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.{Prepared by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.) Close to home, yet less known to Americans than many parts of Europe, •Cape Breton Island, a part of Nova Scotia, is far from being the “few acres of snow” that Voltaire contemptuously ■dubbed It In the days when France and England were at each other's throats over it. It is barely an island, and for all practical purposes may be considered the easternmost point of Canada's mainland. Perhaps many who have not seen this land think of it as Voltaire did, tint it has Its fruitful apple orchards and a thriving general agriculture, and growth is remarkably rapid, once vegetation is started. It has, too, all the ingredients for industrial success in this “Steel Age”—iron ore, coal and limestone. And; unlike those of the competing iron-producing regions of North America, Cape Breton’s materials are at the water's .edge, where the finished product can be handled most cheaply. The ports of Cape Breton are to Europe and Africa by hundreds of miles than any others on the North American continent; and, surprisingly to those who have not closely studied their maps, the distance from Cape Breton to Rio de Janeiro is less than that fronuNew Orleans to Rio. A less material but important asset of Cape Breton is its scenery and climate, Relatively, few American tourists have "discovered” the island yet, hut tlio&e who have swear by -Its charm. Its summers are pleasantly cool and its winters, thanks to the proximity of the Gulf stream, relatively mild. A principal pleasure feature and beauty spot is the island's inland sea, the beautiful Bras d’Or lakes, a paradise for yachtsmen. Cape Breton's history is old and full. Undoubtedly her coasts were frequented by Norwegian rovers as early as the Tenth century, and we even have it on the authority of the Flemish geographers that the island was discovered and named by Basque fishermen, who crossed the Atlantic in pursuit of whales a hundred years before the voyages of Columbus. John Cabot's Landfall. It is from the voyages of the Cabots, however, that Cape Breton dates her history. The highland to the north of the island is now generally agreed to have been the landfall of John Cabot —the first sighting of North America of which we have record. Peter Martyr's account of the voyage of the younger Cabot in 1498, when the island was claimed in the name of “Kyng Henry,” shows that a landing was made on these northern shores at least a year before Columbus touched upon the mainland of the continent. Standing far-out in the Atlantic, the most easterly extremity of the Dominion of Canada, Cape Breton owes much of her colorful history to her geographical position. She reaches out into the ocean trade - lanes, the landfall of west-bound shipping today as in the time of the Cabots. - ■ Two centuries ago her commanding position with reference to the trade*of the St. Lawrence and the West Indies made Cape Breton an issue in ..world politics, an issue-sometimes the peace of Europe and upsetting the treaties of the powers. The fortunes of the little, island, now undpr the red cross of St. George, now under the gold lilies of France, are a part of the continent’s history—the greater part of it a war history. The story of Lofiisburg, a fortress 25 years in the building, at a cost of six millions of dollars—more than four times that sum in the .value of our money—lts two sieges, -and Its final demolition, is the best-known chapter of Cape Breton's history. The fortress became not only the base of French naval power in Amer•fen, hot,' Wft'rt"OUttS'ihg posts' at St. Peters, Ingonish, and St. Anns, the resort of privateers that infested the New England coast and the haven to which they conveyed their spoils. Upon the outbreak of war between France and England, in 1744, to the colonists of Massachusetts and NewHampshire the reduction jjf till* stronghold was a highly attractiv* project. Capture of Loulab'urg. The first siege and capture of I.onlsfcurg by the little band of New England militiamen under Peppered, with tJa British West India fleet under War-

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ren, probably foreshadowed the American Revolfltioh. With the closing of this refuge of Atlantic privateers, "marine insurance on Anglo-American vessels fell at Once from 30 to 12 per cent t" Subsequently the island was restored to France, and again the fortunes of war made it permanently a British possession. The giant fortress of Loulsburg was demolished In favor of the newly fortified base at Halifax —a military necessity Hint Is deplored by the - visitor f today. And yet in all Its desolation, one thrills to the glory of Its past Here are the remains of the Dauphin's gate; yonder can be traced the bomb-proof casements of the king's Bastion, and on one of these grassy mounds stood the citadel, where fair ladies and gallant gentlemen of France graced the grand ball on that fateful eve of Pepperell’s arrival in Gabarus Bay. Not until 1754, when the island became temporarily a separate colony, with its own governor, were grants of land to settlers permitted. To It in the late years of the* Eighteenth and the opening of the Nineteenth century came a great number of hardy Scottish settlers.- In. this way the island became “as Gaelip as the most Gaelic part of Scotland." Though there are considerable French Acadian settlements, a more or less cosmopolitan population In the vicinity of the (pining districts, and many descendants of the old United Empire Loyalist stock, the F. F. V.’s of the provinces, Cape Breton is still predominantly Highland Scottish" In its pop-, ulntion. The finest scenery in the provinces is to he found in northern Cape Breton and through the lovely Bras d’Or Lake region of the interior. Bras d'Or Lakes. Most striking of the island’s physical features Is this Inland sea, known fn Its two sections as the Great and Little Bras d'Or Lakes. Widening out from its two Atluntlc entrances, it extends In Its 450 square miles of area through the heart of the island—nearly a thousand miles of interior const-line bordering all four counties and forming in enchanting succession wide harbors, Island-dotted bays, and deep fjord-like channels. A ship canal at historic St. Peters, across the old Indian portage of Nicholas Denv’s time, connects the lake waters with the Strait of Canso. This Inland waterway was of great strategic value to the French, as at a later period it was a valuable means of transportation —Indeed, the only means of transportation at first —to the Highland Scottish settlers. Today It affords easy access rto the markets of the Sydneys for the farmers of the Interior, no less than a natural playground for the people of the Industrial centers. The drive along the north shore of Cape Breton is surpassingly lovelyLandward there are ever the hills, near and remote, the green meadows of farmlands abounding in milk and Celtitf hospitality; sea'word the Atlantic, and in the distance, sheer out of the ocean, towers "Smoky.” Once seen, the view looking southward from Smoky Is never forgotten. Hea’dlund after headland in outline reaching out to the eastward, plaster cliffs dazzling-white against the distant bine, and, 1,200- feet below, the long roll of the Atlantic. Rescued Too Late. I once was employed at a small shop where they had neither furnace nor steam heat. The room was heated by one large stove. There was a young man_ there. We were pretty good friends. He had a habit of changing fils slioes. One day I happened- to be working around where he kept his good shoes. In a joking way I said, “If you don’t move'these shoes I will throw them In the stove.” I picked them up and went over to the stove. There was a lot of waste paper in It, so I just laid them on top of It, not knowing there was fire on the bottom. I went over to him and told him *1 had put them there. He went over to get them, and, much to my surprise, the paper had ignited. The shoes did not burn up entirely, but they were utterly ruined.—Exchange. ‘ ;

Mexia Typical Mushroom City

Texas Town Grows From Sleepy Place of 3,000 to 30,000 Inhabitants Over Night. OIL BOONMS RESPONSIBLE Hundreds Are Forced to Sleep Out. Doors and There Is but One. Bathhouse in the Place— Prices Are High. Mexia, Texas. —Mexia, which has some into so much noloriety through (lie sending of state troops here tp put an end to outlawry, the sale of illicit booze and restore order, is a typical mushroom city. Overnight a tented city arose. From an apparently sleepy little town of 3,000 population In October, 1921, where old settlers farmed for a living and eked*out a bare existence from their lands to a bustling city of 30,000 people, and all in a few months, ■this is the recent record of Mexia, an old-time Texas town, which Is feeling the effects of oner of the numerous oil developments in the Southwest. The population now consists of an assortment of oil field followers and thousands of men and women seeking employment. Consequently because of the exiiorbitant prices charged for a room, if one were lucky enough to secure one, hundreds of men, favored by the long continued tnild winter, afe sleeping on the grass along railroad tracks, public parking places und, in fact, anywhere they can. Beds in Tents Costly. Overnight a bed in a tent mnrked “A place to fiop”'Soured from 50 cents a night to $3. A night in a crude plunk structure where one didn’t know his bed-fellow or the hundreds of others in the single room cost $5. Rail traffic jumped hundreds of per cent. There are two trunk linSs, the Houston & Texas Central and the Trinity & Brazos Valley, leading through here, and passenger traffic is very heavy, while freight trains are frequently seen running three abreast, so heavy is the demand for oil machinery. One road is said to have spent $600,000 .in enlarging its facilities. The water situation is ; not altogether what could be desired. Getting a bath here is quite an experience, if indeed not a task. The old saying, "If you want to do something big—wash an elephant,” certainly has found parallel In Mexia. But One Bathhouse. Tills Juxury nroy lie found, outside tne woodland, creeks, only in a downtown barber shop. The bathhouse is a stall in a wooden-floored, plunked-ln inclosure. The plain, pine planks are slippery, but the proprietors of the house have found that it is not necessary to maintain first-aid kits because

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Forest Fire Fighters Find Them Efficient Assistants. A* Means of Quick Communication Between Ranger on Fire Lin e an d Headquarters Carrier Pigeon Has No Equal. lijTSi n ilfni ’'S t a t ea *D*p artnfieni of Agriculture.) The carrier pigeon lias found a place ; for itself in the fire-fighting forces of the forest service, it demonstrated Its worth tills year InMlie Idahn.-M.--tionai forest, und will be installed next -year at all. protective camps in that district. Asa means of quick and certain communication between *,the ranger out on the fire line and headquarters, the carrier pigeon lias no competition, reports from Idaho to the Department of Agriculture stale. One bird, after a preliminary course of training, was taken a rougli trip by

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the board floors are warped enough to allow the bather a foothold. But us for oil. There are a solid six miles of new derricks, drillers, outfits, tents, wooden buildings unfl people where once there was the open prairie. A survey of all local lumber men shows that buildings completed or contracted for since October 1 total between $3,500,000 and $5,000,000. Gambling and drinking halls filled with dancing girls are open every night, and one may buy openly "red" and "corn” whisky at 00 cents a drink. Fortunes are lost overnight at the dice and roulette tables. FLOOD BENEFIT TO FARMERS Water Left Fine SI It of Good Earth on Impoverished Lands in Washington. Sedro Woolley, Wash*—A fine slit of very fertile earth layer from two to five inches deep was left on the inundated farm lands when the flooded Skagit river subsided to Its reguiar chrfnnel. The layer of silt had added great value Jo the valley lands, according to owners. The flood, which was the most extensive known here since the early homestead days, lasted from De-

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Girl Brings Desire for Education’ to Former Terror of the Boxing Ring. IS SEEKIN6 ANOTHER DEGREE “Kid” Wedge, at 41, Enters Harvard Almost Penniless, to Obtain Ph.D. Degree —Left Lumber Camps to Be Pugilist. Boston. —A story of great love, of a career of hard battles in the ring, and of a winning fight against tuberculosis came To light at Harvard university a few days ago when Frederick “Kid” Wedge, forty-one years old, of Arizona registered in the Harvard graduate school of education, where he is to study, for Ills Ph. D.-degree, Fifteen yetirs agu the name of “Kid" Wedge was one to be feared in the timber lands of the Middle iVest. For years he had. fought In the rings of that region. At twenty he left the woods, where he worked with lumbering crews, and took-up the fighting

pack horse, kept overnight at its destination, and released the next day. This carrier was buck at its coop, at headquarters, 30 minutes afterJt was released, having covered 18 miles, air line, and flown over a high mountain. Its mate equnlefF the performance. Another, released at dusk from the bottom of a canyon, rose abruptly, crossed two high ranges and was at its coop before dark. A third, carried in a back pack’inter htgiriymt'S''fif v the Buckhonf- country,-flew home within an hour, covering in that time a good day’s journey for a man on horseback. In the face of fire, this performance jitus...equaled , T-he, ranger,,..took . two, birds to the spot where smoke had been located. The first bird carried instructions to send help. Not long thereafter the firefighters at the front had brought the blaze under control. The second bird Was released; countermanding the first order. It reached headquarters just as the summoned assistance was about to start for the fire, and the message it carried not

AMERICAN FOXES WILL BE RAISED IN GERMANY Berlin.—American silver foxes and skunks will be cultivated on a large-scale by a German stock company on a farm in the Austrian Tyrol, under the direction of Professor de Mill of the natural history department of the Munich university. In Germany, where the prices of the higher grade of furs have risen enormously In the last few months, a perfect specimen of silver fox costs 100,000 marks.

cember 10 until the middle of January. The rise of the river was attributed to torrential downpours In the foothills and mountains through which tha Skagit flows. The heavy rain washed immense amounts of rich top soil from the hills Into the flood and all this material was carried Into the valley and deposited. Long Ride on Wheel*. Sunbury, Pa.—To travel 900 miles to Florida on a bicycle without mishap was the experience of William Burell, aged sixteen, of Sunbury, whose parents received word recently that he had arrived safely. Young Burell Is a mechunieal genius and found no trouble In finding work at garages along the route. He will leave soon on the second leg of his journey to California. He intends to ride his wheel the whole way.

game for Ills profession. In the next six years he fought 68 buttles and won 65 of them. Romance Entered Life. Then, when he was twenty-six. came his romance. He met the daughter of a Wisconsin doctor. She was a graduate of a Nebraska college, and far removed from Wedge’s station in life, but they were married. Then he realized the great difference in their Intellectual standards, so he gave up the ring to secure an education with the money he had earned as a prizefighter. For six years he attended a preparatory school, where he did 12 years of elementary work to prepare for college. He entered the University of Nebraska, but the war interrupted his work. He went to Camp Grant as a boxing Instructor, and- another obstacle appeared. The doctors pronounced him an Incurable victim of tuberculosis, with but six months to live. He went to El Paso, Tex., to begin a different battle, and in a year he was a well man. Won Degree of A. B. Then lie entered the University of Arizona und finished the work he had begun at the University of Nebraska, lie was given Ills degree of A. B. He was forty years old then, and became principal of the high schol at Beuson. Arlz. That was the position he- held until the end of last year, when he resigned to go East and continue his studies. He made the trip of thousands of miles in freight cars and “on the rods.” He started with $lO traveling expenses, und reached Cambridge with 65 cents ill his pockets. When the next semester opens at Harvard, after the mid-year examinations, "Kid" Wedge, former boxer, former lumberman, former hobo, and former flying consumptive, will open up the books that will muke him a doctor of philosophy. BLINDNESS DECREASES IN U.S. Cases Drop From 67,272 In 1910 to 52,617 in 1920, Say Census Figures. Washington, D. C.—The number of ■blind persons in the United States decreased from 57,272 In 1910 to 52,617 io 1-920, according to figures for the lust census announced by the census bureau. The decrease was attributed in part to advanced methods for treatment in blindness and also to education of the public In preventing blindness. ■ * s ; ’ only £ave welcome assurance of victory over the red peril, but saved a number of men from making a long and tedious trip through the forest. URGES BRITISH EMPIRE RADIO Wireless Commission Advocates Building Os Stations in Colonies aneT_ in China. London.—The wireless telegraph commission has recommended to the government ■ the construction of stations In England, Canada, Australia, South Africa, India, Egypt, East Africa, Singapore and Hongkong. A year was devoted to study of the question. The average cost of the stations Is estimated at not more than £160,000, normal value SBOO,OOO, but those in England, Egypt, Singapore and Hongkong would aggregate about £853,000, or $4,265,000. Recommendation Is made that two wave lengths be fixed for each transmitting station, and that each center be equipped for,,,receiving from several stations in the chain simultaneously.

IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SundaySchool Lesson* (By REV. P. B. FITZ WATER, D. D., Teacher of Entfllßh Bible In the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) Copyright. 1922. Western Newspaper Union. LESSON FOR MARCH 12 AMOS WARNS ISRAEL (TEMPERANCE LESSON) LESSON TEXT—Amos 6:1-8. GOLDEN TEXT—Wine is a niocker, strong drink is raging; and whosoever Is deceived thereby is not wise.—Vrov. 20:1. REFERENCE MATERIAL—Isa. 5:11, 12,-22, 23 ; 28:1-13; Hosea 4:11; Gal, 6:18-21. PRIMARY TOPIC—God Sends Arnos on an Errand. JUNIOR TOPIC—A Prophet Who Was a Friend to the Poor. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC —The Consequences of Self-Indulgence. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —Social Evils Yet to Be Conquered. The kingdom of Israel reached a high state of prosperity in the time of Jeroboam 11, and with it came' a condition of luxury, corruption and wickedness. The judgment woe ofojhis, lesson is directed against the sins of the upper classes in Samaria. The same sins are practical in America, in the nation and in the church. With the Increase of wealth in America has come luxury, corruption and gross wickedness which staggers the Imagination. It behooves all to give a listening ear, for God will eventually enter into Judgment. Our lesson is a temperance lesson. Temperance applies to other things than indulgence in Intoxicating liquor. Our age is Intoxicated with pleasure, pursuit of gain and selfish ambition. I. Reckless Security (vv. 1-3). They were blind to the perils that surrounded them. They were living in a fool s paradise, closing, their , eyes to the approaching storm of Judgment as predicted by Amos. They trusted In the mountains of Samaria for their protection. They regarded their city as impregnable. They no doubt regarded the utterance of Amos as Impracticable—the dreams of a fanatic. The tragic thing about this blindness on the part of the chief ones of the nation was they were so puffed up with pride that they failed to read the signs of the times in the light of history (v. 2.) The cities of Calneh and Hamath, though great and mighty, had fallen. To disregard the lessons of history, to dismiss the thought of impending Judgment, is to bring near the “seat of violence" (v. 3). Let chaotic Europe and Russia be the red lights of warning to America, and let all injustice and class selfishness be laid aside.

" 11. Luxury (vv. 4-6). The luxury of these upper glasses In Bain a rin expressed Itself in: 1. Extravagant furniture (v. 4). They lmd beds of Ivory —perlqips wood Inlaid with Ivory. Costly ns tlieir furniture was In .that day, It was commonplace as compared to 8ome“of the expensive furniture and fittings in our great cities. 2. Laziness (v. 4). They stretched themselves upon their couches—lived lives of Indolence. Such Is the way of many still. 3. Feasted on delicacies (v. 4). The Implication here is that they had their dainties out of season. This Is what many of the rich pride themselves In. 4. Adorn their feasts with music (v.'s). They sang idle songs—even interned musical instruments for tills purpose. They prostituted the noble art of music to tlieir sensual feasts. 5. They drank wine (v. 6). They were not content with ordinary drinking vessels. They drank from bowls. Indigating excessive drinking. They were so mastered by the intoxicating cup that tlieir feasts which were adorned witli the refinements of music ended in drunkenness. 111. Failure to Grieve for Joseph (v. 6). Joseph here stands fpr Ephraim and Manasseh, his two sons. Ephraim became the, principal tribe of the-northern kingdom, so Joseph is used as a synonym for the nation. The , upper classes were indulging in -these effeminate luxuries, entirely indifferent to tiie groanings of the masses. And’ whenever such a condition exist in a nation, there is need of Amos to thunder God's Judgment upon those r who iy;e guilty of it. IV. The Inevitable lssue.(vv. 7,8). 1. Tiyy Shall'go into captivity (v.T)f The northern nation was first in sin, therefore first to. go into captivity. What a striking contrast tills picture! instead of lying on ivory couches feasting upon dainties, they are with the suffering exiles. 2. The certainty of the issue (v. 8). it Is inevitable because of God’s nature. He is a God of justice. He lias sworn that judgment shall < fall. He is the God of hosts —the c&htroller' of the whole universe, therefore none can escape. God hates the wickedness of the world, and He Mil bring into lodgment tiie. men and women who revel in luxury with no concern for the poor-and needy. Though God waits long; He -does not' forget. The btrly escape for America Is repentance. Abide in Him. And now, little children, abide lu Him; that when' He shall appear, we... may have confidence, and not be ashamed at His coming.—l John 2:28. Great Mischiefs. Great mischiefs happen more often from folly, meanness, and vanity, than from the greater sins of avarice and smbitlon. —Burke. * —————————— Chance to Be Saved. Don’t despair of a student If he haa one clear idea. —Emmons.

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