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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-08-30, Page 2ie.. It qn� FuWlip3IQ aor o "Air fora Scrap Aof thPaperR," "Dearer Than tutd,s+nyoioSoghton.LimieIodonati 'ito CHAPTER III,—(Cant'd.) than you can buy it at any shop. Fiona C RAILWAY POLICY !t C1UT CISED Again Torn was wounded deeply.whatpI can hear they sell it at just "Kicked out of tae Amylho, Tort "And," said the Seotchman, "do you Pollard, who had won prizes at the Tom, that you will give up the Mechanics' Institute, and who had mean, ambition of one day becoming a evenings we used to have, for that manufacturer on his own account, "I don't say I've turned teetotaler," kicked out of the Army! replied Tom, "although I have took "Come now, Tom," said Penrose, nthing sin'—sin' I were—disgraced, who almost repented of having spoken and I doan't mean to for a bit. You so sharply, "it is not too late to turn see, the chaps at the Y.M.C.A, doen't over a new leaf, and You have the mak- tell you not to go to the public -houses Inge of a fine fellow in you." and then provide nothing better for "I'd rather be kicked out of the you. Anyhow, I've been to the Y.M, Army as a straight chap than to be a C.A. every night sin' I had my punish - blooming white -livered hypocrite," ment,and what's more, I'm going "And do you think I'm a white -liver- agai." ed hypocrite?" A week later there was great exei.te- "A sort of plaster saint, anyhow," ment amongst the soldiers. They had retorted Tom, now been nearly four months in this Mule" but that, Tom," lled Lunchashire town, and orders clime Penrose; "all the same I've taken a for, the Loyal North Lancashires and liking to you.".the Black Watch to move south. They "You have a nice way of showinheard that they were going to Surrey, it," replied Tom. and were to be situated at a camp in His anger was all gone now, for he the most beautiful part of that coun- instinctively felt that Penrose meant try. Tom was delighted, for al- to be friendly. though he had made many friends at "Come with me to the Y,M.C.A. the Y. M,o.A. and grown to known hall to -night," urged Penrose. many people in this Lancashire town, "Ay, and be preached to," said Toni, the thought of a change appealed to yielding rapidly to the other. him strongly. He was young, and "I promise you there will be no longed for new associations and new preaching," said Penrose, with a surroundings. Besides, it meant a laugh, "unless you like to wait for step nearer towards his desires. He it. Come now." was told that his battalion was to be "All right, then," said Tom still moved to Surrey preparatory to ord- sulkily, but glad that he had yielded, ers for the front. Possibly they A few minutes later they entered a might be moved to Salisbury Plain or large hall where perhaps six or seven Shoreham afterwdtds, but it was quite hundred soldiers had gathered. on the cards that they would go There are few counties m England straight from the Surrey camp to where music is more cultivated than France or Flanders. in Lancashire, and that night Tom (To be continued.) listened almost spellbound. Songs that he knew and loved were sung; HAIL BRITANNIAI • songs which he had heard Alice Lister sing. Recitations were given m broad What if old England Lancashire dialect which gave him Were die tonight? keen enjoyment. More than all this there was a feeling of good -fellow- The wolves would gather round her ship; the Y.M.C.A. workers were bier, evidently on the friendliest of terms To -morrow they would slaver here. with the men, while there was no sug- The Bulger, Turk send forth a cheer, gestion of goody-goodyyism. If England died to -night. "This is a special occasion, I sup- pose," said Tom to Penrose. The Kaiser's sword would hack its "Oh no, they have entertainments like this almost every night. All the way musical people in the district give From Kiel to Colon, and Bombay, their services.' ' And darkness enshroud the dawning "What for?" asked Tom. day, "Just to give us soldiers a good If England died to -night. time; but we must be going now." "Why?" asked Tom, "it's not Iate." Democracy, where would it be? - "But there's a fellow just going to Tossed on a wild, unguarded sea, speak, and as you object to being The sport of evil destiny, preached to we had better go." If England died tar i ht. Toni rose almost reclutantly. He g l g was not sure that he didn't want to hear what the man had to say. Brave France and Allies, what their "Besides," went on Penrose, "I fate? haven't shown you over the place yet. And we, alas, prepared so late? I want to take you into the rooms Where could you find a saviour State which are provided for writing letters, If England died to -night. and playing games; there are the - French classes too, and I should like you to see what they are like,' What of the little peoples then? That night at eleven o'clock, as What of their liberties and when? Tom went back to the house where he Where would we find the conquering had been billeted, he felt that he had men. indeed made a fool of himself. The If England died to -night. Y.M.C.A. rooms had the feeling of home; none of the people there wanted What of the aims of German peace? his money, and he was the better, not When would the horrors of war cease? the worse, for going. When r..om the victors come release, Of course;' said Tom to himself as Ifngland died to night, he went to bed, "religious lolly -pops .are not fit for a grown-up man, but it wur a grand evening; I am sure I Think of the panic and the fears, could pick up that French, too, Let's The brutal deaths, the endless tears, see, how did it go? The world fall back a thousand years, "Je suis I am. If England died to -night. Voris etes you are. Nous sommes we are. Why, if our England Its sont they are. Were to die to -night, "Why, it's easy enough," thought Her children true would meet the test Tom, "I could pick it up, and then And, gathering from the east and when I go over to France I shall be west - able to speak their lingo." For freedom, they would give their "Where have you been lately, best, Tom?" asked Alec McPhail when he If England died to -night. met him some time later. "I have —J Levering Jones, in Philadelphia been to all the public -houses where we Ledger. used to meet and have not set my eyes on you." "Nay," replied Tom, "I have been to It is to be hoped that no apples will the Y.M.C.A." be allowed to rot under the trees this "Nay, Tom, a man like you, with year. Call in the neighbors and your power of reasoning an' a', are pare and dry them and share with the surely not turning releegious? sort of thing?" Acquisition of Canadian Nor- thern onthern Imposes Burden of Unknown Magnitude. The following criticism of the poliey of the Government in respect of the Canadian Northern Railway is made: The Government bill to authorise the purchase by it of the capital stock of the Canadian Northern Railway is half -way through the Rouse of Com- mons and will shortly be in the Sen- ate, If it becomes law, it will impose on Canada, at a. time when the coun- try is under an unprecedented strain, a burden of unknown magnitude, One certainly greater than any ever be- fore imposed upon this country, with the exception of the war debt. The purchase of a defined piece of railway property is one thing, The buying of stock in a company with unascertained assets and unknown liabilities is another. Once the Gov- ernment becomes the principal owner of the common stock, it must provide out of loans or taxes for all the debts of the railway due or to become due and for all future losses in operating. The estimates of . expenditure still necessary to be made run into enor- mous figures. No one knows what the real extent of its obligations are. The railway has bonds outstanding and debts unpaid; so have its sub- sidiaries. There are guarantees given by it to other companies, unpaid bal- ances on contracts and upon -- counts, but to what extent is unknown. Whdt its assets are is equally un known. It operates and is interested in railway companies, land companies, telegraph companies, tunnel compan- ies, lumber companies and hotel com- panies, but no one knows how far it owns them, what their assets or lia- bilities are, per to what extent the railway company is responsible for their liabilities. No other railway company nor any other group of business men would consider .such an acquisition except after elaborate examination and re- ports from accountants and apprais- ers on the assets and liabilities, and then tidy subject to a solvent guar- antee that all supposed assets would be delivered and that no undisclosed debts or obligations would appear. To find out these things, where such examination and guarantee cannot be had, the usual course in the United States has been to place the road in the hands of a receiver, whose staff can ascertain them and place them before those interested in an accurate and clear statement. Systems quite as large, notably the Union Pacific, the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and the Rock Island, have in the United States been through this process and have emerged from it with capital written down to correspond to the actual values, in a solvent condition and able to perform their duties as public servants. The only examination so far had into the affairs of the Canadian Northern has resulted in the opinion of two out of three railway experts that the stock proposed to•be pur- chased was worth nothing. This Its bonds were sold to financiers et a discount. No money was received into its treasury for its stock. Noth- ing has boon made public which would justify the taxing of other citizens of this country for the pur- pose of giving fictitious value to these bonds and stocke. The interest and other charges on Canada due to the war increase every day and even now are so great that it is difficult to say from what source they can be paid without an economic strain never hitherto undergone and a cutting down of expenses not yet even be- gun, The credit of the country abroad is leas than, it has ever been. The last loan of $100,000,000 at 0 per cent, for two years netted only $90,11.1,111. In other words, the country is borrowing money at a clmrge of more than 8 per cent. per annum. Note..-Aeeord- ing to the Monetary Times of August 17th, Sir Thomas White stated the net proceeds to be $96,2510,000, not $96,111,111, and that the commissions and charges were 1% per cent. He was speaking of a two-year 5 per cent. loan, The cost would be 8 per cent. if the 1% per cent. comes out of the $96,250,000, but not otherwise, Its future credit may depend entirely on the belief of foreign.baekers that good money will not be sent after bad, and that speculative enterprises will be allowed to find the financial level called for by their intrinsic merits. The undersigned, all of whom as in- vestors have' a stake in the prosper- ity of this country, desire to call the attention of their fellow -countrymen to the grave risk they all are run- ning of having their own earnings di- verted for the purpose of securing profits to bondholders and stockhold- ers of a 'concern, the equity in whose enterprise has been declared by the only people at all in a position to form an opinion to be of no value. It is also urged that the strongest pos- sible protests be made before it is too late to all senators and members- of Parliament. Montreal; August 20, 1917. F. W. Molson, James Law, H. R. Drummond, Geo. E. Drummond, Ar- mand Chaput, Ferd, Prudhomme, Zeph. Hebert, A. J. Brown, C. S. Garland, H. A. Ekers, Chas. Chaput, A. Guy Ross, Joseph Ainey, C. Mere- dith, C. S, Campbell, W. R, Miller, George Caverhill, Wm. McMaster, H. W. Blackwell, Andrew J. Dawes, Robert Hampson, George R. Hooper, George W. Sadler, W. W. Hutchison, Wm. C. Finley, F. H. Wilson, G. F. Benson, A. Craddock Simpson, James a kettle of slightly salted boiling wa- Morgan. ter which should not stop boiling at The Gazette, Montreal, of August all for twenty minutes. No two 23rd, comments on•the above as fol- grains should adhere •together, and lows: each ought to be swollen to twice its THE RAILWAY POLICY. natural size. When it is soft turn out We print in another column a pro- into a colander, shake it up lightly test against the purchase of the Can- and set in the oven a moment to dry. adian Northern Railway signed by Stewed tomatoes added to the water many of the leading capitalists of in which- the rice was boiled will, if , , Properly seasoned, make a delicious lightly Montrealto beand disregarded,thisprotest Theis pointnotsoup. Cold boiled rice added to scram - at issue is this, is the country to take bled eggs will piece out that dish so over a burden that other shoulders should bear? Will the ownership of that we should know precisely what the world. Japan ranks among the the Canadian Northern impose upon 1s being purchased in the way of as- first four nations in this respect, the people a financial obligation set, and what is being incurred in the standing up with Great Britain, the avoidable without danger to national way of liability. United States and Germany. And voiced from the enterprise, the an -while the English and German fleets JAPAN AS A FIGHTER. have been suffering losses during the run out. The mud is full of these. swer is easy. Like any other bust- — three years of the world war, Japan However resolutely the mind is set Hess undertaking the property should Surrender and the Fhite Flag Have has been vying with the United States on passing swiftly along the difficult stew in its own juice,. and undergo the course of liquidation through re- ceivership, emerging therefrom in dei s, "Dia with the castle for your Jap army man, so the navy man never journey one has despair and the savor stronger condition in respect of iia- pillow" is a literal translation of the runs up the white flag, but fights un- I of death on one's lips, the wildness of bilities both of current and of capi- : precept kept constantly before the til his ship is sunk or victorious. I the madman in one's eye. Yet one tel account. That appears to be the`Mikado's little fighting men. While presses along in close order, not dar- view of the financiers whose state -`he beligerent nations of Europe to Freesias. ing to look about, trying not to listen. the view,l day have about four million prisoners of war distributed among them, the DOMESTIC SCIENCE AT AMIE Eighth Lesson (Con Methods of cocking milk, fish, cereals, peas, beans and lentils are given this week. The protein of milk is in the form of casein, which pre- cipitates when acid is added to. the milk, as in the Combination of toma- toes and milk. When milk becomes sour the sugar content of the milk changes to acid, This acid will also cavae the milk to precipitate, Casein is also clotted by ferments or digestive juices which are present in the stomach. Mille pray bo heated to the scalding point, using a double boiler. Slow cooking at a temperature just below the boiling point Will give better re- sults when cooking foods that con- tain milk, When combining milk with acid fruits or vegetables, if a quarter teaspoonful of baking soda is added to the fruit or vegetable to neutralize the acid, the milk will not separate. This amount is for one pint of milk, or you may blend one tablespoonful butter, one tablespoon- ful flour, two cupfuls milk. Cook until boiling is reached. Npw slowly add the fruit or vegetable. Bring to the scalding point and use, When cooking puddings and custards al- ways stand the dish or pan containing the mixture in a larger pan contain- ing hot water, then bake in a moder- ate oven. Fish The pietein of fish is similar in character to that of meat. It differs in structure and composition. Fist may be cooked by boiling, broiling, tinued).—Proteins, baking, sauteing or frying. A steady, even heat is required and .an_allowanee of twenty minutes to the pound after cooking starts may be considered a fair time allowance. Owing to the de_ Beate texture of fish, always wrap the fish in a piece of cheese cloth to broil. Use a double -fold wire broiler when broiling; also lay the fish on a fine wire rack when baking, This permits easy removal from the pot, fire or pan and makes the appearance of the fish much better when served. Cerealr The length of time required for cooking cereals depends entirely upon the amount of cellulose the cereals contain. Steel -cut oatmeal will re- quire much longer time than the flak- ed oats; which are first crushed and then steamed. Hominy will require longer to cook than cornmeal. Long, slow and con- tinuous cooking is the proper method for cooking all cereals. Legumes Fresh peas and beans are cooked in boiling water, boiling gently, so that the vegetable will not break or become mussy. Use barely enough water to cover. Dried peas, beans and lentils should be soaked first in plenty of cold was ter for twelve hours, They should then be steamed until tender. 'They may also be boiled gently, Lentils are very nutritious, easy to digest and are considered a valuable article of diet in Europe. Rice a Valuable Food. Food experts are urging a wider use of cereals, and suggest that they may appear in some form at every meal. With a high food value and no waste, the housewife should learn how to cook them properly and serve them so that their use does not become monotonous. Rice should be more appreciated than it is, for it can be served in so many ways. Polished rice is of less value as a food than that which is un- polished, because in the polishing the vitamines, which are an essential life principle, are ground off. The latter also has the advantage of being less expensive. Rice cooked thus should look like a mound of snow. Wash the rice well through one or two cold waters, then sprinkle it into that two eggs will serve several peo- ple. The housewife will find that rice may be added to many dishes, in- creasing their bulk and reducing• their cost. Trench 'Cake. One-half cupful of shortening, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of water, one-half cupful of raisins, chopped fine. Place in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Cook for two minutes and then add: Three-quarters teaspoonful of baking soda, one-half teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-quarter teaspoonful of cloves, one-quarter teaspoonful of mace, two tablespoonfuls of cocoa, two cupfuls of flour. Beat well un- til cool and then add two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Pourintoa greas- ed and floured pan. Smooth the top of the cake with a knife dipped in water. Cover the top of the cake with the following mixture: Four tablespoon- fuls of sugar, eight tablespoonfuls of flour, four tablespoonfuls of shorten- ing, one teaspoonful of cinnamon. Work the mixture between the hands before last December, it was also to. until it'is fine and crumbly. Spread ran the risk of falling unwittingly smoothly over the cake and then bake into the enemy's lines, which were for forty minutes in a moderate oven. quite close and not very clearly de - This delicious cake is just the thing to fined. One skirts crevasses, one send to the men in the trenches as it stumbles against corpses beried waist - keeps indefinitely. deep in the mud, struck by some shell at the moment when their mouths, still gaping wide, were calling desper- ately for help; other corpses, longer dead, have been so often buried and disinterred by successive explosions, that they look like the empty casings of dolls from which all the bran has ONE VAST FIELD OF DEATH VI MIN 7'IIE ABODE OF HOR- ROR, SAYS WRITER. Language Fails to Give Any Adequate Description of This Tragic Desert of France, It seems that no description eau do Justice to the horrors of devastation around Verdun and its scarred fort- ress, in a recent number of The World's Work there is a vivid account of a visit to the fort of Douaumont. Every metaphor has been essayed to express this vision of horror. It has been compared to the dreary and rug- ged volcanie surface of the moon; to the sea or the desert, but a desert of fetid, viscous mud, a dark sea whose waves, lashed by the tempest, were suddenly solidified, and retain their violent contours, silent and petrified. As far as the eye can reach, it en- counters nothing that is not shape- less and hideous. A flower, a bush, oven a ruin would be a relief. But there is nothing, nothing, not even one of those charred stumps which elsewhere mark the site of destroyed forests. Several times Ipassed over the sites of the annihilated villages of Douaumont and Fleury all ancon- sciously; not a fragment of wall has been left standing. Not a single regu- lar geometric line stands out, sug- gesting from a distance some kind of fortification amidst the ravaged curves of this chaotic immensity. It is on a higher wave of the soil that one divines the presence of the Fort of Douaumont, and far beyond, on the horizon, that of Vaux, Over this vast field of death ."no bird sings," The traditional visitants of places of slaughter, the crows themselves, refuse to feast in this abode of horror, broken by enormous ditches and stagnant pools encroach- ing one upon the other and gorged with corpses. Yet the atmosphere is strangely vital, vibrating incessantly to the beat-- of whistling, sibilant wings, the mysterious flight of dark. angels, the fiercely modulated howls of a whole diabolical fauna. Horrors Beyond Description. One thinks that the fire from Heav- en was merciful to Sodom and Gomor- rah, as one gazes at this pitiable spot, which knows not silence, either by day or night, whose sky is always over- cast by the dense network of fatal trajectories, and whose depths the thunderbolts lay open twenty times a minute with cataclysmic uproar and disintegration. It is impossible to follow the tracks, which are constantly modified by ex- plosions, without one.skilful guide by day, and two by night; to lose one's way Is to court death in the morass; interests? If the Government was di- t No Place in Army and Navy. The Japanese soldier never surren- in rushing to completion a vast naval way, the imagination is filled with shipbuilding program. As with the terror at all this; throughout the ment we print, and there is force in The Canadian Northern must be means that whatever its nominal Japanese prides himself on the fact It carried on as an operating road, r value may be, the unsecured debts are that in the wear with China in 1894 serves a great territory and a large;nota single Jap was taken prisoner. more than enough to prevent its be- community of people whose welfare ing sold to an reasonably 1 p In the war with Russia about 1000 y y prudent is dependent a ton the o er•atioe of workers or make the apples into cider, Japs were taken prisoners y the "Nay, I am roan turning religious," and feed the sorest •to the ho s purchaser. In view of the fact that this railway, but having exhausted it� t b Muscovites, but they were mostly civilians. The Jap soldier or sailor who surrenders and later returns from captivity has no further place in the society of Nippon. He is an outcast, To Government ownership we are forever condemned to shame and isola- opposed. A reorganization of the cap- tion in his own country. In a siege ital liabilities, through the medium the Jap garrison hangs on until every of receivership, is the other recourse, last man is killed or wounded. The The liability of Canada in either spirit that dominates the Jap army event remains, the Government and and navy is that of contempt for the provinces having guaranteed the death, "United we stand; together great sum of $211,000,000 of bonds of we die," i their motto. replied Tom, "but I tell you, man, the limited p g in quantities. no money was paid to th financial resources the alternative of entertainments are fair grand; chem - e company Government ownership by acquisition pion, in fact! I am learning French for the stock and that the company of the common stock, or through the too•"z , has never been able to earn anything medium of a receivership, is the only "I suppose the entertainments are a w� s sandwiched between the dry bread of ..a` one presented. releegion?" replied the Scotchnian. "Nay, I have nowt to do wi' re- ligion," replied Tom. "I have just listened to the singing and the re- citations, and then when the chap has got up to talk I've gone into the writ- ing -room or to the French class." "Will you tell me about it?" asked the Scotebman. Tom gave him a full description, "You see," be said, "it's not like Sunday School, or anything of that sort. There's lots of folks what San sing, and play the piano very Well, and can recite champion. And they give" us a good concert every night. Then! there's a room where we can go in and rend papers, write letters, or play' draughts or bagatelle and all that sort of thing. Then there's a good library where you can get any book for the. asking. Ay, those religious folks have been kind; they have sent hun- di•eds of books for us chaps to read,. good books and all. Then there's a' class -room where you can learn French." "And •will there be a rar ry ere you 1 h can get some whisky?" asked the Scotehman, "Nay,"replied Tom, "there's no whisky or owt o' that sort, but there's a refreshment bar where you can get tea and coffee, and tarts, and send- wielres. "For nothing?" asked the Scatch- mnn eagerly. ",Jay, nat for Jiothing, but cheaper Rear -Admiral Berson Head of the United' States iiavyi" Ad- miral- Herron:before attaining his high rank was recognized as one of the most efficient men in the navy, He was appointed ranking officer and president of the General Board of the Navy at the death of Admiral George Dewey. He also retains his former duties as chief of naval operations, upon it, there was and is no reason to expect any other result from ex- amination. No agreement or obligation to pur- chase is produced. In fact, nothing has transpired except verbally and then between members of the Govern- ment not named and persons whose the company. It is, however, neces names are not disclosed, In fact sary tot learn the extent of the lia what is to be 'paid, who is to get bility taken over by Canada in the paid for it, what the cost and the at- bill now before Parliament. What as Cendant obligations are, no one knows, sets are acquired? What obligations incurred , If there be a margin on The smallest transaction in common, the debit side of the account, if Can life could not be concluded in such a l oda is assuming a debt over atcl way, and any attempt to do it by I above existing guarantees, the publi trustees responsible .to a court tvould i may not unreasonably ask why. Th unquestionably be a breach of trust, cell iL prospects but rafter mall ei and this is the largest and most on- i said, it is a business venture wide] erous undertaking ever contemplated' should be allowed to face the con - by any Canadian Government, and - sequences of all business ventures the most risky. It is safe to sa • 1 One thing is certain; the country that no road capitalized above its faMoullelidabinotlitby. The debt created bye saddled with any aid i abth earning power can ever be a useful - war is already large, and constantly public servant, nor ran any road increasing, New sources of taxation bought by a Government for mere I have to be tapped. The outlook is by than its worth ever be anything hut its meana ht rof h Dominion brigfinancesin andespect before tthe e a continuous drain on the taz: payer. additional obligation of taking over . The Canadian Northers. Railway l the Canarlinn Northern Railway is in - was built as a private speculation, carred, it is necessary at the least _ span at the present moment' 11ns more than 2,500,000 trained soldiers— all of this caliber—ready on the nig- _ gee for action. They. have 300 trans- ports ready - to liut'ny forward their army wherever duty calls. IIer nor- _ inal peace :strength is an army of a million and a half soldiers, and she has an unorganized available force of e more than eight million men. Every map in the Land of the Mikado is a potential soldier, drilled and schooled in athletics and military maneuvers from youth, lithe and wiry little chaps of the jujutsu brand seen in our vaudeville theatres. Her tarry is one of the strongest in A Plant freesias in August and Sep - and nsi if a shell makes a red gap in the tember in pots for winter flowerin,. column . one strides across it. Fax The bulbs are inexpensive and the the regiment must arrive at all costs, flowers are delightfully fragrant. Pol three bulbs in a five inch pot. The SIMPLE MONTENEGRINS. soil should be leaf mould and loam, with a little sharp sand. Such soil as' Peasants Live in Dread of "Evil Eye" —Vivid Belief in Witches. florists use from a compost heap is the best. Set the pots in a sheltered place in the garden and cover the tops with spaghnunt moss until the foliage appears. Plant every two week for a succession of bloom. A fraternal and insurance societyeS yp,rotocto its members f ecoordnnce with e Qntarlo Government ltondard...Sick and Luaoral bcnnfito options , Authorized to obtain member+ and charter lodgoo In every Province in Canada. Purely Canadian, onto. sound and mono. Pleat. If them is no local Torino of Chosen Friends in your district, apply direct. to any of 11 follo*Ing officers; Dr..l.'W.Edwards,MX. W. P, Montague, Chard Councillor. Grand Recorder� W. Fs Campbell, J. 11. 0o11, M•D„ Grand Organizer. Grand Medical Eo HAMILTON • ONTARIO 110 University Avenue, Toronto, Canada Under rho eoutrol of the 17opartmont of Agriculture of Ontario, Affiliated with the University of Toronto, College Reopene Monday, Oct. 1, 1917. Calendar Sent on Application, E. A. A, GRANGE, V,S., M.Se„ Principal The Montenegrin .peasant is a singularly superstitious mortal whq lives in awe of the "Evil Eye," which is considered accountable for disease and death. It is the belief of the inhabitants of the Black Mountain 'that for each malady God has given a remedy. He believes that fax each pain there is a healing herb, and that one only dies when the wrath of the "Evil Eye" has been incurred. He also believes in witches and beautiful young maidens who come forth from the dew and are nourished in a mys- terious mountain. They meet in the branches of trees, and are most Bang- erous at supper time. - His daily life is full of aupersti- ; tion. He is superstitious about the manner in which he rises in the morn- ing, about what first meets his sight, how• he dresses. and washes and whom he meets, of what food he eats, and the time and manner of serving throughout' the entire day. Attention is paid towhether the cocks crow in trine, whether dogs bark much, if Crop croak, or the wind . blown. Again, special notice is taken of the exact time at which rain falls, the duration of thunder, how stars shine, if 'the moon has a halo, if it shines threegh a cloud, and .many such • nbset,vaLions , ' Winter flowering begonias should have ilitar shift into the final bats for the winter, as