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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-3-5, Page 7• 1 w• Compasses the Trees Wear BY ROTH HARRISON Buddy and the Profaner were coni- tree?" ing back through the woodlot, limp "Iluh,' said Buddy, surprised. "Hard - ;grata seen hung over their arms,for ly anyet ail." ••• they had b0the brush and in protect aeltecattering corn anti drthe 1'at di'ofessore a ha tree is this?" wheat ender t b ed fence corners for the quail, They "A tree doesn't have sides; it's did this every winter and now. tate round," answered Buddy, . quail were nnipereue and almost "Yes," laughed the ;professor, "Rafts friendly at times, sides. Nat right and left, of course, "Ah," chuckled the Professor. but north, scuta, east,and west. That"s "Thorn they go," as a covey of quail, a what I mean," little startled, scurried under cover. "Oh," said Buddy, squinting at the 'They really aren't atraid of us, Bud. sky. "This is the south tilde." dy, Couldn't be, but I suppose they "And the opposite side where the think it is just as well ;never to take lichens at'e growing is the north side." any chances,' "Why do they grow more on the • A long gine ago the Professor taught north side than on the southr asked botany in the university, Now be BaddY, lived on the farm across the road from "That's just it, Why?" the rural school that Buddy went to, "You said the .lichens grew better "Look, Buddy!" said the Professor, where it was cool end damp, Tent any steeping and brushing a little snow colder me one side of the tree than the from the bottom of a big white oak, other is it?" "Here is something that le always in- "Well, Bud, it is, Tile sun shines teresting to look at," and the pointed more on the east, south and wast sides to some grayish -green, flat, leatherlike of a tree than on the north. Think of patches growing on the bark of the the windows on the north side of your tree. They Were curls* on the edges, ]louse; there are only a few days in "Queer kind of a plant," Bald the Pro- the year that the sun shine through foseor, breaking off pieces of the thick- them; So there are many cracks and ly covered bark. crevices is the bark On the north side Seen tote of that," said Buddy, "on that are pretty much shaded and pro - old fences and stumps and logs.", tested from the heat and drying of the "I should say so" smiled the Pro- sun and you eau see that in winter the tosser. "ICnow what it is?" snow that lodges there stays longer." "No,". said Buddy, "Never thought "How did the plant know enough to about it." get on to the north side of the tree?" 'Well, you should,'saki the Proles- "There we have it again," exulted the sor. "Why didn't you break off a piece Professor. "The plant doesn't know a and come and ask me about it? You thing about it. It just happens that do pretty well, Buddy, but I do think way by chance, Most all plants have you 'boys ought to 'be more curious seeds of some kind, and the sends About what you see every day." Short- when they happen to fall In a favor- Iy he continued: able place grow and form more plants. 'This is a lichen, Buddy, and see The lichens have spores instead of how class and tight it grows to the true seeds, very mucic like the spores bark," and be lifted one edge of the that are formed by the moss I have lichen and peeled it back gently, told you about. Now suppose, these "There! See all that black spongy.; spores, blown by the wind, happen to looking mass on the underside of the !light on a tree trunk, some on the lichen? Well, those are ----•" and ho i south side and some on the north. beganto look around for something. 1 Those on the north side may get "There! That will do," Walking over ;lodged in a crevice where it is cool to a thorn -apple bush he broke off a and moist and start growing. Those long thin thorn. "Now look," and he on the south side fall where it is dry separated the spongy mass With the and warm end may stay there a long Point of the thorn. • i time in a dormant state or die. It "Huh," said Buddy. "Look like a . simply is true that the conditions on tot of little tangled threads. I sup-, tho north side are such that the Bola pose they're the roots." I ens can grow there; on the sough side "Alrnost," said the Professor, "Not they die, so very few or none aro found true roots but pretty much like them; there. So, in a way, lichens may be anyway they bebave like roote and termed compasses that trees wear, for grow into the cracks and crevices of they indicate the north." the bark or wood and sometimes stone "And you know, Buddy, there is and bold the lichen firmly In place and something else about this plant. It take up water. The lichen grows bet- isn't just one wind of a plant, but two tor in cool damp places, though after kinds. The lichen itself is grayish or it gets started It can stand a lot of. dry- whitish," ing without dying, and after a wetting "I'd say it was quite a lot green." it revives very quickly •and goes oa "Yes, but the green is not the lichen, growing, What you hear called the It is a tiny green plant that lives to reindeer moss that grows in such the whitish part of the lichen. We call masses up North is really a lichen and it a single -celled plant, and it is, one. of not a moss at all. Let's' take a look the simplest and lowest forms of at that tree again where we found this,' plants. ]'here aro a great many of "Notice anything?" said the Prates- these single cells living all through sor, walking all round the tree, "Not the lichen and we call them algae. ice anything about where these lichens ' They can do what the green cells in are growing?" I the leaves do—that is, with' the air, "No," said Buddy, walking round of -1 water and sunshine' they make starch ter bine and sugar and pass some of It on to "tins -m;" said. the Professor, "Let's the lichen, The lichen alone cannot qo round again. You see," lie said, I do this but It does get water through poking the snow away from the base.' its roots and passes some of It on to of the troo, "lichens grow all around the algae, , . tlto tree down hero near the earth, ''Hum," said Buddy, "some more but what about further up?" ' partners like those little knobs on the "Orem up the trunk, too," said_Bud- bean roots you told me about" dee "Only not so many" "Right you are," chuckled theKPro- "All right," smiled the Professor,tensor, pleased that Buddy had remem- "How about the other side of the bared. The Right Time to Sell Pigs. Yes, the old Irlsh peasant knew his pigs, knew them rather intimately as (it. matter of fact When to sell them n-orden.to get the best prices never troubled him; he had his, little rule for fudging. But let Maj, A. W. Long, in Trish Sort of Yesterday, tell what that 'rule was. The major writes: Here in a straggling wood of stunt- zed tunted oak and birch trees was a low thatched cottage where Robert told us • q. river watcher called Pat Lydon lived, don met s �y u at his door, surrounded ren cbildren—the smallest in a dross• made of a dour sack and bearing the brand of the flour In largo ljlue letters across his little chest— hens, duck and several dogs, and with the western peasant's usual courtesy e insieted that we enter his Cottage to rest. But Charles firmly declined. eeing a look of pain and surprise in the man's eye*, t at once entered and r•led to make agreeable. myself a y g Ela. While in the lever watcher's. hoose' I hoard the land grunts et pigs, but failed to catch a glimpse of theist, On lire way back 1 asked Robert whether he knew where the pigs were. "Indeed and I do well, yer honor," he gnswered with a laugh, "Sure, Pa:teen )always kapes• this pigs under his bed,' Charles shuddered, thankful that lie lead stayed outside, and remarked. that it was an unusual plaoo, "hi Neth yer right, blaster Charles," .,replied Robert, "but euro that same man has a fortune made crit of them pule pigs and all through leaping Diem 'Heath the bed,' For some" time 011arles slid not 'peak; but at last his curiosity got the flatter of his dignity, and be asked Robert how a man could amass a' for - Gino by keeping Disc under his bed. t "Dognrro," replied, Robert, laughing, "Many a man bas asked that same estton of l'atoen and got no satis- tory answer, but stare 1'11 tell yer nor. elle easy enough to Beal a pig, ut batt auougk Itr know the right time sell tItatsarue pig, and flint's where o Ned rolnas in." Again Cbatios walked en, thinking hard. At east he reluctantly asked Robert to explain. "Sure, yer honor's letting on to be mighty simple to -day," said Robert. "Pateen has the bed sot so that when his pigs is, big enough to make bacon of !t's how they'll be after rising the bed, on him soratohins their backs— so they would, the craytures—and when he can't sleep quiet and aisy lilts he knows it's time the pigs bo gone." Living Temple in Bar. Several arches famous London es are 0 h inhabited, The Marble Arch, for In - steam, Contains quite roomy apart- ments, and so does the arch whiolt forms the entrance to Constitution 1 -Hill, Our ancestors seem to have had a passion for saving space. It Is con- ceivable that the .Oaty of London can- not afford to widen its streets or leave open span because laud Is so costly, I but in tite old days why was it thought necessary to nhalte thoroughfares so excessively , narrow, and to -belld houses and shops over the City gates? The Met of these was the Mena Temple Bar, removed in June, 1879, it stood where the Griffin stands now, oli- paaito• Ohild's Bank, When Whet it was doomed t eo t n d to demolition, partly on account dr its serious obW struetian to over -growing street traffic and partly because It was falling into a state of decay, many tons ot.ledgers and other records were removed trout the room over the central arch, Those were the accumulated archives Of Guild's Bank, To this day the ahegtteis of title historic, hoose bear on their face a print of Temple Bar, In th. Second Mate (p0114i0g to inenibed plate on deck). ---"That is where our gallant captain fell," Elderly Lady leisitor---"No wonder; I nearly tripped over It anyself,' Wholemeal bread is pleasing to the eye and.the paints, and contains value able mineral qualities which are miss ing in Lite white variety I A memorial service at which 12 submarines and three parent ships were present took place over the spot where the submarine L.-24. was sunk in the Englisli Channel, with 40 mon aboard- Photograph shows the halt-masting of the colors while passing the spot. Insulin in Diabetes. The men who won the forty thous- and dollar Nobel prize in 1923 for the greatest medical discovery of the year were Doctors F. G. Banting and J. J. McLeod, of. Toronto, for their work in the discovery of Insulin: Not only is this the most notable medical and soientilic achievement of the year (it was given to the public the year be- fore) but it is the most valuable dis- covery of all time for people who have diabetes. It means for many of them the difference between life and death and every person afflicted with any degree of diabetic severity will profit by this discovery. Many readers have asked me to tell how insulin cures diabetes, It docs not cure. Int is a preparation made from certain parte of the pancreas. ,Administered to the diabetic patient it makes up for the reltolencles of his own digestive organs by helping him to digest his sugars. With this help he can eat more food and greater va- riety, and thus build bp in health and strength. But he is not ,eured, and perhaps will have to take Insulin oc- casionally throughout his lifetime, , Insulin is not a preparation that can be taken by the mouth. 1f swallowed the stomach digests it and spoils its action. So it has to be administered by the use of a hypodermic needle. However, this difficulty may be over- come by having some member of the family trained to make the, injection. The material was very costly at first but the price has now been reduced some fifty per cent. and may go lower, Every person who has diabetes should learn about Insulin, It is well to know that another name for the same pre- paration 1s Iletin.—Dr, C. H. Lerrlgo. Buying Men in Bits. A very strange advertisement ap- peared in a London, England, daily re- cently. A man offered himself as will- ing to undergo any. operation where there was a "sporting outside• cbance of recovery," No one seems to know exactly what is the legal aspect of tits caae, It such an offer were accepted, and the man died under the operation, It seems possible that the operator might be indicted for manslhughtor. It is, however, a well-known tact that both surgeons and patients are sometimes willing to pay largo emus for suitable human subjects for enedt- cal experiment. The blind Americanerican Millionaire, Mr, Charles Rouse, once advertised for a man aufforing from eye trouble similar to his own who would be 'willing to' undergo a some- what painful operation which might result in cure. He flually obtained a subject, and retains him for reale d years at a salary of $1,250 n year. Several operations wore perforated upon the substitnte, but all without the desired effect. So the.ntit•lionalro at last gave up hope and resigned him- self to a life of tlarklress. Five yeast ago Miss Emma Gallag- Iter, a wealthy young' lady, was ter- ribly burned by the sxploelon of a spirit stove. Her chin, neck, and. ohoot worn left almost tyre. To eine goal the scare' the doctors perforated twenty-three different operations in skin grafting, the skin being taken from twenty-three different portions. The sums paid for other people's skin worked out nt $1,000 per muerte foot. An advertisement once appeared in a New York paper to the street that Woetern mitlionaha, wile was about to be married, ware prepared t0 pay five thousand dollars for a right ear to be grafted upon hie own head, in place of one which he had lost in a mining accident. An immense number of applications was received, and 1)0, Nelden, who un- dortook the operation, stieetett a snit• able eundidote. A deed of agreement Was drawn up, nud the physiclan agreed to keep the mimes of both bee - or and seller secret,' The operation was perforated. 'file upper halt of the volunteer's .ear was cut. away, ,together with about four inches of skin at the back of the ear, and grafted on the millionaire's head. The two men had to lie practically motionless until, after twelve days, the flesh bad united, and the rest of the ear was cut away and grafted. Still more, wonderful was the case of a Scottish lady who sustained shock - fug Injuries in a runaway accident. Her skull andboth were frac- tured, and her left arm and ons side of her face badly lacerated. Her son, a young physician, aban- doned. his practice and set himself to endeavor to restore his mother's life. Everyone else had given up her case as hopeless. Day and night he de- voted his whole time to her, and so in- spired not only her nurses, but the poor sufferer herself, that she sur- vived and began slowly to mend. But the mutilation of the face Caused terrible disfigurement. The son there- upon insisted upon the attendant physicians removing elan enough from his own body to graft upon the scars, One by one, no fewer than forty pieces of skin were cut from his body and grafted upon his m,other's face and arm. In tho end the lady not only ;completely recovered from injuries which would have killed ninety-nine people out of a hundred, but also showed very slight disflgurement In this case, of course, filial love was the motive for the sacrifice, and perhaps similar disinterested motives have operated at least as powerfully in cases of this kind as the hope of monetary ,gain. Makeshift Medicines. It seems odd to call tooth powder a medicine, yet ordinary camphorated Chalk has been used before now when bicarbonate of soda was not available to check a violent attack of heartburn, Whoa a druggist's shop is not with- in reach, rough and ready remedies for many ailments are to be found in the pantry. Mustard in poultice form le about tho finest known remedy for cold on the short, while a little ordin- ary mustard rubbed behind the ear will often ease toothache and neural - gin, Mustard and hot water is a good emetic, Salt mixed with common washing coda is an excellent cure for stings, and warm brine has a wonderful ef- fect 1n stopping the irritation of a chil- blain Warm brine not too strong, is also a very good thing for sniffing up the nose when one has a bad cold, and se a gargle it will go far towards cur- ing a sore throat, While sugar has no disinfecting qualities, of it Is willed to a clean wound it'ltolps it to heal rapidly. A poultice trade of vinegar and stile bread applied nightly as one of the best possible dressings for a painful earn. Olive oil Is a good thing to put on 0 barn, and if olive oil is not avail- able a handful of flour keeps the air from tho injured spot and cheeks the pain. A raw egg swallowed whole will carry down a fishbone which Itis stuck In the throat. He Refused to Answer. Aunt ,]luny, a Carolina negrees, was a scent advocate of the rod the a help In ahilterearing. As n result of nn un' merciful beating which she gave her 'mingest and "orneriest," she was brought into court one day by out- raged noigbbore. The judge, after giving her a severe lettere, asked 1r she had anething to say. ".Test one tiring, ledge," she replied. "I want to ox you a question: Was you .over the lutrent or -0 perfectly wit 1}i1(lee rnilua1 child ?'• M Sarcasbn. Alive far the diet 111110 Nn0' 'a elft ea*t h,g'her kitten by the nape or its "Yon eller III to be it mother," she pried stYuthiugiy"You Ain't hnn•diy itt to be ii father!" New Airplane Travels 40.0' Miles an Hour. The ern of Pugineer Melot's propel lertess and motorten airplanes, said to be capable of attaining a speed of 400 miles au hour, into boon received by the Technical Prenmh Air Ministry 10 Paris. tt Twelve others .Are under construc- tion In the suburb of .Colombes and will be ready In two menthe' time, While the details of the freak mn- ehiue aro 'jealously guarded, the prta- elple appears to be as follows; Compressed gas and air are fed by two tabes into a combustion chamber where an explosion succeeds. The burnt gases then escape violently through a series of valves, They draw. air with them and this action projects the machine forward. When freed the Mixture of burnt gases and air comes. in contact with the open air, and this shock also pushes the machine ahead, Originally a motor was necessary to compress the air and gas, but two months ago the inventor managed to effect the compresslon automatically, and this second discovery is kept most secret, It was because 01 it that the Air Minister accepted the machine and ordered twelve more. Melot, who was badly wounded in the war, began his invention work in 1918 on Government funds, but these were stopped and only revived last September, when the importance et his experiments were manliest. Two great advantages would accrue if the invention materializes, namely, the freeing the machine of the great weight of the motor, and no more broken propellers. Elimination of pro- pellers would also greatly increase speed. Melot's chief difficulty has been to find material sufficiently light yet resistant to the enormous tempera- ture caused by the combustion of air and gas, Melot, who is thirty years old, and living in a modest apartment here with his wife and child, isnearly blind from a 1911 wound. His determina- tion to suppress motor and propeller I dates from 1916, which year he spent r vainly trying to design a -turbine en- gine for war planes. Promotions. Promotions usually come to those who deserve them most. Persons who seem to advance moat rapidly are those who have really been preparing for many years for higher promotion. They are the ones who did the things for which they weren't paid; who carried every task to a complete. finish; who built up a reputation for, doing things in a superior way, thus, proving to those higher up their ability to handle more responsible positions. You are going to get out of your work just what you put into it, You are roaster of your destiny, Alen us- ually get what they go atter, if they go after it In earnest a.nd work hard. Let every day be a big day and every op- eportunity be a big opportunity. His Cutest. She was very literary, and from America. She bad just been "doing" the home of Sir Walter Scott. The guide was a Iittle bored, " 'Marmion' is just too "she beamed. "And 'Ivanhoe,' why, that be- longs! 'Kenilworth,' now --isn't that the real Murry goods? And 'The Lady of the Lake'—but there, anything of Scott's--" "And do you know hie "I:ntulsionl' asked the guide. "For goodness' sake! Why. I think that's, just the cutest thing bo ever wrote." The Irish of it, Kelly- -"I1 yoz force me to pay that note now, I can't pay it." O'Brien --"But if I wait till yez pay it, I'll niver.sit it!" A Downright Insult, Jake --"What trade ye leave. Si?" Si—"It happened at breakfast this mornin', Jake, and I'd do it ag'in if I had it to do over. Airs. Brown was busy bakin' cakes an' when I took and looks three or four, she stopped d sm traight at e au' said, "Si Simpkins, impkins, do you know that's the twenty-fifth pancake yer eatin'?' an' it nude me so mad I jest got up from the tablean' went oft without my brealctast. Rivers of Ruin, 6 have recently been reminded by tate floods In France of the e ee. which, even in modern team and in bight., developed countries, can be wrought when a great river oYOrtiows its banks, But the damage done br the Seine and other great French rivers 00 such occasions is not very considerable as, compared with the havoc caused by , other streams in slnhilar eireinnstau0ea. The mast tragical river in the world is the Hoang -ho, or Yellow River, whish is known throughout the Coles -1 tial }empire as Cliiva's Sorrow. Earth- quakes and .eruptions claim their via; tims in teas of thousands occasionally, but this river thinks notbtag of drown- ing several millions of human beings in one fell flood, Not many years ago, when the Hoang -Ho devastated an area as large as England, its victims were estimated at ten millions. Iu historlc times it has' changed its mouth eleven times, • and Its present outlet is three hundred miles away from its former one. Another river of tragedy ie the Mis- sissippi, which also has a tendency to alter its course and run amok across field and farm and city, its great, plain is very fiat, and when it overflows it overflows a long Way, carrying stock in vast numbers to feed the sharks in the Gulf of Mexico. As time goes on, its banks are being more and more strengthened; but when a big river takes matters into its own hands,] human devices are apt to look foolish; l The Nile le a river of blessing, and a river of blight. If it comes up to scratch and does its duty it Is worth tens of millions to Egypt and man- kind; but 1f it fails ---as it has many times done in history—that !allure means famine. Since Britain has come to the rescue, however. and built the Assuan Dam to: conserve and regulate the water, so Out the river does not wash the land away one year and leave it barren the next, the Nile has done nothing to justify its former sin- ister reputation. But in the past its failure to function normally has cost millions of lives, Ivory Raiders. Among the unpleasant habits of Af- rican tribesmen in the Karamoja coun- try is that of egging pits for ele- phants, and attacking the unfortunate animals thus isnDrlsoned with their knives, literally carving them up while still alive, and eating the raw flesh as; they do so. In his book, 'the Ivory Raiders," Major Rayne desoribes how he saw; tribesmen at work on dead elephants i which he had shot. They crawled ; across one of the carcasses as thick,. as ants; they were even inside it, out ting and hacking with small axes and great knives. Ivory raiders - - Arabs, Abyssinians,1 and so on --who invade British cereal tory In an illegal quest for tusks And I useful, If treaolherous, allies in these tribesmen. Major Rayne once bluffed a force of : two hundred raiders into surrender, and it was not until they had given up their arms that they discovered the, force behind him consisted of only, four policemen. He Who Knows, HeFwho knows and knows that he knows, is master. He who knows and does not know that he knows, needs a teacher. He who does not know and knows that he does not know, needs love, He who does not know and does not know that he does not know, is lost. • Ancient Proverb. Gross Carelessness, The young wife sat plying the needle on a coat of her husband's when the latter entered the room, "Its too bad, the careless way the tailor sewed this button on," she burst ont.1 'T'his is the fifth time I've had to put I it back for you." A Hard Lot. Lady- "My good man, Isn't begging hard? Beggar • "It Is, faun; very few pear ple gimme fresh bread." The shipping tonnagee actually; under construction at the end of Sep I tember was only 1,029,000 tons, the; lowest recorded for nearly fourteen; years in Great Britain and Ireland. Ripplirdiammo fl► Walt Cis FEARFUL SYMPTOMS It was au evil day for me when 1 sat clown to read the alman- ac for '23 sent out by old Doe Snged. When I sat down 1 reit as fine us over in my late;"I wish such buoyant health were mine:' declared my jealous wife, Then T enjoyed unblemished ltealth, no oche 00 pain I knew; but Old Line Sneed, be rami by stealtb, end knocked the works askew. Before 1't1 finished Chapter Three of his vile almanac, 1 felt tierce tortures in my knee and anguish iii my Baric. "If you behold 1:10t1 specks," I read -a, floating in the air, it indicnlee you'il.seen he ,dead, trod should emir ]anise Prepare: you harbor divers deadly ills, and ,Doll their kick you'll reel, uelees you take rtty coberefe pills fourteen before cacti mend.' "lf you aro prone In dizzy spells." the Old Doc merle his wall, "tile undertaker, wearing' belle, wilt soon 11' 011 your trail. Is Merea coaling on emir league. and does your :until taste green': It htdacMee a spavined lung. and abscess of the spleen. Ts there n ringing In y01hr eats, are Oen aneoyt'ti by chills? You futon will go to oilier spheres unless yon take my pills." Noir 1 no longer dance and sing or chirp the, joyous wheeze; 11 symp- tonte cmnu*st fa,r anythhsg I've every ItnOwn aiseasq, Our Changing Skies. "EGerrial as the stars thee !thine," Now roan., times have we 11ettrd Rita/ expreesienl What vague Iboughte of yaetatrotclies of time etbriegs to our miuviei The Axednesa of the skies her become a byword with as. Do We not look up at the starry heaven and eau the Greet and. the Little Dipper night after night? Doss not the Milky Way' unfailingly shine down:upon uo? Tree, the evening star and the moon have a way of shifting their position Trout night to night .but within a short time they are always bat ar in their same old places, Tbo changelessness of the elan is the fcuudetion steno et our faith. It coulee as something of a shook, then, to learn that our skies etre grad - natty changing year by year. Aur North Star, or polestar, is net the sante as the one which pointed the true north for the ancient Egyptians. The great pyramids, built more than forty centuries ago, were made with an opening exactly facing the polestar, but it was a different star loom tbo Ono We point out lit cur heavens at night. Instead of having only two notions, that of turning daily on its axis and yearly around the sun, the 'earth Ilse no less Gabe eleven motions., astrono- mers tell us. Instead .of the staid, sober old earth we thought we in- habited) we find that we are keeping company with a fravolon , daneing, al- most sb.lnimying earth. It is a third movement of the earth, similar to the elm circular motion of the upper part of a fast-epinntng top, that causes our skies apparently to change with the centuries. A map of the sties made in 1800 would not do for 1880, nor for 1922- The Southern Cross used to be visdble en Europe some thousands of years ago, and same thousands et years' hence um Of our brightest stars' will have passed from view of our earth's inhabltahnts. But there is, after all, a regularity about this irregularity of the earth's movements, And 1t la possible to cal- culate exactly when a certain star will return to a given position. In exactly 25,765 years our North Star, after be- ing lost to view foe centuries, will again be just where it is today. The -Met time our North Star occu- pied the position it does to -day, 25,766 years ago, none of the present coun- tries existed. Donbtlese men had made their appearance upon the earth at that time, but they were probably nnculeurcd and savage beings. --our stone -age ancestors -and they have Ieft little record of their existence. Where shall we be, in our turn, when, after another cycle the pole shall have returned to its present post - lion? When viewed from the standpoint of eternity aur vanities and petty bicker lags have a smallness that is pathetic. a The Wheel That Squeaks. The world is full of philosophers who urge us to count our many bless - lugs, just when we reach the conclu- sion that there will not be enough left of our year's crop money to put down the naw rug, much less install electric lights. And when one of our finest horses died on a hot day and some- thing broke on the tractor and Johnny's fever came up and it looked like measles, someone gayly quoted to us: "(ah, well, ain't you glad you ain't got a harelip?" Banks would flourish if all bankers were bachelors; the employer of a nee minter little cares whether he is mar- ried or not; a wife playa no part in the tiring of an engine; but We farm women know what would happen . to agriculture if we all hied ourselves to the city. Thanks be, there is no dan- ger. Down in our hearts has grown too deeply this desire to belongto the first, this feeling of working at worth- while things, and of providing a home with Nature's background for our children. The discouragemonts of a day or a season aro not enough to uproot us. The world appreciation that is grow- ing will bring results. Every modern invention will eventually corse to ue. Someone has said that at is the wheel that evades wh c q 1 heta the cone g grease. Our wheel has squeaked considerably and I lirmly believe that the grease ie being manufactured, that electric) lower is going to be made cheap enough that we can all have it eo help, especially in the home duties that are n part of our farm lirm's acecmpiash- men•ts: -Lena Martin Smith. The Prairie Street. 1,0rers of beauty laugh at this grey town, Where duet floe thick on ragged curbside trees And compass -needle etreets lead up and down And lose MonseiVos in empty prairie seas. Here is no w ntau e 1 i g scant d liana, no hill Crowned with a stet•+9Trd church, no garden wall, Or old grey stone w•llere lilacs Manta and fill The air wits fragrancewhen the May rains fall. But here istheunsoftened majesty Of the wide earth 'where all the wide streets one, Anti from the dusty comer once may 50e Tile' fullmoon else sand Ilamiug sun descend, 'l'its' long luau eta:et, wlienee fermi- ers' teams go forth, I.tes like an old sea road, etar•palnied earth, - •Idelen. Swetrnyee.