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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1919-9-11, Page 770 -if mairometegaverameeseee--"%..........ei • . 7 ( \tee:4 aig-a7)1414-4`' 2ieetaoa,. wainkatectee, • %MAO, ------"Merozesouzemsesiel 'velop into the adelt weevils These I a lime, into tiny grubs that soon in ferelay numerous ege;$ that ettat k . P.. odli ........ „nother generation that feed upon the The greatest handicap in the coni- fer:neva, emel. Bead the weevil Hems menial poultry bushiest) is the fact (Led pievent the enormous waste that that the market price of eggs is de - ie. teking place annually. An examine- terrnined by the thoueands ef novice of tion of the Lepontine pods in the field mongrel hone which are running on or of the newly herveeted beans in the the terms and producing eggs without fall will show the grower the clues to the owners knowing anything of the the preeenee of these pests. If they cost f• I ' ' bright . . , piin ere at all numerous they should be the poultry business is the feet that he fumleated, This is best accomplished the farmer poultryman can beat the John 14: 2, :1; 2 ('or, 5: 10; 1 Peter p, in an airtight tin, or box, with carbon record of these mongrel flocks, which re lx sufficient For one hundred cub.le his stock and ridging' quality hirde 3-5. Golden Text,. 2 Cor. 5: 10. ek bieulphide. A. poen() of this material are often poor layers, by improving A Parable of Judgment. --Matt. 25: fit r,,,,L of spare, if the container is tightand then striving to keep them well 31-40, The parable reprecinte the con - to M.,tis-tre the place in which the beans fed on the home.grown feeds and "Inalatirm of (1".14v° Kin4d"I' when 1:i ere to, ee fumigated and get the num-. waste products which Inc enabled the He sh.all "sit on the throne ofHis 1 er o, cubic feet, Then for every one farm flock to turn out eggs at a fairly g•'°17.' to judge I ry Ini:A.cd cubic feet use one pound of small cost of prodwill then uction eompared be a separation between the the nations. Thr ee n far 11.1; iton bisulphide. Care should be with the co t ' I sheep and the goats, between the good and the had. The good are invited to "inherit the Kingdom" and enter "into eternal life." The Lad go away into eternal pun'shment. the !toe, You (; tete 1„t? Otes ever yen,: An what geoerao llyay when th ear:luxe ion't in or your fav ? l'rr 'hably e;ia is, the liLtrie on the op vrator I ...lie stetion.. No; -don't ye', .sereetinet.., enywey? 01 , I enow !tow it ts, I used teo se victim. 0; atn opereting ate tion. • adre:t. a at •the operator is /01,:e ttinee "Ime-• but 111 exelein sun: of 1:.. 1tio."... Inter. Pet Leritt is n ver proilte ie den-- al i -the Is, setisty the .operiteie %nee, That; en'l OW to '0:5e when tad .Iroie. off, be tempt ed to ,ree hopinz, eeet v, wil have a ;est reel. rime, rge th law de t fi' Jial for Ont. So, what operators d then? 1 W dalrymens-every one of erne --'e 1 in.:fall a Iialictiel Lk. I winilew or twa or:.I o imeelt side, ,1 I would have no more t -mde with rou ol and the genetate •al vend tof the ft.: ,..1 woild imProve. The chickens that a ni:ea dying; tvould live 10 make a pro if ,leo Ly of -stinlixht were allowed I enter the /ms. and it ere proper ill veinal:dee. 1r. ;electing :. rae• for poult hoese it is ell important to ieleet t )1 - aced rat be hieh, In e: mply far °weigh a/eve the level 1! et there is netern1 draineee fro ail Fides. If the present hence not ec,..udy stud) 11 mace it will I to have it moved, for there is e'ea•.: danirer_ in a house 00 e damp age 1tien, of an reak of dieemie tea. .-. : . ''F ,e' 1)( [ INTERNATIONAL I;ESSON SEI"rEM DER 11. IN TEN YEA R.5 500 Dollars invented at 3% will amount to 8097.75 It Invested at 4%, interest com- pounded quarter! y, will amount to $744.26 But if invested in our 2i.',2% Debentures .will amount to, . 800o.20 Write for Booklet. The rehire Life --Matt. 25: 31-46; The Great West Permanent Loan Company Toronto Office 20 King St. West Y. taken not to es:pose a flame near thee There is no reason why the pure - se • eiiine:.. ae floe, are highly inflammable.: bred flock of bred -to -lay fowls should m! Iles ges wil; kill the adult beetlesnot he areintained as cheaply as a worm II. may not prevent the; flock of mongrels, The difference10 ' ..-e,•.. iienii hatchirig. Another treat-; the returns to the owner is worth , • it. ill in three or four weeks will be considering. A farmer can grow a The p.arable makes it elear that the ne, ,,ntry to kill the worms that have: crop of potatoes, raspberries, tree deteignining faetor in judgment is to le:lel:ea from the eggs since the last fruits or corn ou every acre of range ...., be what men have done or negleeted to do to and for each other, Even where d . ft,migation. 41/4”,-. • ---- e: e. will he -far teiee ef logs tree ',tee', ; be the nepense of moving. .\ horolin er !ended on a poi'', :a, Cindy i‘oil is 10 h eeepseeeo itt ,:1:0 on clay Soil he rif"ein.. moisture. As dret.ce. teeting outfit, y wett!t1 scon learn, by o1eeti.'11'111 :',11.1 experience why pair st ,,Rea There are a ;Mean fuel one emeee for your crCit.a le vary in its teat. %1” 'will t hat you letve Lever touched tin et fuletiun eerew, ebang- ed ked, lea rho engine fnitect to turn tile seeee,,;,,,, at the proper speed. !.‘1,i1 eover, we will take I: for AtraMei hive kind rhe .0esh creme teen:uglily in lied with the emir. .Then, why does your test fall short? Well, Vie eondition of your caws may have something to do with it. -A. cow doesn't gire:. tiiite rii.•11 111!ik when she isn't feelieg very good. Cows Lave their hrs. Then, too, a rainy spell wilt low. r yea r test. Even if you are feeding the sante feed, that doesn't prove it is always of the same quality. Another thing: Don't allow item. cream to betreee se iti the winter Months. It is ire pepible 7, mix thiCh Crez.'.. ciornughly enough to give a fair tee • The 'Mac will naturally set- tle in 'ae bottom of the container. Sobsegeeetly the thick crmilil on top will, in sonts, hrcente hardened and lumpy. A (I ereuel: mixing in out of • the roliAlen. banal: the regulation 0•1-mv, whateviir you de. It's better 1.• beet, e 00 "0 but a fair tet. Fur- th. rmoro, cream that will fest 55 per yen:. Isttterfet lenves at lea -t 1 per cent, r.f the butterfat in the skimmed; milk. Therefore, cream testing from 35 to .0 per cent. wilt in the end net you more money. Noe: to.the operator: Sometimes.! especially wheh,you rush him through: with your test, he Might get a little; entless about the proper temperature. So don't try to hurry your operator; throufo: with your Crean,. Alco rem -1 ember that Saturday is a bad day tol bring cream to market, for that is one,' of the operator'r. busiest days. Quite' a few of my customers are avoiding; the Saturday vied) by bringing me' their eveam nn Friday. Another thing about the rushed - through test on a busy day is that the acid used to eat the Whey front the butterfat takes effect at onee. Con- sequently, in making at least four teats at once, the operator MIS do Seine moving about to get the test. bottles into the tester. it only requires five minutes for the acrd to eat up the whey, and the tester is supposed to be in Motion all that time. If one f of those minutes passes before the tester gets in motion, part of your t butterfat is eaten up by the eche be- c eause the motion of the tester gathers p t,: butterfat on top in the teat bottle.' b Then, 00, if the hurried operator hap- a pens to get the tester filled above the h neck with water at the first turn,' h some of the butterfat is prevented 1 from coming to the top. Subsequent- I tl ly the &cid gets it. Sallie May's Clothes. t i s.1 "I'm tired," Sallie May declared • senaeht, and. in wmter, warmth, si essentail to the best suceees; the heue ehouel lace the :meth eo the eun' can shine Jireeeh the windut The interier of the leageeluId 11 • as simple as poesii,le, with only th necessary convenieneee The trier simple it is th,i ces'cr .1 wilt t • keep it clemi, !:0,1 the more, spec there will he foe the chiekees, Roost ing platform 1 te becomieg ver popular, and they are very conven lent, especially ellere only a few towi. are kept. The platfeent should b placed in the eear ef the house, abou three feet fi,m) iho floor, arid th perches placed eight or ten inehe ebovo it. A treed place for neides i along .the optieete wall from the doo or unner the platform, where the • may be darkered somewhat. "Severe small boxes for sand, grit, bee :crap, etc , placed about the eb' walls, a few inches from the floor aim a watering vessel e.hoela complet the 0 interior 030 1 ent. This arrangement will levo the front and south wall clear so that a number of windows can be put in Then few poultry houses that have enoue:n seutherit whAlow space. Sunlight ie Lloth ta lire and mites and in win!,r it furnishes consider able werg.th end cheer. It promotes health ar 1 encourages exercise. Ex- erciee is important in winter, for, as 4 rule, chickens are fed too much and are .inelinecl to becom.e fat and lazy. Such a hen will not lay ov be healthy. The flour of the poultry house should be covered with clean straw and the chickens encouraged to scratch it. Peed scattered in the straw will not he Avasted, ft,: the hens will scratch 11 out, products of the farm can be used to they have not known that they were used by his poultry. All the waste produce eggs. The gravel pit will serving Christ their ministry of kind - furnish the grit for the hoppers in ne?s to those who were in need re - the poultry house. The necessary, ceites its reward, and their failure •e; "of being pieced out) It seems to me green food can all he raised in the; milt, To feed the hungry, give drink to exereise this ministry, its punish - e; that if once, just once, I could be new garden and hi the clover field. The si from hat to shoes I'd never grumble day of the well managed farm flock to the thirsty, entertain the stranger, v.' again." has arrived as people are beginning to clothe the naked, visit the sick and the prisoner—this is to serve Christ o anyhow," Pa declared. e "That's a mighty becoming hat, appreciate the value of fresh eggs as never before. Meat is scarce and high and qualify for the eternal reward. 0; "Yes, and just look at my gloves! and eggs will probably follow the Not to do these things is to merit O I've mended them and mended them. trend of meat prices. There is a good condemnation, e and mended them. I hardly dare touch, future for well managed poultry flocks The Bible tinmistakably teaches sal- . anything with the tips of my fingers' in the hands of practical farmers, but vation by faith, but it is a faith that y for fear they'll come through. And the inan who buys all his feed and' works. See Janies 2: 14-18 and 2. expres- - last fall, when I got a new pair of sells eggs and poultry meat at market sion in all good works, and it is thus Cor. 5: 10. True faith finds e Marsh, I had a hole tri my shoe. Olt, s gloves Lo go to that reception to Mrs. prices is not apt to stay with the business under present conditions, if that`faith is tested. The judgment of' t of course it was in the sole, but you he figures closely the cost of produc- account of what men do in their re - God, we may be very sure, will take, a know what shoes look like by the timelotions with each other, and no pro - tion of eggs and meat, fession of faith will ever be complete s And if, by any almost impossible in itself without the doing, or the will ✓ chance, I have new gloves and hat and to do, deeds of mercy and kindness. cJ1y shoes at the same time, it's because 0.401 On the other hand, n latent, unexpres- 1 I'm making last year's suit go over." fort to troubled hearts. Be not troubl- e sympathized. fall feeding begins is en excellent getful kindness, or in heroic devotion in deeds of self-sacrifice and self -for - f "You poor little Pa Wilferi" Pen Before the fall litters come on and "Who's Pa Witter?" asked Sallie time to start preventive measures to some great and worthy cause, as e May. 'I don't want to be him. But against hog cholera. Here again the we haoe seen again and again in the peeves like that make you feel as if old i adage that "an ounce of prevcn- experiences of the great war. Surely you might be anybody disagreeable." tion is worth a pound of cure" is many men and women who, in an hour "Pa Wilfer," Pen enlightened her, doubly true. Sanitary measures be- of high devotion, putting aside life , ewas one of the creations of a cr.ttain fore the hog is put in the 1100150 10111 and what life had to give, offered Charles Dickens, And his modest largely prevent epidemics of disease. themselves upon the altar of freedom ambition was to have a complete new Other diseases than cholera are and humanity, will be found among. suit of clothes, hat and boots included, often caused by unclean conditions in those surprised by the recognition of ' at one time. Ile achieved it finely.' the hog house and pen. Some of these Christ and His saying, "Ye did it unto 'So will you, sore day." are sore moth, bull nose, necrosis of Me." "Not if things keep on happening," the ears and tails, and the swine The Father's House.—John 14: 1-2, Sallie May grumbled. "It isn't be- plague, or contagions Pneumonia, This is Christ's great word of corn - cause I'm One of those sacrificing which often develop in suckling or commit our spirits into the hands of heroines you read about, because I'm weanling pigs. ed. A place is prepared 'for you in not. Only there's. always something A few hours spent cleaning out old the Father's house. There is plenty happening, like Betty's sickness last. litter and manure may save you a of room, room for each and every winter and mother's accident last good many pigs later on. A reliable one, a elan prepared by our Lord week, and prices going up till they disinfectant should be applied to the and Saviour, Jesus Christ. And He hit the sky, and people getting mar_ walls of the houses, troughs, fences, who has prepared the place will come vied and you having to give them and any other place where germs again and take us each to be with presents. I don't see how in the world might be lurking. Creolin is efficient Him. Therefore we look forward to you contrive it, Pen?' for this purpose, and lime is good, De that last event of life without fear. "It's a secret," Pen declared. "If I tell you, will you promise (levet to breathe it to a single soul?" "Cross my heart, hope T may die!" Sallie May promised. "We)l, then, the first part of the secret is, 1 don't!" lotZ--ou—„don't! Why you always "And the second part is," Pen pur- sued, "I hypnotize people." • "Hypnotize thorn!" "Exactly. Myself first of all. I won't allow myself to think about the shoes that I can't have, but I keep re- minding myself how becoming my hat is. And I hold my head with such an the level of the other joints, and the the sante time the service of our 'fel- air that people all have to look at that toe itself rests on its Up instead of on lawmen, we find our freedom and our hat to see what makes me so puffed the padded under surface. Looked at Peace." up about it. And so they forget to sidewise, it is suggestive of a tack An Incorruptible Inheritance. 1 look at ray shoes. Conversely, if shoes hammer; whence its name. Peter 1: 3-5. The apostle gives thanks are my strong po•int, I subtly draw, Any of the toes may be thus de_ to God for the "living hope" to which their attention from my face to my' formed, but most frequently it is the we have been brought through our' fortunate and highly decorative feet," second one; the trouble is caused by faith in Christ, a hope based upon the "I might have known you were teas. the big toe being deflected ouLward, resurrection of Christ from the dead. ing," Sallie May protested. "Yet," This displacement of the big toe, cal- Because He is risen we believe that we, too, shall rise again. Because He has entered into the glory of the life eternal we also shall enter and live with Him. Richer than any earthly inheritance is this inheritance in heaven, "incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away." For this we wait ,m steadfast hope, and "by the power of God are guarded through faith." The full significance of it is not yet revealed, but it will be re- vealed "in the last time." s. they come to holes in their soles. E have nurnerous inquiries from prospective purchasers for Western Farm Lands Send full particulars of your land to UNION TRUST COMPANY LIMITED Winnipeg, Men. 510214WINDOWS &DOORS - Qizss ..5 yon, openings. Fitted with ulna Safe de. iieety'auetauteed, Weite fin Price Litt )1.5 Cut down fuel biN. lune winter comfort. The HALLIDAY COMpAii1Y, Limited comma PACT.: DIVIIIIOUTORA CANA.A The "Weevil Signs." Many n bushel of. beans or peas is destroyed every year by the depre- dations of weevils. This is not al- together the result of carelessness on the farmer's part, as much as 41 is ignorance of how to deal with these pests. One should know how to "read the signs" in a sample of beans if he would prevent damage from these in- sects later in the season. Often in the late winter or early in the spring an examination of the beans will show e thm to be alive with weevil and full of large holes. This condition could have been prevented had the fernier known, in the. late summer or early all, how to read the "weevil signs." Many a person would have sworn hat the beans that 1:e put 'away e0 irefully in a sack in the fall were erfectly healthy and free from both legs and disease. But upoh looking t them early in the spring there was artily a one of them but what had oles in it. The weevil odor and count- ess numbers of insects accompanied 1)0 comlition. Where did the insects get into the seed? The answer is not lard to find. Attached to the beans and unnoticed to the practiced eye 000) 50010 tiny white eggs that soon latched into tiny worms that grew nd developed into these pests. The otos in the beans were made.bythe rowing worms which develop inside Health and the Poultry House. A few days ago I was talking with t a neighbor who had been having some 1 trouble with soup in his flock of a chickens. Some of the hens that Ile h had been depending on as being his g heaviest egg producers had died, and 0 the disease seemed to be spreading! rapidly. The fowls bad free range' about the farm, and from all outward appearances there seemed to be mt.' s thing that could bring about the ole-' e ease. The farm has a thrifty appear- t ance, and it is kept neat and attrac-i o five. I am sure that the roup did not' e arise from unclean poultry quarters, s a condition that frequently brings it a about, and that on this particular; farm the trouble had its beginning: e in the poultry house. This building e was a substantial one, and like all of i the other buildings on the place it was I Well painted and kept in good repair,'1 but it contains but one window and is too email for the present flock. In; c the fall this window is closed, and as; b a rule is not opened again until spring.1 t The location cif the house, too, is not] g the best, for it is near a slight do-! f Pression where during wee weather; t water collects, The house is usually f the seed. The weevil lays its tiny eggs on the naturIng pods of beans and peas where they appear as small white peeks, Upon examination these Un- iting pods will show whether or not here are any weevil present. If many ggs are founcleto be present the farm- i r must plan on some means of cles I:eying these pests when the beats ie harvested and put in storage. 0 witty after tho weevils lay their, g igs on the pods in the field, the ming worms hatch mei begin burrow; s g through the pod into the bean, not be afraid to apply plenty of the disinfectant, and see that all the corners, especially, are well treated. The same sterilizing process is used by many successful feeders in the feeding racks which they use for their sheep ancl cattle. Many times there are disease germs lurking around that Like our IVIaster Himself, we shall commit our spirit into the hand of God. We shall go to dwell in the Father's house. "After all," as one great man hassaid, said, "immortality is a dreary pros- pect if our Father is not in it." W. Adams Brown (The Christian Hope) cause serious losses which might have says truly, "If we wish to make faith been prevented if proper sanitary in another life credible we must fill measures bad been taken. this life with value. And the one sure' way to do this is to discover with Dr. Rainy that "our Father is in it" --the Father whose loving purpose for us and for all 'Mankind Jesus has reveal- ed, and in whose gervice, which is at Hammertoe. This is a deformity of one of the toes that consists of flexion of the middle joint so that it projects above she added thoughtfully, "I don't know but what there's something in it, after all" led in medical Latin hallux valgus,sis usually the result of wearing pointed shoes, - The inner side of the shoe, "There's heaps in it," Pon assured instead of being straight, as it should her. "Especially if you keep your be, bends toward the centre, and so own_thoughts well hypnotized first of forms a harp point that is supposed all. Try it, Sallie May." to give beauty. The shoe may be regarded as beautiful, but the foot in- cased in the shoe is in process of Combat Cabbage Diseases. becoming deformed. Would you spend a nickel to save The deflection of the great toe is five aeras of cabbage? If you would, not necessarily painful, but it results treat your seed next year, for less usually in the formation of an en - than five cents worth of poison will larged joint and a bunion, and also suffice to treat a pound of seed, which displaces the second toe, which rides will grow cabbage plants enough to over the great toe or bends into the plant five acres of cabbage. shape of the hammertoe. The bending The 'poison to use in this treatment makes three prominences—the tip of s corrosive sublimate, sold by drug- the toe, the ball of the toe, and the gists as hichloeide of mercury tablets top of the middle joint—which are exposed to friction o.f the sole and the upper of the shoe, and become the seat of corns; the middle prominence is also sometimes afflicted with a bun- ion beneath the corn. The treatment of hannnertoe is eot t p. i1 Dissolve the poison in the proportion f one part to one thousand, or one ram of 'Olson to one (mart of water. The seed should be soaked in this olutionafor twenty minutes, This solution should be made up in stone jar or wooden pail, because it usually satisfactory, for ley the time °erodes metals. Immediately after the physician is consulted the flexed he seed has been tveated, spread it joint is usually Miff, If it is still n a clean 410111 a warm room to' movable, a cure may bo effected by ry quickly. When thoroughly dry, down y, strapping the toe to a splint eturn the seed to a clean sack, not made of a thin, flat piece of wood or he one that the seed was in before, gutta-percha or padded tin. That, of or it still contains the spores bf the course, can be clone only when tho big iseases Were killed on the/30d. toe, if that is the cause of the trouble, t is a good idea to use seeks which has been straightened and the patient eaving the egg.sliell on the pod. So a he first indication of the presence of , e weevils are the tiny holes in the new, rop. When the eggs are laid on the o 00110 in storage, the shells stick to' 11he bean and are easily Hen. If the r rower will leave to look carefully: t or both the tiny entrance holeand f ho shells he will soon have little dif-: evilly in detecting the weevil infesta-' moist inside; this is especially notice.; t able when the chicken.; aro at roost.; e If the owner would move the house; h out of the depression and place .11 on; p it nearby knoll or raised place, re -I fits the glee of his flock by taking; n Mit some of the Most undeeireble birde before all the good ores die, 2110,1 ahoVe all, if he wonld Out a large b ion and will know how to deal -ace: w ordingly, Of course, these entrance: oles are so email that a person with g oor eyes 00 one not looking for' s weevil eigne would pass them line: c Weed, If weevily benne or peas :no placed ,w I stone* ev!thout the weevil having p een killed, the eggs will hatch, atter a ero dipped in the solntion, has been persuaded to wear a. proper Disinfecting the seed will do no shoe. Usually, however, the only ood if it is plantied in an infected tling that brings eomplete relief is to • A field which has had infected impetigo the ()Rending Inc. Another abbage on 11 the year Wove will still operation that hes been proposed with ontain the disease -producing gores, a vietv to saving sCnie of the toe eon - Inch will reinfect even healthy sists ho exeising the middle) joint and lents. Therefore a clean seedbed is in uniting the severed ends of the. two s essential as a clean lot of seed !bones to make a short but stiff toe, MCCIUMMON3S MOUTH WASH A Universal Mouth Antiseptic for Pyorrhea and Sora Gums. MCCRIMMON'S TOILET WATER A Stainless Antiseptic that Assures Perfect Daintiness, MCCRIMMON'S BARBERS' ANTISEPTIC (non -perfumed) A Valuable Face Lotion for Tender Skims. MCCRIMMON'S DISINFECTANT and DEODORANT A Powerful Odorless Germ- icide that Instantly Absorbs All Other Odors. 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Now is the But glad of you and sad of you, the time to fill rat holes with cement 01' foliage is attractive and the plants little wistful lad of yea. bloom with little sun, making them, cover them with sheet iron and to Leans up to greet the old place when build new reouseproof granaries of „you're grown too old to roamt desirable for winter use, and no gard- either concrete or galvanized sheet It's Tao your mother calling you-, Whatever is befalling you, The little old town's waiting till'you're ready to go home. —Margaret Widdemen. Kipline's Typewriter. There are anthers who cannot cons. nose on the typewriter, but apparently' Rudyard Kipling is not among the*. Ile wrote this enthusiastic letter to the manufacturer of his Atnerleaft MaC"Ith'sthea ndtt tnilloyn.g Magyo:greatest joy in life is t� rite early and oil it I can do 'meths on this inaohino without the trouble of thought. 5 Just start smite- thlng at vtahecilaa a rnstlinoouto,p201 rultioprwtahp4e ivo maid Botthodeen. When X coqba,et aclo)infl!ulota6,0,:p.eti"thlen3utatiligrealatilItir, and Waiting ModeatlY 0 quiio of Sinrerity .79 "It surprieee you, I see, to find me church member and teaching a class in the Subbuth school," the older man said with a quizzical smile that the younger man remembered from the days of his clerkship et Hastings .4 Brandtai. "Well, sometimes I'm sur- prised Myrelf. Ten years ago thought I had settled this religious question unee for all, and settled it ri"I never told you that I was brought up in a Christian home and had a praying muther. I didn't like to think about or talk about it at that time, for I used to have a twinge of con- science when I thought how grieved father and mother would be if they knew that I had cut loose from the "My unbelief started with the peo- beliefs that meant so much to them. ple who didn't appear to me to be liv- ing up to their Christian professions. It wasn't the badness of these people that impressed me, but the lack of anything real in their lives, It looked to me like a game they were playing out because their fathers had played it. Finally I just dismissed the whole subject as an outworn tradition and believed that I was acting upon my , sincere convictions. "Here is where Ben Luther comes in. I hired him to do odd jobs round the t.tore. He was a stranger to me, and, beyond his own statement that he was an orphan, with no near relatives, I knew teething of him or his family. Later, a rumor drifted in from some- where that Ben's father had been under arrest for mishandling money, and I suppose that made me think of Ben when our cash drawer counted short. "kfter that had happened two or three times, and a marked bill was missing, I went up to Ben's boarding place one afternoon and got permis- sion of his landlady to search his room. I didn't intend to make a pub - lie example of the boy, and there was a bare chance I might find something that would satisfy my own mind. • "I did. It was a small, much -worn. pocket Bible, lying open at a chapter marked by a turned -down leaf. The mark had been made years before, for the thin paper was cracking, and it came to me like a flash that it was his mother's Bible, that her fingers had marked the place. "I don't know that 5 ever made a discovery that affected Inc as that one • did. I went out of the room and made the landlady promise never to mention my visit. What I had seen would be worthless as evidence in any court, but I dismissed my suspicions on the strength of it, and later disclosures proved that I did right. "Strangest of all, the incident forced nee to question my own sincer- ity. Had I found an open book of history or fiction or poetry in Ben's room, I should have gone on with my search. Why was finding an open Bible different? Why should 1 judgo the probable character of a stranger by the fact that he read, or did not read, a discredited book? "That was the beginning. 1 decided that I wasn't really sincere in My skepticism, and I set nut to make my- self an honest man. I didn't believe it would carry me so far as this, but it The old Town. The city streets are straight and wide and hurrying on every side The people crowd and cross and ride and elbow past, Till down the pavement's noise and boat your feet keep time to swifter feet, The pulses of the city as it hastens fast; But oh, the little town streets, the rambling tip and down streets, All the twists and turns are just the way they used to be. You'd think the very dead yon knew might round a lane and smile at you. And nod a careless welcome in the • ohl way cheerily. The city's gay and wild and kind, and full of joy for you to find, And all its ways that cross and wind eller -need be ashamed of good ger- anium plants in the collection under gInss. Cyclamen ave also good dull wea- ther subjects, • The plants should be started in growth. about the first of September, Speedy leo Cream Freezer, An fee cream freezer ot \Makin, In which ice and salt are packed in a cylieder that revolves ie. side the ereitm delvers its 'product in 51 continuous stream half a minute at - ler a crank is turned. "My new hired man seems to do - light, so to speak, in pitting his bast foot foreinnst," related honest Farm- er Ifornbeak; "hut I never saw a feller so reluctant about letting hie other foot catch up with it," von, Where rats and mice have plenty of food and are 'Unmolested they mul- tiply overivhelmingly. For example, in Australia dining the war auks of wheat stneleed in high piles awaiting shipment became infested with mice, which riddled the sacks and destroyed a large Inert of the contents before preVehtivli stone Were taken. tinder siniltayeircuinstances a like result would inevitably occur in this countrY. Where it is impracticable to provide tight containers ft,14' stored products steps sh2Uld 'be taken inihiediately to trap el pean/iiir end mice in the general vicinity of storage buildings, and 'should be continued till the last bushel is disposed of. A. broom tag be made to last longer by nipping the straw into boiling water at lekst nob 17 WOOlt. s