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GRAIN FEEDING NEEDED.
The importance of inducting grain
crops in the rotation for the farm tins
year is well worth considering. For
economieal feeding grain is a iteCele
fifty where animate are kept tor AvOrlf
anti for their products, While it is
true that grain earl be purchased, it
Is equity true that fes ling is seldom
profitable where a, considerable pole
tion of the grain Must be bought.
Tait° the etise of feeding hogs. Suc-
cessful growers have learned that for
best results sonic) grain Is needed the
entire life of the allinials. Pigs will
eat soaked •corn, corn chops, kaffir,
utile or ground Oats when 3 or 4 weeks
old. .Witli plenty of pasture little grain
May be neecied un the daily bill of fare
till fluishing time, but some will be
essential for rapid growth and devel-
opment. areln is zudispeusable for
finishing hags, to harden the flesh,
and thus give the carcasses that finish
so desirable for Wine hogs.
With some farmers the hies, seems
to prevail that grain is not a necessity
wlth mulch ows. Tete error of that
bell'efehas been proved by the experi-
ence of some of the best feeders. Cot.
tonseed meal is a rich concentrate,
and where It is judiciously fed, little
grain will be needed; but for maintain-
enee In body fat nothing seems to quite
take the place of graln--sueh as corn,
oats, rye, barley, mile, kaffir and
their various products. Grain serves
as a most important factor in seems
Ing a. normal milk flow and enabling
the cow to maintain her bodily flesh
and be healthy and vigorous.
Nothing can take the place of grain
..jor work animals as it gives the needed
strength to the body. True again, cot-
tonseed meal may reduce the quantity
of grain required, and it is an econo-
nmtcgl
protein supplement; and eertain
legume hays may reduce the -protein
and the •carbohydrates needed in
grain; but, nevertheless, some graih
must be fed for tgst results.
Fattening sheep must have grain.
While lambs are being grazed they will
secure most of their living, if the pas-
ture is good, but when it cornea to fin-
ishing, some grain must be given. -
So it can readily be seen that every
diversified or livestook farm must
have grain in some form, The farm-
er cannot afford to neglect grain for
his livestock, and for bread for his
fanilly.
Where crops are marketed grain is
better than some others. While.grain
enntains eonsiderable plant food, and
when sold has a tendency to impoven
ish soil, yet it is staple,and usually
not difficule to market. Besides, it
keeps well, .and may be held when
deemed advisable. Hay is bulky, and
often expensive to hold or deliver, and
neither is it as easily sold as grain.
The best use of grain is to feed it
to. good animals. In th1s. way the high.
cost of marketing is saved; at least a
large part of the fertility in the grain
may be returned to the soil, and the
animals or animal products sold with
probably a profit on both the crop
and aniinals.
The best .grain for the farm is the
crop that produces the most profit
underSeiteeceaditions. The largest croy,
eger'heity- not be the best. The crop that
produces the most profit is grain, ani-
mal products, work, etc., is the crop
to grow.
Often it is best to grow two or three
grain crops in the rotation • rather
than confine the grain crop to one, as
.corn or maize. •
Where wheat has been sown in the
fall, corn, spring oats and some of the
grain sorghums make a good rotation,
• Legumes may then be planted as a
companion or follow the grain crops.
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS,
Nothing will go so far toward im-
proving farm life conditions and
build up the rural districts as good
roads.
Wagon roads, good every day in the
year, between principal centres of
population, have become a necessity.
Treat the sic& eight. The man who
kicks dumb brutes kicks brutality into
his own heart. Animals have ability
to realize pain and pleasure, and love
of life and offspring. se.
Success will come in the largest
measure to those farmerwho adopt
the 'relations system of farming, the
diversified system, and who supple-
ment this with the best of tillage
rutin:Ms:— „
It has beeii quite generally believed
that a small potato see e will yield just
as large a crop as large tubers. Ex-
teasive tests made at the South De-
e—Leta s experiment station, however,
rovequite conclusively. that . this
heore is not true in practice. In these
• experiments the use ofsizable seed
produced a greater proportion of po-
tatoes of desirable size than the use
of culls. The type of potatoes pro-
duced from culls used as seed is meas-
urably smaller in the first generation
than those produced from selected seed
tubers, The results of this experi-
ment Mellish quantitative evidence
that the use of culls for seed causes
potatoes to run out. Not only in the
type of tubers produced from selected
seed larger than from culls, says the
experimentere, but also the average
weight of tubers produced is greater.
The chronle "grouch" has no busi-
ness around the dairy barn. The tows
will show their dislike for liim by re.
eeeing the milk yield.
On the farm, where two teams are re-
• quired It is Undoubtedly a good plan
to have at least one team of geldings
that are always ready for any kind of
work, but the other team should be
composed of Mares. It is expensive
to keep a,horse a year for what he can
dcieauthig the working season, and the
majority of farmers have round breed-
s nig mares entirely satisfactory and
far cheaper, .
"The best way to "swat the fly" is
before he is born. Allowing piles of
manure to accumulate in the stables
and yards for flies to breed in, and
then applying some kind of "dope" to
keep flies away from the animals, Is
eonsietent, to say the least.
When the cows were fed ensilage,
ttlallfa, hay and oats in a fairly well-
balanced ration the food cost of pro?,
clueing butter fat was 11. (THU pell
pound. When no ensilage nor alfalfa
was fed the cost went to 20 cents.
Theee results were secured by the
femurs in the Dairy Testing ASSOCia-
time of Berme (aunty, under the diree-
lien oe the North Dakota expeelment
talent Veld agent.
ilows e.ei be made to produce two
lite re a year. When dile is desired
they sienna be bred at the first pernel
of beat after the pleat aro weaned.
seieus bet•.1 twiee n yvite Will het liS0-
ow»•. f. t) Ian 1)/7.:.1 in aeh Ititer s
Itkii bred bide unee a year, but more
tege :beak! be reeked in a- year front
Jen oW,
lir) not eillow the idea that when
Planting trek s you ehouhi put retell-
. ae 'he batto,n of the hale. Plant
!NAVE YOu?
1:C2/E MA
Would. you like to end that ter-
rible itching, that burning pain; to
heal those, horrid sores? .
You have tried oIl sorts of fatty
ointments, lotions and powders. Put
them aside now and give Nature a
chance as represented by Zam-Bulc.
Zam-Buk Is made from herbal es.
sences; is a natural healer. Is not
something you have to send to the
end of the world for, and pa.Y
heavy price! Every druggist will
sell you Zain-Inik and for 50e. only.
Just give it a fair trial and Mei:,
dently give yourself ease by the
quickest route. Seeman° on box:—
your tree, and when within about two
Inehea of the top place your fertilizer
and cover over with soil. The rein
will wash the essence down to the
roots. The same practice can be fon
lowed with established trees. Care
should be taken that the fertilizer does
not touck the bark or roots. Remem-
ber, trees take up food with their fib-
rous roots, and fibrous roots usually
are near the ends of big supporting
roots, and tree roots usually go as far
outward as the branches extend,
There is no reason for broadcasting
manures in the vegetable garden. It
is wasted energy. Apply manure to
each hill or row, with dirt between it
and the seed. This gives the greatest
results for the least expenditure of
time and money, No need to feed
weeds,
Loamy, or so-called rich, soils hold
their nutrient part in readiness be-
cause there is suffioleut vegetable
matter to make it light. This gives a
chance for the air to aid the germs
of fertilization to increase and .multe
ply, to prepare the substances to be
taken up by the plants.
Heavy clay soil produces slowly
until the vegetable matter increases.
Sandy soils, unless well supplied with
vegetable matter, permit the fertilizer
to filter away beyond reach of plant
roots before the plants get all out of it.
TEN MINUTE COLO CURE
RELIEVES ALMOST INSTANTLY
Nothing cures so quickly as the heal-
ing pine essence's in .Catarrhozone. 3t
fills the breathing organs with a heal-
ing, Soothing vapor that relieves int --
tattoo, at once. Ordinary cold. are
•cured in tete minutes. Absolutely sure
for catarrh, and in throat trouble it
wcrks like a charm. Catarrhozone is
a permanent cure for bronchitis and.
throat trouble. Not an experiment —
not a temporary relief—bet a cure
that's guaranteed. Get "Catarrhozone"
to -day, and beware of subetitutes. The
dollar outfit is guaranteed, and small
size, 50e.; trial size, 25e, At all deal-
ers.
PRECOCIOUS PAINTERS.
Some Famous Piotures That Were
Produced by Mere Boys.
Sir David Wilkie was probably the
most popular painter of his time and
one of the most deservedly so, and his
pictures to -day are almost all in the
great national collections or in the
Possession of the king. He was ex-
tremely precocious aad might be said
to have been born with a palette in
hie hand.
'Wilkie painted his famous and very
chmeacteristio picture; "Pitlessie
Fair," when he was a mere lad, it wag
a local scene which he knew well, and
the 140 figures which it contains were
all sketched from his fathees parish-
ioners, for Wilkie was a "son ofthe
manse." As his father would have
been very angry to think his boy was
doing,such a wrong thing as to ridi-
cule his dear flock, David had to use
his models quite "unbeknown" to
them —in fact, during service. The
young artist got them all "under the
bookboard" and transferred them to
canvas at his leisure.
Everybody knows that Millais was
an "infant prodigy." Did he not win
the gold medal of the Royal academy
when he was nine?
At South Kensington hangs a glow-
ing and masterly canvas entitled "Pi-
zarro Seizing the Inca of Peru." How
many boys of fifteen know anything
Of Pizarro or the Incas even if
happen to know the whereabouts of
Peru? Yet Millais was only that age
when: he not only knew these things;
but could realize them in splendid
power in paint and get hie picture on
the lino at the academy, and he was
only nineteen when he paintedone of
his supreme maeterpieees, judged by
some to be the greatest thing he ever
did„ "Lorenzo and Isabella," which et
one of the, treasures of the Walker
Art C4a11ery of Liverpool.
Holman Hunt wee only twenty when
he painted his famous "Eve of St. Ag'
nese and still little more than a boy
when he painted his remarkable pic-
ture which he (Nailed "Behold I Stand
at the Door and Knock," but whieh Is
known to the world to -day as ."The
Light of the World," a replica of
which ean be seen in St. Paul's ca-
thedral.
Rossetti painted his lovely picture.
"Girlhood of Mary Virgin," when he
was twenty and his famous "Fee° An -
cilia. DoMini" the year following.
Landeeer was amazingly precOelons.
Ile exhibited hie first academy picture,
when he was fifteene---Exehange,
Colored Evidence.
A well-knownlayer was trying to
make clear to a legal etudent the sig-
nificance of the term 'colored evi-
dence," meaning that evidence which
has been tampered with.
"rhe best illustration I can think of
came within my observation not long
ago," said the lawyer "A physician
had mid to a fair patient;
"Madam, you are a little ran deem.
You need frequent baths and plenty of
fresh air, and I advise you to dress in
the coolest, most eomeoregbie clothes;
nothing stiff or formal.'
"When the lady gee home this is
how she rendered to it& husband the
advice given to her by the doctor: '
"'Ile says I nalliit go to the seaehore
do plenty of motoring, and get nettle
now mummer gowns.'"
• THE 1.17.104)AIE METHOD.
(Pittsburg ilatette-lemes)
Tidies 'change. :They used to 1)1‘.4e1
man .for ase.nyglation, now they, pomp
more bleod into ..hint. Thea 10E4 him
luny.
The 'Kelt -pada man is apt t, regard
the mark i,of eeteexn and the dollar -
'mark 14 bJ eynenymeue.
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THE
POULTRY WORLD
.404 .4**,0.4lee
• put,i, 00;\ inTION Tifl4LH TA.LE.
The ems:esti of the nova during tee
winter deeende greatly upon hew the
hirda pubs through the fall &imam wl6en
umuallw ilittai the lloe't eumposed of birds
or all twee Ulni all cenemene and sweet:
ef newt. The roosting quarters aro
f;:und eeattered an over the phiee, aotne
bole rousting on fencea, some in the tend -
try houee. some In tiees. and 1101110 in
huvers or jammed Into the corner of a
lenge tIII they are two, in. three deep
Iharing cool nights. The tines roosting
in houses and. on tile floor In the corner
leaf ftleatilloen.hOUSe aree thono; which need
ee
Among the must common troubles
noticed in the fall and early winter are
veleta and roue. A cold la usually the
iirst stage or stepping stone to r.e.w.
that, If colds are prevented, mop 'will
he avoided. The two eonution causes
for colds are an unequal heating of no
body and the rapid reduetion of the tem-
Perature.
If a man's temperature gets tint high
from exercise or extra eluthing naturo
sends out a perspiration or sweat anti
by evaporation the heat units are taken
un and the body is cooled. A hen's tem-
nerature is not reduced in this way. for
she has no sweat glands in the skin.
The moisture witb the hen is carried
out through the breath, so for this rea-
son, if a hen le warm uhe will have het.
mouth onen bellowsing the air in and
out to take out the moisture and not to
get an extra supply of oxygen into her
lungs, If thn chickens are crowded at
nightand then conic out Into a cold
frosty morninethe breathing organs are
so chilled thata cold is the result,
which pays the way for roup.
Many cases of rout, attributed to the
winter season have their real origin In
the fall season. A hen's temperature is
1081,4 degrees. She is covered with a
eoat. of feathers for protection, There-
fore, hens, should not he expected to
live under conditions which are Mmfort-
able-for mail, More birds aro injured
by housing tee closely and crowdint
than by the orosite, While we do not
vet ve
fined thfollowing a good prevelin Lan alt htlye and
treatment for roup, canker, chickenpox,
etc.: Magnesium sulphate, 10 Ounces:
magnesium oxide. I ounce; sulphate of
Iron. 2 ounces; ground ginger, Z ounces;
sulohur, 3 ounces
Give one tablespoonful In moist mash
to twelve birds Putt morning for three
mornings and discontinue till needed.
The magnesium eulphate acts on the in-
testines, the maenesium Retie on the
bleed, the ground ginger stimulates all
organs, and the ,pulphur is a general
antiseptic. This is. therefore, a good
system treatment or tonic for the fowls,
For severe mutes ,the dose mentioned
above should be .ucreased. No one,
however, should try to control a dieeave
without first removing the cause.. If
birds have a cold, first remove the cause,
then administer -treatment.
During the fall season all grains, weed
seeds etc., ripen, so that if the birds
have free range they have an abundant,
supply of toed, but the ration often Is
unbalanced. fur the ration usually con-
tains too much fat producing °temente
with not enough tissue forming elemente.
If thebirds have range on clover, al-
falfa., cowneas. etc., the ration is more
ant to be balaneed, but if they range in
a corn field the hens should be fed pro-
teln in same other form, for 'without it,
the hens will get fat but produce no
eggs.
NO ALUM
weather. If this is not done it will be
hard to get them to lay during the win,
ter. Pullets which lay in the fall melte bet-
ter breeders in the spring than those
which wait till spring to begin laY-
ing.
NOTHS,
Damp air in the poultry -house is fatal
to egg production. It is much better to
have a cold, dry. house than a vertu,
damp one. Hoar -frost on the walls' of •
a house is the result of Warm, motet ;
elr coming in contact with th0. culd
walls.. If the foul 'air is gradually mixed
with fresh air. 110 rime will occur,
An earth flOor is frequently satisfae-
tory where the Soil Is light in texture and
well drained. Otherwise a board or co -
went Boor is better, and preferably the I
latter. as it Is more durable and Lem-
tary. • I
The nearer square a house le—other 1
things being equal—the less luniber it I
will require. A long narrow house is
colder than a short, deep one, bemuse
it has a larger area of exposed surface
and it is inore inclined to be drafty. ,
The shape of the roof influences the !
cost of construction. The steeper tlie
pitch the greater the emit of intildingt.1
Particularly with a shedroof house as i
compared with a gable ur combination- i
rn he oof. Othe other hand, tsteeper
the pitch the longer it will Inst. ;1Iost
. wh11t. ishinglo
roofs should be one-third Ditch.
A. poultry-hoese should be of simple I
construction, and the fewer permanent
MADE IN CANADA
f;xtures there are the better. The fee 1 -
Ing hoppers, dusting boxes and nests
thole& te: movable in order to make tl e
house easy to clean.
The roosts should be made low down,
Particularly tor the heavier breeds, Leg -
horns require about eight inches of
perch room, Plymouth Bock nine, and
Brahamas ten. The roosts may be made
of two by foul' inch scanning or of two
by two inch pieces, with the corners
slightly rounded.
When a, dropping -board is used it should
be made low down to admit of easy
cleaning. For one roorit, the dropping -
hoard should be twenty inches wide, and
for two roosts the board should be three
feet wide. It should be made of match-
ed lumber and should be veil construct-
ed, especially 'where nesta are located
under the &owing -board
Nests are made about twelve by fif-
teen inches, and they ehould be dark, as
this tends to prevent egg eating.
THE CONCENTRATED'
ESSENCE OF WAR.
Two soldiers of the King talked of
war. Bath had seen the present war
as a member of a command which had
brought honor. to Canada, for one
wore the tiny red badge of the orig-
inal Princess Patricia's regiment, and
the other had been one of the "Little
Black Devils," whose exploits at
Ypres had been a confirmation of
their .ehhistening to the title,
Both had seen something of war
before participating in the present
unpleasantness. The man from the
Princess Pat's had done his bit in
South Africa; so had his friend from
Winnipeg. In addition he had served
elsewhere with the British army for
twelve years, lid spent four years in
mhe United States Navy, and (as he
npreSSed it "had some fun during
a revolution in San Domingo.
ESSENCE OF WAR.
Pingly and together, they attempted
to state in eimple terms the points
waged to -day and the other ware, in
'Alice they had borne a part.
"I am what is known as a soldier
of fertune " said Private Cary to a
representative of the Winnipeg Tele-
gram. "Whenever there Was trouble
and I could get into it, the attraction
was as certain for nle as if I had been
steel to a magnet.
"I thought I knew all. about fight-
ing when I beat it over from the. States
to get into this with what I had been
told was a regiment of real fighters.
Put I learned more in a month in
fig-hting the Germane than T had
known- in a pretty busy lifetime up
to the day I had landed in France.
"'I heard an ()Meer say something
once abouiethis being tlie concentrated
eesence of all war. I did not get him
•r-operly at the moment, but the more
I ha,ve thought this over the more I
liaYe come to the conelusloa that he
was exactly right.
"It is concentrated essence of fight -
ng with all the agencies oi modern
science erupleyed; on the other hand,
it es the triple extract of a brutality
•
which we hail begun to think bed
been. almost eradleatgd be science !t-
een'. I belonged to an outfit which
does not have to be prabied by rao
"In spite of those a,wful days ot
Yprees mid after, there were only forty
MeM.bers of the 8th Battalion, wound-
ed or not, primers of war. If the
boys had te die, they Medi. but even
of the forte few were taken who were
able to raise an item.
"I merely speak of what they did,
because cis One of them it le the hor-
ror of a gigantic eltamblee u I look
back at it. Little thinge impress the
big things on a fellow and before me
pass a queer nightmare succession of
unrelated pictures, mid half remem-
bream a jumbled impreeedons I re-
ceived at the time.
"Of the huudreds of Germans directly
in front of me, I see one big fat fel-
low aiming. I get.him, and he jumeti
like a big Jack rabbit performing in
a pantomime, I laugh ast I see him
aenctnalheelsot usdetuiewevt og:inughpi seat °sal! tligrgyitnes.tht his
nilse I3ut, nevertheless, I fire again
TIIE GERMAN OFFICER.
"During the very worst of the
Ypres mese, someone strikes a =telt
beside me. That also intatee me
want to laugh, and I turn to say so
to the chum who has been fighting
beside me, He'll never see the joke.
That was no matchbox being struck;
it was Bill. The bullet had entered
behind one ear and come out close
above the other.
"Among these pictures see myself
•doing listening point duty, I sees mY-
self as I know I looked—caked in
mud, with eyes, .all whites, staving at
who bad been a man three weeks be-
fore, belt for two keelts past had been
an offence.
"Then I see the head of what was
me turn very, very slowly. I hear
again the whisper that is not a
whisper of the listening detail from
the shop across the way. I still see
another pietura which might be called
'Tile Falling Tree.'
"A German officer—s. Staff officer,
evidently by his uniform, Is directing
come operations—tunnelling, maybe,
about fifty feet behind their titles.
I ve had glirapses of him half a dozen
times, and now I get a good line on
In this picture I see myself
waiting for what seems a long time.
"Apparently he is also waiting.
Then, suddenly, his head and shoul-
ders sway and he falls straight for-
ward like a chapped tree,
BACKWARD AND FORWARD.
"Consider a reel of such pictures
passing before me and continuously be-
tween Quebec and Victoria, to which
place I am ordered for another three
months in a convalescent home, and
you will have some idea of what I
think of this warfare of to -day."
Private A.. Warren, ot the Princess
Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry,
spoke:
"To put tin whole thing in a nth -
shell," he said, "picture St. Blot, where
I gat mine. This was not one of the
really big battles of the war, although
many went out there, including Col -
mel learquahar, out in front of his
men setting them an example.
"But figure for yourself, and you
will see what it must have been like.
ih trenches were not more than to
neventy-five yards apart when the
charging and counter -charging began.
We took a trench, Test it, took it, lost
It. For two days the battle swayed,
backward and forward, over a beetle -
field of at mcst not more - than 250
yards. Two days in this space, lock-
ed -together in hell, bayonets out,
shrapnel flying, shelle bursting, ma-
ehine-guns raking, bombs exploding.
You just cannot imagine that picture
any more than can properly describe
IJ 11 II11JIYYIIUW1W
It is all very- well for fleshy people to admire
a slim figure, but no girl likes to be referred to
as "thin as a match or "flat as an ironing -
board.".
Thinness Means that the tissues are not pro.
perly fed and nourished. It indicates a ten-
dency towards anaemia, which must be
overcome in its early stages. You may eat -
plenty of food, but you are losing weight, and
with it 7-eserve force. The blood has got thin
and watery:
It is usually the nervously' energetic girl or
woman who wears herself down by worry and
anxiety, until the nerves become irritable and.
the form emaciated.
This condition never rights itself, and for
this reason you must seek external assistance,
such as is found in Dr, Chase's Nerve Food.
This treatment should not be confused with fat -
forming, oil -composed. preparations. It is
rather a true tonic, which sharpens the appe-
tite, improves digestion and restores richness
to the blood. Through the medium of the
blood it feeds and nourishes the starved cells
and tissues back to health.
Under this .restorative, upbuilding treat-
'Inent the angles disappear, and the form is
rounded out to healthful proportions. The new
tissues formed are strong and &in, and give to
the body the buoyancy and vigor which makes
you look well and feel well, Nervous head-
aches and indigestion disappear, and you feel
again the joy of living, You ean prove the
benefit obtained by noting each week your in-
crease in weight.
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WHY MRS. MARCHOANK USED
DODO'S KIDNEY PILLS. -
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She Found Quick Relief and Now
RecommendsAll Women Who Suf-
fered As She Old to Use Dodd'e Kid-
ney FMB,
St, Mertin'e, St, John Ca., N. B.,
Jan, 31, — (Special), — Mrs, Violet
Marchbank, wife Of a well-known far-
mer living near here, is telling her
neighbOrs of the splendid restate she
lute got through usiug Dodd's Kidney
"My trouble startee from a cold,"
Air, Marchbank states. "I had back-
ache, may joints were stiff and mY
nIuseles cramped, I Was irritable end
always Wrote,. Illy appetite was fit-
ful and I felt heavy and sleepy atter
meals. Rheumatism was added td
my troubles as well as headaches,
and heart flutterings made me very
aancloue at times.
"I suffered for about two years and
was far from being a well woman
when my brother tepid nip what great
things Dodd's. Kidney Pills had done
for him and I Made up my mind to
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"1 sent and got three boxes and
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Every one of Mrs. elarchbankei
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se
AIR BOMB V. C.
Two British Fliers Rescue One
Another in Turn,
The King has been greelously plees-
ed to approve of the grant of the Vic-
toria Cross to Squadron-Commaader
Richard Bell Davies, D.S.O., R.N., and
the Distinguished Service Cross to
Flight Sub -Lieutenant Gilbert Form-
by Smylie, R. N., in recognition of
their behaviour in the following cir-
cumstances:
On November 19 these two officers
carried out an air attack en Ferrijik
Junction, Flight Sub -Lieutenant Smy-
ne's machine was brought down by
heavy fire. The pilot planed down over
the station, releasing • all his bombs
except one, which failed to drop.
Thence he -continued his descent into
the march.
On alighting he saw the one unex-
ploded bomb, and. set fire to his ma-
chine, knowing that the bomb would
destroy in He then went towards
Turkish territory.
At this moment he saw Squadron -
Commander Davies descending, and
fearing that he would come down
near the burning machine and thus
risk destruction from the bomb Ile
ran back and from a short distance
exploded the bomb bY means, of a
pistol bullet.
Squadron -Commander Davies des-
cended at a safe distance from the
burning machine, took up Sub -Lieu-
tenant Smylie, in spite of the near ap-
proach of a party of the enemy, and
returned to the aerodrome—a feat of
airnianship that can seldom have been
equalled for skill and gallantry.
Squadron -Commander Richard Bell
Davies, 118,0., is twenty-nine years of
age and a bachelor. For the oast five
Years he has lived at Rotherfield, Sus-
sex, He entered the navy about eleven
Years ago.
He was taught to fly by Mr. Gra-
hame -White about three years ago. He
was sent to Somaliland at the begin-
ning of the war, and when he return-
ed was sent to Belgium It was Squa-
dron -Commander Davies who made
the attempt to destroy time German
aerodrome in Brussels ereely in the
war. Later on he took part in an aerg
tal attack on Zeebrugge, in which he'
was wounded, and for which he . re-
ceived the D.S.O. About March last,
having recovered from his wound, lie
went to the Dardanellee,
A WISE PREMIER.
How He Changed the Views of the
bat& King Long Ago,
History records many an instance in
which trivet. Incidents have shaped the
destinies of nations. It appears that
a small silver Inkstand and the quick
wit of a prime minister once played an
important part in Lite history of the
Netherlands. -
William 11I., Xing of the Netherlands.
was a man of violent and ungovernable
temper. Although in general a clever
statesman, he WaS inclined, for some
reason or othe'r, to involve Holland In
the trouble that was brewing between
France and Germany In 1870. He was
deaf to the appeals of his ministers, who
foresaw the ruin to the country that
war would bring.
Thorbecke, the prime minister, re-
solved, to make one last attempt to
change his sovereign's resolution. On
entering the royal presence, Thorbecke
was greeted with a rough "Good morn-
ing. Nirliat's the news?"
oNething particularly, your tnajesty;
only the people of The Hague are talk-
ing a great deal of nonsense about your
maiesty."
"About me!" exclaimed the monarch in
wrath. "What do they say about me?"
'Well, ,Ur,' answered the old states-
man, "The Haguers declare that_ your
ma:testy has become stark mad!"
Before he could titter another word,
Xing -William, his face purple with rage,
jumped up and seized a heavy silver Ink-
stand. With the intention of hurling it at
the head of the premier. rortunately,
a projecting angle of the inkstand caught
in the tablecloth, and dragged it off the
table 'With everything upon IL In the
confusion, the discharge of the missile
W80 delayed for a moinent.
"Sire," said Thorbecke, quietly, "If
your majesty burn; that beautiful ink-
stand at my head The Haguers vtill have
much reason for their assertion,
ror a. minute the angry king
In silehee at his minister. Then he
gradually lowered hs arm and replaced
the Inkstand on the table. He walk-
ed to one of the windows and stood look-
ing out into the street for a few min -
Utes. Returning to the table, he re-
sumed his seat nod said, aS if nettling
had bap:Aimed:
"And now tell ma what you have got
to say."
An hour later 'when the statesman
left. he carried with hitt the InOria.reh's
promise to issue a proelantation that
would declare the neutrality of the Neth-
eriands.—Waelengton star.
• d •
The Widow.
I know a widow Who can charm
All men It is her chance to meet:
She has Such frankness to disarm,
Such graciousness alluring sweet,
Such sympathy when we are sad,
So fine an understanding sense—
Can it be just because she's had
txperieneet
Se many come to pay her court
And revel in her gladdlile, smile,
So many think her just the sort
With whom a life uway to while,
wonder why some likely led
Wins not her troth for recompense—
can it bo just because she's had
!experience?
—Lee .Shippey in ludo.
r,, •
eaeher—What !aeons do We learn
f in the attack on the Dardanelles?
ISS ael101ar -That a strait 'beats
three kings, dad ealts.
Dclioate colored Maumee may be
dried out of doors, but should not be
exposed to the sun or light. Put them
in a pillow slip,
A little baking soda MAI keratiene Oil
le the very best thing with which, to
clean bethtube. It never injures the
enamel, i
Furniture is an exeellent barometer,
displaying all the vitaing moods of a
fickle seagon. Damp furniture accum-
ulates dust, it turns blue, has a etieltY
feeling and is unattractive. The con-
dition is apparent in damp weather.
• To polish wood that takes On this
sticky hue use a mixtures of actual
parts of gasoline, linseed oil and strong
vinegar, The vinegar cuts all grease
from the woodwork, leavin git as clean
as if witehed. Use old pieces of cot-
ton to polish.
To keep lettuce fresh after washing
Put it in a brown paper bag and twist •
the top of the bag tightly to exclude
theeaailr.
lodast Is wasted unless the zeds-
• tress sees that it is burned, and yet
• it makes beautiful fires, Have a gal-
vanized Iron scuttle for the' purpose,
• Ade sufficient water to the coal to
nuke It moist. When 0, fire is burn -
Ing brightly bank it up with this wet
dust and you will have a clear fire
which will last for hours.
The best ane easiest method I have
ever found for destroying ants,
whether they are in the house or on
the lawn, is to take a large sponge,
wet it, and sift fine sugar all over It
and lay it in the place that is infested. -
The ants will soon fill the sponge,
Take it and sink it in a pail of water;
they will then leave the sponge and
rise to the top of the water and can
easily be destroyed. Sprinkle more
sugar on the sponge and a ut it in Piece
again. Timis repeated a few times will
soon enable the housewife to destroy
all the ants.
HEALTH WRECKED
THROUGH LA GRIPPE
It Generally Leaves the Patient
Debilitated and An Easy Vic-
• tim to Other Diseases. .
One of the foremost medical writers
says: "It is astonishing the neimber
of people who have been crippled in
health for years after an attack of la
grippe or influenza." The real clang.
er from this disease, which sweeps
over Canada every winter, is during
convalesoence, when the charazteris.
tic symptoms, the fever, the catarrh,
the headache and the depression of
spirits pass away. Grip leaves be-
hind it weakened vital powers, thin
blood, - impaired digestion and •over-
sensitive nerves—a condition that
makes the system an easy prey to
pneumonia, bronchitis, rheumatism,
nervous proetration and even consume.
lion. It is a condition that calls most
emphatioally for a tonic) for the blood.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a tonic
especially adapted to meet this need
as they purify and enrich the blbod.
They tone up the nerves and give
vigor, strength and health to the de-
bilitated system. Mrs. Howard D.
Chaffey, Indian Island, N. B.„ says:
"For several winters in succession I
was attacked by la grippe which left
me weak and badly run down. In each
case I used Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
with the most beneficial results. Last
winter when the trouble was again •
;prevalent I took -the precaution of
-fortifying my system with Dr. Wil -
lianas' Pink Pills and escaped the
itrouble, while maey of my neighbors
Were down with it, In fact I enjoyed
the best of health all spring and feel
tsure this medicine will so fortify the
system as to prevent the trouble."
These Pills are sold by all medicine
dealers or may be had by mail at 50
cents a box or six boxes for $3.50 from
The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock-
ville, Ont,
PERILS OF BAD AIR.
Reduced Vitality, Loss of Appetite
and General Bad Health.
Air is bad when it is overheated,
when it contains SA excess of mois-
ture, and when it is chemically con-
taminated. This is the conclusion of
the New York State Commission on
on Ventilation, as summarized by
.Professor C. E. A. Winelow, chairman.
The first indictment against bad air
:shows that an increase in temperature
beyond the normal 70 degrees pro-
duce e serious derangexaent of the
vaso -motor mechanism of the body,
• resulting in a rise of temperature, in-
creased pulse and a lowered blood
pressure, with a corresponding de-
crease in efifoiency, both Physical and
mental. In addition to this, (seer -
heating conduces to an undesirable
congestion of the mucous membranes
of the nose, thus possibly paving the
way for colds, sole throats and attacks
of various germ diseases,
The work of tlae commission also
proves that chemical accumulations hi
, the air as' a result of air stagnation
bring about a decreased appetite for
food, which, in turn, must have an un-
favorable effect on the entire body.
In the commission's experiments the
people living in freshe air ate 41/2 to 13
I:teargntt
centnt anairere than those living in
"These experiments," says Professor
Winslow, "indicate that fresh air is
• needed al all times and in all places.
While we have changed our ideas as
to what causes bad air, ventilation Is
• Just as essential to remove heat pro-
dueed by human 'bodies as it was once
thought to be to remote) the carbon
dioxide produced by hunt= lungs, arid
It Is now preyed also to be essential
for carrying away chemical products
-Which exert n measurable effeet upon
the appetites for food. People who live
and work in overheated and unventil-
ated rOOrtis are reducing their vitality,
and rendering theinselves an easy Prey
to all sorts of diseithee.
A. Vox,. Reply.
Ono of the most caustic replies ever
made during an election eonmaign was
that of Fox when he called at it shop 7
during one of his candidatures, The
ehopmatt happened to be a rabid MI
nent, Taking hold of a Dieee of e
he Fetid savagelY: "Vote for you!
Sooner bang YOU With thie roper',
"Very • interesting," remarke4.
blandly, exaMitiing the (gird. "
fly relic, 1 preeurne."---tond
Vath year one viol
out, in,tlme ought
man
literktbe
-
mktUtUct:111:44e.:,114:171,241:
wo
and one-half ti
of gold. A. thou
i,i1,arrti
tiiivinuiin a
creer:all
c
nee met about $50 a
`nate of platinum
aro of frequent, oesei
umeally has received labor
Ing and knows the value of',
He visits a, laboratory for
prefessionul purposes, and w I
miming scientific queetions wit
chemist iu charge manages to
such platinmu as collies within
react and disappears.
Platinum is *so precious that bet
Its manufacturers and its Durellaseee
elace upon Pad, article an inclivitiaal
Mark, which Is Xecorilcat„ together with.
Lime actual weight. Tho latter is com-
puted to the !mirth decimal, whieh is
Inclusive Of one-tenth of a milligram.
Losses by theft are promptly re -et,
ported, frequently by, telegrepk.
manufacturers and dealers le,
alld scientific publications,
size and, forrn of each
carefully described. Thor
four or five reputable Siege
num for laboratory pin -poses
United Stateti. .
The metal is eXtenstirely used, b
ever, in mountings for jewels. and 1
the manufactures of electric list
globes. Its utility for the latter pure e
poses is due to the fact that the co-
efficientof expansion Of platinum
and glass are the same.
The itlaYsicaI virtues of elatintint
from the standpoint of the cheMist
and assayer conetitute the tbief's
greatest difficulty in dimming of his
spoils, if he Is expert without scien-
tific knowledge of howtomolt or de -,-
compose the metal. Bratinum
intact in the fierce heat of an oxyltye •
cirog.en 'blowpipe up to 1,760 degrees
centigrade, or about 3,200 degrees
Fahrenheit, welle lead melts at 327,
silver at 061, gold at 1,071 and II -011
at 1,550 degrees centigrade. .
Platinum is not solvent in any single
acid, but may be attacked by a com-
bination of certain acids, with the
result, that it becomebrittle. Strang e
• acids• are commorely zeed in eleatting
platinum vessels in the laboratory,
Peculiarly, platinum is easily cleaned
by rubbing it with round moist sett
sand on the end of 'bull finger. In
appearance platinuna lacks the rich-
ness of gold, and resembles tin that •
has become slightly oxidized.
In a well equipped laboratory for
original research the various Pia:U-
.:tune dishes, crucibles and. stirring rods ,
gum an aggregate Weight of .about
3,600 grams and an approximate -value
mf $5,000. The largest vessels are 21,es
' Inches ,in diameter and lee inches in
• depth, weigh forty grams eaclt and
are worth about $80 each. A single
stirring rod may cost more than $100.
The world's supply of platinueee ene
comes mostly from the Ural Moun-
tains in Russia, a.nd has been de-
creased by the European war. In 1909
the world's output of crude platinum
was 198,330 troy ounces, of which
190,087 came from Russia. Platinum
is found also in Canada; New South
Wales, Colombia, Borneo and Sumatra,
end in the States of Callforniagelregon
end Wyomlng. The annual oetput efee
erude platinum in the 'United States
Is about 700 troy ounces.
LOOKS FISHY.
(Philadelphia Record)
Germany's "emotional storm" as the
Berlin despatches term lt, over alleged
Briltish brutality' in connection with the
hassink I an gp oe 131 asgmfattrbi abty0 dt h
when the facts, so far as thar_are known,
arc recalled. The chargethat British
officers and seamen shot Germans who
. were struggling In the water was made
several months ago in affidaVits by some
negro muleteers on the Steamship NI,.
; %teen. which the submarine had enact.
eadn.d ‘Tvhhoesoliniiemgros..cianiatlywere_j_r44,,
An:eri.ez
'were On their._,,way back to this
thtir Naieffolsdrnitrioltritelid
ttvnctntstibilloefn
their falsity in essential details and gt
the muleteers a very bad name for vet
acity. All this happened months eau
and was given prominence at the time.
Why Germany should be experiencing an
"emotional storm" over the Matter at
this day is not Quite clear. The Whole
incident has a curiously artificial look.,
especially the demands that savage re.
Diesels be exacted on BritIstt ,prlsorier
• di • •
:deauarlyet.ybusY," said O'Conner arid Mc.
he sli
And we do not find tghtest OM-
SIU'apnel 'to the TeatonaeVery
HOODWINKING ENGLAN.6.
Isre
In transporting it or getting alb our
nay."
When I questioned thane, and asked theM
how they do it.
How they break their way through
England's strong blockade.
They just laughed and said, "My boy-,
• there's nothingto it,
t England's navy really is our greatest
aid.
Btnagnctidauneditilty; -tthttl t't h -rd ose a:
T.onimCyAalaltkins, needing scareel'Y sug-
shegeetsetioito, ever
to the Teutons right
alvsasytt
THE BRITISH OATH.
We've cleansed the sea from shorn
Airt wsizilloint.ake Peace, but ntit before
_
Restored vits bbie. restored the name
Of sailor to its rank of yore.
The Provost -Marshal of the seas— *
'When did he treat with piracies,
And why should he with you m
Deallcoe:
saman, who, fighting Merl.
eleW 'women witik Ins lett hand, therJ
Crushed children with his b10-sts14
right—
Tirpitz: . . Hehold that sight
Thyself—and he0r tbis solemn oath
That serves for you and WilheIni, bAli;
"We will make nonce, -when at 'our doel;14
We swing YOU to the last gun's roar;
Youand your thrice -damned Emperor."
—Henry De Vero Stitepoole, in La a
Eitaress. •
•
• w • •
DODGERS,
(Chicago TrIbuney
A tax dodger In tante
122, He avoids this duty
It JR at peace. A wit
when the state is
eantliiitwe i‘trftil)line of
ewas'tr mule
in t
not
Who