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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-11-30, Page 6Ie THE FARMER AND LIFE INSURANCE. The farmer of Canada is rightly I said to be the backbone of the coun,l try, but we wonder if he is taking ad -1 vantage of the many opportunities to better himself, Year after year there is being perfected labor-saving de - 'Ores and machinery which ultimately cause not only a saving of expense in 1 the management of his farm and tho husbanding of his crops, but also makes life easier and mere pleasure' able. It has been said the farmer does not take advantage of new inventions as quietly as 0 manufacturer, and there may be a good reason for this, Lt the first place, if a maaufaeturer • semi some invention which may be of advantage to him in his bu n ee , and has not the ready cash, he can often go to his banker and ask for addition- al credit, explaining what he needs the money for. The farmer, nn the other hand, who has truly made his money by the swat of his brow, does not as a rule, know much about banking except as a place to deposit bis savings in. He seldom aka for credit, and am a re- sult often manes without things which in place of being a luxury are a real necessity. Ilis great aim has been to build up not only a competence for his old age, but also to lay aside some-' thing for his wife and family. Should he be one of our progressive ! farmers, he is forced to have good buildings not only for himself and family, but it is equally necessary to! have good barns and stables for his! stock. This often necessitates a con -1 sidcrable capital expenditure, and the usual source of getting this (if he has not the capital himself), is by placing a mortgage on his property. Shouldl you live, and should the years prove profitable, you will no doubt pay off I the mortgage. On the other hand, ' should there be a succession of bad crops and should you die, what is to -I come of your wife and family? If you are a modern and progressive farmer you should give this the same consideration as a modern business man. To -day you are the brains of the farm, matters run smoothily un- der your guidance; should you be taken off who is to assume your , re• sponsihilities and pay off the mort- gage? Is your wife or children cap- able of taking your place at once, or must someone be hired to take it? If so, this means an additional outlay. The Good Book tells us that "a con- tented mind is better than riches," and no doubt your mortgages or other outstanding obligations are a source of worry to you, but modern business methods has found a way to meet just =uch worries as yours, ami few, if any, of our modern business men have fail- ed to take advanta;.;e of it. Every person recognizes the uncer- tainty of life, so, if this is one of your worriers in accumulating a fortune, why not make provision against it? It can be done by taking out a policy in one of our Canadian Life Insurance none lanes. The moment you pay your first premium you have created an estate to the full value of your policy. A life policy is nothing more than a savings account, with pro- tection added. Should you die after the first payment your estate will re- ceive the full value of your policy, and there will be no delay in payment. So soon as your death claim papers are received, a check will at once be sent, Sickness and death entail heavy ex- pense, and ready cash is often hard to secure, but the prompt payment by a life insurance company means ready cash, which will enable your estate to pay your debts, lift your mortgage, and, if your policy is large enough, give them something to go on with. While it will not soften their grief at your loss, it may make you more kindly remembered and it will cer- tainly make their path through life smoother, ree THE TRUE STORY OF " HILI.: ' tY We will fall him "Bill," but that isn't his real name. We will say his story enls en a farm near Acton, hut it really toile somewhere else. Bill's is a typira _tory; such lives are found by tb:• hundred in Toronto. There should be hundreds of stories like Bill's, ending on the farms in Ontnrio. a * * * * e While Bill was yet a baby his fa- ther died. Two years ago his mother died. It ,va< very Budden, this death of Bill'- mother. There were burns looking seepirienay like carbolic acid on hc•r line but nobody told Bill what they meant. The next day a distant relative came and took Bill away. She had received a note from his mother and did not inquire about the cause of her death. In hi' new home Bill found himself regarded as an intruder. His unwill- ing foster mother had a brood. of her own that was already too large for her to manage, and the family income left mueh to be desired, even before Bill was added to the load. Poor 13111 felt the situation keenly, but he could see no way to fix it. His only other relatives were two brothers n whohad -neFranc with the to e t g Princess Pat.: and disappeared from his life. Bill felt dimly that, if they. only knew, these hero brothers of his would help him, but he didn't know how to find them, and no one else ; seemed to rare. It is no ;yonder, therefore, that Bill I made his real home on the streets. There was real life. There was ad- venture. An empty coal bin in an alley made a dandy pirate den, and any of the gang could swipe cookies1 from home and so keep the larder' supplied. Bill's membership in the gang was the only bright spot in his life, but it involved a great difficulty. He didn't feel at liberty to swipe cookies at home. With the other boys it was different. Their homes were their own, and swiping what your own mo- thet baked for you isn't much of an offence; but when you are living in 1 another fellow's home, and the other fellow's mother doesn't love you and doesn't want you there, you don't feel' at liberty to swipe their cookies. 13111 explained the matter to the gang, and they generously agreed to overlook it, but Bill felt himself under a con- stant and growing obligation. Now, if you go in back of Dago Tony's fruit store, you will find a lit- tle window in the back wall close to the ground. If you look into that window you will find that Dago Tony has his cellar hung full of bunches of green bananas. When he wants them to ripen he hangs them in the sun in front of his store, but when he wants them to stay green he keeps them down cellar, and that cellar window is unlocked. Bill thought there would be nothing easier than to swipe a bunch of bananas and hang it up in the den, and thus at one stroke pay all his obligations. Tony would never miss just one bunch. Tony is rich. He muet have in that cellar as much as a hundred bunches of bananas. When a boy is twelve years old he doesn't spend much time on reflection. When a thing needs doing ho does it. And so the morning after Bill found Tony's window unlocked; there was a large bunch of green bananas hanging in the den, and Bill found himself the hero of the gang. The fellows had always supposed that the location of the den was a j profound secret. Knockers (police- men), however, have a habit of pok- ing their noses into places where they are not expected, and one of them occasionally looked into the den when he knew it was vacant. When he found the bananas, and put the littlest member of the gang through the third degree, he readily learned what had happened. So Bill and the "knocker," and Bill's foster mother had a session with Judge Boyd of the Juvenile Court. Bill's relative, thinking she could thus get rid of him, painted his char- acter in lurid colors and demanded that he be sent to the reform school. But she found the Juvenile Court to be a different sort of place than she had expected. Judge Boyd remembers well when he was a boy, and he has had many years of experience since then. He knew that Bill was not really bad. His soul is too recently from the hands of his Maker to be very much contaminated. If Bill ap- pears bad it is his environment that is the cause of the trouble, and not Bill himself. And so the woman found from the trend of the Judge's ques- tions that the tables had been turn- ed. Instead of being prosecutor she 1 j� A(� ETERLIIiYCK IS was the defendant. As the guiding 1rj influence in Billie environment she had failed. There was no penalty, though, for her failures, and for Bill's sake it was decided that, if possible, he should have another home. The Big Brother Movement is a group of big-hearted men, each one of whom agrees to look after a fellow like Bill. Their secretary, Mr, Jack Maughan, attends the Court eessione. It is his particular business to find friends for boys who need them The.is is one of "nature's noblemen" living with his wife on a farm near Acton, Their children have grown up and moved away, and so, as they put it, the home is "rather going to waste." They believe in the religion of love and helpfulness and wanted to put it into practice. They realize, too, that in this time of national sac- ' rifico it is especially important that the boyhood of the country should be raved. These good people, therefore, wrote Mr. Maughan to learn if they could be of service, and thus Bill found his new home. Bill is making good at Acton. The; same enterprising nature that led him' to eteal the bananas leads him also to take a most lively interest and active boy's part in everything connected with the farm. Itis new parents find that in him they are living their !youth over again, ! Only those who have watched the development of boy lives in the city can appreciate what is being done for Bill. Had he been left with the ! "gang" and with no friend to guide him, a jail sentence within ten years `would be a reasonable probability. As it is, he will develop into a useful and respected citizen, Bill's new parents are taking the raw material of a Crim • - inal and diverting it to an honorable career. They are cheating the Devil and saving Bill's soul. There are many boys, and girls, too, in Toronto, whose story, starting like Bill's, have not found such a propitious ending, Anyone who will write Mr. J. H, Maughan, Sec'y Big !Brother Movement, City Hall, To- ronto, will be told specifically where their help is most needed. Small Pigs. In travelling through the country at this time of year a great many pigs, weighing not more than 50 to 70 pounds are seen in the feed lots and pastures. To be marketed at a price anywhere near the top, these pigs must be car- ried through the winter, at least un- til January or February. When one considers the additional cost of gains made through the winter months when no green feed is available, one is led to wonder whether it would not be more profitable to have these pigs, larger at this time of year. That it' is more profitable to have the pigs! larger at this time of year, at least! in most cases, is proven by the fact that the most successfal hog raisers! see to it thab their spring pigs weigh at least 110 to 135 pounds by the end of September. Shoald one under- take to criticise a man with GO pound; pigs and tell him that his pigs should; be larger, an argument immediately'. follows. The average farmer knows thab his pigs should be n.rger at this time of year to be profitable. His! problem is how to get them larger. i Wherever small pig s are foundat; this time of years severay shortcom- ingsI can be located in the management the pigs have had. The first is that inferior, undersized breeding stock has been used, the second is that the pigs were farrowed late in thespring, and the third is that they have gone through the summer on pasture, but with too limited a grain ration, Tho first essential in raising big, growthy pigs that can be marketed in the month of November at a weight of 175 to 200 pounds, is that big, heavy boned breeding stock must be used• 1 For some reason or other a pig far- rowed in March or early in April' always seems to grow faster than one farrowed in May or June. The sec-' and essential to rapid growth of the• pigs is that they be harrowed early. March is the month selected as the most successful farrowing month by. the beat hog growers. It it true that it bakes something of a building and a little care to farrow the pig crop in March, but it pays. In order that pigs may make a rapid growth through the summer months they must have a combination of good pas- ture and a suitable grain ration, Ib has been proven a good many times that pigs will make rapid growth when running on good pasture and getting their grain from a self -feeder. How- ever, this has not always proved the most economical method of making gains. In the work at this Sbation revering several years, good gains have been made when growing pigs were pasturing on alfalfa and receiv- ing a grain ration of 3 pounds per day 100 pounds live weight of pigs.—W, H. Peters, North Dakota Experiment Station lr The Flavor Lasts --- In the making of Grape -Nuts there is added to the sweet, rich nutriment of whole wheat, the rare flavor of malted barley, a combination creating a most un- usually delicious taste. The palate never tires of it. People e?~rrywhere have found that G rapc= Nuts is the most nutritious and delicious cereal food known. Every table should have its daily ration of Grape -Nuts. "There's a Reason" Masse 1n Canader--By Canadian Pontum Cereal Co., Ltd., Windsor, one nes A Mixed Marriage. The types will often play pranks with what a reporter tries to say—as, for example, in this extract from an English newspaper: "The bride who was given away by her father, wore a dross of pale bride- groom. She was attended by the hat, and carried a bouquet the gift of the pink taffeta silk and a large dark - blue bridegroom's two little nieces." No wonder, says London Opinion, the largo dark -blue bridegroom turn- ed palel NOW VERY BITTER GREAT BELGIAN CALLS DOWN CURSE ON GERMANY. And Also for Poland—Sacrifices of the Dead Must Not Have Been in Vain. Maurice Maeterlinck—mystic and optimist—has never written with bit- terness or hate. He has never in any- thing that he has written wished evil to any man. In "The Wrack of the Storm" he rises to a passion of male- diction. He has one essay in the pre- sent volume that is like Emile Cam- maerts' unforgettable "New Year's Wish for the German Army." And the reason is, of course, the same. Maeterlinck here is the voice of Bol- gium. And—though he does not use the word—he curses Germany. Yet bitterness and hatred form but a small part of his book. Even the heartbreaking catastrophe that has overwhelmed his country (we cannot use the word tragedy in connection with magnificent, heroic Belgium!) does not crowd out the expression of other things—things striving, or comforting, or triumphant. Speaking himself for his country, Maeterlinck sounds notes of ultimate victory. There is nothing easy-going in his war -time philosophy; he believes, on the contrary, that his country and her allies are fighting against ma- terial destiny, against "the will of earth"—and man has not conquered destiny before. Iiis optimism is a vigorous battle -cry toward the tri- umph that shall come. But he be- lieves that it must come—not merely the victory over Germany, but the victory of man over destiny, over ad- verse forces without and within. Maurice Maeterlinck. This faith he gives to his country in his exquisite invocation for Bel- gium's Flag Day. A New Poignancy. Maeterlinck's philosophy of death has long been familiar to us—ever 1 since a wondering child cried out,' "There are no dead!" And it has' formed the subject matter of his last two books. But in "The Wrack of the Storm" the faith that "the dead do not die" has a new poignancy; and he has expressed it in strange and haunt- ing ways of comfort and of loveliness. There is much in the volume that can-; not be more than touched upon in a brief review: Maeterlinck pleads for the rescue of the four beautiful cities still left in Belgium, so apparently doomed in the great German retreat; he urges that justice be granted at last to Poland in the name of this just war; he writes with exquisite beauty of the heroism of his people and with vibrant pathos of their suffering. His book is a passionate response to facts and conditions that the war has brought. But he keeps with us thq thought of what should come after, Then, man's spirit must have con- quered force. Here are two passages from his book: N,11Tw ....n ,...Fie; g, wa are no oetter than our enemies, we have no title to deliver millions of innocent men to death, unless we stand for justice. The idea of justice alone must rule all' that we undertake, for we are united, I we have risen, and we exist only in its name. At this moment we occupy all the pinnacles of this justice, to which we have brought such an len- -pulse, such sacrifices, and such hero- ism as we shall perhaps never behold again, . . . There are dead whose' energy surpasses death and recovers life; and we are almost every one of MACzIG BAKING POWDER., PONTAINA NO ALUM. 'Th. only well known aredlum priced baking powder made In Oanada that does not contain alum and whloh has all Its Ingredient® plainly stated on the Iabo1. E.W.GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED 'NNW.* TORONTO, ONT. 1•10NTNLAL 01/111111111l0\���� TAINS No 42.W.1" 417MMILVPal RUSSIA MIGHTY NEXT YEAR GERMANY WILL BE DOWNED, SAYS GEN. BRUSSILOFF. Roumania Will Be Saved This Winter and Next Year Will End War. Russia will save Roumania from the Teuton menace this autumn and winter, and next spring will have the strongest army she has had since the war began. General Brussiloff told Stanley Washburn, the London Times' correspondent at Russian headquar- ters on the Carpathians front recent- ly. Brussiloff commands all the Rus- sian armies that made the great sweep into Galicia in the summer. "I speak with authority when I say that from the common soldier up, the united sentiment of Russia is that Roumania should be protected, helped and supported in every possible way," he said. "The Roumanians must feel faith in the great heart of the Rus- sian people. They must know that in the efforts we are making to save then this sentiment is the dominant ; factor, not merely a question of our own self-interest to protect our left flank. Defeats Are But Incidents. "Roumania is now feeling for the first time the pressure of war and the bitterness of defeat, but Rou- mania must realize that defeats are but incidents of a greater campaign. Behind her stands great Russia, who will see that her brave little ally, who came into the war for a just cause, does not ultimately suffer for daring to espouse the cause for which we are all fighting. "The war is won to -day, though it is merely speculation to attempt to guess how much longer will be required be- fore the enemy is convinced that the cause for the sake of which they have drenched Europe in blood is ir- retrievably lost. "Personally, never since the begin- ning have I believed that the enemy had a chance of winning. While they aro able to continue successful offensives it ie difilcult for them to realize that they are not approaching a successful peace. This summer's operations mark a definite period of defeat. That period dates from the time when the allies, co-ordinating their programmes, seized from the enemy the capacity for continuing the offensives and dictating their strategy to us. Russia Not at Zenith. "If there remain any Germans who are still hopeful of their cause let them realize that to -day when the Central Powers already have lost the initiative and are finding difficulty in refilling their ranks, Russia has not yet reached the zenith of her power. Surely, no intelligent Ger- man can expect victory. It is simply a question of how long they aro will -1 ing to continue the war, of which the l end is absolutely foreshadowed to- day. "Russia's full power will only be 1 approached next year, when we shall have the largest and best army since the beginning of the war, Even this year we have been obliged to conduct our offensive with an inferiority of material and heavy guns. Next year we shall have material in equality with the enemy, and a superiority in human resources which will steadily increase as long as the war endures. Morale of People Rises. "The morale of the Russian people has been slowly rising for two years,' It is my absolute personal conviction; that if it were possible to take a vote of the entire population, 99 out of 100 Russians to -day would demand the continuation of the war to a de -1 and final victory, regardless of its price. Our new levies each year i are equal to the hest troops. I be-' lieve they are far superior to any - I thing which the enemy can find to send against us in the next year's I campaign. "The recent temporary reverses of us at this moment the mandatories of a being greater, nobler graver' wiser, and more truly living than ourselves. And all the sacrifices which they have made for us will have been In vain ---and this Is not possible—if they do not brat of all bring about the fall of the Ilea on which we live, and which it Is necessary to name, for each of us knows his own and is ashamed of them and will be eager to make an end of them. They will teach us, be. foto all else, from the depths of our hearts, which are their living tombs, to love timed who outlive them, since it is in them alone that they wholly exist. Roumania must not be considered as having the slightest significance. The enemy's trifling.advance in the Dob- rudja, though a regrettable incident, will have no bearing upon the greater issues of the war, It would have been serious had the Germans been able to pierce the Carpathians and enter Roumania, but I believe this last attempt of theirs ,to regain the initiative somewhere is doomed to perish as all other attempts of the summer campaign have perished." EARLY MARRIAGES. The Record Set Up In Scotland Last Year. There were more marriages in Scotland last year, in proportion to population, than in any year since 1855. The total teas over 36,200, and a feature of the ceremonies was the youth of many of the contracting parties. 4 were boys of sixteen, 50 were boys of seventeen. 209 were boys of eighteen. 695 were boys of nineteen. 1,328 were boys of twenty. In all 2,286 were married before the age of 21. There were 6,730 brides of less than 21. 11 married at fifteen. 102 married at sixteen. 542 married at seventeen. 1,328 married at eighteen. 2,124 married at nineteen. 2,623 married at twenty. In both cases records were set up, says the Registrar -General, who also records the number of births at 114,- 181 (the lowest rate since 1869) and the deaths at 81,631 (the highest fig- ure, with four exceptions, since 1855). She Needed Aid. "See that man over there? He is a bombastic mutt, a windjammer non- entity, a false alarm, and an encumb branee of the earbh!" "Would you mind writing all that down for me?" "Why in the world—" "He's my husband and I should like to use it on him some time." 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The death has occurred in Edin- burgh of Capt. John de Courcy A. Agnew, R.N., second son of the late Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., of Loch - naw. He was in his 97th year. Mr. Walter Long, M.P., President of the Local Government Board, re- cently took part iii a meeting in Glasgow in connection with the Bel- gian refugees in Scotland. Capt. M. J. O'Sullivan, senior nau- tical officer for the Board of Trade, Glasgow, has been promoted princi- pal officer for Ireland of the Marine Dept. of the Board of -'rade. The Leith School Board authorize that a census be made of all children of school age who have lost or may lose their fathers, in order that the board may make some provieion. Capt. John Murray, R.S.P., has been awarded the Military Cross for gallantry. He is a son of Mr. Mur- ray, Dundonald, and has risen from the ranks during the present war. The death is announced of Major Thomas Johnston, V.D., late of the Glasgow Highlanders, who resided at Giffnock. Major Johnston was one of the best known volunteers in the west of Scotland. While a number of men were work- ing in the Virgin coal section of No. 1 pit of Messrs. A. G. Moore's Blan- tyre Ferme Colliery, Uddingston, an explosion of gas took place and four men were injured. The Scottish Women's Hospital Unit and Transport Column, under Dr. Elsie Inglis and the Hon. Evelina Haverfield, which sailed two weeks ago, are to be attached to a Serbian division in the Russian Army. Among the latest recipients of the V. C. is a Glasgow drummer boy, Wal- ter Ritchie, of the Seaforth Highland- ers, who, although, wounded, mounted a parapet and rallied the men by sounding the charge. In the presence of a large congre- gation the Rev. James Caesar, min- ister of Gultane Parish, dedicated a memorial brass to Capt. W. H. Robertson, Durham, killed in cation. After the unveiling the Last Post was sounded. THE CHEF'S COOLNESS. How He Performed When a Big Shell Burst Near Him. One October day in 1914, while General de Lisle of the British forces had his headquarters in the chateau at Ploegsteert, Belgium, the artillery fire of the Germans suddenly became so active and accurate that the head- quarters had to be moved very speed- ily. Colonel Ludlow told me, says Mr. Frederic Coleman in "From Mons to Ypres," of a visit he was malting to the kitchen when the fir.lt shell fell. Our moss boasted a chef, a French soldier, among whose experience•; was a trip round the world with Madame Melba. The first few shells had come, and preparations for departure were proceeding apace. The chef's assist- ant, Hawes by name, was hurrying matters, or, at least, earnestly advis- ing haste, The chef was seated nn 0 chair, his head bent low in earnest preoccupa- tion as he wrestled with a refractory puttee that was always somewhat of a trill to his unfamiliar hands. From his lips came calm advice to the im- patient Hawes. 'Beate tranquille, mon ami," breathed the chef heavily as he began the maddening task for the third time, "reste tranquille." As he spoke the last word a big "Black Maria" went of just outside the kitch- en window at his back, With one dive he cleared the chair arid landed on hands and lcneee under the kitchen table, ejaculating as he gathered himself together', half -Glazed, "Reste tranquille—resto tranquille!" A. combined examination by everyone in the vicinity was Necessary before the chef could be convinced that he was not a dead man, or at least well on the way toward becoming one. For- tunately for the mess, he had fully recovered by dinner time, but the ser- vants ervants averred that to arouse his ire for days. to come, 1t was only neces- sary to murmur, "Reste tranquille — reste tranquillel" Sun'e Heat. Scientists have estimated that the heat received from the sun by the earth in a year is sufficient to melt r1 layer of ice 100 feet thick, coverit:is the entire "glebe.