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Zurich Herald, 1919-03-14, Page 2...,.‘: nim Hrf•�•wwk�">A-1.^ "Making two blades i:rOW where only one grew baiore." Dent Experiment With Fertilizers Let the ether fellow risk his season's crop and living—you stick to the tried and proven winter. Gunn's "Shur -G lin." New fertilizers face you at every turn, but remember, for a completely balanced soil food made by men with mall, years' experience with Canadian farm needs, you can't • beat hr® 0 at: F ' 0 irizzors 9� Get yetis requirements in at once Uefure it is too late. Guttn's Shur-, Gain Fertilizers not only mean an early start for your crops, but a i steady stream of plant food right through the growing period, meaning strong, full -headed, disease -resisting growths. We have a mixture to suit your soil and crop. Ask your dealer about Cunn's "Shur -Gain" to -day and write us for interesting Booklet, "Dumper Crops." GUNNS LIMITED WEST TORONTO, ONT. =Mao= aven-Assemeleascastalamm......acanspormoogne. The Rest -Room at Beverly. "Are you going to town this after - boon, Bert?" said Anne Walton to her husband, who was leaving the dinner table rather hurriedly. "Yes; want to fix up the children and come along?" "I'tn not eager to go but I ought to. How soon must we be ready?" "Oh, in half an hour or so." A merry scramble with the chil- dren ensued, and forty minutes later the family was tucked away in the old sleigh, and Prince and Kate were N.B. SEED POTATOES Roses, Hebrons, Cobblers, Delawares. Green Mountains and Silver Dollars. Strict attention large or small orders. I= F. L. STABROOKS & CO. (Dealers in Flay, Potatoes & Produce) SACKVILLF, N.B. 1 SPE u NG in Big .Demand Highest Prices Assured by Sending to Wa& rasier uCOrpany 84- FRONT ST. EAST TORONTO Established 1907 Send a Trial Lot Results Will Please You said the other day it, would just stand empty this winter. I know we could have the use of it. There's a stave in it already. "Weil, I'll come in one Saturday idea of the Department of Education Out of the month and build the fire, is that-, trustees and teachers shall if the rest of you will take turns:' make it possible to serve at least one Mrs. Earlhant's quiet voice put con-. hot d'isit each day at noon; well bal- fidenee in the group, anted cold lunches are also suggested "I'll come, too!" chorused several to mothers. others, "Well, lea's tear off a little of this wrapping paper and write down what we've got to start with," and Mrs. rural schools in Alberta are depend- ent on cold lunches and that these are eaten at ,irregular intervals and under conditions not beno1hial. The making the slippery journey to town. The winter wind was raw and chill, and by the time they reached Bev- erly the children's faces were purple with the cold. "Can't we go some place to get warm, mother?" begged Bobby. "There's` no place to go but the store. We can wait there while daddy goes to the bank and to the blacksmith shop." Anne and the youngsters unloaded at the general store and Bert drove off to look after his own errands. The store was crowded with farmers, their wives, children, bundles and tobacco smoke. Bobby and Bertha wriggled their way to the big red stove, while Anne waited at the coun- ter with the butter and eggs she had brought to trade. A half-dozen other ar1 wa,itin m Lizards and Sugar. The chief menace to sugar cane in the AVost Indies is the fl'oglloppor Tompkins took over the secretarial (Tltomeepie succhareia), an insect work. that seeker the sap from the root and 'Round -the group she bustled, and leaves of the sugar cane and that before the tardy husbands appeared owes its moue to its ability to take plans had been made. • prodigious leaps. In recent years the "We ought to cave a co•iple.. of insects have multepliee enormously, tables," suggested Mrs. Brownell,especially in Trinidoel, where their "Each of us could bring a few maga- natural enemies, froge, toads and zines to place on areading table,; and lizards, have been nearly extermin- I think one table ought to be fiXed atetl by the mongoose, ' originally up for a writing table. Half the time brought i'rolti India to kill the rets I don't have as many minutes to i1Y- and snakes. Wherever the mongooses. self all the week as 1 spent in fidget- were plentiful the lizards disappeared , ing around this store on a Settleday and the froghopper. flourished. Five afternoon," years ago a leading planter, after ex - "Could we have some picture books terminating as tetany mongooses as and toys for the kiddies?" possible, placed thousands of ground "We'll have to have such things, lizards itt his cane fields, with the re j Mrs. Teasdale. That's one thing ,it's suit that the frogltupper has almost for—to keep the children from get- disappeared, and the sugar yield is ting so tired and erose." greatly increased and improved. Other "We'll try it out this way for a large sugar -cane growers have since month or two and .l believe after we started a lizard Tarin, where the get it furnished and folks see what lizards are brought in. hundreds and a help it is the town council may encouraged to thrive and multiply for provide for it by by-law ,in time for the sole object of combating the frog - next winter. Think there's any hopper pest. Thousands of bats, too, hope?" Mrs. Tompkins looked are kept for the same work around the group for a sign. "Sure there's hope." The indom- itable Mrs. Saylor shook hands with everybody and carried Anne off to find Bert and confer with him about the room. Throughout the week Beverly won- dered who was moving into Mrs. Price's shop. On Saturday morning it displayed a sign which read"Bev- elly Rest=Room—Come In," and der - women were s y g. "How do you do, Mrs. Walton. 1 1 seldom see you any more; where have you been keeping yourself?" said one of the women. "Oh, the roads have been so bad we haven't been anywhere and I dread coming to town. The children get so cold and tired and it takes so long when Bert has business to attend to. Sometimes I think I'd rather stay at home. How much are eggs worth to -day?" "I heard some one tell Mrs. Tomp- kins they were thirty-eight cents," volunteered a woman who stood at the edge of the circle. "H'm; my I cousin in the city writes that they're ', paying sixty cents in the city right along," contributed another. "We'd better save up a lot and carry them to the city. I'd like to walk through one of the big stores right now! I hate the mirrors, though—those long ones that let you see how your skirt sags and how shabby your shoes are," and Mrs. Saylor edged behind Anne at the thought. "Well, I don't want to see any- thing or walk anywhere," remarked Mrs. Lane. "My feet are ready to drop off. I don't see why they can't . have a few more chairs ,in this store when there is no other place for us 1.'""M"M'''22'''''''' as" '''.a,..m, ,.r.,.'.''-ei to wait for the mon folks. I've had my trading done for an hour and Sam's getting the horses shod; no Ione can tell when he'll be through." n "That'sjust it! Why haven't we '1 op.D ess Fail Wheat somewhere else to wait? Over in 1 With Fertilizers r p aver 1 Stevenville they have a regular rest- %'rosts and thaws have done con- room in the City Hall, with chairs and siderable damage to Van Wheat by couches and little beds for babies, and heaving the soil. magazines to read and desks to write Spring top -dressing is otters theon!" Mrs. Saylor forgot her tempor- life-saver. r 1 ary embarrassment and stepped out Increases from 9 from hiding with a swing of the TOpedreSSilig With hands that suggested all the comforts i that were lacking• Fertilizers Increase in yields Ohio Experi- ment Station for a period of 23 years was 13.2 bushels per acre. Ontario Agricultural College room to use on ,Saturday? Maybe reports an increase of 8.3 bushels 1 Beverly could do more than it does if per acre. . .t • ing the afternoon and evening people carie in, a little shy at first, but finding friends and neighbors they stayed to chat and rest. Mrs. Brownell luxuriously wrote five postal cards. Mrs. Lane knitted while she rested the feet that had been ready to drop off the week be- fore. Tommy Teasdale and Richard Saylor built block houses; Bobby and Bertha looked at wonderful pictures and drew others yet more wonderful. Mrs. Tompkins thought of ,a dozen improvements for the rest -room, and Mrs. Earlham read two stories and copied a recipe. "I like going to town lots r now, don't you, mother?" whispered Bertha, as Anne tucked her and Bob- by into bed that night. "I'm tired but I don't feel so cross as I used to neither does brother." "Yes, but Stevenville isn't Bever- ly," said Mrs. Lane with the inflec- tion of a fatalist. "But why couldn't we have sueh a we women could wake it up. Since Make sure of your Brass catch and in- , s crease your wheat yield this spring by Mrs. Prices store has closed I . don t feeding the weak plants. see why we couldn't fix that up. I'll i2` PAY$ TO T151;:xrtIzE bring a couple of rockers and a rag Write for Enmplri o ao± 1—"l ceding Ioc rug." Mrs. Tompkins had o caught T i fire from Mrs.' Saylor. ' he Soil n Crop "Who'd pay the rent?" This was Improvement Bureau a poser; the enthusiastic ones knit of the Canadian 3 ertiiizer Association their brows. 111013 TEMr g BLDG.,'t`ORONTO21 "Why," replied Anne, "Bert owns `•. �c:. .» .,7 .,.am..an interest in that building, and he Child Welfare in the West. Child welfare is occupying a large share of attention in British Colum- bia and Alberta. Early in December there was held at Vancouver the first annual convention of the Child Wel- fare Association of British Columbia. The program included discussions on educational reforms, juvenile delin- quency, child mortality and diseases of children. Vocational training was urged in order that children might become helpful factors in the com- munity. The schools of Vancouver were mentioned particularly on ace count of the special :lasses for the mentally backward children and the Association put itself on record as favoring institutions for the feeble- minded. The Chief Diagnostician of the Juv- enile Court of Seattle, Washington, addressed the Association on juvenile delinquency and its dependence on the status of home training. A low ebb of parental responsibility results in juvenile delinquency. It was recom- mended that mothers' pensions should be established because motherhood should be recognized as the highest service to the State. In Alberta the study of Child Wel- fare is concerned with the prepara- tion and serving of hot lunches to rural school children. The Depart- ment of Education for the province has issued a booklet containing a number of recipes and practical sug- gestions whereby the cold lunch will be wholly or partially abolished. It. is estimated that more than three- fifths of the school children attending "Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly he that doeth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own."— Bacon. 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ABBEY FUR COMPANY 310 St. Paul St. W., Montreal, Que. In business for 30 years Reference: Bank of Hochelaga, St. Henry. A TkAML ACROSS THE ROCKIES The first trip over the Simpson Pass through the Canadian Pacific Rockies was trade by Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Com- pany, in 1841, and formed part of the first recorded overland tour round the world, that is to say across -the North American Continent, and by way of Siberia and Russia, occupying about nine months, and the subject of con- siderable literature, Jim Brewster, the famous guide and outfitter at Banff, discovered the fallen tree on the sum- mit of the Pass on which the travel- lers left their record, Fired by the ambition to cross this pass, I set out one day last summer, with two guides, ten ponies and camp- ing outfit and supplies for six or seven days. Jini Brewster sent these over from Banff to Invermere at the head- waters of the Columbia Valley, where I had promised to wait for them. Close to Invei•mere aro the remains of Kootenai House, an outpost of the Nor' West Trading Company estab- lished by David Thompson in 1808. Now there is a comfortable little tourist hotel, much appreciated by motorists who use the excellent Gov- ernment road through the Upper Columbia Valley. On our first day's ride we stopped off for a swim at the hot radium -water springs of Sinclair Canyon, where St. John Harmsworth, brother of the famous Lord Northcliffe, and himself proprietor of the still more famous Perrier water, built a concrete bath- ing pool under the springs which pours its naturally waren water out of the rock. At night we found shelter in a homesteader's cabin, the owner of which was away at the war and hospitable enough to leave the latch loose. Next day we were in the forests of the Kootenay—a wonderful resort for big game, judging by the tracks we saw and the animals we even met —two black bear and a deer on the trail with moose paths worn deep like small Devonshire lanes along the meadows beside the river. The Kootenay River had a rather bad reputation. Two parties were drowned in the attempt to make the crossing at the same time last year, and we ourselves had been warned to postpone our trip. However, we found a ford where we did tett even have to swirl our horses, and next day were on the batiks of the Vermil- lion River. Into the Vermillion pours the raging torrent of the Simpson, which itself is fed from the melting glaciers of the snow -clad Rockies high above. At least one cyclone seemed to have swept down its valley, and the river itself had washed away several corners so that our trail had to be made, or found anew on many a mile. "About seven hours of hard work brought us to the height of land, the hinge as it were between the eastern and western waters. We breakfasted on the level isthmus, which did not exceed fourteen pacesein width, filling our kettles for this one lonely meal at once from the crystal sources of the Columbia and the Saskatchewan, while these willing feeders of two op- posite oceans, murmuring over their beds of mossy stones, as if to bid each other a long farewell, could hardly fail to attune our minds to the sublimity of the scene. "But between these kindred foun- tains, the common progeny of the same snow wreaths. there was this remarkable difference of temperature that the source of the Columbia showed 40 degrees, while that of the Saskatchewan raised the mercury to 53' degrees, the thermometer mean- while .striking as high as 71 degrees in the shade. "FrOm the vicinity of perpetual snow, we estimated the elevation of the height of land to be seven or eight thousand feet above the level of the sea, while the surrounding peaks ap- peared to rise nearly half that alti- tude above our heads." We ourselves found the snow all gone and our horses found sweet and ample pasture on an Alpine meadow. As we looked back from the Groat Divide upon the mountains of the Sel- kirks, we had as fine a panorama as any artist could desire --rugged out- lines capped and fringed with perpet- ual snow. The fishing, I niay say in passing, which one gets on such a trip, is of the very best. Every creek, every pool seems to be stocked ,with trout, all inquisitive about the nature of the fly. Brown Hackle and Gray Hackle are always deadly. The red flies such as Parmachene Belle' do not seem to take so well in these waters. • There were both Dolly Varden and Steel - head to our credit on the Simpson, averaging a little over a pound. In the Kootenay the trout ran up to two and three pounds and were very game, though shy in the middle of the day. -- J. M. G. 'jai; "MAO Nu PtD s,a"tl Pwt,t$ k nttA ' aswtwe '0" t011VAS5 S wool, • Complete School Set ---24 Pieces FREE TO BOYS AND GIRLS This outfit contains: 1 English School Case 1 Japanese Pencil Box 1 Special Drawing Pencil 1 Compass 5 Rubber -tipped Load Pencils 2 Metal -eased Lead Penols 1 Pen Holder We will give you this whole 24 -piece School Outfit free of all charge if you will sell just 80 packages of our lovely embossed Easter post cards at 10 cents a package (6 lovely cards in each package). Send us your name and we will send you the cards to sell. When sold send us the money* and we will send you the whole outfit. Address: 8 Pen Points 1 Box Crayons (25 colors) 1 Eraser 1 Box Paints 1 Paint Brushh 8 Patriotic Blotters 2 Packages Union Jack Flag Stickers so that you can put the flag on Your school books, letters, etc. HOMER -WARREN CO. Dept. 83, Toronto <eleeeeei$P;E{ Eee Cee:iieeeeeeeeeer Health Pneumonia --What It Is. In a general way pneumonia is any condition of the lungs which makiis them impermeable to air. The trio most 'common forms of the disease are known respectively as "lobar" and "bronchial" pneumonias. rine former is due to the presence of a 'erm known as the "pneumococcus" and the lung condition is only a Local manifestation of a general disease.. Ili the lobar form one or more of the larger divisions of the lung known as "lobes" become filled with a liquid which may become solid. The bron- chial form is caused by the pluggin; of one or more of the smaller, divi- sions of the bronchial tubes, shutting off the air in the smaller divisions of the lung which aro known as "lob- ules"—meaning little lobes. Lobar pneumonia generally runs a definite course, death or recovery taking place ,inside of two weeks. Bronchial pneumonia may recur in one bronchus after another and con- tinue for many weeks. Beth forms • are fraught with clanger and need careful watching. So-called "central" pneumonia is a condition where the deeper lobes are, .. consolidated and are hard to cliagnosei as the healthy lobes floating~ over the. diseased portion obscure the signs of consolidation of the liquid. If the exudate, or liquid, of pneu- monia does not clear up, pus ntay form and a lung abscess is the result. When sections of the lung die, the condition is known as gangrene of the lung. Passive pnenmor,ias are those which occur in the aged from a gen- eral passive ecrigestion due to poor circulation. Pleuro -pneumonia means pleurisy with pneumonia and is near- ly always present, the pain being due to the pleurisy. Pneumonias resulting from injury are known as "traumatic." After the administration of ether as an anaes- thetic we often have the so-called "ether" pneumonia. During the recent epidemic most of the fatal cases of pneumonia were of the bronchial form; the patient not being able to clear out the lung, liter- ally drowning ,in his own secretions. In order to treat the condition pro- perly, it is important to know just what form the disease has taken. THE TU`Refe AND HIS PRISONERS A Terrie-Sere Remains to be Settled With the Ottomans. Stories of British officers who have just, returned from imprisonment in Turkey point to the Ottoman soldiers as equalling, if not exceeding in bar- banity, some of the worst of the ex - Kaiser's Huns. Describing the ghast- ly march to Bagdad, after the capi- tulation of Kut, one c.fficer says, "the prisoners were driven like sheep along the desert ways, denied food, short of water, refusecj,- shelter, re- fused rest, bayoneted or clubbed if they stopped, struck by rawhide whips when they faltered. Roughly speaking, 75 per cent. of the British rank and file in Turkey died." So far the number of men of Kut who have been repatriated has not been offi- cially made known. Some weeks ago the British Government published an estimate that some 715 of the 2,630 British soldiers among the Kut pris- oners were alive. Returning officers say, however, that these figures are wrong, and they estimate the number of survivors at between 300 and 500. Until repatriation is completed the actual figures well not be known, but it is evident that Turkish administra- tors and officials will have a heavy indictment laid against them for some of the .most shocking brutalities per- petrated during the war. Comment- ing upon the reports that the Tiirks fight lin a humane and sportsmanlike way, an officer, recently ltonie from an internment camp, declares that such statements arise from pure ig norance and are utterly misleading, The Turk in this war, he says, has proved himself to be a worse fiend than even the Hun. Then, it is impossible to readwith. put shuddering the narrative publish- ed by a Paris newspaper regarding the awful atrocities among the Arm- enian population—the incinerating of women's bodies in order to obtain jewels which they were supposed to have swallowed and the burying of children alive. With the miscreants who countenanced all thee there is a terrible scores to be settled. The in- stigators and perpetrators of German horrors are to be sought out and pun- ished. The Turks most assuredly should also receive their deserts. A carload of horses sold reeently at Roland, Man., realized from $475 to $600 per team. When there its no winter there can be no spring. The gloom is the measure of the light, --Ernest Thompson Seton.