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DIRT
CANADA.
SPRING VEGETABLE WORK.
There is really more detail work in
vegetable growing than in the growing
Of the general farm crops. Success or
failure depend upon the attention
given these small matters.
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• With all vegetable crops the land
must be thoroughly tilled before plant-
ing. The heavier or more compact the
• a .eoll the ire • care Is required in this
operatioae
The matrure must be well mixed
• with. the o3oi1 and the ground well
worked te at least six inches deep, It
is a Mistake to, rush crops into soil
• that Is net Properly prepared, for after
e.plariting it is impossible to make up
for lack of preparation tillage.
The tillage after the crop is planted
should be shallow, so that all weed
growth is kept. down and leave a fine
earth covering on the surface of the
ground to. prevent evaporation from
the soil. A.depth of tibout two inches
is eufficient for such cultivation. The
cultivation may be deeper when thee
plants are young, but after the roots
start to spread through the soil great
injury is done by cutting or exposing
the roots, which generallris the re-
sult of deep cultivation.
QUALITY OF MANURE REQUIRED.
'eg It best to apply partially•rotted
.table manure to the land in the fall,
And -plow it to a depth or five or six
enehee. If stable manure is used in
spans it should be well rotted, espe-
cially where early vegetables are
• wanted:
Well -rotted manure contains plant
• food alial; is in a more rapidly Avail-
. able•form and can be usetrby the trot)
etheonce., For late vegetable crops,
:Ye/ugh- and'eeertipere deenyecr manure'
eegnay he used to advantage if applied
• e in the .spring. But it should be borne
_ mindwthat, as a rule, manuring.in
a the falleand plowing it under is best
for all vegeta,hle crops.
• e Commercial fertilizers are used to
•
advantage in .the vegetable garden,
The most saiisfactbey fertilizer. for
that purpose is one containing 4 per
cent. nitrogen, 8 per cent, phospnoric
acid and 10 per cent. potash. ,The
practice is to sow broadcast just be-
fore seeding or planting, scattering
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'evenly and mixing with the soil by.'
,eharrowing. Fertilizer scattered at .the
rate of one ounce to the square yard
e represents Approximately 300 pounds
to tlie acre.
COOL AND WARM SEASON VEGE.•
•TABLES.
There are certain vegetables that do
best in a low temperature, and may be
started in April or early .in May, just
as soon as the ground can be properly
worked. The principal cool season
crops are peas, carrots, beets, parsnina
turnips, radish, spinach, lettuce, pats -
ley, cabbage, cauliflower, celery and
onions.
Plans for transplanting may be
started at a temperature of 50 to 55
degrees. If grown in an atmosphere
above this temperature theymay be
weak and unthrifty and not make
satisfactory plants.
Tho warm season vegetables are
tomatoes, cucumbers, melona, corn,
beans, peppers and eggplant, and re-
quire a temperature not lower than
GO degrees to properly develop. They
cannot be set in the open ground until
• danger from frost is past, or toward
the latter part of May. Seed of these
sown in the open ground should not
be sown until the weather is settled
, and the ground warmed up, or after
the middle ,rof May. Warm season
vegetables may be put on cooler and
later soles in more northern situations.
. Southern exposure le always desirable
fter very early vegetables.
In order to continue a supply of
certain vegetables, occasional sowings
of the same kind of seed may be made
every ten days until the middle of
. JtineSWitli cold season crops, as peas,
radish, and lettuce, and later with
Deans. • In this way often a suimly
usually confined to a week or ten days
may -be spread over several weeks.
, A double -wheel hoe is useful where
handwork is necessary. With this the
surface soil may be worked close up
to plant and left in a fine condition,
thus doing away with- much of the
costly hand hoeing and weeding. It
cannot be usecr•to advantage in soils
that have become hard, nor where
seeds have grown large. In small gar.
dens it is indispensable, and also in
onion growing, where a large amount
Of the work must be done by hand.
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growing atraWberrles on a light, eall0Y
soil.
Frozen erealll will net Make the beet
butter.
To a considerable extent by Memo-
ing the yield per acre you leseen the
cost ot hrediactiou.
To utilize all of the food product of
the farm to the best advantage re,
quires a Variety of stock.
The purity and 100 breeding ot
an animal determine its power to
transmit itsi good qualities to its off,
aPring.
Sheep huebandry lies a value to
make land more productIve and more
profitable at a lees expenditure than
any other animal on the farm.
In nearly all ewe it le cheaper to
make growth than to make fat. Fat
is the coatliest part of an althea' and
of the least value au food.
A sheep has a low nervous organi-
zation, and once neglected gives up
with little effort. But keep in thrift
with good care it will be as hardy as.
any other animal,
The liquid voidinge of animals con.
tain about 50 per cent. of the fertiliz-
ing value, containing over two•thirds
of the nitrogen and four -Melia of the
potash.
To supply the toes of fate in skim
milk feed with it small quantity of
oil meal. Prepare the meal by boil-
ing it to a jelly and then mix with the
When cow are being fed for high
records 330 that the cot of feed is of
'minor conaideration, or in cases where
the number of cows is to small to war-
rant the use of a silo, sugar beets are
one of the beet aourcoe of succulence.
They tend to increaae milk production,
but corn silage is far more econemi-
cal as a source of eucculence for ordin-
ary purposea where many cows are
kept.
Ten years' experimental work in
Ohio has shown that two pounds of
dry matter can be produced in the
form of silage at a lees cost than one
pound in the form cat sugar beets. The
convenience in feeding is also in fav-
or of silage.
Recent inyeetigations at the Ohio
Experiment Station, in which it was
endeavored to discover the peculiar
tastes of horses in the selection of the
moat palatable feed, have shown that
they arefer mixed clover and tim-
othy. Broome grass was also to their
liking and thnothy hay stood third.
None of the horses was fond of tall
oat grass, while blue grass and red
top also stood near the bottom of the
list for palatability,
• NOTES.
•
Two or three cosies of thin cement
wash applied to the inside of a leaky
gutter with a paint brush will stop
kaki.
Smear hay ropes with linseed oil be-
fore using. It will keep them from
ahrinking *hen wet. . .
Rub axle grease in your plows When
through with them: a They' will not
rust then,
The pests of the strawberry • are
more easily Controlled when the loca-
tion of the plantation is often changed.
The leaf spot, or etrawberry blight, ap-
pears as reddish brown spots on tho
foliage. -4It does not usually prove to
be a serious Pest, but if it should it
May be controlled by spraying with
13.or4ettuit solution, Net before the
blohming period,
In planting a strawberry bed, avoid
lowly -plowed sod. Plots of this kind
are 'more tumidly troubled with the
white grub. 'Ibis attacks the roots
of the plant, just below the crotvie
severing it .from the mote,
etrawbcrry -Will. grow in a var.
tetv of soils, from a liglit to a heavy
they eft-, black prairie loam. The solj.
shogla be fertile: ' It •eliould tentiiin a
Maid amount of decaying vegethble
(organic) iiiatter. Thal will tend to
imidethe 'tooleture. Tide is it big item
tatrawlieffy culture, an they require
e large amount of Moisture, espeeially
et the ripening period.
A light, 'candle Soil will bring an
peeeliee
berry, but a soil of MS type 10
est ge goad to withstand draught, yet
tiota aro atany growers successfully
SEPARATE SKIRTS.
Soin e of the Newest 'Quirks of
Fashion. •
Fashion certainly is lavishing atten.
tion upon the separate skirt for the
coming summer. In fact, she's show-
ing partiality. The materials that she
is using are made especially for the
petted garment, and go under the name
of skirtings, and besides that, the lines
of the separate skirt are well consider-
ed and fetching.
. Perhaps the quirk that is the newest
01 the new is that of mitering striped
materials, usually cotton Of lightweight
wool gabardines. Sometimes the result-
ing design of the skirt is a aeries of
oblong panel effects that eeeemble ap-
rons at the back and front, each fall-
ing below the other. Another arrange-
ment of mitered stripes forms a series
of the oblongs at tho sides of the
skirts. Awning striped materials are
especially god for this purpose. Some
of the skirts have quite dark grounds,
with bright -colored stripes, while in
others just the reverse is true of the
materials. Other designs tan be form-
ed by the mitre method, such as dia.
monde and even blocks.
Tnere are other ,smaremodels, how-
ever, that the veriest amateur can
make, such as those which are cut per-
fectly straight and their fullness gath-
ered upon cords about the waist. Some-
times shirred pockets are placed one
on each side front.
Most of the separate skirts are in-
tended for wear with smocks, middies,
mandarins and sport blouses in gen-
eral, but there are a few drese skirts
shown, too.
PERFECT HEALTH
DUE TO THE !ROOD.
•NO GIRL OR WOMAN NEED BE
CONSTANTLY AILING AND
• UNHAPPY.
Nature intended every glen and every
woman to be happy, attractive, active
and healthy. Yet too many of them
find their lives saddened by suffering, -
nearly altvays because their blood Is to
.blame. All those' happy girls and
women with colorless cheeks, dull
skins andsunken, lustreless eyes, are
in this conditicin because they have not
enough blood, red blood in their veins
to keep them well in. the charm of
health. They suffer from depressing
weariness and periodical headaches.
Dark lines form under their eyes, their
heart .palpitates violently after the
slightest exertion, and they are often
attacked with fainting spells. These
are only a few of the Miseries of blood.
leseness. Nothing can secure girls and
women from the inevitable deeline that
follows anaemia except a generous sup-
ey of new, rich, red blood, and noth-
ing hits ever proved so successfal in
creating red, good blood as Dr. WII
Hams' Pink Pills for Pale People.
Thousands and thousands of girls and
women owe their good health and
charming complexion to the use of this
medicine. Here Is one example of its
power to care. Miss Dorina. Bastion,
St. Jerome, Que., says: "For over a
year my health was gradually failing,
ray blood had seemed almost to have
turned to witter, ray theeks were pale,
My lips bloodless, and the slightest
exertion left me breathless. I suffered
frequently from sevdlie headaches, Iny
appetite failed, and my friends feared
was going into consumption. I had
been doctoring, but did not &Mere any
benefit, and finally I had to ghee up
ny vvoek and return home. It was at
this stage that a friend brought me a
box et Dr, Williams' Pink Me, and
urged me to try them. By the time
the box was Used I thought they were
helping me, and decided to continue
Using the pills, I took half e, dozen
hoeeg more, wheit flly strength had
totneletely returned, lay Appetite ette.s
restored, my color returned, heselaehee
had disappeared and I was feeling bet-
ter than I had been for years. 1would
urge every weak end ailing girl to give
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a fair trial,"
These pills are sold by all medieine
dealers, Or may be bad by Mali at 40
(entr3 a, bog or six boxes for $2.50 freen
The Dr, Willie/11S' h•ledielne 00., Broek-
vine, Drit,
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_Artificial Coloring of Sugar
Prohibited by the Government
OR many years the Canadian Public has been eating
Artificially Colored Sugars. Government reports
show that some refineries have used Ultramarine Blue
to make their granulated sugar look better than it
actually is. Others made use of Aniline and Vegetable Dyes to
give a brilliant appearance to their soft or yellow sugars.
• The use of dyes or coloring matter
of any kind is unnecessary in refining
Cane Sugar. This is emphasized in
a notification sent to all refiners by
the Dominion Government prohibit-
....
ing the coloring of sugar, and in cases
where it is found; prosecution pro-
ceedings will be entered under the
Adulteration of Foods Act.
. We Wish the Public to.,Know that -we Have Never Used
Coloring Matter in. LanticPure Cane Sugar and Never Will
Lando Pure Cane Sugar was first put on
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the market about two years ago. Since
that time over 200,000,000 lbs. have been
consumed by the Canadian Public,
and we are now turning out 750,000 lbs.
of Pure Cane Sugar each day.
The reason for this enormous busi-
ness is not harchbe explain. It means
that the discriminating consumer has
learned by actual use that Lantic
Pure Cane Sugar h superior to all
others.
Having erected the most modern
sugar refinery in the world, costing
over $4,000,000, we steadfastly
adhered to our original policy of
making only absolutely Pure Cane
Sugars of highest quality, in which
NO BEETS ARE USED
NO ULTRA MARINE )3L UE IS USED
NO ANILINE DYES ARE USED
NO VEGETABLE DYES ARE USED
Montreal, Que.
During the last two years we were told
that we could increase our business hi cer-
tain sections of Canada, if we would color
our yellow soft- sugars, as the public
were accustomed to the more brilliant
color. We refused and are glad we did
so. -The recent action of the Govern-
ment has since vindicated our judg-
ment.
Look for the Red Ball
•" Trade -mark
be absolutely certain of get-
ting Lantic Pure Cane Sugar, see
that the Red Ball Trade -mark is
on every bag or carton. It is our
guaranty to you of Canada's Purest
Sugar.
Your grocer has Lantic Sugar in stock
or will get it fpr you if you insist.
Atlantic Sugar Refineries, Limited
'St. John, N.B.
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iPoultry
World
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POINTERS ON CARE OW 01 -310K -
ENS.
April and May are the big chick
months. It is then that the great bulk
of chicks are hatched, the two monthi3
In the year when Nature ie at ite
be8t for chickhood. and. it ie then that
the mari or woman with -the hen
fever. hears the call of poultry the
loudest. Even in June a large number
of chicks are hatched. Tne art of
keeping a few Ilene is not a hard me
if well-known rules are faithrully fol-
lowed out. The raising of poultry suc-
cesafully depends on the attention
Paid. to many email eeeentiala that
one deee not read of in poultry 'melte.
The successful poultry keeper is one
that realizes the importance of these
little things that to many beginners
look ea small Ind unworthy of more
than a passing thought.
Those startiug out to rear a few
chick a should realize that if the beet
reaults are to be obtained it is the
many small thinge that count in the
poultry businese, and not a few big
ones. When the chicks are taken from
the incubator to the brooder they are
weak and tender, and the incubator
chamber having an even degree of
heat from 95 to 100 or perhaes a few
degrees higher, many chicka are chill-
ed, especially in early spring, or when
removed on days when the weather is
none too pleasant clueing April or
May, by not having them well covered
during the removal from incubator
to brooder.
The brooder heat should be at least
100 degrees and maintained at that
temperature tor the fillet ten days,
when•a gradual reduction in heat can
be made. And this reducing 'of heat
should be guided by the action of the
chicks and weather conditions. In
the newer typee of brooder &toes, for-
tunately, they are so 'constructed that
different temperatures can be found
by the chicks under the hovers, and
hence when one has this kind of a
hoVer the eare of the right tempera-
ture is eliminated.
For the first five or six days the
chicks should not be given the full
run of the house, but kept hlose to the
brooder by a wire netting covered by
muslin in early spring to keep •Eloor
draughts from them, Asesoon as they
are well trained to the brooder the
wire can ue removed and the chicks
allowed the run of the house. Get the
youngsters on the ground, weather
permitting, when four or five days
old, but one should watch to Gee that
they return to the house for warmth
until well trained to go in and out;
otherwise a number may stay out
long enough to become chilled.
The firet teed should consiat of roll-
ed oats. Bran can be placed before
them in shallow troughs. A good brand
of chick feed can then be fed; one that
contains as entail a percentage of corn
as possible. Most firms, while they put
up good chick feeds, to meet a popular
demand in price, use 50 per cent. corn,
and often an even higher percentage.
Thie is waste, ae any +Practical feeder
knowe that large percentage is nev-
er eaten and must be removed and
fed to older chicks or to the hens.
The growing chick does not need the
percentage of corn that so many pee-
Ple isuppese. As soon no the chicks
are 10 day% old they can be fed one
of the regular chick mashes with good
resulte. Charcoal and fine grit should
be Placed before them in hoppers at
all tiraes, and freeli water, so esaen-
tial alwaye, in front of them in clean
vessels. The house should be cleaned
often and sprayed with Boma good
dialnfectant once a week. One will
not be bothered for a time at least
in incubator -hatched chicked with lice,
but it is Well to fight thetn before
they arrive, and elean quarters will
do much toward avoiding future trou-
ble, After one system has been adopt-
ed, etick to it. Poor resulte will fol-
low from changing feeds front week
to week in hope of abtaining better re-
sults. The leading brands of feeds now
on the market give good Malts in a
niajerity of edam and if the ehicks ao
not develop as they eliould, look for
other causes. Poor ventilation, too
many ehleks under one brooder, lack
of green feed, tete,, May be the MAO.
Stnall fletke properly grown give the
Meet satiesfettery reauna. Th4 day 01
big units he pesetas away. One eeeen-
Ual that le often overlooked le the
feeding of green. feed. The farmer's
flock can obtain it at no .cost, but the
city dweller must either purchase it
In the form of cabbage, beats, etc., un -
leas yard room enough is provided to:
sow grilse, clover, oats, rape, etc., in.
season. When chieks can have -the run,
on natural greeu feeds they make •a
healthy, rapid growth .at less cost
than thoee compelled to live in places
that are bare. 13y watching the chicks
carefully and giving attention to the
ornafl thinge anyone can make poultry
pay a profit. But one canaot ex-
pect the chick e to flottreth if they are
neglected, no matter how good the
-equipment or parent stock. -.1. Harry
Weesieffere in Philadelphia Reeord. -
POteLTRY NOTES AND NEWS.
But few fariners take advetntage of
the natural conditions they have for
the successful producing of poultry. It
is left to the city man, who goes to
the country and in a few yeara con
duct an up-to-date poultry plant, of-
ten on -but •five and ten acres and in
some ewe. leas.
Raise plenty of, poultry this year,
but let it be of good quality and not
the cull kind. A-1 poultry always
finds a ready market at.good figures.
With feeds high the poultry -keeper
should aim to produce the kind that
gives the best poeelble reeurna for the
money and•labor he hats put on them.
The advice given to beginner0 in th'e
poultry press of the country h, an a
rule, safe and sane. and if more peo-
ple who start in the business would
heed the advice given them there
would be fewer failuree. Most begin-
nere are too prone to follow "hobbies"
that are all their own, and are, as a
rule, far from being practical.
Plenty of green food in the shape of
oats,,which make a rapid growth and
can be planted this month and next;
rape, etc., followed by clover and•grass
in August for the 1918 .green range
will make a big difference in the
growth of all .the poultry and a ear -
log in the feed bill, Do not allow the
chicks or fowls on the graze, etc., un-
til well started.
STATIST FAVORABLY
IMPRESSED BY C. P. R.
In discusaing the recent Canadian
Pacific report, the London Statist,
which is one of the most conservative
financial publicatione in Englaild, has
a two-page article headed Canadian
Pacific Economies, which says that
though the volume of traffic was all
that could be desire, 1916 was one of
the moat difficult yeara ever experi-
enced. Enormous business had to be
handled with a serious shortage of
cars, while the east of material was
rising by leaps and bounda; fuel and
wages were increasing, and labor was
scarce and less efficient. Had not the
road been vastly improved in recent
years and the capacity greatly increas-
ed, gerlous ecrigeetion Must have oc-
curred, making; proper control over
expenditure impossible,
The Statist alludes further to the
great improvement In train and car-
load atatisties and to the increased
economy hown by the conducting
transportation ratio. It thidics that
notwithstanding the advancing males,
ilew net earnings and profits for1917
will compare favorably With thecae for
1916, and that there is every likelihood
that the growth of the company's ac-
tivities will prove 04 Wonderful in the
future as in the past.
Which?
Election time was drawing near and
an enthusiastic politician was address-
ing his. constituents in a frenzied
speech, Not a few of his assertions,
reduted to cold thought, were diamet-
rically opposed to ono another, but
melt proposal was received with ap-
planse. A judge turned to his com-
panion and said: 'el'hie reminds ins of
the Irish leader who Was cheering his
men on to battle, 'Min,' Bahl he, 'ye
are on th. verge of battle, an' 1 want
to ask ye before ye start, will yez fight
or Will yez Mu?'
"We Will,' came a Chorus of eager
replies,
"'Which Will yez do?' says be. '
" 'We evil1 not,' says they.
"'Aha, thank 5'0,, min!' says he. '1
thought ye would.' "--,-New York
Thnea,
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'NEP TUNES OF
THE DEEP
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Braveat of the brave are the mast-
ers of the deep. All the personnel of
the Britieh Navy are to he coneidered
of the brave. Yet there are certain of
them who figure very rarely in the
palette ken; Among them is that sec:
tion which may very eafely be termed
the bra.veat of the brave, for they are
the men who work in the deeee below
-none are more inCapeneable, and
none whose tasks are more lonely and
dangerous. Yet throughout all the
many and inceseaut, we only hear of
them in very exceptional cases-- as
when they examined the wreeltawe or
the Turbantla and of the Aude off
the Kerry coast, and in an inetaime
or two after the victory of Jutland.
The •braveale of the brave work
-where the green waters well high
overhead -work, it may be, clinging
to -a wire ladder deep under, and only
separated from death by the merest
pin -point of calculation. Their livea
de -pend, then, on their own keen in-
itiative and mastery and the exceed-
ing eareful attention of their attend-
ants. Reckoning their pay in Pence,
every ready an unafraid, the under-
water meet think notaing of It. It is
-their way id the navy.
A •OREW Ole -DIVERS.
Every first eine fighting ship has
her crew of divers, and most earefully
equipped are the men. From the sharp
knife in its eheath stuck firmly into
a .beeket by the side of each man to
the air -pump and every" acceeciory of
their equipment everything is anost
!carefully .superviaed. Their training
and work is under' the direct eespon-
sibility of the earitain, terawn from
the laweroleck and engine -room rel.
ing,3, the -divers are .phyeically the
finest men in the navy. Care is taken
to prevent their health ,being injured.
They are not only examined most
ecrupulously once a year by the medi-
cal officer of the chip in which they
may be serving to find out if they
are physically fit for working under
water, but also in all cases are medi-
cally examined daily immediately be-
fore they may be required to exercise'
or work under water.
Mentally the divers have to be of
the charpeet and of quick,'keen judg-
ment, for, as often as. not, they have
only their wits and intrepidity to de -
pone upon for their safety. Even in
times of peace their work is Meer
dategerous. •
At -least once a month, and oftener.
if favorable aceaelons come along, the
divera and artifieer divers -who are
employed ort under water work which
the ordinary diver JO not capable of
efficiently carrying out ---both in sea-
going ships and snips in harbor, have
to put on the dress and exerciee under
water ,each man having a definite
task achieve. Once a quarter the
india-rubber and helmeted diver, 'with
his attendant, ueually a young.ordin-
aryeseamau, who le paid 6d an hour
for such attendance, hae to practise,
when ptiesible,‘ in depths of twelve
fathoms (72 Ie.) at lettet. But only ln
very exceptional circumetencea is he
ever allowed to go down deeper. than
twenty-five fathoms. And always a
gunner or another epecially elepsen
warrant or .chief petty officer is In
charge of the diving party, and the
operations are carried out under the
direction of the gunnery lieutenant or
another conamiersioned officer.
A DEIEP-SEA OGRE.
Strange and fearful does the tilVer
look after he nas been eguipped for his
hazardous work. Clad in fOur or five
jerseys of the thickest white wool,
with five pairs of huge grey woollen
fishing' stockings reaching half way up
his•thighs, he already finds it difficult
to anove abOut-before the attendants
fit him into the great sack -like dresa
of dun -Were(' India. rtarber with its
huge sleeves, They boot him with the
boots of a giant, beets that are 18
inches long, inade of wood arid weight-
ed with lead, topped With Stout leather,
and leced with three•quarter inch line.
Theh tevo halves of an iron ring, fit.
ting eitactly over the diver's padded
shoulders,* are laid under the upper
edge of the India rnbber drees there,
and above IC. Thus no water earl get
I 1Int togve weighie of thick tlae lead are
tillkielltlett OM' the under water nian'a
should?r, back aid front, and laced
etrongly in plate:. tier tools tor the
work he bee lo do are atteched by
lung lanyarde round hie eater. Thea
the lifeline, or 3 Melt rope, is firmly
knotted round his waist, so that when
he is below it emnes from under one
aryl, and runo up to telt surfaee past
his face. It and the air -pipe are his
sole links with fresh, owarair, and the
world of men.
Lastly, the great goggle' helmet, a
globe of metal tome eighteen inchee
aeross, is adjueted over his rednight-
eapped head, and screwed firmly to his
metal mak-rings. The d1•erh3 face ap-
pears in lie frontal opening, Home six
indica acres, and on mat side
1110 his his ears is a tiny window of
thickest glass protectea by metal bars,
Quickly the alapipe le stewed by
means or douwo aut$ to the top and
back of the helmet, and the two men
idationed at the alr-pump began to
heave its wheel around, forcing the
vital ozone through the coils of the
long white rubber piping. Very &weed-
ily it intlatee the India rubber dress all
re-11nd, giving the diver air to breathe,
and defending aim from the preesure
of the sea.
"Right?" aske the attendant, picking
up the lifeline and air -pipe.
"Right -oh," the diver answers, and
etraightway the face -plate of thicket
slam is screwed into the face opening
till it ie tight. The air pumped in
swells the diyer horrifically. Slowly
the monster goes down the rungs of
the wire laddsr, then, suddenly step-
ping off into deep water, disappears in
a swirl of epray and foam.
A HAZARDOUS CALLING.
The usual work 'demanded of him
while in anehorage or base -when sur-
vey is made of hull, stern frame, and
so on, and his attention is directed on
the maintenanee of the permanent
.tround-rnines bloeking bay, channel, or
other wateta-is arcluone, but to him
of an easy nature. What he thinke
worthy of him is to be sent overboard
in a rinsing gale, dragging the thick
hempen collision mat to adjust it over
the vessel's gaping nound, and so, to
the cluck and plunge and swish of all
her pumps, eaable her to stagger into
k.:toalAetgtb)raeillr'escue of the great battleship
he may heel, to go overboard
and patch a ragged fissure caused by
a mine, In ono case the divers' crew
lied to cote: rivet the plates covering
the patch as the 15,000 ton mass of
eteel rolled and dipped above them
end the watenewsucked and clawed up-
on their bodies.
Then it was they held their lives in
their hands, as, supported by the twist-
ing wire ladder, they plied their .craft,
the huge shift!) towering high above
them, with her deep heavy broadside
in the lift of the angry North Sea. And,
again, only a few days before this, her
divers bad to effect temporary eepairs
to the big ehip' s rudderhead, while in a
heavy sea -way, when the merest slip or
miscalculation would have brought
death upon them.
The floating dock, now so necessary
In every important naval base, has
lessened the importance of the diver's
work when his vessel is in port. But
still he remains of immense value.
Again and again in the course of a
squadron's cruise some unit hns had to
call on her divers perhaps to clear the
screws of wreckage or waterlogged
timber on her guard,s. or clear the
mouth of some outlet or inlet pipe ---ay,
or save the ship itself,'
SOME HISTORIC FEATS .
Many of -tile great deeds done by
alajestWs diving men. One ot their
bistoric feats before the war was con-
cerned with. the Camperdown• A diver
had been sent down to clear the bat-
tleship's nnchor, and got so hang up
in the tangle round it that he was un-
able to move. During the evening the
sea got up, and those on the life -line,
feeling only a dead weight at the erel
of it, thought the man was dead. In the
morning, as soon as possible, a mate
of the Seed man went down to gee. He
found that his comrade's life -line was
wound Pound and round him, and
caught in •the stock of the great an-
chor, some under -water' eddy having
twirled him round and round like a
stick. He was cut clear after his air -
valves had been shut, and was brought
up. Reverently his face -plate was un-
screwed, for all on board thought Ile
was dead.
It was then the diving man opened
his eyes, and smiled feebly, relortrin'
-mates; here I be again," he grated.
"Ah, 'Us bloomin' cold down there!'
And, after drinking some bowlfuls of
;1
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ARTS
MEDICINE EDUCATION
APPLIED SCIENCE
etinieg, chemical, chit, Mectuinical said
Electrical Engineering.
HOME STUDY
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with one year's attenclaxce.
Summer School Navigation School
July and August Docesubar to April
10, CEO, Y. CHOWN, Registrar
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satnttea mrtinnigsheeoacotahohlse,owreknt down again.-
Numerous are the tales of the nava
under -water man and his diving in an.
gry waters, and of the great deeds dont
--of bow, say, when by an accident
au, air -pipe is cut or jammed in s
piece of rock or wreckage, so that it
cannot be remedied, the diver shute
up all his valves, both tff entry ant
exit, and slips off his great heave
boots and his stupendous weights, and
thus lightened, he rises to the surface
like a float, his feet in the air. l('o)
his great helmet keeps his head down.
being the only weight now attached
to him Then, when the two feet ot
him stick out of the waters, tho boat
rows speedily toward him, for now he
Is being slowly suffocated through lack
of air. Promptly he is hauled on board.
his face -plate unserewed. Slowly and
gratefully the diving man breathes Ir
the open air again.
4 •
INDIAN DISCIPLINE.
How They Punished Their Unruly
Offspring in Former Days,
My grandmother nad twelve chil
dren, and one uncle undertook to teach
me the art of worship. He used to
lead me to the sandbanks of the Mis-
souri River, where he would set fire
to a pile of driftwood, and then, taking
me by the hand, sing sacred songs to
the fire and river. In the meantime
he threw Into them offerings of
tobacco, red feathers and sometinice
oak twigs. 1 never knew the meaning
of those offerings, but I always felt
that some living thing actuated both
the fire and the river.
Another uncle came to visit us
Periodically, and every time he came
my brother or 1 suftered at his hands.'
Sometimes he would rush to the
spring, carrying me horizontally under
his arm and would plunge my head
into the water until I almost suffo
c a
hlis common form of diecipline was
to let me hang by my hands on the
cross poles of the wigwam until any
arms acbed. My body writhed before
I dropped. This uncle seemed to like
best to command my olci7e: brother to
tie my hands and feet with a rope.
Then he would order me to resist -
an ordeal that would make us both
cry. In the winter he would also
sometimes roll ue, in snow naked.
The puniehment of Indian children
is usually in the hands or some uncle
rather than the parcuts. Our punish-
ments were inflicted generally because
we had disobeyed grandmother, had
resisted lasting, had fought some
Indian boys or had cried without suf-
ficient cause. --Southern Workmen,
Justifiable Adoption, •
The big, flat-footed, hungry negro
was up for theft.
"I caught him nippin' a fresh -made
pumpkin pie from the MacGregor
house on Marguerite street," explain.
ed Officer Carey.
"Did yoU?" demanded the judge.
"Dat's a rough word, yo Honoh-
sayin' I done stole hit. Now as ter de
trur-dat punkin pie was settin' dar
on de winder ledge, abandoned, Jedge•
Nobody nowhar nigh hit, Jedge. lilt
wuz a ease ob 'justifiable adoption,'
brought on by de Chrismus speerit."-
Case and Comment.
She -They must be engaged, That.*
her fourth dance with him this even-
ing. He -That's no sign. Slie-lan't
it? You don't know how she dances.
-Penn State Froth.
hoes on
.c Flavin
For work and play.—in
the middle of the day—and
when on pleasure bent.
For field, farm and wagon,
wear Fleet Foot Shoes. They
are far cheaper than leather—
light, easy, comfortable—long
'wearing. For every -day wear,
you will find them immeasurably
better than hot, heavy, expensive
leather boots.
When you're out for
a good time, wear
iWHITE 4tFleet Foot"
Shoes. In fact, youmut wear White Shoes
this summer, to be well dressed. Dealers
everywhere have "Fleet Foot" Shoes, in all
styles for men, women and children. , 201
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THE EXPEPT1ON.
(ilaiumure 4rmerIcan)
..n.e 1 don't in•lieve any man can taro
a .val :tit:whom/it for tiny ono but him-
ha- ate yes; a, sheriff can.
SUCCEEDED,
thoelou 'rr(lneeript)
peony -el mode a perfect fool of my•
sett to -day.
Aiiss ii.een-Therei alwaya said ).ott
oottict irtol‘e st»nethina et ''111 '31
41 011 trying,
, •• • a.... •
ON THE FENCE.
Star).
'Volt aro not nuiliitth as many 0)0001-
e,• art wand."
"I'm not feeling oratorical at present,"
replied senator Sot:gaunt. "'rite 1'l bus
Het mime are differing on several hues -
lima re mit raly Witt 1 don't hnow
W melt side lo agree with."
THE WRONG DATE.
(Life)
Partner tiltinie•r (ali het up)-JUMplit'
Jeltostiphat: 110r0h), you Hole; the wrong
hateh of tresh eggs to that there grocery
3.11,111.
s. Skinner -Sakes Alive! 'Mar's
that?
Partner Skinner -Why he got the lot
stomped March k5th, and to -day's only
Aloreh
CAUSTIC.
(Boston Tranacript)
Dableigh-There Is one thing 1 don't
u t, t:ersto
Miss keen -08, more than that, surely.
CAUGHT. 4
(Buffalo Express)
"You say that Miss Oldatyle is suffer -
log tram severe mental shock? What
eoused
-Why, she's been claiming, that she's
oak twenty-eight years old -and then
somebody found her name in one of ;those
I80 -Years Ago' columns in the news -
p2055,
THESE DEAR TIMES.
(Life)
Minden -You Anow the story .about the
eem boy who wont to a fashionable New
ork restaurant and saki, 'Waiter, bring
1111, forty dollars' worth or ham and
eggs'?
llog(T-No. Let me hear it.
Jatnciall-Well, the waiter replied, 'We
deo'4 serve half poitions, str.
SOUNDED QUEER.
(Life)
S1.0-14) you believe in Phrenology?"
11- 'l'� As an experiment I once
went and had my head read. and 1
romid three was nothing in it
VLOW 'HELP,
(1I,:p#444„. ,
Mrs. Willis -This paPer hmYg tii6Weriwa--- -----
died before -help could reach her.
Oillia-1 don't wonder, lf she de-
an the employment agencies in
tith; town,
AN UNCERTAIN JUDGE.
(Life)
Visltot -What kind of a follow is this
Judge Buntp?
Backw000s Citizen -He's too tlarn un-
certain. 'You never can tell In Rill/mich..
on a' low suit just vgitich 5ii. •Ire" -is- ter.
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JUST LIKE TO -DAY.
_(Washington S(ar)
"eirain haa been found clutchectsin the
bawls of an Egyptian mummy."
"IL beats all,' commented the Chit
cago man, "how some or those specn-
is tors will hold on."
BIRDS HIGH IN AIR.
Oat of Human Sight They Hear
Calls From Earth.
Ca Sept. 30, 'W34, an astronomer at
Sher', h.ngland, was studying the suu
through a telescope. Every few sec-
onds (Luring the tea minutes he watch-
ed a bird was seen to pass slowly
through his field, Ilying in a souther-
ly dir.ection, but with the naked eee
not a 'bird could be seen.
Our ears really tell us more than our
unaided eyes about the day filers
;which are traveling far up in the sky.
With nothing to tura them from their
couree sound waves carry surprieing
eisiancss either up from the earth or
down to it.
Balloonists tell us how clearly they
can hoar voices of people who are
scarcely visible to them. So we may
hear the 1101.:30 ot passing birds whicle
ore traveling at too great a height to
be seen. The .mellow whistles of cer-
tain tmihe and ploker tell us that they
are. paeaing along the birds' air lino
when it is impossible 'for us to seo
them. But if we answer we may in
time see a blank speck in tee sky
which responds to our call and finally
circles close overhead.
On one oceasion in Central Park,
New York City, I heard the flutelike
call of a yellow leg snipe which wao
migrating high over the city. Perhape
ee was ealling 10 :some companion in
the ky.. Certainly there was nothing
on the earth to attract him. But, me-
ting my fingers to my lips, I whistled
a loud imitation of his notes. Quickly
he answered. I whistled again axe
soon could see a black dot eirclina
high above nte. Larger and larger it
grew, louder and more frequent be-
eame his cry, and within a minute,
much to the eurpriee of paeeershy, the
bird was flying anxiovely back and
forth just over my head. But, unable
to find the bird whieh had called
him, he soon mounted high in the Or
mid continued his journey. --Prank M.
Chapman in St. Nieholas.
In the - Shops.
Some lovely new fame are of, lace
•spangles, have Oriental pearl rticks,
and come from Parte.
Bead necklaces are rerY Popular
lime now, and came in no end et vivid
colons and combinations. Many aro
combined with carved wood bemire
Mothere will appreciate the fine lit-
tle hand -made Princess elips, In ilea',
taped atylee, for little ghee to wear
under thin frochet. They're dainty and
not expensive.
SuMmer ruse are Much in evidenee
--there are rag ruge with plain cen•
tree and floral borders and attraetive
.1npancee braided imp.
Exquieite new French lamp 6luides
aro in inane' de4roble etzee, covered
with ,China silk in charming eelone
1.8(1 ti'inifllo(1 tvith gold lace and erne.
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French Neckfizings,
They aro :n Colom no well ea white.
There are exquisite oeto .of sheerest
eott ow, with tiny Itilo caging collar
and carte.
Punch work and hatid.drawn work
give the touch of tlistinetimi eon will
note on other toilers.
Filet lace ie combined with organdie
or other fine White ctuffa, ad eorne-
thine there are Whole .collars of feat
filet, for title is one ortlic, moGt Caoh-
ionah:0 klPrIttr, lacta. .
And With the eollare and eeta aro
•41:own new net guimpe.1, -some of them'
eo bmitiful they 'will rnake a emu-
nulnplace gown a thing or dietinetion.
4Ik •
Many a woman is fat Pimply because
.slie eats too rapidly. tIaate makPe