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tÂ¥ i § A« J« 4* * TB veâ€" near losing his life, and was| re: <~1 by a brave little fellow, not quâ€" â€" fourteen years old. !_ was a thrilling story, as my: {~.~=d related it to me while one d.y‘i we halted in our tramp after moose, and ate our lunch on the bank of Apple V..ver, Nova Scotia. 1 Cumb«rland county, N.S., Hes at the head of the Bay of Fundy, and is the connecting link between that province and Now Brunswick. It has a few considerable towns, like Amâ€" herst, and a large number of little fishing hamlets along the rocky shore, but in the interior it is almost unâ€" inhabited. : thss With the exception of an occasional tract known as a "barren," the counâ€" try is heavily wooded, and of late years has attracted attention as & lumbering region. + I know a gentlema®t who has re cently purchased twelve thousand acres of timberland in the county, and now has a large force of men preâ€" paring the lumber for the European : , market. In all parts of the county|, similar work is now being done. The ) ; work of preparing the timber for the | ; sawâ€"mills is mostly done in winter.|] With the first fall of snow, the chopâ€" pers are sent into the great forest.| ‘They usually go in companies of about . twenty. They first build a logâ€"house . for themselves, and a rude stable for * their horses, after which they spend the winter in cutting down trees,| sawing them into logs ten to fifteen | feet in length and drawing them to: the nearest river. Here the logs are, piled up in great numbers, to await the breaking up of the ico in apring.‘ and tho annual rise of the river by the melting snow. ‘ When this comes, a large force of | men roll the logs into the river, and begin what is known as stream driv=‘ Ing. It is a bustness full of hardâ€" ships and perils. The logs are massâ€" ed together, forming an enormous rait, and are floated down the stream as fast as possible, a number of men following with axes, pickpoles and pevies, to dislodge any that may be caught on the rocks or in the little coves by the shore. Sometimes these men must remain on duty day and following With AACS, PMEBPMIEM TOMC! pevies, to dislodgeo any that may be caught on the rocks or in the little â€" coves by the shore. Sometimes these : men must remain on duty day and : night for two or three weeks, with : no sleep save what they can catch| at odd minutes. ‘ In some cases, where the streams are not too rocky or too turbulent, a. boat follows after the "drive," carryâ€"‘ Ing their tools, their food, and extra eclothing for the men, but gonerally these things are taken along the shore by a team driven by a boy. " 1 said this stream driving was a business full of danger. Some parts of it are especially dangerous. The water in the middle of a stream alâ€", ways flows faster than that nearer the shore, so it comes to pass that the logs in the centro of a floating mass will be carried ahead, and these turnâ€" ing in various ways, block up the way of the others, and form what is known umong lumbermen as a * jam." Whenâ€" ever this nappens, somebody must go out across the "drive" of logs, and in some way start the troublesome atick. Frequently the mass will become so wedged in that it is necessary to eut away one or more logs, and if this hanvens near a "rapid" or a "fall," ku«ppens near & _ TRRXCZ GOf 0 C990 as it is quite likely to, it becomes a| very dangerous thing for a man to go out and do chopping. g But someons must do it, and men‘ long accustomed to the business selâ€"| dom hesitate, though they know that| many a man has lost his life in just | such work. | In the spring of 1878, Apple River: was ancommonly high. A large numâ€" ber of logs had been put into the water, and my friend Fâ€"â€"â€", with half a dozer men under his direction, was driving them down toward the mill, some thirty milea below. The river was so turbutent, and the shoresa woere so lined with rocks, Boys and Girls For the ‘LAR Fellersâ€"By Gene Byrnes. cided.;;'o;x-e;-fi"go out and cut it away without summoning anyone to his aid. Ts K e :r;k;'ng an axe in his hand, he was soon at the point of difficulty, After examining the jam, hq‘concluded that boutâ€"expos o CE SA i. sc dinminty ntc‘s . epuintat o9 C a certain log jJust on the edge of the rapids must be cut away, and at once began the work. raal c auds ds c ts dn inss The task promised to be but a light one, so he did not take the usual preâ€"| ! caution to lay aside his coat, but beâ€"| « gan chopping in a short sackâ€"coat made of homespun gray, and very heavy. ~ j When he had cut about halfâ€"way } thropgh the log it broke with a sharp report, the great mass behind started ] suddenly, and, almost before he had | ‘time to move, the whole "drive" shot! into the rapids. t _ Dropping his axe, he sprung from one log to another, and had gone about half the distance to the shore, when he missed his footing and fell: into the water. | ! Such things are not uncommon, and | inrc- not very serious usually, for one | | can easily climb upon the nearest log, | | and reach the shore with no other inâ€"| convenience than that of a thorough, drenching. But in this instance Fâ€"â€"| did not immediately reappear, and | those who were looking for him sawl by the commotion in the water that \something serious had taken place. ! His men were all on the other side of the river, and it was impossible for them to get to him quickly across the tumbling mass of logs. No one could help him, unless it was the little felâ€" low George, who all the while sat on his sled, some four or five rods down the stream. He saw the difficulty in an instant, and without calling to anyone, or waiting for directions, he sprang from his sled, and, with the speed of a deer, bounded from log to log till he reachâ€" ed the point where his employer had disappeared. And it was fortunate he ran as fast as he did, for when Fâ€"â€" rose to the surface a projecting limb on one of the logs had caught in the skirt of his coat, and drawn it over his head in such a way that he could not see what to do, and had so pinioned his arms that he was perfectly hetpless. The log was a very large one, and whenever it rolled it carried him with it, so that sometimes his head was above the surface of the water and sometimes below it. = _ In a very short time he must have perished for his great strength could not avail to save him. He knew perfectly well how to manâ€" | age a floating piece of timber, for he |had often ridden on them, and, runâ€" | ning to the end of the log where Fâ€"â€"â€" | was imprisoned, he slipped astride of \it, and grasping the coat with all his | might, he pulled it from over his emâ€" | ployer‘s head, and gave him the use i of his arms. It took but a glance for George to see what the trouble was, for he reached the spot just as Fâ€"â€"‘s head was drawn under water again by the movement of the log, and quick as thought he bounded upon the threatâ€" ening tree. L d o £2.10 0. tves e c o tviltr in vliicpe l ns Sn limb, and raised the drowning man‘s head above the water. v'l‘h;n-h; skillful movements of his feet, he disengaged the skirt from the Mahuta Le Toko, a chieftain of the Maori nation, one teresting types which the Duke and Duchess of York met in They were not in the rapids yet, by forty or fifty feet, and were only apâ€" proaching them by a side motion, but George saw that he must move quickâ€" ly to escape the current; and so, holdâ€" ing by the collar with one hand, he paddled> with his feet, and pushed against other logs, till he reached a place where he could touch bottom. By this time the men on the other shore had managed to get over; but Mr. Fâ€"â€" was safe when they reachâ€" ed him, and the honor of saving his life belonged to little George alone. I think this is an example of heroâ€" ism as rare as it is noble. 10 10 i cat dsc lt aâ€" d 1j As my friend Fâ€"â€"â€" finished the story, his brown face was wet wtih tears, and his voice trembled with emotion as he said,. in his own pecuâ€" liar way: EBE ATOTCC "I tell you I set a mighty sight by that ‘ere boy George, and I mean to do sunthin‘ handsome for him some time." T. several times last night." Heâ€""He must have a blamed long arm." Lizard Porridge Fed Erring Husbands by African Wives Central African native wives have a firm belief in lizard porridge as a food for errant husbands, according to the Rev. A. S. D. Ranger, who has returned to London after many years missionary work in Central Africa. He says the native women whose| husbands have strayed from the path‘ of faithfulness dry lizards in the sun, pound them to a powder and put it in their husband‘s porridge. The& women havo:a firm belicf in the effiâ€" cacy of this remedy because of thei hWoming instinet Shaâ€""Tom put his arm around me Early spring is the only time when e can justifiably let a garden get Oh, whether it‘s business or whothet ; it‘s sport, Study the rules. ! Know every one of them, long and the, short. * l Study the rules. | Know what you may do, and what you i may not. ‘ Know what your rights are. ‘Twill help you a lot ‘ In the critical times when the battle is hotâ€" Study the rules. Life‘s not a scramble, and sport‘s not a mess. Study the rules. Nothing is left to haphazard or guess. Study the rules. Know what‘s a foul blow, and what is i a fair; Know all the penaities recognizeu there; Know what to go for, and what to be ,__ _ ware. Study the rules. Nature has fixed for us definite laws. Study the rules. Every effect is the child of a cause. Study the rules. Nature has penalties she will inflict; When it comes to enforcing them Naâ€" ture is strict. Her eyes are wide open. She never is tricked. Study the rules. Play to your best in the game as it 8 played. 1 Study the rules. ‘ Know how a fair reputation is made. Study the rules. " Sport has a standard, and lifo has & plan, Don‘t go at them blindly. Learn all ‘ that you can, Know all that is asked and required of f a man. _ Study the rules! * Countess Bathurst, in the London National Review: The sufferings, real or imaginary, of cattle at sea, the treatâ€" ment of old horses in abattoirs, the trials of the hunted fox, the vivisection of a dog in the interest of science perâ€" formed under an anaesthetic â€" all these things will rouse the British pubâ€" lic of all classes to a frenzy of exciteâ€" ment; but it is not strangé that these same people, whose compassion is so easily routed, can bear quite calmly the fact that thousands of men, woâ€" uten and children are killed overy year in the streets and on the country roads by drivers of lorries, matorâ€"omnibuses, lprivate cars and motorcycles? Warmth is better than heat welding international friendships. Study the Rules. A Remedy Needed. the penalties recognized business or whother in the game as it‘s of the most inâ€" New Zealand. â€"Hdgar A. Guest. 1 CD" ! Mrs. Walker surveyed the rug pnt»l{ other tern with an aloof satisfaction, while! q ithe hook in her hand thudded on| ]rhythmically. "It‘ll be more familiar | f d the like," she agreed, "there on the dinâ€"| lingroom floor with all its colors just! | |as we picked them out in the store-'!' it you room. When we traced the pattern} \last fall 1 thought of making the | "Pwill background all in tan, and we‘d have llhad to dye rags for that. But when itle is I found that old gray blanket in the} | bottom of the rag barrel I knew that | lthat was just the thing. ‘Twas justl ‘ the right shade of gray. After being ; ‘s ROt|out of sight so long it‘ll be like old | times to see it there on the floor in the diningroom." guess.| She gazed across the barnyard reminiscently, and the hook came to vhat is|a halt in the rug. "I was just a little o |girl when I got that blanket. ‘Twas gnized | over in the old homestead, and mother‘ was fixing up a room that I was to to b€â€"| have all to myself. I remember as well as if it were yesterday the proud, grownâ€"up way 1 felt every time I went laws, |into the little room. One side of it sloped down almost to the floor, with ause, |a tiny window set in under the eaves, so low down that I had to lie on the fllet; rug in front of the chest of drawers am Na.| to look out across the meadow to the | woods beyond. The other window was day," Mrs. Walker was saying. "*We‘ll orcuard. 4 POMMAMTUET OAOUOC 4 w4 c finish the centrepiece toâ€"day and then big tree with its branches right up it will be all ready to put down right against the window, with the perfume inside the diningâ€"room door." She of blossoms on it in the springtime took a bundle of bright red rags, laid| and the red shine of apples on it in them on the rug in its frame before the fall. There was a picture of a }hor. and untied the string that held| shepherd and some sheep on the wall, them together as she addressed Ada.) and a mirror that hung over the chest Ada‘s gaze wandered over Mu.‘of drawers. Then one night father Walker‘s shoulder, fluttered through|came home from town with a big the bare boughs of the apple trees bundle that he laid on the table and ‘and rested briefly on the black shine told me to open, while he stood there }of the lake where the water came up| with his face shining from the eold darkly through the ice to meet the drive, and his eyes gleaming in the: strengthening sun. "It‘ll be finished lamplight, and mother smiling aS§ just in â€"time," she observed, "just in | though she knew all about it, and time for us to get the hotâ€"frames eager to see it and enjoy my surprise ready for the tomatoes." | all at the same time. I remember yet PAAAE pee roigesiey & e enR P 0 C800 whe“ I the "We‘ll finish the centrepiece for Things that share with man the‘ earth‘s lonely places are often singled‘ out for special interest. That is partâ€" ty the reason why the name of the stormpetrel is so well known, and why so many who possibly have never seen the bird feel a sort of fascinated inâ€" terest in it. It has neither song nor beautiful plumage to arrest our adâ€" miration, yet somehow its very loneliâ€" ness, as it files "homeless upon the waters" lays a spell upon us. This little birdâ€""just over six inches | in length"â€"hardly ever comes to laudl except for nesting purposes. It picks| up its living in the open sea, and takes all that comes in the way of wealher.‘ Ona might think it would have little | chance of survival in a great stm‘m‘ at sea, yet it does survive. The name | Petrel is a dlmtfiluve of Peter and is possibly an allusion to St. I’eter'n‘ walking on the sea, as the birds oflen! seem to do. The birds‘ feet, as Proâ€" fessor J. A. Thomson says, "pitter patâ€" ter across the waves" when in flight. There are a number of species of patrel, all alike are childrer of the sea‘s lonely places. They rely upon the sea for all their noeds. Even when they come ashore during: the nesting season, laying a single white egg in some obscure hole or cranny of the rocks, they fiy backward and forward between land and sea for such supplies TORONTO they n;;a â€"Their only use for the "soMETHING BESDES DVE" Child of the Sea. 104 B8 . MB : mt iss 4 n x ons . "We‘ll orchard. 1 remember there was one nd thonibiz tree with its branches right up vn right against the window, with the perfume » _ She of blossoms on it in the springtime ags, laid | and the red shine of apples on it in a before the fall. There was & picture of a hat held| shepherd and some sheep on the wall, sed Ada.] and a mirror that hung over the chest er Mrs. of drawers. Then one night father through|came home from town with a big le trees bundle that he laid on the table and n uons tald me bo onen. while he stood thero; up straight and bright before her. "It‘ll be nice to see that old blanket again," she repeated. "And that brown border," she conâ€" tinued, "that was my first new dress after John and I fad set up houseâ€" keeping for ourselves. That was in the winter time, too. John was takâ€" ing a load of buckwheat to town, and the butter and eggs for market. Then, iafwr we‘d been to the mill and the market, we went to Spicer‘s store to y pick out the dress. I remember that I picked out that brown stuff dress beâ€" cause of the brown velvet collar and cuffs and the row of little gold buttons down the front." ESARAPRENT TTR Mmds SCe ax and listened to the thud of his| blows. "Then just when I‘d begun to| think that I‘d havo to dye something for the centrepiece of roses we found that little jacket of Albert‘s. That was the jacket that he wore to hlll first Christmas Eve celebration at the | schoolhouse. All the children had r&] citations to make. When I found it there in the storeroom I kept think-‘ ing about how late I sat up the night | before working on it so it would be!i ‘I finished in time for him to wear to the1 celebration; and how the smart red | l of it went so well with the dark green 'iof the tree and the gleam of the! \candles." Ada picked up another red strip! * """," .} from the rapidly diminishing pue.\fect lyric "We‘re goingugo get it finished this King. afternoon," she declared with satisâ€"| dozen faction. "And it‘s going to be so much | searcely nicer to have its colors all so fine and does not bright without having to use dye." l°"z““_‘11‘ A blue jay filew across the barnyard | doggl!:: * and called noisily from an oak by the | “;gk:d rosgdside." Mrs. Walker‘s gaze followâ€" ‘:v C is ‘:‘ ‘od the fAlnshing blue streak of its| {}009.q‘, flight. "Aye," she agreed, "it‘s better C Fet to have the rags in their own familiar! .Ngf:';, * colors, brown and gray and, red, w|_‘m 1089 ored with something besides new dye, CH something besides dye."â€"The Moni-l ‘ tor. During land is as a haven of refuge first few weeks of Infancy. 1 ‘ Scott, the Antarctlc explorer, u-nsll of passing a small iceberg, far, far; south with a group of Antarctic petâ€" rels on the other side; still relying on | the sea and sweli to cast up food for them onto the ledges of the iceberg.l In memorable words, he has described | this entrance upon the Antaretic. "A1 is-mlness, weird and uncanny, seemedi ‘llo have fallen upon everything when | we entered the silent water streels nfl this vast unpeopled white city,. There was no sign of life, except when one' of the little snow petrels, invlsiblo‘ when fying across one of the gusten-i llu bergs, flashed for a moment into| sight as it came against the dark ; water." And how friendly a vision !t; must have been More Like Themselves. The uew chaplain of a Scottish asylym was accompanied one day by an inmate, who said: "We like you betâ€" ter than any chaplain we have ever had "I‘m pleased to head it," said the gratified man. ‘"May I enguire what it is that has made me preferred by you nbove my predecessors "Weel ye see," replied the inmate, "we think ye mair like corsel than ony o‘ the ithere." Start from the bottom. Be natural Herbert Morrison. , up, and looked out The Redl Proof. 9 for the Scotland, who has summed up the lonctmblodhhhryo(ourhud.md has combined all the diverse loyalâ€" ties and traditions of Sectsmen. On snotb.roldnhlldnpoeto(our common nature who has expounded, uithunotolunbmexpoundod. the greatness and the trailty of plain humanity. On still another side he is the reformer who flashed the lanâ€" tern of his satire into many foul corâ€" ners. He appoals to us as patriots, as democrats, as citizens, as fallible men. â€" But it is none of these things, fine as they are, which make him immortal. Many have preached the same creed with equal earnestness, with the same sincerity, and their names are toâ€"day forgotten. Why is it that as years pass the fame of Py lic as <Phragnbionnstont f P itthntuyuupulflnhmeol Burns rises steadily higher and beâ€" comes steadily a more universal thing, so that not Scotland only, but C s ditpesh i cerarine Th werdsik 7 thing, so that not Scotland only, but the whole earth, acknowledges his power? Jt is Lecause he. was fArst and foremost a great artist, and though creeds and philosophies perish a perfect art endures. I want to speak to you for a little about Burns I: mho fashion to call Burns a classic, and he is a classic in the strictest and truest sense. What does In one nespect Burns i# the post of *paiat 7. W the word mean? It does not mean only that his position is accepted by everybody. . . . It means that he has the same qualitiee as the great Greek and Latin poets, the univerâ€" sality and the perfection which are beyond the reach of time, and which owe no allegiance to peographical boundaries. . . . He #as the classic directness of vision and simplicity. Ho has a great cloarness, rightness and sanity. In his best Scots verse there are no loose edges, no indefinite colors. He is wholly sincere, both in form and matter; there is no susâ€" picion of false sentiment; there is !never a word too much; he is the lmost nobly ecdonomical of all the | poets. Take, for example, the doâ€" | scription of a spate in the "Brigs of | Ayr." Every phrase is the rosult of ldirect observation and stings like the | whip of an east wind. Wifly op mY WHIEUT If we want to roalize Burns‘s greatness as an artist we must study closely his methods. Take that perâ€" fect lyric, "It was a‘ for ouar Rightfu‘ iKing." Burns composed this from a dozen old rhymes, and there is isarcely a phrase in his song which does not occur in one or other of the loriginaln. But . the originals were ‘doutrcl, because there was no shapâ€" ing art in theim. Burns unerringly picked out of the patchwork the right words and the right cadences, and blended them into an immortal cry of regret and longing.â€"John Ruchan, ‘in "Homilies and Recreations." During this great yet simple festiâ€" val, in which all the members of the | Japanese family partske together, ‘willow and cherry blossoms mingle in vivid color to reâ€"make the Mikado‘s lcapit:nl into a priceless brocade of spring. â€" Amid the flowery richness of that scented air Fujiâ€"Yama radiâ€" antly unveils his face, flawless with perpetual snow. On the calm sur |face of the crystalâ€"clear, transparent | River Sumida dances the shadow of |\ Mount Teukuba, catching hands in | that gleaming mirror with the swayâ€" ling willows that border that lovely ,lstmm. That scene, dreamily enâ€" | veloped with the eightâ€"fold mist of ;l fragrant purple, is truly an altar for .'feminine beauty, reflected in a hunâ€" ,| dred â€" kindred â€" lovelinesses. There, {;too, like snowflakes, the peaceful | ©Miyakodori" birds #wim glidingly | along, adding beauty of mojion to | the whole enchanted air, while quistly ‘singing the "Kimiâ€"Gaâ€"YÂ¥o" anthem, a _| prayer for an g!?‘rh’lt?:‘g reign for |can view the ravishing sight by the | thousand. Indeed, it has been worlhâ€" ‘ily said that the beautiful nature of our country can even transform the stubbornest of aliens to its own spirâ€" it, thus naturalizing them to the very heart‘s core and bovond all risk of | relapse. Could we but show now ‘;To many a stranger | On alien, dim shoree \ The glorious dawn \Of Yosino‘s Spring, ;With the scented mist * ; Of our radiant cherry, !Eurely they would soon be softened |\With souls transformed to a Japane i ese semblance, \Full of craving, devoted passion il'or our dear islands . .. \Our ansient Sunâ€"Rise Yamatoâ€"Land. ED SE SW Ti cyd . our illustrious Mikado. In order to see the cherry blossoms in their dazzling glory one has but to have a run to Yosino, where one The loveliest view of spring in all Japan is on the Arazsiyama Hil! in Kyoto. As we stand on the Togekâ€" kyoh Bridge with fallen petals of | cherry blossom floating like butterâ€" \ fllee through the perfumed air, we \see beneath us rafts swinging doxgn ‘the rapid waterf of the blue Katsura, !vflb rround us brightliy clad village i.itl. from Ygee and Ohara poise ‘above their Iaughing cyos light loads ‘of the daintiest fAowers..â€"â€"Gonnoske \Komai, in The Poetry Review. trade is extending year by year.â€"< David Lloyd George. Cherry Rlossom Fete. The frontier of women‘s empire in 44 The Europesn C butes most to the inc population, it seem general impression i est number of the settlors come from But the figures of « ment of Immigration months of the fiscal â€" that of the ® arrived in th came from the 507 came frow ope, and 12,98( nipeg "Ma on the flow United St: *From the returned to residence so months or » adians, o w o this counts ormerly dom Ized Canadi 1,562. "As is eountries immigrat ment int ferred a ferred co Belgium, show a s than the countrics 4mmigrat come fr tries, th thenian : fAig me newspi nonâ€"pr Port former cou large, it is available wffices of a through Wi wa y 428. vided 34 the pre tinent. ApaI wer 1 0f Jev 18 the has ©ot jca the im imj T As wh Thougb No « E) Of Of hig And Where Ca Immigrants C Th Crime, ind: rec the United 5 $13,000,000,000 estimates . made Prentise, in the eord. ! _ One of the be hbam Parish back to 1198 wung at shis ch ever T00 years. Mr. Pr National ficial bod: causes of momic 10580 United Stat« European d« The presen‘ United Stat« pumbers son If gambling, Y the Prohibiiton 1i he estimates the .Wr ‘:’w'm $13,000,000,000. (Of « () Tc TY He p« 1.6 United Sta ting t Gran Br t he 4 «O pe