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NOTES AND COMMENTS “One of the pleasures that are de-|_ nied to the city and town boy has been indulged in again by farm-lads who happen to live in certain parts. of this country. Anyone who has ever been a boy in the ope j Where maple sugar is made will at once agree that the best thing eeice it is not the eating of it. To be in the “sugar bush’? when the spring is beginning and nature is’ unfolding _ her most delightful wonders is an experience that is never likely to be forgotten by the boy who is fortunate enough to be permitted to assist in gathering the sap and boiling it down, first to syrup and then to sugar. There is at such a time and in such a place @ crispness in the atmosphere that is exhilarating. The early birds are too busy making the woodland ring | °™ with song to-waste any time look- ing for worms; the sprouts of the young’ maples take ‘on a crimson glow that constitutes an attractive squirrels bark defiantly from lofty branches that have not yet begun to bud. To go into the bush on a morning when the sap has been frozen in the pails and to find it beginning to melt under the rays of the ap- proaching sun is a treat that it is a pity any boy should have to miss. The frozen sap takes*on the con- sistency of cherry juice and is of a peculiar sweetness and flavor that cannot be imitated or obtained in any way save throngh that which nature has provided. A healthy boy who failed to drink less than a gallon of such sweetness during a round of sap gathering would have to be a marvel as an exhibitor of self-denial, People who make maple sugar for the market have been compelled, like the dairymen, to adopt scienti- fic methods, Tle’ sap is first gath- ered in pails which are covered so ‘that no leaves or dirt can get into them. The boiling or evaporating is done in houses which are equipped with sanitary appliances, and result is that when the sugar is ready for sale it is often so white and clean that people who remem- ber the brown stuff they used to get when they were boys and girls] +, refuse to believe that it can be pure. the S If any effort were made to de- velop sugar maple groves they'|f could doubtless be made profitable in-many parts of Canada. It seems @ pity that an industry which might become immense is permitted to lag along in a haphazard way: ee ELECTRICITY FOR DINNER, Produces Aiea Heat, and Saves in Organs. will aaah be the food of the |, future? Already it has been proved Ghnbet can actos A cmulenienie: tr f certain extent. Prof. Bergonia, French scientist, estab- rs time scientists have been looking for a cure which will away with somé of the multiple ailieente of the human'body, and have been universally of th food cor os oe body. and he aj to be produced from food materiale which need to be consumed an: ned in the aa tem, and thus give rise overwork of the organs, the ertite produces the the body iit ih least feeling: The current is of tw: or three amperes strength, and ae tage of 1,000 to 2,500 volts an hour, ricity value which should be ariel by ‘one person. cold, feet witb oat: “aid. His height was 5 feet 10 inches, and he weighed 110 pdtinds. After. -|line train was alwa; at) gage-c ARAB SOUGHT VENGEANCE FOR DEATH OF A SON. Railroad in Egypt Regarded by Na- tives as Creation of Evil Spirits. Alzakin, the former traffic inspec- his chair several Jong, meditative pulls on his nargileh, * “When the Egyptian railroad was first. put through,” he “the ative reeardedt ies Seer evil spirits. They not only disap- prepeteot 107 par thay. aiackedrite employees. “Tt was not unusual for a band of natives to gallop up on their swift Arabian horses, coming apparently from out of the sands of the desert, gside wheeling and going off at a gallop the moment the shots had been fired holy men used to make incantations and cast. spells. upon us just as ey thing, and the ig- thought ait they were fulfilling the will of Allah if they maimed an employee or threw been built by France when it held its protector- ate over was a narrow- gauge line, and it was not a parti- cularly difficult task to make trou- ble for the men who were trying to ne dled out from the cover of the palms which lined the tracks just as a train | came along. There wasn’t a chance for him a ere wasn’t time for before we On Top ie the Little Chap. His father, it‘chanced, was working in’ Ee palm grove and saw it all. couple of days as the fs, fei allan ab fue Ofioe e gen eral manager with a Goa ot hie clansmen, all armed with their obs rifles with inlaid stocks and chased barrels. It was the policy then to attempt to conciliate the natives, and the general Soong promptly made n offer to Je. “Money Sabena however; were not what the Arabs wanted. hey: spurned the offer with contempt an: demanded that the ene eek be giv- they could take his life in pres. a that of the boy. That was a compensation that the general manager could not con- cede; in fact, he had already trans- erred the engineer to another part of ths line, ore the Datipen might try wreak v¢ ithe Helenaeaa’ ‘nally left sates threatening gestures and warning Arabs never forget.’ Beattie Leta one the main line. e junction there was a triangle of tracks, the main line and the Kafr Hamza sec- A cross tra formed-the base of the triangle. “The train from Kafr Hamza, to which my car was attached, was due at the junction three minutes ahead of a train'on the main line, and both right of way, very much behind time the mai s held for us. There Was No Telegraph, were five minutes behind fate This there is e until the sun gets high do they eu | to swirl about in ihe air and finally ascend to the hea- vens like so many. white- alia spir- 4 [it its. “When our engineer received the signal to proceed he went on cauti- ously, as was the custom, until we assed. he switch into the main line. I sient in the-open door of the bag- ir; having come forw: my own eee which a attached to the rear of the t1 “The engine, two “freight cars and the mail car had passed the cross- over track and the baggage car was just ene over it when I'saw com- and then given the other train me same signal, but instead of sendin the swit that sent it on the cross- ove it was coming at u: he: E “For a moment I stood at the open door of that car watching cer- s a _seriesof treat- tain death heading toward me. I t afraid; in fact, I did not think at all that I remember. Th feeling that in an abate more that and ‘hi engine wou #3 in all of his oa seemed to fascinate m ij «‘Then the guard who st ee side ae oat Has baek of <a néck ai ling, “Jump !?. fair- Wonlt: Stand For That. ly pulled ‘me through the door oi Mrs. Fitzzwell oo snelined) the other side of the train at the ar, I -have same moment that he jumped him- ~ tusbadd a BP elf. _t) Her dau ter—Very well; ‘but Ij) “The next thing I'knew I heard ~~ $ell you cnphatialy Re when it] a crash ant mes to buying the wedding aes A Crackling of Timbers, col T'll select the material myse! ‘wo! s_ description of tar na nee tate ty saything like the one she got. the car careened and, as I glanced up at it from where I lay on the ground, I could ee i slowly top- pling over on an was considerably “aurprined a DEMANDED UFE FOR LIFE “ from their long-barreled guns. Their | the the engineer even to shut off steam| rm train which was nearing Beltan, on |. any |}ed him from! Can: minute later to see it settle and slide a ectly over us as ay and save for the Reel ae one shee which was caught by the edge of the doorway, I was absolutely untouch- “When we climbed out and had attended to the injured ae the passengers I began to think about that. signalman. es was nowhere to und. we = clu that, appalled at the result of his stupidity, he had run away. Later, though, we found hi He was trussed up with ropes, like a turkey ready for roasting, an lying on his face in a tangle of fig junctio: “Tt was some time before the poor follow deni Wolke. Then he told ts that shortly after he came on duty that morning a band of Arabs ap- peared out of the fog, fell upon him, and| binding him so. that he could not get loose, carried him to where he lay. d went back at once"to ad he bee ree oe vengeance upon ilro: was he who had nee She seni to proceed and who had switched the main- ne train on the crossover track so as to wreck the other. “He had succeeded, for the cot- ton-fields which surronded the junc- ion point were stained red where the injured had been ale and the smoke which curled up m the ae foaled that ce many f the Eee Del- ing. ay ngineer thought the ian {gular signalman, fo tive costume, heads white linen and the figure entirely ied an passing of the trains at er point for days in order to know just how he could effect the most come in the shortest — possible tim — FF} MR. CLEMEN’S APPOINTMENT. Mr. Lewis W. Clemens, president of the Canadian Travel Club, has had the honor to be epee = member ‘of the West India Comi tee, Bordon, ee Mr. Clemens 's been. identifie stalactite caves at Oxford, near Ba- laclava, where the Spanish are sup- po have buried their treasure so long ago as 1655. The Jamaica Government select- Mr. Lewis W. Clemens, to represent their tourist in- terests at the Toronto Exhibition last year, for be it known that visi- tors are to the West Indies what new citizens are to Canad: Governments. of the esi are all vitally interested in supply=| g, ing information to’ intending v rs, and he ‘is at present occupi ied comprehensive ee tion in Perry, Otay Se studied art in ‘oronto; k, London and Paris, but ane oe “turned his at- ing out of the must the engine of] tention chiefly to travel, and. writ: the Sse ing. In addition to being president Mie wat celdont wateihe: signal-|of the Canadian Travel Club, cane given us notice to prozeed| was elected time ago Fellow of the Royal Colonial pee For_several. years Mr: 3 hae been making a faes Seah, of conditions, etc., in Jamaica, and is there at the Bee time. yines @ ater of a mile from the jee ta oe a had penta that mora- a @ Jemens was born in Port “CHRD JERUSRLEM ~ DAMASCUS (By Dr. Marshall P. Talling, B.A., Toronto.) Cairo, the ancient « cana of the Pharaohs, where Jose is the largest city in Sesiisiens the’-city of Dayid, re | Solomon and Jesus, 3,000 feet above r it fabrics and unrivalled swords, associated witl Paul’s conversion and the |”, burial tase of Saladin, has a popu- lation of 300,000 and is the greatest] f city of Syri Until recently, all were ruled by the Turk. Two of them are still under Turkish dom ands located ‘at the hewd of a font shaped delta. Just as London Tow. er was built on the first high ground he Thames and determined the s about a magnificent elevation, with its citadel command- ing the entire.region, while on the west of the Nile. at the very edge of the desert, rises another hill af- |fording an excellent site for those ‘h contributed fertility to the soil constituted the cheap and i of tra extensive lain, shiote. terhliey has lasting as the river that foals it and the industry of the populac ie acuity: “eilectlned are characteristic of the Caironeese. The people have to work. Irriga- tion is a successful, but toilsome, method of agriculture. But it keeps men from the dry rot of idleness and its vices, and develops com- ecdanle wae Cairo is a delightful place to visit It has all the attractions of ai quity, oriental color, and a poly glot population, Then it is up to |date and prosperous. most picturesque Oriental antiquity to be seen in the globe. The peo- ple are neither quarrelsome nor morose, but sunny, jovial an dirty,*of course—but intensely in- teresting and attractive. me can get the news at Cairo much as ndon or To- ronto. Papers are sold in the streets in various tongues, and Arab youths with bare feet and Occidental en- the waters are conducted to all parts of the city and bubble up at hundreds of fountains—not beauti- ful, indeed, but useful. A little bE low the city flows tlie Pharper, and these two streams, like the Nile, are employed to irrigate a territory as beautiful ab growth and used building. But Damascus is much more than an agricultural centre, it is an im- extensively in factures is almost endless. Bleyeas were numbered by the hun- manufac! for sale. Furniture, carpets, aes jewelry, harness, shoes, per ve’ : and trinkets of endless design give mployment te the natives and ee place. asblasteh is the streets are narrow and filthy, a: all Oriental cities, and city more snag any that. I have seen is infested by iy Homeless unhappy and ¢ logs, o make the Alfonso An Sarre Ss Spanish: ‘Majesty keeps from 40 to 50 suits in use, and a number promptly put out of the royal | tobe, for King Alfonso, perhaps on account of his youth, ae more pune-|¢! eros about being -to-date oe other cohen Marshens monareh, “Malicious. Gladys—I refused Fred two weeks ago, and he has been drinking heay- ily ever since. Ethel—Isn’t jt about - time he Bees celebrating day unpleasant and ‘the night hide- ous.” Nevertheless, Damascus is a city of commendable snicrraee “Its people are occupic ish misrule, nottlatanding it, enjoys a prosperi y that is manifest and enjoyable. Damascus has been alive a long ‘ime, and Ha promise of a long and useful caree: seranalen “owes: ppotleng: to the} river or the sea. Its site was not chosen for. pommercial ori ee wee Tt we an selec = reasons. tegic position. | Pee lem was ori- fnally a fort, and like Stirling or inburgh, ‘owes its location to its glory as the centre of ts Brent Saba revelation and fro) “| “foreign news’ rusalem to set u Sid © Hebrews and } aie daily regard it touts feeling pecs the loins of His great ancestor vee came—the incarnation of the Father pad the world’s great, sacri- erusalem, once ified d-and the centre of Israe- Not agraculture, for plains of Palestine. are biter os other centres. But if Jerusalem be} 5, not sustained pearl manufactury for the country. Jerusalem is not a place of business. Half of its population is supported in whole, or in hospices, schools and ue cleat light, no street cars, no mo- no telephone.” Think " a city of 100,000 people without a ;)daily paper! Jerusalem has but two little weeklies, which have ng Ae of securing foreign news. The o ’ that reaches Tenia: lem comes week in half a nee a hess. dozen sheets, a hand bills, con- easy? taining abbreviated ‘‘Reuter’’ tele- grams—and these are censored, Jerusalem is rent by racial and re- ligious divisi Mol edans, Hebrews and Christians; and the Christians are sh divided Prssprved by Mos! a. he) We trace the Tuing of immense tem-| chat she has for Egypt. ‘The Zion- of the race arose in river basins, |i8t8 look forward to making it again ver basins, |the Hebrew Capital of the world and are praying still for their long- looked-for Messiah. tians expect Jesus to return to Je- a temporal ki om, Disregarding its future, the Jerusalem of the present is unenvi- ably unique, and the Christians who ight and adorning in of the Holy Sepulchre—a place for the disposal of relics, for the culti- vation of superstition ; and the col- lection of panies from devout pil- rims. Yes, and a place of sharp conflict and andhilitian feeling. Over this same Jerusalem must our Saviour still be weeping. The most) €® Bathe. sight this citv affords is leness, nor filth, nor fac- tion, Bas its place of wailing. cornet enehee upon its paiouee on medans The Lost Shipmate. he | Somewhere he ee ee somewhere he slipped a Youth, in on ignorant ; faith and his brigl ht arra; The tides oo outs the tides come Still the eB Ho die and the new But Youth: eaten a we lost me Athens last year of yesterd: Poets ae aed me. Down at a wane fon him a little, ues the anchored argosies ri I thought he came —the steady ‘brad’? blew fre af iat he Beet a but the hawod of me! And Youth (eS Rome wists he turned and left o ut the turn of the tide, Perhaps I shall ue Sate It may be waits for Sipping those wits we knew, be- side some tropic s The. tides ee sere, and I am| out and To serie tte easiky harbors of For oon 1) Where the lamps of the town are yellow. beyond the lamps. of oe quay. 2 Somewhere he failed me, somewhere bright array Was it in Bados? God, I would pay to know! Was it on Spanish Hill, where the fin Seta BER CBE Aiea whet weeeet ook You Shall T hear your laughter to-mor- row, in painted Olivio? Somewhere I-failed him. Some- where I let him depart Youth, who would only Teen for he morn’s fres! sta: The tides slipped out, the tides $s washed out and in, ba And Youth and I rejoiced i in their masinal din. Ah, Yout! . Shall I tad you south of the Gulf? —or are you dead in my heart? “athendiee Gnidia Roberts, in me ward look What is the purpose of life? If me of you should reply that life’s Buri is to achieve happiness then you must tell me why the lives of men and women are ated with so much unhappiness and misery. This query~cannot be ans’ swered by Slneine that for the major portion of his unhappiness man is directly and personally responsible. Even if eee indictment was se the pur- life, according e theory ae ines’ as its end, te failed a eberle of fulfillment. If the euros of life is to be good then why ai left in such SODAS made so posi- tively difficult? Why should it seem be n necessary for spe) best inten- tioned person to mal such painful Whinderst the abnormal ways of life m: attractive, the glitter, ae empti- waste of Ith and Why, why is 5 all so hy are right and wrong inevitably so mixed that nothing Seems entirely right, nothing all wrong, and we are compel ac~ sopanaly to choose the lesser of two evil Re se are all tremendous ques- tions and they all concern the pur- pose of life. 8 to ai thom. Pi eee ee keep on asking. Answer in its en- tirety may not be given, but I be- lieve we shall be able to see from which direction the answer is to come and we may even gee it com- ing now, though afar off. In the pied Place we may all agree that men’s faces are turned toward the future. The future is never long forgotten. We look at our busitiess plan for growth and. development in the ness. The prizes of life, the objects most to-be desired, lie ii e- yond. Ambitio: eeps Us on our tiptoes, peering into the years to me. Now I think there is something i chic aed stimulating in this for- Things - beyond our reach require effort, persistent, vig- orous effort, before we can attain i ie effort creates strength and efficiency—in a word it builds een You and I can levelop into nobler men and wo- men through struggling with diffi- culties, overcoming 0! con- quered and the obstacles surmount- THE GREAT PURPOSE OF LIFE The Present Is the Battle Ground On Which Your Soul May Win Its Right to Live ed, what then? Are we happy and contented? Do we settle down quietly to enjoy what we tain : leans. We never attain precisely what we desire; as. bod : i a g a ce 4 ia 5 of 2 = Ea Es aS 8 = 5 one well calculated to bees us moving and to lure us on- Fee Ye LT be a ra en, wal Are ae doomed forever to things which a: ined pose of all? ie say it with e sis—the pur- pose of life is the creation of char- a est ard life can give you is not money—although . money in certain qual ies may essential. / It is not friends. al-, - > though e: mn a quires the exercise of their tender- 2 er-emotions, impulses of deep an eh abiding affection. It is not fame, position, pleasure. ‘Th re- ward life can give us is Character. I am using the word shereder here as a synonym for sou of you that neyer dies. tl gocs is one same! indestructible self, the oman as she is; in a ond, their character. That aus the graye, that no one can What that See is to be lies wholly in our hands. Remember it j re }is immortal and ‘ite is passing like : the sh: soe Oe to you? Search your bank\ : that constitutes what we may call sop uehens ey you, the inperish- le you. Jesus ‘said that shall not pariais It may seem a gospel of selfish- ness, but all g ture, lifts burdens, clears away con- fusion and darkness is ai while and must be consider t of the purpose of life. But in the Tact ana- a ships bravely.—Rey. John~ Moora McGann. FROM MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences in the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Com- mercial World. © g has given £10 to the Dasitntes Pani Fund. Lord Belper has bee; chairman of the Nottinghatahive County Council: for the twenty- Blackpool has been cesta Youths under eighteen will not be allowed rney, near Peter- borough found a full-grown hare in a large rat-tray While playing in_the chuzehard at East Horsley, Surrey, a stone fell on a five-year-old oa and broke its leg. ‘A laborer named William Calth-| * rope, of Gedgrave, Offord, Suffolk, a "At the instance of the R.S.P.C- for cw tail last week with a meat chopper. nnie m, a married woman employed at the Bell Beaming Com- pany’s mills; Blackburn, has died as the result of falling down a lift. Of the series of boat races be-|* |tween the Universities, Oxford has won 39, Gambudap 33, and there has been one id Whilst aveline by express train rom Colwyn Bay to Liverpool in charge of a young invalid, a trained nutse, Annie Kershaw, fell from the carriage and sustained fatal. in- juries. Guer was fined £50, or in default, 3 months, at the Mansion House, for smuggling a pounds o! saeehar: each at | STOW ipped a scape Youth, with his ignorant heart and pe in consequence of being gored| y hi : : : Plenifl rank Peete Town Council have decided to open its art gallery on Sunday. afternoon for ee remainder of the spring Art E: rquis of jes Toneery House, Richmond Royal anes Show, will take place during the interval be- tween Epsom ai Ascot races, on June 13 and 14. —_—* TOMATO CULTURE. xf Almost anyone etait « eacdine oe farm in a temperate climate can tomatoes with greiter or less successs, but there isa great differ- ence between the extent and qua- lity of the crops grown by different persons in the same locality. These differences are due to several causes y Best, Chalks’ ‘ophy, Ee s Globe and is the alee tint that makes ite! profit. “In Speman. plane what “> should be aimed ie, produc- | tion of a a pees sturdy plant which will have some fruit ing the chi which should be done both ways in the plantation, order to protect tomato planta. sprayed, ¢ ves Bordeaux mixture. ny other — points, ‘which cover — Bueeeally the whole field of ‘toma- to culture in the ER MERE EE I OW TENS DRY Be aaa: Ae fod ULC aay Nn REE eR REE MR Ce RTT eee at (PRCT AE EO, Ea ae Me oye emer Ca gr Naren © Sr SC SCE y un) (ae eae pa sae oe fe child of seven, named Ma rs paral os carder Tugwood, was killed and her foster ae Ree ane work ‘Thidet’s Legend’ of Eden. | mother, eee arene ghee fis for free SR to all who _ The followers of the Dalai-Lama,| Camberwell, seriously mjured 5 8) apoly for Publications in ‘Thibet, have a legend that in the: first great Garden a sweet-tasting plant grew out of the ground. One man tasted of this plant,..and -the other did likewise, whea all’ vir- tué and good fortune teased. Ages passed, and this plant grew no : Mankind fea ipee a kind of earth, violence, murder a: lessness i iner enae How to 0 Be | Bene Mrs. ‘Naggs—J ohn,, have ' you read “How to be Bape pe Cs Naggs s—Of ‘course. not. how without reading it ek pee ae ‘Well, how. et a divorce, — |. In 12 marriages out of every 1 one of the parties we been sare ‘I. know | Notting! jwere recently dug up oi Mr. 7.0. ae ae Chesterton, oi Dpy anauel: Mar-} ro FE; imotor a Subst in Trafalgar réad, old Keni Mr. Perey Sames Fisher, London editor of the Berkshire Daily Chron: icle; died suddenly «while dancing at the Bishopsgate Institute. The po has occurred of Dr. W. for 54 years superintend- Asylum, B. Tat ent of _Conniee Lunatic Toe: ‘skeletons, with the re- mains of bronze wire wristlets, n the farm of near Eafectian) rt. He oe Northampton, resented a s in Findon his na- eure six. medical aay and m , before. ven surveyors. ‘ eee eat: formeny MP. |? has p it e Beans of the Department of Agri- culture at Ott RSE SEs EEC = - Czar Buys Clothes in Russia. The Czar keeps about 40 ye in wear, Ps sacs times before it is = pat out of wardrobes. The O: r buys all ie Fae. in Russia, suit, costs him from $40 +0 60, while for | and-wi ee pcre onienes is good for about hird of aces cost. Quite Another Thing. a ‘Hobbs—So you’ve struck it rich oe cack are now able to oe eek servants? Dobbs—Alas, “no—only to bie them.