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KEEPING' HORSES SOUND.
The horee is So- much in demaml at
this tinof the year eu the farm that
It Its well to leek into his condition,
and keep taut in the beet Of etrength
and vigor.
A, state of etalentes quite efteti
etiperveneei1 sta,blea boss, as the
reeult o lonetcoutinued regular work,
and especially BO when the work is
herd ana of a rush order.
But constant work alone is not the
sole cause it Id only a primary one,
for ate usual stable dietary- is likewise
a factor which contributoe eventual!),
to bring about roma staleness on ac-
ceuut of its dry telemeter. Heavy
freeing a corn, or other wattle grain,
especially bas this tendency. Celts
entail a certain heating effect, though
in themselves oats is a perfectly
svholesome food, and the more twa-
in and stimulating the (Bet is, the
more apt it is to induce staleness.
By a stale condition is meant the
more or less impairing of the horse's
wcrking efficiency, a depression of the
animal's vital energy. and not in its
full fluelt of liealth and vigor.
One of the most promising systems
of staleness is shown when. the horse
ceases to thrive and Imes bodily aon-
dition, becoming excessively fikelY
drawn and looking eomewhat 'tucleed
up in the belly, the latter being It
specially characteristic sign. The coat
of the animal appears harsh and dull,
presenting a- "dried-up" appearance.
Another sign is seen when the horse
Is at work. Ho does not have bis
customary spirit and energy, but In-
stead to a certain degree showlist-
leseness or lassitude, while the action
may lose some of its freedom and
become slower. The aPPettte else
often becomes impaired or irregular,
while the lege may develop an in-
creased tendency to become filled or
Puffy about the joints, after being
brought in the stable at night, In
well-bred, highly -strung horses, -when
it, this ccindition, svill show 'increasing
irritability and nereoueuess. This stale
condition does not come on suddenly,
hut gradually eevelops in the course
of weeks or Of months.
THE REMEDY FOR STALENEeS.
The best remedy is to turn the
animal out on pasture, that he may
Lave a taorougo rest anti a Complete
ebange from stable life and dry food.
Tins will put fresu Lae and vitality in
hint, give a general toning, and the
digestion will soon become restoree
to a ma state or c.atcaency as a resuit
of wholesome and easily -digested grass
Luc -t.
in. pronounced cases of staleness it
will be well to allow the horse on
Pasture for a couple of honths, at
leaet, Even when horses show only
comparatively slight _symptoms of
being stale, they. will be much bene-
fited by a run at grass in the summer
pr toward the autumn, coming up nice
t.nd fresh and in perfect health again
et the end of their spell of rest.
But in many eases it is not feasible
to adopt this desirable expedient, and
in these circumstances one is com-
pelled to seek' to overcome tee stale-
ness, while the horse remains in the
stable and continues to do work. But
it cannot be too strongly emphasized
that a respitefrom all hard work is
the surest cure for this trouble, come
blued with a suitable afteration of the
fletary.
When a complete rest at grass Is out
of the question, as much work . as
possible 'must be cut out for a time.
The foodmust be of a laxative and
cooling nature, while if the aeimal
has been heavily fed on grain, a
material reduction. in the graiu allow-
pnco should be affected for the time
being, if its work caa be correspond-
ingly cut down. Food of a specially
heating character must be eliminated
tItogether.
Next to a grazing diet, cut green
forage Is the best thing, and this
sbould, if possible, be given daily in
liberal quantities: This, by reason of
its succulent, highly digestible mid
cooling character, will speedily prove
effective in releving the symptoms of
staleness and toning up the digestive
organs, providethe green food is sup-
plied in sufficient quantities.
Besides green forage, whice is the
most effeetve, other foods that prove
useful in counteracting staleness are
bran and linseed mashes and roots of
all kinds. Still further benefit will
bo derive dif the horse can be turned
out in the pasture field for a few
hours after the mils is done. This
affords a most welcome change and
assists to alleviate any symptoms of
staleness that may be present.
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS.
Treating seed oats for smut with
the formalin solution this year will
save the farmers of Ohio more than
$500,000, according to the farm crops
department, Ohio State University.
To treat oats with the tormalin solu-
tion secure a formalin at a drug
store and mix a pint with 40 gallons
of water. The oats may be saelted
dipped into a barrel of this solution
until they are thoroughly soaked or
they may be piled upon the barn
floor and sprinkled with the solution..
After the trcaiment they should be
trovered with blankets for four or five
hours, so 'Hint the formalin will not
evaporate too quickly.
Indications are tbe spraying com
pounds will be higher an price later
In tbe season than they are now.
Pruno out old or cankered wood
from the apple trees before spreying
operations aro begun.
A. lottleunelling hog on te tut of-
fense to the entire neighbOrhood, and
Otero is no excuse for it notvadays.
nor for n filthy hog wallow, with its
raenace to hott• health.
ewsmmakik....
Pull out all the old used stalke in
the garde nand burn them, as the
emi of the eommon stock borer are
Totted in such stalks oftentimes. The
destruction of the stalks will prevent
injury'froni this pest during the Sum-
mer.
!Sheep fill Meal% StualCh and *arm
his bac'k, and yet a good many farm-
ers will have nothing to do with
them.
A good cow sviil always comMand
good prlee, regardless of market con -
'intim. Therefore, it pay % to go in
foe good Cows, whether to keep or to
thireet Mover, onee eursed, is et Ituat
coming to Ate Own. This despitted
Pea will Ma pasturage into cattle,
bay into the IlloW and Immus and
nitrogen into tbe Edit There must be
eome merit ill it.
How much thought do you give to
your potato crop? Iit Europe potatoes
are grown On the earne ground once
in ten years, and whole potatoes aro
used for seed. ThIrty to forty tittelt8
are required per aero for seeding.
Two years prior to the potato cree
grass is grown on the land to pre-
pare it for the potato. Of course,
they raise better potatoes, and More
of them, but then, they are more de.
peneent Wort the Ilse of potatoes
than we are over here.
Pigeons are responsible for about
20 per cent. of the spread of hog'
cholera, according to the authorities
wile are dealing with its eradication.
The farmer who owns or harbosS
pigeons ehould either confine them
at home or distmee Of than. Pleeolla
fig from farm Le farm in search ot
food, which they generally .flud in
the feed yards. In flying long Os -
Maces and visiting many ,yards they
easily get the germs on their feet
and infect a whole neighborhood be•
fore people realise that cholerae le in
their herds.
4.
SACRED MON'KEYS,
An Intruder Into Their Jungle
Retreat Got a Good, Soare.
In various parts of India monkeys
aro regaraed as objects of worship.
One of the principal monkey temples
is it Nuddea. Such veneration is
shown there te aluniman, the monkey
god, that visitore may not enter the
court of the ternple without removing
their shoes.
On one occasion an. English officer
in passing up the eOuntrk near Nud-
dea, chanced to stroll into a bombe°
jungle when his boat had "put tot' for
the night. He had not advanced far
before he heard a terrific uproar all
about him, and he Was not a little
alarmed to behold a whole army of the
largest monkeys he liad ever seen
making toward him from all quarters.
Some tamped on the ground before
him, others swung by tbe bamboos
over his head, and many closed up the
path in his rear. Several females' bad
young ones clinging to them, but this
fact did not seem to render them less
agile than the others.
The Englishman knew not what to
do. He yelled at the top of his voiee
for assistance. To his 'Meuse relief,
each time that he yelled the monkeys
retreated a bit. This encouregea him
to persevere in his shouts, but he
olaerved that when he himself began
to retreat the monkeys would again
begin to close upon him. '
'Mien he stood still and gave one
tremendous shout, whereat the mon-
keys went back again. This time the
man had gained fully twenty. yards
and was about to repeat the call when
there appeared a new figure upon the
scene in the person of an aged, de-
crepit woman, hobbling through the
midst of the animals.
This aged person shook two eta three
of the monkey e by the paws as she
pasSed. No sooner had she corae 'with-
in hearing of the Brasher than she
opened upon him the vials of her
wrath for disturbing the sacred ani-
mals in their retirement, She bade the
intruder depart, and that quickly, an
order which he lost no time in execut-
ing. The monkeys all seemed implicit-
ly to obey the. old woman's bidding,
making way for the man's retreat.
Tho old woman, it appeared, •was
employed by the Brahmans to supply
the monkeys with their food each clay.
they were worshipped by all the
people in the country round, who
brought offerings of rice and sweet-
meats to them continually.—Hareer's
Weekly.
Hearing Keener Than Sight.
An Irishman, an Eng/ishman and a
Scotsman once yent up into a tower to
see which could see the Xarithest
through a telescope. The Englislunag.
who looked first said:
"Oh, Pat, I can see the minute hand
of a clock our or rive miles away."
"/ can see the minute hand on the
sante clock moving," said the Scotch -
man.
Pat stood in amazement listening to
his comrades. When he looked through
he was sten to smile. Them—
"Faith, if 1 don't bear the same clock
striking."
" •
THIN -BLOODED PEOPLE
Offen- Become Seriously Ill Before
They Realize Ii#
Some people have a tendency to be.
come thin. -blooded just as others have
an, inherited tendency to rheumatism
or nervous disorders. The contlitlith
In svbieh the blood becomes so thin
that the 'whole body suffers comes on
so gradually that anyone with a natu-
ral disposition in that direction should
watch the symptoms carefully. Blood-
lessness can be corrected more easily
In the earner stages than later. It
beghie with a tired feeling that rest
&tea not overcome; the complexion
becomes pale, slight exertion produees
breathlessness and headaches and
backaches, frequently follow. In the
treatment of troubles due to thin blood
no other medieine as had such a
great success as Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills, They go right to the root of the
trouble, make rich, red blood, thus
restoring the 'weakened system to
health and strength. Mr. IL F, Ash-
ford, Peterborce Ont., says: "Pour
years ago rny condition became so seri-
ous that it seemed to me I possessed
every pain and ache and every morbid
feeling possible. For inonths .1 had
been overworked, and bereavement
added the 10.st straw necessalet .to
break down tny eonetitution. I had a
severe ever-present headache and pains
in the baelt of my eyes, and at the
tame time1 was seldom. free front
severe neuralgic paths. I was rarely
ittingry, and when I Was it seemed to
oVeate a Morbidness Which made nay
other tits harder to bear. Of Ware° I
consulted a doctor, and lie told Me a
rest and thange of air, just the them;
'was Unable in the eirettineteneet to
take. I had a particulerly bad pell on
the day MY daughter returned front
eollege, and she insisted that I -should
take Dr. Willia.Me Pink Pills. f was
decidedly ekeptieal, but ehe got some
and to please her 1 took them. The
result...After the first, box 1 WIte com-
pelled to admit that I really did feel
better. After the, recond bolt I un-
grudgingly admitted that they were
doing Inc good, Mid After the eireth
box I felt free front every Ache and
pain, and in gratitude I began to m'aise
the pills to thers 1 ant feeling as fit
ea1 did twenty years ago, and 1 ewe
It to Dr, William? Ptak Pills." '
You MI get these Ville from any
Medicine dealer Or by Mail at 50 Onto
a boa or Itix boxes for $2.$0 frottOrhe
i-br. Wflftafn Medieirte CO.,
Ont.
•
ow the Blood
Is Purified
a
By the Searching and Painstaking, Work
of Healthy Kidneys.
circulation through the
body the blood not only carries nutri.
tion to the cells and tissues, but also
collects the waste material resulting
from the breaking down of cells and
'tissues, the ashes left by tho fire of
life.
•
In due course the blood passes
through the kicbaeys to be purified of
these poisonous impurities, and these
filtering organs extract each day
about 50 ounces of liquids and 2
ounces of solids, 500 grains of urea
and 10 grains of uric acid, the mater-
ial -which is found. in rheumatic
j oints.
Sudden changes of temperature
throw a 'great straiu on the kidneys,
but it is overeating and drinking
that are the usual cause of trouble.
In,a vain effort to remove the excess
of waste matter the kidneys break
down, uric acid and other poisons are
left in the blood and the whole sys-
tem is poison'ed by impure blood.
Pains ii the back and limbs,
severe headadhes, luxnbago and rhp-
matism are the natural result. tfar-
'cloning of the arteries, excessive
blood pressure, 'weakening of the
lieart'S action, Bright's disease may be an.
tieipated unless prompt action is taken.
We like' to think of Dr. Chase's Kidney -
Liver Pills as preventive treatment, for by
their timely use you ea32 readily prevent all
these dreaded disorders. Unlike other medi-
cines for kidney troubles, they awaken the
action of liver and bowels as well as the
'kidneys, and thereby effect a prompt cleans-
ing of the whole filtering and excretory
systems. -
There is no way by which the action of
the kidneys can be so quickly aroused and
the blood cleansed of impurities as by the
use of Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver 'Pills. It
is therefore the greatest of blood purifiers
and much sought for at this time of year,
when everybody feels the need of a medi-
cine to cleanie from the system the accumu-
lation of poisonous matter.
One pill a dose, 26 cents a box, all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & (3o., Limited, Toronto.
Do not be talked into accepting a substitute. Imitations disappoint.
llte Chase's Recipe Book, 1,000 selected recipes, sent free if you mention this paper.
DEMONSTRATION FARMS
The demonstration farms which: the
Canadian. Pacific has set up, both east
and west, have been employed with
signal success in one special direction
—the setting up of higher standards.
Through precept and example the
company has brought about a most
flattering change in values. In other
words, the 'example and encourage-
ment of the railway company,
through these farms and by other
means, have caused those who have
food products to sell to give closer at-
tention to quality Utah was their for-
mer habit. The company ,Insists upon
the first-rate quality of food products
on -the cars; and has tauglat the farm-
ers, both east And west, how best to
supply Al quality in butter, eggs,
fowl, eta. Itt the neat and tidy put-
ting up of food products, too, there
has been decided improvement. The
farmers have been set -a fine example,
and the people have seen, right at
their elbow', that values can be great-
ly enhanced by careful attention to
details,
, WISE AHMED RUSHDI..
Be Used the Gifts of Abdul Hamid
. to the Best Purpose.
Many fantastic stories are related of
Abdul Hamid, the ex -sultan of Turkey,
and his court. The roilowing, how-
ever, came to me from a reliable
dource, writes a contributor to Cham-
bers' Sournal, and once when I told
the story in company one of my lis-
teners told rae that he personally
knew it to be true. It is worthy of a
place among Scheherazade's famous
Not far from the sultan's palace
lived a certain Ahmed Rushdi Effendi,
one of the hundreds of clerks one
ployed at the 'sublime porte. Ahmed's
duties consisted of writing ornate of
-
fiche communications to provincial
governors. For this he was supposed
to receive a salary of 200 piasters
(about $8) per month. • If, however, he
received his salary six times a year
he thought himself lucky.
Compared to =thy of his eolleagues
in the government °Woes, Ahmed was.
in comfortable circumstances. lee
owned his OVrt house, so he had no
rent to pay, and he gave his leisure
time to ouittitating the tiny garden
that supplied his family with fruit and
Vegetables the whole year round. Ah-
med Effendi, not being ambitious, was
a contented man.
In his peaceful houeeb.old there was
only oxie discordant note. The cense
was a dwarf peach tree in Ahmed's
garden that bore every year six or
eight mammoth peaches, Early in his
Married life his wife dreamed that her
husband would one day attain °me
nente end that the peaches were con-
nected with his fortune.
Fifty times each year she Urged him
to take the peaches, as an offering to
the Sultan. "We are simple people,"
she would Say. "Such magnificent
peaehes are not for us. Carry them, I
pray thee, to the palace and present
them to the benefactor of the world."
tut Ahmed would reply:
' "Wife, no good comes to those •Who
have relations with the palace, 1, who
have always been discreet, do not Wish
to fall wider suspicion,"
But at last, after 20 years, Ahmed
eielded to big wife's importunity and
carried the beautiful fruit to the pal.
ace. There be entreated the peachee
to the grand chamberlain, who, know.
Ing the sultan's fondness for fruit,
prottiptly carried them into the prea.
once of the illuminator of the uni-
verse. The sultan graciously accepted
the gift and commanded Ahmed to
wait until he was' at liberty in order
that he might himself thank the
groWer of the splendid fruit.
It happened that the reception room
where the scribe awaited the pleasure
band of suspected bomb -throwers, and
Ahmed was presently hustled away to
Olson with the supposed revolution-
aries, He was thoroughly confused
by the rough treatment of tbe guards
and could only stammer: "I am the
man who brought tee peaches. I am
the man who brought the peaches!"
In prison he soon became known as
"the man of the peaches" and was
looked upon as a harmless lunatic.
After many months the suspected
bomb -throwers, including Ahmed, were
brought before the criminal court. He
told his story to the ledge and asked
that the grand chamberlain be called
to confirm his words. The judge
granted his request and was greatly
surprised *hen the dignitary told of
the arrival of Ahmed at the palace
some months ago and of his mysteri-
ous disappearance. The chamberlain
took the afflicted' scribe to his own
suite in the palace and went to ex-
plain matters to the sultan.
The sultan, sincerely sorry for the
unlucky mistake, commanded the
chamberlain to promise Atoned that
any wish of his should be fulfilled.
Ahmed replied that he would accept
not one, but three gifts, and that he
must name them , to the sultan per-
sonally. The sultan was much con-
cerned and ordered the scribe ushered
into his private study.
"Sire," said Ahmed, "I ask for a
hatchet, the sume of 200 piasters and
a copy of the kerbs."
"Your desire is granted," answered
the sultan,. "on condition that you ex-
plain the meaning of your singular
request."
"Sire," replied our hero; "with the
200 piasters I shall obtain a divorce
from my wife, the original cause of all
my trouble; with the hatchet I in-
tend to cut down my peaclz tree, and
Upon the koran I wish to ssvear an
oath never to enter the palace 'gates
again solong 8.8 Tlive."—Excliange,
ea, .e
The man who admits that he can't
do anything and is looking for a job
must expect one of those high -salaried
tines.
Why Haul The
Extra Burden
The burden of friction
means a shorter life for
, horse, harness and axles.
MICA
AXLE
. 0111E1ASE
kits frictiott--makes a
perfect hearing surface,
beater. Bverytalicre
The Imperial Oil Company
Lintheil
illitAttC8110 in RI MISS
AGE OF THE EARTH.
Different Systems of Computing It
and Their Varying Figures.
As long age as 1860 Joan Phillipe,
the geologist, estimated that the time
required for the deposition of the
stratified rocks ley between 38,000,000
and 96,000,000 years. This was prob-
ably the only estimate prior to Kel-
vin's epoch making paper of 1862.
Since that time many estimates have
been made, varying all tbe way from
17,000,000 years to 400,000,000 years.
Kelvin was the first to discuss the
age of the earth considered as a cool-
ing body. In 1893 Clarence King in-
troduced the important criterion of
tidal stability and reached the conclu-
sion. that 24,000,000 represented the
conditions. This result was adopted
by Kelvin in 3897, and then he placed
the limits as 20,000,000 and. 40,000,000
years.
Only Sir George Darwin has dis-
cussed the age of the earth from a
purely astronomical point. of view.
From his theory of the earth moon
System he derived an estimate of
more than 56,000,000 years, which for
a long time stood between groups of
higher and lower figures. J. Joley
was the first to base estimates of the
age of the earth in 1899 on the sod-
ium contained in the ocean. • Aelopt-
ing the hypothesis that the sodium
content of the ocean is derived at a
constant rate from that of the rocks,
he arrived at an age of 80,000,000 or
90,000,000 years and increased this by
10,000,00 in 1900. In 1909 Mr. Sollas•
made a searching inquiry into this
Subject and placed the ago of the
ocean at between 80,000,006 and 160,-
000,000 years,
WAKING DREAMS,
A Long Series of Events Can Be
Crowded Into a Few Seconds.
•
It Is more than likely that thp great
Majority of dreams belong to the few
moments when we are falling off to
sleep and the equally brief time we
take to wake up. In fact, nothing is
More fully established than the faet
ftloiladt tatnseauppinarenantlintlienhigtedsirmeaumi scpaanceutio-f
time.
Alfred Maury relates how he had
a long and vivid drearn of tlie reign of
terror in France, which included his
trial before the revolutionary tribunal
and his execution. He actually felt
the guillotine fall. Yet that dream
from beginning to end Was actual-
ly caused by the fall of a certain red
soviid
lil:h struck him on the nmi
eele d
woke him up. The wbele lengthy
dream. lasted rearY a couple of 'SO"
A well known, welter in London Wget
sitting up late Writing something he
much wished to finish. Sudttenly sale
one came into the room and announe-
ed that he was called to go to Man.
cheater. He went out and packed his
bag and went to that city, where he
stayed several days and saw ininutter-
elle people. He returned . in due
(*.mime and transacted a lot of business
itt town and actually contracted fer •
the kart a new book,
Yet When he woke With 11. start and
found it was all a dream the ink of
the lea word he had written was as
fresh and needed the blotting taper
as much as if it had only.. just been
Written. He totild not have dozed Ions
ger than ten seconds.
•
GAIIISRED ?TAM
HERZ AND THERE,
A Caterpillar will eat twice its own
weight, in leaves' every 24 hours.
A good grade of paper can now bp
commercially Made from the hop
refuse of breweries which has here.
afore been thrown away,
Uncle Sant made $2,500,000 last year
front the sale of wood from the Gov-
ernment forests.
Since the outbreak of the war 80,000
settlers from the United States have
entered Canada,
Two per cent. of metallic sodium
will harden lead so that it will riag
when struck.
A'novelty in dabbing brushes is one
la which thesbristles are so arranged
that they may be pushed forward by
melons of plugs as they wear down,
and thus the lite of the brush is in.
ereased considerably.
A Swiss aviator rose to the height
of 19,800 feet,, overtopping the best
previous ascent.
The United States produces 80 per
cent. of theeeil of the world.
The "trench knife" is a new weapon
of warfare, with a blade of abota 15
incheie It is used for fighting in the
trenehea where there le no mom to
swing a swore or bayonet.
In the U. 5, electricity Is a $3,000e
000,000 industry.
The street lighting bills of the city
of New York for 1915 will be $400,000
less than for 1914. A goodly portion
of the saving Is said to have beeo ef.
fected by the use of nitrogen-eilled
iun.gsten lamps in place of the are
Jaraps.
Upward of 300 children are being
killed each year in the streets of New
York and about 7,000 others injured.
The new rice crop pays California
$70 en acre, or more than» fin.est
wheat land gives,
In time beat and medical attention,
the wage-earners of the U. S. have an
annual sick bill ot ;680,000,000.
While much has been dome to im-
prove the t °edition of the employed
by factory inspection, yet the state-
ment is made authoritatively -that the
real solution of the public health pro-
blem lies in the Improvement of the
home.
The total value of tires used in 1915
in the United States, including solid
tires for trucks, tires for 'buses and
taxicabs, amounts therefor. to $250,-
000,000 in round numbers. To this
sum should be added about 200,000
motorcycle tires, worth from $5 to $10
each,
To find a splinter under the finger-
nail is often difficult. By placiug the
fleshy pert of the finger against the
lens of a pocket flashlight in a dark
room, however, the splinter can be
plainly seen through the nail almost
as if it were under the X-ray.
The public electrical stations of the
U. S. represent a valuation of $400,000,-
000,
A new German invention consists
of a wedge-shaped cushion, the sides
and bottom of Which are smooth, is
covered on top with a sheet of rub-
ber sponge that absorbs the perspira-
tion of the in.valid and prevents bed
sores.
s
"Don't you think," said the poetic
leap -year maid, "that you and I would
make a fine couplet?" "Well," rejoin-
ed the young elan in the case, "I'm
not averse to a trial."—Indiaanpolis
Star.
511 ES
for Playful 0,1
NOTHING
BETTER
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SUMPTER
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Worn by Evgyy Member
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SHY ON FIGURES.
The Average Man is Very Defic-
, ient Arithmetically.
The average man's arithmetical
ability is extremely limited.' This
limitation 4t appears, is having a
serious effect oa industrial processes
depending uponcheap labor, espec-
ially on the adoption of the metric
system, which, with its large num-
bers and decimals, is beyond the men-
tal calibre of workmen who must deal
in numbers less than a score and pre-
ferably less than 10.
They pan grasp a finite measure
like a quart or a InIshel, but a num-
ber like 723 milimeters conveys no
idea to them. Consequently we find
that arbitrary measures of capacity
are being resorted to in dealing 3,vith
large quanities, so that the numbers
to bo reported. or remembered may be
small, Policemen find ,great diffi-
culty in perceiving arid remembering
large automobile numbers and are
trying to devise systemsby which
phychologie fact, but it seems to be
forgotten by those who wish to force
the metriesystem on people who can-
not use it. These measures are leg-
al, and if they Woresuperior they
would have long ago replaced the
old Measure. As 8 Inafter of fact,
the Metric measures are hieing
ground even in countries where no
others aro legal, for the peasants in
their daily tasks are compelled to
stick to the old measures they evol-
ved front the necessity of their limit-
ed uso of numbers.
We expect thee the uneVise agita-
tion will subsidd and that laboratory
workers, froin whore the French sys-
tem is indispensable, Will realize
It is not suitable for every one else--
parlicularly for the great mass of bus
inanity who noVer perforra any eaten -
lotions except mental ones of a very
simple nature For these reasons
physicians ere revising' their idea as
to the wisdom et writing metric pre.
Seriptions. The gala to most of lie
is not thinking worth the mental ef-
fort Of thinking hi two systems—if
there is any advantage at all. BMWi
nunthers easily remembered eeeni
safest and the mot prattletll outside
of the laboratorte—Ataeriettn Medi -
eine.
*
. Investment Bargains.
The investor who picks up desira-
ble property wee neverybody is sell-
ing and pet one buying will hese to
wait .until a reasonable time to secure
his reward. I recall ,khen real estate
in several large cities was a drug on
the market. Everybody seemed anx-
ious to sell and no one to buy, but
the buyers in those parity:Is have real-
ized. enOrMoUs profits, far greater
than one Can get in the Stock Ex-
change.
• The man who has money, even if it
is but a small araount, can alwayS
tern it over to advantage if he will
wait fer the opportunity. Don't go
with the crowd when everyone is wild
to buy something,. but quietly abide
ea opportunity when everybody is
anxious to unload and buyers are few.
Acotstuerpen
clicatisme the bargain counter
un
GRANO TRUNK SYSTEM SERVES
EIGHTY•NINE PER CENT. OF
CANADA'S URBAN POPULATION
In the forty principal cities and
towns of Canada- there 16 0, total po-
pulation -of 2,918,788. These figures aro
given in the netv publication "Canada,
the Country of the Twentieth Cen-
tury," prepared by Mr. Watson Grif-
fin, and issued this week from. Ottawa
by the authority of the Minister tat
Trade and Commerce,' Sir George Fos-
ter. They are based upon estimates
furnielied by the various city clerks
and city assessors, and may be con-
sidered approximately correct. An ex-
amination of these statistics shows in
a very striking faehion the notable
part which the Grand Trunk System
plaae in the commercial life of the
Dominion. The cities and towns serv-
ed by the railway and steamship lines
owned and operated by the Grand
Trunk System have a population, ac-
cording to theee official statistics, of
2,606,435. The Grand Trunk thus
serves oven 89 per eent. of Canada's
urban population grouped in its forty
principal centres. In addition, the
Grand Trunk serves hundreds of corn,
munIties with populations of less
thail 12,000, which is the minimum fi-
gure for inclusion in the list Mr. Wet.
son Griffin has prepared.
ENGLAND'S GUINEA HABIT.
They Rave No Such Coin There,
Yet Still They Use It.
Strangers in foreign countries al-
ways find some difficulty in getting
used to the current coinage. In Eng-
land they find themselves up against
quite a number of problems, not the
least of which ie the guinea, and the
difficulty is not lessened by the fact
that the guinea is practically obsolete
as •a coin of the realm. The English
physician's fee is always calculated as
so many guineas, and the same thing
holds good at a sale of pictures or
whatnot at Christie's salesrooms.
The guinea is a gold coin current
for 21 shillings sterling, or about $5,
but it has not been coiaed since the
issue of the sovereign in 1817.
The guinea habit has been defended
by some 'subtle dealers on the ground
that it obfuscates the "foreign visitors
to British 'salesrooms," On the other
holid, those astute cambists have
been known to growl at a few thous-
and sterling added to the price of a
valuable picture by the adhesion to.
the guinea, etyle of bidding..The etory
runs that the guinea was so called
from the pieces struck from the .bul-
lion captured by Sir Harry Holmes in
1666 from 160 Dutch sail in &heeling
bay, the bullion being from Guinea.
But Shakespeare has an 'earlier play
on the word when he mentions
"gulaen, hen" in "Othello," as regards
tho auction usage of the guinea. There
can be little doubt that it is a survival
or the times wben the extra shilling
wee treated as a five per cent. com-
mission, 'payable by the buyer. Double
commissions are, however, now obso-
letee-Chicago Record -Herald.
Brides in India.
A. bride in India riever sees her
husband until after the marriage
ceremony. The parehtschoose tbe
wife for the son of the imuse without
consulting either party. Sometimes
the bride is as young as fourteen. The
child is gorgeously dressed and placed
on a dies behind a sheet, the women
a the family being in attendance.
On the other side of the sheet are
the bridegroom end many of els
young friends. The groom keeps
throwing over jewels attached to
flowers, which the women on the
bride's side remove and place in her
lap or 011 her person,
This first ceremony is called fee
shadee, and, although a man is allow-
ed four wives, no other ever holds the
same position as tho first ehosen for
him. The others are of little &port -
Mice, living their li•vee more or less
as servants to the first wife.. As the
Iirst wife gets to 'middle age she is
known as the begun).
Ail optimist is a man. Natio is anx.
ious to hold the nail for some other
follow to drive.
'PILE
You will find Pella in Zam-Buk I
It oases the burnim, stinging
pain, Mops bleeding and brings
ease. Perseverance, with Zant-
Ouk, means cure; Why not prove
this y 4U Zeir:ititeratti firors8emi
OTHER PAPERS
VIEWS
KNOWS GERMANY,
Utoriteeter Herald)
if Germany had a greater navy then
England; it would not he in Am,. (4
"the treedein -of the sea."
A SLIGHT CHANGS.
Montreal Mall)
The new Pliglan for tho country le
"production and thrift," and the Charge
le heard that solve peeptct are ntakina
it. "production and theft.
THE csooKgo HUNS.
(Mural° Express). •
The Germane report an Uprising
against the Eritielt In the SOuclan, zee
past of the world appears to be too
ren.ote, no tribes too berbarous to es.
rap: the attention of German agents.
• +
SOLICITOUS FOR US..
<St. Thomas Journal)
"Billy" Sunday is reported to baVe
diode 20.GS7 converts .in
Hamilton, Ont., should send for hint.
e-4.
A SLANDER.
(13eamsvIlle Express)
i. Itatiilton woman said she was fol..
lowed. 'Twas 01313r an hallucination
tbOugh. They're not the kind anyone
rOuld follow.
THE MIGHTY FALLEN.
(Ottawa Evening Journal)
in motestIng against the disarmement
of Ireland because it will include the
disarmament of Ulster, the London
Times to our mind cities about as
wretched a thing as the lowest yellow
joutnal could do.
•
CANADIAN RECRUITING METHODS
(Toronto Saturday' Night,e
Our recruiting methods seem to
have developed into a cross between a
circus and a vaudeville show.
NO CHANCE!
(Ottawa Free Press.)
Toronto Is paying a provincial war
tax under protest. Is this to be eaken
as any commentary on Toronto's loy-
alty to the Provincial Government.
4.4
A NEW VIEW OF IT.
(Pittsburg (kzette-Times.)
The Irish rebellion shows the need
of conscription. Had the law been in
force the revolutionists 'would have
been getting their fill of fighting
elsewhere.
WORSE AND WORSE.
(Ottawa Evening Journal)
'The best way to go in for the day-
light-saving business is to get up at five
In the morning and make so much noise
in' the backyard that all your neighbors
will have to get up then too."—Guelph
Mercury .
Why go to bed at all?
DOHERTY'S BULL
(Ottawa Citizen)
Saturday night in the House of Com-
mons, criticism of Sir Charles Davidson
caused the minister of justice, Hon.
Mr. Doherty, to cry shame on Mr. Prank
Carvell; and be expressed it with true
Irish indignation by charging the op-
position members with making state-
ments "in the face of an adversary who
itn't here!"
INFORMATION WANTED.
(Brantford Expositor) •
A. return brought down at Ottawa the
other day states that all the Members
of parliament who have been honored
with the title of "honorary ciolonel"
are drawing pay with the exception of
W. F. Cockshutt and Dr. Stewart. There
ought now to be another return asked
for showittg what tho other holders' of
the purely honorary title are doing for
the public moneys they ate thus draw-
ing.
_
NOT A GOOD POLICY:
(St. Louis Globe -Democrat)
The court material did not stretch tile
law. Pearse was technically guilty of
high treason. He neither sought nor ex-
pected clemency, It may be that his
summary execution is "good policy,"
though we doubt it, in view of the utter
fanny of his reh.ellion and the motives
that prompted it. John Brown was
ie
likewise executed* fel, his crazy enter -
n , -with full warrant of law. But
it helped the cause he tried so foolishly
to promote.
OPENED THE WORLD'S EYES.
(London Telegraph)
After all, it has been Germany who
has remodelled and reformed Europe by
sheer force of contrast. Until the full
measure of her iniquity was made
known the kindlier peoples of the West-
ern world did not understand the clanger
that threatened them; they could not
visualise the horrors that lurked' in °old
truth behind the scarcely credited les-
sons of a Bernhardt or a Treitschke.
Once again, in the world's history, it
has been onpression that has given birth
to liberty. Germany, and no one else,
has made plain the depths of savagery
Oa' German policy required If her lead-
ers were to attain their object.
LOVE OF 'EASE.
(Philadelphia Record)
What is there about. "love of ease" that
makes the strenuous one so wroth? Love
of ease is o, universal human trait, and
has been so from the beginning of time.
It Is the incentive even of war, Barber.
Ian tribes and nations fight for slaves,
and even the civilized city -States of
ancient Greece made war in order to re..
dace their captive enemies to bondage
and compel them to do all the work, so
that the conquerora might enjoy lives
of leisure. Love of ease Is the main-
4pring of neerly all 'human adtivIties.
Ken lobor to obtain comforts and luxur-
los. Tf the hone of enjoying the fruits
of ofte'e work were gone no men would
labor except under compulsion or lese, or
of necessity. He who vociferates against
love of evse assails all mankind, Ineltal-
Ing himself.
,
PLACING THE BLAME.
(Chicago Tribune.)
Certainly a small minority composed
ouly of some German born Americans
ar Americanof German ancestry wish
to see ti GeVillaii military victory. Tao
impression prevails, and it appears to
be borne out by facts, that this war
was brought on by Ito IGerratan
an-
tocracy deliberately and criminally.
The impression is widespread, and the
Tribune believes it is correct, that if
Germany had won as sweeping it vic-
tory as was promised in the months
of August and Septenther, IOU, Amer-
ica's future would 'have been in peril.
SARCASTIC. •
(Philadelphia Record.) •
It is satisfactory t� know that the
conantander of a Submarine who sank
the Sussex has been punished for fa
but whether the penalty was "some-
thing lingering, with boiling all in it,'
or was merely the withholding of an
hoe Cross, has not beeh eisclosed. Nor
are we told distinct), whether he was
punished for sinking the Suseee With-
Iout Warning or for Making a bad
drawing of it. It will Mit be forgotten
' teat the Sussex lied only One Met,
and this offieer drew ti Dieters a her
with two mast. The notorious Ger-
man thoroughness Is discredited by
bliell a discrepancy, and it 'would be
gratifying to learn whet the Admiralty
did to blin for his blunder in drawing.
Wife—You believe in being Drew.
ed, 11°111 you? Husband -4 -certainly
110. 'Wife—Then I know you'll apprette
of my getting my totliplete entfit for
summer before the hot weather sets
in.—Judge,