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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1913-01-30, Page 3„ FAIttg StiEYIP AND TIMM. 0,A.RU While intelligent cere required in keeping eheep, otherwise the manage* anent 1 much different than that needed for the other farm animale., Au important pint is to keep their feet and, bedy dry, After a day or two old, Sheep can end.ure real low temperatures, but moist or wet weather is injurious., A sheep has no upper incisor teeth. The first sot of incittors are known as lamb teeth. At the ago of about one _ year the first pair of thezu in the centre drops out and are replaeed by the fit pair of adult teeth. The lamb ist then 1 known by Ole sign to be 4 year old. Eeaeli seer it will get a pair of adult teeth, until four pairs appear, wheu it is 'omit "a full -mouthed” sheep. At about eight or ten year of age they begin to lose their teeth, and they ere then knovaras "broltenenouthed" uheep. The female eheep is known as ewe, pronouneed "yew" or "you," and. not "pie," as an many old.time breeders call them. The, Eng Hellman slays "yeowe." The male is called the ram, and uot buck, the buck being the male a the der or elk, A eastrated ram is known as. wether. Theee are the American names. As a rule copulation takes place between the Oxes only during certain seasons of the year. The rams may run with the fluke from January until about the ist of August without danger of coupling. They will readily couple during the remainder of the year. Some breeds differ in this respect, however. The period of gestation of the ewe is 21 week, and will not vary materially from this time. The usual time for lambs to drop is in the months of sapril and May. If the ewes axe well eared for during the period of gestation, the lambs will be healthy and vigorous, arid there will be little disowning lambs by their dams. Yearling ewes seldom bey° twine, but later in life twins are quite common, and with some triplets are not unueual. The sheep hos four compart- ments to its stomach, and usually ite power to assimilate food is very good. To sheep is a very timid animal and is very often scared to death by dogs, or It may be so frightened by them 26 to not take on flesh. Hence the necessity of handling them with care. They will soon know their master, and no domestic animal will lisok for its feed with greater regularity than will sheep. Within five minute's of the time of feeding the sheep wil all gather at the aceustomed place and begin bleating. The sheep is said to be able to live on very little food, and yet no animal its more gluttonous if an opportunity pre, gents ittelf. Its anatomy is such that It, sheuld have •bulgy rather than comm. tra.ted 'foods. It is a •grazer by nature and takes to browsing Be a secondary method of gaining a livellhood,, It will do very well on the best of hist without grain, but, as the hay lacks in vality, a oupplementery grain ration will be neceasary to afford the nutrition re- quired. There ere three general classes of eheeps Fine wool, middle woels and.long woole. The fine wool breeds are the several varieties of Merinoe. The general ohatecteristiet3 of all Merinos are numb, the same, but they differ in. density of fleece, length of fiber and size of ear- caes. Soiree have wrinkles and folds, and otbere are smooth; seine have horns and others are polled. In the middle wools, we find Oxford's, Hampshriee, Suffolks, Shropehires and Soutlidowns, These all, .1121,0 d24C faces and legs, some being vary black and their fleeces are dense and the staple of crisedium iength. The long wools are Lineoh, Inieester, Cotswold and :Romney Marsh, The eheep have white faces and legs, and long, lustroue) eoaree weol. Theig fleeces are open and they are very lerge framed Sheep. BeautyPun and Health Of Sk1rt tuld Hair Promoted by Cuticura Soap and Ointment Outioura Soap And Ointment are sold throughout tbostorld,. A liberal sample ot eaob, with 82 -page boekleis on the care arid treatment of the skin and eealp, sent post-free. Address Potter Drug ec Chem. Corp.. Dept. 271), Boston, U. S. A. There are sheep feeders who depend largely on buying sheep' in September and feeding them out for market, none being kept during the rest of the year. Some of these make a profit, and others -do not, Then there are others, who -will -oleic up a few ewes, breed. for early lambs, *push the lambs and sell them off early at good. prices, then feed out the ewes and ship them to market. This ean be made a good business pur- awe cen be made readily and erith lit- tle trouble, Those following this plan will have a little scab to contend with, and unless they have a good dipping apparatus on the farm, they had. better let that go. To get in the way of do- ing these thing* -the novice should begin. modestly and advance with caution. The man who keeps a few goocl ewes, breed, e and disposes of his wether lambs at good. figures, and. occasionally sells a estrioad of lambs and east -off ewes, is doing the safest bueinees, and this is the plan to be recommended to farmers wro have good. pastures and plenty of rouglinees. Try a few sheep, then some more, and then some in.ore, FARM NEWS AND VIEWS. A. reader writes: "It is an aeeured fact that good apples cannot be grown without spraying, no matter how large or how small the orchard, mere is a necessity to hprays The first thing to be ecensiclered is the outfit. It is irn.poe- elate to do thorough work without a good, machine, one that can stand a high pressure and do the work. In spraying for coddling moth we use ar- senate of lead paste—six pounds of lead to about 90 gallons of water. Too inueh pains cannot be taken to get the ar- senate of lead dissolved. Never buy a machine without a pressure gauge. We have never 'sprayed the San Jose scale, for the reason that we have none here, but We expect to spray with the lime awl. sulphur solution this winter, as we haste •oyeter-shell bark lice, which the lime and sulphur solution will take off. bona° sheep men make a greater profit don't think it will be necessary to than °there, and. there are some who, by spray Snore than once." Diverssified orcluirding is very import - reason of rnisinanagement or neglect, ant. .sike farming, fruit growing is surer turn a possible profit into an actual er and better when a number a fruits lose. One sheep owner will make 26 and. are grown. It is mot good hortieulture and another 60 per cent, en his invest. to depend epon one fruit, or ever' two Or euent in mutton sheep, depending on his three. It it far better to have severrl * akill and mana.gement. Any geodbreed. and be on a safe system. bag ewe 'will produce enough teCiol to pay ;for her keep. Sh.o can be kept in. a very — 44.4410.404•014.40+44. TOE POULTRY WORLD A (411A1‘1PION HEN. Blood will tell. Lady Show Yon proves it. Just question the value of heredity and the science of eugenics, and the little lady, true to her name, will 'show you." She has been dcms.metrating at the Missouri agricultural experimental ex- epriment station, and has laid 82 eggs in 82 sutecessive days, and 281 ego in a year! When elle emitted her 281st cackle she was celebrating a performance tistt came within one egg of equalling the highest record ever made by e hen up- on this eontinent. She competed with 665 other hens ef all ages, breeds and sizes. Lady Show Yon first came into the limelight in the May report, when invest - tor Quisenberry said of her: "There 1P. a White Plymouth Roek pullet from Illinois, he 717, that has laid tict eggs in 64 eonsecutive days. We have never heard of anything on record ttett would equal this. "Think for a mianto what it merits for tt hen to manufaeture the yolk, the white, the shell and all the matter which an egg contains and lay well -formed shell and a good sieed egg for 64 consee- etixe clays. She appease healthy and vigorous and we holm she can continue her good record for at least a few more days." His hopes were realized. for the little lady went right on and laid an egg every day for nearly three months. After laying the SS eggs elle missed one day and then got on the job agates laying as regularly as the sun rose. "This hen is conclusive proof," says the director, "that it is possible to have both utility qualities and fancy or stand. ard bred. points combined in the same flock and in the Mile hen. This hen is bred from a male end female which were both winners in good shows. "This hen herself shows her good breeding. It is all tommy-rot to say that scrubs and Cross breeds can outlay standard bred poultry. We. are in hope, the farmers and poultry breeders of this country will endeavor to combine both Lady Show You weighs six pounds and hes laid. several times her own weight in eggs during the period of one year. During the firet ten months of the trial she consumed 48 pounds of dry mash, 32 pounds of grain, and two pounds of grit, bone and shell. During these ten months she was not broody, nor did she moult. The record of 282 eggs in one year was made by a barred rock hen at Guelph, Canada. However, the Cana, dian hen laid a small egg with a very poor shell, while Lady Show You's eggs weighed. on an average a. little more than two ounces, with a good strong shell on each egg. So Lady Show You really Is the best layer 'ever produced in America. ITer record won a cash prize of $26 from the Missouri State Poultry Board, Fishei cup. Furthermere, it made it an incubator valued at $32 and the possible for her owner, J., A. Bickerdike, of Millersville, Ill., to sell her to Jamee A. Bell, of Chicago, for WO. She is tho highest -priced hen hi the world. where it will. If one is breedine var- -- -thrifty conclitiOn by feeding tile cheaper foods, such es straw, fodder and clover hay when it is not too valuable in the market. It may be necessary to give a email grain ration to keep the elteep up to the standard. In addition to the wool provided by the ewe, she will pro - dose at least one lamb, and the average for the tautton breeds is nearer one and one.laalf lambs per ewe. By taking 1t glance at the experiments in feeding lambs at eyome of the Ontario experi- ment statiors, it will be found. that mut. ton can be produced, allowing market price% for grains and hay, for about three cents per pound. Snell mutton will loll at from five to six coati per pound. Ilere will be it moderate profit and there may be instances where the profit will be oven greater. To get most profit from sheep, the owner should know for what market he is feeding, and he should have the mat- ter of prices and demand well in hand. If he has a good spring lamb market near at hand he will probably want to raise opting lambs for that market. And this spring lamb buisine.es means that the lambs should drop not later than the middle of February and as much earlier than this time as poseible. The January lamb will be a. good one for the next Christmas market. If ti.ot aold then as a laMb, it will sell very well the next spring and will bring a profit if it has been well kept and fed. FICTION AND FACT JUST. 1,01%0,f/esti) RARE OA RELIO THE INKE OP _outi0001) Fort ON I mi Lti DOLL/MS, "Ito 4C,UP OttOrtii ' Good butter nearly always commands a lair tortes. The market is always crowded with poor butter, but butter with flavor, color and texture generally finds a 'buyer at a fair price. This shows the importance of making butter that there is a demand for. Good butter costs little, if any, more than the poor stuff on the merket; the prineipal dif- ference is that those who sell good but- ter know how to make it. .---"°—"•••••—. • The old proverb in agriculture was that lime makes the father rich, but the sow poor. That might be paraphrased to say the lack of lime makes the father poor and his sons poorer. The intelligent use of lime does not make anyone poor; lt is the abuse of lime that might make the sons poor. O. Frogs' legs, at which people turned up their noses. in disgust only a few years ego, have now become so popular an article of diet that no fewer than 6,000,- 000 frogs a year are killed in Minnesota alone to oupply the demand. The north- western frogs are the most delicate but the biggest aro the southern bullfrogs. The latter are not so sweet or tender as the former. Butermilk is a very palatable and wholesome drink for children. Those who yaks butter on the farm have the advantage of pure, whokeorne butter. milk, which is no small item in the cost of living. More farm imp'ements are werri out by elm and rale than by use. Get them wader cover and use elenty of grew ttntl paint. Doing this means the dif- tereneti between bevieg new implements every telt years 'rather than every three years. Gnerally epeeking, it may be said that an etre of red clover ehould tupport eight to ten hogs for three to fent - mouths. Alfalfa should pesture 12 to 20 head for the sterne length of time. Alfel- fa should not be pastured so closely that mowing will not be neetesary. Tho rule thould be to put on miler enough hove to allow one cutting of hay to be tairen off during the pasture moon. A Bad Heart imp remember that utility cannot be overlooiced. To de this will require I Causets and Cure wa.,,,ing of poonte„ the ueeful one Velvet the fancy, No ea to preserve and heighten. the beauty of the !Owls, and • , itt the IMMO tin10 te deepen and intensify Many, Firmly Convinced They Are their useful qualities. This ie the prob. Dying of Heart Trouble, Have Of. luevinouttiriotnieorneifitrsonttisie :ollatfie,onud.lerfn and ften the Strongest Hearts. A good way to mate the future breed.- ers is well.mateired coekerels to home, Sometbnee you wake up at night, cocks to matured pullets. Feed well, but heart throbbing like a Stettin engine, not foreing feeds. One ehould aim for 4 Your breathing is short and irregue natural egg yield for good, strong &deka. lar; pains shoot through the eheet and abdomen, and cause horrible Anx- iety, Your trouble isn't with the heart at at all. These sensations are the out- come of indigestion, which hoe carts - ea gas to form on the stomach am, press against the heart. Just read what happened. to Isaac Malloux, of Belle River, Ont.: "Three months ago I was a weak, siekly man. My appetite was poor, food fermented in my stomach, I had sour risings and indigestion. At night would often weaken with gas in the etomaeli and. heart palpitation. "I eonsulted my doctor and used trieigmeadieliepsetal.itit my 'friends advised. Noth- "One dav received a sample of Dr, Hantiltonts Pills, and my cure eommenced, To -day I have a vigor- ous appetite. strong heart action, and no sign of indigestion. feel young- er and, healthier than ever before." Your druggist or sitorekeeper (sells Dr, Hamilton's ,Pills, 25e per box or 'five boxes for $1,00, By mail from The Catarrhozone Co., Buffalo, N. Y. and Xingston, Canada. to be •of very good quality. Feed, being high, the culls went early to market. Orpingtons seems to be riding steadily on. their boom. Great improvement is noticed in the whites. buffs and blaelte. The buff breeders of late have eoin- mewed to get away from the red color. Some call it deep buff, and axe at least exhibiting some real golden buffs, so beautiful to eee and yet hard to attain. The deep red or deep buff has no place in. the showroom as long as the standard of perfection calls for a rich golden buff or has Cochin shape a plaee although niany Orpington breeders Mite it, and some claim the standard calls for it. Fanciers should keep utility in the foreground. in breeding those varieties of fowls which are supposed to be useful. A large body of the teitrone of breeders are men who buy fowls because they are useful. They care more for ghod. layere - than ror rich colors. They prize really first-class table fowls more than they do the most exquisite markings. This body of men is to be catered to, or the number of buyers. will be greatly dimin- ished. An exhibition fowl, one that is elegant in figure and exquielte in plum- age, is worth a large amount of money. There is a class of 'buyers for auch fowie, but the class is smellier than those who aek: "Are they good layers? stre they good for the table??" • . It is perfectly legitimate for a person to be it fancier pure and 'simple, to breed for beauty, first, last and all the time, and to let utility find its place where it can. Such a breeder ought to expect hie patronage to be drawn from a small class. His profits in breeding are to be derived from the sale of a few birds at extremely high figures. it is equally legitimate for one to say that he will breed firet and forenn,st for utility and let beauty come if :t will and N OTES. iety with a reputation for laying his ob- Winter is here in earnest and the up jet will be to inteneify that (petit:v.. His io-date poultry raiser is prepared for it fowls are not only to be good layers, but Roofs tight, house clean plenty of fresh the best layere obtainable; or if he is clean, dry litter, the right feed, the pub breeding a variety whose chief Maim is lets steadily liting—and profits. Then for the, table he will seek to intensify there is the other chias of poultrykeepei that quality. Ills fowle may he beauti- who does not plan ahead. House not in au), but they must be the best table good condition for bad. weather, 'neglect. folws in existeiwe. He wall have a ed conditions, stock not well grown, 110 large number of patrons, but his fowls profits, and the ery n o motley le pout will scarcely command the- prices that try. the breeder of exhibition fowls can ob- New is the tune to think about mat tain, His profite will come from the sale ine up the breeding pen for early chicks, of nany birds at fair prices'. Trie beginn Pr will fare better with it few 'Mikes there is to be two eeparate and early hatehed chicks than dozens oi distinct elivoses of breeders—and indica.- Jelie or Jill\ hitched. tions point in that direetion—in the Order the incubator, brooder, day old future fanciers must give utility a promchike or hatching eggs now for future inent plaee, or a prejudice will be ere - delivery. With all poultry breeders the ated against their stock in the minds of system is first collie, first eerved. Be one that large ,elass of buyers wbo ears first of the early one, .and start the season for useful qualities. Let their prejudice right, once become deeply rooted and widely Among the majoate breeders there spread and the fanciers will thee a large is leas stock fi. rian over before. source of profit. It becomes, then a Last year was a heed one for the major, necessity either to separate the two ity of poultry ra'sere, many not raising clasees and. let fancy birds become still enough pullete te x 1 tae laying housesmore fancy, and useful birds etill more What is for sale n Cie market seems useful, or fanciers must in all their mat- MAIVIMALS THAT FLY. Won't Thrive ,in Captivity) So Rarely Seen. The name flying squirrel is given to many speeiee of little mammals found in different parts of the world, all. belonging eleerly to the rodent an. Wattle of the squirrel tribe, but hav- ing sicereely any point of reserablane, except the existence cf a membrane which extends the skin, from the flenks and performs the 'functions of a par- achute. The curious flying squirrel of Aus- tralia dwells in trees, seeks its food sit night and feeds on insects, berries and the eggs of entail birds. * It has a .fleecy fur of whitielt gray tinged with red, Ito long bushy tail with prehensile extremity serves as a rudder when it flies from. one tree 't0 another and also euables it to Cling to the branches while having free use df its feet. It has a ventral pouch for car- rying the immature young. It is almost impossible to study the manners of this nocturnal animal, so we have a limitedknowledge of ita habits, It passers the entire day in its nest, a hole dug in the top of a tree. Naturalists declare that this squirrel never drinks, in fact, that it never drinke, in fact, that it never descends to the ground. After sunset one can hear its cry, which resembles the twit- tering of a bird. On a moonlight night a very quiet observer may see the grace- ful evolutions of the little creatures fluttering in the air. They spring 'from the top of a tree and by stretching their four feet extend the folds of the membrane. The strange parachute alas:Ar- ens the descent and the squirrel lands on a branch without the slightest shock to it as a result of its leap through space. Observers do not agree on the max- imum flight of these animals, but it appears' to have been proved that they ean fly a dietanee of from seventy- five to one hundred feet, though souse claim for them a mush greeter ids - tame. It is quite pocelble, of course, that V0310116 Oil fe`ti ( 1 these animals may vary in their leaping 0 ipacity. Like all nocturnal mammals, they do not thrive in captivity, cvsii in their native country, and therefore one rarely sees them in zoological gar- dens.—Teebnical World Magazine. • + - It la a good plan to'writeto your cote- misnien merehant advanee of ehlp. anent, and Mk ttdviee as to thet best method of peeking. AR he keows his mar. ttat meth better than you do. Mewl- So Jitek eompared me with toreetbing etteet, did he 'Ph* deer fel. low. What wee t Marle4don't think T ahotthl tell eon. Maud- Ole do. butte& Well. be referred to you, apie "the rumen mershenallow." YOU certainly had leid the powder on thlek, dear --aotston Trenseript. tittlatiLimu HE FOUND THEM NO FAITH CURE Hurrah No More give tuse for teking it. Om them both e mud and the ex. his Case Proves That the Best and Lame Bak cin °tiler re""t4 1/9 4""a44 tbi/P engin ef which they did not in the 1040 AA extremely complicete4 religion, the as being it eimple and quiet rase, with know They believed that the fig tree Stronoest lAtilment Ever Made awnhdil: livee vreri: to A great extent Is NerVillres. BUT DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS CLEAR- ED OUT W. F. BLACK'S SCIATICA When it times to determining the real merit of a medicine, no weight of evidence I* more convincing than the straightforward statement of some re- liable and well-known person who has been aired. For this reaaon we print the verbatim statement of Juan E. Powell, written from his home in Carle - ten. ".E am a strong, powerful man, oix. feet tall, and weigh nearly two hundred. have been accustomed all my life to lift greet tveighte, but one day 1 over- did it, and wrenched my back badly. gvery tendon and mueele wee sore. To stoop or bend W2tei Reny, I had a. whole bottle of Nerviline rubbed. on in one day, and by night I was well again. I know of no liniment possessing one• half the penetration and painentbduing properties of Nerviline. 1 urge its, use strongly as an invaluable liniment and household ewe for all minor ailments, such as strains, sprains, neur- algia, sciatica, lumbago, rheurnatiem, and muscular pain." No better medicine for burin min VMS ever put in it bottle than Nerviline —rub it on and rub It in—that rubs QUil all aches, vaine and. soren.ess. Large fam- ily 50e; trial eize, 2,5e, all dettlen, or The Catarrhozone Co., Beiffale, N.Y., and Kingston, Ont, He Was in Agony When a Friend Gave Him a Box. Now He Recom- mends Them to Everybody. Neweaetle, N. 13., Jan. 27 - in these cold winter days when the (11111 winds cry,Atalize the uric avid in the blood and eause the pangs of Rheuma- tism and Solatielt to bring tdepless nights to many a home, a man's befit friend is he who ean tell his neighbor of a sure euro' for his tortures. S.tteh friend is Wm. 131ack, of this place. He !suffered from Sciatiea and lame back, Ife II 66 So ,ball that he 4.'01.1.111 not lace his boots or turn in bd. Dadit's Kidney Pills eared him, caul he w•anf.4 nil his neighbors to know of the cure. "Yes," Mr, Mack says, in an inter- view, "i was so bit with 1."..-!littica and Laine Mel: that, 1 couldu't lace my shOes or turn in le d, when a friend gave me about a third of a box of Dodd's' Kidney Pills. 1 start e,i taking thein without much faith in their eurative powers. and found them all they Were roe 6111111mIde d "Now 1 ant recemmending Dodd's Kid - Pills to all sufferers from Kidney Diseaie." Dodd's Kidney Pilis are no faith cure. They're a simple but sure me for dis- eased kidneys.. MAYBE YOU BUY HAIR TONIC, TOO! &WAN! THAT C37:6"-~ ( LIGHTNING ROD STUNT DON'T 6 -ET me I DQ) LOOK LIKE SOON EASY MONEY ?i.e., .......: SANIYOU MAKE ME LAUGH'. HAND THAT TO SINEFNAYte tee. • THE LIGHTNING. 040 AGINT HAS SE rjA )(tit ' mai so NO. In ‘,) .HAltrotiWTOIVie. • GINME -TWO OrrLE i IS ON THL BUJ'iK GR HIS OLD 1, Asseasteees MONKEYSHINES 0 a II other thair p ute were nun spent in fear of soreery. Dr. Lewitt/ten entirely eon -rime these storiee ef their wonderful inutiln4 etive nature, and he relates how theY tell remarkably long and coMPlia40.4 tales of romance, In whkit the fortune* of hero end heroine are marred. by the maehinationo of witches, lit moot of their stories can be seen a dir4 retene- blame to the fairy legends of Europe, a point which should attraet the attention of the student of comparative re re- liglon. ,Of their morals he speaks in the highest terms, yet he relates that their e9de allows a cerelnonial exchange of wives. The Paputeree who comprise the ma- jority of the inhabitante, se* 0, people of fine physique, and wording to the latest reports, are fond of sports, In whieh the womea join with the men, the gams 'bebag not unlike our English hos. key, Many of the tribes in the moun- tains still live by reeds on. lowland die- triets, but in other parts the people are quietly earning a living from cultivating the 011.—London Standard. *sea Arithmetical rrodigy. A remarkable demonstration of men- tal ealculatieg has been given at a meet. ing at the Ceylon 'Waugh of th *Royal Asiatic Society of Colombo by Artuno- gam, a 10-yestrold aritinnetieal peosligy. Aromogaeo, is a Tamil boy, belonging to workingeslaes 1 emily. He is quite illiterate, and, displays but little Intel- ligenee outside his faculty for caleulet- ing, Ile has five fingers on eaeli hand, and six tom on each foot. Sir Hugh Clif- ford, Colonial Secretary for Oeylon, pre- tilded. at the meeting, and. a number of problems in arithmetic were put to the boy through an interpreter. In eh ease, earl the Ceylon Morning Leader, he gave 811 amwer in 1,1, few seconds. Among the questions were tile follow- ing; Add together 8,596,713,826 and. 96,- 268,593. Multiply 45,9189 by 864.726. Find the fifth root of 69,343,057. What weight of water 4,4 there in a room flooded 2 feet deep, the room' tieing'13. feet 0 inches by 13 feet 4 inches', and a cubic foot of water weighing 02% pounds. The following problem, put in by a number of the audience, was an- owered in under three Seconds: A Chet - ley gave 11,8 a treat to 173 pemens bushel of Tice each; each Incehel con- tained 3,431,272 grains, and the Chatty etipulated that 37 per cent. should be given to the townie. How many grains did the temple get? DO YOU KNOW 1115i ? (By Miriam Teehner in the Detroit News) I'm sorry for all sick folks; yes, Indeed; Though maybe it's not sympathy they. need. I'm sorry for the people in In bed, With aching limbs, or sorely throbbing head. I'm sorry for the patients who must lie For hours and hours, and see bright days drag by. - But I'm sorriest for him who's not laid : It seems to Inc he has the bitterest eue: To arifik, who has soma nagging little ill For which he takes no medicine or pill, But simply iS so weary when at night He drags his face toward home; no faces bright Peer out et meet Mtn, for the babies know Their voices must be hushed, -their Play grow slow Tr else they'll bear from mother or from dad: "Be still tn,„-,night; your father's nerves arc I'm sorry for the pc41e bearing pain: know 'tis hard to stand and not corn - Plain; For those who know the fad1w41 of all bone As blindly they foe health and vigor grope; But, ah. deep sympathy from*all my heart, Goes out to him who plays that wretched part. The nervous father. When, instead of joy Lighting the faces of his girl and boy. .4-t night when he comes home, and arms that cling. And shouts of laughter that his sallies bring, The youngsters exeep about and hush their And put the noisy playthings all away. And furtiVe, glance at him when they forget, And laUgh too lond; and never cOme to »et His aching head, for fear sorneons *ill say: "MO, children; father's nerVes are bad to -day," CUSTOMS IN NEW GUINEA. Fresh details of interest Concerning the little known land of New Guineas have reeently been brought home by the Finnish student and traveller, Dr. Gun- nar landtman. Vow parts of the -world still contain so many remnante of the life of the pure, fietVage ftS does *Mite vast islend, and for many years peat it hies miter - ally attraeted a large share of kitten. tien from all who nuke a study of anthropoloo. Vntil reeently eannibal. ism W8i4 paw:tient. but it is 710W con. fined to it few tam, and when ,Areit. bishop nottaidlOit Watt 0.1flong them some years ego he found that the ett. the*, limey of whom lied been eon. verted into Christianity, were extremely unwilling to talk about their old ways. R. W. Williamson, who returned from e, year stay among the Malniu savages, had, however, another atory to tell, for this seetion of the people van still enjoy a banquet of Immen fleeh. They do not slaughter their •,ietinat merely for greed, kat wait =tit battle or private got PALE —AlliEWIIC GIRLS Find New Health Throutili D Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. There must be no guesswork in the treatment of pale, anaemic gills. It your daughter is languid, hos a pale, sallow eomplexion, is short of breath, especially on going upstairs; if She has palpitation- of the heart, a poor appe- tite, or it tendency to faint, she has anaemie—whiell means r yerty of th 6 blood. Any delay in treatnient neey leave her weak 'awl siekly for the rest of her life—delay may even result in consumption, that most hopeless of dis- eases. When ibe blood is poor and watery, there is only one certain curt —that is Dr. Williams' Pink rnis, coup- ' led with nourishi»g food and gentle out-of-door exercise. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills actually make neve 'blood, which flowing through the voine stimu- late the nerves, increases the appetite, gives brightness to the eye, a glow of health to the cheek, and makes weak, despondent girls full of healthy activ- ity. The ease of Miss J. IT. Laosalie, Sorel, Que., is typical of the cures made by Dr, Williams' Pink Pills. She says: "I was weak and all run down. My faee was pale and covered with pim- ples. My lips were pale. I suffered from pains in all my limbs, -which would at times be swollen. I was hardly ever free from headaches, and I found work about the house a bnrden, ass the least effort left me fatigued and breath - lees. I had no apetite, and notwith- standing that I was constantly doctor- ing 1 seemed to be growing worse all the time. One day mother said that she thought 1 ought to try Dr, Wil- liams' Pink Pills, and 1 deeided to do so. I soon discovered that 1 had found the right medicine, and after us- ing nine boxes 1 was once more enjoy- ing the best of health, and I have not been Anwell s. day sinee." You can get Dr. William& Pink Pins from any medicine dealer or by mail at a0 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. "William' Medicine cog 137`Ceihclii*dil'il'e'en,°"nts'aid the teacher, instruet- aete. ing the class in eompoeition, "you should not attempt any flights, of fancy; sim- ply be yourselves and write what is in you. Do not imitate any other person's writings or draw.inspirations from out- side sourees." As a result of this ad- vice One bright lad tutried in the fols lowing: "We should not attempt any flights of fancy, but write what is in us. In me there It my stomiek, lungs, hart, liver, two Apples, one pieee of pie, one stick of lemon candy and my din- ner."—Newark Star. ••••• • • 1:••'s That etory about the ehooting of lepers and other reports that eome from China *how that the new republie has a lot to learn yet about eivilization. I3uffalo ixpre, Reminds lee of the lynehinge and burnine over in the United States. On the firet of llifay, 10121 eays the Saskatoon Phoenix, there oame into fore° in Saskatellew94 an net of the leg- islature whiela, provided that, "No person shall employ in any esdeet. city any white woman or girl er permit any white woman or girl to reeid.e or lodge or to work in or, save as a bona fide customer in a publie apartenept thereof, to frequent any restaurant, laundry or other place of business or amusement owned, kept, or managed by any Japanese, Chinese or other Oriental person!' Now owing to the proteets from the •••••••...........10.11.4 • IT WAS! asei.oR:rtioEowniftcorb oF BY GEORGE TH16 MUST A* parties affected the aet has been SO al- tered as to apply only to Chinese. Some day the,'"Ohinese Republic will be in a position to make its influence felt end have the whole net abolished, sete There is a woman in New York knave as "Typhoid. Mary," from the faet that she earries with her the germs of ty- phoid fever and spreads them wherever she goes. Her name is Mary Mullin and she has just been advised +ha she has no cause of action against the Board of Health of New York, or against Com- missioner Lederle, Dr. Bensel, or Dr, Soper, who caused her to be detained, for three years on leTer1.11 brotfier Island as a public menace. The Board of Health in this case, it is held, acted en- tirely within the power conferred upon it by the city charter. I I A - According to this month's National 'Reer-le-we.the Mid -Scotland Ship Canal Association il-lironapting a mid -Scotland ship canal from the Porth.. en the east coast of Seotland, to the Rivel'elydg, on the west, at sea -level, and deep enough, for ships of the largest class. The route of the Direct Canal, as it is termed, which has beeu frequently sur- veyed, may be briefly described as cone- meneing witli a canting basin, with open- inge both up and down the River Clyde. Leaving the Clyde about Yoker, oppos- ite to the large Dreadnought Doek, pre - (solely being constructed by the Clyde trustees, 'the Canal would pass through soft low. land, following the line of a burn, and coming close to the existing old Barge Canal, between the Forth and Clyde, Near Cannieburn the gp,und..-rieci& to about 160 feet above seal -level, which would necessitate deep cutting, and then the canal would pass into the Kel- vin Valley about Garscube, the ground sinking to about 110 tfeet above sea - level. Following the line of the Kelvin Valley Railway, would pass dose on the north side of the town of Kirkintilloch, and close on the south Side of the town of Kilsyth, the ground reaching its high- est level at Kelvinhead. For thirteen miles the level varies from. 100 to 160 feet above the sea, wh.ich covers the. — heaviest portion, of the eutting abanithe whole route. From Kelvinhea,d the Canal would pass Banknock, and. proceed down the valley of the Bonny Water, keeping to the nortli of the town of Bonn,ybridge, where -the level is about 120 feet above the eea, and thence- on- ward to the junction of the Bonny Wat- er and the River Carron. Thus the level gradually sinks until within six miles df the town of Grangemouth, the canal , pioceding through flat country and. en- tering gthe Forth at the mouth of the Carron River, near to the Beacon. Light- house. , The route can ix,...nyaece.111 eea-1e'-el, as it lime not to accommodate itself to the level of an inland loch, and would. hate it single entrance at the Forth and at the Clyde ends. There would be one af,a_, lack at each end, with lifts ringing from 4 to 14 feet a,t the Clyde, and from 0 feet to 18 feet at the Forth. where at high. water and spring tides the *sea lock could stand open and ships eail in and out without intctruption.By this route the distances sa,ved between GIesgow and the home and. foteign ports, with which Glasgow does it large trade, are very striking. From G'aegow to Hull, the distance saved would be 626 miles, Dundee 431 miles, London 2'1 miles) Hamburg 487 miles. The advan- tage would be shared by Liverpool, whieh would save on a passage to Shields 333 miles, and Dundee 318 miles. Bel- fast, too, would save on a passve Hull 299 miles, to Dundee 204 miles, to London soxn n 100 iles. From Hamburg to New York the sieving would be 300 ni,ii No one ean speak to a mariner about the dangers of the passage roitni Scot- land by the Pentland Firth in whiter time with its treacherous, currents and threatening shores, without being told that it venal which would rend tr this passage unneeessaey would be it great boon to g.hipintestere as well tss shheown ere Tice saving in ineuranee woul.l le eoneiderable. The Direet ea -level eanal would have a floor width of 1$.4 fee, and a depth of 30 feet, at all elateoi the tide to 1110et AdMiraity isiesitzwal nte; thaittt,:ee layd Mons should be l.xpedild to h op to Sig the i'anal, 'The engineers for tee Direet Route estimate the eost at £21,000)000. Not only wou14I the eanal be of great eoeunercial value to Seotlatel i1flire. taingetterally. Itui it would heel iteeli for strategie perposes MA NN ith poss oi 1 lino, from tho to late North t4ett in 0 fcvs, liens lama, big the mobility of the ne 'e, and weal be able te reailt d• re 0.00 el of the oalt without lose et flint