes about four ounces of solid food each day, or ninety pounds a year, besides the necessary green feed, charcoal, grits and shells With ordiâ€" nary care she will produce about ten 9own (fifteen pounds) eggs during â€"Secret of Scientific Feeding. per cent, of the insecte po}â€" | "ik evls: % ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO nation, and it‘e a backbone mede up of at hut‘utiu-ee vertebracâ€"a fertile wodt < 22 s > m hW an 4 $ul ow 0 w onl ce Thé"fractional per cents, of inte should not be overlooked. If the 31..0‘(3 above mentioned were compounded at five and oneâ€"half per cent, instead of five per cent., the sum at the end of forty years would be increased by $1,478. years would bring the amount up to $4,185, and if saving at this rate were continued for forty years the comâ€" fortable figure of $7,610 would be realized. If a man does not want to obligate himself to save any specific amount year by year, he still has little excuse for poverty at sixtyâ€"five, beâ€" cause a total of $1,000 placed at comâ€" pound interest beforo the age of‘ twentyâ€"five will return no less than $7,040 at the end of forty years. I BM s us & living at sixty, and fiftyâ€"one will still be mingling with othor folks at sixtyâ€" five, A saving of $60 a year, or $5 a month, if persisted in for twenty years and compounded at five per cent. would amount to the snug little sum of $2,083. _ An additional ten than likely he forgot all about the existence of this nestâ€"egg. Yet it is easily possible for any young man to save enough before he is twentyâ€"five to make him free from financial worry at sixtyâ€"five. And it is better than a fiftyâ€"fifty proposition that he will be alive to enjoy the results of his foresight. Statistics show that out of every 100 men who pass tho; age of ten years, fiftyâ€"cight will be Of course, Horace Smith died long bevfore_ the account was closed. More a further withdrawal of $134.46. No money had been deposited other than tho original $5 bill, but in eightyâ€" seven years it had multiplied about fifty times and grown to the total sum of $246.93. Agriculture is the backbone of the 44 OCLLCEâ€" tak s e On July 31, 1833, Horace Smith walked into the bank of his village and deposited a $5 bill. It immediateâ€" ly began compounding at a very low rate of interest. On November 12, 1912, over seventyâ€"nine years later, the holder of Mr. Smith‘s bankâ€"book withdrew the sum of $112.47, and on June 8, 1920} closed the account with The coâ€"operation of the men was next sought and the women found them open to convicition and ready to help in every possible way. Finding that a good moving picture machine could be bought for $1,000, fifty men were asked to loan $20 each for the Curiosity and conjecture followed ang the next afternoon found every one of those mothers at the appointâ€" ed place. When all the guests had arrived, their hostess told them of her conversation with her daughter and her subsequent visit to the movingâ€" picture theatre, then described in deâ€" tail the picture that had disturbed her. ] _ Her audience were both surprised and perplexed. They discussed the subject at length from every point of view, and finally decided that as movâ€" ing pictures had taken such a hold on the people of this day and generation the pictures had marvelous possibilâ€" ieies, and could be an influence for either good or evil. ‘The women also‘ realized that it would be almost imâ€" possible to keep their young people away from the pictures and finally deâ€" cided upon a moving picture house for their own community. _ _ Being a woman of rare jndgment,! the mother said, "I‘ll go with you toâ€" | morrow night," and kept her word. | On her return from the performâ€"| ance, the mother lay awake a long,} long time. She had not liked one of, the pictures and wondered what could! be done to combat this undesirable | feature. When morning came she had ; a plan definitely formed, and that, afternoon she called at every house in the community, inviting the mothers| to meet at her home the next af wr-! noon, bringing their sewing with them, if they chose to do so. Watch Your Money Grow. see the pictures some night." ‘"Why do you want me to go?" asked the mother. "Because," replied her daughter, "I don‘t like the pictures as much as I did and I have been wondering what you would think of them." The young people of cur community ‘had been for some time attending the moving pictures in our ncarest town, when one of the girls said to her mother: o ‘ "I wish you would go with us to The Community That Ran Its Own Movies active ’ No Time to Look. It is a good old saying, "Look beâ€" fore you leap!" And yet, times come when there is no time to look; you have to jump, and do it right off, Wefomd!t.-oonedny"bn“ mbwkhg(ntochmwitbsm Mnmwttbhymum. Our on m.r‘mfll reine, was down on ground watchine roots, serving as a p;{)iocti:v“;;.nnimt thawing and freezing. rubnttradlih s ds sls i.2 i i1 s s 1 frost, and tend to dry the soil. This reacts on the trees, checking growth and inducing early ripening of the t _ By planting cover crops in the: orchard late in the summer or early | in the fall, it is possible to stop growth in the carly fall, which will. permit the wood to become thorough. ly ripened and mature. In the east such cover crops may be planted so es to live through the winter, and| poesibly be turned under in the spring and used as green manure. These crops utilize in their growth a large | amount of soil water un to the firct Hardiness of Young Trees. Owing to tendency of young trees to grow late in the fall there is great danger from winter injury, If the trees enter the wintor with well ripâ€" oned, mature wood they can withstand a much greater degree of cold without injury than when the branches are in & green, sappy condition, caused by a late growth. 1 Littioâ€"Candle By My Bed. Little candle by my bed, You‘re a lovely thing, Sometimes like a lily tall, Blooming in the spring; Sometimes like a daffodil On a hilltop far; Sometimes like a beacon bright; Bometimes like a star; Bometimes, when the night is dark, BSteadfast in your place, Like a small _ white angel near, With a shining face. Every member of that little comâ€" munity attends the meetings held in the oid schoolhouse. The moving picâ€" tures shown there are often educationâ€" al, and always enjoyable. The peop!» have become bettor acquainted with one another and there is a neighborâ€" liness which is admirable; in fact, the community is happy and prosperous and no one wants to leave it. ‘ if the women would contribute oneâ€" fourth, and the young folks paid the remaining oneâ€"fourth. _ The returns from suppers and a fair provided the fourth paid by the women, while the young people made up their portion by giving a few plays and a very enâ€" joyable concert. f The plan has been working for two. years; the old schoolhouse has been, thoroughly repaired, a new floor and a | platform or stage being not the least j of the improvements. The men of the community agreed to contribute| half the cost of the picture machine, |â€" One évening, after the pictures had been shown, one of tha boys suggestâ€" od that chairs be placed against the wall and the floor cleared for dancing. The older people agreed and wisely refrained from showing their disapâ€" proval of the modern dances. Later on, they claimed the floor and were soon engaged in the various moveâ€" monts of the oldâ€"fashioned "square dances," and other singing games. It: was no time before the young folks: joinedâ€" them, and mothers were sought as partners by their sons, while fathers claimed their daughters.| Those who owned talking machines loaned thom for the performances, alâ€" though, liter on, when the success of the movement was assured, a secondâ€" hand piano was added ard the musiâ€" cians of the community took turns in playing. _ An ol4 schoolhouse which was to have been torn down was repaired and put in proper ordcr. The women made a curtzin and the machine was placed. Arrengements were made for securâ€" ing proper but interesting pictures, the young people attended to the tickets and the management of the machine, while mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, all attended the performances. ‘ purchaes of the machin response was up_-xn!mous. §497, Vn S Eézjfgoflé's % he anchaws _ zt t°C tree Mum“ ::-p&us"w"‘"‘fi{”“' * , and oney. lo whil. .3 _ â€" â€" ADsorbedly Mlu%m.m,mmwher mt..t ‘Wn““hl:. seal, and, to the great of her mother, cried out : "Has anybody in this crowd got % pin ?" Little Busie was taken to church by her mother for the first time, During the long sermon the child grew more and more fdgety, and kept wiggling about ; finally she became very greatly W u:uu tear in her dress, after at this absorbedly for & little whilea ama 2. _ * ,gy _7 _ _ L "CCCum? into the North _ are Peace River, about 800 miles northwest of Rdmonton, and Fort McMurray, almost an equal diz tance due north, advantage of the experience, Royal Canadian Mounted Police will not perâ€" mit persons to leaya the "Jumping oft" places in the North this time unleas they are physically fit, properly equip. ped for a year‘s stay in the north country and wel} supplied with funds, The two chiet ports of entry into the North Cmmscoen. . OS $ | Not since the gold rush of 1897 to the Kiondike and Alaskan gold fieclds has there been such an immense migraâ€" tion, But the Odyssey of the Yukon is beâ€" !lnc rewritten in the present rush in , terms of modern transportation,. The ‘oll seckers making their way morth | travel in modern gleeping cars to the iond of the northern railways and | thence in comfortable river steamers and motor launches. One Canadian | ofl company is sending its scouting parties into the territories in allâ€"meotal g&eroplanes, The moment the traveler leaves the river highway, however, he is face to face with the stil] unconguered North. Portages must be negotiated with great hardships for those who are transporting heavy oil machinery, They get a taste of the once frightfu} "Pdamonton Trail" to Dawson City, tha gErimmest joke of the goldâ€"seek ing northland, where men died by the scores or went raving mad, and whore the survivors who finally struggled through arrived at the Alaska» gold. fields on to two years late, But men TE Innfommenss e o. > .l C i The rush to stake oll claims in the | Fort Norman, Northwest Territories, (nelds, has begun in earnest, and each day now gees the tide of fortune seekâ€" ers sweeping northward trom Edmonâ€" ton, Fort McMurmay, Peace River Crossing and other points. The marchers also include scores of exâ€" perienced mineral prospectors bound for the subArctic in quest of gold. Every town, hamlet, trading post and river is squirming with activity of men striving desperately to be the first into the Arctic with the breaking of the ice in the Great Slave Lake. we do not learn to prize those who loved us most until we have lost them. Then it is that the family tie makes its gentle strength felt. Just because it is so elastic, we find that it can be stretched indefinitely without breakâ€" ing, and still and @lways draws us back. Perhaps our brothers and sisters did not quite understand us; but we are not so sure as we were that anyâ€" one else ever did,. At any rate, we find that with the pasage of years old thoughts, old faces, old voices grow wonderfully sweet. _ And we seeâ€" alas, how often too late!â€"that the tie of blood is the one that lasts longest and holds strongest of any in the world. For the tragedy comes when ‘| In youth we do not realize the ‘ | strength of the lmfi;:h. .{lut because ‘l it is everâ€"present â€"enfolding. ~\ The new and transient connections of ‘\ sympathy and affinity that we are «o & widely forming seem to us more imâ€" * portant and more real than the ties ‘| of blood. It astonishes us to find that ‘\ we can confide in our friends much f more freely than we can confide in the members of our own family. The boy | or girl that we have known six months seems nearer than our brothers and "cintm, much nearer than our fsthers \‘and mothers; he seems to feel, to want what we want, when the people at home are likely to smile at our litâ€" tle confessions and evidently and comâ€" | pletely misunderstand. It puzzles us. |\ Are all families like that? Is home | quite what it should be? | _ Life flows on, and we find that someâ€" how friendships slip away. Absence ‘causes terrible breaks and changes. |\ The voice that seemed to echo every | sentiment of our hearts grows careâ€" ‘less and remote. The ear that was always open has become indifferent, 'distrncted by a thousand utterances that flow from other tongues than [ouu. Tastes change and friends change with them. Those whom we loved and who we thought loved us, and who did love us, form new conâ€" nections of their own, and if we are not forgotten we at least experience that chilling of tenderness which is almost worse to bear than its failure. Summer Rush to Arctic Oilfelds. 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