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'rested 'lac eipes.
Swigs l abbage,---.Renove the cen-
tre cif a Hier sized cabbage 87K1 fill
it with Ball age meat and prase
carne bctweer t.ie leave's. `Pie se-
eur sly. in a cheese' chit') and buil in
salted eater until the vegetabie is
leedere drain, then pour over it a
cap 'if but vinegar.
• hwcdi4IL Brns. -- When baking
bread allow one pound foe 'bun
Work in a tnbl •spoonful of buttes'
and than roll out one-quarter uf an
inch in thickness, spread with but-
ter. then with a ge•nc'runs layer of
sugar and • dried currants, and
.prinkle With cleanamon, Began at
one end and 1'441 up. Cut into one
inch 'dices, Place un buttered pan,
to rise to twice their size. Bake
and lee after removing frum oven,
English Miiliius. Scald one pint
of milk, add three tablespoonfuls
of butter. When lukewarm add one
cake of compressed yeast dissolved
in warm water, and add half a tea-
spoonful of salt. Beat in flora' to
n . ake a drop batter. Beat well and
let rise fur two hours. Heat and
grease a dripping pan. with muffin
rings, bad fill rings with batter.
Plate in ,nud•er'ate oven until
In uwn.
French) Blackberry Toast. — Put
one cup of twined or . teaed black-
berries in a saucepan with a half
cup of their juice, bring to the
boiling point, thicken with one
t.rb.espe sinful of flour which has
been mixed smooth in two t tb'e-
sfoonful.; of cold water, Add a
little nutmeg and sem,e sugar, if
nc esary, and pour over six slicers
Li dry t:,a , aid serve hut.
Spanish fruit Omelette. --- ]3 st
ar yolks of egg's with fuer tea-
s; . , )talc a fine stages. Add a
pr r,tr e'f sea to t':e w tits and brat
eu:,:I illy nal film. Pour the yolks
ue,.1 ah--r-.s, ati it,g tit grated
rind of one .traege and 'hie t;b'::-
sp ,nails of jricce Mix lig tidy.
t't tk in hot butter until firm.
Spread with orange pulp, fold over
and garnish with sections of orange
a l serve at once.
liulte,'•.Iiloesse (for emap) Take
a lump of butter she size of an 'egg
and beat with two eggs until light.
t1,-er stir in four tablespoonful's of
i! r. l)r„p with a teaspoon into
the toiling broth and rook fur five
MI tutus,
w' li. n pint Id east: rd, let pet and
et est with w!.hippecl cream.
liitehen'.ISelps.
The hest liniment .for ristetanatient
is made. by mixing one part turps -
and tau of •olive oil. It is alai good
for neuralgia.
All scraps of ould"vegetables
should be 'saved and fried together
in dripping witch a yea:sonang of
pepper and ealt ttnci sl'i'ces of cold
tomato,
A stale loaf eau he made its' fresh
al- new if wrapped in a damp ,leith
for ra couple of 'minute's and then
.placed in tate oven for half an home
After peeling onions thrust the
knife you have used once or twice
into stare earth, if possible. After-
wards wash it at •once in boiling
water and ele'an it on a knifeboard,
To keep 'suet in hot water remove
the membrane or skin from it while
it is quit: fresh, then sprinkle thor-
oughly with salt, tie in a bag, and
hang in a cool place.
\Ven, steaming potatoes put a
cloth over them befure putting the
lid on. They will take much less
time to teak, and be numb more
mealy than when done ix' the ordi-
nary way.
When boiling a pudding plenty
of orange peel should be put into
the water. It collects all the
grease. making the pudding -cloth
mlwil easier to tush, and' thus sav-
ing a great deal of both time and
lal.ur,
Suets puddings made with equal
quantities (if stale bre'a,d, soaked in
void water and squeezed dry in a
c'lot'h, and a little flour are cheaper
and quite as nourishing as if made
entirely with flur.
To reheat a cold joint place the
eu'.d joint under a tap of cold woe
tar and allow the water to run
ester ii fur three minutes. Then
paras in Oa oven to heat, and it
will taste like a freshly cooked one.
In cake baking after greasing the
cake -tin put it in the oven and al-
low the fat tel buil, Then while it
is boiling pour in the cake mixture,
This m'skse the cake much lighter,
and lett butter or larch is required
fur greasieg.
• When butter is too dear shred a
pound of kidney beef ,suet very
finely, pound it'well in an enamel-
led bowl and moisten with alittle
olive oil till it is of the consistency
of butter. It is then ready for use
and can be used for parry or cakes.
The results will be as good as if
butter were used.
Cann Scot.
,y
'The following story is told by a
Scottish Member of Parliament,
The skipper of a trawler on naval
patrol in the North Sea thought he
would like some fish for breakfast,
eu 'ire commenced operations. Soon
up popped a German submarine
close by, Tthe skipper (from Aber-
; deep) was about to nam it and earn
the prize money when the eubmar-
in 's commander, not suspecting
this evil bit'ention, offered to buy
some fish. So the canny Scot went
alongside, sold 'his fish—and than
rammed the submarine.
ice te•h Brambles. —• One sup of
bit i. ane cup uf sugar, ma cup
of :hopped i a '.ins, one egg, and
the pr at::I rind and juice of a
]c r. Mix teget ter and cuc,k in
a drelae beiter. When cool, make •
paxy d.,ug 1 and roll u.ut guar: s
of .ams. put ktn12. of the mixture in
midd'u of each square and fold
oser edg:s to maks them in turn -
05 (1' form. Peke.
l'sn'to ()team Cheeses. — Season
cottage cheese with batter, salt and
peerisa. Pit. large dates, fills ca,yi-
tie s wit's the prepared cheese,
prer closely, so as to show but
a ' c of the cheese. Use dark,
rich dates.
•kltitharla Fool.—Stew a quart of
rht b .i rb, sweeten, rub through a
*d.%.. reheat and stir for ten mtin-
uP s When cold, stir in either
th._c gt'artcrs of a pint of Custard
or e half pint of. cream. Beat all
together. and.serve in a glass dish.
tehnbatli Dainties:. — Scoop out
the treadles of small sponge cakes,
sa th- tuts; fill with stewed
and isaeetened rhubarb, replace
tops, < ee•s a!I with c•ustarcl, and
serve its c ,ld. Use the take left
over for another da.nty dessert.
llhubarlt 'I rills. Put a layer of
crinin led -up cake i;tto a glass dash:
on this a Sayer of rhubarb sauce.
Berm natrl dish is almost full.
Have last toyer of cake; then Cuvier
We Think So, Too.
"Charles, you're- 'spending too
much money this year. Too many
dances. too many clothes, too many
taxis, too many—
"Well. father, I'll tell von how I
look at it. It seems. to me that
every family ought to be able to
support one gentleman."
The Turk's equivalent of our
]rand -shake greeting is to cross bit
hands on his breast and make an
obeisance.
Make the Woodiot Pay Dividends
1?vary farmer need% feed; every
farmer nettle fertilizer; and every
farm woudlot needs improvement.
V1sy not kill all twee birds with
yante slnne 1 By judreiuusly planned
thinning.. tate condition id the
wuoc.?ot can be greatly improved:
the materials removed in the thin-
nings can he burned as', firewood
and the wood ashes left are so richt
im potash as to make valuable fer-
tilizer.
The w.,udctt is, perhaps, the only
farm cry,p to which the farmer has
not eonsistered it n c:essal'y to de-
vote any care. His grains are sow-
ed on crrre,fully prepared sail ; his
vegetablte are euRivet ed and his
fruit trees are pruned and sprayed ;
his forest treses alone are left to
look after themselves.. 'This is the
mote remarkable when it is taken
inti, coneiderat•ion that any labor
expended on the woodiot not only
improves the final cr'o'p, but ordi-
narily pays for itself as well. No
(keened technical knowledge its re-
quired for the work; all that is no-
nulesary is the exercise of vermeil
It is obvious that the treses in
any woe,:dlnt are not all of equal
value. )yarn. ere taller, straighter,
thriftier, anal of a species which
yields mere valuable wood than ,
(Whirs. its is also 'Avitous that a l
constant struggle its going on be-
tween the trees foe ligiht and grow-
ing ,space. The object of thinning
is simply ,to give the best trees the
advantage in this struggle by re-
moving the poorer ones, which in-
terfere with their development,
First of all, defective trees should
be remuved. This includes trees
attacked by insects ur fungi (conks),
ttee'.s with fire -scarred butte, with
tops broken off by wind or light-
ning, and in general all trees which
OAT unthrifty from any cause.
Next came% the trees of poor form,
such as very crooked or very
breathy ones, which are interfering
with the growth of better formed
neighbuns. And, finally, )tees of
lees valuable. species, such as dog -
were], ironwood and hornbeam,
that might better be occupied by
stun :amnia as oak, hielcary and
rush, a lrich, ars at rule, produce :reed
more abundantly, and .se reproduce
themselves at the expense of more
d usu s h P' trees,
While the wood removed in these
thinnings i:, fsequ:ntily of no value
farother purposes, it can always
be used for firewood. In th]a.way
it eon „tpra practically he made to pay
for it:. f, particularly when the fu-
i n rc• u of tie wood ashes far fe.r-
ttlliar is borne in mind.
".• WAS SarailSesteesses
Precautions at British Hospital InFrance.
A disinfeetor used for the disinfecting of infectious clothes and
bedding at, the Duchess of Westminster's Hospital at the Casino,
Perls Place, Le T'ouquet, France•,
BRITISH ARMY IN AFRICA
INVADES GERMAN COLONY
AND AT'TAC'KS SHEA GE.
Operate Over Endless Desert On
One Gallon of Water a Day
For Each Men.
Marchers through absolute desert
—no water for washing purposes,
deploying to attacka mirage—
these are some of the experiences
'which 'face the British forces mak-
ing a conquest of German South-
west Africa. But in spite of such
handicaps. the British
Marc Made Good Progress,
have taken Swakopmund and are
pressing on after the Germans.
The experience of the troops is told
by an officer in the Northern Force
who writes to the London. Times
"What a world of desolation is
there! Not the benign duneland
of east England or Flanders, with
tussocks of grass, and scrub, but a
heart numbing ocean of sort white
sand billows rising in places to a
height of one thousand feet, and
always melting and trekking and
piling up. .There is not a living
thing -=plant, animal or insect—to
be seen.
'Fearsome is the mirage here:
At four hundred yards .aman looks
bulky as a horseman with fluid legs.
At six hundred yards a whole regi-
mentis. lost in a shimmering lake
er reedy lagoon. While trying to
get in touch with the regiment
which had landed at the settlement
we became aware of lines and
streams of fantastic horsemen, in -
infantry and guns overflowing the
dunes to our right front and :appa-
rently
Coning to Attack Us.
"Our companies of hand Rifles
eagerly deployed .and ran. forward
and it was not mitdl we were with-
in :five hundred yards that we 'dis-
covered we were out to fight the
South Afriean Trish, who had gone
out too far- to our left front. There
were no. guns or horses in the coun-
try.
Weary but Necessary Grind.
"Since those days of hourly ex-
pectation we have ;been on one col-
ossal fatigue. First entrenching
the bases, then butilding sea walls,
then building arailway from Wal -
fish to tSwakopmund along the sea-
shore, guarding its construction,
building sandbag blodkhonsea . at
short intervals along its course and
also, of course, outposts and pat-
rols. A wearyit necessary, grind.
"The enemy have shown a most
extraordinary lack •id enterprise.,
and have never once tried to hin-
der this rails ay so necessary to our
advance, as Swakapm'eed is a very
hopeless place at which to try and
land all the heavy stores and len
pediments needed . 'by our army.
Now the railway has reached ,Sw.ak-
opmrund, •
"General Br,tha landed recently
with his well-equipped Burghers
and long before you get this we
shall have started our advance
along the main railway .to Wind-
hoek, While
Standing to At -ns
in the gloomy hour before dawn we
heard twenty-seven terrific reports
in the direction of 'Swvakupm;nn.d,
twenty-two miles away. This wits
an atbsuribing mystery bn al•l
"It, was not, until two weeks la-
ter, when the Iritperial Light Horse
make a dash, un Swakoprnnnd in the
night, that the explanation was
forthcoming. The Germans in an
attempt to.hinder us„had .blown up
all the publics works, piers, etc.
Everything was gone, in fact, save
the water tanks, nvhieh were left
in order to poison the water and
mine the approaches.
"It was just dawning on the
morning after this same nikht ride
of the IJmperial Light Horse that
we heard another series of reports.
This itime the explanation was
quicker to come and was .mere
tragic. 'Men. and horses, blown to
eternity .by .mines, the cost of tak-
ing •Swakcepmund. Since :then the
Germans have been in occupation
of a position at Nonidlas, within a
mile of our outpost ltine at Swakop-
mend,
"There have been several little
affairs of outposts and patrols and
the explosion of
Newly Discovered Mines
has become so frequent that the
hardly remark it now. As our ad-
vance posts are withdrawn at night
the Germans occupy the position
and frequently undermine come
tempting epbt-before morning. ,
"There are some humorists
among the Germans. Some little
time ago they sent a wireless mess-
age from Windhoek to our G.O.C.
at Lnderlitz Bary, and recommend-
ed slur ,people not to spend too
much time at football 'there, as
there was an excellent football
ground at Windhoek, where they
would play us. •
"Two Goals and' Three Tries.”
"That morning a German patrol
had been trapped and two were
killed and three wounded. 'So n
prompt reply was sent to say:—
'Many thanks, ,and we are doing
nicely here. Inta game we played
against you this ,morning we scored
two goals and three tries,'
"Water ha,s been a pressing
question with us ever ..since we
landed. It ,is a good deal (better
now, but we still are limited to a
gallon a mean a day for all pur-
poses. An extract from 'divisional
orders reads:—'It has "Been observ-
ed that water has !been used for
washing purposes. This practice
must cease immediately.'
"There has been aserious leak-
age of information through ear
lines ,which has defied every effort
to •stop tilt: The dash on Swakop-
mend svtas known to' the Germans
in plenty of time to allow every -
beds to clear out of the town the
night before. The number of big
gine, troops, etc,, we landed were
all !kpown tto' them within is tie w
hours, It is hardly possible for na-
tives to pasts our lines as the coun-
try is
Sieh a Howling Dese'r't.
with no native population.
"The unly explanation that we
can give is thee we have some
traitors in our midst, probably na-
tives„ who communicate with the
Gervnana by means of dogs, great
numbers of whose spoors we see
on the sand dunes every morning,
This is the height of the rainy sea-
son 'here, :and in seven weeks I be -
live we have had almost ane -tenth
of an inch of rain, nearly half the
total annual rainfall.
"A little further inland they have
had an abn•ormal'fall of rain, which
has jest' brought .the Swakop river
dawn in flood, the frrst time sur-
face water has shown ip twelve
years. This our people call Botha's
luck, as it will simplify aur tremble -
erne water question greatly. Ie
this Sand actuary every one has
given up wearing boots, and we
have • turned into a barefooted,
barelegged; barechested and be -
whiskered army,"
Bonds
They. Are
and 'Their Yields
a Particularly Good eBay Just Now—,Prices ,Are
Cheap. .
There are many good reasons
why tate, present is an..espeoially
opportune time to buy municipal
bonds, In the first place, they are
cheap, that is, eheap in comgarlson
with prices which., have obtained
Awing the ptest few year's. It is
Hat so .vestry long since borrowing
tntsiueipalitaes were fable to eeoure
at four and a half or five per cent.
Bums of money efon' which they now
have to pay live end five andai. half
and even six per cent, in'ter'est:
This is to the advantage of the bond
buyer, who cam now .,get many low -
yield bonds considertably below
par, or higleyeeld, gilt-edged Sec.
eurities'at about the'same price' as
he formierly paid for lowv-yield de-
bentures,
Prices' Steadily Advancing.
But conditions governing the
money market cannot be expected
to keep so for very muclh longer,
In facet, there, has been quite a
noticeable change bathe past few
months, Bond prices have stiffen-
ed com'aiderably since the first of
the year, and municipalities are
able to strike a little better bar-
gain with the bond houses than was
the case three or four swaths ago.
Comparison of issues recently made
with those made in January shows
a firming -up in prices winch ,the
bond buyer ]las to pay ; and' a still
farther comparison with November
and ' August prices shows a sub-
stantial advance in prices of Cana-
dian municipal bonds within these
periods.
There is no reason' to ,suppose
that this adv.atncing trend will
change; rather the omen's point to
a smarter recovery,in prices .of
these securities which have. been
considerably dearer in the past.
This reason alone would induce pre-
sent purchasing of municipal borde,.
because' the price is very.reasonab]e
just now, and the market is favor-
ing higher prices with their conse-
quent speculative profits without
corresponding speculative risks, as
these securities are prlsctieally at
their low now and will not likely
go any lower.
A Good Selling Market.
Apart from the fact that muni-
cipal bonds are -cheap ,and offer
flood opportunities to tibe shrewd
investor, they aria oleo ' a good buy
at the present throe 'beoause of the
steady deinand•:which always exists
for this elope of tseout'ity. Certain
institutions, 'holdersof trust funds
and other: corporations, are !bound
by law to invest their funds in only
certain absolutely, eaife oissees of
securities. Municipal bonds come
witthin this esategot'y, epsl offer the
ideal investment for trust fundis,
as well ars comina within the restric-
tions imposedbyCanadian lawe,
This constant demand 'forsnunici-
pals for -investment of trust funds
is greater to -day than ever before,
and is bound to increase iia time
goes'cm. General financial condi-
tions affect quickly alt other se-
curity anamketsy but inasmuch as.
nsunimpals are neeeesitiee for the
trustee, there will always be a
steady; astable market for hate best
grade bonds of this class.
Security Is Worth While.
The Bound security of the muni-
cipal bond makes a etron'g appeal
to every careful investoor. No mat-
ter what conditions prevail, the
buyer of a municipal bond is rea-
sonably certain that he .will get
back his principal at the appointed
time; and ,that his interest will be
regular, too, This will appeal to
many people at tate present time,
when certain branches of trade
have not been quite so good as
usual, and the securities issued
against such-gyterprises—in .some
cases at least—site not so well se-
cured, due to,dapreciation of plant
and property and other unavoid-
able causes,
No Time Like the Present.
Taken all r:eund, municipals are
an excellent buy just now. The
yfeld•is large, arid the present
prices cheap, though they are
steadily going up. There is the
best of security behind such bonds;
and there is a good market, quite
apart from the demands of the ordi-
nary investing public, In good
times er bail trines the municipal is
a safe investment, and at the pre-
sent -time a particularly attractive
buy because of its three -fold ad-
vantages of price, market and se-
curity of principal and interest,
THE SUNDAY SCH011 STUDY
IN7'I.RNA7'IONAL LESSON, -
MAi'. 30.
Lesson IX.—David Brings the Ark
To Jerusalem). 2 Sam. 6. 1-19;
'Psa. 24. G.T.—Psa. 122.1.
1. The Ark Brought to Jerusalem
(Verses 12-15).
Verse 12, Obed-edam—The Git-
tite, a Levite (see 1 Clhron. 15. 18,
21, 24). He was milled a "Gittite"
beeause a native of Gath-rimmon
(see Josh. 21. 24, 26). He belonged
to the family which originally had
been appointed to carry the ark.
from place to place (Num. 4. 15).
He wast deo a player tin the harp,
and designated as one of the play-
ers to take part in the 'music ser-
vices on tit eoeeasiion ut"bringing np
the ask and to minister be'fo're it
(1 Chron, 15. 16, 18, 19-21 ; 16. 4,
5, 37, 38),
13. He sacrificed—Read 1 Cthron,,
chapter 15, for the necessary ob-
servances on this occasion,
14. David Danced—The-usual ex-
pressions of rejoicing (Exod, 16. 20,
21; Jticlg. 11, 34; Psa. 149. 3; 150.
4) were made by wotmten.
A linen ephod'—Tlie royal gar-
mentttt had been laid, aside and the
priest's dress put on.
II. (lis Chosen Dwelling Plaee
(Psa, 21),
1. The earth is J•ehovalt's—The
reader's attention is at once fixed
on Jehovah, to whorl ,approach is
to be made,
2, Poi he—Tthe "he" is especially
emphastiaed, "It was he, and no
other, who laid btth'e foundation of
the world" (Pea., 104. 5; Job 38. 4),
Read Pea, 104. the great "Psalm of
Creation."
3-6, Only those can; ascend onto
God's dwelling who bath clean
]lands, and a pure heart; that is,
clean in thought .as well as in deed
(res Psa, 73. 1; .Matt, 5. 8), who
habilnot lifted up his soul unto
falsehood; tthat is, putt self in pre-
feresce to God, hence chosen the
transitory, false, and unreal, and
hath not sworn d'eceitfu'lly; that is.
has been true to his neighbor as
well as God•,
Even Jweob—Jacob is the type of
the true people of God. The gen-
eration of those who truly seek
after God ,and his likeness, seek
him as the '`ideal Jacob," the true
people of God, would seek him.
7-10. The proceseeion is now re-
presented as having reached the
gates of the. city.
Lift up your Steads—Be opened
wide. for the high and Holy One,
now that all opposition to his en-
tramee has c a&d,
Xe eve'rl.asting ckaore—Tate door's
which from the beginning -had been
destdned to receive the King of,
kings.
An,d the King of glory — See 2
Sams. 6. 2; 1 Stam, d. 21.
Who is this King of glory l—The
watohens at the gate raise this ca;y
so that the respontse can be a loud
and hearty acclaim of the King,
Both question and answer were
taken up by the jubilant throng.
Jehovah of hosts—The climax of
the psalm, "Jehovaih Sahrobb" is
not only the conquering warrior:
he its the ruler of the universe (see
1 Sana, 17. 46; 1 Kings 22. 10).
Men who laugh with an "ah"
sound are frank, honest, and can
Ibe trusted. Those who laugh with
a "u" sound are to be distrusted.
"O" laughers ere generous, but
blustering.- Those who laugh with
an • "ee" sound are sample,, rather
timid, affectionate, but of un-
stable character,
A teaspoonful of castor -nil, pour-
ed at the routs of a palm or aapaa'a•
gee fern, will make the plant re•
vive and grow like magic,
Permanent Roadway
•
•
•
The traffic upon highways is in
creasing yearly. Bathyteaa' high-
ways are subjected to constantly
inereasimgloads,.. The public cite
minds Tepid transportation aticl
quick delivery of its goods. More-
over the public demands tibat all
unimproved highways be surfaced
and bhnt these stu'faees be kept in
good condition. 1f roads are built
in accordance with the ordinary
'msthed:s of country roach construc-
tion, their ' life' is short and their
cost of mainte'na'nce is high.
.A concrete foundation is essential
to every form of permanent road,
and, with a little more tare in bit
constructticm, it can be allowed tit
take the wear itself, thus. giving a
permanent pavement tri a low cost.
The use of ccnersute its a. wearing
surface, es well •as a. foundation,
makes permanent highways possible
when otherwise the cost world be
beyond the fin,tincitai resources of
many communities.
Bond issues are re•qutitr_d in many
cities and townships to obtain the
necessary fund's for pavement anti
tuned..constr ncti,un, :Unless. c'onerete
is used in the work, the pavements
are entirely worn ottt bong before
the bonds nta•1.u1e. The result is
Mat the community intuit either iat-
erease, its bonded indebtedness or
suffer the incon.v'endenee ' of truing
bad highways. This inconvenience
will reduce :the earning capacity of
the community and the value of the
adjacent property,
NEWS OF THE MIDDLE WEST
BETWEEN ONTARIO AND 11)11 ..1
'I'ISII COLUMBIA.
Items Prone Provinces ,Where Many,
Ontario Boys and Girls Aro •
Living,
A good roads district, 11£1.8 been
organized at Morris, Min. •
On Oopper Lake, Man., six min-
ing Maims wetre, scold for ,$250,000,
Around Snowflake, Mama, farm -
ens are feeling a sihortaget of feed
outs,
rued Hood, aged 20, committed
suicide by shooting himitelt att Bo -
harm,' Sask,
John E. Menzies, one .of Minn,-
ab
dose'sChilltwapioneeer,B.C, mterchamtts, its dead
In connection with . a clean-up
campaign. at Winnipeg, 42 women
gavel addresses in schools.
Portage la Prairie's Assessment
for the year is $5,057,957, am in-
crease of $50,000 over lest year.
A chair of" agriculture its bo be
established soon' in conmectiont -with
the University of Alberta,
The City Council of Regina will
undertake just $293,1511 worth of
construction work this. year.
At Calgary, Charles' Cawse ,and.
a
girl with whom he was walking
were struck dead oe the street -by
lightning,
At Scott, Sauk,, Mrs. T. R. Gru-
nan took a diose of strychnine and
died. Slee had been suffering from
melancholia,
Horace A. Craig, B.S,A., has
been: appointed Deputy Minister of
Agriculture for Albettta, succeeding
George Harcourt,
In Winnipeg, Asie Williams, who
Was driving art auto, ran into a
policeman on a motorcycle and had
to pay $35 and costs,
At. Portage la. Prairie, Man., o
start was made pumping water into
Crescent Lake. It will take six
weeks to fill the lakeif.
Bucko Devine, of Tisdale, Man.,
paid $1,150 for a. pair of draft Per-
eheronk, said to be the biggest
price ever paid fn that vicinity.
-New buildings for the Children's
Home at Tuxedo Park, Winnipeg,
are to.be erected. They will cost'
in the neighborhood of $150,000.
Peritonitis.,
The peritoneum is tlhe membrane
that lines the abdominal earity and
forms a covering for ,the organs
that cavity contains. When the
membrane .becomes inflamed, the
condition it'.called peritonitis. In-
flammation• is usually caused by
germs that have somehow or other
got into the abdominal cavity. In
former days, when operations could
not be performed under careful
alitiseptie 'conditions, peritonitis
was the thing that the surgeons
meet dreaded, and when it did oc-
cur, it was almost always fatal. To-
day the greatest care is .taken that
no microorganisms shall enter the
body during an operation, from
infected lta,nds or instruments, or
even from the air itself; in fact,
cleanliness has become an • exact
science in the modern operating
room, The same care cannot be
exercised in the case of accidental
wounds. Germs often get into the
peritoneum at the time the acci-
dent occurs, and the most careful
treatment enema always prevent
peritonitis.
But infiantmatiunof the peritone•
um may also came from within.
Certain diseases sometimes cause
the perforation of an organ'; stones may rupture the gall blad-
der; typhoid fever sometimes .per-
(orates the intestines; agastric ul-
cer may perforate .the stomach, A
bursting internal abscess some-
times causes the iutfeetion.
Nature not infrequently helps by
producing adhesions that confine
the trouble to a certain region ;
bat if the peritonitis spreads
through the whole abdominal cav-
ity, the sufferer is in grave dan-
ger.
Peritonitis generally begins with
a chill and severe pain; the, pa-
tient lies on his back with itis leges
drawn up, and breathes with rapid,
shallow breath from the chest alone
so es to avoid all movement of tate
abdomen. The slightest pressure ,
on the abdomen causes agony, That
part of the body becomes swollen
and distended, and there is an ab-
rapt rise of bempet-ature.
When the patient's strength per-
mits, it is 'best to •operate at once,
and remove the poison by washing
out dm abdominal onvity. When
that 'cannot be dune, the treatment
is directed to relieving ,tate pain
and keeping up the patient's J
strength, An ice 'bag or but fo-
metttationa will often do good, end
the bedclotthiug should not be per.
mitbed to touch the abdomen: The
physician in charge must decide as
to the wisdom of giving opiates.
Only'forty post -offices in hondot
are open ue. flu'ndays,
The arrival ,of flowers in a per-
fectly fresh condition when seal; to
a- friend is ensures] if each stalk is
inserted in a piece of split Inmate. '
Soot -water lii) excellent for
plants, but as soot and water will
not mix, the former )Hirst ba places}
in a coarse bag in the )eater for
Some clays.