THE OLD-FASHIONED BOY.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 357, 12 March 1903, Page 6

THE OLD-FASHIONED BOY.

im luaulry About a Missis* Ty»« jtad« at » Diauar of OW« Timers. At a little dinner of a few old-timers in this city the other night, reports the New York Sun, one of the speakers said: "What has fcecome of the old-fash-ioned boy? The one who looked liks his father when his father carried the ;ort of pomposity which was like the divinity that hedged a king in the time when knighthood was in ita break o' dav. The boy who wore a hat which threatened to come down over his cars. The boy whose trousers were made over from his father's by his mother, or aunt, or grandmother. The boy whose hair had a cowlick in it, before, and was sheared off the same length behind. The boy who walked, with both hands in the pockets of his trousers, and who expectorated between his teeth when his teeth were clamped together. The boy who wore boots, run down at the heels. The boy who never wore knickerbockers or a round-about coat. The boy whose chirography was shaped by the gymnastics of his tongue. The boy who believed his father was the greatest man in the world, and that he could have been president if he wanted to be. The boy who was his mother's man whan the man was away from home." Timber 01 Pofet Sovbl, Probably no place on earth will average acre for acre the timber that the Puget sound region can furnish. It is fir, cedar, spruce, hemlock and alder, as well as maple and other woods. Its Douglas fir—the most common Tariety—has been found superior to yellow pine and other woods heretofore used for car building l . Csasda'i Seacoasf. The eastern Canadian seacoast, from the Bay of Funday to the Straits of Belle Isle, covers a distance of 5.000 miles, and British Columbia, with its multitude of bays and mountainous islands, has a seacoast of 7,180 miles and a salt water inßhore area, not including minor indentation*, of 1.500 square mUofla