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February 25th, 1915
MEDICAL USE OF At COBOL.
Aa the public heeomt : ; 'r•' enlight-
ened' and as professi ,r n en tend to
specialize, there it- :: t:-• :t ns.t for pr'-
cisi to .and accuracy in .v• ,, .:. of medi-
cine that hos to es: sows hatter in
the. abandonment of ales hiS sss reliance
in c..se of lever.
Ie a stimulant sags • -. d, we ask.
Wrier do wie wish to sii.•,:tS:-r? What
vital function needs eti,..,, :err to bring
it hp to normal? 'fleet we have to
select the stimulant Lis:..ats encourag-
inety on that special outer-wn and not
on ony oth•es that. ns, o r6, widening up
--anti in no solitary instance can our
chess. be oleohol.
If it is a general !,•,-.tor that is
needed. we seek to . ,,,.s the cause
of general depression - :ret this nearly
always toxemia (or, :as •.o .ple words,
blond poisoning). Indeed it is to the
discovery that in all infer.ious maladies
it is toxemia that co..- :utas the most
proseing danger that at'';hol owes its
death blow. For we sow know that
alcohol never aids in ;Soiling the system
of these poisons, but 'nvariably adds
itself to the flood of poisonous agencies
with which the patient must contend.
The final stroke was given to alcohol as
a remedy in fevers when it was found
that the increased niteeenous output of
the kidneys was derived from the food,
the liver being so occupied in intercep-
ting and throwing out the alcohol that
the nitrogenous of the food slipped past
the unguarded portal and gained access
to the general circulation.
ACTUAL RESULTS.
To the Editor—
The actual results of prohibition in
West Virginia are most encouraging.
The President of The Citizens' National
Bank of Penusboro says 'I am person-
ally acquainted with quite a number of
farmer drinking men who have reform-
ed since prohibition and are now sober
aggressive citizens."
Mr. Amos Wright, President of the
Heine National Bank, of Sutton, says
"I have yet to hear the first business
man speak of the prohibition law except
to say that it is a great help to business,
and a great help in many other ways."
Mr. P. NI. Snyder of the Bank of
Mount Hope says ''Our Bank has open-
ed up approximately three hundred new
accounts since the first of July, a very
large per cent. of which came from the
laboring class who formerly spent their;
money for intoxicantstl"
Mr. John L. Rhul of the Clarksbury
Trust Company says "The drink money
is finding its way into saving's accounts."
And so I could go on giving the testi-
mony of number of prominent bankers
and business men all of whom are de-
lighted with the working of the new,
law.
It seems strange how slow people are
in finding out that money won't buy
boots and beer. But I am almost amaz-
ed at the taxpayers who cannot see
that they are bur..ened with taxes to
support the paupers and criminals and
take care of the wrecks caused by the
liquor traffic.
A. Arnott, M.B., M.C.P.S
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
A man may be lonesome because other
men are particular about their asso-
ciates.
But the young fool is not excusable
on the ground that there is no fool like
a' old fool.
Any young man can afford to marry
—If the girl has money enough for two.
Some peop:e are as quick as powder
and others are as slow as cold molasses.
My son, there are two things you
should never borrow—money or trouble,
especially trouble.
And sometimes the girl who marries
her ideall gets a diverse and lives happily
ever after.
Being kind to a rich mother-in-law
may be a good investment.
An old bachelor fears a baby more
than a woman fears a mouse.
How a woman does enjoy quarreling
with ,a man who isn't quarrelsome.
SWINE HUSBANDRY.
"Swine Husbandry in Canada" is the
title of Bulletin No. 17 of the Live
Stock Branch of the Department of
Agriculture at Ottawa, This publica-
tion describes the bacon hog and dis-
cusses his breeding and rearing.
The breeds of swine reared in Cana-
da are described and a history of each
is given. An interesting section is de-
voted so the production of pork on Can-
adian farms. The information was evi-
dently secured from practical farmers
in cheese factory and in creamery dis-
tricta and in sections where hogs are
rained without dairy by-products.
The bulletin concludes with articles
en hog cholera and tuberculosis, written
by the Veterinary Director General and
he Chief Matt Inspector, respectively.
Mut ht generously illustrated and prhat-
er,. in septa brown ink. Copies are
die to those who apply for them
to t!bellPublloatitme Branch of the De-
t of Agriculture at Ottawa.
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FTRIOTISWPRUC:1.
Co i s 3 lete o r Pan
The important thing now is to complete at once your plan for the year's work --
for increased production. By planning well in advance, each month's operations can be
carried through more effectively when the time comes. Delays later on, through neglect
of this, will mean loss to you and to the Empire.
Use the Best
Seed
This year, for the sake of the
Empire, farmers should be
exceptionally careful in the
selection of seed. Cheap seed
is often the dearest. If every
Canadian farmer would use
only the best varieties, and sow
on properly cultivated soil, the
grain output of Canadian farms
would be doubled. Deal only
with reliable seedsmen. Write
at once to Canadian Department
of Agriculture, Ottawa, and to
your Provincial Agricultural De-
partment for information as to
the best varieties of seed to be
used in your particular locality,
and use no others.
ATTEND
YOUR
CONFERENCE
Clean Your Seed
All grain intended for seed
should be thoroughly cleaned
and selected to retain only
the strong kernels. You can
reap only what you sow. It
does not pay to sow weeds.
Cleanseed means larger crops
and helps to keep the land clean.
When you have your seed grain
ready, put it through the cleaner
once more.
The Farm Labour Problem
The Government suggests the forming of an
active committee in every town and city, composed
of town and country men and women. This com-
mittee would find out the sort of help the farmers
of their locality need, and get a list of the unem-
ployed in their town or city, who are suitable for
farm labour. With this information, the committee
would be in a good position to get the right man for
the right place. .
Councils, both rural and urban, Boards of Trade
and other organizations could advantageously
finance such work. Every unemployed man in the
town or city who is placed on the farm becomes
immediately a producer, instead of a mere consumer
and a civic expense.
Canadian
Department of
Agriculture,
Ottawa, Canada
Test Your Seed
Test your seed for vitality,
too. Seed is not always as
good as it looks. For example,
oats, quite normal in appearance
and weight, may be so badly
damaged by frost that their
value for seed is completely
destroyed. If you have any
doubt as to the quality of your
seed a sample may be sent free
to the seed laboratory at Ottawa,
or Calgary, for test. But in
most cases this simple test will
prove sufficient:—
Take a saucer and two pieces
of blotting paper. Place seed
between blotting papers. Keep
moist and in a warm place.
In a few days, you will be able
to see whether the vitality is
there. Neglect to test your seed
may mean the loss of crop.
Increase Your Live Stock.
Breeding stock are today Canada's most valuable
asset. The one outstanding feature of the world's
farming is' that there will soon be a great shortage
of meat supplies. Save your breeding stock. Plan
to increase your live stock. Europe and the United
States as well as Canada will pay higher prices for'
beef, mutton and bacon in the very near future.
Do not sacrifice now. Remember that live stock is
the only basis for prosperous agriculture. You are
farming not speculating.
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-Build Up The
Home Town
I F YOU want to live in the kind of a Town,
Like the kind of a Town you like,
You needn't slip your clothes in a blip
And go on a long, long hike.
You'll only find what you left behind,
For there's nothing that's really new..
It's a knock at yourself when you knock your
town.
It isn't your Town—it's YOU.
REAL Towns are not made by men afraid,
I� Lest somebody else gets ahead.
When everyone works and nobody shirks,
You can raise a Town from the dead.
And if, while you make your personal stake,
Your neighbor can make one, too,
Your Town will be what you want to see.
It isn't your Town—it's YOU
BE LOYAL
TO YOUR OWN
COMMUNITY
MOM
CARLYLE ON WAR,
When Men Kill Men Between Whom
There Was No Quarrel.
What, speaking in quite unofficial
language, is the net purport and up-
shot of war? To my own knowledge,
for example, there dwell and toil in
the British village of Dumdredge usu-
ally some 500 souls. From these, by
certain. "natural enemies" of the
French, there are successively selected
during the French war, say, thirty able.
bodied men. Dumdredge, at her own
expense, has suckled and nursed them,
She has, not without difficulty and sor-
row, fed them up to manhood and
even trained them to crafts, so that
one can weave, another build, another
hammer, and the weakest can stand
under 'thirty stone avoirdupois.
Nevertheless, amid much weeping
and swearing, they are selected, all
dressed in red and shipped away at
We public charges some 2,000 miles,
or, say, only to the south of Spain, and
fed there till wanted. And now to
that same spot in the south of Spain
are thirty similar French artisans from
a French Dumdredge, in like manner
wending. till at length, after infinite
effort, the two parties come into ac-
tual juxtaposition, and thirty stands
fronting thirty, each with a gun in its
hand.
Straightway the word "fire" is given,
and they blow the souls out of one
another, find in place of some. sixty
brisk, useful craftsmen the world has
sixty dead carcasses which 'it must
bury and anew shed tears for. Had
these men any quarrel? Busy as the
devil is, not the smallest! They- lived
far enough apart; --were the entirest
strangers; nay, in so wide a universe
there was even, unconsciously, by cora•
coerce. some mutual helpfulness be-
tween them; How then? Simpleton!
Their 'governors had fallen out, and in-
stead of shooting one another had the
cunning to make these poor block-
heads shoot. Alas, so it is in Deutsch•
land, and hitherto in all other lands.
Still, as of old, "What deviltry so ever
kings do the Greeks must pay .the pip-
er!"—Thomas Carlyle.
BEARDS IN BATTLE.
And Why Clean Shaven Men Became
Prized as Warriors.
The habit of shaving is not of a very
ancient origin. According to James
Stephens in "Here Are Ladies." when
humanity lived a quiet, rural and un-
ambitious life web did not shave;
their hair was their glory, and if they
had occasion to swear, which must
have been infrequent, their hardiest
and readiest oath was "By the beard
of my father," showing clearly that
this feature was held in veneration in
early times and was probably accord-
ed divine honors upon suitable occa-
sions.
With the advent of war came the
habit of shaving. A beard offered too
bandy a grip to a foeman who .had
got to close quarters; therefore, war-
riors who had no true hardihood of
soul preferred cutting off their beards
to the honorable labor of defending
their chins.
Many ancient races effected a com-
promise in order to retain a fitting
military appearance, for a barefaced
warrior has but little of terror in his
aspect, The ancient Egyptians, for
example, who had cut off or could not
cultivate or bad been forcibly deprived
of their beards, were wont to go into
battle clad in heavy false whiskers,
which, when an enemy seized hold of
them, came off instantly in his hand,
and the ancient Egyptian was enabled
to dispatch him while in a trance of
stupefaction and horror.
Cleanshaven men became by this
cowardly stratagem very much prized
as fighting men, and thus the founda-
tion of the shaving habit was laid.
Names of Nations.
The names of the great nations of
Europe set many puzzles to the philol-
ogist. There is no doubt .that France
Is the country of the Franks, the free
men, or that Austria is the eastern
empire. But one would not so easily
guess that "Russians" means rowers
or seafarers—a word of Swedish ori-
gin commemorating the Scandinavian
vikings. The Britons have been sup-
posed to take their name from a word
signifying variegated, in allusion to
their staining their skins with woad.
Most puzzling of all is "Germans,"
which is not the Latin "germanas,"
own brother, but of Celtic origin, and
has been variously interpreted as
meaning "the people" or "the shout-
ers."—London Chronicle.
War News
Affected Her.
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the terrible war news from day to day,
especially those who have relatives at
the seat of war, have become so nervous
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WEAKENING
[Detroit Free Press]
In some things I am young and spry
There's still some rubber in my step,
Nor would I even hint that I
Do not possess my old time pep.
I'm just as keen for honest fun
As what I ever used to be,
And when there's duty to be done
It still can safely call on me;
Yet age, beyond the slightest chance
Upon the frame of me is sneakin',
Along about the fifteenth dance
I find that I've begun to weaken.
No gray hair glistens in my, head,
No curve has started in my spine,
Each morning when I quit my bed
I feel superbly fit and fine.
Of course, I am no acrobat,
No strong man in a vaudeville show,
But I have no superfluou-i fat
And I can give and tas"e a blow.,
And yet this is a circumstance
That tells me I am getting graver
Along about the fifteenth dance
I find that I've begun to waver.
Time was that I could hold the floor
Until the misty break of day, -
I was the last one through the door
To start upon the homeward way,
Fatigue I thought was some disease
That only came to grey, old men ,
And crippled them below the knees,
But I was young and foolish then,
And now I find whene'er I prance
I no more wait dawn's rosy red -time
Along about the fifteenth dance
I tell the missus that it's bedtime.
Th Sawfish, '
The sawfish has a formidable wea-
pon of killing in the fiat, bony sword,
armed on each side with about twenty
large, bony teeth. The sawfish ruahes:
into a shoal of fish and slashes to -
the right and to the left, In sea
fights sometimes whales have been
killed by sawfish, and the saw some-
times has been driven - through the'
hull of a ship, The sawfish, common
about the West Indies, goes into the -
gulf of :.:exieo and the Florida wat-
ers and sometimes ascends the Mis-
sissippi and other southern rivers, do-
ing great havoc to the nets of fisher-
men. This species sometimes reaches
a length of fifteen feet, a fourth of
which measures the "saw."
ArIsthion.
In a small village in Switzerland
is a comfortable old inn much fre-
quented by English, and the menu
generally includes one dish supposed
to be specially British. Though the
orthography is peculiar, the meaning
is generally obvious—as, for exam-
ple, "rost bif roti," "rumesteck," but
"aristhious de mouton a l'Anglais"
was puzzling. The first word had a
distinctly classical appearance, which
suggested a Greek origin. But when
the dish appeared the meaning flash-
ed into the guests' minds. "Aris-
thiou" was the Swiss chef's attempt
to render phonetically the words
"Irish stew."—Manchester Guardian.
Paid In Full.
Miss Pinkerton (daughter of a rich
manufacturer)—Pardon me, miss,
but I have not the honor of your
acquaintance!
Miss Lowton (who does not intend
to be put down in that style)—I
thought you had at one time, but
never mind! Perhaps if my father
owner a big glue factory like your
father's I'd be stuck up too!
Drawing the Line.
"I want you to read my speeches,'r'
said the candidate.
"Couldn't think of it," replied Mr.
Dustin Stax,
"Why, I thought you would be in-.
tarested. You have always subscrib-
ed to my campaign fund."
"Yes.. I'm glad to be an old sub-
scriber. But I'm hanged if I'll be a.
constant reader."
Revenge.
"She makes me feel so small when
she begins to talk about her ances-
tors. And we have no ancestors."
"Never mind, my dear. Come back
at her with the pedigree of your dog."
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gines is being extracted from shale
and slate in Sweden.
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