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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1910-08-25, Page 3• WOMEN VOTERS LI NORWAY. , 300,000 Have Full Franchisee—One Per- haps Will Sit in Th* Parliament - In Norway every Parliament lasts tor three yet:eft and nit Ministerial erisie or vote of want a eonfialenee can end its life before the appointed term. Nor is its peaeefel Weer even broken by the Mae a a by-olec- thin, owing to the preveiliug System "underatudies " For every Deputy there is at the game time elected a substitute, tvho takes his place in ease of deo.th or illnees or retirement or tiny other cause. That is why the women oa Norway, though the franchiee was granted them m the summer of 1907, had to wait till the end of 009 tor an opportunity of exercising it, Before the vote was giveu to wornen Norway had maahoorl suffrage, and therefore the mere removal oe the sex disqualification would have at once resulted in adult suffrage with a slight preponderance of the female vote. A. way Out of that difficulty had to be found, and this was done by conferring the vote on thoee who already had the municipal. franchse, 1. e., women. over 25, whether mar- ried or single, who pay taxes to the amount of 400 kroner (about $110) in town and 300 kroner e (about W) in country districts, about 200,000 in all. A. significant number, for there had been 300,000 names affixed to the docu- ment by which the women of Nor- way expressed their adheaion to the roolution a/ June 7, 1905, which de- cided the separation of Norwey from Sweden. Indignant a being ex - eluded from the plebiscite -which was to decide the question of their nation- ality, the wornea collected eignatures to n document of their own. cortring to the .Queen this action of the suffragists 'enlightened the coun- try and achieved their enfranchise- tnent. The act of registering a. vote was no novelty to the women of 'Norway. They had been school board electors sincoe. 1889, -and in 1901 they obtained the municipal suffrage' and right to eleetion. At the next election ninety women were chosen as councillors and 160 as substitutes. In a country where they practice at the bar, serve on juries and aro eligible for nearly all State appointments the conferring of the Parliamentary vote simply marked their entrance on an inheri- tance long overdue. The Norwegian women were of one nand in desiring the vote, diversity appeared as soon as it had to be exercised. As in Finland, New Zea- land and Australia, they voted loyally with their parties. Of these there are three in Norway—the Liberal-Consere vative alliance (who might be de - !scribed as anti -socialist Liberals), the Radicals, and Social Democrats. As far as can be ascertained, the num- ber of women voting for the first was 74,000, for the second 40,000, for the third 30,000. As every elector is also eligible, there was not a little speculation as to whether Norway would follow ea example of Finland, where the woman deputy appeared sunutaneously with the woman voter, or of Australia, where women znay ;sit in the Federal Parliament, but hitherto the elector- ate has preferred to put its trust in men. Among the women candidates who went to the poll were three for the office of deputy. Of these Froken Gina Krog, one of the leadieg suf- frage workers, stood as a Radical, She polled only 863 votes, as against 9,033 fair the Conservative. Fru Martha. Tynaes, a Socialist, polled 2,521, against her opponent's 5,141, and at a second ballot in Trom- so another Socialist woman received 264 votes, as against 380 given. to the Conservative. Of the candidates for the place of eubstitute, one actually secured a majority, Froken Anna Rogste.d, who might be called a member for the teaching profession. She has been engaged an school work. for thirty- six years, is chairman of the Chris- tiana Teaohere' Association and its representative on the school board. And with all this professional and publio work she found time to help in organizing a new political party known. as the Progressive Loft. A capable teacher, a broad minded And many sided woman, she is uni- versally regarded as the right person to inaugurate the era of the woman 'deputy in. Norway. And it is by no means improbable that she will be called on to fit lthe more responsible position, since the deputy whom she would have to replace, Gen. Bratlie, may, in case of a change of Ministry. be eummoned to `a place in the Cab- inet. In that ease, without further election, Froken Rogstad would take her placer as full member of the Storth- ing. PLAYTIME STORIES. OUTCHIE'S. RIDE. "Dutchie" was the grandson of the elephent-keepert anti wathout doubt be Was, the pet of al late etreue. lile papa aud mamma, had gone to live with the angels—that wee why he travelled with grandpa. This lad loved all the animals but the elephants best oi all, end big Ben wae his favorite. Tatty wore great companions—these two. Quite often Ben would share the peewits vieitors gave him, it int "Dutclue." One night it was so hot in the tent that "Duteliie" couldn't Bleep. At last he crawled out of the cot beside grandpa and stole into the other tent beside big Ben. "Let's take a walk," whispered the boy, and the elephant flapped his ears approvingly. Dutchie had often watched grand- pa -unfasten Bon's chain front the •stake, so he soon had the big fellow free, "Up with me now," conunanded the boy. The elephant held out a front feet and up scrambled Dutchie, coating himself on Ben's head, then out they ETIQUETTE LESSONS FOR MEN (Men's Page in the Delineator.) When a lady gives you her seat in a street ear, thank her, but in such a man- ner that she will not be emboldened to open a conversation with you. Waen some ene calls you' by 'phone ands says: "Do you know who is talk- ing?" and you answer that you do not, and the person continues to ask if you don't or can't guess, utter a joyous peal of laughter and say you know it is the sanitarium. Then hang up the receiver. If you know a fat girl with a slim sister, always mistake the fat one for the slim one, and vice versa. When waltzing with a Iady who steps upon your toes, it is niee, if you have a wooden leg, to keep the foot of that leg where she will step upon it often - est. You ean do this 'unobtrusively with a little practice. 4 -4. BASEBALL IN HEAVEN. (Befall() News.) The silly season in the churches mast be near its height. If it !este much longer someone will send for the Vaca. tattling minister's. Mattapoisett, Mass., has the latest summer freak—a -sermon on "Baseball in Heaven)" by Rev. 0. Julian Tuthill, Ma Tuthill interested the fans present, if any, with this: "Heaven is but an evolution of this world. A 'Christian may love a ball game, and, loving it, remain a Chtletian. Why, then, is it not safe to prophesy that even the game, of baseball will have ite place Di some spirituel form in Hea- ven?" Theoretitally this is very well, but who ie going to be satisfied with a spir- itual bloc hit, and just iniagine blank. ty 'blanking n champ of a spiritual tine quietly gipped and down the deserted village street. A few minutes later big 'Ben Ana pulling trunlefels ot fine clover and thoroughly enjoying himself, In the morning, grandpa and the others found the runaways. Big Ben was keeping guard over a sleeping eltutchio" and between times eat- ing the farmer's clover. a 0 LACK OF PURE BLOOD The Cause of Most Illos—The Cure, Enrich the Eked Supply. Any illness caused by lack of blood will be benefited and cured by a course of treatment with Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills. These Pills increase the red mat- ter in the blood and enable it to carry to every organ and tissue an increased supply of oxygen, the great supporter of all organic life. This has bon proved by cures in thousands of eases not only in Canada, but in all parts of the world. More people to -day owe health and hap- piness to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills than to any other medicine. One of these is Mr. James Starr, of Galahad, Alta., who says: "A few years ago I became ill and very weak. Some days I would have a hot, dry fever and. on others would be bathed in a cold sweat. I grew weaker and weaker until I could do no kind of evork and was filially confined to my bed. I tried several doctors, who cost me considerable money, but did me no good, as I was still getting weaker and weaker. I asked the last doctor who at- tended me to tell me frankly if he could cure me, and he told me my case was so complicated that he dihl not think he could help me. I told him I had heard a great deal about Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and asked if he thought they would help me. His reply wast 'Well, they won't do you any harm'and they may help you.' I sent for a. half dozen boxes at once and began taking them. After taking three boxes there was no doubt they were helping me, and I con- tinued using them for some time longer. With the result that 1 tun now as strong and hearty and can do as good a day's work as any man in my neigithorhood." These Pills are sold by -all medicine ttlealers or may be had by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.60 from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont. WO1SSTru, (Catholic Eittittiattra and Times.) "My Wife is getting to be *ere tire- some," tomplainta Grouclier; "she does- tol WM to know her own mina from one minute to the next." "lity *Ida Xratelett, is the tante Way'. 811690 SS 'uncertain Rs the ereatatia" "Hugh.. Mineat Uneertahl M tate *either forscitsti.s WHEN THE OHAH TRAVELLED. - - • Couro of the Millions He Lavished In Europe.—His Oonatant Feer. atetat time the Shalt of Persia, went to Europe, where he spent large sums. he proud the naerry needed for his jour- ney not may by raising a leen, gen- rally in Russia, but also by another method, whielt was both ingenious and busluesslike. "Before leaving ble poseessions," writes at. Paoli, in McClure's, "he sum- moned. hie Chief officers of state—min. isters, provincial governors and the late --and propoeed the followIng bargain to them: Those who walled to form part of his suite must first pay him. a min 01 Malley, which he fleet' In accordance with the Importanee of their fultetious; it varied between 50,00e and 800,000. frame. In return, he authtrized nein to recoup thetneelves in any way they elegised. "Here we find the explanation of the large lumber of persons who accom- panies the Sitalt on his travels, and the quaint and unexpeeted titles that they bore, such as that of Minister ot the Dolt Yard (though Persia, has never owned a navy), and one still more ex- traordinary, that of Attorney to the Heir Apparent. Although they sometimes had roman - tie souls, they Invariably had terribly practical minds. Eager to recover their outlay as quickly as passible, they prac- tised on a huge setae and without scruple or hesitation what I may de- seribe as the bonus or commission sys- tem. This explained how cu each of his trips to France the Shah was able to spend, from eight to twelve million franes in pocket money. "He always eatried a. loaded pistol in his trousers pocket, though he- never used it. On one 'of his journeys in France be even took it in his loon to make a high court official welk before him when he left the theatre earrying a revolver pointed at' the peaceable sightseers watt had gatheree to see bbn come out. As soon as I saw this I ran up to the threaening bodyguard. "Put that revolver away,' I said. 'It is not the custom here.' "But I had to insist pretty strongly before he consented to lay aside his Weapon. ' "The Shah, for that matter, was no less distrustful of his own subjects. I observed that when the Persians were in his preseno they adopted a uniform at- titade, which consisted in holding their hands crossed on their stomachs, no dottlat as evidence of their harmless in- tention. It nue a guaranty—of a very casual sort, we must admit. "For the rest, his 'atones' displayed themselves upon the most diverse as- pects and in the most unexpected air- eumstances. For instance, there was no persuading hint to attend the Eiffel Tower, The disa.ppointment of his guides was increased by the feet that he would come as far as the foot of the pillars- they always thought that he meant go up. "But no, ono below the immense iron framework he gazed up in the air, ex- amined the lifts, flung a tintid glance at the staircases, then suddenly tamed on his heels and walk(); away. They told him in vain that his august father had gone up as far as the first floor; nothing could induce him to do as much, "The instinetive dread of darkness and solitude were so keen in the Persian monarch that he required his bedroom to be filled during the night with light and sound. Accordingly every evening, as soon se he had lain down and closed his eyes, the members of his suite gath- ered round. his bed, lighted all the eandelabra and exchanged their impres- sions aloud; while young nobles of the court, relieving one another in pairs, conecientiously patted his arms and legs with light, e,htup little taps. "The king of kings imagined that he was in this way keeping death at a safe distance, if perehence it should: take a fancy to visit him in his sleep; and the extraordinary thine is- that he did sleep, notwithstanding all this massage, light and noise." FORTY WAYS OF BAKING BREAD, From Sticking It on a Hot Jar to Turning a Kettle Over It. "In visiting Greece I was struck with the primitive ovens built behind most of the houses in small towns," says a cor- respondent of the Bakers' Weekly. "These were like large beehives built of clay; they were evidently solid up to the sole, then had the arched roof over, with a ddor at one side. "They are heated with fires of straw and twigs and when ready for use are .swept out, the dough put in and the opening etoppcd up with stones and clay till the bread is cooked. Struetures like tied twigs and when ready for use are swept out, the dough put in and the opening stopped up with stones and clay these are typietil of the ovens found in ntany lands where men have had to evolve appliances for various uses from the materials they had at heed. "Thus in some place we find holes dug in the well and lined. with stones, in width a fire is kept burning till suffict. ent heat is raised, the bread being then put in and a stone laid over the opening, with a, fire on it to keep up the cookieg, hot. "In these civet% we are told, the South See Islanders bake their bread, fruit ana ems and root theta pork, and doubtless they answer their purposes very well. In seine Eastern eountries fire is put into a large eerthert jer with small mouth and eloping sides, the eakee of breed being steels on the outside of the jar to bake. "Then we know the old-fashamed gfr- die, so much usra in 'old Scotell teem hem% on which A -envies, bannecks - oatcakes aro fired, This iS elan employ- • el in Seanainavie, for baking the un:ver. sal Vied bred,' and it is elect in use in nutty other countries in various shapes. "In Cornwall the old lottlo style of oven is still utea for home lAlciner, the dough being laid on the hot hearthstone with a large, retina hem pet inverted 'over it. Fire outside of this korai wo the baking heat anct the -Corneal 'kettle broil' is very good eating intleed, even if it is a. little puddingly itt the centre 116bletiMeg. "Even more primitive mein; of Ink- ier.; bave tri be used soznetimee. as when the Australian digger rolls* ur! his 'damp - eta in leaves lied emirs it with hot ashee ter Wit; but still. all methods from hot Atones to draw plate °vend; are usfet fer the one great purPose, to make bread, atia the variety of meets used for this end go to show the tinirentel importenee of that article. Regular bakehouses with prepor ovens seem to have been in uss. however, for hunareds of years, and doubtless nutty relies of them are still itt exlettraes. •••• ALL THIS IS LOST ON THE FAIR SEX. Boston.—The bald-headed woman is a thing of the near future, if she continues to wear rats in her hair, according to Dr. 0 J to has gone to eome length in warning against it. And the women, for their part, can be depended upon to ignore anything that slaps at style. 010 RN S MAK you BALD, lie says wire puffs are not so bad, bemuse they admit of ventilation for the hair, but "rats" heat it and tempt is to degenerate and in time it falls out. Besides, he says, and that may have some little elfeett an old face with young looking hair lookridietto lous. This was a protest against the use of hait dyes, which he cans dan- gerous. Ent rats—shun them, girls'if you want to have anything left to wear them in. 410,4%-1•—•44.-1011, "THEN IT HAPPENED." cc\ (Our Daily Discontinued Story.) Georgie was tlie tougheat boy la the village. He would do things that no one else dared to do. One day he and his crowd of ednarers stood watching tne steam roller at work. "1.'11 bet I eari jump in front of that roller and get out of its way again when it is nearest," said he, as he stuck out his eliest. True to his beast he did jump in front when it was nearest. Georgie is now a, part of the macadamized. roadbed. THE END. —*Sereice, AN ORGAN FOR 25 CENTS A WEEK We liave on bawl thirty.firo organs, taken in exchange on Heintzruan & Co. pianos, whica we must sell regardless of loss, to make room in our store. Every iiistrunaeut has peen thoroughly over - heeled, and is guaranteed for five years, and full amount will be allovtecl on ex- change. The prates run front $10 to $36, for Such well-known make!, as Thomas, Dominion, Karn, Uxbridge, Goderlch ant Bell. This is your chance to save money. A post card will bring full particulars.— Heintzman 4 Co., 71 King street east, Elamite!). LlYE WO CLEAR SKIN. All who delight in a clear skin, soft white hands, a dean, wholesome scalp atta live, glossy hair, will find that Cal- cine Soap and Cutieura Ointment more time realize every expeetation in aro- meting Akin and hair health and the bodily purity. A single cake of Cutieure, Soap anl box of Claims& Ointment are often aufficient to euro torturing, Ala - figuring tomes, matte, irritations, settl- ings and crustinga of the skin and-serdp, with lose of hair, thue renderiag them the roost economleal treatment known for affeetions of the skin arta scalp. -0 I* NO Space Gone to Waste. Dewitt—Dots your wife follow the fasitione closely? .Tcwitt—I should say so; she has one of these "standing room only" dresses. —Sleet Set. ItIS (HANCE. (Louisville Courier -Journal.) "t wonder if Nero rally fiddled wben Rome burned?" "Slayiss he dia. 'Ntaras it wax his Prst opportunity to hIld an ai aience. lte d;41 hit ***laity wh:le they watehed the imvsesta with time tus More Wells ani ovrrt reward, bigamy must be its 'own fire." lotin41 *wok, The rianie la to be ask' paritshatent. PROSPECTING FOR HOMESTEADS Has anyone heard of Kendersley? I know I had not until a breath of the western land fever caught me about a month ago, and I looked it up oa homestead map front Ottawa. Kenders. ley is at the far Western and. of the steel on the new Canadian Noethern line from Saskatoon to Calgary, and since the fall of 1909 one of the centres of the home-, stead. rush. How do yea get there? From Sas. katoon as far west as Rosetown, the Canadian Northern runs a train once a week. This spring every train was packed-ethe usual motley crowd—four or five small youngsters packed in one seat; handbags, wraps, lunch and se on in another; a few tired -looking settlers' wives—and a large majority of bache- lors after land. At Rosettavn, where.the train stops for the night, the hotel accommodation is always short. All the restaurants have tiers of buaks where you can try to get to sleep (with emphasis on the try), and sometimes you may even get a shake- down on the floor. .The night I came through, and It was no exception, pro. tically all this space wee gone before the train came in, and we were fortunate to be allowed to sit up all night in the passenger coaches, which were left -stand- ing on the track. One could not help pitying the children who had to go through this, even though they did keep the car awake all night. Next morning a construction train— all freight except two passenger coaches —was scheduled to leave for Kendersley. (The Canadian Northern has not yet taken over thie part of the line). "The Keudersley Express" runs when and how it feels like it—taking, as a rule, any- where from ten to fifteen hours to make the trip of 6,5 miles. It rocks along over the sleepers like a prairie achooner, and when it stops—or starts—the jolt al - moat breaks the windows. 'When I came out, it was supposed to leave Rosetown at 7 a. m.—it left at 10. But once it did get sterted it kept going fairly steadily, only taking a siding once for an hour to let a. gravel train; go past, and stopping again for a similar length ottime at the gravel pit for lunch, besides long stops at water -tanks and. stheions In between. • Kendersley calls it "The Hub of the Last and Best West"—with six lumber yards., 'as nutny restaurants,, a good- sizea hotel, four general stores, and two blacksmith shops. It is quite a com- plete western town, and everyone busy —so busy that they can hardly got all the work done. Settlers are constantly being outfitted—many of them going as far as sixty or one hundred miles into Alberta, often by ox -team ttud wagon. In one day I saw as many as thirty such teams following the western trail along the railroad grade, or return- ing empty for another load. Kenders- lea is the terminus now. When the steel is pushed farther on it may be different. Now it is the "hut)," both for actual honteethaders and for those who are still seeking. Of the latter, och train brings its quota, of eeekere, and each train also takes out its portiott of the disappoint - ea ones. The town is full of "looters" who will show . yeti a good quarter-see- tion—absolutely the beat left—for $25 and their txperiscs at $10 a day. The lambs* are many, and' they get properly fleeced. People whit come out here with little or to capital expecting .to got rich by taking up land are doomed to disappointmerit, One tannot make even a small beginning without capttaI en- ough to pay a locator or to hire a team of horsce for a 'Week or two, or buy them—all expensive vontutes. The homesteaders who are coming feta this eountry are bringing eapital. They have expensive outfits—fine 'hones, gang -ploughs, liarrows, ond other int- plernente in plenty, while attain and pollee ploughs are not infre,quently Meri. Will this eountry conic tto to the ex- peetations? The Goose Lake district - 50 miles farther east--Ints been tried and proved. The Itendersicy eotintry is altafth similar. There is. the !tame "cao- colfite" . loam, and heavy "huminoeky" land overea with sage brush in the valleys and plains; xis atones to break • off; and, onee in a 'whila A, quarter - section of the toveted "loose top" will be run across. • The most pressing problem at present is not land, but water—both in the wells tied in the form of rain. As to the for- mermuelt difficulty has been exper- ienced. n Xertaersley water sets at 50 rents a barrel, and pretty poor stuff at that. This eondition will probably for surface wattr. It is everywhere claimed out hue that when the cuuntry Lroken up a little more tiara will he plenty of min, The territory around Regina and the Canutlian Vavifie Rail- way was the saute ttu vars ago, they say, It le true, Keedereley le yet lea provea; but, given favorable weather and a little time it will prove up. At all event, the steket are big; every homesteader la taking a "sporting cbance."--Toronto Globe, POLLY Ina\TOWS. No.,* Doesn't Think Women Would RelorM Po litres. "It seems to me" ;slid Polly, assure- ing an expression her friends have learn- ed indicates site doesn't expect to be contradieted—"seems to me women need a lot of thaw more than they need sat. frago. 0, I might say, need before they have finffrage. I suppose all this howl- ing about their rights kept up half a century longer, will result in the strong - !Medea getting what they ery for. Thank the Lord bo dual "Women—the bulk of 'ern—need to be reconstructed before they leive the bal- lot. They're such uarrow, illI.bemal. cream tures. so abundant in personal preju- dices and petty animosities, There's no alen if the greatest good to the great- est number if they are going to be pinched, either in pocket or in pride. They wou't sorifice anything to tut ab- stract principle; their point of view is the personal—Mow is it going to affect reel' "If you want to get acquainted with the true inwardness of the sisterhood, just join a club. It doesn't make any particular difference what aind of a club; any old kind will illustrate the point I want to make, which is that women taken into their organizations the rivalries, the animosities, the petty jealousies that seem born of the desire to be prominent. It doesn't make any difference if a woman has to go out in- to the higaretays and byways to got 'somebody to write her paper for her, she doesn't propose to have her neigh- bor enlighten the world while she ,sits out of the limelight, "How many times a difference of opinion on some matter at issue causes hard feelings!. 'I thought she was a friend, but silo voted against me'—or 'my candidate,' and resentment smould- ers for meethe "'Love me, love my dog," is a cavil/lel point in the feminine creed. If you're a friend, you must stand. by and see your friend through, right or wrong. If you don't, she gets a grouch. But if there's a chance to knock her good and plenty, do you suppose 'a friend' is going to stand by, especially if there's anything In it for herself? "If you cherisa the idea that women can or will 'purify politics' you're going to be most beautifully 'left: Because they're going to take into the game ex- actly the raethods of men on a more petty scale. There will be just as much wire -polling, just as much, 'bossisma just as much intrigue, but I really don't think as much 'graft,' so called, as among men, You see women are nat- urally more honest than men. How long they'll be able to withetand the demor- alizing influences that so soon pull the honest man away from his principles after he 'gets in the game,' nobody knows. "There's so little loyalty among woo men. Men stand by each other, women won't. •Itten will sacrifice a personal dis- like to the good of the cause, Catch a woman doing that! Men will scrap and call each other names in an argu- ment, and be just as good friends as ever next time they meet. .A. woman never forgets someone had the temeri- ty to differ with aer. "Suffragists claim the privileges open- ed to women by the ballot will educate them, broaden their views, make them more liberal, enlarge their scope. But dear me, where's the country going to while they are getting their education. And anyway, can they be educated out of what seems en innate feminent idi- iesyncrasy?" • SASKATCHE\iy, LANDS own and offer for sale 13,000 acres of land in West Central Sas. katchewan, located on the Canadian' Northern Railway, Saskatoon., Cal- gary Breach, twenty miles west of laindersley. The track on this twenty Miles is now being laid and will ho completed this month. • The land is from two to twelve miles, from the railway. It Is free from scrub or brush and is rolling prairie; can be worked by gasoline tractor engines and cropped in 1911. 1.4 o Cash Payment equired Will sell on basis of crop payments. Read Kindersley article elsewhere in this issue. Write A. B. IVIACKAY Bank of Hamilton Chambers, Hamilton REFERENCES OM, The source of all intestinal troubles is the common house fly; his buzz is the first symptom of typhoid. Wilson's Fly Pads are the only things that kill them all. • • • Things Oats Will Eat. (Our Dumb Animals.) The greatly advanced price of meat during the past year has brought some- thing to my notice of which 1 was not before aware: how many owners of Cats are ignorant of what the animals may be fed upon besides Doh. Of 'course, all pussies prefer raeat as well as mice, but the variety of other things they will eat seems to be general- ly unknown, even by many persons who have had eats all their lives. It must be remembered, though, that the felines differ in their tastes as -widely as hu- man beings do, and a, family of kittens raised in the same heimehold, under identical conditions, Will show unase counteble preferences for certain kiwis of food and as strong a dislike for other • For instance, one of ray twin tom -eats will eat buttered toast ravenously, never seeming to 'get enough; yet his brother turns up his ebony nose at the dainty and disdainfully walks away from it. Why? • For to reason that 1 can think of As I have never offered ,one cat any- thing that the other was not rivet also. It is eager, to be sure, to 'train kit- tens in the way they should eat, but even full-grown cats will soon learn to • accept ana enjoy, many things besides the expensive ones if only their mis- tresses persevere in the training of their pets. Jut try your feline boarders with the following foods and sae whether they will refuse any of thou All kinds of beans, except limo, mashed and mixed with a little butter, dripping, or milk. Rice. Made into pudding liked best, of emirs°. Corn, When either buttered or boiled in milk. Sweet potatoes, any weal but raw. Toasted bread and milk -toast. Also crackers of all kinds in milk. rap, sweetened slightly. Oatmeal gruel, with a little milk awl sugar. Eggs raw and cooked in every way, but especially fried as an omelet. Anything made chiefly of milk end eggs, milk and flour, butter mid flour, etc. Nearly ell airiest ef gravies are liked by eats, and many stew-graVief4 Tra:f be fed to them if a portion is taker; Mutt the pot before such things as herbs or otioris are added. These gravies mat be ivied to good advantage whert teething else is available, as they prove good °fillers" for the ever hungry puss. Mrs. .M. Z, Wettone, • Santa Moniett, Cal. Ott the nrinelple that virtu is its Bank ol Hamilton Bank ol Nova Scotia HAMILTON A DANGEROUS TREE PEST. The brown tail. moth, which was intro- duced into Massachusetts from Europe in 1890 has found its way into several of the Eastern States. In 1007 it made its first appearance in Ring's county, N. $, Fortunately the Department of Agriculture of Nova Bootie instituted a campaign ttgainet the pest and thou- sands of its nests have since beeu de- stroyed each. year in Ring's, Annapolis arid Yarmouth counties. Specimens of the mothshave been found he New Brunswick also, but their propagation has so far been prevented. In 1909, the Division of Entomology in the Dominion Department of Agriculture at Ottawa. learned that tho winter webs of these caterpillars had been found in took steps to have all nursery stock im- ported front France. 14 itnmediately took steps to have all nursery stook in - ported from Europe carefully examined. Over a million and a half plants were gone over, and nearly 200 of the webs were found on French stock. The in- spection has been going on this season, and a large number of the caterpillers have been found. The horticultural de- partments of New York and of the sev- eral Provinces are co-operating with the Dominion authorities in the endeavor to exclude this pest. The brown tail moth ie very common in Europe, but is only occasioually in- jurieue there because of the presence of parasitic insects which keep it in check. It is capable of increasing with astonish- ing rapidity, and the absence of the para- sitic 'checks here render it important to prevent it establishing itself in our or- charde. It is an onanivoeous feeder, and Is capable of doing much damage th the forests of oak, maple, elm, ash, etc., as •well as to the orchard evees. In some of the eastern States, it appears to have obtained such a foothold that the only hope of successfully combating it lies in the importation from Europe of its para- sitic enemies. Some of these have al- -ready been released in the United States, and it Is hoped that they will bear the climate and increftee to such a degree as to checkmate the destructive moths. We may have need for their ser- ves in Canada. THE CROP THAT PAYS. No farmer can make the broad state- ment that one crop pays better than another. The amount of the return de- pends largely upon the character of the land on which the crop is grown. One kiwi of land brings the greatest re- turn from a certain crop; another piece of land, of different quality would per- haps yield a very small return if Sowed to the same crop. Finding out the par. tieular class of crop the land is best suited to growing is therefore a very import/let matter for the wide-awake fernier. A splendid example of what can be gained by the intelligent adaptation of crops to soil conditions is to be found in the county of Norfolk, Ontario. In certain parts of that county there are considerable areas of sandy land that eantiot hope to coinpeto with heavier, richer soils in the growing of wheat and other staple graina. Thus, farmerS who attempted to grow these crops found that their profits were not as satisfactory as might have been de- sired. Some years ago, however, a few rnen noted that the soil and elimete of the county were well suited to growing fruit, especially apples. The Norfolk. Fruit Growers' Assoehttion wits formed and forthwith started on a reputation. making ctunpaign. All members ttgreea to ore for and spray their oreletras ns stipulated by the votes of the Mode.. Hon. Incidentally, too, all fruit was to be marketed through the ventral agency. The tea:tits have been little short of phenomenal. The *reliant acreage has boo htrgelv increased, Norfolk apples are now held as second te none in the nietkets of the worhl stud the profits have bon moat gratifying. Al a eonse- queue, land velure, in the lot six years, have doubled. And thi8 Ilea been accomplished main - A PRATER, s s Almighty God, we thank Theo for MO • beauty Qi Moo flays .of the renewed pro - raise of seed time and.barveat as we Sea the opening blossoms 04 every band and the growing grain on field and farm. We pray Thee that there may he ntt failure of harvest when tits auturau days shall come, Grant that tho labor of the • husbandman may be blessed wun mated. ant store, May men remember that all the earth returns for labor is the gift of God who het appointed the Oates and seasons for the sowing and the rip - °Meg and. the reaping oz the prodaera of the soil. May we never forget to bless and praise Thee for the mantfold mercies in nature. For all things in heaven and earth are Thine, eta wa are "the people of Thy pasture and tlx sheep of Thine band." Hear us as our • hearte cry out for Thee the living and eternal ttod, end grant us Thy salvation, for Christ's sake, Amen. ly by selecting the .crop best adapted to the soil. The work that the Commission of Conservation hae undertaken, of class- ifying lands according to the character of the soil to determine what crops can most profitably be grown, is therefore a task of no small inmortance. If the Commission points out the crops that • pay the best on different soils both the farmer and the nation will be the richer for it. WESTERN CROPS SMALLER THAN EXPECTED. After the brilliant prospects for a large grain harvest in the Canadian Northwest and the Dakotas, those hopes have been largely frustrated. by the ab- normal hot, dry weather that obtained during the past month or six weeks. The yields, as a result, are not likely to reach much over fifty or sixty per cent. of the amotrnt thee was looked. for in the early computation. Crop damage has been especially heavy in the north- ern seetions of the three western Pro- vinces. The hay crop is so badly burned up in many districts that not, a few of the ferment are shipping their cattle ra- ther than attempt to fatten them. In consequence of this state of affairs sev- eral of the buyers of Inanufactured geode in the west are cancelling their orders in anticipation of a very poor demand during the winter months. Of course, reference is made more particularly to articles of luxury or !Melt as are not abolutely needed. A half crop of some - Neer° in the neighborhood of 80,000,000, which Itis expected will be the output of the Northwest this year, will, how- ever, bring in considerable revenue at ex- isting prices, as the greater part of the wheat will have to go for export. The winter wheat on the American side is turning into a much better crop than was expected some thee ago, and, on the whole, the Americans are likely to have • a considerable amount for export.—To- ronto Saturday Night. THE PLOWMAN'S WAY WEARY, IN- DEED. To turn a single acre of ground with a 12 -inch plow requires eight and one- fourth miles of heavy furrow travel. In plowing one square mile of land, the sol- itary plowman and his horses must walk 5,280 miles.. It would be easier (and the distano is less) to walk around the earth et the equator (if there were ne ocean) than to follow a plow turning a prairie of five square miles. To lequal our natioual tale of plowing—the work of myriads of toms, each using force sufficient to move seven tons over a good stone road—it would take an army of 4,550 plowmen to travel as far as from the earth to the moon and back again. For tho world's yeerly labor of this kind, it •would sertd about 80,000 men an that same half-million-mile- journey.—Worlds' Work. • a 0 The flies that are now in your kitchen and dining room were probably feasting on some in• describable nastiness less than an hour ago, and as a single fly car- ries many thousands of disease germs attached to its hairy body, it is the duty of every housekeeper to assist in extern:dna:Wag this worst enemy of the human race. Wilson's Ply Pads are without a doubt the best fly killers made. Cupid on the Links. Love and a meiden played ab golf, All on a summer's day; The balls they usea were hearts,. The clubs were Cupid's fearsome amass And merrily went the play. Sweet, sweet was the song the robins sung, Awl blue was the iiky aboVe ; The breeze swept o'er the daisied lea, And turned it into`a rippling sea, "Ali, love!" the maiden tried in fear, AS Cupid raiaed les dart: She Nei:Wiled the ball soar f tr away, And all that mighty livelong day She hunted for her heart. —Town Toplee, A antler haitis mighty email When von berrew it, but it lool•s !en tittles as big when you have to pay it back. maiden's AXLE GREASE le the turnirig-poiet to economy in wear and tear of wagons. Try a box. Every dealer everywhere. The Imperial 011 Co., Ltd', onto% kali: The Q.itta GO Oil Co.., 114. FIDELITY; To engage in the performance of home duties faultlessly, without petit - lance, without haste, without fretting— to repress the sarcastic and. unaind word, be calm, in the hot moment of anger, to do without weariness, and to suffer without murmuring, to be char - noble itt judgment and trample out of the heart the Pharisee spirit, aeeining life at once too skeet Rua too costly for quarrele and for pride; to maintain a chivalrous honor in all bueiness vela - tions; to the holdback from the temp- tations of doubting or hasty gain; to wear "the white flower," not "of a blameless life" only, but of 'a life cleansed from its earthliness and made pure by the Holy Spirit; to walk about the world and before men 'with a calm heart filled with love; to shed abroad the "sweet savor of Christ," end al- lure men to the. heavemi to which they know you to be travelling—these are but many-sided exhibitiops of the one holy character, many facets of the one jewel of fidelity by which you are to be "approved" of your Father which is in iteavent—Punshon. A KING'S SON- • I am the sun of the Ring, tbe King ot Rings. My father hath away servant's, loyal, abiding, continuous, more eer- vaets than one form my bodyguard, and I over go forth unattended. These are attached to my person. Other servant!) have a larger sphere, ana more extended outlook. They live in and for the fu- ture, they go ahead, so far, so long, yea, thousands of yearS. I see the make of their wisdom, power and, presence. They rock many a cradle and bind the swad- dling bands, they form the habits, they train men, heroes, prophets, relent. All these are servants for me. We meet at the crossing, and understend. They store up the fount of love, guard its springs, feed its fires, guide its cur- rents. T see their work embodied in my kin. dred, it shines in the eye curls on the lip, sounds in the voice, eye, in the beast, tingles in the nerves, contracts in the muteles, and mines in the bones. This love stands erect in the divinely built form, for man is the perfection of creation. I bathe in the bliss, ley vision grows, my wonder is fed, I am huMbled by ray enlargement. 1 atudy, I ponder, I ask many questions. Was my visit antici- pated, the emptiness made baret Was that warm face blenched for iny coming? Did I receive, did I impart joy? Yea, both are enriched, and enlarged, sorrows are reduced, bliss is doubled. Befell) I came there was a bud in bleakness, now a flower in full bloom. 0 joyl "Take this child and train it up for me, and I will pay thy, wages." It is the voice of a king, it is las wish, it is my rapture. There is Warmth, beauty anti blessing, in this immortal thing that embodies lore. Yesterday the recipient of my bounty was a stranger to me, but thoughtful servants had prepered the way, surveyed the hardness, coldness, deadness, wilful- • flees, the estrangement, the swine husk*, the desolation, then came the command- ment, Welt! The burden enemy shoul- ders said, Wait. Nay, I did not expect, so slow et heart tun L The surpri,se was so new, so astonishing,so full of golden fruit. And now I minister, carefully; wisely, tenderly; the task is long, de- lightful, unending. Joy on joy. The day is never done, 1 hold the eup and an- other drinks, and I drink, too. cuTis more blessed to give than to receive." THR SIN OF POSTPONMENT. Deferred duties usually mean neglect- ed duties. Itt this field, accumulation is the enemy of accomplishment. Accu- mulated dividends may be a very good thing, but they are Over eatned by al- lowing unfinished tasks to pile up on us. When we have to admit that there are a score of duties that have been awaiting our attention for days or weeks, or montbs, and that ought to have had our attention long ago, we may at the same time safely admit that something is wrong with our plan of life. The whole trouble probably lies in our not doing to -day what wo ought to do to -day; and that results from two sins; misusing some of our time, and westing some of our time. The right selectioit of our tasks, and then intense concentration on aur tasks, will put a stop to the fatal accumulation. No one has any right tit stagget along under the burden* of unfinished twins that ought long ago to have been put out of the way. MAKING lattltDSHIP EASY. Difficulties find their being more in our way of looking at things than in actual feets. Several members of a cer- tain family found it extremely difficult to get to breakfast early enough to have family prayers afterward, before septvating for the day. One morning the head of the house quietly get the clocks twenty minutes fast, and &tiled the others at what seemed to be the ac- customed time. They were, as tested, fifteen minutes or so later in dressing and breakfasting than they needed to be, but were quite surprised to find, after breakfast was over, that they still had time enough for prayers—when the eloeks were Set tight—itud nobody was a bit the worse for it—as to bis late; the only difference was in their wee+ of looking at the tlihnt. We mind fool ourselves into duty -doing as they were foolea into it; but we can senaibat re - eternize that the ebief difficulty in duty. doing is of our own imagining, arta then go Meld awl ao what we ought to do. We ere likely to find aur hardships at unexpietedly easy at did the late titers. —S. S. Times. 40 Newlywed — My wife is worth her Weight in gold. Oldlach--Yes, nua I Ma Hee she is getting stouter every day. • ainesartenteetateee i: r