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Canada from Coast to Coast Hftlifax, N.S.â€" Crop reporU for ihe province indirate a henvy hay croj» â- rid tWhl c:opB in good condition flow- ing rapidly under prvsf-nt wtuth«r conditions. Fruit pro^pit-ts are for a good crop. Pa.sturea arc in Bood -on- dttion and milk production high. Froderictcn, N.B. â€" Among fami'.i«a arriving on the 8teain.ship.<> Kmpreait of Scotland and Montrose over th« w«'i{-*nd for 8«tt'.eni«nt under the Do- minion Government thr<.>* thousand fnmiiy sch<>me were somo bound for farnn in the Maritime province; whii-h have rw^ived many since the opening of th.' spring. Montreal, Que.â€" Work upon the mill of the Ste. Anne Paper and Pow«>r Mills at B<raupio has commenced, sev- eral hundred men l>cing employed. It 's expected the pulp find paper nollla will be ready to operate by December. Fort Wii'.iani, Out. Within the next threio yturs two thoui^und tons of paper wi!l bo turned o'jt daily from the mills of Fort William and Port Arthur, aci'ordinp to James W. I.yon.s, former MinisU-r of lands and Forests. He stated that he had definite infor- mation that other mil'.a were coming. .<>olR)rrth, Manâ€" The Solsjflrth Oat Growers' Associr.tion grew and pre- pared ;tO,{KH) burhels of retji-.iered seed la.st year and has practically disposed of it all, shipments goinjr to every province in Canada, to the United Aiiman Killed in Crash at Richmotid Hill '<tH»i>3, and a choice Bhlpmcnt of 1,500 bushels to the Ar(f*.ntin*. Regina, Sasl(.- When Saskatchewan become a province, twenty-one years ajro, there were almost W.OOO farnu with a little over "^.OCO.OOO acres in crop, according to th<* provincial Min- ister of Agriculture. In V.'Or, the yield of K-'ain was under 00.000,000 bu.shcls, while in VJ'2F> it wad 435,530,- 000 busheLs. In the period the wheat production incroascd ^rom 34,742,000 to i'40.6f> 1,000, and wa.s 57 per I'ent. of tho wheat grown in the Dominion | in lii2.5, as compared with "1 per cent, urown in 1905. I/ethbridge, Alta. â€" Th'ie are aeven thousand acres cropped to Bupur beets in Southern Alberta this year, a thou- sand arres more than laft yoir. Early pro.^wts !ire for a god crop. Vanc'.Dver, B.C.â€" The first Shopgirl Meets Queen at Court, But Keeps Job proviir.<!nl and progress in practically nil line:" of industry in British Colum- :bia. Mining still shows groat activity and there is every pronpect of the $70,- 000,000 mark iieing exceeded thi.s year. Fair conditions continue in the for- ♦stif; industry, waferl>orr.e trade In- creasing every month. Shipments of pulp and papor to the Orient and Antipodes are frequent, with one mill '. Bupplylng pajier to tho ca.'!tem pro- : \'inci?s. There is every indication of a I pood fishing year. Agriculture has ' experienced an excellent half-year and : prospect* in all horses are of the best. In a Small, Old Garden. PerbapA no word of six letters' con- centrates so much human satisfaction us the word "garden." . . . When a man needs Just ono word to express In rich and iiolgnaut jsytubol his seatje of accumulated btauty and Wesodne»a, his llrt thought is of a garden. . . . And you have only to posBess even quite a s-mall garden to know why- -a email, old xarden. 8o long aa It be old, It hardly matters how small It Is, but old It most lie, for a new garden la obviously not a garden at all. An/1 most keenly to l^ellsil tho joy which an old garden can give, you should per- haps have been born In a city and dreamed all your life of someday own- ing a garden. Xo form of good fortune can, I am sure, give one a deoixjr thrill of happy ownership tlian that with which on© thus city-bred at last eutera into possession of au old cinintry gar- den. Oh, that flrs.t dewy morning when, before the rest of tho hnu.se Is up, you â- teal out Into ths e.vquisitw purity and peace of tho young day, uiyBlerlously ', virgin In lis denr-eyed freshness! ' Some of the S'lrangeness of starlight till lingera In the air, and the sunlisht slants over tho slilinniering graft's with an ludosfribable suggestlou of lonell- ne.sB, a look of blended pathos and ro- mance. . . , Everything your eye falls upon seems to v. ear something of , the same look; an<l an your ey.i ranK*-* 'â-  with a Eniniptuinis .sense of proprietor- ship from end to end of your Ilttio domain -the great oukx still sleeping In rnlcl. th.> (itiJL't shnibberless the goo- Ba-merod flowerheds. the sh'sota of ahin- Ing lawn, tho walls ot iu()<i.sy hrlck trel- Med with long-armed peartrces, the russet-roofed outhou»e»- and at last : roBU lovingly on the warm chlmnoyed ' gables where your loved'^nos still He asleep, your heart Is fllUxJ with a »onse' of home nioro profound, more unsliak- . ablft, and more pathetic than vou havel ever felt before before you owned a ' rardeti. Perhaps, when we analvie it. It la ' this deep sense of home which is the moftt . . . vhal imrt of our Joy In gar^ ' dene. . . . That this la „o mere sentl- ' roent you can soon prove by the ea^iy 1 tejt of growing > ,;i,- own flowers 8o BOOH a* you cut y.,ur own roseo you j will wonder how y<,u could ever have ' been satlsfleil with the "bought" rosew , from the florist. ' Then the nn'io names of certain flowers and fruit* give thoir happy | owner a Hen.se of romantic wealth and ' dlsitlnctlon in tholr very mention. "I j must show you our old tullptreo." you j •ay, Just uj the i>09«esv;')r of a gallery ' leads you off to see the portrait of one of his ancestors p-ilntod by Van Dyck or Oalimb'mnigh. ItlclianI I,e Oallieni', : In "Comers of drey Old Uardena." Label Whales. VVhailee lu lli" I'anlU iirean are be- ing tagR<Mi HO that Kouit'ihliiK may be learned of ibelr Imhlls and tnivelg. I On Returning to An Old House. We were fortunate In having an old hoii.se to return to. Old houses have I enough of humanity about them to seem sympathetic and respon.slve, but .they are also sufllclently detached to 'abide immutably by standards of their own. Our old houjse stand* a mile and a i half from a village, on tho edge of a meadow across which It looks to a range of broken and molded hills. liig maples shade It, behind it an apple orchard rune up a griiasy slope, beside ;lt stands an old red barn transformed by Christopher into a »tudio. It Is i serene and wise, it ha« lived many ; years. . . . But strife is tlK; last tiling It suggests or seem to remember as it broods beneath its maple in the midst of Its flower gardens and iwatchee the lights and shadows' change Ion the quiet hills. . . . I The spring afternoon wa.s drawing ; towards Its close and luminous sluul- j ows were folded Into the hollows of ; the hills. The light was soft and car- essing, dwelling with tenderness on llie .voung green of the awakening for- ests. . . . Tho valley was lovely â€" so dear and familiar, yet unfamiliar too, j as If I were in .some s.lr«nge w.iy see- ing it both for the thousandth and the ' -^ '*°' *'"-^' "^^'^ ^'' tirst time. . . . Christopher went the rounds of the London. â€" A Ix>ndon shopgirl has six gained distinction by curtseying to the "i!."";!.!' l!'L" !!!.!'l^.!'?Tr !i?i?l„'v,".i King and Queen at a njyal court one evening and showing up for work the next morning as usual. She is Misa Dorothy Knaggs, daughter of Lady Knaggs, and aho has been working in a largo West End store. Miss Knaggs has a bent for design- ing and drawing. Ono day Ia.st winter .she stepped into a store \vith some of her own sketches under her arm. These were her only credentials. She displayed Her. work to the chief of the "Help Hii«ii Here" department, and tho next djiy at 8 a.m. appeared as ono of the artists of tho designing de- partment. She has hold her position ever since. Few of the other shopgirls know that Miss Knagg.s, when her day's work is over, goes to a Mayfair man- sion, the front door of v.'hich is opened for her by a butler in knee breeches. When the plane which he was flying from Camp Borden to Toronto struck a windmill on the farm of George Harding, Rlchm-ond Hill, Flight Officer A. W. B. Stevenson was almost Instantly, killed. The picture at the upper left shows a wing of the plane, which was torn off by the collision. At the uirper right Is a view of the wreckage of the main section of the plane, and below, a close-up of the same scene. German Invents Shutterless Loom, Lowering the Cost London. â€" A shuttlelees loom, hither- to regarded as an impossibility, has been invented by a German named Gabler, according to a report from Berlin, and has been already thor- oughly tested and proved feasible in German factories before being public- ly announced. The mechanism is de- scribed as the simplest and works on two rods which carry threads and weaves all kindd of cotton yarn and Jute with the same apparatus. The claim is made that production is quicker and safer, tliat the number of operatives is reduced, that the compli- cated preliminary steps before wind- ing the threads will be obviated and the cost of the loom construction greatly lessened. Lancashire has not yet heard of tha new invention and is not likely to adopt it unless its weaving skill, hand- ed down through generation^, is equal- ly applicable to the new machine aa with the old well-tried Arkwright loom. The Cock. Give me a hot summer. Says the cock, With the prints of hoovea In the cakod hogwallow And the yellow dust smooth as water on the road. Qlvo me a hoi sun to bake the leaves So the catendllars will fall from the pig-hickory And the plncli-bugs walk wobbly on the flagstones. Give me the blue sky cloudless So I can spot the hawk at the horizon. Giving the calls that the hens know, Making them run to .-.lielter. Give mo the heat rising over the stub- ble And the sparrows threshing the shock. A hot day and a cool dusk. Says the <-ock. With the swallows gibbering under the muddy eaves And the hats plundering around tho diiinei-bell. coek„ And the hens wallowing In the dust- Music Will Play Important Part in Life of Community. Nearly 4,000 competitors â€" 3,000 of them school children, representing ! the name of "Agnes," was originated America's Best Rose. A Canadian outdoor rose won the American Rose Society's gold medal for the rose of highest excellence in North America. This rose, known by flfty-elght school choirs â€" took part In British Columbia's Fourth Annual Musical Competition Festival in the latter part of May. This truly is a remarkable record. at the Canadian Government Experi- mental Farm, Ottawa, by Dr. William Saunders, father of Dr. Charles Saund- ers, discoverer of Marquis wheat, w^hleh has won the world's wheat prize showing the growing interest In the ' since the inteniatloual wheat competi- muslcal and cultural life of this pro- 1 tion started 15 years ago. vincc. It Is evidence that the cause of music education and musical apprecia- 1 Van Fleet gold medal for an outdoor tion Is coming Into its own, and that I rose of hlghe tsexcellence originated ^^^^ Sundial Tells Time of Day in Geu'den Spot, There is, perhaps, of the many aO' oessorles for the garden nothing so desirable as a sundial. In the beauti- ful old garden of Scotland and Eng- land it is a feature which Is seldom absent. There It stands, moss and lichen covered, amidst the flowers or on the broad lawn, seeming to have grown and to be rooted as are tho neighbor- ing trees which have grown from srtp- The American Rose Society's Walter il"^8« ^o their ^I'^^^lJ^^^j'-'^'^l^; 1 since first It was placed tuere. mow the people are-alive to the spiritual â-  in North America was formerly pre- and stimulating power of an art which . sen ted to a representative of the Cana- ls not often properly estimated. dian Federal Department of Agricul- In the home to-day music Is rapidly ture at a banquet given recently to the gaining in favcr. Parents appreciate | -American Rose Society's pilgrimage at its true value in the proper mental de- j Port Stanley, Ontario. The presenta- velopinent of their children, . while i tion was made by the President of the puddles orchard and garden with me and theti j '^"'' "^e chicks running stiff-legged af- ter butterflies. I will forsake tho henhouse disappeared into his studio. After sit- ting awhile on tho front steps alone, I got up and went In search of hlin. "Chris Loph or," I said ... as he stood looking at some old canveses, "that's a nlc<> canvas, isn't It? No? Well of course you can do better now; -Christopher, do you fee! ns I do, that we had been horn into a new world which Is the e.anie old dear one, and that we are very young children with everything to learu?" Christopher nodded, leaning forward to S'Cratoh a onrner of one of his cjin- vaaee with bin linger nail. "It's a good ftwllng." I ponderofl. "It makes me glad loo. - Zephino Humphrey In "Mountain Verities." Guard Your Baby's Eyes. Surprise Is sometimes expressed at Before they change the very largo nun\bur of people who too much. the .\ud roost in the apple-tree; in the morning I will fly To tho reel of the binder and crow Give me the flowers swooning it. sunshine. The .spiders growing fat In the box stall. A hot summer, a hot summer. Says the cock. â€"Jake Falstotf Stezunner Letter. Think of mo once or oven twice with such Mild flickering Interest or half surmise I may elude that vagueness of your eyes and understand business men In all walks of life recog- nize Us influence as a social benefact- or. The power of music to guide and even to govern emotions has always been acknowledged and used for noble purixisos or for base. For this reason. If for no other, those who are interest- ed In social welfare can not be indif- ferent to the character of music which j reiiches the people in church, in the ; concert hall. In the theatres, in the ; open spaces of the great citle.s, and : through the medium of the phono- 1 graph and the radio. The piano, the reproducing piano, the violin and other j insitriinionts are being studied to-day j more than ever, the reason is plain, i People everywhere are revealing a pro- nounced desire to make music ns well as to listen to It. Good music does not necessarily arouse noble emotions, nor bad hmslc Ignoble; but some kinds of bad music appeal, and are Intended to appeal, to the lower nature of man. and at best, bad music has no meaning and has no v«lue. Music Is not only a source of noble pleasure-- It Is a form of intel- .-Vmerican Rose Society, F. L. Atkins. suffer from defective eyesight nowa- Miss mo on Monday a llttlo when you j '•^'"^ "'"^ spiritual training with (lays. I touch which we can not afford to dispense. It Is only partly true to say that this The salt-scoured rail where the spray j !*â-  '» ^^^ universal language of the na- Is caused by the greater strain of gleams and dries, j tlo". ai"l '» <« -hist as truly a form of modern Ufe. Many cases of defective Or when you watch a herring-gull that mental discipline as any suhJeiH In vision are due to the thoughtlessness of those In charge of babies. Kvrry suinnier you will ««» babies! lying on their backs In perambu'.atois, gazing up Into a razzllng, clouclU^s sky. They cannot escape fniin tho eclenre or mathematics hollow on Its way to ! I'''* '''i'"' home in one wherein exists i tho lino musical ntmtjspherti. Every child should bo taught to play some In- fllea In tho wavn'.s clutch The elfin fish nobody ever sees. 11 will be Thursday doubtless by that strument or to sing. There Is no bet- time. Iter way of making the young people glHiv, and th" way In which they blink 'I'hinli of me shrewdly, oerlnln it would j •'wPPy and rub their eyes shows how trying ti awo It must be. , .My mind as poems do to know tlut gull Later on, Is It any wonder that these S" uiwnviire that it is lieauliful. victims of carelessness reipilre the at- So unexplained by reason or by rhyme, trntlons of iiii eye H'iM!cluiiHl7 I -Grace Hazard Conkllng. «. Chinese Candy. The Chiiieso make a. candy sugar and rose petals. from of Rutherford, New Jersey. The "Agnes" rose is a beautiful -pale yoUow flower with outer petals of a delicate creamy sajmon hue. The flowers are borne singly and In great profusion. They are fragrant and bloom early but only~once in the sea- son. Becau.w of Its extreme earliuess, great hardiness, and unique and attrac- tive color this rose Is expected to be , very popular In Canada and the United | "'^"'^ States. The cross which produced tho "Ag- nes" i-os'© was made In 1900 and has been under lest at Ottawa ever since, during all of which time it has never been noticeably Injured by winter. memories It must recall and what associations are clutered around it! The shadow moves across the dial, oblivious to all. Generations come and go and the old dial becomes a thing beloved, almost the very heart of the garden and not to be part'jd with on any consideration. A sundial of hewn stone is an ex- pensive article, beyond the means of tlie average person, but there is no rea- son why one may not. for the expendi- ture ot K small amount of money and a good deal ot energy, have a sundial of which one need not be ashamed and perhaps more correct than tJie more costly one acquired by purchase, iuasr much as the dial will be engraved for tho exact locality in which it Is to Homes Need Excellent Heat and Ventilation. One of tho strangest things about us is that we do much talk'ng about how public buildliigs should be built, ven- tilated and heated., and yet with no thought whatevsr we sometimes build our home«. In whlsh we live ronatant- ly. and accept anybody's or nobody's advice as to what to install In the way ot heating plants and other equipment which may add to or detract from the bill of health. The Pessimist. He always made the worst of things. and tunu'd Each c.omedy to tragedy; And so perhaps his exit after all Was rlgbt for such as he. Crossing the bridge, his hat blew oft and lay Unharmed iu>on ;i rocky shelf; So ho mu«.t nee<l8. in cliuibing down A popular suudial Is one which is designed Cor construction of brick, and any handy man with a little care and attention to the drawing riiay build this for himself in his garden, if the house Is built even partly of brick It will be In harmony with the surround- ings, perhaps more so than one of cut stone would be.. A concrete foundation should be pro- vided for the pedestal and for the sur- rounding curb to preyent settling; tha Bpaec between the curb and the pedes- tal may be fllled \vlth soil and pVanted with owers and perhaps some light creeper to lend color oivd Interest to the whole. The bricks should be laid some on the flat, some on edge and som« on end. A few of tho bricks may have to be cut in places to suit the arrange- ment. To clean bottles, cut a raw potato into small pieces, and then put them Into the bottle with a teaspconful of salt and two tablespoon fuls of water. Shake well until eve«ry mark in re-, moved. It is a mistake to euppoao that the tip of tlie tou'gue is the most sensitive part of ths body. Those enyag^'d in poli.shing billiard balls, or other sub- starccR which ivquire a hiijh degree for It, lyose hold, and drown himself. of ^:mr•o^hne«=l, ^isethe cheek-hone as â€"Wilfrid Gibson, a means of de-tectlng any rough.iass. .