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F TYPE * pem$® ad ® stop re the the M â€" ~* Â¥râ€"â€"4# e \"h‘l‘;- sw un rgeTit, ¢ or,. enter "Why th rily, after well‘s face. "Comg i Sir John Simon Elected leader of the Independent Liberal Party in Great Britain, who is also likely to be elected the leader of n united Liberal party which may be a result of the present political situation in the old land. need a rest this year‘‘ met d Mon rushing around "Old Memor customers," sa sooen be here, place. It‘s a We i< atrikes me people use their resolutiofia very carelessly nowadays. And when they break them they send them back here and expect me to mend them and make them look like new and havo' them all ready when they call for, them at the New Year. So many peoâ€"‘ ple think it‘s cheaper to have their . old resolutions mended than to invast | in new ones." t Just then the door of the Resolution phoyp swung creakingly open, and Ok rgetit, chuckling and carefree as ‘er, entered. i "Why the gloom ?" he queried, merâ€"| rily, after one glance at Old Meanâ€" "Dear me, what a terrible mudedle," he groaned. "I don‘t know of anyâ€" thn: that makes a place look as bad as broken resolutions do. And what a crop the year has brought in! It Sstrikes me DeOndG um Hhair wannleit z. The old man glanced around his shop, shook his head sadly and sighed. Seattered all over the floor were moâ€"l lutions in awful disorder and in all! stages of disrepair. T The last hour of the old ye drawing to a close. Old Mcanwell, the Resolution and Mender, roused himself fr long sleop in the chimney yawned, stretched, shook his lor locks back from his grizzled *oNed un his steaauns ani aL.¥» He knew there would be a great rush of business when the striking of elocks and the sound of bells and whistles anncunced the dawning of Another Chance. ® M % You CAN make the year 1923 a redâ€"letter year. You can do many of the things you have always left undone ~â€"â€"many of the things you have always intended to do some day, some time, at some more convenient season. You can make yourself more like the ideal man or woman you have secrotly hoped to become. . You can put the giant within you to work, instead of the inâ€" significant pigmj‘r who has always dons your tasks. Ynu metsin ustt 2o s O &2 â€" _ YCOR cay pacy. . â€" _ ____ o fWay$s Gont your tasks, o You can make yours=lf more agrceable, more companionable, more cheerful, more attractive by developing a pleasing, magâ€" netic personality so that you may draw new friends to you and delight your old acquaintances. ; You can make a larger place for yourself in the business world, in your social cirele, in your community, in whatever sphere of endeavor you choose. PABK BoArediiaicas. a 22201 You can, during 1923, realize many of your ambitions, many of your heart desires. You can enjoy real triumphs, real victories, real conquests, over your old self of last year, and thus advance yourself greatly in personal power, in personal esteem, in selfâ€"confidence, in deâ€" termination, in courage, and in all the success qualities. You can do these things and more. But will you?" Will you have the backbone to keep all your good resolves?â€"O. S Marden. BY ANNIE GRAY BUTCHER ar New Year‘s Eve in °/ n "ofy is roungmg up my mers," said Meanwell. "They"l be here, and just look at the It‘s a diszrace with broken tions. It‘s the same every year s time, only I think it‘s getting . _ Most of the resolutions are ir gone to do anything withâ€" me in, come in and sit down," med Old Meanwell "You must eop in the chimney corner, J . stretched, shook his long grey I ack from his grizzled brow, ip his sleeves, and tied on his L , roused himself from his you‘vre been pretty busy Bettering Your Best the old year was » . A" mnumphs, real victories, real conquests, of last year, and thus advance yourself greatly , in personal esteem, in selfâ€"confidence, in deâ€" e "That‘s a Temper Resolution," said Mcanwe‘l. "It was as swoet and bright a looking resolution as I ever saw when it went out of here last New Year‘s morning. But the woman that owned it allowed it to get hot too often and all the swectness and brightness and beauty hasâ€"been burnâ€" ed out of it. She wants it patched up, but I don‘t think I can do a single thing with it. Besides I‘m afraid it _ "That," said the old workman, sadâ€" ly, "is a Truth Resolution. You see how it‘s all bent and twisted. The trouble is it‘s been stretched too much. I don‘t know any resolution that shows the wear and tear of everyday life as quickly as that one. I rememâ€" ber well when I made that. The man I made it for was a big business man and a fine fellow, but his order called for an adjustable resclution and that kind is never very strong." "And what is this crumbling ashy thing?" asked Forgetit, indicating anâ€" other strangeâ€"looking object. _ "Do you guarantee the new resoluâ€" : tions you send out?" asked Forgetit. _ "Guarantee them *?" cried Old Meanâ€" | well, "I should say not. I make them _to the customers‘ plans and specificaâ€" | tions, and some of my steadiest clients | want their resolutions made cheap. I ! tell you people won‘t pay the price these days. So the material to justify a guarantee isn‘t in resolutions, and ; the owners don‘t take care of them | when they get them." | _ He stooped and lifted from a tanglâ€" | ed heap a rusty looking affair. ‘ Forgetit picked up a dilapidated and badly twisted object. "What is this disjointed thing supâ€" posed to be?" he said, curiously. _ Hon. W. S. Fielding, Minister of | Commerce, who is returning shortly to | Canada after completing an important _trade treaty with France which grants Carada customs privileges. "Yes, buyers of Language Resoluâ€" tions are sieady customers," said Meanwe‘!. "He is a gocod customerâ€"I know him well," said Forgetit. V they‘ve been broken too often. I wish I could do business only in new resoâ€" lutions." "Old friend, if I were you I‘d dig a big hole ‘somewhere and dump all this junk out into it, and hereafter I‘d deal only in new resolutions," adâ€" vised Forgetit. "Make them strong as you can, keep a good stock on hand and your shop open all year, so that if any of the resolutions break people might explode if I start tinkering with it." can get new ones at any time without waiting for the New Year rush. I DiD THIS HAPPEN TO YOUR CHRISTMAS PARCEL? Last Christmas 60,000 parcels in Canada could not be delivered at their destination because of poor wrappings and insuflicient addresses. The postal authorities urge care in the despatch of parcels. The picture shows some of the contents of parcels at Ottawa. The Natfural Resources Intelâ€" ligence Service of the Departâ€" ment of the Interior says:â€" The Esquimaux at the mouth of the Mackenzie river are very prosperous, says Mr. A M. Perry, a Dominion land surveyâ€" or, who has just returned to Otâ€" tawa from a survey of the lower part of that river. Many of them, he states, own their own auxiliary schooners, and are no longer solely dependent upon their Eskimo kyaks in travelling over the northern waters. They seem to have a natural facility for practical mechanics and have no difficulty in keeping their schooner engines in good repair. This facility extends to other mechanical contrivances, even to their phonogrophs and watches. Some of the Esquimaux along the Arctic coast propose formâ€" ing themselves into a trading company, owned and controlled entirely by themselves, in order to eliminate the middle man in the disposal of their furs and in their dealings with the outside world. A number of them visitâ€" ed Vancouver recently in order to arrange for direct trading with that city over the ocean route by means of their own schooners and boats. IN RABBITBORO 7 ’, s ._;r‘.:\’ o ' ) . ipG s t Y 4y A _/¥‘ o k/’lf::‘/.",f‘ U ; kn * y3 ; NS qs‘.‘."@fi' & 5P , J wHYÂ¥ IT WAS DPOC wHITEY Wio RAN OVER HIY} ! â€"â€"â€"â€" Rich Smith, of East Kelowna, B.C., was acclaimed as the best Canadian apple grower at the Winter Fair held in Toronto. He captured the sweepâ€" stakes for the best box of apples of any variety on exhibition in any secâ€" tion. o far as the other results in the fruit judging are concerned, Onâ€" tario growers held up well and even shaded the British Columbia men. An Irish Minister Ernest Blythe, Minister of Local Government in the Cosgrove Cabinet of the Irish Free State. think it would be much better if peoâ€" ple got their resolutions fresh every morning, like their milk, instead of once a year, anyway." "Hark, the old clock is striking twelve and, listen, there are the bells and whistles announcing the arrival of the New Year. And hear that sound of tramping feet? That sound is made by the army of men and woâ€" men who are on their way to my shop. I must get busy." Still a further addition was made to British Columbia‘s fur farming indusâ€" try during the week when a fox farm was established at Nakusp, by E. W. Somers. "I believe you‘re right," agreed Old Meanwell. «â€"New Orleans Times Picayune. | Toronto, Ont.â€"A new hydroâ€"elecâ€" [trie power company has been organâ€" |ized to furnish Northern Ontario gold mining industries with power and [ assist in the development of that rich territery. It is known as the Great | Northern Power Co., Ltd. The comâ€" pany is now building the initial unit of a plant on the Montreal River near Indian Chutes, and it is expected that the first power unit of 2,150 horseâ€" power will be ready for distribution early in 1923. Our Best for a Day. It ought to be possible to live our days in such fashion that we will find much pleasure and satisfaction in looking back over the journey we have come. Too great selfâ€"satisfaction is not good, and yet if we have filled the days as they have come to us with sincerity and earnestness and unselfâ€" ish effort, and have triel to make, them count for the best things, Lhci memory of them ought to be measurâ€"; ably satisfactory and comforting. If, l by the grace of God, we can live each day that it will have no deed or: thought of ours in it of which we‘ would have reason to feo! ashamed,| that will be a good start. And then if we can add this, that each day will‘ have some act or thought of real unâ€". selfishness and service, we will, have gone a long way toward laying up a pleasant memory for the days toj come. And even thoug*® it might be that the past record has not been quite satisfactory, can we not begin from toâ€"day to make everything betâ€" ter? And there can be {few thoughts in life more uplifting than that oma.‘l that it does climb up to better things with the progress of the years. â€"Christian Guardian. | Montreal, Que.â€"It is estimated by the Montreal Grain Clearance Board that about 155,000,000 bushe‘s were sent out in ocean bottoms from this port before the close of navigation. This compares very favorably with the previous season when approxiâ€" mately 138,000,000 bushels were shipâ€" ped from this port, and a record was created. Port Arthur, Ont.â€"With the conâ€"| this side of Wrigley. struction of two new elevators durâ€"| Victoria, BC.â€"The Argentine Reâ€" ing the coming year, storage capacity public forms an important market for at the head of the lakes will be British Columbia lumber, according to brought up to 61,000,000 bushels for F. K. Vigor, an clectrical engineer in the 1923 season. The Bawlf Grain La Plata, who has arrived in Victoria. Company announces that it will erect In view of the fact that there is no a terminal elevator with a storage| native softwood in the Argentine, and capacity of 1,500,000 bushels at Port|only a limited quantity of hardwood, Arthur. there is a great demand for lumber‘ Winnipeg, Man.â€"Nearly 400 comal from Caneda. | He who is content to rest upon his laure)g will soon have laurels resting ters wil} be packed on Prince Edward Island before the season closcs, an increase of 1,300 barrels over 1921. The demand is good this year, the price ranging from $6 to $8 per barâ€" rel. _ Some fishermen have already landed fifty barrels each. Charlottetown, P.E.Iâ€"It is estiâ€" mated that about 5,000 barre‘s of oysâ€" ..- » j ‘\\ *R Fo] â€" + * £ & 5 t f sl§ 4 1 27 1/ ‘:l 't\‘.;;.- ; ;} Y" ¢ '" f ~ [ fr:, &9 wA i /2 4 \. t § _ :f‘( U " ""*4l WÂ¥ ~ & & Y Jn hoi /2t) id 4\ & . : N. /) BRYE & :A / 7 /) | Fomced > i Ke. vaf {, / v -' 4n #/ :,’J/?"»‘,\f $ y t 6/ 2'\ 2 * n‘ * & ts s "’31{5' â€"Canada from Coast to Coast QOn! wWASN‘T HAT LUCKAY *‘ ington, Canada is the principal source of the United States imported raw furs, which now annually accounts for between 20 ard 25 per cent. of the total import value. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. | _ Regina, Sask.â€"â€"Great activity preâ€" | vails in the mining districts of Saskatâ€" chywan, all the largor coal mines |running ful time, while the smaller ‘ ones appear to be quite satisfied with the volume of business they are handâ€" ling. From present indications the output from the province‘s coal mines in 1922 will be larger than for some time past. _ mines were in active operation in | Canada in 1921 working over an area ‘of 713,000 acres, according to a reâ€" port issued by the Bureru of Staâ€" I tist‘cs. Aptmroximately 30,000 men were given employment and the wage bill in 1921 amounted to $42758.471. The total capital invested in the inâ€" Oustry at the close of the past year was $176,991,405, of which $77,000,000 was invested in Nova Scotin; $53 000,â€" 000 in the mines of Alberta; $41,009,â€" 000 in British Columbia; more than $3,000,000 in Saskstchewan, and, over â€"$1,000,000 in New Brunswick. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the commron love of good. Ring in the valiant men and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be. Ring out the want, the care, the sim, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. The sourgest woan of Their Majesties King George and Queen Mary, who bas beer saccessfully operated upon for appenrdicit‘c. He is a naval cadet. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow ; *The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out, wild be!‘s, to the wild saky, The fiyirg cloud, the frosty Hight: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Edmonton, Alta. â€"It is reported that gold bearing quartz has been found some 60 miles up the south Naâ€" hanni River, a tributary of the Macâ€" kenzie River, and already claims have been staked. A find of gold is also reported on a small creek 30 miles According fto» ade;u from Wash ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO The New Year. â€"Alfred Tennyson. A New York and London wholesale drug firm is seeking supplies of casâ€" cara bark in British Columbia and reâ€" cently secured three carloads on the Pacific Coast. There is indication of the utilization of cascara bark for drug manvlaciure developing into & Some little boye were overheard talking of their fathers. "My father belongs to the Odd Fellows," said Charles. "And mine is a Mason," boasted George, "And what does your father belong to, Richard"" asked one. "He belongs to mammer," was the prompt reply. \ _ In the tropic fastnesses, where no man may ever come, there is the lavâ€" ish riot of the orchids in the trees. ‘‘The wide world over, in the undeseâ€" crated, unvisited places, color is at work like tides of the sea, though no | man is aware. Even so, in the secret | quiet places of our hearts, which none | has seen and known, there may be | color, or the sound of music, for the | peace and comfort of the soul. The output of Canadian mines in the West can be trebled as soon as the necessary market has boen estabâ€" lished, according to Dr. Charles Camâ€" sell, Daputy Minister of Mines, who returned to Calgary from an inspecâ€" tion of the western coal fields. Thrift means wise management of what you haveâ€"money,time, energies, opportunities, In studying instrumental music, school orchestras and bands should also be encouraged. No school should be without its vocal and orchestral music. mt least have been given ijnvaluable‘ mental training and a capacity for the intelligent enjoyment of music, which will be a lifodong pleasure, 4 , The value of music study in improvâ€" ing the speaking voice is in itself a sufficient reason for vocul lessons in the school. A fine musical voice is a valuable asset in every day life. It helps to win friends, to make one‘s enâ€" vironment pleasanter, and to increase one‘s influence with both friond and stranger,. Important as these factors are in the development of personality, training in singing has perhaps even a greater value in its physical exercise in strengthening the lungs and in its generally tonic effect on the health, Schools do not nowadays confine their music training to the more or less mechanical teaching of sight readâ€" ing. The modern school teaches the pupils not only to read simple music readily and accurately, but to take down music from dictation and, most delightful of all, to write original melodies, Such training as this both develops the memory and power of perseverance and fosters the imaginaâ€" tion and artistic sense. If a student has musical talent this training will disoover and develop it. If not, he wil It is not necessary to spend money and go to a far country in quest of color, A prisoner in a cell can see the blue of the sky through the bars. He paints on the wallâ€"if he is allowed â€"a scene of meadows, waterâ€"brooks ani mountains, because his spirit cries out for the color of the outâ€"ofâ€"doors he knew. Nature is good to the eve, as to the cther senses of a man. She gave us flowers, not for their scent alone, but for our pleasure in their variegated hues. In the wide lands of the North that we name the Barâ€" rens, her great paintâ€"brush is at its busiest. Summer comes with a rush of pink roses, purple fireâ€"weed ani other floral gorgeousness; and what is left of the briliant color seems caught up into the sky and shown in the sunâ€" set and the aurora. Few people realize the great value of music study as mind training, yet many eminent educators have declared that music drills the mind as very few other studies can. much by any psnorama the eye can seeâ€" not so much by the accidents and incidents of a vivid careerâ€"as by our friendships. Every nequaintance we make brings a fresh range 0*® thought, feeling and experience into contact with our own. We give tharkse for the enrichment of our minds with ideas that we had not entertained. There are, to be sure, the peophe of the other sort, whose minds give us no stimulus, no food. But there ave few in the world so utterly du‘l and torpid that we cannot learn from them. A man‘s days are bricht or dark a« his own mind compe‘!s. If he will neâ€" solutely ‘find the sun, he finds it If he insists on seeing the rainâ€"clouds, black as the nether pit and full of coom, there they are. The cheorfuiness of life is not in drab, devressing surroundingsâ€"H #s in ourse‘ves. The joy of living is for us to choose. We may have brave adventures in a walk of a half mile, if we have the sympathy and the imagâ€" ination to bring to the scene. Whatever the occupation whereby men and women earn their daily bread, their first business is to bring as much happiness to living as they are able, and to strew it about them as they go. We need more <ptimists and entbusiasts, and we can dispense with messimists and cromkers. We need more of those who are not atrali to be themselvesâ€"not afraid to have an individvality, and to express it, in ways that bles and do not wound. Every School Should Enâ€" courage Music Study. tanic ndkZllry iz lor is brcught into life not so Color in Life.