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'" THE PLESHERTON ADVANCE. A New Wood Pulp Policy A new policy in dealing with our proviucial resources in pulp timber was behiud the agretment with the Spruce J'alls i'uper Co., a United States firm, of which F. J. Bensembrenner is president. The company is taking over the Munday & Stewart conccsBion of 1500 8<|uare miles, with an additional 24,UUO acres in O'Hricn township adjoining. A flat rate of 75 cents a cord for all timbt-r cut is to be increased under the new agreement to *1.15 for spruce, and 85 cents for other wood. Sawlog timber must be paid for at current rates. In certain other acres not reserved fur settlement along the railway spruce will be cut at $1.60 a cord and other timber at $1.30. All brush must be cleaned up and destroyed in every case. Tcrmission to develop power on the Kapuskasing is another phase of the agreement, 2000 h.p. from a 50-foot head biiug counted on. This is to supply a pulp mill of 75 tons capa- city, which is to be ready in January, 1922, at latest, but is expected much sooner. Of the outjjut, 15 per cent, at least must be supjilied to (.'anailian consumers. The Government intends to lay out a towusite on the concession and keep it in public control. This would seem to be about as much as the Governmeut can do to provide a supply of paper, short of going into the manufacture of jjaper itself, for the newspapers. If the newspapers could agree to take a i)ulpwood concession, develop power, and build a mill and make their own paper, tliib would be another solution, but it is not considered that this plan is feasible until the lion and the bear are prepared to lie down together with the wolf and tho'lamb. Canada and the West Indies Closer relations between the West Indies and the mainland have been in- evitable -for a generation or more. The purchase from Ueumark of the Virgin group by the United States accelerated the realization of this und our slow- going methods, which are content to wait till the perfectly ripe fruit drops off tlie tree, have delayed till the last pruilent moment the conclusion of an agreement between Canada and the British West Indies covering trade opera- tions. Among the measures included are the increase in various instances of the 20 per eeut. preference to 50 per cent.; an extension of the free list; a weekly steamship, service between the eastern islands and Canada, and a fortnightly service for the western islands, including the lialianias, British Honduras, and Jamaica. The laying of British owned and controlled cables IS also contemjilated. W'hy this strengthening of the imperial ties has been so long delayed it is difficult to understand, as the islands so thoroughly complemcul Canada in respect of their tropical products, while we in Canada have everything that they require from temperate or frigid zones. This is specially recognized in the case of sugar, in which the preference ranges Jrom -Jti.OHO i)er 100 lbs. to yu cents; cocoanuts, free when imported direct; onions, free; grape fruit, a preference of 50 cents. The Islands give Cunuda a preference of one shilling (25 ceutsj a bag (190 lbs.; on Hour. Spirits and tobacco have special regulations, not more than 50 per cent, of the duties imposed by other countries. The steamer service is not to discriminate against the smaller islands, and the passenger accommouution is to bear a reasonable proi>ortion to the freight. A regular service to the West Indies •should increase the popularity of those beautiful islands as a holiday resort. Bermuda, Barbados, Trinidad, British Guiana, outward, and Trinidad, Grenada, (r^t. Xinccnt, Barbados, Bueia, Dominica, Moutserrat, Autigna, Xevis, St. Kitts aud Bermuda are to constitute one voyage and a reverse route on the alter- jiat.- Voyage. The result of this agreement should be a very definite expansion of trade between these kindred members of the Kmpiro and Canada. Great Fairs of the World Fairs are among the most ancient of human institutions and long ante- date their official recognition by governmental authority. The oldest char- tered fair is that of St. Uenys at I'aris, for which IJagohert, King of the Franks, granted a charter in 042. The great fair of Stourbridge in Eugland> near Cambridge, dates from 207 A.U., but was chartered by King John for the maintenance of a leper hospital. Weyhill fair in llauii],slnre is the great sheep fair held every 10th October, llorncastle, Lincoln-fhire, is the great horse fair. Nottingham goose fair is celebrated. Falkirk tryst is one of the largest Scottish fairs, and Ballinasloe is a great Irish fair. Fraukfort-ou-Main has two fairs, one beginning on Faster Tuesday, the other on Monday nearest September 8, and they continue legally for three weeks, but generally last longer. Leipziz has the three greatest of the German Fairs, and is famous for its (lisjilay of books at the Kastern fair. The other two are at New Vear and Alicliaelnia.s. In India the fair at Hurdwar on the upper Ganges is sup- poseit to be the greatest in Asia, but the great fair at Nijni Novgorod on the Volga in Kussia is generally supposed to be the greatest in the world, and is held every year in July and August. It only dates from the 17th century, when it was established "by the Tsar Michael Fedorovitcli. Upwards of 100,- ObO visitors c^iiie from all parts of Asiji and Kastern Furope. The biggest annual fair held anywhere is the Canadian .National K.vhibitiou held in To- ronto, and its record of about a million a year is one of which Canada may well be proud. The special new feature days this year are \ictoria Cross and Veterans' Day on Saturday, August 2S, the opening day; the Made-iu- Canada, Flectrleal and Hydro iJay, Saturday, September 4; and Wednesday, September 8. Imperial I'ress and Farmers' IJay. The fair continues till September 11. Irish Dominion Home Rule ''onditions in Ireland have not improved and the Government remedy of a new Coercion 'Act is worse than none at all. The attempt on the ])art of Knglaud to aj'ply law or reason to a sentimental situation is akin to tliat of an aged husband trying to compel a very young wife, wedded against her will, to carry out his wishes. The experience of centuries should have con- vinced everyone by this time that Ireland cannot be coerced. An effort is being made to show that the Sinn Fein movement is entirely religious, and such episodes as the visit of Archbishop Manuix are used to establish a view which has some upi>earan(:e of truth, but is mainly erroneous. Many of the most influential Sinn Feiners are I'rotestants, just as Wolf Tone, Smith O'Brien, Charles S. I'ariiell and other Irish Home? Kulers were I'rotestants. The re- port that Lord Pirrie, the great Belfast shipbuilder, who is a sincere Homo Euler, was the bearer of proposals of peace from Arthur Griffiths, the Sinn Fein leader, tii the Uritish GovcrnnuMit, indicates the attitude of many prominent Irishmen, Ojiposition to Home Hulo in Ireland has been chiefly fostered in Eng- land, and the deputation headed by Sir Stanley Harrington, Commissioner of Kducation in Ireland, and I'rofessor Wilbraham, Fitzjohn Trench of Trin- ity ('ollcge, Dublin, is accepted as evidence of this view. This deputation urged the adoption of Dominion Home Rule for Ireland on Premier Lloyd George, so that Ireland would be on the same footing as Canada. Lord Pir- rie 's proposal was that "provided the independent status of Ireland is recog- nizeil Irishmen will be prepared to furnish international guarantees, properly incorporated in a peace treaty, to safeguard the strategic interests of the British Kmpire.'' Irishmen know very well that they could not have the same freedom under any other Hag, not even the Stars and Stripes, that they en- joy or might enjoy under the Union Jack. An Ireland under the Green En- sign with the Union Jack in the corner would have been j)0S8ible a generation ago, but events have embittered and aggravated the situation until only the most careful negotiation will avoid civil war, the more especially as many on both sides of the dispute do not wish to avoid it. Against the Double Standard Miss Violet Trench, who is a niece of Sir Henry Wilson, (Jhief of the Im- perial Htaff, and as Frederick I'almer says, the brainiest man in the British Army, made a distinct impression on her own account on her recent visit to Toronto. In several public addresses she gave details concerning the origin and development of the movement which has crystallized in England in the National Council for the Prevention of Venereal Diseases, which is now du- plicated in some respects in Canada by a Dominion Society with provincial and municipal affiliations. Tho movement in ICngland began before the war, forced on by the horrifying conditions that were everywhere becoming appa- rent. It was thought when war was declareil that what was being done would have to be stopped, but in a few weeks it was found to be more necessary than ever that it should be prosecuted with redoubled energy. Since then the so- cial workers everywhere have awakened to the urgency of the conditions and philanthropic leaders of every description have taken op or supported the work. Having been ao long an absolutely unmentioned subject, great preju- dice had, of course, to bo encountered, but the tact and delicacy of speakers like iiiu Trench overcome the fears and scruples of the most biased. While recognizing the necessity for explicit instriction and medical advice for those suffering from these social diseases, Miss Trench is firmly convinced of the danger of what she called "psychic shock" to the innocent and uninformed among young persons. Parents were the proper persons in instruct children, and where they failed only the best teachers should be employed. It was not merely the hard, cold facts of science that had to be imparted, but young people had to be taught that they were immortal souls using a body which should be kept pure as the temple of their worship, and sacred to the great functions of parenthood, fihe advocated the training of «irls from this point of view so as to make them better citizens, better wives and mothers. There must be no double standard for men and women, but equal responsibility in the prMervation of purity. Girls are not merely to preserve their own honor but to help to inspire their younc men friends to the hiahput Mo. I. ai.« ' COME RUNNING A Little Bit of Everything The BIGGEST consideration with the average country shop- per it the matter of PR]CL PRICES asked for merchandise in this up-and-doins town and community of our» will be found to compare MOST FAVOR- ABLY with prices anywhere â€" but there a an added inceritrve for trading hereâ€" Our merchants rarely CUT pricss, because they are not in the habit of INFLATING then-. They look for their profits along far-sighted LINES â€" throtu^ holding ihejr customers on QUALITY and good honest SERVKS. The SPIRTT of this town of our$ i* io PLAY FAIR and fo»- ter FRENDLY FEEUNC Your dollar vnO GO FARTflER here. Make the lEST and see for yourself. You'll be dealing with a body of buiineu men who will treat you in a manner that wiO make you FEEL LUCE COMING AGAIN. Theyll make your SHOPPING TRIPS to our town eaiy on the P0CKETBOOK-«Ki PLEASANT FOR YOU. So hook up or ciank up and CONE ON INâ€" to this town of our» â€" the natural HUB of thit fcgkm. 7 HE BRAIN BOX CONDUCTED BY E. GUNN RAMSAY. Registered According to the Copyright Act, young men friends to the highest ideals also. Have you a Safety League in your town? Much good work has been done through this medium. The warn- ing phrases posted up iu offices, street cars and busy thoroughfares have lulped to safeguard human life. "Stop! Look! and listen." are pietty lamiliar words to us as we climb in .-uiil oil' a moving vehicle. Tiiis mot'o of the Saftey League might very well be more universally adopted by everyone in the world to day. Alight more universally be ad- dopted by everyone at all times and iu all places. For it is a motto which is applicable, not only to the days when we move among traffic but most partic ularly to the days wheu wo THINK we do not iiuive. This old world to-day i.s tearing along at such a terrific pace that the trouble with most of us is, we do not Stop song enouglu to even Look, if we did this more often we would change or adapt the motto to siiiiu>^ tiling like this: â€" • ••.sicip! Look! â€"and Learn." Tho man who stops long enough to take a good look at life and at himself, till' man who jieriodically pulls up in his gait to analyze and senitini/.e Inn everv tiniught and action WILL LH.Ut.N and to the man who sets out in this way to learn for himself, to know himself, tii know his world, to know his work, to study his place in the world, his duly iu that work and towards his fellow creatures, such knowledge is power, iuliuite power. .Such a man can face the world un- afraid, nmislianied. The world indeed is his. What are riches without knowledge; What is position whore this is lacking/ Vou may possess half the wealth of tho world, yet if you have not learning â€" learning, 1 mean not iu the academic sense, but in the larger, brader meaning which iueludes educ- ation, insight and common sense â€" then indeed for all your riches you may be but a poor fool and the world better without you. The old saying that love of money is the root oif all evil has often been turned by some misfortunute souls in- to this, "Lack of money is the root of most evil." There is a great deal of truth in the latter, but there is the more truth when one analyses fiicts down to bed-rock in this, that money without knowledge may often prove ii curse and a stumbling block. How often does one hear the sad ex- pression "If only I had known be- fore." Knowledge withheld is riches buried, therefore, "Stop! Look â€" and Learn." How many would give all they pos- sessed to-day to unilo the thing of yes- terday. The work you arc doing today you will face in its results in the future. Testerday can not come back to you, but its results can follow you. How do you stand? ANALV8E YOUE ACTIONS. Hid you ever try self-analysis? Try this experiment one day when you have made time to Stop. Take a large sheet of paper and write upon it the brief history of your working life from the time you left school until tho present day, marking opposite each step in or out of position the MOTIVE which you had in mind. Mark clearly certain positions, all the steps which have led to your present position, to that which you now hold. Put down the good and the bad, the selfish and unsel- fish. Having them down in black and white will help you a great deal to realize the men or women you are to- day, and 88 you are to-day so you will continue to be if left unchecked. Who is going to do the checking up for yout Read over your account slowly and carefully and see if you cannot find some holes in the fence which, had you adapted the mottD of the Safety League ere this and Stopped to Look, you could have managed to make a big. ger man of yourself than you are to- day. The World needs more than anything else thinking people, i)eople who know. If. you would be one "Stop! Look! â€" THZ: GBEATEBT FAKIC. New Heporter â€" What was the worst financial panic you ever went through, Mr. Moneybags? Mr. M(JiK'yl)ags â€" Let me see! Com- ing home one night in the street car somebody (Irojiped a nickel and seven women claimed it. THERE ARE OTHERS. Kedd â€" Is that your dog growling so? Greene â€" It sure is. "What's he growling about.'" "Because meat is so high." DOUBTFUL SUCCESS. Amateur Singerâ€" 1 was singing at the prison the other evening, at a con- cert. Friend â€" (treat success, I suppo.sc ? Amateur Singer â€" Well, I'm not sure nbout thiit, for afterwards tlie prison- ers complained to the governor that my singing was not in their scntencei REVOLT IN MATTERS SARTORLAL if the overall revolt really makes hea<lway it will be the first modern in- stance of man's rebellion against his tailor. Women, however, have in sev- eral instances revolted against fashion- able extravagance and the demands of dressmakers. At the time of the Nap- oleonic wars Queen Charlotte and her daughters set the fashion of embroid- ering their own dress for the ••draw- ing-rooms. ' ' The Queen made dresses from stuff.s maunfactured in her own country, and there was for a time a fashion for "stuff balls," which may be taken as analagous to the "over- all" entertainments of the moment. There was a later period when ' ' cali- co" balls were a rage for a time. CHINESE ADOPTING ENGLISH. An explorer who recently returned from China, states that wherever he went he discovered that the na- tives were beginning to regard English people with greater favor than was usual in the past. In Chinese schools for some years past the Arabic num- erals have been in use. The figures 0, 1, 2, 3 ,4, 5, ti, 7, 8, 9 are iuiinitely easier to learn than the cumbersome Chinese figures and as both are ta-aght in the schools, it stands to reason that the young John Chinamen are going to favor the easier method. The Braille system is in use in China for the blind, who owing to the prevalence of lep- rosy, are common in tl;at country. SPEEDING UP THE OSTRICH. The ostrich has come to the notice of the efficiency experts, who believe that South African ostricli farmers can in- crease the bird's output of quill jilnmes by 25 per cent. The uumbec of plumes from each wing averages thirty-six and occasionally runs as high as forty-two in the South African species and thirty-nine in the North .vfricaii. Tho latter is the larger bird. The Grootfontein School of Agricul- ture is trying by proper mating to breed a race of forty-two plume birds. There are now about 1.000,UOU birds ou the African ostrich farms and the value of their exported feathers is about $15,000,000. LOST FLESH. "Well, Brown, how ill you Uiok! What 's the matter?" "Oh, nothing much; losing weight, that's all. Lost a hundred and thirty pounds of flesh in one day." ' ' Impossible! ' ' " Fiict, I assure you. My wife eloped with the next door neiglihor: " A MAIDEN'S PEAYER. Little Lucy's father had denied her something she considered her just priv- ilege. That night she intoned loudly: "Please, Cod, don't give my father Jiiiy more children. He doesn't know how to treat those he's got now." 'I Read an Advertisement the Other Day- How many times have you heard those seven [words spoken in the course of ordinary conversation! The s(M'aker then goes on to tell about a new iiiv(>nli(m to lighten houseworkâ€" or H new table prtnluctâ€" or a new farm implementâ€" or a new idea in clothingâ€" Always something new I Advertisements are an endless sourt;e of informntion-much of it directly interesting and important to you. Rend" the advertisements. They tell you what is going on in the world. They tell you how you can live better. They tell you how you can live more economically. Read the adTcrtisements as you do the news cohunns ORIGIN OF COIN NAMES. When we read that sterling has fal- len in exchange value who knows the origin of the term? Vet it is traced to the inhabitants of tho Ilansa towns, known as Esterlings, who were invited by King John of England to come to England and reform the currency, which bad become very corrupt. From that date good English was known as sterling. The word money was derived from Moneta, one of the surnames of .luno, in wliose temple the Romans first made coins. The word mint is supposed to be a contraction of the word Moneta through the Anglo-Saxon "mynet." The dollar has a German origin, having been the thaler, or more fully Joach- im's thaler, the silver coin struck out of the silver found n t'lu thai or > ailey of St. Joachim, France. This was ex- tremely pure and being, coined into ounces gave the real basis of the silver (Udlar, which should weigh an ounce. The cent meant a hundredth, the French word for hundred, and the ap- jiopriate name for the coin, which is one-hundredth of a dollar. The quarter is easy for it is one-fourth of the dollar. A LESSON IN DIETETICS What bread needs to make it a per- fect food- â€" a perfect food is that which contains protein, carbohydrates, and fat in certain definite proportions â€" is something in fat iu it. Hence bread "and butter," and bread "and drip- ping,'' and bread "and cheese." Pork and beans pair quite properly, because the beans supply the absent protein. When you eat beef and potatoes, or roast beef and Vorksbire-puddiug, the pairing makes a perfect food. The pairing of condiments is not a matter of taste alone. Cabbage is peppered because it was discovered that pepper discounted the excessive action of greenstuff on the bowels. Mustard goes with beef, but not with mutton, because mutton is much more easily digested than beef, and mustard is a first-class digester. BUILDING HOUSES IN CHINA. -VU lumber for building iu China is bought in the log, says H. K. Richard- son, writing in "Asia." As soon as the logs begin to arrive the contractor tackles them with tho sawyers. These men are paid piece rates which average about three cash or one-tenth of a cent per square foot of surface sawed. They average a better wage than a car- penter, getting about ten cents a day, as compared with 8 cents a ilay for the carpenter. At this rate they cheaper than any steam sawmill that can operate in China. In fact the only reason a saw mill can operate in China at all is be- cause it can produce iiuickly and with more even thickness than the native sawyers. The necessary doors, frames and window sashes are all made by hand. Three Chinese carpenters at 8 cents a day with their native tools can accomplish about the same work done by one Canadian carpenter with all equipment. The work is well done if well supervised. In comparison, I should say that about five Chinese car- penters at 8 cents a day each are neces- sary to do the work of a Canadian car- penter who receives $6 a day and has all his wood prepared for him. FLIES AFFECT MILK SUPPLY. It is thought that in countries where flics, mosquitoes, and other insects arc numerous, they may actually cause considerable loss to dairy farmers. One observant dairyman, who found his cows were so pestered by flies that they could 'nt eat their fill, built a fly-trap, and as a result, he declares, got 11 gallons acre milk a day from his 20 cows. He hung curtains across the middle of a shed through which the cowi were driven. As they passed be- tween the curtains the flya were brushed off by them. Then the doors were cloaed, and the flies clustered at a window, were shot to fleath by fly powder. The cows quickly learned to connect the shed with relief from flies, and then they went through it without any driving. FISH AND THE ANCIENTS. The ancient Romans thought very highly of fish, and at big banquets bril- liant fish were shown to the guests, alive, as a relish, then were served cooked after the soup. Apicus offered a prize to any culinery artist who would invent a new marinade com- pounded of livers of the red mullet. Lucullus had a canal cut through a mountain so that fish might be trans- ported more easily to the ponds in his gardens near Naples. Hortensius wept over the death of a pet turbot while the daughter of Drusus adorned a fav- orite fish with a collar of gold. BIRDS THAT BURROW. Persons are not accustomed to think of birds as burrowing animals, but the puffin answers to that description. It is a chunky little fowl, less than a foot high, with a large and powerful beak. For a home it scratches a hole in the ground sometimes as much as four feet deep. To capture a puffin one must go digging. It is rather a job; and, iiias- niuch as the bird bites and claws fiercely, one is likely to suffer in the process. Thus the creature has main- tained its numbers on many a lonely rockery, where other species of wild fowl have been killed off and exter- minated. PAPER FROM A NEW SOURCE. The ashinga plant which grows pro- fusely in the soft beds of mud that line so many of Brazil's sluggish rivers is now known as the raw material from which cellulose is obtained for the manufacture of linen paper. Recent experiments show that the fibres may i<e transformed chemically into an arti- ficial cotton fibre, of structure even superior to that of the genuine article. One mill is now busy with this new work, while efforts are being made to adapt abandoned sugar mills to the process. UONS UP-TO-DATE. "The lion of the hour" or the "lion of a season" is a person being much sought aftef and not necessarily one noted for courage, as the term was gen- erally used historically. The only case in England's annals is the well-known one of "Richard Coeur de Lion," a splendid equestrian statue to whom stands opposite the House of Lords at Westminster. Scotland also has her lion king, William the Lion, who was a con- temporary of the Lion Heart. But he was not called by that name on account of his courage, like his brother of £ng land, but simply because he chose a red lion, rampant, for his cognizance, a symbol which still survives in tho arms of Scotland. There seems to have been rather an epidemic of "lious" just about that time, for one Louis the Lion was a boy of twelve when our Richard was slain. The French kiug was not notable for pluck, but the as- trologers said he was born under the sign of Leo, and that was (juite enough to give him the leonine appelation. Then Henry the Lion Duke of Bavaria and Saxony, married Richard 's sister Matilda, so as was fitting, a lion and a lioness mated. Henry seems to have deserved the title, as he was both brave and arrogant. WATCHES CLEANED WITH BREAD.' Perhaps the most novel use to which bread is put may be seen iu some of the great watch factories, where more than -to loaves of fresh bread are, or were before the war, used each day. From earliest times in the history of watchmaking it has been the custom to reduce fresh bread to the form of dough. This dough is used for remov- ing oil and chips that naturally s^ii- here iu the course of manufacture to pieces as small as the part of a watch. There are many parts of a watch, by the way, that are so small as to be barely visable to the naked eye. The oil is absorbed by this dough, and the chips stick to it, and there is no other known substance which can be used as a wiper without leaving some of its particles attached to the thing wiped. This accounts for the continued use of bread dough iu the watchmaking in- dustry. M3BA0UL0U S BELL. A quaint-looking bell is known as the Miraculous Bell of St. Paul and is reported to be greatly venerated by the faithful folk of the Isle of Batz, France, to which spot is is reported to have been conveyed from England by a fish iu the sixth century! ANTIQUE GRAIN WILL NOT GROW. The stories about the germination of wheat and other cereals, found wrap- ped with ancient Egyptian mummies, are declared to be fictitious by the United States Department of Agricul- ture. French tests show that grain more than a few years old will not ger- minate. German tests indicate that when seeds are kept under ideal con- ditions, wheat, barley, and oats may germinate up to eight or ten years, but few, if any, grains are alive after twenty years. LAUNCHING A SHIP IN JAPAN. When a ship is launched in Japan, the ceremonies are began with a relig- ious service. Then the ship is released in the usual way, but instead of crack- ing a bottle of champagne across her stem, great quatitities of cut flowers, usually chrysanthemums and the spon- sor's bouquet and a number of live pigeons are scattered from a decorated globe suspended over the launching platform, the sponsor pulling a cord. The flowers fall about the launching party as the freed birds circle oiier- head. â- : 1