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' whieh Care at calving time eas
Wes ,1, Jeep both the procleetivity of the cow
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A Small allowance of greet, about tWo
''peoehle'd elpe"'''frITOe'etibabinot
• pliyeatal condep,on, and thie ration
....ohoutd be rici• e pckeilese lese
• •'• Bran or oath, eln 'a ititettefU of bran
line oats with a little meal, makes a
good combination to be fed. previous to
'calving. Corn silage and roots are
very good feeds if the ,.cow has no
pasture, or if it be before pasture sea -
eon. The succulent feed shoed iii
elude liberal allowances of clover or
alfalfa, by, or a roughege elelz in pro-
tein.
But the tow should not be fed more
roughage than she will eat up cieau.
If fed too much there will be dagner
of her getting into the habit of eating
the most palatable parts of the rough-
age and wasting much good feed. The
cow on pasture will need no grain, but
a little roughage is good. Of course,
if the animal is thin inflesh it would
be well to feed some grain; but the
amount should depend upon her coa-
dition entirely, •
When the cow has been properly
fea there will be no necessity of medi-
cine, contrary to the views of many
dairymen. A bran mash over which
some warm water has been poured is
a very good ration, especially in told
weather. Ground oats mixed with
grain and a pail of warm water should
be given, for her feverish condition
and exhausted body at this time de-
mand considerable water, and this
should he warm. Be careful that she
is not exposee to cold draughts.
Feed very lightly on grain at 'the be-
ginning of the milking period, allow-
ing a liberal amount of silage, roots
and hay. As the cow gains in strength
and resumes her normal eondition, the
grain portion of her ration should be
increased, Keep increasing .gradually
as long as she responds to the extra
feed. When she has reached her maxi-
mum flow of milk she should be fed a
little less grain.
.It will take three or four weeks to
bring her to a full flow of milk and to
reach the stage where she is eating a
full ration. The time to establish the
milk flow of the cow is when she is
fresh. There is no other time in the
lactation period when care and Judi-.
clous feeding have a more important
bearing upon her year's record -Feed
her liberally, but never overfeed or
carry her beyond her capacity. This
;wile woek great ipjpey to. heireemilk
Anietien .• ?lad beleelliegee efilyersiese
Prairie Farm and Hole.
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No. pf..,Plarits.
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43,660
19,360
•..••..• •-• 21,780
10,S90
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QUANTITY,OF SEED TO ACRE:
Beans, dwarf drills, 1 1-2 bushels.
Beans, pole hills, leebushel.
Beets, drills, four pounds. .
Broom corn, hills, 8 quart*.
Buckwheat, broadcast. 1 bushel.
Cabbage hills, half pound.
Corn salad, driller 6 pounds.
Corn field, hills, 6 quarts.
Corn, sweet, hills, 8 quarts.
Corn, sweet, for soiling, drills, 3
bushels.
Cucumber, hills, 1 1-2 pounds.
Melon, musk, hills, 2 pounds.
Melon, water, hills, 3 pounds.
Onion (for bulbs), drills, 6 pounds.
Onion (for sets), drills, 30 pounds.
Onion sets (small), drills, 10 bush-
els.
Parsnip, drills, 5 pounds.
Peas, drills, 2 bushels.
Peas, broadcast, 2 bushels.
Pumpkins, hills, 3 pounds.
Potatoes (cut tubers), hills, 10 bush-
els.
Radish, drills, 9 pounds.
Rye, broadcast, 1 1-2 bualiels.
Salsify, drills, 8 pounds.
Spinach, drills, 15 pounds.
Squash (busk •earieties), hills, 3
pounds.
Squash (ruening varieties) hills, 2
pounds.
Turnip, drills, 1 1-2 pound%
Turnip, broadcast, 2 pounds.
Tomato (to transplant) 1-4 pound.
'Wheat, broadcaet, 2 bushels.
QUANT/TY GRASS SEED TO ACRE.
•White clover, 10 pounds,
Red clover, Pli pounds.
Lucerne elover, 20 pounds.
Alsiko cldver, 15 pounds.
Timothy, alone, 1-2 bushel.
hungarian, 1. bushel,
Millet, 1 bushel.
Blue and green grass, g bushels.
Rye grass, 2 bushels.
Orchard grass, 2 bushels.
'Red top or herd grass, 2 bushels.
iffleed lawn gram, 4 bushels.
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NOTES.
A veterinarian recommends for barb -
wire cuts and similar inittrthe an oint-
ment composed of the following: Pure
carbolic acid, 1 part; iodine, 1 Part;
glycerine 50 parts, and alcohol SUM..
cient to make 100 parts. Paint MS on.
to the raw surface and keep it good
and elem.
001•10000
The cow that the dairy fernier needs
Is the one that Converts feed into
milk and butter as the feed increases.
Cows of this Mad are practically
all found within the four great dairy
breetle.
The trouble and cost of boiling the
strainer cloth aft& every Using is
greater then' eost of Caton
cloth, have a 'freah•eloth after each
Dirty feed pls aici the most Droll-
liettree be tit' Men sou in talvell.
It is only -natural that the diffietlitY
Of rearing eAlves thould Wreak+ alt
rae. la•gtsic
set
taisielees; the igervous Moil:Wiesen&1.
then more fully developed. '
The good herdsman is always ott in-•
Umate terms with his charges. We
have even Iciaown herdsmen to carry
lumps at sugar in their pockets for
nervous cows.
Necessarily, it costs more to pro-
duce clean milk than dirty milk but
the additional cost is less than the pro-
fit realized from the increased price
that can be asked, and the increase in
custom,
President "Will -Soon."
An American reader sande front
New 'York an amusing serap of in-
formation, "In London," he says, "1
see that you eall him President
son.' Here we call eim President 'Will -
soon.'"
PUNIsiTY, THIS.
Huns Despise Britain's Sol-
diers, but Can't Beat Them.'
While Germau writers exalt their
own people into demi-gods (why
demi? Why not go the wnole hog?)
-while they call ail Germans demi-
gods, they use the British as a foil to
show up by contrast their'own
Here is an estimate of our soldiers,
the men who will in due season will
catch the Huns, as they run for the
Rhine.
The Daily Sheet, of Posen,. thus de-
livers itself:
' "So many thousands of the miser-
able wretches have been dragged
from their slum hovels that the booz-
ing -kens of Whitechapel and the Bor-
otieh are putting up their shutters.
"They have lost their best custom-
ers!'
"It is thesebeer and gin -sodden
youths, now hurried by Kitchener to
the.•-slatighteee theneWeeseektee Ithe
ffeitielt:Empiteefebibeehe'ClelMan her-
oese• compared 4w1tb",?'N"trWorn" the fam-
ous Roman legions of antiquity were
eesebebies in ,point of bravery and
Military skill."
We do not wish to boast, but one
Wonders why the German' heroes have
not long ago extinguished the British,
if these be half so bad as the Posen
editor declares,
Naturally we must arrive at the
conclusion .that however rotten the
British may be, the Huns must be
In .a still more highly advanced stage
of decomposition since they do not,
with one grand advance, sweep us off
the face of the earth.
Looking over Bernhardes book 1
notice his claim for the great hu-
manity of the German soldier.
But that would be contrary to the
teaching of German military writers.
I read from General Beaman:
"When war comes terrorisni be-
comes an essential military princi-
ple."
I read from. Bismarck:
"inflict on the civilians or the en-
emy the maximum of suffering.
"Make the war so terrible for civil-
ians of both sexes that they will be
disheartened anti will put preseure
011 their government to sue for
peace."
I read from Clausewitz:
"War is unlimited. The side that
uses every kind of force without ecru -
P10; yes, without any scruple what-
ever, must in the end beat an enemy
who is hampered by foolish scruples."
I remember Bismarck's advice,
"Leave the enemy nothing but his
eyes to weep with."
I recognize that Germany has
adopted this teaching.
The land teat plumes itself on be-
ing the most refined and the best edu-
cated in the world is the land of the
Poisoregas; of the Zeppelin; the land
that sonde out its nocturnal murder.
ers of women and children.
Clauseivitz says that war Is "not
heroic but the most cowardly thing
imaginable." -Major, In Sheffield,
Eng., Independent.
Joints Quit Aching
Soreness Beats it Away
NO MORE STIFFNESS, PAIN OR
MISERY IN YOUR BACK OR
SIDE' OR LIMBS,
Wonderful "Nerviline" is the Fieniedy.
A marvelotts pain reliever.
Not an ordinary liniment - nuat
about five times more powerful, more
penetrating, more paie-subduing than
any thick oily or ammonia linintent.
Nerviline fairly eats Up the pain and
stiffness in ehronie rheumatic joints,
give quick relief to those throbbine
pains, and n.ever burns or even stains
the skin.
"Rheumatism kept my Joints swol-
len and sore :for ten years. My right
knee joint was often too painful to ale
low inc to walk. in this crippled tor-
tured conclitiou I found Nerviline a
blessing. Its warm, soothing action
brought relief 1 had given up hoping
for. I rubbed on quantitiee of Nervi -
line and improved steadily. also took
rerrozone at meal time, hi order to
Purity and .enrich the blood. I am to-
day well and cart reconimeild my
treatment most conscientiously.
(Signed) C. SPARKS,
Prince Albert.
Not an ache or pain in the muscle's
Or joints that Nerviline. Won't, cure.
It's wonderful for lumbago (w•selati-
ea; for neuralgia, stiff nes*, -earache
and toothache. Nervilltio iis,,simply
wonder. Rest family liniment known
and largely used for the) peat torty
years. Sold by dealers ever3Pwhere,
large family size bottle GOe., small
size Mc. Refuse a subatitute, tali*
only "Nerviiine,"
ea -444 teersarelesaisiel +co
Sitee .
The Fetich of Ger-
man Efficiency
It has become the fashion of Nati-
cal thought to apologize for demo -
cams, in War, to tompare it unfavor-
ably with els einicsite, which is eine'
°racy, and to apostrophize. the man-
ner in which a mechanized nation
raeets its greet eergericie% It lac;
been particuierlY tritlieeto dontracfetite
municipality of counAere among the
Englieli, their "nagiddilitt" andWateral
inelctiveness, eliet Marvelous ef-
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ficiency of the (liqxnalfs, Democraciee
one hears, are sibw tici'Maice up their
mettle and slow to net and waste theie
energies, whereas en Autocracy, on the
other hand, liege% with its mind made
UP, acts swiftly, and tonservee its en-
ergies.
13y none more than by the Englislr
themselves are these conclusions as-
serted and the lessons abstracted,
"The one eondition oe victory," said
David Lloyd George in et recent
speech, "le unity," as if theft were a
paramount enemy virtue. "Let us ap-
Ply the eneiny's methods to our
means," he said, "and we win." Win-
ston Churceill, attacking tee British
GoVernment for its conduct- of the
war, counts the men supposed to be
under arms, estimates the number
that are in contact with the enemy,
coucludes that there is a "large mar-
gin not yet usefully aeplied to the pro-
secution of the war," and rises to a
peak of bitterness iseying that,
whereas the Government talks of
"combing" the Indestries for more sol-
dier, he would say "Physician, comb'
thyself." One might think, to read
what they say to each other, that the
Englieh were in a moral panie, divid-
ed in .counsels, self -discovered in their
-inefficiency, and now resolved to be
efficient without knowing how to, be-
gin. But that is not so.
Baal Curzon said recently that
there were two prerogativee of welch
they tenth never deprive an English-
man -the passion for depreciating
himself and the • right to abuse his
Government. He spoke then of unity.
The greatest contribution that Great
Braaten hae made was not the number
of men she put into the field, • the
munitions turned out, or the ships
which sailed the seas, but the unbrok-
en front, the solidarity, the stubborn
tenacity of the nation as a whole. Of
that unity and tenacity the Govern-
ment was st symbol. That is the true
picture of the English, the one which
one knows instinctively to be true.
The •confusion is in the technique, and
that is unimportant.
There are nations that mfght run a
war better, there are perhaps few that
could do Worse in technique of con-
duct, but there is not one that could
be more trusted to win a war, and
that, after all, la the thing that counts.
To be sure of this you have only to
consider what woule happen to the
Allies in the event of England desert-
ing them, and then, on the other hand,
what England ;would do if her allies
deserted her. She would not stop. She
would .go on alone, as she has been
known to do before, because, as Earl
Curzon says, she is united and tenaci-
ous, even in a mood of self -deprecia-
tion, or perhaps more so in tliat mood
than in any other. England, denounc-
ing herself as inefficient, is yet the
greatest naoral asset of democracy in
Europe.
Against her is arrayed what the
world has been pleased to make a
fetich of, namely, German efficiency.
And what is that? Ilow shall it be
judged? By results, perhaps. Weli,
then, Ito first justification would bo
a victory. Being that quality wherein
an autocracy "may be 'superior to do-
mocracies in war, efficiency is obliged
to triumph in war against inefficiency,
so-called. In this It has failed so far,
and is in danger of failing utterly., it
may be argued that the test is not
fair, because there is a point at which
the highest efficiency will have to suc-
cumb to sheer numbers. Very well, Wb
take it on other grounds.
A' democracy, being inefficient po-
litically, is unprepared for war, as
England was; but in German prepar-
edness there had been great efficien-
cy. That is a 'thing now taken alto-
gether for granted. True, Germany
was reasonably prepared for war, but
in her preparedness there were fatal
defect% not political and economic
alone, but physical defects. Having
put its trust in great nes and in the
rapidity with which the enemy could
be ovearwhelmed by their 'fire, Ger-
man efficiency failed to provide itself
with sufficient ammunition, so that
by the end of September a, 1914, the
shortage of it was a calamity. By its
own testimony this is true, and mulltary plAns had suddenly to be recast
at a loss of precious time. It counted
on a short War, 'which was a fatal
miscalculation. It underestimated the
strength and resources of its enemies,
whice is thought to be a vice of de-
mocracies. It failed to foresee the
economic Isolation of the German Em-
pire, which was automatically betted
to happen. Having been confronted
with the fact of this isolation, and
only after the lapse of riearly two
years took the necessary arbitrary
measures to conserve the means of
life, In the meantime hopeless blun-
eters had been made, as German crit-
ic% of their own Government noW
unite in saying bitterly. There was
first a great slaughter; of swine, so
that there was More pork than people
cotild eonsume, and next there was a
great scarcity of let on that account,.
which .appakently now cannot be
made good. There was, plenty in one
place and scarcity in another, because
the separate states were loath to
yield control of their toed to a ?ruse
Alan dictator, now tardily appointed.
These things Might n11 have been
done very much better. Doing them
so badly in a democracy would be a
Mark of inefficiency.
German efficiency -eas failed to
overwhelm either of its great enemies.
It has conquered only Serbia and Bel-
gium. On its second wind' it does its
Mightiest against the blreneh at Ver. -
dun and is nenpluseed •by' the resist-
ance of a democracy that was thought
to be more valorous than efficient .in.:
War, It counted abettrdiy on the
pelin, an instrument • Of wanton"'
frightfulness, .capable of Mining the ,
blood of the world, but powerless In
tho slightest -degree to affect the ottt-:
come of the war. That is a symbol of.
ineffeetive efficieney. •
What of German efficiency as react=
ed upon by the emotions of a. People
supposed to be diecipline.d .beyeed 'any
unity Of Purpose and effort possible
to be athieved in a democracy?, Are
divided counsels and embarraesments
4 government peculiar to England?
Mt at all. Only the -technique la dif-
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ferent in this picture, A. member of
the Reichstag is' arrested in Pots-
dam Platz, Berlin, for denouncing the
Imperial German Government. He has
to be suppressed by ibree. Germauy
has iter Irish problem within. The
Admiralty and the Foreign. Office
come to an impasse, and the Kaiser
nes to decide between therm and off
goes the head of von Mintz. The na-
tion is then divided on the question
of how Submarine warfare shall be
eonducted, (though it has been al-
ready decided at Great Headquarters)
and von Tirpitz papers openly and
concertedly attack the Chancellor.
There is at last a compromise in the
Reichstag. Next the food problem
comes to a head acutely, and there is
another upset in the Government.
The Minister of the Interior is inter-
red, tinder a beautiful decoration, and
In his place rises a food dictator,
whose job will be thankless, because
everybody undertakes to hate him be-
forehand. This would fairly answer
as a summitry of the vices of a demo-
cracy at war. And in the meantime
the great efficient war machine offers
to a people on eiminislied rations a
geographical situation called victory
welch the enemy strangely,persists in
ignoring!
So there is efficiency contraeted
with inefficiency in war. Wherein is
the triumph of one over the other?
German efficiency Will be less made
of in the future. Its limitations ere
as obvious as those of an analytical
conclusion, It solyea a great prob-
lem, working front premises laid
down, but it is baffled by•the unex-
pected and lacks imagination to fore-
see new conditions, It sees narrowly
in a straight line, and when deflected
by unconsidered obstacles, which
imagination might have provided for,
it is like a locomotive off the track.
New York Times.
A CLEVER TOMMY.
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How One British Soldier Escaped'
and "Did His Bit."
Reuter's correspondent, writing
from the BritiSh headquarters, says a
certain soldier is now the pride of las
regiment in consequence of the skill
and daring with whien he extricated
himself from a very tight eorner, Just
withre the adventure happened mat-
ters not. The man was sent out on
patrol duty with another, They were
surprised by a party of the enemy in
considerably stronger force, and called
upon, to surrender. They replied by
firing, and killed a German, after
which the companion bolted.
The unnamed hero, coming to the
conclusion that a live man is very
much better than a dead one, permie
ted himself to be taken. But his cap-
tors failed to observe that, with
sleight-of-hand skill, he was eonceal-
ing a grenade in his capacious fist.
This he dexterously returned to his
pocket when the Bodies had finished
rummaging his tunic.
The disconsolate -looking .' Tommy
was borne in triumph to the German
For some reason he appears
to have been left in charge of a soli-
tary sentinel, whilst the rest of the
party moved away. Quietly with-
drawing the bomb from his pocket, but
without slipping out the safety -pin, he
suddenly broke from his posture of
cowed subjection and brought the ob-
-ject down with a tremendous whack
upon the,slcull of his guard. The Ger-
man dropped like a log, his rifle and
bayonet clattering to the ground.
Tommy then took to his heels in
the direction of the British lines, but
had not gone far when he came upon
another German patrol. Challengen
to surrender, he stood still, and allow-
ed the enemy to apProach hiin close.
Then suddenly poising the grenade, he
hurled it right into the midst of the
little group. There was an immediate
explosion, followed by cries and
groans, and the gallant soldier con-
tinued his sprint, returning safely to
tell the story to his cheering com-
rades.
He Would Save Us Alone.
One political personage with a
great belief in his own powers, is said
to have filled in his form in the "al-
ternative occupation" space of the
National Register in England, with
"prepared to . save the country."
Which reminds one of the story that
in the early stages of the war a cer-
tain politica,' person approached the
Prime Minister and said that he was
convinced that war could only be car-
ried on properly by one maa with
unlimited power in every direction.
The P. M. thought it over gravely for
genie lime, while the other pictured
himself hurling thunderbolts by land
and sea. "You may be right," was
the final verdiet. "But at niy age I
doubt whether I should be justified
in undertaking Such a burden." Which
is probable the neatest snub ever 041 -
ministered.
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jitilitragiuguizrziaz=
What One Man's patient Wart
Wrung From a Desert in Frnnee,
..pi
In the southwest ok France, between
the rivers Aciour and Quronne, eve iong
stretches of pine wood % flagon and woe
Where these pines neee stand was a
barren waste in tlio sniedie of the lest
ceutury. Spun and Wind vied with each
other itt malting* the land drier and
°Lister. Over tite stormy bay of Biscay
came 'Winds that :set uP great sandstorms
and sometimes buried whole villages.
Tee whole region was one.of hopiessicess
and despair. Fate was against it.
But filially there game a man who ec-
eriowiediree fate only as something to he
overgozne. This man. One I3remontier,
was an inspector of roado. He began
fencing in the desert. Ile built a fence
and behind it planted Masan seeds, Be-
hind the broom seeds he put seeds of the
pine. The fence protected the broom
seeds, and the broom grew. Then the
broom in its turn afforded shelter to the
dtlicate pine :shoots.
Soon the pines 'spread, and their
rough roots bound the Raticiy soli to-
gether. The first step Was accomplished.
The canals were made to drain the wet
parts and cafry water to the dry.
Thus did one Mall by patient effort
turn IL dreary desert into a horn e for
an industrious and healthy population. It
was an instance of triumph over fate -
New York Tribune. '
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HEALTHY BABES
SLEEP WELL AT NIGHTS
A well child sleeps well and durliag
its waking hours is never cross but
always happy awl iaughing. It is only
tho sickly child that is crose and
Peevish. Mothers, if your chtlaren do
not sleep well; if they are cross and
cry a great deal, give them Baby's
Own Tablets and they will soon be
well and happy, again. Copcerning the
Tablets, Mrs. Chas. Diotte, North Tem -
warning, Que., writes: "My baby was
greatly troubled with constipation and
cried night and day. I began giving
her Baby's Own Tablets, and now she
Is fat and healthy and sleeps well at
night." The Tablets are sold by meta -
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box, teem The Dr. Williams Medicine
Co., Brockville, Ont.
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SWORDS OF JAPAN.
.fleliglous Rites In Their Making and
•,k Final Blessing.
That the Japanese are past mestere
in the art of sword making is proved
by the splendid weapons, equal to
those of Toledo and Damascus, which
tney turn out. The imtual mettiods of
sword making in Japan are jealously
guarded, an extraordinary feature of
the industry being the religious cere-
mony whice accompanies every pro-
cess of their- manutacture. The walls
tit every sword making shop in Jaime
will be found to be covered with
allegorical representathms of the
vevord makers and thet'chief gcnidees
of the Shintos. '
Evil spirits are kept away by charins
consisting of bits of paper' and Wisps
of straw,,while, should any tvoluan
enter the shop, disaster vraud'.(cer-
tainly come to the awords that are
being made and to their wielder%
Ccnsequently women ere absoluteiy-
debarred from entering business a,.
sword makers, while not only je
prayer offered up before the werk
begins, but various religions rites
Peculiar to the Japanese are performed
in crder that the swords, when finally
completed, may be said to have been
well and truly laid.
Even the final processes of polishing
and sbarpenine characterized by
certain religious ceremohies, and fin-
ally the weapons are offered, one by
one, to be sword god to be blessed.
Tbis ceremony consists in placing the
swords in front of the goddess of the
Shintos on the wall, with an offering
of sake, rice and sweetmeats, nfter
which prayer scrolls are read and
blessing upon the work is invoked.
Religious Statistics of Japan.
• According to .statistics furnished • by
Toyko news:agency as official, there
are 15,000,000 Shintoists, 30,000,000
Buddhists and 164,000 Christiane in
.Taphn, which leavea some 20,000,000
With no profession of faith or other:
wise unaccounted for. The returns also
show one Shinto priest to every 200
adherents, but only one place of wor-
sen') t- '9,000. Tee Buddhists have ono
placs eoraiiip to 400 and one pricat
to 250. 'Me Christians haVe, one place
of worehip to 120 and one priest to
aeventy-11v.-East and West News.
4 • •
301ING RELATIVES.
Peculiar and .Embarrassing Cus•
tom of the Crow Indians.
The Crow Indians are divided into
thirteen clans, In former times the
number was probably greater. These
groups are called by nickname -like
designation, such as Whistling Waters,
They 13ring Gante Without Having
Killed It, Kicked In Their Stomach,
and so forth. Every individual belongs
to his mother's clan, and it la consid-
ered highly improper to marry a per-
son of one's own clan, since all the
marriageable women of that group are
reckOned as belonging to the status of
either a mother or a sister.
Those individuals whose fathers be-
long to the same clan ataud to each
other iri a very special relation, Which
for want of a better name may be call-
ed the "joking relationship." They are
Privileged to play pranks and'practical
jokea on each other without giving of-
fence, says the Southern Partner.
More particularly is it the function of
one of them to administer a stinging
rebuke when the other has transgress-
ed some rule of tribal Morality or eti-
quette.
In emit a case tee "joker" will bide
hie' time until, some public occasion
arises. Then he will boldly come for-
ward and twit the culprit with his deed
in the thee of the assembled throng
and to his utter diseomfiture. Against
this punishment there is no redress,
for nothing said by a jokbag.relative
can be reeented, The only thing 4
man an do la to wait for an offence
on the part of his eletiOuncer and then
treat him to a apse of Ilia own_Medi-
thee,
Effects of rt0St,
An egg expands when it Is frozen
and breaks its shell. Apples contract
so mueb, that a full barrel will .shrink.
until the top Myer Is foot below the
chine. Whenriho frost is drawn.out
the apples.assuites their normal glze
and.' fill .%) the bar4e1 again. Some
yaribtles areo not appreelably injured
by 'being froten if the frost is &awe
out "gradueliyeApplaie 'will carry saf4y,
In refilgarittOr car while the mercury,
is registering 20 degrees below
zero. Potatoes, beihe so largely corn -
posed of water; dre easily frozen. Ono
touched by frost they are ruined. -
Northwest Trade.
MAKES PERFECT BREAD.
CL=C3=0:0=00=3=0 4====xxxa:m10mh.
MAKE YOUR MONEY WORK
4,00.000,1,10•••••••
Ancl the Lesson the Small In-
vestor Needs to Learn.
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The advice of one of the large
banks of the country le that every
one Bhopal invest his surplus, wheth-
er large or meal, in dividend securi-
ties of the best class, whether rail-
road, real estate or farm mortgages
or public utilities, for "To keep
Money idle is a costly operation."
Let every reader of this article re -
Member that with as little as $5 or
$10 he can make first payment on the
purchase, of a first class $100 bond.
Let every reader wire has a few hun-
dred dollars to sPare put it in a good
$500 or $1,000 bond on. the partial
Panamt plan and let it earn some-
thing, Five lattadred dollars invest-
ed in a 6 per cent. bond (with the in-
terne deposited In a savings bank at
4 per cent.) will doixble itself in 12
years -that is, the $500 will have be-
come $1,000 in thet time. This $1,-
000 at.6 per cent, will earn $60 a
Year or over $1 a week for its posses-
sor. Even at 5 per cent. it will
double in fifteen years and at 4 per
cent, in eighteen years.
The lesson the small investor wants
to lear11 Is that his money is just as
gOod as that of the larger investor.
The former has great need of being
careful because he has less to spare.
Learn to be a 3areful inveacoe The
first thing a careful buyer does if he
wants to buy a horse, a cow, a house
or a farm, a bond or a share of
stock is to xnake a careful investiga-
tion. Schoolboys may swap the
jackknives they hold in their closed
hands, but grownup men ought to
know better. The humblest investor
can buy with as great safety as the
Proudest, for both can deal Wall 1112
same bankers or brokers In these
days when small lots are popular
with firms of established character.
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WINGS OF A BIRD.
Compared to Them Flying Ma-
chine Planes Are but Toys.
Although the bird traveler has no
trunk to pack, guidebook to study or
ticket to buy, still he must make some
pre.paratioes for the journey.
The warbler, which nests in Alaska
and pauses the winter in northern
South Amerlaa, should not begin an
8,000 mile voyage through the air over
mountains, plains and seas unlea.s its
engine IS in good- order and it has a
proper supply of fuel.
"But," you ase,•"what is a bird's en-
gine, and weere eoes it carry fuel?"
A bird's engine,is really its wings
and the muscles :which move them. It
is one of the nwet. perfect engines in
the world. It is simple, bireeteenagegete
works easily, but it la pol-opp;v40
rarely gets out of order. IA..'
For many years man tried to make
flying machines whit should have
wings like those of birds. But he lieW
succeeded. He could not natikniffi'dijg.
feather! Finally he discovened'tfiat'ifs
he would make a maelene that Would'
fly he must give it wings anti an eis?
gine, Se he constructed an aeroplane,
which has wide, stiff wings, or
"planes," measuring about thirty feet
from tip to tip. These wings cannot
be flapped, and in themselves they fur-
nish no power. But to them man added
an engine driven by gasoline and elec-
tricity. This engine tuna a long blad-
ed propeller, which urges the aero-
plane forward, while the planes sup-
port it when it is in motion.
But a bird's wing, we must remem-
ber, is both plane and engine. Iteg.ives
support as well as power. IttbAre-
fore a far more remarkableseekihee
than tee one made by man.WiA,Vt./6 44,
Chapman in St. Nicholas. eseeesi,:se0',
• o. 4,
Its
TEN MINUTE COLD CURE
RELIEVES ALMOST INSTANTLY
Nothing cures so quickly as the heal-
ing pine essences in Caterrhozone. It
fills the breathing organs with a heal-
irig, soothing vapor that relieves irri-
tation at once. Ordinary colds are
cured in ten minutes. Absolutely sure
I;or catarrh, and in throat trouble it
works like a charm. Catarrhozene is
a permanent cure for bronchitis and
throat trouble. Not an experiment -
not a temporary relief -but a cure
thees guaranteed. Get "Catarrhozone"
to -day, and beware of substitutes. The
dollar outfit iS guaranteed, and small
size, 50c; trial size, 25c. At all deal -
era
HARD ON PO -HUNS.
French Chef at Newport Played
Trick On Them.
The latest story of Count 13ernstorff,
tho- German Ambassador, which hap-
pens to be perfectly true, Is as fol-
iates; "Count Ilernstorff and two of
his attachee were invited to dinner
by the welisknown Mrs. of —,
Fifth avenue, Newport. COvers were
laid for twenty-four. The guests were
all gathered front that small Ind curi-
ous body of upper-class pro -Germans
with whom we are aflicted. The soup
was served, and then came a long,
long Mimic.. -The butler was sent be-
low to interrogate the French chef,
Who eventually, accompanied by his
two Prench sous -chefs de misfile pre-
sented 'himself in the dining -room, hat
in hand. 'Good -night, ladies and gen-
tletnen," he said, 'there is going to be
no more dinner. We hope you liked
the soup, because we all spAt in it.'
Whereupon, efter the manner of ser-
vants in the United Statile they left
the house, to be eagerly snapped up
by sOnle eompeting hostess."
• • *tee
GOA
• Spanish peasants living in the Otis
Mk region use hotnemade gas obtained
from -cork refuse, As described by one
authority, the process consists 1 im fill-
ing several large teakettlea with the
waste bark and plaeing each in turn
• otter the fire during the evening, burn.
Mg the volatile gas as It escapee from
the. spout& The 'carbonized realdue
tonne the line. -black -brown pigment
knosvit to iiimmetco as
brown." :,,I1Spanialt
'•
We cunt to consider tile end in
nvertthing.---Lanotaine,
FOR LIVE STOCK MEN
Dominion Commissioner
Gives Some Advice,
Mtn 13night, DOMittion live stook
commissioner, writes;
"A. study of the live atock aittiatton
of the world at the preaeat time can-
not fail to coitvince any' practical per-
son that Canadian stockmen will have,
In the immediate future, an exceptional
opportunity for profitable trade. The
queetion as yet unAllswereslth whether
they will realize the situation la time
so es to conduct their operations as to
take the fullest advantage of it. Tele
is a matter of the utrnost importance,
not only from the standpoint of the
individual farmer, but also from a
national standpoint, While the na-
tional phase ot the queation may lie
soineweat outside of the consideration
of the average farmer, the matter of
Pt:rmsoankael iptraofoiNtvninaaltivbeear, epIeniniceend slitdPeerit_
ing the latter aspect of the case the
stockman who is convinced that an
neprecedented opportunity is pre-
senting itself to develop the live stock
business of Canada, should not•lose
Ught of the essential factors that will
make oucii development possible, The
most importent of these factors are:
1. The laying of the foundation now
by conserving breeding stock.
2, Improvement in the quality of
live stosk products bY, intelligent
breeding -the use of good sires, the
-weeding out of all scrubs both male
and female, consistent adherence to
one breed, early attention to calves
an3d. Ilmamprtiv.
ement in the care and feed-
ing of young animals and improvement
In the finishing of animals for market.
4. The providing of a steady volume
of trade by remaining continuously in
ilia ranks of live stock producers de-
spite temporary and sometimes dis-
couraging fluctuations in price as
governed by the svorlcl's demand for
live stock products.
HIGH COST OF LIVING.
Things That Are Mere Comforts
Now Used to be Luxuries,
No economist has put enough em-
phasis on the fact that if the cost of
living is higher now it is to a large
extent because the avenage man is de-
manding more comforts and luxuries,
and these must cost more. Before the
days of plumbing and bathrooms the
workman missed some onerous bine,
but he is now ready to throw the
plumbing out of tho house.
Oil is cheaper for light • than elec-
tricity, but people pay Imre for a
modern light because they Want the
better service even at the higher
Priees. Workmen by the -'.thousands
have ph miegreinseagieseareselee Of. *erstey-
tain m entitOcnown linttt a very few
.
e
cars are rather a new
years nve aa gi tteekeek
thing, Eu10t e poorest families spend
•eeenseele4ii every year for this s
4m.eine ,usereels letieliirps abrecehoamseed innedNivspbeynsnamini,
st,peoplebocriblT ch a -publication.. I
. eTlipaeapneof articles are for sateen
4rensuyears ago had netter
'71firt3r.labiliPti.ent store, of which; a
ele'ree-Ceeeeeithge are purchased at
soieeseeimesen\ other by the average
.ta,g0tr4lb.g.Vemily. •
eloilWrineeinieg does cost more eni-
euredly,tqV.W.61g(510ilat'aMil....;1.' '
Napoleon On HOriebacli.' .
,-':F4,i4rii-.*10.: N.i.4-'-i.-..‘^•,''z,.,:::.
,,,..4rierdinamy:twe tbp..peeceeiticenee
taken that Napeleln shonld asieer•epease,
pear at a disadvantage On horsebaek..
Tiek erepettit esevisseseb'e i& • rtiablinc.
horeemaa.... Atie zehiS! npeees
way'tli'oraiiiiip Whitten 'fn. Here is
4-esleg:ertetioPS.glathe4iketineft:eniPitiP ,
ed"They were treined ,tie eeraaepe,pese
fectly steady under tt5eture8"ofeevere '
t he ,silea4;,,.,.drmus, weeelebeaesselOtolef .
description; to receive blows about
dekre'efeekens, Deed ineteile1r4eree flips
waved before their eyes, °luau pack-
ages mid sometimes even sheep and
pigs were thrown between their legs.
None of the entree's were ' deemed
sufficiently trained till the emperor
could without the least difficulty pull
them up short at full gallop, which
was his favorite pace." -London
(hronicle.
0.
. FANCY' AND FACT.
Is he In the tre'nehes, asfighting
of the Turks,
And a-servin' of his yaiesty the King?
With a sun that $ biazin"ot
And the ehanee of get:tin' shot
Any minute, any minute as he hears the
bullets slug.
Is he inarchin' on the desert, doin'
twenty miles a day.
Niiith a tongue that's big and black with
'eat and flies?
And 'alt a pint o' water
or else -maybe a quarter -
To quench 'is thirst each day, until he
dies.
Is he fight'? Is he marchire Is he Livia'
In a camp/
Or is he in a dug -out, sixby four?
With bombs a dropping round qiit
And artillery to pound 'lin
And blow him to the Nver Sunny -Shore
Nol He ain't fightin' now, and he
won't be for a bit,
And he ain't a -sniping Turcos from it
stump.
He's a-lyin' (this 'ere Bard)
In the Isolating' Ward
With the measles -and a double dose of
hump!
Hanchester Mng., City News.
e
see es ;see
1 .
N'erveus, -sick headaches tell
of exhausted nerves, and event
you of eipproaching prostration
or paralysis. 13y entiehing the
blood I)r, Cilitise'S Nerve Food
restores the wasted Derv° eelLe
and thoroughly cures heaeittehea,
sieeplegsness and othee nervous
disorders
80 emits 'a nog, alt Deidergi Of
gdniallSON tRIANS A Co rs. Lblilted,
Torinito.
Nova Scotia leads the Ivey
wore.
• ...v....0
The Rogers gang got wised 4
V the sea.
MUM Columbia will be the r
to tumble into the lap of the Liber
Brusiloff's great drive Imo been
groat surpriee of the war. We 800 1'
flarittlt.ke landing of Rp
Russian troo
Franco was merely a blIml to di
the enemy's attentioa front the east
, The Imperial Parliament will
ash% to so amend the Rhodes tic
arebip Act that German stude
n ill in future be denied the prIvile
of attendance at Oxford, Thus g
tion of Rhodes' firma vanishes
thin air,
The astonishment of the British
the illsuccess of their fleet in
recent contest in the North Sea 0
reproduced that at the German's at
the battle of the Marne,-Rochee
Times.
,After the facts became known th
was uo astonishment. The pea
were quite satisfied with the work
the fleet. -
The Chicago Tribune announces tb
in coasequence of the mobilization.
the national guard, the editors of t
Tribune, Robert II. McCormick a
Jeseph Medal Patterson, are in send
with their respective organizatior
the First Illincao Cavalry and Bette
C. First Battalion of Artillery. W
the sword in their hands be might
than the pen?
Russia has bagged in this late
drive 175,000 Austrians, and the
is not Yet fell.
Bread riots in Germany and u
in Greece show what the Britt
blockade is doing.
Toronto Island is slowly disaiMea
Ing, we are told, causing a slunap
valuable real estate.
If Canada is to get a preference i
Briesin for its wheat, how is Ruse
to gee closer trade r lations with ti
old country?
The bratal Germans bayonet
wounded, 'helpless 'Canadian soldier
and the Men of the medical corps a
tending to there, aselno doupt.ti
Kaiser thanks heaven.
• • 0,
A false alarm caused the death
Capt, John Case, of the London fi,
eielatnenient. The Advertiser asks th
Al*al.teachers to telt every boy POP
tile story so that such a thing ma
not occur again.
•
Rtliatibilleves in fighting the dev
With fire. Brusiloff is said to hav
begtpUlitiktreat drive with a gas a
tack ever thirty miles wide. The gis
tarried Tda 'tidies and no mask is
preventive of suffocation by it.
..
ss
see se-
AnstraVieraiely capital will not b
4,anipiter all. It will b
named ectaifieSern honor of the hero
-31f Gallipe.A.1:•41M new capital is to. b
GMOkel* imAdless, dustless and slum
lees. Al•-legzictikat is what the Minis
of:TniOl'Oterks has proMised.
'Sieve -se es_ - •
S1t1:11A14.00o. a Lawrence hosier5
0111..are now enjoying a stock divi
'den& of 400 per cent. Of all the PrO
tected interests the hosiery minutes
hirers have been squealing the loud
est, but we trust that 100 per cent
stock dividend will keep the share
holders of one concern quiet for
time, says the Philadelphia Record
What sort of dividends are the Can
adian sugar lords earning?
The Russians have already bagged
over 50,000 Austrian prisoners in their
present drive. Apparently the Kuser
cannot face all fronts 'with a superior -7
ity of men.
Gen, Joffre in London and the Ger-
mans knocking at Verdun's door,
What's up?
---
The farmers may' have lost millions
nf dollars by these rains. But many
Is the time diet the ram has enabled
them to make milliOns.
The Germans now talk of ineecliant
submarines carrying goods to and front
Germany, and thus breaking the Brit-
ish blockade. Stranger things have
happened.
The 1,700 British sailors who were
gent to death in the obsolete ships
Monmouth tiad Good Hope in 1914
could have been sent to victory in the
three dreathioughte that Canada
should have ordered in 1909, .The
blood of these sailors is ott the head
of Canada's failtire to order dread.-
' noughts in 1909. -Toronto Telegratn.
We wonder if the Telegram bellevea
that rotten etUff.
4.
Detia.use a woman's clothes fit ber
it does not follow that she can't work
co well and as hard as the slouchily
dressed individual.
----44,-..--
"Admiral of the Atlantle Is the Ger-
raan's now nazis for the Kaiser, Deal.
ehg with this the N. *Y. Sun says: "If
these boasts are well founded that
fat will be presently diselosed. With
Germany ht command of the sea, arta
13rItaln deprived of her atiprenutcy,
Teutonic commerce will mute its
.111;t0kellion freedom', Tim merchant
ships tied up, in 'neutral jNort s will
load aild'sail; iho vessels idle in their
home harbors will see forth on their
accustomed voyages." But the Sun
knows that they will not, Britannia
rules the Waves.