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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1916-04-27, Page 3144 I' eel: DING DAIRY COWS. The econontieal reeding of dairy caws calls for more skill, knowledge tend attention than - toes the pro'lttc- tion of food, Jed as no two Poole are Wilco in their contposttton or otfecte,. just Se no two Bowe are alike in. their ltreds for the production of a large yield of mile. Nor aro they alike their digestive ability. The cow should be given all the palatable food that she is able to eat and aeshullatc; end tilts food should contain tate varieuii elements, in the i'reportlatis in which they are needed, to sustain life and produce milk. Tests which have been made time and again prove that a 1,000-poupel cow require the. equivalent of about 25 pounds of dry food every day, and We food should contain about 13 pounds of carbohydrates or starchy natter; frons half a pound to ono Pound of fat, and from ono and one- half to two and one -lisle pounds ot protein. By dry food is meant food free from water, and when fresh food like soil- ing crops and silage are used, the total weight mast be increased to make up for the moisture, as, for instance, 100 100 pounds of silage contain only about 25 pounds of dry food. The perplexing problem of the feeder is to learn hew lie can mix hire dif- ferent materials so as to form a teed of the best composttion—a balanced rattan—at the lowest possible cost. The most expensive Moment in a ration is protein, and therefore should receive the closest attention. Protein is the element most required in tate de- velopment of blood and muscle, and for the production of casein or curd in milk. Starc'hyj or carbonaceous elements ferns the principal digestible portions of hay and silage made from the true grasses, and of grains—as corn, rice, barley and rye—all of welch are poor in protein. But hay )rade from the clovers, alfalfa and other legumes, and such grain feeds as cotton seed meal, wheat bran and shorts, pea meal, malt sprouts and brewer's grains, contain a much larger proportion of protein. The perplexing problem of the feeder is how he can mix those different fends so that the whole will have the roper bulls and weight and contain. tete different nutritive elements in the right proportion. It is a problem which is generally not So easily solved. It is made still more difficult by the fact that cows vary in their recleelre- er.ents with the season, the amount of milk which they give and the period of gestation. But, while even tho solu- tion may not be exact, it approximates very closely. There are few feeds of which a cow can consume 25 pounds daily which do net contatn all the earbanaceous ma - lariat she requires. Therefore, in making up a ration the feeder needs to give little attention to anything beyond palatability, bulk and the pro- portion of protein. . As protein is costly, and when fed in excess of the requirements of the cow is worth no more Utah the cheaper carbonaceous elements, no more should be given than i3 necessary for the maintenance of the cow and for her secretion of milk. 'While an excesa of protein in the feed floes no special harm, any deficiency will bo quickly SIoWn in the decrease of milk. Some kinds of hay, like that made from pea vines for example, contain as large a proportion of protein as is required, but the average cow does better when a part of her ration con- sists of concentrated feed, ruck as grain or meal. Usually it is better to use at least a small quantity of such food, even with a hay rich in protein. Pea vine hay contains about the same proportion of .iigestible protelu that is found in wheat bran, but a cow will do better on a daily ration of 20 pounds of the hay and 5 pounds of bran than on 25 pounds of either the hay or the bran alone. Ibilk of fend is necessary to stimulate the digestive organs of the cow and keep them in good condition, and digestion seems to be still further stimulated by the adds.. tion of some grain food to the bulky bay ration. There are cases where it will be found advisable to use a feed in which the various food elements are not in exactly tho proportions in which they are assimilated by the cow. On every farm there is geronalty a certain amount of food produced which is of high value for miiek cows, but which cannot be sold or exchanged for other feeds. An old rule in feeding was to give a pound of grain per day for each 100 pounds of live weight of the cow, but that was defective in that it gave to a cow in full flow of milk or more than to a dry cow of equal weight. Soma breeders have adopted the rule.of feed. -tug a pound of grain per day for each pound of butter made in a week. Thus, a cow making six pounds of butter in a week should receive six pounds of grain daily, while the cow giving 10 pounds of butter weekly would receive 10 pounds of grain as her daily ration, That Is a rule much better than the one for feeding, according to weight' and regardless of production, but still it should not be adhered to too strict- ly, nor should all cows receive the sante kind of grain. A cow thin in flesh ought to be fed fattening grain, like corn, a feed which should he avoided for a cow which is inclined to become too fat. A balanced ration tone which the protein bears the proportion to *he carbo -hydrates necessary for the best results) will support tete cow on a similar quantity of food than will a ration in which either element is in excess; but dairymen aro not wholly agreed on what the proportionate Should be. For a number of years the rule was to give a fedi containing one part of digestible protein for ,eaeh 5.4 par2t of digestible carbohydrates, or, as it is commonly stated, a ration liaving a nutritive retie 1 to 5.4. Recent ex- periment work has shown the econ- omy oi' varying tele proportions with the. 'conditions of the animal, and. has lc'd to a general practice of feeding lees protein to cows nearly dry, and more to those producing a Jieavy flow of milk. Celt et anent er tilling bee net peau fully paid by increased Yields ot cols or spring Frain. While the sell and crops reattend to thorough Methods at tillage, they do not respond suffice• ently to extreme methods of tillage to pay for the added expellee. A. syetene of tillage that :loop not permit the soil to be robbed sat moisture by vege- tation which leas no. market value, and that keeps the surface of the soil Vein becoming hard and smooth, seems to accomplish the practical elide of tillage. While more labor titan Is required to accomplish these ends ntaY increase the yields, yet tee increase is likely not to be sufficient to return as much for a unit of labor expended in the extreme tillage as in the less in- tensive and More practical tillage. Summer tillage and green -manure crops have increased the yield% but not the profits, because of the !ncreas; ed cost per acre. The results reported Indicate that the less expensive meth- ods give the greater profits, As the yield per acre is increased beyond a certain normal, the cost per bushel, on the average, will bo increased. It is probable that the farmer who judici- ously combined live stock farming with grain production secured a profit during the most unfavorable season. There is no color of horse so insert• sible to heat as the sorrel. Of ordinary fame implements, the sulky plow has the shortest life in years, but ranks second only to the walking plow in total days of service rendered. Its life is a little over eight years, while its total of days' work is 119, as compared with 11y3 years and 224 days for the walking Plow, MADE IN CANADA Magic Bolen Powder costa no more t'tan the ordinary tcinds i"ar economy, buy the onexound tine EW.GI:..ETY COMPANY LIMITED •p r N,, ,K. ronorrro owe Mooren► /WWI( ,urrrawrt,. Grippe. Left Her. �eSeriouslyIII BUT DOODD'S KIDNEY PILLS CUR. ED HER COMPLETELY. Mrs. Hatquist Tells Just Why She is the Firm Friend of the Grand Cana - elan Kidney Remedy, Dodd's Kidney Pills. Bangsuud, Sask., April 24th.—(Spec- ial.)--Mrs. Pete Hatquist, a well-known resident here is a firm believer in Dodd's Kidney Pills, and is always ready to tell the reason why. "About a year ago," Mrs. Halqulst says, "my little girl was taken i1L with the grippe. She was sick in bed for three weeks with pains in the joints. They were swollen and stiff. "She had cramps in her muscles, so it was awful hard for het; to get around for the longest time. After she was able to be around her skin became harsh and came off in scales. "After using two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills she was as well as ever she was in her life. She has been strong and healthy ever since." The after-effects of grippe are more to be -dreaded than the disease itself. That is because they generally act on weak kidneys and put them out of working order. Sick kidneys are the cause of rheumatism, backache, dropsy and numerous other diseases. The one sure way to avoid them is tie keep the kidneys- toned up and able to do their work. The best way to keep the kidneys healthy is to use Dodd's Kidney •Pills. AUTO COURTESY. %Vhen it comes to courtesy of the road, President M. M. Wall, of Buffalo, the venerable leader of the New York State Motor Federation, cannot bo beat. He is so careful of little things of a courteous nature that he seldom drives over fifty miles in a day's run. In itis "book of habits" he has in- scribed the following courtesy rules which motorists in general might well adopt: BE COURTEOUS. First, do not •hog the middle of the street. Give the other fellow room to go by and when he attempts to pass you, do not speed up and perhaps crowd hint into a safety zone. Be cour- teous. Keep out of the safety zones: They are for the pedestrian. It is up to you to make them safe. When a fellow comes from a side street—Give him room to turn the cor- ner; do not crowd. When you park behind another car, remember he may wish to leave before you do. Give him room to get out; don't crowd. When you expect to stop or turn, do not keep your intentions secret; think of the fellow behind. Do not dodge in and around cars— In line in traffic. Remember they were first and have just as great a de. sire to get through as you have. Be courteous. • Do not presume too much when you have the right of way. Perhaps the other fellow does not know it. Be courteous. ' Do not.cut in front of a street car— Remember the motorman is human, and most of them will learn all the courtesy you will teach thein. Be cour- teous. When you get the "go" signal from a traffic officer, remember to give the pedestrian time to get out of the way. When you seer people on the curb trying to reach a car, or vice versa.. slow up; stop if necessary, out let them cross .without danger, This is one of the courtesies that will pay the motoring public best. When a pedestrian does not or will not pay any attention to your horn, remember that the deaf, hundreds of them, use the streets as well as you. When you have an insane desire to speed --Remember the other tellows trot are passing have just as much right to beeak the laW as you have. Think of the sentiment you are creat- ing against motoring. Think of the accidents tea may happen by your hitting some other driver coining in from a side street, or pedestrian who does not see you,00ming. Think of the people in your own car, perhaps, who have a fear of speeding and are trying to be game and not let you know it. It is not sport to drive fast in the city; it is the utmost discour- tesy to your fellow motorists and fel- low citizens. ?''Alter NEWS AND VIEWS. Moisture is largely 1s lost tir cust z tgc' ..!tion rather than from the r>:rf:,ee of the soil. Tho mil mit!elt assisto retaintnl ; Moisture under certain conditions. but dates not glu:' iys retain 'sufficient moisture to ray the cast tf maintaining an ideal i�tulclt t;urnlir'r tlllinr; tele land re - EGGS. -- MORE EGGS Canada Does Not Supply Enough for Her Own Use. For many years Canada produced more eggs than she needed and was able to make large shipments abroad. We kept on increasing our poultry but at the same time our towns and cities were growing in size and the consumption of eggs increased more rapidly than the production. The re- sult was, that our experts gradually disappeared, and strange to say, agri- cultural Canada became an egg Me porting country, People were sur- prised to learn through the press that shipments came in, some times from Russia and frequently from China, two of the greatest egg -producing reen- tries in the world. Of recent years enormous quantities of cold storage eggs from the United States have been brought into make up for our deficiency. Since the war broke out the foreign supplies for -Great Britain have been seriously interfered with. Trade with Russia has been largely cut off. There was, therefore, an op- portunity for the shipment of Can- adian eggs to Great Britain, In the patriotism and production campaign of last year it was stated that there would be a deficiency of 100,000,000 dozen eggs in Great Britain. thus opening up an enormous market to Canada. In addition to the regular consumption there has been an in- creasing demand for strictly fresh eggs for hospital requirements, • The call for fresh eggs has been as insistent as the call for cooks and Red Cross funds. Canadian eggs inspected and gra,ded have founa a ready market. This market can be field during the war and after the war if we are ready to take advantage of it. Particular attention is given to this question in The Agricultural War Book for 1916. The outlook as to demand and prices is such as to warrant our people in giving careful consideration to it. Thousands of families that do . not keep fowl have here an opportunity. Instructions and suggestions are avail- able in every province. The Domin- ion Department of Agriculture has a number of very valuable bulletins and every province of Canada has a well. organized poultry branch ready to give advice. It is a most interesting problem. The United States calcula- tions are that the American hen on the average lays 70 eggs per year. Our Canadian hen, partly from climatic reasons, falls short of this, some cal- culate by, at least 20 eggs. The pro- fitable flock should show an average of at least 120 eggs. The work car, Tied on in developing bred -to -lay fowl and the results of egg -laying contests The shadow of human life is traced open up a most interesting field. The upon a golden ground of immortal record is to -day held by a hen in Dela- hope, Hillard. When a•1)edestrialt sees you coming and deliberately pays no attention to you, remember th it sone are mentally deficient and you cannot tell them by the clothes they wear. When you see a ehtid en a curb. slow up. Remember the child can start quieker -than you can stop. Do not Open your cutout on the atreais during the day. Teentemb or there are many sick people and people on their death beds. 110 not Open your cutottt at night, for you will probably remember some night when you were diet' rbed by sonne fool whose great- est claim to feint *ens his noise, • And remember that your horn is trite„ o tart or the rainfall and given Nat a few tinzert worse than your Cut- toree ' „ei!y against drouth, but the out, •1 ware. This lien laid no less than 814 eggs in one year. Last year the Cana adian hon did her duty, the best Ziver --she laid eggs to the value of $30,000,- 000. Site can do muck better 12 we give her a chance. There aro thous- ands of families in villages and towns that van keep a small flock at very little expence, thereby serving their own table and helping to increase the exports. Even with eggs we can help finance the war. Moat prices are ad- vancing and tlto cost of living ie going up. Only a half dozen eggs every day will be a great help for the home table, Perhaps, in addition, you Pan Put away half a dozen for use next fall and winter. ®.s BANISH PIMPLES AND ERUPTIONS nn the Spring Most People Need a Tonic Medicine. One of the surest sigi}s that the blood is out of order is the pimples, unsightly eruptions and eczema that come frequently- with the -change from winter to spring. These prove that the long indoor life of winter has had its effect upon the blood, and that a tonic medicine is needed to put it right. Indeed there are Pow people who do not need a tonic at this season. Bad blood does not ;merely show itself in disfiguring eruptions. To this same condition is duo attacks of rheuma- tism and lumbago; the sharp stab- bing pains of sciatica and neuralgia; poor appetite and a desire to avoid exertion. You cannot cure these troub- les by the use of purgative medicines --you need a tonic and a tonic only, and among all medicines there is none can equal Dr, Williams' Pink Pills for their tonic, life-giving, nerve -restor- ing powers. Every dose of this medi- cine makes new, rich blood which drives out Impurities, stimulates every organ and brings a feeling of new health and energy to weak tired ail- ing men, women, and children. If you are out of sorts give this medicine a trial and see how quickly it will re- store the appetite, revive drooping spirits, and fill your veins with new, health -giving blood, You can get these Pills from any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The -Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont. KEEPING IT UP. (Kansas City Journal.) "Nobody. ever invites me to ride in their automobile." " \Yell?" "And when I get one I ain't a -going to invite anybody to ride." VERMIN. lug them untenable: About 11 a. nl. (From the New work Tribune. the German. dusts-Ilttilgarian in- fantry battle of the Vorilun bas lasted advanced and occupied the abandoned Serbian lines, the ens, niy had no artillery with whi'ch to Milder Snell an operation and not enough infantry to indulge tri ter -attache. Between Between noon awl 7 R. m. the two armies, quit work for the day. It is a war conducted on a leis- urely labor union schedule. Taking into account the somewhat greater capacity for resistance of the Russian armies, the drive through Ga- licia and Poland was very similarly t. ordered. eel. But against the >iolverfttl French artillery and the indomitable Morale of the French troops no such easy progress was possible. The French have yielded ground, but they have never admitted inferiority, So far, they have held their main lines intact. Verdun is still unconquered, and after a month of desperate fight- ing, with necessarily .costlier sacra feces for the attackers than the de- fenders, the balance of profit over loss is on the I''reneiz rather than on the German side. .The third detuonstration of the ov- erwhelming vorwhelming power of the German ofe Pensive has failed. Tho barren gains at Verdun so far prove that the Allied line on the west front cannot bo broken by any effort of which the German armies are now capable. The one in evhioh the Crown Prince was to figure for his own glory and the glory of the house of Hohenzollern has not materialized. Neutral nations have been mere im- pressed by Turkish reverses in Ar - movement from the direction of .Metz amenia than by minor fruitlessly exag- being halted at Vaux and Eix. Since gerated German successes on the March 11th the focus of the fighting Mouse. There is more unrest to -day has veen shifted to the west side of in Berlin than there is in Paris. The the Meuse. There the Germans have French do not talk openly of a "vlc- driven forward repeatedly. But their• tory" at Verdun. They are repress- line is still further from 'Verdun at ing anything that looks like exults- Chattancourteefalancourt than It Is tion. But they know now more on the east side of the river at Dou- aumont or in front of Vaux and Eix. Taken as a whole, the German of- fensive at Verdun has yielded nothing at all compared with the effort made, The ground taken is of no special value. The forts of Verdun have b sen dismantled. They no longer serve as traps for their defenders. Verdun it- self could be laid in ashes without af- focting in the least the military sit- uation on the Meuse front. So long as the French lines hold, every gain in territory merely calls for another sacrifice on the part of the attacking armies. The German operations around Verdun can bring results worth while only if they wear down the French defence, compel the evac- uation of Verdun and the whole Ver- dun salient and enforce a retirement from the Meuse westward to the line of the Aire. Such an achievement would have had a decided moral efect If it had come with machine -like precision or startling suddenness. It was that highly impressive moral effect, not only on the Allied powers, but on the neutral nations as well, which Berlin gambled on when the great drive against Verdun was undertaken. What Berlin needed and hoped for was another demonstration that the theory of numerical exhaustion, on which the Allies have been banking le forecasting German defeat, has not yet even begun to come into play. Another victorious march was to be staged like that through Galicia and Poland or that through Serbia. Herr Rods, Rada, the most brilliant of the Austrian war correspondents;' has described pictures.quely in the col- umns of the Vienna "Teue Freie Presse the method of the Serbian ad- vance, The heavy artillery started its work daily at about 9 a. m., play- ing on the Serbian positions and mak- amonth, it began on 1+ebruary Rist and has continued since then with only a few brief pauses. 'l:he flags have been hoisted in Berlin following various claims and rumors ot victorte But there has been no G'et'niale vie• tory of sufficient consequence to de - servo a celebration. Various Minor local successes have been won at a cost far exceeding their value. What has happened In the month's. fighting about Verdun is this: The French have yielded outlying posi- tions all along the original semi -circle line of entrenchments defending the city from the northwest to the south- east—from Malancburt and iethiq- eourt all the way, !round to Isresnea. The Germans have pushed forward in these sectors front throe to four miles. The French have fallen bade to their main line 'of defence, The German attacks have been the fiercest at three points. The that great onslaught was from the north. It lasted from February list to Feb- ruary 20th and .culminated iu the. oc- cupation of the dismantled Douau- wont fort. From February 26th to March 4th the main pressure was ex- erted from the east and southeast. This attack was not obstinately re- sisted and yielded a. larger area of territory than the original attack from the Borth, From March'4th'to March 11th assaults were made' ell along the French line, East of the Meuse the gains were slight, "the fai.lure"of the arteries is one of the trag &die§ of modern life. Men in the very prime of life, and in the midst of business activities, are suddenly cut off. In many cases the blow comes before they realize their condition. And what is the cause 7 Most usually overeating and drinking, com- bined with too little bodily exercise. The blood. becomes overloaded with poisons. .The kidneys break down inan effort t� filter the blood, degeneration of the arteries takes place, an artery in the brain bursts, a clot is formed and paralysis results. Or it may be an, artery in the heart that gives way and causes heart failure. And how is this condition to be avoided 7 BY moderation in eating and drinking, and by keeping the liver, kidneys and Ior'rr,eis regithiz and active. If you do note• get sufficient exercise to accomplish this, It A ne'aessary to use such treatment as Dr; 'Chase's Kidney- Liver Pills. Xt'is only by 'the action of 'these organs = that the 'blood can be purified and trio .piaisoh's:xe la\'e.d from the system. In: 'sing : • t r t D ,l, Chaese!s Kidney Liver Pills w" you are not making any experiment, for I.-�% ,they have no equal as a means of. awakezi;-, s ing the 1ivb' ,kidzxpys'it4bq vets for health -till activity. They • prevent. • sueh tierions. troubles 'as hardening or' the artei ie9 ''a ` t?i therebt .ptomott to , •eotnftiiiand health. 1d, prologh .. Ones pill a dose. 2 a cents,,iiox, ell'i1ealers, pr 'Bdinaiisbn 'ltatee db',' Co„ Lit»itt!d, Toronto. Do' not till ttitlltbd itiW;are'elpti g", a., dub `;r. (Mute. Imitations disaippoi tt. r, ' tl ,t a...: u '>ar ........ »r. Chase's **Ate' look. i oleotedrecipes. sent fre070 IOU Ine0"94 ,W+I/a $ yta`M a *ow.i1•1i•11, 0•«�►": •i .1100.011* certainly than ever before that their frontier is secure—that Germany's greatest effort on their front since the battle of the Marne and the battle of Flanders has crumpled in failure. In a tactful sense, the battle of Verdun is not yet finished. It may drag along for several weeks more. But it is clear that the positive decis- ion at which the German high com- mand aimed cannot now be obtained. Even were Verdun to be abandoned eventually by the French, the ex- treme, cruelly exhausting effort need- ed to take it would nark the passing of German capacity to resume another great offensive on the west front, or on. any other front, .for mouths to comp. *4 ft You tend .reiia# in xaml-Bilk [ It eases the burning; stinging. pain, stops bleeding and brings. ease, Perseverance, with Zan'. Buk, means cure; Why not prove this ? 4II Dru J lSeorcL-- boa r eco BRIEF AND SCIENTIFIC, Fifty vocations are taught in the United States navy. Police women aro now employed in. 26 cities in the United States, The annual fire lose of the United Staten amounts to $2 for each inhabit- ant, Salt put in hot water will snake it hotter, just as it makes cold water colder. The pet birds of the United States last year consumed 4,704,625 pounds ot bird seed. Government meat inspection cost each resident of the United States four cents per year. Eiderdown is one of the poorest conductors of heat, hence -its tete as a bed covering. A German substitute for sole leather withstood six weeks' test of the sever- est character. . .. A daily paper was recently isaned on a train between the cities of Minneapo- lis and Spokane. The number of aviators in the world is now estimated at 50,000, and the number is growing daily, ' Tuberculosis is the chief cause of the condemnation of meat by the United States inspectors. WHAT' SHAKESPEARE' DID, Some of the Reasons Why the Bard ia. Really Immortal. Tho under -sea origin of chalk is in- dicated by the presence of minatti sea shells which are revealed by the microscope. Heavy firing on the battlefields overhead caused the fall of a 200 -ton piece of salt in the mines of Wie- liszka, Galicia. ' The records show that only 17 per cent. of the applicants applying for enlistment in the United States navy are accepted. The world's products of lead pencils probably amounts to near 2,000,000,000 a year, half of, which are made from American -grown cedar, What Were Itis aohievereuts? wlny do we call him great? No other writer at drama has lasting power over our laughter tears. Others painted a dull world; Will gave us Arcady. Where ,other men draw mar voliously, he gives us the life itself. With infinite skill and infinite zest he heightens comic effect by beauty. He lett us his lyrics, faultlessly lovely and unrivalled, yet for melody axed fancy as radiant and as pure, With an exquisite sense of appro• priateness he made of our common language structures of loveliness so consummate as to alter its usage for- ever. ale brought English historical drama to its perfection and to its close. When he laid down the untangled ekeiu there was no one to take it up. i'Ie opened to highest tragedy a range of undreamed sublimity, and with unparalleled invention created or refreshed a, gallery of liftman types as txue to nature as to art, almost end- less in variety and matchless in vivid- ness. iii.; supreme gift to' dramatic art is tho great gift of character -drawing. In masterly drawing of character he remains unapproachable. He used every typo of humanity fit for tragic or comic art. None ever framed a woman of prouder or sweeter stuff, or so shrewd- ly -drew her ,April charm, or so woe - gully showed to what terror her gen- tleness may bo turned. None other ever so made the ghastly and appalling natural. • Or so drew the coarseness and fiendish malignity of the Iago side of side with Desdemona's gentle purity. Or with such matchless eloquence and irresistible pathos painted the terriil•e, inexorable Jew. No other so provokes us to laugh at human• folly, shudder at humtfn crime, or shrink aghast from horror; . yet keeps unchanged our pity and lave for fallen humanity. With the highest secret of comic art, he diocovered the sadness of laughter, and put wisdom in the mouth of fools In ".Romeo and Juliet" be wrote the epitome of all songs or stories of youthful passion and romance that ever were told or sung. IIis vocabulary Is so vast, hia knowl- edge so comprehensive,that others seem beggars who have been to a feast and come away with the scraps. Yet the greatest gift his genius shows is his knowledge of human hearts and leis innate sympathy. There was no one liko him in his day; there has been t:o one like him since; and we all rhall live a weary while before we tee his like again.-- Jchn Bennett in St. Nicholas. And such and Gold, Silver, copper, quicksilver pr mercury, iron, nickeI.' tin, zinc, lend and aluminum are the ten minerals generally to be found in every house. In Switzerland there is one post office'for each inhabitant. This is said to be greater faciltttes than offered by any other country. • Too 'Tired. Frank lives in Eastern avenue. A few days ago his companion George 'caught his clothing on a picket fence. He was held fast, his feet a foot or two from the ground. Ile pleaded with Frank to release him or run for help, but Frank refused. "Why don't you go and help George?" his mother inquired from the front porch. "I'm just toe tired," said Frank. "Yesterday I wanted him to 'shoo' my dog out of his yard, and he wouldn't do -it 'cause he said he was tired. I'm Just as tired as he was." •-4. How We Read. Oliver 'Wendell Holmes owned up to his preference for reading in books to reading them through. "When I set oht to read through a book," tho auto - Prat wrote, "I always felt that I had a task before nee, but when I read in a book it Was the page or the pare graph that I wanted, which left. Its fmpression and beanie a part of my intelleeti1dl furniture." If We were only franker iuost of its would con - less to bo this Mate being like Holmes o lmcs in ,ter of out reading.—Netv York 'fele. ,grata. ,..''Just ab Millet and the widow .started, up the aisle to the altar, ov- cr,yy light in the ehurclt wont "out. • i'' 'hta.'t' did the couple da then? "HOE Y a J eI� otl going. The widow know the r. •i+<,ra1r,"•'•Nocton .Yourlal, 1 4t — KNEW ALL THEIR TRICKS. QWi King Ounstanttne of t reeve LK not .lying much these days. liven lila Zueeli iS not tathinc; far publication. a1 failed Seeing that � ' ort cit P 1 to %tied: Canada, the Chancellor may 'hint that lettere is no use, trying ;gain. When the Kaiser hears that the i'tciuintaux of the North Poli are eon. 'ributing to I3ritain's war fund, he -no* throw uphis hands, •d. Queen Wilhelmina's husband is said to 1;e a pro -German German. But she wears the breeks. ('apt. von Papen its tight to by in Hol- land, Ile seems to keep as far away from the front as possible. There will be no prorogation of Par- liament before Easter. 13u1 there will be an adjournment for perhaps a week. *44..,s---. ... By strenuous work for three weeks en the part of recruiting ofi:icers all aver tho United States, 2,250 men were added to tete United States army, We rizderstoocl Mr. Bryan to say that at the sound of the first shot a million r.:en would rspring to arms. That must have been a figure of speech, 4 c o ._., The death 02 Richard Harding Davis, American author, newspaper - marl and war correspondent, is an- nounced to -day. Although lir. Davis had written many books, and was at one time editor of Harper's Weekly, he was best known as a war corre- spondent, acting in that capacity in the Spanish war of 1898 and in the Boer War. In the present war, Mr. Davis was a strong supporter of the Allies, and was- very bitter against Germany fcr her treatment of Belgium. Frederick the Great Proved It to His Cavalry Officers. "Gentlemen," said Frederick the Great, after a review of Ms troops, "I am entirely dissatisfied with the cav- alry. The regiments are completely out of hand. There is no accuracy, no order. The men ride like tailors. I beg that this may not occur again and that each of you may pay more attention to his duty, but I know how things go on. You think I am not up to your dodges, but I know them all and will recapitulate them. "When the season for riding drill comes on the captain sends for the sergeant -major and says: "I have an appointment this morning at —. Tell the first lieutenant to take the rides,'. So the sergeant major goes to the senior subaltern and gives him the message, and the latter says: 'What! The captain will be away? Then I am off hunting. Tell the second lieutenant to take the men.' And the second lieu- tenant, who is probably still in bed, nays; 'What, both of them away? Then I will stay where I am. I was up till 8 this morning at a dance, Tell the cornet I am ill and he must take the rides.' Finally the cornet re- marks: 'Look here, sergeant major, what is the good of my standing out there in the cold? You know- all about it much better titan I do. You go and take them. "And so it goes, and what must be the end of it all? What can, I hope to do with such cavalry before the ene- my?" --History of Frederick the Great." Enriching the Language. The growth and change which aro in- separable from all living language ean- and a speciallinterest attach s to the incorpor- ation of he names of well-known men. Thus Wellingto•o lids come to mean a sort of boot; Brougham, a carriage, and Gladstone, agel' as thati groat advocated the "bag and baggage policy, which seems likely at length to be adopted. Other names havo been turned into themu de well as nouns. Pis Instance, perpetu- ated in the words to burke. burked,'burk- ing and burklsrn, while in quite recent times Captain Boycott's experiences re- sulted in the language being enriched by the phrases to boycott, boycotter, bey - totting, etc. The most notable case was 'probably 'rthat. S- owof lder D the gre.Dat andwho goodbypublirasashln . )rev. ., fi a "family edition" of Shakespeare in 1881, added the words "bowhderize" and bowl, dollen" to our language.—Exchange. Tho Test of Edtilcation. '4,441.Tho test of a good education Is the de- grecs of mental cuiture'ttvhich is imparts, for education, so far as its object is scientific, la the diseiplino of the mind. 'rho reader must not overlook what Is meant by the word mid when used In reference to education. That some dumb animals aro possessed of a sort of under. standing Is admitted, but It has never, been asserted that they enjoy the use of reason. rfah, however, has the faculty called ryasn n o iu edition to hes uer- d standing. Accordingly what We mean by saying that the object of education is the cultivation of our minds or that the goodness.of an education varies with the degree of !.ental culture amounts simply to nese-that we better pertornt our function* as rational creatures in pro- portion as we carry further the distlne- tion between ourselves end the brute creation—that to, in proportion a9 we at% better fitted for the discourage of rea• son—Sohn William Donaldson, 4• 41, Tha Rochester Times tells of a well- known Canadian financier of 65 years of age, who went to England in the in- terest' of his health. He had money enough to live in any way he chose, at,d his trip abroad was chiefly for the purpose of consulting the best physi- cian obtainable in an effort to learn how he could live to be 100 years old. The physician told him that he could only expect long life by keeping woncc- ing, no matter how rich ho was. The dcctor never knew of a man living to extreme qld age who had "'retired." Perhaps that is what keeps some of us wcrking when we should be resting. The Canadian Pacific Railway has no fewer than 5,000 individual agents in the United States in connection with the. work of the natural resources de - pat trent. The latter handle.i some 7,000,000 acres of land•• -•the balance of the 25,000,000 acres the company ob- tained from the Government at the inception of the line. It looks after foto' demonstration farms and thirteen mixed farming farms. The depart- ment also supplies animals on easy terms of payment to the settlers. For -- instance, in 1912 it supplied 6,338 cattle, 1,324 swine, 3,472 sheep, and 114 horses on easy terms of payment. Then it has interest in the great it•ri- gation black, which altogether would comprise some 4,000,000 acres. The ea: -tern section is now completed, and comprises some 400,000 acres, which Will accommodate 50,000 people. The Danbury (Conn.) hatters R'^ were in trouble recently over b+ - cott, and whose property was threat- ened with seizure, have hit upon a new plate of increasing their wages. As outlined by a contemporary., the work- ers think that they should have higher wages, but they also feel that the employers cannot afford to pay higher wages at this time, owing to the increased cost of materials since the war broke out. Instead of strik- ing, therefore, they are planning an investigation of the industry, with a views to showing the cost of manufac- tuhe• under the new conditions, the position of the employers and the posi- tion osition of the workers. The results of this survey will be made public to prove that the retail price of hats Should be increased to meet the chang- ed conditions of manufacture. The em- ployee's cannot very well object to the plan. There is or was a IlaMiltan col- ony over in Danbury. WHAT HF WAS WAITING FOR. (Exchange.) The minister was hard at work re- pairing the fence of his chicken yard. Noticing the careful attention given to the work by a small boy of his next- door neighbor, the clergyman asked kindly: "Are you getting some points on earl:entry 1•tarold7" "No, sir," said Harold. "lin jest await.in' to hoer wot a preacher says w'en he smashes his tituntb wit' de ofr hammer," . Di 1.' i TRY ANY SOFT' SOAP E Jo (1tausas City Journal) ) "Go!" said the girt. "I Wash my lian.ls of " "13oyou.fore you do any hand -washing, bete ring 1he lei• t:tle3 rihgave you," , t•Mortrd, frigidlyfft.n.t WHY, INDEED? (London Opini "Mother, is gran'ma gran'pon) a's wife?" '•1t course She is, clear." "'What slid he Marry such an old wo• neon for?"