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â- 9' VOICE CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARCiE >f the PRESS Freight Train Leaves the Rail CANADA 60 Years of Doctoring Few members of the medical pro- fession, or for that matter any other profession in Canada or even v" the entire North American continent, can lay claim to the truly remarkable re- cord just celebrated by Ur. L. N. Bour(iUf, i)f Moucton, of 00 years' continuous and active practice in jnfdicine and surgery. It has been a career of few equals, and throughout the six decades he has rendered sig- nal service to the community. â€" From the Moncton Times. How to identify the Pines The leaves, or needles, of all pine trees grow in clusters and may be readily identified by their length and number. The Jack pine has two leaves to a cluster (uocasionc>lly three, about one and a quarter inches long; the White pine five leaves, about four inches long; the Red pine two leaves, five or six inches long; the Pitch pine three leaves, about three and a half inches long; and the Scotch pine two to a cluster, about two inches long The cones take two yercs to mature. â€" Canadian Forest and Outdoors. Clearing It Up The Examiner is glad that a satis- factory explanation l/»s been made in connection with the complaint of a Fredonia, N.Y., man, that he had been sold an island in a lake in Peterbor- ough county by an official of the On- tario (lovernment and that ho found when he arrived on the scene that there was no satisfactory access to the property on which he intended to build a summer residence. It turns out that the island wau not bought from t' o Government, but from a pri- vate individual who had picked it up at a tax sale and had placed it on the market with a list of other pro- perties advertise*! in the United States. â€" Pclerbough Examiner. "The Long Wharf" Hundreds of mile.--, nearer to Europe than any other port on the .American Continent, Sydney offers the only logical location in the Dominion for the landing base and terminal airport of any North Atlantic airways service that is established on sound commer- cial principles. Capo Broton I.^land Is the head of "the lon,< wharf of America." â€" Sydney Post-Record. ready going on is almost inaudible. It is the clash of tariff weapon against tariff weapon, of the everlasting struggle for economic and commercial supremacy. It is, in fact, a phase of war which never stops; armed inter- vention is only a later .stage and when that has run its course there is a pause in which the victors divide the economic spoils and while the trade war is gaining new momentum. There is less blood spilt in :.he economic phase, of course, than in the armed, but in some respects it is not less cruel and not less bitter. Blowing Our Ovm Trumpet Kor a long time Canadians were too prone to take the tourist trade for granted, somewbaWn the manner of manna that dropped from the heav- ens. Slowly but surely the general public Is being educated to the fact that the tourist industry holds first place in Canada, instead of passive- ly allowing business to come to ur doors wo are now beginning to take an aggressive attitude, advertising our wares and doing every thing pos- sible to make the vistiors' sojourn In this country a happy one. For years the Dominion and the United States have been flooded with literature ex- tolling the virtues of a European trip. Now the pendulum has swung the other way and Europeans are being bombarded with publicity suggesting a North American holiday. The flr.st of a series of motor caravans from England Is now in the United States and will soon pass through Kingston en route to Ottawa. â€" Kingston Whig- Standard. Better Investment â€"A few dollars spent annually on keeping well is a far better invest- ment than big doctor'.s and hospital bill. â€" Farmer's Advocate. In Days When It Rained â€"Life insurance companies re- port there is little danger of being killed by lightning. Apparently so. Older residents report that lightning Is something they used to get quite often when they had rain storms.â€" Oshawa Times. An Editor's Dinner Editor of the Hiandon Sun boasts how well he did with his vegetable garden this year. He had it for din- ner one Sunday. â€" St. Catharines Standard. Another sign of returning prosper- ity is the number of new and used cars which have been purchased this year. The peak of the sales is May, and, according to a graph prepared by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, the peak has been raise<l each year since 1933. For 193G the total num- ber of new and used motor vehicles financed during May was 41.5 per cent, more than in the same month last year. â€" Hamilton Spectator. Canada in Paris There is early announcement that Canada will place an cxTiibit in the great Paris Exposition to be held from May to November next year. The design and extent of the Cana- dian display will bo decided by the Exhibition Committee of the Do- minion's Department of Trade and Commerce. The Canadian exhibit, it is said, will seek to indicate the development of vUlturnl and technical phases of life in the young Dominion." And the Canadian exhibit, a rep- resentative of this newspaper was in- formed on a recent visit to Paris, will have a place of honor directly under the Eiffel Tower on the banks of the Seine. â€" Ilfilifax Herald. Saved by the Paint A farm building put up in the or- dinary way, with siding and unpainted â- \. ill last about 20 years, but the same building, painted about every five years, v/ill last about GO year.s. In the case of the unpainted building, if the siding is replaced at the end of 20 years, the cost would bo about the same as It would have been to paint it about every five years. This is not the whole story, how- ever, as the unpainted building at the «nd of 20 years will have only about 15 per cent, of of its original value. This makes no allowance for the great advantage of good appearance. â€"P.R.I. Agriculturist. The War Behind the Wars Beneath the loud rumble of war ru- mours and the cries of fear of armed conflict ths clash of arms that is al- EMPIRE "What is being read?" The answer to that (juestion, obtained by the Observer from 16 publish- ers, shows a remarkable change in public taste. Of the hundred most widely read books of the moment,, only one- third are novels. Fiction is down; facts are up. Facts are the rage â€" nicely dre.s.sed, pleasantly narrated, enter- taining facts. Readers demand them; publishers are tumbling over each other to supply them. The facts for which the book- buying public are at present eager are alarmingly varied, nor are they all necessarily "hard facts." They may be facts historical, biographi- cal, scientific, archaeological, criti- cal, or simply travellers' facts. But they may also be facts philosophi- cal, religious (the fact of a writer's faith) or facts political and eco- nomic (the facts of opinion and theory), or sensitive, perceptive facts, the acts of the poet. The decline in novel-buying, re- ported by book.sellers as well as by publishers, has narrowed the fiction field. Two types of novel sell. First, the highly sophisti cat^d novel by the author of estab li.shed reputation ; second, the novel of action, the thriller, the detective story. â€" London Observer. Smiles Three of the twentytwo which left the rails near Towner injured. cars of an east-Oo und New York, New Haven and Hartford freight train s, N.Y., p:ctured ji mmed together along right of way. No one was In harvesting, the corn was picked and placed In hand baskets and emp- tied into larger baskets. The ears were thoroughly dried upon mats, cara being taken to protect them from the dew by covering them at night. When sufficiently dried, the corn was plac- ed in the bouse In plies and shelled by twisting between the hands. The shelled corn was then placed In the houses, sometimes occupying all the space available. At certain seasons the Indians lived on flsh, squirrels and turkeys, where turkeys abounded, and on the flesh of many animala if It could be obtained, but in season they depended largely upon their gardens and such wild plants as acorns and berries. Ijater In the year both flesh and vegetable pro- ducts were dried and thus preserved for the winter when danger of fa- mine was often in the offing. How- ever, at certain sea.soos food waa abundant, for it is on record that Cap- tain ArgoU obtained by barter from the Chi^f Potawomack nearly 400 bushels of corn and beans. Captain Smith procured from Powhatan two or three hundred bushels of corn for a pound or two of blue glass beads. Trade Agreement Has Aided States Wallace Says Benefit Felt .Where Fears Existed BoonvlUe. N. Y., Secretary Wal- lace said recently "The Govern ment believes that the Federal courts will ultimately 8|^ow au in- creasing willingness to face" United States problems. Speaking at the Oneida country fair, the Agriculture chief said that farmers had been loft facing chao- tic market conditions <lue to adverse court decisions. However, he said, Government activities have aided the dairy industry by raising prices, and have assured an improved feed market in spite of the severe drought. The Canadian trade agreement, Wallace said, had proven of advan- lase to the New York State dairy farmers in spite of fears it would let in a flood of competing products. "You may remember," he said, "the great amount of fear that was promoted when we made the trade agreement with Canada. For ex- ample. It was argued by the fear dis- persers that New York would suffer tremendously because the agree- ment provided for a i eduction in the duties on eheddar cheese and on mi annual quota of 1,500,000 gallons of cream. "But the records shows these fears to have been completely un- founded. No hardshir whatever has been worked on the milk producers in New York or any other state, but on the contrary their sitiiation has been steadily improving since Increase Noted In 1936 Loadings April Loadings Higher By Al- most 450,000 Tons â€" Statistics Bureau To smile is human. In their vari ous ways, our animal friends do manage somehow to exprea.i emo- tion, but only man can smile, ob- serves The Chicago News. The amile of impi.sli wit, the arch smile of the coi(uette, the timid smile of the bride, the glad smile of meeting after absence, iho friendly smile of greeting to the stranger â€" all these are humanly familiar. Youth has its sparkling smiles of health and gaiety, its smile of pity for the infirmities of age, while age ^miles no less pity- ingly upon the innocence of youth. The father takes smiling pride in the prowess of his children. The baby's smile is one of sheer delight, surprised and interested. And the madonna smile, the tender smile of the mother, is sacred the world over. Hut there are other smiles less pleasing. Malice twinkles with a cruel glitter. Evil leers. There is a smile that is supercilious, and one that is shamefaced. Trickery smiles with sly evasiveness. Even arrant self-conceit lifts its chin and cocks its head and crinkles its eyes and shows its teeth, but the smile is cold. , OTTAWA. â€" A '.onslderablo In crease was shown in revenue freight loaded at Canadian stations and re- ceived from foreign connections for forwarding by Canadian railways dur- ing April at 5,650,198 tons, against 5,207,455 tons in April, 1935, the Do- minion Hureau of Statistics reported recently. Forest Products Down Forest products detreased trom 638,470 tons to 623,S37 tons but other other commodity groups showed in- creases. Agricultural products Increas- ed 136,441 tons or 12.3 per cent., ani- mal products 23,055 tons or 12.6 per cent., mine products 107,804 tons, or seven per cent., and manufacturers and missellaneous 190,076 tons, or 11 per cent., producing a net Incroaso in total freight of 442,743 tons, 8.5 per cent. Wheat al'.ipinonts wero heavier by 115,646 tons, corn, barley and rye also increased but oats docroaaed 15,629 tons and hay and straw 32,099 tons, duo largely to heavy shipments of re- lief fodder last year. Hard Coal Lighter Anthracite loal waa lighter by 60,- 827 tons, or 32 per cent, but bitumin- ous increased 55,067 tons and sand and gravel 31,271 tons. Logs, posts, poles and piling de- creased 30,847 tons or 32 per cent, and pulpwood was lighter by 3,966 tons. I I,umber shipments were heavier by I 14,015 tons, iron and steel by 25.281 I tons, automobiles by 18,905 tons and , fertilizers by 34,580 tons. Pithy Anecdotes Of the Famous The impudence of literary buc- caneers ere the International Copy- right law arrived is amusingly illus- trated by a story about Words- worth told by H. M. Paull (in his fascinating book "Literary Ethics"). Wordsworth once received a letter from M. Baudry a French publish- er, asking for a sketch of his life to be prefixed to an edition of his works â€" pirated, of course â€" which Baudry was about to publish. The poet was naturally indignant at this barefaced notice of thievery. But he was also amused at the form Baudry's proposal took. "You need not trouble too much about detailed accuracy," wrote the French publisher. "Piquancy is our main object." n Fortunes were made out of the dramas adapted from Mrs. Henry Wood's "East Lynne,"' says Mr. Paull. Of this popular novel there wero no less than seventeen ver- sions from 1874 to 1908, several running at the same time. Mrs. Wood, of course, never received a penny. And to add to the irony of the situation, one adapter actually sued another for infringement of his copyright in the alterations he had made. Even sermons by famous preach- ers were not immune from the pirate who took them down in shorthand, put them into type, and sold them to other clergymen. Spur- geon, the celebrated preacher tells of a certain pars-jn who delivered a discourse in which occurred this passage : "On account of your sins, and your neglect of the House of God, your wantonness and your gluttony, the anger of the most High is pro- voked, and therefore is this great plague come upon you, and death is raging in every street." When the sermon was finished the officials of the township came to know where this plague was and what deaths had happened. "Oh!" said the parson, "I do not know where it is, but it was In my sermon, and so I was obliged to read it to you." Once when William Jennings Bryan was making an important speech, his attention was drawn to a man in the audience who appar- ently was held spellbound by the (low of oratory. Finally, Bryan found himself addressing this one man oblivious to the rest of the audience -- relates Mrs. Daniel Chester French (In "Memories of a Seulptor"8 Wife"). Later in the evening the man, watching his chance, seized Bryan's hand. "I've watched you every minute," he said lu'eathle.ssly. "I've never taken my eyes off your face." Mr. Bryan felt a thrill go through him. Hero was something really worth while. "Yes," continued the man, "I'm a dentist and I've never before in my whole professional life seen a speak- er who, when he laughed, showed both rows of teeth all the way round." "Let us pray that we shall never have to live in a totally predictable world." â€" Will Durant "The Golden Rule is founded upon the same Law of Action and Reaction as underlies the study of physios, chemistry, mechanics and other sciences." â€" Roger W. Babson. First Gardenres In North America Indians Taught Settlers Their Native Agriculnire In any consideration of early gar- dens on the North American contin- ent, the contribution, small though it be, of the North American Indians to horticulture should not be forgotten. As one writer has said, It was the Indian who taught the white colonists their native agriculture, "to cull out the finest seeds, to observe the fit- test season, to keep distance for holes and fit measures for hills, to worme it, and weed it; to prune it and dress It as occasion shall require." To the Indians, therefore, some hon- our is due, for not only were they the first gardeners In North America, but they did their work without mod- ern tools both in the clearing of land and in the making of the garden. In that branch of the Algonquin family commonly known as Virginia Indians, every family, at the time when the while people founded James- town, had its garden, generally 100 x 200 feet, carefully cultivated. Their market was in their own homes, and hence needed no Marketing Act In the disposal of produce. In clearing new land, the trees were girdled near the ground by bruising the bark. When siitliciently dried, the trees were fell- ed by the aid of fire and stone axes, and the stumps burned. In preparing a field, the ground was worked over with wooden Instruments, made some- what like mattocks or hoes with long handles. The weeds and corn-stubble wero dug up and allowed to dry, then made into heaps and burned. The women's planting implement, which they used sitting, was about a foot long and five Inches broad. Be- ginning at the corner of the field, the women made a series of holes, about three feet apart, into which they plac- ed four grains of corn and beans, and covered them with earth. Occasional- ly, a vegetable of one variety occupied a bed by Itself, but usually various species were grown together In the one field. The gardens were carefully weeded by the women and children. When the corn was about halt grown. it was hilled. LitUe houses or shelters raised upon platforms in the fields, were occupied by watchers, whose du- ty it was to keep the birds from in- juring tho crop. The crops raised were corn, beans, pumpkins, squashes, tobacco and sun- flower. Of the four varieties of corn, one of the early kinds was only three or four feet high and kore an ear not more than 6 inches long, but an at- tempt was made to grow two crops of this corn in tho one season. The two varieties of late corn would be known today as VMut corn in the one case, having tho plump grains, while the other was the Dent corn, well known to all farmer folk as the corn with the dent or depression in the outer end of tho kernel. Much of the corn ears were ot various colours, as the so called Squaw corn is today, white, yellow, red. -while others were blue of various shades, but usually mixed in tho most fantastic colour pattern. The beans of the Indians were usu- ally ot several colours and sizes. The "I'ease" mentioned by the early writ- ers wore in all probability small beims. The pumpkin was grown through tho country as far North as tho St. Lawrence. The melon too was grown by the Indians and mentioned by the early French writers. These melons were probably the progenitors of the Montreal muskmelon. The Sun- flower was cultivated toi its seeds, which were used to make bulb bread and broth, while the tobacco called by the natives "Apooke", is described as being poor and weak as compared to the tobaccos known to the white men. The plant was dried over a Ore, or sometimes in the sun, and crumbled to a powder, stalk, leaves and all. Must Print Grade On Butter Boxes The Department of Agriculture announced recently all packages of creamery butter sold to consumers in Ontario must be marked with grade numbers starting next Sep- tember 1, bringing to five the num- ber of provinces in which the ' practice is in force. 'â- . Grade-marking of creamery but- ter, effective for more than a year in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Al- berta and British Columbia, is pro- vided for in regulations 27 and 28 of the Dairy Industry Act of Can- ada. Ontario implemented it at the last legislative session, and the law was proclaimed in the last issue of the Canada Gazette, fixing the eflfective date as .\ugust 15. The Department of Agriculture, however, decided to postpone ef- fectiveness of the law a fortnight to give merchants a chance to clear , .stocks of unmarked butter and to I become familiar with workings of the law. The gi'ade marks must be printed on the package in letters at least one-quarter-inch high. The grades are first, second, third and no grade. It is expected the four province* in which creamery package buttei is not sold by grade will pass later the necessary legislation to mak« the regulations effecti<e. About 25 per cent, of the cream- ery butter made in Canada last year, a total of 238,854,600 pc ids; was produced in Ontario. A Neat Model riieie i-in t anything smaitei or 11101 e piactical for gi owing giils than a dress cut along princess lines. Here's a darling model with the new square neck. Buttons down the front enable daughter to put it on and fasten it quite unaid- ed. It helps her to be quite inde- pendent individual every mother wishes her daughter to be. You'll be amazed at how quick- ly you can run it up on the sew- ing machine, to say nothing of the saving in cost. Style No. 2508 is designed for .sizes 4, 6, 8 and 10 years. Size 8 requires 1% yards of 39-inch ma- terial with U yard of 85-inch contrasting. HOW rO ORDER PATTERNS Write 7our oama bimI addra** plainly, giving numbar and lisa of pattern wanted. Enclose 15c ia itampt or coin (coin preferred) i wrap it carefully, and addrasa your order to Wilion Patters Service. 73 Watt AdaUia* StrMt, .-'X i •*