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' One of the most extraordinary cas-
e$• of what may be called an acciden-
ttai' invention is that of, the lifeboat,
A man named Wouldhave was out
walking one daywhen he, was asked'
by an old woman it help her lift a
can of water which she had filled by
. means of '•a broken' wooden bowl.
. The bowl was floating on the sur-
face of the Water, and as he talked to
the woman, Wogldhave turned it
over with his /finger. It immediately
righted itself. Amused by its antics,
he repeated the performance; then •t
struck him that he had trlade a won-
derful. discovery. • The :result of his
chance meeting was the self-righting.
lifeboat, which was designed by him
en the lines of the. broken bowl.
What he had discovered was that
anything made of floating material
and 'shaped like one half of a basin
Could only float with its convex sul-
fate downwards. A boat made on
these lines ,cannot remain upside
down for more than an instant when
it is turned over by a heavy sea.
THE MIRACULOUS CHRISTMAS
• GIFT
It's a very nice thing to make a
gift that will .please all the members
of the family. A box of candy will
do that or a crate of 'fruit But usu-
ally some one in that family gets the
lion's share. That is not possible
when the gift is a subscription to
The Youths - Companion, It is like
that fabulous pitcher of milk of ..the
„ 'Greeks; though everyone drank deep•
the pitcher remained full. Everyone
has a lion's share in the good- things
of The Companion; •everyone skims
his own cream, yet there is the -very
choicest cream left for the net, iom-
er. What better Chri4tmas • esent
can you make than a, periodi 11 -with
such fabulous powers of. dividing - its
pleasure among a dozen and yetkeep-
sag it all intact.
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WIiIMSICAL WILLS
The "riling spirit" very .often
shows up strongly in that intensely
ihuman document --a -man's will. As
eaften as not one can sum tip the
strength or weaknets of his chtfracter
clearer, by means of his "last testa-
ment" than by any othhr document.
To attempt to trace the' origin of
'will making would be a thankless
task, but it is known that ?the Pio-
g,bet Jacob left a document more
or less -equivalent to the modern
will. Specimens have been found in
Egyptian tombs which were drawn
wp two thousand years before Chri§t.
Among the oldest English wills are
apse of Alfred the Great, and Wil -,r
lia1n the Conqueror, who bequeathed`
his newly -acquired realm of England
to his son William Rufus.
The palm of revengful spirit must
he given to the man who left to his
wife the large sum of £600.:'which,
however, she could not make rise of,
hut was to be expended after her
death, se that she might have the
'satisfaction of knowing that she
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'rt3ty two worst: watches to my son,
Or I know' that he will dissect
-them."
Full of grit/ huinor was the will
of a French lawyer, who left • ten
deciphered. A strange record is the
thousand" francs to .a lunatic asylum.,)
as , a mark of restitution to those
clients who had been mad enough to
engage his.serbioes. A thousand
pounds each was the 'legacy Ieft by a
testator to his hospital nurse , and
cook, for their respective kindnesses
in driving a plek, monkey from the
foot of his bed and. taking scarlet
snakes out of his soup.
• It is .in the archives of Somerset-
House
omersetHouse that all wills filed for probate
are kept, and there are to be found
many famous and curious testamen-
tary documents. One is the portrait
of a pretty girl, on which a soldier
had written "I leave all to her." An-
other is'. written in shorthand, and
dated 1700. nearly a_ hundred years
before Pitman invented the famous
system' of cipher -writing which bears
his Name. •
Napoleon's . last disposition was
characteristic of his hatred for Eng-
land. "01 die prematurely, assassin-
ated by the English eblig rchy." e
bequeathed ten thousand francs to
Cantillon, who attempted•to kill the
Duke of Wellington. The great Rus-
sian novdlist,':'lblstoi, wrote his will
on the stump of a tree. "Bury me
where I die," he wrote. Rabelais, the
French satirical writer, left a last
memento of his cynicism in the fol-
lowing.: "S have no available pro-
perty; I owe 'a great deal; the rest
I give to the poor."
•
' • OVERGROWN LONDON
It is on record that, in the days of
Queen Elizabeth, more than three
centuries ago, her statesmen consult-
ed with the Queen on steps to be tak-
en to prevent London increasing from'
its then ,"prodigious" size. Yet, two
hundred years later than T!iat,- South
Lambeth was still e . health resort,
and Chelsea a country village, while
the biggest farm in. Middlesex ley a•
long the north side of -what is now
the Marylebone Road.
To -day London is so vast that io
man can tell where she ' begins or
ends So-called Gre&ter London eon -
tains nearly eight millions of inhab-
itants,•;atui is spreading steadily in
every direction.
The administrative county, called
the County of London, contains 117
square mites and, about 660,000 hous-
es, sheltering five millions of people.
It has 2,200 miles of streets, 329- rail-
way stations; 144 local governing
bodies, and it costs $13,000 to
administer.
While the size of adininistt'ative
London is definitely fixed, Greater
olt'��aNlo,el
io'ontrlbu o �l `
t F a t{i as Iva
enk Ot
F}"ulioWig re �ioaltlta tilt Aehi-
,metg cq eiecla011 by tAe'wrkg belµ"
eonnected • wlti the agriln lturid 1tpa�,
land,'
pepltsealitatloj¢.for, Va' iietely Ip•s
:Sidney 13 0.
Bonaes find Y title,
The houaq.in which the,blyds aro
keptWith a water -print
and a • oor�that *,alwa'ys tiry '
in preparing the;,��nAse, forthp: De
Seca- of millets, irerythitiga Moira -Ole
roof fl
Is taken out, cleaned. and then sat -
prated with la mixtere At egiiai parts
of cfeosite'and coal oil. The interior
of toe house . is well scraped ...and
swept clean, of'aoy foreign material.:
A coating of lime -wash is then ap-
plied, and the movable equipment re-
placed after the- lime -washing lute'
been done: When everything is dry,
a.6 -Inch layer of dry straw'* placed
, ou the floor. The house is now ready
for the five -month -did pullets, and
care is taken to see that only strong •
vigorous bird, -are permitted to oc-
cupy hbuse space:
The runs provide tem square yards
of surfacefor one .bird,` ,They are
in duplicate and are- used alternately.
.for feed growing and exercise space
Late -leafing, deciduous trees only are
esed about poultry yards. The cont- •
fermis windbreaks are located far
enough away from the poultry yards
and trendiest to permit of maximum
sunlight entering all space ,00cup1ed
by the birds,
Feeding.
•
A dry mash hopper of such con-
struction as wilt prevent, waste 1s sup-
plied with the following mash mix -
tura:— '
Wheat bran - 400 pounds.
ZOO ••
Ground oats
Beef acre»' - 400 "
What shorts 800
Corn meal 100
• Fine salt 4
,This mixture is always available
for the bird, pe whole grain ra-
tion Is composed of two parte Wheat,
one part crocked corn, and ode. part
oats, by weight. This is fed on --the
-Boor of the house morning and even-
ing; in the daily proportion. of five
Pounds per fifty birds, during the late
autumn and winter, 'When a supply
of, skimmflk is available, the birds
are given all they will take, and the
beef scrap is reduced one-half- Shell,
grit, and .charcoal are always before
the birds, being supplied in small
...metal hoppers which are conveniently
Placed. • •
Forage Crops for Poultry.
Small areas of kale, chard, and al-
faifa.were grown to be used as green
• feed for poultry, The chard was rel-
ished to a greater extent than the
• other ,green feeds. Green alfalfa was
most usful during its season from
May to November. For winter green
feed, kale, and mangles were used.
For little chicks, chickweed was -sup-
plied during the first ten: days, then
lettuce and chard. L supply of Clean
-Water le•, always available for all the
poultry; it is given in fountains lilao-
ed thirty inches. above ;the • l>oor and.
surrounded by the narrowest possible
platform on Which the birds may
stand to drink. This method has.
proved very satisfactory, aa It pre,'
vents the birds from working dirt and
foreign matt* Into the receptacles.
The laying'houses are kept thor-
oughly clean. Dropping boards are
scraped and sanded' every morning,
All litter and dust is removed every
hree weeks, the'house swept out, and
yeah litter again placed on the door.
he perches are sprayed with a creo-
o and ,coal oil mixture' in equal'
parts, every three weeks. During the
inter 'period a dust box four feet
quare and ten inches deep Is provid-
d. The birds are always given the
reedom of an outside run, no matter
what the weather is. The drawer
type of trap neat is used, the birds
readily. becoming tutted to its action.
Broody hens are confined in slat-bot-
todl crates for the necessary .period
required for the change of their opin-
ion on the subject, •
Don'ts For the Layers.
London extends constantly. It has `7'
more than doubled in size in the past
fifty years, and every extension of
Metropolitan or other suburban rail-
ways makes: it jump afresh. After w
the check in building caused by the e
war, it is now growing at the rate of f
about four thoudcnd houses yearly.
• SAVED BABY'S LIFE
Mrs. Alfred Tranchemontagne, St.
Michel des Saint Quebec, writes:—
"Baby's;Own .Tablets are an excellent
medicine. -They -saved my -baby's life
and I can highly recommend them to
all mothers." Mrs. Tranchemon-
tagne's experience is that, of -thou-
sands of other mothers who have
tested the worth of Baby's Own Tab-
lets. The Tablets are a sure and safe
medicine for little ones and never
fail to regulate the bowels and stom-
ach. thus relieving all the minor ills
from with children suffer. They
are sold leg medicine dealers or by
mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr.
Williams' Medtcine Co„ Brockville
Ont.
CURRENT WIT AND WISDOM
Dr. Hornaay says the automobile
has destroyed wild life, and all the
time we had been supposing it was
making life more wild than ever.—
Saeeamento Star.
• Lloyd George is proving to the,
world that man may make an effec-
tive political campaign while %thou-
sands . or miles away from his home
country. --Detroit Free Press.
Illinois has' a magazine edited by a
boy of twelve. From the few U. 8,
magazines we have casually glanced
at it seems there are editors in that
country Still younger. --London Opfn-
ion.
Coal df' Herschell Island costs $89
a ton,' -and the winter lasts about 11
Months a year. Ontario seems like
the •tropies after 'bat—Peterboro.
Examiner. -I
Coolidge gets up about 6.80 every
morning, Now what little Wyoming
boy wants to bo pretident9,-Wyom-
ing State Tribune l
Don't put pullets into an unclean'
houae.
Don't waste time on unthrifty, de=
formed, or ailing birds; get an axe
and a block of wood.
Don't neglect to clean the dropping
boards daily.•
Don't forget to clean the house and
provide new, clean litter every three
weeks.
Don't neglect to keep tot dry mash
bopper filled with a mach made from
clean, wholesome grain, and '.meat
products. •
Don't waste your time with wet
Mashes; feed everything dry.
Don't neglect the drink; supply
'abundant water and milk.
Don't neglect the supply of shell,
grit, and charcoal.
Don't waste time and money feed-
ing well -cared -for poultry do
eel need 'nor are they benefited by,
Judi a practice.—L. Steieusonl See.
Dept. of Agriculture.
The worthlessness of poor quality
bulls lives after them—in their low -
producing daughters.
Apples are mot very subject to
blight and if we are careful the apple
orchard can be kept clean.
"Agriculture, for an honorable and
high minded man," says Xenophon,
"is the best 'of all occupations and
arts by which men Procure -the means
of living."
In the morning, sow thy seed, and
In the evening withhold not thy
band; for -thou knowest not whether
shall prosper either this or that, or .
whether they both shall be alike
good -'-Eccleclastes XI, 6,
i
The Germans were revolting in war
and are nota revolting In peace.—
Brant3ord Upositog • fr
Superlutivd
ome •
From S1ti 88
Three shmljn
re f at college were
discussing the Medullas of their
fathers.
One said: ,9My rather writes • a
song in an evening and takes it
down town the next morning and
sells it for 06.'
The next continued: "1St" father
writes a story in an evening and
takes it down town the next morning
and sells it for $60." •
"That's nothing," declared the
'third. "My father gets up in a pul-
pit on Sunday and talks for an hour,
and it . takes six men to carry the
money up to him,"
Three Dodgers.
Everett, Wash., Herald.
If he !lodges jitneys, he is a pede-
strain; if he.dodges taxes, he is a
financier; if he dodges responsibility,
he is a statesman,
MEMEMORIES, MON AMOUR
By Purity Flower
Sacred possessions of the heart
The lonely years cant steal
Whose bitter sweetness corning oft
Past pleasures do reveal
When you and' I together were.
Mon Ainour
When roseate dawn its banners fling
To herald day anew,
When I and twilight gloom keep tryst
Then I remember you,
And in remembering long for you
Mon Amour
And when;the lengthening shadows
Beneath the tall trees fall
I start me up to answer
For I think I hear you call
Call me the dear names as of yore
Mon Amour
Then come o'ei•whelming memories
Of lessons you would teach
Of love's great, depth and gladness
When for love you would beseech
Beseech that I should love you
Mon Amour
And then the sweet surrender
When the words I would repeat
To give -a love so holy
That nothing could defeat,
For aye to- love but only you
• Mon Amour
Through separations lonliness
One cherished hope I've kept
Knowing so sure as God is love
We'll Abe together yet,
If you but love me as you did
Mon Amour
Though years of silence roll between
The vows still stand secure
1'or love can't die, that has a faith,
Sufficient to endure,
We'll roam Heavens highlands hand
in hand -
Mon Amour, Oh Mon Amour
LLOYD GEORGE'S FAVORITE •
TENCHMAN IS CANNY
"WILLIE" SUTHEilisAND
In the course of his .long and ar-
duous, political career David Lloyd
George has had many secretaries and
personal henchmen and none of ,them'
has ever been a fool or a sluggard.
Philip Kerr, former editor of the
Round Table. who knew as much
about international problems as most
foreign secretaries, was at his elbow
during the later war years and the
peace conference and their Sir Ed-
ward Grigg, another able .journalist,
whet., is now National Liberal member
for Oldham, took his 'place, Sir J.
T,' Daviem•who was rewarded with a
directorship of the Suez Canal Com-
pany, was a faithful sateilite for
years, and G. F. Shakespeare also
now a member at' Wes'ps inter, was
a useful member of his entourage.
Lloyd -George has implicit confidence
in the, abilities of Miss Stevenson,
who hs .been his personal secretary
for many years, but if he were asked
to name the. person on whom ke
-placed mostcomplete reliance, he
would probably name a little. wiry
Scotsman with hair just turning grse
whom he brought with him on his
North American trip. This Scot is
now Sir William Sutherland, ex -
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancast-
er; and Liberal Member for Argyll-
shire, but to his friends and in the
world of polities he is and always will
be "Willie" Sutherland,
Born in 1880. "Willie" Sutherland
was literally cradled in 'politics and
drank in the gospel of ,Liberalism
with his mother's milk for his father
was one of the- chief bosses of the
very efficient Liberal machine which
controlled Scotland for many a long
day. Yung Sutherland got a good
education. He went to Glasgow Uni-
versity, where . he waged, fierce war-
fare on Conservatives in university
debates. After graduating he fared
forth at once to that Mecha of the
able and ambitious'ecot,' Fleet Streets
and got a position on a London pap-
eie He had; through his father's
connection, many friends in the poli-
tical world on the Liberal side and
his talents as a writer were soon rec-
ognized and utilized by the patty,
ut hi .. 4,•. ;
tills 's ak ng, ai gZ .,.
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beibrf the Roar #e.
der of a caul ,sigh tea;' ialtA rpl�rpI
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which eaua�ad ear To�p� landlord tQ
shiver and •ra "q alternately.:, it was
! Wiitie" $utherhusdls-who Who ' eti-
trusted with its `afanagement °Of
eolirse he had 'to' write ji book as a
pe
elude a
ad`
e n the' end
#of 1912 there.,
appeared from his pen "Aural Re-
generation in England."
advent of the war ,willed
a halt to the great land campaign,
and, Lloyd George had to turn . his
energies to the task of national sal-
vation, When he went to 'the min-
istry of � munitions he made Suther-
land his private secretary, 'and'' in
this capacity he accompanied hie
chief to ton ministry of war. Then
came the coup of November, 1916,
and in it "Willie" Sutherland. played
an active part behind the scenes in
winning over many Scotch Liberal
members to his patron's side.He
found himself, however, as a result,
in a position of extraordinary influ-
ence, for the chief private secretary
of a prime minister can do many
thingasthat an ordinary cabinet min-
ister cannot accomplish. But Suther-
land had always cherished definite
political ambitions and the way was
now open for their gratification.
He resigned bis post to stand- as
Coalition -Liberal candidate for the
county.of Argyleshire, and in the no-
torious "hang -the -kaiser" election of
1918 was elected by a huge majority.
Lloyd George still needed his services
and proceeded to instal him as- his
parliamentary secretary. Party man-
agement, has always been Suther-
land's, special gift and when the whip
of the Lloyd Qeorgean Liberals re-
signed, the member for Argyle was
his inevitable successor. For two
years he helped to manage the for-
tunes of the restless coalition party -
during a very difficult pitied and had
to get it through some very sticky,
places.
As time went on the coalition cab-
inet underwent losses by resignation
and death, and at one of its periodi-
oal.reorganizations in 1922 Slither -
land found himself admitted to the
sacred circle as chancelor of the
Duchy of Lancaster. It is a sort of
sinecure office which a British prime'
minister has always at his disposal
for some special friend or handy man.
Lord Beaverbreok held it for a space
and it just suited Sutherl8, who
had by this time been knighted and
had married in 1921 a wealthy heiress'
in Miss Edith Fountain, the owner
of rich collieries in the Barnsley dis-
trict of Yorkshire. He was now in
the inmost political circle. and al-
though his power behind the throne
•
had neverbeen obssitte
observers,: he .for the fist"
:aged as a national 'kgure
duty, however, was to: act as Lloyd
George's -politieaf manager and tills
penser of patronage, ' The British
premier "still 'has..'a vast amount of
patronage to bestow, but ,during the
'war years' Lloyd George had 'little
time to . bother with it, and' it was
currently reported in the political
clubs that from 1915 onwards hie left"
most of its dispensation to Suther-
land, placing complete confidence in
his discretion, At any rate, during
that period,, whenever anybody want-
ed a job which was in Lloyd George's
gift, he was usually advised to gaip
the ear oi; "Willie" Sutherland, and as
a result no Than in the realm was so
much courted.
Among the of fes which are in the
gift of a British premier are the bish-
oprics, and it used to enrage-- good
Episcopalians to think that all the
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}rid boaata'`tltoh he
chief 3nt
;`blacked bis ba dand
has no official" poaltiOttr
but he is its real Inaluager, ani;•
pie•' who, bare any $sprtecial
with Lloyd George, i .hey;lgtow 1
ropes, always take : Carel to get-acce
fust to Si'rwas*. As he'is. on
in his early. 3ortiet, his political:
reer cart scarcely be,'Bald : to have;
'gun, and jrt la .certain that if the+ittt
Welshrdan -ever :gets back tt t1.
premiership this most loyal of all hh
henchmen will once more be 3n Mar,.
cabinet.
"Willie" Sutherland Kaci never been
best a in Canada before : laresen sit,.
ppointments in their church but 21e has many relatives 3n th viWan
were at the mercy of a benighted
Welsh Baptist. But the Welsh Bap-
tist was not ihterested in theme and
was reputed to turn them over usu-
ally to Sutherland, who was notany
better from the Episcopalian point
of view, as,a is a staunch Presby-
terian. One day_ in 1918 an old
friend called at Downing Street to
see the - premier's secretary, and
nipeg-district. ilia father was a nal•• •-
tire of Kildonan, in Suthorlandahire, „ ;
Scotland, and, it was from this IW-
dollen that many of the Selldrk set-.
tiers Dame to found a century ago
the new Kildonan `in Manitoba. A-
rgong them were a; number of Suther-
lands, and the name,* very common
in Winnipeg and Kiliignan. Threugh•
found him with knitted brows. "Yon the generations sorhe`i;a3ut connection;
seem worried, Wille;" he said.'"go had been kept up across the estrang-
would you be if you had my ob." inn seas, and Str .Willi m„ who has
all the clannishness of'�Ghe Scot, de -
le; they want a bison». The last one brat tasbek alien
Winnipeg would;the.eaettbe his to
died' a month ago and L. G. has told . seek out his kinsfolk in; =dollar -
me to pick a new erre. I can't make
up my mind whether to send them a
muscular Christian or a' Hebrew
scholar. It's terrible work for a
Presbyterian to tackle," s
His close association with Lloyd ,
George made Sutherland the target
for many attacks and jibes,- but be
always retained his popularity with
his, fellow members of the House of
Commons. His constituents evident-
ly like him' well, for when Lloyd.
Georgian candidates were falling like
leaves in • autumn in the election of
1922 he was re-elected for Argyll-
shire by a comfortable majority.
He is now a private member qf the
House, and what time 'he has to
spare from his parliamentary duties.
he devotee to managing his wife's
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