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or : Doing Good How often do we sigh for opportunâ€" llies of doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would frequently lead to the accomplishment of most tmprtâ€" ant usefuiness? Dr. Johnson used to aay, "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do any." Good is done by degrees. Howâ€" ever small in proportion the benefit which follows individual attempts to do good, a great deal may thus be acâ€" complished by perseverance, even in the midst of discouragements and disâ€" appointments.â€"Crabb. Cows and horses stand about near the barn and corrals, and under the troos a few saddled cow ponies switch and stamp before the hitching rail. A crude gate, mounted in the hub of a wagon wheel, swings inward at the touch of the traveler; and the broad road, beaten down like a path, leads directly to the front step. On aunny days the old cattleman may be found tilted back in a wide chair on the ahady porch. When you pause on the last hill above the ranch, your host will be sure to say you; and, it you listen, you may hear his shout back into the kitchen and give orâ€" n_ppoinrments.â€"(‘rabb. ' 1 shall add to my list as the cighth t o ‘deadly sin that of anxiety of mind, An Only Possession ‘and reso:ve not to be pining ‘and misâ€" A faithful friend is better than gold erable when I ought to be grateful â€"a modtcine for© mitery, an only and happy. ‘ possession.â€"Burton. t d . . Sir Thomas Baraard At first, the home consisted of a saingle log cabin, but now there are many rooms to the right, to the left and to the rear; while a railed porch straggles along the front in a vain endeavor to keep up with the growth. Rough logs have been used in all the buildings, and time and the clements have mellowed the fluted bark and the exposed surfaces until the whole atructure has turned a dull, velvety brown not unlike the color of granite bowlders after a dashing rain. A stout stockade, circular in form, built of straight boles of aspen and pine, stands near the ramshackle barn and the scattered corrals. Here the boys were wont to gentle the young colts and the bronchos. * The front yard and fenced land is brown and dry during the greater| part of the year, but a few scattered, majostic pine trees throw patches ot‘ grateful shade over weathered roofs | and sagging fences. Just at the baso of Laramic Peak, &A great conical pinnacle on the castâ€" orn slope of the Rockies, there is an Interesting cattle ranch which remains anchanged through the years. in order to reach it, one must journey over many brown, undulating footâ€" hills, It is wise to pause on the last hill and to look down upon the weatherâ€"beaten log buildings as they aprawl in the sunny hollow. i The entire village takes up loss than a city block of space. _ There is scarcely an hour in the day that seightseers may not be seen around, ts for your ontertainment "I had packers in my warehouses construct the little houses and stores in their spare time," he said, "and shipped them up the canyon. In the meantime I designed and laid out the acheme of streets and building group ings."* * There is now a complete residential section to "Tiny Town," all built to scale. Every building and all of the alrcets are electrically illuminated at night, so that travelers in Turkey Creook can see the tights twinkle for a considerable distance. Inside a tittle "cathedral," with twin spires, a loudspeaker has been installed, and on Sundays the strains of a choir way be heard to issue from it. The loudspeaker Is connected by wire with a phonograph in Mr. Turnar‘s bungalow,"a short distance away. ‘ Some time ago Mr. Turner, finding that his hobby was taking too much attention from his business, turned It over to othera after eight years‘ work or it. Cmy Em Town" is in many respects a faithâ€" ful reproduction of a mining town of the 70‘8s, with its oldâ€"fashioned hotel, grocery â€"atore, "general emporium,"* hall and railroad station. Against the mountain sides are perâ€" fect reproductions of the mine -tme-l tures of some of the famous gold mines of Leadville, Cripple Creek, Idaho Springs and Black Hawk, A bridge spans a "river" near the little railroad _ station. An ore wagon, drawn by six castâ€"iron horses, atands on a mountain road, headed for one of the mills. George E. Turner, a business man of Denver, is the designer of "Tiny Town." Originally he intended mereâ€" Iy to build a toy village, partly to amuse children and partly to adverâ€" tise bis business. Toâ€"day, "Tiny Town" is in many respects a faithâ€" nuvu o EC L This little village, built on the banks of Turkey Creek in the Rockieg 21 miles from Denver, is a midget city whose main business street i3 only a few feet long, and whose high» eat business structure is the height f a mediumsized man. @igantic . mountains peaks of 14,000â€"tee ing the distant sky Town." A Queer Hobby The Mountain its nountaing, with toworlni 14,000â€"teet _altitude guardâ€" â€"In a setting formed line, lies "Tiny Reconciliation in South Africa Bishop of Bloemfontein in the Lonâ€" don Spectator: Sevenly per cont of both British and Dutch are heartily sick and tired of animasity, kept alive by some politicians and some irreâ€" concilables in the Press, but discarded with weariness and, indeed, ridicule by the majority of South Africans. is the same feeling in favour of fostâ€" ering, as much as is economically reasonable, trade with the Empiro. The United States by its ultraâ€"high tariif policy has biven an impetus to the movement. Yet in my bones I {eel the stir Of ancient wrougs and vanished woes, And through my troubledâ€"spirit goos The shadow of an old despair. London Free Press (Cons.): Porâ€" haps never i nthe history of the Emâ€" pire was there such a general feeling in favour of development of interâ€" imperial trade as today. The sentlâ€" ment is very apparent in this country; both parties are tumbing over themâ€" selves in favour of the such a policy. The press is almost unanimous on the subject. But tho movement is not confined to Canada. In Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain there bough, & Has never sheathed a Roman prow Nor flinched beneath a Norman host. This stubborn. beach, whereon are tossed White roses from the soa‘s greon "I‘ll say he isâ€"ho‘s a street car conductor." "In days * be silent and our part mlsilig_vlnâ€"t.-he music which ever goes up to the car of the Creator. Not withou* design does God write the music of our lives, Be it ours to learn the ‘ime ,and not be dismayâ€" ed at the "rests." In our whole lifeâ€"melody the music is broken off bere and there by "rests," and wo foolishly think we have come to the end of the time. God sends a time of forced teisure, sickness, disappointed plans, _ frusâ€" trated efforts, and makes a sudden pause in the shoral hymn of our lives, and we lament that our voices musgt From a Younger Country: New Zealand "There is no music in a rest," says someone. "but there is the making of music in it."" How does the mustâ€" cian read the "rost"? He beats the time with unvarying count ,and takes up the next nots true anr steady, as it no breakingâ€"place had come in bet ween. Before humanityâ€"lined river Betsy Ann, her rival, winning a Interâ€"Imperial Trade Jim making fair money these USELESS ANXIETY The Broken Music R. D. Fairburn, in Postry. ;;g‘i;t "t';'_b"e ';;;J,;fi NO RAIN CAN QUELL CROWD ENTHUSIASM AT WIMBLEDON TENNIS cOURTs ‘ Scene at teunts finals in single matches at Wimbledon recently when ‘the crowds reared umbrella topped, Sir Thomas Baraard battlements in answor to rain gods. _ ~1 _ anmneeNe PANTS IN FIRST Ag OHIO RIVER sTEAMBOAT RIVALS RACE â€"lined river banks the Tom Greene, sternâ€"wheel river packet, slashed her way into 1 . winning a twentyâ€"mile race from Cincinnat TOM GREENE PanTs iN the music there by think . we the time. There is no royal road to a successâ€" ful life, as there is no royal road to learning. â€" It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon and night, and fixity of purpose. _ Never has there been a tithe in the history of the world when so much opportunity ofâ€" fered for the leading of a successful life as toâ€"day. If everyone would be kind to anâ€" imals they would profit in may difâ€" ferent ways by it. Dogs are very sensitive animals. One should not kick or stone a dog. It is better to be kind and gentle to them than to be rough, and they will be, in returo, kind and gentle to you. Many other animais should be treated with kindness, When an animal is balky or stubborn, it is better to be kind to it than to be cruel to it, and it will not be so determined. BY HELEN DRUMMOND Everyone should be kind to animals It pays to be kind, but it does not pay to be cruel to animals. _ The Hummane Society is doing wonderful lwork all over by stopping, in several ‘different ways, cruelty, It is very 'eur to be kind to animals. In the cold winterâ€"time, when one goes to the stable to harness a horse, the bit is too cold and frosty to put in the horse‘s mouth. Just hold the bit in your hand for a short time till it becomes warmer so that it will ft to put in the horse‘s mouth. Checks are also cruel to use on a horse. Checks take the pretty, natural curve out of the horse‘s neck and make it straight. It also hurts the horse‘s neck. Blindâ€" ers are not so cruel, but they do not give the horse a chance to see all around it.« The horse may eastly be frightened by any object or noise beâ€" hind it and may cause it to run away and do serious damage. ‘ Kindness to Animals ROADS TO suUCcess River Packets Still Ply the Waters of the Ohio Charles M. Schwab Imagine Continuing a Tennis Game in the Rain in Canada. 6â€"Don‘t be ecceatric. Nothing is as distasteful as freak fashions, you are judged by the clothes you wear. "If you are a blonde, you are blessâ€" 3â€"Black is perfect for afternoon or evening, alternating with subdued colors. 4â€"Dress to harmonize with the circle in which you are to be. 5â€"Don‘t cover yourself with dooâ€" dads. If you are small wear small bracelets, it you are,. larger you can choose larger ornaments. Lady Abdy gave the United Press her formula for good dressing. 1â€"Be yourself, don‘t imitate. 2â€"Dress to your type. If you are a blonde don‘t wear brunette cosâ€" tumes because fashion demands it. Her taste in dress stamps her an individualist. _ It would be hard to copy her clothes or hats and dress like her. So few women have ever been able to attain that perfect blonde color of hair, and even then who bas the poise and charm that this beauâ€" tiful Russianâ€"Englishâ€"French woman possesses? + It is said of Lady Abdy that she never wears a hat twice. It takes a considerable fortune to be able to Jlive up to such a reputation, for the hats that Lady Abdy chooses are not simple pieces of colored felt. _ She likes the bonnet type, moulding the head, for she has a perfect profile, knows it and is proud of it. Lady Abdy is possessed of an Engâ€" lish title by marriage and divorce, alâ€" though born Russian and trained a Parisian. She is everywhere that the smartest of elite Paris society gathers and her presence is enough to stamp any gathering a success. Parisâ€"Gentlemen dressmakers preâ€" fer design dresses for blondes. And among all the blondes, they preter Lady Abdy, for she can lay claim to the title of the "best dressed blonde in Paris." Best Dressed Blonde in Paris Outlines Formula She Follows ALS RACE FOR COVETED crown way into New Richmond (0.), just ten unvisited tombs A HIDDEN LIFE The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in Blondes are so popular and so sucâ€" cessful that Paris is fast becoming a Nordic capital _ Once Frenchwomen were proud of the black tresses of the Latin, but hairdressers are booked solid for weeks to make blonde hair grow where black ones shore before. She was a pioneer of the moveâ€" ment to bring dress lengths back to normal not for any structurai fault of her own. She contends that short dresses are comfortable, but cut the line and fall of their esthetic purâ€" pose. Lady Abdy wears much black, not because she is in mourning, but beâ€" cause she knows that black sets off blondes to their best advantage. . At home she wears gorgeous colors, but on the street in the afternoons, she wears subdued tones of brown, blue, green or gray, also a rich blueâ€"black. ed by nature with a decided advanâ€" tage," Lady Abdy said. "But if you belong to the milltons of auburn or brunnettes, you must dress to fit your eyes, your hair, your complexion. _ Study well dressed woâ€" men, study old paintings and find a personality that you fit. ‘Then dress to support it. You would not wear bright red to a funeral, and it would be just as unwise to attend the opera in a sports suit. "Yet many women do not realize that it is just as foolish to clash with their surroundings. Study where you are going, and then decide what to wear." George Eliot feet ahead of | theâ€"oven.*> s ~~>: hoes fferndiontintiiesstatitrs, Aiva ds scass d L B 1 k td "When the maid has bad an mu-:bmov. The old iron merchant lookâ€" ment with the cook she takes steps ed round at the car, and thon addressâ€" to settle it while there‘s a cake in ed the owner: "Orl right, govnor, I‘N Q Cape Argus (Capetown): Queensâ€" land of late years has been dominated 'by an oligarchy of workers, mostly unskilled, while the luckless primary producer fills the role of the coolie, Widespread discontent prevails and confidence is so gravely impaired that capital is rarely obtainable for new projects. _ Such a state of affairs is truly remarkable, for Queensland ought to be immensely prosperous. It is the largest of the States of the Commonwealth except Western Ausâ€" tralia. Leaving out Russia, it is greater than any country in Europe. So rich is its soil and so varied are its serources, that it could be made capable of supporting in reasonable plenty a population of many millions. Actually the population of this counâ€" try is less than that of Melbourne, the second largest city of Australia. The gem of the island continent has been brought to this sad pass by the rashâ€" ness of its Labor rulers, who snapped their fingers at the economists when they worned them of what was bound to happen. ‘ (c) Poisoningâ€"a cheap and effecâ€" tive poison may be made in the home by adding to a pint mixture of milk and water three (3) teaspoonfuls of formaldchyde. This may be poured on pieces of bread placed in shallow saucers. _ Place safely out of reach of young children. Kitchen garbage should be tightly wrapped in paper or kept in flyâ€"proof cans. The blow fly (blue bottld and green blow fiy) breed also in garbage, deâ€" caying vegetable matter and pig manure. Sprinkle crude coal tar disâ€" tillate (four per cent. solution) over the infested areas. (b) Crude Coal Tar Distillateâ€" proves a most effective method in the control of the house fly breeding in stoble manure, garbage piles, etc. A sutisfactory strength is a three or four per cent. solution; this is sprinkled on the edges of the piles wherever the larvae appear. The action is rapid and the results very marked. Crude coal tar distiHate may be secured from your druggist. Supplementary Methods (a) Trapâ€"the soneâ€"shaped type is best; it is so built that the fily after teing attracted by bait placed under ncath passes through a small openâ€" ing in the top of the cone into the trap proper, (b) Screensâ€"wire of twenty meshes to the inch is necessary to keep out house flies. part. A few necessary precautions taken in time is all that is necessary to prevent the annoyance and danâ€" gers to health which can be safely attribtuted to this pest. Types of Fly The fliles which bother us around the house and at summer resorts are of two main typesâ€"the house fiy and the blow fiy; the latter are> larger than the house fiy and have bright, metallic bodies and make considerâ€" able noise when fiying. The stable fy is generally found around cattle and horses; in appearance it resemâ€" bles the house fly, but has oe disâ€" tinguishing featureâ€"it bites and sucks blood and is especially active before storms. Control of the Fly Pest 1 When we study the life cycle and habits of flies, we know beyond all‘ doubt that to be effective, the work , we do to destroy them must beaimâ€" ed at the distribution point, viz., the breeding grounds. There are sevâ€" eral methods of attack: Use of Larvicides (a) Chloride of Lime applied in layâ€" ers of about % inch thick on the fresh exposed contents of outdoor privics every four or five days is an effective, cheap agent for destroying the larvae of the blow fiy which beeds chiefly in outdoor privies. The Fly is a Menace / 110 ARCHIVES TORonto ures which it brings, is often marred by that pest of bealth and comfortâ€" the fiy. ‘The presence of flles around any dwelling means that there has Summer, â€" with the carelessness on somebody‘s ‘call for that to morrer!t* An itinerant collector of old from was trundling his barrow along a very, narrow road.> Behind him was a somewhat elderly motor, the impatient driver of which was hooting and tootâ€" ing in his anxiety to pass the old4ron Toronto Telegram (Ind. Cons.): Of the imports from the Antipodes, it will bo said that we should shut our eyes and take what the Australian treaty sends us. But no true defiâ€" nition of InterDominion trade requirâ€" es a Dominion to import from ‘other parts of the Empire, what it cam economically produce itself. If it did, there might be sound financial foumâ€" dation for the scheme whereby the members of a community could exist by taking in each other‘s washing. It may be, of course, that Canada is too busy handling raw materials for Uncle Sam‘s factories to pay attention to dairying. But it would seem that there should be a place in an agriculâ€" tural country for the odd cow or two to supply our own noeds. Quebec Evenement (Cons.): _ The 'nenpunu of Ontario and the West are demanding a special session at [oxun to formulate a national policy on the question of the tarif(......Amn ’extuordlnry session would cost the [country a great deal of money, but we should take no thought of expense when so vital a question is to be conâ€" sidered. Cost what it may, Parliaâ€" ment must find a way to prevent the crisig which will burst on the day the Americans close their markets to Canadian products, and Canada must present to the world a commercial program, prepared with care by l parties interested. All these argu» ments are stated by many newspapers in the West. The attitude of our Englishâ€"Canadian colleagues gives us the liveliest satisfaction. _ It proves that the return to the national policy, which made Canada the great country of the future, is making great proâ€" gress.......JIt is the first time that hey have demandod energetic action aâ€" gainst the tariff hostilities of the Unâ€" ited States. |_Le Monde Onvrier (Ind.): We are ‘Atuchlu our lives to a thread in handing them over to the mercy .of people whose moral sense and inâ€" telligence are not equal to the very responsible duties entrusted to them. Porters, night janitors or policemen should not be able to take the place of magistrates and take the law into their own hands........This time it is the night porter at the Convent of Saint Domitilde who, burning with waâ€" timely zeal, instantly killed n man surprised in the early hours of the |nornlu in the kitchen, in the act of lifting the covers off the pots to find fragments left of supper, some stew or hash or prunes or something. It was less serious than if he had been in the act of blowing up the safe or stealing the sacred vessels. This biscuitâ€"burglar and tartthief was not, as it happened, a bad actor by disâ€" position. Employed formerly at the selfsame institution, he knew his way about the house. If he had been a professional, he would have employâ€" ed his talents more profitably, Proâ€" bably without a job, baving a family and penniless, be must have said to himself that he could get a bite there without costing the sisters much, and, being poor himself, he had the right to a bit of their charity. Why Not a Special Session? "Again, 70 per cent. of the students at the University of Caloutta showed signs of some phys‘cal defect or othâ€" or. _ Again, bere, the evil effects of certain social customs is noted, and the only means of abolishing them is by health propaganda and also by encouraging the development of civie responsibility." + "Though disease is being controlâ€" led, there are still the social customs and religious hbabits to contend with, The question of child marriage is a social problem which only Indians themselves can tackle. _ Great proâ€" gress has been made both in India and this country with regard to food values and vitamins The schoot examination of children which is carâ€" ried out in certain areas of the Bom« bay Presidency showed that a high porcentage of the childrenattending school were suffering from food deâ€" ficiency diseases, 66 per cent., not from lack of food, but the wrong food. with European standards. _ Comparâ€" ed with ten years ago in such cities as Bombay, Calcutta, and . Madras, from an average of betweer 600 and 700 per thousand i; has boen broustt down to 500 per thousand. "Statistlcs are extremely unreliable, and can only be approximate in a country where the registration of births and deaths is not carried out methodically, BStill, these show a deâ€" finite improvement. The infaatile mortality and the general deathâ€"rate are still far too high when compared ing, economics, and the question of finance, that it is extreme!l* diffcult to define its boundaries," said Sir T. Carey Evans, FRC8S., at a mooting of the East India Association, reported in the "Asiatic Review." â€" "KHealth progress is such,an involâ€" ~>4 question in India _ Hygiene is The Australian Treaty on education, engineerâ€" L