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The Sliver Mines of Cobalt. _ The mines of Cobalt Camp are well known. Silver was discovered there; fn 1908, and to the end of 1916 the. output was about 256,000,000 ounces, | worth $136,000,000. Most of the silver |. of the world is a by-product of other metals--gold, copper, lead and zinc-- but at Cobalt silver is a metal of chief value? The production reached the climax in 1911 when the output was about 31,900,000 oz. The 1916 produc- {thos was about 21,6000,000 oz. Prices, however, were much better, almost 50 per cent. above 1915. The price in |New York averaged 49.7 in 1915 and Northern Ontario, besides producing ranged from .66.75 to 76 and over in | most of the world's nickel, produces & 4976, MINERAL OUTPUT OF NORTH ONTARIO -- Bome Interesting Statistics by the Deputy Minister of Mines For Ontario. suprrising amount of other minerals, surppising amount of other minerals, Nipissing. been extraordinary. As officially estl- the Coniagas, Kerr Lake, Mining Cor- mated, the 1916 production was as fol- poration, Buffalo, Temiskaming and lows: La Rose. | Nickel, 42,000 tons valued at $21-| "of the entire value of silver pro 000,000; copper, 22,000 tons, $9,400. Guced, $136,000,000, more than 50 per 600; gold, 485,000 ounces, $10,000,000; cent, has-been returned 2s dividends silver, 21,600,00 ounces, $13,500,000; to stockholders and 'practically all pro- fron ore (nine months, practically the qucing mines have returned their en- 71,034 tons, $673,170; cobalt tire capital stock, some of them sev- and nickel oxides, $425,000; malidrite, or3) tim season), $21,000; non-metallic minerals, such es 1 brick, stone, Hme, cement, natural £85," promising mineral field in the world petroleum, graphite, tale, quartz, felt- than North spar, etc., about $10,000,000, or a total of $65,000,000. This compares with a total for the previous year of less than $57,900,000, which included less than $47,750,000 metallic products, the most important of which were as follows: Nickel, 34,039 tons, $17,019,500; cop- per, 19,608 tons, $3,921,600; gold, 411,- 588 ounces, $8,501,391; silver, 23,730,- 839 ounces, $11,742,463. . deputy minisier of mines, says that the industry was paralyzed by the war a very short period and has resumed its upward curve of years, only on a more sharp iscent The past year has scored a high record, the previous high. recerd year having been 1915. The Nickel Output. "The item of nickel," says Mr. Gib- son, "is the largest in the metallic list. In 1914 and previously we took pro- ducers' value, but-we found it under- estimated. So we changed the basis: of valuation in 1915 for nickel and copper, which are contained in the matte of the nickelcopper,mines of fudbury. Matte is exported 'partly to the United States and partly to Eng- land for refining. The price we placed on the nickel in the matte was 25¢c a pound and 10c a p 4d for « »pper, against 112 and 7.2c, .espective.y, in 1914. In 1916 the price of metal in the market had not largely increased, so we did not change the 25c price, but we made copper 18%c. Copper in matte has to be refined, so that al- though the price of copper is 3éc we fee] that our price is reasonable, espe- cially as the rise in market price has heen progressive. "Our nickel mines are the largest in the world and produce about 80 per terprise 'as in other countries where gold is 'Persian Monks Brought Eggs From property are safe. made between English subjects and aliens. ate, water pure. every were just now. 'duced it, was jealously guarded. "The principal mine at Cobalt {s the The other leading mitnes | es over. "In my opinion there is no more ern Ontario. Life and No distinction is None needs to become a citt- zen to hold land as in some of the States. Conditions of life are as good Climate is femper- Labor is scarce, as found, or better. "To 'give an iden how civilized this mining district is, you can travel in a Pullman car to Cobalt, the center of the silver field, or to Sudbury, the center of the nickel-copper field, or to Percupine, the center ef the geld area, and then take an automobile ride to any of the mines in any one of these districts." -------- STOLE FIRST SILK WORMS. China to Europe. In the year 552 two Persian monks stole furtively out of China with scanty luggage, but treasuring an or- dinary bamboo cane. They set out on foot and tramped from China into Eu- rope. In that cane were a multitude of the eggs of the silkworm moth, which the monks had stolen, They carried them to Constantinople. When the time came for the hatch- ing of the eggs, the monks tended the little caterpillars, fed them on the leaves of the mulberry, took their co- coons when they spun, and from them derived the first silk produced in Eu- Silk had for centuries before monks. had been on a missionary to China, had witnessed cent. of the world's nickel. As you ' whole process of silkworm rearing know, nickel is indispensable in mod- | and the manufacture of silk, and with ern warfare, being used in making ar--- their caneful of eggs they had brought mor plate for warships, heavy ord-,the mastery of the manufacture of. nance, gun barrels, cartridge cases, | silk fabrics of all sorts. bullet coverings and a whole catalogue | The way by which the silkworms of military and naval equipment. Al-;came was for centuries the great eo as an alloy nickel-steel is coming highway of commerce between China more and more into use because of its | and Europe. greatly increased strength and resist- ' mote parts of it have been disused for ance to erosion. "The two producing companies are monks appeared ¢ upon Internationa! Nickel Company of New | stretches. York and the Mond Nickel Company }one of the tracks which has been of London, England. They mine the ore and smelt it to a bessemer matte | expedition in Centra containing about 80 per cent. of the | frequently heard during the last two It | years. i two principal metallic contents. also contains small percentages of gold, silver, platinum and paHadium, which are recovered in the refining. Yield of Copper Mines. "The Sudbury Mines are the princi- pal source of copper in Ontarlo, but copper ore have been oponed during | 8ncient Chinese silks. the year and are being worked, main- Ivy west of Lake Superior. "The gold industry is making rapid strides in Ontarlo, the principal pro- ducing district being Porcupine in the northern part of the province. The | i t | i iB prinetpal mine is the Hollinger, with | which during the year were consoli- It is deserted now. Re- the last 1,600 years--long before the its nearer Well, this highway is explored by Sir Aurel. Stein, of whose | Asia we have e@ way is rough and ruinous to-day. It lies through waterless wastes, so that his party of 35 had to carry ice sufficient to ensure a drink- ing supply for at least a month, There, amid the sand-buried cities, he found ancient orchards with their trees and vines still standing, but all dead; he found exquisite examples of | Among the! were beautiful specimens of Chinese workmanship dating back to two centuries before the birth of Jesus, a time when work- | ing in iron was probably still new in! ritain, and when the islands north: of Scotland, in whose waters Lord, Kitchener now lies, were supposed to- be the end of the world. €uted mines known as Acme and Mil- i i. lertun, making one of the leading gold | Everything Dr. Stein found is pro- mines in the world. The prevent cap- | foundly wonderful as evidence, better | acity Is 1200 tons of ore a day and the than all the traditions and legends of | enlargements of the mill when com. China, of the immense antiquity of | pleted will give a capacity of 4000 high civilization and artistic develop- ; tons. It hed a production this year of 4.700400, The Dome is also a large mine, the ore being somewhat lower ment of the wise old East. But with it all there is no story which more ap- peals to the imagination than that of these two monks creeping along the old highway with a handful of insect! eggs, from which were destined to come millions of pounds in wealth| upon Italy and France in particular, | and the rest of the world in general. | Had not these two monks stolen the ; 'eggs and the forbidden knowledge, we grade, but it has Immense masses of ere. tis production in the past year was $2,125,100. MeIntyre-Porcupine production was $1,606.900; Porcupine- Crown, S800 ae, "At Kirkland Lake the Tough-Oaks mine is alrendy yielding gold, and its production is about $700,000. The Teck-Hushes has been developed and equipped with a mill and will begin i work us soon as a pewer transmission ! line new being extended from Cobalt is completed. Other mines at Kirk- land Lake Shore, Kirkland Lake and Right-Hargrave. . "In Munro Township on the Temis- kaming .& Northern Ontario Railway, mn remarkably rich gold deposlt called Croesus Mine has been opened up. It contained quartz worth $50 a Ib. of 800 Lbs. avolrdupols 'quartz took $40,000 worth of gold. 7 "There is gold also at Sturgeon Lake in Western Ontario. At Boston Creek, Vas. Iarne and other places, promising disco: eries have been made. The Lewisohn interests have bought the St. Anthony. mine, a developed mine at Sturgeon Lake. may wonder if men would have been! sailing the skies to-day, for all the' old balloons were of silk, and all know of the upper air comes from the | adventures of the men who sailed in the old~balloons. The airship is the daughter of the balloons which sprang from so many cocoons of silkworms, and so, amid all the wonders of the Flying Age, let us give thanks to the monks who stole the eggs. 4 An Iustration. "Well, Jock," said the laird of a certain estate, "vou are getting very bent; why don't you stand up straight like me?" "Eh, mon," said Jock, "ye see that field of corn over there? Weel, ye'll notice that the full heads hang down | with paintings, and the empty ones stan' right up." i ' | i t i | | ' j | i i Cards ore 'gn the Table; Show Yours" ---New York Times. ART OF THE "POILU" EXHIBITED IN PARIS SALON DEVOTED TO SOLDIERS' HANDIWORK. Fighting Architects Submit Plans for Rebuilding Devastated Districts. The inseparability of France and art is no better shown than in e halls of the Jen de Paume Here are on view paintings, water sculpture, archi As is well known, are principal art exhibitions in Paris every year, the Salon des Beaux Arts, 'the Salon des Artistes Francais the Salon des Independants. The war, of course, forbade any exhibitions of this kind, but it was not long before the men at the front began con' ing to the newspapers established i the trenches and to the journals of Paris sketches and paintings of sort or another. Smali objects of art, modeled at the front, crudely because the men bad only crude implements to -work with, were exhibited in Paris and sold for the benefit of the various war charities. - It is in an effort to co-ordinate these artistic efforts of the men at the front that the tin des Armes, the of- ficial pobffation of the mi forces, undertook the work of organ- izing an exhibition on si ilar lines the art exhibition held before the war. Consequently, a jury was sent to the front to gather together the work of the soldiers and pass upon it, this be- ing a weeding out process, so that the exhibition would not be encumbered i drawings and sculp- ture of inferior quality. The an- nouncement of the exhibition was made in the Bulletin, thus bringing it to the attention of every man at the front. A Flood of Art From the Front. The results, says the Bulletin, have been gratifying. All day long the of- fices of the journal are crowded with men on sick leave or specini permis- wil be their Cultivation sion who go there to submit work. Wagon loads of pictures and other material have been sent the front by the jury of selection and rangement it finally became necessary to ask the have been Under Secretary of Fine Arts for objects which were to be put on hibition. The largest section of the exhibition is devoted to painting, and there more water colors in evidence oils. ings also, have made their own frames. Sculpture i&, of course, in the min- ority on account of the great difficulty of getting together the necessary ma- terials for this work. However, there are some very dainty examples on ex- hibition." Among the objects of art sent from the front are some inter- esting pieces, canes, musical instru- ments, rings and other pieces of jew- elry, ingenious vases and other things, rudimentary in design yet showing the artistic taste of their creators, One of the most important sections of the exhibition, strange to say, is that devoted to architecture. Here are to be found plans for rebuilding the destroyed parts of France, model houses, model villages, etc. There i are also plans for various enterprises of a warlike nature: Every branch of French army is represented in the salon, from the Somme to Alsace, and Proceeds for War Charities. tion will go toward the war charities, this at the express request of the sol- diers themselves. Those winning prizes and honorable mentions will receive diplomas, the diplomas them- selves to be drawn by soldiers. The ster announcing the exhibition was chosen from a number submitted by the soldiers, the winner, Henri an- gon, receiving a prize of 200 francs. fie is an infantryman in-the Ten His poster represents a poilu his native soil fashioning the Beaux Arts, had this to say: "We have been waiting for such a salon for two years. An artist is still 'an artist even if he is opposite the from them. I left home August 1914, and in my sack beside the ternal flannels I carried my ske book and pencils. They ve been fire. time I sketched everything I could see around me. I have now hundreds of | drawings." + Amother writes that in the place in his sack set apart for dirty clothes he carried instead his drawing ma- terials, and that when in the early part of the war he had touches of fear he would get out his drawing mater- to\jals and thus overcome his feelings. In this way he cured himself. The exhibition promises to be a suc- cess in every way, and, above every- thing else, it shows that the French can fight with one hand and paint with the other, and do both jobs extremely well. --_--__4-- FARMING IN LONDON TOWN. 14,000 Acres Vacant Land Available for Vegetable Production. There are 14,000 acres of vacant from poses in London by a tion. 2 special building in which to store the nearly one ex- turns from i are $292 an acre. than building sites There are a great many draw- were formerly unsightly with heaps some with and some without of we frames. Some of the soldier artists | land in London, England, suitable for cultivation and under the new com- pulsory powers available most of it li be utilized. The Vacant Land Socicty has for eight years obtained plots for garden. pur- voluntary ar- and 819 heads of families supplied land for cultiva- there is a waiting list of thousand applicants. Re- 262 plots worked last year n London show foodstuffs produced valued at $9,050, or approximately Now turned into. gardens rubbish. At Battersea Jast spring the plot- stones and rubbish from two acres, 'and had to go down in some places eight to ten fect to find the proper soil. Lord Derby has given instructions for the ploughing up of a hundred acres of deer park at Knowsley and the sowing of corn on it. Manchester has 300 acres available for cultiva- the question up vigorously. German prisoners may be used in the work sesses a collection of 20,009 Successful Victary. Our friend. the- Boche: can seldom notwithstanding the boasted superior- ity of his education, it is not i ing that he regarded the retreat of the Russians last years as the end of one of his opponents, thereby de- monstrating his own foolishness and ignorance of history, for the Russian Army was not destroyed, and Russian retreats usually lead to victory. The retreat from Mons and Char- leroi was a painful shock to Britain, B but it led to the victory of the Marne, THE WORK OF FOUR- FOOTED PATRIOTS \ HORSES WHO HAVE NEVER SEEN ° THE DAYLIGHT. A Passing Thought for the Poor Hard-. Working Coal Mine Pony. Among the silent patriots to whom ritain owes a debt is the pit-pony. ; sible. | Waterloo--a manoeuvre not without | danger, but i , It was retreat and consolidation that There - _ the life of t even the army at Salonica. | when least expected. Often | Nearly all the great commanders reat : se | ha All moneys taken in at the exhibi- 'another, refusing battle until it might ge a varying moods of idleness or t oe 'Wild Goose Takes the Place of Keeper which was a pledge of the result of ; War has made our coal-mines more. the war, far off though it might be. vital to us than ever, yet withont the Much as the British troops hate re-|Pit-pony it would sometimes be im- treating, they have retired on numer-| possible to carry them on, says Lon- ous occasions in order te leap forward! don Answers. the better later on, says London An-! The glory of the green fields, the swers. | Siaeniticerice of the blue Wellington's retirement to the lines "©V¢r darkens over the British Em- of Torres Vedras resembled the Rus-| Pite, are merely empty pharses to this. sion retreat to their fortified lines,! humble but heroic animal--the faith- when it became obvious that their, !U! slave of King Coal. lack of heavy artillery and muni-! orn amid the blackness, he has not tions made a successful stand impos-, ©V€" Seen the fair land for which men i It enabled the great duke to 5° Sladly fight and lay down their i ives It is ordained that only whem [) ise his forces, and pave the wa Sagi P t the last spark of vtality has flicker- to eventual victory, though armchair, . , critics at home severely denounced ed out beneath his shaggy coat will his strategy, especially when after his lifeless body be accorded the one winning a battle he retired into Port-' earthly privilege of a decent burial. ugal once more, An Epic of Drudgery. Again, Waterloo was won after a 4, > @ , ' retreat to a better position. It was' - e may, in exceptional prices the Briti S| nces, rise up to open air during e British defence at Quatre Bras. sitetime, such as following an explo- that enabled Wellington to retire on/ sion from which he has been fortunate 'enough to escape injury, or the clos- ing down of a pit for some reason; but in every case he is totally blind Corunna is often called a retreat! *0F # considerable period, and in many that led to victory, but really it was. i dies under the influence of the a victory that saved a retreat. j unfamiliar sunshine. | ; . inspiration surrounding he humble war-horses of He knows nothing of the the position was well chosen, and the result of the. fight made history. relieved Ladysmith and _ eventually, Kine Coal ended the South African War, and on' Ing a numerous occasions British expedi-| Sloriou 8 side of warfare; his whole tions have retreated to reorganise and' a am 6 ee et ' ---- push forward suddenly to victory | ness and little of compensation. maimed or blind at an early ugh the continual knocking of 'his head against the jagged sides of , the coal-seam, he takes up his burden 'amid the darkness, and drags his burden of coal-trams from one eleva- have conducted retreats some time or be offered with a good chance of suc- 'cess. If Germans were so learned lin, Saige gue rhe gem, tion to another until he goes out at 'la' ate dnd mig he die of Sn | when opportunity offered until --) ena the fruits of his labor in 'peace | enough to smash his enemy. 3 ; | Retreat has saved Prussia, if not, d war alike, the majority of them unaware of his very exisence; war- pray ane Sch s oa phicryat a a ick ships sail in stately line, like float- jing watch-towers of Old England, -- pia! = of his ate be upon the heaving bosom of the ocean, . * Ps their holds well stocked with the pro- the occupation of Berlin. did not pre- = 3 vent Prussis from beating France in --_ of his toil, and the pa nae eee tremens 6. a a A SAGACIOUS GOOSE™ = | Loved Bd His Master. sky that. Some of these vacant 'coins, name of which is said to be th. finest in Europe, on a Farm. In "Adventures Among Birds," Mr. W. H, Hudson relates many unusual the least i n | tellowing anecdote that he tells about | a wily old \ On a certain small island on the sed to | bers, and here one autumn some years ago a goose was caught by the leg | in a steel trap set for a fox. | keeper from a distance saw the whole j vast gathering of geese rise up and i circle round and round in a cloud, with ia tremendous outcry, and when he got { to the spot he found the bird struggl- | ing violently in the trap. He took it j home to a larger island close by, where his master, my informant's| friend, had a farm. From that day i the wild geese never settled on the is- i let, which they had used as a resting , place for many years. | The bird he had accidentally caught He is a model. of contentedness. There is no question with him of in- creased reward for his labors: With humble submission he champs his corn in the solitude of his stable when the privilege of a few hours' respite is accorded him, and. perhaps fronfthe depth of his equine intelligence he thanks some supreme being for the privilege, agreeing with the poet when he sang: "Tis good to spend the day in toil When evening brings such joys as this." Then there are days of supreme joy, such as when an indulgent haulier, ever mindful of his patient comrade, brings down into the pit with a hand- ful of fresh clover. For between the haulier and his horse there is gener- ally a deep attachment that allows but the exercise of the tenderest thought and consideration in his deal- ings with the patient beast. The story of South Wales mining was an old gander and its leg was broken; but the keeper set to work to repair the injury, and after binding it up he put the bird into an outhouse, and eventually it got quite well. H pinioned it and put it out with the | other birds. A little while before the old gander had been caught the foxes had become so troublesome at the farm that it was found necessary to shut up al] the birds every night in inclosures and houses made for the purpose; and as the birds preferred to be out, the keeper had to spend a good deal of time every evening inesollecting and driving them in. a Now, before the old wild goose had been able to go about many days with the others it was noticed that he was acquiring a kind of mastery over them, and that every day as evening ap- pronched he began to try to lead, and _ failing in that, to drive, them to the \inclosures and buildings. The keep- er, curious to see how far this would ro, began to relax his efforts; and as !his efforts slackened the gander's zeal increased, until he was left to do the had to do was to go round and shut the doors. That state of things had now continued for some years, and the told wild goose was the acknowledge |. leader and master of aff the birds on the farm. se Italian soldiers climb snow-clad tion, and other places are also takings their uniforms, in order that they may 'peaks in white shirts, worn outside not be detected by the Austrians. of turning these vacant lunds into vegetable gardens. | Cork legs pre made of wood, metal, Pan one j and leather, or & strong-form of can- King Victor Emmanuel of Italy pos. vas. hey are so called from the the inventor of artificial limbs--Dr. Cork. =i 8 enterprise is indeed rich with many i noble instances of self-sacrifice on the | part of a haulier for his horse, and ;not infrequently the wonderful per- al ception of equine intelligence has re- | vealed itself in some act of considera- |wards its master. 'eye of the haulier grown dim when, amid the company of his friends, he has paid a passing tribute to the mem- ory of some toiling beast who had 'been his companion of earlier years. No Limelight for Him! | And, although he had now gone out jinto the greater darkness, the recol- lection of his patient life of willing 'drudgery had kindled the glow of a 'passionate admiration in his rough heart that would never be extinsuish- ed. | So let us devote a passing ' thought, amid the stress of the préS- ene times,'to the work of the pit-pony. | He is not' one of the shining heroes \who are carving our way to victory iwith much deserved praise and re- 'cognition, but he is a. willing: factor just " $ oved cighty tons of lodse 'i . Pear holders rem : - Ose whole work himself; all the keeper! nevertheless, and his heart is in the | right place. j What more can we ask of him? - ------_ A Real Promise. "Darling, if you will be my wife, | will do everything to make you hap- " py. » "Everything?" "Yes, dverything. | I'll even spend every evening with you at the mov- ing picture shows." San Ea Actes Her Definiticn. "Can. you tell ue what a smile.is?' asked a gentleman of a little girl. "Yes, sir. Is the whisper of a ugh." j Lm