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Infant City in Quebec’s New Gold District Er 1 ’ . “i — 3F jU r ’X.. (7 "T? 1 UiX -- I » a-W i 11 !fe-£rr-e.-.4< .. -U r Il! »fc-h ■:,. ....,,- a . .mog ’ I I Hi” r ” ' j i General view of Rouyn, Quebec, an infant city which promises to be one of the important mining centers. It is in the heart of the new gold and copper region and already has a population of 2,000.

Altitude Made Joke of Acting

Former Miner Tells of KHu--9 nor of Early Theater Days in Leadville. New York.—Usually in the small towns it is the actor who laughs up his. sleeve at the audience. But in the small town of Leadville, Colo., it is the audience which, nine times out of ten, enjoys more than one laugh up its sleeve at the expense of the actor. A man who spent many years out In the West, and most of them mining in Colorado, and is now resident in New York, cited this fact recently while reminiscing, as very often he does, over the earlier and more adventurous stages of his career when, instead of cramping his knees in the subway and under tea-room tables, he swung them comfortably over a Mexican saddle, whenever he wished to go anywhere, or stretched them luxu riously by a “cow-camp” fire, whenever he wished to eat anything. This man, having lived at every al titude from sea-level up to 13,000 feet, is well acquainted with the effect produced on the lungs and the respiratory organs generally by more rarified atmospheres than the one in which people live in New York. And he recalls quite clearly how, on the first night he slept at a height of 10,000 feet, he was awakened shortly after falling to slumber by a pounding in his left breast which turned out to be caused by nothing more nor less than his heart which, as his friends afterward told him, was struggling for more oxygen than he, in his slumbrous state, was giving 4t. and manifesting its annoyance at the sudden deprivation in this fashion. Till he became accli mated to the rarified air, which he did not do for a matter of several days, he was under the necessity, he said, of “catching his sleep” only in fitful snatches. An Old Leadville Theater. “There used to be a theater in Leadville,” he said, “and, for all 1 know, it is still there. Or perhaps it has been replaced by a larger one where they have movies, vaudeville acts, operas, full-length plays and Max Reinhardt pageants all for the price of a half dollar, as we do in most i>i our movie houses hereabouts. But in those days the ‘theater’ was a simple, modest structure and ‘shows’ were only booked there every once in so often. Thus, as you see, the arrival of a troupe was a matter of great moment and importance. ’“The occasion was usually attended bj great ceremony. On the first night ail of the population that could possibly be crammed between the four walls would be there, hungry for the entertainment, no matter how good or how bad it might be, ready and anxious to be moved to laughter, to wonder, or to tears. “Os course, the actors, too, were heartened by the intense interest manifested on the part of the audience. And so, knowing nothing of the difficulties of breathing in that higher altitude, they would. If they, happened to comprise a ‘song-and-dance’ team, immediately launch into an intricate and lusty exhibition of dancing which left them, at the end of several moments, and as they tried to sing at the same time, gasping for breath in a fashion to which they were totally unaccustomed. ’ * “They would then endeavor to sing the second verse of their song number, whatever it might be, and find themselves too breathless to do so. Sometimes they would try and drag the piece out to the finish, their syl tables and notes cut unintelligibly short and sounding very much like notes issuing from a wheezy organ pumped by some one who lacked the strength really to keep it going. Or

“SHORTY” WINS POT OF GOLD AFTER THIRTY YEARS’ HUNT

Locates Rich Mining Claims In Northeq. Manitoba on Hudson V Bay Railway. Winnineg, Man.—Thirty years ago •‘Shorty” Peterson, prospector of northern Manitoba, graduated from the University of Chicago as a mining engineer. Since that time he has spent years in the north country in the bush with hardship, grub staking and rainbow chasing his portion. But at last he has found his pot of gold add he is through, he states. He “blew” into Winnipeg recently on the tai) of a blizzard and at the mining recorder’s office started to complete a deal to sell'ten full claims and four fractional claims for $300,000 The buyers were a Toronto and New York mining syndicate, and ' the location te'. In northern Manitoba beside the Hudson Bay railway.

they would give up the second verse in despair and stagger limply from the stage, wondering what, on earth was wrong with them. “If at the same time, the visiting thespians happened to be giving heroic and voluminously written melodrama with long, pompous lines, aft er the first few minutes on the stage they would have to slow up the verbal action of the play in such away as to make it almost ludicrodsp although, truth to tell, the ‘drammers’ which used to find their way into th? West in those days were, to any one with a sense of humor, sufficiently ludicrous without any supplemental ridicule being attached to them. “If ever these actors or actresses played that town again, or any other town at the same altitude, they were more cautious in their opening moments. The song-and-dance teams, for instance, would come out at a walk, sing both verses of their song and both choruses and then, after an s interval of several minutes, go carefully into their dance steps. Having performed these, at a modified pace, they would exit from the stage and, despite the applause—and every number always got applause—they would not come on again. This was sensible. “As for the more dramatic players, they not only learned to speak their opening lines more slowly but they saw to it that their parts were not so liberally written. This, in itself, was an achievement of no small moment for the higher altitudes, since under no other circumstances have 1 ever heard of actors or actresses actually asking, of their own volition, to have their ‘lines’ cut.” Reminiscing still further about the exigencies of a winter in the West at 10,000 feet above the sea this westerner recalled how for several weeks, on one occasion, he was snowbound in a hotel which neither he. nor any of the other imprisoned patrons, dared leave even to cross the street. Snowbound in a Hotel. “The snow in that country,” he explained, “hits your face like small particles of glass and cuts it very painfully. Moreover, the fury of the wind and the glaring brilliance of the snow blind one, so it is practically im possible to see where one is going. Even crossing such an ordinarily commonplace thing as a street —and, of course, the main ‘street’ in one of those western towns of those days was wider tfian Fifth avenue—one

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Provided with maps, mining records, rich gold bearing quartz, reports on government assays, and blueprints disclosing a vein 200 feet wide by 3,000 feet long, he started negotiations, turning down one after another of small cash offers. The claims are located lon Elbow lake on property owned by tom. Hanna, who is Peterson’s partner. It Is about forty miles east of Flin Fion and twenty-five miles from the Hudson Bay railway right-of-way. Peterson started his career as a miner when he took a course in mining engineering in the University of Chicago in 1897. He first went to the Colorado silver mines and there lost $3,000 of his capital. After ten years In the United States he came north Into Manitoba and has spent one-third 'of his life in the bush in the noHh. He had many years of disappointments and then came the big find. Now

§ “Seven Red Stacks” ~ of Immigrant Gone tt # Butte, Mont. —No longer will ti ~ the immigrant Irish miner de- ij tt liver his ticket as he lands on * American shores with the words: t? s’; “Here's the ticket, bye. Put me it £ off at Siven Rid Stacks.” For ♦t there are no more “seven red # stacks.” ~ The last of the great piles of tt brick that brought to the “Never ** Sweat” copper mine the distinc- 2; •» tion of being the most photoj; graphed mine on the “world’s ?? richest hill” has come down, and tt t? the shaft has become merely one £» tt of the ventilating shafts of the several Anaconda copper mining .t? # properties, now al,I linked in a it H network of tunnels. ♦♦ was liable to be beaten down by the wind and numbed into immobility by the cold. Thus it was a ‘crossing’ not without its risks. Finally, in order to establish some kind of contact with the stores across the way we dug a, tunnel from the hotel to the cellar of one of them and thus were enabled to secure grocery supplies and other necessities. “On one occasion 1 was walking up the main street of Leadville during the early stages of a pretty bad blizzard when I felt a sudden sensation in my chest as though some one had just pierced it with an icicle. 1 staggered into the hotel und my friends bringing up a mirror showed me that ( the tips of my ears and nose were white. Quickly they got some snow and rubbed them vigorously. Then they applied ice-cold water to the frozen members, gradually increasing the temperature of it till it got quite warm. After this they got hold of me and poured dmvn my throat all the whisky in the place. For twentyfour hours after that 1 was uneon scious. When I ‘came to,’ however, they told me I had had a narrow es cape, an attack of pneumonia barely having been averted by their prompt treatment and the administration of whisky- Usually when a man got pneumonia at that altitude he was good for only about six days in this world, unless we could get him down the mountain to a lower altitude. Of' course, when the weather permitted,; we did this.” Good Girls * Camden, ,N. J. —Os 500 girls between the ages of thirteen and sixteen in the Hatch junior high school 195 have joined the nonlipstick club and two members have been ousted for violating the rules. Primitive African tribes made beads out of ostrich eggshells.

Peterson intends to make up for the hundreds of cold nights, poor food, and other discomforts a prospector has to put up with. Deer Rams School Bus; Hospital Gets Venison Katonah, N. Y.—A 250-pound deer, charging head-on at an automobile bus loaded with school children, was killed on a narrow ropd. •The driver said he saw the animal a hundred yards ahead as it lowered its head and galloped straight for the bus. He was unable to swerve the car aside. The carcass was confiscated by the Bedford village police and turned over to the chef of Northern Westchester hospital. We’d Be Satisfied Paterson, N. J. —Nathan Barnert believed that no man should have more than $1,000,000. Whenever his fortune exceeded that, he gave the surplus to charity. His will leaves* his $700,000 estate to charity and poor relativea -

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ORCHARD GLEANINGS PRUNING BUSHES EARLY IN SPRING For vigorous bushes and a good crop of large fruit, gooseberries and currants should be pruned as early in the spring as possible, advises JH. Clark of the New Jersey State Col-, lege of Agriculture. When a mature plant is being pruned, it is best first to remove the old canes which are past their productive period. The canes of the gooseberry and of the red and white currants bear fruit over a period of three to four years, and those of the black currant only two to three years. The long, vigorous, unbranched canes with light-colored bark are new ones and will produce the crops during the following years. On vigorous plants five to six of the best of these may: be left each year. These should be cut back about one-third to promote branching,'while all of the other one-year-old canes should be removed entirely. Canes which tend to bend over close to the ground may as well be removed since any fruit they .might produce would be dirty and of poor quality. Two-year-old canes which have made a very weak growth, or which, are affected by disease or insect injury, should be pruned out. Although sometimes it may be found desirable to remove a few of the laterals from some of the older canes to prevent too dense a growth the following summer, usually very ■ little of this thinning is needed. It is a safe plan to burn al! prunings except a few healthy one-year-old canes which may be desired for cuttings to secure new plants. Wrap Young Fruit Trees ; to Keep Rabbits Away, The only safe way to prevent rab-.; bits from gnawing the bark of the; trunks of young fruit trees is to wrap, the base of the tree trunks from the ground to a height of about 18 to 20 ■ inches, or the space between the: ground and the lowest branches, asserts T. J. Talbert, orchard specialist at the Missouri College of Agriculure. Where the branches are less than 18 inches above the soil, the wrappers should include both trunk and branches to a height of 18 to 20 inches. Some of the most common wrapping materials used are one-inch mesh poultry wire, galvanized window screen wire, galvanized wire netting having three or four meshes to the inch, old newspapers, gunny sacks torn in strips six to eight inches wide, and cornstalks. Wood veneer wrappers,’ patented wire wrapers, tarred paper, and building paper may be used. Trees are seldom attacked after they reach the age of four or five years. Trash, litter and dead grass and weeds which may form a harbor for the meadow mouse should be kept away from the tree trunks Where cultivation cannot be practiced on account of soil or for other reasons. hoeing a strip a few feet wide around the tree trunks to keep the space clear will help materially in preventing injury. Galvanized window screen wire and other types of wire Screen having quarter-inch meshes, if cut in strips and placed around the tree trunks as described ‘o prevent injury by rabbits, will also protect the trees against injury by mice, j Wire protectors, therefore, serve a double purpose.

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Careless Transplanting Big Cause of Failures Carelessness in* transplanting is the usual cause of the failure of newly planted trees to grow. Many species have to be transplanted with great care ,and certain precautions. When digging trees and shrubs that are to be transplanted it is necessary to retain as large a proportion of the roots as possible and they must be kept moist until they are in the ground again. The hole should be dug large enough to take the whole spread of the roots and deep enough to let the tree be planted one or two inches deeper than it was in the woods or nursery. If the soil is poor, enough good soil should be brought to at; least partially till the hole. Manure should be applied, not in the hole, but to the surface. The soil should be well tramped down around the tree- After planting the tree or shrub should be cut back well, and large trees should be braced with guy ropes or tied to stakes. Evergreens should not he headed back. Before leaving the tree after planting the surface of the soil should be loosened in order to prevent too rapid evaporation of moisture. Ideal Tree The ideal fruit trees should have a slight difference in the height of the limbs of the tree, that the weight from a crop of fruit will not cause a strain to come at one point from two or more sides of the tree. As soon as the growth of the young tree has advanced far enough to select the branches that are to remain to make the permanent framework, all other branches should *be removed. This early heading work of the young tree is usually done in May. Spray Apple Orchard When winter comes, spring cannot be far behind and fruit growers are commencing to think of spraying their orchards. “While the spraying season will not be here for a short time, how is the time farmers should be getting their spraying rigs in good running order,” says F. C. Sears of the Massachusetts Agriculture college. If the spray rig needs to be put in order when it should be working, the real value of the spray is lost

Four Leaders in the Pen-American Conference JiL M I '•If!, Ii 8 —! —isl Here are four of the leading figures in the Pan-American conference in Havana, each beiftg the head of his national delegation. Left to right, they are: Dr. Gustavo Herrero of Salvador, Dr. Sanchez Bustamertte of Cuba, president of tpe conference; Dr. Fausto Davila of Honduras, and Dr. Ledo Carlos Salazar of Gaatemala. Uncle Sam’s Newest Tourist Playground ia ■ *■ g B Alt i ■ ■ twF' All I X Xc, ■■ Ia i I IW" “ ■ v <L nnn iiji! ’ ' * -I 18ft H L <. Um m The new Mount Baker national recreation region of 75,000 acres, established by the United States government; In the heart of Mount Baker National forest in tlie northwest corner of Washington, near the city of Bellingham, promises to be one of Uncle Sam’s most popular tourist resorts. It overlooks Puget sound and the picturesque Sa it. Juan islands. The outstanding features of this scenic district are Mount Baker, rising 10,750 feet above the sea, and Mount Shukan. Between these two peaks, at an elevation of 4,200 feet, nestles Heather Meadows, a striking Alpinepark that is carpeted with heather and dotted with mirror-like lakes that are surrounded by dense clusters of evergreen trees. *

FINLAND’S PREMIER < I. I Dr. Juho Sumila, the new head of the.government of Finland. He is the leader of the Agrarian party in the Finnish parliament. SLAYER OF CHILD . ■ a ,? ' * • A Adolph Hotelling, carpenter and church deacon of Owosso, Mich., who has confessed that he kidnaped ahd murdered five-year-old Dorothy Schneider of Mount Morris. He has filso confessed to attacking two other little girls. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in solitary confinement at hard labor in the Marquette branch prison. Too Much Sweetness One of the most exquisite scents on earth is that of attar-of-roses. yet the people employed in its manufacture become so soaked in it that the smell of them is almost sickening. This may be classed as a friendless job If Also Runs A practical miniature locomotive, six Inches long and weighing but 12 ounces, has been completed by a French mechanic after ten years’ work

Going to Chile to Study the Sun * St * >fj J w /Jr 4 JhW /Jr l jo ** • > ■ I Harlan H. Zodtner is on his way to Calama. Chile, where he will' direct the solar observatory of the Smithsonian institution for the next three years. He will measure solar variation to supply data for the investigation of the relation between solar variation and world weather. In the photograph he is using the silver dick peri-helioscope for measuring solar radiation. Lindy May Be Put in This Blank Space lg‘ . s -'Y'- MtfYV&p W- ■ * t b *«** B »«* ■ •* ■■■ _- ■ ” lm y., -limna| IU ''Wttß B S r S Blank space in the frieze surrounding the rotunda tn the Capitol, at Washington Where Representative Andrews of Massachusetts proposed in the house that a painting of Lindbargh’s landing in Paris should be placed. The frieze portrays a sequence of great events in American history.

FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD

Rats cost the British isles $75,000,000 a year in damage. Congo elephants are particularly fond of bananas. No iron tool was used in building the Jewish temple at Jerusalem. English pig breeders are attempting to establish a typical English pig. v - Clothes moths do not feed on«cloth of vegetable origin, such a"S cotton or linen.

A big elephant can lift a tree trunk weighing a ton. A firm in England is selling sport airplanes on the installment plan. A game very like billiards was played in Greece around 400 B. C. Tiles of yellow, brown and blue are being used to pave streets in Sweden. The region of the North pole has much more vegetation than the South polar region.