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UNCUT LEADERS CAUSE• FRUIT'
SPURS.
Allowing Waders to remain unpruned
often lute the effect 'of causing fruit
spurs to f en along almost their entire
length. If the leaders are strong, this
is what is wahted, but, if they . are
weak and thin it le a nuelance, as they
are not strong enough to bear the
weight of fruit. The only remedy is
tot out very hard the next year. To
doe las one has to look low down for
a s' "Itable growth bud, but often into
twoeyear-old wood.• •
As trees age it becomes unnecessary
tosshorten their leaders and pruning
then becomes a mere matter of thin-
letng out. This time omes much sooner
wail SOong growers than with weak
ones, With rank growers which are
slow In coming into bearing, the sooner
one is able to cease shortening leaders
the better, as nothing tends more to-
warklithe formatidfoof fruit spurs.
First, however, it is necessary to
get the treo furnished witb. branches.
With very prolific varieties, on the
other hand, one must continue shor-
tening leaders for several more years;
oalhere 'will be no growth at alland
the trees will overcrop and become
stunted. Bush trees on dwarfing
stacks require harder pruning than
standards on tree stocks.
It lima always be remembered that
gresevia,nd not fruit follows the knife.
Pruning is really against fruiting, but
it must be done to fortn a tree and get
*itches strong enough tb bear heavy
• cropsealso which are necessary to rip-
. ea hatikfruit and wood and to reduce
the liatelity to diseases.
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WINTER STORES FOR 43EF.s.
• McCublein, aeeletant in charge of •the
plant pathological laboratory at St,
Catharines, Ontario, is the author of
the bulletin, which can be had free
upon appeleation to the Publications
Branch Department of Agriculture,
•The !quality et the stores with which
the bees' enter winter. is as important
at` the quantity of story. In general,
honeys sfri mixed sources and dark
• honeys, except buckwheat, are not
desirable for wintering bees. New is
theatime to make a special examina-
tion of all colonies to determine the
eleelity and the quantity of stores
peasent.- Geod honey for wintering
bees should be liquid and quite bright
and transparent. Candled honey be-
trays the probable presence of honey
dela, which is wholly uasultable as a
waster food. Tho objectionable Part
of honey dew is the gumof dextrin
which le contains . The bees cermet
digest dektrin, and it collects in their
intestines and brings about a condi-
tionektiOwn as dysentery. Granulated
!Mat is free from gums and is per-
fectly digested.
eFrom the time that honey gathering
aerate In the autumn till it begins
tibia In the spring an average colony
will consume forty-fivo ppunds of
stores. The bees Ought to enter win-
ter with this quantity in. easy reach.
If half of this amount in the fall if he
is goiag to winter in the cellar, and
two-thirds this amount if he is gding
to winter outdoors. Then the bal-
ance of the forty-five pounds should
be glen in the spring after the beee
fly, -B. A. McDonald, Connecticut.
THE DISEASES OF THE TOMATO.
Few peopla have ever stopped to
consider the number a diseases to
whieh'the totaa.to plant is aubject. A
bulletin recently issued by the ,Divi -
elan' ofelotany of the Experimental
rtne eneraeratee forty-four of these
iseases, and poesibly there may be
more. Many complaints to which the
Potato, tobacco plant and egg plant
are snleJeat are also common to the
tomato., the five plants all being mem-
beta of the Nightshade family. Mr.
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MOTHERS
TO BE
Should Read Mrs.Monyhan'c
Letter Published by
Her Permission.
Incl. -"Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound helped me so much
during the time
was lookingforward
to the coming of my
little Ole that I an
reaommending it to
other expectant
mothers.. Before
, taking it, spifilidaye
I suffered With holt.
ralgia so badlY that
f I thought 1 could
notlive, ,but'nfter
taking throe'bettles
of Lydia E. P n k -
ham's Veketable
Compoundlifirs en-
tirely relieved of
neuralgia, 1 bad
'gained stfaiigth
ald Was abld to go
around 'and de all
iny hones* . Myr baby when seven
wonQtd weighed 18 poandennd 1 feel k
lid I have or2t1. 1
nev had $4..ngit:ie ileAltt,Votlit
roue
Mit.4i i;ut,
bealtb during mittetity 111
ortent fattor to both mother
ved Mad bY the ydli Pia telfityriT letteeee Oave bee
Wee CO.,te4 o
reStorklduringthIs tryiti a
dliN. Mk:hada ke6
Ottawa. It consists of sixteen pages,
with three full-page plates showing
some of the, diseases at the various
stages. At a time when vegetable gap-
dening is so general, there should be
wide demand for thq bulletin, which,
indeed, no/grower of the tomato should
overlook.
NOTES.
A great part of the value of keeping
cream cool on the farm and at the sta-
tion or creamery is lost if the cream is
exposed to the direct rays of the sun
while being hauled from the farm to
the paint of sale. Far too -few people
stop to realize tluaimportance of cover-
ing their cream cans when bringing
them to town. Exaensiere jacketked cans
are not a necessity to keep the cream
cool. In summer weather just an or-
dinary place of wee burlap thrown over
the cans will keep the temperature of
the cream as muoh as 20 degrees below
What it welled rise to if left uncovered
while being transported over the aver-
age hauling distance.
Men do not farra themselves into
,riches in one year. It takes time,
Patience, perseverance and ability to
make farming pay. But what other
oecupation offers anything for less
effort? The farm is about as profit-
able as othar bueiness requiring no
more capital, inteleigence or labor.
- The man who hinks that a dairy
cdvv can rough it and still be a pro-
fitable milker has some things to
learn about cows. No animal shines
the bad results of neglect quicker than
a cow, and none responde nore fully
to good care, good feeding and kind
treatment.
Money spent on faem property
maintenance cannot be :better spent.
Paint the buildings, oil and store the
machinery, protect the livestock.
Pigs often lack vigor because the
breed sows are kept too fat. A. good,
theifty condition is much betteiefor the
pigs than, too much fat.
^0,ee
seaseesa
Sunken Eyes
Brighten Quickly, -
Health Returns,
aee
In a 'Message to Ailing Wokmen 'Doctor
Hamiltaa Tells How atels Done.
In speaking of the ills fromewhich
women suffer, Dr. Hamilton points
out that nine out of every ten women
are by nature inclined to habitaal con-
stipation. Harsh purgatives are re-
sorted to which only intensify the
trouble. Although not p1/4'. en erally
known, it is a constipated condition,pf
the bowels that causes half the nick -
nese and tired weariness with which
all mankind is so familiar. It was
after long years of study that De.
Hamilton perfected the pills which
bave been of such marvellous !benefit
to women the world over. In his pills
ct Mandrake and Butternut every suf-
ferer will find an absolute specifie for
constipation, sick headache and 'bili-
ousness. It is safe to say that .Dr.
Hamilton's Pine bring better health
and keep the ystem 111 11 more vigerous
condition that any Other medicine4ever
discovered. At all dealers, in 25e
boxes. •
4 • 41.
THE MUSICAL CATBIRD.
This Canadian Has Ugly Mane
But Beautiful Song.
be proud of Ilia 'relative, who is better
known irk the ilorth than he Is.
Selence bas Caine to give tbis bird
a name quite as objectionable as "cat-
bird," No one need be expected to
pronounce as the name a this Species
the syllable monetrosity "galcoseoptee
carolinensie" Certainly trot, especial-
ly as the translation of these words
given to us that in eengliele the syl.
labe "gale" is Greek for "weasel," and
fronr "skoptes" cornee the were
"mocker."
.And there he swings on the topping'
twig of the apple tree and sing,s and
sings, wholly melees of any bf the
harnes given to himi in either Greek
or English. The bird breeds in, the
north and 'winters from Florida south-
ward.
The nightingale is a smaller bird
than our catbird. It sings for the
most part after dusk. Our indepen-
dent Canadian bird sings at any time
he chooses. Ile is an early riser and
under the summer schedule rsoW oPelle
his repotory at 4.30 asn.
s. 4 4 ••••
Old -Time Georgie, Sign.
At one time cotton men in Macon
thought that the presence- of a man
with a hand organ and monkey in the
strets of that city had a direct bear-
ing on the cotton market, causing -a
decline in price. At one time the or-
gan man was prohibited by municipal
law, but Pater was admitted on pay-
ment of a substantial license. -Tifton
Gazette.
.„
Tortured for
-
Nearly Two Years
MRS. PLANTE FOUND 'RELIEF IN
DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS.
She Tells How They Helped Her Kicl-
• ney Disease and Made a New Wo-
man of Her.
Ste Florence, Que., Feb. 24.-(Soe-
cial.)'-'Two boxes of Dodd's Kidney
!Pills neade a new peraon of me," The
epeaker is Madame M. L, Plante, of
this place, and her numerous friends
here fully verify her statement.
"For nearly two years," Mrs. Plante.
continues, "kidney disease tortured
me. I heaed of Dodd'e Kidney Pills,
and made up iny mind- to try them,
arid to my surprise they did me goet
almost at once. Two boxes cured. inc
completely. I recommend them to all
my friends."
arra. Plante is only one of many
who had a similar experience. They
were weak and run-down, and sick all
over. Dodd's Kidney Pills helped
them. How? Simply by curing the
kidneys. The diseased kidneysa. were
the cause of all the trouble. They
were failing to (drain the impurities
out of the blood, and the result was
disease all over the body. Dodd's NiSe
ney Pills helped the kidneys, the im-
purities were etrained out of the
blood. The result was pure blood and
good health all over the body. The
cause of the disease had been re-
moved.
The apple -blooms in the solitaryap-
ple trees in the backyard, the only
survivor of the ravage of the an Jose
scale, have been scattered by the
winds. In their place is an assem-
blage of little green buttons, which
It is hoped Will one day develop into
pippins.
From the uppermost twig of this
tree, the family in also house and all
the neighbors have been furnished,
morning attar morning, with a Musi-
cal medley, the delight of all who hear
it.
Poets on this side a the Atlantic
have indulged in raptures over the
song y the nightingale, 'Which they
have fiever heard but have taken sec-
ondehand from European rhysters.
Deaf are they to the weaderful vocal-
izt singing insthe apple tree to whom,
native Cenadian that he is, has 'been
aceerded no sounding title. He Is
ealled-eone may blash to write la-
the eatbird.
This nanie bas been given, it is
said, because of One of its criee, which
reseelb1et4 the Mee/ of cat, and this
Mew of the catels the least of this
bird's atcomplishments. His musi-
cal Matinee from the top of the apple
tree lasts a full half hour oath morn-
ing, and what a variety, With no num-
ber repeated!
A handsomely -shaped chap he is,
about eight and one-half- Inches long
Nora the tip of his bill to the longest
a his tail feathers. Ilia suit Is of a
dark eleste color with crown and tail
black, and under tail coverts chestnut.
Other birds arrive in this neighbor -
1100 somewhat earlier in the spring,
but de not dpserve and should not re -
Wire a 'warmer welcome, not evert the
redpchested robin, who lute impudence
and etyde but malt song power,
The pftbitel 1 rolated to the mock.
bW el 0%14 YfIlitlir WiYngI
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—THE—
Poultry World
00.1.20110M10:11114.01.1114
Ingiambs000cameasescua
(By G. R..Smith, Author and Practical
Poultryman).
"Well begun, half done." Such a
proverb will well apply in the mat-
ter of winter egg production. Get-
ting the young females started right
will save time and money. It is
nearly half the battle.
The man who thoroughly studies
this phase of the winter egg proposi-
tion and puts his findings into practice
at this season will be a winner.
Nothing but higheciass stock should
be permitted to scratch in young lit-
ter this wintess. The bird that will
not lay eggs must not eat grain at
such time as this. Spot her quickly
and send her to the shambles as a sub-
stitute tor "red meat." You will make
more money that way than by giv-
ing her free board for the next le
months.
Five non -producers in a unit of 20
Will swing the balance to the wrong
side of the ledger, and not only put
you out of business, but rob a heroic
hernia guard of meat food in the form
of "A -No. 1" eggs. Those five hens
ought to lay two and a half eggs every
day, but they fail to do that and in ad-
dition each day nearly the value of
the same number of eggs.
The "cull" is undersized, crow -
beaked, mis-shaped, pep -less, and
shows nuMerous and well -marked
sigris of degeneracy. She is as little
value to your flock as the human de-
generate Is to the body politic. We
must take sensitive and sympathetic
care of the human's of this class, for
we are Ohristians, but a chickenenust
be handled on the eanee principle as a
hill ot corn. The non-productive must
be "removed." It cumbers tlfee
ground.
AS TO WINTER QUARTERS.
The pullets should be put into their
permanent winter quarters two or
three -weeks at least before they reach
full laying maturity. Fowls are peen-
larly sensitive as to their living
Wades. The "home" of a hen is the
pole on which roosts. A forced
change from one sleeping place to an-
other is a serious Jar to her nervous
system. The result is that the repro-
ductivle prOcess are instantly checked
or fully arrested until she becomes ac-
customed to the new quarters and re-
acts to the changed home environ-
ment.
If your pullets have cOme to full lay-
ing maturity and are yielding YOu a 75
per cent, record before you put them
Into their pernNnent winter laying
house, they will be quite certain to
VIM*
DRS. SOPER ecVtiiire
SPECIALISTS
Rea Catena., Asthma. catarrh. Pimples,
OVspeptila, Epilepsy, Rheumatism,
ney, Mooch Nerve and aladdee Diseases.
Can et Red Moor, Cot free Ids*
futakie4 la tsbitit tom, 5,1.e1
skkkd to 41p.m. sundays-le
Cloattiltitloa F
ORS. SOPER dt:
xal'oroittoilt.,Torcute.Ost.
2 Cakes CuticuraSoap
and 3 Boxes.Ointment'
Heal Two Weeks Old Baby
Of Skin, Trouble,!
Hvirlien sellout twp weeks old MY
baby turned bine. and In a couple of
days broke out in a rasb,
Then she turned sore
around her ears and on
the top of ber head, and
on her arms and legs,
The skin was red and she
scratched till she made it
bleed:She could not sleep.
I "I wrote for a free sample of Cutie
cum Soap and Ointment. It was a
gr.eat relief, 66 I bought more, and I
used two cakes of Cuticura Seep and
three boxes of Cutieura Oitatnent
when she was healed," (Signed)
Mrs. Alfred Ryan, 167A St, Martin
St., Montreal,.Que., August 10, 1917-
1 For every purpose of the toilet Cuti•
cure Soap and Ointment are supreme.
For Free Sample Each by Mail ad-
dress poet -card; Tuticura, Delft. A.
Boston, U. Se A." Sold everywhere.
limmlemommemilima
bless to *spend to those needs as itt-
stlnctire the winking ,of the eye.
Care must always be taken to avoid
frightenina the birdie The flOCk that
is ahead' of the man who takes Care
of it will do little toward whaling thie
war or eUriching its owner. Make
them lave you. It is the easiest thing
in the world, A fine and well-bred pul-
let responds as quickly to Itindnees as
a human being. Tlae ability to read
your epirlt of sympathy or et cruelty
was brought in from the jungles on-
turies ago. As the neetileg partridge
is peculiarly sensitive about being dies
turbed in her great business, and will
leave her nest at very Blight provoca-
tion, so your bright-eyed pullets mug
be cared for with the utmost tender -
nese, lest they leave their nests, and
leave you, too, without eggs. •
Harmonizing OolorS.
Red and blue.
Blue and gold.
Wino and black,
Gray and flesh pink.
Purple, and gold.
Yellow and black.
Yellow and lavender.
Light green and black...
Lavender and African brown.
drop to zero or at least to a 25 per
cent, output almost immediately af-
ter you have placed them in a strange
living. and roosting environment. This
is a provision of nature. " It ie the In -
stint of the bird guarding the off -
swing.
Get them well "wonted," therefore,
in the winter egg buildin'g before yott
have reason to look for the first eggs,
Make the change as little exciting as
possible. Get your shock -absorbing
system well organized.
Preparations should be so thorough
for the coming months thee practical.
ly no changes will need to be made
after the birds are'placed in their win-
ter home. Never forget that every
time you enter the laying roam of a
flock of hens and make any material
changes, especially in the sets and
roosting arrangements, You do it at
'the sacrifice ef eggs.
I once had a flock of 15 thorough-
breds in a well-erelipped laying house,
It was in midwinter, but every hen
was in the pink Of condition and lay-
ing eggs with clock -like regularity.
One day I made a radical change in
the character and positions of the
nests. Within 72 hours after the new
nesting system was installed every
hen had stopped laying, and it took
me three long weeks to get them back
to their former egg record. I lost
about 200 eggs by the blunder. If
the same error had, been made with
1,500 hens, instead of with 15, my
arithmetic teaches me that I 'would
have lost 20,000 eggs, the market
value of which should he nothing short
of $1,000 at the present time. •
Such an experience should write in
large letters the importance of perma-
nent arrangements from the first.
Spray for mites and lice before you
put the pullets in. Improvements,
painting, white -washing, laying the
litter -:everything should be in the
same condition in which you expect
to keep it all -through the winter.
FOOD IN ABUNDANCE.
A fowl is a mere machine for the
manufacture of egge. You get out
what you put in. The bird that is.
given a ration that is deficient in
quality and quantity must not be ex-
pected to lay eggs. Her body is busy
taking care of itself. Give her more
in quantity and quality, and she will.
not only build a eplendid animal ma-
chine for you, but she will use sur-
plus energy in the making of eggs.
This is the secret of the "mating
season.' Food and temperature in the
wild ef nature make it impossible foe
the bird to aio more than sustain her
own body during the rigors of winter.
When thesspring time conies the warm
weather and an abundance of food
make it possible for the bird to
more than sustain her body, and
therefore the reproductive functions
come into full .operation. It is up to
the poultryman to feed his birds so
aboundingly and to furnish, them such
bodily comforts both day and night
that the "mating season" will continuo
without a break from the day ef egg -
laying maturity in the fall till the
molting time comae ten Months later.
Mention This Paper,
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Road's Thick Ice rouaciation.
At one point of a road recently a:in-
structed in Alaska, there is a solid ice
foundation. At the surface there is
a two -foot layer of moss ancle tundra,
but previous minIng operations at thia
point proved that there is a forty -foot
bed of clear ice and six feet of gravel
between the surface layer and bed
'rock,
This is the problem of profits in a
nutshell. Tho man who can't turn
this trick with Dame Nature has yet
to learn the secrete of winter egg -get-
ting.
Fed them before they lay just as
You would feed tnem after they have
begun laying. "The ration that will
make bens lay after they have begun
is exactly the ration to give them be-
fore they have begun.
There must be a variety. Pullets
that have recently been brought in
from an unlimited diet of green food
in the -open.should have an abundance
of green food in the laying house.
They have also had meat food in the
form of insects of great variety. This
should be continued in the form of
meat meal. The best •authorities say
that the meat should make up not less
than ten and not more than 25 per
cent, of the entire ration.
Dry mash should be before them all
the time in hoppers that will not
"leak." Laying fowls thould not he
crammed in the morning with soft
food, but should be given enough to
furnish a good start for the {lay, with
plenty of .opportunity to scratch for
grain in some form in the clean, deep
litter of straW or shavings.
INCIDENTAL CARE.
.All of the above suggestions may bo
observed, and yet there may be Pan-
tile. We have all heard of the artist
Who "mixed his paints with brains."
That is the need irk every buelneca,
profession or calling. The generel
Scheme of operation may be ideal, but
unless the incidentals aro carefully
looked after, day in end day out, and
. from hour to hoer, the "system" will
be certairi to go wrong.
There aro eountle8s little attentions
,that need tes be given to fowls that
'are expected to do big things. This
egg -getting business is quite like run-
ning an automobile. The process muet
becornit Instinetive„All the details
caret be tabulated. "rho caretaker of
the winter egg -layers Must be COM-
pletely "onto his job" --the vision of
the needs of the flock and of each ixt-
diVIdUal Inettult and clear, and 4 read.
Weak, Nervous Children
Quickly an Strength
Under Following Plan
!Nervousness, just like weakness, is
a family predisposition, We inherit
tendencies to disease just as we in- .
herit physical resemblances. The
(Amin of study, social duties, work
at home - these all tend to make
nervous troubles among children.
No wonder that St. Vitus Dance, Epi-
lepsy, and constant headaches have
become alarmingly common. Pale,
nervous, listless young people are
met 'everywhere.
It is nothing short of criminal for
parents to neglect signs of weakneca
in their children. By ignoring the
slightest symptom of nervous or
mental strain, you may condemn your
child to life-long invalidiGna If any
member of your family complains of
headaches, fear of going into dark
places, give them that wonderful
tonic, "Ferrozone." Strength of body
and mind, hardy nerves, ability to
study with comfort, all the attributes
of health quickly follow' the use of
Ferrozone. It -..cetabliseiee strength,
color, .endurance, vim-doesthis by
filling the whole system with nour-
ishment arid tissue -forming materials.
It's because we know the enpr-
mous good that Ferrozone will do,
because we are sure every child and
even grcwh Tons, Will be permanently
benefited, that we urge yore to give it
a trial. All dealers Fell Ferroaone in
50c boxes, six for $2.50, or direct by
niaii from The Catarrhozone Co.,
Kingston, Ont. "
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(From my Frienia
;ltolraoPe.)rovost, by Hew
E'RE • SITTIN'
6still oorsel's,"
said the Pro.
vs lovsetr, itno amny-
inquiry o n
Thurs d.ay
morning, "but
there's heaps
roon aboot us
at the genie
for 'oors.
p en't 111 F
1 arite-
knee-deep wa estrae and chaff, like
etackyairds on threshIn' days; there's
men that haena slept for nichts rin-
nin' up and doon stairs wi' kitchen
grates and fenders, and there's hardly
aosupport.clostliat haena its roll o' waxclaith
,t
"There's the Mains thrang at it
since the .daurkenin' yestreen. and the
Matliesons no' a bit better. Auld Kirk
or Free, It's nae odds. 'When it comes
to flittin', releegion'i cleinn forgot, and
Saturday and Sunday's alike.
"Mair's wife main flit to ane o' thee
new properties wi' the wally closes
and electric licht, in the hope that
her man'll mistak' the graun' en-
trance for a public-hoc:tees and come
straucht hame on the pey nicht. Ye'd
lauch to see the big lang cratur'
haundin' the fancy pictures doon ower
the window, an' his wife cairryin' the
shoddy trash ablow her apron.
"And there's Mistress Matheson, eel'
her no'-we,e1 man and her fowre young
weans, watchin' the last rake o' their
belangin's leavin' \yr the coal man,
wha's claein' the cairtin' free, thinkin'
it's better policy to dee that thro• keep
on supplying them we ccals they neve,r
PeY'foer.
'ThMurrays are flittin' oot to
Cambuslang, and I ken what galled
them shift. It's the Man that's to
blame. He bocht a book aft an Argyle
street barrow that tells-- ye there
shouldna be onybody leAvin' in tome
-everybody should hae lis ain door
and hisain gairden-and Murray's
awa' for that.
"He says if he had a free haun' he
eceuld clear awa' the slums in five
'ears, and I believe he could. Cambus-
lang is the' place for practisin'-theee's
nae locks on the coal cellars.
"But it'is a sully game, the flittin'.
Res the a'e day in the 'ear the wife'll
never Miss teehin' up the front gair-
den-she saps that's whit she's there
for, but I never see muckle difference
in the floo'erts. Sbe can gie me a'
the news o' the new comerG, the
numhea- o' parlor chairs, and can tell
frae memory every ham near haun
that has an aicht-day nock. Ghe can
let
No part of Europe has a more ro-
mantic history than the stretch of
land between Calais and the
Scheldt, over whica the counts of
Flanders held rule for centuries, ob-
serves the Ztlanchester Guardian. As
far back as tho first century of the
Christian era, when it formed patt of
the Roman province of Bolgica .Secund,
this region was distinguished for its
industrial towns -remarkable even
then for their large populations and
democratic rule.
From the middle of the tenth to the
middle of zho sixteenth century was,
however, the golden age of Flanders.
It began wIththe introduction of the
woolen tindustry by Count Baldwin
and the growth of the municipalities.
Flanders became the pioneer of the
developmens of civic democracy, but
neither epee that nor upon industrial
progress dil the ceentry's face alto-
gether rest. It was the struggle of
her people against tyranny that wrote
the name of Flanders upon the pag.ss
of the world's history.
Her rulers were, for the most part,
noted warriors, beat on defending
their land and on guarding their boun-
daries agabest the invasio4ihoots
f Flemish
or Englishmen.
people were hred of a fighting stock,
and the king of France came to learn
that in attempting to extend a des-
potic rule in Flanders he had to reck-
on which more than trained soldiers
anel knights of chivalry. In the bat-
tle of the Golden Spur, fought at
Courtrai over six centuries ago, the
cloth weavers of Bruges, Ghent and
Ypies routed and destroyed the proud
French horsemen; '1' nile at a later
date a powerful French army was de-
feated at Cottrtrai by Flemish
burghers under the leadership of Peter
de Conyne, master of the cloth
weavers.
Indeed, until the colintry passed into
the posseesion of the dukes of Bur-
gundy the whole history was filled
with strieerng deed % To -day, although
the name Flanders -is applied to ewe
Belgian provinces, of whieh Ghent and
Bruges are the capitals, it stile stands
for an undefined stretch of country,
which has been the battle ground of
Europe for centuries. 'The War in
Flanders" was as familiar an expres-
sion to British ears in. the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries as it is at the
present moment, and. there le not an
inch of ground la that heroic country
but has been stansed with the blood
of patehlfs and loyalists,
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WINTER BARD ON BABY
The winter season is a hard one
on the baby, Ho le more or fess
Confined ta stuffy, badly ventilated
rooms, at is so often stormy that the
mother does not get him out irt the
fresh air as often as she should. 110
eatchee colds which rack his little
eyetem; his etonutch and bowels get
.Out, of order and he becames peevish
and croes. To guard agalnet Uses the
nether should keep a box of 13abyls
Own Tablete in the hems°. 'EheY
regulate the /./tOnlach end bowels ara?
break up colds. Whey, are sold by
medicine dealers or by mail at 25
cents box from no Dr.
'Medicine. Co., Brockville, Ont,
spot the folk that 'hate new cehings Bent
free the shop e to arrive alang with
their auid odds and ends, so that the
neebere'll think they've been well aff
in tbeir auld hoose; and she teens mate
than, a deur come ower.
"Flittin'e a eport we never got the
notion for, and the wife's no' faur
wrang when she says that them that'
aye flittin' hae mair weans than
witee
"We've only flitted twice in o9r
mairrit life, and it's eneuch, The
first time, bein' young at the game
and no' up to a' the jinks, was the
w,prst.
46•1410.1, rOMI
mew
BEFORE OliE towot HIM/
"Was this Opium '41FAllywo: inieband
°Veer sjenerciCfr dtilrigs. the honey.
moon."
, FAIR.
Fortune Teller -You will marry a rich
mon who will sive you a princely al-
lowance. Two dollars, please.
customer --t 11 pay you out of the al-
lowance. ood day
"We flitted on the Monday, think-.
in' a' the Nibble wuld be ower by the
Sunday, but it wasna till that day
We kent what a habble was. It was
a minister frae ma ain pairt that *Eke
to preach that day, and I was bent
on hearin' him, but when it cam' to
dresain' maesele the only claee I could
lay haun's on was my watch -chain and
pockethanky. It wasna till the follow -
in' Thursday, when the lassies were
unpackin' the deft oot the bine, that
ma claes cam' to licht. And they were
that sair wrinkled -the cities, I mean,
no' the laseies-that I had to tak' the
wife's hint and walk aboot wi' them
on in the back green on the Friday
and Saturday nichte to try if tho air
wucl tak' tho creeshes oot them for
the next Sunday. But they -were nev-
er the same again, and frae that Sun-
day I hadna the auld respect at the
kirk plate.
"The flittin' day is a great day for
the polismen.
"It's the day when them that hae
escaped death we Queen's Birthday
fireworks are ordered to work dooble
shifts, and it they answer the roll -
call at nicht, it means two shillings
extra on their wages. It's a sma' re-
turn for the risks they rin', for if they
miss bein' knocked ower wi' a piano,
they're nearly sure to get cleaved wi'
a fendei.
"I whiles think that the Inch who
build some o' thae nerrow closes and
stairs, that a body can hardly manage
onything up and can never manage
anything doon unless they can work
the block and tackle ower the dean
windows, had graun' heids, but the
folk that tell ye they're no Main' be-
cause they canna /et their heavy fur-
niturset.doon the stair are juist aboot as
solai
"Da ye ken what I'm gaun tae tell
Ye," 'concluded the Cockerhill Pro-
vost, "there's lassies in Govan and
Petrick this verra meenint beanie.'
o' the awful' job they'd hae to get
their pianos and sideboards doon the
stairs, and they've naething bigger he
the hoose than a bakie-if the'd gie
the woman next door back her eewiee
machine." \
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear
There is only one way to .cure catarrhal
(Maness, and that is by a constitutional
remedy. Catarrhal Deafness is caused
by an inflamed condition of the mucous
lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when
it is entirely closed, Deafness is the re-
sult, 'Unless the inflammation can be
reduced and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be destroy-
ed' forever. Marty cases of deafness
are caused by catarrh, which is an in-
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts throligh
the blood on the mucous surfaces of
the system.
'We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Catarrhal Deafness that can-
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine.
Circulars free. All Druggists, 75c.
P. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0.
GHOSTLY HELPERS,
Many Soldiers Tell of Aid in
Battle.
*
When a man's eyes are aching from
lack of sleep, when he must tighten
his 'belt because rations are overdue or
exhausted, and when hisnerves are
subjected :to such strain as only war
.e'an subject a man's nerve to, you may
say that he is in a fit coudition to
"see things," as we iaguely term the
supernataral.
Sitting around a cozy fire, munching
toast and drinking tea, the blue -clad
heroes back in Blighty began to talk
about the ghosts of the war one, and
there wasn't a 'Tommy among them
who scoffed, though many had explan-
ations.
Jack's tale was of a Moonlight even-
ing in France, when he was on sen-
try go outside the barn where his com-
panions awaited their SturimOnS to the
firiag line, jock declared he wasn't
sleepy, and he could give no reason
.for what he saw.
Itis ghosts were a brace ef dun -col-
ored bloodhounds, coupled together by
a. short steel chain, And as they
galloped past him, they gave tongue,
eleat as a 'bell,
"Mast I'd heater/Mt faint note in the
distance," said Jock, "and the deep,
mournful bay had caueed me to grip
iny rifle and keep alert. In fact, I'd
been searching for a hound, as far as
tay eyes could search the flat, tree-
less, moonlit countryside. Then, all
at once, there they Were before my
eyes, and just as fiuddenly they were
gone, with the sound of their baying
In my Ore."
The Scotsman said he'd told hie
tale te many, and that others had seen
the hounds, But Whenever they were
seen something big had always hap-
pened on the battlefront.
,1 ;Many a man who fought at Verdun
In those days when It seemed as if the
Germans must break through the
French defense, has it tale to relate
of the fine old warrior, clad In the
equipment of 1870, with long white
beard find flowing hair, rosy chePis
and laughing eyes, who sllOwed him-
self to weary troops and wounded men
BLE TEARS.
(Pearson's Weekly.)
Member of Touring ,Company -illy good
lady, the last place I ,stayed at t1 land-
lady wept when I left.
Landlady -011, , did she? Weil, I ain't
going to; I wan my irs2ney in advartee.
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A VISION OF A.10(0.4EINIT.
(Zxchange)
"Extremes met at oUr boarding-Itouse
to -day," remarked the star boarder.
"How sci?" asked the innocent by-sIb!
ter.
"It ate deviled ham and had angel cake
for dessert." .
RESULT OF WORK.
"Maud Ketcham'a hands do not show
any signs of toil."
"The one with thO engagement ring on
it does."
times without numbef. This ghost
seems to have been very much in. evi-
dence during the earlier part of the
war. In nearly every instance vic-
tory followe1 his appearance.
Sometimes it was to marching
troops, wearied to the last point of en-
durance, that he showed himself.
Sometimes he led the charge to Ger-
man trenches, Some times he bent
over the dying with his water bottle,
and gave the draught that saved life.
Just for a second woulcl his athle-
tic old figure be seen, and then a
blank. But that here was a Verdun
ghost to help their cause was faith-
fully believed in by the fighting men.
Some of them swore that they had
seen the old fellow trip up more than
one German and knock his weapon
out of his hand -London Answers.
Nothing Like It
For Bronchitis
And Weak Throat
Remarkable Cures in the Worst
Cases Reported Daily.
CURES WITHOUT USING DRUGS.
ei:tnTg..11?" Vs l!ol:tsk
Y DkrAtr raVtletr bewIlde
o nyour
" 18.It isn't,
to take wimtyou.1,111,nic is a,little girl
,
. sale any snore to offer
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PROPER, nowe iron IT.
Mr. O'llogan' belie netv rIcali-What Is
in this here bottle, watterr
W atter-0
Mr. O'HOgan-Take it put to Inc chauf-
fluomurp tuhuint iv lmkleoebkeysful,u
eller
, can't make no
qP1.4.:Ep FQULA,
The floor wallke'r smiled courteously as
the package-laW woroen was about to
depart, "C'Orne.agaip.'"• he said, bow-
ing pon.tely.
"Yes," replied the wornim over her
shounter, "and ;you must come and See
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MIGHT KELP- LooKs.
(yonxer,s statesman).
''My,svifeWoke poorly, you think,
doctor
"Yes, I do."
she needs?"
"A new hateend be',new dress."
"What do ,theikele
ORM3.13 •
(Baltireere Ankericee),
"If, as the lioet says, ladies" looks
are our ibookeeewill ,aoti not let me
learn from your-eYbV"'
"Thanks 'but rey' &Yes are already
supalled with Quails:I"' •
ae• a
MIND ON 'SOMETHING ELSE. -
At a medical-exaMination a young
aspirant was "i'sked. 'When does
mortification entitle?"
"When you ^a.topoge and are reject-
ed," was the answer 'elkat greeted the
amazed examikeer.
• a-- 4 • .10. • "
ON ANOTHER. TRACK..
"What become of all the young men
Edith used to have in her train?"
"Oh, one by cafe -they ew1tched off.es.
Doctors now advocate an entirely
new method for treating bronchitis
and irritable throat. Stomach dosing
is no longer necessary.
The most approved treatment con-
sists of a healing vapor resembling the
pure air of the Adirondacks.
Thiel soothing vapor is full of germ -
destroying substances, and at the same
time is a powerful healing agent. It.
is sent to Alike bronchial tubes and
lungs through a skillfully -devised in-
haler that can be carried le the vest
Docket. Simplicity itself is the kg). -
note of this splendid treatment.
C,ATARIMOZONE is the name of
this wonderful invention that is
daily curing chronic cases of weak
throat, bronchitis and catarrh. Every
breath through the inhaler is laden,
With soothing, healing sabetances that
destroy all diseased coriditione in the
breathing organs; it can't fail to Mire
because it goes where the trouble
really exists, and doesn't attempt to
cure, an illness in the head or throat
by means of medicine taken 'tato the
stomal. Catarrheeone is a direct
breathable scientific cure,
There is 110 sufferer from a grIDDY
cold or any winter 111 that won't find
a Mire in CatarrhozOna. which is em-
ployed by phyeiciane, miniaters, law-
yers and public men throughOut many
foreign Wide. Large ci1Y,0 lasts two
Menthe and costs $1.00 and is guaran-
teed; small size, 50c.; sample size, 25c.,
all storekeeper and druggists, or the
Catctrthozone Co., Kingston, Cadada.
IDestiny is nets. mato' of thanes; it
0. matter of choice. -43041.
esOCATED.
.s
'Pa, who is the wiSest man in the
world?" '
"I don't knew his' name, my boy,
but he's the chap that does all the
talking in the smoking compartment
of a Pullman car."
HIS HALF.
'Mamma,' shouted little Lenele from
the nursery, "Johnnie wants half the
bed.' I ; '; • aseitif
"Well," asked the mother, "isn't he
.entitled to halt of it?"
"Yes," replied Lennie, "belt he wants
his half in the middle."
"CAUGHT."
Mrs. Footlites: "You don't give me
presents now like you used to before
we were married,"
Mr. Footlites: "Now, look here', niy
dear, did you -ever hear tell of a fish-
erman giving' bait to the fish he had
caught?"
STEAMED AND RESTEAIVIED.
The Professor (at the dinner table)
-Are you aware that the steam age
is passing?
The Stenographer-Surel We ought
to see the last of that Christmas plum
pudding by the end of next week.
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EASILY EXPLAINED.
tam Francisco Chronicle).
Wifc-I used to like the smell of
cigar smoke before we were Married,
bat I don't now.
Hub -Well, you see, -my clear, 1
could afford to !buy quite a different
brand before we were married.
SOME PLOT.
(Chicago Herald-Exanalner).
"Tell me in a few words the!plet of
this play."
"Washtub, limousiae, duke."
"That's a little ttio brief. ' I don't
quite understand."
"Well, in other words, Its the story
of a social climber.",
•
EFFECT WAS EXCELLENT,
Bride's Father -I suppose, Henry,
that you are aware that the cheaue
for $10,000 I put aniong yoor wed-
ding presents was Merely for effect.
Groom -Oh, yes, sir, attd I assure
you the effect was excellent, The
bank cashed it this moining: without
a word.
THAT'S. THE POINT..
(Boston Transcript.)
Ire --"Shall we live with Mir parents
after we are married?"
with-
out theri?
he-'x"rh'? (itlestion- is, can WO nips with -
NO EXCUSE NECESSARY.
"What excuses do you make to your.
wife when yoU stay out at ItIMIts?"
"I don't make any excUses, replied
Mr. Meekton. "1 simply Sit up and watt
till Henrietta gets home from the meet-
ing she has been addressing,"
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COULDN'T CONFUSE HIM.
telate7iteel nit o taky teen.
a Aeajsuedgaeadwavsinealtiuetteendtga
InNr)ko. you claim that thle big man bit
von with malice aforethought" he ask-
ed.
Tile complainant, eyed him 8usptclous1y
for a, moment and then replied
"You can't mix me up as easy as thee,
ledge. I mild he lilt me with n Vont, and
I stick to it:"
houselteepe7, and th;trintactilete met -
PALLIATIVE.
notable
•
A miens spinster retie a most
ness and order pervading every room
made a deep Impressionupon her
(11511 :gileerl'rettirned home
ftor bttatai 1.1..eoatliiserenrvillitttp et, nat aunties and, in
AI awed tone, said:
:Vied:c.v., I saw a fty in auntie's house,
but' -after a seeencri; thotight-9t was
washing AWL"