. Christian herald. such a death are thusdescribed by the apostle: Awake thou that sleepest, and arise fromthe dead, and Christ shall give thee light.(Eph. 5:14.) it has taken possession of enough land to coverhundreds of square miles. There is this mention ofthe provision of forest trees for useful purposes: I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, andthe myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree,and the pine, and the box tree together. (Isa. 41: 19.) To Seek Treasure Islands IT IS said that a junior at Harvard University isto start for South America s
. Christian herald. such a death are thusdescribed by the apostle: Awake thou that sleepest, and arise fromthe dead, and Christ shall give thee light.(Eph. 5:14.) it has taken possession of enough land to coverhundreds of square miles. There is this mention ofthe provision of forest trees for useful purposes: I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, andthe myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree,and the pine, and the box tree together. (Isa. 41: 19.) To Seek Treasure Islands IT IS said that a junior at Harvard University isto start for South America soon in search of twoislands he believes to abound in fabulous grandfather in his will made mention of theseislands, declaring them to be rich in gold dust andpearls, and requesting him to go and possess thembefore he shall reach the age of twenty-one. It is aquestion whether in the long run it would be thebest thing for the moral or even financial welfare ofthe young man to fall upon such a fortune which. AMERICAS ONLY EGYPTIAN SPHINX The Valuable Birch Tree THE switch and the school-master of olden times havebeen so intimately related thatthe word birch and primitiveschool punishment were well nighsynonyms. The birch tree hashad many other uses and has hada splendid history. They have beenof sufficient importance to claimthe attention of the Departmentof Agriculture at Washington,which has just issued a bulletin on the subjectwhich is of deep interest. Sir Alexander Mackenziehunted whales in a birch canoe. He found the ani-mals at the mouth of the Mackenzie River, andperhaps luckily did not strike any of them. It isdifficult to estimate the value of the service of thebirch bark canoe in the discovery, exploration,development, and settlement of the northern part ofthe continent from the Arctic Circle to the GreatLakes and southward. For a century and a halfthe birch canoe threading its way through the lakesand rivers carried civilization where no other boatcould go.
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