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The Brussels Post, 1921-2-24, Page 6eesees ree !I e' • 892 We first offered the public our TEA Beat .Millions now use it to their utmost s tisfaetion The Voice in The Night PART 11. , dress a folded peper. I guessed what However, even thus protected, 1 std- it wee, recognized it as the will she erred seveeele. It was as clerk aslitattfr. 11.a:Is Ptef:tupd1 re.iShe hcl aleaell iothingnees. My horse was a bay; and even his rump was invisible te, esel"Take it bask with yea," she it in my hands, ,,, m I sat hi the seat of the bug-gy. The rain was like a eloud-burst; und, to weleeeeed. "Ile .knows it is in the make matters worse, the wind was anh. toldm, e willtry to e it r, most directly in. nay face. Thus the ge ' I thrust the document into my • rain and the dying drift were blown see that he does not myaut ' in over the robe, and, even through get it," I"I Yid.. "But 1 shall stay here; 11 icoat,avy I was drenehed cold, The journey was not a pleasruLti , with you to -night," one. I passed gradually outside the:. She rose alertly, all the anxiety town, left the last houses behind me,,gssee„esemeeee _preouct and erect; and she and e truck the mod of the country eteee,7, el- _ les_ .. "Nonsense, Doctor reads. The wheels of the buggy lor-i eneee ee'cahreee's]chis is'Tgeohnes,i% withyouyou shed. into poddlee anal slid irr the thick i ?.,.,!..aa.08.0 1 to fear. I ani not afraid of a mud, an: stuck and. pulled loose withteeeee e puppy—not for myself. Bet little sounds like those made by tbe,•-"" tee removal re a cork from a bottle. Ii 1 d° net wish him to ,„ e e; paper." destroy that ecaki . e Fe' '''' he feet of re7 horse Pe"—e1 She was a strong, fine -woman; and se ing tbr"..r,h the mud, but I could net 1 aa w that it true. was She was rio to guide him; antinrs, It wa4so Io lyett°thae Jr est: loner f r aofrreite. She was more than a pick /the Onn way through the night. "1 the young man in every-, 'thing save physical strength; and she In the end, he brought me safely to did not fear his strength. There was n:y destination, and 1 saw a lantern compulsion in her eyes and. in her in the carriage elle(' to Vide me. f !voice as she told me to take the will, ilrose in and blanketed the horse and, a au go, which I coulcl at resist. I made him fags He was of all inde-I "Deliver that, in the morning, to. pendent ^.:rn of mind, and had, nowtbe trustees of the 'hospital," she said,' and her., left ma at the home of some, naming the institution which was to patient are trotted off to his hmeel receive the ,bulk of her estate. "Warn1 /1:01)19. I had no wish to be left afoot; them se on nth a night, :end I was careful to ! death," preserve it carefully till my emi. fasten hsecurely. i "But --1 will speak to the young, There takI. ing the lantern, made man before I go," 1 pretested. brief my way to the Immo, Even in that! She shook her head. "There is not message, the dreadful thrust and reed," see said. "Once that document' buffeting of the wind and rein seemed is gone, he can do no, harm here." to sap my strength. I found a sides There was nothing for me to do but door. It opened under my hand end, The woman who had sent for me obey her. She guided me to the door, I entered. "and I took the lantern which I had , was alone in a rcom on the lower brought in with me and bade ber; gcetnnight. We heard no further Kiser. I knew she had no servaet, and sound from the -upper floor. I open - the door. When s() did not knock or summon her Fee: ed the door quickly and slipped out she saw me in the and closed it before the ram could doorway, from the room where she! beat tn; but she opened it and stood 'Map sitting, she rose hurriedly and: there, silhouetted in the lighted door- way, came toward me, and I saw distress, and watched me find my buggy and terror in her eyes Now, there was little for her to fear in all the world. Though she was wealthy, it was well known that the furnis,hings of this house were meagre ivnd that h valuables - here. It was her custom to leave all her doors • anti windows unfastened; tor, as she often told me: "If anybody thinks they'll find any- thing here, I want them to feel free to try it." She could not be in Isar of thieves; elm was a woman of sense and cour- age; and so, 1 was at a loss to ac- count for the manifest anxiety which distressed her. She did not leave me long in doubt, however. I laid my wet coat over a chair beforeher open fire at down beside her, and she eaisl abruptly: "Doctor Price, Janie e Is here." James was the yelp% mare the son of her hushaudes beother, the disso- lute and reckless creature she bad determined to disinherit. "Has he distressed you I asked. "He has frightened nee," she said frankly: "He is intoxicated." "He is—in the house?" "In his room upstairs," she assent- ed. "We dined. together. He had bean drinking before that. 1 reproached Aim for it." I nodeleti, listening in spite of me - sell for any sound from the young man in the upper room. But the wind was so blustery, and the ram's tattoo tor, the windows so constant, that if he made any noise it was instantly %smothered in the tumult of the night "He jeered at me when I begged him not to drink any more to -night," said the woman, my patient. "He angered rne; and I told him—perhaps It was unwise to do so—of the will %veleta you witnessed, Doctor Price, in which he receives only e 1 ew dollars." "That was not wise," I agreed'. "He was furious," she assentee. "Be cursed me, and be (more he would even the store with me." Now, while this woman was not ill, her heart was hi a serious conditions' She had worked very hardin her youth, and the physical effort had weakened her. She was in no imme- diate danger of death; yet. at the same time, shoek or fright might lead to a seizure of the gravest nature. I determined to speak to the young Men kef cat leavieg the home, anti warn him ef this danger. The ammo seem- ed to guess wbat I was thinking. "He frightened me, and 1 felt a etek, Doeter Priee," he said, "1 feed hart you had advieed me to atoll shock or fright. Ho laughed 'right at that, and Raids 'Seoner you go, 'lig better I'm pleaserle " For a moment there wars no other sound eareept the trumpeting and /hompleg of the vett anetweiee rose (peaty. 1.11 speak to eine, Bs eetelned ire. "Wens please." she whispered. "There is zolasolotet 1 1/.4•41,3 140* nn41 Rimed hesile he'; ego 'i,', ilivw teem the WIAZII of her: hearda gees ee: ee upper ioorand ses. • an a it my return journey. ASI drove away, she was the last thing I saw; and I never saw her again alive. ' She died, quite peacefully, in her bed : a few weelm later. An old woman who came to the house every morn- 1 ing with eggs, discovered her body. As I started home that night, it . seemed to me the fury of the rain had liner:eased. A winter rain is so much more chill and drenching than a sum - Imes. tempest. There had been snow i on the ground when this downpour 1 begaz, two days before. But the snow was gone and the rain still contirrued. The wind was blowing colder, how- , ever, so that I said to myself as the thane turned into the homeward road, "This is turning to snow—to a bliz- zard." The wind ha& shifted' somewhat, during the evening. It had been in my face as 1 drove to the house. Now, instead of being at my back, it blew straight across the road. The cur- tains of the buggy sheltered me from its direct assaults; but it made little eddies and whirls blade the curtains and brought flying drops that half - blinded me. The 'force of the wind was so great that, at times, it made the buggy sway dang,erouely; and I was prepared, more than (nee, to tamp free if the vehicle shelled over - (Continued in next Mame urn. Prodigious Infants. "Haven't Got Time." tepportuelty tapped at the low With o. thence for a brother within, Ile rapped till his Angara were sore, And muttered, "Come on, let me In, Here is something I loom you 0411 do, "lessee a hill I know you 1.914 C.11171b." But the brother inside , very quickly retinal: "Oel fellow, I haven't got tinie-" Opportunity wandered along le smart of a men who would rise, Ile cafe to the indoleut threes: "Here''s if (Mame far the fellow e bo tries." • But wee of them said with it smile: "I wish 1 could do it, but i'm very busy to -day, Very busy to -day, Rue eat sonw to say that 1 really baveue got time." ee late oPeortunity came To a man who was Mistimed witb carve, And said: "I new offer the came Oppornmity that boa been tbeIrs. Here's a duty that ought to be done, It's a Mamma if you've got time to take it." Said the man, with a grin, "Come eltelle, Pees it int I'll either end time or I'll make it." Of all the excuses there are 73y which this old World is accursed, This "Haven't got time" is by far 'The poorest, the feeblest, tbe worst. A delusion it Is, and A snare; If the habit fa yours you should shake it. For it you want to do what is offered to you, You'll And time to do it, or make it. When Power Comes. It was In a Christian Endeavor raeet- ing that he made the great dkeovery. As la generally known, each Endeav- orer pledges himself "to take some part, aside from singing, in every Christian Endeavor prayer meeting, unless hindered by 60111e reason 'which I can conscientiously give to my Lore and Master"—a pledge that has been of incalculable value to the Christian church. He made his discovery the evening on which he was to make his lime attempt to fulfil his pledge. He was afraid. Iie was just a boy fifteen years old, but he was already deeply conscious of a call teethe minktry. He longed to rise and do les part, but he trembled at the thought of it. The Endeaverers with whom he met had a high standard of attainment; the speecliea were thoughtful, the prayers had a line, de- votional atmosphere. He did net think that be could do so well as the others. Re decided that he would try first to take part in prayer. He did not believe in actually composing a Prayer beforehand, but he tried carefully and consciously to prepare his mind, for he was sure that the inspiration that he hoped for would most surly come to a mind and beart ready to receive it ' It worried him to feel so nervous. "Sorely," he thought, "since 1 have prayed for strewth, I should have it now; yet I feel ea weak as water." The great moment drew nearer and nearer, yet he felt no titter for the ardea/; if anything, he grew more agitated. "I am not strong enough for it," he said to himself, "and yet I have prayed for strength to do my duty and fulfil my pledge. Wby has not God answer- ed my prayer?" Then suddenly thought flashed into his mime like a ray of light and illuminated his prob- lem. "How do I know, until 1 try, that God has not given me strength? It Is oat for the time of waiting but for the action that 1 bane asked his help. I will find out by treilate" The great moment had corae. He, the beginner, :was on his feet, an,d it wasf as If some secret door itt bis seal had opened, through whieh poured a flood of prayer. It was not a long prayer; it was sinaple, perhaps here and there It was crude; but it had burning sincerity that everyone felt So it was with this youth, who het since become a most effective minister ot Cbrist, learned ow of tiro greatest lessons 01 iffesethat God's power comet( nese faith is perfected in etc- , tion. "Faith without works Is dead." We all know the free of the lazy woodelurek who trustee to one bole, einarers Liniment for Burns, etc. Long before the war it was boldly t When Nations DelaIrc: Gifts. Beetitim recently presePted 'Breala,. with a lemptlfel atatne, whieh has been erectee on the Thames Embank- ment, In gretitutle for the hospitality extended to Belgien refugeea. • Just aa Individuals give each other presente, fie occasioually tie nations. Tile Lincoln faatue, which has lately been erected near Weetedaster Abbey, le the gift of the American nation to the obi Mother Cowart'. In Westminster' Abbey fissile is. a beautiful window, deptetiug scenes from thanes:Ms "The Pligrines Pro - green," whieb was else a gift from America, Before the wee even Connelly made England st preseat of a serene. It May still be seen in frout of Kensington Palace, in Kensington Careens, lo which 1101140 Queen Victoria was bone This esteem of William of Ormage— lielllatra Meet England, ea es presented to Englaud by the ex-Kaieer, But undoubtedly the grandest pre - seat of this kind which one nation has given to another, is the greet statue or Liberty which greets every Ancona. bag ship to New Yore, It was given by France to the United Slates to cora- ruernorate the memorable conuection tbat exists between the freedora ot America and that of France, s..— Glass from Soot, We have all heard the story of how glass was invented --that seepwreelted sailors built fire o'n the sands and that the heat of the Are melted the seed and turned it into glass. Sail as it Is to turn amen the legends of our childhood,. Oda one must go with tbe rest...Apart from the fact that glass waa known to the Egyp- tians 5,200 years ago, no ordinary fire could melt sand. Another objectiou erthat glass is not, made of sand alone, but of a mixture of flinty sand with an alkaline earth such /1.9 lime. Few of us realize to -what extent we deperid on glass. We might Pat up with talc or oiled silk for windows, but just think how many people woeld be reduced to practical blindness without spectacles! Where would science be without the microscope and telescope? Without glass we should know nothing about microbes or the causes of disease, Botany and natural history could never have progressed at all, In old clays the sane used for the best glass was tbat brought from Mount Carmel to the mouth of the river Belus; today we get our best seed from Epinal, in Belgium, Paris, and Co. Donegal, In Ireland. This is mixed with suipbate of soda in order to produce the best Ilint glass. All sorts ot things are usetl in the manufacture of different kinds of glese, including due dust, which sup- plies potasb and lead in the form of red -lead or lead rust. For coloring glass, such metals as iron, copper, nekel, manganese, aluminium cobalt, and chromium are employee. Hls A point,. ..... "Why Jimmie," exclaimed the moth- er of a precede= five-year-old son, "aren't you ashamed to call auntie stupid? Go to her at once and tell her you are sorry." "Auntie," said the little fellow, "enst awfully sorry you 111-4 so stupid." Irian EcOliernY. elle. Maloney — "Why, Pat, whet ever awe you doliag? Wby, that's the third time you've shaved yourself to - dee!" Pat'. -'Don't say a word! A penile staved le a penny easmed, mad it's three totmee I've shaved myself to -day, an' that's a Wills% earned!" Minard's Liniment Relieves Colds, eto. When a man is generous to a fault it Is usually to one of his 04•11 faults. Fish hooks have been made in the same shape for 2,000 years. Discovery at the wrong time that the oil (supply in. the crankcase has run low is a eonunon expeseepee of motor- ists. A standard grade of lubricating oil is 1101V obtainable in a two -quart can, of easily carried, orm, with an oblique conical top, terminating in a nozzle. The contents are easily mime teed directly into the cranlecas'e, with- out a lunnel, and without soiling the hands. stated that a mar was too old at forty. .• s . But now it looks likely that P0011 the re - cry will be "too old at fifteen:" Canadian Talc and Its Uses A small boy of eight summers cently tackled twenty or thirty of the best chess players in the world, set- ting them all problems they could net tackle; another elate appenes on the scene, wbo, at the ago of seven or eight, pens a diary, 'CVOs the greatest literary lights describe as avolutertul; while we'll soon have quite a email library of Juvenile novels. It wag regarded es a phenomenon when Chatterton wrote immortal poetus at tbe age. of twelve, when m Mozart composed in. les fifth year a Concerto so difficult that only the most practised artistes meet play it, when the Want eon of Evelyn, the dieriet, could rand Latin and Greek at three end a half, wb en Macaulay had written a peens vs long PS "Tile r?PaY Of tbe L191(e‘' et eighe and when Millais tar- ried off a goal metlal,for painting at lone/ But uow It's becoming quite the meal thing. • p. •4, itt 18.67, the United ,Statea bought, Alafera, from Russia for $7,200,000. A disgusted -public eritiiizcd the pur- chime as a shameful "-foes ictifeemonees Now, every oar', the Ales ',it salsnose industry alone brines mere inentee then Pain paid !or the whole coup - A1710111; el:Lathe more 11/4:111 11011*1 metellie ruleerale, talc is probably the more adaptable and widely treed, en - tore% Into the finishing proceea of terve of the met PU1lin1011 corenunte time Tole, somelimea dezigneted soap- stone, asbeetine, French chalk. miner- al pulp, talcley and verdollte, la found in Cape Breton and Inverness coun- ties in Nova Beetle; Fronterisie, Hast- ings, Leeds, Lennox and Renfrew counties and Kenora district in On - taller Tieeuce, Brume arid Megentic eouteles 1» Quebee, and in the Leech River section of the Victoria mining rlevison tel BrItiela Columbia. In eeler it ranges treat white to gteyieb green, Mille to the touch it bas a feat a.nd apparently greasy orseeppery reeling. It le a nonconductor of heat end e1oc irlelty and Is reeletant to inoat imi maces. Its chief iistal are as a filler in the finishing of book Impel% and as a elerseing for white cottons, also in the fluteleng of window blind cloth, 'rale is letgely user] in the manufacture of caliber goods and to evereopm ree. frietion betweee inner tubes elle the covers et bicycle and automobile tires. Finely -powdered white tale is used in the making of enamel and other paints while the poorer grades are dusted an reeling paper and tar felts before roll - Ing, to prevent sticleug. In the preparation of toilet articles, however, tale Is most generally known, being the base for teloum powders, tooth pastes and powders, shoe, glove and other lubricating powders, and as a filler' or louder IOP the ebeaper gT"Thc'se rte°e1"1,etgrrcite'rs of talc are used for elecric switchboard.% laboratory table tops, tannery Raines, terve and furnace linings end mill tanks,, as a , (freezing 101' fine isathere one as a lubtleant, Talc, owing to the ore with winch ft can bo served, et often nt?tl In the tooduetion siateire awl reeeelinents, and can he sawn into slahs for surfac- ing. The adaptability of tale is con - seemly finding new uses for it, and an tnertasing production is evident, 11. 1010 19,642 tons was relnee, of a value Int 9116,205. The greater portion was experted to the United fleece and MI eonelderable 110/001155515' nr;,r1tet a ill ( I A Word With Mother, re Ayou "fun epoiler"? ie how a little friend vf mine deeiguated grown-up people. I heard him tety; "They're all fun sperilerg, and mother's the wont oee of ail," flow it set methinking, thinking, I was sure that I -couldn't possibly bo ineluded in that category, but, Wren I reflected on the many Pince had' amthiesely interrupted and the epparently arbiteerry demands I had made on nly children at times When they were most deeply abeorbed, I was *mead to admit that I, too, had been all too often a "funsepoiler" We mothers are a thoughtless lot, stud are • to forget that the tights of the ehilleren as individuate are quite as sacred as our own right, to liberty. When we want it child to rico ;some- thing for our eouventenee, we do not hesitate to call him away from hie play to do it, even If he is in the middle of placing a beam in a shack be is building. We demand' our small dau'ghter's immediate and cheerful at- tention at the eruclai moment in her doll's dressmaking when, if she drops her work, the stitches -will all be lost. To them these matters aro of tee- mend,ous importance, and we should respect them :We should give theca the thoughtful consideration that we are training; them to give us, This is not to say, of course, that children should not learn the lessons of obedi- ence, cheerful service and unselfish-, ness, It does mean, however, that the parents shouldnot demand ndemand service without stepping to consider the chin dren's side of it, whether it will inter- fere with some task he has set him- self, or even "spoil his fun." The service should be asked as a favor, and time allowed for the completion of the matter already en hand. If we expect children to appreciate the loving things done for them by their elders, we must render apprecia- tion for the things the children do for us. If it seems neeessare to call 11 child away from play to perform some errand or household duty, the child should be consulted, the favor asked, and a reasonable time given for ad- justing its thoughts to a change of occupation, Due 'consideration should be given to their plans and' if possible we should arrange our work so that their play shall be reasonably free from interruption. Ever since that little lad, gave me an unconscious warning, I pause before summoning my children to tarry out my wishes, even when 1 know my way is right, end murmur to myself, "Pun spoiler." Then I try to be as consist- erate of their convenience and happi- ness as 1 like others bo leave me free to follow out my plans, always allow- ing for the proper guidanee and oversight, that is a mother's duty. Children are individuals with hell- vidual growth and progress to make, and it is not the parents' place to form and meld children to their own per- sonal wishes, but to help them unfold in the best way for their own good. Estimating Table Costs. "How can find out if it pays me to take boarders at *lie dollar a day," asks a -woman who is trying the exe periment "Wo buy in quantities and it would take -too long to wait until the food is all eaten and average it up. ROW ean estimate the cost of the canned foods I use?" For a woman who has never kept Recounts, nor given her table any thought beyond buying what elle want- ed and eating it up, the problem would be rather difficult Doubly hare Tor farm women, who take so much from the garden without a 'emelt as to what it test for seed, labor in plant - the, cultivating, harvesting end get, tang ready for the table. Hero is one of the beat arguments poseible for carefully kept. farm =Dents. Of course, the only way to fled out if it pays is to end out what it roses. And es tee mounts have been kept, the thing to do is to begin at once to measure everything that gees onto, the table, down to the flour tto thicken the gravy. This isn't! as hard as it manes. Fol. Inetance, a ataredard brand of breakfast food -contains ten cups of food. Two cups will provide the cereal or breakfast for six per-; POW. The cereal in question costs twenty -live emits a box, which gives five cents n day for the sie, or five.: sixths of re cent a day pee person. Similorly, if twelve oranges are six-: y cents, and wee person has a halt an orange for breakfast, the cost of that individual's portion Is easy to' reckon. Sugar is still easier, there' are exactly two cups to the pound.' Buy an accurately marked measuring .cup; find out how much the sug•ar, howl holds, arid keep traele of how ' often it is lilted. A sack oe gout con -I tains twenty-four mid' 4 half penile., Your cape of sifted flour equals aim; pound; two cups of solid butter or eel and equals a pound. It its better to; have stales and weigh flour, butter and lard, but if you have tone, eseee ate nmeserernent will do Two Weeke of melte work, keeping accurate accounts seated do. In keep- ing accounts, do not charge up: to the boarders any household'eupplies they do not use. For instance, if you do not do their sleighing, do not charge lee 100115157 scare March, leuehate, site. But toilet soap which they use, match lorosene or liglits of any sere hent, else, should be reekoute. If you cee not remember how meth tees paid for yam, canned fruit or vegetables, how mush sugar Woe used, how long Ir Molt to can, eta, the cost vsEiiblielbtenlils)reduotioe s 1011 ),eIf:rot: Gwi baso eye:: your figures, (Inc east of a cati is my. neighborhteni for $2,7e. One bushel nested twenty quarts. One cup of sum to tho can, makes telt pounds—, twenty cups, Mk sugar woe eighteen cents in the epeist'. This made the (metal cost of peaches and sugar figure up to twenty-two and three- fourths cents per can, It took seven hours to can the bushel, eor which the damp would be forty cents an hour.. A woman would charge forty cents an hour to sio the work. Dividing by the number of cans, twenty, gives fourteen tents cost of labor to be added to oath can, or thirty-six and three-fourths cents, actual cost of a can of peaches, exclusive of the fuel. To make any money selling those peaehes one could not charge less than forty tents per can, and simile.' have more. One can of peaches win give about twelve generous dishee. It goes without saying that one could, not expect to make money from boarders at a dollar a day, and give elaborate meals. A, breakfast of fruit, cereal, twat or hot breads, and bacon, or eggs, or country engage; dinner of meat, one vegetable, potatoes, bread and butter, a salad or canned relish, and simple dessert; supper of one hot dish, bread and, butter and dessert, would be sufficient to keep everyone "fed" up, and give a &ranee to make a little. With this sort of scheme, the board money s ou d pay a11 tabie ex- penses, but would riot do any more. Breakfastcan be made iritereating by changing the kind of cereal and fruit. Don't serve oatmeal every morning, nor flakes. With all the foods there aro in the market, one could have a change every day for a month. And don't think you must have grape fruit or oranges. Give the folks baked apples, apple sauce, pruees, canned fruit, home-made jam and hot toast, and store limits once in. aewhile. The great thing is to ring in ehanges. Women! Use "Diamond Dyes." Dye Old Skirts, Dresses, Waists, Coats, Stockings, Draperies, Everything. Each pacgage of "Diamond Dyes" contains easy directions for dyeing any article of wool, silk, cotton, linen, or mixed goods. Beware! Poor dye streaks, spots, fades and ruins ma- terial by giving it a 'dyed -look." Buy "Diamond Dyes" mile. Druggist has Color Card. The Useful Lion. Accenting to some of the farmers of -East Africa, the lion reroute he Pro - tinted es a useful animal, netwitle standing the feet tbat once in a while he kills a man. The lion, they main- tain, is a great destroyer of noxious herbivorous animals, such as zebras and antelopes, which are a scourge to t110 fields, en one district, they say, no less than 346 lions were kneed in one season he hunters, and they estimate tbat this represents the saving Of 35,000 to 40,- 000 zebras and antelopes, elects would otherwise have fallen a prey to tho lioras that were destroyed. Of course the lenders shoot xebrae and Pate- InDee aleo, but this fact, they think, ewe not counterbalance the destrue- titre. of those adulate that would have been effected by the Math licauf. Machinery bee' been Invented In :Norway for making anchor chains that are said to be as good as band made. Fun Exchange , 1 Z:r Ant•Mgto,Pelign1 : 1 colorable* Axe., will buy - stele, oft any tonic. Meat be? lOkeP, old, ow. frt.): or , us. than SO -word clerics. I sena )aur contribution" .te- day. Liberal rates. COARSE SALT LAND SALT Bulk Carlota TORONTO SALT WORKS C. J. Ottels s TORONTO Forestall Colds, Chills and Influenza Take URI Use Bovril in your (*vedette IL flavours, ens witless ntenishee mere, else Boer:heeding rower; of Bovril hoe been, proved by feespenesta seiontele experlosente 10 be from • le to 20 Mace dm amount of • Ito rit taken. .telittpaztlt.m:waveastatkowzat=0. MARTEN MO MIS KEPT IN CAYITVITY RANCHER HAS AVANT AGE OVER. TRAPPER. 1, Experiments of British Colum- bia Fur Fanner May Have Important Results, The success achieved in the !nestl- ing of silver foxes bile led some fur farmers to erteeriment with other or, bearera. The ranceer haa a•great fel- ventage over the trepper, in that he can. hill his enlinele-whee the furs are prime and ante realize the best prices, As the pelts of either have been son- e% from *200 to more than 9300, While therm of marten have often brollfiht. Over $1.0(r, there Is a posverful felliaeciat inducement to rear these two related emotes - einfortenately, the Majority of experimenters have foiled it breed In captivity, condttion date - mats to ecxumeltr:oisroe. .in.inpoDseaLibelypeto get thee ant - which has been attributed to lack of Loads Creek, B.C., bas succeeded itt raising two genera- tions of marten on his ranch , Front a pair of wild martens, he raised a litter of 3, two females and one male; wean one year old the young femalegave birth ee 2 and 4 respectively, and alt were raised to maturity. Mr. DeLee has supplied the Commission of Com servation with the following account ot bis 'methods, which should prove in- teresting to fur farmers everywhere, as well as to all persons interested itt tbe protection and conserved= of wed life: -- "My opinion on the raising of male ten and fisher is that they are too vouch petted and generally too mach confined. These asernans require flinch larger rens titan generally recomraenes ed and, considering the actual value of their fur, It stay be possible to al. low, say, 1/20 • aero per animal and Eitel be profitable to raise them. Flunnintelelater and Strode, "The runs (Mould be provided with obstacles and hiding Places in the shape of hollow logs, stone and brush piles, scrubby or low -growing trete or bushes or -some tall weeds, Sweet clover, for example, play be enC011r- aged to grow inside the enclosure. There shOuId be also running water or a concrete trough about 4 feet in diameter in each pen," this trough 15 be provided with Inlet and overflow pipes. The enclosure should be board- ed close up to about 3 feet to prevent undue excitement, and netting further up to 6 or 8 feet. "Outside the enclosure should be planted some sheers trees cut back to about 8 feet above the ground to in- duce the bronches to spread out and provide a thick shady growth. Alder, birch, 'cedar, sprees and Poplar are very good for this purpose. "The animals should not be made too tame and should not be fed three times a day regularly. Food should be provided either in two meals a day or a full day's ration at once; WS Vat keep them more active and on the lookout and consequently keel/ them ID better breeding eenfiition. "In my (minket no harm will result in 'withholding food for one day and feeding them double rations the next In the wild state, these animals re- main several clays without tooe and tthheemn,sealctestoer asuescpceasseithey! bunt, will 1111 "Ie captivity, when hungry, the ant - male will run around the enclosure and take may amount of exercise anti, to supplement their activities, the toed should be provided alive In the torm of squirrels, woodchuoks, chip- munks, (sparrows, crows, gophers, eta". The Dangerous Vine Trellis. Managing *wives and henteckee hus- heeds are not 1111(101111X10/1 In China, In spite et the subordinate position that women are auppoeed to occupy in that country. A conciderable part of the humor of the Chinese is concerned with houireeolde where the woman la master; oue sampler story, quoted by a writer in the Opeu Court, is as ton lows: A district magistrate was sitting In , bis court, trying eases, When the chief Clerk appeared and took his seat the magistrate 'raw that his taco was full of scratches; Bo he asked hini, "What have you done to your face?" "Yesterday evening," related the man, "I was sitting under my Vine trellis enjoying the coal breeze, when all at once a gust ot wind overturned the trellis, which feel upou toe and scratched me fate nut the magistrate del not bottom the story. "Evidently those tee the scratches of finger nuile," bemire "1 can sure that yen had a quarrel with your wife arse were screeched by her. la it not so?" "Sir, you have guessed right," aced the clerk, blushteg, "Is your wife such a datrgerous per - mini" inquired the magistrate. "1 shall avenge you by summoning your wife before my tribunal and giving lier a good thrashing." Just tut he uttered those words his own wife came rushing in from the nest room, isnd said, "Whom are you going to beat?" The magistrate hurriedly said to bus attexteants, "The sitting is adjourned. Leave the hall quickly. My vine tree 1, ifs may colinvto at any monundl." Ile is a ViSe man Who evadesaO enryge on pursuits for weekh h Ist not fittede-Gtedsteres ,