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One was the complement of the
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The Feeding and Care
Of Dairy Cows
The best and safest way of improv-
ing the milking qualities of a herd of
cows is to raise the heifer calves from
the best cows in the herd. However,
though good breeding has beep found
a very important factor in the de-
velopment of good dairy cattle, the
usefulness of the cow when mature is
also dependent on her proper develop-
ment starting the day she is born.
The following method used at the
Dominion Experimental Station has
been found very satisfactory and cap-
able of developing strong healthy heif-
ers. The calves are removed from
the cow at birth unless they are weak
and unable to drink or unless the cow's
udder is severely caked. The mother's
milk for the first four days at the
rate of eight to ten pounds divided
in three feeds is the first feed they!
-receive. For the -'first three weeks
whole milk is given twice daily and
the quantity is increased gradually .
but overfeeding should be avoided. A
safe rule is always to keep the calf
a little hungry. At three weeks of '
age, the calves are gradually Chang -1
ed from whole to skim -milk, taking
one to two weeks to make the change.
Guild President
W. A. 1'IS1IE'C,
who is president of the Fisher Body
Corporation, is international ypresident
of the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild,
in which thousands of Canadian boys
.are siow:enrolled. The Guild offers prizes
:fotalling•05,000,.with four 4 -year Uni-
'Ilty.Stholars hips as major awards to
Wli , o ; wfiec build the best )miniature
del -Napoleonic
coaclie� -afire . ,
OA
,, p1t�50nfed
A fat substitute is then added to take
the place of the butter fat which has
been removed from the milk. Flax-
seed jelly has been found one of the
best, substitutes to use, which is made
by boiling a pound of flaxseed in a
gallon of water until a thick jelly is
formed. While the change from whole
milk to skim -milk is made, a table-
spoonful of jelly is added to the milk,
increasing gradually until at one
month old a half -cupful is fed at each
feed.
At three to four weeks of age a
grain mixture composed of two parts
of finely ground oats, one part of
bran, and one of oil cake meal is kept
before them commencing with a hand-
ful per day and increased gradually
to 11/2 pounds daily at twenty-two
weeks of age when the skim -milk may
be gradually cut off and this grain ra-
tion increased proportionately. From
the age of three to four weeks and
on, fine clover hay and clean water
are kept before them.
If the calves are spring -born they
are not exposed to heat and flies, but
kept in a dark, cool box until four
months of age, after which they may
have a paddock. If fall -dropped
calves, they are kept in a clean, bright,
comfortable, warm box stall. A lim-
ited amount of roots or a mixture of
roots and ensilage have also been
found very satisfactory.
American Translators
Manhandle the Bilbe
Scholarly Americans, assisted by
scholarly Canadians, have completed a
translation of the Bible with the idea
of making it more easily understood
by the American people. We have not
studied this holy work, and hope nev-
er to have sufficient waste time to do
so, but we have read some extracts
from it, and we are aware that one
does not have to eat the whole egg
before discovering whether it is good
or bad. The mouthful or so we have
tasted has given us the impression of
being flavored with gravel. Worse
than vinegar to the teeth it is to come
across the new version of the twenty-
third psalm:
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not
want,
In green meadows he makes me lie
down;
To refreshing waters He leads nye.
He gives me new life.
He guides me in safe paths for His
fame's sake.
Even though I walk in the darkest
valley
I fear no harm; for Thou are with
me
Thy rod and thy staff -=they comfort
me.
One finds that the ancient magical
poetry has deserted it. Every change
is a weakening change. The third
line is simply banal, and might have
been written by an advertising
solicitor. 1Vfore , if the main object
of the translators is to clarify, to
replace archaic words by words in
everyday use or at least comprehen-
sible to the average modern Intel-
ligence, why , did they cling to the
last: jibe? ? What would the average
iltodern man, never having heard of
the Bible, make of the comforting
qualities of a rod and a staff? What.
is the difference between a rod and
a staff ? Is it one thing or two things.
, that the poet was thinking of, Or isc
it merely another illustration of one
of the principles of Hebrew poetry
that the same idea should be repeat-
ed in different words, the same pic-
ture called up by varying images ?
If we regard the whole passage as
poetry we do not need to understand
every word any more than we need
to catch every word in a song. Great
inusic is not translatable. But once
the translators have dedicated them-
selves to the task of making every-
thing clear•, why did they flinch from
the only cloudy line in the poem?
There are plenty of confusions, in-
consistencies, contradictions, a n d
indeed incomprehensibilities in those
parts of the Bible which are not poe-
try, and it seems to us that the trans-
lators might profitably have labored
upon them. But they seem to have
had other aims. They have hopped
confidently to the task of improving
the Lord's Prayer:—
Our Father in Heaven!
Your name he revered!
Four kingdom come!
Lour will be done on earth as it is
clone in Heaven;
Give us to -day bread for the day
And forgive us our debts as we
have forgiven our debtors,
And do not subject us to tempta-
tion,
But save us from the evil one.
The thoughts themselves are rev-
erent enough, but the diction and
the punctuation rather suggests a
hectoring tone, as if some brisk in-
structions were being given to the
Almighty. What man with any ear,
with any taste, with any sense would
prefer "Your name he revered" to
Hallowed he Thy name?" Or "But
save us from the evil one" to "But
deliver us from evil ?" Surely Eddie
Cantor is not one of the learned
translators? We admit that from
the point of view of poetry "Give us
to -day bread for the day" is superior
to the equivalent petition in the
Douay Bible, the authoritative ver-
sion of the Roman Catholic Church,
which reads "Give us this clay our
supersubstantial bread." But no
doubt time has hallowed this caco-
phony, as time hallowed the er-
roneous "Our Father which are in
Heaven" instead of "Our Father who
art in Heaven." Such modern words
as colonel, officers and men, and
barracks, give the work a modern
enough vocabulary, but we fail to
see in what other respect they are
superior to chief captain of the
band, soldiers and centurions and
castle which they displace.
It is possible that the boys and
girls who make their first acquaint-
ance of the Bible in the American
version, may not experience the same
sense of shock almost of sacrilege as
those who were brought up on the
Ring James version. It is possible
that they may gain a clearer grasp
of some parts or many parts of the
Bible than those of an earlier gen-
eration. But we are inclined to sus-
pect that they will know correspond-
ingly as much about the Bible as
the readers of Bowdler's edition
Road Builders
Conquer Swamp
"Accelerated fill" is the latest high-
speed discovery in laying automobile
highways. •
It means speeding up nature's rate
of sinking dirt in a swamp from an
average of one foot drop a year to
one foot an hour.
By this new means roads are laid
straight across swamps which former-
ly had to be circled, the alternative
being years of waiting for the "fill"
to settle to hard bottom.
"Accelerated fill' is most pure
brains. No new tools are required.
It is just a knack which scientific
engineers have learned with the old
tools and dynamite.
The first clew to this trick appeared
in a Minnesota swamp in 1926, when
blasting enabled engineers to lay a
hard road within the surprising time
of only a year.
To -day they can sink the "fill" to
the bottom of the swamp in a few
days, occasionally in a few hours.
The highway builder first sounds
his swamp to learn the distance
through the muck to hard bottom.
Then he lays his foundation—the
"fill"—immediately without further
preparations on top of the swamp.
If the mud is twenty feet deep and
he wants a road ten feet above the
swamp surface, he piles up thirty
feet of gravel.
Beneath this fill dynamite is placed
in the mud deep in the swamp. The
fill acts as a lid to confine the explos-
ion so that it is wholly internal.
The hardpan at the bottom of the
swamp likewise confines the explos-
ion from driving downward, and so,
following the lines of least resistance,
the explosive blows some of the muck
out both sides.
'Sometimes the "fill" drops eight or
ten feet with the explosion. At each
side the swamp mud swells up, form-
ing ridges where the roadside ditches
would be.
After the first drop following the
explosions the fill continues to sink
in.
Movies Recapture Past of
Famous Old Ghost Towns
Motion pictures have discovered the
"ghost towns" of California and have
changed them from the practically de-
serted mementos of the past to oc-
casionally thriving centres of activ-
ity.
The "ghost towns" are those settled
in the boom days of the gold rush
and cattle ranging, now mere shells
of their former selves.
'Motion picture producers seeking
authentic location of the period of
these towns' heyday travel 25 miles
or more rather than build the set en
the studio lot. Often the trip is made
to photograph a single house, as was
the case in "Over the Hill."
The two most popular of these
towns are Columbia and Sonora, in
the Tuolumne foothills of the Sierras.
Columbia, particularly, has a history.
It grew to a population of 6,000 in a
month when gold was discovered near
by. Finally, with a population of
15,000, it was second only to San
Francisco among California cities.
When, in 1853, the selection of a site
for the state capital became neces-
sary, Columbia was the chief rival of
Sacramento. In the final count it
lost by two votes.
It produced in its prosperity nearly
$100,000,000 worth of gold, $55,000,000
worth being weighed and shipped
from one building—that ,V the old
Wells Fargo Express Company. The
scales still stand in the same build-
ing—deserted and forgotten.
It is doubtful if the total popu-
Iation of Columbia new exceeds
twenty families—farmers • and cattle
raisers.
A short time ago Sonora started a
movement to attract motion picture
location companies. To start the ball
rolling, location managers of the var-
ious studios were invited to visit Son-
ora. A co-operative spirit and beau-
tiful scenery have completed the job.
William Cowper
After 200 Years
William Cowper, one of the poets
who marked the transition period in
English poetry, when "passion," to
use Stopford Brooke's word, was re-
stored to it, was born on Novemiber
26, 1781, two hundred years ago, so
that he will come in for some notice
Autumn. 1 -Ie died in 1800. He tells
us something about his home life in
his lovely and touching poem, entitled,
'On Receipt of My Mother's Picture."
The loss of his mother took place
when he was six years old, but he
never forgot what she looked like,
and recalls, in the above poem, how
she ministered to his and
made him happy. The Sather was an
Anglican clergyman at Berkhamstead
when our poet was horn. He was a
very sensitive child and, like Shelley,
suffered at school because of this sen-
sitiveness. Later he was articled to
a solicitor and called to the bar in
1754.
(Gray's line—"Melancholy marked
him for her own"—might with fit-
ness, .be applied to Cowper. He had
frequent spells of insanity, and for
years before he died could never rid
himself of the belief that he would
be eternally "lost." This was not
due, as some suppose, to his contact
with John Newton, for he had several
visitations of the malady before he
met that fervid minister. His life
story is closely associated with a
family of YJnwise—a clerrgy'Man's
home. Mr. Unwin, senior, teas killed
by a fall from a horse, and it is Said
that Cowper and the widow were at
one time engaged to be married, but
nothing came of it. Cowper occupies
a prominent place in English litera-
ture, and his activities have a some-
what wide range. In addition to
writing excellent poetry, he translat-
ed 'Homer, and, in .collalboration with
Newton, produced the "Onley Hymns"
—selections fFom which, I fancy, are
to -be found in all the hymn books of
the Evangelical world.
Besides, his "letters" are by corn-
petent critics pronounced to be among
the best of that kind of writing and
are accorded a place in literature.
They are to his friends—his cousin,
Lady (Hesketh, William Unwin, John
Newton, William Hayley, Walter Bag-
ot and others. They tell about his
different homes, his literary labors,
his happiness with the Unwins, and,
above all else, his faith in the guid-
ing hand of Providence. When we
come to consider his poetry we note
that he used his gift for a high pur-
pose. This appears whenever we op-
en his pages. He did not spend his
time spinning fine phrases, but took
up subjects like Error, Education, the
Pulpit and the Appeal of Nature. He
kept close to contemporary history. In
this respect he differs widely from a
poet like Keats, who went back to a
world of romance, and left this world
almost altogether. There is a fine
sanity about Cowper's view of the
world. He put in a strong plea for
country life—"God made the country,
but man made the town."
How ironical life sometimes seems
to be. The author of that lovely
hymn, "What a Friend We Have in
Jesus," a hymn that has been an
anchor for many a troubled heart,
found his own sky terribly overcast,
and who would think when reading
that noted composition, "God Moves
in a Mysterious Way," that when it
was being written Cowper was con-
templating suicide! There are many
fine and noble lines in Cowper and
they set before the mind beautiful
pictures. There is one thing that
characterizes him and it is that he
is understandable. No one need
burst blood vessels in trying to find
out what his meaning is.
There have been many fine esti-
mates of his work. Walter Bagehot
has a delightful essay on him. So
had Stopford Brooke, in his "The-
ology in the English Poets," Gold -
win Smith wrote his life for the
"Englishmen of Letters" series. One
of the most lovely tributes is Mrs.
Browning's "Cowper's Grave,' where
she says:
"0 Poets! from a maniac's tongue was
poured the deathless singing!
O Christians! at your cross of hope a
hopeless hand was clinging!
O Alen! this man, in brotherhood,
your weary paths beguiling,
Groaned inly while he taught you
peace, and died while ye were
smiling!
* * *
Wild timid hares were drawn from
woods to share his home caresses,
Uplooking to his huurnan eyes with
sylvan tendernesses;
The very world, by God's constraint,
from falsehood's ways femoving,
Its women and its men became, be-
side him, true and loving."
News and Information For
the Busy Farmer
Winter Care of Live Stock
With the approach of winter farm-
eds should make sure that the barns
in which their stok are to pass the
cold months are clean and free from
possible infectious diseases or para-
sites. Most progressive stockmen
whitewash their stables at least once
a year, but frequent dustings with an
old broom are needed to keep the cob-
webs and dust down!. 'Before ]the
cattle leave the pastures for the
season, it is good practice to inspect
the whole herd for possible skin dis-
ease or parasites. Such diseases as
ring -worm, scab or mange, 'lice or
warbles,are-dangerous and each needs
special treatment. Ring -worm is
doubly dangerous because humans
may contract it through handling or
from curry combs and -brushes. Tinc-
ture of iodine applied daily following
washing with , soap and water will
cure ring -worm, but scabies or mange
need to be dipped in or sprayed with
special solutions such as crude petrol-
eum or equal parts of kerosense and
cottonseed oil, which mixture is also
recommended for lice. No animal can
give its best milk production or put
on flesh when feeding such parasites.
The championship trophy at the
Royal Winter Fair for the best half
bushel of wheat, held by tRe prairie
provinces for many years back, came
to Ontario this year. The winner was
Douglas Hart, whose farm is located
in East Zorra, near Woodstock. He
makes a speciality of seed grain and
has been a successful exhibitor on a
number of occasions, winning the
Eaton special on barley at Woodstock
Fair this year.
Ontario Barley For Britain
As a result of deliberations between
the Canadian High Commissioner,
Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, and col,
the Hon, T, L, Kennedy, Minister of
Agriculture, two cars of high quality
Ontario malting barley will shortly go
forward to Great Britain.
These cars are being shipped as a
trial shipment by the Ontario Market -
'ng Board, and if the quality meets
the standards of the - British malt
houses and the price received is fav-
orable, the shipment will no doubt op-
en up a new and extensive trade chan-
nel for -Ontario barley.
One car left Montreal by a C.P.R.
boat to London on November 261►h.
The second car left Montreal on the
Head Line boat Dunnallf Head on No-
vember 27th.
The results of these shipments will
be watched with keen interest by bar-
ley growers and grain dealers.
Preparing Turkeys
Turkey growers are now beginning
to finish or fatten their birds for the
Christmas holidays. It is customary-
to
ustomaryto begin the process of preparing the
luscious turkeys for the nation's fes-
tive dinner tables by feeding' them
small amounts of grain whieh gradu-
ally are itleretufed until the :birds are
on a full feed. Due to the large sup -
ply of wheat available, this grain
should be used to advantage in the
fattening ration. Wheat has nearly
the same fattening 'qualities as corn,
but does not po4il#ce the rich yellow
color of fl s i tli t yellow corn does.
It is important, 1, however, that all
grains be free from moldiness and
they should be fed in hoppers to coun-
teract certain diseases . 'that cause
heavy loss. Do not 'confine turkeys
for fattening especially if they have
been run on a range, for range birds
cannot stand confinement.
Sow Alfalfa
"This is the year to sow alfalfa,"
stated 3VIr. W. R. Reek, in announcing
the plans of the Ontario Standing
Field Crop Committee to promote the
use of legumes freely next spring. On-
tario had a good crops this year of
alfalfa and red clover seed and it is
expected that both of these will be
reasonable in price next spring. Alsike
may be included also as high tariffs
discourage export. Mr. Reek says :
"As a soil builder, pasture and hay
producer, alfalfa stands supreme. At
Ridgetown we practise seeding all
grain crops to alfalfa or mixture of
alfalfa and other legumes. -Even for
plowing down, alfalfa opens up the
soil and adds nitrates and other plant
foods to a value worth much more
than the price of seed. It also im-
proves the mechanical condition of
the soil for the production of beans,
corn, fall wheat, and other crops. As
a hay crop, alfalfa outyields all
others, both in quantity and quality.
It was the only crop to remain green
for pasture during recent very dry
years in Western Ontario."
Mr. J. A. Carroll, Director of the
Crops and Markets Branch, favors
the idea a4/, hardy home grown seed
is so plentiful and it would be great-
ly to the advantage of Ontario and
added profits to the farmers if our
alfalfa acreage were doubled. "A
campaign was conducted in 1925 and
1926," said 'Mr. Carroll, "which con-
tributed to the rapid increase in acre-
age from 381,000 in 1924 to over 806,-
000 in 1927. 'In spite of very severe
weather and poor seed crops, with
high prices during the past four.years,
our acreage is still under 650,000."
Embargo Lifted
The embargo on the importation
of cattle from the Old Country has
been removed so far as Scotland is
concerned, since there have been no
• outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease
in that country over a satisfactory
period. Animals from 'Scotland may
now be imported providing that they
are embarked at a port in Scotland on
a vessel sailing direct tp Canada with-
out touching at an English port. The
feed accompanying the cattle for use
en route must also have been; grown
and stored in Scotland. The order
permits consideration of applications
for the importation of cattle, sheep,
other ruminants, and swine from Scot-
land.
Poultry Grades
Most of the poultry being offered
on the market this year is being grad-
ed in accordance with government
standards, with the class and grade
narked by tags affixed to the breast
of the bird. There are two classes of
poultry, "Milk -fed," distinguished by
white fat, and "Selected," disting-
uished by yellow fat. Within these
classes are the grades "Milkfed A,55
"Milkfed B," "Selected A," "Selected
B" and "Selected C." Grading of the
birds in this manner enables the
householder to choose good dressed
poultry with great ease.
Former Chinese Emperor
Has Chance for Throne
Though the plans to place the for-
mer Emperor of China on the throne
of Manchuria seem to have been aban-
doned? it may be that they are merely
postponed because their premature
publication ruined their immediate ef-
fectiveness. Japan is probably de-
termined that there shall be some
change of the status of Manchuria,
and if it could be set up as an inde-
pendent state, either as a monarchy
or a republic, she would be well pleas-
ed. In the event of a monarchy is-
suing from the present welter it is
extremely likely that Pu Yi, formerly
known as the boy emperor, will mount
the throne. He would be in every re-
spect a suitable choice, and one who
abdicated the soverteignty over all the
Chinese people would seem to have a
prior claim if sovereignty over some
of them is to re-established. More-
over, he was despitefully used by the
miscalled Christian general, Feng Yu-
hsiang, who violated the abdication
agreement° and deprived the former
emperor of not only his income from
the Chinese republic, but his very
right to live in Chinese territory.
Because of the Christian general's
coup at Peiping in 1924 the former
emperor has excited much sympathy
at home and abroad. He is an
amiable highly educated and ideal-
istic young man, but what the
Japanese particularly admire about
him is the supposed weakness of his
character, which makes him an
ideal candidate for a throne that
.Japan intends to manipulate if not
absolutely control. Nevertheless in
the veins of this young man there
courses the blue blood of the famous
old Empress Dowager, one of the
most remarkable women produced in
the Nineteenth Century. Pu Yi may
also have some iron in him, or he
might inherit some of the dowager's
gifts of diplomacy, and either quality
might prove embarrassing to the Jap-
anese. It is said that he is not am-
bitious to become a crowned head once
more and that if left to his own de-
vices would choose to spend the next
few years in travel. But it can, no
doubt, be represented to him that as
Kings of 1Manchuria he would be able
to serve China and there never was a
time when scepters were lightly re-
fused, Caesar's example to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
In China the laws of primo-gena-
ture, if they exist, are set aside eas-
ily. The father's title and estates
may go to his eldest son, or, if he
chooses; to a younger son or to a
nephew. In China the Empress Dow-
ager exercised the same rights as her
subjects. It was she who said. who
should reign after her. She kept the
Emperor, , Kuang Szu a prisoner for
years while she governed the coilntry.
For some reason or other she dislik-
ed him, probably suspecting that he
had liberal tendencies. When she
knew that she was dying it is believed
that she arranged that he should be
poisoned so that he should not out-
live her and have an opportunity of
regaining his lost power. Her favor-
ite was Prince Chun because he had
married the daughter of Jung Loh,
a favorite general of her younger
days. It is said that she had prom-
ised the old general that a son of his
daughter should succeed her. BO
Prince Chun was not living when the
time came for a successor to the old
empress to mount the throne, and so
his infant son, Pu Yi, became emper-
or.
He was a mere baby at the time and
his mother, Yung Lu, became regent.
For fou ryears the child, probably
unaware of the fact, was the Emperor
of China. Then came the great revo-
lutionary movement which broke out
in 1911, under the leadership of Dr.
Sun Yat -Sen. Four months later
it was plain that the people wanted a
republic, and the empress regent ab-
dicated, and also renounced all politi-
cal rights on behalf of her son. But
this abdication made it plain that
the imperial title was not involved,
and that Pu Yi surrendered none of
his ancient spiritual authority. iHie
was to be given an allowance of $4,-
000,000
4;000,000 a year, to retain his imperial
bodyguard and to continue to dis-
charge his sipiritual duties at the
ancestral temples which the republic
pledged itself to maintain. Thus re-
lieved of all political responsibilities,
the mother and her little son retired
into the imperial palaces and there
dwelt in luxury and magnificences. In
1917 there was a royalist uprising
which placed the youth on the throne
for a few days. But it was soon put
down and he placidly relinquished
what had been seized in his name but
without his authority. Fe
He devoted himself to his education
which was supervised by an English
tutor. In 1922 he was married with
all the pomp and circumstance of a
reigning sovereign. In 1924 the so-
called Christian general seized Peip-
ing, or Peking, as it was then called,
and immediately proceeded to revoke
the abdication and the contracts
based upon it. He declared Pu Yi a
private citizen and his good con-
fiscated. Whether he might not have
proceeded another step and in a most
un -Christian manner had the young
man imprisoned or assassinated is not
known. But Pu Yi took no unneces-
sary chances. He fled to Tientsin,
where various nations have extra -ter-
ritorial power, and was given sanctu-
ary. There he has remained ever
since—a foreigner in the land of his
fathers. No doubt there are millions
of Chinese who continue to hold him
in reverence, and given some strong
military backing it is not impossible,
without relation to what happens in
Manchuria, that he may yet have a
leading role to play in Chinese
history.
Newest Car Door
Opens Both Ways
An innovation in body construction
was introduced at the annual Auto-
mobile Salon in New York last week.
It is a new style door incorporated
in a Brunn sports cabriolet model.
By means of a new style combined
handles and hinges, the door, which
is unusually wide, can be opened
either toward the front or toward the
rear at the desire of the owner. Be-
cause of the extra width; the door
virtually has the value of two doors
in one.
The mechanism that operates the
door is an importation from Italy by
Herrmann Brunn, now custom body
builder of Buffalo, N. Y., while he
was on a European tour. In his be-
lief, the new type door overcomes the
objection to a two -door, four -passen-
ger body which is that passengers en-
tering or leaving the rear compart-
ment have to disturb occupants of the
front seats.
By the new plan, the door when
shut has firm support at both ends.
The mechanism which makes this pos-
sible is complicated and is arranged
in such a manner that there is no
danger of it detaching should twv
people try to open it from both ends
at the same time; neither will the door
open from either end if the opposite
side is not tightly latched.
The design has been patented in
six countries by the Italian inven-
tor, and license to build it in the
United States has been acquired by
Mr. Brunn.
Bert's Desire
E'rom a window In a little back
Street in an Ontario town, a small
boy gazed longingly on the "ball
players" in an adjoining lot. A
strange weakness kept him resting
on a chair or in his cot, unable to
Join in the fun.
When the doctor was called, a
glance told him the story and it
was not long before little Bert was
hurried off to the Queen Mary Hos-
pital for Consumptive Children.
Hero the great desire of his life
- aeems likely to be granted. Bert
has made wonderful progress, and
the nurse says hopefully that in a
few months more he will be able to
try his prowess in the baseball nine
and what greater happiness could
befall a little bed -ridden lad than
this? j
To Save many such as Port from
consumption, this great work must
ito ori, helped by subscriptions upen
which the hospital so largely de-
pends, . A gift from you will he
krateflt;ily' appreciated. Please ser,)
tot, fir, A. 11. Armes, 223 College
t„ Toronto.
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