HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-06-20, Page 6By Agronomist,
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"Blue Lights" in Dairying can be placed at the head of teeth
We have been aeeustomed to speak herds slid the sending of two cows will
of the "blue lights" in stock breeding, in three times out of every '!'our make
meaning thereby how to attain the it possible to secure the reale, These
highest merit in the individual's two methods of securing extra good
career, In dairying there are two
stock to continue operations with are
ways of obtaining high potential both of them practical and have 1
value in the young breeding herd, ceived the sanction of a number of
Of course, there are really three practical breeders,
ways, but only two are practical for There are a good many registered
the breeder of entail means. The scrubs in breeding herds all over the
breeder who has considerable money country tend I have observed that the
to start with often goes into the dairy man who keeps only registered stuff
cattle business, not because he needs is not likely to show progress mate -
the money, but because he either wants rielly better than the man who keeps
a pastime or wants to leave some only good grade stuff. '4t is not en -
Wagon Wisdom, easy progress of 1c loud, beelluee 'they
To choose a. satisfactory feregidu r butaL' ,ypreseu over ab larger
wagon n requires either 'experience ox p
advice, There in a vast iiitrercn a itl'`,,'Wide :1011 1' t#riltt'iples easy of tlis-
wegons, anal he who buys }metdly le 'overt' and of practical value,
apt to :regret it"many times I It is commonly hellote,5l;thaL placing
Naturally, your particular use ter a the load well Slim:4W in a waliod
wagon will be the first eonslderetiorl, liglitone it,in' t[feet. Hilt Ulla to
but in any ease you have aright to ex. true' only wheki 11ze Wagon stupes to
pert durability even in a very light thu rear, In an 4r1.011A17 wat,ori,
wagon. The Wond should have h en: whose bind wheele ere 'the larger, the
air -end kiln -dried.. Demand • tlte'g1'ehlee .weight should {xo'to the rear;
black birch bub, white oak spokes,' but there should be .no.great differ.
felloes, bolsters and hounds. The enee, The beet gono.ral;z;tate is to 04^
boot straight -grained white oak Makes .t wcii in ' nlitilt equally,
,particularly as regardsthe sides,
'Another simple lltth thing to know,
h=a-tt'dy in a•'ineh .k this way of
Tightening wagml ~pukes; Place a
smallstirk against Otho hub for a fur.
oeum,y and :use• another. for a lever,
Raisethe, feilo6,nff tine: spelce, place a
small erdeee of r lettthoi• around the
tenon, and allow • the feller, to drop
back in place. Iteeia this up until
the wheel is tight.
The best of wagons require care,
Wheels give out first; a good practice
is to give them u hot oil bath about
three times a year. Keep all wooden
parts of the wagon well painted; this
keeps out moisture and the resultant
rot,—L. E. E.
good axles, and is highly recommend
ed lly some wagon makers, If I'mhy
advise, I should stand by the hickory
axle every time. Tho metal parts
may be of Norway iron or mild steel
1y'or re hilly country, steel skeins will
be better than those of fast iron,' ' ;
If examination of the axle shows an
undue number of holes, reject that
wagon. Of course, the Icing bolt must
go through, but aside from this prefer
Clips, for too many holes assuredly
weaken this vital part of a wagon.
The tongue and whiffletrees may be.
of oak, but be certain to have a hick-
ory doubletroe, Of course, there
monument for himself which is very ough to keep stuff that is registered, must be a metal sleeve for the roach
to pass through; metal plates or col -
enduring and it is true that there is it is imperative to keep the best of
no more enduring monument than to registered stuff, The surplus animals lars at the wear points greatly pro-
• long any wagon's Ilfe.
The best wooda for the wagon bort
are yellow poplar and three-inch quar-
ter -sawed yellow pine flooring—the
former foie the sides, the latter for the
floor. The bottom should be rein -
establish a superb herd of dairy produced front a herd kept on this
animals because with such an estab-, basis are always in demand while the
lishnieut it is a fact that many of surplus animals from a herd kept on
these animals will become a matter of the basis of registry alone very often
history and their offspring will march : drug and even opiate the market.
down through the ages as longas; Many people say, "If your registered
forced ,beneath with strips of oak, It
dairy cattle are kept, which will be as. stuff is all like that, quality grade
long as the civilization of man is in' stuff is plenty good enough for me
the progressive phase, One of the and I would much rather have it." In
quickest ways to attain the blue with this way the market for pedigreed
the breeding herd is to buy a bull with animals is usually discounted for the
individuality and excellent breeding poor registered breeders by the good
that may be placed at the head of the grade breeders,
herd. It has been said by old breed- It is necessary sooner or later in
ears who realize the value of quality in order to have one's efforts crowned
the products they have to sell, that a with success to get into the blue by
man can put as much into a herd head- securing a fine individual to place at
er as the combined value of all his the head of the breeding establish -
cows. This advice is given out by so ment. Progress secured through in.
many good breeder, of proven ability troduetion of high-class females is
. that the young breeder can do no- pretty likely to be slow, especially if poriatiou. But the size and shape of
thing better than to take the advice the herd header is not in the same the wheels, the thickness and width
at 11$ face value and invest in a bull class with the females that are of tires, etc„ have a vast deal to do
who. quality cannot be questioned. brought in. Nothing is truer than lath draft, That wide tires favor
probably is unnecessary to remind
anyone of the importance of rub irons
to protect the box from the front
wheels' friction in turning.
The resistance encountered in mov-
ing a wagon and its load is termed
"draft." Reduction of draft always
has been a primary aim in wagon -
making. Naturally, the lighter a
wagon can be, and yet be amply
strong for the owner's purpose, the
better—that is, as regards economy
of horse power and time in traus-
Another way which is some slower. that the herd header is the index to c
but ,lust a:= effective, however, is for foig the value of the herd and this being
two or three breeders to combine and true, one of superior quality must be!
take the very best cows or heifere.secured either by outright purchase!
they have, at least two, and soul, or indirectly by sending the cream of
them to a bull of unquestioned super-" the females to a superior bull and de -1 By D. Williamson
iority for breeding. it is trate that I pending upon getting a son of this I
the service feta are sometime., very! bull as a herd header. Either one of I "Well, you saved the barn, any -
His Girl.
The day you went away to France
I came back through the streets alone
With burning eyes and feet that drag-
ged,
And for my happy heart a stone.
Folk passed me smiling, so I smiled,
To see how dark the world had grown,
I cause home to my father's house
And stood beside the empty chair
Where you had stood and where we
said
Our blind good-bys; the twilight air
Was full of you; I had not known
That life would be so hard to bear,
And yet—God hears!—no dusk nor
dawn
Could bring me peace 'lead you not
gone,
The Kimberley diamond fields were
discovered in 1871.
FARM FIRE PROTECTION
hien but this wry of getting extra the last two schemes are practical but; way," I said, consolingly.
Tyne !ndividuais is much less expo. -I the last one is the least expensive of! 'Yes—by sheer good luck," grunted
sive than to try to buy males with I the two and is probably best fitted for, the owner of Maple Grove Farm, pick -
the breeding and individuality tint! use among small breeders of small, ing a dented fire pail from the cin -
the young stock will have. Of course.! finances, especially if there are two or ders. "The wind happened to be
the idea in sending these cows away mor!' living in close proximity to each blowing the other way; that was all."
13 to eecure. if possible, a male that outer. "Couldn't you get a fire stream on
it? I thought you had a gond water -
supply!"
"I thought so, too. I had a pres-
sure -tank in the pat under my shop,
and a gravity -tack over it, on a high
1 Every hog that is killed in transit, iron tower. But the fire started in
due to overcrowding or mishandling, the shop, and burst through the roof
means a loss, at present prices, of before we discovered it. In two mi -
probably more than $30 to the shipper nutes the iron supports of the tower
as well as a waste of meat, needed by were red; hot and crumpled up there
the nation. Mortality in transit or the thing lies." He pointed to 'What
after arrival at the central market can' looked like a blackened, tangled
be lessened greatly in hot weather by I framework of a wrecked Zeppelin.
the practice of the following simple Of course, when the tower -tank fell,
"
precautions on the part of shippers ,t landed on the pressure -tank, smash -
and dealers: I ing the valves off that; my gasoline
1. When hogs are very hot, during engine and pump were in the shop,
or after a drive, never pour cold wa-1 too; the fire -buckets had been carried
ter over their backs. Goff to slop the hogs—and there you
2. Before loading, clean out each' are!"
car and bed it with sand which, sur- Now, all this isn't an argument
ing dry, hot weather, should be wet- against fire protection; precisely the
Ited down thoroughly. Hogs in Iran- opposite. My friend did not have a
sit during the night only are not so( good fire system; and so he lost soo-
tlikely to be lost from overheating as eral thousand dollars' worth of farm
Iare tae animals shipped in the day- building's, with all their contents, Iron
time. With day shipments in hot is far less fire -proof than stout Um-
! weather it is highly advisable to sus- hers; it bends like wax, when hot, and
pend burlap sacks of ice from the cell- should never be used for a tank -tow-
ing in various parts of the car in order er, unless set away off by itself, The
Ito reduce the temperature, and incid- pressure -tank should have been buried
entally, to sprinkle the animals with in the ground. The pumping -engine
I cool water. The ice sometimes is ought to have been in a small, isolat-
placed in sacks on the floor, but the ed building. And so or.
animals are likely to pile and crowd In these war -time days a farm fire
around the cakes so that only those is as much a national calamity as the
close to the ice are benefiter. The ice destruotion of a munitions or a ship -
'should be sufficient to last to the des-
tination.
3. Do not overload. Crowding hogs
in a car during warm weather is a
prolific source of mortality.
I 4. The feeding of corn, because of
I its heating effect, before and during
shipment in hot weather should be re-
duced to a minimum. Oats are pre-
ferable where a grain feed is neces-
sary. The maximum maintenance
requirement of hogs in transit for
twenty-four hours is one pound of
grain a hundredweight, or approxim-
ately three bushels of corn to a car.
Plowing with a Tractor.
After I had been plowing with a
tractor for a while, 1 noticed that I
was not finishing up the corners of
my fields in very good shape.
Of course I plowed the main part of
my field by lands, but I was leaving
a good-sized headland, and when the
strip on each side of the field was
the eame width as the headlands, I
plowed around the field, throwing the
dirt in toward the plowed field,
At first I would plow up to the cor-
ner while making these rounds, raise
my plow as soon as I had them even
with the last furrow, turn around,
and drop them on a line with the fur-
row last plowed, and so on around the
field, just as I had been used to do.ng
with a team and sulky plow.
13y plowing' a short distance past
the last furrow on the corner I found
that I was able to ma1eo corners with
no triangles of unplowed land as had
previously been the trouble,---II;IT.C.
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The horse', stomach is small, there-
fore. if it is to eat but three times
deify, and has a large amount of labor
to perform, his fond should be concen-
• trate, . The amount of roughage the
horse Ie able to take depends largely
aeee eau -tom. However, better results
gent be secured and the animal will
'kee;, healthier and last longer if per-
mitted to eat lightly of roughage and
liberally of grain.
But what grain shall we feed? This
is an important question, and the an-
sv.e. will depend upon circumstances.
It ore hada oats we may as well feed
then, if we are fortunate enough to
possess corn and have no oats we need
not buy them to mix with the cora in
order to .make a suitable ration, The
old rent'„n that a horse must have oats
in order t,, do his best work must go,
because there nre a number of careful
expel invent:: which prove that if the
horse le fed either car corn or oats in
e eai quantities there will be practic-
ally no dlffeecnee in results.
The ration adapted to the needs of
the hence differs from that required
,by the c.'r. The cow must make
milk than her ration and to do this
reg a re, 0 large amount of protein,
Protein builds the body, and carbohyd-
rat.s furnish heat and energy. The
way.:e• of the body of the horse must be
repaired and some protein is needed,
but the great demand is for food that
will furnish energy. This is where
corn easels. Barley will practically
take the place of corn. Wheat bran
may he given in small quantities with
either of these grains, with good re-
- sults,
Flower •seed... particularly annuals,
are cheap and a beautiful flower gar-
den may he had at a trifling cost by
purchasing to few packets of seeds of
annual:, and sowing them now in well
prepared bels in the open ground.
Warmers who ship their wool
direct to us get better prices
than farmers who sell to the
general store,
ASK ANY FARMER)?
who has sold his wool both
ways, and note what he says--
or better stili, write us for our
prices ; they will show you how
much you lose by selling to the
General Store.
awe pay the higbeat prices of any firm
in the coo ntrynad are the buvest wool
dialers lo. Canada. Pay,acnt i, re.
*allied the some day wool 1s raecivcd.
mime tl your wool to -day. -you u dd are
(11010 •d of a square deed front us. 2
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13 ani H ST•,�ORON O
C3T90
building plant; and We, a patriotic
duty for all of ns to protect our farm
buildings more carefully than we have
been doing•.
Common whitewash, with a little
salt added, makes the best possible
fireproof paint. Dill you know that?
In ,a large, connected mass of farm
buildings, fire partitions can be run
up, so that a fire can be kept from
spreading. These partitions should
of course cut right through the roofs
and frame walls, and can be made of
brick, cement block, hollow 'tile or
metal lath plastered with cement. All
doors through such partitions must be
tightly covered with tin on both sides.
Fire -extinguishers are good things
to have handy.
If you have a water -system it
should keep head enough to throw a
good stream against the highest point
of any building. A pressure at the
ground of thirty pounds will shoot the
water about forty feet in the air, us-
ing two -and -a half-inch fire hose.
I£ you have only the ordinary gar-
den hose, a very much greater pres-
sure is necessary; the concern you
buy your water -tank frons will figure
it all out for you.
But the best possible fire protection
is a "sprinkler system"; there are
dozens of good sorts on the market,
and practically every factory, large
or small, is equipped with one.
Then, there are all sorts of things
you can do to keep fires from starting.
\Vhen I visit an old farmhouse I al-
ways examine the chimneys very
carefully; nine times out of ten I find
gaping holes right through the brick-
work, just under the roof! And then
there's the danger of spontaneous
combustion from greasy rags; the
danger from lightning, etc. -.
kij
GUT OUT AND FOLD ON DOTTED •LIi`lE5
Willie went to father's dor,
Took the racket dowel and then-.
L.tttlo rascal's got his nerve,
Mar him thau.t "411 Keady-Pmvc,"
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serving growing communities,
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question Is of general interest It will be answered through those columns;
If not, it will be answered personally if stamped, addressed envelope is ear
closed. Dr. Currier wilt not prescribe for individual eases or matte diagnosis,
Address Dr. Andrew P. Currier, care of Wlleon Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide
St. Wast. Toronto.
M. R. --Will you please explain things worse and give you a drug
nerve trouble? How does it affect a habit, besides.
person? Does it affect the heart? Asafoetida is not a pleasant smell-
ing drug, but a. five grain pill 'ei11
often cure len attack of nerves, and I
never heard of its forming an asafoet-
ida -habit.
Useful, also, are infusions of chamo-
mile, pennyroyal, catnip, and other
herb teas dear to our grandmothers.
It would be well if we went back
to these harmless remedies, gathering
and drying herbs as our forebears
did, and substitute them for the whole
array of patent medicines.
Neurasthenia, called by foreigners
the American sickness, is not a dis-
ease at all, strictly speaking, but only
a collection of very uncomfortable
symptoms, though it often leads to
real diseases or may accompany them.
It was first brought to notice by Dr.
George M. Beard in 1860..
It belongs to the intense period of
life, particularly in men, is essential-
ly nerve exhaustion and is thought to
be due to a deficiency of oxygen in the
blood. A neurasthenic is always tired,
always afraid something terrible is
go to happen. Everything fatigues
hint or makes him dizzy or gives him
a headache, and he is unable to con-
centrate his mind upon anything apart
from his own misery. Frequently he
looks well except for a constantly
anxious expression, and he may have
fits of uncontrollable trembli
Answer—Nervousness may be an
evidence of diseased organs and tis-
sues; or that the psychic part of the
individual, the will, desires, emotions,
senses, are out of joint and have gone
on strike.
This term is dear to the heart of
those who are nervous, and few of
them would be willing to give it up for
any other.
With doctors the condition is known
under such terms as nervous excite -
Ment, neurasthenia, hysteria and
hypochondria.
It is perhaps best expressed by the
term "nervous excitement,”
Nervousness from real disease, or
from an impending event of serious-
ness and groat importance, is easily
understood, and it would be a rare
person who did not suffer from ner-
vous excitement under such conditions,
even if he did not cry out and make,'
a great time about it.
Again, a child with scarlet fever,'
with parched mouth and heated body,
with unbalanced mind and uncontroll-
able restlessness, may have his ner-
vousness or nervous excitement as a
direct product of disease.
Or a child of highstt•ung parents
and excitable temperament is denied a
toy, or compelled to go to bed when
he prefers to sit up, whereupon he
cries and stem his feet or breaks
dishes or throws things at his moth-
er's 1
This, also, is nervous excitement or
nervousness, but has no direct rela-
tion to disease.
Or a woman cries or laughs im-
moderately perhaps over trifles, or is
unable to keep quiet or has a fore-
boding of evil, scolds, or finds fault
continually, and we are compelled to
say this woman is laboring under
strong nervous excitement or simply
that she is hysterical.
When nervousness pro:reeds. "from
disease, we must cure the causative
disease to get rid of the nervousness,
and we cannot prevent it except as we
prevent the exciting cause,
It may be an indication of insanity
and show that mind and body require
certain remedies, whether they are
suitable hygiene or food or medicines.
When nervousness is unassociated
with disease, the great thing is to
train the will; to determine persistent-
ly not to give way until victory or
death results.
Such a task is all the harder if the
will was not brought under some mea-
sure of control in early life,
Nervousness may come to anybody,
but it is far more common in women
and children than in men,
It is less common in women who
work hard, day by day, than in those
who have been brought up in luxury
and idleness and who spend their time
in frivolity or in tasks which are of no
consequence,
Ohildren have it so often that it be-
comes a reflection on :their bad in-
heritance or their bad bringing up.
The patent medicine makers deluge
the market with all sorts of nostrums
for nervousness,
Gve them as wide a berth re pos-
sible; they are very apt to make
is forgetful and irritable, troubled
with in1rmnia, or if he sleeios has bad
dreams. His skin tingles, he hes
flashes of heat, his extremities are
cold, his heart is weak and palpitates
uncomfortably, his arteries throb, his
vision is bad, his ears ring and he is
annoyed subjectively by unpleasant
tastes and smells. His digestive ap-
paratus is"'constantly upset and he is
always on the lookout for some new
ache or ail.
Many causes may contribute to this
condition which is based upon a
weak nervous system. Among them
are worry, grief, intense hurry to get
rich, excesses of all kinds, atmosph-
eric extremes, and unhealthful occupa-
tions. Indoor work favors it, and
nervous, highly organized people are
especially sensitive to it. It may last
indefinitely but 11 never kills except
as it leads up to some fatal disease.
A change in surroundings may be all
that is necessary to throw it off. Too
often the will power is insufficient to
fight it successfully.
The only medicines which aro suit-
able in treating it are cathartics to re-
gulate the bowels, and simple tonics,
One who has it should breathe deeply,
stay out of doors as much as possible,
exercise moderately, sleep as much as
possible by day as well as by night
and eat only simple food. Massage,
baths, and sunlight are all helpful.
Cheerful company, wholesale amuse-
ment, and change and occupation are
useful measures of treatment. One
should neither ridicule nor pamper a
neurasthenic; he is really sick, but
not so sick as he thinks he is. A good
doctor or nurse who can win his con-
fidence and guide him intelligently
and kindly will serve as the best pos-
sible tonic for restoring his debilitated
nerves.
- Do You Guess Or Know?
One man says that One reason many
farmers are not mere prosperous is
because they have the habit of guess-
ing about matters pf which then
should have positive knowledge. He
says many a farmer "guesses at
everything—at the tonnage of his hay
crop, never accurately known unless
hay is sold; at the coat of fencing,
stone picking, plowing, cultivating,
manure spreading, and the amount of
fertilizer used on given fields; at the
amount of and cost of feed per cow,
and at the weight of milk returned; at
the acreage devoted to certain crops,
and at the expense of time and cash
such crops represent; at the cost of
equipment, repairs, and at the extent
and ao'uat yahoo of stock and tools at
annual periods, To such a'farmer's
mind an accurate inventory of ppfo-
peny is only useful as preparation
for an auction sale, and to debit and
credit the crops he raises, for pur-
poses of comparison and study, he
considers a waste of time, plus fool-
ishness."
Farming is a business and the only
way to make an assured success in it
is to conduct it on the seine business
principles known to be successful in
other lines. One must learn to do
his work "conspicuously well" and
know that he is doing it at a profit.
Mother: "I wonder how this book
got in such a horrible condition?"
Angel Child: "1 heard lfapa say it was
too dry for him, so I watered it,"
Hundreds of Vancouver men, 40
years and over, have rushed to take
advantage of the hew rail rates to
the prairies for the summer farm
work,
IT'S TBE SLACKERS
WHO WHINE
In a recent article, Margaret De -
Land discusses the all -once of ;fear i 1
treeeliere passing through ate dan-
ger zone This she attributes to the
psychological fact Out ''no single hat -
man mind can e.iperienee two omo-
Iaorrs at the swine tini ; it can not be
both angry and afraid," Therefore,
the voyageee, being filled with anger
at the Hun have no room in tb`tctt'ir
n1iad. t he submarine,
1t ' !sLo fonprobatbly tiro psyeltologicnl
feet tlittt no tw'. emotions can pos-
s< ite at the same time, but I doubt
it the ruling emotion in anger, It
!r hardly possible that the boys go-
ing over to the tranches, the girls
going over to the canteens and hos-
pitals, are so intensely angry they are
uue:on•icious of any other emotion. It
ie more probable that the conscious-
ness of doing something, the knowl-
n edge that they are activity engaged
in whipping the Hon, the intense in-
' terest in their work 00 fills their mind
that every outer emotion is crowded
out, even anger, as well as fear,
It works out that way on tide side,
Haven't you noticed that the follcs who
are hard at work to help win the war
are contented and at peace? You
j all know that woman who, before the
' war was a bundle of nerves and worry.
Her one mission in life seemed to be
:to fret and stow and worry over
everything. She was always filleelg
; with apprehension and thinking up
things which might happen to her
family. Her boy enlisted and yen said
right away:
"Well, Mary will just naturally lie
down and die. This will certainly kill
her. ' She's worried about nothing all
her life and now that something really
has happened it will be the end of
her."
But did Mary die? Not a bit of it.
She got better right away. You went
over to see her and sympathize with
her and to try to reason her -into see-
' ing the justice of the war and the op-
portunity for her'to help democracy,
and what did you find?
You found Mary, if she was at
home, busily knitting socks for her
; boy, and she told you with a smile, al-
though it might be a bit quavery, how
; proud she was of him and how fine he
looked when he marched away, ever
so much trimmer and handsomer then
any of the other lads, and what a
glorious thing it was to have a son so
brave. More likely you didn't find
her at home at all. She was down
at the Red Cross sewing away on
pajamas and robes or folding gauze
or giving knitting lessons. And her
face wore a calm, contented look, for .
the first time since her babyhood.
Her mind is filled at last with real
things, and as it can not experience
two emotions at once, of course the
trifles which once occupied it are wip-
ed out. Life is at last something
' more to her than a round of meals and
dish -washing and keeping things
"picked up." It is something big
1 and noble, a gift to be prized highly
and experienced, not simply moaned
through.
I And the faultfinders who are still
with us. - Have you ever gone into
their lives? If you have,
found out they are the ones who are
I not helping. You'll find, if you in-
vestigate, that beyond spending a^llls1-
lar to join the Red Cross and giving
another to the Y.M.C.A., they haven't
done a thing but grumble about the
`high prices. 'Phey may have bought
one bond, but if they have it was only
1 one, and that of the smallest denomin-
ation. They have no part in the war,
they are doing nothing, and that is
why they are grumbling at the hard-
ships they've had to endure.
Wo don't find fault with a work eve
are interested in. No sacrifice is too
Igreat to make to insure its ultimate
success. We count "these light af-
I flictions as but for a moment, for
' they work for us a far more exceeding
, and eternal weight of glory."
You'll find it isn't the fonts who are
"giving until it hurts" that are wail -
1 ing at the hard times and the sub-
stitutes. It's the shirkers and slack-
ers, the ones who will neither fight nor
I give nor go without, that are com-
plaining. If they would get into t1t.,.
game and help fight their mind would
have no room for carping.
A Hero's Deeds.
The London Gazette announces the
award of five now Victoria Crosses,
says a despatch of June 4th. Two of
the recipients ate dead, The stories
RS usual reveal almost superhuman
heroism,
Lieut, E. S. Dougall, of the Field
Artillery, subsequently Milled, an-
doubtedly averted a serious breach
in the British•line by his personality
and skilful leadership throughout the
day. Lieut. Denali rallied and or-
ganized the infantry, whom the en•-,
emy had pressed back to a level with
his battery, supplied then with Lewis
guns, armed all the genitors he could
spare with rifles, and with them form-
ed a line in front of his battery,
which meanwhile was harassing the
advancing enemy with rapid lire, !
Urgent Case.
The young wife gazed upon the
sleeping form of her young husband
with the tender eyes of youth, As a
matter of fact, hubby had got a cold,
and ho found it conducive to sleepleg
nees at night. It seemed a pity to
disturb his repose; but her affection
was equal to the task, and, shaking
frim gently by the shoulder, she said:
"Wake up,. Georgia; the doctor4a
just sent your sleeping draught!"