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The Wingham Advance, 1916-06-01, Page 3THE PLACE OP THU HOUSh`f. There are few way et la which CUP Witt can be more benefite4 than by breeding good lioreese Every horse bred that is ef any value Materially euriches both his own and the Min - try. The automobile and the traetion engine have net yet produced the homiest; age. On the contrary, tite more tee country is opened tip, the busier the cauetry gets, and the greater wilt be the demand for the horse. in every European country and lit the United States artificial power, both for pleasure and for tusiness, had made immense strides before the war, and yet each year eaw the number of horses lecrease. In Canada there was no olump in num- bers, although there was in prices. The latter had three causes-firet, the aPProaelaug financial crisis, arid ceeeation. of the real estate boom; second, the reduction in construction works cousequent either upon cone pietion or financial stringency; and, thied, the euperalamdance that had been caused be inflated- prices in the boom period, Then came the war, awl uncertainty increased, walla fin - uncial matters went temporarily from bad to worse. Now there are plentiful signs of improvement. Orders are circulating from the West, tee trade in pure breds ..has greatly developed, and the prices realized at recent sales are sig- nificant of promise. Meantime, two factions are working foe the improve- ment of the horse himself, as well as for a decrease in numbere. in the first place, the stallion enrolment laws that have been enacted, and the suppression of scrubs, cannot but have Progressive effect on values, and, In the second place, the poor market of the last few years has checked breed- ing to a considerable extent. There will not be the surplus of 1912, 1$ and 14. In addition, there is a spirit of great hopefulness apparent in the 'United States, ae well as in Canada. Every horse-oweer and every breeder is agreed that the outlook has mater- ially improved in the last month or two, and that the prospects favor still further advancement. How far the export trade may extend in the near future, considering the difficulties of hipping, it is -impossible to say, but of a certainty when hostilities cease there will be a rash for geatity in quantity such as the world has never previously seen. And the rush will not be confined to one type. All class- es will share to some extent. Under- sized poelee, being a luxury ,for tfle little children of the rich, may take some time to come to their own, but draught horses and saddle horses will be in demand. Carriage horses will be slow in returning, although they, too and the ponies as well, will have their market air the show ring and the park. But ring and park will also take time to reach the height of that luxurious existence which character. Ind them in the late years of the last century and the early years of this. Looking the Bituation full in the face, and having regard to the times and signs, it seems impossible not to feel optimistic regarding the future of the horse. The wastage in the war, owing to the system of trench fight. Ing, on the one hand, and machine imuling on the other, has not perhaps been quite as great as was at first anticipated, but it increases in volume as 'the volcanic disturbance goes on, owing to the destruction of automo- biles and the scarcity of sundry ma- terial mad in the component parts. Horses, too, have the advantage in being more easily transported, and in the climbing of mountains, in tee threading of forests, and in the cross. ing of sand, extra soft places, and streams, In' open fighting and over widespread areas also they are in de-, mated, Hence, as the war extends, the call for the horse will extend, for the draught horse perhaps more than the saddle horse, and yet for both sufficient to promise great depletion and a huge demand before sufficient years have rolled round to see the maturity of the foals of 1916. Hence, by breeding now, horse -owners Will be building up a future for them- selves and their country; In other words, helping in production, while by using judgment in their breeding, and utilizing the best they will be practising the best element in thrift. SAVE, MONEY ON ROOFING Oct niy prices direct from mill to you. 1 nave Roofings for every purpose. Samplea Free. Adams, HALLIDAY CO., Limited BOX 61 1-TATAILTON, OANADA. trained practical beekeeper le sent to take eharge of the Meeting and handle the bees, and lie is generally MIAOW by local beekeepers. Several hives are opened, and the actual working of the bee e explained. Often a queenless col- QUyJ or eine preparing to swarm, eerves as an excellent object lesson. No Mat- ter how many or how few colonies you keep, you are sure to learn something at one of them meetings. Already arrangements are well un- der way for over fiftY of these Meet. !ewe The Department of Agriculture attendssao all the advertieing and eup. 'OHM tee'speaker, eo that the beekeep. ers do not incur any expense what- ever. Interested beekeepere desirous of having demonstrations in their apiar- ies should communicate immediately with Mr, Morley Pettit, Department of Apiculture, Ontario Agricultural Col- lege, Guelph, so that arrangemente can be made for the meetings. NOTES. Oats and bran nsake a good ration for ewes with lambs at theit side. In growing Willett) plants for transplanting it does not require a rich coil, as the transplanting of a to- mato plant from a rich soil to the field le apt to stunt it. Use lots of well -rotted manure in the field, Acid phosphate to reinforce the manure would be a god invest- ment. One grower has good succese by applying wood mete at the last hoeing. He uses a handful of ashes, applied on a paddle, to each plant. He also uses wood ashes in maturing the the melon crop. He advocated level culture on light soil, and would hill up a bit on the heavy soil. A. Scotch farmer says that sheep breeding and root cultivation are the sheet anchors of advanced agriculture. This is true of Scotland, and ouget to be true of many of our farms. People like milk fat better than any other form of fat, and it is a more valuable food than the other fats. It is a queer fancy with oome men that sheep can got enough drink by eating grass when the dew is on it in the early morning. Stop and think how very, very little water a sheep could get that way. Give them a good spring or a trough .to drink from. Firet-class potatoes, says an expert, should contain no tubers that will go through a hole 1 7-8 inches square. It may be added that over -large pota- tom should also be left out, if one is Putting up 0, car of first- class po- tatoes. The more uniform the pota- toes, the better price they will usually bring. .•••••••••••• SPRING REPORT, BEEKEEPING IN ONTARIO. (Arranged by Morley Pettit, Provincial Apiarist.) Eight hundred beekeepers reported $7,7a3 colonies in the fall and 24,963 colehiies in the spring., chewing a win- ter boas of 2,7S3 eolenies, or 10 aer cent. There are probably fewer bee- keepers in this provinces to -day than a few years ago, duo largely to the winter boas, diseases, and possibly to the extra, farm work and shortage --of taler from, war domande. The mild spell in January caused tho Mee to rear brood and draw heav- ily on their stores. This, with the high price of sugar lest fall =Ming a etart on feedine heavily, resulted in many colonieo starving towards the end of the void weather. A few warm days early itt April gave the bees it uplendid ..eletinsing flight, and their medition now is reported as very good. The continued. eold, wet weather has retarded building up -and the gathering of fresh stores, and many colonies may perish If neglected. The clover prospects are very good throughout the province. The latter part of the mason of 1016 being wet, gave the new seeding an excellent start, and the scarcity of farm labor bas increased . the acreage seeded dean. The honey market in Canada eeeme to be praetially bare at pretend, and dealers are already tontracting for 1916 crops at advaneed prima The eat -laity of sugar assures a good mar- ket for a largo crop of honey. The following gives the report of tountieanear Irantileon: Haltoit--Good prospecte; good gen- . Oral condition of bees. Haldintandeselood prospeete; fair gonraleondition -of bees. . . Lincoln-(lood prospect; good gene aral tondition of Mee. . Good preapecte; good gen. ,eral condition of bees. Woltwortikt-4(lped propeetii; good tonere' condition Of beee. • ..APIAttY ' DEMONSTRATIONS; 1916. ToeitelP,Ydit "keep. better bee il tied ttalteep 'Ma beikr," 'the .Ontarie De- Daetnient of Agriculture is arranging to hold apiary detrionstratifte in all parte of the Province. The practical nature of the programnie le very le eating to all Interested in beekeeping Alla In almost any district,'AspeessuY No Guaranteed Cure. Mor Corn Never known to e fail; acts without pain in 24 hours, Is soothing, healing; S takes the s ti right out. No reme- dy so quick, safe and sure as Pet- nam's Painless Corn Extractor. Sold everywhere -25e per bottle, MANKIND'S WORST ENEMY. (Rochester Herald) The worst enemy of the human race is the hypocrite, and the chief reason perhans why he Is such as in the fact that he cannot be converted from his hy- pocrisy. A miser may learn to despise his avarice; a drunkard may reach a depth of misery so profound that he will turn this face, as Sohn B. Gough did, in the direction of sobriety; old age will cool the blood of the lecher, and even the thief may reform, but the hypocrite of age. The light that would reveal his hypocrisy to him in its true color will never shine within the corridors of his nature of things, an opaque soul. being, for a by the very Aitificial. Ears. Artificial ears are so skilfully made that they may with difficulty be dis- tinguished from natural ones, so it is claimed. When the person who has lost an ear applies to the manufacturer for a substitute, there is made a mould of the remaining ear. If there be left an of the other, a mould of that part also must be taken to assist in. the fitting Ot the artificial, Manutacturers assert that no two eate are alike, and that it takes a skilful workman to pre - Pare an ear for the mould or moulds. When finished the new ear is pasted on the stump, or simply set in the position of the lost ear. It is really only the firat artificial ear that le ex- pensive, the chief cost pertaining to the making of the mould. Vulcanzied rulber, which can be bent and twisted, bas been found to constitute the best material for the making of artificial ears, Keen Scented Deer. Thaler the Meet faverable atmou idierie Conditions deer can scent a man at the dIetance of a Mile and a half. If he lmoking the range MAY be Increased to two milee. They have been known to refiate to crom a nian'e track more than four hours after he had passed, but rain may destroy the sent iu ten menace. St. Jamee' Ga- zette. Home Is- -Where you wish you were about twenty times a day whoa you are away from It. Where you got, three square Meals a day and didn't appreciate them. Where you can use the ellower bath any time you Want it. Wb.ere you can step across the hall wearing a Turkish towel and a cake of soap without fear a seven or eight People seeing you. Where you don't have to (IMO for dinner. Where you don't Imre to tip some one every two hoUrs. Where the vieweisn't much, but the food and beds and company and gen- eral environments have got it ell oyer any other spot on the Map, closed, Where 1_4...0 go when all the other places areosed, SIR JAMES WATSON'S OPINION CONSIDERED MOST VALUABLE He says that the commonest of all disorders, and one from which few escape is Catarrh. Sir James firmly believes in local treatment, which is best supplied by Catarrh.' ozone. No case a Catarrh can exist where Catarrhozone is used; it Is a miracle -worker, relieves almost In- stantly and cures after other reme- dies fail. Other treatments can't reach the diseased parts like Catarrh - ozone, because it goes to the source of the trouble along with the air you breathe. Catarrhozone is free from cocaine, it leaves no bad after effects, it is simply nature's own cure. Beware of dangerous substitutes of- fered under misleading names and meant to deceive you for genuine Ca- tarrhozone, which is sold everywhere, large size, ontaining two months' treatment, costs $1.001 small aim, 50e; trial size, 26e. .01•1••• One Tea- spoon. fa." of "SALADA" for every two empe—•boiling water—and five minutesi infusion wilt produce a most delicious and invigorating beverage. SEND FOR A TRW: PACKET Mall us a postal Raying, how much you now pay for ordinary tea, and the blend you prefer -Black, Mixed or Green. "SALADA.," TORONTO. One Misery of Anglo.Indian Lite. Every night at dinner the Anglo. Indian 1101de a kind of levee. The 1ne tieets which ettead deuce gaily round the laeap, and one 1ui to watch one'e plate and glees careffilly lest some Of the insects shotila dance into, Wein. There Is One insectesa little, tlat, brown, shieinel ereatare-which Glean the wOrat Odor lit the wOrld, J oilepf them t01101108 your food the Whole is tainted and renaered inedible. You dare not kill theessepeets, fez' it one be equashed the Whole room becoMea ffIled with it' disgusting smell and Is utinhabitable for the next halt hour. So these abominable insects fly about with Impunity, while the poor Anglo. Indian Intuit perforce loohelPlesslY on andenwardly .siglt "spero melloras" -London Saturday Review. Perpetual Motion. Several people have had a shot. at making something that would go on forever, like Tennyson's brook.SAnd them have not all been cranks. A mechanician, for instance, made atop, 1 whieh -was mata mond on amond tips and spun in it 'vacuum, which ran\ for twelve months. A. Swiss watchmaker has invented an electric watcli which will go for fifteen years without requiring to be rewound. .A. watch and clock maker of Burton had in his possession an electric clock of his own making which has. already gone twelve years and has never fail- ed to record the time during that peri- od although it has never been re- wound, He claims that the mechanism will last fifty years and that he would not be surprised if the clock ran un-. interruptedly for a century, Of course the possibilities of radio- activity are to -day only direly known, but they may yet revolutionize all our notions of motion and energy and put even electricity out of court. "What do I want with the font," said the old gentleman. "Oh, I beg your pardon," said the clerib. "I thought you had brought this child • to be christened." -New York Journal. TWO FREE SCHOLARSHIPS Mr, George Bury, vice-president of the Canadian Pacific, announces, in a special circular, that two free schol- arships, covering four years' tuition in the Faculty of Applied Sciehce itt McGill University, are offered to ap- prentices and other employees enroll. ed on the permanent staff of the said company, and under 21 years of age, and to minor sons of employees, the same being subject to competitive -examination. The competitive examination will be theld at the University, Montreal, and at other centres throughout Can- ada, In June 1916. The eandidates making the liighest average and com- plying with the requIreinents of ad- MiettiOn will be awarded the scholar. shops and have the option of takihg it course in any department of ap- plied science, The seholarship will be renewed from year to year-, to cover it peeled tint exceeding four years, if, at the close of each session, the holder thereof is entitled, under the rules, to full standing In the next higher year. in ease it scholarship holder finds it necessary to interrupt his course foe a year or more, notice Must be given at the Close of the sessioh to the hall- way company and to the head of the_ railway department of the University, in order that the scholarship may be open to Other applicants. In order to establish prior claim to the neet Avenel:01e -scholarship, no- tice of the students intended return must be given to the railway com- pany and the bead of the railway de- partment not later than January ist Preceding the opening of the, sesiden in which auch scholarships.will bei available. Applications for tertifieates entitling eligible persona to enter the eOmpetition should be addreseed to Mr. C. 11, Duel!, staff registritr and secretary pension department, Mont. real. • PIGEON SPIES. Feathered Soldiers Carry Mes, sages and Tale F1%0tographs.. Ali the natiens at present fightitue use carrier pigeons, not only for carrying messages, but also fa tatting photogra,Phs. In the equipment of all the German, and French army corps tire to be founda number of wicker panniers containing. pigeons, epochal men being told: off to look after the birds. The znessaghs which these birds carry aro written on fine tissue paper which is generallyrolled around the leg and fastened titer by small rubber bend. alisw how 'useful the, French and German autetaitiea ecgard thee° pigeone it has only to be etated that Ea Wranue no fewer than 15,000 are reserved fur gov- ernment use, and 2,000, according to of- ficiel statistics, in /Germany. Our own authorities, too, realize their ueefulness-and dangee-and Lave znade it illegal fax any German or other alien to possess carrier pigeons during the war, for undoubtedly many meesages from epie, espee.lally during the early days of the war, wereisent over to Ger- many by thtls means. These messages of from 200 to 300 wordsvan easily be car- mrleadnyfrioAnathaeayeast .coaso to parits of Ger- During the siege of Paris in 1870, when 883 birds were sent out of the doomed city, ono bird succeeded in carrying to the outside World on ono ,trip no fewer than 40,00e messages, eachof twenty words, the equivalent of ifour or five novels. This extraordinary feat was accom- plished by means of inierciphotographY, the message being first printed in or- dinary type, and then. photographed. The photographs werereduced many hundred times on to alias of collodion, each of 'which about two' inches square, contained 80,000 words. SiXteen of these films,. rolled up In a quill, weighed only iressages wore read by meos of a nes.. ono -twenty-fifth part of anclitinee. The eroseope, thus doing away rwith the ne- cesa,ty of rephotographing and onlarg - ing. Th.) quills in -which these messages are placed, for they are still used on pigeota of to -day, are fastened length- wise to one of the tall feathers. The cost of sending one of these long dispatch- ies was very high during the siege of Paris, in one case no less than 210,000 being paid In fees by the various people concerned. The messages were, of course, duplicated and sent., out by it 1 number of pigenns to insure safe de - livery. The Germans did everything to prevent the birds arriving at their des- tinetions, even to the extent of training falcons to attack them, In Germany birds have been trainee ifor some time past to take photographs es well as to carry messages. These photographs are taken by it special coatera, -which only 'weighs just over a couple of ounces. It is attached to the bird by a kind of harness. This consists of twn Maine rubber straps cropping over its back rine fastened to an nhuninem elate en its breast. It is to this plate that the camera is fixed. The time that it thkee f m• P biri. to pass, over any particular spot is ealeu- It lad,. and by an ingenious arrangement the shutter of the earoera Is released at the desired moment and the photograph taken. , The way the shutter Is released 11,3 as follows: Attached to a lever is an In- dian rubber bail in whiell there Is a very entail hole. The ball, when fully blown ti pthlees ten minutes to empty, Sup - Potting it is known to that the bird takes five minutes to arrive over a certain sea etbleh it is desired to Photograph. The Indian0rubber bell in that case is hall inflated, and empties itself in five minutes. When the air is exhausted the lever Soils and releases the shutter. A, bird 'carrying it earaera. however, cannot fly anything ;like the distance ene with a•message Can. In fact, 100 miles is about the limit for o, pigeon Photographer.-Peeroon's Weekly. Pepys at a Feast, ropers' account of the lord mayor's banquet which he attended in 1663 il- lustrates the earliness -of the proceed- ings at that time. He made hia way to the Guildhall at noon, "went up and down to see the tables" and then had a drink, reftising- wine in conse- quence of a vow, but persuading. his conscience that the might indulge in hippocras, a compound of wine and spices. Soonafter 1 o'clock came the lord mayor, "and so all to dinner." Afterward Pepys strolled about the ladies' room,but could not disbern one handsome face there, and "being wearied with looking upon a com- pany of ugly women," went off to Cheapside to see the pageants, "which were very silly." Thus the lord mayor's show in those days came af- ter dinner, -London Standard. • s • Better Than Spanking 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. 46 1 Getting an Autograph. A Munich body of fourteen who had seen and admired many of Rudolf von Seitz's paintings was anxious to secure the painter's autograph, but did not know how to go about It. After much thought he wrote it letter, stating that ho had send a case of wine to the profes- sor's address and wanted to know -wheth- er It had been received, Thinking the matter of sufficient importance, the reinter did not write, but called at the address given, met the boy's mother, and the fraud soon became apparent. The boy was thoroughly scolded and next day received this autograph note: It often happens here on earth That little rogues to great ones geow. Some autographs for which you're trying Can be procured without much lying. Headache is not I a disease in it- self, but comes as atwarning*Jo tell you that there is Omething" wrong with the system. Cotusequently when you stop a headache' by the use of powerful nardotieldrugs, you merely stifle the "danger signa by -which Nature tells you t t,th is trouble Why, not select a treatment that aims to remove the cause of trouble, by enriching the blood and. building up the starved and exhausted. nerves.' Such is Dr. :Chase's Nerve Food, and the effectiveness of this food cure is so well known that we scarcely need ahead. \ '.,..tell you about it. r.g starved/ condition 'of the ner- '4,, In almost every newspaper you mous system is by far the, most fre- 5, will find. some euro reported as a re- quent cause of heaahe. fVop. ma,y .1 sult of using Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. be going tooffast abate and burning 1. The mention of it among yam' friends the candle it bothl ends. The ner- .:•Z will reveal the fact that nearly every- vo'us system has no opportunity to 1:k body knows it as the standard medi- tenew its vigor, ,and tho)result is ner- 6 eine for diseases of the nerves and vous headache,". sleeplds,sness, indi- ';'4, other ailments arising from' a watery - gestion and irritiability. , t' condition of the blood. 50 cents a box, 0 lealer for WM, tilt t.iq or Minium'', i. Bates SiA Co., Limited, Toronto. B not be talked into eteepting a stilnititute. Imitationialeappoint Dr. ousse's Xl,Uelkotline 1,.000 ected reatgos, put: oe ff you.rnentionAls PaPeale Gretchen und Her ?Up, Gretchen hal von poodle pup, Mit vhite una voolly 'ORM): Vliere Gretchen vent dot pup voule up Und Ironer like a geese. It vent mit her von market tlaY; De butcher man vas vise: - "Dot pup so nice untl vat," lee saY: "He make goad sausage pies." Una den, vhen eiretelien net him seen, lie school) lim in s. sack, Und run ein through dose meat machine - Den Gretchen get 'int back, tind Gretchen eat mit eat end eat; She tote dot pup, you know; So, now, vhereffer Gretchen vent Dot pup les eller° to go. -Jerome 13, Bell, BE CURED TO -DAY OF BACKACHE 11111111i EATS 111111111101h'u". MADE IN Your persistent back -ache can have but one cause -Diseased Kidneys - and they must be Strengthened be- fore the back -ache can be cured, Your best remedy and the quickest to act, Is. Dr. Hamiltona Pills; they cure kidney back -ache in a hurry. -Simply wonderful is the action of this grand old medicine which, for liver, kidney and stomach disorders has no equal. Dr. Hamilton's. Pills will surely cure your back weariness, they will brilfg you appetite, color, strength and good spirits. Being purely vegetable they are mild, not drastic: Get a 2,5e bottle . of Dr. Hamilton's Pills to -day. TECHNICAL A new 6,000 -mile coal basin is being opened up by a 000 -mile exteusion to the Siberian Railway. An electrically -lighted cross revolves on top of a San Francisco steeple. Forty-eight different materials are need in the construction of a piano, which come from no fewer than six- teen countries. WEAR - NE KILTS 1 Your Wet Chance is to Join the 173rd at Hamilton, The Scotch, are the salt o' the earth and there's ea doot it! The 173r0 , Battalion, Canadian Highlanders, now nearing full strength et Hamilton, Ont., will be the last Highland Bat- talion formed in Canada and issued with the Highland unitorrn. There is still room for it few good men and those deeirom of enlisting with the last fully equipped Scottish 13attalion, should send in their nam -es at once to Capt. A. It. Bell, Adjutant, are of the Armories, Hamilton, Ont. As this Battalion will leave for camp at Niagara-on-the-Laae on June lst the time for enlisting is limited. This is positively the last chance to serve your King and Country, Wearing the good old. Scottish uniform, Mrs. Flatbush-She got all her fine niture on the installment plan. Mrs. Bensonhurst-Are you sure? Mrs. Flatbush-Positively. You see, she's been married five times and she got a little furniture with each husband... - Yonkers Statesman. DID THEY ENLIST? (Montreal Gazette) A hundred and fifty thousand men and women marched in procession in New York on Saturday for the purpose of showing that hey favored a policy ef preparedness on the part of the 'United States for repelling; an enemy's attaelt. The exhibit was Imposing. It is not said how many presented themselves at the recruiting office later in tbe day. That exhibit would have been enlightening, Ir BABY'S WELFARE Bananas can be best ripened in it 1.00111 kept at 110 degrees. Eighteen ' thousand bricks can be manufactured by the steam process in ten hours. Every day the River Thames scoops 1,600 tons of earth from its banks. . -- A full-grown elephant yields 120 pounds of ivory. e The tuberculosis death rate of New York, Philadelphia. and Boston com- bined has declined from 380.6 per 100,000 of population in 1882 to 164. in 1914. The 1914 death rate was, there- fore, only 43,2 per cent. of that of 182, or, to put it the Other way, the death rate of 1882 had by 1914 fallen 56.8 per cent. No other plant gives such a quan- titl of food to the acre as the banana, which is more than 10 times more than that of the potato and 133 times more than that of wheat. .14,-,1••• Granite is the bottom of the earth's crust. Quicksilver is 134 time heavier than water. Every square mile Of sea is esti- mated to contain about 120,000,000 fish. An induction balance bas been dee vlsed for the purpose of locating buried simile in the soil of the former battle- iield, so that the farmer may go over It safely with the plow. • — Tho twelve countries having the least blindness are as follows: Bel- gium (before the war) had 43 blind persons to every 100,000 of the popula- tion; Canada, 44; Netherlands, 46; Saxony, 47; New Zealand, 47; Western Australia, 60; Hong Kong, 51; Prussia, 52; Dermark, 52; Germany, 60; New South Wales, 60; the United States, 62. Extensive asphalt beds have been uncovered in Honduras. • Except that of China, San Marino has the longest national hytain. The failure of the mortality rates of measles and whooping cough to 'show a redUction during the last fifteen years is due to the fact that they are highly communicable iri their early stage, when diagnosis Is most diffi- cult. CONCEITED SAM. (Windsor Record) Sir SIMI Hughes ehows Signe of being kilned does It. It. needed mune thing to elinetere Ws Inordinate Vanity. PROBABLY NOT. (num and leireelde) "They eaY Merge hall brain fever." "Nonoeneei Can azo angleweent have water on the knee?" • ATUHORITATIM (Hartford Courant) "Spring Is about due." ' "Whate3 the harbinger?" "I Pee the etyle notes tine Malay Ilintg haVe had to 'get off the baseball pagtee THE BUSY MOTHER, (i3rowninges Magazine) "0-o,o-oh! I b -b -broke a plate." "I can't he disturbe4 iliat now. Run and twit father If he'll be ItInd enough tol enarile yOu fee Me" GO HEAD. (Philadelphia.Tiulletln) Teacher -If it farmer nold 1,479 bushel:3 of vheat for 11,17 it bushel, what would 1e . Boy -An automobile. SUITABLE, (Philadelphia. Ledger) "1 vi,ent to sweep the cobwebo from My brain. "Why not use a vaccurn cleaner?" The welfare of the baby is the fond mother's greatest aim. Ne mother wants to see her little ones auffering from colds, constipation, colic or any other of the many ills that se often affect little ones. Thousands of moth- ers have learned that by giving an occasional dose of Baby's Own Tab- lets to the children they can' keep them well. Concerning the Tablets Mrs. Richard Boston, Pembroke. Ont., says: "Babyls Own Tablets saved my little girl, When nothing else appear- ed to help her. I would not attempt to raise a baby without keeping the Tablets in the home." They ere sold by medicine dealers of by mail at 25 cente a box from The Dr. 'Williams Medicine Co:, Brockville, Ont. a *-0 An Indian Marriage. It seems almost incredible to an English girl that her little Indian sister never sees her husband until after the marriage ceremony, The Parents choose the wife for the son ' of the house without consulting eith- er party. Sometimes the bride es as Young as fourteen. The child is gor- geously dressed, and placed on a dais behind a sheet; the women of the family being in attendance. On the other side of the sheet Is the bridegroom and many of his young men friends. The groom keeps throwing over jewels attached to flow- ers, -which the women on the bride's side remove and place in her lap of on her person This first ceremony is called the Shahdee, and although a man is al- lowed four wives, no other even holds the dame position as the first chosen for him. The others are of little im- portance, living their lives more or less as servants to the first wife. As the first wife gets to middle age she is known as the Begum. • • • Odds and Ends. In Great Britaia a billion is reek- oned as a million millions. In the United States it is only a thousand millions. Itt Mexieo and parts of Colorado there grows a "soap plant" the roots of which upon being placed in water form ends and are suitable for wash- ing the body. When tho water spider wants to dive he makes use of an apparatus similar to the diving bell. A single gallon of gasoline will milk 300 coats, tale 4 tons of hay, Mix 35 euble yards of cement, move it ton truck 14 miles, plow three- fifths of an acre of land or generate sufficient electricity to illumnate the farmhouse for thirty hours. German shippers have never favor- ed the Kiel Canal, as they Pretor the long sett voyages to the toll charges. Sint° the teMperary closing of the Pannell, Canal it is no common sight to see a train of 25 tank ears,. con - Wiling 250,000 gallotis of oil, in ship- inent from the Pacifie' to., the Atlantie coast. .• NO ;1`WO-PARt4PATES, ; (Telephone Nasal) The OUbeeriber-etircleelte 'called the, 'wrong esurtiber. it hurry, he pireptly aelted fer'„fte, olti,for „two: • „ ogi°i)f e "Wily, !net this 'ea tbeittrer The nr,, svintants,getilchth tto„ Droek. " thii`iindortaker." 1"Isto," wits the repiyi "this .ia, • I ..• . LITTLE WORRIES IN THE HOMES HIDDEN. • (Chicago Herala). Mietress-D1d you see if the butcher had jig .e feet?' Maki -No, ma'am, 1 couldn't -he had his boots on! a TH-E REAL FACT. (Balthnore American) "MY airship is laid up for repairs." `.2 suppose that is the proper position for an airship, but when I saw 11, it look- ed very much laid down. A WISH, (Detroit Free Press) "I wish success were a woman," "Titen everybody would knoev its sec- ret," FAR, FAR BACK. • (Life) "Yes, there is a real idea back of everything he writes," "Yes, all the way from 1,000 to 2,000 years back." It is These That Bring Wrinkles And Make Women Look Prematurely Old. Almost every woman at the heati of it home meets daily many little worries in her household affairs. They may be too small to notice an hour afterwards, but it is them same eon- stant little worries that affect the blood and nerves and make- women look prematurely old. Their effect may be hoticed in sick or nervous headache, fickle appetite, pain in the back or side, sallow complexion and the coming of wrinkles, which every f woman dreads. To those thus afflict- ed Dr. Williams Pink Pills Offer a apeeey and certain curer a redone tion of color to the cheeks, brightness to the eye, a hearty appetite and a sense of freedom from weariness. Among the thousands of Canadian women who have found new health through Dr. Williams *Pink Pills is Mrs. N. Worrell, Broughdale, Ont., -who says: "After the birth of MY second child I Was ao weak and run down that I was unAble to do any - thine. The (teeter said I had acarcely any band in my body. I could not walk half a block Without being com- pletely exhausted and all the treat- ment of the doctor did not seem to 110111 me. I called hi another doctor., but with no better results. My feet.. and legs became frightfully swollen, suffered with severe pains in my back and sides. I would be all day dragging around at my household work, and wao begihning to give up all hope of reeovery. I had been urged to try Die Williams Pink Pills, but like Marty ethers, thought they eould not help me when, doetom had failed to do so, but after heath urging I decided to try them. To my surprise, in a few weeks1 gladly continuect their use and found myself constantly growing stronger, and eventually able to do niy house Strongly tisiViee every Weak woman to work witheitt fatigue. I glee Dr. Williams: Pl.nk Pills a fair • You can get -these Pills through any medicine dealer or by mail at GO .cents it bole or six boxee for $2.M from , HIS VILE DISPOSITION (Judge) "Pine day, Mr. Gloom,. and.--" "Well, you didn't make it, did you?" snapped j. Fuller Gloom, "Then, what are you bragging about it for?" HARD TO BELIEVE. ° ,(Boston Transcript) "My feet have a habit of going to sleep." "With those loud socks?" • FLATTERED. (judge) Ethel -Mama seems to like .Jaelt-I 'wonder why? Fanny -He mistook her for Yon one night! . OFTEN THE CASE. (Judge) "Duty calls, Maclaine!" "Ah! J at say that, I am out." PERKINS' PARADOXS (Boston Transcript) "Can't Perkins support his wife?" "Why, he can support her all hright, but he claims that she is Insupportable." THE ONLY THING. • (Baltimore American) "What did you catch on your Minns trip in the country?" "The last train back." IF, • (Judge) Marjorie -Do you believe In eugenics? Petrucla-I don't know. But if 1 could once get niarried I wouldn't care what Lappened to me. • • • NOT FILLING. (Answers) Lady of the House -Yoe say you haven't had anything to eat to -day? Tramp -Lady, de only Ving I've steelier, ed to -day is an insult. NOT THEIR LONG SUIT. (Judge) Gazzam-Oholly collies of dietinguislied ancestors. Miss Cazenne-Distinguished no doubt - but not as ancestors. 0 JUST DARED HIM. (Daily Oklahoman) Irate -Customer -'I have a good mind to mop up the floor with you! Merchant -Do it, I'll dare you to do it. it will be put in the papers, and I'll get lots of free advertising and have it rush of business. Hit ne, yon coward! Hit me!" THAT FEL.I.ow rgp..me. J a i (Record) "Prof. jonee has no right to teach. Ito doesn't understand his subject and he can't exPlain—" "Yeah, 1 know. He gave me e. low mark, teo," NARROW ERPAPg• (Baltimore 4merico-0? "It was whiIe trayeliog in Switzer- land that I proposed to Mise Smith on the verge of a mountain gorge," "Horrors! Suppose she Mad thrown :You over!" "•••••• MERE MATTER OF (13roweing's Magazine) "He said he was a bank cashier, ana we investigated and found that he wes:" "What bank?" "Well, it's a gravel bank, and he's pay - Master of the shovel gang." THE UNFORTUNATE PART. .(Judge) Willis -This war. has made it lot of dif- ference" -with the fashions -I mean as re- epeete the fellows who design them. Gillis -Yes, and It hasn't made any 412- fc at all with the fashione-I wen as reepects the fellow who pays for them. _ • di• COURAGE. eLifei Louise -Don't you get &Vaulty hungry when you cook? Julite-Horribly! Sometimes rin al- most willieg to eat what I took my- Leir, • -• THE USUAL WAY, (Baltimore Ainerletin) "My butler left me without any warn., Mg." "You got off ettsy... Mine left zile without any opeone." • HELP IS NEAR, (11rowning`e Magazine) "Some of the ,gretttest problems of life are yet etruggling for solution." ay essays art• on the They'll way . r;tlettees,,enlbu.,t, don't worry, Gratlizetion d Beef or Matefti should be a deep rale eolor and the fat of a rieh cream. The choleest cute for roasting aro the eirloin and porterhouse cute. Sirloin seVenth and eighth ribs, the and short eut porterhouse steaks are best, although many prefer the pin - bone steak. ','An alarm deck, son."--Kallsati City "Father, what is ail 'eye-01)(111ml" . t: