Show BUSH FRE FIRE nearly every summer brings it its g toll of death and devastation in the bush fires of the north country the tae wiping out of several towns in ID northern ontario with a loss of life estimated to reach 2 and the injury of scores of persons la Is another chapter in the tha often told and seemingly nr naver vo L end nd ing story A long dry spell I 1 4 a little carelessness and carelessness Is the tha rule rather than the exception and disaster results lives and property worth millions are gone forever progress Is set back the battle Is begun over again with trust in providence 1 the only offset to a repetition the bush fire Is one of 0 the perils of those who go into the alie wilderness says pittsburgh dispatch in the nature of things that peril must be ever present man alan shows impotence against the forces of nature nowhere more tragically than when the fire fiend starts on a march of devastation many are the romances that have boon been written writt enof of the woods stories of heroism have come to us in books telling of almost superhuman efforts to gain safety and of almost superhuman sacrifice fica of readiness to meet with fortitude a terrible death when death was found to be inevitable yet let the cold news reports of any disaster such as that in the country contain all the thrills and all the aror r and all the heroism that I 1 A fiction e t I 1 I 1 a writer could imagine the sale of opium and its principal derivatives seems to have become a drug on the drug market under the operation of a federal statute known as the harrison law it is stated by leading manufacturers that the sales of opium products have fallen off one third within a short time this will not be disagreeable news in man many communities the harrison law is said to have some weaknesses but if it Is ia reducing the sales of powerful drugs in many poor misguided human beings it is making abrade beginning to stop the hitherto wholesale distribution of the ar article title says boston globe physicians are arc not backward in saying that the liquor habit is far less dangerous and easier to cure than the drug habit for tills this reason reliable physicians aro are also very careful to avoid administering to patients all habit forming drugs A pennsylvania farmer lias has a yel low and white color scheme on his farm his barns and out buildings are yellow with white trimmings his farm house is white with yellow trimmings the horses and cows are yellow even the dog and chickens are done in the tha yellow and white as the society column would say says houston post he does not testify whether the colors affect the growing of crops or the tha yield of milk but many a u farmer would find that any colors would improve the general appearance of things on his place the cleanup clean up anapa and paint I 1 ut up movement should have its ts home on the farm |