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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1910-07-21, Page 3TELEPHONE A BOON TO KING WHO EVER HAS FIRST ALL ••• "V` OM( All Mot Wait When British lIftenar6 Would. use Line, But H4 140170.1r Abuse e Royal Privilege, and BO Splendid "Telephene Voice." What would not one give to have just little of the privilege enjoyed by King George in the ume of the tele. pitone? King George no doubt thinks the telephone ia the greatest boon under the sun. To him it must be a source of the greatest comfort and enjoyment, as Much SS to the ordinary Londoner it is the most amazing, nerve wrecker he finds in the course Of a days business. One does, uot like to saas anything dis- respectful about King George, but at the same time the King may at times be the cause of profanity on the part of a disappointed subject. When the King .requires- to speak over a trunk line he has the right to claim priority of eer. vice over all who may be waiting to use the same line. To let you understand what OD means, usually a person re- quiring to use a trunk line, unless he be very fortunate has to wait at least beef an hour before other gaiters who have requisitioned the, line have finished their businese, for each caller gets the line in tern. But when the King re- quisitions a trunk line His Majesta never kept waiting at the most more than three minutes, the time limit for a eteink call, and as soon as the call in progress is eompletea the line is given over to the King There is a notice in the trunk ex- change at the Central pot office that royal dockets are to take preeedenee over all others so, when a call comes through from the King a red stamp bearing the word "meld" is affixed. to the docket, which is sent to the opera- tor working the required line, and she must deal with it at once, os as soon as the actual call in progress over the line is finished. While three ralentee is the time al- lowed for a call, ceeept when the King is using it, Ma Majesty has the privil- ege of talking without any time Wait. As a matter of fact, however, the King. who had :tension recently to vise the trunk lines rather frequently, seldom if ever exceeds the time limit, Mis Majes- ty knows bow a telephone should be used and is eareful to observe rules laid down to expedite the traffic. His Ma- jesty speaks rather slowly and distinet- ly, but not loudly', so that his listener siever has to aek him to repeat a word. It is the experience at the trunk ex- change that the royal calls are very quickly cleared. Xing George is all for business, and hie son and heir apparent, the Duke of Cornwall, is said to take much after him in that respect, just ata in feature ee resembles his mother. Prince Henry, the third son of the King and Queen, is the humorist of the family, and mauy stories are told around the court respecting his brisk humor and apt retorts. At a recent picnic his sister, the Princess Mary, was allowed. to bake some cakes for tea, and the boys were asked tneir opinions about them. Prince Henry looked at his calm with a whiensical smile, and then said: "It is high treason, is it not, to epeak disrespeetfully 'of the daughter of the Prince of Wales?" Upon another occasion his elder broth- ers were discussing their future careers, Prince Edward was explaining that he was to be a soldier in due course, while Prince Albert declared that he enea,nt to etick to the navy. "What are you going to be, Henry?" .he was asked. "Oh!" he rapped out, "I will just stay at home and tell the peo- ple all the great things that both of you are doing in ease they overlook them." ,••••••• • Tea Making Art With Japanese. • (By Jane Lee.) When a Japanese .expert makes tea the foreign spectator is impressed not only with the extreme sensitiveness of his hands, but also with the evident del- icacy of his senses of sight and smell. However, any one who wants to may serve tea in America with the same deli- cate taste and aroma that are secured by the best tea brewers of Japan. The secret lies in the proper infusion. First, as to the tea itself. The variety is a matter of individual taste. One ;Mould not think that a high pneed tea is necessaryily any better than one of lower price. Select the tea you like best and learn whether it is from an early or a late picking, its tame at home, how it is cured. and then insist upon getting the same tea every time. And do not forget that a poor tea properly made is better in every way than a superior tea badly made. A few experiments with a variety you like will result in a perfect tea, so far as your taste is con- cerned, and after that do not modify it in any detail the way of making it properly, for in nothing is greater ex- actitude required. Tea leaves subjected to diferent pro- cesses of curing require different meth- ods to get the best beverages. There are two broad ruleto follow and several minor ones. First, black teas require boiling water and green teas do not, Black tea requires fresh water poured on the leaves when it has just come to a decided boll. Hot water that has boil- -free ed a long time and lost its life will not make a good tea. It should stand for from three to seven minutes (according to the variety and quality) and: only in a porcelain pot. Then all the liquid should be poured off. In other words, put only as many cupful& into the • pot as you wish to serve at once. Hot wa- ter standing on tea leaves draws out the tannin, which is the main thing to be avoided. For second cups pour boiling water on these once used leaves. The principal ingredients of tea are tannic acid and theine. From the former we get all tbe bitter and deleterious taste, from the latter the aroma and the pleasing and beneficial effects of tea. To draw out the theine and at the same time not disturb the tannin is the object • of good tea making. If you have made a tea with no free tannic acid,,milk may • improve it as a beverage for some tastes_ Always see find the sugar (if you care to use it) is thoroughly dissolved and stirred in before you add the milk—this makes a decided differenm chemically. 4. Tn. ranking green tea bear in mind that the thing to be desired is an oily • beverage; not an astringent, but one that ,is smooth. Water beyond 150 de- grees Fahrenheit tends to destroy the flavor and aroma by driving off the ,volatile oil. Let hot water stand in the eups to be served in order that they may be thoroughly heated, so as not to eool the tea afterward poured into them. Pour freah hot water, eooled enough to put your finger i; over the green, leaves and let it stand in s, porcelain pot for two minutes and a half. Then pour a little into each cup, and then a little more, and so on, in order to make each cup of like quality. As with black tea, only enmesh water to fill the cups to be immediately served should be put into the pot. No sugar or milk is teeded if the water is of the right temperature. Jap- anese tea made in this: way should have )(ENDUES SPAWN •CURE Kills Bone Spavin Welt Vaney, AUa,etay 20th.1909 *I 'have used your Spavin are for long lime and would not be without It, /rave killed a none Sonvk by its use." or.,tt CARI,S014. That tolls the 'whole story, And hundreds of thousands have had the site experience lit the past 40 years. For Spavin, Ringbane, Curb, Splint, Swellings and all tameness, *eddies essavin Curt curet the troublee-makes the home *mind rad vrelteatied mime moray for the owner beettuee it removes the *MU* of the trouble. /Cop * beetle alwayi et 'hand- *lore for ea bond IOC MSS mai heist Ask emir delder for free ropy of eter Wait rotrattat On tett nose" *real* ate I a a greenish amber color, with a true tea bush aroma and an oily taste. Another important consideration in :making tea is the kind of water used. jSoft water always makes better tea than 'hard water. The Japanese go further and prefer brook water over spring or 'well water, because they say water that has flowed many miles eddying and • dashed against reeks, is beaten soft. It ,thas more air in it than well or spring water. AN ORGAN FOR 25 GENTS , A WEEK. We have on hand. thirty-five organs, 'taken in exchange on Heintznean & Co. pianos, whicb we must sell regardless of loos to make room in our store. Every instrument has men thoroughly over- hauled, and is guaranteed for five years, end full amount will be aliened on ex -- 'change. The prices run from $10 to $35, • for such well-known makes as Thomas, Dominion, Kern, Uxbridge, Godarich an, 33e11. This is your chance to save money. A post card will bring full particulars.— Heintzman & Co., 71 King street east, Hamelton. Science Notes. India and Ceylon produce seven - eighths of the world's tea. Violet tinted potatoes are said to stand highest in natritive value. The cost of a transatlantic'eable av- erages nearly $1,200 per nine, ' Modern electric hoists are so designed that the speed varies with the load. So •powerful axe the jaws of a wasp that tho insect has been know -n to punc- ture a sea shell. In strang contrast to the many hot water geysers of Yellowstone Park, a new one ejects ice cold water. To gather a pound of honey, scientists have figured. that bees make nearly 23,- 000 trips from their hive. Banana, oil, applied with a. soft brush to a.ny metal surface after polishing, is a good preventive of rust. The general use of the automobile in a South African town has caused the abandonment of a rthert railroad and one of its stations has been turned into a garage. A sande cylinder engine of 5,000 horse power, weighing close to 750,000 pounds, recently was built in Ohio foe use in a. steel rollineamill. The New Zealand Legislature has been asked to add telegrapbers' cramp to the list of diseases for which an employer must compensate a man who sustains it in his employ. By using a. stethoscope and a sensitive telephone relay the heart beats of a patient in London were heard in the Isle of Wight by his physician, who diag- nosed his ailment. 414.4. The destruction of the house fly is a public duty. Almost all boards of health are now .cazry- ing on a crusade against it. A bulletin recently issued by the Dominion Government states that no house fly is free from disease germs. Use Wilson's Ply Pads freely and persistently, and do your share towards exterminat- ing this menace to the public health. a es Killing Off Lark % in England, The Royal Society for the Proteetion of Birds is doing excellent work in again employing a special inepector to do what is possible in the present state of the law to eheek the cruel trade in song birds. With regard to larks the case mem rather hopeless. After a visit to the Downs, near Brighton, the inspector says in his re- port:: "Shepherds on the Downs stated that in hard weather donne of catchers are to be seen daily, and a cycling con- stable of the Least Sussex police eateel that at Telscome he could sometimes ase a dozen catchers at work. The police could not touch them, as the skylark hits no winter protection in East Sussex, lt • wee not utteortunon for two teen to take • fifty or Marty dozen birds away with them and they practically denuded the Downs thereabout; at the present time you may walk for half ait hour and not hear one lark." --Animals' Priend. P gear/111g Birds From Cherry Treat. Disgusted over the depredations of the birds in the cherry trees Mrs. Samuel sAltiard, of Summer 17111, Columbia County, suggested to her hueband that he pleee a bell to one of the trees and attleh*a rope to it. Now she sits in the house and when- ever the birds appear gives the rope a pull as4, rineare the hhb1, frightena thlt btrare away.—Philedelphia Reestrti, CLASS CAGE FARMERS BUY AUTOS AND PALACES AIL AND BOILERS LET EM — .AN ACRE OF LETTUCE UNDER G WATER CIRCULATION. An acre 'ander glass will yield an aver- age of 1,000 barrels of lettuce in a sea- son, or about 90,000 pounds. Pris range from 4 to 15 cents per pound. Three crops ef lettuce are grown in a season. One crop of cucumbers is grown, This erop is usually started, with the last crop of lettuce, two rows of lettuce be- ing omitted in each bed for that pur- pose. An acre under glass will produce per- haps 2,500 acukes ' in a season. "Kukes" bring from 20 to 60 cents a dozen, &mewling to season and quality. Toledo, July 0.—Does farming pay? Is this cry of "back to the soil" the goods or the bunk? According to the testimony of the fanners of Door -rd, southwest of Toledo, the answer to these questions is: farming does pay, and the 'back to the soil' slogan is 'the goods'—provided, in this northern climate, you are careful to keep part of your farm under gime." But some of the knowing ones will add: "And provided you are lucley." Within the past few years this Door -rd community has developed from ordinary truck farms, such as may be found. on LASS, SHOWING MODERN corm= B. BEDS AND POWER SYSTEM or HOT the outskirts of any city, into an extra- ordinary centre for the production of out -of -season green stuff. Not very many years ago a, few old- fashioned, hotbeds were ell they had to supplement the work of the min and ac- celerate the vegetable season, Nowthey have many acres in:4er glass and exten- sive systems of heating and irrigation that are the last word in hothouse equipment. The road is lined with a succession of enormous glass-r000fed structures. One of these,, covering nearly eight acres, is sadi to be the largest in the country. One products of these houses serve to make Toledo a national centrs for the ship- ment of hothouse cum:sabers, lettuce, to- matoes, ete. These operations are spreading with astonishing rapidity. For example: Five years ago Miller Brothers built a green- house -that was large for that day. It was the first of the big outfits to be equipped With power circulation of hot and cold water. Since then several still larger greenhouses have been built in the neighborhood. Now Miller Brothers are building an adeitional plant that will be one of the largest in the world if present plancearry. ' Greenhouse farming is not a alrre thaw by any memos, There is an ele- ment of risk in all farming, and in this sort of farming the risk is greater than in growing ordinary staples.. Green, house farming is a gamble in which you stand to gam much or lose melt. A good season may net you a small for- tune. One of these Derwra outfits is said to yield a. profit of close to $30,000 a year. On the other hand a heavy baU storm may practically ruin you in 00 seconds. "A boiler explosion or hailstorm may wipe out the profits of years," says Frank Miller, of the firm of Miller Brothers, "A fragile thing like a green- house is not readily insured." Nevertheless the number of green- house farmers is growing. They seem to like the risk, This community is cer- tainly prosperous. The road. is lined with splendid homes that. lacic nothing In the way of improvements that make for comfort. Automobiles are no longer luxuries to them. In a werd this community is the type of the rural community of the future. These farmers farm with their brains. They are showing in a measure, the pas- sibilities of scientific intensive. farming. DON'T STUNT MOTHERS. MISS BEATRICE FUSES - ROBERTSON. The need of virile -mothers for a strong race of men is one of tha arguments in favor of woman's suf- frage advanced by -Miss Beatrice Porbes-Robertson, the distinguished English actress, now in this country. "If nature had intended one sex for seclusion, for segregation," she says, "woman through natural se- lection would have become to -day a creature with a very small head, an enormous bust, and tiny, rudi- mentary legs. If In the interest of the children it- were ,best for women to be deprived of the mental and political activities of men, then the children of segregated mothers would be healthier than free wornea. But the contrary is the truth, e Segrega- tion and idleness have so weakened woman that she is with one exception the only animal in nature that ever requires the assistance of the male to give birth to her Offs,pring. The exs eeption is what is called the onstetric frog." Stature of Monarehs. A remarkable feature about the phy- siques of reigning European monarchs is, says "M. A. P.," that they are near- ly all shorter than their mutants. Xing George V. is several inches shorter than Queen Mary. The German Empress is a trifle taller than the Kaiser, who always insists on. the Empress • sitting down when they are photographed together. Czar Nicholas II. book % quite small by the eicle of the Czarina, Alfonso of Simla is a head shorter than Queen Vic- toria Eugenie, and the Meg of Italy hardly reaches to the shoulder of Queen Helena. The Queen of Denmark, too, ia a good deal taller than her husband. Exeeptions to the rule are the Xing of Isionvay and the new King of the Bel- gians. The latter is 6 feet 2 inched In height, and the tallest Xing in Europe. a* ir The child is fatber of the mane-, Wordsworth. BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND. Almost All Killed by Imported. Vermin —New Protection Laws. Nearly every native bird in New Zea- land will be absolutely protected by law thie year. The animals' proteetion act provides that 1910 and in every third year after that may et the discretion of the Governor in Council be declared a close season for native glum The ab- sence of bird life in New Zealand is al- ready most noticeable. T. Mackenzie, a member of the Government, as the re- sult of a recent journey through the country writes: "Between Nelson and Hokitika hardly any bird life at ali is to be met with; the ittsperted vermin have dune Urea work of bird deetruction only too well In the region from Ross to the south, however, the tut and the pigeon are to be seen, making bright the landscape with their presence. "At the Forks I met a gentleman who took a great interest in bird Ills.% on the coast, and he told. me that the weka, kiwi and kawakawa had disappeared, and he believed that the stoats and weasels killed every bird in the country. Re had himself lot a half-grown black swan which lee had reared. Ile had found it lyiug on its back with a gash in its throat. "The stoats and weasels were often seen in the neighborhood of the lakee where the ducks made their nests, and it was suspected eta.? the vermin paid due attention to their eggs."—From the Adelaide Advertiser. ,A, Imim II n • 'kit 144 kw(Ohfiiiitwitil ' aitte4..,:inak, 111,11‘li‘lik II . •SVI GREASED PIG CONTEST. The greased pig contest furnished delight for the picnickers. Record at Paper Making. Jeihn IL Gately, a Leo papermakeie has euemeded in making a world re- word on the number of pounds and also attrober of feet of piper run on a ma- chine. The rule was 38 incb. trimmed Tolle. One machine made 115,573 pounds and the other 123,030 pounds in a twenty - tour -hour tun, The previone 'retard was 114,300. This was made Ilif*y 31, and on Juno 1 a like total was Made on the two machines and the record maintain- ed throughout the week.—Leo corms. pondenee Springfield leplablimoi BABY'S SIGHT SAVED, The sight of this baby girl was saved because of the campaign for the education of mothers, which has been started and encouraged by doe - tore and nurses, and which is rapid- ly spreading all over the country. A few days after this Cleveland baby was tern the mother noticed the little cneas eyes were inflamed-. The mother had read in a newspaper of the effort to save the eyesight of babies threatened, and she immed- iately insisted that the midwife at- tending her report the case to the health officers. They investigated and began treating the infants' eyes. It was a hard fight, but now, after two months, the baby's oyes are well. The dieerse is known as ophthalmia neonatorum. It is easily cured if taken in time, bat means blindness if allowed to continue for a few days. Mothers are urged to immediately report all eases of sore eyes in their babies to a reliable physician at once. A Pirate Queen. Among a party of thirty -tour Anannte pirates and malefactors just brought to Marseilles was one of the wives oi the pirate De Tham, who has given the French so much trouble in Indo-China. Co -Ba, as the woman pirate is called, exercised a dominating influence over the pirate king and. his followers a power she even preserved througlioat the voyage, which the prisoners nutd.e in a specially constructed iron cage, built amidships. The other prisoners, on re- ceiving their rations, immediately hand- ed them to Co -33a for distribution, and She laid down iron regulat4ons kr the prisoners' life on board. Her word eves always serimuletely respected. When the prisoners landed it was Oo-Ba who marched proudly at their head, takieg not the slightest notice of the crowds who watched the debarkation of the prig. oilers on their WV to the Die de Re, In the Bay of Bisca,y.—From the. London Dail Mall. SOM:ETHING SIM NEEDED. (Tit-Tlits.) Lady—NO, i don't want no brushes nor no laces. Peadier—Vdre yea are, Madam, "Grammer for Beginners/' only tit - pence. N1.1....111111MMIO THE EvoLuTioN OP THE MONK EY. Man In ths bagining was * mo nkey, scientists state. ,Hors ths era st thews that the rnnli beetling, arid that beginningwas a peanut, alit hid A sandy loara, :a the best soli for muslanclo»s. Seatter over it barnyard manure, plow and harrow to pulverize thoroughly. When tite weather la quite warm and the tree.; are fully leafea out the bine are generelly prepared for the eeea. When the melene hcgia to elpen a buneh of straw placed under them will prevent the fruit etene creatang. Iloga in England are given a great variety of feeds—potatoes, turnips, car- rots, beets, peas, beans, barley and oat, Tile grain la either steantee or groend and the vent:it:les usually cooked and mixed withe'ewill. Grasses and elovers are cut and fed during the summer time. . English hems tend inore to the bacon type than t'do those raised in America. If lean meat is wanted we must feed a greater variety an seleeb musele-form- ing foods. To euro thrush In a horse's feet place the affected animal in dry 4uarters, re- neuve shoes, apply a poultice of linseed meal over night, then after washing the .feet out thoroughly with warm water pack the cleft of the frog well with dry calomel, lerese -lie calomel web down to the bottom of the cracks with a smooth stica and waa n little cotton or oakum over it to keep out the dirt. Us- ually one application will be enough, but if necessary repeat the application of calomel, Do not he cOnt.z.t.•,--y drugging your five stock with the idea, that something is wrong with their health, "When con-. vinced that the aninutl is out of condi- tion and that medicines are needed have a veterinary prescribe the medicine and give it under his direction. Muck harm es;; be cane ay Inc constant use of con- dition powders, as they uaually contain drugs having diuretic properties. As a consequence the kidneys become accus- tomed to stimulation'and when the medicine is stepped, the kidneys, not ltaving the accustomed stemplant, be- come sluggish and inactive, and conse- quent ill condition of.the animal Jollows. The leading insecticide for summer use is arsenate of ,lead. Add eight pounds of arsenate of lead to 50 gallons of water of Bordeaux mixture. Arsenate of lead is in the form of a thick white' paste, which dissolves readily in water. It ad- heres to the foliaga tor a long time and does not "burn" the leaves. For codling moth (apple worms) and plum curcullo, also for canker worm, tent caterpillar and all insects which eat the leaves. The mole is a stout, thick -set, animal - eating insect, living underground, where it burrows with wonderfel facility and constructs flatteries often of great ex- tent and complexity. The mole is the most voracious af mammals, and if de- prived of food is said to succumb in from 10 to 12 hours. Moles have been seen by various observers, as if madden- ed by hunger, to attack animals nearly as large as themselves, such as birds, Ile - aids, frogs and even snakes. 17 two moles are confined together withreit food the weaker is invariably devoured by the stronger. They take readily to the water. Figs during the big harvest form tne food of the horses of Smyrna. They turn them to this from oats or hay. In the West Indies the green tops of the sugar cane are fed to the horses. k Egypt the Khedive's best mares are fed largely on currants, and these fruit - fed animals are noted for their endur- ance and speed. For long weeks in many parts of Canada windfall apples form the horses' only food. It Tas- mania peaches are greatly reliseed be horses. Dates take the place of the Ini- tial hay, cern and bran in Arabia. Nitrogen. must be maintained by ie. genie ereps, and the best legume for the cern belt is clover. The clover erdp should be left on the ground, if remov- ed, not much, if any, nitrogen Is added to the soil. If the crop is removed and fed, to average live stock, and the man- ure given average care and hauled bat* to the field, the loss is needy one-balt of the plant food and three-fourths of the organic metter, lf a good crop of clover is left on the ground once every three or four years, only the seeds being removed, it will supply suffielent nitro- gen for quite large grain crops. The soybean vines make the best hay if cut when the peas, haae formed and the lowest leaves have turned yellow; but for seed anci cutting should not be. gin until half the leaves have turned yellew. Even the soybean hay le a val- uable feed- Animals relish the hay and thrive upon It. Moistuee is the most important tac- tor in the germination of seeds. Very little is required for most of the garden seeeds, and the tendency is to apply too imich water rather than too little, Special care must be exercised in the -germination of old s'eeds or seeds of low vitality. 17 water is applied rather spar- ingly, especially inimediately after sow- ing, the percentage of germination will be larger and the plants more vigorous, Rhubarb requires a deep, etch mellow ln fact, the soil cannot be too rich, The earliest aield is from a warm, sandy loam,. The ionaese stalks and the great- est number snay be grown on a deep, rich clay loam. The ground should be plowed twice and harrowed and rolled to get it in good order. The following is recommended as a good home-made fly remedy: Resin, 1% pouiels; laundry soap, two cakes; fish oil, half pint; enough water to make three gallons. Dissolve the resin in a solution of soap and water by heating, add the fish oil and the rest of the wa- ter, Apply with a brush. lf to be used as a spray, add a halt -pint of kerosene, This mixture will cost seven to eight cents per gallon, and may be used on cows or calves, One-half pint of this mbr:- ture is considered enough for one appli- cation for a cow; a calf, of course, would require considerably less. Two or three applications a -week will be suffi- cient, until the outer ends of the hair be- come coated with resin. After that, re- touch those parts where resin has rub- bed off. Chickory can be grown wherever car- rots can be grown; culture the same. This refers to chickory of commerce which Is used as an adulterant of cake. Sow the large -rooted variety. If a salad is wanted, sow the common variety, which should be transplanted in sancl in the cellar and kept moderately moist, when a new growth will start; this second growth is very highly prized by French and German cooks. Spraying is a preventive and not a ronaedy. There are a few fungous dis- eases that ca,n be destroyed by spraying, but they can also be prevented by the steam operation. The damage done by a disease or an insect can be repaired only by the plant itself. Such work as can be done to protect it from further dam- age is about all that ean be done for it. Spraying should be done early and the protection made more complete before the diseases and insects appear GROWTH. OF RURAL TELEPHONES. To anyorm who, travels the country roads, one of the most striking features is the 'continuous evidenee of the growth of tbe rural telephone. Even the most remote and sparsely settled parts of the country have their strings of wired poles, spreading like a network along highway after highway, and branching off here and there to take in some farm house that, were it not for the connect- ing link of electricity, would indeed be isolated, The call of the telephone bell is no un- eommon sound in the farm house to -day. Men are called. for the threshing, prices are learned, buying and selling is done, orders go to the butcher and the grocer and friendly gossip and chat are all among the many -things that keep the busk rural lines buzzing. The farmer with a telephone is no more isolated than his brother in the city—indeed, of- ten far less so, for the city man re. rule does not know his next door neigh- bor. The fanner knows everybody, and, thanks to the wonderful invention of Prof. Graham Bell, ca,n talk to them all any day or minute of the night. To com- ment on the value of the telephone to the fanner, from. the standpoint of prices and markets, would be almost superflu- ous when one considers to how givat an extent the instrument is used for this purpose. "My telephone,"'says olle farmer, "has, I calculate, paid, for Itself fifty times over sinee it has been installed. The times When it has told inc to sell and the timee when it has tola me to hold for higher prices are numerous, , . "More than that, our company is -only it little independent cement meted just among ourselves. ''Zes. I suppose you 'ean credit rae with a good part of its or- ganization" ne said in response to an in- quiry. "'ion see, it happeted this way: I noticed the advertisements of one of the big electrical supply houses mid got interested. I wrote to these 'people for their book on the organization of mat telephone companies, and they sent roe 7 nil information on hoes, to proceed. They told me everything 1 Wanted. or needed to knew—toid. m 11, lot of things that I never even kiln: there was to know, They tom. nee, not tally about their tele- phones themselves, but postedone ott the steps that I had to take to organize. All / had to do when I got that informa- tion was to go out to my neighbors, and, you bet, I Was able to answer anything they' iteked me. Say, we had a tele- phone conipany onlanized and operating almost before yeas would know it, and there's not it single one of our men to. day who would go back to the old way of doing without a 'phone for anything. "No, it didn't cost, us much. There's nothing prohibitive about the cost, and, as1 tota yon, we own the company sasses* as. Last year We paid 0, pea dividend, and it will only be a question of a few years till we have back every cent we invested and a telephone service into the bargain. Our running expenses are alruost =Wog—just the cost of maintenance and the salary of a girl at eentral. It is not worth speaking of That's one advantage, you see, of a co- operative company such as ours. "It's a surprising thing to tale that more farmers don't organize telephone companies of their own. I believe they are doing it now more generally than they used to, but there are lots more that would and could organize if they knew how simple it was to get started and how great the benefits were. "If there's one thing that I would ad- vise more than another, it would be for some fanner in every locality to write in to one of the big telephone supply houses to find out what they have to tell him. There's no reason either, why one man should put it off expecting an- other to do it; svelte yourself. Rural telephones are a thing a farmer can't know too much about—especially when there are concerns who are ready to tell hint everything and not charge him a cent for the information. "All 1 ever invested for the knowledge was a two -cent stamp and I read. over the books they setme in the evenings. RUH? The Girl—What's your opinion of wo- men who imitate Inen? The Man—They're idiots! The Girl—Then the imitation is sue. tessful. CIIAS. NESTLE MOUNTED ON AN EtIC. The saintliest alk in the world Is Chas. Nestle, of Pt. Wayne, Ind. Ile Is three feet eleven. It is his am. bition to lead the big procession oi the Elks at the national conventioa In Detroit this summer. BBAYER. 0 Lord, landfill Fnther, we would cast ourselves on Thy gracious promisee, and would piny Thee to fulfill them to us now by heiping us to draw very near to Thee, and by giving to us desires which we desire. We thank Thee that with all our weakness and unworthiness ise can come to Thy presence with con - Mince, and we would draw near by the faith of Jeslni Christ. Blessed be Thy name for the great reconciliation which Thou hits wrought for the world in Himand for all the message of it whici* has reached our hearts. May we all of no yield to the voice, And be re- eoneilea to God. Amen, ••••••••.•••••• in)luots ndienstierar ebeje;:gg,' rhe reality 1voo Can joy be an objeet of a precept? nnl kl Joy is not an action, it is simply a state tion of our happy conditien. &nue one ha% said yon can no more command joy than °you can emumand success, Sorrow Is the death of the soul, joy is its life. Sad- ness discolorseverything, enslaves the soul and brings on internal paralysis Waves of sorrow roll as froln pro: found ocean, drenching and. overwhelm. ing the soul, ereating diversion, self obliviou end deJlijtqu. Philosophers may recommend joy, but Christ only can hn- part tt. He only develops energy and gives the essential principles of life My joy sball fulfilled, continued. in them. This joy is deep as life and last- ing as eternity. It does not depend up, on the weather, the state of the body, or what news the mail man may bring It is as deep and as mysterious as God, it is gathered up into (7hrisa, it is His grand monopoly, is Was ever, it is ever in Him, and never absent, You think of , Hire as the man of sorrow.;, you think of Him meanly. Joy was before sorrow, and is after; sorrow is only a parenthesis. We before him, but the joy, not the duty met do not read for the, sorrow that was set before inna but the joy; joy was never absent, not even in Gethsemane. "Go to, let tot rejoice," say some, by resolutely thinking happy thoughts, they magnetize a happy frame of mind; "hold great thoughts within the mind and the soul becomes a magnet, drawing to itself the healing current of nature. Close your eyes and imagine sunny tangs," No doubt in some strong natures haw mony may prevail, but they are liable to the intrusion of grim sorrow; and they are landed in self delusion. Only abso- lute truth Celt be a secure foundation Lot' life. "The soul," says Martineau, "cannot permanently feed from its own fuel its noble fires, it needs at least some strain of pure air from aloft to windle the smouldering thotrghts and make the clouds of doubts and heaviness burst into a flame." Happiness is defin- ed by Hawthorne as living throughout kindle the smouldering thoughts and seusibilities. But life is morethan a means of sel f expression and of self re- alization, We are trustees of God, we are reflectors of Christ, no joy is worth having from which Christ is absent, no condition, however painful to sense ena be misery for the soul if it arise in the way of dater and in fulfilling the Divine will. Life is not Wholly emptied of de- light, for any person with the will to live and we only truly live at the points where love and wonder and pleasure glow with star -like beauty. H. 1'. Miller. REDEMPTION AND SALVATION. Redemption is the setting man in such conditions that he may choose good or evil as he will. The Lord has redeemed every man, whatever his cbaracter may be. He has thus made possible the sal- vation of all, but for this the man's own willingness to accept and use the free- dom of choice thus given him is essen- tial. Does it seem strange that men should not wish to be saved? Heaven is de- lightful; who would not be saved that he might enter it? Hell is the abode of the unhappy; who would not wish to be saved from its terrors? So the old theology taught and sought to work upon men's hopes and fears, holding be- fore men on the one Mind the joys of heaven, and on the other the pains of hell. But the joys of heaven and the pains of hell are the secondary, nob the essential things. The essential things are on the one hand love for the Lord and for the neighbor, and on the other love for self aed of the world- The thiegs to be saved. from are the loves of the natural man. To be saved is to be brought into the condition in which love to the Lord and for the neighbor is the supreme love of the life. Do you wish for this salvation'? If yoix do not, the Lord Himself will not force it upon you, but will leave you free to work out the opposite loves to their own miser- able end. Further, He will give you all the delight possible in these loves, and will save you se far as He in His infin- ite mercy can do from the pains whielt their indulgence entails. But infinite love and mercy itself cannot continue &lights to lusts which in their vera nature are destructive, nor prevent the miserable results of their indulgence. If you: choose to live the life width the Lord designed, to peter its sure and. ever increasing. joys, there is no power on earth to prevent yeti. Nay, rather, all the powers of heaven are with you, and underneath your endeavor are the everlasting ow. The toed. has given the laws of life in His Word, and 'open. edthe interior treasures of that Word, in the doetrinces of the new aura. "He bath showed thee, 0 man, Whitt is good." ite has see before you life ami good, and, death and evil. If you shun the evil and choose the good, you are eaved. You are saved, not treat any future pain or !punishment, but saved now from. the evil which yeti shun, and introdueed into the good Which you do. in essen- tials you thus enter into all the heaven you eon ever ask, Ana are saved from all the heli you need ever kat—Helper. FBAYEtt. Our Father who art in heaven, hal- lowed be Thy name. Thy kingdont dime. We bless Thee, 0 God, for the gospel of the kingdom. We have been rebellious and disobedient, but Thou lutst been merciful to us. ThOn hest given us a Nina, who is made like unto ourselves in Itis most perfect manhood, end who is also the omnipotent Son of God. The love of Jesus Christ has eonquered We torn from our rebellion and PritV that Ite would make us eitikene of Hie Kieedom 'and soldiere in Hie 'spirituel army. Lora Jens, help no to nerve Thee well. 1Sfay ear highest interest le life Is, the advanteMent of Thy Xingdont wbielt i iigbteonsneoo and poets and joy, bleemea name we ask it. Amen. 11 isn't until a man at in two 'tali !till tht Ate feels pevi14ted to inal,e 5 fool of lune