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"BILIND MAINS BUFF"
Thrilling novel of mystery and
murder's, beginning in The Almerioan
Weekly, thistalbntod with next Sun-
day's Detroit Times.
A 'band of British-exlplurers, includ-
ing one woman, wi'l'lland+ on the Is
land of •Stinlbudthe 'Sailor in a• few
weeks to search for the nysteriou's
Madagascar "`sacrifice tree," which •de-
vours human beings. The so-called
man-eating tree, which actually is
said to take the lives of young girls
rather than men, is not a produlct Io'f
the imagination, high authorities de-
clare. Capt. V. De Ila Matte Hirsh,
a .fellow off the Royal Geographical
Society, hes been convinced that it
not 'only crusts, but that each year at
devours several of the most beaoti.ful
maidens of the island. The superstiti-
ous tribes offer the girls to the tree as
sacrifices, he aid. "I have been told
lout to tree by of the is
land and I have no ''doubt of iits'exist
ence," Captha'iti Hurst said. "It -eats
human beings, but since the natives
rinorshilp it they'. are reluctant to re-
veal its location." The tree, as describ-
ed to the captain, is similar to a col-
ossal pineapple tree. It is about eight
feet tat and six feet around the 'base.
It has long tendrils, which reach up-
ward, each about as thick -as the arm
of a matt. The leaves are large and
concave, and are lined with "claws."
Frain the tree comes an intoxicating
liquid, which the natives .drink to
arouse the hysteria which leads up to
d, the sacrificial ceremony: °''W,hile the
natives dance around the tree, a young
girl is forced to drink the liquid,"
Captain Hurst said, "Then • she is com-
pelled toget up into the middle of the
tree. The tree's tendrils and leaves are
hyper -sensitive and as soon as the
weight of the sacrificial maiden is
pressed again,* them, the tendons en-
twine her. The leaves raise slowly and
completely hide the girl The pressure
of the tendrils and leaves is like a vise
and it is said the body of the girl is
crushed. I am told that the leaves re-
main in thalt formation for Ave or six
days and then slowly reopen. Only
the bones of the victim are found,
vitt. i Time was when many ::citizens in
cities and towns of Canada kept their
ohvn cows. The small boy, often very
unwillingly, drove the family milker
to and from the pasture morning and
evening. Cattle were met with fre-
quently along the thoroughfares of
most municipalities. They picked up
grass along the roadway. Suitable
unto the needs of the time, the railway
companies were comlepled to erect
cattle guards wherever :their lines
crossed a street. They are to be found
today, wooden slats painted white,
fixed at angles • that would discour-
age the most venturesome bossie from
leaving the highway and wandering
along the tracks, where the might be
killed. Today oflficial cogn'izanlce was
taken of the fact that times have
changed. The old order p'asseth and
in its place the Beard of Railway
Commissioners, on the au'thori'tyof
the chief commissioner and three 'oth-
er commissli'aners, enacts as follows:
"It is ordered that all railway ,com-
panies subject to the jurisdiction of
the 'board be, and, they are hereby re-
lieved from erecting and maintaining
cattle guards at highway crossings in
cities and towns."
A'1'ite of 'leisure and a life of laziness
are two things.
The man who tries to dodge his ..lb -
ligations usually Ifirirds the detour
much rougher •thlan the road.
Laziness travels 'so slowly that'+pov-
erty soon 'overtakes i.m.
'Conaway's speeches have im-
proved a lot since he got somebody
else towrite them for ban."
"Yes, and they'd be ,improved a lot
mare if he could get somebody :else
to deliver 'theists"
,Mistress: "These banisters are al-
ways dusty. Next time you are at the
neigh'boes'you just notice how highly
polished theirs. are."
'Maid: "Yes, ma'am; but they have
four small boys."
All mothers can put away anxiety
regarding their suffering children,
when they have Mother Graves'.
,Worm Exterminator to give relief.
lits effects' are sure and lasting.
teeth.
WHEN TURKEYS 6ETSICK
DISEASES WHICH OFTEN SPOIL
PROFITS IN TURKEY -RAISING.
Pneumonia, Roup and Blackhead
Cause Most Trouble — Timely
Pointers In Dealing With These
Maladies:
(Contributed by Ontario Department of
Agriculture, Toronto.)
Three diseases. pneumonia, roup
and blackhead are responsible for the
greater part of the losses in turkey
rearing.
Pneumonia. •
Naturehas not clothed the young
turkey with a thick coat of .down or
baby feathers sufficiently to protect
it from the cold rains .that are quite
common during, May and June..
Hence many young birds -perish, dy-
ing of inflammation of the lungs
shortly after experiencing the ,first
cold rain. Little can be done to ef-
fect a cure. Everything 'lies in the
direction of prevention. Do not let
the young birds get wet, provide suit-
able shelter, and do not let them get
too far away so that they may be
quickly rounded up and proteoted
from cold and wet until they are
well -feathered.
Roup.
This trouble is due to an infectious
organism gaining entrance to the
nasal passages of the victim and set
ting up a catarrhal condition usually
easily recognized by clogged nostrils,
inflamed mucous . membrane of
mouth, very offensive odor and :swell-
ings on sides of the head. Housing
young turkeys in unsanitary, poorly
ventilated or draughty quarters cre-
ates conditions which make the bird
very susceptible to the infectious or=
ganism causing roup. If the disease
gains a grip on young birds, it is hest
to kill them off at once and correct
the hygienic' conditions for any that
remain apparently normal. Exposed
birds that are to -be• kept should be
given good nourishing food and a
physic of salts .once a week. Birds
showing symptoms may be treated, if
so desired, as follows:, Massage as
much of the material as possible out
of the nostrils, clean out the eyes,
and if swellings exist open with a
sharp knife. Use Boracic Acid solu-
tion or potassium permanganate
solution or argyrol solution (10 per
cent.) as a wash for the nostrils and
eyes. Such can be applied with a
medicine dropper or the bird's head
may be dipped in .the solution. If
birds do not make good recovery in.
a reasonable time it beet to de-
steoy them as they will carry the
infection along and may be the cause
of more roup.
Blackhead.
This disease is the most common
and destructive pest affecting tur-
keys, It has been the cause of many
a farm giving up turkey raising, The
cause has been attrlbuted to a pro-
tozoan parasite, that is taken up b
the bird in its feed and water. Soil
become infested, breeding birds be-
come carriers, so the young have lit.
tle chance of escaping infection if
feeding over ground that has pre-
viously supported turkeys. The young
birds show signs of distress in the
late summer or early autumn, become
listless, drowsy, stop feeding, feathers
become ruffled, wings droop, and they
hang behind the flock. The droppings
are yellowish in color and more fluid
than perusal. The head may become
dark purple in color. The after -death
symptoms generally noticed in black-
head cases are as follows: Liver spots
ted on surface with whitish yeiloa.
to faded green spots, the cecum,
eitherr one or both are thickened and
distended with a gray cheesy mass.
Treatment for blackhead has not
been successful and its control lies
in prevention. .If troubled now, clean
out the entire flock and give up tur-
keys for three years. When starting
again, secure eggs from healthy birds,
wipe them with cloth moistened with
80 per cent. denatured alcohol' to re-
move any possible contagion, then
hatch in the incubator. When the
young poults are ready to leave the
incubator place thesn in a brooder or
enclosed ground • and protect from
other poultry or agents likely to carry
the infection to the pen. ` Keep the
house and its equipment clean and
disinfected. Use sour milk or butter-
milk liberally in the ration. Beep
the birds confined all the time that
infection' may be•prevented and treat-
ment applied. Powdered ipecac ad-
ministered in the mash,twice a week,:.
at the rate of two teaspoonsful per
20 -birds is considered a useful pre-
ventative. The use of ipecac should
start when the birds are two weeks
old and continue for three months.
--L. Stevenson, Dept. of Etxension,
Ot A, College.
Swat the Roosters.
When the last lot of hatching eggs
has been delivered the male birds
should be removed from the flock,
disposed of, or kept by themselves.
Fertile eggs are an luncertain article
in warm weather, so the aim should
be the production of infertile eggs
for domestic use. Germ development
will start in a fertile egg at any tem-
perature above 68 degrees Fahren
heft:' At low temperature the de-
velopment of the germ is very slow,
but it may reach a point in embryo
development where decomposition is.
likely to set in and thereby produce
a condition not desired. Any factor
likely to cause spoilage in eggs will
be more serious in the fertile eggs
than in the infertile. No one wants
fertile eggs for domestic use. The
removal of the males is the one•suro
Way of preventing trouble. --L., t3te-
venson, Dept. of Extension, O. A. C.
Getting Rid of Ants.
These pests quickly disappear if
whale cloves are sprinkled on the
pantry shelves or any that the
ants frequent. This remedy is quick,
clean and certain,. •
M'ILL+IONIS' FOR BRITAIN'
LN NEW IiN°VEINTION
'I !believe that opal will once more
;become the male source df feel pow-
er."
lair, Fesesi . Smith, Of' the department
o1 sciehti'fi'c and iidustr'iad research,
made this remark just as mews came
to hand of the absolute success of
the experiment in the Cunarder Scy-
thia of generating its power 'by powd-
ered coal being su's'pended and beam
e'l in heavy :oil.
The •Sey't'hia, i'n• one olf her boilers;
used a new fuel, known as 'C'oloidlal',
which consists of 60 per cent of crude
oil and 40 per cent of coal.
,Hitherto all :efforts to mix finely
pulverised coal .with oil has ,failed,
but by means of •a ,proces's invented by
three experts. a 'fuel has (been produc-
ed which gives all the calorific pro-
perties of oil at cons'ideralbty reduced
cost.
The fact that nearly nine hundred
British steamers are now burning im-
parted oil, and the (Navy 'requires 5,-
000,4)00
;00'0,00'0 tone of oil a year, shed's some'
light on pro'•s'pectsof the develop-
ment of this new British fuel.
its adoption by the Navy and mer-
cantile fleet will mean a new prosper-
ity,aor the mines, which be reflected
throughout the w'h'ole of British in-
dustry. bt will re'mov'e a heavy item
from the wrong side of the !British na-'
tional balance sheet. •
(One large finer burning Colo'idal
would keep a whole , colliery going.
Apart from`' the` benefit to the coal
industry' itself, Colloidal will make a
saving of .115 per cent on th'efuel costs'
of a ship using it.
Then came the report of the scien-
tific survey of the Northumberland
and Durham coal ,fields showin+g that
the reserves of coal in those fields
alone are nearly nine thousand mil-
lion tone 1
"There will be coal in abundance id
this .country when the ,oil supplies of
the world have been completely ex-
hausted."
IEverywher'e I have been in the last
'week Or SO I have found sound rea-
sons for believing that we are on the
verge o'f a new coal age in which . the
scientific achievement will centralise
in coal and make this country"` (Eng-
land) once again, one of the most
richly endowed nations of the world.
;Science is discovering the vast pos-
sibilities of coal as a source of power
and "industrial wealth.
IWe read with amazement of coffee
being burned in Brazil, cotton being
burned in America, and rubber being
burned as fuel.
nII a few years•we may experience
greater amazement if we hear that a
piece of raw coal has been burned in
a fire,
'Coal has been regarded as a fuel;
to be loaded on a furnace or a house-
hold grate for a long time," Sir Frank
remarked to me, "the chemistshave.
enlightened us on. this matter, and we
no wknow that it forms the basis for
the tinanufa'cture of many valuable
products."
W'ha't is happening all over England
now is a scientific development in-
side industry itself similar to that
which causedthe industrial revolution
something over a hundred years ago.
Now, when trade depression seems
to .have beggared moat countries, and
is sorely testing •u's, I find everywhere
whet•e coal is used the belief, like that
of Sir Frank Smith, that coal is once
more going to provide the taw mater-
ial by which a new prosperity will re-
turn to Britain.
(Apart from government resesroh
station's, many of the big co'all •comp-
orations have formed their own , re-
search.rep'artments and are;_lbolcing to
the chemists to enialb.le them to •make
economic use of their coal.
A hundred new methods are being
applied to the use of coal
(These scientists !have discovered
that everything we eat, everything we
wear, the whole vege'talble and ani-
mal kingdom, are trade up of Chemi-
cal compounds, one ofwhose 'con-
stituents is carbon,
'M'os't coals contain • more than 35;
per cent •olf carbon. 'In coal there is,
therefore, an immense stock of raw•
material which by m'od'ern .processes
Onlay' be eonveoted, into other com-
pounds of the greatest importance to.
ind'u'stry and to 'human 'life,
!Lightoil's are extracted in greater
quantities from coal tar than 'from
the Goal i!tsea+f, and further distillation
'produces the acids which make weal -
known d'liinlfec'tants:
The !heavy oils remaining provide
wood preservatives which are now
universally used, .and the acids serve
as the :basis for the +manufacture' orf
dyes and drugs and other chemicals,
many of which are the sole product
.of •usccessful industries.
From this same coal tar which
provided the origin'al discovery we
are now m'a'king all manner of scents
and perfumes. The essential oil of jas-
mine, orange bllossohns, musk, 'helio-
tro!pe and a h'ost of others are made
from this common.. source.
1 admit I was astonished to discov-
er r that electric insulators and even
the cheap . "unbreakable" ;,sups and
saucers are being made from what the
chemists of the coal industry call syn-
thetic res+Fns—a product of coal tat..
Quite recently fibres have been ob-
tained from these' resins wlhich may
be used just as the artificial silk ob-
tained from wood.
And; it is probable that within the
next few years a colourless transpar-
ent .synthetic reale may be . available
as a substitute for the glass we use
today.
1I found food !being actually manu-
ifacturecl from coal. It is a protein,
quite edible, but costing 0100 or more
a spoonful.
WAKENED EARLY.
!Whenever my bull terrier has had
to sufferfrom insufficient exercise
(luring the day, she insists' upon mak-
ing up for this in the early hours of
the Morning. If she fails .to awaken
me by a vigorous shaking of herself
as she steps from her basket, she
prods her nose into theside of it/.
bed .until I respond. Then I switch
on the light, fetch her collar and
give her the liberty she demands. I
cannot wait up for her; for, more
often than not, she rambles around
outside for as long as twenty min-
utes. !Sometimes I have dozed off
again before the door bangs open
and the brisk pavpalt of paws heralds
her return. She .promptly gets into
her basket and, after circling round,
head to tail, several times she flops '
down with a pronounced sigh. This
leaves me wide awake. It is all very
well for ``Merry," but it wouldn't do
for all timeless! My c , is t: is me
it is nearly half -past five. to click -
clack sound .s partici:ari,y
most rudely playful—in the morning
stillness.
INow I extinguish the light, and
there is the usual influx of conflict
ing:thoughits. I. should now be up and
doing, II -.third( of those personages
who have reached the peaks of suc-
cess in public service where work is
incessant. I. think of . artists and
writers of distinction whose achieve -
meats kidicalte 'their tireless enthusi-
asm for work. I see those beacon
lights of the past, their long hours,
long days of concentration and in -
tease activity. II see that hon'est in-
dustry is really true living, These
men and women are waking beings,
alert, and not given to sloth.
!Now Procrastination repeats .her
wily wards. You may lie another
hour at least. You 'cannot burn the
candle at both ends. You work when
others giay=besides, it is dark and
you most be economical with the
ele.cbric light: Above all, it is bitterly
cold this morning. This mental strug
gde halts when I hear the muffled
roar of an Uiederground train, Per-
haps there are numbers of workmen
aboard it, bound for the new housing
estates, or returning from the night's
work. Or the train may be proceed-
ing city-iwands, empty: save for a few
ruminate over the strange variation
of !human circttmstan'ces,
lFreseutly, another train sounds
over the clear morning air. Judging
by the prolonged rattle, it is a goods
train an a neighboring litre. As the
sounds fade away, the inward argu-
ment is resumed. 'There is much work
to be done. I .should rise—but it is
so cold. 'It will not matter just to
stay another half-hour. By this time,
a faint strip of light has appeared be
low the window ;blind. I still lie sen-
sitive to the morning sounds, like a
live microphone, The clock has now
been ticking monotonously for half an
hoar or so. Outside all is tranquil
with the breaking of dawn. Now a
sound reaches my ear and thrills me
as none other. It is the musical chord
of a ship's horn. It is repeated—only
just audibly. My heart fills with rap-
ture. A picture of a stately liner,
steaming slowly down the Thames to
the sea, glows and shimmers in m)
mind with all the television of true
inspiration. It is just possible that
this is a merchantman entering the
Pool of London, but I prefer to think
it a trim passenger giant signaling its
departure for some distant 'country. I
become •conscious of myself lingering
here, and then I think of those who
may be leaving Britain for new ven-
tures, maybe beyond 'the Mediterran-
ean ---Africa, Egypt, India or the An-
tipodes. 4 lean against the deck -rail
with those who have risen early, and
watch in the cold, graylight the slow-
moving panorama of 'Thames' shores,
forests of chips' masts, smoking fun-
nels, factory chimneys, deserted bea-
ches. To starboard, I see the veiled
contours of the iKenti'sh uplands; to
port, the v'anishi'ng flats of Essen
:With gathering speer, the liner over-
takes a convoy ,of lighters in tow, and
here and there a brown -sailed barge
or lone fishing smack tacks silently
by. I can hear the foam -crested
waves, swishing against the massive
HOW to End
New Medicine Drives Out Poisons,
That Cause Torturing Stiffness,
Swelling and 'Lameness
EASES PAIN 'FIRST DAY
You cannot get rid of rheumatic
aches and ;pains, N ear itis, lame
knotted muscles and stiff swollen
joints till you drive !from your sy'ste'm
the irritatingpoisons that cause r'heu-
ntla'tism. External treatments only
give temporary rel'ief.
What you need is RU -MA, the new
internal medicine that acts on.the
liver, kidneys land !blood and expels
through the natural channels of 'elim-
inlation, these dangerous poisons.
No long waitingfor your suffering
roc stop--IRIUaMIA eases pain 'first dray
—and so •qu'icilely and safely end stif-
fening, crippling lameness and 'tortur-
ing pain that ,Chas. Alberhart urges
every ,rheumatic 'sufferer to get a
'bottle today. They guarantee it.
.bulk of the ship. It is au revoir to
chilly England.
My vision ,of river and ship's fades
out and I "come to earth" at the noise
of the milk roundsman. I have heard
;the clock for over an hour now, and
it is half-light, The sound of the
cartwheels grinding on the gritty sur-
face of the read, the brisk steps of
the pony, become louder as they draw
near. There are halts at intervals,
and the .clinking of battles as the
driver and his boy burry' from door
to door, Now they have arrived at my
house and 'there are footsteps up to
the door. There is a pause which re-
minds the that the man is trying to
decipher my note. A startling shout
follows and I marvel that this noise is
often slept through.
With the advent of day, the noises
of suburbia rapidly increase. In the
flat above the little maid is rattling
the fire grate; a Little later she de-
scends to the cellar to fill her, scuttles.
A few mare moments of 'calmand
the argument for •sleep or work is
resumed: Adan, sleep has nearly prev-
ed victorious when the most excit-
ing of all morning sounds is heard.
The rat -tat becomes louder. It is the
postman. (Will he pass my door? No,
he is here! I rise with a sudden and
determined effort, and ` take to the
cold—to daylight—to the letter -box
and the clock strikes 8 a.m.
A young wife, wish to annottece
the arrival of her first child to a
friend in a distant city, telegraphed:
"Isaiah 9: 6." which passage be-
gins: "For. unto us a child is born.
unto us a son is given."
IHer friend, uttfamiliar with the
Scriptures, said to her husbands
'Margaret evidently has a boy who
weighs nine pounds and six ounces,
but why on earth did they'. name him
Isaiah."
"You must have had man romantic
adventures and narrow escapes in
your `seafaring life?"
"Not many. Ye see, I don't go rov-
ing ashore like most df the crew. 1
plays safe and sticks to the ship."
lone "Take this" is better than two
"You shall haves."
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