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Save Farm Manures. whieh fertilizer ie aupplementary to
Animal manure is the only "nni-
versal eertilieer" to be had. Yet in
some poorly fevered countriee ma-
nure mud be used As a file, and in
some sections of our own coentry
immure ie burned instead of being
stead on the land. But even in sec-
tions where the value of manure Pc
v,ppeecieted there are thousandof
farms where half or more of the
available supply is unintentionally
"burned up" before the land -owner
gete ready to use it as it should be
used,
Manure furnishes humus, It also
suppliee plant food. It both adclsand
stireulates bacterial life in the poil,
For one or the other of these three
reasons, or perhaps for all three, the
use of manure on land increases crop
.„ growth; and because the value of the
increase produced is practically al-
ways greater than the cost of apply-
ing the manure, it is good business
to save and use manure as a fertilizer.
To some fertilizer xnen. it may seem
that manure is a competitor of fertil-
izer, but this is not the case. Menure
and fertilieer are two very different
things. They are supplementary, but
not antagonistic; Fertilizer cannot on
most farms fulfill all the duties of
animal manure. Neither can manure
'furnish all of the plant food needed
by the nation's crops. Furthermore,
manure. It rney be used to balance
the plant food ration furnished by
manure. It may be used to piece out
the inadequate supply of mantra In
fact, it may even be used to grow
those crops from which more manure
is made oe to replace manure by the
growing of green manuring crops.
Before taking 'up these $everal points,
however, let it be learly understood
that the better the use made of man -
ere the greater the opportunity' for
the fertilizer industry,
Ucie of Clover, Green Oats and
Vetches for Silage. '
We wish to impress upon' the live
stock men of Eastern' Canada the
neceseity of making piens to have
sufficient green forage crops avail -
Able to fill their 'silos en .cese their
corn stop is not' up to the standard,
as happened lest season. /
We do not for one moment wish
to discourage the raising of corn, tie
corn 150 00 of our most valuable for-
age crops in many eecticals of East-
ern Canada. Corn is also a crop that
is very useful for the 'Cleaning of our
fields of 'week, and putting the soil,
•if cultivated properly, in the best
shape possible for the •succeeding
prop,
But in Eastern Canada corn is very
uncertain in certain sections on 80 -
ThaelY 'AVM Abed Mania
Try p few buete, (tenets, or tiny
ether root crop for the stock thie
Year,
Army Immo averaged 8280 each
et en lenglieb sale not long ego, The
highest price ,pald was $408. -
The cream seperater with ite
parte, requires daily washing and
eetildang to Iteep bad edore from de-
veloping, ,
Clipping theehorsee when 'OK lig
begirm wane eceinfoit . to the horse
and roily prevent overheating with
reeultent Allis and eelle,
Nothing keeps hogs woll and
thrifty so cheaply as geed, old-fash-
ioted exereisel To bring that about
is often' quite a problem. A' cov-
ered and well-ehelterecl maiside yard
is fine, Roomy pens-cenee next in
tile order 61! importance.
More milkseen during April and
May than in hot weather, because
this is the time, more than in sum-
mer, when dairymenclo pot realize
the necessity of proper cooling of
milk. Ten gallons of spoiled milk
cost move than a half thre .of ice.
Feet and mouth cliseate broke out
in England recently. Thie is the iec-
ond time within six months that the
di•sease has appeared there. Veterin-
arians and stock owners ie Canada
Should keep a sharp watch fot 'the
disease'
Docked lambs sell' highest. If dodk-
ed when one Week eld'huxibs'evill net
suffer from bleeding, Hot -pincers are
often used for cutting off tie tails;
and when used the eearing prevente
bleeding. A sharp knife can be used.
Cut between the joints one inch or
less frem the body.
The grass taste in milk can be
almost entirely prevented if the cows
are allowed to graze for eia1yea few
hours daily during the first f ew
weeks they are turned to pasture.
This should be during the early part
of the day. Then they' should be
plated in yard or stable isntil after
the evening milking is - finished, -when
they can again be turned to pasture
for a few hours more.
Moving a Stove. •
Here is how 'iny neighbor moved
a big stove alone. He made a plank
frame for the range to rest upon.
Underneath the frame he fitted a rol-
ler crosswise, just a single miller. In
moving the range he simply placed
the device under it and balancing it
upon the roller it was moved through
the yard upon the wagon over boards,
and unloaded similarly. With this
device one man can do more than four
men lifting at the corners.—W. E. F.
waste• of menure,is an economic losscount of the late frosts in spring
The chances are "dollars .to dough-
nuts" that in the long run those farm-
-vs, who allow manure to waste are
othe ones who very"' shortly will have
no money with which to buy fertil-
izer. Good practice in conservation
and application of manure goes hand
in hand with sound practice in the
use of fertilizer.
Let us takea for illus•tration, a prac-
tice all too common—that of allow-
ing the manure pile to remain loose
and OPen fee. weeks, even for months,
• before epreadina. Just as well may
the farmer set a torch to the pile,
and early frost in autumn' which pre-
vent its maturing sufficiently to make
the best silage. However, there are
ether crops that thrive and do very
well in these districts and that make
the best of silage when harvested at
the proper time. One of these is our
red clover plant, which makes very
palatable and nutritious silage. If
the first cut of clover is made- about
the last -of June for hay, the second
cutting can be utilized very nicely
for the silo, and another point in
favor of using the second cutting for
silage is that it is very'often difficult
for- just as surely will it be burned to dry it sufficiently to make the best
, en .and destroyed, with both organic of hay at this late season.
'matter and eminotia lost to the winds Oats and vetches can also be grown
of the heaVefis. The value of the in- very successfully for silage; pow at
" •creaee in crop which this might .rat° of two bushels of oats of a
bring is lost, and to this extent the strong -growing stiff straw variety
farmer M less prosperous and less such as, Storm King or Alaska, one
to. improve his agriculture. peck of spring rye, and one-half
, On the 'other hand,' suppose the bushel vetehes per acre, cut in autumn
farmer practices the simple expedient as soon as begiiming to show any
of either applying the manure when signs of turning. This crop can be
fresh, as can be done in large sec-
tions of the country, or, if it must
be stored for any length of time, keep
it packed and moist, thus preventing
--dneetructive heating. The cost is very
little7-The---eavitg e -in •
. . .
immense. The prevention of loss
5-unius milk in clover, eats and vetches silage
of ammonia is even still more pound for pound than in immature•
important. Those farmers who cern. Clover silagels Much rellatied
• follow the last practice can by stock and has proven very useful
keep their soils alive, in good in conjunction with other feed for
condition, and in such shape as to h
make the hest possible use of fertil- In using clover or oats and vet-
izer. On the other hand, those farm- ches for silo it is best, if poS'sible, to
ers teho'-waste manure use their run through cutting box and harvest
fertilizer at a disadvantage, with loss before the corn, as the weight of the
alike to themselves and to all those corn on top will cause it to settle
industries depending on agriculture properly and keep it in the best
for their arosperity:condition possible.—.Experimentel
There are. a nuniber of ways 'in Farms Note.
cut with a binder or with a mowing
machine and raked and put into silo
as soon as possible after cutting, as
it will conserve better.
Our „experience at the Lennoxville
Station has been that there is more
oo
Several 'years ago, -while visiting
a large eornmercial.poeltry plant, I
noted smell rooste erected in the col-
ony h•ousei "for birds not more than
six and eight weeks old. The peal-
tryinan had started to teach the
young 'chicks to roost, Although they
were .harday, old enough to
' protection of the stove broodier. Since
then I have tried to teach ohr chicks
to roost at an early age, and find
that it has may adyantages.
After the chicks learn to roost, all
danger from overcrowding is over.
Overcrowding causes colds, due to
the heating at night and the quick
chilling which follows when the
chieles :an out on the giound early
in the trovning. After the chick's
learn to roost it is eaeicr to Protect
them from mites and lice. Mites
may eesily become established in
brcieciee-bOrise floor, and' then they
are difficult to exterminate, but if
the chicks are, on roosts and the
rooets .are. Occasionally painted 'with
kerosene oil or other good disinfect-
ant it will:, practically eliminate the
mites. a
If '1.,!geoder ,cheeks :are not taught
to roost after they leave the protec-
tion of the artificial heat, they will
always dowel into the corner e when
settling down for the night, and this
causes a devitalizing effect on the
weaker members of the flock. We
often think that little chicks are te-
ther senseless An this matter of
crowding, but they are simply fol-
lowing their natural •inetinct. From
the'time they were hatched they have
always gone under the hen at night,
end after they get older they still
.try to keep it up. With the hen gone
they crawl under each ,other, con-
sequently getting themselves into
a small corner of their enclosure,
and the one underneath will probab-
ly sniether.
To prevent such danger, I find that
wire -mesh -covered frames made to
fit the comers, with an incline of a
foot above the floor, Iteepe the chicks
ftoni, pilieg up, and allowe ,aie te
circulate below the chickthat sleep
on the frames.
Not over three inchee above the
highest part of the wire -Meth incline
place root, and the chicks soon
get the habit of roosting.
Kelp le a hate kind of sea weed,
oi etanniereial use fot the sake of ite
soda mid iodine properties.
The old world is debtor to the man
wile heel learned to laugh at shitdoWS.
reeleiin Blewett.
Growing Good TOmatoee.
The tomato is not it hard crop to
grow, and yet there are some years
when we have had trouble with thenif
and there' are mime things about
their growth that makes for more
certainty that are not as generally
known as might be. There is one fal-
lacy that has kept many from having
the, best success, and that is that to-
matoes will not bear on rich soil. It
is -natural that such an idea_ should
be ,forfned when certain methdds have
been -.followed, but .the fault was
with ''the methods and not the rich
soil.
The fruit of toinatoes calls for an
abundance of phosphate and potash,
and any leek., of these elements will
result in smaller feta and less of it,
while an excess ef nitrogen will pro-
duce a heavy Y1:fie growth. This anee
not indicate that the soil should not
be rich in nitrogen, but that a cor-
responding amount of the -other ele-
ments should be provided also. For
manyecrope, this w.ould not be so es-
sential, but itas`evith tomatoes. Then
the use of fresh indnure the earns
year eliat the tomatoes are set will
produce a vely rank sofe gro00l:1i. Nor
ShOuld any nitrogen maniere be added
late in the season, for the vine growth
should be encouraged at the begin-
ning of the season befete fruit begin
to ripen.
There ave several types' of toma-
toes and each has its advocates for
home -US. Unita/ea. is a favotite
withmarket gardeners. Chalk's
Eerly Jewel ripens right up to the
stem without any cracks. The Blue
Stem Early or Kieg,EdWard is about
the finest early pink toinato and
stands shipment rematkably web.
Staking and prunirig will make the
fruits batter and earlier, but it is up
to the grower to decide whether it
evill pay to qo it. It takes lots of
time and &lee not increase the yield
very greatly, To do it, eeleet two
or three main canes and Reee.all the
side branches cub eut, not allowing
them to grow beyond Where one
hutch of bloom eats. The canes are
kept tied up to the stalm-and in good
soil will grow to five or six' feet in
height,
When I meet 8 violet
I girdle;
Front my catee ita Wee face
Can beguile
Me into thinking life le very seVest;
Bleats yeti, lovely flower
At MY feet!
Did the Father Id you groW
juet that you might help tie ItnoW
I,ife is iMeeeit/aak. M. S,
Beilillag Utl'ermaneat Peireareel,
Fertilizing pcieteuree einaleld bo
looked upon es ft porrnenent inneete.
made claPS with ,fencee and
buildings, rabbet their a roes= ior
onecting Peer and qi prat the
smell they arc eenelled, Oen a de-
partinedaspeciallst. 'No eyetem of
farraillg Ineintains fertility, once in
a Soil, se dos s grezing with bed cell-
t1e eleeep. These ere many pee -
three which lieve been grazed eon-
tinuouely for about nety years and
to all appeee(aneee are better than
°vex now,
Lime, phomplAte$ and stable rea-
num tITO the materials which give
tgiyb'earlite :111scal ethelatientgf erbtclieinSg.
substances. A:liberal nee of these
at the start is O,dvisable rather than
sisipill aPp'lieations at freqeent inter-,
vale. Scattering a little seed among
weeds and bresjlis useally a waste
of time and mobey. The resents a -
tallied are 1101 at all comparable 'to
those where a seed bed with ferldliza-
ton has been prepred _b_efore seed-
ing.
_
• DOiat Forget the C-arden.
Den't forget to include the home
garden, as one of your Main lines of
work the einnieg season. If you
have not Already made your plans
for a garden do so at once. Select,
fertilize, ;Ina prepare'your ground 8.8
soon ai poitsible. The seed supply
should (Geo be looked after and eicrd-
erad .at the earlied possible date, in
artier to prevent disapaointments and
delays in planting. See that the
garden includes' a good variety of
vegetables, and also plant it so that
it will continue .to work for you and
supply your table with fresh vege-
tables throughout the entice summer
and fall, Too many gardens are
abandoned after the first crop of
vegetables is harveeted in the stun-
01
w.
Horier.
Grain Bog
The farmer who sacks much grain
alone will welcome this. Take an
old bucket iind remove the. bottom.
Turn it upside down, slip on a hoop
whin is about an inch less in diam-
eter than the largest end of the
bucket, and lasten the bucket to the
ceiling by two wires. Slip the mouth
of the bag over the bucket and push
the hoop down over it. This will hold
the bag securely and the more grain
you pour in the tighter it will hold
it. When full raise the sack to loosen
it.
MOTHER-WIS
By Helen Johnson Keyes.
There 'are soine days which are
very dark for mothers. The darkest
of them all are those when tender-
ness and love disappear under cloud
of temper and irritation.
Although motherhood is divine,
mothers are human! There are few
if any who do not at times lose self-
ecintrol, treat their children with un-
due severity, nagging and scolding.
Then how deep is the. sorrow and how
unfortunate are the resells! For al-
though it is not wise to exaggerate
evil effects or to bieecene morbid over
our shortcomings, nevertheless, such
days if they occur often do leave
ugly scars.
The cry of the old Persian poet
finds an echo in our discouraged
hearts:
0, Love, could you and I with Him
conspire
And wreck this sorry leheme of
things entire,
Would we not shatter it to bits and
then remold it
Nearer to the heart's desire?
That is what we all long to do—t
remold the world nearer to our
heart's desire. Then we should not
any more be cross 'to our children,
for we should not have to do work
which we hate or do any work long-
er than out strength lasted—and
croesness is born of fatigue. We could
be goodd genUe and, when night
come, face without humiliation, the
memory of the day which had pas-
sed. It seems altogether right to
desire a world in which we could be
always gentle, always loveable and
good, and influences our children to
be so, too.
Yet- we are not permitted to shat-
ter to bits the scheme of life and all
that we can reniohl are Ano own
habits. It is astonishing how many
improvements we can make in those
if, instead of accepting consequences
and helplessly bewailing our faults
we set about correcting our habits
and thus Changing consemiences.
I have spoken of temper as being
born of fatigue. That is true and
at first thought the Tact seems a ter-
rible injustice, because usually our
fatigue is 'created by the fulfilment
of our duty—or at least what we con-
sider our duty. "Why is it fair," cry
our outraged hearts, "to punish us
for working hard? Surely we de-
serve *peace and refreshment, not
fatigue?" Fatigue i§ illogical, for it
makes us do_ evil as a result of hav-
ing done good! It is de'structive, for
it humiliates us by breeding out-
bursts of temper which cease us to
injure and alienath our children.
Wait a minntel Are we always
quitci sure of the'nobility of mu mo-
tives in working too hard? Do we
not, for instance, sometimes prepare
a greater variety of food than is nec-
essary, impelled—let us admit, it—by
vanity of our cooking? Do we not
eometimee wear oureelves out with
an unneceesary amount of senring,
imp.elled by a desire to appear a little
more industrious than our neighbors?
As a matter of fact, excessive fel-40e
.—fatigtie whish exhausts our eerves
,e -is a violation of the laws of health
and theee littv.s go on operating inex-
orably, punishing us foe the abuse
of elm bodiessiveliether mer motives
are toble or tot. The law has no re-
ward for what we thought was "self -
sacrifice," but only chastieement for
der disobedience to the laws of body
and Mind, Law e'er (lets according
to laW,
In view of this fact, ehould riot
mothers weigh the importatee of the
eel:Moue acts of housekeeping and
home -making, asking: "Are these go-
ing to fatigue me to such an extent
as to rob me of time and a coninan-
ionable mind and an untired body to
devote to my children? If so, are
they worth more 'then what I could
give directly to My Children out of
the same amount of time etc'
strength?"
A certain variety of food is necti-
sary to health'and must be prepared;
but beyond this point, variety is usu-
ally hurtfial. One kind of potato, one
kind of meat, and one kind of pie are
better than more kinds at one meal.
Clothes are promoters of self-
respect and every one is better off
for being able to appear appropriate-
ly dressed; but unused garments in
a closet merely double labor, for they
inust be made over before they are
worn out.
Dust, though certainly it is' never
healthful or refined, is yet "preferable
in small quantities to temper in large
quantities!
The laws of health do not care
whether the kitchen flocir shines
white but they will set your nerves
on edge if you have added one tele
many labors to year day.
Mothers! In dealing with our
children we are dealing with life and
death, life and death of character.
The pleasures of gluttony last only
for a moment; the pride of material
possessions, except as these create
the joyful spirit of home, is 'without
value; the characters of our children
are eternal.
We have brought our boys and
girls into this earthly life which gives
them their opportunity so to grow
in strength and purity that they
shall, become worthy of Heaven.
Shall wo neglect them in order to
lay up a little more money? Shall
we deny them our companionship in
order to have mere pies for dinner?
Shall eve scour the daekest comae of
every closet but allow to develop in
our own hearts the germs of bad
ternpet which drive our children from
us?
.The children who have not mothers
who are comrades, and homes which
they enjoy, are likely to drift into
evil places when they pass through
those stormy changes which awry
them from childhood into maturity.
Then, when it is too late, we inourn
and, perhaps, pity ourselves, because.
ma' children have "gone wrong." It
is not, after all, the bottomless
misery of out gam wounded love
which matters; ±1 15 the lois of eter-
nal life to the souls which we brotight
into the world aid for whom we are
accountable to God.
Our children need us at every age.
Sometimes'it i$ true, they need most
to have us let them alone, so that they
aim explore life and develop self-
reliance; in order to know when such
hours are at hand a mother must be
in closest sympathy with her 01111-
dren's development, and when she
stands aside they will be all the more
conscious of her love and ready to
come balk to her oonficlence.
We cannot be perfect Somethnes
we shall be erase and sometimes we
shall nag, but let it be as seldone as
resible, for thee() things Mid
real injiiry, A part of the laundry
can reinain unironed while we tefresh
our spirits and Thaler outeelves com-
panionable for our children, whose
souls ate immortal,
It is nob easy for a conscientleUe
timekeeper to Neem to neglect her
"work," but When wo must ehoolley
id us piet the really living 'wail(
fleet,
INTIEIRNATIONAL LESSON
IdAY 4,
N.
Lesson V. Man Madc. in the Image
of Goda-Gen. 1;26-28; 2:7-0; Bleb.
4:20-24, Golden Text, Gen. 1:27.
Gen. 1:21-28, , In Oue linage. To
the Hebrew writer this would, of
course, eneen the epiritual triage mid
likenese of God. Foe the teachers
of the religion of Jehovah *ere eni-
phittic in declaring thaieGod had tot
revealed Himself in any Matereal
fOrm, but only as a Voice (Deut. 4:
12, 15), and that' they should not ate
tempt to remesent Him by any gra,-
en image (Excel. 20: 4; Heat. 4, 16-
18). The Creator of the world is not
like the images which the goldsmith
makes (Jer. 10; 1-16). •
"The Lord is high above all nations,
.And His glory above the 'leavens,
Who is like unto the Lord our God,
That hath His seat on high?"
01 18 therefore in mind and heart
that we are like God, like Him in
reason and conscience, in thought
and will, in power to love and hate,
in wisdom to, plan and skill to per-
form. But through disobedience to
God we have marred that likeness,
and we can recover it only as,
through faith and by the grace of
His Spirit, we become imitators of
Jesus Christ. (2 Cor. 3: 18.)
"Know yourself as you truly aro,"
said Professor T. H. Green, "and you
will know the truth of God, freedom
and immortality."
potter forms the clay, and inbreathes
the life of the soul (2: 8). The es-
sential truth is the same. Man's in-
ner life, his &nil life, is derived from
the breath of God. This statement,
as that of 1: 20-27, is made of all
men, without distinction. And so all
men everywhere, in all ages, aro
children of God, made in His im.age,
deriving from Him their life. Com-
pare what Paul says in Acts 17: 24-
29, and also Amos 9: 7. "A garden."
The land of which the Hebrew writer
is speaking was southern Mesopot-
amia, between the Tigris and Eu-
phrates rivers, the land so recently
delivered by British arme from the
misrule of the Turks. Once fertile
and productive and the home of a
large population, with great and rich
cities, it is capable of being restored,
under wise government, to some
measure of its former prosperity.
The 'history of the land has been like
that of humanity, made by God to
be very good, but Marred and cor-
rupted by sin and folly.
The Hebrew writer .uses the an-
cient story in a eymbolic or figurative
way. The garden means to hine man's
primitive innocence and happiness.
The "tree of tlife" represents' the
favor of God and cowl -Melon.
with Him, and the "tree of the
knowledge of good and evil" repre-
sents the simple law of right and
wrong which front the beginning
min must cheese whether to obey
or disobey. Through wrong' choice
and disobedience he lost his inno-
cence, lost the favor of God in which
was his true life and the consequent
alienation from God is symbolized by
his expulsion from the garden and
by death. No truer description of
sin and its consequences has ever
been written.
Eph. 4: 20-24. Even as Truth is
in Jesus. Through faith in Jesus
Christ and through imitation of Him
we regain the paradise we have lost.
We are reconciled to God. We re-
turn to Him in penitence and in lov-
ing obedience. His favor is restored
and we enter into the blessed life of
communion with Him which is the
foretaste and promise of the life
eternal. We, who had loot our birth-
right, become again the children of
God.
"Taught in him.",,, We put away
the old corrupt humanity, spoiled by
sin, are "renewed in the spirit" of
our mind, clothed in our true man-
hood which is in the image of God,
or, as Paul says, "after U-od hath
been created in righteousness and
holiness of truth."
This is whatethe atonement means.
This is What Christ does for us. He
brings us to God. His death reveals
to us God's lots.
Pr. Huber inall mime?' all signed lettere pertaining to Health, ff your
sitlestion la of general interest It will be answered through these columna;
If not, it will be answered personally If stamped, addressed envelope Is en-
closed, Or. Huber will not prencribe for Individual eases or make diagnosis.
Address Or. John B, Huber, M.D., care of Wilson PublIsinme Co, 73 Adelaide
at, Wed, Toronto
Deteils in Infant Feeding.
Almost all breast fed infants give
very little trouble; but it requires
the greatest care to avoid teouble
with bottle fed infants. In those
cases (much rimer than 10 generally
considered) where infants have to be
brought up on the bottle
il will , infinite at-
tention to detail bring the best
results. After we have properly pre-
pared and proportioned the food and
atranged for the quantity, intervals
and number of feedings we must con -
skier other things:
After each bottle feeding the in-
fant's mouth must be washed with
boiled water or boric acid solution.
There must be the regular daily bath
by which the skin is made to func-
tion properly. A moderate amount
of crying should be encouraged ra-
ther than suppressed; for thue are
the lungs developed. After feeding
the infant should be laid clovvn; it
should not be picked up because it
cries, but a change of position often
makee it comfortable. Walking, pat-
ting, rocking and bouncing an infant
are undesirable procedures; they
don't relieve pain and they furthee
tire the nervous system—the infant's,
the mother's and the neighbors'.
Abundant sleep at regular hours and
feeding are the infant's main busi-
ness in life. Let there be reasonable
free play for arms and legs. The
every -day marvels of its suroulidings
are sufficient stimuli for the infant's
brain development.
When we thinIc of nourishment we
seldom take into account its most
important element—oxygen, the very
Destroy Grasshoppere.
Winter wheat ant clover cannot he
grown, with any success, in fields
ovetrun with grasshoppees. Cows
unmet give any quantity of milk if
most of theii: food la devoured by
these pests. Bread is dependent on
grain, but grain is not plentiful
where the 'hoppers abound. Improved
varieties of f clam produce taste jug
as good to thee° insects es do the
common varieties... No community
'can prosper entice the farmer, the
foundation of prosperity, is nearly
"eaten out of house and home." The
grasshopper is truly a limiting 100 -
tor and it must bo eliminated.
A Quick Recovery.
Jackson came tripping merrily into
hie tiny hall one day, and almost spollt
his manly beauty by tripping over
eoneoneel shoes left lying about.
'Whose ferry -boats art those in the
hall?" he asked later when he entered
the drawing -room,
"Ferry -boats?" cried his mothewin-
law angeily. "Why those are nir
shoes!"
"My dear, good ma," said Jaekson
hureledly, "who said ferryeboats? You
mieunderstood. FoAry-boots, you 'mew
—(airy -boots!"
'And then he Wiped the sweat from
Isis brow.
breath of life, It is the Combination
of oxygen with foodeteffs that make
the body grow. We give the infant
food at Millar intervals, but of oxy-
gen it meet have a continuous, twen-
ty-four hour a day meal and that
every day, This means the child mud
evev 'lave plenty of fresh air day and
night. The infant must be taken
into the open as early and ae nitwit
as the FINIS= Allows. In inclement
weather the infant should at least
once a day, be dressed as for going
out doors, and all the windows of its
nursery thrown tten.
By attention to such details as
these failure in infant's feeding is
ofton turned,, into success:
Questions and Answers.
M. E.-1—What is the difference
between clironic arthritis and theme-
atoid arthritis?
2—Would a sufferer from either
disease be injured by living in a
hoese which ha a sewer gas In the
cellar?
3—To 'whom should one go to find
out whether sewer gas really is pre-
-sent M the cellar?
Answer.-1—Chronic arthritis is
any form of inflammation of the ,
joint. Rheumatoid arthritis is chron-
ic joint diseaee without wading and
deformity and loss of power.
2. Anybody would be likely to suf-
fer from such a condition, sewer gas
being one of the most pervasive of
gases.
3. To your local health officer, He
would make the proper tests to de-
termine its presence or abeence.
REMINDERS OF
WAR'S BEGINNING
During the war 568 V.C.'s were
won in the field, and two V.C. bars.
A total of 16,320 decorations were
conferred on the British Annies by
Allied Powers.
The •Inan who is dheery, the wo-
man ho eonstantly encourages one,
the lad who whistles -and laughe ab
his work, the girl whose peeeence and
worde are a constant stimelus to flu -
thee effott---4,hese art the sert of
ceinrsicles for rne in why adVenture.
—S. JaeltsOn.
SIGNS IN PARIS STREETS RECALL
TERRIBLE DAYS.
Germans Made Air Attacks on Eiffel
Tower Where French Government
Communicates With World,
There remain in Paris many grim
reminders of the terrible days of the
opening of the war, a's well as evi-
dence of its progress, says a corres-
pondent.
In the Hotel de Crillon particuleelly
there are in the corridors several
framed documents and proclamations
which form an interesting history.
There is one proclamation issued by
General G.:anent early in September,
1914, announcing to Paris that he had
taken over the military command of
the capital and that he intended to
carry out his duty to the last detail,
Alongside this is a great red sheet,
now framed and covered with glass,
an original of the announcement of
General von Hissing to the people of
Brussels that Ddith Cavell and a dozen
other persons had been found gullty
of various ''erimes" against the Ger-
man army of occupation and were to
be put to death. Outside the Crillon,
around the corner isi the Rue Royale.
there remains under glass one of the
original general mobilization orders
nested in August, 1914, to call all
French reservists to the colors.
Eiffel Tower Well Guarded.
In these days of alternating open
aud closed diplomacy one of the most
interesting places is the Eiffel Tower,
where communication is maintained
by the French government with the
rest of the world, The value of the
radio, and particularly of such a great
plant as that in the Eiffel Tower, is
readily appreciated when it is recalled
that there is virtually no other means
of commtmication with "points east."
However, the Eiffel Tower is a send-
ing station only, all messages being
received by a chain of subsidiary sta-
tions. Thus messages Can be sent to
Arlington from the Eiffel Tower, but
measagee from Arlington to France
are received at Lyons, which is the re-
ceiving station for radios from Amore,
CfL.
Other foreign sending Willits have
other receiving stations in France, all,
connected with the Eiffel Tower, The'
Tower new earns its salt by transmit.
ting the hundreds of messages that
go to the new 111(110113 15116 the troubled
factions of the East,
Paris is enabled to send word to the
Czechoslovaks, the :Poles, the Serbs
and even with enemy and recaleltraet
groups if necessary. 'There is a poen.
matte tube system Connecting the
study of Mr. Clemenceau With the
transmission room at the Tower, end
the "Tiger" has only to scratch out a
note and push a buttan to tell Mr.
Paderewski the latest. During the
war the 'reviler was elaborately pro -
tooted. That is, the chambers in
which. the transmission apparatus 10
maintained were protected. The Ger.
mans mado. several attacks against
this great pillar, but neither their
Gotha.s nor their Berthas scratched it
A Former Name of Long Island.
Long Island, IlOW part of Now York,
was at one time known as the Island
of Matowack, and afterwards as the
Isle of Stirling, with reference to the
Earl of Stirling, Viscount of Canada,
Lord Alexander of Tullibody, The
Earl of Stirling was a man far in ade
vane° of his time who attenuated the
colonization of Nova Scotia in 1621,
and in January, 1636, obtained from
the Council of Now Englund a grunt
of certain lands he Ameriete including
Long Wand, Argyll's Ludging (now
the Military HOcipitale near Stirling
Coati°, was built by him. It ±8 said of
him that he fait:eight imperially and
lived imperially. He died in 1040, a.nd
was bireied in tho family vault la the
Parish Oburcli of Stilling,
THE UNSPOKEN WORD.
Twenty-five hundred years ago a
great soul nearly lost his faith. He
looked out upon' a world aflame—in
which cruelty and force were con-
quering everywhere. He cried to God,
and the heavens seemed empty.
Where, he asked, was the God of
righteousness who could alio* such
thing's to go on? • The answer came
in a single word: "Watch."
The man waited, and as he waited
lie studied the, ways of the nations
that seemed to. be conquering, and he
saw that in eVery evil deed lay the
seed of ith'oevie'destruction. Then he
studied the ways of his God through
the egg; and in the end the man,
who, as one writer said, ntiglit have
begun as a lecturer upon the incon-
sistencies of the doctrine ef the sup -
tidied goveliernent' of Gad; ended by
writing a great' psalm of faithros%
During the past four years thous-
ands of souls have relived the ex-
perience of the old prophet. When
the war began countless persons
cried out that they had lost their
eaith; countless more had net even
any faith to lose. To -day God has
been re -discovered. Men have found
Him individually in the earthquake
and the fire. Now we are catching
glimpses—sometimes clear'some-
times vague end distant—of his great
working through' the nations,. —One_ ,
such instance with its deep lesson is
described in the Record of Christian
W°rkt
Inhe early days of the war'when
Great Britain was calling its Indian
troops to the colors, the Young Men's
Christian Association asked permis-
sion to put a secretary upon each
transport. The Indian government
refused, fearing to offend the Hindu
soldiers. Again the Association made
the request, and again it was refused.
The Association would not give up,
and finally, after the seventh request,.
the government o-ffered a compromiee:l
it would permit the secretaries to go,
but upon the condition that they
should not mention the name of
Jesus Christ. The Young Men's
Christian Association considered the
compromise long and earnestly, and
finally agreed to it. •
"Our , secretaries," they promised,
"shall not name the name of Jesus
Christ, but they will live as nearly
as they know how to live like Hint."
So the secretaries went. At first
it seemed as if there were nothing
for them to do. Then a strange thing
happened. The hair of the Indian
soldiers had grown long and needed
cutting, and there was no one to do
it, for among Orientals a barber is
the lowest man on earth; and al-
though these soldiers were them -
A
selves of very low caste, there was
no one of them who was low enough
to act as bather for another. So
camethe opportunity of these uni31
-
versity men, They began serving es
barbers, It was not long beferealfie-----•-a..--
soldiers began writiug home:
"When we left there was no Mo-
hammedan who cared for our souls,
no Buddhists to look after us, But
these Christians have been brothers
to us. They have acted es servants
to lea. There is nothing they have
not done for us: Put my daughter
or my son into the missionary school.
religion is."
W'erwwoanthotuosaknndowyeetteriesa gt 101 e t 101 el 71ars et :17-
est missiottary the World has ever
known wrote toone o/ his churches:
"Put ye on the Lord jeans Christ" -
speak his Worth!, do his deeds,
his character. Wherever in th
the hembleit soul does th
will His kingdate begin to
there will faith shine clew
thoueand Belgian ci
drellernillgimu'tereWetaniv earist.theServee
children 'were mule orjuhai
125,000 men were deported fro ,
glum by the Cermans. The intlkenin
te' which coil be claimed from Get-
.autee by telgium cm this aceount 18
estitnaf,ed at 2180,,000,000.