'The House is still in session at ottawa, but" very litle has. been Jaccomplished uring the past two weeks; the budget. is still under jseunsion, and there is no doubt that it will be adopted very much fin its original' form, 'A few re-sions have been made under pre-[sure from the parties interested, Tnvthe ease of the most discussed item, the tari of fif-een cents a [pound on foreign periodicals, Prem for Bennett is playing a game with the Anierican publishers; he is. 20t putting the new: tari into effec! {ntil August 15, in the hope that a umber of the publishers will decide to take arrangements for issuing Canaan eto of thie magazines the meantime Rumours are si ready current that a firm in Montreal has been offer-fed the contract of printing one of the American magazines that Is widely "read in Canada, and there may be several more to fallow.
The report made by Sir Henry President. of the Cana-to. the 4 of Commons contained a number of suggestions that were rather start Ting. In addition to proposing thorough examination of the exist ing means of transportation in nada by land, water, and air, stated that he thought the time had come for the winding up of the affairs of the Canadian Gov. ernment Merchant Marine.
His idea is that all the vessolx lowned by the Government: should sold for what they will bring in, even though this will entail a Jereat loss to the country.
Now, it is generally recognised that the C.G.M.M. has been running lat n loss for years—in fact ever fis ier cle see ed ich [been opened up by the service are Should the boats all be sold in ier Be, tat iene he aries jand, particularly on the Vancouver joining up the services seems mani-
The crop situation on the prairies seta lash oda a many parts they have seldom been better, And, as the East always harvests a' wide "assortment ferops, "there should not be any Jereat' shortage of farm products. The Government has already taken cognizance of the difficulties of the western wheat-growers,- and will provide such aid as is required daring the coming fall and winter, 'Shades of the Indian warriors of long ago, and of the first French settlers in' Lower Canada might well have been seen in Lafontaine Park, in the heart of Montreal, when tribute was paid to the memory of the gallant youth wh, in the year 1660, gathered sixteen stalwart followers about him and turned back the forces of the Ivo queis Indians. The occasion was the unveiling of a cenotaph to the memory of Dollard des Ormeaux under the auspices of the Catholic Associaion of French Canadian Youth, and a large crowd gathered to withes the ceremony.
The speaker of the day was Mayor Camillien Hondo, and in a few words he recalled to" his hearers the exploit which all bad come to commemorate. In the throng around the cenotaph were sny school lads, and to them the layer appealed particularly, He told the story of how in 1600 the little settlement. of Montyeal, then but 18 years old, was terri fed to learn of the Approach band of ruthless togate warriors were aay 'o.her expedition of revenge, and the situation was desperate, Dol-ard des Ormeavx, though. still in his teens, determined to face the perils; he called on his comrades to take courage, and together they manned a small fort some distance Jaway from the town, With great ry they withstood the attack of the Redskins, although several of them including their leader wore killed in the struggle.
Just at this june.ure in the colorful historical event pouring vain came down on the crowd; but most all waited to great with Japplause the appearance throu, the trees of a eaureur de bois. int-personating Dollard des Ormeaux, On a brief holiday trip your correspondent had occasion to visit, one of the largest lumber mills on the Pacific Coast, and at the risk jut describing some very well-known scenes, will give a few impressions fof the tour. The mill was that at Barnet, a small settlement on Burs tard Inlet about nine miles out of the city of Vancouver; it is admir= ly situated from the point of of transportation facilities, the ent lumber can be shipped either by ocean-going vessels which ut in at the wharf, or by. the railway which passes' directly. bo-side the mill, The lumber cut at this mill was mainly Douglas fir, Sitka space and western hemlock; all of these trees grow to a tremendous height, Jand their girth is often in excess compares with a figure of 92 per Sree ae a there is nothing that can quit apy ao tek southern Saskathe an absolute failure in a region which has come to be Tooked on as one of the very best for regular crops. A recent ey enoss of the scene of compart desolation pictures it thus What I am here describing general the Regina-Moose Jaw-! Weyburn area, a Sahara within the Jdrought area as a whole.
Tt was the banner section of the banner agricultural province of the Dominion. Within that district there have" been produced year jatter year for thirty years big Jerops of wheat and all other grains Tt was the sure-crop area. It was vast garden of waving grain and green prairie, This year it is an abomination of desolation—waste space, barren of vegetation, with the soil drifting hither and thither. jas-the wind blows."
Nationaliy-there is a compensa'
1 feature. The eros from Man' toba eastward to. Prince Fdwaré
Island are excellent; in fact, The result, is that the logs, which are towed to the mill-pond in great booms by steam tugs, require large-scale machinery in order that they may be handled economically.
First, slabs' are cut off by whir= ring handsaws, and in maw cases the. log is immediately reduced 0 jadimension timber for export as sich. The side pieces that are cut off proceed to a re-saw which cuts them up into much smaller planks} ledgers take off the bark, and then the conglomeration of all sizes and thicknesses proceeds to the butters, Directing the operation of the Dutting saws is a man who must know his lumber thoroughly and also be quick to act; he has at his command saws spaced two fect apart which he can lower so as to cut a rotten length off an other wise good piece, or to. simply straighten the butt of a piece, All this he must repeat many times a minute, for the planks are slipping by with relentless speed, From this point on the proce-Jdure is more methodical, but. slow-for. On the sorting table thick and thin are separated, culls are put Jaside, and the stood lumber is, stacked into small. piles which, in turn, are. picked up by a special type of tractor and taken out. the. yard "for" piling, From the Sorted and graded piles the shipe Eves on for Britah Calunbin es, on for British Columbia ity Ber, for many uses, onexcelld:
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