Montreal witness and Canadian homestead the people's paper, 6 décembre 1921, mardi 6 décembre 1921

[" MONTREA HHN SOUBALL & SON, Publishers ANSWERING THE CHALLENGE shall not lose the Witness.HARD HIT \u2014 BUT DOES BIS BIT.Dear Sirs:\u2014Money order for $5.00 herewith is my answer to the challenge of the Publishers of the Witness.It apears so inadequate tq the purpose, but I realizs that if each contributes the object will be attained.Unfortunately the west is hard hit this year too, and our power much reduced.Yours sincerely, J.H.Farthing, Millwood, Man.Nov.25, 1921, We know the farmers have beer hard dit of late, and sympathize with them.Few of them can spare much even to sup- « champion where they most need a champion but every little is what counts, We do not expect to get the mortgage paid off.All we can hope Ia to reduce it to a point where the remainder can be renewed.Mr.Farthing realises that the Witness is worth something to him as a farmer, and as a citizen he values its influence and wants it maintained.The mortgage was not incurred for the sake of the publishers for they have not used one penny of it for themselves, It was not even used for the sake of the Witness but for the sake of the people of Canada, apart from whose welfare the Witness has absolutely no interest in existing.\u2014The Publishers.A Suggestion worth Following.- Dear Sirs: \u2014Enclosed please find Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) for which kindly renew my subscription to the Montreal Witness, also send it to the following subscriber.The balance of Fen Dollars is from the Lord's treasury and which may be applied in what you consider the most beneficial manner for the upkeep of the paper.We have thought that it might prove\u2019 productive if utilized to cover the expense of sending out sample copies 30 - Uteruseare mew subscribers, but you are on duty, and we therefore leave, it for you to select the manner of its plication Giving thanks and praise to God for victory over all the power of the enemy, through Jesus our blessed Redeemer.Yours very sincerely, Robert L.L North Vancouver, B.C.Nov.21, 1921.Saving the Goose that Lays the Golden Eÿgs.Dear Sirs:\u2014Though I have taken your paper for the short term of two years yet I have learned its worth to the people of Canada, and I feel that we cannot afford to allow such a valuable asset to pass from us without doing all we can to retain it.In this mercenary age it means something to have a paper enter our homes with a record like that of the Witness and I am sure there are enough Christian readers of its excellent editorial page to come forth and help its editor to \u2018free the paper from its present em- Yarrassments.We.help very readily the distant Chinese, Armenian, and what not else, and now let us show à heart for our own and keep the light af the old Witness burning.Enclosed find Ten Dollars for my own renewal and one subscription to be sent to the address given below\u2014- the remainder to be applied fo your fund.I wish I could make it more.Hoping you may realize the necessary sum and so be allowed to continue your good work, 1 remain, Yours faithfully, (Miss) Mary E.Ireton, Colonsey, Sask.Nov.28, 1921.(The \u2018\u201cWitnens\u2019\u2019 has gathered more maney for heathen nations in distress than any other Canadian paper, and its funds have always, by preference, gone throngh the missionaries \u2018in the « distressed regions, regardiens of the denomination, and so long as the \u2018\u201cWit- The People's Paper VOL.LXXVI.No.48.MONTREAL, DECEMBER 6, 1921, 7h.year.THE MOST ROMANTIC CONTRI BUTIONS 1 enclose this gold coin to help the Witness \u201ccarn on\u201d wedding gift to me, and | feel this is the .best way of spending It.If ether gifts wers the same, | could send more.\u201cThe Lerd will own His Cause\u2019 -\u2014signed Anen This is too precious to find its way to tho bank.What will we do with it?And a friend In N.8.sent a $50.00 victory Bond.THE LARGEST CONTRIBUTION, \u2014 from any Canadian family: $200.00 from & retired school master dd his wife.THE LARGEST INDIVIDUAL DONATION : $200.00 from a friend in N.Y.State.Only five contributions, all toid, of $100.00 and upwards.Moat of them run from three to ten deilars.(t Is quite evident thiwefore that the hope of the Witness depends on a smail subscription from sachof its friends.THE MOST PATHETIC DONATION This came frem a Western mission preacher with a young family and whees sti pend was several months in arrears.He so valued the Witness that he wanted to assure its continuance for his growing family and for the country in which they weuld grow up.Even in his poverty it was a well considered Investment.Was the \u201cwidow's mite\u201d returned?And one Montreal friend facing and practically on the eve of a very serious internal operation set himself to get at least tan NEW subscribers before going into the hospital.He got them and others may yet fellow.THE MOST DISTANT CONTRIBUTOR: \u2019 $150.00 cabled from an \u201cOld Glasgow (Scotland) Friend.\u201d But space would fail us to tell of the faith, hope and utter devotion of men and women, young as well as old all over the Dominion, evidenced not alone by words but by lots of NEW subscribers and by donations.- The WITNESS ELECTION Returns began to come before Polling Day s0 we are - pure that many will come in after Polling Day.It was a fiftieth year we are now fully assured of Publication during 1922 and have great hopes that even if next year is to be.the last year of the WITNESS it will be in many respects its greatest year.BUT we are not yet in a position to \u201ctake that sign down\"; and unless the subscribers more generally and within a week or two, show that they want the WITNESS to continue we shall have to proceed with all expedition to sell its home to pay its debts and provide the additional means for one last best year of publication.But we are optimistic for the further future in the knowledge that many are at work who have not yet - sent their list because they ase trying to make it three, five or ten subscriptions.As this is written the day befare © Election Day we can giwsme more idea of the results than we eam of the political elections.Evem our next week\u2019s issue will only be able to record the \u2018\u2018votes\u2019\u2019 from the more accessible districts of the Central Provinces.So we will have to keep the polls open and keep on counting, counting, counting, till the necessary circulation and finances have been accumulated, hoping that this will be achieved in time to make the sale of the Home of the Witness unnecessary.Lot Conviction, Determination, Courage and Confidence be the watch words until the thing is down.If each does his or her individual bit promptly ness\u201d\u2019 lives it will champion the cause of the oppressed or distressed.) _- IT CAN-AND IT SHALL BE DONE.LW ITNESS CANADIAN HOMESTEAD + - FIVE CENTS, 6200 À VEAN Mention! and Suburbs, 52.50 THT REV.DR.MORISON Tells something more (Business Manager of \u201cWitness\u201d) Dear 8ir:\u2014There are facts about the Witness which members \"of its family should know more fully, but if the state ment of them were submitted to the chief editor, there is reason to fear that it would not be allowed to appear in the paper, and so I appeal to you to find a place for it.Mr.Dougall's friends know that a good many years ago be, in business enterprise, accumulated a fortame that needed only to be nursed with the skill that had laid its foundation, to bave made him one of the millionaires of the present day.This he deliberately declined to do, act ing, as it seems to me, in the spirit of the late Prof.Agassiz, who, when profitable Investments for his savings were pointed out to him, said, in his devotion to his scientific pursuits, I have not time to make money.Instead, he set it apart as an auxillary fund to aid him in prosecuting the great lifework on which he bad set his heart, to make the Witness a power for good in Canada, \u2018n advocating and fostering lofty principles of spirit end conduct in the individual and the community.To do this involved conflict with vested \u2018interests and sustained assault of entrenched forms of evil that, for gaim, sre preying upon society and undermining its spiritual and material well-being.Apd he has had to fight his battle not only without aid of the lucrative patrome age of these, which he would not accept, but deprived of all legitimate sources of revenue which they, by their influence, could turn away from him.In such cir cumstances his auxiliary fundwas needed and fully used to the extent of thousands annually until the present crisis occurred in which this special source of supply is in danger of being closed.The sum of the situation is this, that the paper which we value as the expos ent and champion of principles which are to us of supreme importance bas been threatened with extinction, because we have failed to rally to its support as we should have done.We lave rather act ed as the rank and tile of a reziment of soldiers would be doing if they sent thair standard bearer to the fighting line and they themselves remained in camp, claim- jug the right to criticise his conduct of the battle and taking loll of supplies that should be sent forward in full.We have been ready to take special rates when full subscriptions were needed, and some of us even to call back subscriptions if, in the lusty blowe of sturdy coflict, cherished prejudices or predilections have met with a painful rub.Picture to yourself the position of affaire here presented.Our leader in the arena of conflict contending successtally with adverse forces, subsisting, meanwhile, not on the revenue of the euter- prise but on private resources and in the midst of the toil and sweat of conflict hearing, instead of deserved applause, the petty soarl, \u2018Stop my paper, that calls back a paltry piastre from its due share in the struggle.Let us ali more adequately realize the critical nature of conditions as they ace tually exist, and our relation to these in the way of opportunity and obligation.We have in the \u201cWitness\u201d a paper widely known for good, and deeply root- od in the respect and affection of the best of people, the fruit of faithful work main tained through the greater part of à century.To originate and establish such a paper, if it is allowed to come to an end is beyond our power, and the best interests of the country would suffer from its discontinuance.Highest considerations should constrain us, in view of these facts, to put forth strenuous and sustained effort to conserve what we have, grateful to the Dougalls for having prepared for us such a heritage.To do this it is necessary that every ome should give a mea sure of thought and effort to it worthy of such a noble work.And while the first consideration is to provide an ample fund for the present emergency, we must never lose sight of the fact that our chief work and the guarantee of sustained success is an increased subscription list.In relation to this each one should aim at securing At least one new subacription.Even friende advanced in life can do this.But I would specially appeal to my young friends om behalf of this feature of our enterprise.To them I! would say, because I know it, that they will not readily find anythiag more self-developing and uplifting at their time of life than to take hold of such 2 Two work as this and to push it to success, à of gaining a pre- cannot be offered, but for the higher satisfaction of helping forward a public benefaction.Only make - every little community from the Atlantic to the Pacific the centre of such interest od effort.and with a long pull and à strong pull and a pull all together a mags- sine weekly can be set oat a solid foundation to be a source of satisfaction te us and of benefit to the country.Yours Sincerely, D.W.MORISON.For Highest and Noblest Ides.Dear Sirs:\u2014 Boclosed please find Post Office Order for Ten Dollars the same being for renewal subscription of my own and he followiirg.Ghat à te help you in continuing publish what | bohevo to be fhe best you 1 say this?Simply because the Witness gives leadership of an exception- comion of all questioms affecting the welfare of the people.Its editorial viewpoint is so free and unfettered by mistaken loyalties, and #0 clearly shows the supreme desire to see the Christian ides! actualized, that I sm sure the paper sieadies and shapes thu conscience of the country ve © vory vital way.; I enclose cheque for Eight Dellars plus fifteen cents.1 trust that Dec.sixth will see the Witness saved for fur ther rich serviee to Canada.Yours faithfully, (Rev) J.M.Miller, D.D.Principal, Robertson Presbyterian Theological College, Edmonton South, Alberta, Nov.27, 1921.Keeping Watch.Dear Friends: \u2014 few lines 1 send are to let you Know my sympathies are with the Witness in the strug gle it is having, or rather the struggle through which you, as its publishers, are passing at this time.But I am assured that: ~ \u201cBehind the dim unknown, Standetkh Goud, within the shadow, Kecping watch above His own.\u201d and because He does \u2018\u2018keep wateh above His own,\u2019 I trustfuliy look forward in the belief that the Witness and its publishers wsil be.furnished with help from on high to stand the storm, and conquer by-and-bye.1 wish it were possible for me to send as mueb financial help as some others are doing, but at present I can only send $2.00 which I enclose.I have sent last week\u2019s Wituess to a school teacher up the country in the hope tha; she will send you her subscription also.With evesy kind wish and may God bless the Witness and its publishers in the good work they carry on.Very sineerely yours, (Miss) Elsie M.Graham.Seven Persons, Alta.Nov.21, 1921.| Dear Sirs: \u2014Please find enclosed $10.00.my own renewal and other sub- meriptions.The balance keep to help pull down the sign.I appreciate the Witness greatly and have heen taking it for years and so did my ancestors, and sincerely hope will suceeed in continuing the good work.Yours sincerely, Charles Nicholson, Pournier, Ont.Nov.29, 1921.in x.er sp meg ree Taking Every Opportuntiy.Dear Sirs: \u2014I have been feeling very sorry to hear from you that you are finding it so diffioult te maintain the continuance of your most useful peper, as you would naturally like it to be maintained.Ihave always most highly esteemed it, and have taken every opportunity of stating my opinion that it is the best and mast Aoñest nawspaper 1 know in Canada apd that I would rather hav: it alone than do without it in order to keep any other paper beside it.It always seems to me te speak editorially with more force and wisdom in doubtful matters thaa any other Canadian paper | know.I am happy to be able to send even so small a contribution as $5.00 towards the existence of a paper I esteem so bigh- ly and whose loss I should count a real loss to Canada, whieh under present conditions can ill afford such a lom.A.M.Machar.Kingston, Ont, Nov.25, 1921.Nothing too Herd for the Lord.Dear Witness: \u2014I wish I could de maay of us are praying for you.I enclose $8.00.[I wish it were $60.00.This is to renew for my Wit.oe Norge ires next month und tg ges the Messenger for two 0f my gran children and another little friend.Yours faithfully, (Mrs.) B.C.Asheroft.Ontario W.C.T.U.Howdenvale, Ont, Nov.25, 1921.(1f -every reader of the \u2018\u2018Witness\u2019\u2019 who is connected with the W.C.T.©.would talk it up at the next meeting probably every member would sub- seribe.) -\u20ac : .\u2014_\u2014 From e Salvation Army Adjutant.Gentleman :\u2014I have taken the Wit- nem for.séventeen or eighteen yesds and am greatly indebted to it for a big propertion of the bit of knowledge I possess, and consider it would be a calamity indeed, not only to myself, but to the whole Dominion, and, in fact, to the world at large, to have it go out, standing as it does, for so much that is good and right.Please accept the enclosed $5.00 as a rencwal of my subscription for the coming year, and for the balance kindly forward your paper te the following addresses for as long as the money will go.Praying thet God's richest blewsing may rest upem you, and regretting I cannot do better in a financial way, I am, Yours sincerely, M Burry.Guelph, Ont.Nov.25, 1921.* A Startling Calculation SUPPOSING the \u2018\u2018overhead\u2019\u2019 or fixed charges of g paper like the Witness under normal conditions was eighty thousand dollars a year, and that each individual subscriber added to that cost, for paper, ink, mailing, postage, etc, One dollar: Then if the circulation was one copy, the sab seriber, or somebody would have to pay $80.001.00 à year.Cost per Copies Total Cest Subscriber i 1,000 $81,000 or 981,00 each ir 10,000 $0,000 or 2.00 sash Ir 100,000 180,000 or only 1.80 each It will be readily seen what a terrific advantage the publisher of latge circulation has over his competitor with only one-tenth the circulation.It costs in the above case just five times as much to fulfil subscriptions in a circulation of ten thousand as on a basis of 100,000 copies.In other words supposing each publisher got $2.00 from each subscriber the publisher who had only 10,000 subserib- ers would lose $70,000 and he who had 100,000 would gain 20,000 ou the MUNTREAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HUME -\u2014\u2014 STEAU, DECEMBER 6 1921.subseription ond of us usipem.Advertising Profits B UT as very generally understood the advertising revenues are.the big profit factor.The advertiser buys spacé at so much per thousand of circulation, Supposing he pays 70 cents an inch each insertion to the 10,000 paper he pays tem times as much or $7.00 an inch to the 100.000 publisher, But that is not all, the paper of small circulation has to struggle to get any advertizing while the big circulation draws advertising naturally as does a maguet iron, So the large publisher charges ten times #3 much for his space and gets much more advertising.It will be easily seen, therefore, how vital circulation is to a publisher, aud what a frees temptation be is under to get it by hook or crook, and getting it, be say nothimg in his which wil) rub his readers or his ad- which are practical lotteries, or he may freeze to this or that organisation under pledge of their membership to subscribe to his paper, or serve this or that class or locality so as to get readers, and in exchange for material support without having one care or thought for the general welfgre.Taboo is any subject that would divide hie cireulation, or if diffieult sub- Jocts must be tackled, he is not above printing different versioms or opinions suited to the different sections of the country he professes to serve.There is probably no business or pre- femsion where there are more temp- | tations than has the journalist, for so long as he gets circulation, however he gets it, he gets advertising, and | advertising brings wealth, and wealth brings the worship of the crowd\u2014a worship kin to that of the heathen for his god which he fears and grovels to.The Other Side of The Picture P ER contra, the publisher who is true to his conscience and has the eotrage of his convictions loses subscribers bècause perchance many do\u2019 not like his attitude on prohibition, others because they do not like his religious views, others because of his views on church.union, social vices, protection, public ownership, price firing, or what not, for the publisher seeking the general welfare has larger duties and less support than any sectarian organ.It is much easier ta lose subscribers than it is to gain them for a paper that must grow smaller in, size au for conscience sake loses both subscribers and advertising revenues, But that is the price a publisher must be prepared to pay for independence and a free conscience.must he pay the price alone.If the public have sfiy sense of the value of independent journalism, if the conse.eration to the genera] good is to be possible in the press as well as in the pulpit, people must shoulder the share\u2019 of the cost: accept smaller, papers at higher rates, realisinig that such are not the result of bad but of good business.And, harder still.for most, they must he prepared to agree to differ on ways and means so long as: \u2018they.are asbured of sincerity of purpose.No man is worthy of an independent paper who drops it at the first point of superficial difference of opinion.The independent press has 80 hard a row to hoe that very few ever tackle the job, or tackling it, are able to hoe out their row.Slaving |\u2019 and spending to the uttermost of their power, they go down in the race with easy-popularity-seeking journalism.And they go down pitied for their \u201c\u2018lack of business methods and ability.\u201d And the public neither realize ed the cost of their effort nor what they, the public, have lost.And so the public deserts its best friends and supports its worst enemies, But thera is a day of reckoring coming.First the public will realize that it has built up a tyrant.Then it will revolt, whatever the cost, and learn the priceless value of oven a single page Nor: paper of sincerity and high purpose.A Practieal Application I T will surely cost the readers of the Witness far less of effort or vergence of opinion, to support it heroically now than after it is gene te start and carry on another paper as wholly deveted to the general welfare.And what publishers could they find to tackle.the job! Unleas the Witness can have at least three times its present circulation it cannot u.ke ends meet.And there are two ways it ean get that eirculation: FIRSTLY throogh the personal introduction and advosacy eof i subeeribers, 'AVING stated our case and | shown the need of circulation to, add that the extra cireul ation will be not wish discussed and the small anez seldom understand.STEADILY IMPROVING ; Through shortage of trained staff, Witness.is still being published great difficulties and strain.But the tis steadily becoming more expert we hope soon to add to its numbers, when we will be able to publish the fuil-sised popers.ati THE GREATEST NEED Do not let any one forget that the chief immediate need of the Witness is more actnal subscribers, mot merely ad dresses for which subscriptions are paid by some mutual friend.People rarsly \u201c% Treciate anything they get for nothing.: ONE IN EVERY 22 .One home in every thirtyiwo have a} veaidy responded to the Witness Challenge on behalf of a jeurnalium that is at ones independent and consecrated to the gems «ral welfare of ths people.Will your home not be represented iu the list even in à small way?One NEW subscriber secured by you will mean a whole lot to your paper.Why, if every one did fust that at ence, the circulation would be doubled and the heavy overhead costs reduced to half what the cost per subscriber to-day.Tin vide Is rising splendidly wave by wave.BACKING UP A FRONT TRENCH NEWSPAPER Fighting for the Peoples\u2019 Best In terests John Dougall & Sons, publishers, Nev.22 The Witness, Montreal \"25 c40 vee cal.$8.00 for $1.35 Dear Sir\u2014Please send the or Lave not taken it for some time.I enclese $1.35 herewith.(The rate to New 8 Gelivered in Montreal, is $3.09).of money, or of forbearance for di- \u2018 ensure future existenee, we need only we Ta Wes butts What is The Verdict A 8 this paper goes out the country is waiting for the verdict.Many readers will know it before this paper reuches them by mail.For the most part the country is not very anxious, as it does not know what it wants.It does not want the party of many vir- \"tues, as indicated by its name, seeing that it has outlived its, war mandate and its Liberals have become Tories.It does not very much want the Lib.oral party because of its divided counsels on protection and on public ownership, with suspicions about some of ité leaders being concerned in a deal, Its fear about the Progressive party is that it is too much machine made.As for the tariff question on which the Conservatives have made their fight, there is a general feeling that it is largely bogus, as no party is going to alter the existing tariff very much * just now.The difference is between revising up or revising down.The manufacturers are certainly interested.It ig their fight; and until the book-k8eping of the parties is exposed, it will be assumed that they are paying for it.They are themselves spending freely on \u2018\u2018literature,\u2019\u201d\u2019 and some of them are using the usual pressure on their employees with the usual threats of closing down.On the other hand the farmers are interested as they can fairly count on the Progressive party for some lightening of those duties which particularly concern them.Whether the Liberal party can hold together or not remains to be seen.But for he bond of \u201c\u2018Nationalism,\u2019\u2019 the French would be on diferent sides.For the country\u2019s sake a solid race bloc, based on what are really anti-national sentiments is very undesirable.\u2019 The sooner these divide on other issues the better.It seems impossible but that two really progressive elements of the country should get together irrespective of traditional names.Simple \u201cCom\u2019\u2019 WwW É do not know how those \u2018\u2018Liberals\u201d\u2019 for whose sake the Meighen party was named the \u2018\u2018National Liberal and Conservative'\u2019 party like it when the Conservative papers in making out tables, of political pros pects shorten all that name down to simply \u2018\u2018Con.\u2019\u201d\u2019 That is the whole of the truth ; all the rest is rubbish\u2014Lib- erals when tuey get rich and have interests became Tories in shoals.The thing occurs every decade or two whenever a Tory leader finds a plank on which they can cross.That they have simply become Conservatives is not the opinion of the Tory press only.It is what a good many of their old .supporters think of them.We shall presently see now many of them survive, What is up?E have no idea how the elections are going to go.Those who have their ears glued to the ground at Ottawa, the converging point of all estimates, and thoes magnates of finance elsewhere, who \u2018do not meddle in politics,\u2019 but have as keen an acquaintance with the state of the slate as they have with the ticker, seem to have come to the couclusion that it is up with the Meighen government.The Montreal Star only occasionally prints an article committing it to anything out of the commonplace.When it does one gogs nosing round the woodpile for the coon.It suddenly broke out last week in a fierce controversy with the government over an allegation, strongly emphasized in its col ums, that The Railway Board was go- jog to rob Montreal of some of her leading railway men, presumably by removing the administrative offices of the Grand Trunk Systems to Teronto.coal Ca dG LAIT ARMES LI way Gr ov BM arg Tew om me ==: 204 MONTREAL WITNESS AMD CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, DECEMBER 6 1081.\u2014 THREE , That this should be done on the very system fell into the hands of govern- war-ery; but the newspapermen of to- eve of an election was treated as be- ment.It is essential that both shall .day are beating its sword into a plow ing an act of treachery on the of the government, When Mr.Moidhes | and Mr.Stewart, the Minister of | Ra lways, both denied any such action, | the latter treating the accusation os | a8 roorbuck whose purpose was too evident to necd characterization.the | Ster in printing this denial questioned its bona fides.The Star then laid its accusation against the Railway Board as acting under the influence of Sir Joseph Flavelle, accusing the Government of not knowing what was going on while they were busy with their campaign and demanding assurance that the thing would not be done without parliamentary sanction.Sir Joseph Flavelle said he knew nothing of such a policy and no one in or out of the government, had suggested anything of the kind to him.What purpose or spleen led the Star on the eve of an election to snap at the shins of the Government as it-did is à matter of conjecture.The Government's object it declared was to embarrass an incoming government that might have other views of rail way management.This interest in a new incoming ministry suggests that the Star, through a violent supporter of protection, sees a change shead.A Railway Deal A group of Freneh Liberals, led by Sir Lomer Gouin, late premier of Quebec, are out for some deal with regard to the railways that have fallen into the hands of the government.So confidently do they announce their policy that we might fear that some scheme had come to pretty complete maturity which it was hoped to carry out through the party that might come into power, and which could eount on a good deal of newspaper support.- The Montreal (Gazette has been devotedly advoeating the alienation of those railways ever sincé they were acquired.What would seem to make such a scheme improbable of success is the very strong sentiment of the country, especially of the West, in favor of government ownership and management.That is a very difficult and complicated question.This very episode illustrates the major difficulty.The government puts the whole management into the hands of a Railway Board so as to deliver it from being the sport of politics.Yet the moment some railway man finds his position in question, he rushes to some newspaper to assail the government about it.Politics is a thing government railways ¢an hardly escape.Certainly such a major act as the transfer of the administration of the late Grand Trunk Railway should not be at the fiat of a board of three members.On the other hand Canada faces no greater peril today than whaf may be laid up in some scheme to get possession of these roads.We have seen how the pos seasors of railways could be making millions while the roads were rushing to the scrapheap.It is a little difficult to see what purpose either the government or the Railway Board which is supposed to work independently of government would have in so timing such n change.Governments do not lose their mandate the day they are defeated at the polls, nor would the Railway Board lapse on that day.We think Mr.King is constitutionally correct in announcing that a new government, if led by him, would not recognise appointments or other acts done after election day without full parliamentary eanction.If that rule is not fully established already, it ought to be.The idea of a government in the article of death distributing a lot of patronage of various sorts to reward supporters who had been kept faithful up till the election by hopes of the same, is essentially corrupt.But considerations of that kind could only have a remote relation to the transfer of the Grand Trunk general management to Toronto.The railway system that first fell into the government's hands was the Mackenzie and Mann system, which had its headquarters at Toronto.Later the Grand Trunk pepe\" - work together and it may be assumed share.No more needed for the foray, that there is a great deal of influence let the word henceforth mean the being used in both directions.The { shout for peace.Dr.Simons cannot Grund Trunk has had its centre in!conceive any German ministry that Montreal for nearly seventy years.The Canadian Northern is, compared with it, a mere adventurous upstart.The only solvent part of the whole combination is the old Grand Trunk system.Hanging Fire t T HE chief trouble with Ireland is that the Irish people cannot agree.Demanding self government for themselves Sinn Fein refuses to accord it to Ulster.The argument on which Sinn Fein bases its plea before all the world, a plea which the world, for the most part, accepts, on what is to-day called self-determination, a phrase which, as far as our memory goes, was born in Esthonia or some other of the new little countries which have taken shape between Poland and Russia, and which are now finding self government very obstructive and very expensive.We rather expect that after having enjoyed for a time the luxury of independence with restricted commerce and heavy armaments they will begin to think of getting together in some way.For Ireland self-determination is assumed by Sinn Fein to be a heaven given and indefeasible right.Bat for Ulster?Oh no; a sea boundary is also a divine institution.Would England allow Cornwall or Wales to secede?Even if she did, the people of those parts are the children of the soil.They were there before the intrusive Saxon came at all.\u2018Whereas the intrusive Saxon only came to Ulster between three and four centuries ago at the most and came then as an oppressor of her faith.That is how Sinn Fein sees it.Against this all Ireland theory is the fact that Ireland never was a single country under a single government.It was the seat of ceaseless \u2018warfare between cheiftain and clans.Take the O\u2019Neills for instance, who for centur- jes were among the most powerful in Ireland.Their history is one of feuds among each other, feuds and alliances by turns with other clans, notably the O\u2019Donnells.They were also off and on with the English Kings, at times doing homage and receiving titles and fighting on their side, at fimes breaking loose and leading revolts, some times both at once.The only settled government the Irish ever had has been under the English monarchy and they have never allowed that to be very long settled.Still we have seen in our own days, Italy, that never was a country, become a very patriotic one and could wish the same in Ireland.Whatever may be the immediate outcome of the present negotiations we must look for further change.There will never be peace so long as Irishmen hate and distrust each other, It should surcly be possible to get the two ends of the country to agree to differ for a while at least.The great obstacle that remains is the determination of the Irish leaders not to take the oath of allegiance.In that they are like the Ulster Covenanters with regard to accepting an all Ireland parliament.They have sworn not to.Mr.de Valera says the oath is a matter of form.They are rcady to form an alliance with any British minister who is not merely a formalist.As for the oath itself, they need not seruple to do what the O\u2019Neills and many other venerated chieftains did.What is difficult about it is their frequent commitment to the contrary, They want the affirmation to be made one that they can take.It shall not Be again IT shall not be again\u2019 is the pres ent slogan of the German people.It is the good Dr.von Simons, who was foreign minister, who says it.The word slogan is a Gaelic word for rept Po TTS pm ! would not hail Mr.Harding's Association of Nations, He considers Germany's former attitude at the Hague conference a crime.As a jurist he believes in an international court but is afraid of putting administrative powers into the hands of the League, as France with unfriendly purposes toward Germany\" wishes.France is forbidding Germany a place in the League, making it what Mr.Bar- ding has called it, a league of victors, not a league of nations.Germany it seems wants a real league of nations that is not dominated by France.M.Briand had said that Germany is still able to mobilize seven million men, but he forgets, says Dr.von Simons that Germany would not obey any mobilization order.It is pleasant to receive such assurances from so significant a voice with regard to the state of he German mind and its desire to be received back into fellowship.What Ought To be B UT Simons\u2019 condemnation of the League need not be final.There is nothing in any of these arguments to condemn what is obviously the right course for the United States with æet gard to the League\u2014 a course which we can easily imagine Mr.Harding and his advisers having in the back of their heads all the time, namely some form of co-ordination between his Association and the existing League.That League is an established \u201cfact.The great majority of the nations are already in it and are committed to it.It would be a slight put npon them all to ask them to scrap it.It would be throwing away costly and magnificent achievement.It would be another thing for the United States to present a scheme such as the Les- gue of Nations might have evolved, had the United States been in it.One of the amendments the United States might propose might be that the conquered nations, now at pence, should be invited to join it.With the Inited States added, and with this change agreed to, Dr.von Simons need have no further fears\u201d of the domination of a country whose good-will he hardly counts on.It would be galling to some small souls to remember that this is what Mr.Wilson would have done if he had had his way.These should remember gthat whatever brawls disturb the home atmosphere most countries regard it as dignified to present a continuous policy abroad.\u2018We like the superior elasticity of Mr.Harding's plan which begins as far as possible unembarrassed by regulations and has no limitations to its scope.In that large liberty he may not have the full sympathy of his own advisers.Such jurists as Taft, Root and Hughes might be only too ready to fetter it with rules and to codify its laws.Most of those who have experience in prescribing formal rules and resolutions, based on abstract principles which seemed at the time irrefragable, have found how ill in practice these have applied to the facts.Those who know most about the League have probably found this and would feel relieved by having some of the bars let down.The Cost of Fellowship M ANY British papers with whose ideals we are in hearty sympathy have never ceased to denounce the Treaty of Versailles, the Supreme Council, the League of Nations and the various crude agreements that have been come to between the quondam Allies so as to patch up.their differences.Patching up statesmen are denounced as shifty and disingenuous, and as laying the foundations, not of solid understanding, but of all sorts of misunderstanding.All this has seemed to us to comport ill with PR what moat accept as à foiun- dation prineiple on which to carry os our pursuit of peace, namely that those countries which have got together should, so far ss possible, stick together.It goes without saying that French and British ideals will be found very far apart.The genius and history of the two peoples differ.Their situation on the globe is differ ent.Britain sprawls over the weven soas.Germany takes an almost unnoticeable place in her historie con- urioïsness\u2014the subconsciousness of Uris generation.\u2018The\u2019 recent collision belongs in its origin to this generation only, How different with France, with whom the belligerency of her neighbors across the Rhine has necessarily beld the front of the picture since the dawn of history, and who has been held in terror of attack since before the present generation was born.The two peoples are to some extent of different race, the English dominantly Teutonic, the French Gallic.The English are happily not without a strong strain of the Gallie element and France is not lacking in the racial element which, whatever we may say, has everywhere supplied the rulers.She has her very name from the Franks, who were conquering Germans.Franconia is still in Germany, as also is Saxony, whence sprang the English.France owes much of her grace and charm to that more gentle element.The English are, moreover, one might say, gorged with aequisition, most of it by natural ac- eretion and little sought.The French, on the other hand, like Celtic peoples everywhere, look back in imagination on days of romantie glory and renown and nurse a sense of grievance that those are in the past.The decpest difference, however, is in religious history.France sets more store by the arm of flesh.Britain's far-flung sway depends absolutely on moral forces.Inter-Ally Jars < : MONG distressing differences of À policy are that France wants to destroy Germany, Great Britain to rve her.It is almost the reverse with Turkey, Britain has by agreement with the Porte, become dominant at the Straits, France, very jealous of that advantage, has been the first to recognise that Kemal, not the Porte, represents a.nation and she has come to the support of the man of mas- sscres.Britain, as being the greatest Mohammedan power, has interest as well as rightness im acknowledging the Shereef of Mecca and his son as Kings over the Æab lands.France assuming ownership of Syria, is at daggers drawn with Feisal whom the Aruls in Syria want.Britain sees Russia starving and wants te help her even if it means coming to terms with her injurious government.She needs Russian trade too and accepts the same mode of approach.France, having advanced big money to the Czar, will have nothing to do with a government, however well establisited.that does not hold itself good for that debt.Such differences as these being facts, it becomes cvident to most Englishmen, who are English and not mere theorists.that the utmost give and take will have to be admitted as a principle of any alliance that is to remain selid.If the latest news be oor- reet France is now realizing this keenly.Her great man, M.Briand has recognized it all along.For doing so he has had to pass under the same criticism that is condemning Mr.Lloyd George for meeting people where he eannot bring them quite to his own way.And now it is Mr Harding that is being raged against as pro-Britieh which, iw the nyes .of the enemy of mankind and of some who claim to be Americans, is à great erime.Stop Those Printing Prosses | T BE pracess of priuting money is casy, but perilous.The printed weark, or crown, or whatever it is, is à promise to pay the amount peint- MONTRE L WITNESS AND CAN ADIAN HOMESTEAD, DECEMBER 6 191.ed on it in gold.1ts only value consists in the prospect of sueh payment.Printing money and net redeeming it in gold is a way of bor enormous interest.Why.there ie no interest payable on printed money.No, the interest is represented in the de- precistion of the money.promise to pay in gold twenty-four cents.If paid out for the value of half a cent the interest is tremendous.To continue printing under such conditions means repudiation.The temptation to do so is great.long as money is going down | buying value, goods keep nominally going up in value and business boows.Anything done toward restoring the value of the money has the-immediate effect of depreciating all stocks and smashing businesses.We have seen both processes in Canada, but in a very minor degree as compared with what is going on in Europe.One result which follows in countries where money buys next to nothing is that where the people starve, the Stranger whose money is worth twenty or thirty times as much can come in and spend and live lavishly.This is what has happened in ° Vienna.Vienna used to be a great centre of luxury, not only for the Austrian Empire, but for the world.The Austrian empire has gone to pieces.- There is only a small remnant of it left to Vienna, not enough for ber to live on at the best.Her only hepe is in the spending stranger.Here then are luxury and starvation side by side, until starvation has gone mad and attacked luxury murderously ; and the spending stranger has fled.Germany's Plight.G ERMANY has a big indemnity payment coming due next month.Germany cannot pay that in printed money.The German government can pay its own people in printed money and has taken no adequate means to supply itself with anything else.It means -insolvency at that or at the February payment unless Germany can get help.Hugo Stinnes, the great profiteer and capitalist has been to his London bankers about it.Dr.Rathenau, the great governmental reformer, has, with presumably different inten, been in touch with the British government about it.He has been told, however, that much as Britain is interested in the reconstruction of those countries with which her trade was, until that printing press was stopped, and some responsible aftempt is made to make the German people pay up, as they are not doing, he cannot look for aid from countries that are taxing their people and their in- duâtries cruelly.It is a choice of evils for Germany, Government insolvency, with its humilisting and disastrous political consequences, chiefly at the hands of France, or the business collapse at home which must result when ag money recovers buying value.Prices fall; stocks have to be sold at a loss; production ceases or slackens; unemployment and collisions as to wages result.This choice is not before Germany only, but more or less before all countries that are printing money that they do not redeem.An illustration of the diffi culty has oocurred at Berlin.There was a sudden fall of the dollar from 239 mwerks to 187.In other words the paper mark rose suddenly in gold value from considerably under half a cent to a shade over it.The dollar being the only money on a gold basis represented a definite value in gold.As there was an enormous instalment of the public debt coming due everyone was speculating on the coming demand for gold by investing in dollars.Suddenly there seems to have come over the money market a conviction that that instalment would not be paid because 1t could not\u2014that some form of delay would be arranged for, and down went the dollar.Of course, as in all stock speculation, people were dealing far beyond their rowing money from the people at.A mark is a 4 to thousands.All sorts of people who had been living in luxury on their supposed profits, had to kiss good bye to their limousines and the lux- uty shops went dark.Poer people who had thought they had saved their little means from the continued fall of the mark were in pitiful case.The Trouble Makers A CHINESE correspondent at Washington of a Shanghai paper, complained à week ago in the New York Herald of a false story having \u2018been sent abroad about Great Britain having clashed seriously with China, alleging that the Chinese delegation had threatened to retire from the Conference.The Chinese, this writer said, were at Washington to come to terms not to quarrel.The stor was that Britain had demanded international supervision of China's finances.Mr.Hughes, the correspondent said, had given out a complete contradiction of the whole stery ; but it had dome great mischief at the ends of the earth.Later a story went abroad credited te Baron Kato of the Japanese delegation, which hed to be contradicted by , the cheif of that | | delegation, that Japan had made an absolute demand to be allowed warships in the proportion of seventy to a hundred allowed to the other two naval powers, instead of the sixty te a hundred, or three to five, proposed by Nr.Hughes.Japan has made a strong and semewhat persistent plea for that change but no formal demand.But the seribal chorus had first to swell it to thunderous tones and then let it die down, as showing a better spirit om the part of Japan.The benign Mr.Balfour next became the suarry of these carrion flies.He was represented in a Washington paper as \u2018seeking to tramsport to Amerisan soil the old methods of secrecy, evasion and diplomatie intrigue.\u2019 This was alleged with the usual lavish oblation of United States brag, but fortunately im sufficient detail to he categorically demied.Mr.Hughes declared in a feeling way that the statement, the origin of which he could not imagine, was not only untrue but grotesque.Certainly Mr.Balfour was the last person to whom to affix such an accusation.Later still a wicked statement went to Italy that M.Briand had slandered the Italian army and Senator Schanser had not resented it.This also Mr.Hughes flatly denied.The Chinese correspondent elluded to, says this is a natural result of the conditions.Washington is swarming with correspondents from all over the world, who are bound to make reading for their papers or syndicates.They are nettled by having no entrance to the private discussions, and by receiving what is communicated to them on honor as not to be used.He quite realized that it would greatly embarrass the delegates who are trying to come to understandings, and would obstruct solutions to have every word they said distorted in every language, with consequent deafening clamor and crimination.He ques tione whether the result would be worse than as at present.Still we find that even such utterances as are made in public are liable te be mischievously misunderstood.Both French ard English papers seemed to us to misapprebend M.Briapd\u2019s great speech and to see evil in it that was not there.The men at Washington are really trying to come to under standings, te which they ean bring their several nations.Blessed ase the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.But not for the first time has Satan appeared ameng the sons of God.A Look in at Lenin ME P.P.CHRISTENSEN, a United Stated Laber man, has been to Moscow and that, while in- specting ind: conditions there he saries desired his presence.He found on presenting himwelf that the commissary was Lenin, who eddreased him in easy English.\u2018\u2018 What about war between Japan and America! Mr.Christensen said there would be none, that the two nations and governments were excellent friends.Mr.Lenin was certain that capitalism would produce was; there would not be much result from this disarmament move.Being asked as to an Anglo-American Japanese alliance, Mr Christensen hoped there would be no allianees, leading to misunderstandings, but though some Americans were unfriendly to Brituin, the best of foel- ing existed between the two ecoun- tries.\u2018\u2018Winter is coming,\u201d\u2019 said Lenin: \u201cWhy don\u2019t your farmers send us wheat and receive our raw ma.\u2019 terial?\u2019\u2019 \u2018What have you!\u2019\u2019 said his visitor.Lenin specially mentiofted furs and pulpweod.We should take his general reference to pulpwood and abundant naturel resources to mean an offer\u2019to allow outside capital to exploit these.\u2018\u2018 What has happened to your program?\u2019\u2019 said Mr.Christensen.\u201cIt's gone right to the bottom Seviet program as well as mins,\u201d Lenin said.Mr.Christensen got a very favorable impression of Lienin\u2019s frankness and is enthusiastic as \\@ possibilities of trade with Russia.Purely Provincial DLIDE and conquer is the policy of the liquor interest in Canada, Keep the national government out of it at all cost, and set the provinces against each other.When men in national polities are questioned as to their position upon prohibition, their ready and stereotyped answer is that it is a provineial question, that the provinces have full power to deal with it.The Montreal _ Gazette, in its steady zeal for the liquor interest, bas the effrontery ta say that \u2018\u201c what is implied in the demand upon federal pok- ticians \u2018fer complete'nation wide pre- hibitién\u2019 is the invasion by the Dominion of the jtriediction aasigned to the provinees under the provisions of the British North America Act.\u201d Is suing this monstreus statement on the eve of tha election, it gives to all timorous candidates, who may have a personal eonvietion of duty, or wie may be beset by their constituents on the question, complete absolution im washing their bands of the whole disturbing matter.The very fact that the power of provincial prohibition has been by parlisment accorded to the provinces in driblets should shew even a weak comprehension, unless bound to think otherwise, where the constitutional power lies and where under the British North Ameriea Ast, it does not.The Gasette writer is perhaps too young to remember how for long years it was Parliament and Parliament only, J.being the com- ent party, in whi e controversy Lee on and where time after 4ime the question was turned down, not by saying it was a provincial matter, bt by saying that national prohibitien was the right cure for the evils of intemperance and should be enacted when public opinion should be prepared fer it.It was with a full sonse that the parer oc prohibition Lay with Par- lissoent that the Seatt Act was passed, tonferring the power of pronibition on counties amd cities On the pas sage of the Scett Aet, the qbestion whether thst power lay with Parliament under the British North Ameries Act wus carried to the oeurts and Corn ee vez pour ce Paris.where power in.ment was fully visdiested.- Siding With The Enemy THs is not to say that the provinces had no constitutional powers in the matter.It was only when put off from year to year by Parliament, under the subterfuge mentioned, that the provinces were appealed to to exercise what powers they had; and ome after another they yielded \u2018means, and the collapse meant ruin got & memage that one of the Commis And when their right to do so was similarly challenged they were in like manner vindicated at the foot of the throne.But the incapacity of provinces to carry out the wishes of their people becams so glaring that Parliament had to socord them grudging additions to their inherent rights, To say they have full powers now is singularly looss in view of notorious facts.They cannot yet forbid the manufacture of liquor within their borders or the exportation of it and while forbidding liquor selling at home cannot prevent themselves from becoming nuisances to their more advanced neighbors.This, and not the poor results of prohibition, is what the Dominion Alliance speaks of ss an intolerable condition.calmly says that the evils against whioh the Alliance protests are such as everywhere follow prohibition, and has the courage to hold up the prov- nce of Quebec as showing how much Superior is temperance to prohibition, It certainly much superior from the standpoint of the liquor seller.The .liquor men dread such national ostra- siem of their traffic as it is very of- fostively suffering from in the United States.As the brave Belgians fought month after month and year after year for a small sliver of their country that remained to them, so the liquor interest will fight with the utmost des- perstion for the remnants of North America op which they can still boast a foothold.It ia a vindication, so far as it goes, of their right to exist.It gives them a plea in other countries where their reign is being assailed.Their present world battle is being fought to retain British Columbia and Quebec.Our statesmen when they plant themselves on this rampart of provincialism are fighting side by side with the liquor interest.Politieally it is a pretty strong position for the time being.They calculate that at least one of the two liquor strongholds is pretty sure to resent national action because it is national action, while on the other hand the prov inces already under prohibition have got into the way of thinking they will be safest in their oWn ¥ands, and until they find present conditions an assault on their own liberties wili be slow to grow indignant because the principle is not made national.Thus while the United States which is only s federation of sovereign states has put à federal ban upon the liquor traffic though it had to change its constitns- tion to get leave to do so, Canada, in which Parliament is supreme in this matter, cannot act nationally but must get its prohibition splinter after splinter.Those religious bodies and others who are resting in provineial- ism will soon find that their people want a clean sweep.Prohibition Reported on A LMOST cvery day items appear in the daily and weekly papers and magasines telling in mournful numbers of the \u2018\u2018failure\u2019\u2019 of prohibition in the United States, of law breaking and organised corruption, of secret stills, of \u2018wholesale hy- poerisy,\u201d\u2019 of vast smuggling operations.In the face of this it is intereat- ing to read the report given by a distinguished British official, Sr Arthur Newsholme, late principal mediesl of- fiver of the Loenl Government Board, who has been in the States for.about two years, has taken the opportunity to vestigate the matter thoroughly, and who recently tendered the result of his investigation to the Royal Society of Medicine.Sir Arthur says that the results of the first year of prohibition were only pertial, but although it was stil) caqy for the millionaire visitor to the country to get intoxicating drinks, for the vast me- jority of the population, they had be come unobtainable or were too expen sive for frequent indulgence.Any of the one hundred and fifty thousand physicians in the United States who wished to prescribe alcohol had to take out a permit.Hour out of every five bad net dome eo aad in twenty four out of forty eight States not à single physician had taken out a per The \u2018\u2018Gazette\u2019\u201d\u2019 MONTRRAL WITNESS ND CAN ADIAN HOMESTEAD, DECEMBER § TRL mit.As to the results of Prohibition there was evidence of increased prosperity and of the diversion of large sums of money to the purchase of better clothing and other commodities.Rescue work in the large cities had largely been replaced by preventive work.Drunkenness and admis sion to hospitals for acute alcoholism showed remarkable declines and although alecholism was often but one part of a mesh of evil circumstances, the short cut toward the removal of of the evil which prohibition provided promised to be successful in diminishing not only disease but poverty and erime.Sir Arthur regarded ss fan- tastie the fear that Prohibition would lead to a similar ban on smoking.A country would never give a majority vote for the abolition of a personal habit unless that was associated with serious national evils.The case for compulsion was that moral suasion acted slowly and meanwhile.the multitudes of innocent people continued to suffer, and the community suffered in pocket and efficiency.Whether Prohibition would endure the test of enforcement in America remained to be seen, but his view was that the American publis would endorse the action taken and would insist on its Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, another physician of the highest international standing, who presided at the meeting of the Society, speaking as a eurgeon, which lay at the ification of Prohibition was the great physiological fact of the influence of alcohol on the human body.He held that anything which thwarted or lessened the power and development of the body could continuance and extension.said the one thin root of the j be rightfully prohibited.Results Already T reporis:\u2014 Prohibition has cut in half the number of cases of poverty and distress ascribable to drink.The number of wife desertions has been decreased.Poverty exists but it is a silenter, cleaner povertx The evil of aleo- hol .brought with it the con- eomitant of cruelty.Prohibition has rescued families from misery which was almost chronic.\u201d It is @ matter for deep regret that Canada lags behind her neighbor in this reform, the majority of our provinces have prohibition of sale backed up by prohibition of importation.But we have two wet provinces, we have \u2018\u2018native wine\u201d made and sold in another.The manufacture of liquor is legal throughout the Dominion.Good citizens must make preparations for a general advance.In the strenuous years that are ahead we cannot afford to be thus handicapped in the race.Learning English TEE English press is giving sympathetic attention to s report of the British Education Department on the place of English ia eduestion.It is the work of a group of leading English Scholars and is one of a series of reports on various departments of à subject in which the war evoked the keenest interest.England is awaking to the ides that she has neglected what is necessarily the very core of all intellectual education, the medium by which knowledge is gained and by which knowledge is also of seul training by comm with the HE testimony of these British scientists accords with that of praetically all who are neither blinded by prejudice nor fed by the liquor interest.Commander Evangeline Booth states that for many years the United States Thanksgiving day had been recognized in New York as \u2018\u2018Boozers Day.\u201d\u2019 From gix in the morning the Salvation Army used to be busy collecting drunks from the park benches, feeding them, sobering them up and saving them.Last year, under Pro- hibitibn they were not there and the Army was able to give the day to the poorest children of the great city.The Brooklyn Bureau of Charities | past and with the lofty thoughts of {those who have lived.The ground work of the Renaissance\u2014that is, the new birth of Europe\u2014was the rediscovery of classic literature.Educa- ! tion ceased to confine itself to \u2018\u2018divinity,\u201d then a mixture of hair-splitting theology and morbid mythology, and adopted the \u2018\u2018tumanities\u2019\u2019 as an equal part of learning.Necessarily the \u2018\u2018more hummn'\u2019 learning was conveyed in Greek and Latin.Latin having always been the language of the ed- ueated\u2014the clergy\u2014took precedence.Down to our day these classics have held the leading place at our seats of learning.But now that the plain people speak, there has been of necessity a tremendous revolt against putting such an unpractical obstacle between the common people and know.edge; and necessarily, as the wealth of modern literature more and more abounds, the classics have had to take a back seat, even with the learned, once they leave school.As we have said, England has been waking up to the fact that she has not adapted her training to the existing conditions and has allowed what our fathers called \u201cthe more human\u2019\u2019 side of learning to be kicked eside, in its Latin garb, for utilitarian aoquirememts.But why not imbue our minds with the wealth and beauty of our own literature; why not become adepts in the use of the best vehicle of thought yet given to man?An examination of the actual facts showed that most of those who leave school can neither write nor speak English in a way to fit them for ordinary life; because it is not a department of study but an essential part of all study.\"Tis quite neglected.- It is urged, moreover, that some care be taken of the language.The Italian language at its birth was nursed by an academy of the learned.The Italians of today use the lane of Dante : how much do we understand of Chaucer, nearly two centuries later?The French and the Spanish were similarly put into leading strings.Possibly the English language has not been altogether the loser for having been allowed to grow up at its own wild fancy, only oe- casionally whipped into pedantry by such a masterful hand as Samuel Johnson's.But it sadly needs adaptation, chiefly in point of spelling, to the very high serviee to which it is being celled as the speech of international intercourse.But the demand of the present report is that the people who have a language that ature such as never was before it, should not go umtducated because they dg not want to gain knowledge and soul expansion through dead languages, however indubitably great are their remains.\u2018\u2018Wanted: people who can speak and write English.\u201d\u2019 Not only in common life but in the walks of science and learning this is rightly declared te be eriously lacking.The Rotarian Movement E may call it this, although, owing to a certain constitutional limitation, the Kiwanis olub has developed out of it.With that the Rotary has no theoretic controversy and none but co-operative sentiment.What is itt To most people\u2019s consciousness it is à mytsery.Like the mist it emerges from nowhere; but unobserved fille the atmosphere.It has st least come to fill so large a place in the daily newspapers with its deeds of publie service, that the public has developed, subconsciously the conviction that whatever the Rotarys or their alternate, the Kiwanis, undertake they easily accomplish, and that all they undertake is high publie service.But who are they?! On that subjeot we are but ill informed, ex cept that they are pushing men in every calling.They profess no religion, not even Christianity.A good of them à not to church mod, rome, not at all Set the Rev.is conquering the world, and a liter- | ive Arthur Pringle, who addressed the Rotary club at Portsmouth, says, in the \u2018Christian World,\u2019 he found himself in contact with a grest po religious movement.They have à creed.Their motto is \u2018\u2018 iso mot self.\u201d Here are some of their o foundstion stones; \u2018\u2018I am a business man and ambitious to succeed; but I am first an ethical man, and wish no success that is not founded on the highest justice and morality.\u201d \u2018\u2018He profits most, who serves best.\u201d \u201d° The Rotarian does not do right because it preserves himself, but because be had rather be destroyed than destroy another.\u201d Would that all those named by the name of Christ saw His law as clearly or fulfilled it as enthusiastically.These clubs of strong men\u2014 for they are the pick of the business world, one or two from each calling\u2014 are starting out from the Master's second commandment, with a lamp shade over the first.The Saviour though his mission was to bring man into conseious touch with a Father God, was emphatic in holding that the first was vain without the second.His teaching implied that the first must be reached by way of the see- ond.He that was nearest Him says: Every man that loveth is born of God and knoweth God: for God ia love.\u201d Whatever may be said about the religion of these men God-ward\u2014and of that what can we know?what do they themselves know !\u2014there is mueh in their religion man-ward that the church as it is, has need to learn.We must, however, return for our inspiration to the Fountain-head.Dr.Glover, who recently divested himself of every shred of traditional theology and faced the whole problem anew for himself, came to this verdiet.\u2018\u2018So far as I understand the times in which we live, religion is only possible to the modern man along the lines of Jesus Christ; it is Jesus or nobody.\u201d It right to say on the other band, ; the Master would Galahads : \u2018They are not far from the Kingdom of God.\u201d ; ANGELS AND MINISTERS® What the London Times calls \u201can ex quisite little book\u201d is introduced by the author himself fn these words: \u201cThe bloom upon the grape only fully appears when it is ripe for death Then at a touch, it passes, delicate and evanescent as the frallest blossoms of spring.Just at this moment the Victorian age has that bloom upon it\u2014autumnai, not spring-like \u2014which, in the nature of things, cannot last.That bloom I have tried to ii lumine before time wipes it away.\u201d The first of the three sketches or \u201cplays\u201d is an imaginary scene from the home life of Queen Victoria at Balmoral in the Highlands, and Mr.Houseman, with a daring which only a few yeers ago would have been considered nothing short of lese-majesty, retails a tenderly sentimental conversation between the Queen and Lord Beaconsfield in such a way as te create the impression in the reader's miad that there was something more than & political understanding between them.\u201cA Primrose Dream\u201d by D'Israeli is the subject of the second aketch in which the invalided statesman teils his physician how horribly real the vision was: \u201cTne whole place was alive with them! As the victim of inebriety sees snakes, 1 saw primroses everywhere, everywhere! They fawned on me in wreaths and festoons, swarmed over me like parasites, flew at me like files \u2014{iil it seemed that the whole world had conspired to suffocate me under 8 sulphurous canopy of those detestable Tittle atoms.\u201d The dream is interpreted when the doctor discovers in the window recess a bouquet of primroses which her most gracious Majesty bad done her favorite statesman the high honor of sending him with an inquiry after his health, and the play ends with a piece of moralising on tbe vanity of all things earthly.This is rather acid stuft for the taste of tire British Tory who is still loyal to the memory of his great leader and wears his buttomhole on Primrose Day, but others will find it perfectly harmless.To round off the bloom on the grape the author in his third sketch throws his limolight on Mr.and Mrs.Gladstone in their \u201cquiet\u201d home in Downing Street in an amiable discussion of the Irish question, Turkey, and woollen comforters.\u201cAngels and Ministers.\u201d By Lawrence Houseman.Jouathan Cape, 11 Gover Biron, London, Price 3e 04 have said of thesd À\" - MONTREAL JITNE SE AND CAN ADIAN HOMESTEAD, DECEMOER 6 1881.MONTREAL DECEMSER 6, 1085.ON THE EVE OF THE ELECTION The slsction campaign draws swiftly to the close with all three parties claiming impending victory.From the headquar- | ters of each final forecasts are being sent out and the analysis shows the jarring conflict of conclusions.: When Parliament was dissolved, there were in the House of Commons 120 Conservatives, 84 Liberals, 14 Progressives, and 4 Independents.Three of these members\u2014alected at by-elections\u2014were unabie actually to take their seats, however, before prorogation.Seats vacant st dissolution numbered thirteen.Of the vacancies, three had been occasioned by the death of the sitting member; four by resignation, four by appointment to the Cabinet, one by appointment to the Senate, and ene by appointment to the Bench.\u2018 There are 135 seats in the House of new and uncertain elements.In this election the principal one is the predominance of three cornered fights not localized as heretofore and reflecting differences wide spread over the country.It is a new party challenging the old ones and recruited largely from their ranks.Another factor not readily sized up is the woman's vote which is fully forty-five per cent and in many places half of the total.It is such unparalied conditions as these which make it difficult for the average man, even the politician himself to figure out an accurate forecast.Sees End of Farmers Party Premier Moighen, speaking at Petrolia, Ont, on Sundsy night, said this was the last federal election in which the Progressive party would be of any account.\u201c] know of no such organization which ever entered the field of politics and Hv-| od,\u201d he asserted.\u201cThese movemdntis lave their day and then cesse to be.\u201d .! Statement by Liberal Leader a statement issued on Sunday night, the people, for the people, any privilege or special AN ELECTION \u201cRUMOR\u201d Montreal Star Demands Explanation From Premier Regarding Important Railway Changes t + The Montreal Star nn Wednesday of last weok published an authoritative ru mor from Ottawa as follows: \u2014 \u201cI hnar on wuthority that would be re- .cognized as unimpeachatie that the Rall- iwsy Board contemplate making immedi \u2018ate and important changes in the staffs of the Government Railways.The report is that Montreal, if these plans are put through, is to be deprived of many of its best railway men; and it is suspected that Bir Joseph Fiavelle may be dehind the new policy.\u201d { In Thursday's issue of the Star there appeared an editorial referring to this | startling rumor\u201d as almost passing belief, and the paper called for an immediate explanation from the Premier, adding that +he was the one maa who could make absolutely certain that this \u201cautocratic de- ! flance of democratic rale\u201d did not take place.An \u201cemphatic and unqualitied denial of the rumor\u201d by Hon.J.A.Stewart, the Minister of Railways and Canals, appear- od in Friday's Star, and the paper said: \u201cObviously a denial from Sir Joseph Flavelie, who is Chairman of the Railway Board, would be more to the point.So far as we know, no such denial has yet been made.The Star is in à position to say that it has been given the most con- vinciug reasons for believing that the startling rumor is all too true.We are ready, indeed, to take the full responsi bility, on the strength of evidence lately laid before us, of declaring the rumor to have become a menacing reality.\u201cIt Mr.Meighen is in any doubt as to the authenticity of the report to which we have given publicity, we pledge ourselves to put him in communication with positive proof of its truth as soon as he can spare time to visit the city and receive it.Thé proofs, being highly com- fidential, cannot be published; but they.can be submitted, in confidence, to the Prime Minister.\u201d r Commenting on this article, Premier Meighen, on Friday night, gave.out the following statement.\u201cThe rumors were instantly denied authoritatively by the Minister of Railways and Canals, but I understand the denial was placed in an obscure part of the journal and new currency was given 1 Gioverninent bas suggested anything of the \\ kind to me, and | have suggested it to no one in the Government or put of it.Will you please give this the same publicity as a mews item?\u201d The Premier denied the right of the Star to withhold as confidential, any information on the subject, and challenged the paper to publish the alleged proofs.Mr.King gives Warning Mr.King, on Sunday, sent a letter to Premier Melghen it which he said: \u201cFrom the Ottawa press dispatches i would appear that since the day of nominations your Government, by order-in- council, has been awarding coutracts, new appointments, and in one direction or another, committing the country to vast expenditures, in no way contemplated by any existing appropriations or other legislation of the Parliament of Canada.\u201cIn justice to all parties concerned, I wish at once to say that commitments of the kind, made by an administration which it le now perfectly evident in no way enjoys the confidence of the country, appears to be entirely at variance with what is right and proper under any sys tem of responsible government: and that should I, as the leader of one of the par ties opposed to your Government, be called upon to form a new administration, I : shall not feel that the new administration is bound in any particular by the appointments or obligations for which there is not the fullest legislative sanction.\u201d THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.Proposed \u201cUnderstanding\u201d between the United States, Britain and Japan.It is understood to be Premier Lioyd George's present intention to start for Washington about the middle of December, but he has given a definite promise | to address the all-Engtand conference of the Liberal Coalition party im London \u2018the third week in January.This contirms their friends is even starting à campaign for the suppression of all submarines, airplanes and poisonous gas.\u201cSecretary Hughes stands firm on his ground.This man is cool-headed and tenacious.He has .ategorically declared that he would uot yield on the ratio ef the three fleets.\u2018It is,\u2019 said he, \u2018a ques tion of guod semse-and of good taith.'\u201d ' Oppaeition to Briand.Premier Briand has returned to France after five weeks absence, in which he pre- > sented to the Washington conferences France's position on armament limitation, As he landed he was greated with defer ence, but without enthusiasm.He was informed that, coincident- with his return, there were being circulated in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate lists purporting to give the composition of & cabinet under former President Poincare which the opposition expects will succeed * the Briand ministry should the latter fall as result of a non-payment by Germany of its reparations due January 16th.Although M.Poincare has refrained from attacking the present Cabinet, the former president delivered an address né Bordeaux recently which has been chart acterized as a \u201cprogramme speech,\u201d and M.Briand's aaversaries are raliying behind him.GERMAN REPARATIONS According to the Temps the Repata- tions Commission has sent the German Covernment à firm note demanding a re 1ly to its recent communication regard- jig the payment of 500,000,000 gold marks Cue as reparations Janusry 15, - and of :15,000,000 gold marks due February 16.The note, sayz the Temps, declares that the commission is persuaded that Ger- maay's present difficulties are financial jather than economic, and that the fall in \u2018the report that his sojourn in Washington $16 value of the mark was due to the fail.will be brief.Interest has beon cansed in Japanese circles in connection with Japan\u2019s reported desire to see come into existence a triple understanding between Japan, the United States and Great Britain, if the Anglo- Japanese alliance is to be discontinued, by the issuance of a statement dy Re-, ure of the German Government to take timely steps to balance the budget.It s'Tongly urges the German Government 1) take without delay the necessary steps 1) restore the finaneial situation.ATTEMPTED RELEASE OF PRISONERS An attack om the fail at Londonderry with the object of releasing the prisoners What Canada needs today is, not prominently to the rumors.Thews is no Meighen, as the Premier's publicity bur- truth whatever in the rumors, and 1 am presentative Katoro Mochizuki, leader of there was repulsed by the police guards the Japanese Opposition, declaring that in [on Friday morning.Two policemen view of the probable success of the Wash.(Were kilied and several of the attackers\u2019 ington conference, there was no need of *itured.eau asserts; nor experiment with surprised that a newspaper would contin- ré tee, \u2018ue circulation of them after official denial bad been given.\u201d \u201cStar has more Evidence The Star on Saturday declared that, \u201chaving received fresh evidence of the Tumors wé now know them to be FACTS, We have no doubt at all that the Premier's statement is sincere\u2014 just as we did not doubt the sincerity of his Minister of Rafiways., There §§ not the slightest doubt that these ruinous charges were being batched behind the back of the Government.There is nol the slightest doubt that they were in contemplation, Our exposure may have stopped them.We forvently hope so., \u201cWhat the nation wants from Mr.Meighen now is not the confession that ho does not know all that goes on between the members of his Railway Board, but a ringing assurance that he will not permit this butrage to be committed until the people have declared their will at the polls and their declared will has been put into effect in a constitutional manner.\u201d \u201cMontreal Threatened.\u201d Under the title \u201cMontreal Threatened\" the Morning Gasette on Saturday morning priuted a page advertisement by the Liberai Publicity Committee declaring the statement to be well-founded.\u201cSir Joseph Flavelle, without any knowledge Whatever of Railways,\u201d said the Commit.toe, \u201cwas made the Chairman of the Railway Board.He is determined that Montreal is to be deprived of one of its largest spending institutions (spending $15,000.- 000 a year here) and fifteen thousand Montreal employees deprived of employment.When the shops and offices of the Grand Trunk are taken away, Montreal will feel the blow.\u201d Sir Lomer Gouin said: \u201cIt is an attempt to tie the hsnds of any government which will follow the present.It is an attempt to nullify the expression of \u2018tie \u2018will of the people.It is à blow at Mortrea!.designed to rob this district of offices and shops which mean the livelihood of 50,000 people.\u201d Denial by 8ir Joseph Flavelle Emphatic denials of the truth of the rumor were given on Saturday and Sunday by Sir Joseph Flavelle and Premier Meighen.The former, in a telegram to the Btar, said: \u201cI know nothing of such a policy, No one in the Government or out of the group government, or further attempts at coalitions; but a government of the minion, and with a mind and purpose of its own.IRISH SITUATION (8 AGAIN VERY GRAVE Sinn Fein Refuses to Accept the Government\u2019s Latest Offer Sinn Fein has not accepted the Government\u2019s offer and the outlook now is very grave.Lioyd George and his colieagues are verx perturbed over the situation, which will be discussed at a cabinet meeting.There is no immediate rupture of the negotiations, but it is gathered in official circles that little hope of a settlement re- Mains.No further meeting has so far deen arranged with the Sinn Fein delegates.\u2018The Sion Fein reply was handed to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing street at 8 o'clock on Sunday evening by Arthur Grittith, Robert Bar*on and George Gavin Duffy.With Lloyd George were Austen Chamberlain, Lord Birkenhead and Sir Robert Horne.There was an hour's discussion of the situation before the ministers and the delegates separated.It is learned that the Sinn Fein takes exception to the alternative proposals on several grounds, and chiefly in respect of the onth of allegiance and what they regsrd as a continuance of the partition of Ireland.: Under no circumstances will Ulster give up her Northern Parliament for an All-Ireland Legislature, declared John Miller Andrews, Minister of Labor in the Ulster cabinet on Sunday.Three members of the Sinn Fein peace delegation bound for Dublin from England, were turned back on their voyage on Saturday, when the steamer Cambris on which they were travelling collided with a schooner soon after leaving Holy- head, England.The schooner was sunk and three of her crew drowned.Dominion note circulation totalled $353,718,062 on November 28, according to a statement issued by the finance department.It was backed by gold to the amount of $80,714,218 and by deposits of approved sacurities to the extent of am- ther $136.887,741.renewing the alli.nce.The statement | said: \u201cLet the alliance be effaced and let : us set up in its place am understaading between Great Britain, the United States and Japan on Far Eastern and Pacific problems.\u201d Great Britain is using her influence to bring the Japanese views im the naval ratio dispute into harmony with those of the United States.Co With this development, .the Japanese plenipotentiaries again have submitted the whole question to their home Government.Complete abolition of the submarine as an instrument of warfare still is regarded by Uio British delegation as the most pre- | forable decision to be reached hs the Ar- ! mement Conference when th» question of rubmarines is brought up.A Fransh Impression.Stephane Lausanne, the special correspondent of Le Matin, says: \u201cWe are nearing a curve.And there is danger\u2014as in evefy curve.Chins\u2019 and Japan sre closeted in a room to discuss face to face the question of Shantung.America and England sre watching the | discussion to be sure that it will proceed according to all the rules.But it is not! in this duel that lies the danger for the conference.It will mever turn upside down in the eurve of the Far Kast.The danger is that it will be wrecked on the rock of the naval debate.\u201cWhat we all foresaw {s bappening.The Japanese, after having proclaimed, while putting their hands on their hearts, ; that thé Hughes\u2019 programme was an ad, mirable basis of discussion, are trying to wreck it by removing the basis.They | no longer accept the 56-5-8 ratio fixed by Secretary Hughes as being the actual force for the three navies.They claim a ratio of 5-5-3 1-3.They dare not contest because it is impossible to contest, that the Hughes ratio does not represent mathematically the strength of the fleets, but they are talking about mational seo arity.To put it briefly, they are mixing up the cards.\u201cMeanwhile the Dritish, at the neigh- entrance to the jail: undetected, and eir presence was not discovered until a patrol of.policemen siw a rope ladder hanging over the wall, And gave the alarm.The military guard.inside had noticed nothing unusual, but upon investigation they found the two.constables who guarded the Sinn Feiners lying dead in the corridor.\u2018The republican rescue party had forced the doors of teh cells whea the guards: surprised them at their work.The military opened fire, the republicans replying with revolvers, .Pandemonium prevailed for some time, but the guards finally gained the upper - hand without losing any of the prisoners, - at the same time capturing three young Londonderry men who made a final attempt to release the prisoners.Three motor cars, which had been left with the engines running by the attacking party, also were seized.It was reported that two warders had been found bound and gagged, and thet five other warders had been arrested ja connection with the attempted escape.Many houses in the vicinity of the jail were searched and three civilians were .srrested.The version of the military authorities was that the two constables who were found dead in the corridor had died after chloroform had been administered to them.trish Delefstes Leave for London.A meeting which Lloyd George had on Friday with Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins was concerned, it is understood, with certain amendments or variations in $10 alternative draft settlement proposals, as à rsault, so it is said, of a communica- fon from Sinn Fein headquarters that alterations iu the draft outline, which had already been fent to them, were essen- As a result, of these conversations, \u2018Grif Tith, Collins end Duggan left for Dublin, where they would be able to interpret the Government's views to the Dail Cabinet.\u2018 Members of the Dall Eireann Cabinet assembled on Dac $ to consider the Bri- ish Government's latest proposals for an irish peace settlement, There is little optimism as to its decision, and the Sinn Felun peace delegates are reported as be- fev! the revised terms will be unac- The party boring playing table, are preparing resist: coptaile to Eamonn de Valera and his \u2014\u2014\u2014 suce rogardisg tbe qubagr! Quy ofpgvisers, , RIOTING IN VIENNA .Hotsis and Luxury Stores invaded by Hungry Mebs.Looted and \u20ac Wrecked Widespread rioting took place in Vienna oa Thursday, many towrists staylug at the hotels being attacked and some them subjected to.rough treatment.t the ! hotels, the New Bristol and the Old Bris- | tol suffered most: they were partially wrecked, and were looted to the second floor.The damage caused was enormous.Inquiries at the hotels .disclose that many of the guests were robbed of etoth- img and jowels, in ome instances the jew.eis \u2018boing torn frox.the ears.Ons of the victios was Sir \u201cWilliam Goode, who was robbed of all his clothing and other valumbies.Sir William was attacked by a mob who intruded into bis sitting\u2019 room.: \u2019 Seemingly the most rowdy elemonty swept through the inher city; \u2018they wore Joined hy the wort criminal classes, committing Mt kinds of excesses.A correspondent asked ome of a squad of policemen, who idly watched the wrecking of the Hotel Imperial if there were not suflicient polich to handle the gituption.He 1eplied: \u201cWe are tired ot shooting and beisg shot.These people qe hungry and desperate; so are many of tn\u201d \u2019 The disturbances were the most serious since the downfall of the monarchy.They spread through the inner city, and practi- eally every unshuttered window was simashed.All the famous restaurants and hotels frequented by foreign visitors were ontored, looted.and partly wrecked, and the luxury shops robbed, while the police watched without interfering.The disturbances are described as purely economic, due to the growing scarcity and cost of the necessaries of lite, They Bad their inception in a general strike in the indus suburb of Flordisdort.- Vienna after the rioting presented a woe- fai sight.All the cafes were closed and the streets were in darkness.The occupants of the hotels, hearing that the workmen threatened to renew the attack, fled early in the afternoon and remained huddled in doorways in the residential quarters, begging for shelter.Large crowds colleo- ted on the Ring, discussing means to protect themselves and their possessions.If the rioting is resumed, a high police official informed the correspondent, he feared that, in the absence of militisy | forces, the police would be inadequate to prevent pillage and murder, and the storm- {ng of the dwellings of prominent bankers and business men and the Jewish quarters.Winebasrd\u201d Santenesd to the Guillotine |.LS Yd\u201d Henri Desire.Landru, \u201cthe Blusbeard of Gambais\u201d smiled on.Wednesday night for the first time since his trial at Versailles opened.A flickering expression of .amusement crossed bis face as he listened to the fateful words from Judge Gfibert sending him to the guillotine for à séries of thé mostiheinous crimes in the history of Freüch jurisprudence.\u201cThank you, gentlemen,\u201d said Landru, flourishing his weather beaten hat in a mocking bow to the jury, and he disap peared through the little door leading to the Versailles jail.\u2018While the verdict was awaited, the slayer of tan women and a boy spoke words of encouragement to his counsel, M.Moro- Giafferi, who tired and worn out after fis strenuous efforts to save his client from death, was on the verge of collapss.Landru maintains that he has killed nobody, and is an innocent man.THE MOPLAH SURVIVORS Some of the prisoners who were in the closed railway wagon which recently was Used to transfer a number of Moplah prisoners from Shoranur to Bellary, and in which sixty-four of the Moplahs died through suffocation during the trip, testl- fied before the official commission of inquiry on Dec.8 that the prisoners asked for waicy lhe first time the train stopped, but that their requests were ignored.After vain attempts te remove the gauze from the ventilators in the car, the survivors sald many of the prisoners began to faint and tell on top of each other unconscious.There was no fighting.One of the prisoners stated that a volce from outside told them it was useless to shout for water and that if they persisted they would bé shot.The van was described as so crowded that all the prisoners were obliged to stand.\u2018The Prince of Wales has had a royal reception at Jodhpur, India where he transfixed his first wild boar.\u201cThe whole week,\u201d says a correspondent, \u201chas been one grand pageant of color, movement, light and music, but the Prince still has Mad time for polo.hunting, snipe-shooting wnd good intervals of rest.\u201d The Tasmanian House of Assembly has passed & resolution in favor of the abo- litlon of the office of state Governor.The Governor, Sir William Allardyce, sails on three months\u2019 leave of absence and is not expected to return.MONTREAL WITNESS AND CAN ADIAN THE \u201c PACIFIC How the \u2018 Witness\u2019 We are pleased to be able this week to slve \u201cWitness\u201d readers a picture of thelr mission lamach in Western waters, the \u201cPacific Messenger,\u201d a uister hoat to tie \u201cNorthern Messenger\u201d that has for years been of each inestimable service to the Grentell work in Labrador.The new launch has been used constantly since last spring in the vicinity of Vancouver Island , including the Sound with {ts many inlets, by the Shantymen\u2019s Christian Association, to reach remote mining and lumber camps that would be quite inaccessible by steamer or rail.The re- sultg of this self-sacriticing work are not such as can be set forth in columns of statistics but they are nevertheless of the highest spiritual value, helping materially to advance the welfare of a needy class, who would otherwise be uncared for and to build up a better Canada.Mr.Wm.Henderson, Superintendent of this mode! mission enterprise, informs us that another boat is needed next spring, with two more spirit-filled men as volunteers.\u2018Those who are willing to link up with a prayer circle for the success of so great Launch 1 Work Among the Shantvmen.HOMESTEAD, DECEMBER ¢ 1021.MESSENGER.\u201d is Helping in the next night we climbed a 1200 ft.hill in the rain to a camp of Italinus.Here there was nowhere to sieep but a windowless and doorless old bunk-house which an old horse had evidently heen using for a stable.Some mattresses were there, but they were too damp for safety, 80 we re- luctantiy dec'ded to go down the hill again.Visiting à former Wesleyan local preacher who had gong back in his soul, we were invited by him to sleep there.Then we sat on the table in the bunk- houge among the [talians and talked away for the Lord.He can make people understand.There we met the boss, a Swede\u2014 they are usually bitter\u2014who gave a cheque for five dollars.Next day we walked a flume five m'ies long, into the hills to find two familles and had a pre- clous time\u2014in all probability one of the men came into the light.The community at the beach refuses to have a Sunday School or any Christian work\u2014it is 24 miles from the nearest preacher over an impossible road.We got the dance hall, where there is a weekly dance and whist drive, and women get a ministry are invited to communicate with the Secretary, Shantymen\u2019's Chuis- tian Association, 1033 Granville St, Vancouver, B C.drunk, and here we had two very fine children\u2019s meetings.1 got my lantern out and invited all to come.They came, and The .\u201cPacific Messenger\u201d je following letter .WA] lef, Superintendent for B.C.and Alberta, will convey some idea of the difficulties these heroic \u201cmissionaries bave to encounter in carrying thé gospel message into the wilde: - W.A.Fuller.Sapt.B.('.and Alberta, writes: .1 should have sent you news of our August and Septembe rtrip.We reached the head of every inlet and found the most remote camps.There was one we were at twice (only got to about six the second time).The second reception was rather good and many came and sang.We learned that on our fôrmer visit they had taken up a collection.One man was deputed to offer a whole lot of bills and money when we came round with the hat and then to snatch it away, to the anticipated confusion of the sky pilot and the delight of the audience, insteud of which we had sone around after preaching and tackled every man about his soul, and sald good-bye.The.gospel was not in worse odor on that account.Times have Deen harder, wages cut in half, men rather less haughty towards the Gospel, Lut it is bad enough.I may as well give an account of our last trip as it stands.We left Victoria on Sunday on two old (very old) bicycles with only one dollar for à week os more in hostile country.We got twenty miles and had a good meet- | ing fa the village, nobody suggesting any hospitability but the boarding house.We.waited on God and met a Christian men in trouble who had just lost his wife.He asked me to shew him a light to get sume- thing for the collection, then handed me $3 for the work.Next day the great rain bexan which brought such floods.We rode 34 miles and walked 45 hills, camping on the summit of the last, which was the worst.We were exceedingly tired but had a good meeting.Slept with a Theosophist, and next morning were charged 50c each for ail meals (proper charge 40c.).it was a splendid epportunity to give \u2018them iGod's word\u2014very fine with some On the second day my boots gave eut, and 1 ceased to ridicule Bowen with his soaked feet and damp clothes.A Christian man from Victoria, however, met me and asked if we would accept an order on his boot maker for two pairs of boots.On the way home we purposed vis'ting every lonely place on the road\u2014the last visit of any was six months back\u2014and did so, but only about two seemed even willing to be spoken to, God knows.Even the lighthouse was ln the same state.Answers te Prayer We were so tired towards evening and 1 jokingly asked the Lord for a good cup of tea (had no dinner, being in too much of a hurry) with thick cream, strawberries, and good bread and butter\u2014being the most ridiculous thing 1 could think of to keep our spirita up.We called on a Christian widow, very faithful to the Lord, and I declare to you she produced all the above! How exceedingly tender are the Lord's doings! About six pan.we found 70 feet of a bridge had been swept away.Prayer produced two Indians who took us over the current; then to crown ali, one bicycle broke down wlihout hope.and the whole sole of Bowen's shoe came off 20 miles from home, and a dark night.V.ell.we praised the Lord and waited | upon him.Along came & etage driver in t var\u2014$3 to take bikes and ali to Victoria, The point was he said he never went out Saturday night\u2014objected to it\u2014 but had fust rece'ved an ureent message tu xo, and 50 met us.We informed him as to why he had been sent there, had a splendid hour with him about his soul, and so ended the trip.There was a dying man in an unshin- gled shack with no windows and one side open to the weather.We were impressed to give a day's work to help him.so took Ellis, and the three of us closed the place In nicely.At noon the man, who was a backslider, opened his heart of his own free will, and returned to the Saviour.A day or two later he died, happy in Christ, and with no worries concerning his wife and her house.So we see the leading of the Lord.The boat is up on the beach for the winter.She is a splendid success, and we are praying now for another, and for two men, so that the camps may be visited at least three times a year\u2014this covers the Vancouver Island camps too\u2014 instead of by road, and a befter way.Misslonary\u2019s Boots Gave Out Here Bowen's boots gave out, and til we goi home his fest were soaked.Dy ow we are tryl to penetrate the matpland, and to-day en and I go to Hop#, aud into Kettle Valley, We know SEVEN not a soul, but expect the lord wil} gradually open His own way and supply our needs as we go.The readers of the Witness are vitally interested in this greet missionary enter prise as they contributed and have al ways supported the auxiliary launch, the \u201cPacific Messenger\u201d which carries the missionaries along the rugged Pacitie coast and islands to many camps other wise inaccessible.The \u201cPacific Messea- ser\u201d is a staunch serviceable little bost manned by staunch Christian mea.It will interest our newer readers to learn that the Witness readers besides supporting the \u201cPacific Messenger\u201d tor the Lumberman\u2019s Mission, also presemted and support the \u201cNorthern Messenger\u201d a somewhat larger bost on the Labrador coast\u2014of which Dr, Grenfell has writtes many times.Subscriptions should be specifically designated for the \u201cPacific Messenger,\u201d Shantymen's Mission or for the \u201cNorthern Messenger,\u201d Canadian Labrador Associstion.All cheques or money orders should be made payable to John Dougall & Son, Montreal.Need: less to say the publishers neyer make any charge whatever for this service.THE LEGEND OF THE GLASTONBURY THORN The story of the Glastonbury thorn russ thus: Joseph of Arimathea, who buried our Lord's body in his own new tomb, being in constant danger of his life from the enmity of the Jewish priests, because he testified that Christ had risen, was advised to take refuge in the Island of Britain, then one of the most distant parts of the Roman Empire, and where the Gospel might be more freely preached.Joseph?therefore, set sail for Britain, accompanied by some of his friends, who had become Christians: they landed on what was then the Island of Avalon, off the coast of Somersetshire.This is now part of the mainland, but it is said that at that time the sea ran up into the land, and at high tides surrounded the elevated portion.Remains of an embankment still exist, which in the ancient map is called the sea wall On ascending the hill, Joseph, it is said, stuck his staff into the ground, as & sigm of his having claimed the country for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.The staff, whieh was a thorn stick, took root, and.ever afterwards when Christmastide drew nigh, and the birth of the Saviour was commemorated, the Glastonbury thorn put forth blossoms.- These first preachers of the Gospel iw Britain were favorably rucetved by the King or chief of that part of the country.They were allowed to teach the people, and to build on the fsland of Avalon a little chapel for the worship of God.This was said to be the first Christian place of worship erected in Britain.On the death of Joseph, he was buried in the little chapel he had built, and on this spot was afterwards erected the Abbey of Glastonbury, where there was a chapel dedicated to St.Joseph, and a splendid tomb raised over his grave.It is quite probable that a thorn, brought from some southern climate at a very early period, was planted on one of the hills close to Glastonbury, and that this kind ot thorn has the peculiarity of blossoming in the winter.The stump of the original old tree was visible as late as 1750, ft having been cut down in the reigm of Charles I.; but a cutting taken from ?t was planted in 1600, near St.John's Ghurch, where it stil] stands, and continues to blossom, if the weather be not very severe, .about the time of Christmas.Another fact seems probable.and that is that Christianity was intreduced at a very early period into the secluded island of Avalon.In sll the old legends Avalon ts referred to as a land of rest and joy; Ms culture at that time seemed wonderful to the barbarous Britons.Whoever may have planted the southern thorn on the Avalon fan Hill, its association with the coming of a religion so full of blessed fruits and mplorious hopes would cause it to be re.gerded with a tender reverence, as com fug from that land in which Christ the Saviour lived and died.Those who have never felt they could canvass successfully or who lacked either the time or the environment necessary can now make up to those of their fellow- readers who have every year devoted hours and days to the furtherance of their paper.But for such annual effort on the part of some, and periodical effort on the part of others, the Witness oould not have lived so long.Now for the first time in its history it says to those who cannot send NEW subscriptions: You may send money.And you will do 80 tf you want the influence of the Witness come tinued. as sont AVOID WASTING BRAT AND FURL The following points should be borne im mind when selecting voai: The amount of ash it leaves; whether ft fuses and forms clinkers that stop wp the grate bars and cut off the draft; whether the ask is corrosive and whether it attacks the grates or adheres to the stove linings.The addition of a few pleces of oyster or clam shells is satd to help this last-men- tioned trouble.Experience indicates that chestnut coal is usually the most ecoh- omical for the cooking stove, and that for the furnace broken or egg, according to the sise of the fire box, is best during heavy duty in severs weather and for the stove during the warmer weather.Exper ence also seems tu prove that banking tbe fire with a smaller size of coal or with cinders sifted from the ashes promotes economy.A day's ashes.both from the stove and from the furnace or boller, should be sifted ag certain Umes ts determing the completeness of the bastion.If a fresh kitchen fire is died each day, considerable coke buraed coal will be recovered.If is continuous, as in the case of nace, probably not enough coal obtained to warrant the involved in sifting.That will the case if the furnace doep beds of ashes and coal ten inches.When Fi fee £28 i 4 a sa: i i E i coal is left.This is an epay problem to noive.Take the cube of the height of the pile in feet and point off two places.It the pile is four feet high, you have about .64 of a ton left and it its height is reduced to two feet, you have only .08 of a ton left.The main thing to keep in mind about the problem of economitiag in coal is how to give the house more heat than the chimney gets from the coal you burn fa your furnace.In the average furnace, according to results of tests by scientists, not quite one half of the heating value of coal is utilized in actually heating the house; the rema\u2018nder escapes up the chimney.Often it has been found that only ome-fourth of the full heating value was obtained.Keep the stove and furnace clean.Every two weeks throughout the winter every scot particle should be routed.This may seem unnecessary, and you may think that furnaces are supposed to be sooty, but they are not.The object should be to maintain a steady heat in the house and a steady fire in the furnace, rather than to have first a very hot fire and then let it get mo low a8 to require very heavy applications of fuel to bring it back to nermal.Another general rule about the furnaee or stove is to feed the fire regulariy.whether in cool weather or very cold weather.Keep the firepot full, about level with the bottom of the firing door, no matter whether you are burning the fuel slowly or rapidly.A thin fire wastes coal.Disturb your fire as little as possible; too frequent stoking or poking spoils it.Keep the ashes cleaned from under the grate.With a clean ash pit the fire burns more waiformly and with less clinkers.If the fire gets very low open the ash pit damper and add a little coal that ia not too fine.Do not disturb the grate or the ashes.When the fresh- coal is well ignited, shake the grate and add more coal.A fresh fire or à large fire requires air over the fuel hed as well as through it, but it should come in only through the damper in the firing door, which is made for that purpose.To check a fire close the ash pit door and open the check draft ta the smoke p'pe.Never check it by leaving the firing door open.If the fire is so strong as to make checking ang control of the fire difficult with the check draft, partly close the main damper in the smoke pipe.If you use soft cesl break it in pieces the size of your fist and when you fire do not cover the whole surface with fresh coal, but leave à Wright spot to ignite the gases.The whole rule for good furnace manm- agement can be sumed up briefly as follows: The flow of alr through ignited fuel is what makes a fire burn.learn to control this flow of air.One of the very best general rules for furnace or range \u2018a to provide just enough flow of air through the fuel below, and them check that flow of alr from below by regulating the check damper above, which lets cold air flow directly into the chimney.This method furnishes the necessary oxygen from below to give good combustion to the fuel and for the consumption of the coal gases.and also allows time for the burning of these gases before they are sucked up the chimney.It is the escape of too large à praportion of these combustible gases up the chimney, before they have burned, which accounts for the very low percent- nge of usable heat obtained from many furnaces.Ba rure the smoke passages in the kitchen stove are clean.Break the lumps of voal to pleces no larger than eggh.When the stove must run for several hours à fuil tire box.carefully controlled by dampers, ia more ecomomical than a fire so small that the grate is oniy partly covered.As ia the case of the furnace, when you have a big fire a little air is needed over the coal as well as through it.H the fire box Is clogged with ashes air eannot nase throurh the fuel to make it MONTREAL WITNESS AND CAN ADIAN HOMESTEAD, DECEMBER § iW.Young Men and Young Women.PRESENT AND FUTURR The young man is the great equation to-day, the young woman the key to the future.If these get properly exientud, s.6.pointed to the great moral acd religious trnths, they will take good care of country and of the succeeding generation.The danger is that they may fall under the corruptable and cocrupting leadership of a press that first mes merises, then enslaves its resders.Let the pulpit be ever wo alert and consecrated, if its efforts are not pars- lelled by as consecrated a press press that eannot be bribed, that will mot seek its own selfish interests, a press as wholly free frem the desire to make money and as wholly devoted to the general welfare\u2014then the work of the pulpit on Sunday will be anncl- led by the week's press.The ememy will sow tares throogh the wheat.If the young men and women of Canada were in weekly conference wich a Wide thay would wel an orld informed, and Oe Stormod, amd able in turn to inffuense their emvir- onments for good.Viewed as a weekly course of study of current thought and of the great political and social movements and undercurrents of humanity,these two papers, for a pittance, give the reader prod of view and eerrect information.following rates: The Montreal Witnese and Canadian Homesiesd for $1.35, World Wide for $1.50, ce both fer ls it the WITNESS, of is it net Canada thet needs saving from the threat of journalism monopolistic and self-centred ?Who is going to do it?burs.If soot hangd on the stove lide less | heat can come through them.A layer of ashes over the top and under the oven will keep it from heating quickly.If you use soft coal, allow just enough air te come through the damper over the fire to make the flames so short they will net reach the second row of stove lids When it is necessary to Carry a fire over night, fi) the fire box with coal.covering it tightly with ashes and close all pers.To stirt the fire open the damper below the grate and the one in the stovepipe.Break up the coke in the fire box with a poker, and rattle the ashes into the ash box.Save what coal and coke you can from the ashes and use them whem you have a good fire.When the fire is well started, close the dampet fn the smoke pipe as much as you can to maintein the fire that you need.Open that damper to prevent the fire from smoking while you put on fresh coal.Damper control is the secret of economical heating.\u2014Washing- ton Star.\u201d \u201cTHRE WEE SINFU' FIDDLE\u201d (By Rev.A.W.Fergusson, Dundes) The story is Well known but not everyone knows that it is a true story, and that it actually happened in the manse of Dailly, just a little over a hundred years ago, to the brilliant young artist and mu- famous \u201c1homson of Duddingston.\u201d \u2018The Life of this distinguished som of the manse, pastor and painter, has been written by William Baird, F.8.A.Scot.And from that memoir we give the true and\u2019 authentic story as it is set forth om his charming page.\u201cHe bad not Only when at college ac quired a fiddle, but he had practised it with such assiduity that he was quite an adept, and would apend hours at it in the long winter evenings, to the great delight of his little household.Both the violin and violoncello he played with wonderful skill.Among the more straitlaced of his parishioners their young min- inter\u2019s talents tm this respect went for lees than nothing.They looked upon it an a scandal to his profession that so mach of his time should be spent on what they considered frivolous amusements, and several of the elders were moved to wait upon bim on the subject.They did so, And were most courteously received by the minister and his wife.Having explained the object of their visit, they proceeded apologetically to refer to the rumours that were floating about in the garish, urging that.it was not so much the \u2018big gaucy fiddle\u2019 they objected to as the \u2018wee sinfu\u2019 fiddle\u2019! : \u201cThomson beard them good-naturedly, and thes asked them if they would like to hear a tune.Though not quite prepared for this, the elders mada no objections to the propoeal; the violoncello was brought into the parlor, and he played a selection of tine old Scotch airs with such pathos and feeling that, as a granddaughter of his has told us, they were fairly melted to tears, and so impressed with what they called its \u2018holy hum.\u2019 that no more objec tions were ever raired to his playing either the \u2018big gaucy fiddle\u2019 or the'wee sinfu\u2019 one.\u201d He was happy in his hobbies, too, for not only were his \u201cwoe sinfu\u2019 fiddle\u201d and his \u2018big gaucy fiddle\u201d ministers to do him pleasure, but his flute alec was wings and vision to My Many pretty stories are told of him asd of his painting.One, that he always painted his skies on Sundays! Another, not to his credit as a minister, though ohe can understand the mood and feeling of the artist\u2014that when the beadle came to him on Sunday morning and found him busy at his easel, and toid him that it was time, he cried out, \u201cOh, John, just ring the bell for other five minutes till I get in this bonnie wee bit o\u2019 sky!\u201d And another, that when a sudden thunderstorm came on during service he hastily dismissed his congregation and dashed to the studio, that he might improve the golden hour of lurid light and rolling cloud.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 BEATH OF LORD MOUNT STEPHEN Lord Mcunt Stephen, pioneer railroad comstructor in Canada and first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, died on Moyember 39 at his country resi dence, Brocket Hall, Hatfteld, Hertford- akire, at the age of nigely-two years.George Stephen, first Baron Mount Stephen, was born at Duffiown, fn the Highland County of Banff, Scotland, om June 5, 1839.Ha was educated at the parish school, aad for a time was herd- boy on the Glebe of Mortlach.Then he served an apprenticeship to an Aberdeen draper, later finding employment in Lom- don with = large dry goods firm, there obtaining a Knowledge of figures which proved of great vaiue to him in after life.In 1960 he went to Canada and served in the establishment of William Stephen, a riative, who took him into partnership.He was chosen vice-president of the Bank of Montreal in.1873 and president im 1576, thus becoming ome of the foremost fimam- clers of Camade.- Lofd Stephen was associated in 1880 with the syndicate that organised the Canadian Pacific Railway and sought the aid of the Canadian Government and the sup- pert of British Investors.In the financing of this great transcontinental system, George Stephen played a large part and became the first Canadian Pacific Pres ident.When he retired from the presidency of the railroad in 1888 he made his home in England aud, like Lord Strath.cons, interested himeelf fn educational and philanthropic matters.Between them they founded snd endowed the Royal Vio toria Hospital at Montreal, each giving $1,000,000 for the purpose, and Lord Mount Stephen also was a benefactor of the Mont real General Hospital.In addition he built à hospital at his birthplace and helped to founé scholarships for Casadians in the Royal College of Music.Another of hia notable gifts was $1,000,000 towards King Edward's Hdspital Fund.Al his ventures brought him an increasing fortune as the Dominion grew in wealth and population.He was, in fact, accounted one of Canada\u2019s wealthiest men.The task that lies before Christian die- ctpleabip te very clear.It is nothing less and nothing other than that of accepting Christ's law as the rule of all lite and of bringing every method and process of industry into harmony with His purpose.In a real sense this is the hardest task that Christianity has ever ha dto face: and in a real sense this is the final test of the Christian spirit.This suggests the out standing challenge of our time te the Taine Christ and His Christian tech THE STATESMAN The statesman throws his shoulders baek and atraightens out his tie, And sys, \u201cMy friends, unless it rains the weather will be dry.\u201d And when this thought tuto our brain has pereolated through, We common pecple nod our heads and loudly cry, \u201cHow tree!\u201d The statesman throws his shoulders back and clears his august throat, And says, \u201cThe ship will never sink so long as it's afloat.\u201d Whereat we roll our solemn eyes, 45 plaud with mais and might, And slap each other on the back the white we say, \u201cHe's right!\u201d The stateaman waxes stern and warm, his drone becomes a roar, He yells, \u201cI say to you my friends, tha.two and two make four!\u201d And thereupon our doubts dissolve, our fears are pat to rout, And we agree that here's 8 man whe knows what he's about.\u2014Herald and Presbyter.MaoMiilan'e Arctie Expedition.The schooner Bowdoin with the Arctic expedition headed by Donald B.MacMit- lan had entersd Hudson Bey ca August 19, several days shead of its schedule, and it was hoped to pass through the das gerous Fury-Hecls Strait on the west const of Baffin land in 10 days, according te word received from Machiillan by Chartes §.Sewall, a feilow-Bowdoin College alum course.\u201cThe boat is a wonder,\u201d the explores wrote, adding that ha felt justified in his faith in the Bowdoin's ability to weather rough seas aud ice floes.He said that if the schooner succeeded in getting through Fury-Hecla Strait, the chief obstacle to the success of the expedition, he would : head for winter quarters on the western side of the great uncharted Baffin Land Marshal Foch will be a visitor tp Canada from December 11 to 13.At ths conclusion of his three day visit in New York, the itinerary of a continent-wide tour was announced.The tour is being conducted by the American Legion.Marshal Foch ] plans to visit Ottawa, and Montreal, Sun- * day, December 11; Quebec, December 13, i and wilt make s brief stop at Sherbroeke, ; December 13, on his way back to com- | plete his tour of principal cities in he | United States.Mr.© leave the United States bee 2 to attend the Washington armaments onference.Merchants of Madelis, Minn., have decided to accept corn as payments of debts and for payments of merchandize.The dcath is recorded of Henry Mayes Hyndman, the most prominent of England's Bocialists.He was the founder of the Social Democratic Federation in 1881, In 1884 he founded Justice, a social democratic weekly published in Loudos, and to which he constantly contributed.Mr.Hyndman, who knew Mazzini and Garibaldi, had travelled widely.At the Ip- ternational Socialist Congress in Paris in 1900 he took a most active part in es tablishing the new \u201cInternational\u201d and during the following ten years he was à member wf the International Socletist Bureau.Three regular sized teaspoons were re woved from the stomach of Mrs.Mary Ludwig, twenty-five years old, by Chiet Surgeon fchastfer of the Allentown Hospital, Pa., recently.The operation took place before a clinic of about twenty-five persons.The Manchester, (Engiand) Corporas tion Unemployed Relist Warks Commit.tes have approved, and agreed to bear alk charges of à scheme to provide twopeanp dinners for the cities unemployed.It is proposed to open social centres where ths workless may meet under pleasant com ditions, indulge in gymuastics and play samen, and buy food at low cost.Representative of the wide range and versatility unusual in the Iltorature of.such a young country as Canada, is an exhibition of Canadian books and mags.sines fu the Redpath Library of McGill University, prepared by Dr.Gerhard Lo- mer on the occasion of Canadian Authors\u2019 Week.Rare books, old and new, autographed coples, firet editions, proof copies, and original manuscripts, form the bulk of the exhibition; signed portraits of authors and autographed poems and quotations, add a personal touch.\u201cTis a blessed thing to find a friend, one human soul whom one could trust always, who knows the best and worst of us~\u2014Kingsley. MONTHNAL WIsEMES AMC CAN ADIAN MOMBSTEAD, DECEMBER 6 1081.DOCTOR WANTED QUICK.Harrisgton Howpltal en the Cane- alan _ Labrador s.ddenly found Meelf without a docter through the Himes of the ame in charge.The last boat soing faywhese maar there uswally runs about the miidio sf December, There ie very greai nesd for a dec- tor.this winter en the ceast, one who with the missionary spirit.Tenders would mark this and send MK to any deater the might fi! the ne- quirements they might secomplieh a great thing.Possibly the minister or local doctor would know of the right man.Applications should be wired to Ur.Ureatell care of Miss Warne, Sec retary, iabrader Medical Mise, 3x1 Gilmour St, Ottawa.CULTIVATING MILITARISM (Te The Editor of The Witness) r,\u2014The great war has left in fts trall some undesirable conditions and apper- eutly a leaven is finding à fertile field.We have military training being adveen- ted for schoels, and a book for school une entitled \u201cFlag and Fleet,\u201d that the great accomplishments of the navy m ght be woven into the minds of little ehiidren.The above schemes are probably patterned from German militarism.Then we have our flag worship imported from the United States.The day scheols are not alone in pre \u201cA GE TEE It our MADE IN CANADA Model 207 All-Wood Oval Horn, paring the way for the god of war.We Single Diaphragm Ultona.flad honor rolls in our Sunday Schools, Brunswick Guaranteed.placed there for children to adore.1 Double Spring Motor.was amazed to 1nd advertisements in a Automatic Stop.certain Church paper from those who Tone Modifier., manufacture memorial tablets.And 1 Autcmatically Balanced Lid.was ulso surprised several years ago to 200 Steel or for n The The Ali- Wood find the missionant the Thomas Ipoin Ediso Croaby.Gutributng Iaratere concert | Records.Ultona Oval Horn the life of Napoleon.\u2018hink of ft Thode who £5 to carry the Gospel of peace and gi \u2018become Intoxicated with blood! © It militarism fs to flourish, then those who have sacrificed their lives have died in vain.War memorials and monuments \u2018can do the departed no good, neither will they be of bemafit to the coming generation.As Dr.Michael Clark sald recent ly \u201cGet rid of the war mind and the war machinery as well\u201d It seems we should first be rid of the war mind.But can that be done and utill keop Lefore us 50 much past history and werks of fic.tien mingled with blood?\u201c LR L BROWN Records.Choiee of Mahogany & Genui Cummings, Alta Note: \u2014We agree with the slogan \u201cOet rid of the war mind.\u201d We take the keee- eat satisfaction in the conferences that are being held to this end, and in the evidence tbat all nations wish to join ju getting rid of armament.Such a sight \u2018Was never seen boforc on earth ae all the lenders of men getting together to Make war between them impossible, by praeti- cally destroying and limiting the implements of war.It is well too, that so many like our correspondent feel to strongly in this matter that they would eliminate all preparatica of thé rislog generation against the pusuibllity of needing defence.There Is no doubt a danger to boy nature in gleriLying soldier ser- Medel 210 Two New Models of the Famous | BRUNSWICK ll Phonographs In One\u201d S185 \u2018 Both thrse Models.include the following without Extra Charge: 1 Bepphise Point for Pathe ANNOUNCING 1 HE, extraordinary value presented in these two New Models represent an actual saving to you of $20.00 to $40.00.The first of these beautiful new 1 models have just arrived from the factory.They are superb-\u2014embodying as they do, not only Brunswick quality in cabinet work (for which the Brunswick Co.has been famous for generations) but also EVERY exclusive patented feature that has placed the Brunswick in such demand-\u2014-including the ULTONA and All WOOD Oval Horn.One Year To Pay To make it possible for ANY home to secure ome of these New Models NOW, dealersare cffering special terms for a few days, A small cash payment with one whole year to pay the balance.will put either of these models in your home at oxce, The remarkable tons) quality of the Brumwick is sohteved through this patented all- weed oval herm, which ast anly provides proper assmstic mppert for the tone-wews, but amplifies therm without distortion or contusion.ive proper point, weight and position for sath record.Mail us this Coupon For Special Xmas Offer The Musical Merchandise Sales Ce., DEPT.M.W., 713 DRUMMINS BLDG, MONTREAL.Without any cbligatioo te me whstover, plesse wed Me the oddress below, your Hiustrates Folder of Srumswisk New Models 207 and 210 and full details of your spechl $2.08 Cash Xmas Offar, and name of nonrest nedier whem theca maduis may be sym.vice.The hoy who is being taught to march should hear of war only as a horrid possibility that might rome day: cost him dear.Bat to ask that those, who have seen their bravest and most | promising, under a sense of infinite sac.| ritice, leave all that was dear.to return no more, should aot have them is remem- Note:\u2014This wowld mean thet the Can- brance and mourn them.fs againrt nature.adian Pacific would have three raitway As to flag worship.that is hardly too systems to run, the profits on two ef strong A word to describe tha practice of which it would have to halve with the te mhhors, peony oral apa rit Government, while on the other it vould ir most of the .achools, But H remains | KR.8H the profits iteolt.Se true that a large proportion of the young | FPSUN! We do ro Liberals who are people that Le very soon to rule ua, badly Plan of those Quebec Liberss wd of need to know what country they belong: proclaiming their intention to mn e to and what their duties are to it.We railways over.Any railway monopoly have seen very virtuous children's books Would need to become: virtually a depart.on the te of Napoleon, showing what a ment of Government.failure his life was.J\u2019 at first yeu do succeed, course of time when good emigration thickens a profit, though small would be available.wW.W.Miltimore.Mansoaville, Nev.25, 1981 ABOUT OUR RAILWAYS.| Try, Try again! To the Editor of the \u201cWitness:\u201d 1 w future harvests sow thy seed, Sir:\u2014I£ ! had & farm to rent, [ would Try, try.egain.ise with sacred discontent, $xpoct to rent and share protits and loss Tews that life Is lent ve Ne spent; (as to ge: running expense) Now Qn highest searches to why mot with business acumes, rent out| Try, try agals.our rosds to the C.P.R.and in the =C.A 8 Dwight Td poses not only in this country but also Spruces in the North The spruce family is relatively important as timber and for ornamental pur- undoubtedly be secured from white spruce.In the regions in which the blue spruce is not at home, much better results can be secured by planting white spruce or, In Europe.It may be of interest to know | perhaps batter Jull, Engloman's spruce or years Danis : .as blue-green to that many ' ar ' h foresters ! bluish-gray foliage and is a wonderfully realized that, in order te reforest some of | hegutiful tree, longlived and successful their sandy land, it was necessary to plant | throughout the East.pines with the spruces in order to get the | apruces to live.There is a symbolic re | The official figures of the referendum lationship between the two plants or be- in New Brunswick on whether or not in- tween organisms on the roots of the plants.§ ccating liquors should be tmported into The expression that a person or a plant \u2018at province have been announced by \u201cpines away\u201d comes from the faet that Ci.O.M.Biggar, Chief Blectoral Officer, when the spruce was sickly it was due to > te total vote fu favor of banning imi.the fact that the pines were not present.3 ftation was 46,060.nnd thS total vote At present the public is interested in J.(Avot of importation 18,773.the Colorado blue sprace, which is prope- gated from seed and by grafting.The Koster'a bite spruce, however, can be propagated only by the latter method.The seedlings come about fifty per cent hilue and fifty per cent green; the green spruces are not so highly esteemed as the blue.Th white spruce is excellent for hedging; it har good foliage all the year and there fe little nesd for pruning.Wherever Callternis privet is used, better results can A half-witted youth In a Scottish vil had a habit of walking about Crea Cine himself.One day the minister met him | aod said, \u201cI notice, Jamie, that you speak ia lot to yourself, What exactly are your reasons for it?\" \u201cWeel, sir, 1 ha's twa, The first is that Baething pieases me better than to spesk to a sensible man, and the second ie that 1 like fine to ha'e à seousible rean speaking to me.\u201d TEN PAUL'S LAST WORDS Sunday School Lesson For Dec.18 (2 Tim.4: 6\u201418) Golden Text: 1 have fought the good fight, | have finished the course, * have kept the faith.3 \u2018lim.#:7- Paul knew that he would soon leave this world, but death had no terrors for him.Me could say from the heart, \u201cU death, where Is tay stingY OU grave where is thy vie tory?\u201d () Cor.16:65.) In fact, he would have wished to die seomer it he had not felt that he was needed here, and he wished above ali things to finish the work that Jesus had given him to do.But it was not because his life had heen ome ions succession of hardships and sufferings that he would have liked to die, but that he longed to \u201cbe win Christ\u201d (See Phil 1:33\u2014126.) Now, he knew that his work was done, and ke could face death joyfully with à song of triumph in his heart and on his lips.Like Stephen before him, and John after him, l\u2019aui had had à vision Of MONTREAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMUER 8, WL fied with Christ, buried with Christ, raised with Christ, living In Christ end Christ Uving io Dim.and he knew that nothing could separate him from the love of Christ and that Christ could not be fully satistied without having him with Him.(Nee Hom.¥: 38, Sy: Gal 3:¥y; Col ZE: 13, 13 and 8:1\u201414: John 14:3 amd 17: 22\u201424.) it was because Maul coud say \u201cre me to live is Christ\u201d that he could add with absolute assurance, \u201cTo die 1s gain\u201d (Fhil 1:31.) \u201cIt is appointed unto niem once to die; but after this the judgment.\u201d (Heb.¥: 27.) Practically, we ail know this is true.We know that we must die, and we know that & righteous God must call us to acoount, We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ: that every one may receive the things done in bis body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.\u201d (3 Cor.5: 10.) But man\u2019s heart is by nature \u2018\u201cdeceitful above all things and desperately wicked: who can know ity\u201d (Jer.17:9.) Thé heart proves its decéit- fuinees by convincing its owner that it 18 a pretty good heart even If 1t 1s a little wayward at times; while in fact 1t is alienated from God and its affec- What to Take for Disord ered Stomach a doseof Carter's Littie Liver Pills take 2 or 8 for a few nights after.You will rel ish your meals without fear of trouble to follow.Millionsofa)l.takethem Dissi- oi fonte go Sema alter, Pimply, Blotchy Skin.Th sd th stew Crvipeties gratos 706000 PP ES Pr Poe sy love God ia a disobedient, bad heart.God created man in His own image and after His own likeness, and made him capable of becoming a trde son and compan'on and friend of God by the power of thé Spirit of God aweil- ing in him.(Gen.1: 14,17; John 1: 11,13; 1 John 1:3) But the heart of man would not rise to Lhe level of God's high ambition for him.Like Bunyan's Muckrake, it preferred to grovel.The story of Eve and the forbidden fruit is the story ot suman nature in all lands apd tn gli ages.As Tennyson said of Guinevere, man thought he \u201ccould not breathe in that fine air.that pure serenity of At least 30 per cent.of the members of each church would not only profit by but greatly emjoy the Montreal Witness.Why pot bring it to the attention of such as would appreciate it\u2014We will accept half price for a club of three or more new subacriptions.PRAYER 0, Lord, make us willing to beat Thy voice.And whatever infirmities there are, whether of body or mind, may we feel that God is with His people of à truth, and that it is no vain thing to wait upon the Lord.We commend to Thee all for whom we should pray.We be seech Thes for \u2018the good estate of Thy whole universal Church.Grant that Thy servants may be more fully equipped for their work in the world by a fuller, more conscious, bappler, and more operative possession of Thy Divine Spirit in their hearts.Through Jesus Christ our Lord.Amen.- the glories of that world in which \u201cthere shall be no night\u201d and they need no candle, neither light or the sun, for the Lord God giveth them tight: and they shail reign for ever and ever.\u201d (Rev.21:33\u201433:6.) He had been \u201ccaught up to the third heaven\u201d snd had heard \u2018\u2019unspeak- tions and destres are set on the things of this world.\u201cif any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.\u201d John says.Mor ail that is tn the world, the Just of the flesh, and the just of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the worid.And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof.but he that doeth the will of able words which it is not lawful for God abideth forever.\u201d (John 2:16\u2014 nature that he might obey the dictates a man to utter,\u201d and that vision had 17.) \u2018The heart that does not honest- of bis own wayward will.given him so vivid & consciousness of ] tary wan num over snr + om REDUCED RATES FOR 1922.i ot he mo carry with him ever after & \u201cthorn in the flesh\u201d to keep him bumois.(à Cor.13:1\u201410.) No wonder Paul looked forward with yearning antici pation to the time when he would become & permanent resident of that world of light and love and glory.\u201cHenceforth there is laid up for me a crown.\u201d Paui.kpew (hat he had served a faithful Master and would receive.the promised reward.(2 Tim.1:13.) (atev.3: ZL) Not long ago there appeared in & Newspaper a statement by a prominent teacher of religion that the ex pectation of a reward in the next lite bad nothing to do with religion.it that is true, ranl was a faise teacher, the writer of the Epistie to the Hebrews was a false teacher and Jesus Himself was à false teacher.But it is not true.the foolish IAD was simply giving expresston to his reeling of superiority over those Who are sim- perfect light.\u201d He wanted \u201cwarmth and color,\u201d which he found In seek- 1ng the gratification of his naturai de aires.His false voluptuous pride that took tuil easily all impressions from below, would not look up,\u201d or half despised the height to which he \u2018would not, or ne couid not climb.So man refectdd God's invitation to him to become a partaker of the diving The true ideal of the sermon is 1den- tical with the ideal of a lawyer's plea before 8 jury\u2014assuming an honest lawyer with a just case.The lawyer has a jury to convince.The preacher has a congregation to persuade.Neither can waste time with decorations.| More particularly neither can aford to think of the *aput:.tion he is going to make for himself.Every fought must go in getting the men to telieve what he belleves-\u2014anû then net on it.Clear enough, ff there lu going to be any success in such an nim, the preack- .: ar (forgetting theiawyer from now on) must have precisely in mind, from the firit moment that he opens his lips - what effect he means to get in the conscience of bic audience.And every word he utters should de.framed with studious care to carry him The NORTHERN MESSENGER Because of its great press and economical equipment.The cheapest in Canada And one of the very Best.This well-beloved | home and Sunday School weekly has just of supe over those Who Are mer R ed ed .f 7 5 nearer the conviction he is pledged to le enough s roduee.: of Himself in the Bible as a true re uc its rate /Jc.to ?He must needs use Illustrations velation.\u2018he hope of reward here- Bnt the \u2018 tijustrations must not be after is not the supreme incentive to service.It certainly was not so with Paul, but it is very definitely set before us as an encouragement, and frail buman nature needs all the encouragement it can get.Jesus said, \u201clay up for yourselves lreasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and Where thieves do not break through nor steal.for where your treasure is, there will our heart be also.\u201d (Mat.§:2v, 21.) (Nee also Heb.11:13\u201416.) Aid the writer of the Kpistie to the Hebrews tells us that it was \u201cfor the joy brought in to show of his own literary taste; they must be employed wholly with a view to building up tn the minds of hearers a mental preparation for the conclusion he fs approaching.He must frame epigrams.But not to adorn the path by which he saunters through his sermon period.The ept- gramg must all be naile driven in a sure place to hold the steps by whichy the congregation is being led to the climax.And at all costs, when the sermom fs ended, absolute assurance must have Only 60 cts A YEAR to individual addresses.50 \u2018 in Club of 3 or more renewals.40 \u2018* on trial to NEW subscribers.40 * in bundles of five or more copies *to one address for Sunday School.*A wonderful bargain for Sunday Schoo! Introduce it to your School for 1922.Three weeks FREE trial is sufficient quantity to give been achleved that everybody of ordiy that was set before Him\" that Jesus intelli bi ho\u2019 b \u201ceudurod the cross, despiing tne ON to each family in the Church and Sunday School.ja intelligence in the howd bo pren pared to remember the one big thought f If the school ts not distributing it this is which that sermon aimed atone of the best presents a teacher could give her class and it will do much to build up the class and assure regularity of attendance.JOHN DOUGALL & SON PUBLISHERS, MONTREAL.As a Christmas or New Years present, the Northern Mes souger will be found most attractive.Send the money to us and put & neat little card \u201ciu the stocking\u201d to say that fifty-two loving visits will be paid during 1988 by the Northern Messenger.Send us the rubtcription price as above and we will do the rest.i we receive the subscription in time we will time the first copy 50 as to reach your friend un Christmas or New Years, a selfish joy that was set before Jesus.It was the joy of welcoming to His ¥ather's house, an innumerable multitude of ransomed, purified, glorified saints.if there is joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, how great will be the joy \u201cwhen Uod has made the pile complete.\u201d It was not a selfish reward to which Jesus looked forward, neither was there any selfishness in Paul's expectation of à reward.He dia speak of receiving & crown, but what will he do with that crown?His greatest joy will be to have a crown to cast at the fest of his Saviour.(Bee Kev.4:4\u201410.) And Paul did not think of himself as having any monopoly of the crown.\u201cNot to me only,\u201d he said, \u201cbut unto ail them also that love His appearing.\u201d tow was it that Paul's faith was so confident?Why was It that he \u2018 could look forward with absolute cer- Every man and woman present\u2014if it is really à good sermon\u2014can ans wer at the close one central question?\u201cWhat le it exactly that he wants to \u2014\"The Continent.\u201d got me to do?\" ; Montres, fo BT RIC er ete es 0e tainly to thé expected reward?in John Dowgall & Sem, Publishers cossresiteinssarernesed TOR the first place, his conscience assured him that he had been a faithful ser Montreal\u2014Canada.vant, that he bad fought the good ira \u2014For enclosed ., 080 send fight to à finish and had come out Reékesnoan Tor one full year de ts please the NORTHERN \u201cmore than conqueror\u201d through Him \u2019 who had loved him.(Kom.¥:37.) His trust was not In his own merits at ail, it was rested entirely on a deep sonsciousness of union with Uhriat, but the fact that he had foliowed Christ closely, confirmed taat con sciousness.ie saw himpelt cruci- Whgorsserscsang et 0000 no.Morsouseonronsco sms ac sed0oc ent putne SO S0OSO FOSC NCOSE ds O002G0 DS 00000 TE eareful to state name of which pechage ja to go, Those Sunday Scheel Clubs should be murs Besant oni address to A - Drop in the Bucket, Bui\u2014 Deax \\Pditor \u2014 Please find ose] my own renewal and 1wo new subserip- tions.We have been taking the Witness for about five years, and it is a paper I would like to see in more homes \u201cas I think its influenee does more good than any other journal in Canada.1 think that the Witneas and Far mer\u2019s Sun should be in every home as they are the twe journals fighting for the good of the common people.1 hope this drop in the bucket will help take thet sign down.Yours truly.: : A.C.Hughson., Manitowaning, Ont.Nov.24, 1921.(The bueket would soon hill if every | .\u2019one contributed his or her \u2018\u2018drop\u2019\u2019 and those who could did more as they were immediately able.) \u201c Werid's Resord 11-YearOld Cow Olathe Tirania DeKol is the world's record cow.for her age over all breeds for both milk and batter production.She freshened at 11 years, 7 months and 11 days of age and finished the 365-day test with 1191.16 Ibe.of butter from 28,112.56 lbs.of milk, she being almost 13 years of age at the completion of this wonderful months and 26 days of age, produced 884.53 Ibe.of butter from 21, 899.40 lbs.of miik.She is one of the * few cows in the world that have produced - ever $0,000 Ibs.of milk in two comsecs- tive years, her combined production for the two years being 2,086.89 lbs.of but- , ter and 50,003.30 lbs.of milk.During the consumed 9,368 Iba.or almost silage; 5,480: lbs of lay aad 3,175 grain.The value of her preduct, the skim milk valued at 40 \u2018per humdred, was $648.63.The value of the roughage was $55.18 and cost the grain ration was $117.46, making total cost of $172.62 for feed consumed.This Thaves a net profit of $476.91 above fesd cost.Olathe Tiranis DeKol is owned by Mariow & Randall of Mankato, Minn.| Canadian Winners at Chicago J.BR.Brethour and Nephew of Burford, | Ont, op Dec.2 at Chicago, captured the bulk of the prises in the swine awards of the breeding large Yorkshires department, but they encountered much opposition from animals entered by B.E.Davidson of Iowa, in the championships, and bad tu be content with winning the jmnior boar honor, while the senior champion and grand champion boars went to David .een gs did also the three champloms for BOWS.Brethour's entries were an excellent lot and nine first ribbons, five second places; seven third prizes, five fourth positions and a fifth weré awarded to the Ontario stockman.J.H.Patrick and Son, - of liderten, Ont, showed their Rompey sheep and as they were the only exhibitors in this class they received all the awards.Wm.Randolph Hearst, the newspaper man, paid top price of the show for a bull sold under the hammer, wham he bought Good Donald 37, a junior yearling from Wallace and E.G.Good, of Missouri, for 36.260.\u2018 \u2014 yt habit.Whenever you have à langing for a nusoine or chew, just place a harmless No- tro-Bno tablet In your meuth instead.All Gouire stops.Shorty tbe dahil is Com- Bietety broken, and pou are better off mon- ally.physieally, thannelally.It's so easy, we simple.Get a box of Ne-Te-Bac sad i ft doesn\u2019t release you from all craving for fobuces in any form, your éruggiet will réfund your mansy with oo av Li A.mel \"| strength and flesh., MONTREAL WITNESS AND TANADIAN HOMESTEAD, DECEREKR 3 tal SUCCESSFUL SHEEP RAISING To raise sbesp muenessfully in Canada it is absolutely essential to mmintain a good pure-bred sire which should possess ail the best characteristics combined with seuper (ype and conformation.In addition te this the ram should possess akundance of vigor and vitality.The Seece will depend on the particular breed to which he belongs, but im all breeds the density, and quality and jeagih should bo taken into consileration.In selecting a ram preference is often given to a twin, boping by this means to obtate far- [ther twins.There is cemsidersble difference regarding the age at which à ram should start breeding.Ia any case, flocks ranging from 6 to 30 will give aatisfac- tory results provided they are judicious- 1y handled, but a mature ram Will care for a flock of from 40 to 60 ewes.The rams should be kept in good vig: orous cendition at all times of year.À short time before the breeding season, it ts advisable te give a light feed of grain once per day, and -a supplement of ration consisting of 2 perts oats plus 1 part bran can safely be fed at the rate of 1 to 3 th, per day per ram.The rams may nix with the ewes during the day time, but must be separated at night.The ewes shoul aiso be selected with care, and should show all the desirable characteristics, of fulmess nf form, strength amd vigor, combined with fersén- ine character.Those with broken mouths, defective udders should be discarded, and those retained should receive good care, 80 that when the breeding season comes they are in good condition and will give birth to lambs in a vigorous way.e \u2018The feeds wili consist in concentrates, roughage and silage, roots nad pasture best results are : maize, \u201cgluten feed, wheat (not often used owing to high cost), wheat bran, oats, ont hulls, bran otc., the following are also equally useful, but are given in smaller quantities: \u2014bar- ley, brewer's grains, malt sprouts, rye.millst, buckwheat, cottonseed meal, linseed meal, peas, beans, tankage, etc.; al- faifa and red clover are the two best roughage feeds.Maize silage is quite commonly fad.Pastures containing red clor- er, alfalfa and rape are the most satisfactory.The main feature in housing sheep during the winter is thst their quarters should be dry, and free from draught.As the ewes must have pienty of exercise, & large yard should surround the pen.1t is good policy to make as much use as pos sible of the cheaper, more bulky feeds.Dry roughage in tho winter, green forage in the spring and summer, prove satisfactory.For a regular summer pasture, it is advisable that sheep should be kept on land that is comparatively high and dry.Rape has always been regarded as an excelient pasture, When the pasture becomes very short and dry, lambs will doubtless make good use of a light grain ration.The lambs should be separated from the ewes when between 4 and 5 months old.A rape pasture makes an deal pasture for lambs after weaning.Spring dipping is practised as a general rule immediately after shearing, and again in the autumn.To obtain good quality wool, it is important that sheep should bs kept free from ticks and lice.A good growth of wool depends entirely on ade quate nourishment and management in gesersl wool produced during a period of sicimess or low condition of the sheep is bound to be weak in fibre.Ration for Dry Cows In feeding dry cows it is fundamental that they be provided with a ration that will enable them to gain in weight, vigor, A combination of equal parts of corn or hominy meal, ground oats, wheat bran and oflmeal constitutes @ useful combination, amd it should be fed generousiy to cows during their rest period.Supplement this grain ration with Alfalfa and clover hay, and make sure that the cows are liberally fed both with comcentrates and roughage.Reduce the amount and increase the bulk of the vation as calving approaches, and in so doing you decrease tha (iability of grass.The concentrates which give the Beautiful Farms Make Enjoyable Homes \u2018When the cold weather comes on, many barns aps converted imto veritable airtight chambers.Hvery bole, with the possible exception of the key-bole, is care fully stopped wp to exclude the cold air.Lack of ventilation in cattle barns is & cause of many ilis, mot the lesst of which is tuberculosis.Jos.A Fortin, St.Paul de Metis, Alberta, claims that he bas barvested this year a yield of sixty-seven bu.hels te the acre.Some of the wheat graded No.1.This crop was seeded om land which was broken, five and one-half inches deep, in July 1930.Bix strokes of the disk harrow was the amount of cultivation given before seeding.The fleld was seeded at the rate of 1 3 4 bushels per acre.The following appeared in a recent ad vertisement: \u201c15 purebred calveg one to six months old, $75 to $90; grade heifer calves $15.\u201d Here is one argument in favor of pure-breds over grades.Eastern people, as a rules, do not know what \u201chauling to market\u2019 means.Many western farmers, located miles from a raliway, start out at dawn to draw a load of grain to am elevator.Arrivisg in town after dark, they have to board themselves and their team for the night at some expense.Next morning they deliver their grain to the elevator, do some necessary shopping and arrive back home after dark again \u2014 having been on the road some 36 howrs.The construction of tbe Canadian National Railways was 2 tremendous boom to tbousamds of such farmers, by bringing shipping facilities ting down the time necessary to deliver load \u2018of graip from days to hours.The accepted standard for à select bacon hog requires jowl and shoulder light ; and smooth, back and neck to tail evea- Real progress in the improvement of the herd cannot be atizined merely by the substitution of pure-bred for grade and scrub sires, no matter what farm is involved.The absolutely imperative necessity is that the sirc chosen and persistently employed invariably shall be of individual excellence, robust constitution, good health, unquestioned registry and straight pedigree.The \u201cfancy\u201d breeds, as a rule, present few claims either as layers or as food producers.Unless kept by themselves they will vitiate any other strain.THE BEST 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soft, white fight, even bottes | Doeality Write I Easy Now to Rid Your Farm of Rats Kitts Every Rat Within a Week's Tims \u2014Not a Poison Rats cost farmers over two hundred millions of Gollars à year, through the destruction of grain, poultry and buildings, Farmers need no longer suffer this loss bu- cause they can now kill off all the rats on their farm in lass than a week's time.This is possible through the remarkable discev- ery of E.R.Alexunder, a chemist, who has pertected a virus which killa rats, mice and gophers as though by magic.This product Is not a poison\u2014it can be eaten by human beings or any onimal on the farm es safely as their regular food, but means quick, sure death to rats.This wonderful rat virus, known as Alexander Rat-Killer, is merely which fs mized with bread or meat scraps and placed where rats, mice or gophers can get to it.Within a few hours after a rat has eaten Alexander Rat-Killer he pots a high fever and suffers a terrible thirst.He leaves the barns and nesting holes and goes to the open fields in search of pure alr and running water.Rats and mice affected always die away from the barns and houses, so thers is no odor.It is a scientific fact that one rat af fects others and soon the whole col- lony leaves the buildings and dies.And though this virus is absolutely deadly to rate\u2014chickena, hogs, cattle or any \u20acarm animal can ent it und not be affected af all So confident is Mr.Alexander that Alexander Rat-Kliler will kill every rat on your farm in less than a week's time that he offers to send, as an introductory offer, à regular $2.00 tube for only $1.06, Give it according to directions, and if at the end of n week'a time your are able te discover any rais, mice or gophers on your farm, your :money will be refunded.A big Toronto bank guarantees that Mr.Alexander is reliable and will éo as he says.Just send money order, okeek or currency for $1.00 to Alexander Laberator- iss of Canada, 13016 \u2018Terminal, Toroate, Ore, and the tube will be mailed at ence entistactery your money will de without question.Write toleg ws An PET PE A a 0 TWELVE Sale of the Witness home will be deferred til our readers have had ample opportunity to show what they can do\u2014 Remember, it is your paper, published in your beet interests as it understands them, which is threatened, and to be effective your response must be forwarded at once if possible.: CULTURE OF B8CHEMIAN HORSE RADISH .Maliner Kren (Bohemian horseradish), says W.Laklasnik, writing in the \u201cNew England Homestead,\u201d is known throughout moat of the world as an excellent product by name only.Up to this tims, no one has succeeded in growing it out side of its native home, although the study of its culture has drawn to Bohemia foreigners from many countries.From 1901 to 1907 the town of Malin was visited by representatives of English, Russian and American experiment stations.The experiment station at Washington secured some plants of this horseradish and tried to grow them, but found dificulty in doing so and the attempt was given up.No horseradish like the real Maliner Kren is grown anywhere.The registered Maliner Kren here, in America, differs from it entirely, But the prevailing stories that it will not grow outside of Malin are without foundation.The horse-radish is planted in the fall, or, if the ground is not froxen, any time during the winter up to the end of March.It is set 14 to 16 inches deep in soil rich jn humus and having a good clay bottom.Sandy or excessively moist soil is not satiafactory.The plants are about 5 in.long and 1 in.thick.The bed planted in this way will last for several generations \u2014over 100 years even\u2014without replant ipg, each year's crop being of the same excellent quality.The plant will go down & or 7 feet; and, when so started, is very hard to kill.The horseradish bed is spaded over every spring to the depth of 14 inches.This must be done before the end of April.The plants begin to come up in the last part of May, and the end of June sees them all started.The young sprouts resemble asparagus in appearance.and are likewise milky and brittle.Each plant puts out from one to five shoots which are thinned down to one or two when they are sufficiently advanced.The roots grow to various sizes and their value depends upon their\u2019 size and smoothness, The crop is dug in the latter part of October.The whole growth above the root as first planted is cut off.Great care is takes in the digging, since cutting a root shoot may make » difference of 20 or 30 cents in its value.The tops of the horseradish are dried like hay to serve as fodder for cattle.The total area given to the growing of this crop at Malin is only about 80 acres.\u2018The average yield is from three to four tons to the acre.Maliner Kren is used in the foremoat hotels in Europe through which\u2019 it has become famous.Most of it is sold by the farmers directly to the consumers since these want to avoid having substitutes thrust upon them.In Europe as well as in this country, ordinary horse-radish is frequently sold for Maliner Kren.The city Prague furnishes a market for large quantities of it.Ot the many men who have made attempts to grow this horseradish, no one has met with success.Various ridiculous stories have been invented accounting for the impossibility of growing it, all of them with no foundation.Maliner Kren will grow in good rich soil anywhere if the proper method is employed and the work is properly done.To remove rust from plows and other steel implements, rub well with sweet ol and let remain on two days, then rub with finely powdered unsiaked lime until rust is removed.0 COLOR YOUR BUTTER.«Dandelion Bu ter Color\u201d Gives That Golden June Shade and Costs Really Nothing .Read! Betore churning, add one-half teaspon- fu) to each gallon of cream and out of churn comes butter of Golden June shade to bring you top prices.\u201d \u2018Dandelion Butter Color\u201d costs nothing, because each ounce used adds ounce of weight to butter.Large bottles cost only 35 cents at drug or grocery stores.Purely vegetable, harmless, meets all State and National food laws.Used for 58 years by all large ercameries.Doesn't color buttermilk.Absolutely tastelews.Wois & Richardson Lid, Mcpbreg) RI.NAMING THE TRACTOR (By W.H.Garduer) When Old Sol crowed in the barnyard, mother was quick to rise.Her steps were sort o' shofflin\u2019 and .Puffy red her eyes\u2014 But\u2014she wan't one to carry on\u2014just built a rousin\u2019 blaze.(Folks got up mighty early in them old horse-farmin\u2019 days!) She boiled the coffee, fried the eggs, and crisped the bacon thio\u2014 And the table it was ready when the hired men stomped In! Now, we kept 40 horsea\u2014that meant eleven men, .All scattered \u2018round the section; and I nad va ton about ine or ten pack out lunches, a job I t , job dida' But in the swelteria\u2019 kitchen, mother was left behind.And every blessed aft how hot \u2018twould feel\u2014 .She stood over th\u2019 cook-stove, gettin\u2019 th\u2019 evenin\u2019 meal! But dad has sold the horses\u2014and fired the hired men; (And Phir up s-stretehin\u2019 then snuggle to sleep again!) For since wu got th\u2019 tractor, there ain't so much to do; Th\u2019 horses made th' trouble\u2014them an\u2019 th\u2019 hired crew! Therv's no more creakin\u2019 down the stairs by light of the mornin\u2019 star\u2014 Says mother, \u201cCall it a \u2018tractor, « for me it's a PLEASURE CAR!\" \u2014Orchard and Farm.2o matter The Freesia as a Pot Plant The Freosid is a most delightful flower, hen well grown.Not only for its beau y or, but its exquisite fragrance.It is extensively grown by florists for use at holiday time, and it can be brought into bloom in mid-winter by anyone who wiil give it the care it requires.Roots should be bought in September or October.These are small, and several should be potted together.Six in a six-inch pot will be about right.Give them a soil of light loam, and plant about an inch under the surface.Do not put them away in a dark, cold place, as we do ordinary bulbs which we pot in fall for winter blooming.Keep them im a moderately warm room, moderately watered.The flower stalks do not appear until some time after foliage is produced The bios soms are of very peculiar shape \u2014 not easily described\u2014ivory or cream white in color, marked with pale yellow.The stalks ea which they are borne are very slender, and unless some support is given them they are likely to criakle down.Splints will give all the support that is required.A NEW CHEESE A new, medium high flavor cheeso has been originated by the Anima! Husbardry iv sion of the Domirion ftxperimental Farms system.It is called \u201cMeilleur Cheese,\u201d or \u201cLe fromage Meilleur,\u201d and is feing manufactured at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa.The process of manufacture is, briefly, as follows: \u2014 The milk is heated to a temperature of 90 degrees F.when it is renneted and cat.The curds are then cooked at a temperature of 118 degrees F., and afterwards.moulded and pressed, if che and three pound sizes, ready for the curing room.The process of curing is one of the most important features in the successful manufacture of this high class product # Thie new cheese possesses B very ploas- ing and delicate flavor with no objectionable odor, and has been pronounced a very superior product by the numerous experts and convoisseurs by whom it has been tried.It is a distinct and valuable acquisition to the: cheese industry and the present indications are that it will meet with à very popi demand.Pithy Celery , C.0:\u2014Yon probably started your celery too early.Celery sometimes becomes 1ithy by reason of too long season of growth, and occasionally is due to the nature of the soil in which it is grown.For late or Winter use, the seed should not be sown much before the middle of April, and the plants should not be set out until about July 1, and in favored localities it might be weil to defer planting out until the 15th of July or even till the first of August.If the plants are\u201d set out too early in the season, under favor able conditions they are apt to reach their meximum growth prematurely, and while the season is still favorable for continued growth.When this occurs the plants will commence to send up seed stalks, though such growth may not be far advanced, perhaps only noticeable by length of the base above the roots to the extent of a couple of inches or so, yet that is sufficient to make the leaf stalks 1ithy and render the entire plant unfit MONTREAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, DECEMBER § 1881.Mark Well ! Your safeguard is the name \u201cDALADA\" This is the genuine \u2018tea of all teas\u2019.Ifyou do not use Salada, send us a post card fora free sample, stating th.i Black, Green of Mixed Tea.Address Salada.or ca.Frozen Plants Tender plants that have been exposed to frost should be handled carefully, thawing them out gradually.Sprinkling them cold water works well with some.Plants received from a distance in a\u2019 frosen condition should be opened in a cool cellar where the temperature is only slightly above freezing, handling the plants carefully so as not to break the foliage and gradually forward into warmer temperature, permitfing the frost to disappear before the usual temperature is resumed.Flowers that baye been frozen may be restored by placing them in cold water until they have thawed out.Callas and the bardy bulbe in pots, byacinths, tulips, daffodils, &c., must not he permitted to dry out at this season.Keep the soil in the pots moist.Grain Yields of Prairie Provinces The following is the provisional estimate of the total grain yields ix bushels of the three Prairie Provinces, as compared with the final totais reported for 1930, given within brackets: Wheat 308, 925, 000 (234, 138,300): ts 363,185,000 (314,- 297,000); barley 48,619,000 (40,760,500); rye 23,113,000 (8,273,600); flaxseed 4.- 175,000 (7,588,800).By provincese the estimates yields are: Manitoba, Wheat 48,143,000 (37,642,000); oats 60,113,000 (57,857,000); barley 22,688,000 (17,526, 000); rye 4,125,000 (2,318,600); flazseed 540,000 (1,157,800); Saskatchewan Wheat 201,995,000 (113,135,300); oats 211,353,000 (141,649,000): barley 13,280 (10,601,500); rye 16,438,000 (2,635,000); flaxseed 3,500, 000 (5,705,000).Alberta, Wheat 68,788,000 (83,416,000); oats 91,720.000 (115.091.0090); barley 12,642,000 (12,739,000); rye 3,555,000.18,420,000); flaxseed 135,000 (726,000).Nature insists upon producing a large amount of roughage on every farm.Not even the most expert cereal grower can grow wheat or oats or barley without straw.The unplowed fields insist upon furnishing ap annual harvest of grass and bay.Whether he will ar not, Nature forces on to every farmer an annual crop of roughage.Of course, he can burn it But how much better to keep livestock | and utilize it.\u2014I.A Gibson.On many farms where milking is done by hand a mistake is made lo not m lk- ing the cows dry and clean.Many cows will go dry much sooner than they would it the milk was all drawn at each milking.1f the young folks on the farm help do the milking explain to them that unless all the milk fe taken nature will not furnish it and that the first milk drawn contains; only a little butterfat while the last or strippings is neatly cream.\u201cFarmer's Advocate.\u201d : The best way to use green cut bone as à fertilizer is to feed it to farm animals and ust the manure.It will not make a satisfactory fertil\u2019'zer whep used alone, though It may be dried and mixed In the manuge pile.[ts feeding value is usually greater than its fertilizing value, and practically all of the food value is lost when not promptly given to hens or hogs.When milking is done while a cow is digesting her fesd the butter made from her milk is very likely to be tainted with undesirable flavors especially when the cow is fed strong-odored, fermenting silagé or other feeds that impart thefr characteristic odors to milk, This may be obviated by milking just before feeding.Another way is to allow from eight to ten hours to elapse after feeding ob- joctionable feeds before milking, at which time tlie excretory glands will have eliminated the bad odors from the cow's system.The laws of vature are the will of God for our bodies.As there is a will of God for our higher nature, the moral laws, as emphatically is there a will of God for the lower, the natural laws.\u2014Henry Drum- mond.for table use.\u2018 » MILLERS WORM POWDERS RELIEVE THE RESTLESS CONDITION SROUGHT ON SY THE PRESIRCE OF WORE AND RESTONE THE OHILD TO NORMAL HEALTH.ou use oronto fihododendrons - Miss C.G\u2014Rhododendrons delight in shady, moist situations auch as goneraily | frand on the north side ot à bulldteg or under the shade of trees.They grow best in large clumps where the leaves of trees fall annually amd are left on the ground to decay and form humus.It is mot the cold winter or frost that damages the leaves; it is the early morn.xg sun in spring that burns them more or less, Straw mats, branches will make: a shelter for the taller rbododendrons in winter when the leaves being off your trees they are ez- posed to \u2018the sun.We suggest collecting as many leaves as possible, throwing them among the rhododendrons to a depth of six inches or u foot, leaving them to decay.Are You Under.weight, run-down, tized eut, and can't eat?If so don't put off You should take \"Ssrgol Tonic Tab- wt.\" Just as good for children as thelr elders.Easy to take and most effestive.A 50c_ package WR prove their worth, Regular sine, wiih Jmportant suggestions, $1.00.You want to feel well and look well lets.\u201d Don\u2019t accept a substitute.National Laboratories, Montreal.\" : PILES! I?yeu suffer from piles in any form, send your name and address and-find out what the MICMAGC REMEDY is, what it has done for others and what \u2018we guarantee it to do for you The Micmac Remedy Co Sex 36 (D 6) Yarufeuth, N.8.FITS Stinsen\u2019s Home Treatment for Epilepsy.Twenty years success.Thousands of testimonials.No case should be considersd hopeless.Free booklet.WM.STINSON REMEDY CO.OF CANADA, 2611 Yonge Strest, Torents RHEUMATISM REMEDIED WAITS HOMOXOPATHIC RHEU, MATIC REMEDY, Remedies Rheumatism, Acute Rbewe matism with painful hot swelling of the part, Chronic Rheumatism with lameness, stiffness and soréness of the purt; Bciatic Rheumatism, with pain 14 the bip, knes or leg of the affected nied Lumbago, or pains across the loins back; Old Rheumatic Palos or Lame ness.Positive Cure.Price $1.50.JOHN 7.WAIT, Bex 866, Arnprien Bend Registered Letter or Postal Notas cormstalks or evergress | MONTREAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN Vietery assured, it\u2014 If the response is general and each resder averages as large a contribution or list of new subscribers as those who have already responded to the challenge the Witness will pass through its present ordeal stronger than ever, BEANS AND APPLES We have all learned, both from our physiology books and from various bulletins on food, that a pound of beans that costs a few cents, yields one and one- half times as much proteid and twice as many calories, or heat units, as a pound of beef that costs anywhere from sixteen to thirty cents.Yet beans unfortunately do not sgree with some people.There are three objections to beans as aa article of diet: first, the huMs are cem- posed of a tough and indigestible cellulose that not only resists the solvent action of the digestive juices, but actually hinders the assimilation of the protied by protect ing it from the action of those ferments.One way to meet this objection is to culdivate vigorous health and its concomitant, an irresistible digestion.Another is the purchase of \"hulless\u201d beans, or mashing the common beans through a collander after they are cooked.Many find vinegar as a condiment an aid to digestion.The second objection is the presence fn beans of a large amount of easily dissociated sulphur that forms a gas in the stomach or intestines, and causes flatulency.It has been repeatedly shown that the addition of about one-eighth as many lentils as beans to the baking-pot, the puree, or the soup, will obviate this condition.The third and most serious objection is common to the whole class of legumin- ov plants\u2014 peas, beans, lentlls and peanuts.This is the property, possessed by their peculiar prote\u2019d, legumin, of uniting with lime salts to form ar insoluble substance that gives rive\u2019 to indigestion.Unfortunately, lime saits are always with us, in the body, in even moderately hard water, in the beans themselves.But a powerful solvent for lime salts is found in the malic acid so abundant in apples.Hence, if you invariably serve apples with your dish of beans, you can triumph over the perversity of legumin, and compel it to help instead of hurt you, since.apart from its bad habits when associated wilh lime, it js really a valuable proteid.Serve baked beans with an apple salad, bean soup to begin, and a baked apple dessert to end the meal, apple sauce, apple snow, sweet cider, raw apples\u2014appies in whatever form you like best, 80 long as apples in some form accompany or follow your dish of beaus.Save the Small Gladioll Corms In cutting off the stems ot your gladioll bulbs or corms and putting\u2019 them away for the winter in a cool dry place free from frost, do not waste the small corms which have formed at the base of the large bulbs.These can be sown early next spring in shallow drills, and covered with half an inch of tine soik The drills should be far enough apart to work with the hoe.The little corms will make fair- sised bulbs by autumn, and should be dug at the same time with the bulbs from flowering plants and stored in the same manner.Planted the following spring about three-quarters of them will flower, and all will produce bulbs that will flower the next season.This ie the Way to increase your supply of bulbs, and if kept in separate rows sand carefully marked with the parent variety you will be able to make group plantings of the different SOME MEANS TO SECLUSION Regrettable as it is says Edward K.Parkinson, writing in the New York Evening Post, one finds more privacy in & large city than in the average suburban community.Foreigners, passing through our countryside, invariably exclaim with amazement, \u201call very charming, but there is absolutely no privacy whatever, and I don't see how you can bear so much unpleasant publicity.\u201d In truth, there are thousands of suburban homes throughout the land where the owner could not possibly escape his neighbor's sight or hearing, no matter how hard he tried.In England, for instance, it is not uncommon for & property owner to fence in his place before starting to build, in order that he may get his grounds well laid owt while the house is under construction; but walls, of no matter what material, are expensive fo erect in the country, although they are by far the most satisfactory in the end A eix- foot wire fence (only heavy woven wire should be used) can be converted into an enchanting iive-flowering hedge in the ceurse of a few years, by setting out near each post (which should be of steel set in cement) a Hall's Japan honeysuckle, a strong, vigorous climber, almost evergreen in habit, which has large fragrant flowers changing from white to yellow.Or, one may alternate honeysuckle vines with American trumpet creeper, which is a rapid climber bearing large scarlet flowers in August, or with the exquisite Chinese Wistaria, too well known to need description.The amusing part of the matter is, that the custom of publicity is so strong here, that there are some who would feel that to build a fence between themselves and a neighbor would be like declaring war; though such gentle spirits may have noticed that these neighbors have no compunction about allowing their to run through all flower and vegetable beds at will! Nevertheless, though a kindly spirit be worth fostering, try putting the fence about five feet from the boundary line, and reduce its height to three feet: then on the side nearest the neighbor sat out some thick shrubs.Supposing the depth of the property to be 100 feet, mark off the boundary in squares of five feet, and In the centre of each square set any of the following: Bechtel's crab, Judas tree, mountain ash, catalpa, almond, rose of Sharon, lilac, Scotch pine, Nordman\u2019s fir.broad-leaved euonymus, staghorn sumach, and the ginkgo.These wil) make a very attractive combination, and one that grows more and more attractive as the trees mature.On the other side of the low fence, the planting should be irregular, and here the plan of marking off five foot squares should be followed and in the case of shrubs not more than three should be planted within a square, for which purpose the following will be found effective: Viburnums, in many varieties, în- cluding the high cranberry, rhodotypus, bush honeysuckle, St.Peter's wort, peonies, spiraen in their many lovely varieties, Guelder rose, forsythia in many varieties, Japan quince, deutsia gracills, and lemoinil.hydrangea, paniculata, grandiflora, syringla in many varieties, althea, clematis, etc, planting the tallest, of course, near- the fence.These shrubs wlll provide color all through the season, and, if in addition to these some of the dogwoods, barberries, a burning bush or two, American elders, red-berried elders, and upright honeysuckles are added, there will be color well into the winter.Deciduous trees, shrubs and vines may be planted either in spring or autumn, but where the winter is very severe spring is the best planting season.The soll should be mellow and enrich- od with a good covering of manure weil worked In; also cut oft smoothly all bruised or broken roots up to the sound wood, and cut back the tops and side branches in such & way as to correspond with the more or less mutilated roots.Do not prune any more than is abso- Jutely necessary; oach shrub has pe- cullarities of habit and foliage, and the aim should always be to preserve them.For instance, wigelias, deutzias, forsythias, and mock orange flower on wood of the preceding year\u2019s growth and should therefore be pruned in June, when they have finished flowering, and the hydrangea panicuiata grandifiors should be severely cut back and thinned early in apring.HOMESTEAD, DECEMBER \u20ac 1981.no danger of offending anyone here, except possibly the milkman, who, as a rule, dearly loves a short cut across the carefully-made lawn; so that the fence in this case may be both high and ornamental.A plain woven wire tence covered with flowering vines will answer every purpose, though unless shrubbery is to be planted back of it the grounds should all be screened by a proper placing of trees and hedges so that the pass- er-by cannot intrude on that delightful privacy which is the special privilege of every one lucky enough to own a place in the country.GARDENING IN BAD WEATHER In the autumn it often happens that for days together it is impossible to touch the soil of the open garden; for a while it is excessively wet; then frostbound or deep in snow.Under all conditions however the gardener can tind something to do.Frost gives the ideal opportunity for wheeling manure or refuse to the vacant ground, the refuse, of course, to be kindied into a boufire the uahes of which may be suved for future use or spread over the soil where they lie.Rain reveals the defects in your gravel paths, and when the rain bas ceased, while the path is still molst, is the time to fill up the depressions with gravel and treat the path to a thorough rolling Path making and repairing can often be taken in hand when work on the beds and borders is altogether impossible.At the.same time pergola building, the tixing in position of arches and lattices, the making or repairing of garden seats and shelters can proceed unhindered.But whon the weather is against all work under tbe open sky the garden shelter, tool- shed, greenhouse or workroom may be the scene of very useful work.In such sheiter you may sort out all the garden stakes of the past season, and tying up the remainder in bundles according to their size.You may knock together new stages for the greenhouse and trays for sowing seeds in.The supply of labels, flower sticks and shades, and layering hooks may be replenished.Lengths of wooden lattice for arch or wall may te made, and pleces of rough wood trimmed for the making of rustic arches or seats.Old frames may be repaired and new ones manufactured.There are some important points to remember in connection with some of the operations I have mentioned, for the garden\u2019s turnitare makes or mars it.Do not plan too much for a small plot.If it be possible to place one or two good garden seats in position where they cannot be seen until you come up to them, do not add another seat or seats in places whore they are at once visible on entering the garden, otherwise the charm of the hidden seats will be lost.If in your small garden you have one straight main path and a number of discarding the breken and rotted ones .THIRTEEN As to the street front, there need be lesser paths leading from it here and there at right angles, it is better to concentrate the arches on the main path, placing them at intervals along its whole length.By this means you will, it the arches are wisely planted, get one pleasing feature at least into your garden\u2014 n picturesque walk which is a delight in ali aspects and which, moreover, will provide the iHusion of distance, giving the garden appareptly much greater length than it really has.If the arches are scattered singly here and there in such a garden their capacity for beautifying the place is wasted.The pergola, too, should be constructed, it possible, across a path which leads to something of aesthetic value\u2014say a well-fashioned and planted rockery, a small rose garden, a vista through a gate over pleasant countryside, a preity bower, or a rustic seat.Then the garden shelter or summerhouse should be reared as far away from the entrance to the garden as possible.it should be hidden, too, so that ity rest and shelter become a sudden and pleasing surprise on traversing the full run of the garden from the dwelling house.Remember when the time comes for fixing arch or pergola, that the wooden supports must be embedded very firmly in the soil and that they must he long enough for fem and deep embedding which at the same time leaves head room above of not less than six feet.A heigbt from the path of six feet six inches would be better Also see that the parts buried in the soil have been well tarred or creosoted , and that in every part, in the case of trellised or rustic arches, the woodwork is strongly made.It is a difficult matter to repair an arch of this kind when clothed with plants without injuring the latter.Avoid painting lattice with a garisn mixture of colours.It is advisable to varnish rustic work, but the woodwork of other garden furniture need be treated with no more than a wash of light stain.Yow Trees in Churchyards Many persons have wondered why it fs that all the shade trees in some of the largest cities, such as London, are all the same kind of tree, and why it is that in all the old churchyards the favorite tree seems to be the yew.This Ss because Edward IL of England \u201ccommanded that the yew tree should be planted In all churchyards, as he knew it would protect the churches from windstorms.The yew is a very fine shade tree and very strong, and it lives to à great age without getting to be so large that it spreads too far into adjoining buildings, as some old trees do.For these reasons it was selected by the royal command, and the fashion has prevailed ever since.Mile Ead Stations.If You Are Going to California this winter, the affords a large variety of routes, elther both ways via Chicago, or one-way via the majestic Canadian Pacifie Rockies and those delightful resorts on the Pacific Const, Vancouver and Victoria.For rates and information, apply to Any Canadian Pacific Agent Offices at 141-148 St.James Street, Windsor Street Place Viger Stations, also Westmount, Montreal West FOURTEEN RECEIVING INTRODUCTIONS Countrywoman, Ont.;\u2014Kindly tel! me ff I should rise when I am introduced by my hostess to another lady or gentieman?Also shonid I offer my hand?Ans.:\u2014A woman, while a guest nt a reception, diuner, afternoon tea or other eatertainment, does not rise whea a man is presented to her.nor when rhe is one of a group to which a woman is introduced, unless it is one who is somewhat older than herself or a person of distine tion, or unless she is seated beside her hostees who naturally rises to greet a newcomer.In all other circumstamces a woman rises to receive an introduction to one of her own sex.A hostess invariably rises to accept an introduction to either a man or woman.It is scarcely necessary to say that a man always stands when an introduction takes place in which he has a part, whether the person to whom be is made known is man or woman, old ot young.She who always offers ber hand upon accepting un introduction conveys thereby a sign of cordial welcome of the acquaintauce but in forma! gatherings It is considered suflicient for anyone.rave tke hostess (who must offer her haad) to acknowledge the fatroduction by a bow or smile and a repetition of the name.Ins rather crowded drawing-room where for convenience sake many introductions are made rapidly, this mode is to be com- roended, but at other times and seasons it leaves an unplessant impression of extreme formality and a woman whose pre ragative it is to take the Initiative ou this point, will not greatly err in almost invariably offering her hand.A POEM FURNISHED The following requested poem has been kindly sent us by Mrs.A J.Brown.Comber, Ont.:\u2014 THE DARKEY'S SERMON (Abridged) Belubed fellow travellers, in holdin forth today, - I doesn't quetc no special verse for what I have to say .De sermoa wil be berry shert, and dis here am de text, That half way doin's ain't no cout, for this world or the next.This world that we\u2019s alibbia\u2019 in, is like a cotton row, Where ebery culled gentleman has got his \u2018line to hoe.- An ebery time à lasy nigger stop to taken nap, The grass keeps on a-growin\u2019 to smother ' of bis crap.: When Moses led the Jews across the waters of the sea, They had to keep a-goin\u2019 just as fast as fast could be, Do yon s'pose they'd ever \u2018ceeded in get- tin\u2019 of their wish, And reached the Promised Land at last, it they had stopped to fish?My friends, there was a garden once, where Adafn libbed with Eve, Wid no one round to bother them, no neighbor for to thieve.And ebery day was Christmas, and they got their rations free, And eberyting belonged to them except an apple tree.You all know \"bout the story, how the suake came slopin\u2019 found, A stump-tailed, rusty, moccassin, scrawl.in\u2019 on the ground.How Eve and Adam ate the fruit and went and hid their face, Till the angel-oberseer come and drove them off the place.Now s'pose that man and woman hadn't \u2018tempted for to shirk, But had gone about deir gardenin\u2019 and QUESTIONS AND ANSW wibdirmaat WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, DECEMBER & 081.tended to deir work They wouida\u2019t hab been loafing, what they had no business to, And the Debdil \u2018esd never get a chance tell them what to do.: And now dat Brudder Jobnson's \u2018bout to pass around de hat, Don't tet us hab no half way doin\u2019s when it comes along to dat.NATIONAL DEBT OF CANADA A M.Ont.:\u2014(1) What was the ne tional debt of Canada whea the Libernis came into power in 1896 and what Was the debt when they were defeated in 1911?(2) T am told that a Canadien manufae- turer paying duty on raw materials weed in his product gets 99 per cent of this duty refunded if he sells his product in a forelgn market but no such rebute If the article ia sold in Canadas.Is this right?What party was responsible for this law?(3) How much greater was Canada's debt in June, 1914, than when the Comservatives came into power in 1811?Ans:\u2014(1) Canada\u2019s National Debt in 1896 was $335.717,5367% In 1911 ft was $474,941,48742.(2) Your state ment regarding Customs Drawback is falr- Iv correct.This \u201cdrawback\u201d with rome variations may be traced back to 1868 and perhaps farther.By order in Council of 28th May of that year the percentage is put dt 90, and there is no allowance unless the amount is at least $50.00 (3) Canada\u2019s National Debt in June, 1914, was $544,301, 368.AN OLD SONG Reader.Que.\u2014I should be much otliged if you could print the words of the old song.\u201cThe Skippers of 8t.Ives\u201d by Weatherly.- Ans:\u2014We print the song as follows: THE SKIPPERS OF ST.IVES (By F.T.Weatherly) \"Twas on a Monday morning, As | came thro\u2019 St.ives There were four and twenty skippers And four and twenty wives.Each wife she would be talking, Each wife she would be heard, : \u201cIt seems to me,\u201d said Jack, sald be, \u2019 \u201cWe can't get in & word.\u201d \u201cClackety-Clack,\u201d said Will to Jack, \u201cCinckety-claok,\u201d ssid be - \u201cThey sey ott there live mermaids fair, Say, boys, shall we go out to see?So those four and twenty skippers Stole off most qui-et-ly And courted those fair mer-maidens, At the bottom of the sea.And when they had courted gaily, A thousand years or so, .\u2018They remembered their wives, in \u2018old St.Ives, And thought it was time to go.\u201cClackety-Clack,\u201d said Will to Jack, \u201cClackety-clack,\u201d said he \u201cD\u2019ye think they're at their game old chat?Say, boys, shall we go home asd see?\u201d 80, these four and twenty skippers, They rose from out the main, And came to St.Ives on a Monday, To find thelr wives again.\u201cAlas, \u2018tis a thousand years, boys, 1 tear they're gone,\u201d said Will; But be just peeped \u2018round a corner, And there they were\u2014taiking still! *Clackety-Clack,\u201d said Will to Jack, \u201cThey never will stop,\u201d said he; \u201cA chattering wife's the plague of one's lite, - Come, boys, let us go back to sea!\u201d ACKNOWLEDGMENT The requested hymn, containing the lines: \u201cYe shall not in the desert stray\u201d etc.has been.very kindly furnished by the Rev.James Lawson D.D., Verona.Ncthing Else is Aspirin\u2014say **Bayer\u201d\u2019 Warning! Unless you see mune \u201cBayer\u201d on tablets, you are not getting Aspirin at alt.Why take chances?Acoëpt only an unbroken \u201cLiayer\u2019 package which contains directions worked out by physiciang during 31 years and proved safe by millions for Colds Headache.Far.vas csotpnche, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Lumbago, and Pain.Made in Canada.All druggists well Bayer Tablets of As- plrin in handy tin boxeg of 12 tablets, and in bottles of 24 and 100.Aspirin is the trade mark (registered in Canada) of Bayer Halicylleacid.While it is well known Manufacture of Mosocaceticacidestar of that Aspirin meame Bayer manufecture, to assist the publio agninet imitations, the Tablets of Bayer Company viH be stemped with (heir venar ai trade mark, the \u2018Buyer -| robusta will serve as imstances.| .[to break.Old genistas are much more NEW SUBSCRIPTION LISTS While wo chiefly want increase of circulation for the Witsess, we bave not (ound in the past that there was much 4ood ia sending the paper to lists of ad | dresses prepaid by a friend.People who | vay nothing for a paper seldon syprociate | {t\u2014uniess they are seloctsd very earefully.| We always prefer to receive the new mb- scriptions of thoes who have paid at least a dollar\u2014the hall rate for aa om trial eubacription, Because wep know then that this paper will be read and not be wasted.WHEN HOUSE ÉLANTS LOSE THEIR LEAVES Among the plants which are grown.in rooms are a number with hardwood stems, which scober or later loss their lower leaves aud are not thea very ornamental.Ficus elastics (the indiarubber plant), Fatsia japonias (pepularly kmown as an aralia), Cordvline indivisa (commonly calisd a dracmma), and Greviliea 4 The period during which they will remain healthy depends largely on the con- ditioms.In a greenhouse, with careful cultivation at ali seasons, they will retain their leaves for many years; but in a room, where the atmosphere ig always dry and often dusty and impnre\u2014where perhaps, too, they are bone-dry one week and sodden the next\u2014they soon bang out siguals of distress.And whan once the lower leaves drop there is no chance of their place beimg taken by others.In a few of these plants side-shoots down almost to the soil they ubly throw up young shoots, time will make good plants.fuchsias, geraniums, and gonistas.All three flower best when they are young, but if it is desired to keep them when they are old, two at least of them can be improved with a little attention.Im the case of geraniums and fuchsias, much or all of the old soil should be replaced by new, the long thick roots should be short ened, and to make the plants bushy they should be cut back rather severely, though not to very hard wood, which might fai difficult to manage.Fresk soll should be added, though without distarbing the roots much, and straggling branches may be cut back to points from which younger growth issues.Washing Soiled Eggs Poultry men have been warned repeatedly not to wash market eggs, because of the danger of destroying the \u201cbloom.\u201d or surface coat, of the shell.Interesting therefore, is the recently-published report of J.H.Barber, general manager of the Poultry Producers of Southern California, that the association returns the same aver age price for clean washed eggs of good quality as for clean unwashed eggs of the same grade.The following valuable suggestions, however, ave included in the report: Kgs with small spots of dirt may be cleaned readily by rubbing with steel wool or emery cloth, the dry cleaning being pre terable to washing.Those that require washing, however, should be cleansed with cold water contains ing some washing powder or sal soda, and to soak, nor washed in hot water, i | CTOMACH ULCER GALL STONES Suffering 25 Yoare, Completely Relieved by \u201cFRUIT-A-TIVES\u201d MR.EDWARDS Maplohurst Farm, Hilthuret, P.Q \u201cf am in my 78th year.About 25 years ago, ! began te have trouble with my {tomach.One doctor said 1 had Canver; another sald, Ulcer of the Stomach; another, Gall Stones; others, Ulcers of the Liver and inflammation of the Gall Bladder.\u2018Three years ago, 1 consulted ene of the best specialists is Mostreal.He said [ must go to the hospital, have an Ulcer cut out of my stomach and gall stomes removed.1 was thea 74 years odd.I aid \u201cNO.\u201d \u2019 Then, I began to take \u201cFruit-a-tives\u201d.I found they helped me a lot, and I still take them occasionally, and | am 30 much Letter that my old friends often ask me what ! have done to myself to look as well.1 am gaining In weight spd enjoying life very much\u201d Lo _H.W.EDWARDS 50c a bex, § for $3%0, trial aise 35e.At dealers or sent postpaid by Frullatives Limited, Ottawa.FAULCONER\u2019S WORM POWDERS For Children and Adults AN EXCELLENT MEDIENE POR WORM TROUBLE AND A GOOD GENERAL FAMILY APRRIBNT Beld by all Agents for course, the poultrymin tries to keep the |\u2019 peroentags of soiled ble.but lt is interesting Wuennt-11ne Stosdman's Soothing Powders Whelseale Agents: The Looming Mies Cs, Ltd MONTREAL à GREEN FOOD FOR WINTER FEED (By M.C.Herner) In the way of green food there is nothing to equal green cabbage for cheapness and alec as a food that hens like.Mungels take second place.\u2018Turnips, carrots or beets can x'ao be used.Sprout- od oats make an ideal green food, but it costs almost too much \u201cto produte them.¢ best, the sprouting of oats, so as to ve « steady supply, involves an endless amount of work.Green food of some kind must be supplied in liberal quantities, but what kind it should be depends very od on what ls available.Cabbage 3 may \u201cBie suspended from the ceil ing by wire or cord high enough to make the hems jump to peck them.Mangels may be cut lengthwize and stuck on a nail or spike in the wall.Alfalfa hay, clover leaves or shredded alfalfa may partly take the place of green food, but they have not the succulence that the fresh green foods have.Steeping or scalding with hot water first and then mixing them in a bran mash makes an excellent soft or wet mash for laying hens.Table scraps, boiled potato peelings, etc, can be mixed with this mash.It is, however, best not to teed too heavily oh boiled potatoes.A soft marh should have only enough water to make the mash crumbly, and not sloppy.Fer winter feeding the soft mash is especially | valuable as it always helps to stimulate | laying.On the Manitoba Agricultural College poultry plant we feed it at moon for three reasons:\u2014 First\u2014It fits in best with the other work to do it then; Second, \u2014It does away with the difficulty of the hens filling up on it early in the day, and then not working for any other feed the rest of the day; and Third,\u2014A soft mash fed at night is scarcely substantial enough to carry the hens through the long winter nights.WINTER CARE OF POULTRY \u2018The farmers who \u2018can not distinguish the breeds, and who allow pels flocks to fndreed for generations, are though there are many enterprising TS, less, who only pure breeds spdsavor to make a profit therefrom.farmers know that eggs =ell for cash, amd that the supply from the flocks can be maintained: every month in the year with good management, \u2018Those who give the fowls over to their wives and daughters to manage do not uss judgment, for the reason that there is considerable labor to be performed in - winter which is too severe for the female sex, the result being that on hundreds of farms the hens lay ip the summer season, as they are then free to forage and secure for themselves all that may be required, bat do not lay in winter because the conditions are changed.It is possible that the farmer's wife will occasionally give the dens a good meal when the weather is very severe, but there will be more irregular.{ties in the periods of fesding tham should be the case.Another cause of lack of profit is the adherence to grain only as a food for poultry, corn and wheat being relied upon almost\u201d exclusively, resulting in indigestion and Inability to produce eggs because the food is mot properly balanced in the essential requisites for egg production.Strictly speaking, there is no \u201cgeneral purpose\u201d fowl, hence no \u201cbest breed\u201d both for eggs and for market.\u2018The best breed for laying may be unprofitable because it can not endure the climate.Many farmers sell eggs in summer that cost nothing but the food picked up on the farm, and while higher prices may be obtainable in winter, the cost of food, shelter, and labor are items which must be deducted from the gross receipts.The Bourbonnals Fowl This hardy breed, as met with in very widely separated districts of France, is a white bird with ermine mantle.The Bourboprg race In the North and many of the Gatinais fowls also have this plumage, but the actual type in question at t is especially common in the val- loys of the Allier and the Loire, whence fta appelation of Bourbonnais.In both sexes, the plumage is entirely White, except the feathers of the mantle, Which are barred in the centre: in the ©ock, the tail is black, with a white bor der on the edge of the large and medium feathers.The mantle of the hen seems darker, the feathers being striped with black rather than barred; the tail is black with some white stripes.The Bourbonnais was awarded the prise ©! honor at the last show of the Central Society of Agriealture bold in Paris, MONTREAL WITNESS AND CAN The tenth annual egg-laying contest at the State Agricultural College at Storrs, Connecticut, has been won by a per of \u2018White Wyandottes entered by Obed G.Knight of Bridgeton, R.)., making the third year of White Wyandottes carrying off the honors.The reason why oats are usually sprouted.for ves - ~~ Itry feeding dur- Winter is because they provide a suc culent feed that is palatable and attractive to the birds.Now that the Witness Is getting larger, the old time features will begin to reappear serial story of real merit\u2014watch for it, MISCELLANEOUS - PATENT SOLICITORS including Fetherstonhaugh & Co.\u2014The eld established firm.Patents everywhere.liead office Royal Bank Bidg., Toronto; Ottawa Office, § Kigin Street.Offices throughout Canada.Booklet free, \u201463 HONEY FOR SALE 8d ib, crate my best clover honey $14.00; mixed clover and buckwheat 15 cts.per ib.WM.A.HARTLEY, Beamsville, Ont.ts Clover 810.00, Fruitbloom and clover 38.00 Buckwheat 36.00 per 60 Ib, crate.F.W.KROUSE, Guelph, Ont.4 Extra choice pure clover honey in ten Ib.pails, one to five, 81.90: six ÿ1 80: fiftren §1,- Tu each; #0 lu, cans.10.80; light aber honey one cent Ib.lens.CLARE, Mc- Alpine, Ont.47\u2014¢ Choice clover honey, twenty cents; buckwheat honey, fifteen cents a pound, in five and tem-pound pall.Freight paid on sixty pounds.HERMAN DICKOUT, Lowbanks.Ont.476 Clover Honey\u201480 Ib.crates of five or ten pound lithographed pails, and 60 Ib.cans $10.- 30 h.Iiacount on club orders.JOSEPH MeCULLOCH.North Bruce, Ont.64 No.1 Clover Honey 6 and 10 Ib.Lithographed Pails 80 1b.Crate $10.30.ROY McTAGGART Aplarisl, New Sarum, Ontario.54\u20144 \u2014_\u2014 mr FOR SALE Ablaze with celor, our $1.00 Xmas bundle of imported silk Pieces will surprise you.n- tains Panel over a yard long.suitable for acarf, camisole, etc.trimmings, and a supply of Pieces six by nine inches for cushion fancywork, qulits.Ask for Xmas Special A.This bundle issued by special request.Supply limited.HOME BEAUTIFUL SUPPLY CO.P.O.Box 1059, Montreal.48-2 Don't plax the records you are tired of\u2014ex- Charge.phe for different selections, Ex- ch fed 19¢.each, Qrimophone repairs\u2014 send us your motor.Estimates free, workmanship susranteed.Descriptive circular sent on request.L \u201cRECORD EXCHANGE, 206 Bullders Exchange, Winnj- pes, Man.ed \u2014 12 Silk remnants free.Also 300 pacgain Catalog.Send 10 cents for postage.240 Bilk pleces 3 %.Velvet 25 pieces for 50c.Postpaid, Que.32-12 ALLEN NOVELTIES, Bt Zacharie, Gramophone\u2014Slightiy used, plays #il records, taken for debt, value $200; sacrifice $565.with 40 selections, 306 Visitation, near St.Catherine, Montreal.* 44\u20148 Books\u2014Send for our special Christmas Catalogue and list of big book bargains, MONTREAL Bt ROOM, Limited, 35 McGill College Ave., Montreal.He Qet a Name Plate for your door.Artistic, useful.Made from thick glass, Chipped edges strong backing.Last a lifetime.Screw on door easily.Send express or postoffice order today.Post paid in Canada $2.00.Agents wanted.HAMILTON SIGN BER- VICE, Brookfield, Nova Scotia.4e Heaven and Hell.Swedenborg's great work on he Ure after death and a real world beyond.ver pagea, only 25¢ tpaid.H.B: LAW, 846 Cuclid Ave.Toronto\u201d 45-4 PRINTING Wedding Invitations, announcements viait- ing cards, business a society, stationery, e ol Send for samples and prices.ath Press, Rock Island.Que.43-12 DOLLS.Peter Pan's, Fourteen-inches, unbreakable, Dolls, (dressed), fully jointed hcad, shoulders, hips, $1.00, delivered.PETER PAN'S 189 Craig East, Montreal.48\u20146 .are to be ia made.Copy for insertion In these columns should be in the \u201cWitness\u201d Ofice not later than Friday 10 securs proper classification is following Weekly Edition.i ADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 29, 1921, FARMERS\u2019 WANTS & SALES ADVERTISING RATES.\u2014Under this heading advertisements will be inserted without dis- th-order rate of two cents per word per Insertion (minimum charge 40c.per ven for the price of FOUIL (mintinum rate fos flay at « cash-wi insertion).BIX consecutive insertions will be six insertions one dollar) addr ta care of the morning MISCELLANEOUS BOOK: All kinds of books on Pou Pigeons, Phneassnis, Birds, bugs, Cats rabbits, rere rets, Bees, Dairying.Caf ue free.MORGANS LIMITEU, London, t.SITUATIONS VACANT.Wanted at once\u2014A huusekesper for a widower with two smail children.Please utate wages wanted.A good home for the right one Address R.8.BRAYALL, Tilley, V.C, Government positions now offer exoslient portunities.Inspectors, Overseers, Clerical, all grades.ale and Female.Previous experience Immaterial.List of positions and particulars How to secure competency, free.Address Box 695 Canadian Civil] Service Institute, Toronto.48.6 Salesmen\u2014We pay weekly and offer steacg employment selling our complete and exclusive lines of whole-root fresh-dug-to-or- der trees and plants.Best stock and service.We teach and equip you free.A m - making opportunity, LUKE BROTHERS NURSERIES, Montreal.43-17 Saiesmen Wanted\u2014to represent \u2018\u201cCanada\u2019™ Greatest Nurseries,\u201d Hundsome free outfit, exclusive territory, highest commissions, Start now at best selling time.BTONE & WELLINGTON, \u201cThe Fonthill Nurseries,\u201d Toronto, Ontario.2-9 FARMS FOR BALE Dairy, apple and Itry farm for sale, by owner: Job acres; A practically new; built by owner; feed and cider mill, run by water power; thin Is a lake farm; lake about 800 fect from house; locaied 7 miles east of Ithinebock; come and look it over.Address JOHN J.BUDD, owner, Rhinebeck, Dutch- Own farm.Everv buyer sheuld my ! before him.250 Farms within sixty wiles Eaat of Toronto described in my Bulletins of York.Ontario and Durham Counties.They are free.State district preferred.ANDREW ELDER\u2014'The Farm Seller\u201d 88 King Fast Toronto.__49-6 Equipped Fi Class 20-acre Farm, two miles from Middicblry village, the seat of Mid- diebury College and other institutions of education.Box 382, Middlebury, Vt.ES _- Widow must sacrifice fine dairy farm; 205 130 cultivated; 2 ba rich moll; four miles town; 33.500: terms; stock and tools cheap.M.CARTER, R.1, Georgetown, N.Y.160 Acres\u20141-2 mile from Moyertons 20 miles from Kinents Alberta railr town; one milu from school: ail tiilable, 108 acres cultivated; 60 acres prairie land.Boil choenlate «lay, adapted to any crop.Good weil, log hours 16x21.Fenced To sides.ons + cash.For particu ress D., Millar Lake, Ontario.48\u20147 Farm For Sale\u20148.W.township 13, range 32.8 miles from Moosomin.reasonable offer refused.10, Bioux Lookout, Om uarter of section 16 west of 1st, meridian.Clear title.Bed owner, App y Per For Sale\u2014Hundred Acres\u2014Clay loam; stock, implements, feed: near town: cheap for quick sale.Box 474.Barrie.On: 474 Cheap\u2014Two 100-acre balance well timbered; barns; must be sold.Falls, Ont.375 .Acres\u2014Mile.from.Spencerville.and Ottawa-Preacott highway; convenient station; excellent frame dwelling, amos new: com- stone dwelling; convenient outbulld- bling for sixty head; two unit milker; mail, telephone, factory, high school.water In stable.Nation River runs through .churches; location excellent; reasonahle terms MILLAR snd FERGUSON, Spencerville, Unt, rma, good clearance, frame how nd Wm.CRAFT, Buri 474 125 Acre Dairy or Gran Farm In the New Jersey peach helt.gond bnlkdinxs, $7,.500, easy terms.HARRY VAIL, New Milford.Orange Co.New _ork.te MACHINERY Twelve H.7.Renfew Gascline Engine on steel trucks.$260, terms.GEORGE Mc- DONALD.Alvinston, Ontario.9-4 Engines.Magnetos, Propellers, Carburaters, an all motor boat fitting for or exc © Send for lists.GUARANTEB Moro ob.marine and sta.Hamilton.Canada, Engines, 30 of Various Sizes, Home Work \u2014 We Wait Reliable Families to operate our high-speed automatic Knitting Machines at home whole or pure tme knit ting for the trade: wages.r all par- Le Lo dren THI CANADIAN WHOLESALE DIST! 'UTING CO., Dept.M., Oril- w, Ont.- 39\u201414 BIRDS AND PETS Canari Parrote\u20148hipped te any address, Bafe delivery teed.List free.LONDON AVIARY, London, Ont.4 Canaries of every variety for song, breeding and exhibition, including pedigrees highly trained Rollers of all the beat strains known.Tiluntrated list mailed free.Send direct to the canary market of the world and save ail intermediate profits, even after freight char- td.Bta fr In unobtainasi RUDD, bi s Telegrams: \u201cBan free! all different for the two.collectors, and 2c Pose 1 Urspeay stam ; nmark stam, 3 he ar money Sc.TOLEDO STAMP Euro Ce.Be t.A.Toledo, Ohio, U7.8.A.49\u20148 Co, TE A number or à singie letter is counted as vne word.Witnass\u201d Office, 12-room house: fine | SA FIFTEEN u repites ive cents an additional charge of tweaty-| POULTRY PLYMOUTH ROCK White j For Sete hite Plymouth Rocks For Sele.five dollars ole four duliars up: also mc exhiblilon birds.WALTER A.RUSH, Mideau Terrace, Ottawa a Barred Rock Cockerele\u2014Famous Thom, and Park laying strains.{Puilets laying at Cockersis 4 1-2 month 5.fi Aron hs) 35.00 and $ Rev.wv, A arred Plymouth Rocks.Wa won five firsta ut last Sherbrooke Winter Show.Hens Pullets, Cockerels 3 to 5 dollars each, I, STOCKWHLL: Stanstead, Que, 3-8 _.SUSSEX Speckled asex.McQugan's Speckled aus- «eX are dan large, newest, preitest fowis Good layers.Hiock for sale, Trios Green dollars.Write L.M«GUGAN, ydenham St, London, Ontario.URKEY! For Saie\u2014Wwhite Hoilerd Turkoya, two young pales und six female; also two yearling @ and one male, cheap.WILFRED BLOWN, Tox isd, Peicrhoro, Ont.NDÔTTES For Sale\u2014White Wyandotte Co:kerels (rose comb), excelent birds; frwcyihle compar- Ison with 1910 contest: (strain) March and April hatched: $5.00 if sold right a à P.STAMER, Cowichan Station, B.18-7 POULTRY AND EGGS WANTED Crate-Fed Chickens Wanted.Also vitey of all kinds, We remit dally, Wrie for price Ust.Established over 35 years.WALLRR'S, 01 Spadina Avenue, Toronto.5-12 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014ee\u2014\u2014\u2014 Wa still lead he Largest Poultry Exchange and Intermediary in Canada.We can he 3% extraordinary help to you all.If you have anything to offer or want anything in Pure Tred Land, Water and Fancy Powis.Ales Rabbits Tlares.Pigeons, Pea Fowl.Pheasants, Guinea Fowls, etc.Write us first, giving full description of your stock, full age.weight.strain.and the last, but not the least\u2014Your Rock Bottom Cash Price.Don't ask us to pric E0ods We can try and tell what they are worth when you fully describe them\u2014 29 requested ahove\u2014but ne we got numerous Inquiries every day, and our King George wants to be paid first.always enclose st .speedy reply.Ask for nue book, History d of All Breeds of 1.and ar.d Water Fowls, with its 196 Natural Color engravings.$2.00 a conv.postpaid.Few pairs domesticated Wild \u2014 cena \u2018pcs Alan few patra of Old and ca Fowt on end \u201ced need all chicks.4-10 \u2018weeks ot You.good health, e frst, We ve alse your breeders.if in Sot know what you have.Wri We will save seu lol af Lather ard trond la cheerfully.Yo irs, YAMASKA POULTRY FARMS, 8t.Hyacinthe, Que tL.LEGHORNS Brown and Black Leghorn Cockersls \u2018erels bred from our brst laying and ext stock.Hargain prices to make room.Two hundred birds to select from.E.J.WRIGHT & SONS, Itrown and Dlack Leghorn Special Ista.Strathroy, Ontario.48\u20146 Quality-bred-to-jay S.C.White Legho-ns.Moy hatched poliets 32.each.Yearling hens $1.78 each.Large vigorous cockerels $4.00 tech.EDWARD DOODY, DE- LUX POULTRY PLANT.Cobourg, Ont.17-8 80 Ferrie Leghorn Pulists.Jun, .each.Choice Breeding Cockereiss rom\u2019 Set Tre to ten dollars - Absolute xafisfaction guarantecrd or our money refunded.J, McCAFFERY Box 60-W.Newmarket, Ontario, 348 MISCELLANEOUS, eee For Sale\u20148injle Comb White Leghorns, Waiter Hogan strain; Cockereis $2.59, one year old hens 32.00: Tulinte 8250: also Barred Rock cockerels 3:50; Buff Cornish games $1.50, FRED GILBOE, Box 191, Essex, Ontario.419\u20148 OORNER For 8ale\u2014Dark Cornish 1 cock, 3 hens, some fine cockerels and pulleia healthy vigorous birds.B.WILLIAMS, Newbury, Ont.48\u20144 TT RHODE ISLAND REDS\u2019 14 R.C.Rode Isiand Red Pull:ts,.NORMAN \u20ac HILL.liderton, Ont.47 POULTRY neubator, one 1,009 used one year.good 8 the lot or $35.00 for Two Buc chicks Brooder an new; lirst $100 tak No, The De Brisay Method Is tha Royal Rosd te tionary.Send for lists.GUARANTER MOTOR #8 nw: § 0 x 8x machine: $45.00 for the 175 egy co.Hamilton.ont.\u2014 £t.machine, and 330.00 for the Hroof, this is MOTOR SUPPLIES.ut PERRY P.LEWIS, Hox oO A es A ee = r\u2014 Aria.Spare Farts Jor, Mast Makes and Models ot _\u2014 cars.Your old, broken of worn parts replac Write or wire us describing what you want.LIVE STOCK We carry the largest and most complete stock \u2014 in Canada of slightly used or new and \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 == automobile equipment.We ship C.O.D.any- _._SATTLE where In Can Satisfaction or refund n | Shorthorns\u2014Bpring reek d full our motte, SHAW'S AUTO SALVAGE | horns \u2014 five cholce youn, PART SUPPLY, 923-381 Dufferin St.Tor milking dams; sire from ont.43-67 Loss.Kinbury, R.No.EDUCATIONAL RABBITS B rlane\u2014From breeders registered | Clans A.and winners of firsts, splcialy, and Plymouth Rock cockerels.Prices reasonable, BEATTIE BROS, Comber, Ontario._49\u20144 HORSES 7 eee For Sale One Clyde Stalllon (imp) Cotor dark bay, welght 1940 1bs.One dark dapple N neh, O 8 ish, i silver cup, Pedigrees have names of t Lai aurea.ACADEMIE DeBRItE h winners at lead.nx exhibitions.Will ot some Ottawa.es | brothers And siaers of ack Prince © first uel In CA com on.Chat! LIVE STOCK = | 1921.REV.W, A.FINLAY & BONS, aan ms - ing Cross, Ont, + Black $iberians, all ages, eligible for regis.______ __ SWiNé : tration, for sale at all times.Also Barred | Registered Berkshire Boar For Baie 7 menthe old; fit for service, price $315.00.Appl ie roa, Btansiend, qu pply GRO.1G Type Poland Chinas.(\"am now offert April and May yr Boars ft for service sien open or bred.OTTO MILLS, Toy shire Hoae\u2014World famous account record Chicago International.Free Information foal getters.For further particule: 1 I N wi sure £5 fa ; \u2018Bars eppir apd rare, B GQ STONR, 409 hart] ore\u2014H rices ur y Percheron Btaillon (Imp.) welght 2010 rived FR pe to me x Have more Yan Ke One Black Percheron Btalllon (Imp.) satisfied others, you ae et, prone.REUBEN weight 2060 Ibs.These horses are all extrd Of WOLFF.114 West #4 to RO an Sateen MUN HEAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, DECEMBER < 1% À MAGAZINE PAGE FOR HOME WORKERS MAKING FRIENDS A girl wag once asked.it she could have her choice of gifts tram the gods, which would she choose, and she answered.\u201cI'd choose the git of making friends easily, for I cons'der the art of friendship greater than the possession of beauty, or & glorinus voice or wonderful figure.\u201cBeauty fades with youth, the greatest singers and artists are often very lonely people, but to be able to make friends anywhere, and at any age, is indeed a priceless gift.\u201d And what a wise girl she was when you come to think of it.The capscity for 1aaking friends essily does more toward creating happiness within one\u2019s self than one at first realizes.Undoubtedly, the enor popularity of our Prince of Wales because he has the quality of easy friendship Everywhere he goes he makes new friends : \u2014and appears to have a magle touch of SOMETHING DOING! Those who are concerned about the fut ure of the Witness should read every letter Gh pagee ome and two and get inspiration from them.They will also rend with interest the first column on page 6.FLAYTRINGS MADE OF NEWSPAPERS (By Mrs.Louise H, Peck.) Kindergarten lessons may be taught with simple material found in every home if only the mother possesses the play spirit, the dea of working toward perfection in every smallest thing.Never | discourage any effort, no matter how crude, but remark: \u201cYou have worked even better.\u201d Ir possible, do the work yourself tirst, alone, so that you may ex- transforming his very enemies into staunch friends.It is astonishing how oftsa one nears | people say that they can't \u201cget on\" with .poople\u2014that they haven't the knack of | making friends.Now what ig the reason for not being able to get on with others?Perhaps the fault lies with'n ourselves; we do mot try! People who want friends must expeet to take a little trouble to make and Keep them, for, though to be rich in friends is 10 be rich indeed, care is required if they are net to take to themselves wings and fly away.leaving us stranded once more, To be a good triend isn't an easy matter at all.Friends of this kind require a great fund of patience and good nature to heip them along\u2014 they may be appreciative without being gushing; helpful but not officious; and possess the gift of koowing when to talk and when to keep silent.Much mischief is brewed often by the mere lack of knowledge of knowing when to \u2018hold ome's tongue.Just a little tact ts required in this matter, no thing more.Certainly there is an \u201cart\u201d in getting on with people.The person wha does this best you will find has friends everywhere, and everyone hag a good word to say for ber.And why?Because she triés to de a friend to everyone; she sinks her own imdiv:duality\u2014or rather she merges it in others (or the time being: she listeus, sympathises, and advises; in a word, she makes herself agreeable.Then whan talking of the art cf triend- ship, we must remember that although friendship begins right at howe, it shouid not end there.To begin study ng the art of friendship, you shculd cultivate your own home folks.They make a splendid foundation on which to exercise your fascinations, your little considerafe ways, your loving care, and kindnesses.end when you have conquered your home people you will find that outside fr end- ship will come easily to you.Friendehtp is the gold-mive of lite.It may not look at aliinteresting from the surface, but when once you start ia earm- est digging.you may unearth much goid of great value.Don't judge people by appearance.The Biggest, truest heart nay dwell in an unprepossessing exterior.Sow your seeds of friendship largely and well.and you will Teap à crop of kindliness aud helpfulness, Don't listen to the pessimists who advise you.\u201cNever trust a fFlend:\u201d rather hearken to Solomon, who said \u201cThe value of a good friend is far above riches.\u201d CUTICURA PIMPLES In terribie rash on face which made en sore and inflamed.Irritated by scratching and was disfigured.Could not sleep well and made feel unplessant.Trouble lasted 3 months ore used Cuticura and after using 2 cakes of Soap and ! box of Ointment was completely healed, From signed statement of Miss Qladys Neabel, R.R.3, Brussels, Ont.Cuticurs Soap, Ointment and Talcum promote and meintain skin purity, skin comfort and skin health olen when all cles fails.Ee Bs dnd! Soup shaves without sang.plain it clearly when working with the well, and next time your work will look 38d big child.Never take a child's work to! show him how to do it Show him with | another piece.His work is strictly his | own.The following suggestions are for children of all ages, from\u2019 four-year-old's to Erown-up's, and it is much more fun when different ages work together.For ; Ur fun, we need only flour or prepared ; paste, gnd the newspapers which have - been folded carefully away, waiting for ns all this long time.(Mains | To make chaias cut the white margins | from severai newspapers, very straight and all the same width.Then cut those ' in strips five inches long, all exactly the | same length, and with ends cut straight.Take one strip, and paste ends evenly together to form a ring, hoiding for a moment until thie epaste catches.slip another strip through th's ring, paste the , onds as before, and now we have two | rings, one linked within the other.Ge! cn in this way until a long chatu bas been , made.Sometimes brown wrapping-paper ' strips may be alternated with the white mewspajer strips.Later, make chains | thot will teach numbers: ome brown, one ! wi'te, two brown, one white: three brown, | two white; using all kinds of comb'nations.| Don\u2019t cut strips for the children.The Preparation of their own material is a wonderfal part of the lesson.When ser- eral long chains have been made, they may be swung to music or singing, or used as à jumping rope, swung back and forth slowly but not over the head.Pussy chains are also made from | evenly cut margins, and in as long strips 8s possible.lay the ends of two stripa across cach other at right angies, and baste together.Fold the under strip over acroas the pastcd end of the upper strip, but do not paste.Keep om folding one | trip over the other a.exmet right angles until they are used up.Paste en cther strips to make the chain Jeuger, and paste euds together to finish.These cha'ns are pretty made of two colors, and may be used as decorations for a Christmas tree or as a rope for jumping or to hang on the wall.Paper Sticks and Pipes Now let us make some parer sticks for laying patterns or pictures on the table as we would with teothpicks.Cut a strip from the white margin or from the printed paper, haf an inch wide and twelve inches long.Dip one corner of one end in water and bezin to roll tightly at a slant.Keep on rolling tightly, holding the tip with the right hand while the left holds and rolis tho strip.When completely roiled into a paper stick of five or six inches, hold t'rmly and fold over the end.No paste is needed.This makes the old-fashioned lamplighter or | naturally from a consideration of holly to apill.TNustrated newspaper sheets make pretty variegated sticks.When fltty or more of these sticks have been made, use them for laying pictures of houses, trees, fences and other objects.Sometimes we bend the sticks for roofs, curves aud corners.If the child wishes to keep a p'ctare, have him make a penciled drawing of it in a scrapbook prepared of smooth wrapping paper.All kinds of geometricf figures may be made with paper sticks:\u2018oblongs, squares, circles, triangles and so on.\u2018The bent sticks are kept in one box, the straight ones in another In etill another Lox we have all kinds of quesrly bent paper sticks.These are our jackstraws, and we make our wand for lifting the sticks, from = longer strip of rolled paper, bent at the small ead to make the hook.Paper pipes are made of whole sheets of newspapers, rolled into long loose cylinders, measuring three er four inches across the end, the emds being folded or bent toward the centre to keep the pipe from uorolling.To make water pipes.aitp the end of one Inte the end of another, | and lay as many as ars desired, following the mopboards or anywhere else about the room.These rolled sheets may be stood on end for a stockade fence, or placed across each other to build a log house.Stepping Stones and Casties, Haif sheets of paper placed en the floor, à long step apart, make good stepping stones over a running brook, the floor belug the \u201cwater.\u201d Care must be laken to step straight and squarely on the paper to avoid slipping.The game is a tine oue for developing Quick balance.we pi = crossing the ice,\u201d with the dolls held tightly in our arms.Te make castles roll double sheets of newspaper {ato cylinders, big short ones, high ones.Leek at some good castie picture and see how to pin the cylinder towers together, with fong bail- coales.Good draw-bridges and portcullis may be made by sk\u2018ifu] fingers, also a moat from bhrowa paper.The growing castle in the cormer of ihe room has been known to make sa whole family study pictured castles as never before, and when everyone belps in the building, there fs more than a castle being built ROLLY AND MNISTLETOR like othor berry-bearing trees, the belly in good seasons is prolific, or should be so where properly treated as to aotl and situation A poer hoiiy is a pathetic sight; but this generally pointe to bad conditions.The holly does not usually appreciate & light, sandy sofl, still less à sovr and 1ll-drained one.It has an undoubted pre- | ference for a strong, deep, well-matared loam, and ff this can be manured from time ts time eo mach the better.There seems td be a mistaken idea that the growth of holly is accelerated at the outset by hard pruning.The best ea- comragement to free and vigorous growth is to be looked for in planting hoilies in a rood open citation where thay can be free from a too close proximity to other trees.The leading shoot sheuld then be induced to lemgthen as quickly as possible by stopping the growth of side branches, 12 eny of these are inclined to interfere with the leading shoot.In the case of thin plants, vizorous pinching of the leader should be resorted to.Such pruning as ja necessary Is best carried out in early spring, a éharp kaife being used for the rpose.All maiming with shears should be avoided.The quickest way by whizh te obtain a fine hedge of heliy, where such is required.is of course by buying seme good large trees from a nursery.The amateur with less expensive ideas may, however, attain a saccesstnl restit by growing from seed, though he will have to wait a probable three years befors his hedge begins to deserve fts name.He wil be pattly rewardel by the interest of the exporiment, the firat stage of which wiil censist tn obtaining a sufficient quantity of holly berries when these are ripe, aad burying them in a flat cr box placed in a hole three feet covering this with iitter to preserve from i frost aad damp.+ At the time of burylng Lie berries these Wil be crusiied and mixed with finer so T which process should prepare them for \u2018 sowing in the following March.i The assoclations cl centuries lead us \u2014_\u2014\u2014 se tion.the mistletoe, and here the cultural methods are even more interesting.Supposing it is desired to raise mistletoe | from seed and to grow It in picturesque fashion mpan an apple tree, this is done as 1 follows: \u2014Make a V-shaped Incision on the under side.of the branch selected, choosing this In order that the seeds may be protected both heavy rain and excessive moisture.The cuts are made as deep down as the wood of the branch and, the tongue of bark raised carefully so as not to break it.that of its constant companion in decora- | One or two seeds frem the berry of the mististes ars squeezed beneath the tongue, which is thea aliowed to slip back ato Rts place.Good seed will seldom fail to germinate, and the seedliags\u2014 which when, they Appear will somewhat resemble young cucumber plants\u2014can be allowed te remain upon the branch, no injury to the is alse largely carried out, and it îs elaim- ed that this cam be dome with sweeshs apon almost tres.In Germany, mistès- the method is, of course, the same\u2014 namely, to make a cut into the bark of the tree, and put in a thin slice of mistietos, bearing the bud and a single leat at its end.Should the graft be larger acress them halt an inch a moich will need to be meds in the beanch awd the incision to come below kis.As ia the case of erowa- rafting, a portion of wood will them bb left upsm the stion In order thet this may rest en the motch.One expert is of oplmion that a graft of mistietoe should never be put in rester the ground than five feet nor further tham ten feet away.A word in conclusion la regard to the cutting of holly and other choles ewar- sreens.Many peojie are apt so to cripple their trees by earelese cutting that only the later appearance of the outdesr garden but also the possibilities of next Year's crops are apt to be seriously damaged.; a disanter will be avoided aad lite beyond benefit to the trees wi result.WE WOULD SEE JESUS We would see Jesus for the shadows lengthen Across this little landscape of cor life; We would see Jesus, our weak faith to stresgihen For the last wearineas, the tinal strife, We would sen Jérus\u2014the grest Mock foundation : sov'reige grace: Ker life nor daath, with all their agitation, Can thence remove us if we seo Mi, ta J ce.We would see Jesun\u2014other lights are pub ing.Whtch for long years we have rejeivsé to see: \u2018The blessingy of our pligrimage aro fell We weuld not mourn them, for we go to hee.We wold sec Jesme\u2014tMs ts ail we're.noud- Strougth, joy, and willingness come with the sight; We wend seo Jesus.dring, risen, plesk: Then welcome day! and farewell mor tal night! ; \u2014Anne B.Warner.OUR MISSION Life ts made up of little things, A few yo words, or hut a smile, Oft to sad heart comfort brings, Oh susely it is worth our while [to help cach other on the way, |To be sincero, umceifiah, true, Our heart's best impuless shey\u2014 This is what Christ would haw: ws de.« We are but stewards oe this earth, [Christ tele us ail to do bis wil.Kind loving werds\u2014what are they worty?Sad hearts with joy they ofttimes fin.Oh may we all improve our time, And in true levisg morifice \u2018Strive to obey our Lord Divine - And to lito evérissting rise.oo .Mrs, Annje Rodd St.Petersburg, \u201cCSC RETS 10* ms For Constipated Bowels\u2014 Bilious Liver \"The nicest cathartic-laxative to physic your bowels when you have Headache Bilioumess Colds Indigestion Dizziness Sour Stomash is candy-lUks Cascarats Que or twe tomight will empty your bowels completely by morning and you will feel splendid.\u201cThey work while you slesp.\u201d Casearets Rever stir you up or grips Mie Salts, Pia, Calowmel, \u2018or OH and they cout only tom cents a box, Children love Crazaretg too om MONTREAL WITNESS AND CAN MAKING YOUR HOLIDAY CANDIES It 1s not only the children who have a sweet tooth, old folk as well as young folk enjoy the Christmas candies.This is especiaily true of homemade candy, for po manufacturer's stock cam compete in freshness and flavor with it.Years ago no one thought of attempting anything more slaborate than molasses or buttarevotch, but now while we a preciate these two we make many other arieties.v Ub 4 lity cars you Gan make socd candies even if you do not have a candy thermemelor or any special utensils.To begin with the fondant or cream which is the basis of almost all good cream candies, you can be certain of success i you follow these directions.two pounds of granulated sugar and à haif cupfois of cold water into a mucepan.Heat this slowly, constantly, but not allow it | a bard lump, then knead it with your hands as you would knead bread.Put and of good texture with the small quantity.: When you wish to make up the candies take some of the fondant and color and flavor it to taste.Quite a variety of along with the appropriate color the vi ous extracts which can maw be obtained.(While these, may seem expensive atl starting, they will for ordinary family we last for years).\u2026 Put the required amemnt of fondant on to a board or marble slab, and flatten it out with the hands.Put the color and flavor on the top, and work them into the fondant with the ball of the thumb, gathering the masa together now and them with a scraper.Avoid crude coloring and overflavoring.When smooth and uniferm in color, allow the fondant to rest for twenty minutes before attempting to shape it, as the working out will have softened it somewhat.Then roll out in a long voll and cut across in p'eces the size of a small net.Form with the hands, either into balls, rolls, diamonds, cone or bean shapes, according to fancy, and use a little confect'oner\u2019s sugar to prevent the fondant sticking.Place the creams on à tin #ined with wax paper, and let them remain in a cool place for twenty-four hours.Next day if you wish cover them with melted fondant or chocolate.There is hardly any limit to the varieties you may make, the following are only suggestions: Cream Cherries:\u2014To make créam cherries with this fondant, slit some glace cherries in (wo lengthwise, mold the cream into small balis press haif a cherry on each side, cut some angelica into strips to form the stalks, and stick a filled cher- \u2014_\u2014 \"HOME COOKING \u2026 -| sugar stirred in.Drop on marble.Ty onto ench; the cherries may then be tied in bunches of three or four.Striped Creams\u2014Take three pieces of uncooked or cooked fondant cream, flavor one with chocolate, one with lemon-ju!ce, and one with vanilla-extract, and color suitably, Form the pisces into long thin strips on a slab or board, lay one over the other, cut into neat squares with a sharp knife, and place on waxed paper to harden.Other colors and flavors may also be used, provided the contrast is suitable, Cream Almond Dates\u2014Put into & saucepan one-half cupful of fondant and one- half cupful of ground almonds, and stir and mix thoroughly over the fire.Turn out oato a board and knead in color and flavor as desired Roll into oval portions and place in the centers of stomed dates.Some Delicious Bweely.But cream candies are not the only ones and indeed for they are too rich and there are many other delicious sweets.Russian Tofty:\u20141-2 lb.light-brown sugar, 1 can cendeased milk, 2 teaspoonfuls butter, and 1 tablespoon vanilla.Mel batter, sagar, and milk tagatber in saucepan over a slow fire.Do not | mixtare burn, but as it browns on the tom, scrape it off and stir it in until color becomes a golden brown.Btir stantly.It takes from ter to fifteen m! utes.When done, add vanilla and pour tn a buitered pan.Cut into squares whes it begtas to hardes.Peppermint Dropw:\u2014Three tablespoons of water, one scant tumbler of granulated sugar\u2014bofled three minutes together\u2014 five or six drops of oll of peppermint, four heaping tablespoons of confectioners 's oan be varied dy taking ell of wintergreen for checkerberry drops.Homey Drops: \u20141 tablespoon strained horney; 1-2 cupfui bolling water: 1 cuptul granulated sugar; 1-3 teaspoonful alinond extract; white of one egg; heaping teaspoonful butter; almonds or pecans as desired.Put sugar, honey and butler into boiling water and stir until dissolved.Then cook slowly until syrup threads.Add almond extract and pour syrup om to the beaten white of egg.Beat until cool then drop on waxed paper; decorate wth nuts.Thess drops should be soft, creamy and white.\u201cChocolate Chlps:\u20141 cup brown sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon butter, pinch baking soda, and some melted chocolate.Stir together in a saucepan the sugar, molasses, butter and soda.Boil the mixture until it forms a hard ball when tried in cold water, then cool and pull to a light brown.Cut into small squares, and while they are warm roll wth a buttered rolling pin into very thin strips Set aside to become firm before dipping each strip of taffy into melted and sweetened chocolate.Place on waxed paper to cool and harden.Peanut Britile:\u20143 cups brown sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1-2 teaspoon cream of tartar, 1 cup water, 1-4 lb.butter, 2 teaspoons soda and one pint peanuts sheiled, freed trom husks and freshened by heating.Boll the sugar, molasses, cream of lar- tar and water together until they will form & hard ball when tested in cold water.Add the peanuts and boil to the hard crack stage.Add the butter, remove from the fire and add the soda dissolved in a tablespoon of water.Stir vigorously, and when the mixture begins to rise, pour it on a platter so that it will spread very thin.When cold break or crack in pleces Cocoanut Macaroons:\u2014One egg beaten light, one cup cocoanut, one cup powder- od sugar, ome heaping tablespoon fiour.Flavor with vanilla, Drop om inverted tins and bake in medium oven until light brown.- F, El ried A CHURCH THAT GREW FROM ONE GOSPEL Robert Giitfea tells the following little incident which should encourage ali wbo are distributors of tracts or those who support this work.He says: During twentytwo years in China theso hands have placed in the possession of the heathen of China thousands of Gospels and Bibles and Testaments, and I have never had cause for one moment to make any apology for the Bible, or doubt any word of it.I have believed, as I $0 today, in all that my sainted mother taught me about the Bible, and in all that my Covenanting ancestors believed about it.For a dosen years it was my privilege to be pastor of a little church in Shansi, a church persecuted In the Poxer times, When its missionaries were murdered.Today that Church is a large and vigorous Church, one of the most pow of the country Churches of our province.And it all came from one seed\u2014ope solitary Gospel of St.John, handed to & poor opium smoker away in n tonely mountain village \u2014The Evaugelieal Christian.Twenty persons were kifled and 14¢ fn jured om Cavadfen Railways during the month of November.ADIAN HOMESTEAD, DECEMBER ¢ 1081.Artifislal Red Berries i \u2018This year more people than ever are using artificial holly berries ia their Christmas decorations.The red berries are now so admirably imitated that no one seeing them interspersed among the holly leaves would be able to tell them from the real thing.The growing use of artificial berries serves several good purposes.It gives employment to those who make them, and leaves on the trees the plump little berries that serve as food for the birds in frosty weather.Many householders that decorate exten rely ut Christmas never think of getting y berries, but use th ficial stock year after year.0 same arth One or two churches are also set good example in this respect vers might be well if the precedent set by South of Kngland minister were more generally followed.In members of the congregation for their help in decorat {ng the church he drew attention to the fact that all the holly berries were artificial.(Thue, he said, \u201cwe have mot robbed little friends of Francis thelr Christmes dinner.\u201d se \u201c a it a THE UNBLEACHED COTTON FAD It is really more than a fad it is a fashion this use of umbleached coitoa or, ze they call it on the other side of tne line, unbleached muslin.Quaint aprons are made of it edged with bands of brii- liamt cretonne or with scarlet, yellow, blue, green or black fruit and flowers put on fn applique.Jolly little dresses for children have black or colored butter- {lies or quaint animal designs and the very latest thing is to have bed spreads and curtafus for your bedrooms made in the same way.Measure your bed and buy enough unbleached cotton sheeting to make a spread thai will hang down ha way to the floor on all three sides: aisoc make a long strip that will cover both pillows.Now buy one of the transfer patterns that are gotten out by pattern houses for these bed sets, and place this design, ink side down, on thecenter of vour spread and in the middle of your pillow strips, run s moderately hot irom over the pattern paper, taking care not to move the paper and thus blur the limes of the design.The next step is to decide what colors you wish to use in working these designs.It your design is for embroidery alone, choose silk floss in the colors that harmonize with the color scheme of the bedroom and begin the work.As the under side of the spread is never seen, there {s sg need for lining this spread or pillow strip.If, however, you have chosen one of the pretty applique designs, you must buy a good grade ofMast-color chambray in the colors you want and cut this material to fit into the various parts of the design, tirst basting them on with large stitches, then sowing them on with very fine stitches around the edge, and then fln- ishing the work by going about the edges of each piece with a wide buttonhole or blanket stitch in floss to match the color of the plece (just as the edges of a child's cambric scrap book are finished).Before attempting to transfer the large design on the middie of the spread and pillow cover you should first try a corner of the design on à small sample piece of the muslin, in this way you will make all your mistakes on a piece of goods that is of no account If, however, you should make a mistake in transferring the design on the spread or pillowcase, you can usually cover it up successfully by appliqueing your chambray pleces over the faulty line (going \u201cby eye\u201d rather than by pattern); or you can remove the design from the muslin by washing tbat portion of the spread or pillowcase with lukewarm water and a tittle naphtha scap.To remove the design from silk (some women prefer to make these bed sets of stik) rub the silk with either gasoline or benzine (not near hes or flame).: To Bleach White Skirt L.B\u2014After washing the Bedford cord skirt, soak it for fifteen minutes in water to which Javelle water has been added.On taking out the skirt rinse it thorough- Jy as otherwise the strong alkalis will rot the goods.Financial Panic in Berlin.A panic hit the Berlin Bourse amidsaips on December 1st, when the doliar dropped to 187.The dropping dollar dragged down all German stocks.The dollar \u2018panic spread to the Stock Exchange where losses averaged 400 to 600 points and some stocks dropped 800, and even 1600 points.The Reicusbank, however, is credited with having appreciably padded its so- called \u201cfat Bolster\u201d or reserve portfolio of dollar and other foreign exchange.The dollar rallied finaly to 192 marks.A small Btitis} column, cossisting of two British officers and 82 I~ disns, were overpowered and cut up by a large band of Wasiri raiders from acrose the Afghan frontier, north of Quetta, British Beluchi- Belated Indignation.Manuel, a negro with a record hitherto clean was arraigned before a country ustice of the pence for asssuit aad bat ery.\u201cWhy did you beat this man up, Man.ar questioned the squire.\u201cHe called me sumpin\u2019, Jedge.\u201d \u201cWhat did be call you?\u201d \u201cHe called ne a rhinoceros, sab-\u2014e rhinoceros!\u201d \u201cA rhinoceros! When did this occur?™ \u201cBout three year \u2018go, Jedge.\u201d \u201cThree years ago! Ther how did it hap- ea that you waited so long to resent it?\u201d \u201cLord, Jedge, 1 ain't never seem no Thimoceros till dis mawnin'!\"\u2014Iivesy- ody\u2019s Magazine for December.GIRLS! GROW THICK LONG, HEAVY HAIR WITH \u201cDANDERINE\u201d Buy a 35-\u2014cent bottle of \u2018Danderine.\u201d One application ends all dandruff, stops itching and falling hair, and, in a few moments you bave doubled the beauty of your halr.It will appear o mass.s0 soft, lustrous, and easy to do up.But what will please you most will be after à few weeks use, when you see new hair\u2014 fine and downy at first\u2014 yes\u2014but really new hair growing all over the scalp.\u201cDanderine\u201d is to the hair what fresh showers of rain and sunshine are to vegetation.It gzoeg right to the roots, invigorates and strengthens thems This delightful, stimulating tonic helps.thin, lifeless, faded hair to grow long, thick, heavy and luxuriant, The Lamp For The Country Home SAFER TvaN no soot and no mel, Perfectly safe.easy to operate, cannot explode, or spill whem pi over or rolied around.Write for catalogue of prices to E.T.Burgess, Department W 614 Building, Montreal.Plenty\u201d \u201cOh, those Meals\u2019 enthused George Booth, traveller, after a day or two at THE WALKER HOUSE recentiy.\u201cThe chef seermu toknow whatwiil bit you right avery time, and their servings are usually mighty generous.Not « great deal of fuss, but things are \u2018wholesome and they osrtainly look after you.I'm going back every time I ge to the city.\u201d \u2018The Walker House has always been kmown as \u201cThe House of Plenty.\u201d Try & next time you are in Toronto.\u201cJust a step from the Union Statten™ stan, \u2014\u2014 RIOHTEEN THE TIRED TEAKETTLE The teakettle was very tired of bolling.1t wished it did not have to boil, boil, boil, all the time.It was such dreadfully hard work.It thought of the pleasant life which it might lead if it were placed on the mantelpiece beside the Chinese plate of willow pattern which Fin Fes so much admired.Once the teakettle had sean the little girl gaze upon the willow plate for three whole minutes and had heard her cry to her mother, \u201cOh, ses, there are four lovely little birds sitting on the bough of the tree.\" The teakettie knew that there were five lovely little birds gilded upbn its own plump cheek; but these little birds were so dimmed by the effects of the leakettie's hard-working life that no one ever thought of admiring them.The teakettle suddenly heaved a big sigh and ceased to boil.After Fin Fan had fed the geese she ran into the house.\u201cMother,\u201d she cried, \u201cplease give me some tea.\u201d Her mother put the teakettle on the fire.Fin Fan seated herself upon a stool god waited and watched for the kettle to boil.\u201cIt is alli warn out,\u201d at last said the mother of Fin Fan.She lifted the tired teakettle oft the fire, cooled it in tue ruanisg water of a brook behind the cottage, rubbed and polished it and placed it upon the mantelpiece beside the china plate with the willow pattern.\u201cOh, what a pretty teakettle,\u201d cried Fin Fan, when she saw it standing, bright and shining, on the mantelpiece, \u201cand behold, there are five ilttle birds upon it!\u201d When the teakettle heard Fin Fan ery this, {t amiled to itsell.Yes, it was certainly much pleasanter to sit upon a mantelpiece and be admired than to boil away unnoticed upon a charcoal stove.One moon, two moons, three moons went by.Fin Fan fel sick with a fever.and although her kind father and mother did all they could for her, she grew worse and worse.Even her little red woolly dog and cat failed to evoke a smile, while her well-loved doll, with its scarlet lps, bright eyes and real hair, fell from her lap and lay on the floor unheeded.\u201cOur poor little girl is indeed very sick,\u201d said Fin Fan's mother to Fin Fan's father.The teakettle upen the mantelpiece heard.It looked pityingly down upon Fin Fan and wished she would get well.lt was the biggest wish the teakettle had ever had\u2014the wish that Fin Fan would get well and De bright and happy agaln.When the evening had passed and the moon had climbed to the top of the mountains, Fin Fan opened her eyes and fixed them upon the teakettie on the mantelpiece.; She lay thus for some time, then she called, \u201cMother!\u201d .\u201cYes, dear,\u201d answered her mother.\u201cIs there anything that you wish?\u201d \u201cI wish,\u201d said Fin Fan slowly, \u201ca cup of tea made from water boiled in our old \u201cMy dear child,\u201d responded her mother, \u201cI would I could grant your wish; but alas! the old teakettle is worn out and will boll no more.\u201d Within itself the teakettle said, \u201cIt a cup of tea trom water boiled in me would make Fin Fan smile again, gladly would l'dim my brightness upon the charcoal fire.\u201d The geese in the barnyard pond began making a great noise.\u201cMother,\u201d cried Fin Fan, \u201cI know the kettle will boll for me.Try it, dear mother, do.\u201d i Her mother shook her head; but she took the kettie and set it upon the charcoal fire, and sure enough, it was soon boiling away so merrily that the sound of ts boiling quite deafened the clacking of the geese and Fin Fan's head ceased aching.And when she had sipped the cup of tea which her mother made (rom the old teakettle's boiling water, she smiled, clapped her little hands and said to her mother, \u201cDear Mother, you and the old teakettle have made me well again.\u201d .\u2018Whereupon the old teakettie bubbled over with gladness and said to itself, \u201cAfter all, there is more happiness in serving on a charcoal fire than in shin- tog on a mantelplece.\u201d\u2014The Advance.Companionship is the one great thing to happiness.The human heart needs fellowship more than anything else, fellowship which is elevating and enduring, strouger and purer than itself, and center: ed in that which death cannot change.All ite springs ave in God.Without Him, life is a failure.and all beyond is a blank.~\u2014Heury van Dyke.\u2018The Post Office Department having been asked to authorize the despat i of a letter mail by aeroplane from Halifax to Newfoundland on the trip which is being arranged to take place around the 10th.of December, has consented, without, how- evér, assuming any risk in connection with betters despatched by such mil Boys.and Girls MONTREAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, DECEMBER 6 1964, ALGEBRA FIRST Jean unstrapped her books, and took pad and pencil trom the closet.\u201cI'd like to be polite, Mr.Marshall,\u201d she sald, laughing across at her father's old friemd, who was spending two days with him, \u201cbut I never dare to be polite till my algebra is done.\u201d \u201cWhat makes you like it so much?\u201d Mr.Marshall asked amiling.\u201cYoung ladies don\u2019t generaily have much tante for sigebra.\u201d \u201cLike It!\u201d Jean repeated vekementiy.\u201cI despise it.That's why I do it first; if.1 gave myveif the tiniest margin of ez- cuse, I'd never get it done.And I may be stapid\u2014I am stupid in it \u2014 but it shan't conquer my morals anyhow.\u201d \u201cI see,\u201d the guest replied, rising.\u201cWell, good luck to it\u2014and you, Miss Jean, Per- hape you'll Hke it better after as while.\u201d \u201cNever,\u201d Joan returned emphatically.A month later the three girls were looking at each other with dazed eyes.They must take care of mother of course, but how?! Corinne\u2019s music?Barbara's art?They had been studied only for accomplishments \u2014 they never had sup posed that they would need thém.Then the letter came from Mr.Marshall with the wonderful offer of a well-paid position for Jean.\u201cJean,\u201d Corinpe cried, \u201cwhy, she's the youngest.\u201d ; \u201cAnd never \u2018studied typewriting in her life!\u201d Barbara chimed in.\u201cFor Miss Jean,\u201d Mrs.Randall read.\u201cA young lady who always tackles her hard things first in the determination that they shall not \u2018conquer her morals\u2019 is the kind of young lady that we need fifty-two weeks in the year.\u201d \u201cWho would have thought that a little thing like that\"\u2014Barbars said brokealy.\u2014 Selected.\u201d : ; : \u2014\u2014 CENTIPEDE RAËING THE FUNNIEST | EVER Some time agg I saw a game called by sailors \u201ccentipbde\u201d race, writes Henry M.Neeley in the Philadelphia egraph.A boat's crew of eight straddled an oar, each man with his hand gripping the- oar and his right hand on the shoulder: of the man in front of him.The our not long enough to give ht » room, and that was the very thimg that provided the amusement for the spectators.Half a dozen of tfase boat crews were lined up at the start and at the crack of the pistol, the race began.The crews that had never .done it before started off at a mad dash down the field.They had not taken more than ten steps when some \u2018man trod on the heels of the man in front of him, threw him out of step and the whole eight men went \u201cpeli-mell on their faces, s wild scramble of arms, legs and oar.One by one these over-ambitious crews came to grief in this way, and the only one to finish was a veteran crew which started slowly, taking short steps at first while their leader called out: \u201cLeft-right- left-right.\u201d As soon as they got the swing of it, the leader quickened the pace and they crossed the finish line at a dead rus.The Scouts immediately adopted the game.First they tried it by tying two\u2019 staffs together and racing Oy patrols This was successful, but ome day they nade à change that gave them a real \u201ccentipede\u201d race.It was found that two troops could muster twenty-eight boys, so they borrowed two ropes.\u2018The end of each rope was tied about the middle of a staff and the senior patrol leader grasped the ataf in his two hands and straddled the rope.One by one the boys then straddled the rope and the other staff was tled behind the last man.The ropes wero previously measured to allow only one foot and a haif for each boy, so that they were squeezed pretty close together.At the drop of the hat they started in their race of 100 yards and those of us who watched simply rolled on the ground and screamed.First a half a dozen boys in the middle stumbled nnd sprawled, and then, in getting up, they pulled another half dozen down with them.while those in front, knowing .nothlng of the muddle at first, tugged bravely ahead and those behind, seeing the trou.hie, tugged bravely backward.Then with the middle men up, the rear ones went down: and then just as our hoys were crossing the line well ahead of the others, going at a good clip, the firyt hoy stumbled and the whole twenty-six pi\u2018ied down behind and on top and all around And while they were untangling themselves the other side romped in the winners, for the rules required that the leat man must cross the line oa his feet.This game would make a ins oped ing for à fleld day or any outdoor event where there are more than two troops.But don\u2019t try it in your headquarters, for some of the falls are hard and the oor harder.THE PUNCH AND JUDY SHOW In an age of so many new inventions and new amusements it is something of a wonder that the fable of Punch should have been kopt so pure.In the past, one imagines, it lms been much at the mercy of shift and poverty, and yet the good showmai™has evidently found that his worldly success corresponded roughly with the measure of faith that was in him.The man who believed most implicitly in the Punch fable seems always to have succeeded best; for the public has naver demanded innovations in the show, and Punch goes on doing serenel: what he has always been doing.An Eagiish showman, who has -devoted his life to the manipulation of the puppets, gald the dth- er day that, as a rule, the theatre was handed down from father to son, and he did not doubt that ekill in manipulation\u2019 was something inherited rather than acquired.He did not doubt that it was a glft\u2014which few amateurs ever possessed, \u2014and he quoted instances of difficult pleces of play done perfectly by this or that practitioner.He explained that there were two class ses of showman.The shows of the older school were those which used to Lesprin- kie the squares of most big cities, and were (emptations always lying fg wait for business men on their way from one office to another.In the summer many of thess theatres were removed to the sands\u2014 which may have been good for business in the city but did not help the seaside minstrels.In recent years it has come to be considered that nb children\u2019s party is complete without a Punch aad Judy show.Thereby the showman of another class has been evolved.He never sets his theatre down in the streets.He keeps a diary of engagements, aud at certain seasons of the year can enly \u201cgive you a date\u201d and may, if you want him very badly, ¢ausé you to chamge the :day of your party.hi vo .It the Christmas season, which begins early in Decefnber and doés not end until \"February is Jn, he and his puppets appear frequently ik \u2018society at set fumctions at city halls, -big add private houses, For his entertafiment children are the invariable excuse.There is room for doubt as to whether the action of the play\u2014the wite-beating, the child murder, and the remainder of the nefarious business\u2014does not rather terrify than amuse some children.With many, no doubt, it is the height of the party.It is certainly not so with all: a number are more than a little wearied by what they regard as the light comic business of the show.But even should all the children one day waver in their allegiance to Punch it is not to be supposed that their elders are going to sive up somethi from which they themselves derive a pleasiire so profound.Abdul Baha Abbas, third leader of the Bahai movement, which seeks universal peace through the harmonizing of all religions in one, is dead, at Haifa, -Byria.The Witness is not run ia the taterests ot its publishers directly or indirectly.In whose interests then?Yours\u2014but not exciusively yours.It is ren in the better interests of the people of Canada as à whole, and of the world at large.THE ENERGY OF LIFE There are few things more energetic han life, Put a seed into a fissure of a ock, aad it will split it ia twain from top © bottom.Though walls and rocks and uins impede the course of the seedling et it will force its way to the light and ir and rain.And when the Ward of God nters the heart, it is not as a plece of urniture or lumber, It asserts itself and trives for mastery, and compels men to ive up sin; to make up long-standing euds; to restore ill-gotten gains: to trive to enter inte the t gate .Meyer.Rev.P.Just Where the Cake Was When Tommy's mother went to get the: cake for- tea she foutid that a wedge- shaped chunk had been cut out.\u201cThomas,\u201d she sald severely, \u201csemeone has taken a big plece of ginger cake out of the pantry.\u201d Tommy blushed guiltily.\u201cOh, Thomas,\u201d she exclaimed, \u201cI didn\u2019t think ét Was in you!\u201d \u201cTisn't all,\u201d protested Tommy; \u201cpart of it's in Else\u201d : Two Irimen were being shown round a colliery for the first time.When they saw the coal coming up the shaft from the pit, Mike remarked to his com \u201cSure I'd like to see the man wbo put those great lumps of coal im the skipe.They must be terrible strong.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t de silly,\u201d said his friend Pat.\u201cWhy, it's that dark down there they can't see they're lifting.\"\u2014J.H.How many miles to Babyland?Anyone can tell\u2014 Up one flight, To the right; Please to ring the bell.| What can yon see in Bebyland?Little folks in white, Downy heads, A Cradle beds, Faces pure and bright.\u2018 What do they do in Babylamd, .Dream and wake and play, \u2019 Shout and grow °° Laugh and crow, ~~ Jolly thmei have they.What do they say in Babyland?Why, the oddest things; Might as well Try to tell La What a birdie sings.7H Who is Queen of Babyland?Mother, kind and sweet; | .And her love, Bet Born above, Guides the little feet.It is reported that the Rt.Hom.A.1.Balfour has been deluged with invitations from many Canadian cities amd clubs to visit them.- OUR COMPETITION.- A MERRY CHRISTMAS, - How long ls it since we bad à competi tion, I wonder, and what have you all been doing since then?Write and tell me, for now we have room for some reszily fnteresting- letters again.But that's another thing.What 1 want to tell you now is that to my surprise I found a lot of idle prizes on the shelves fn my Premium Cupboard, How Yeu Can Win One Make a list of all the words you can spell from the letters used in A Merry Christmas, Look carefully at this and don\u2019t make the mistake of writing down a word with two e's in it for you have only one to use.Send no foreign words, no proper names nor exclamations, mor any technical words not in common use.Write on one side of the paper only, in ink if possible.Nwinber thé words and at the top write your full mame, age if under twelve, your full address and your choice of à pripe in case you win.There will be three prises: ome for Seniors of twelve and ovesi- one for Juniors from seven to twetve, and one for tiny tots under seven.\u2019 Your Choicé If Yeu Wie Set of Tissot's beautiful colored pictures of the Bible, spear pencil, maple leaf pin, daisy pin, cuff links, knife, child's set of kmife, fork and spoons, picture pussie, or wonder pussle.Neatzess and good writing will count in case of a tle.Send your paper as soon as you can to The Editor of the Boys and Girls Page, Witness Office, Montreal.MOTHER, QUICK! CLEAN GHILD'S BOWELS WITH Even a sick child loves the \u201cfruity\u201d taste of \u201cCalifornia Fig Byrup.\u201d It the little tongue is coated, or if your child is listless, cross, feverish, full of cold, or has colic, give a teaspoonful to cleanses the liver and bowels.In a few hours you can see for yourself how thoroughly it works ail the constipation poison, sour bile and waste out of the bowels, and you have a \u201c CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP.\u201d well, playfui child again.Millions of mothers keep \u201cCalifornis Fig Syrup\u201d handy.They know & tes spoonful today saves a sick child tomorrow.Ask your druggist for genuine \u201cCalifornia Fig Syrup\u201d which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle.Mother! You must say \u201cCalifornia\u201d or you may get an imitation fig syrup. MONTREAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTRAD, DECEMBER ¢ 184.AN ADVENTURE IN AN OVEN (By George H.Atkin) Although it je many years since this story occurred, the memory of it is just as clear in my mind as it would be if it bad happened yesterday.And no wonder, for ! am sure that after you hear the facts you will agree that it is seldom that a boy of six has such an adventure.Before 1 begin my story let me tell you u few facts relating to It.At the time of which l'write my father owned a bakeshop in a small town near London.In his employ were three bakers, all of whom were very supersti tioys.I remember the time when they sll refused to work because father had put poison around to kill crickets, which the men thought wers omens of good luck.One day 1! determined that it would be fine fun to play a joke on the men.Among my possessions was a small toy stationary engine, all parts of which were out of order with the exception of the whistle, which, when the tank was full of water and the lamp lighted, would keep up an incessant screeching until the steam was turned off.1 decided that this engine was just the thing ! wanted for the trick, so after filling the tank, I stole down into the cellar, which was empty, as it was still afternoon, and we did all our baking at night.Opening the oven door I crept inside.1 could Larely see, but 1 feit my way along the wall to the farthest corner, where I placed my engine.| thought that when the f-re was lighted, the water would boil and the whistle blow and scare the bakers.After seeing that the whistle was right 1 started to creep out again, when the door swung shut, leaving me in total darkness.\u2018I cailed for help, but no one could hear me.Again I started to crawl in what I supposed was the direction of the door.1 reached the wall, and was feeling about for the door! when my fingers came fn contact with the little engine.At last I knew where I was.I bud put the engine in the left corner.I started to crawl once more.After crawling for what seemed to me like hours ! suddenly found myself back by the engine again.I supposed I must have crawled in a circle.Then I felt very weak, and 1 started to cry.After a while I fell asleep and dreamed tat | was being roasted alive.11 awoke with a start.I felt the floor\u2014yps, it was Gas, Indigestion, Stomach Misery \u2014\"\u201cDiapepsin\u201d \u201cPape\u2019s Diapepsin\u201d \u201creally does\u201d put bad stomachs in order\u2014\"really does\u201d over.rome indigestion, dyspepsia, gas, heartburn and sourness in five minutes\u2014that\u2014just that\u2014makes Pape's Diapepsin the largest melling stomach regulator in the world, If what you eat ferments into stubborn lumps, Jou belch gas and eructate zour, undigest, od food and acid: head is dissy and aches, remember the moment \u201cPape\u2019s Diapepsin\u201d comes in contact with the stomach all such distress vanishes.It's truly astonishing\u2014 almost marvellous\u2014and the joy is its harm.Lensness, A large aixty-cent case of Pape\u2019s Diapepsin is worth ita weight in gold to men and women who can't get their stomachs regulated.It beiongs fn your home\u2014ahould always be kept handy in ase of a sick, sour, upset stomach during the day or night.It's the most efficlent.Lptiacia and stomach regulator in the orld CANADA, PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.DISTRICT OF MONTREAL.IN THE SUPERIOR COURT.British and Colonial Press Limited, & body ttle and corporate, having its head of- mend SelB a Montreal, plaintif.clty an © ersus v A.M.Young, of the city and district of Montreal, heretofore doing business under dhe gimme and siyle of Amy Products, de- The defendant is ordered to appear with a\" Dont Montres] December Jet, 1981.+ , uty- notary.EWING & MOT ADDEN, Attorney for Piaincit.CANADA, YROVINCE OF QUEBEC.DISTRICT OF MONTREAL 8 SUPERIOR No.3621, uperlor Cour, Méwin F.Peiton of the cl ty \u2018and District of Montreal, insurance Agent, plaintiff.versus p Henry N.Pyle, formerly of the City and \u201cDistrict of Montreal, at present of parts un- : Gefendan The Sefandant is ordered to appear withia .T.Depatle, Deputy.Prothonotary.SWING & McFADDEN, AL fer Plainte kctting warmer.1 tried to shout, but I seemed to lose my voice.The ovem was \u2018growing warmer and warmer every minute; soon I should be overcome.| imagined how I would look when | was féund.Most likely I would be roasted quite brown, ilke a turkey.I pictured what my mother and father would do.Then there came a ringing in my ears, & whistle was blowing.Then | knew no * more.1 had fainted.1 awoke to find myself in my own bed with my mother bending over me; my father was seated near the door.I asked what had happened, and my mother said: \u201cHush, be still and don't talk, dear.\u201d Soom John, oy foreman, came in and asked how I was.Then mother and father went away, leaving John alone vith me.- \u201cWhat happened, John?\" .I asked.\u201cLa\u2019 bles ye child!\u201d he answered.\u201cHi EOVRIL IMPROVES YCLR PIES.NINETEEN ALL.THAT 15 G0OD IN BEEF went down to the hoven to clean hit hout.| bless me bif hi dign't come near \u2018avin\u2019 Hi \u2018ad just got hinside, when hi \u2018eard somethin\u2019 groanin.\u2019 Spirits, thinks hi, band starts to creep hout.Hi must \u2018ave got mixed some\u2018ow for before long hi found myself hover by the back wall, so ki starts to creep to the hother wall, keep- «| in\u2019 close to the back wall hall the while.Soon hl bunks hinto somethin\u2019 soft an\u2019 hit groaned.Thinks hi, hit must be one ©' the men who crawled hin to clean the hoven; so hi lights a match to see.An\u2019 FOR LEISURE MOMENTS Governesa: \u201cis the world round or flat?\u201d Pupil: \u201cRound.\u201d Governesa: \u201cHow do} you know?\u201d Pupll: \u201cWell, fat, then.I don\u2019t want to start an argument.\u201d The latest theory about the mysterious wild hairy men whose traces have been found in the snow on Mount Everest is that they are the Tory die-hards of an extinct civilisation \u2014Punch Toacher\u2014'What is an impuise?\u201d Schoolboy\u2014\"An impulse is what the doctor takes hold of to see if you are sick.\u201d Farmer's Wife: \u201cYou've got to get rid of that new hand out in the field, Harry.\u201d Farmer: \u201cWhy, Mary, what's wrong with him?Ain't he working all right?\u201d \u201cWorking! He ain't doie nothing all the morning but stand out there arguing politics with that there scarecrow!\u201d \u2019 wgnellnet\u2014 \u201cAre you sure he\u2019s gentle?\u201d \u2019appen to you while you was on that \u20180ss\u2019s \u2014The Passing Show.Selling The Cow \u201cWill you take fifty dollars for that cow?\u201d asked Farmer Scroggins.\u201cCan't do it,\" was reply.\u201cBut yesterday you told me you'd sell her for fifty dollars.\u201d \u201cI know I did, but I'll have to back out.\u201d \u201cWhat'a\u2018the matter?\u201d \u201cYou wee, the cow bslongs to my daughter, and she says she will sob herself into hysterics if I sell her.It would break Farmer Johnson's her heart.\u201d ° \u201cAll right\u2014it's no sale, then.\u201d of gay\u2014\" \u201cWell, what tu it?\u201d \u201cMake it sixty dollars, and we'll fet her sob.\u201d Disarmamant Years ago in æ western village there had been a great deal of shooting.Various cowboys and other settlers had become annoyed with sundry of their fellow cowboys and settlers and had shot them at sight till some bright soul called upon them all to throw away their firearms.Later this idealist was asked: \u201cAnd how was your idea of disarmament received in Lone Star Point?\" - \u201cThe idea,\u201d said the originator, \u201cwas received with applause.\u201d \u201cAnd has everybody disarmed?\u201d \u201c Well, not yet.But everybody says that everybody else can hand in all their revolvers and all thelr ammunition; but every one of the boys said that they would like to see anybody who was man enough to take hie gun away from him.\u201d Difficult to Decipher À certain professor of one of the north ern universities adds to the distinction of an international reputation as a scholar, the merit of careful.seal in correcting the written work of his students.The other day be was approached by a painstaking student who wished to know the meaning of one of his marginal notes, which she found difficult to decipher.The professor was equally pussled as he pored over his red ink marks, and vainly sought a clue in the subject matter of the essay.At long Inst light blaxed upon the hieroglyphics and revealed (he exhortation, \u2018Write more + legibly,\" \u201cGentle, sly?Why, 1! anything was to back, e'd cry like a child!\u201d An Introduction \u201cMother,\u201d said George, as he pre sented an office chum who had come to spend Suiuräuy afternoon with him, \u201cthis is my friend, Mr.Specknoodle.\u201d George's mother was rather deaf.\u201cI'm sorry,\u201d she said, \u201cbut I didn't quite catch the name.\u201d \u201cMy friend, Mr.Specknoodle'\"\u201d shouted George.\u201cI'm sorry,\u201d said his mother, can't hear distinctly.\u201d \u201cSpecknoodle!\u201d George fairly bellowed.\u201cI'm afraid it's no use,\u201d said the old ledy, as she shook her head.\u201cIt sounds just like \u2018Specknoodle\u2019 to - me.\u201d \u201cbut 1 Mohammed in Court It was in a court of law, und a witness was being cross-examined.Said counsel: \u201cWhy do you assert that the plaintiff is insane?\u201d .Witness: \u201cBecause he goes about declaring he is the prophet Mohammed.\u201d Couasel: \u201cAnd do you consider that clear proof of his insanity?\u201d Witness: \u201cI do.\u201d Counsel: \u201cWhy?\u201d \u201cBecause,\u201d answered the witness, with & complacent smile, \u201c! am the prophet Mohammed myself.\u201d \u2018cart failure when hi see hit was you, Master Tom.\u2018Then hi took you up in my harms an\u2019 crept along the wall \u2018til hi reached the door han\u2019 got hout.An\u2019 that's hall there his to tell.\u201d \u201cWas the fire lighted?\u201d I asked.\u201cLor, no!\u201d old John replied.\u201cWell, how long was I in there?\u201d I questioned.\u201cWhat time did ye go kin, do ye know?\u201d queried John.\u201cThe clock had just struck four,\u201d I answered.\u201cWell, when hi got upstairs hit was \u2018| emarter arter four.\u201d \u2018What had seemed to me like hours was in reality only fifteen minutes! \u201cWell, hill be goin',\u201d said John, with these words he left me.Shortly after I fell asleep again.When I awoke my mother was sitting near me, and I asked her if I could get up.She consented, so I did 50.When I got down stairs 1 was surprised to hear a whistle, which sounded \u2018like that of my engine, blowing in the cellar.Going down I found it proceed.\u20acd from the oven, and could be heard only when the door was open.John took a long pole and poked around with it finally bringing out my little engine, which had performed its duty after all\u2014Junior Eagle.+A Useful Possession 1f a string is in a knot, Patience will untie it; Patience can do many things, Did you ever try it?It \u2018twas sold at avy shop, I should like to buy it, But you and I must find our own, No other can supply fit.\u2014Anna M.Pratt, SOME OF THE NEWEST FICTION, To Him That Hath By Raiph Connor $2.00 The Gift of The Gods.By Pearl Foley $2.00 The Hickory Stick By Nini M.Jamie son $2.00 Manslaughter By Alice Duer Miller $2.00 The Man in Gray By Thomas Dixon $2.00 Long Sweetening By Grant Carpenter $2.00 Sent Post Paid By The Upper Canada Tract Seclety, Jas.M.Robertson Depositary 8 & 10 Richmond St.E., Toronto NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO THE LEGISLATURE PUBLIC NOTICE 8 HEREBY GIVEN by Dame Bessie True McKim, widow of the late Anson McKim, in his lifetime President of A.McKim, Limited, and Nellie Blanche McGowan, unmarried woman of full age, both of the City and District of Montreal, that they will apply to the Legislature of the Province of Quebec at its next Session for an Act changing the name of the said Nellle Blanche McGowan ts Helen McGowan McKim.and confirming the adoption by the sald Dame Bessie Afrue McKim of the said Nellie Blanche McGowan, and for other purposes, Montreal, November 11th, 1931, (8gd) Campbell, McMaster & Couture Attorneys for Petitioners.\u201d WHAT It ensures last ing enjoyment for * sense of good will Cases, etc.178 SPARNS OYREET, OTTAWA.could be more acceptable than a MUSICAL INSTRUMENT for a Christmas Present.towards the do Choose your gifts from our large and select stock of Musical Instruments,-includinæ Bagpipes, Chanters, etc.Sheet Music, Music Books, Anthems, Christmas Carols.Music Bubble Books for the Kiddies ut $1.35.Mail orders given careful and prompt attention, MoKECHNIE MUSIC Co.Limited, the recipient and & continued nor.0.Repair wwrk Sone by sports Twanty, ARADING DAIRY PRODUCE MONTREAL WITNESS AND CAN ADIAN HOMESTEA ES CEMEUR «nn Two objectisas have besa made to the Dominion Act to Regulate the Grading of Dairy Produce.One is that the producer would be placed under additional expos se, and the other that all the grading would be done at Montreai.The Domin- fon Dairy asd Cold Storage Commission er, both ia the public press and at dairy meetings has denied that there ja any reason in these objestions, as no addition.sl expense whatever will be incurred by the producer, and there is nothing either im the Act itself or in the regulations to Justify the suggestion that the grading would all be done im Montreal.All Canada\u2019s competitors in the British market, sach as Ireland, Deamerk, Holland, New | Sealand and Australts, have such regula | tions, and those of Denmark are more stringent than are those adopted for this : country.The Canadian regulations, a | proved under the Act, provide for the es tadlishmeéat or designation of grading Sores for the grading of dairy produce intended for export, for the issuing of ras rece, £0 the Mpecial mack.I ing dy manufacturers of packages intend od for grading, for the establishment of Standards, definitions, and grades, for the | Mmposition of fees for grading, for the ap Pointment of graders and such other of | oors as may be necessary, and for an ap-| Beal to the Dominica Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner or his representative | against any grading thought to be uajest.| Violations of the provisions of the Act or | fterference with packages after they have besn passed are liable to a fine of anything from fifty to two hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, The Act comes into force at any time ordered by the Gover- nor-General in Council, and that will be not before 1933.TIMOTHY VARIETIES (By M.O.Maits) Timothy is, like all other cultivated trasses, à very variable plant; that is to say, & very large number of different forms exist.As an illustration it may be mentioned that the writer, some 10 years ago, collected several hundred different forms in two days in one single locality, Thess forms differ from each other in re-; spect to mode of growth, leafiness, and other characters upon which their rela- | tive agricultural value might depend, as weil as in respect to time of maturing, weight of seed etc.\u2019 In view of this tremendous variation, it is obvious that it is possible to develop, through selective breeding methods, a large number of distinct varieties.It is equally obvious, however, that the development of such varieties must be a slow process, taking many years to accomplish, particularly in view of the fact that timothy plants representing different varietal types free- 1y intercross.\u2018It is generally conceded that it will take at least eight or ten years | to bring out reasomably uniform varioties.| À few varieties, fairly uniform and breed.) ing tolerably true te type, are on the market in Europe at present.In the United States, timothy breeding has commanded comsiderable attention during the last (wenty years on a few plant breeding stations, the result being the development of a number of distinct varietal types.At the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ont, timothy breeding was started in 1912, with the resalt that several higly yielding vare- ties, breeding fairly true to type, have besa developed.Result of Test In 1920, the Central Experimental Farm Teceived, for comparative tests, two of the best varieties produced at the Plant Breeding Station of Svalof, Sweden and one from the United States.Timothy Breeding Station at North Ridgeville, Ohio.Thess were sown together with seed representing « mixture of the best varieties developed at Ottawa, with the following result: \u2014 Yield per scre\u2014Ot- tawn seed, 2 tons 313 Ib; Primus (Sweden), 1 ton 183% 1b: N.Ridgeville, U.8.A.1 ton 1200 IL; Gloria (Sweden), 1 ton 1806 id.It should be expiained that the expert- ment was placed on à rather poor piece of land, with Ottawa seed at a slight disadvantage as far as fertility of the land is concerned, and yet, the Ottawa timothy proved by far the best.Under the eircumstances, arrangements are being made to propagate, ca a large scale, à community, A man of intelligence and ability, he commanded confi- time, for those who needed his care and skill, These were the conditions When, after graduating from the University of Mi Acker, Dr.A.wv.a to practice his profession in that wellknown college town.Every Man His Own Physician But the dostor soon got the idea that peopl should know how to look after their own common ils, and set about in a large way to supply them with the necessary Information.By means of his Receipt Seok, the circulation of which has since run inte millions and his well-known Almanac and booklets of many kinds, Dr.Chase has spread throughout the civilized world the gospel of \u201cEvery Man His Own Physician.\u201d .This plan enabled the doctor to devote his attention to mors serious cases, and he soon became known far and wide as a specialist In the treatment of diseases of the kidneys, the liver, the heart and other vital organs of the human system.-.Te roach patients at a distance, the dee ter had his mest successful put up in handy form fer mailing In ttme the demand became se great that the doster decided to pive these great modt- cines to the publio, and arranged for thelr unie through the drug trade throughout Canada and the United States.In this way Dr.Chase's Kidney-Liver Pils, Nerve Food, Ointment, Linssed and Turpentine, Catarrh Powder, and other medicines found their way inte general use, until now one or more of them Is found in almost every heme In the tend Home Medicines With these time-tried medicines at hand, you .can .feel that .you are protected \u201cto give against the common ills of life by the mest effective treatments.which Dr.Chase wae able to discover during a long Itfe of di ligont study and research, EDMANSON, BATES & CO.LTD, You will please send me fros:\u2014 FREE COMBINATION PACKAGE Dr.Chase Bidg, Toronte: One sample box Dr.Chase\u2019s Kidney-Liver Pile One sample box Dr.Chase's Olctmery.Oue copy Dr.'s Recipes.Name .vouausss \u201crevers AGGPOSE L.ccc0cvorecs santassescncavas sPROV L.eccnc 0.eveccceut Dr.Chase Pounded on Hie Integrity of Character ang The Unusual Merits of Mis Medecines.M there was ever a physician whe com- mandod the confidence of his patients that physician was DR.CHASL Ne ono oould mest Mm and converse with him without rentising that ke was a men of skill, who was la love with his profession and only anxious to relieve the suffering and disenss of his feliowmen.You cannot read the famous Dn Chase's Receipt Book without appreciating the untiring zeal of ita auther in searching out the best receipts and prescriptions which were known to the medical profession, _When his attention was turned te ooloct- ing medicines to be placed on the market for public sale it was with whole-souled effort that he tested out the prescriptions hich he coneldered most aultable .fer this And so it ie that the Integrity of har acter which marked the efforts of DR.CHASE are indelibly medicine which bears hi After teng experience with Dr, Medicines, we have found that try them are soon convinced of their ex.ceptionnl merits.few of the best varieties developed at Ottawa, especially as it has been ascertained that they breed just as true to ftype, or even more so, than the foreign varieties tested.Hulled vi.Unhalled Seed Practically every sample of timothy seed contains more or less of socalled .are likely to be which are characterised by hulling eas ily.It has been shown that there exist timothy forms, representiag distinct var istal types, which lose the bull in thresh {ag much more easily than others, Whatever the causes of the hulling may be, the presence of hulled seed in large quantities ia a sample is lowering to its trade value, it being gemsrally comceded that hulled seed is apt to show a poor er germination than unhulled seed Whtle this is hardly true of freshly harvested seed, it certainly does apply to old seed, as hag besa demonstrated long ago.As & result of the impaired germination, lower-yielding crops obtained from seed which contains much halied grain Hulled seed, 3 or 4 years old, is likely to produce a much smaller hay crop than unhulied seed of the same age.Under the ciroumstances it ie obvicas that timothy seed only a small peroea- tee of hulled 500d Is always preferable DYED CHILD'S COAT AND HER OLD SKIRT Buy \u201cDiamond Dyve\u201d and follow the shm~ Die directions in every package.Dom't won, der whether you can @ye or tiat suoosss- folly, because perfect home dyeing is guan.antesd with Diamond Dyes even if you have never dyed before.Worn, faded dress.8, skirts, waists, coats, sweaters, stock lag, draperies, hamgings, everything, be coms like new again.Just tell your drus- ist whether the material you wish to dye is wool or silk, or whether {t iy linea, cotton, or mixed goods Diamond Dyes never streak, spot, fade or run.to seed containing s larger porcentaze and that, # badly Re available, it ple it; AF MONTREAL WITNESS AND CANADI THE MOTOR WORLD In the belief that a large number of\u2018 automobile accidents is due to the over speeding of passenger cars and trucks, ne well as the overloading of the lattes the National Automobile Chamber of Com- meres is calling on polies officials all over the country for a more strict enforcement of traffic laws, of whiich there are suffi cleat on the books but the provisions of which have been \u2018too generally disregard- _ The cost of motoring in Japan {a terrific, ?per hour for a private car.None the wealthy can own cars.Import , in the first place, ia 35 per cent, and to buy costs you yen 2,175, prac- the equivalent of 300 pounds ster The municipal tax for running the saûte tm Tokio is yen 600 per anhum.Automobile stealing has become so near- 1y a nation-wide industry that some of the largest insurance companies in the United States have stopped writing the familiar fire and theft policies, and 96 per cent of the othera planning to insert clauses Fain in these policies eliminating from protection all accessories, such as tires, tools, | etc.Since the beginning of the autgmobile | industry 25 years ago.the number of cars manufactured up to the first of 1921 has been approximately 11,775,000, of which |.more than 700,000 have been exported.\u2019 About 9,000,000 are in use and 2,000,000 have been worn out, destroyed or aban- | doned.Utility is the predominating character- : tstie of the open car; style and luxury! erter in very atrongly as influencing tor.| cen in the emcloged type.And with thoss : to cater to the designer has a far greater opportunity for the exerciee of his skill.Almost everyone who has besn careful to arrange the headlamps on his car so ag to meet the rule, has been highly satisfied with the result, for he has generally ob tained a far better driving light than he had before, and has found that the head- | lamps of other drivers interfere with hia driving far less than formerly.THE FRIENDLY HOME REJOICES (To the Rditor of the Witness) Sir: \u2014 Since last we wrote to the Witness regarding the Friendly Howe for Young Women and Babies, mucth water bas run under the mill and our bearts have been cheered and filled with gratitude to God \"who has raised up such wondertulfriends in the day of our necessity.Knowing the interest which has always been manifost- cé by your readers in this work it is our hope that the greet development in the work may inspire them to still further aid us with their prayers and practical sympathy.Let ms therefor briefly set forth the tale of God\u2019s inspiratien and meu\u2019s goodness to us.\u2018 On the first of May last the Frieadly Homu had mot where to lay its head.The Rouse on St.Mark Street was to be demolished and our lease had expired.Miss Smith, the lady matron, secured a two weeks extension and told the rest to God.Meantime the children were sent to the country to a house at Mystic Que where thay passed a happy summer.At the end of he fortulyht's extension of lease tho | Wélcome Hall Committee most geo- erously pieced a residentia) wing at our disposal amc for the remain-; der of the summer the elder bers of the home famfly with\u2019 most its House hold possessions found shelter there.Now for the rest of the story for all of which we are grateful to Ged and te our fellow- mea.Just about the time when we were * most troubled (aithough Miss Smith never faited in her Iaith) a gentleman read in the paper the account of the annual meeting.He became interested and after first promising as aanual subscription asked Miss Smith to go to his office.The re sult of this interview was that he promised if we could find a suitable house to buy (the rents mede it impossible \u2018to lease) he would raise amongst his friends the necessary money for the first payment if the Home could collect sufficient for alterations.To eliminate details the house was found at No.1040 Dorchester St W opposite the Western Hospital and this gentleman, true to his word, and truer for he did far more, paid down $5,000 fir payment on the purchase.This has loft tbe Home with a mortgage of $11, $60.00 at 6 per cent.payable in iastal- meats.Please do not forget this very important fact.However the arrangement Pis excellent and places us under a moderate rental, in which light we regard the mortgnge.The lead of the donor way such that the architect, Trost Cowpany, and others gave their services freely and with the utmost generosity, others charging their work at cost only and ro one cf auy of the workers mate a penny in their lalore It would be impossible and invidious to begin to mention names when all combined in one generous deed under the loving hand of God and in response to Miss Smith's unwavering faith.Now the house is complete and open to visitors.Withan entire new basement, furnace, baths and every convenience we feel that life begins anew.Miss Smith's motto is \u201cAsk God and tell the people.\u201d What?(miy this, that of the Home's debt assumed for alters.tions there is still s small deficit covered by « Bank Loan, incurred in order that all debt shoald be paid.Also that we have a \u2018amily of over thirty to feed twen- ty-five little ones, and four mothers, beside tha staff.Lastly that that stalf must be increased as Miss Smith and her devoted maid sre sadly overworked and that the assistant will require a salary.But this is not an sppeal, but an apprecis- tion.Our babies are well and happy, our girls are making good.and standing by their selt-assumed responsibility.Gnd has given us & bome commodious, con fortable and wonderfully suitable so that we go forward with praise and thankfol ness to Him, knowing that if we are but the bemefit we receive must be rendered agala, deed for deed to somebody.Bo ware of too much good staying on our hands.\u201d (Emerson) Believe me, yours truly, Edith L Kohl, Hon.Sec.Friendly Home OFFICERS OF THE FRIENDLY HOME Hon, President\u2014Mrs.Frederick B.Doug:1l President\u2014Rev.J.R: Dobson, D.I: Vice President\u2014Mra H.H.Latter Hon.Secretary\u2014Mrs, G.A.Kohl Treasurer\u2014Miss Belia Tarlton Lady Superintendent\u2014Miss Hannah M.Smith Donations to this splendid work may be sent to John Dougall & Son, publishers plainly magked for the Friemdly Home, and they Will be duly acknowledged in these columns.= -; | THE COMMON MAM Only a lad without a name, Just a \u201cnumber\u201d in ome platoom, A simple lad with souk afame, Bat his chance will be with him seom.Who would have dreamed that, glowing, there lurked, hid In him, & eperk of God?Ready to burst fato a glare; = For he looked such à common clod.Deadly dull were the mud and stench, Watching to see Fritz madly dare.Death dancing all \u201cabout the trench.Great God gf mercy, was't thou there! _Yielded his life up; his mates say \u201c| Like green isles -Just à ranker without à name, ces AN HOMESTEAD, DECEMBER 6 1981./ TWENTY.ONE SR\u201d British Government Aeroplane Linen Cushion Tops.TWO STRIKING AND APPROPRIATE DESIGNS ARTISTICALLY HAND PAINTED IN ACTUAL BEAUTIFULLY BRILLIANT COLOURS.FLYWNG CORP SOUVENIR Aoreplons, suth abr q nose-dive.An svery day air stone 3 soon te be approsiated.a3 worse manned our sation and under fire of bursting shells, caters.salistic decoration of intense interest angles glue a mest unique and 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receipt of 15¢ in silver oF faithful he will not leave us nor his wayward children unsupplied, \u201cTUM stamps.WHEN MARK TWAIN TRIED TO LEARN FRENCH When the famous huntorist was a young reporter, working on the San Francisco Cally he made up his mind to I«arn the French language, says Youth's Companion.He did not want to go to the expense of a teacher, and so he bought a gram-, mar and conversation book, and set to work.Before breakfast he pored over the lessons; late in the evening he was at it again, and every availalie moment of the day he employed with equal assiduity.He s00n began to look about for opportunities to make use of his new accom- piishment.Accordingly he begdn to eat at a Freneh restaurant once a week One day, as he and hie roommate were coming out of the restaurant, they found on the sidewalk just outside the door a Freachman.He was asking first one - passerby and then another the way to a certain street, but Bo one understood him.That was Mark's Chance.The Frenchman looked at him with wistful eyes ands began to talk.Mark listened atteatively.\u2018Three or four times the -tranger was compelled to repeat his question: then Mark seemed to catch his drift.But he had scarcely spokea half a dozea words ia reply when the Frenchman fell to the sidewalk in a dead faint.The true cause of the stranger's fainting may never be known.Very likely he was famished.and perhaps he bad been put out of this very restaurant because of his seady appearance.But whatever the cause, the joke was on Mark for once Mark's roommate was carefn.enough of his friendship not to teil the incident at the office of the Morning Call, but be teased the rising humorist a good deal about it.When the fun had lasted long enough, Mark set his jaw, and with um- llmited determination written on his fea tures, announced: \u201cI'll learn French if it kills every Frenchman in the country!\u201d 8T.PAUL'S CATHEDRAL LONDON The Work of Preservation The last of the great girders, used in the construction of temporary supports in the south transept of St.Paul's Cathedral has just been taken into the butiding, and this elaborate work, which has attracted so much attention from citizens during the last seven or eight months, is expected to be completed very shortly.Canon Alexander, the treasurer of St.Paul's, stated that the cost of the material and the erection of these temporary supports had been very great, and had absorbed a large part of what wps now left of the Preservation Fund.He added that the work had now reached a critical stage at which engineering opinion was of special value.Accordingly.the Cathedral authorities had appointed a new commission, consisting mainly of engineers, who would repert om the condition of the fabric.He would not attempt to ferestall their verdict.He thought it might be favorable with regard to the foundations, of which an important examination had recently been made, and lers so with regard to the superstructure, which had to be treated with the greatest care and caution.Uuless the work could be pushed forward more rapidly, he did not expect that it would be finished till the middle of the century.Porty-five thousand union workers employed in packing piants throuzhout the Unite:l States are atriking work in protest against wage reductions, averaging 10 per cent.authorized by plant assem- bites under the shop representation plan in the packing industry.Emancipation of China from foreign control was said to have moved forward considerably at the conference of the nine powers on Baterday through proposals from Japan, Great Britain and France for relinquishment of large and importent intr STINE uvre areas of thetr leased territory in Chine, Las [RE TWENTY.TWO drag , MONTREAL WITNESS AND CAN ADIAN HOMRSYMAD, DECEMBER 6 eit.THE NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS.By Helen Palmer Isn't it beautiful that it should open just tonight, sister?Bee, the leaves are beginning to curl back! lt will be full by .He rose hastily, and picking up his coat, thrust himselt into it.\u201cl must go now.Mrs.Treadwell can the time the Christmas beils ring at mid- hardly bear me out of her right these days,\u201d night.Are you sure you won't be tired sitting up?; Miss Blandina lifted her near-sighted | eyes from the great white blossom over which she had been fondly bending.and | blinked anxiously across the warm, Now.er-scemted room at the little old woman who sat rocking slowly ia a high-backed chair, a white muslin cap tied saugiy under her square chim, and her hands resting on her best black silk.7 \u201cNo, Blandina,\u201d, said Aunt Candace,\u2019 briskly.\u201cIt won't be the first time J're ! sat up with you and your flowers.\u201d ! \u201cIt's three years in February since the last one blossomed, and there didn't ever one come out before om Christmas eve,\u201d suggested Miss DBlandina, delicately.\u201cYou've eujoyed it, sister, haven't you?It's been quite a party.There's been as many as eighteen in here to see it, and it\u2019s only tem o'clock now.1 told them it wouldn't open till middling late.\u201d A rap at the door which led directly from the porch into the sittingroom ln- | terrupted her, and before she could rise it was pushed open, and Abbie Farwell, the pretty young widow who lived next door, appeared on the threshold, heralded by the chearful tones of Dr.Robert Gordon.\u201cIsn't she great?\u201d he demanded, coming into sight above Abbie's slender shoulders and bending to remove the wrap that concealed her soft white gown.\u201cI found her prinking,.\u2014isn\u2019't that what you cali it?\u2014 and brought her right along, though she \u2018 wanted to stop and wait for that blessed boy to wake up, so that he could come to the party, too.\u201d | \u201cIt did seem a shame not to bring him.He'd have loved it, I know, it's so pretty here with all the flowers and the lights.And I'm dreadfully afraid he'll wake up while I'm gone and want me, though I told Ellen to stay by im.Do you sup pose I could hear him if he cries?It's pretty warm here, isn't it?If the door\u2014\u201d She stopped, catching the doctor's quis- gical glance: but Aunt Candace broke ia: \u201cAbbie's right, it is too warm.Blan- dina\u2019s hunted up every lamp and candlestick thers is in the house, I guess, and got \u2018em set round the cereus.Blandina, just set the door ajar.\u201d Abbie thanked her with a smile, but the doctor could not resist the chance to tease the young mother.\u201cWhat would be the harm if that youngster did cry?\u201d he asked.\u201cDon\u2019t you know that nothing develops a child's lungs like a good bout of crying?1 cam tell you, : the old Spartans had some good ide: | about bringing up children.Did you ever ; read\u2014\" | \u201cNo! And I don't want to.\u201d broke ini Abbie, with risiog color.\u201cI know enough | about them from hearing you.Horrid brutes!\u201d \u201cThank yon!\" said the doctor, with bis à on his heart.moe now, doctor, you brought that on laughed Aunt Candace.her ronrself.\u201d Yoon eyes twinkling in her puckered brown face.\u201cYou two are the best quar lers I ever heard.and 1 don\u2019t know as Tike anything much better than sitting and listening to you.I often think how I'm going to miss it by and by.Yes.\u201d she resumed, io answer to no one in particular, \u201cthere doesn\u2019t any one count on keep- {= t np afterwards.It would be toowear- \u201d he ended, quissically.\u201cHear the wind! How it's coms up! It must be drifting dreadfully,\u201d satd Abble, drawing Back the curtain to peer into the night.\u2018 \u201cIt 15 bad,\u201d Aust Candace agrecd.\u201cIt you must go, doctor.why dont you go home and get your borga?\u201d | \u201cOb, I guess the Deacon needs the rest more than I do,\u201d his master anewered, drawing bis fur cap well over his fore they heard him ruaniag down the path.~ head and eyés.The door banged, and \u201cDoctor's a'pretty sensible sort of a man,\u201d laughed Aunt Candace, while Abbie maved restlesaly from window to window, A pretty sensible sort of a man, if he does 1ike to poke fun at most everything.\u201d \u201cOh, good enough!\u201d retorted Abbie, with a suspicious glance at the placid countenance facing her.\u201cYes,\u201d she-sresumed, judicially, \u201cI can\u2019t deny he's good.So far as I know, he has only that one fault\u201d \u201cGood land, child!\u201d broke in Aunt Candace, arresting her rocking-chatr in full ewing and leaning forward anxiously.you don\u2019t mean to say you'd dare to try iving with à man who badn' fauit to his back!\u201d tn single \u201cA Christmas wedding would be real pretty,\u201d sighed Blandiaa, gently.\u201cPerhaps [ could keep my flowers back: there's a lot of buds.\u201d As she moved fondly from plant to plant the door, which flew open to readmit Abbie, rosy from her tussle with the wind, and clasping in her arms a big.tur-wrapped bundle.\u201cI him about the beautiful big white flower, and he just would come!\u201d she panted.And with shouts of laughter, a curly -blond head emerged from the wraps, followed by wildl$ waving arms and legs ciad in a long white nightgown, and the \u201cBoy\u201d finally wriggied to the floor.Tripping and plunging, he reached Aunt Candace's outstretched arms, and, litted to tier lap, became at once riotously interest.ec in the jumbles and the red glass that shone and sparkled in the dancing firelight.Engroszed by these beautiful ob jects, he ignored Miss Bland!na's invita ticns to \u201cCome and see the pretty flower.\u201d \u201cLet the young one alone; he's hungry, and he\u2019s man enough to know it!\u201d commanded Aunt Candace, and the others looked on admiringly while the \u2018bay romp ed and nibbled.: ; \u201cThere, he mustp't have any more!\u201d cried the mother, holding out her jealous arms; but the child, a tease already, threw his head back against the comfortable shoulder supporting him and smilingly refused to budge.It was only when he lay with head drooping and lids haït-closed that his mother was nble to loose his clinging arms and lift him to her breast, Our New Serial Story! .: We deferred making a choice till we knew that the Witness eould be continued another year.Now that we have that absolute assurance we are in telegraphic communication for several splendid serial stories.Even If 1922 was to be the last year of the Witness we want to make it the best ever.The adoption of larger type will help, tell your friends about it.Not only the Editorials are being set much larger, but the type used all through the paper is a size larger than it was.Watch for the new serial story.It will begin very soon.1922 The Best Ever! \u201cBut this particular fault is just precisely the one 1 can't endure,\u201d insisted the widow, smiling plaintively.\u201cThe way he talks, as if beauty and kindness and all the things that make life worth living didn't amount to anything.\u201d \u201cTalking's one thing and doings another,\u201d said Aunt Candace, dryly.There was another pause before Abbie rose to go, hut with her hand on the doorknob she half-turned her face.\u201cHe does sound s0 hard,\u201d she complained.\u2018Well, well,\u201d the old woman encouraged her, \u201cperhaps he does sound hard rometimes, but I'l engage he feels soft all the while.You just try him!\" she \u201c0 Aunt Candace,\u201d broke In Abble, with | io after the (mt?abe suspicious fervor, \u201chave you heard that just try him some and 206 those Italians that have heen working on | if he doesn't!\" A protesting gasp came the new railroad are stranded here for over Christmas, with no money, poor things! It seems the man who brought them went off euddeniy without paying them.and they are destitute.\u201d \u201cThere's some women and ébildren with the men.\u201d observed Blandina.\u201cThere were two women here yesterday.\u201d \u201cDid you give them something?\u201d asked her sister.\u201cIt's getting bitter cold, and I don't suppose they've much more providence than if they were so many grasshoppers.\u201d \u201cYes, sister.| went up garret and hunted up quite a bundie.They said there was à woman with a little new baby.I gave them a shaw! to wrap it in.They said she'd been sick, ad as far as I could make out, her husband had gone away and left her, and she was hunting tor him.\u201d \u201cBo she\u2019s still here, poor thing!\u201d exclaimed the dnctor in a troubled tone.\u201cI told them to send her back to her friends in New York.\u201d he went on as \u2018f to hitaxel[ \u201cI gave that fellow Bardoni\u2014confound Mm! You can\u2019t trust any of them I meant to bave gone out there again, but Johnny Treadwell's been so sick\u2014\" tack to her as the door closed, but she only laughed indulgently and continued to rock slowly to.and fro.\u201cI thought a little lunch would taste good, sieter,\u201d said Biandina, ontering with a small tray in her hand.\u201cIs Abbie gone?That's too bad.1 fetched up some raspberry shrub and some of your jumbles.I guess there won't be any one else in; the storm\u2019s too bad.\u201d Aunt Candace drew up to the table and poured out a glass.\u201cHere's luck to the doctor!\u201d she said.\u201cAnd good luck to Abbie, too!\u201d , \u201cDo you think it'll really come to anything?\u201d queried Miss Blandina, who, in spite of her fifty years, professed a maidenly ignorance that forbade even opinions uv: matters matrimonial.\u201cThere's no telling.The doctor's been foot-loose too long.A man ought to go pretty straight from his mother to his vife, or he gets to thinking he knows considerable himself.And as for Abble, for all she's so softepoken and pretty, she\u2019s a little mite high in the instep\u2014 but T miss my guoes if they don't fix it up before long.\u201d where he stirred rostlessly a moment, hen, reaching a hand to find her lips, pressed his curly head close against the hollow of her throat, and in the twinkling of an eye was fast asleep.She waited a little to be sure of him, standing breast-high ta her white gown among the vines and flowers grouped about the cereus.The soft light of the candles shone full upon the silken smooth bands framing her delicate face, and touched with gold the blond baby head.Miss Blandina, staring with rapt eyes, checked her first cautious step.\u201cStay still a minute longer, do!\u201d she begged.And Abbie, ambarrassed by the gaze of the two women, hung motionless for a breath, luoking down at the child and smiling faintly.Suddenly a gust of frosty air swept the rvom, sending a flurry of sparks up the chimney and fanning the candles into wavering flame.The door had blown in, and in the opening knelt a woman, whose soft, trightened eyes were fixed imploringly upon the radiant vision thus miraculously revealed to her.(To be Continued) A SPANISH ROBINSON CRUSOE In the quaint \u201cCommentaries on the Incas,\u201d written three hundred years ago by Garcilaso de la Vega, who was himself half-Spanish and half-Peruvian, occurs the story of Peter Serrano, & man whose adventures might well have served Defoe as the basis for Robinson Crusoe.Serrano was a sailor in a ship that, sailing from Cartagena to the Isthmus of Panama, was wrecked in the Caribbean Sea.Serrano, the only survivor, was cast upon the shore of a little island about hatt- way between Jamaica and the Isthmus.As Serrano soon discovered, the island contained no water or timber, or anything apparently on which to sustain lite; he passed the first night bewailing his misfortunes.The next day he explored the island.He caught some crabs, shrimp | and oysters, which he ate raw, for he had no fire.\u2018Then be saw turtles coming in from the sea.Seixing one, he carried tt ashore on his shouiders, where, with bis sailor's knife, he cut off ita head and drank ita blood to quench his thirst.This he repeated on succeeding days with such other turtles as he was able to cépture.The tlesh of the turtles he cut up and dried, the shells he set to catch the rain when it fel].Thus he was able to pro vide himself with enough to eat and drink.Next, ke gathered some pebbles, and using his knife as a \u201csteel,\u201d after much labor got a spark that set fire to the fine thread that he had taken from his shirt.He collected driftwood from along the shore, bullt fires at night, and carefully preserved his \u201ccoals\u201d from being extinguished by rains in the daytime.Thus he lived for three years, astonished that he still kept his reason.He suffered much from the hot sun, and since he had no clothes, he.could get re- liet from its burning rays only by plunging into the sea.With the long exposure to the elements, the hair all over his body grew excessively long; his beard extended to his waist.One afternoon Serrano was astonished to find & man on the island.He had landed with others from a passing vessel, but had got lost among the sand-hills, and had been abandoned by his comrades.When they met, it was difficult to teit which was the more surprised.The stranger imagined that Serrano was the evil one himself, for his body was cover- ea, from head to foot with long, coarse hair.> Each stared at the other, and the stranger cried out, \u201cJesus, deliver me! Lord, have mercy!\" Thereat Peter began in a loud Voice to repeat the creed.On hearing that, the stranger came nearer, and crying oat \u201cWe are fellow Christians!\u201d embraced him with tears.After this the two lived together; they divided their labors, and agreed on the hours by day and night during which each should care for the fires, that they might not die out, They quarreied, of course, and almost came to blows; but realising their folly, they became reconciled, amd lived together amicably for four years.At the end of that time a Spanish ship passed quite close to them, and seeing their fire burming, sent a boat to thelr rescue.\u2018When Peter Serrano-and his companion, who now looked as wild and hairy as he, came down to the shore, the men refused to take them om board, for they believed them to be devils.So repeating the creed, and calling on the Saviour for liverance,\u2019 tliey plunged into the w after the boat.Thereupon the sailors litted them into their boat and brought them to the ship.Serrano\u2019s compasion died on the vop- age, but Serrano himself reached Spain, and went over to France, where the king then was.There he told the sufferings through which he had passed, and pointed to his beard, which he wore as it was, in proof of his story.His imperial maf esty awarded him a pension payable in Peru.He died later in Panama.UNITED FARMERS OF ONTARIO The story of the United Farmers of Ontario, just published under the title \u201cThe Challenge of Agriculture\u201d will be read with interest at a time when the farmers of Canada are making such a strong bid for federal honors.The editor is Melville H.Staples, a man who spent years on the: farm, and has evi dently made it a labor of love to compile the interesting information contained ia this volume.Copies can be had from the head office of the United Farmers of Ontario, 130 King St.RB, Toronto.Price $1.25 net.Some of the most pointed things said about preachers and sermons have been uttered by occupants of pulpits.For im stance, Bishop Westcott made this sweeping statement that halt the theology of the present day was based on mere ignorance and carelessness.Bays the same authority: \u2014*I am sure we have too many sermons.It would be much better to ask peopie to think in silence for twenty minutes.Life is getting too full of occupa: tions.One can never be quiet\u201d A preacher himself, Stopford Brook, writing to a friend, said of his brethren: \u2014\"As to the clergy, I wish they would try to be Christian,\u201d and Edith Sichel wrote once, \u201cAll the clergymen in the world eannot make me disbelleve in God.\u201d By printing his sermons, the late C.H.Spurgeon reached millions of people in alt parts of the world, outside the sound of his voice in the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Canon Barnett believed that the Gospel of the higher life is not to be couvoyed in any set phrase or by any one means, and that it now reaches man through the thousand influences of literature, art, and society, which have heen touched by the Spirit of Christ.Phillips Brooks, that master preacher, called preaching, \"Trutia conveyed through personality.\u201d Another saintly man, Bishop King, said 8 sermon was à good sermon when people went quietly away and wanted to be alone, and that a sermon must teach, interest, and persuade, Abont Diamonds Diamond fakirs are many, and they Br a trade among the gullible.paim- white sapphires as Braailian diamonds of the first water, and obtaining high prices for flashing stones which are known as d'amond \u201cdoublets.\u201d \u201cDoublets\u201d are no more genuine dia- monde than are bits of glass.They are nothing but faked stone, with a thin slice of real diamond cemented by invisible cement to the tront of 8 bit of crystal or one of the lesser precious stones.With diamonds fetching such high prices, R seems, on the face of it, an absolute certainty that a fortune awaits the man who can find out the way to wake genuine diamonds.Dozens of men have spent half their lives and all they possessed in trying to make real diamonds, but their efforts have only led them to penury.The fact fy a senting diamonds exactly simlileæ to those mined in the blue earth off Kuuberigy, or found in the river beds of Brazil, can be made by man.Diamonds, asd carbon, and the blackdead which ja brushed on firegratas, an with which we write in the form of pencil, are all the same stuff.They are all\u2019 carben; the only difference in that dia- monés are crystallived carbes.How nature makes \u2018do not kmow with any certainty.It is certal however, that there must have beez great heat and enormous pressures involved in the making of theses gleaming precious stones.Men of science have at various times carried out many experiments to thewe grest heats and pressures, but the results have not been encouragng.They cannot be made big enough to be of commercial value.; WHERE HENS MATCH FISH We hase heard of a hea doing quesr things.In China hens are called upon: to take\u2019 the place of a fish hatchery in a manner that is certainly wnigue, if mot amazing.The contents of an ezz are blown out through a smal bole, after which fish spawm je collected and the shell is refilied with the- eggs, each one holding thousands of what will be greet and small fishes when thex have undergone fucubation.When the shel] bas been filled up, the hole is carefully sealed and then it is put under a broody hen.The eggs are kept under the hen for a certain number of days when they arc taken out, the shells are cracked and the spawn poured into water that has been warmed by the sun ray.Very shortly the spawn hatches, after which the tiny fish are kept ib pure, fresh water when they are sorted and put Into gréater poads.finally to be released.The.system, to say the least, is a successful ome, and has been followed by the Chinese for a bators for the hatching of hen\u2019s eggs.In Chins, \u2018where the products coming from the sen are so highly important to the welfare of the race, great care is exercised iu the perpetuation of fish species.In this country we think little of looking out for the fish supply of thie ocean and its comservation.In China it is demanded that 1 one fishes = certain strip of water he must also stock that water in proportion to the number of fish taken out.\u2014Rod and Gun.\u201cThou who hast made Thy awelling fair, With flowers beneatix above with starry Mghts, And set Thine altars everywhere On mountain haights.\u2018Waiting for worshippers to ceme to Thee, In Thy great out-of-doors, To Thee I turn, to Thee my prayer, God of the open alr.\u2018 He Has Used Them For Thirteen Years.WHY A M.GUENTHER SAYS USE DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS He Says That Dodds Kidney Pills Are All That is Claimed For Them, And Also Recommends Dodd's Dyspepsia Tablets.Dead Moose Lake, Sask., Dec 6th.(8pecial.})\u2014\"1 have used Dodd's Kidney Pills for thirteen years and have found them ail that is claimed for them.\u201d Buch fe the tribute Mr.Anton M.Guenther, a well-known and respected resident here, pays to the old Canadian kidney remedy, Dodd's Kidney Pills.All that is claimed for Dodd's Kidney Pills is that they are a kidney remedy.They heal and strengthen the kidneys.They are used to treat rheumatism, dropsy, backache, urinary troubles, diabetes, and heart disease, because all these ills are elther of the kidneys or caused by diseased kidneys.Mr.Guenther has also used Dodd's Dyspepsia Tablets and he says of them: \u201cI can heartily recommend them to all sufferers from stomach trouble.\u201d Ask your neighbors about the Dodd's remedies.> MON me ZION'S OVERSLKR SAYS MODERN ASTRONOMY (8 ALL WRONG Some Curious Points Advanced to Prove That The Earth is Flat The theory that the earth is flat hai en earnest adherent in Wilbur Glenn Voliva, Urerseer of Yiom, the religious community that Alexander Lowie founded at Zion City, a little to the north of Uhl cago.| Declaring that there is Bo proof what soover- of the sphericity of the earth, or that the earth has any motion, Uver- teer Voiiva says he is | \u2018prepared to re fute modern astronomy, scientiticaliy es well as from the standpoint of the bible.\u201d Here: are some of the points ne ad vances: \u201cAll standing water is level.Let any one disprove ft if he can.They cannot disprove it.l'his is conclusive evidence that the old Pythagorsan- Copernican system of the sphericity of the earth 15 faise.\u201cA MAR 81004 at KiREBton, Jamaica, and saw the lighthouse ai Havana Harbor, eighty-two miles distant, which is another conclusive proof that the sphericity of the earth is a fake.\u201cI'ne midaight sen has been seen hundreds of times, but it wonid be avec lutety impossible to see ft Om à sphere.You would have (0 look through Run- dreds of miles of eartk and rock.\u2018\u201cFnere is a railroad in South America » 2,000 miles long which is almost perfectly level.\u2018I'he Suez Canal ts a hum- dred miles long without locks and with scarcely any rise st al.Where Is your curvature the \u20acxrth?\u2018rhaere is none.\u201cNo wonfler higher crities and modern beflavers ir the Copernican system of astronomy laugh at the flood and say that such a thing as a ticed could not oecur ok a globe or & spherical earta\u2014 and ! agree with them.\u2018rhey are per foctly right.\u2018That is what the devil in tended when he imvented the modern astronomical thedry\u2014t0 destroy the word of God.\u201d \"hey say that eclipses are caused by the earth passing between the moon and ihe sun, causing & shadow; but Row can you have an eclipee with both the sun and the moon above the horizon\u2019 ~ It 18 a matter of record that there have been & number of eclipses with both the moon and the sun above the hortson.No one knows what causes eclipses.\u201cThey tell you that the sun is 92,000- ObV miles away.| laugh at that, not only as a mathematician but aiso as a student of God Almighty's word.\u201cLid God Almighty create the earth and then create a light to light it up and put it ¥2Z, VUU.UOU miles distant and make ft a million times larger than the earth?\u2018Wht kind of a fool would built a house up in Kenosha and erect a light a hundred miles from it to light up the parior?\u201cThey say that sctence is not speculation, but If science is true, then there can be no conffict between it and the word of (jod\u2014but when it comes to the word of God, they will have not a leg to stand on.1 will take the word of tipa and down any modern astronomer on the race of the carth and dispose of him in legs than thirty minutes.\u201d CANADA'S NEW COAT.OF-ARMS The London Gasette contains a Royal Proclamation acceding to the request of \u201cthe Governor-General-in Council of our Dominion of Canada\u201d for a new coat of arms for the Dominion, described by the proclamation tn heraldic terms as follows: \u201cWe hereby appoint and declare that the arms or ensigns armorial of the Dominion of Canada shall be tlerced tn fesse, the first 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