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THE FOBEBT FIBE8. 



Hy Arthur Uuiterman. in Life. 



Ii thin the Foreiit Primeval f — tliat redo 

 ItMit, iiullowed cutliedral 



Lifted by Nature to God, tlie solace and 

 joy of His creatures. 



HeaIthf{tvinKi tranquil and strong, the 

 source of beiiuiirent waters, 



Wooinf; the (luickeiiinff rains, guarding 

 the bountiful wlieatlandsf 



This WHH the Forest Primeval; — this roar- 

 ing, devouring furnnce 



Billowed and sheeted with flame, a piti- 

 less, raging inferno. 



(See! how the sentinel pines go down, 

 while the red-hearted eyclone 



Greedily sweeps on the settlements, whirl- 

 ing in panic before it 



Caribou, tiniber-wolves, deer, snorting and 

 plunging and bounding 



Mingled with cattle iin<l men, poured 

 through the streets, where the houses 



Melt in tiie fury! — And now, nothing re- 

 mains but the timbers 



Desolate, blackened and charred, heaped 

 over smoldering bodies. 



There let the fire-weed grow, dropping 

 memorial blossoms. 



Only a camp-fire brand, — only a spark 



from an engine. 

 One of the myriads blown daily and 



nightly at random — 

 Such was the procreant seed. Come, let 



us thresh out the harvest. 



A GREAT CAIfADIAN SURVEYOR. 



Toronto Star. 



Alexander Niven, who died in Toronto 

 on May 7, at the age of T.l, was one of 

 the remarkable figures of this Province. 

 His was a life of strenuous endeavor. 

 Since 18.58 he ran survey lines into the 

 Ontario bush like testers into a cheese. 

 North and south, as meridians, east and 

 west, as base lines, his narrow laneways 

 in the forest may be seen throughout New 

 Ontario to-day, some of them overgrown 

 again, but all of them true as the stars 

 and the theodolite and higher mathematics 

 could make them. He was the first sur- 

 veyor to run a line to James Bay. 



The winter of 1862 was spent in survey- 

 ing townships in Manitoulin. The next 

 45 years, with scarcely a break, were spent 

 by Mr. Xiven in the* service of the (fov- 

 ernment. In 1883, he surveyed the town- 

 ship of Widdifield, where North Bay now 

 stands. 



Later in the same season, he ran the 

 meridian north to Lake Timiskaming, 

 w-here Ilaileybury stands to-day. He out- 

 lined townships at the foot of Lake Ti- 

 niagami, in the winter of 1884, and dur- 



ing the next two yean outlined the elaj 

 belt from present-day Ilaileybury an far 

 north as Knglehart, where it standi to* 

 <lay. In IHUO he ran the boundary !>•• 

 tween Kainy Kiver and Thunder Baj 

 through that dense tangle of apmee and 

 jack pine, and in the next three years 

 outlined the townshiiis north of Rainy 

 Lake, Lake of the WoimIh, and as far north 

 as Hu|>erior Junction as known to-day. 



In 1K!I6 he began the sur%'ey of the 

 north and south line forming the boundary 

 between the districts of Thunder Bay and 

 Algoma, and in two years he ran that out 

 to James Bay. In lOo'.' Mr. Niven out- 

 lined the Timagnnii Forest Reserve. Many 

 of the lakes and rivers in the north coun- 

 try were first made known and place«l on 

 the map through his exploration linni. 

 notably the Little Abitibi River. lie 

 was the first exidorer to cross the muakeg 

 country of the lower Albanv overland. 



BEATITUDES OF TBEE, SHEUB AND 

 BUSH. 



(C. Roacoe Brown, in Saskatoon Pbceniz.) 



Blessed is the man who appreciates the 

 value of trees, shrubs and bush fruits; for 

 his home shall become a jdace of shelter 

 from the storm, with bowers oi »..••■••♦«- 

 and fruit in due season. 



Blessed is he who deplores the fact tlial 

 he has not already made a beginning i n 

 growing trees, shrubs and small fruits; 

 for he shall yet find comfort for himself 

 and his children if he goes to work now. 



Blessed is he who, living on the bleak 

 prairie, hungers for a beautiful sheltered 

 dwelling place; for he shall have it if he 

 goes about it aright. 



Blessed is he who thinks of the welfare 

 of his wife and children, who provides a 

 shelter for l)oth man and beast; for be 

 shall obtain mercy. 



Blessed is he who is pure in heart; for 

 he shall see God in tree and shrub and 

 flower — yea, verily, he shall become like 

 the tree spoken of by the psalmist, bring- 

 ing forth his fruit in his sea.Hon, bis leaf 

 also shall not wither and whatsoever he 

 doethe shall prosper. 



Blessed is the man who is adversely 

 criticised for well-doing: for he. if he per- 

 severes, shall live to see others following 

 where he leads; he shall live to see a tree- 

 less prairie become dotteil with groves — 

 oases of refuge and delighv in a wind- 

 swept plain. 



