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stead of the 5 cents per ounce rate William Power, M.P., has two sons 



prevailing ordinarily to continental officers in the first contingent now 



Europe. The second announcement in France ; the son of Mr. William 



is that in order to facilitate the Pearce, Calgary, is now in France ; a 



handling of mail at the front letters daughter of Mr. A. S. Goodeve was 



should be addressed as follows : one of the first to be accepted on the 



(a) Eank corps of nurses sent out and she is 



(b) Name HOW in France, while a son is pre- 



(e) Eegimcntal Number. paring to go with the second con- 



(d) Company, Squadron, Battery or other \. , /-. t /-< -r» T\r i p. 



unit..... tmgent; Col. George P. Murphy of 



(e) Battalion the Canadian Army Service Corps is 



(f) Brigade the son of Mr. Denis Murphy, and 



(g) First (or Second) Canadian Contin- l^.q^j^ q ^^ Edwards, in command 



(h) British Expeditionary Force of the 38th, is a nephew of Senator 



Army Post Office, W. C. Edwards and brother of Mr. 



LONDON, ENGLAND. Gordon C. Edwards. Besides this 



we have new evidence every day of 



A meeting of limit holders repre- the large number of relatives of 

 senting territory in the Upper Ot- members who have enlisted for ac- 

 tawa district in Quebec was held at tive service. 



the Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, on 



March 15 when the matter of form- 

 ing another forest protective associa- 

 tion was discussed at length. The 

 idea of the promoters was to unite 

 the holders of timber limits stretch-' 

 ing westward from the territory cov- 

 ered by the Lower Ottawa Forest 

 Protective Association as far north 

 and west as might conveniently be 

 handled by one association. At the 

 conclusion of the meeting a commit- 

 tee was appointed to go fully into the 

 matter and to report at a later meet- 

 ing. :. 



WOODNOTES. 



Reference is made in another part 

 of this issue to a number of the em- 

 ployees of the Dominion Forestry 

 Branch and the British Columbia 

 Forestry Branch who have enlisted 

 for active service in the war. This is 

 true of all institutions in Canada. 

 How deeply interested the Canadian 

 Forestry Association is in the pro- 

 gress of the campaign is shown by 

 the fact that a number of relatives 

 of Directors are at the front or are 

 preparing to go with the second or 

 third contingents. Just how many 

 these are is not known but, acci- 

 dentally, the following facts have 

 been learned : The ex-President, Mr. 



When the pine tosses its cones 



To the song of its waterfall tones. 

 Who speeds to the woodland walks? 



To birds and trees who talks? 

 Caesar of his leafy Eome, 



Where the poet it at home. 

 He goes to the riverside — • 



Nor hook nor line hath he; 

 He stands in the meadows wide, — 



Nor gun nor scythe to see. 

 Sure some god his eye enchants: 



WTiat he knows nobody wants. 

 In the wood he travels glad, 



W^ithout better fortune had, 

 Melancholy without bad. 



Knowledge this man prizes best 

 Seems fantastic to the rest: 



Pondering shadows, colors, clouds. 

 Grass-buds and caterpillar-shrouds, 



Boughs on which the wild bees settle. 

 Tints that spot the violet's petal, 



Why Nature loves the number five, 

 And why the star- form she repeats: 



Lover of all things alive, 

 Wonderer at all he meets, 



Wonderer chiefly at himself, 

 ^^^l0 can tell him what he is? 



Or how meet in human elf 

 Coming and past eternities? 



— Ralph Waldo Emerson. 



THE ELM. 



The elm in all the landscape green. 

 Is fairest of God 's stately trees ; 



She is a gracious mannered queen, ■ 



Full of soft bends and courtesies. — Smith. 



