House and Garden 
PRESERVING CANADIAN FORESTS 
T he government at Ottaw'a, Can¬ 
ada, has decided on a change of 
I policy regarding timber regulations 
applicable to the Northwest and 
Manitoba. Timber reserves ^\ill be 
maintained. With this object in view, 
the heavier timber belts will be with¬ 
drawn from settlement and the young 
trees will be preserved so as to foster a 
growth for the future. Guardians will 
be appointed to protect the reserves, 
particularly in the Turtle and Moose 
Mountain regions. Fires will be pre¬ 
vented as far as possible, and the settlers 
will be restrained from cutting young 
trees. Another step in contemplation 
is the devotion oi labor and money to¬ 
ward the laying out of an effective 
fire-guard. 
A lund for this object was voted 
at the last session of Parliament. At 
the summit of the reserves mentioned 
are numerous lakes. These are to be 
connected by wide roads, which, when 
completed, will form an effective barrier 
to the progress of fire, it is thought. 
The theory is that the open spaces and 
the lakes will constitute an efficient 
fire-break .—Northwestern LumberrnajT. 
THE BRITISH MUSEUM 
T^HE British Museum, which, under 
the friendly eye of the King, is 
now shooting out an infant branch from 
the mighty parent tree, was planted 
perhaps in the meanest way. It was in 
1753 that the trustees of Sir Hans Sloane 
offered to the nation for £20,000 the 
wonderful collection of coins, manu¬ 
scripts, printed books and natural his¬ 
tory curiosities. As an additional in¬ 
ducement to the state to provide house 
room, it was pointed out that the Har- 
leian collections of manuscripts could 
still be secured for the nation on payment 
of 0,000, and that the collection of Sir 
Robert Cotton, although nominally the 
property of the nation, was so carelessly 
housed that a large part had already 
been destroyed by fire. 
The Government refused to find the 
cash, but declared its readiness, after the 
true British sporting manner, to allow 
the public to gamble the British Museum 
into existence. A lottery was therefore 
authorized of 100,000 A3 tickets, 
^200,000 to be distributed as prizes and 
he balance to go toward the purchase of 
le Sloane collection. The scheme proved 
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