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' t o Thursday, Dec. 6,:1917. : Thu THE SPRIG of MAGIC HEATHER Dec, nal has vhaye md £2 anal for Mr. at s Pale j hax bee 1 has enli (We w tertaint 2 meet the past of stim tariuum , f } | t Picture taken 12.15 am, dune. 22nd, from a White Pass and Yukon route steamer "Casca,"' on Yukon River at Fort Yukon. Dee ' * hrothe N Alaska tnere is atime when a day ts four days long, many ij From the 19th to 22nd of June, inclusive, the..eun greens dows not sel. Tt is because of this that the vast count wiley try bn the northwest uf the American continent is called Watki The Laud of the Midnight Sun," It fills one with strange perfor thrills to be in the midst of an open country at midnight the re and then sce vid Sol-look at you with a sleepy eye that, peeps just above the horizon. 7 'The fur famed loveliness of Alaska is an"invitation to fhe tourist to visi it. Thousands' go there annually. fj 'Transportation facilities are convenient. Some travel 2% $ thousands of miles to see this region, but the invigorating : ' 5 ° i The a@mosphere. the endless variety, of motintain, river, lake. 2 al eae fe hee kageep ¥ » &§ . : 4 t Il forest and glacier acenery compensate well for a Se Rs re oe - 'onald on left and Sir i y journey. On many of the plains and vaileys the i Es : Donald on right. = i ji feiation, 1s rich, and excellent crops are rated. : x i M : Tlie voyage along the Pacific coast from Vancouver to, _-Huskies in an Alaskan village ] ine women Tee ey oe Skagway is deghiful. The Canadian. Pacific rune an ex-| in (40. ce | ing with a fountain pen and « cellent seryice of pagsenger veeséls on this reute. Last shee Cee und they areas useful to-himias horses are typewriter. rather than with a fine summer | Yook the wip. A White Pass and Yukon Route *% the residents of other countries, We continued our uredle .and sewing machine, or a a train brought me from Skagway to.the town of White COUrSe ULI We were Well inside the Arctie Circle, and woolly cloth and @ pall of sudé, fa an : Horse on the Yukon River. There I boarded the steamer While there we did noi feel\the necessity for heavy over- accident of temperament, I get just -- = | ats "Casca" and took a trip inte the heart of the. country. SONS. Spuilationes e ., a: tired sometimes scraping up 2 - 'there were about fifty: tourists en the boat. It was the Pena higt graciaurcta tere TRU eee mrnes And "tbat 'ooughts and putting them Into gen- Deutchman's cabin at Nakimu Cave. Glacier, B.C. Rist of June, and we were all anticipating the experience *%, s by the large influx of white settlers-that the tences.as the other. woman. does who i , # gazing on the sun at midpight, Nearly everybody had fpuntry is being developed. Lumbering and mining are fhecombs Vogue or the Pictorial for lopked 'like wrinkles. in tie: brown jalways grown rieht there--for:me. ont 4 camera in readiness: At 11 o'clock p.m. we were near the priucipal industries, and they are canpted on with |} new way to make. ber customer's velvet flanks. The river had Its four-| 7 picked {t and carried it, like.a aan Fort 'Yukou, and-Sol then appeared to be a little Profit. The United States paid $7 20 60-0 the Rubsign --|¥ f 2 ing coat fcld beginning on these slopes. To!piirple torch, right up to where the . ath elouded, but it was plain daylight. "At midnight the Lord Government for Alusig. and the bargain/seeins to have this summer | bad a holiday. follow anyone of the streamlets up Inst-green grass lifted itself out of of Uignt had brushed away the clouds and appeared Deen a good one for the purchesers. for in recent Years I've had them before, but they've to {ts parent glactér-tongue would the sheeted whiteness that ran more 'like the full moon than the sun we know in immense quantities of gold ard other minerals, fish! furs | 1, Ken me to towns that sere bigger have been' a day's joy. but thé trail straight up..steep as-the pitch of a *Canads. We took many photographs of him as he Pd tlinber have veen produced in the couptry. ud dirtier and more bedisenedly so. had elected to keep to the left accord: cathedral roof, to meet the fer-blue eHmbed higher on the stairs of heaven and arrayed him e making 'of ratiways.is. procesding. Alaska is }ericuted than ty own, I've come ing to the traffic laws' of 'British Co baze of the sky. And "when |-'look eelf in his 'brightest 'sheen, . likely to become a sphere of considerable tusine ss activity. Leck so many dollars poorer, not a Iu.mbla. s at dt now, tho wee flame on its frest re As we sailed along the banks af the Yukon River we For the buuter and tourist the jlace holds .a' thousand pound beavier, and, 4f 1 brovgat ome I'm reckoned a fairly good |liehts up the wav. back 'to all the Ae @aw. soine bears and. moove patrol the wilds, and the (M@rms. It-ir enchanting to look on at all times, but it ntos come with me, they were «eee I can do a coiiple of nfiles'stlent wonder of ther ds > tesy Huskies--or big Alaskan doge that draw. the sleigis in the &2penrs at Its best In June whew, 4¢ bas that wor I rables net -soul: without . being "tired. But in the) | have a-yellow lly too, that can Mast ~winter--kept the air busy 4m carrying the sounds of their ay of {6 bours in Jenga. ren t this year I had a he sharp clear air of these {n'ovicating: work magic, It: grew right up ¥ during fo. our ears, Each homesteader keeps a litle herd Pee ws 30 different that 'I'd rather spell gays ,1 could go ten miles and. get througli the sho~ in an-Alrine mea, ns } e old way and call tt a Holy Lome with (he lilt of pure joy in my idow where | talked to a-ereat prey wens y Wry last step. - And to pit' myself 'marmot ¥i:é sa! on a rork Hstening. fir 'sett a whole month in the Cana- against 'he sudden steepne-ses of @|-1 have a white "h Ores Liataed wrth , E Gun Pavtfic Rockle jtiail fall 'of surprises niade.me laugh 'silky Iitt!e ball tha: swung Th' rhe the J Yo yeu snot what I'm looking at|eut loud wird that blew down from .tna Vio ra MA L RI ATION ROJECTS ARE UCCESSFUL row? i's 4 sprig of red heuther and! At the edge of "@ snowbank, .whers toria Glacier at Lele Lows . in hes ly in) give it up lor-a wardrobe. -{f crept to the border of the t 1 to T have & bench of dried awret i M ¢ : : a oR of dutiables wep over at the brooklet far below grass that came from Band on a". eS: ai ee <i " 4 z it in iy hand, the totieh pv Title of heather erew we drove to:Mortine. Lake under -- n mf and gay The vast silence of th+ heights was sulemn Ten oy i sorcly-pink fame sich that | wooldn't |. been sur::, I have a lttia tritohite-fo Bil 5 into Amd the walls rte sd if the brave. pik Bells had hee ne soon a glare ease, h fh | back omiclt out 1 toward me and tinkled! Tifte worthy a! one. Te qeans a mon oat | fs biel iy the slovdlose my hand out stowly And drewsine of Sik Srmept oy the woe ee he blue he vs that sees ho back agin. toric 'upiand is Of Mt 'Stentien "uf a * like a soft ruin d¥onped £ Svoteh according to'the! Field. 1 4 rest on the suo -tors of the great fanilly that grows. so green in/!. Best of all pethans |. have soma | rc All- morning [ve follow. ov grandmother's memory. But a: thing that dv can nara, 'through the great trees never seen heather, before, except one, - "You oat: different * toa ! 'De | the Asuikan Valley/ by the side of eee: pr ssed bit of it that compussion-|door - nelgtibor tN | the ice-cold rorring, slavial river, eve friends had sent out, to us. jwhat it fs. You. wer E wu! the path led me tack to the And here it was---brave, wonderful. |you went away, Rv 1 Meg a rees of everything. 9 \wndauntable! I didn't need to .wait*like a house plant fT = pir he mountain slopes lay before me to ask 'anybody. It was heather. |gardem all summe bi tv 4 "vast "fan. Great 'gullies' into heather to the staunch soul of it. and ch vou. could drop a. city blovk it was growing right there--it 'bad, - TWENTY FiVE YEARS on tne JOB. =. > EMR Peesron TTI ITU rPoensom TTT FW reuse es ot 3 Bee et «| SA eS i | ' ii ya -- ae -- 2 fe) int pas-"England. Hé came to Cana i seuger traffic manager, Western Lines and entered the 'land Tate } Oa P. Rs,was born at Chatham. the Canadiin Pacific Rallwer Aug. i Ontario, June 7, 1862; and was also "8. 1885. He was V clerk : : ] educated there. He entered the service land department, {rdm ' ofthe Grand Trunk at Toronto in 1876, He was chief clerk tr i He was' with the company at various Hé was appointed lapd } 3 Places until. 1881, when-he entered company: in Winnipeg, b: ~ i = = = pe, Service of the Chicago, Rock Ie-| which position he still bolda Ze 7 ey i "Thar bad ee rue separ Davvorn rtrwnerietenman' | tei Pagan ae IACUO L BOUrR clasp : | ence on what are the largest irri. | irrigation scnemes is of particuiar 1. Canadian Pacific Railway, Septem- | Toronto., Septem! 67 cated fed | 4 zs ] ) | gation projects in Canada," anid Mr.jterest to the farmers: of Western ber 1. 1886; as general' travelling in Winntpes rer eh rand Sticke Goo ee Be ede ; (2) Irmgating Small Karis. |Daweon, "but I am willing to sdmit, Canada, where there are hundreds-- Eraduated trom ron 'Orey hod v Winnipeg, and 1 ) ent with an office at Montrealf and Jobn's = College. he' graduated Tonto, 'G: i i] . @ following year he was appointed |the Ur "sity of Manitobs in on ae sd ts TBST district passenger agent-at Boston, in|He euti..': the Canadian Pacific Rafl- eharge of the New England States | Way eervice as Assistant engineer on ue earege penetacon. 'On absorp: ;construction in June, :1890. He be. Yon of ¢ iow brunswick: Railway |came surveyer of the land departmen (m 1890 by the Canadian Pacific Rail-|in May, 131. and was appointed eae locomotive fores land "commissioner {a Septem. |1894° i . igen general townsite inch, 19) a 4 i rojects such ag you/Hterally thousauds--of creeks and <6) Smad peagated Satin ed ue Wee tteneatate vicimity of streams which could be used: in a > QQPEAKING bMtore the annvat con-|Kamloops are quite often more-in-ismall/way for irrigation purposes. S Yentlon 'of 'the Western Canada' teresting amd worthy..of fuller con-/ According to the opinion of an officer Irrigation Association at. Kam-jsideration than are the larger pro-'of the Western Canada: Irrigation Joops, B.C, A. 8. Dawaon, chief engi-|jects. These echemes, though small, Association the day. is coming whea neer of the Department of Natural should be considered as one. of your irrigation in- Western Canada will be Resources of the Canadian Pacific| greatest assets. limited only by the amount of water Railway, expressed the faith that is| "The benefits of irrigation show available. The increasing interest ip in bim dn the irrigation projects fer|thetr fesults im Detter. farms: im-/irrigation ig indicated by 'the fact ' which Western Canara is, becoming | proved living conditiens: improved | that the andual meeting of the asso- famous. Lithough Mr. Dawsop--bas| social. conditions: and better -citixen-|ciation in 1917 will be beld in Sas- a een canhected mainly with the bigjship. If conducted along proper: katchewan for the first time. Im the © | 4rrigation enterprise of the C. P. linea it, improves agticulture, sayes|past it has always been held In Al- < brat the soll, inculnates industry, produces|berta or British Columbia, but this prosperity amd shew provide fe post thé aasociation will megt at pesterity." - Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. nected "nith Toroste:| geet Grey and Bruce Raliway, laser abeorb-\ power, Wissen, operated by a community ef farmers, ar chen by Tastings, England, 18, -' 1864. be wag educated ot privace soheeis in