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The Clinton News Record, 1921-1-6, Page 611 To) rosary of Mr Nimrod Briggs Py Wile 'AM DUDLEY CH AVM failS in• the nine category with ase It' yoti are one of, thoae rere SotIle !Melting a chied 'or kicking the °retell- whe lind delitriel in the study Of you' es from under a cripple," fellow man, live and work a while in The editor Waa pezzled. That meant the acme of a little country news- be was interested. PaPer..•Vor, in the office of a little "Do you icnow the exinter's trade? Manley paper in a typical Candela Can you set tale?" Mall town you will get down to the "Yes, sir," responded the boy eager- hercipan anci the bedrock of human ly, ' nature, All day ion throegh ihe • "AU right; we'll see. Take him into erent cello will filter the pathos and the back room, Jim. Turn him ovce • bathos of the lives oe your kind in to Mr, Nimrod Briggs." the form ef news for your columns— "And, now, the wag*" aelceel the births wed marriages and deaths, in- boy—"how much moncy me you let speeing stories of seems and heart- ma have'!" rending stories of failure, eheae snob- "Six dollars a week ought to be bery, neble aspiration,unrequited peaty good pay for a lad of your 4,4er/flee; aud in the back room you years, not worth much more than an will find the pninter folk, perbaps not apprentice—"., so picturesque as they were 0 genera- The disappeintment on the laces wan : teen ago, but still very humanly -inter- features erns pathetic. eating, and each man and each woman "You, now, couldn't make it ten?" with story. "Why!" exclaimed Sam. "I can get Quaint characters they were—those all the boys I want of your age for Men who worked on newspapers in the:six dollars a lank to Start. Why do old days. Frora place to place they you want ten'!" wanderea,.semi-respectable vagabonds, "I, now—well, never mind! I'd covering a regelae route across the rather have six than nothing. But if I coentry, workin.g enly . when their Work hard I wish you'd make it ten." money gave out, laboring long enough "We'll see how swift you are," said to gain the wherewithal to carry them Sam; "then we'll know how much on to the next job, always .certain to you're worth. Here's this 'Lost' ad put in an appetrance when an entra for the classified column that Mr. Bab - hand was needed, equally. -.certain to coak's just brought in. Take it along answer the wenderlust and take the with those others. Nimrod Briggs will treil again -Velem it was suicidal to the show yop the case of six -point. Tell eflitte organization to lose therm him I said to put you on setting the They were fairly well educated, be- du:Billed ads for to -day's paper." caese the nature of their business (Continued in next issue.) made them so. But drink and miefor- tune had done its worst for many of them. They were strange, lovable souls, out of plumb with the world . around them, asking only that it pro- .• vide, them what precarious living it was necessary to earn to keep out of the -toils of the atithorkies, and that a, they be allowed to live their lives in their own unconyentional way. Before We installed our linotypes in the office of ,our little local paper, we knew many of them. One of these was Mr. Nimrod Briggs, the man who was always go- ing to re "ake a tnip around d the worl seme time," who came to us onc warm, slushy winter noon -time back in the nineties. He was. a seedy little man, as. bald as an egg, and he "shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly." Only, Mr. Nimrod Briggs rarely laughed, All these years he has re- mained a sorrowful -faced mystery— grave, silent, patient, hard-working, yet withal a mystery. - Our foreman smiled when Ninkod Briggs told us his name. Somehow we had always associated the apellation with that mighty hueter before the Lord—swift. agile, dexterous. Here was a stout little man of sad counten- ance. namece Nimrod. We took a couple of looks at his build, at the sag of his trousers, amtbefront and rear,- at the fade& genii ensile -A ethe 'steel spec - Metes warn halfway down his bulbous nose, and a mighty merriment. ensued in ertir offing . What his history had been prior to his advent amongus, we haye only lately leaned.' But this thing Is cer- tain : 'tramp • peintet though lie lead been let becente a fiatureeie our Office. , A fixture in oar office, indeed! It Was in the late nineties that he came to us; we know, because the husband of Mrs. Mathers, who keeps the board- ing hose on Scheel street, was killed in the South African War. His widow opened her establishment to 'support herself, and Nimrod was her first boarder. He has made his home with her ever since. Strange as it may appear, this, pa- tient, pledeing, kindly old work -Neese had an ambition. We heard it first the week he came among us. The day's work at last brought to a close, Nimrod laid down his pine and re- moved his spectacles. He leaned against the ad etone and a faraway look came into his eyes. "Well." said he, "this looks like a good office and 4 good jobeI geess•I'll stick, But, all the same, aome day I'm going to take .a• trip around. the world 1" How many, many times we have heard that 1 amiliar declaration from the puince withered lips of Me. Nim- rod Brigga Be said it in 1899; •he seid it in 1908; he said it in 1912. But eomething seemed to prevent him from realizing that great ambition— and it was money. He was saving his money until he could take the trip like a lord. When the World War broke cut in 1914, he still lacked the neces- sary funds, although his account in the Dominion Berac was commendable. As the war went drearily ori, he finally !segmented his familiar prognestica- Lion with the observation: "And yet, to think thine is going to be all knocked to hell over there before I can get around to see 'eml" A real, dyed-in-the-woul tramp pointer in these electric days of lino - type machines and web presses is a curioeite7. Yet one day Int spring we returned from dinner to field waiting around our. office a young inan who looked as if he had been Up against , all the brands of hard lurk that had been let these en the world since Pan- dora. Then was something about the Rob- bins boy's fate we could never melte get oven It 'as a pitifue face. Aside from the lined of enteety and hard heels, the. right•eye was white—going bad from cataract, if he were not hall - Nina already. The lade clothes looked is if they bad •been Nlept te foe a ilemeand nights; he needed shaving Ina plane, they concentrate In select- ; h.s heir wae tinkempt. • ed areas, Thai 15 a point hnportantly His age cefildn'e have been twenty; considered when trapping and poison - leis fare was that of an old and life- tee camp:lien are undertaken. 'weary mate Sae, now, please an rhvs week?" Incidenta.1 to a campaign of this • be stammered eo Sate estoce nee em_ kind nano al enemies are used, par - ter -owner. "I'll do enotheree if nem tenderly coetein breeds of cats and pae nie Money. leleetie can f have dogs, To insure, !fitness it is neces- work ?" sary to curtain the rate' food euPPle Sam looked the boy Oen 1,Cenly, by prePerle diellosing oe gegbage and Drink wasn't responsible for Ins eon. taU10 leftism aatl be preventine vets dittion, There we no thane of that e curse Upon him. mit a ttese to such food 'as is cone icemen me, iwrs ? ask ed kilned in packages, groceries, Mar - editor. thO kens, stables, etc. No better bait for theme has been found than white bread, 4% now, cense from down Elan," the hie mow. cce Nem, weenthe.sie end which 18 attractive aud least expen- 0"-Onywelefe. , work Sive; • • ealthiul; promin you try "A ration ithuntre ennui utopian)" tlj hereat be Stick to a steady job." says the Public Health authorities, • Sean withdreee and geed to Fred "but hutch can be accotaplisense rnabdockr real-estate mal, who wafl coneerted and enteeustained nations the oefice to advertise for a couple wide ernade agaitist the rat shelling of lost keys: to the 'swatelie-fly' movement. Nb Ogoinothing weeng with that bov, prad; a mem levee aamewheeee lee eporadie Or hidvidua1 Menet will nee doom% look like a booze fighter/ Yet flees" a lad of his age. and Meanie ought net to be neaten arelind Up beac so far The North Sea is mitimated to cone from &Me looltlitee far a jeb. And to wawa, hireec he went, ea, aseenemele thin 1,600 Million ple.ice. Sounds Musical and Other- . wise. Really there is no such thing as sound at all. We call vibrations sounds, When h bell is hit, it vibrate. The vibrations produce a corresAnling motion In the air, which strikes on the drum of the ear, ana gives the sensa- tion of sound. Touch the bell with your finger and you stop its vibra- tions. The sound -waves In the air at oneecease, and you hear no sound. Different vibrations cause different "sounds"—using the word in its usual sense. Musical sounds are the regu- lar and uniform succession of vibra- ttions. Some sounds are sonorous and pleasing, others are "dead." The difference Is due to the quality of the sound-origInating substance. A hard ancl. elastic substance like copper �r iron will give vibrations which come to the ear pleasantly. From lead, which is not hard nor elastic, the sorea producea is non- aonorous.., , ' Aneacked or split hell gives a die- • egreeeble nen-musical sound, because the crack causes a double vibration. The sound -waves darn and jar, im- pede each other's motion, and so pro- duce, when they reach the drum of the ear, a discordant sound. Slow vibrations produce bass or deep sounds. Quick vibrations .produce trebble or shrill sounds. The deepest bass sound audible—capable, that is, of being received on the ear cirtun-- is produced by thirty-two vibrations per second. The sharpest treble sound goes to 15,000 per second. Spuncle are heard best on a clear, cold day. That Is because the air is of uniform desnity and there are fewer currents and less vibrations of temperature to interfere with the sound -Waves. Sounds are feeblest In hot weather, as rarefied .air is a bad conductor of sound, or, more correctly, it is a had conductor of vibrations. Tbe best place for sounds is in the Polar region. • Conversation can he carried on With ease at a mile to a mile and a quarter. That is because the ale is cold, clear and extraordin- arily still. Rats Are Man's Deadliest Foe. It is estimated that . in our urban communities there Is usually about one rat for every !lumen resident. On any farm or plantation the number of rats will easily average three or four times the number of people. It costs at least half a ceet per day to maintain one rat. The erica:mous loss Inc to damage done by rats an- nually in this country may thus be figured out in an approximate way. If the reckoning were only for one rat Lor each person the cost of the keep of our rat population would be $14,- 600,000 a year. The rat is one of the most intellio gent of animal's, and its cleverness renders it more dangerous as an enemy of man. One merchant testi- flies that rate gnawed ce 'hole in a tub containing 100 dozen eggs, and within two weeks oarried away seventy-one dozen without leaving either shell or stain. One rat cannot carry an egg, but two can and do, even climbing stairs with it • Rats are not uniformly distributed 'throughout a comniunity, but, benne of Meatiest ,and accessibility of food solely and favorably hiding and harbor - THE ROMANTIC HISTORY OF DANZIG ONE OF WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS SITES, Prize of War for a Thousand Years, She is a Free City • Under Versailles Treaty., when a Proud11(1 purposeful eitis sen, of Danzig threw, the first flag of thits reborn free state from his wIn- dow.the other day to the brave been° that eomee in from the Baltic he add- ed another cbapter to. the long and eventful history of one of the famous satin of the world, And it is most fit- ting, an even significant, that this new flag of this old city should have for its emblem two white crones on a, field of red. Much red blood has been opined in the last nineteen centuries for the pones:Mon of Danzig, a,nd 150 years have passed and gbne since she knew the white light of eelf-govern- moot It Is to be doubted if any romance ever written is so rleh with thrilling incident and sorrow and struggle and strange eontrasts of fortune and brave renown as s the Simple story of Dan- zig town, When the victorious Allies declared last year that Danzig should again be a free state they took away from Prussia a prize she had s.nappe'd Up at the partition of, Poland in 1793. But, It inust be said 'for Prussia that Danzig, after having been a tree city for 327 years, was glad to pan under the protection of the Prussian, or any strong state that would throw a bar- rier between her and the marching feet of endless armies and the ravages of continuous war. A Port Worth Fighting For. Danzig, With three Miles of the Vis- tula to protect her from the Baltic envies and at the sante time to offer a broad channel to the sea, Wait a pert worth fighting for; and down •through all the ages all the northern races, Dane, Swede, Teuton, Pomertueian, Pole, Russ and Gaul, struggled for the possession of this fair prize. As long ago as 1310 the Teutons be- came masters of the town, and under their rule she grew and prospered for a century anl a half. Then, under the protection of Poland, she declared her- self a free city. And never a city from Nineveh down to now fought so hard or so often for her freedom as did Danzig.. Talk about patriotism 'and epic' heroes and constancy, Dan- zig has a record before which all le - goads grow tame and pale. A single City coveted by flye great nations. The prize of the Baltic. With rich fields and cunning artisans and industrious workmen and shrewd merchants and sheltered port, she was the bone of contention for three centuries.' Yes, she held out that long, She kept her freedom during then centuries when the enslavement of cities and states was the pastime of all nowertul kings. It was not a single war that brought Danzig low, but the culminating bur- dens of many wars. Her fields were ravaged and her industry paralyzed and her trade destroyed. Prussia of- fered protection, and it was a case of Protection or death, so she chose the former, and became capieel et East Prussia, and prosperity bloomed with- in her historic and war -scarred en - vireos as it had never bloomed be- fore. Fourteen years of Peace. For fourteen years Danzig citizens,' whose ears had been attuned for three centuriee to the unceasingsounds of war, knew nothing but the soft and semple sounds of peace. And then, just as they had put all thought of war away as a nightmare of the past, Na- poleon's star arose to make Europe tremble. And one memorable day of the year 1897, Danzig, who had heard the gutturals of every race Of the northland raised in the exultation and W00 of war in her streets, heard voices new to the Baltic mks, Lefebvre's French grenediers , were sweeping through those historic serums that had been NVOril by so many steal -shod feet. and .stained by the blood of so many fighting men. Napoleon held the clty for sdven years and he made the brave marshal who took it the Duke of Danzig, It is a. long way from Paris to the Baltic sea. Danzig had! battled through many stormy centaries and withstood many fah -haired giant chiefs and princes of the north only, in the years of her first peace, to fall quickly and surely under the sway ot a thin, shal- low, saturnine beasant boy of a far-off, sun -kissed land. And the Irony of Le- febvre's. Danzig aukedom WaS, that this general wan born of the storm of the revolution Rewind royalty and won his epaulettes al a republican general. And, after Napoleon's fall, the vie - torten alike of that day metered Dan- zig to•Pruselu, Politics makes strange bedfellows.; but lastory shifts bedfel- lows. And yet her greatest events of eaelt age are eut repetitions of the events of the ages gone before. The Germany of 1814 was a vietorlems ally; the Germany of 1918 was in Na- poleon's role. That is all. • "The Lase Jedgment." The year 1814 was most memorable for Danzig, for 11 marked the passing of war from before Iter toWers for a century, No storms except those from the Baltic raged before her. land or sea gates. And then came the werld war, and Danzig, ot course, sent her quota of troops and gear to be doss troeed, But groat events were shap- log thenieelves upon tho world stage, and one ant eesgered upon the a.ecient city Of Danzig. H wee& (thereat' that again she should be a free state. ' In Danzig there its one of. the oldest and meet betuttlful churehes ef the 'World, St, ethreae Chutele which her people began to build in 1341 and did not finish for 160 years. Well, in this °Inhale le a celebrated plc:titre, "The Last eudginent," toad to have been Manta by Welling, Little did the ancient people ef Daeusig know, When they built their gretetost church sevoil enteric!: ago and Mfg In it the meet wondering Menke ot ail the north. land, that ehe :ate coe the peitiehie lance PLAYTIME 11 opo 10 wile and thrifty throughout ills youth and prime, he MAY retire at fifty, and barn a Mille time, Out hero where I'm ,abiding the 011 boys come to play; 1 860 Weal gayly riding along the pilo ael day. I see their autot trundles, and cheer them tie thee Pass; each old boy has his bundle, and eao afford the gas, I count them by the dozen, these old boys cones to Mee, Whese gorgeous boats go buzzin' Meng the Asphalt Way. Thee' tolled and weought like thunder in den. of Mild lathe eenel thee gafee ered in the plunder and put it down in brine; they preseed against their collets in basy days of yore, and earned the useful • dealers; and nailed them to the Ikon And When their locks were graying, they had their store of wheels; they said, "It's time for playing aed kicking up oar heels, For yearn we heves been thrifty; no more well put up ice; declining years seem nifty, when old boys have the price." My blessings 'Windom:sue them as they go past my door, but other old boys view tifent with • apirits sad and sore; all boys who nill are slaving, to earn the meagre kale, because they elde-steaped saving 'when they were young and bele, a cryptic message that some day their caildren were t� know gloriously. The hidden and Mystic meaning of "The Lan Judgment" was unfolded at the treaty of Versailleslast year. And the other day a Danzig Olken: flutter- ed the first free flag of the two white crones on a blood -red field to the sweep of a Baltic gale. It would seem that, tried all threugh the thousand, years of her existence by war and fought for as a prize, and held at one time andanother by al- most every nation of Europe, that Danzig was destined by the lack judg- ment of both earth and heaven to be a free city uncles' the sun and stars! . , London's Lost Opportunity. If certain plans, which are still in exigence, had been carried out, Lon- don to -day would have been one ot the tumid:Mein of the world, says a Lon- don paper. No sooner had the Great Fire of London in 1666, destroyed the City than Sir Christopher Wren, the Lam - ons architect of St Paul's, peep:bred a set of plans for the rebuilding- et the City on an undreamt scale of grandeur and utility. As ever, private and vest- ed interests prevented their adoption, and the narrow alleys of Fleet Street and the alose-packed buildings et the City area of to -day, which we are laboriously, and at immense cost, try- ing th improve or eradicate,' are the ghastly result. Wren proposed to build a main thoroughfare einety feet wide, Id in- sulate all the churches in conspicuous positions, as the two churches in the centre of the Strand are insulated to- day, form large piazzas on and under which the public could walk in sun- shine and shower, and group all the ;stately City Halls of the Companies and Guilds in a haudsome square an- nexed to the Guildhall, Finally, a flee 'quay was to occupy the bank of the river from Blackfriars to the Tower—the first idea of a Thames Embankment—to be flanked by noble buildings, end crowned with the great cathedral. Perhaps this scheme was too ambitious for the times; but it is hard to forgive our ancestors for preferring to muddle throegh anyhow. Boot Heels From Persia. Beet heels are of pension origin, and were originally attached to sandals. In order that the wearers might keep their feet above the burning sands. Dueling was abolished in the Brit- ish Army in 1844. ,An Alphabet for China. What bids fair eo be the Most ina portent teeter in the re-bieth of China, is the Benetton which the Government has giVen to the new national phonetic system which banishes for ever the terrors of the Chinese alphabet Under the old system the student had to commit to memory no less than eleven hundred charaderd merely to get a "working basis." for writing. , There are altogether thirty thous- and characters, and each charactee re- presents a word, and each according to its positioe may be a aoun, verb, adjective, or adverb. Now, however, the language has been reduced to thirty-nine funda- mental sound, each with its symbol. It is no longer a life study to'learhato write correctly, for . an intelligent Chinaman can learn to write his language by the new syetem in a few den, while quite simple and unletter- ed folk can master it within three to four weeks. The system has been devised by a Chinaman, and the fact that there is nothing of the "threign devilment" in It is., of course, a great recommenda- tion to the Chinese. The vast propor- tion of Um liege population of China are, for all practical purposes., illiter- ate; but with this new phonetic eye - 'tem of writing it will be possible to educate the entire eepublic within a few years., and then may be expected the real awakening of China, already stirring uneasily in her sleep. The Hypnotic Bugler. Two soldiers in a negro regiment were boasting , about their timpani!' buglers: "Mang wit' you, toy," said one, "you ain't got no booglers. We is got the boogleroand when that boy wraps hie lips around that horn and blows pay call, it sounds jest like it sym- phony band playine" "Well, if you like mimic, that's all right; but if you is yearnin' fo' food, emu wants a beeper with a hypnotic note, like we is got. Boy, when Alt hears ole Custard -Mouth Jones dis- charge his blast All looks at mab beans and Alt says: • " 'Strawberries, behave yo'selves! You is drowdin' alt the whip cream out of male ,dishe " An Indiscreet Admission. Doctor—"You have been at death's door, and only your strong 'constitu- tion has saved you." . Patient—"1 hope you will remember that when you eend In your bill," Canada's Resources in Wild Game Our resources in game have a double value: economic ancl recreition- allender the term "game" are in- cluded, In the legal sense, all valuable fur -bearing animals, on whieh a close sedeon is innxised. The economic value -of this clan needs no argument, but minks, martens, skunks, etc, are not "game" In the commonly aceepted sense of the word, What we usually understand by this term are all 11118111 which are hunted primarily for sport. What value have these animals and what claim have they on us for protec- tion? In the first place, genie ba.s a cer- tain value as accessory to the meat supply. It is not of great importance in the aggregate and every true sports- man scorns to be a pot -hunter, yet it Is idle to pretend that his appetite Is not whetted by the prospect of a well - cooked grouse or a savory venisoe steak. And this le quite as it should be, for the man who leaves a carcass In the woods to rot is more guilty of retaken destruetimi than even he who kills for gain. It game breeding were Lo become as common in this country as it is in Europe, the Importance of game in the food supply would be much greater than it new le. Of more hnportance from an e,cono- mic statulpoint is the revenue derived from the tionresedent sportsman, .1 -le pays for isie license a fee which beam eome relationto the valuable privi- leges conferred and puts a little money into the Provincial treasury to help defray the cost ot game protec- tion. (In Ontario a non-resident's license costs $26, while a resident pays only e5 for moose and caribou mei $3 for deer). In addition, he spends a good deal of money -tor -supplies and eervices and the mOney thns brought in by telnests—to many oe whoa/ sport 10 the main attraction—Is iu the aggregate countermine, In Dritlefh Columbia, it is estimated that each bead of big game Is Worth $1,000 to the. Province in trade, duo directly to the spendinge of wealthy hunters. Neither are hunters the only class of tourists attreeted by gallio. Holiday seekers love to find a bit o real Wilder- ness where they tat see wild animals, free and tintrameled, In their native heenets. Thus, the Domitilon parks in Alberta, Where ne firearme are allow - ea to be castled, attract thousande of Outlets Mineallye Speaking ot revenue from tourists leeds naturally to the subject ot the recreational value of game. What the alien or non-resident coesidera vele- able nough to pay out his good money for, should certainly be pre- served for the enjoyment in perpetui- ty of our own people. Nothing is more invigorating than Muse contact with nature, but what are the woods and fields, hikes and streams without wild life to Ind them interest? Are we to exterminate our glorious fauna and leave posterity an earth on which no life will have aurvived outside of the hunia.n race, except domestic anima} and pests that refuse; to be exter- minated? To give the wild things a chance Is clearly for our own benefit, but, apart from that, have they eo right to live? Is mankind to be the, meet blood- thirsty trilie of all creation, extirpat- ing all other species, wantonly and ,uselessly, by senseless slaughter? Surely, itan animal is doing 118 110 liarm, we cen at least Id t it alone. Responsibility of Hunters. The plain fact is that many of our most valuable game animals are being headed fast toveards exinctIont and the people chiefly responsible are the very class who ehould be most inter- ested In game preservation, namely, the hunters, Many of these are prone to regard the game laws AS a nuis- ance, as something arbitrarily imposed by a higher authority, though, as matter of fact, In this democratic coma, try, the. game la.wa are just about what the spctrting fraternity win steed for. If theyere not drastic enough, it Is beetgise the man with the gun Is deteriegned to shoot, even 11 11 means that his boy *ill nester hen° anything to shoot at Yet it is certairt that the health -giving alma the father lio Much lolies Will be utterly denied to the aon, infiess the present generation imposee More restraint upon itself. Game, if ganto there be, will be totifielally nand and Will ,be the monopoly of the riell Who can afford teen:Mint:tin &Me farms and private sheeting pre - sera* Thus, Canadians Who OpPofie genie laws and their adegeate enforce - Ment are helping to bring about the undeinocratIc conclitioe whiele nide In England, Where spott with the gen Is an aristocratic privilege, As tot example of a retrograde stele bkouglit about by the pressure 01 Piet ..gleggeltionci .for Ledeer Probably a leage pen centof the ordinary -Hie ard tenable to indiges- Mop. Eatirig haetily, eating' at knee- ler houre, eatin:g between meals, a pqorly bale:need ration, any or all tend to upset digeetion and start e traip of lead consechtences Which Vesta in no snore than g heseeMche, but is as likely to end nee. in Bright's disease. Indeed, so impertant do many phyrd- cians dolisider a mopes: fleet that one has gone se far as to sayothat if we start the infant right, and, ge to it that the growing caned and adult never sins against biadigestive traet, he will never be slick. That le probably ettre ryang the matter beyond the limits of poesibiliter buten would certainly do no harm to experiment along his line of reasoning. . , ' Men is essentially an out -door ani- mal. Probably that is why the folk's who are outdoors a great deal engaged an active work do notooeffer so much from, indigestion as those *he work inside. At any rate, the men and wo- men engaged in sedeniare occupa- tions are usually the ones 'who betray symptoms of indigestion in some:form. Such person should make a special study of their food requiremetts and of all the factors which go to make for gooel digestion. - Aeiele from the food (itself, many .points must be considered. Pint ia thorough chewing to break the food into small pieces and thoroughly mix the searches with saliva. Regular hours for meals is as important as the night selection of food. Growing chill- dren and convalescents often need more than three meals a day, but the mid -meal lunches should always he taken at the same hour each day and should bo a light food which does not require a long time to digest, as cocoa or milk and a couple of crackers, or an egg beaten with grape juice or orange juice. Plain bread and butter sandwiches for growing children, pre- ferably wbeee wleeat bread, are to be chosen rather than cake, doughnuts, bananas or candy. Food taken when one is over -tired, angry or excited es as good as wasted, as digestion is retarded umcler these conditions. If you must eat, choose warm, fitted foode, as soup, gruel, corn meal or oat meal—cocoa, egg noggs, or a custardy pudding. • A wise selection of foods is of course, es,sential, Persons engaged in sedentary occupations usually do well to avoid rich, .greasee foods, much cream, and concentrated foods, such as cheese, candy and nuts. Such pea: - sons should choose roast beef and mutton rather than pork, sausage and fried ham, light melding§ rather than pastry, and partake only sparingly of cakes and candy. They should never eat candy except at the close of a meal, and then only a smalapiece. Breakfast starting with half a grape fruit or an orsinge, a not too acid orange or a peach or pear, followed by a small serving of cereal, two small pieces of toast or a muffin, an egg Or three or four slices of bacon and cof- fee, is a good start for the day. If dinner comes at noon, beef or mutton, not too liberal a portion, a medium- sized potato, a cooked vegetable and a raw vegetable as lettuce, endive, celery, celery cabbage, bread and but- ter and a light dessert, is sufficient For supper, or lunch, cream soup, or macaroni and cheese, rolls and butter, stewed fruit and a plain cooky, and coffee or tea With Mane e meld den no difficulty th digestion. *flew ere euggested menet for a day; )3realtfeet-39ease4 apple wills ego tableepoone of. 'light nem, see! Ide farilut, Or cream 01 Wheet with elide Wine, two. email peeees of toast, eue poachee egg, coffee with oream. Dinner—Beef broth and eraeleme, reast.beef and••gravy, one cap Awned Potettoes, one serving of earrots, lee. tuee with Frenele dee,ssing, rice Fade den, tea or coffee with creauf, . Supper or Lunch—One cup cretin ef tOiliKti9 soup, tIVQ SHaa$ wheat 'bread and bate; stewed peach, ea, sugar cooky or email piece sponge cake, tea With cream. Makin Good Lard, To make good lard that will keep well, the following suggeetione ehould be Obeerved.: 1. All scraps el lean meat shoulst be removed, as lean strips are almost sure to cling to the cooking veseel and get scorched giving 'ati unpleanne odor to thh lard, ' 2. The fat should he cut ipto sm0)1 blocks or strips, from one to ono ani.1 one-half inches square, so they ',del "fry out" (try out, the dictionry says) in about the num time, 3. A clean vessel should be filled about three-fourths fuel of fat unit a quart of water poured in. The small amotint of water is used to prevent the fat from burning when the heat is first applied. 4. The kettle should be kept over a moderate fire until. the neckline ere brown and light enough to lio-at 11 is necessary to stir frequently, ehe the fat will burn. b. When done, remove from fire, ale low it to cool slightly, al1d, then strain through a muslin cloth into a suitaeIe vessel, a large earthen jar probably being the most suitable. 6. To whitenthe product and de- velop smoothness or "grain," It ehould be stirred constantly while cooling. 7.e"When solidified cover the vessel carefully and place in a el•ean, nee devisee:led place. • 8. Leaf fat makes the hig,heet-clIss lard. Fat taken from the back, she harn and the shoulders also yields good lard. Gut fat, on the other hand, makes a product that is etrong-smellang and off-color. This fat should neves be mixed with that obtained from the other parts of the body. My Laddie's Calls. A hundred times he calls me Dear littee lad a mine, Sometimes with face all teary Sometimes with eyes ashine. Each grief that eeeds a solace Beings eloser yet iny boy, And always, first, comes mother To share each passing joy. A hundred times he calls me • 'Twixt moen and night to see A blossom in the garden A bird's nest in a tree. A bump on cheek or forehead Where wea feet tripped and fell A rose thorn scratch that nothing But mother's kiss makes ad/. A hundved tines he calls me, Dear little lad, and so. I miss the lonely moments So many women know. For sweeter than the voices Of aleethe singing spheres The calls of little children That gladden mother's ears. lie opinion—which, in the case of game, means sportsmen's opinion, as the relit of the public, unfortunately, is not alternated—may be mentioned the repeal of the prohibition of the sale of game lit Now Brunswick. At :the National Fur Industry and Wile Life Conference in Montreal last February, Hon. 10, A. Smith, in second- ing a resolution of the late Dr. C. Gor- don Hewitt in favor 00 the prohibition of the sale of game, seid: "Tern years ago, I had the temerity to secure the passage of as Act, prohibiting the sale of wild meat in New brunaticick. But it was repealed. 1 found that 1 had got ahead of public sentiment, How- ever, I have every confidence that it will only be a short Hine before the sale 00 wild meat la again prohibited in New Brunswick." ,At the present time, Manitoba and Saskateliewaii are the only two pro- vinces in Canada where GM sale of game Cor food is entirely forbidden. Nova Scotia forbids the sole of doer and upland aud shore birds, Alberta of upland game bled& and Ontario and British Cohnubla of all migratory birdie The last-named province only allows the reale of other game nuder special regulations. The general prac- tice in all other cases is to permit the sale during the open season of all game legally Icillese Unfortunately, this opens the doer, ha Bette of bag linnis, to the eommeecialization of wild game and its slaughter for the market, in Ontario, for instance, vane 5011 cam be lead in almost any hotel or restaurant during November and De- cember, The Provincial law does not require a deer to be killed by the licensee; 0 group of persons hunting together may kill one deer per license. This practically means that a good, 'shot can kill as many deer as he can get licenses Mr. Not ably that, but they do not oven take a sportsman's chalice as to whether they get the door or not. At the National Con- ference on GA1110 alai Will Life Con stervatimi, held at Ottawa in February, 1919, Mr. S. Harris, of the Dena Cottnty Will Life Conservation As- sociation, dated: "Books of linens, Which get Into the hands of various parties, a,re Issued indlacrInanately," Bo that ft hunt Web may go to hula with ecne inerither In pesseesion of one of these books, and, if they are sue- cestifel in obtaining game, they ate tach a license or tag to it and pay for it on their return, but, if they are Me eucceastel, they return the boa." A Inc exerted° Of bettin On a Rums thing! Praetieally eVery !tate In tither/niers ileac prohthhV Uto ele 00 genie, Maine, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and the District of Columbiapermit the sale of venison under certain. restrictions. The sale of game birds is allowed no- where In the United States, ercept imported mune or birds raised en game farms. Some states forbid evea the sale of rabbits and squirrels, ani- mals that we scarcely consider as game at all. It there is a demand for the tleoh of game inanimate and birds as delicacies, this market should be supplied by ani- mals raised on farms, as sheep and Poldery are. It is the height of folly to exterminate our wild game merely to gratify the taste of 0p1cu.'es. It la not difficult to tag game artificially reared so as to render it easy of identi- fication. Remedy In Hands of the Public. The great remedy for the serious game situation in, this country is an awakened public conscience. To the end, associations eon/aging of aports- men, naturalist:, and others Interested in wild life, should be formed in every district, These associations would pledge their menthers to abide by the. spielt as well as the letter of the nine laws, to secure their better enforce-. meet, to inculcate the best tralitiona of real sportsmanship, to study the natural history of their neighborhood, to influence public opinion in favor of will life conservation and to press their views upon the government as to ways in which the game laws may be improved. Some very eunessful and enthusiastic associations of this char. actor are already in existence, but , more ave ncededawild things and the . If you leve th great outdoors, do something to pre- serve their life and beauty. FInd some neighbors who axe like-minded and form a Wild Life Conservation Association. Sportsmen, It is up to, you. Dr. W. T. Hernaday, of the New Yreek Zoological Park, says: "If olir eportsmen can endure Um extinction, 01illeTerealtt'aIelo" Tsorts oe waya in which the game of Canada ean, be not Wye saved but 'greatly increased, if the sporting public really wants to know about them But it. is (melees to give advice that falls on deaf ears. The Demi-Mon and Provinelal Governmente have their export% who are reaslY tee heap, If their help is requested For general infornattion, covering the wheile eountry, Probably, the best ofs ficial to commit 18 jamas White, Who Is Deputy Head of the Commission of Coneervaften and Chairmen 00 1)01 Ad, eisoey Bette'd et Wild Life Protection, Ottawa.