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THE CAI.Va;aS T(3' KEEP,
b'ronl time to time, says one fares
wailer some exponent of more live -
block risee to remark against tt,0
slaughter of the calves and not algins
is thie without reason. We must
agree that very often calves which
slrotrlel be kept in the herd, for breed -
int; purposes are turned away , or 1 eat
and their owner gets very little profit
from thele, and they are not per1uitted
to do the goed in the herd Which tt ey
would have done if kept for breeding
purposes. However, there are large
nulnbers of calves raised each year
which should go to the veal route, and
many of those which are killed while
very young would be of no use if kept
in the herd as breeders.
Tile good dairyman has a basis upon
which he works in selling or keeping
ins calves as the case may be. He
used first of all, a pure-bred sire with
milking propensities well marked in
the blood of his ancestors. He keeps
in his herd nothing but the best in-
dividual animals and the heaviest
milkers and he weighs the milk from
each cow or heifer regularly and sys-
tematically, and, if necessary, has
the milk tested for fat so he knows
exactly 'what each of his cows is do-
ing and whether or not the calves from
titat cow are likely to go on and make
valuable animals to place in his herd.
If the cow, mother of the calf, cannot,
through milk production, justify her
existence in the herd there is little
reason why- the calf from such a moth..
er should be kept past veal age, and it
is far better than such a calf should
go to the butcher early in life than to
prove a bill of expense, in fact, a rob-
ber, in the dairy herd.
There is little use of keeping an in-
ferior dairy calf to the age of
two or three years, because it will gen-
erally cost more especially when grain
is high in price, as it is now, to put
meat on this wedge-shaped dairy car-
cass than it is worth. It would be folly
then to keep all colves without dis-
crimination. Only the best should
survive for breeding purposes, and the
only man who know which are the
best is the,man who is using a proper
sire of a heavy milkiug strain, and is
weighing the milk reeulally from the
cows to; which the sire is bred, and
keeping the calves from those cows
which lead in milk production and
give enough to pay for all feed and
labor and leave a handsome profit be-
sides
The point is to be able to pick out
calves which ,should remain in the
herd something trust be known about
the producing ability of their dams,
and this cannot be estimated by the
ordinary guess -work method. Tee
„scales and the tester should be made
just as important in determining the
future individuals which shall com-
prise the herd as in determining which
cow now milking shall remain in the
herd.
It is important also that no faulty
individuals as to conformation and
type be kept in the herd. It is not
enough that the sire be from good
milking ancestry and the cow be a
heavy milker herself. They must
have such confirmation and prepotency
that the calves show the desirable type
of the milking breeds.
Faulty calves should be discarded,
even though their r tricest.
Y be right.
This close selection will send thou-
sands of calves to the block as veal
which would'otherwise be kept in the
herd at a loss It may be, after all,
that there are not too may calves
slaughtered young, but thet there is
not enough system followed in deter-
mining which shall go and which
shall be kept. Undoubtedly, many are
kept which should go, and equally true
is it that .many go which -Should be
kept. The matter is in the hands of
the dairyman, and the sooner he
makes all his selections on conforma-
tion, and type backed by production
will it be righted.—Prairie Farm and
Home.
PRUNING TREES.
Prune annually but never heavily.
1)o not cut out large limbs.
Frost bitten wounds are slow to
heal.
Never leave stubs in cuttting off
limbs.
Wounds ;real most rapidly in spring.
Keep the trees free from suckers.
Torn wounds are generally fatal.
'Summer pruning induces fruitful-
ness.
Heavy pruning is always followed.
by a heavy growth of suckers.
Winter pruning, when the tree is
wholly dormant, increases the vigor of
the tree.
In transplanting cut back, top and
root. Burn all the wood to prevent'
spread of insects and disease,.
Winter pruning, when the tree is
wholly dormant, increases tho vigor
of the tree.
In transplanting cut back, top and
root. Burn all the wood to prevent
spread Of insects and disease.
NOT1:S.
Corn, alfalfa, clover and grass —
these four plants furnish 90 per cent,
of the coarse food used by animals.
Liming is assisting farmers to se-
cure good catches of clover.
Oats and barley, or oats, peas and
barley, are excellent combinations for
dairy forage.
There are many cows in this Country
capable of producing 400 pounds of
butter in a year, but not one of
them, so far as we have knowledge,
came from a scrub sire.
Itev. V. 13. Mayer, of Casenova, Va.,
has wintered a flock of mileh goats in
timber without bought feeds, getting
three or four quarts of milk per day.
He claims to have saved several bab-
ices with goats' milk, and has demon-
strated the freedom of goats front tub-
erculosis and other diseases.
Sore or chapped teats are due to ex-
isostmc or cold, wet weather and rough
handling, 'Treat with lard or varyline.
When a bull is stall fed he • 'rould
Mare a plentiful supply of nitrogenous
roughage, such as good, clean clover
or pcavine Itay.
Spray pumps of many different sizes
end types will give good results on
the farm. Docket pufnl>e, knapsack
sprayers ford automatic sprayers will
be, useful in the garden and orchard,
Oa well as in the lien house, although
a 'timer hose or extension rod will be
heeded in tlio °re,tard. A barrel pump
or pewsr spraver may be iced with
good results if it hi already ah hand,
but le more expended than the rime -
age garnt seeds for Neff house work.
Competition is the life of trade,
When it. isn't the death et it.,
Everything is good in its place, The bile, which, under certain condi-
tions, causes so much distress, is of the greatest :value as an antiseptic and
cathartic when it is properly handled by the liver,
The chief function of the liver spends to be the filtering of bile from the
blood, ,.here it acts as a poison, and pouring it into .the intestines, where it
hastens the course of the food mass through the alimentary, canal, and by
its
antiseptic 'nfluenco prevents fermentation of the food.
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When you suffer from biliousness and indigestion and have a coated tongue, bitter
taste in the mouth, headaches andnloss of appetite, you will do well to look to the condi.-
tion of the liver. Other symptoms are wince on the stomach, which causes belching, and
the formation of gas, which gives rise to dizziness and pains about the heart.
Because the liver has failed, the food in the alimentary canal is fermenting instead
of being digested, looseness and constipation of the bowels alternate, the whole diges-
tive system is thrown out of order and the blood is poisoned.
By immediately awakening the action of the liver and bowels, Dr. Chase's Kidney -
Liver Pills affords relief for this condition nn.ost promptly. Oh this account they are
generally recognized as the most effective cure for biliousness, liver complaint, indiges-
tion, constipation, .and the pains and aches which arise from poisons in the blood. The
benefits are lasting `because this medicine removes the cause of trouble.
Onet pill a• dose, 25 cents a box, all dealers, or. Edmanson, Bates & Co., Limited, Toronto.
Do not be talked into accepting a substitute. Imitations disappoint.
Dr. Chase's Recipe Book, 1,000 selected recipes, sent free if you mention this paior. •
6TH OVERSEAS UNIVERSITIES
• COMPANY, C, E, F,
REINFORCEMENTS FOR PRINCESS
PATRICIA'S CANADIAN LIGHT
INFANTRY.
Canadians, of whatever nationality,
thrill as they recall the wonderful
record made by the Princess Patri-
cia's Canadian Light Infantry at. i ee-
tubert, at Ypres, and many other
battlefields in Belgium; how, in the
face of overwhelming odds, they held
their positions by their courage,
steadienss and dogged perseverance.
For nearly a year the P. P. 0, L. I.
(as the Princess Patricia's Canadian
Light lntantry is known in military
circles) has been reinforced by a
steady; flow of recruits of the very
finest of our Canadian manhood.
These recruits, many now veterans,
are determined that this fine battal-
ion shall not lose its high record,
but with their help shall have added
honor and prestige in the future.
The reinforcements have been
drawn front all over Canada, ani
the universities of Canada have
made this battalion their care. Al-
ready 1,350 officers and seen have
gone forward under the title of the
Universities Companies, and are do-
ing their "bit" at the front or at
Shorncliffe. Five Universities Com-
panies have left Canada.
The number of men volunteering
from the' West has been simply won-
derful. So much so that the author-
ities of the Western Canadian Uni-
versities decided to send overseas a
battalion composed of students of the
Western Universities and members of
the teaching staff. This battalion le
now recruiting and is called the 196th
Western Universities Battalion, C.
1i, F.
The object of the Western Univer-
sities Battalion and of the Universi-
ties Companies is the same in that it
provides a means for men to get to
the front in congenial company, but
though their paths are parallel, they
are not identical in this respect, The
Western Universities Battalion is for
overseas •service as a battalion, and
the Universities Companies are rein•
forcing the Princess Patricide Cana-
dian Light Infantry.
The P P. C. L. 1. is now composed
mainly of men from the Universities
Companies, and the shady flow of
reinforcements for this battalion
roust not be allowed to stop, and fur-
ther, the standard of the recruits
must always be the "best that Can-
ada can offer."
There are- many men of the,Univer-
sity type whose hearts grow warm as
they read and hear the name of the
Princess Pats, for they have broth-
ers, relatives and friends in it, and
they wish they could have an oppor-
tunity of joining it. To these men
the news,that acit 1 sixth company is
being recruited, under Major Mglier-
gow, at McGill University, in Mont-•
real, -will be welcome.
The sixth company is in comfort-
able quarters at McGill University,
and has all the advantages of the use
.of the McGill Campus and the Uni-
versity building, including the McGill
Students' Union,
The Universities Companies have
been almost overwhelmed with the
hospitality of the residents of Mont-
real and its suburbs.
The training of the companies has
been of an exceptionally ..efficient
character, and has been of a nature
to develop specialists, some at mus-
ketry, others at signalling, others at
tactical exercises, and again others in
physical training; bayonet fighting
and bombing.
The great advantage of these com-
panies is that men of the same social
status go forward together, and join
a battalion in which they will find a
large number of congenial spirits.
Another advantage is the rapidity
with which they goforward to the i
front. The training n Montreal us-
ually takes about three months, and
after two months further training in
England they take their place in the
firing line without unnecessary delay.
The reason for 'this is the :act that
these .companies reinforce a battalion'
already at the front.
A considerable number of the men„
who have joined the Universities
Companies have, upon reaching Eng-
land, obtained commissions in the
British and Canadian units. It is, of
course, impossible to make any guar-
antee as to promotion of -this charac-
ter, but the nature of the training re-
ceived and the reputation of the Uni-
versities Companies make the chanc-
es of promotion excellent for the type
of men that the Universities Com-
panies accept.
Intending recruits are examined lo-
cally by an army medical officer, re-
ceive their transportation to Mont-
real, and immediately obtain their
uniform, and start their training,
without delay. Readers are invited
to make known to their friends this
company, McGill ";University, Mont-
real, will be glad to supply any fur-
ther information that may be requir-
ed,
.Origin of the Clearing House.
In 1775 the bankers of London rent-
ed a house in Lombard street and fit.
ted it with tables and desks for the
use of their clerks as a place where
bills, notes, drafts and other commie
ciai`"'paper might be exchanged with-
out the trouble of personal visits of
employees to all the metropolitan
banks, Transfer tickets were used,
and by means of this simple plan
transactions involving many millions
were settled without a penny changing
hands. The Bank of England and all
other important banks in London 'are
members of the Clearing House Asso-
ciation. The first clearing house in
the United States was established by
the associated banks of New York in.
1853.
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Bette' Than Spanking
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Spanking does not cure children of bed-
wetting. There is a constitutional cause
for this trouble, Mrs, M. Summers, Box
W. 8,. Windsor, Ont., will send free to
any mother her successful home treat-
ment, with full instructions. Send no
money but write her to -day if your child-
ren trouble you in this way. Don't
blame the child, the chances are it can't
help it. This treatment also cures adults
and aged people troubled with urine dif-
ficulties by day or night.
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Life Struggle of the Trees.
An interesting light is thrown, an
the longevity of the trees tnat grotiv
along the timber line of the Rocky
Mountains by Mr. Enos A. Mills in
his Rocky Mountain Wonderland." He
says:
' A few timber line trees live a thou-
sand years, but half that time is a ripe
old age for most of the thnber line
veterans. The age of these trees tan -
not bo judged by their size or by their
general appearance. There may be
centuries of difference in the ages of
two arm in arm trees of similar size,
I examined two trees that were grow:
ing within a few yards of each other
in the shelter of a crag. One was
fourteen feet high and sixteen inches
In diameter and had 337 annual rings.
The other was seven feet high and five
inches in diameter, and had lived 492
years.
One day by the sunny and sheltered
side of a bowider I found a tiny seed
bearer of an altitude of 11,800 feet.
How Splendidly unconscious it was of
its size and its utterly wild surround-
ings! This brave pine bore a dainty
cone, yet a drinking glass would have
completely housed both the tree and
its fruit
WRITTEN BY QHYIDREN.
Borne Famous Hymn That Have
, Outlived Their M thors, .
some of the boat lc q n hyulus5 in
the language have been. written by
ellildren, DYerybody knows "My Faith
X.00ke Up to Thee," a ilylnn With a
unique record. It was the first hymn
the. author, Dr. Ray Palmer, ever
wrote. It is by far the most popular
of his hymns, It was written,: when
he was a neo lad, .and he survived
its publication and popularity sixty
years. it was set to music in the
year of its birth and liar always been
sung to the sante tune,
One of the best known hymns lathe
world. le "There is a Land. of Pure De-
light," Yet it was written by Isaac
Watts before he reached manhood. it
,is said that lie was staying in the Isle
of Wight and looking across. to. Hemp -
vein evlien he penned the lines;
Sweet fields. beyond the swelling
flood
Stand dressed in living green.
That fine soldierly Hymn, "Oft In
Danger, Oft in Woe, Onward, Christ-
ian, Onward Go," was actually writ-
ten by a boy and girl who never saw
each. other. The boy was poor Henry
Kirke White, who die4 before he
reached manhood, and the girl was
'Frances Fuller -Maitland.
The fact is that when the boy poet
died the little girl was not born, Ex-
actly when -Kirke White wrote his
verses is not known, for they were
found among his papers after his
death, He had worked some sums in
algebra -on the same sheet.
Twenty years later the little Fran-
oes, fourteen years old,. wrote the
lines, beginning respectively, "Let
'your drooping hearts be glad," "Let
not sorrow dim your eye," and "On-
ward, thea to battle move," which
made a firre hymn of what was really
only a set of verses.
Frances Ridley Havergai wrote one
of her best known hymns when she
was a girl of fifteen. In fact, it was
the first thing of any importance she
ever penned. This is the pathetic
hymn, "Thy Life Was Given For Me."
It was scribbled onethe back of a cir-
cular in pencil and first read to an
old, bedridden woman, who liked it
so much that the little girl repented
of her first intention to burn it, and
her father wrote the well-known tune,
Baca, to it.—London Tit -Bits.
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Knew What He Was Doing.
At the time of the great disaster in
Martinique the Italian bark Orsolina
was taking on a cargo of sugar there.
Her captain was accustomed to volca-
noes, and he did not like the appear-
ance of Mont Pelee. Not half his cargo
was on board, but he decided to sail
for home.
"The volcano is all right," argued
the shippers. "Finish your loading."
"I don't know anything about Mont
Pelee," said the captain, "but if Veen-
vius looked that way. I'd get out of Na-
ples, and I'm going to get right out of
here,"
The shippers threatened him with
arrest. They sent customs officers to
detain him, but the captain persisted
in. leaving. Twenty-four hours later
the shippers and the customs officers
lay dead in ,the ruins of St. Pierre.
Corns ApPl`edin
5 Seconds
CuredSore, blistering feet
from corn -pinched
toes can be cured
by Putnam's. Ex-
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�'�+ tractor in 24 hours. , , , r
r
soothes
Putnam s rhes
away that drawing pain, eases in-
stantly, makes the feet feel good at
once. Get a 25c bottle of "Putt}arrr's"
to -day.
ENVIRONMENT
Stronger Than Heredity in Its
Influence On Life.
A short time before the CIvil War
a New York policeman took in charge
a ten -year-old boy whom he had
noticed loitering about the streets and
sleeping on park benches. The little
fellow was a typical waif of the slums,
bearing the marks of neglect, ill usage,
and a deplorable family history. In-
vestigation showed that he had no
home, his mother being dead, and his
father, a degenerate ne'er-do-well, hav-
ing deserted him,
So far as the authorities could as -
Certain, the boy himself, an undersized,
shrewd -looking youngster, had not as
yet developed any criminal or ser-
iously vicious traits. But the facts of
his pedigree seemed to tell heavily
lit. .i his disfavor, forecasting the day
When he would become in some sort
an offender against societq, The im-
mediate problem was how to dispose
of him, and this was solved by turn-
ing him over to a charitable organi-
zation, .
It so happened that about this time
an Indiana: farmer and his wife de-
termined to adopt a.boy. Chance—or
Providence, as I prefer to put it --
brought together the farmer and an
agent for the society that then had the
deserted tensyear-old boy in its keep'
ing. The upshot of their meeting was
that John Brady found a home with
Mr. and Mrs. John Green, of Tipton,
Indiana.
Great was the astonishment itt the
Neighborhood when people learned
what the Greens had done. Even the
most optimistic agreed that they were
"taking a big chance," while not a
few gloomily predicted tnat they would
rue the day when they had taken into
their house a New York street urchin
For ,making
soap.
For vofton.
Ing water,
For refnoving
paint.
For d,slnfsotinti:
refrigerators,
One', coleuses, 0o
other pureoee..
evens •iserri UTP$
11R.„4o1V
of dubious ancestry. Put Mr. and Mrs.
Green, refusing to be terrorized by the
bogey of heredity, devoted themselves
to the upbringing of the little Jelin.
They gave him love and they gave
him discipline; through the work of
the farm and the power or good ex-
ample they trained him to be useful,
diligent, and efficient, and they sent
him to the red school -house at the
cross-roads to gain the elementary
edueation he should have received
while a child in New York.
At nineteen he struck eta for him-
self, beginning his life -work by teach-
ing school. Three years later, having
practised the most rigid self-denial
to save the necessary funds, he re-
turned east to become a student at
Yale. Working his way through
Yale, he then entered Union Theo-
logical Seminary, from which he was
ordained to the Presbyterian ministry
at the age of thirty.
Meantime he had set his heart on
a project inspired by gratitude for the
loving tare his foster -parents had lav-
ished on him, He would establish in
Texas a farm -colony for boys who, like
himself, had been born and reared in
the slums. It was a splendid scheme;
but alas, he found that it required
more capital that he could raise. Still
Inspired with the ideal of helping
others, he now took ship to Alaska,
to begin ancone the native tribes a
missionary enterprise that included
social service of a high order, In 1897,
Just twenty years after he had first
gone to Sitka, his labors were sig.
natty rewarded, when President Mc-
Kinley appointed him Governor of
Alaska, a post to which he was reap-
pointed by President Roosevelt, and
which he retained until five years ago,
--Pictorial Review for May,
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MOTHER AND BABY
The fond mother always has the
welfare of her little ones at heart. She
is continually on the watch for any
appearance of the maladies which
threaten her little ones, Thousands ,of
mothers have learned by experience
that nothing will equal Baby's Own
Tablets in keeping the children well.
Concerning them Mrs, R. Morehouse,
Blissfield, N. 13„ writes: "13aby's Own
Tablets are the best medicine I have
ever used for my baby. He was very
cress but the Tablets soon put him
right again." The Tablets are sold by
medicine dealers or by mail at 25c a
box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine
Co., Brockville, Ont.
The Posy.
Have it.
Have it where?
Have it anywhere.
Just so you have it.
Have it singly or by the yard,
A rose may nestle in the corsage,
Or it may perch in the centre of the
slat.
One idea is to have it catch up the
skirt drapery,
Yet shows h
o
s s itp csat t inter-
vals with by rose' festoons between.
On one evening dress little strings
of roses serve as shoulder straps..
Two or three of them may be em-
broidered on a hat, which leaves
Boreas in despair.
Then there are, funny bunched -up
bits of cloth on some • hats which
wouldn't fool anybody, but which are
flowers by courtesy.
Wonderful for the Blood!
Cures Sallow Skin, Headache, Land.
nor and Tiredness.
You don't need to be told how you
feel—blue, sort of sickish, poor appe-
tite, vague pains, tired in the morn-
ing. This condition is common at
this season.
Fortunately there is prompt relief
in Dr. Hamilton's Pills, which imme-
diately relieve the system of all poi-
sons and disease -producing matter.
Thousands have been so utterly de-
precsed, so worn out as to be des-
pondent, but Dr. Hampton's Pills al-
ways cured diem. "I can speak
feelingly on the power of, Dr. Ham-
ilton's Pills," writes C. T. Fearman,
of Kingston. "Last spring niy blood
was thin and weak, I was terribly
run down, had awful headaches and
a gnawing, empty feeling about my
stomach, T couldn'"t sleep 'or work
until I used Dr. Hamilton's Pilis—
they did the a world of good," At all
dealers in 25c boxes.
It
Coating Steel With Zinc.
A new process of coating structural
:steel or any other exposed metal with
zinc is just being introduced to those
alio are interested .in such matters,
and it is attracting considerable atten-
tion because of the ease and thorough-
ness with which the operation is per-
formed, even after the metal has been
put in place. Powdered zinc, com-
1rr sed air aand heat yare the three e1e-
s which are used in the process,
and the 'zinc is driven through a gas
burner by the air, where it is instantly
reduced to a liquid state, and as it
strikes any surface capable of sustain-
ing the force, it adheres and cools at
once. •
BLACK WHIT i TAN'
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10Ca . p. Dtzllay Co, of Canaan t,ta„ Hamilton, feasts 10 C
LEl►ERG RIGH IN NAD.
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It Has Had Twenty -even Rifler.
ant Ones in Its Queer.
Many cities are known by Mare than
one irawe, but it is given to few to re-
joice in more than half it dozen dis-
tinctive cognomens, slut the historic
Galician City of Lemberg has been
known at one time or another by nq
less tltan twenty-seven different appel-
lations,
According to the Polish Bulletin, the
ancient Itutheuian names far Lwotf
were Lwow, Lwiw, Lwiltrad, Lwllro
rod, Ilwiw; the Germans tailed it
Lemberg, Lemberg, Lemburg, Loewen.
burg; the Latin and, pseudo Latin.
names Include Lebburga,' Lamburga,
Leontopolis, Leone, I.i vivia, Leopolya;
in the thirteenth century it was known
to the Greeks as X.itlion rind' Lifbada.
The patriarchs of Constantinople,
Alexandria and Jerusalem referred to
It as Turks callvitsin their boa sp1111,; Ilbo,°
Ilbot, Ilibow, Ilbadir; the Armenians
gave to it the name of lief; tete Rus•
cions have lately baptized it layoff.
Tho real name of the city, it is as-
serted, Is the Polish one of Lwow,
which literally translated means
Lion City.
CURE YOUR BAA COUGH
BY BREATHING CATARRHOZONE
You may dislike taking medicine,
but coughs are best cured without
medicine. The modern treatment is
"Cattrrhozone"--it isn't a drug—it's
a stealing vapor full of pine essences
and healing balsams. It spreads over
the surfaces that are weak and sore
from coughing, Every spot that is
congested is healed, irritation is
soothed away, phlegm and secretions
are cleaned out, and all symptoms of
Cold and Catarrh are cured. Nothing
so quick, so sure, so pleasant as Ca-
tarrhozone. - . Beware of dangerous
substitutes meant to deceive you for
genuine Catarrhozone. All dealers
sell Catarrhozone, . large size, which
lasts two months, price $1.00; small
size 50c, sample size 25c.
BRADSTREET'S TRADE REVIEW.
Toronto—Business conditions ' con-
tinue favorable. The big foundries
are busy. There is work for every
able-bodied man. Lumber yards are
doing a bigger volume of business.
in the dry goods trade both sorting
and placing orders are keeping pace
with recent enepuraglug reports.
Prices are still on the upgrade, in
some cases double what they were a
year ago. The boot and shoe trade
is fairly active. Leather houses- have
about all, they can handle and are
embarrassed to fill Contracts being
eliort of skilled labor, Hide and wool
houses find manufacturers taking all
current receipts. The grocery trade
is doing a fairly active business.
Prices of all classes 'of food animals
are climbing higher.
Montreal—Wholesale trade contin-
ues on a healthy basis. Dry goods
hoitaes are doing better, a stronger
inquiry coming for summer goods,
with a good volume of orders for lm -
mediate delivery, Hardware 'firma
have had better trade last ten days,
The movement if groceries have
been normal. Leather and boot and
shoe plan both are busy on orders.
Security markets have had an active
period.
Winnipeg—The middle west is
passing through an active period in
regard to wholesale business, Retail-
ers are buying freely now to fill de-
pleted shelves. Scarcity is still the
complaint in dry goods circles,the
dye problem being responsible. Prices
are advancing steadily. In the boot
and shoe department trade is on the
quiet side at the moment. Prices in
these lines are firm also. Improve-
ment is reported in the grocery
trade,
Calgary—Business in Alberta and
Saskatchewan is practically on a par
with the activity in Winnipeg. Dry
goods, footwear and grocery firms
share in a good volume of trade. in
Calgary itself the volutae of business
is satisfactory. Edmonton reports
steady improvement.
Vancouver—Much needed improve-
ment in general trade is noticeable.
Local wholesale and retail trade is
better,
Hamilton—The big industries that
are at the bacic of present commer-
cial prosperity continue to do well.
These have large war orders ahead
of hem, and orders for farm imple-
ments and construction equipment
have been placed in liberal volume.
Orders extend even into 1917. Whole-
salers find rade wilt scounry poins
better as the spring opens.
London—The tone of business in
retail. and wholesale houses is heal-
thy, Most industries are busy.
Ottawa—Wholesalers are doing a
normal trade, especially in staplo
goods, Manufacturers are busy. City
retailers have done a satisfactory.
trade all spring.
Quebec—Wholesale trade is active
in all lines, and while dry goods
houses fear a shortage in staple lines,
orders are coming in freely. Provi-
sions and groceries are moving well,
building trades are active and there
is a steady demand for supplies and
material. Shoe manufacturers are
Working full time. Collections are
fairly satisfactory for the season,
Halcyon Days.
The expression "halcyon days" orig-
inated with the ancient Sicilians They
y
firmly believed in alt old legend that
during the seven days preceding and
the seven following the 'winter solstieo
--Dec, 21—the halcyon, or kingfisher,
brooded over her young in a nest
afloat on the surface of the water and
that during these fourteen clays the
seas would be calm and safe for the
mariner; hence the name "ealcyon
days," when, according to Milton,
"birds of color sat brooding on the
charmed wave."
Sayings of the Ilay.
"Surely a home should be, above all
things else, eh honest, and a worthy,
self-expression of those Who live in it,"
f—Virginia tale.
"Perhaps never in the history of
our rate has tite family life been in
greater danger of . disorganization
than at the present tinie."--Mrs. Ver-
non Major, of the Academy of Drama-
tic Arts,
"Prom that heart of the Woman who,.
loving greatly, is herself greatly loved,
radiates, an atntospltere of gracious
charm and perfect understanding, of
peace and joy and sympathy, width no
outside power can rival and no MAO -
ward circumstances tan rleatro':.
elara l'il, DIekford-Mi1Xer.
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O"HER,. PAPERS
VIEWS
NOT A. SET --A SURE THiNG.
(London Advertiser).
d riril ngtopRtaskstfor niorranxpl nations
ti order to gain tune.
LET THE WAR PRQCEEp,p
(Guelph Mercury)
Speaking; of preparedness. We've Net
qot 10 it new ease of heading type about
I foot high. They can go ahead and tette
;milli as seen as they /.lease now.
WOUNDED BY ITS FRIENDS..
(Ottawa, Citizen)
From some of the evidence lit the muni*
.Ions investigation it begins to look as
.heug,t ProteotUOn got some rough handl.
rig in tile iiQuse or its friends.
SAFETY FROM ZEPPELINS.
(Pittsburg trazette-'.rimes)
If a mist on prevent Zeppelin bombard-
ment or Kent, -couldn't Landon make 1C-
self pare bysynthetic fogs when nature
takes aholday?
THE FIGHTING IRISH.
(Toronto Telegram)
Ireland will be judged by the T'IgIIT-
ING IRISH in the trenches, not by the
TALKING IRISH in the alleys of trea-
son, their pay bosses in Germany or their
sympathizers in the U.S.A.
BRITAIN'S WORST ENEMIES.
(Belleville Ontario)
At present, the Northcliffe press and
the Northcliffe faction in England are
more menacing to the future or - the
British Empire than the armies. of the
Kaiser.
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'WOMAN, THE MONOPOLIST.
(Montreal Evening News)
Woman, in fact, has monopolized
?'Spring altogether, just as she has mono-
roiized everything else worth having
If there are still a few bachelors left
n the world, there is only one inference
o be drawn,
A MATTER OF TONNAGE.
(Pittsburg Gazette -Times)
The New York American complains
hat all the Sussex fuss Is being made
,ver a boat smaller than a Staten Int...++'
'et•ry, Principle, of course, Is purely a
natter of tonnage-
fHE WHY OF THE SHORT SKIRT.
(Guelph Mercury)
Women figure it out Bice• this: What's
he use of buying silk stockings if no per-
-,on is going to see 'em Hence the "Birth
of the Short Skirt,"
WAS THERE ONE SUCH?
(Brantford Courier)
One of the best examples of the true
.nater feeling was furnished by any wo-
nan who returned from church without
"aving noticed how Mrs, Thingumbob was
dressed.
NOT A THRIFTOW RKER.
(Ottawa Free Press) •
Because the weatherman put the kibosh
In the Easter bonnet parade it doesn't
necessarily follow that he is in league
.vith this thrift campaign.
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GOOD CAUSE FOUR HATE.
(St. Thomas Journal)
Why Canadian forces are coming in
for the special hate of the enemy is be-
ing made plain by the recurring Eyewit-
ness narratives of Canadian daring and
courage.
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WOULD FOOL THE GERMANS.
(Ottawa Citizen)
The British aro erecting'fake factories
and other plants to attract the fire of
Zeppelins, and cause them to waste time
and ammunition. But why not fool them
completely by erecting a few of our fam-
ous invisible mushroom planta?
i'RELA•ND'S WORST ENEMIES.
(Buffalo Express)
Certainly there are no worse enemies
of Ireland than those who have thus
attempted to let loos the horrors of war
Within the country, thereby repudiating
the cause for which 100,000Irishmen have
voluntarily offered their lives.
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THE OTHER CASEMENTS.
(St. Thomas Journai)
Sir Roger Casement, as the arch traitor
knight of tho empire is more readily
reckoned with than those nearer the seats
dre the mighty who by exciting political
Strife in such critical times are adding
immeasurably to the already Herculean
burdens of the empires tear leaders.
YES, IF FREED.
(St. Thomas Journal)
Once more the great Asquith has avert-
ed disaster for his government and the
etnpire, Freed from the baneful in-
fluences of England's yellow press and .
Its counterpart in parliament, Asquith
and Lloyd George will carry the war
through to success.
A MARTYR•NOT WANTED.
(New York Sun)
'Itt'deciding what to do with Sir Roger
Casement England might find a hint in
Niatoauilay when he quotes William III.,
ptrdonli.g a noble Jacobite who had -
rel:eatedly plotted his assassination, as
saying: He is fully determined to be a
martyr, but I am equally determined that
he shall not be." _ +
JOHN WESLEY.
(Woodstock Sentinel -Review)
Col. John Wesley Allison says he never
reaped a cent of gain from any of the
work he did for Sir Sam Hughes and the
Shell Committee, and that he Is a poorer
Mari now than he was when the war
broke' out, If Ito can make good that
statement he will be entitled to drop
the Allison front his name, and appear
as John Wesley the Second.
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DOWN ON VOLUNTEER SYSTEM. -
(Chicago Tribune)
If Great Britain had gone to conscrip-
tion hi August, 1914, the British would
be a hundred times stronger than they
are to -day, and there would not be t•u-
scntment In the empire. The reluctance
o1heotthe'y eJ3ritishras toinvited abandondisastertiro free will
.:1110091.3,5
.
To 'told to the volunteer system islun-
atic. It Is Indefensible. We have been
given ,plain enough evidence of how 1t
leads to blunders and incompetency.
EASY FOR JUDGE TUTHILL.
(Philadelphia Record)
Perhaps the Circuit Court of Cook
county will now decide who was the
Man in the Iron 'Mask, who was Cas-
par
Hauser, who wrote the Letters f
Ins, What became of Louis XVII, who
struck Billy Patterson, and why Theo -
dere ltosevclt is se. After giving judg-
ment in the case of Heirs of Francis
Bacon vs. All Mankind, supposed to have
been decided by the verdict in the Court
Of History, Judge Tuthill would relish
the task of solving the other historical
inysteries.
GEN, LOGIE.
(Toronto Star, Thursday.)
General Logics, wire was fifty years
of age yesterday, now has tinder his
command fifty thousand troops, Ile
took up his great responsibility quite
unexpectedly, and he has shown not
only military ability, but wisdom in
dealing with the relations between eel -
diets and civilians.
GEOGRAPHY, NOT PRINCIPLE.
(Philadelphia llocord)'
Tho Chicago Tribune, Coronet Reese-
velt's ntoot prominent newspaper.support-
ed in 1912 raves over 11lexico, but is gen-
tle as a dove where Germany is concern-
ed. Listen to it:
In the subnrarltio controversy, de31)1E0
a violent press rcrmpalgit in the East,
there is no general disposition among the
people to go to war with the Central
Powers to establish it rule of netion for
the Submarine er to Insist upon the right
of American eittzens safely to travel or
be employed upon ships of belligerent
nationality.
Ey' are loss interestetl in 1lfritleo,
built are insistent upon Anterlean rights
on the ocean becalms We travel more.
(leograj Meal considerations, not to i ea
of the byRehenated vote, seen; to be
largely lnfiuentlal in forming malty eels.
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