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b# possibin, oays Mr. X. IL Griedale,
by feeding roughage properly to zneke
money out of steers ;tad ehow a good
balance on the right side at the end of
the year. If you are going to feed steers
you must feed them judioiously, and
make the hest use te, every ounce of feed
you give them, and tbe way to make the
best use of the feed is to make it appe-
tizing. No matter what class of ani-
mals you are feeding the prime conga-
°dation mint always be to give the feed
to tem in a palatable form so that the
animals eat it, not because they feel
that they need it, but because they like
it, soul they would like to have a little
more. Until a man learns to feed in that
way he is not a good feeder and he
does not feed properly no matter
what it is he is feeding, be it a boy or
a big steer. He must learn to feed so
that the animals like the feed. *IIse
first thing is to give them somethiag
juicy.
Turnips, =Ingots, sugar -beets ensil-
age, are all good. We have tked ell
kinds of ensilage and roots, but a com-
bination of the differeut suoculent
feeds is best. A. preparation of corn -an -
silage, roots and straw will give you
first -plass results with a pound of meal
a day to start with. A. man who is gos
ing to make a success of steer feeding
mast start them well at the beginning;
must shove them right ahead and keep
them going; if he does not he is making
a mistake. To give them the right kind
of a beginning ration he must give
them something extremely succulent.
say ensilage or roots or rape. Rape will
stand quite a bit of frost and so may be
cut and fed quite late in the season.
Roots improve with keeping. Ensilage
does not materially change and may be
fed even more advantageously later on,
because roots lose in weight, although
they improve in quality. Now get this
oucculent ration into them for the first
.month and unless you are catering ior
the Chiistmas market, give them no,
imeal the first month, just give this su&
mutant ration and they will eat it free-.
ay, and you -will be astonished at the
gains they will make. I have seen steers
make A hundred pounds in twa weeks, in-
credible as that may seem. Quiek gains
aud cheap gains are the gains that will
make the money for you, because there
is a certain maintenance ration that you
have got to feed and what you can mr-
esuade them to eat over and above that
is the feed that makes the gain.
Start off with a little meal. Do not
start off with cornmeal or gluten or
wheat or barley or peas. Start in with
something light. Mix up equal parts
Df oats, bran and barley. The steer's
digestive organs are not in a condition
to fully utilize a heavy meal; therefore,
t say, start in with something light to
4.43t them going and gradually increase
Rt until at the end of a couple of months
ier say three months, they should be
getting three or four pounds a day. We
Ifed No. 2 frozen wheat to one bunch and
ere found that we were not making
good gains, not as good as they were on
gluten and bran, and we had to inarease
the quantity of frozen wheat very ma-
terially. It does not nem to have the
nutritive value that other grain has. It
.seems to be quite palatable, but not so
evaluable as a food. When we did in -
=ease It by a pound a day we got about
:as good results as we did from gluten
and bran. A man who is feeding for
;about six inonths should never feed more
than eight or nine pounds of meal a day,
alsoll that daily ration should be fed dur-
ing Ole last month only. He -should
start in And gradually increase until he
,ends up the last month with that quan-
tity of meal, Arid that should be largely
,eornmeal or gluten or oil meal, or if
feeding barley and oats or peas and
oats add a small amount of oil meal to
the ration during the last moth, and
that will give you more satisfactory re-
turns. There is nothing quite so good
as a little bit of oil meal to put on the
finish.
A good ration for a steer from the be-
ginning to the end of the fattening per -
Jed, is a half -pound of bran or a very
little meal; the first week on meal, that
tie after he has been fed three or four
\weeks on the roughage ration alone. The
,second week increase to one pound and
sa hall; fourth week, three pounds; fifth
reek, three pounds and a half, and then
ley .on increasing gradually, say half
a 1,Nsetzed more. each week, until you find
him ekiisaaking up a little in gain, when
give h. Another boost of a couple of
pounds 44.7 so that at the end of the
fourth m0.`40- the steers' should be get-
ting sevene't melt'a day, and tho last
month 1 wout N. Fate him from eight and
one half to nix.* AO one-half pounds a
day, and the lat.'t guaind of that would
be oil meal. es/
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COW TEST I NG essfeSODIAT
— ,
Dominion Dept of Agrktuletere Branch
of the Dairy and Cold 1.:140,-400 Com-
missioner.
ln visiting members of we, Pit,
associations, organized by the &We?
vieion, Ottawa, the inspectors are eieerea
times met with this statepient by ;Neel
farmers who are inclined to drop *B.!
ing and. sampling: "I haven't got the
time."
In scarcely any instance can this be
considered correct. Evidence freesia far
es the whole Dominion over thaws cow
testing to be one of the best timesaving
organizations ever introduced. Why?
r Be -cause it shows definitely that many
inen have wasted precious time on coves
that da not produce enough milk and
fat to pay the cost of feed. Thus, the
very men who say they have "no tattle"
to take Up cow testing are the very ;nen
-who untommiously waste thousands of
valuable hours. There is time, rippers
ently, antenget the unthinking class wif
farmers for attending to thousands *pi
profitless cows. With a herd Of twanter
unselected cows (out of Which probtoblse
three are net making luny profit) it.
would take the small tetal of twenty
hours during the Whola year, spread
over three days each enenth, to keep
such simple r6O0raS AS would enable the
owner to select with certainty the most
etorioinical producers. Why waste time
year after year on CAWS that average
ehout 14 lbs. a Milk per they for seven
month*, when a feet minutes per month.
plus a little brain power, wilt materially
assist in Wilding up a profittable heed?
ir • 4 C. F. W.
TESTED COWS.
Vehibition thud Will $to sotto of tho
&lett looking tow* on the ifeir grounde
thet the admiring public eould possibly
irlsh to 004. Sleek appeatice, generali
thriftless and show condition will be
appraised, continuity to type will be
judged, and point by point various char-
acterieties will be valued. ,Excellent as
they may be, these cows on exhibition
must submit to a further examluatiom
before the ordinary patron is prepared
to award them first place in his estima-
tion, He will ask, and rightly so, Can
this cow give a large yield of milk and.
butterfat at a low cost/ He cannot af-
ford to accept just a two days' high re-
cords he needs a cow that will attend
strictly to business, the business of
making money for him, three hundred
days in the year. The one vital point
for him to ascertain is, does it pay me
to keep this COW, is her profit sufficient-
ly large? To this end Ise keeps records
of each individual cow in the herd; re-
cords of tegd coneumed, and milk and
fat produced, so that no doubt may lurk
in his mind as to each cow's capacity.
Cow testing associations make this as
easy as possible at a minimum expense.
The dairy division, Ottawa, bears the
cost of testing, and supplies blank•forms
free. Several hundred cows in July had
over 850 lbs. milk end 28 lbs. fat to
tbeir credit. Many individual records
total 5,000 lbs. milk this season, while a
few choice specimens are already up to
7,000 and 8,000 lbs. milk, and 280 lbs.
fat.
C. F. W.
FARM SCHOOLS IN BAVARIA.
Travelling Teachers Who Form Clubs
and Deliver Lectures.
"In order to promote agricultural
interest the kingdom of Bavaria has
established agricultural schools in al-
most every town," said Franz J.
Hofo,uer, of 1V1unieh, Germany.
"These schools are in charge of
teachers who in addition to an acad-
emic education must be versed in bot-
any, geology, chemistry, physics, zoo-
logy and natural history. At a time
when nothing is doing in the fields,
from November to March, these
schools are open, and the peasants
for a nominal fee can attend courses
on cultivation and fertilization of the
soil, the proper rotation of crops on
the same land, the best resources for
good seeds, irrigation and the raising
of stock. They are made acquainted
with improvements and new inven-
tions in agricultural implements, the
adoption of which can be recommend-
ed. They are taught the rudiments
of bookkeeping and oilier commercial
knowledge essential for the up to date
farmer.
"In the spring after these farmers
have returned to their work in the
fields it becomes the duty of the
teachers who instructed them during
the winter to travel from county to
county and to act as advisers to the
farmers. Much good results from the
travels of these teachers, By prac-
tical suggestion to the farmers they
induce them to make valuable im-
provements in the cultivation of their
farms.
"The wandering teacher helps to
form cooperative clubs for the joint
interests of a number of farmers in
one district. From time to time the
teacher has to lecture in these clubs
on any subject which might prove of
interest to the members. These visits
and lectures to the different districts
are entirely free to the people, since
the States assumes all expenses.
There is probably no other eountry
in the world in which so much is
done by the State for its rural in-
habitants as is the case in Bavaria.
Other German States have these agri-
cultural schools, but their teachers
are not sent in such a practical way
direct to the—places where they can
do the most good, as is clone in Ba-
varia. The results of this commend-
able care have been very gratifying."
—From the Washington Herald.
YOUR MISSION.
If you cannot on the ocean
Sail among the swiftest fleet
Rocking on the highest billows,.
Laughing at the storms you meet,
You can stand among the sailors,
Anchored yet within the bay,
You can lend a had to help them
As they launch their boats away.
If you are too weak to journey
Up the mountain, steep and high,
You can stand within the valley
While the multitudes go by;
You can chant in happy measure
As they slowly pass along,
Though they may forget the singer,
They will not forget the song.
If you have not gold or iiiiver
Ever ready at command;
If you cannot toward the needy
Reach an evershalping hand,
You can succor the afflicted,
O'er the erring you can weep;
You can be a true disciple,
Sitting at the Master's feetl.
/1 yeti, cannot in the harvest
Garner up the richest sheave,
Many grains, both ripe and golden,
Will the careless reapers leave;
'Go and glean among the briars
Growing rank against the wall,
For it may be that the shadows
'Hide the heaviest Wheat of all.
If Toll cannot in the conflict
Peeve yourself a soldier true,
If Where fire and smoke are thickest
neves no work for you to do,
When the battlefield is silent,
You can go with careful treat—
You can bear away the wounded,
You ean,cover up the dead.
Do ,not, then, 13 tand idly waiting
For sonic greater work to do;
She vfl1 never come to you.
Go and toil within life'e vineyard;
Do not fear to do or dare—
If yon want a field of labor
You cart fled it anywhere.
8. M. Grannis.
,Graphite Paint.
The 4t0wing exclusion of Itad ?rota
paint on the ground of it poisonous
eisareater has lee to the latroductioa of
graphite as A sethatitute, particularly in
tlie place of ted lead in the painting of
iron. Mixed with linseed oil, graphite
protetts the iron aye"l against rust, Ited
is much cheaper them red lead. So frosty
new wits have been found for graphite,
which not long ago was employed el -
moist exelusivsly for the inamifactere of
lead-peticile, that 1step quantified are
now made with the eleetrie fritentet, the
natural delseeith of the mineral not be-
ing suffielent to emptily the denten&
Distress in the
Stomach
Hundreds of Thousands of Bot-
tles of Nervillne Used Every
Year for Okt ring Cram pa,Pia.,,
rirmea & Stornaoh. Disorders.
Deedly crempseathe symptoms are
not to be mietaken, Suddenly and with-
out warning the patient 'experiences
such agony in the stomach, as to contort
the vountenance and camas him, to cry
aloud for help,
LETTER
NO.
4877
Then 1 is that
the wonderful
power of Novel
-
line can made° it-
self felt—it cures
so quickly, yea
Would. think it
was media to cure
cramps • a n d
crumpe only,
, "Last Efilnuner I was stricken with a
frightful attack of cramps. I feared the
pain in my stomach would kill me..
"My -eyes bulged out and the veins in
zny forehead stood out like whipcords,
"My cries Attracted a neighbor, who
came to my assista,nee, and in a moment
or two handed. me half a teaspoonful
of Nerviline in some sweetened water,
"It seemed as if an angel had charm-
ed away the pain. In ton seconds I was
well. Nerviline has a wonderful name
in this locality, and is considered beet
for cramps, diarrhoea, flatulence, Istom.
• ach and bowel disorders. I urge all my
friends to use Nerviline.
"lVIANLEY M. LEGARDE,
Williamsburg."
Nehome is safe or can afford to miss
the manifold. advantages of having Ner-
viline on hand in case of accident or
emergent sickness. 26e. per bottle, five
for $1. All dealers, or The Catarrhozone
Company, Kingston, Ont.
4 * *
FISHING FOR SHARKS.
Large Experiments Caught on Lines
,Along the Mexican Coast.
The shark fishing season is on here
now and furnishes quite a pastime for
those addicted to such dangerous sports.
The sharks seem to be bolder than Usual,
very large ones coming into the bay,
while generally they keep out toward
the entrance.
Yesterday quite a large one was
caught from one of the piers. It meas-
ured over two meters in length and
caused quite an exciting battle before
the fishermen got the second harpoon
into it. This morning another much
larger one was caught by some fisher-
men in a boat. It was only subdued af-
ter a hard struggle and finally towed
alongside the sea wall and hoisted out
with a derrick. The animal was near
three meters long and. was still alive
after being hoisted out onto the dock
and 1 slashed around at a lively rate,
causing the crowd that had gathered to
see it to scatter in all directions to avoid
its enormous tail. After being killed
the animal's liver was removed and it
zueasured more than three feet in length.
This furnishes a very fine transparent
oil that is used for many purposes.
Only a short time ago Capt. Wash-
burn, of the Ward Line's tug Neptune,
caught one of these monsters, and came
very near losing out with him, as the
fingers of both hands were so badly
burned by the line which held the shark
that he was laid up for several days
with bandaged hands,—Vera Cruz corre-
spondence Mexican Herald.
Mgr
OLD ENGLAND
Is the Mother of
Queens,
-1111111rr."-- ^^^
Enrspe's,
Britain Is usurping the title, "Mother'
of Queens."
Nearly every thrdne of Europe Ales.
some descoudent of Queen Vitoria or
an oeoupant or .lose to the place of
power.
It used to be said that the Queen ef
Denmark was he royal "mother -1,-
1w" of Europe, ,Now the title seems
to be destined to fall on the shoulders
of her daughter, Queen Alexandre of
Englaud.
The latestinglislitlrincese whiz stands
in the shadow of A throne is Alexandre
of Fife,
Altholigh denial is made that she is
to become the bride of the meg leiug
Manuel of Portugal, it is known to
those within the innercircle that the
chances amount virtually to a certainty
that oho will,
Odd Facts and Figures.
Half the zinc of the world comes
from Prussia.
Sixty inches is the annual average
rainful all over the world.
A cubic foot of solid gold weighs
1,210 pounds; of silver, only 656
pounds.
All German soldiers must learn to.
swim.
Most Dutch cities are several feet
below the sea -level.
Montreal, with its winters of great
severity, is 360 miles nearer the
equator than London.
It takes eight times as much
strength to walk upstairs as it does to
walk on level ground.
More than 125,000,000 pounds of rub-
ber are used in the world each year.
Nine -tenths of Germany's popula-
tion can be fed by products of her
own soil.
Fifty-five milli= square miles is
the area of the Pacific ocean—the
same as the earth's land area.
Before it is completed, a champagne
bottle passes through the hands of
forty-five workmen.
On the east coast of Ireland it rains,
on an average, 208 days in the year;
In England, about 160 days.
Turkey has more aged people, in
proportion to her population, than any
other European country.
Nearly 80,000,000 gallons of water
are used annualy to cleanse the
:streets of the cite). of London.
*•
The Care of Awnings.
"Your awnings." said the awning
man, "would last longer and look bet-
ter if you'd dry 'em out when they got
wet.
"Some folks will leave their awnings
down to soak and drip all through a
heavy ra1. I never could understand'
why people do that; of course it doesn't
do an awning any more good than it
would any other fabrio to soak 1 in
that way, and then drip may fall on the
awning from the roof and flying soot
may lodge on it, and so if you keep your
awnings down in the rain the first thing
you knovi they are faded, discolored and
dingy.
'If you evatit to preserve your evenings
you want to haul them up when ib rains,
but if they get wet, why, then who
theair is right you want to tearer them
and let them dry out, and be sure they'-
re dry when you furl 'em before you go
away in the summer," --New York Sun,
POWER OF THE SENATE.
(Philadelphia Record.)
Speaker Cannon, at a recent Gridiron
elub dinner in Washington, stood up for
the Senate.
"You'd think, the way the Senate is
blamed for everythitig, he said, "that`
it had supettattitaI powers.
"A ctowd of fanners wore knocking
the Senate one market day last month,
whet an old fellow of only hoe horse
power beelit hustled into their inklat.
"'Well, byes,' he said, 'what's the
Senate up to nowt"
"Whys ain't ye heard, Zachary?' said
O yeurig farmer, winking at the others.
"The Setae's went and patted a bill
tWo extra months to the win.
ter,"
Zathary atruck his' forehead with his
ted-mitted fist.
"'Do tale he groaned. 'Gosh dun
the lucid An' here am 1 lean ont c."
fodder.'”
as*,
"Passent—wherien the Shoehoen,
quickl" "1 don't know, Whet an you
want the ehoehorn for?" "Ma's got
Situ& half 'way in het new dress and
can't get 1 on or off."--Chicitgo Record-
Plereld.
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Diplomacy- does things in a most un-
usual and slowly moving way, and the
betrothal of a monarch is so inuell a
matter of statecraft that the royal ad-
visers have far more to say in these
matters than the .elergy or the dress-
makers.
.Undoubtedly the announceemnt of the
proposed_ union of the young Icing of
Portuger to the granddaughter of Ed-
ward came a little too soon to suit the
plans of the politicians, but 1 can be
set down for a certainty that it will
take place within the near future.
TOOK A.LFONSO'S ADVICE,.
In following the example of the.King
of Spain, and going to England to find
O wife, Manuel will be,,pertly actuated
by the advice of Alfonso.
The young King of Spain is very much
in love, and he accounts it as the most
clever and profitable act of Ids life when
he sought out Princess Beatrice, now
known as Queen Victoria.
He not only gained for his bride a
beautiful aid cultured woman who has
already become very popular with his
sytbjects, but he gained the powerful
support of the English nation for his
throne, and hi a country where so much
surest prevailed, and whose fortunes
had of late been so checkered this was
a most valuable asset.
Like Alfonso, Manuel is in need of
support and, advice such as King Ede
ward and his advisers could, give.
The untimely taking off of Carlos by
assassination brought a mere boy to
the throne and though he has shown
judgment beyond his years there is stili
need of a guiding hand.
Until recently the Princess of Alex-
andre. Was only known as the Lady
Alexandra Duff.
She is a most charming end attrao
(dye girl. ail has had that sensible
home bringing up that was the policy
that Queen Victoria laid down for her
line, and which has been closely fol.
lowed by her daughter-in-law, Queen
Alexandra,
The Queen of Spain has made an idea/
mother, and by her home virtues hae
won the admiration of the Spanish peo-
ple. There is no doubt that should the
Princess of Fife come to Portugal's
throne, and be entrusted with the care
of a royal family that she, too, would
know how to care for it.
The recently created Earl of Fife was
only a mere earl when he married the
oldest daughter of the King, but he has
a large personal following in his own
Scottish highlands, and himself, his wife
and his daughter have all maintained a
strong place in the affections of the en-
tire nation.
PRINCESS ALEXANDRA'S POINTS.
Princess Alexandra was receatly pre-
sented at court, and made a most ex-
cellent impression by her common sense
and her good appearance.
She has been raised to an outdoor life
and. enjoys robust health. Moreover,
she is bright and accomplished and
would undoubtedly be successful at the
court of Lisbon.
The most eerie -us 'obstacle the way
Of the union is a religious one.
Naturally the Princess is a Protestant,
while the King, like all snembers of the
Braganza family, is the strictest ot
Catholics.
But 1 does not follow that such a dif-
ficulty wonld be insurmountable.
Sixnilar conditions existed in the case
of the Princess Beatrice of Battenburg
and the King of Spain, but the matter
of religion was not allowed to keep the
daughter of England from the throne.
With the entire approbation of her
uncle, the Princess embraced the Caths
olio religion, so as to be at one with her
husband with his people.
Of course there was some mild protest
throughout Protestant England, but in
the main the action of the princess was
excepted as a diplomatic necessity, and
1 did not have the effect of militating
against her popularity at home.
When Princess Alexandra becomes the
bride of the young Bing it will be an-
other member of the British royalty
added to the ruling powers of other na-
tions.
ALREADY A QUEEN,
Her aunt is already a Queer, now
ruling over Norway.
She was formerly the Princess Maud
of Wales, and when the partition be-
tween Norway and Sweden became an
accomplished. feet, it was her husband,
a Danish prince, who was elected to
the newly made throne under the title
of King Haaken VII. He has made a
most admieable ruler for the nation,
anj both himself and his Queen have
been honored by the people with the
niest loyal affeetion.
The Princess Beatrice, now the Queen
of Spain, is the daughter of the King'e
sister, Prineess Henry of Battenburg.
Sweden also boasts of an English Prins
caw for a Queen.
She was Prineese Margaret of Con-
naught, daughter of the Duke Of Con.
naught, a brother to the Xing of Eng-
land, therefore Edward is her full
uncle.
Her husband is the giant nionarell of
Europe, being the tidiest of all the sove-
reigns. He is an artist and a student,
and has just painted a portrait of hint -
self thet has called forth more than per-
functory praise.
The daughter of the Duke of Edit. -
burgh, another brother of King Etheard,
but who is now dead, is the Crown Prin
080 of Ithumardit. She will succeed to
the throne when the venerable Ring
Christian passes away.
Of the English Printesses wile are
stil shigle there are the Princese Vie.
toria, daughter of the Xing, wito will
probably never Marry; Princess Patti -
tie of Cointaught, his eleces, and Prin.
teas Mande of Fife, his granddaughter.
Of these the Prineess Patricia has
been More sought hi matrimony than
any peitterse of Europe, and the rept&
ity With which the has turned &vett
eeitote hal Won for her the title of the
tlitt tit Europe,
abe eve t does captultite to King
Cupid it will he the court sensation of
years,
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WILLHELP.
•Pr• ar••••!
•
Work For Women in Britain's Next
War.
VoluetarY Hospital and Nursery
Corps to be Formed.
London.—The War Office has issued
details of a imitable projeet in Connec-
tion with the organization of the ter-
ritorial army. It is a scheme which gives
every woman who wishes to lend her
aid to the Territorials an opportunity
to serve her country in time of invasion
as a nurse, and 1 establishes what the
Territorial force has lacked ever since
its inception—an organized chaiht of
hospital and nursing stations to take
the sick and wounded from field to
hospital, where away from the danger
area, they can be tended 1 comfort .and
in safety.
• The new organization sketched in the
scheme is modeled on the most modern
nursing armies of the world, those of
Germany and. Japan. Two great in-
,$titutions have joined with the War
Office in promoting it, the Hospital of
St. John of Jerusalem and the Red
Cross Society.
Voluntary aid. detachments are to be
founded in every territorial area, Each
group will be placed under the charge
of a county director, who will he respon-
sible for the groups of voluntary aid
detachnients, and will be controlled by
the committee of the Red Cross branch
of his county. This committee will be
responsible to the county association
for the efficiency of the detachments.
There will be men's detachments, as
well as .women's detachments. The for-
mer will consist of 48 men'with appro-
priate officers, including two medical
officers and four pharmacists. The
latter will consist of 20 women, with
officers, including two medical officers
and two women superntendents.
The special duties of a men's detach-
ment will comprise the preparation of
means of transport by road, the con-
version of country houses, public build-
ings, and even villages into suitable
clearing hospitals and evacuation sta-
tions, and especially hospitals for the
slightly wounded near the area of oper-
ations. Such a detaehmeitt will include
stretcher-bearers, male nurses, clerks,
sanitary officials, carpenters and me-
chanics.
A women's detachment in time of
war, would be employed chiefly in form-
ing "railway rest stations" for the
preparation and service of meals and
refreshment to eick and wounded dur-
ing the process of evacuation by rail-
way and m taking charge of evacuation
stations and . temporary hospitals con-
taining gevere cases unable to continue
their womenjourney.
T
will be trainedto cook
ery, the preparations of invalid diets, the
arrangement of wards and nursing.
*It has been arranged that the prelim-
inary training, both of, men and women,
shall be undertaken by the St. John
Ambulance Association, the training
being 1 first-aid and field nursing. The
British Red Cross Society will instruct
the men 1 stretcher drill, the impro-
visation of stretchers and cots, and the
preparation of country carts for the re-
moval of patients who must lie flat.
Periodical inspections will be held by
the general officers commanding or
other high officials to see that every de-
tachment is ready for service if a call
to arms comes, and the county associa-
tions or county Red Cross organizations
are advised, wherever possible, to make
the most of any voluntary help that is
offered, co-ordinating it, however, under
strict official control.
Sir Frederick Treves, chairman of the
British Red Cross Society, discussing
the scheme recently, said:
"The scheme is designed to fill the gap
.between the field ambulance and the
general hospital. And you must bear
in mind that between the field ambu-
lance and the -general hospital there
may be a distance of a hundred miles.
"I think it is the biggest patriotic
move which has taken place for et long
time. And 1 gives to women the privi-
lege of attaching themselves to the great
citizen armyof defence.
"The 'improvisation' which the mem-
bers will have to learn consiats of the
transforination of eommon things into
strot.;bers cots, aplints and hospital
utensils Of. all kinds.
"It astonished me to see what the
Japanese were able to make out of the
commonest things of the road. They
could accomplish marvels with a biscuit
tin. A couple of hop -poles, with some
railing wire, will make an excellent
stretcher, capital splints can be made
out of rushes and so on.
"The sailors in the South African war
were remarkably adept at making use
of material which most would be tempt-
ed to dismiss AS utter rubbish."
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HE RECALLED IRA SLICK.
"The late ,Tohn. R. Considine," mid a
New York hotel man, "had a host of
friends. Yet he was never afraid to
speak his mind. Ho hated hypocrites.
"When Considine was managing Cor-
bett so successfully 1 happened to praise
at A dinner a pugilist he disliked. I
said:
"'There was :semen who never said an
unkind word about any man in his
life.'
"Mr. Considthe laughed, Ile said that
suck men illsvays recalled to him Ira
"'Ire Slick," he explained, 'died. After
death lie mounted the stairs of gold con-
fidently, and he knocked with confidence
al; the golden gate.
"glut St. Peter, frowning heavily,
stuck his head out of the wieket and
pointed down.
"`So, very nmelt estonished arid pain-
ed, Ira Slick eeseehded to the lower're-
gloms. Ho ea= to a black gate front
whieli flames and sulphurous smoke
spouted. A fiend stood at the entraime,
a fiery trident upright in his hend like
a spear.
""What are you dohig down here,
Int Slick?" demanded the fiend,
"'"I'm sure t don't know," said Ire,
plaintively, 'More must be eonte
take, I never lit ell my life eald itn un-
kind event About anybody."
"'"That' e ell eight," maid the fiend,
quickly. "Step this way, please. At the
end of the bottom eorridor, next to the
fire you'll find the hypocrites' cage."'"
WATER. FROM
THE CATSKILL
oNg OF THE GREATEST ENGIN-
EERING ENTERPRIses,
Present Croton Supply gives New
York 336,000,400 Gallons Pally—
The New Catskill Supply Means
600,000,000 a Pay.
(Prom Alfred Douglas Flinies "The
World's Greatest Aqueduct" 1 the
September Century.)
Cntskill Mountain water, gath.ered
front brooks that have been fed by
melting SHOW$ and copieus rains, and
huve tumbled aver roegy slopes isito the
streems of the usountain valleys, -will in
a • few years be served to the inhabit-
ants of New York city. The project
ranks as the greatest munieipel water
supply enterpriee ever undertaken, and
as an engineering work 1 probably sec-
ond only to the Panama Canal. The
need of the water is much greater than
is realized by a majority of the citizens
or by the guardians of their interests.
Nothing can so quickly and complete-
ly disorganize the complex activities of
a modern community as a shortage of
suitable water; no single agency can so
rapidly spread disease and death as a
polluted water supply. For several years
New York has been using more water
than ite sources of supply can safely be
depended upon to furnish in a series of
dry years, such as have occurred within
the memory of men who have scarcely
reached middle age. Continuing years
of 'abundant rainfall have masked the
danger to which engineers have repeat-
edly called attention.
In 1905, as the result of a movement
promoted by civic bodies in the days of
Meyor Van Wyck and Mayor Low, a
bili was introduced into the legislature,
on the initiative of Mayor McClellan,
which, hemming law, enabled the city
to start new systems of water supply
that, with the already existing perman-
ent works, should ultimately give New
York the best and large, water supply
ever known.
As thousands of water -wise Ameri-
cans know, New York city ("old New
York") has used Croton River water for
more than two generation Similarly
from the Ridgewood system of wells,
streams, and reservoirs, Brooklyn has
dritevn its supply, often scanty. Approxi-
mately five hundred million gallons of
water are consumed by the metropolis
every day, a stream Whieh would flow
hip deep between the buildings in Fifth
avenue's fashionable shopping district
at a comfortable walking pace. For
every man, woman and child this allows
a daily average of 126 gallons. Or, to
put it still another way. for all domes-
tic, manufacturing and public purposes
New York uses every day water which
weighs about eight times as much as its
pbiius 3m1 a2pot
el.el with the 130, 140, 200, 220,
and
gallons used every day for every
person in several large American cities,
New York's allowance is moderate, es-
pecially when one recalls the character
of business and the methods of living
which prevail in the metropolis. Liberal,
ever lavish, domestic use of water is not
waste. The very necessities of life de-
mand "that there should be a maximum
supply, in order to provide for the aver-
age demand for the individual. The
word "waste" should be properly in-
terpreted. Its use in writing about
water supply has been unfortunate, for
1 has ben employed both technically
and properly to characterize quite clifY
ferent conditions in the economy of
water. Tolet a dozen glassfuls flow
from a faucet in order to get one cool
draft is not waste so long as this is the
least expensive • way to get cool water.
In a broad sense, to permit water to
flow from the faucets through the cold
winter nights is not waste. so long as
this is the ledst expensive way to pro-
tect one's plumbing fixtures.
To alloev even large volumes of water
to spill over the lowest dam of a water
shed is in no sense waste when the city
has already taken from the stream all
that it can use, or when the saving of
occasional discharges of this sort would
cost more than to get the same quantity
of water, of equal or better quality,
from another stream. Doubtless, some
water is carelessly or wantonly wasted
in New York city, but not nearly so
much as some persons assume. Waste
should be discouraged and curtained,
but waste of water can no more be
wholly prevented than the waste of en-
ergy/and time. But if all the waste
which it would be reasonably practica-
ble to stop ceased, New "ger vontlod
.
still require more water work
vide beyond peradventure fot.,, pent
needs and future growth.' • c'•
Croton River .drains int
reservoirs the water of 30
of forest and farm andam se.
nish about 330,000,000 ga
Two, aqueducts, one thirty-four ilea"
long, built in 1842 and having a „d0,i1y
ettpacity of 80,000,000 gellons, and the
other thirty-two miles lonmeelmilt in
1891, and baying a capaeitY of 300,000,-
000 gallons, bring this water to the city.
To procure 500,000,000 gallons of Cats-
kill Mountain water daily, over 600
square miles of mountain and meadow
will be brought under tribute. several
largo reservoirs created. and an ague -
duet. ninety-two miles long built, with
many miles of conduits within the city
limits.
The extent of these existing and pro-
posed works is not readily to be compre-
heeded, even when reducedeto the com-
mon money/ineasure. For the portion of
the Catskill works needed to bring into
the city every day uttfailingly 500 mil-
lion gallons MI expenditure of $102,000,-
000 is estimated. But these disburse-
ments will be spread over many years,
and the burden will not fell heavily, ex-
eept for possible temporary difficulties
itt raising reedy money for eonstruction
payments. Indeed, the cost of water
for every person will be on the average
los than one cent per day. Further-
more, these waterworks, well managed,
argrarea.
will not only pay interest on the invest-
ment and cost of operation, but in a
relatively few years will pay the capital
cost. It is reasonable to believe that
the works will be as permanent as •those
of Rome.
es 4.•
• Worth Knowing.
The best hardwood floors for every -day
usage are those which, are either waxed
or oiled. A floor that is shellacked, as a
great many hardwood. floors are, does
not wear well. It shows the inerks of
boot neils and 1 easily scratched. Un-
less it is carefully covered with rugs it
is as much of a nuisance as carpeting.
The waxed floor is really the ideal floor -
for all rooms except the kitchen, The
ordinary oiled floor is the best for the
kitchen, where there ie so much hard
usage. It does not ehow boot marks,
and can be easily washed. It will often
remain, under Ordinary circumstances,
very clean and neat looking for half a
year or more, without renewing the oil,
The proper oil to use is boiled oil; and
it should be rubbed into the floor until
the pores are filled with it. In time it
becomes oxidized, so that a permanent-
ly glossy surface. is produced.
A fire extinguisher, which may be
easily made at home and kept in a bot-
tle ready for USA, consists of three
pounds of salt and one and one-half
"pounds of sal -ammoniac dissolved 1 it
gallon of water,
Wet umbrellas should be stood on
their handles to dry. This allows the
water to run out of them, instead of in-
to the part where the ribs and the silk
meet, thus causing the metal to rust
and the silk to rot.
For earache bathe the ear in a strong
decoction of camomile flowers, then drop
a few drops of warm sweet oil into the
ear, and a strip of flannel warmed and
tied around the head.
A thin &sating made of three parts
lard, melted, with one part resin, and ap-
plied to stoves and grates, will prevent
them rusting, when not in use...
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Dairy Strong -hold of White Plague.
NAwt, or's
squareiyd lle
fu
lfon
gwoommid.mmilmes...4imia
The great "white plague" among
human kind will be largely disposed of
when the great white plague among the
dairy animals has been eradieted. Such
is the view of David Reberts, state vet-
erinarian of Wisconsin. His, experience
convinces him that the most prolific
soil for the propagation of tuberculosis
germs is the animal that is already, run
down and out of condition by common
preventable and curable ailments.
There should be general cleanliness,
good ventilation, thorough sanitation,
and frequent disinfection of all quar-
ters where cattle are kept. The condi-
tions of the cow's life are reflected 1
that of human beings, since we are 1-
timately dependent upon the cow for
milk, cream, butter and cheese, one or
more of which articles nearly every per-
son consumes in greater or less quan-
tity every day. Thorough sanitation
of animals and quarters, and prompt
attention to the more cammon and cur-
able diseases are the methods whereby
tuberculosis 1 cattle may be more
speedily eradicated.
From about 20,000,000 cows there is
produced in this country in round num-
bers 8,000,000,000 gallons of milk year-
ly, 1,500,000,000 pounds of butter, and
300,000,000 pounds of cheese valued in
the aggregate at about 870,000,000. Prac-
tically all the -milk and butter is con-
sumed in America, as well as 90 per
cent. of the cheese. Outside of the
bread grains there is no source of food
so important its the dairies. Adultera-
tion of this universal food, menacing
though 1 is, is not so inimical as in-
fection from. diseased cows.
WHAT RD REALLY CAME FOR.
The first grade teacher had been able
to spank Tommy with the greatest en-
thusiasm, but his next teacher had not
reached the point where she felt she
could do justice to him in spite of all his
naughtiness.
"Send him to use when you want him
spanked," said ,the first grade teacher
one morning, after her colleague had. re-
lated ids many misdemeanors.
About 11 o'clock Tommy appeared at
the first grade teacher's door. She drop -
lied her work, seized him by the arm,.
ScIrged him to the dressing room,
st Ted him over her knee and did her
edttty.
When she had finished she said, "Well,
Tommy, what have you to say?"
"Please, miss, my teacher wants the
scissors."—Everybody's Magazine.
4,...
THE OCTOPUS TURNS.
The enraged financial magnate was
charging madiy through the office of the
10 cent monthly magezine.
"what is be doing?" asked the amazed
bystanders; "running amuck?"
"I think not," said one of the fright-
ened. stenographers, preparing to flee.
"He's runnang a muckraker."
tie •
Kitchens for an Army.
Two thousend movable kitchens have
been ordered for the Austrian army.
Each kitchen. consists of a four -wheeled
Vehicle drawn by two horses and weigh-
ing about half a ton, The equipnient
of each ineludes four coppers, an oven,
cupboards:, tables and various other
facilities for cooking 1 the field,
• •
lt 1 no difficult matter to turn the
nursery int() a bawl room.
zuRt
BAKING POWDER.
PURE FOOD
INStittES
GOOD
1-1gALTH
441110taLOW
MAGIC
BAKING POWDER
MURES
PURE row.
Perfect Trust,
'We do nob cere 'what the world: ina.y
Thltmitl1.0'aye WWII WO love are tree.;
We
efvds.°eirnoboolliwiuie
illdtt4ldusketo
toll
andDlthth
e' day
Idew
wales someone who will welcome
'us
As we come home to i'este--
Some friksienotwho will say, "Dear heart,
That to -day you hem (low your best."
We do not mind if the thorns are eharp,
We. do not mind if we plow and sow
If we can but heels when the tie -flight
For came to come and reap, .
Or to:ennepasithivey fa rough. and steep;
And, the red in the west grows grey,
Some dear voice whisper the words of
heer:
"Yo have
et
l
day." fought a, good fight to -
For heaat doesn't care what the
world may say
If those whom it loves are true.
For 'twas always and eYer the heart's
own way:
To long for the love and rue.
You forget the gain, the loss, and the
pain
That torture your pulsing breast.
If there is one who in sweet, blind faith,
Can say: "You have dons your best."
best,"
—Selected.
Prayer.
Our Father in Heaven, as toglay We
study this chapter in the life -of Isaul
and learn something a the spirit which
animated him in hie work, we pray that
to all parents and ministers arid eaders
and teachers, to whom Thou hest com-
mitted the solemn care of souls, there
may be given the same spirit of earnest
and unselfish service . May we all el
as disciples et the feet of Jesus and be-
come so filled with His spirit that ell
whose lives we touch hall feel that
Christ is near. We pray for the incar-
nation of Christ in every life, and that
all to whom in any sphere the sacred
trust of leadership is committed may
be concrete examples of what He 1 and
what He has done for man. We would
live every hour as in Thy presence and
feel the touch of Thy loving hand. Amen.
Long -Distance Heroism.
It calls for real heroiam to be
true to Christ and His standard e in
our ordinary, everyday life, than to
stand the test of physical martyrdom
for Christ in a foreign field. To be
confronted with the opportunity of dy-
ing for our faith, and that is what
seems to tie the commonplace, uninter-
esting circumstances of a humdrum
home
or businese life, year after year,
%Otis no great change in prospect, does
not seem like a challenge to heroism
at all. • For this very reason 1 is the
more of a challenge. Endurance Is
more heroic than a spirit; it takes en-
durance to live the Christ -life for
thirty, forty, sixty years or unevent-
ful service. Such a life honors Christ
and He honors sueh a life, as the most
isionvineing evidence of the power of
'Christ that the world can know.
Order.
Am 1 in the realm of order when I
enter the precincts of prayer'? Do
move, and am 1 moved upon by secret,
silent touches which are beautiful in
their action, firm in their pressure.
high in their aim and gentle in their ex-
pansive power? Machinery gives the
thought of harshness a grinding hum,
and friction and waste come in as a re-
sult. But when the rose bud expands,
there 1 no grind, no sound, no loss, no
toil. There is no resistance, no expul-
sion, but a soft, adaptive, regulating
breath, which enfolds like the mist and
refreshes like the dew and enlargea like
the sunbeam. The perfume is not forc-
ed, but free, the hidden life comes
goes out, a burden to the air, a bentzen
totehnesoruL
Itely partly in command of my-
self; yet there 1 surely a mind that is
amenable, a spirit not a stranger to
love, a conscience which is mysterSous,
and a soul which 1 reflective. A Betel-
withitides, drinking at the fount where all -1,•.7.*N
lite coming •n the sweep of divinest
immortals drink.
I have left behind the loose, disjointed
will, the dark, the dust, the Clay, the
numbness of confusion and toil. My
sail feels the pressure of the breeze.
There is method, definition and. purity
of aim. I move as the silent stars move,
I think with the punctuality of heaven's
clock work, but thought comes out at
random.- My prayer is devout, because
nty heart is fixed. His whispers give
music, His progress 1 melody. I do not
float, I am planeed .ftecording to sym-
metry of the creative mind.
I rim impressed with the system of
ranks, one star different from another
star, 0 the sway of heaven, some above,
sqthe beneath me, but in all there is
rest, progress, destiny, the dial -plate is
never obscured, the flow of the divine
coetinuity never fluctuates. The brok-
en feegments of life are left behind,
we urge on to the imperishable goal.
We do not work for the sake of the
zest, but rest as a preparation for larg-
er work. Ambitious fires burn out, jeals
eludes brood not, tompetiSion comes not,
the only nativity is the quiet interroga-
tion of the navigation of the skies,
H. T. Miller,
Sympathy in the Pew..
So much is said as to what the put,
pit owes to the pew, that we are apt
to overlook the responsibility in the
other direction, and to ignore the fact
that a lack of sympathy and interest
on the part of the hearers is more than
likely to have a reflex influenee upon
the preacher, Dr, Robertson Nicoll, in
Itis reeent biography of the late Rev.
Dr. Watson (Ian Maclaren), has illus.
tratal this very forcibly. He says that,
in the early days of his ministry, Dr.
Watsoli was not a remarkable preacher.
but he persisted 1 refraihiug front the
use of manuscript in the pulpit, and
had merely a sheet of motet.
Sometime his memory would fail.
"Friends," he would say, "that is not
very clear, It was clear 1 my Study
on Saturday, but now I will begin
again," The.* grand country people
vice, mid said; "When yon •iire not ree
mothering sem sermon just give out
a pealm, and we will be singnig that
while you are taking a rest, for we
aro all loving you, and praying for
you."
There is a beautiful touth of eynipa.
thetie mature in those homely phrases.
WHAT DID Ifl :SItlAN?
Witt istitin Work and Evangelist.)
Tha savetl flu' ruzo you
lave me laet week, i'Sliest Mitigate foe
though it 1 withered 1 atill renunile me
if you:"
Miss, .kiitique—Stri