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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1919-5-1, Page 3-e• Agronom _ Tine Denartment Is for t,r1 Liao et our farm readers who want the acetic.* sspert on eny question regarding wail, need, crepe, etc:, If your questlee "1 °t utflalent generel Interest, It vvIll be answered through this colemn, If stamped and se:we-seed envelope is enclosed with your letter, a complete enswer will t� mailed. to you. Address Ag ran() rn OA, Cara 9, %Warm PublishleS' Ltd., 73 Adelaide S. W,, Toronto, 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.