Montreal witness and Canadian homestead the people's paper, 15 août 1923, mercredi 15 août 1923

[" MONTREAL WITNESS SOUGALL à son 200, Wack at EVOLUTION was only heid back in Germany we are told by a public man of advanced socialist views by the glaring object lesson of bolshevism ia Russia.The German proletariat has seea the consummation aimed at by the phil osophy of Marx and so diligently promoted among them by bolshevist Russia.It has seen \u201cdas Kapital\u201d abolished and it does not like it.Indeed, now that capital is abolished the natural cry of the laborer Is for a poor twenty marks & week, less than five dollars, in gold value, instead of worthless paper with thousands and millions printed on it.The man who gets six or seven million marks for to-day's work has small satisfaction in the knowledge that they will only buy half as much to-morrow ss they would when his pay was last raised.The man fortunate enough to have a dollar grudges to exchange it for a suitcase full of thousand mark notes when he knows it wifi buy two suitcasefuls next Wednesday.The banks had to shut down because the printing presses could not supply the paper as fast as rendered necessary by its reducing value.The shops bad to close because the money taken to-day would not buy stock for to-morrow.The people clamored at the doors of government for money that would buy somethiag.They declared that government would not proceed until Dr.Cuno gave them good money.Could anything be more foolish or, indeed, more wicked than to go on feeding that CANADIAN \"HOMESTEAD -~ .The People\u2019 VOL.LXXVIIL No.33 \u201cThey have been continuous in building canals, rail ways, ships, out of public money and their factories are running full blast.We have them by the throat, soomer or later they they most righteously owe, must pay us.\u201d It is all an illusion.All these things bave been paid for in paper.They cannot pay France with paper, We naturally ask ourselves how they pay with paper at home.If they can \u2018do that, why could not we, and have everything booming, as in Germany and as always | happens when everything Is getting dearer?Let us see if we can follow these great public works till we can find who has really been paying for them, seeing that paper certainly does not pay for them.We shall find that the government has been run and its works have been paid for out of everybody's losings.So, for that matter, was the German cam- Daign paid for.So have the accumulated stocks of the factories.It is a long story, During the war the Katser's government raised loan alter loan from the Germans themseives.Just as it was here the most loyal thing to do to subscribe to the government loans, so it was there.The war was to have been over in a few months and the French and Russians were to have to pay.When interest came due or any of the loans matured they were met with mew paper.All the worid wondered how Germany was tinancing so heavy a war.The war was draining the country being burned up in ~ertting ail the bogus stuff out to them?France thought tal which the same thing.They were wiltully oar p @rading the mark so as to make payment Deople were getting wenithy in bonds.That of national debts impossible.While all the while, poor people, they have no gold and cannot get ft.A new issue of Paper against gold that they have not got would immediately become worth just what the present paper is worth.Here were a8! the condlilons for a revolution\u2014a nation willing to work for a bare living but being ted with valueless paper.There was « man who put green spectacles on his horse to make him think shavings were grass; but it did not work.The cry was raised.\u201cGive us momey that will buy or resign.\u201d That was as far as the crowd could see.It wag a cry of desperation.It was not that any government that would follow could do any better.Behind that cry was the communist spirit all whose hopes are iz the abolition of the present order of society with no idea at all of what they would replace it with.It would be unfair, however, to say that the people generally are destructive, or even to say that they are fierce; they ave simply des perate.Things have occasionally happened in their mad efforts to get food for their families.Dr.Cuno was willing to sit tight it that would dave the State: he was more [ willing to stand aside if conditions could be bettered by a change.When the latter appeared possible, he left the job to Dr.Stresemann, a man of decision, who has begun by stopping all reparation payments to everyone until possible conditions shall exist within the country.His next move will apparently be, with the support of a coalition ministry, to venture further in the way of taxation than Dr.Cuno could.May he succeed in saving Europes from smash.To take hold at such a time is am act of courage on bis part and on that of the various party leaders who have undertaken to stand by bim.It is am anxious question whether the distress of the people, caused by the fallure of available currency, an evil that cannot be suddenly provided Against, has aot reached an ungovernable stage, Abolition Of Capital, VERY Freachman (rom M.Poincaré down to his chauffeur will tell you the Germans can perfectly well pay what is a method (hat in a country with implicit faith in its government can be repeated amasingly.There was an end to that however, whea the.war government \u2018Itself collapsed, and by and by belief in the war bonds softly and silently vanished away.But there is a way of reaching the whole people that in one form or another has been known to governments for many ages and is understood by the simplest of them.That is fiat money.Lead stamped as silver or as gold was the old way.Paper is the new way; and there is almost no end to paper.Almost.but It has an end as we are seeing once more.Whether paid directly to canal navvies or drawn by manufacturing companies to pay their thousands of hands, it is an enormous forced loan taxed upon everybody who exchanges any concrete thing whether bread or boots, a horse or a house or a days a week's or a months work, during his tenure of it.Lowering money naturally makes business brisk; for peo ple instinctively feel that it is not a real value and exchange it for something real, whether beer or a dance-hall ticket as soon as possible.It tends to waste.Hach car-; ries his own share of the sacrifice as short : «à time as he can till by and by al, rich and poor alike, find that they have ne thing.It is, of course, something\u2014the capitalists, small and great who did the losing.The way in which the depreciation of the mark wipes out capital is simple as stated by a writer in the Quarterly Review.A man owes fifty thow- sand marks on his farm.He can now pay it oft with the price of a pair of chickens.A manufacturer can pay off a million mark loan with an old sewing machine.Capital that is not in solid property of some sort has just been cleaned out.Many kinds of actual property have become aimost value less.But a house property which has for the moment gone down to no value will, it the owner can keep alive by driving a barrow or otherwise, come back when nor mal conditions do.How then has Germany kept on so long with such a tre mendous machinery at work for exhaust ing its savings.It certainly gives token of a very thrifty people who bad among them a great deal of acquired wealth, And it MONTREAL, AUGUST 13, 1888, \u201cMake Canada a Land to Love \u201d those who Bad | « Paper TRS YEAR.must be remembered that the whole nation has been most earnestly at work ever since the war for the most part creating values.Europe in Perit, ERMANY can pay, must pay and will pay, says M.Poincaré.We shall ouly forgive her any part of her debt it Britain paye it for her by remitting our debt to her.Britain will then look to the United States.indeed, he declares France to be ready to join the other powers in making this demand upon the United States or, more plainly put, in informing ber that unless Germany pays them they do not expect to pay her what they themselves owe her.France will not submit the question of Germany's capacity to pay to a committee of experts; they would simply say they found the German treasury empty, whereas France knows that Germany can pay.It would be absurd for such a commission to return such a crude reply.It would enquire how much liquid assets there are in the country and how far these could be drawn upon.They would probably report that these are practically exhausted.They would further enquire what capacity the country has of producing wealth.They would find that, given time, this capacity is enormous, but that the wealth produced would necessarily be in the form of goods and that if the creditors of the country would get paid they must achieve it by taking toll of these, ferring this product of industry to the creditor countries except in the form of goods.It Is goods the other countries are all afraid of, and well they may be, so productive and so economical has Germany become.The real thing to be afraid of is German industry and habits of thrift.It is told of Bismarck that, when he saw how wonderfully France throve after tba German exactions, he said that a victorious country instead of forcing indemnities on the conquered would serve its owa turn better by forcing the other country to fe cept indemnities from it.Britain tells useless.France answers that she has her teeth In Germany's neck and insists that she will not let go till Germany pays up.The trouble about that is that the longer she holds on the less Germany will be in a position to pay.Indeed, according to the estimate of Britain's wisest and most responsible men, France is, by doing so, hur- trying Europe to cerlain and early ruin.Unprofitable Hate.! | WENTY years ago a famous French professor wrote: \u201cFurope dislikes France almost unanimously, and why?It i is not the France of 1902 that Europe dislikes; It is the France of 1802; it is not the France of M.Loubet, but of Napoleon I.But, then, why hate for tbe past instead of hating whatever is formidable or hateful now?Because lt is difficult to understand the present and easy to recail the past; because it is difficult to be intelligent and very easy to remember.\u201d If the enmities which history perpetuates could be blotted out, the greatest single step towards universal peace would be taken.It is now France's turn under M.Poincaré's rancor- jous urging to live in the past.It ie not the Germany of Cuno or Stresemann which she squeezes by the throat, but the Germany of Wilhelm and bis predecessors.American children are still brought up to hate all English kings for the acts of a hundred and fifty years ago.It may be fairly claimed that the genius of the British peoples is towards placating former toes and liviag and workiag im acoord with thom.South Africa and, more receatly, and that there is no other way of trans | France ber occupation is illegal as well as | Ireland, are examples.Mr.Baldwin says there 3 no tenderness towards Germany in the British Empire.But it is the British way to seek the shortest permissible path back to peace and productivity.Democratio Diplomacy.A MONG the democratic triumphs of the war was publicity of diplomacy.Henceforth not rulers but nations would negotiate.The difficulty about it Is that uations cannot come to terms.Five rulers, left to themselves could come to agree ment in five days.Each of them would, of course, consider his own country very ill used, but it would be the best he could do.\u2018 When it comes to publicity each of the five must have dictated the terms to the rest and achieved a triumph, or ac cept dismissal at the hands of his owa people.On remote questions such as oc- cupled the Lausanne conference so long, Western Europe, preoccupied with nearer things, may take a defeat lying down.The West had its mind pretty well made up that there was nothing in Turkey that it would go to war about, whereas the Turks were rather reckless on that point, and so had the whip by the bandie end.Besides that, the West had an underlying conviction in its mind that everything the Turks were demanding was just what a western nation would insist upon to the death.They were simply claiming to be a nation among nations.However unfit the Turks were to be a mation, however blemished their national reputation, they were, at all events, doing themselves no discredit in standing up.as their Sultans for generations had failed to do.(or their natural rights.Nor was there any real humiliation iz withdrawing terms that were humiliating to the other party.The very painful attempt to come to terms im the West is different.To the details of that the peoples are all wide awake and the nerves especially of France and Bel gium, the trampled countries, are madden ingly raw.For M.Poincaré to give in a point to (reat Britain would explode his whole jingo powder magazine.Dr.Cuno seems to bave fallen through taking too passive an attitude towards events and j powers.Even the autocratic Mussolini must appear to be arbitrating between the powers not following any lead.To come to terms with Poincaré is difficult enough for any statesman who is, like Mr.Baldwin, a business man with the interests of England and Europe honestly in view; but a great difficulty is to hold a majority of his own parliament, a still greater to hold his own die-hard party.Mr.Underwood, the most prominent figure on the Democratic side of United States politics, recently declared it to be necessary to America\u2019s own well-being that she should lend a hand ia settling the affairs of Europe.Then his second in command practically claps a band over his mouth, \u201cQuite true,\u201d he says, \u201cthe country will have to slip into the League of Nations sooner or later, but the present moment, when the people are being appealed to, is not propitious.\u201d Bad for the world, one would say, that demoe- racy should make agreement impossible.Yet, good for the world, because there is no agreement till the peoples agree.Na- tlonalism, selfish and narrow, is a better & larger phase of human existence than mere vocational solidarity.But it is only a stepping stone to the larger unity com- templated by the League of Nations, People say that light is burning dim.So does the lighthouse burn dim in a fog and sends out a plaintive wall.But it does not go out, and the perplexed mariner peers the more eagerly for another glimpse of its blessed gleam.A Broken Sond.MONG the hard questions that min- Isters have to solve in their present conference is what shall be the relation of the dominions of the Empire or the Brit tannic League in the matter of defence.Accordiag to an intelligent correspondent ree \u2014 MONTREAL WITNESS AND CAN ADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGLLT 18, 1523.who has boon making enquiries, the CAD en laber naions-\u2014got up by Jews for thelr adian answer is going to be an otioss one, namaiy, that cach shall be guided by its own parliament.That seems like a fine independent course to take.\u2018What Canadian shoulé ask for any ether?But pause | We presume that, them to gat bat by work, ned by per and ask what it means.Canada counts oa the aid of the Mother Country it ever she nosds a champion.She always has claimed this as & matter of course and of right\u2014would be bighly in dignant if her claims were not backed by the imperial power.What then would thls alieged response to this important question on the agenda of the constitutional coa- ference mean?Simply that while we count on the imperial power, that power cannot count on us at alt We enter into no league and refuse to make any promises, In fact, we have no piace whatever ta the fellowship on which the other members can count.This looks tke & dombahelt placed under the bomd which bas hitherto tied us together.If this is what the O¢ tawa goveramemt is blankly proposing te do for us, which we refuse to believe, 1! ts time we kuew it.It certainly would be own purposes.The unions put 8 premium on loating.It te work that will help workers, not unionisiag or strikiag.If he was president he would look round and ses what the pesple wast snd would help lage and hocus-pocus.He is down om the seidiers\u2019 bonus.Boldiers are as good as any one else.If say of them can werk, they should be fized up and made indepen dent.Farm men do too much work\u2014 work that is not profitable.The railways should be all in one system managed by government.But if he made autos in the way govermments do thinge he woulki have to charge, be says a million dellers apioce for them.But what if Mr.Ferd has pre nounced convictions in almost every we popuisr direction?What of that?Is he not a strong man?Measured by the com: mon measure of money he is the strong est man im the world Mr.Herbert Heover recently said: \u201cIt te one of the most precise of the paychotogient veritios that men in the mass dees net think.He only fesis.The rmuitituée does met act a whisper of death of a much mere serious sort than is to be got out of our railway ; delicits or our population deficies.Although the simple solution here alleged has been; the formula of our government ever siace | the quation was posed, and although it had ; to be resorted to when a somewhat inept ; tmquiry came from Mr.Lloyd Geesge's gov ernment as to whether in n certain ces tingency Canada could de counted om for ald, and although Mr.Mekensie King =: reported by the Evenement to have made in Quebec \u201cthe important declaration\u201d worthy of Senator Lodge, \u201cthat Canada must mot: futerfere in Europeam affairs\u201d We ram: not think so raw a treatment of the ve preme problem of our Britannic union will be all cur represestatives have to offer: whea the question becomes definite, When the representatives of the fledging n+ tions which have in the Last invoked the | sheltering wing of the motier shall meet and ask each other what natieniced within th empire mesas, they will hardly have | the face to answer tbat it means less than » League of Natien: and fmmeraanrably loss | tan an alliance, that, in fact, it means no thing more than s mutable sentiment.Will they expect the imperial power, in the hour of they need, to deliberate as to whether it will stand by them or not?We sce the difficulties that will obtruds them selves as, for instance, in the sensitive com ditiom of ireland.There was a good deal: of the same skittishness in the first days of the American Federation.Strong Man Rule.S for strong man.rule it probably! occurred to the whisperer that therg | is at the moment no way of bringing it about.In the first place there are no strong men lying round loose.When you! came to look for a great man it is wonderful how few there are.Most of folk are preity much of a sise.You cap find.the names of all the great mea that ever were in à very few pages at the end of the dictionary.The trees went forth om a time to anoint a king over them, and | they said unto the olive tree: \u201creign thou over us.\u201d But the olive tree said unto them: \u201cShould I leave my fatness and go to be promoted over the trees?and so they sought on till at last they got down to the bramble who invited them to put ! thelr trust under his shadow.Perbape the whisperer could at least have offored us a bramble, This strong man business, ft must be confessed, is very much in the air just now.There is more or less of a call for him in every country.There is, for instance, a high tide running in the United States in favor of Mr.Ford for next president.A popular weekly has been taking soundings by aa unbiased plebiscite and has found ft so.Yet Mr.Ford is up agalost the people at every corner.When interviewed before the late president had passed sway, he said, Mr.| you exeapt through emotion op sentiment.\u201d There are times when the people want à Mussolini.Ob.yes, if the pesple want a man whe will do things, Mr.Ferd will face \u2018questions as they arise, and, what îs mere, he will sottls them.Community Service.HE reaction toward strong men as leadess is of a plese with the iargar reaction against a flabby dependence om the community fee one\u2019s wellbeing.Mr.Graham, Minister of Railways and Canals, ! speaking st Calgary expressed himself as robustly against cosseting the settler as Mr.Ford did against apeeial privileges to labor.Wit will help a man in either walk of life ia his own manhood.Crutches will serve him a bad turm.This swinging lato the procession and making the traffic stand aside for the march ia pleasant be cause there are se many in it, all of one It gives a feeling of domination, but it does not always get you anywhere.After some hours sailing up stream just as fast as the inexorabls current takes down you find yourself still opposite the landing from which you started and you say: \u201cWell, that was pleasant, but 1 would have got further on my legs.\u201d At least, most of these who have got on have done it by getting on, and mot by clase movement.We are not saying that mes should mot give their best powers ta co operation in public amelioration.It might slmest be said that one is not a maz at all except in so far as he is 2 cooperating part of a community.The more he co-op erates the more alive he is, for life is cor- rerpondence with environment Bat co operation will make him smaller or larger according &s its aime are selfiah or um seifish.Let him de his public service in the interest of the whole community.But be had better not think that the community je going to put him in a palanquis and carry him to the better land.The hill is too steep and the community moves on but slowly, whea it moves on at all Classes and communities are more zovermed by what they want than by what they cas reasonably get.\u201cNurse, why doa't yos give the child what he wants?\u201d \u201cI can't, ma'am.\u201d \u201cWhy cau't your\u201d \u201cHe wants the moon.ma'am.\u201d Atrophied Conssiousness.HE Star had a column last Saturday dated that same éay from Winnipeg fu the very same hysteric style that has characterized its whispers\u2014ose would say in the very same hand writing\u2014telling how the troubled spirit was hailed in that distant city with wide approval and embodying an article from the Winnipeg Tribune weeping over the high pressure of tmmigration at the portals of New York while Canada needs popuiation so badly and charging that the Ottawa government fs asleep with respect to its immigration Harding is just the man to hold thimgs policy.The weeping of the Tribume Is, down till progress forces its way.He and the dest, he said, are busy finding how not to do it.They got along by promis ing the people what they think they want, when the people 40 not kmow what they however, nothing to the sobs of the Star's other self in the covering letter: \u201cAtrophied comsclousness of the needs of Canada never was more apparent iw the public men of the Dominion say Winnipeg bus} want.Mr.Ford has no use for the tariff, St pets a brake om industry.He is down, neus men when asked for their opinton of the Whispar of Death.\u201d They seem to have sympathized with the whispeser's pelitics er else with his cemdition He goes on to tell us how Canada is going to break in two in the middle, the West to go to the United States, and that the people who are going to hand it over \u201care far restoved from the radienl class or adher- ants of pro-Americanism.™ We agree with the whisperer that the federal government ts not detaz what it should fer the filing up of the country, that it is greatly guilty ot the distresses of the West and that the job should be in better bands.But if there is any one in the country who is of \u201cstyephied comscisussess with regard to the population needs of Canada\u201d it ls who ever is respemsible\u2014or irrespomsible\u2014fer the Star.The Enemy Of Immigration.pré SE the Star hes been itself the chief in divide! ememy cf the agricultural inter ests of the West and, move than say other personal force, (he cause of the lack of population there.There are drawbacks that government cas at the best only per tisly mead, sesh as the iniand position and remotemess from market so long ae wheat is its staple erep.But there i ome glaring disability fer which the federal government is directly responsible and for which tire farmers through aif thet regis ave gueshing their teeth at the Hast, at the federal government and pointedly at the Star Reelf, and that is as a western farmer expresses it in this paper, the fast that the farmers have te sell in the cheap est market, with innumerable and seme ummecessary costs charged against them, and te bay all they nesd, including laber, = the dearest market.Whemever any ef fort has been made te remove this wreug im any degree the Siar has raised a hub deb agaimet KR thet deafened everybody.and mot without effect.It has done this in the interests of these who sre preying en the farmery and making their position in the country difficuit.There is just eae way to make people flock into a country and that is to make it prosperous for theme.Make it amprosporous sad they will mot come, and H brought by government ac tivity, they will do the country more harm than good by their report of it.The hest thing the government can do te sites things, the thing by which it cam best put heart inte the farmers, is what the Star would wail ever, the recognition that this is an agricultural country and that we ave wasting Ke powers when we exhaust the farming industry for the bemefit of in Justries in which confessediy we cannot compete to advantage.There is, of course, another thing the government can do te people the country and that ie te provide the marooned settlers already in it with a way out, auch as they had a right to count on.Bat it was the Star that seunded à pacan of praise whem the Semate sent a big hertha shot through the carefel plans of the Rnilway Commission to mest such needs to à minimum extent.That was the whisper of death to many whe had heped against hope.There was perhaps there sgnin an \u201catrophied comseicusaces of the needs of Camnéde\u201d in the matter of pepuin- tien.Immigration Facts.HAT are the actual facts, not the megrims, about immigration?One fact is that there is the same agricultural distress in the United States as ia Canada, \u2018The embargo oa our products has not mended matters and some want ft repeal ed.Another fact is that the booms which attracted so many Canadians line was due to a condition of things that Canads is not ashamed of, the fact that she was fighting and expending her cap ftal lavishly during the years that the Unf ted States was raking money ia from aff the fighting nations, for a time, even from Germany.We do not say that Canada did wot do some profitesring too.But the wealth of the world flowed into the United States, causing & business expansion be yond the consuming power of the nation\u2019s markets.Bo that the tide which drew so many to the only aecess of prosperity the world offered has begus to ebb and people are niready seeking their old openings in Canada.Auother fact is that there is en across the | \u2014 | abundant iswmtgration rushing into Cas ada st thin moment.The difficuity is not at all getting the immigrants.There is no occasion to reproach the government about that.Where we reproach it, and reproach the Star, is for the chatanie which our protective tariff puts ia the way ef agricultural development.It is geserally understaod that the eame intarests that had the Conservative party by the throat have a protty tight cinch om that mow im power, and that the good its res! Liberals would like to do is rendered impossihia by uot having a real Liberal majority in par lament.How this is managed some of NE statement is that thers are seven thousand men oa their way from Great Britain te Canada; another tells how some thing like three thousand satied from Glas gew by Canadian Pacific vessels within à | fortmignt.A variety of such round figures jal imply a comsiderable movement.À number of these migrants hope te get tuto the United States by a side door.fût : able number are from the cities and will soon be looking for industriaï employment.These will probably be able to emsm 'encugh ia thefr summer outing to take them home again.The pity of it is that a Inrge proportion of the most promising and available land in the west is Delf out of cultivation by speculators, from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, the greatest sinner, dawn te the settler who has got possession of more land than be can cultivate.VA 17H remacé to the uaprivilaged spor ly to the people whose occupancy and labor effect is se te scatige the people as to sup port à minimum population and to alieñ- uate thelr religious, social and educational conditions.It may be said that even the quarter section does not grow emsugh whest to support a family.But have we sot been méseuring by wheat capect#F long enough, necessarily a dimimishing gapacity amd Mable to unnumbered mis- Raps hoth before aad after it is harvested.we not better make our rich country little more self-contained and a little filler of people, not by congestiag our ties With forced industries, but by start ing our aew settlers om more inteasive culture.Our Wasted Domain.E have said that the worst sinner ia holding land for profit te the Canadian Pacitie, essential as that vital organ has been to Canada\u2019s development greatly as it is interested in develop the country, heroic as has been fits service ia land development.That com- Pany's initial land grent was twonty-five million acres, which was to be free of taxation for twenty years, the company to choose its own sections.The astute sistesmea who made that bargain sup posed that the company would hasten to got that vast space occupied within the otted time and that the glorious domain { brought into being would from that time be open to all mankind.The more tstute bargainers on the other side had ft so arranged that they might select their sections, not only where, but when, they chose, and they did not take possession faster than wis necessary to secure pick.Now, forty-five years later, bring.We note that the Whisper Death has shifted like a will-o\"-the-wisp a new place ia the swamp.The em- of the whisperer's prescription for salvation of the country is no longer ba the strong maa who is to take control ethod of cure.The settler is to be bid choose his own lot and the government will get it for him.How is the country to make that offer good with regard to those four million acres?Does the whisperer mean to confiscate the land that Be EE at à he.Or will he pay the company its price and then sell to the settler at his?HB present goverament came into power at Ottawa with a very large business concern, a heavily - losing con.Cern, on its bands.A large proportion of she people thought that was as it should De except that all the railways in the country ought to be included in the government concern.These were for the most part indifferent as to profit and loss, Another large proportion, ; including most business men, wished the government out Of it, and some, to whom all interests except profit and loss were indifferent, de- ciared that the first loss would be the least foss and bade the government get rid of the whole thing as best it could without Gelay.What schemes might be behind this very urgent counsel, people could aly guess at.Those who advised this, aud continue to clamor for it should sure ly have the credit of having had some in- {olligent, if concealed, idea where they were going to dump the scrap.Their counsel Was even more reckless than that of those who would run the railways irrespective Of profit and loss, as it ignored the major {nterest, that of the regions which the rail Ways were created to serve.The govers- Ment thus finds itself in the very cross fire of these two claims\u2014that of saving country on the one hand from the *\"Whisper of Death\u201d fn fts finances, and on She other from the \u201cwhisper of death\u201d in fts popülation.Both of these woes are fotetold by a contemporary with apoca- lyptical dreadfuiness.To both of them that contemporary has been, as wé have shown elsewhere, a leading contributor.Fhe government's greatest embarrassment tomes not trom the scrappiag of the roads, Saless these are working underground fatnez of which the public is uninformed, but from the scrappers of the accounts, Whose assault is from every point under heaven, whose name is Legion and whose seutiments are intense.MONTREAL WITNESS ANE CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST 18, 1083, Some Of The Demands.HE maritime provinces make a covenant claim to be left out of any scheme for determining rates on a business basis.The Intercolonial was always run at a loss, and they think always should be.How else can it fulfil its pristine promise of repisc- ing the New England trade of those prov.Inces with Canadian trade?How else can it deflect the export business from Port- fend, a foreign seaport, to Canadian ses ports requiring several hundred miles more land haul?Presumably the privilege claimed for the old intercolonia) wonld accrus of mecessity also to the reach of the Transcontinental, which, chiefly, also for political reasons, runs parallel with it.The West will, of course, cry out against put ting any obstruction whatever between it and the too distant sea; and, on béhalf of the country ag a whole, it will be truly said that whatever extra cost is tmcurred by enforcing this long haul will have to be paid for, either directly out of the grain tn transit, or out of the taxes of the people ia operating losses.Turning to the next reach of the National Railway, we have a similar stand: ing demand from the Board of Trade of Quebec, a city that generally gets its way.In February, 1921, that body memorialised the national government asking for p seventeen, or, at most twenty cent rate per bushel by rail from Winnipeg to Quebec or Montreal instead of thirty-six cents which was bringing practically no grain that way aud sending most of the grain exported from the Canadian West to sea by way of New York.The claim, sub stantiated by a map, was that the Trans continental was practically a straight line through fiat country giving it an advantage \u2018also of two hundred miles ia distance over the Canadian Pacific and tbe Canadian Northern, both crooked lines through hilly country.It cannot be denied t&pt the ples \u2014it was Quebec's plea\u2014{for the building of the Transcontinental was that its shorter distance and level grades, with the possibility of running much longer trains, would deflect the stream of grain from the New York route.It was also shown that one year a cut rate had brought the stream that way aad had brought many steamers to Quebec.The Quebec Board of Trade put in a plea at the same time for more elevator accommodation fn eastern ports and ésked the government to amend the insurance tables which ought automatically to regulate themselves by actual resuits.When we get to Manitoba and Saskatchewan the chief appeal is for a railway to Hudson Bay.That la bound to come.Ontario is striking outefor the same inland sea with practically no prospect of through commerce to Europe that way.Apart from the portentous possibilities of making a cut-off spout for the prairie grain, the vital tendencies of railways to spread in all directions would make this inevitable.It is, however, the immense service it is counted on to render to the removal of the crop that places the scheme today among the imperative demands on s har rassed government, intent on battering t nation\u2019s financial condition.\u2018 Moving on westward we are met by another claim which reminds us of the first.Its plea is the very reverse of that of the Quebec Board of \u2018Trade, based as that is on the straight level rails of the route over which privileges were pought.Alberta and British Columbia are united in hoid- ing that Nature's obstacles ought to be ignored in determining freight rates.British Columbia's aspiration to have the principal seaports of Canada Is sltogether praiseworthy.Not only does she look to see the chief products of the continent pouring out through her portals but the needs of half the continent distributed from these.Winnipeg is naturally alarm- od.Owing to the low ocean rates, she says, Vancouver can already supply Calgary with cutlery from Sheffield at half the cost for carriage that Winnipeg can, and groceries at two-thirds the cost.Why add to this advantage?This is Winnipeg's frank reason for her vigorous opposition Winnipeg which is so bitterly, and, we may add, so reasonably, accusing Montreal of opposing the Hudson Bay route for some of it.That is just what the region west of her is now saying of her, It makes a difterence which foot the shoe is on.What is obvious is that the moment we fling aside business priaciples of railway management there is no standing ground om which to come to conclusions, \u2018There re mains nothing but political pulling and hauling in sectional warfare, The release of the wheat crop from its ia- land disability is one of Canada\u2019s ruling interests at present.Being a national matter, no local interest should stand in the way.Nor should any local interest stand in the way of any region meeting its needs from abroad ia the cheapest way.The question before us is to what extent we can afford to tax ourselves nationally to counteract natural disabilities, having also in mind that the era of wheat camnot be looked upoa as permanent and that the cure of of marketing problems will have, in time, to be looked for in putting the land to more self-sustaining use.The Ancient Enmity.I Tis ove of the queer tronies of lite, À and perhaps & warning against fine drawn doctrinaire logic, that if a man make a fetish of an ides, he will insensibly, while continuing to give it lip service, allow his actions to speak from precisely the opposite direction.Thus Robespierre and Lenin became tyrants through their devotion to the principle of \u201cLiberty.\u201d Once à few Irishmen started an \u201call-for-Ireland\u201d movement with the praiseworthy intention of uniting all parties but they soom became political Ishmaelites, their hand against every man and every man's hand against them.Mr de.Valera so greatly abhors the idea of Ireland being \u201ccarved up and partitioned\u201d that he has done more to carve and partition ft than any man living.In the North we have another notable example of this strange law.Here \u201cUnionists\u201d have effected separation and \u201cloyalists\u201d in the very name of loyalty have sometimes become bitterly opposed to the British government.Although the Prime Minister and others whose loyalty was above suspicion, had spent long weeks with the Irish delegates, Ulster could not be brought to \u201cshake hands with rebels.\u201d Yet Ulster in a great measure held the key of the situation.That Debatable Boundary.LSTER proper contains eight counties.Two of these, Donegal and Monaghan, are predominantly Roman Catholic, and have been included with Southern Ireland under the Free State.Two others, Tyrone and Fermanagh, with Derry City have mized populations, and these from the beginning have been the crux of the difficulty.It was over these counties that the Buckingham Palace conference of 1814 broke up in hopeless dis agreement.When the British and Irish peace delegates met in 1921 these two counties again threatened to wreck the prospect of peace.The Treaty, as fimaily consummated, included ail Ireland as one dominion, but contained a clause to the effect that Ulster (the six county area) could, if she pleased, vote herself out.of the Irish Free State and retain her political connection with Britaïn.If this were done, however, there would be a readjustment of the border to be arranged by a commission consisting of one delegate cach trom North and South and one representing the Imperial government.The Free State was no sooner established than Mr.Griffiths was Besieged by demands from Roman Catholic Nationalists living within the Ulster border that they should be delivered from the rule of the Black North.Avery horrible series of outrages and re- prisalg along the border threatened for a while to nüllify ali the good work that had been accomplished.The Four Courts re bellion and the subsequent difticuitfes throughout the country gave the government all that it could bandle for the time being, but they had it continually cast up to them that they were leaving their compatriots and co-religionists under Orange bondage.Now that the country is settled, Mr.Cosgrave has appointed as his dele the parposanss alleged of forcing om the gate for the border commission, Professor western farmers ag extrs thousand miles MacNeill.of carriage, in order that she may handle But again Ulster stands out of the game.Sir James Craig recently stated his case: \u201cI not only hold firmly to the opinion, but I am strengthened by-the high: ost possible legal advice, that if, as I propose, no representative upon the Boundary Commission is appointed by the Northern Government, the Commission fails to be set up, and consequently, no action can be taken .those living on the boundary will kindly accept this message from me that their interests will be safeguarded and no territory will be given up whatever unless by agreement of those on the spot.\u201d It will be noticed that this statement com.tains a saving clause, \u201cthose on the spot\u201d must decide the matter.If those on the spot means the whole population gnd the Ulster and Free State governments agree on a border to be decided by a free vote of the populations concerned this serious Irish complication might be considered as on à fair way to solution.Sir James Craig took a mysterious trip to the border the other day.He has also met Mr.Cosgrave in London.There have been some very cor dial doings among Nationalists and Ulster- ites in South Monaghan.There is no real reason why the two Irish sections should retuse to get into harmony.Mr.Cosgrave and his government have given uneguivo- cal proofs of honor and of loyalty to their pledged word.Under their careful aad statesmanlike guidance their people are gradually becoming accustomed to a free position in the British Commonwealth of Nations.Ulster continually glories in the Empire and in the principies for whick it stands.Its people would be doing a mot- able disservice to the Empire and to the cause of British unity if they refused to meet their southern countrymen half way, Elections In Ireland.RISH elections have im the, past been the horrible example offered by the promoters of proportional representation of the falseness of the old system.One section of Ireland was represented ex clusively by extreme nationalists, the other exclusively by extreme uniomists.Those who might prove a harmonising ele ment had no place at all.The election about to be held under that more equitable system has filled the sky with candidates, classed as Free Staters, Republicans, Farmers Moderate and Radical Lebor\u2014per- haps spme other kinds.There are also the Southern Unionists, a very distinct and very important element, but thinly scattered.It is expected that they will, for the most part, vote in support of the govern ment though there may be occasional votes for Farmer candidates.This element is well represented in the Senate.Forecasts of the election give the Republicans about twenty.seat& Probably thé Government will meet most serious opposition frgm Labor.The official Irish Labor party, though republican in sympathy, have accepted the treaty.Radicalism has penetrated the rural districts and the agricultural labor ers are more or less loosely organised.Here and there in the country, indeed, rural soviets have aprung up; lawless mea have seized farms and grazing land in de fiance of the owners and of the govera- ment.As the Executive power gains in strength these abuses will be remedied.A great extension of the Land Purchase Scheme was recently put through by the Dail.This will make Southern Ireland & nation of peasant proprietors.James Lar kin is carrylog om in Dublin as in prewar times.He and his special followers have quarrelled fiercely with the regular labor unfons.Just now the port of Dublin is badly tied up with a dock laborers\u2019 strike, The Republicans, R.DE VALERA gives out that: \u201cIt is not the intention of the Republican Government or the Army Executive to re- néw the war in the autumn or after the elections.The war, so far &s we are concerned, is tinished.We intend to devote ourselves to social reform, and to education, and to developing the economic and material strength of the nation.We hope to prove how much more fruitful as a principle and how much\u201chore potent as an instrument of government, is the loving regard which attracts and inspires and elevates than the domineering brutality which can only disgust and abase.\u201d These are very beautiful sentiments, but come strangely from the lips of a man whoee - *3r FOUR fanaticism and mogalomania have kept the country in torment, wasted its property and its people's lives and sown hatred everywhere.Ome would think he was now going to cease from trombling, but he goes oa to say: \u201cWe shall refuse to admit that our country may be carved up and par tiGomed by amy foreign authority.HM there were a free election so that Repub Teams could adequately present their program to the eleclorate and if we were elsc- ted 1a a majority, our policy would be to govern the country on Sina Fein lines as in 1919.If the present condition of suppression continus .and we are elected in a minority, the elected Repud- lican members wil) all refuse to take say oath of allegiance to the King of England; will meat apart and act together as a separate body working along Sinn Fein Unes for the honor and welfare of our country and fer her advancemant among the mations.\u201d Mr.de Valera's implication that the goverament will not permit a free election may be taken as an effort to bol ster up a failen cause.It has been his boast that \u201cwhen [ wish to know the mind of the Irish people I look into my own heart\u201d With a queer kink of the mind be seams homestly to hold the belief that if the Irish people differ from his Spanish- American notions they have beën made to |.staltify themselves by force or fear or frand.Mr.Congrave's attitude toward de Valers and his group is simple and manly.\u201cLet them stop their war; fet them stop their threats; let them under take citizenship and our hand of friead- ship is out to them.We will forgive the whole thing and forget it.\u201d licans can be persuaded to do as British republicans frequently have domes, te shelve their republican principles as for the present unattainable, ané to taire their places in parliament as a permanent ideal istic opposition, they may perform geod service for their ceumtry.M they hold MlooË, coniidering themselves the true quvernmest of Ireland, \u201cmeeting apart and auting together ns à separates body werk- tag along Sing Feta lacs™ they will be a disease.A Wend Of Cheer.T HE Dominion Department of Agricul ture bas undertaken a great patriotic work in seeking to promote a spirit of op- timjsmm among the farmers.If their effort can lift the load of despair from hearts weakening under their burdens and awaken new hope, they will do a great service to the individual and to the nation.Doubt and.despair sap Lhe energy, destroy initiative and multiply misfortunes.The slogan of their campaign is: \u201cHave faith in Camada™ Faith without works is value less.We prefer the Witness slogan \u201cMake Canada a land to love.\u2019 But there is in- Goad good reason to have faith in Canada.-1£ we lose faith it is because we become too self-centred, because we forget that in a world of chaos Canada holds the position of a most favored natien.The De partment's plea is for better farm practice.They show that ap acre of hay at the Central Experimental Farm is worth fourtesn dollars more than the average acre of hay fa Ontario.They spend sevem and & halt dollars more to get that extra fourteen.That is a good investment.Their figures would be more valuable to the average farmer if the yield per acre were gives as wall as the cost and profit per acre.The farmer would then have a figure to compare his own yield with.The Department has done great service to Canadian Agri culture and has opportumities far doing much more.Its effectiveness will increase as it secures the goodwill and coufidence of farmers.It is better to show how to get better results them to boast of having got them, which is omly an offence, not a service.The farmer naturally attributes the successes of official farming te facile ties that are beyond his reach.In Mar hoting, a Toronto advertising magasine, sppears a report of the Department's cam- veign from advertising man's viewpoint.la this report \u201cone of the promoters of the camepaign\u201d is quoted as saying, \"The assimistic farmer is generally a pror preme whe csmnct farm anyway.\" Jeside the ariicie sre published the photographs of the Mon.Mr.Metherwell, Dr.Grisdale ond Mesure.Architaié, meétiok, Clark and It the Repub-| # MONTREAL WIiTMESS AND CAN ADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST 18, 1688.Arkell as \u201csome af the men responsible for the government advertising campaign fo resell Camada to Camadlans.\u201d We do not believe that any one of those is re spomsible for such corner-boy talk, but we draw their attention to it so that they may aot only keep it out of their publicity but that, still better, thay may weed it out wherever it crops up in their department.The spirit behind thal remark is the chief cause af the regretted antipathy of tarmers toward the Department.RECONGTRUCTION AND RE-CREA TION (To the Editer of the Witness) Sir,\u20141 wus deeply impresscd with a vec- ant editorial of yours on Britals where you ce of Napoleon calling us \u201ca nation of shopkeepers\u201d and where you aptly speak of The Raiser as the \u201cposturer\u201d Berlin, and who called Britain \u201cthe of the Thames.\u201d In these disturbing times, we who for a neration have found a real home in this free land of Cunade; nevertheless find ourselves, in i ination at lea bacigeagain in the land of our nativity, wan¥iking along its shores, walking over its battlefields, climbing its rugged hills, and reflecoting on Britam's sise and place among the nations.\u201cReconstruction\u201d is the term we bave heard so long.I am convinced i is not reconstruction we need so much en \u201crecreation.\u201d never before.When will these le, and our own Camdian people, take the initiative, and xiiow the Almighty to tench us the meaning of our pains) disiilusion- ments of ern days, and the unsub- stantiainess of material things, and the of pleasures?ant men need te vemlize these days that ples and mations are mot machines, bot organisms, souls, spirits.À true revival of vital Christianity would do more for the world now t this continent as woll es te in ts welter?1 did not intend 1 started out to orial did me mental machinery te following.If you consider place in any of welcome 60 i as \u201c Swan River, Man, Aug.3, 1923.À Puuiots With \u2018 Dear Island Home of Britain, We love thy sea-giet Ty hills and plains have cradiod reat heroes in days of Heroes who heard the call of sea: Men who said we shall be sea, Lovers of truth and liberty Heralds of all that's best! Toy sous have gone to Afsica ith healing and with light; Ta India\u2019s ancient pire They are fighting the Tight; In islands of the ocean, \u201c n gods ous, The heathen learned devotion Through Christ the one true way.God foeep thee, dear old mother: Amidst the nation's strife Clear-visioned, brave, and royal Sharer of God's True Life; From ancestral home aad Tayer's incense true doth rise Esom humble and contrite spirits A nation's sacrifice Swap River, Man, Aug.3, 983.RURAL SCHOOLS IN MANITOBA (To tho Pditor of the Witness) Bir,\u2014The farmers of Maniteba bave £ail- en on evil days.They have been ap pressed by big wages sud high rallway rates, bound hand and fost by protection in vain do they tern eut ome government and put another in, it makes me differ ence.taxes increase and the cost of living mounts kigher and higher.Looking back a matter of fifteen years, I repeat, a change of government makes little difference to the farmer.Years age we made our own roads, but the \u201cTeader- foots\u201d must intrude themselves and show us how to make roads with the asaistance of a jug of whiskey: how to run automobiles 1ty miles per hour, ovens # we sac- riticed ous or two lives in acquiring the art.We had our little farmers\u2019 fairs, Where onr children could enjoy themselves, but the \u201cTenderfoots\u201d thought we lacked civilisation se they must needs in- teoduce hose racing with its attendent betting, etc.Being men of peace, we suffered them to go thus far, and thes they attackel our schools.banished our Bible, until some of our children in the of their God was s gorilla.Even so were the angels of Truth sod draggied followed mourn TORT, pao Not content with this the camp follow ors of partyism must lay hold ot our Ark of the Covenant\u2014the Rural Schools of Manitoba.We all know \u201cthe gemesis\u201d of the Rural axe of tbe Pioneer heard in the woods than a little log-echool house arose, \u201cthe Circuit Rider\u201d of the Methodist Church made bin sppesrsmce singing sa be CHRONOLOGIES AND CHRIST (Fe the Biitor of the Witness) .Bir.\u2014dn the attempt te discredit the {aspiration of parts af the Old Testament.it has been said that the genealogies of Chronicles have nothing about Jesus is them.The same contemtion was made about Hcclesiastes, and the bosk of Pre iy g E à Ë ef ral Esarief by i 1 Ë a id Hi ; Et hip! i Î 1] v 3 £ EE £ E i 8 È 8 : F f Ë it fa i i ¢ h \u201cLe iif Liz i HE ssh fk 2% gr fa I il ï I sR ï ë iy vif { i ji i i f I i ig ï f i § à i i E 3 £ Ë i i { i Ef i ï i § i & E z Ë ë Hs ng i 284 gi Ÿ 8 LES A i zi Brg: fis i if LE $x, He Efi} Le F § H 3s is SE i #28 TH] HE il eyeii «ËgE fits if tH g I 2§ Ë § à ë v3 ë | i | | i i ir fs un z - hs § ï i: 3 1 i Ë £5 x Ë F re i i Ê ï : 8 2 : i 8 8 = ë ; B 8 E g LS TREE Hit fh, ! [ à ê 5 2 i i | ; i saved of every age, delighted to prove Som them that God was as good as Wee ord.E Ë à i Fp ref ski t g » ë ê Ë Ë Ë wi 8 Es i j I j kd 111 Ë ï RÉ Ex ff tf i 4 2 ir \u201c6 Ë 1 Ë il i E52 1g : 1 Be i ie I je I H ; il : { [4 § i ; £ is WF 7 ?Ë 5 ë & $ vy Q à * # f ASF it | à i be 24 i fh] 3H M iH TH { i à I fi i ; ts of be a ë ; i E ; i ai J! i i I i ; : j ji r | | | ! | F i Ë ; 1 ex i E i Fi ze pe EFL 2 8 & Bes id iE] i.: bes: Î : ifs i i i i i it .Ê i ! i Ii fe Ë 5 ff.Ë RE HEE 1 æ i it ii i th Ë EF 5 | scies di the royal priesth Peter 2:9,) will be proved by in heaven, .gr ip Ë iff ji! i | Üsceys Hil Ait Hi fats! feu 1 Ë petting its operations organised, but se far bave not been seeking for wettiers in the United States.In this werk, MONTREAL WITHESS AND CAN AGIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST 19, 1983.! Stories of New France (Concluded) Troubles Wors Rogan Could La Balie have forgotten his cherished \u201cfar-reaching plans,\u201d and satisfied himself with the small domain around him, he might, 50 far as appearances then showed, have hoped for a long and prosperous lite.So a superficial reader might reason without paying any attention to the changing prospects of Ounade.As this is only the \u201cStory of Fort Frontenac\u201d we have not been taking lo the altered position of Canada or the clouds that were ROW darkening around her, tnterfering with even the peaceful little settlement at Cataraqui.The merchants of Montreal still regarded the Fort with jealous eyes, because it divided a part of the tur trafic which bad, hitherto, flowed chiefly towards the settlements of New England Complaints found their way to Quebec; and injurious imputations were sent to France involving both Frontenac and La Balle, while un- derhaud efforts were made secretly to undermine the good understanding between the latter and the Iroquois; while the savages were told that their professed friendship wag strengthening the fort with the fotention of making war upon them, and this while the same informants were writing to La Salle in flattering terms as \u201ctheir bulwark\u201d In that direction! Count Frontenac sought to allay the resulting uneasiness by another visit in state to Fort Frontenac, where he again succeeded, in restoring confidences by his kind words and his generous gifts: and his expression of the hopes that many of his Indian children would come to settle under the shield of the guns of tha New Fort which were strong to succor as weli ns to destroy.But Canada was fast growing divided against herself, and the secret machinations of interested enemies soom made it necessary for him to revisit Parls to viadi- cate himsed amd Frontenac from the charges of their enemies, and to lay further projects before the king.Other clouds were rising in the horizon, menacing the peace of Canada.Coicnel Don- Kan, Governor of New York, was bent on frustrating the great scheme of French doinination which he saw aimed at the entire possession of the interior.The Hudson's Bay Company on the north, the New England settiers on the East, and the Colony of New York opposing the French advance to the seuth of the Great Lakes.were all seeking to encircle France with a barrier to further progress.Crael Treachery Fort Frontenac of course, had to bear its shure of she unhappy events arising out of this border warfare, and the tréach- erous Governor Denonville darkly stained his own name and the fair fame of the Fort by perpetrating against the peaceful Iroquois ta its vicin'ty a piece of coldblooded and cruel treachery against the inhabitants of & peaceful village où the Bay of Quinte, quietly making their way up the river, a piece of wickedness that is somewhat relieved by the noble Missionary Jean de lLamberville who expected nothing else than a cruel retaliation, when he was amazed by the following kindly address as he was leaving the Fort under & trusty guard who was to see him to safety\u2014\"We know you too well to believe that you meant to betray us\u2014but you are not safe here! When our young mea tiave sung the war song, they will listen to nothing bat their fury!\" Ia which generous spirit they sent him to Fort Frontenac, to serve the treacherous governor who.it may be hoped, profited by the contrast between the Onondaga, Saemh and himself! The time of international warfare was raplily thickening.The miseries of the \u201cthree war parties\u201d and the massacre of Lachine were close at hand.along-with the gallant return of Frontenac to the rescue, when in his seventieth year, he came to rescue and rebuild the demolished fort, and in s short time left lt re- Paired and garrisoned for a year.Bat as this is aot a story of war, or conquest, but only of Fort Frontenac, we will not follow it to #s fall; but we'll leave that oftem told story to its proper Place la the Chronicles of Kingston, to which it belongs.The treacherous Marquis de Denonville, having, like his predecessor La Barre, Manifested his incapacity for dealing with the critical situation in New France, the only hope of saving the harassed and ter- rifled colony, was an appeal to their oid friend and hero, Count Frontenac.Such an appeal had never deen made in vain, and now, though he might well bave pleaded his seventy years as a reason for refusing to cross the ocean once more to fight bie old battles over again he obeyed the call, Count Frontenac Returns Oriée more the old hero, ataunch to the last, wov=sted the appeal and reached Can- Ma with the autumn Wind le meet an en- thusiagtic welcome.But he also had to deal with a changed attustion, as he could nes at once, in the biackezed site of La- chine, with its tale of massacre and ruin; and a little later in the half-ruined state of the Fort he had founded, now wrecked by is predecessor's hasty order, t'aoëz- not beyond the possibility of re- Pal.abe he also found that the influence of \u201cOnorchio\u201d was not quite what it had bec».when he sent s messanger to Onondaga begging his people \u201cnot to act like foolish children dorgetting their obedi- ênea to their father.\u201d But they reminded bm that thelr Council fires at Fort Frontenac had been quenched in blood, and informed him that they had now made peace with the tribes in their vicimity, and that they would continue the war, till their countrymen, who had been entrapped at Fort Frontenac by Denonville's order, should be sent back to them alive and well.The next few years were among the most distracted and unhappy in the whole history of New France.A sanguinary border warfare was now encouraged by Col.Doagan, Governor of the Colony of New York, who was determined to frustrate the great scheme in French colonization, which he saw, aimed at the entire possession of the interior.To this end he had no objection to muster a larger and formidable force to sttack the villages of the Iroquois, keeping his design secret, while professing that his purpose was solely to hold a peace conference at Fort Frontenac.Frontense\u2019s First Care - Frontenac's first care on his arrival fa Canada had been the restorution of Fort Frontenac which had been badly damaged by bis predecessor's haste to avail himself of a permission to destroy it, somehow obtained from Quebec, though he himself had received a contrary commission immediately on his arrival.He had hastened to endeavor to save it, with a detachment of 300 men; but found to his dismay that the order had already been eva- coated and the fort partially destroyed.However, the destruction was not 20 complete as had been supposed, and the ruins were at once occupied by the Iroquois, who found therein a large store of munitions and supplies.But Frontenac was determined to stop this sanguinary border warfare between the frontier settlements, keeping the unhappy settiers under a reign of terror, often afraid to venture out of thelr stockades for the tilling of their fields, while an iroquois blockade of the Ottawa river Intercepted the trade im furs, cutting off the colony's obief means of support.Bat Frontenac\u2019s exertions, combined with other incidents at Quebec, soon threw the water way again open.and the colonists could hardly find expression for their joy and gratitude to \u201cthe father of the people\u201d And preserver of the country, and notwithstanding à storm of opposition from some who feared that the re-establishment of the Fort might interfere with their own interests, Frontenac bravely held to his purpose, and carried it out In spite of all opposition, adding to the original atruc- ture some needed improvements.And once again in the following July the heroic oid Govermor, mow in his 70th year, led a second expedition from Montreal to Fort Frontenac, determined to make à strong effort to bring the Iroquois to their former attitude of friendly co-oper- ation! Again Led a Feree Once again he led up the St.Lawrence & long flotilla of cances and bateaux, with a force of 2,200 men led by the bateaux In tie former martial order.Once more white sdrges of the rapids had to be £aced and overcome.Frontenac, true veteran as he was, would have plodded on with the rest, but here ns later (at the Falls of the Oswego,) the Indians lifted bien and his canoe on their shouiders, and singing their war songs\u2014carried him through the dark and tangled woods on the shore! Two years later the stalwart old Viceroy passed away from the scenes where his strong band on the reins had saved New France more than once at the most critical moments.He had broken ia a great measure, the power of the Iroquole to harass the colony, and, to some extent, restored the all but shattered Indian Al- oc he tad eo carefully brought about tn pursuance of his own vigorous policy, he had steadily refused to comply with repeated directions from headquarters to abandon Fort Frontenac! The western forts, inaugurated by La Salle, were maintained, and in fulfilment of the cherished dream of La Salle, the colony of Louisiana attained an actuai existence, and the Gulf of Mexico was brought into direct communication with the Bt.Lawrence, through the pioneering energy of le Moyne d'Iberville and other brave sons of New France.\u2018Bat the French supremcy je America wus shortlived and we all know how the decisive struggie wan to sad Fort Fros- senac could not long survive so radical a change, but, after à brave defence by her unliant commander De Noyan, she honorably capitulated tc Bradstreet in front of Kingston harbor, on Aug.27th, 1758.We are told that after Louisburg, it was the first Canadian post over which the Red Cross banver was unfolded, and ita fall was one of the main events which result- od in the conquest of Canada under Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham.FREE INSULIN FOR ONTARIO Dr.Forbes Godfrey, Minister of Health, has announced that insulin, Dr.Banting\u2019s remedy for diabetes, will be distributed in Outario free to any patient whose phy- sicisn certifies that he or she is unable to pay.It will be distributed from Fort William, Owen Sound, Toronto, Ottawa, London, Peterboro, North Bay and Sault Ste.Marie.=\u2014=-\u2014-\" PRIVY COUNCIL HEARS B.C.APPEAL G.McGreer occupied the whole at Thursday before the Privy Council ia Ot- taws in presenting British Columbia's ap peal from the order of the Railway Commission of 1922 in the matter of freight rates affecting that province.Opposing the application were Isaac Pitblado, who appeared on behaif of the Winnipeg Board of Tradg, F.H.Chrysler, K.C., of Ottawa, for the Canadian Railway Association of Canada, E.P.Flintoft, counsel for the C.P.R, and Gerald Ruel, general counsel for the Canadian National Raflways.There were two general features of the British Columbia claim.In the first place, it was claimed that under the terms of entering Confederation, British Columbia was entitied to the same transportation at the same cost as was extended to other parts of the Do miolon.British Columbia had entered Confederation under an agreement identical with that under which the Maritime Provinces had come in, but one had mere ly to compare prevailing rates in the two sections of Canada to realise the discrimination against the Pacific coast province.The fact of the matter was that under present conditions recognition was given to the geographical disadvantages of the Maritime Provinces and they were granted lower rates on this account, while British Columbia was told that because of increased operating and building costs she must pay higher rates.Monopoly Created Comparing & sugar manufacturer in Montreal with one ln British Columbia, under prevailing rates, Mr.Greer declared the latter could not compete with the former in the Winnipeg market.The rates created a monopoly in favor of the eastern manufacturer.They constituted a dis- I* crimination against men located in British Columbia and Alberta and by the pro visions of the Railway Act such discrimination was prohibited.Mr.McGreer contested the argument that water competition in the east was a reason for allowing the railways to drop their rates in eastern Canada below those prevailing in the west.The rate on canned goods was one of great importance to British Columbia, he said.There Were now 15 Institutions in the province engaged ia canning and preserving.The rate on canned goods from Vancouver to Regina was $1.3712 and from Wiudsor to 8t.Leonards, in Ontario, approximately the same distance, It was 66 conts.This was an excess toll agalust British Columbia which amounted to 104 per cent.Water competition could never justity such discrimination.The high rates are the result of a cold: lr studied design to enact from the tonnage of Canadas the greatest number of revente tom miles that ft will produce.Mr, MoGreer continued, Instead of de- eve veloping a system of distribution the prairies to the Pacific to hook wp with the Pansma Canal, there was a de liberate attempt to put in a rate barrier which would force grain through Fort Willlam to Halltax and St.John.This was resulting in a serious condition ia Ale berta, as he understood that people in the Peace River district were unable to move grain om the eastern haul.Cost of construction, he maintained, could not justify the mountain scale.Cost of construction was often incurred with the object of lowering cost of operating.Moreover, if cost of construction were to bo taken as the basis of rates, it should apply all over tbe Dominion.The highest cost of construction on the Canadian\u2019 National in British Columbia was in the Fre ser River canyon, where it was $133,000 per mile.But on the Canadian National from Ottawa to Montreal the cost was $178,000 per mile.Grain Rats Contrast He contrasted grain rates over an 308 mile haul east of the Pacific and west of Fort Willlam.The export rates to the Pacific were 27 cents, as against only 38 cents to the head of the lakes, an excess of $600,000 on twenty million bushels of grains.Local rates on grain to Vancouver for consumption there, as compared with the local rates to Fort William, imposed a tax of $376.000 a year on the flour users of British Columbia.Under the present system of rates 108, 000,000 bushels of Canadian wheat had gone through United States ports in 1923 as compared with 34,000,000 through Montreal, Quebec and St.John.Was it mot in the national interest to bring about Tate conditions that would build up grain export through a Canadian port on the Pacific?The West took great pride in Montreal.and he was confident that the east would take pride in another Montreal on the Pacific.Mr.McGreer illustrated the importance of decreased rates to British Columbia by stating that the 20 per cent reduction last year on grain should be responsible for a tremendous increase in the shipment of this commodity to Vancouver.Isaac Pithlado, representing the Winnipeg Board of Trade, questioned whether this increased grain shipment to the western port was due entirely to reduced rates.He thought that it was partly due to the fact that Vancouver should be given ims proved facilities for handling grain.Mr.McGreer said that shipments had increased by 100 per cent after the 20 per cent in the grain rate.Hon.W.S.Fieiding, Minister of Ft- nance, asked for a comparison between rates from a given point in the United States to Seattle and from a point in Ca nada to Vancouver.Mr.Pitblado continued: They are lower in Canada.E.P.Flintoft, counsel for the C.P.R., supported this statement.\u201cUnited States rates, both east and west, are higher than those in Canada,\u201d he said.Mr.McGreer submitted a map to show that there could be no comparison be tween rates in the two countries owing to differencies in physical conditions, when Mr.Chrysler protested that this was new evidence which should not be introduced on appeal.Mr.McGreer expressed the view that any hardship which the railways might suffer through an equalization of western rates would be more than made up by the business consequent upon the department of the natural resources of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.He maintained that time would come when the west would produce sufficient tonnage to wipe out the deficits of the Canadian National Ratlways.Lumber was one of the necessities of the prairie provinces and was being produced In great quantities in British Columbia.The rate ov lumber from British Columbia to Manitoba was $15 per thousand \u201cThere is no justice calling for a rate covering 8 two-day baul, which increases the cost of a commodity by 100 per cent,\u201d maintained Mr.McGreer.\u201cThis same lumber is now moving from Seattle to New York, via the Panama Canal for $8 a thousand.\u201d Transcontinental Rates Finally Mr.McGreer introduced the question of trans-Continental rates.He explained that it costs less to send goods from Montreal to coast terminals or trom coast terminals to Montreal than to and from points in the interior of British Columbia and Alberta notwithstanding that the haul was shorter.Mr.Flintoft argued that this question abould not be dealt with as it come before the Railway Commission and evidence would be required if it were to be sifted.He felt the Privy Council would be bound to get a prejudiced view of the matter from the remarks of the British Columbia counsel If the railways could not put in rebuttal evidence.F.Ford, KL C.for Alberta, said that the conbsel should hear argument ln conne tion with transcontinental rates aad if 8 (Continued ea Page 30) MONTREAL WITNESS AND CAN ADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUSUSY 19, tell : NEWS OF THE WEEK .r MONTREAL AUGUST 15, 1928.Resignation of Cuno Ministry Dr.Gustave Stresemann Forms New Cabinet.The resignations of Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno and his entire Cabinet were accepted by President Ebert on Sunday.| A critical food situation, superinduced by a shortage of supplies, and by prices beyond the reach of the workers who are being paid in worthless paper marks, together with an internal economic and financial situation that is regard.d as highly favorable to the effective spread oi Bolshevik propaganda, may be said to be the immediate causes of the retirement of the Cuno ministry.a Dr.Gustav Stresemann, leader of the German Peoples Party, has been commissioned hy President Ebert to form a new government, Dr.Stresemann was born in 1878.He is onc of the most fluent speakers in the Reichstag, and an out-and-out party man.Nevertheless, he is regarded as an adept titician.The new Chancellor has been identified with industrial activities.He is the presiding chairman of the German- American Economic League, which is occupied with endeavoring to further trade relations between the United States and Germany.New Stresemann Cabinet The new German Cabinet is comstituted as follows: Chancellor, Dr.Cutave Stresemann.Minister of Foreign Affairs, Herr von Bergen.Minister of the Interior, Herr Sollmann.Socialist.Minister of Occupied Areas, Herr Fuchs, Clerical.Minister of Finance, Herr Hilfordinge, Socialist, Minister of Economies, Hans von Rau- mer, People's party.Minister of Reconstruction and Vice- Chancellor, Herr Schmidt, Socialist.Minister of Labor, Herr Brauns, Cler- deal.Minister of Justice, Herr Radbruch, Socialist Minister of Railways, Herr Oeser, Demo- erat.Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, Herr Geisberts, Clerical.Minister of Defence, Dr.Gessler, Demo- erat Food Controller, Dr.Hans Luther, Demo- erat, Diego Von Bergen is Ambassador to the Vatican.Stresemann Welcomed Voicing approval of the promptness with which the latest governmental crisis was liquidated, the Berlin press generally applauds Dr.Stresemann for accepting the «bancellorship at à time when the nation is in grave peril, and in the fuil knowledge that his cabinet will be confronted with almost insurmountable difficulties.The reactionary newspapers declare Herr Cuno will be remembered in history as \u201cthe chancellor of passive resistance.\u201d Dr.Stresemann took possession of the chancellery early on Monday morning and immediately began negotiations with candidates for cabinet posts.William Sollmann's consent to accept the portfolio of Foreign Minister has not yet been obtained by Dr.Stresemann, although it is said he is most likely to do He is well known as a Soclalist leader in the Rhineland and is à sturdy opponent of the Separatist movement.Herr Fuchs has been provisional president of the Rhiveland, and Herr Von Raumer is close ly identified with industriaiist activities.He held the post of Minister of Finance in the Fehmenbach Cabinet fn 1920.Dr.Otto Gessler, Rudolph Oeser, Dr.luther and Herr Brauns are hold-overs from the Cuno Cabinet.while Herr Rad- bruch, Herr Glesberts and Herr Schmidt were members of the Wirth Cabinet.Victim of Economic Crisis It may be said that Herr Cuno was purely a victim of the economic crisis, as the three middle parties supporting him were still inclined to stand by his government.But at last they realized the futility of maintaining him in the position of Chancellor in the face of two hundred hostile labor votes in the Rcichstag.The Chanceljor\u2019s political supporters and President Fhert finally impressed him with the hopelessness of such a prospect, and he concluded 10 resign.The four-party coalition which hereafter will oceupy the government bench in the Reichstag, will command a majority which is opposed by only 71 nationalistic and 26 communistic votes out of a total of 469.Just before Chancellor Cuno called on Fresident Ebert to submit the Cabinet's resignation, the Reichstag leaders representing the present coalition parties and the Usited Socialists visited the President and discussed with him (he prospects of constructing \u20ac government on & four-party coalition basis.This indicated that the United Socialists had arrived at an understanding with the Bourgeoise parties with respect to their readiness to enter a cabinet which would accept as a platform the programme of internal tax and financial measures and other political and economic demands which the United Socialists put forward in their programme against Cuno.Abandonment of the Chancellor by the Socialists was commonly accepted as a concession to their radical following, and as a counter-strohe to the Communists, who are utilizing the nation\u2019s distress as a means oi mobilizing the working classes around the red flag.Ricting Fatalities Three times Sunday Commugists at Rotthavsc, near Gelsenkirchen, crected gallows with effigies of Chancellor Cuno and Hugo Stinnes swinging from them, but cach time, the police tore them down.The proceedings ended in an vgly rush on the police by the crowd, in which one po\u2019iceman and five of the demonstrators were killed and ten wounded.Eleven persons were killed and many others were woundcd in 2 clash between striking workmen and peasants at Aix-la- Chapelle, according to report.There has been continuous rioting at the big industrial plants in and, around Berlin during the past few days, caused Ly the food sitnation, the moncy shortage and wage disputes, At the giant Siemcns-Halske works in Sicmenstadt, the workers assumed an attitude of passive resistance, refusing 10 do their work, upon which the managrment shut down the plants, which normally cm- ployed 100,000 men.Internal developments in Germany are being watched in London with keen interest and not without anxiety.The morning newspapers feature long special despatches from Berlin dealing with the food and currency difficulties, the strikes and other disturbing factors in the situation.Some of the correspondents dwell upon what they call the ugly spirit of the workers and express fears that a revolution may possibly come out of it all.German Upbeaval Passive resistance in the Ruhr and the Rhineland, which Chancellor Cuno in his address on Wednesday informed the Reichstag would be continued until France decided to create an atmosphere conducive to negotiations on an equality basis, is now approaching the stage where its further maintenance along peaceful lines will depend wholly on the Government's ability to keep the resisting population well fed.The falling mark, curtailment of local food supplies, due to natural shortage and the interrupted mail facilities, and also the punitive measures which increasingly are being imposed by the French now are contributing to the growing irritation and restlessness among the miners, steel workers and civil service employees.The Government's apprehensions in this direction are liberally shared by Hugo Stinnes, the Thyssens and other Ruhr industrialists, who cqually are alarmed over the prospects of an era of lawlessness stimulated by the food shortage quite as much as they are apprehensive on account of the aggressive procedure of the French authorities.: That the French authorities are determined to break down all resistance along the entire front and will not be over serup- ulous in their sclection of the mcthods to accomplish this end, is viewed in Berlin as an impending certainty, and as also forecasting a season of sabotage, the ramifications of which cannot be foreseen in advance.The next seven weeks will decide the fate of passive resistance, in the opinion of political leaders there.They admit that the Government has made many mistakes in permitting the food situation in the Ruhr to reach the existing state of collapse and likewise in failing to take into account the prospect that resistance may have to be carried into the winter if no solution is reached previously.Referring to the Ruhr situation in the course of a speech in the Reichstag on Friday, Herman Meuller, the Socialist leader, said: \u201cIf the battle along the Ruhr is war, then the Govermment must protect the fighters at the front, as well as the home iolk, against hunger if it should adopt war 1 measures caleglated to safeguard the food i situation and find the means with which this war is to be financed.\u201d Her?Mueller castigated the Reich bank's management and.declared that the mark now was popularly knows as the i\"Haveastein ruble.\u201d Communist Activities Communist and radical delegations from many individual plants called at the Reichstag during the day and were received by Socialist and Communist feaders.Among the workers\u2019 demands was the immediate payment of a high cost of living bonus of 5,000,000 marks, likewise a new government, In Hamburg the big shipyards of Bohm and Vos locked out all the workers and closed down the yards bécause of alleged Communist activities, In the face of all the red activities, Berlin seemed to be on a holiday because of the closing of practically all the general retail stores from the largest to the smallest.This was done as & protest strike | against the government, on the one hand, and the wholesalers and manufacturers, on the other hand.\u201d Under a war ordinance, aimed at profit- ecring, retailers must sell at the original cost plus a reasonable percentage of profit.Wholesalers and manufacturers, however, base their prices on dollars, gold marks or any other known quantity.The result is that the retailers are whipsawed unless they take a chance and violate the anti- profiteering ordinance and boost prices, as \u2018many, if not most, do.Food stores, drug stores and cigar stores, the latter because they closed for a protest , strike of their own a week ago, were permitted to keep open.But the food shops in a typically poor residential district had tittle justification for keeping open for they , were uncarly cleaned out.No sausage, | meat, butter, lard, eggs or potatoes were ion sale and there was no abundance of { other commodities.Butter, where obtain- j able, was a milton marks a pound.Olio- margarine was 500,000 marks, ham 900,000 and abdut 500.000, obtainable only in high class shops which were able to carry large stocks.If Germany Dies All the Berlin banks closed at noon on Thursday because of lack of currency with which to continue aperations.The Reichs- bank announced it had no currency om hand and none was in sight for the immediate future.; It is reported the strike movement is spreading to various parts of Germany among different branches of workers who are dissatisfied with the wage arrangements.J A proclamation issued by President Ebert on Friday prohibited the circulation of pamphlets demanding the overthrow of the constitutional government or _incitement to acts of violence or acts that are likely to endanger public roder.The penalty mentioned in the proclama- tio nfor violation of the decree is three months\u2019 imprisonment and a fine not exceeding 500,000,000 marks.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 HAROLD NOICE Noice attempted before leaving Nome to engage four men to go to Wrangel Is land and remain there two years.This was understood to be om the theory that five years\u2019 occupation would give pos spession of the island to Britain, Crawford having been there iz 1920 at the instance of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer.Noice, whose arrest has been threatened by the Soviet authorities of Siberla, according to reports that have come across the Behring Sea, received a large sum of money just before his departure, it was stated, with .instructions from Stefannson to spare no expense in ac complishing the object of the expedition.\u2018The explorer, dash to Wrangel lsland to rescue Allan Crawford and his party, who have been marooned there for two years, placed there »y Hjslmar Stefanseon (0 take possession of the island.for Camada.The Soviet is threatening to capture the party.who is now making a ELECTION Freut IX IRELAND UNDER The general election fever bas gripper the electors in the Free State, and the | interval tl August 27 is going to be am exhausting one for the largest number of electors, parties and candidates in Irish election history.Preparations are well ahead for the campaign, which has begun in real earnest.Doubtless the (\u2018lare comtest will supply the greatest interest, for there Professor MacNeill, Minister of Bducation, is opposing De Valera.There is only ome opinion, and that is that DeValera wili sweep the boards.It is not a question, people say, of his getting & quota, but by how much he will lead the poils.This seenïà extraordénary, but it is the general opin- ton.De Valera and his party have started their campaign, in defiant style.They use \u201cSinn Fein\u201d as the title of their organise- tion, and have started à paper with the same title.it will be Interesting to watch how the electors will take the advice of Cardinal Logue in a letter to a meeting addressed by President Cosgrave at Dundalk on Friday night, when His Eminence expressed sine conviction that \"our course is neither jto follow too many particular interests nor to run after independents.however {fair their promises, but go forward as a | body im support of the minletry.who may (have made some mistakes, but have done , wonders during the past year to reorganize the country, establish order, secure peace, and by solid foundation to build up the future prosperity of the country.\u201d The President's speech was enthusiastic ally received, and similar enthusiasm attended the speeches of General Mulcahy and Kevea O'Higgins.CALVIN COOLIDGE RETURNS TO DUTY Big questions of policy and adminis tration confronted President Coolidge om his return from Marion to take up the work of government.What with conferences with cabinet officers, senators, representatives and officiais acquainted with the pressing problems of tbe hour, be had his busiest day since be assumed office.The coal problem was an outstanding feature of the conference oa Saturday.The president is studying every phase of the controversy from the standpoist of the miners as well as from that of the operators and the public.In the event of an emergency, it is stated, he will act quickly and in a way that everybody will understand.Secretary Hoover, George O.Smith of the coal commission, and Joseph B.Bast man of the interstate commerce commis sion, were the officials with whom the president conferred regarding the fuel problem.Action This Week Governmental intervention designed to prevent a suspension in anthracite coal production after Beptember 1, will be taken this week, it was indicated.\u2018While information as to the exact method to be followed was lacking there was said to be a probability that the Federal Cual Commission would invite of ficials of the miners\u2019 union and represea- tatives of the anthracite operators to re sume negotiations for a wage contract which would keep the men at work after September 1.Negotiations were broken off ten days ago, when the union representatives at the Atlantic City conference demanded that the operators grant the \u201ccheck-off\u201d in the new contract, and the operators refused.Due to the death of President Harding, official action has been held In abeyance, although a study of the situation has been continuing.Some officials are of the opinion that enough anthracite bas been mined by the high pressure production of the last six months to prevent a fuel famine, even if operations were actually suspeuded, provided the suspension was of sbort duration.Notwithstanding, the chief desire is to prevent any test of tha rlorage capacity.Several of those who want an exirs session have already placed their views before the President and those who oppose the ides also have been heard.Advocates of immediate action have based their pleas on the neceisity of em acting legislation to help the farmers im the marketing of their crops and to settle the coal question.Those averse to the Idea believe nothing can be gained from a® extra session at this time, President Coolidge made it known that although he saw po need for an extra session of Congress at this time, be was keeping his mind open and listening to views on the subject from both sides.While no forma! announcement was made eome of those close to the President sald they did pot think be would go te Swampscott, Mass., as bas been su \u2014 \u2014 MONTREAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST 18, 1928.\u2014 Ruhr Occupation Illegal, Says \u2019 Britain Offer to Submit Point to Arbitration at Hague.Under the titie of \u201cCorrespondence With the Allied Governments Respecting Reparations Payments by Germany,\u201d the British Government on Sunday Issued a series of documents which are calculated to create « wide-world sensation.This \u201cwhite paper\u201d runs to sixty-two pages.Lord Curzon sets forth that the British Government regards the occupation of the Ruhr as llega) and unauthorised by the Versailles treaty, thus supporting the German contention in this respect.At the same time, however, he offers to submit the point to arbitration at The Hague or dy some other body.While still adhering to a tome of the utmost courtesy and saying nothing def- nite with regard to any separate action on the part of Great Britain, Lord Curzon em- phas'zea that Great Britain cannot agree with the French policy, which he intimates plainly seems to point to an indefinite occupation cf the Ruhr.The thesis developed in both the French snd Belgian documents has been made public.It is pertinent to recall that in the French note stress was land upon France's confidence \u201cin her ability to bring Germany shortly to reason, as the population of the occupied territpries have themselves on several occasions requested Berlin to withdraw the passive resistance orders which are fatal to their own existence.\u201d The French Government also reaffirmed that it was \u201caltogether outside their power from the French constitutional point of view to modify in any respect the Treaty of Versailles,\u201d and in conclusion repeated the old proposai relative to C bonds that \u201cin respect of an amount of bonds equal to the amount of the inter- Allied debts the French Government were perpared to enforce their chim against Germany ouly to the extent that the Allies may enforce their claims against France.\u201d The next document in the series is Lord Curson\u2019s covering letter of July 20, enclosing a draft of the identical reply to the German Government, which the British Government proposed should be made by the Allies in common on the subject of the German proposals of June 7th.On July 30th, the French Ambassador replied tn à Iéngthly \u2018document which has already sepu the light and the Belgian Ambassador replied on the same date with observations which were later made public.The letter from the Italian Ambassador, the contents of which are liKewise known to the werld, dated August 2, signified general sympathy with the British proposals, but raised certain objections.The Japanese: Ambassador on August 3 foreshadowed his Government's agreement in principle to the proposals of the British Government.Tien comes the must sensational instalment in all the series.The British note summing up the discussions, traversing and combatting the various points raised in prior exchanges of diplo- roatic documents, and reasserting the British position in terms which, while courteous ia form, are firm and emphatic ta substance, and which clearly intimate that the British Government, albeit reluctantly, many be forced to take separate action.Viewpoint Outlined It outlines the British viewpoint, which Curzon summarizes as follows: \u2014 \u201cHis Majesty's Government never contemplated, and does not contemplate.that Germany should be relieved of all repars- tion payments.They are determined that Germany shall pay to the maximum of her capacity.What that maximum may be shoutd be decided by an impartial inquiry.It cannot be ascertained by casting up amounts Germany'd creditors would iike to receive.\u201cIt is admitted that Germany can only make substantial payments if by restoration of her finances and stabilization of her currency, she secures a budget eur- plus avajlable for reparations.Moreover, this surplus must be in a form which can be made available for external payments over the foreign exchanges.External debts cannot be paid by the collection of depre- clated paper marks.Policy Unchanged \u201cTheir poMcy in this matter is stated in Mr.Bonar Law's proposal eubmitted to the Paris conference in January and has bot changed.It means that Great Britain would be prepared to waive in the interest of a complete general settlement, a very large part of ihe amount for which the British taxpayer holds the dus obliga- tons of the Aled Governments.\u201cIt is the hope of His Majesty's Government that the above explanations will con- vioce the French and Belgian Governments of the reasonableness of tha British position and will win their assent to its acceptance.\u201cThey are reluctant to contemplate the bassibility that separate action may be re- Quired in order to hasten a settlement Which cannot much longer be delayed without gravest consequences LO & recov- ory ot trade and the peace of the world.\u201d Commenting strongly on France having [igoored Great Britain's suggestion of a draft reply to Germany, Lord Curzon sald: \u201cThe omission Is hardly compensated for by the series of argumentative passages and {nquiries on points of details and offers of further discussions and conversations holding out the prospect of an indefinitely spun-out controversy, while the fundamental principles were only mentioned in order to declare that they do not admit of discussion.\u201d Much of the note is taken up with arguments against the Franco-Belgian claims of special priority in payments, and especially France's claim that she ought to receive 26 billion marks net and also have her debts to Great Britala and the United States cancelled.Lord Curzon declares that such a demand ls for an amoknt three or four times larger than would, on balance, fall to France's share under the ex- Isting agreement.\u201cIt is difficult to see,\u201d sald lord Cur- son, \u201con what grounds a failure by Germany to meet her obligations, by which Great Britain is proportionately identified equally with her allies, can be held to justly the claim by France to be placed, at the expense of her allies, in a far more favorable position under the schedule of payments itsel(.\u201d : In Paylag Interest + lord Curzon declares his Government cannot admit there is ny ground whatever for revialag the Spa percentages.Ia this connection he emphasizes that Great Britain alone among the Allies is paying interest on debts incurred abroad during the war representing a sum of thousands of millions at the present rate of exchange due the United States, and that Great Britain alone has been deprived in the Allled interest of foreign securities estimated at £700,60¢,000 to £800,000000 which would otherwise substantially assist in the payment of the British debt to the United States.Lord Curzon opposes the Franco-Belgian contention that the reparation commission is competent to undertake am investigation of Germany's capacity to pay, taking the ground that, in the absence'of a United States representative, France and Belgium would be able to carry any resolution over the heads of the British and itailan representatives.Regarding the constitution of the proposed expert commission, the note says the British Government would be willing to see upon it nominees not only of the powers eotitled to reparations, but of the United States and of powers which took no part in the late war, and, it would séem desirable, of Germany herself.II, however, the French Government would prefer any other form of constitution, the British Government would be happy to consider it.Tegality Argued Declaring that the British Government cannot subscribe to the thesis that passive resistance must cease unconditionally because it is contrary to the Treaty of Versailles, lord Curzon declares the highest legal authorities in Great Britain have advised the Government that the German contention is well founded; that the Franco-Belgian occupation of the Ruhr fe not a sanction authorized by the treaty itself, but the British Government is quite willing that this, or any other difference respecting the legal interpretation dt the vital provisions of the treaty ahould be automatically referred to the International Court of Justise at The Hague or to other suitable arbitration.Arguing the illegality of the occupation of the Ruhr, the note says:\u2014 \u201cH His Majesty's Government hitherto have abstained formally from contesting the legality of the Franco-Belgian occupation, they have done so solely in conformity with the spirit of Mr.Bonar Law's declaration at the Paris conference in January, that His Majesty's Government desired to avoid causing any needless emn- barrassment to their Allies.\u201cThis should not be made a reproach to them.His Majesty's Government would ROYAL VISITOR TO CANADA The Duchess of Aosta, accompanied by her son, the Duke of Spotolo, immediate members of the Italian Royal Family, are now passing through Canada to Italy.The Duchess has been nursing the Duke of Aosta, the Italian monarch\u2019s brother, who is stationed at Shanghai.\u2014_\u2014 not even now have taken up this question of legality had they not been challenged to do so.\u201d The note contends that the treaty only authorizes occupation of the left bank of the Rhine and the bridgeheads, and declares that the parallel France seeks to draw with Germany's action in 1871 cen hardly be sustained, because the latter action was expressly provided for by the preliminaries to the peace of 1871, and no similar analogy can be cited in the case of the Rubr.Furthermore, the note states, the recovery of a comparatively small indemnity after the brief campaign of 1870 is not really comparable to the enforcement of ® thirty-three fold claim againat a country financially exhausted by four years of strenuous warfare and blockade.Complete evacuation apparently is not contemplated until the total German re- parution liability is integrally discharged.Re'terated announcements to this effect coupled with insistence on leaving undiminished the total of 132 billlon marks of German indebtedness can only be interpreted as an intention to remain in occupation of the Ruhr for a number of years, which at best cannot be less than 36 and which in view of the generally admitted improbability of complete execution of the schedule being found practicable under any circumstances, may be extended indefinitely if not in perpetuity.OLD STUPF «From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.Wl Disturd Peace \u201cBuch a situation, of which the political, quite apart froim the economic, consequences.could only be described as disastrous, cannot be viewed by His Majesty's Government but with the greatest concern.It would vividly conjure up danger of international relations being affected in a manner threatening \u2014 to use the words of the eleventh article of the covenant of the ieague of Nations\u2014to disturb international peace and the good understanding between nations upon which peace depends.His majesty's Government cannot believe the French and Belgian Governments will be able to reconcile the opinion of the world to an indefinite maintenance of so perilous a situation.\u201d The note concludes with a recapittla- tion of former Premier Bovar {.aw\u2019s plans, concerning which it says the.principle of the British plan ts that Britain le ready, subject to the just ciaims of other parts of the Empire, to limit ber demands (or payment by her Allies and by Germany together to 2 net sum approximating :4 bilifon two hundred million gold marks representing the present value of Great Bri- tains funded debt to the ['nited States.The concessions the Government may be able to offer in respect to Inter-Allied debts, says the note, must accordingly de- poud largely on the percentage of this sum of 14 billion two hundred million gold marks which it can recover (rom Germany.\"They can only be granted in substantive form when the general reparations settlement for which the Government are pressing has been agreed upon and is such that His Majesty's Government can regard their share of the German payments as an assct of real financial value,\u201d the note declares.Lord Curzon asserts that this will be attalned under a settlement guaranteeing punctual payment of the German debt by a system of control \u201cfree from the economically unsound impediments inherent in the military occupation of the Ruhr.\u201d Finally the note says that in view of the fact that although Belgium warmly welcomed the British offer to discuss with the Allies the question of future security, as France had contended this question had nothing to do wth the Ruhr and must be postponed to a future date, the Brit'sh Government thinks no useful purpose cam be served by pursuing the matter.PARIS ISSUES ANSWER ON REPARA.| TIONS A \u201cYellow Book\u201d of diplomatic does ments issued Monday night by the French Government, contains thirty-seven telegrams and letters, most of them betweea Premier Poincare and French ambassadors.They are dated from May 2 to August 3, and deal with the Rubr situation, reparations, debts, and the British ques- tionaire.Premier Poincare puts his position plainly in a June 12 message to the French ambassador in London.He instructs the ambassador among other things, to tell Lord Curzon, the British foreign secretary, that \u201cIt is the problem of inter-Allled debts which prevents us from telling Germany now the exact amount she owes us.\u201d The message adds: \u201cThe solution of this problem is in the hands of Great Britain, first of all, and the United States afterwards.The latter can be approached in a common accord by the Allles when they have agreed upon a formula, and it has become evident evervthing depends only upon the attitude of the Government at Washington.\u201d The Yellow Book was issued as a reply to the British action in announcing that the world would be called upon to judge the present situation with regard to Germany.The documents, which hitherto had not been published consist mostly of instructiona to the ambassadors on how to present the French viewpoint on the situation.They set out in great detail.and often in the exact language, distinctions already made by the premier publicly, and emphasire M.Poincare's absolute conviction that Germany can pay, must pay, end will pay.because France will follow a policy of making it easier to pay than to stand the pressure in the Rubr.British Footnote What is claimed to be \u201can authoritative and direct foot-note on British foreign pol.ley,\u201d was made public on Monday evens ing by the Central News.\u201cThere is no tenderness in the British Empire for Germany,\u201d declares the statement, \u201cbut the Government believe that it France is out to maintain an indefinite stranglehold on Germany the complete overthrow of the enonomic situation of Europe.it not of the whole world, Is cer tain, \u201cAlthough there is more than suspicion that the French policy is directed to the frolation of Great Britain in Europe, (he British Government are seeking not isolation, but the cooperation of France.It that fails, obviousiy Great Britain wlil try à hand at the Isolation game.Using wireless amplifiers and a loud speaker to maguity the sound of heart beats io surgery's latest development. WORDS WANTED H.J.M., Man.\u2014Would you please print posm called \u201cLasca\u201d Several lines end up with \u201cIm Texas down by the Rio Grande.\u201d It is also a gramophone se lection.LASCA (By F.Dupres.) It's all very well to write reviews And carry umbrellas and keep dry shoes, And say what every one's saying here, And wear what every one else muat wear; But to-night I'm sick of the whole affair.1 want free lite and 1 want fresh air, And 1 sigh for the canter after the cattle, The érack of the whips, like sbots in à battle; The melpe of horns and boots and heads That w and wrangles and scatters and spreads; The green beneath and the blue above, And dash and danger and life and love.And Lasca! Ah! she used to ride On a mouse-grey mustang, close to my side With blue serape and bright-belled spur.1 laughed with joy as I looked at her; Little knew she of book or creeds; An \"Ave Maria\u201d sufficed her needs.Little she cared save to be by my side, To ride with me, and ever to ride.She was as bold as the billow that beat\u2014 She was as wild as the breeses that blow; From her little head to her little feet She swayed in her suppleness to and fro By each gust of passion: a sapling pine That grows on the edge of a Kansas bluff, And wars with the wind when the weather is rough, Is like this Lasca\u2014this love of mine! She would hunger that I might eat: Would take the bitter and leave me the sweet.But once, when I made her jealous for fun, At something I'd whispered, or looked, or done, She drew from her girdle a dear little dagger, And\u2014rting of a wasp\u2014it made me stagger; An inch to the left or an inch to the right, And 1 shouldn't be maundering here to night.But she sobbed\u2014and, sobbing, so swiftly bound Her torn reboso about the wound, That I quite forgave her.Scratches don't count In Texas, down by the Rio Grande.One murky night the air was hot: 1 sat by her side and forgot\u2014forgot! Forgot the herd that were taking thelr rest, Forgot that the air was close \u2018opprest: That the Texas \u201cnorther\u201d comes sudden and soon, In the dead of night or the biaze of noon; That once let the herd at its breath take fright, Nothing on earth can stop their flight.Thon\u2014woe to the rider and woe to the steed That falls in front of their mad stampede.\u2018Was that thunder?I grasped the cord Of my swift mustang without a word.1 sprang to the saddle, and she clung be hind.Away! on a hot chase down the wind, But never was fox hunt half so hard, And never was steed so little spared, For we rode for our lives.You shall hear how we fared In Texas, down by the Rio Grande.The mustang flew, and we urged him on; There was one chance left\u2014and you have but one\u2014 Halt, jump to the ground, and shoot your horse: © Crouch under his carcase, and take your chance; And it the steerr, in their frantic course, Don't Latter you both to pieces at once You may thank your stars: if not, good-bye To the quickening kiss, and the long-drawa sigh, : And the open air, and the open sky, In Texas, down by the Rio Grande! The cattle gained on us, and just as I felt For my old six-shooter behind in my belt, Down came the mustang, and down came we, Clinging together, and\u2014what was the rest?A body that spread itself on my breast, Two arms that shielded my dissy head, Two lips that hard on my lips were press ed; Then came the thunder in my ears As over us surged the sea of steers, Blows that beat blood into my eyes; And when I could rise Lasca was dead! 1 gouged out a grave a few feet deep, And there, in Earth's grms, 1 laid her to sleep: And there she is lying.and no one knows, And the summer shines, and the winter saows, And for many a day the flowers have spread , NS AND ANSWERS | MONTREAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST 18, 1923.A pall of petals over her head: And the littie grey hawk hangs aloft in the air, And the sly coyote trots here and there, And the black snake glides and glitters and slides Into a rift in a cottonwood tree; And the buzsard sails os, and comes and is gome, , Stately and still like a ship at sea; And 1 wonder why | do not eare For the things that are, like the things that were.Does not haif my heart lie buried there, in Texas, down by the Rio Grande?WORDS WANTED An interested reader \u2014So many others have found old forgotten songs and ballads in your very interesting paper so 1 am tempted to try.Could either you or readers give me the following:\u2014 (1) 1 dreamt that 1 was grandpaps and pape was me.\u201d (3) Grandfather's Clock.\u201cIt stopped short never to go again when the old man died.\u201d .(3.) \u201cLet me look at him, doctor, Poor little London waif.His frail bark out of tempest And lies in God's harbour safe.\u201d 1 would be very glad if someone could contribute these.BASEBALL C.Q.\u2014Kindly answer the following questions through your inquiry colump:\u2014 In & game of baseball if the ball batted by A flies to an outfielder the ball strikes fielder's glove but rebounds into the afr, and fielder manages to catch the ball the second time before it touches ground, is A out?Does a \u201cspit\u201d ball spin?Ans\u2014A is out.Yes, it's supposed to.Schools for Electricity H.C.\u2014Would you please print in the valuable columns of your paper the addresses of some good electrical institutes, and also of some correspondence schools dealing in electricity, either fn U.8.or Canada.1 find many interesting articles under \u201cQuestions and Answers\u201d.L'Ecole Technique, Sherbrooke St.West, Montreal, have a course in electricity for English and French students.It extends over & term of 6 .nonthe, beginning September, half of which is devoted to thear- etical instruction and half to practical training.International Correspondence Bchool, Canadian Ltd.747 St.Catherine St.W, Montreal.OBITUARY.On Friday, July 37th, in South Elmsley, at the age of 86, one of the most highly respected and latailigent men away, in the person of Archibald Bisck- lock Mclean.Mr.McLean was the last surviving member of à family of four sons and two daughters, nearly all of whom lived to a ripe old age, eamjoying the respect and esteem of the different communities in which they lived, and was tbs son of the late Dr.Jobn McLasn, a surgeon of the Royal Navy of England.and a distinguished acholar and man of letters.The name of Dr.John Mclean and that of the late Admiral Bayfield are Iatimately associated with the early history of this country.Mr.Archibald Mclean was born at Oliver's Ferry, cooly a few miles from the farm in South Elmaley where he had lived for 65 years.He attended the Perth grammar school, and later, with the intention of studying for the ministry he went to Queen's University.Owing to indifferent health he did not complete his full term of studies at Queen's.Few farmers in this part of the country possessed such an intelligent outlook on Ife as he, and very few were better (n- formed upon the great public questions of the day.In religion a Presbyterian, In politica a Reformer, he played his part lu both fields in a quiet and conscientious manner.For many years he served as elder in St.Paul's church, Smiths Falls, and brought his good counsel to bear upon matters affecting Presbyterianism, of the history of which he had a wide knowledge.In his home he always kept a number of good books and was a life-long subscriber to the Montreal Weekly Witness.His wife predeceased him less than three weeks ago.He is survived by three sons and four daughters.The sons are John N.McLean on the homestead; Dr.Robert A.McLean, professor of classics, University of Ruchester, and Archie of idaho.The daughters are Mrs.Geo.Coutts of Loreburn, Sask, Mrs.Edward Clint of Grand Forks, Minn, Mrs.M.G.Cameron, Goderich, Ont, and Grace, who is at home.It is announced that the Prince of Wales will jeave England for Canada carly in September and return at the end of October.The prince will be accompanied by his private secretary, Sir Godirey Thomas, and Brig.-Gen.G.F.Trotter.Previous to starting for the Dominion the Prince of Wales will spend a short time with the King end Queen at Bal- moral Castle His visit to Balmoral Castle will take place towards the end of this month.buildings.The Stars and Stripes hung over the entrance of Emmanuel Church Friday nîter- noon between two friendly Union Jacks, a symbol of unity to greet the mourners who took part in the memorial service held for the late Warren G.Harding, president of the United States.Those who entered were citizens of Montreal and visitors bent on paying their last respects to the president, and foremost among them: was Sir A noble example of early English architecture has been restored In Westmin: the King.With tbe exception of the Hall of Justice at Padua, it la the largest hall in ing 240 by 67 feet.It was built by Richard IL, condemned, and from 1681 to 1681 Cromwell's head AN HISTORIC HALL RESTORED Arthur Currie, commander of Canada\u2019s anny in the Great War.Numerous so- cicties were represented and ail the consulates, while a large number of local clergy of various communions conducted the service, which was arranged with the co-operation of the American consulate- general, American Women's Club and the American Legion, LAST SIMPLE RITES TO THE LATE \u2019 PRESIDENT ; .Warren G.Harding's iriends and neighbors on Thursday passed by his bier im the home of his father, Dr, George T.Harding, Sr., paying a last tribute to his memory as president and citizen.They began the siow and solemn march past his coffin at two o'clock in the afternoon, and on Mrs.Harding's orders they were to be permitted to pass until the last in line had an opportunity to say a silent farewell, if i took until \u201cthe sun begins to brighten the skies tomorrow.\u201d The stream of humanity seemed without end as the hours of the night dragged along, and by nine o'clock it was estimated that more than 15,000 had filed past the flag-draped coffin and probably that many more still were in line moving slowly toward the Harding home.In contrast to the claborately impressive ceremonics accorded to the late President in Washington, were the few simple rites held in Marion, Ohio, by the townsfolk when they laid to rest the body of Ware ren G.Harding, citizen, friend, ncighboe \u2014and husband.The only funeral service held in Marion was at the cemetery, and was extremely brief and simple, in accordance with the wishes of Mrs.Harding.Only relatives and intimate friends made up the small party going to the cemetery.Setvice at Westminster Abbey Several thousand citizens of Great Britain and the United States gathered at Westminster Abbey at noon on Friday to mourn the death of President Harding.Hundreds whe :c:!d not be accommodated within the cool recesses of the ancient cathedral lined the strects and squares in the vicinity of the parliament bulidings as prominent personages in the political and social life of the country arrived for the service.Then the overflow crowd gathered in the Abbey yard where it heard the funeral music played on the grest organ.The United States embassy distributed the 1200 available seats in the morning and was obliged later tg decline the requests of hundreds of tourists who sought tickets of admission, As the congregation of ticketholders was being seated the organist played Chopin's \u201cFuneral March\u201d and at the first stroke of twelve by Big Ben, the clock on the tower of the House of Commons, the choir and clergy of the Abbey proceeded to their seats, chanting the while the opening sentences of the burial \u2018The congregation then joined in service.singing Mr.Harding's favorite 8, \u201cAbide With Me\u201d and \u201cLead Kindly Light,\u201d and after the benediction remained with bowed heads while the organ play ed the \u201cDead March in Saul\u201d yo Al ster Hall, which was recently reopened by existence uns by columns, be and in it 10,000 of his followers feasted at Christmas, 1398.In it Charles 1.was was exposed in it.It now serves largely as a vestibule to the Parliament PRINTED STATIONERY 100 Shoots G7.00 Envelopes $1.00 te past High Grade , printed is drves, (4 li yoy Name A wo ii parts ot Canada.Mai order direct vb pour same sod ob dress.CANADIAN STATIONERY CO., SRMETOWN - - L MONTREAL WIT\u2019 d88° AND CAN DIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST 16, 1983.nue : as »éteteo00000000é REBUILDIXG BROKEN VALLS LAUNCHING OUT .Sundarp Dome Reading 0000.+ 0e THE PATHE OF TMY FRET (By Mdger L.Vincent) there a tuft of moss growing on the some overhanging tree, new and fash of sun or starlight, piereing the leafy canopy overhead, these are some counsel: We might think that, after the pathway Las Deen laid cut and made through unkacwn territory, all we would need to do to feel à moment to think of the danger of a well-beateun way.Have you never heard one who hes long been following the goldes way from warth to heaven say as he rose to \u201cgive his testimomy\u201d in a meeting: \u201cI wish I could feel the thrill of enthusiasm I did when I set out to be a Christian.Somehow I seem to have lest the fervor of those old days.My heart is #0 cold and unresponsive to the things which once stirred me.\u201d with bimseif, say the same thing.And why is it?The oftiraveled road no lenger calls for the vigilance required by the untried way, and we need to ponder the path feet.It is\u2018 well, too, te sit down now and then Fat 33h Ë ë 3 3 4 è f it who lives close to God tells us of the de in daily contemplation of the ich we go.Well for us if we pon- ese things, and let them be our meditation day and night.Old paths often throw perils across our way.We have got past worrying now.Is this a smooth pathway?Way should we give ourselves any concers about its pitfalls?Then, all at once some un- thought-of snare springs to trap ws; we struggle, and we struggie but te Mil What a world of truth there is im that old, old saying, \u201cEternal vigilance ie the Price of liberty.\u201d It is the price, too, we may well belteve, of all things we held dear.Eternal vigtlance\u2014always the Christian must look to his ways.Still deeper let our thought foilew this Jend.How ls it that after we have beaten down the thorns and the brush and carried the sharp stones away so that they will no longer cut our feet.we begin to foe] that we are now in need of no guiding hand?We are independent.Is oot this the old path we have been traveling se long?Why stop to think that it may brifg aught of danger?Ab, it is just when we feel most like depending upon our strength that we need our Faithful Guide most.Jesus knew this and so be says, \u201cWithowt me Ye can do Mothing.\u201d Have we not tried that and: proven it true?Walking alone, with head high in air, proud of our very pride, oversure in our willfulneas, before we know it, we bave wandered far out of the way and are lost im the jungle of doubt and skepticism.There fs no more dangerous attitude than that of the Christian who thinks he can go on in his own strength.God bimeelf speaks to us through that simple word, \u201cPonder the path of thy feet.\u201d Well for us if we listen and heed the solemn injunction.\u2014 Pittsburg Christian Advocate.The time is nearly ripe for a great revival of religion\u2014we don't mean in the Sackneyed sense of a temporary emotional outburst, but in the sense of a vast fundamental upheaval sad regemers- tien.There is a great work ahead, for those who have the inapiration asd who hear the call.À modern crusade |s com- fog\u2014not for the vague idea of rescuing the far-off Hoiylan#t from the unbelievers, bat for the definite purpose of starting She whole humea family on & new road which leads surely coward sud upward B I TE Es : RECESSIONAL The day iu gently sinking ts à clase, Painter snd yet move faint the sunlight slows.O brightness of Thy Father's glory, Thes Bternal Light of light, be with es new: Where Thou art present, derknoss cannet be, Midnight is glorious noom, O Lowd, with Thee, Our changefu! lives are ebbiag to an end; Onward to darkness and to death we tend; O Conqueror of the grave, be Thou owr Guide, Be Thou our light in death's dark eventide; : Then in our mortal hour will be ne gloom, No sting im death, mo terror in the tomb.Thou, Who In darkness walking didst appear Upon tha waves, and Thy disciples cheer, Come, Lord, iu lomesome days, when storms asssit, And earthly hopes and human succors fail: When ail is dark may we behold Thee righ And hear Thy voice, \u201cFear not, for it is 1.\u201d The weary world is mould\u2019ring to desay, its glories wane, its pageants fade away; In that last sunset when the stars shall fail, May we arise awakened by Thy call, \u2018With Thee, O Lord, forever to abide In that blest day which bas ne eventide.A Compass Out of Common Sense \u201cNapoleon Bonaparte,\u201d relates Dr.Nor- wood, \u201cwas once riding in advance of his army où & forced march.Anxions to get om with: ali haste, he came to a bridgeless river.Impatiently he turned to his engineer.\u201cTell me,\u2019 said be, \u2018the width of this stream\u2019 \u2018Sire, I cannot\u2019 was the reply, \u2018my scientific instruments are with the army, and we are ten miles ahead of it\u2019 \u2018Measure the width of this stream immediately,\u2019 said the terrible Ift- tle Emperor, \u2018Sire, be reasonable,\u2019 pleaded the engineer.\u2018Do it at once, or you shall be dismissed from your office,\u2019 said Napoleon.The startled engineer switched on bis wits with a jerk, and immediately solved the problem.He pulled the cap Piece on his helmet down over his eyes till the edge of it seemed to touch the opposite bank; then, holding himself erect, he turned upon his heel, and noticed where the eap-plece touched the level plain behing him.He then paced the distance to that point, and, turning to the Emperor, said \"This is the width of the streams, within a few feet.\u201d Napoleon promoted him.A man who could make a compass out of common sense was \u2018worth something to the master of battles.\u201d CLOUDS There are many angel faces in the clouds, as the artist realised when he painted the famous picture, \u201cCloudland,\u201d which seems at first sight to be only = mass of clouds, but from which, on closef Sheervation, aa- gel faces are seem looking out upon one.The following are à few of the things which we may readily find in the clogds of life: \u2014 L The bow of proshise (Genesis 9.13.) 2 The glory ef the Losd\u2019s presence (Exodus 16.10).The rain of Min blessing (1 Kings 18.The covering of His protection (Pra.) he strength of His power (Psalm 68.dew of His grase (Proverbs 3.30).The word of His teutimony (Palm 99.7; Matthew 17.5).Clouds are net clogs to hinder us; they rather briaging of showers to bless us.\u2014F.EB Marsh.HEALING BY FAITH (Mrs, Annie Rodd.) When Christ was here on earth He did The sick te health rustore, And one poor sinful soul He bade \u2018To go and sin no more.\u2018The question rises ie our minds, Por knowledge we would win: Is this dire for all mankind, Is sickness caused by sin?Are we to blame when sickness comes?For every ill there is a cause.Do we uot often violate Kind Nature's true and simple laws?\u201d Why is not all our sickness benled'?The answer is 30 brief, Because we do not pray in faith.Lord, help ous unbelief.Oh, It we lived nigh to our Locd, Obeyed His teachings o'er and oer We would enjoy abundant health Buch as we never did before.Por from Him cometh every good, Love, , eternal wealth, He gives us everythiag we have, 3.44).4 105.39 6.T 34).6 The 1.LT; are So the better things.\u2014The Pathtinder.Ob.doubting seul, trust Him for health.(By Rev.C.Normas Bartlet) One of the most thriliing stories in the Bible le that of Nehemiah.A eup-bearer to King Artaxorxes in Babylon, Nehemiah enjoyed s good deal of .nfluence and lived comfortably, But he did not forget that he was n Jow.He loved his own people and thought often of those who bad been left bebiod in Palestine.Would that Christians might feel ne strongly tha ties that bind them to God's people everywhere, No matter how fortunately we may be situated, we ought not to be indifferent to the progress of Christ's kingdom im any part of the world.One day Nehemish learned from mes- seugers that Jerusalem was sadly afflicted and that the walis of the city had been broken down.Thie news plungod kim Into deep grief.Kt was his pedpie who suffered The Holy City wus in danger.We de not have wails of masonary around our modern cities; but we do need walls of righteousness.These walls have been broken down in many places.Morality is ridiculed.The Bible is attacked.Faith is wrecked.We make guns and build battleships that our nation may be well protected.How mueh thoustw do we give to moral fortifications?Do we grieve over broken walls?When Nehemiah found out what had befallen Jerusalem he poured out his heart in prayer to God thet the sins of his people might be discovered and forgiven.When foes seem to triumph at the expense of the Church we may well entreat God to make known to us what is wrong in our lives.Are we willing at any cost to have God cast out whatever stands in the way.of winning victory over the forces of iniquéty?let broken walls at home and abroad bring the Church of Jesus to its knees in humble prayer.Nehemiah d8d more than pray.He turned his back on ease and bravely set out with a small band to lead in the task of rebuilding the walls of the city.Let none feel himseif too great to deny himseit for the Kingdom's sake.How nobly our missionaries have sacrificed to carry the gospel to pagan lands! There are richly gifted men and women in ail callings who steadily refuse all financial and worldly inducements to devote their talents to that which tends to lower morality and pull down high ideals.These people are helping in a very real way to build walla of righteousness.What mcrifice are we willing to make in such a cause?As soon as he arrived in Jerusalem Nehemiah got all the people to work bullding the walls.We seek to beautify our towns and cities with handsome buildings.We take pride in our noble archi tecture.How ambitions are we to rear imposing walls of faith and morality?To do so is both a Christian and a patriotic duty.Let us labor in the place in which our lot je cast.God keeps an honor roll of those who toll faithtully.Nehemiah met bitter opposition from enemies outside the city.They were outwardly acornful but secretly alarmed.They dreaded to see Jerusalem become powerful again.In every way they sought to hinder the work.The Church is being fiercely attacked today by enemies who affect to despise its weakness.If the Church is really so weak.why do its foes waste time and resources {a fighting it?The truth is that they are afraid of the Church.Ridicule often registers terror.Fears are concealed in sneers.Let opposition to righteousness arouse us tb renewed activity for Christ Nebemiah and his men labored wih unflagging zeal and vigilance, for much was at stake.Uader the lash of necessity men achieve the impossible.Let the Church realize thrillingly the tremendous urgency of its task.As Christians we need to wake up.There Is no time for sloth.We must be watchful.We dare not underrate the strength and cuaning of the foes arranged against us.They are fighting Jesus Christ.We are on his side.We are buliding for him.Much depends on us.May we be fmithful' Prayer and conee- cration are bound to bring victory in the name of Jesus.\u2014Watchman-Examiner.OUR TOMORROWS While Munkscsy, the man who painted the famous picture, \u201cChrist Before Pilate,\u201d was visiting John Wanamaker, who had purchased the masterpiece, the merchant found bim one day pacing up and down before the great canvas, repeating to himself, \u201cI have done my best; I cannot surpass that.\u201d Wanamaker replied, \u201cTomorrow | can do better than I did today.\u201d Few of us are renowned artiste with an almost superhuman producfion to our credit.But many of us sre possessed of the same human frailty, that of thinking that we have done our best, that we have reached our Hmit.Yet there is always a tomorrow in which we may have strength and opportunity to go ahead of the record which we have already made.New ideas come down out of heaven to quickem us, fresh hopes fan the smouldering spirits into flame, and the deeds of our \u2018tomorrows take precedence over these of sur yesterdays.\u201cAmd Simon answering sald unto Him, Master, we have tolled all night and have taken nothing.Nevertheless at Thy command { will tet down the net.\u201d In the world whem a man fails, it says, \u201cStand aside, give another a chance,\u201d but Christ says \u201cLaunch out, you men who returned with empty nets.\u201d He always gives a second chance.What eomfort and Joy thers is in this! This is Christ's way with a depressed worker.Those who fall He bide them try again.Has the humill- ation of failure troubled you?Has the heartache of a night of fruitiess toil made you sad?Have you beea tempted to say fooKeh things and to question the worth of all you have done because of a failure when you expected success?De not be discouraged.The price of all work thet in real is heartache.All good work takes energy out of us.Christ can make you successful where you failed.His command carries with it the power to bring to glad fruition that for which you have labored so long.There are so many things weedful in our lives\u2014sincerity, earnestness, Iaith, fidelity and patience; but there is one thing above all others, and that is en ear to eatch the word of the Master, and the faith contained in Peter's expression \u2014 \u201cNevertheless at Thy command.\u201d What a privilege to face the world with the command of Christ to stand before our fatlures and our sins and say \u201cin my own strength I can do nothing more thea [ have done, but I can do all things through Him who strengtheneth me!\u201d À life that cultivates a faith and obedience like that will never fall\u2019 \u2014A.T.Fowler.THE STORY OF A COAT \u201cA somewhat humorous little story,\u201d says Dr.F.W.Norwood.minister of the City Tempie, London, \"is told in Germany of a boy who bought a sealskin to make & coat, and then went round asking aeigh- bors how it ought to be made.Now, most c#uld only think of a coat which would fit themselves, so the short neighbor told him to make it short: the fat one said it should be roomy; a man with long arms urged him to make the sleeves long: whilst one with short arms warned him that was the way to spoil it.One said the fur shouid be inside, and another that it should be outside: while a stout mam cautioned him to make ventilation holes in the coat.Thus loaded with advice, the boy produced a wonderful garment.It only reached to his hips, it was wide enough for two, one sieeve was long and the other short.The fur was turned inside at the front and outside at the back, and the coat ventilated with holes back and front.He wore it once only.He had forgotten to ask .he tallor, who, of ail mesa, knew the hundreds of kinds of coats suitable for hundreds of kinds of men.When I hear peopié grumbling about the world, and saying it ought to be like this or that, T think they have forgotten the hundreds of things there are la it, amd can only sae the two or three that apply to them.\u201d Possibllities in Men Jesus\u2019 faith in man was not based upon admiration for thelr visible virtues or wp- on an excess of fortunate over unfortun< ate experiences in His dealings with them.He was not without the consolation of friendship, and He saw from time to time isolated instances of fidelity and un- selfishuess; but, on the whole, His personal experience among men was enough to have made Him doubt whether they were worth saving, if He had judged them by what they were then and there.It was their possibilities that interested Him, and gave Him faith and courage.Peter was wavering and timid, but had possiblities of stability.John was blustering and arrogant, but had possibilities of the rarest spiritual vision and the purest love.Judas was avaricious and crafty, but we may well believe that he had poesibilitias of foancial and administrative ability which might later have saved the \u201cpoor saints at Jerusalem\u201d from much suffering if he had not wasted his talent and disappointed, as well as betrayed.his Master.It was of little consequence that he went out and killed the actual Judas, for he had already shain the noble possible Judas whom Jesus had loved and chosen.\u2014The Christian Centurn Jesus said: \u201cSeek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness: and all these thinge shall be added unto you.\u201d \u201cToo many will accept no light unless it be upon the way they are determimed to travel.\u201d One of the oddest conceits of a human conscience is that by which it attempts to excuse one sin by being especially severe against another.The confession of à man who (aleified his accounts for years explains, incidentally, bow he hated Sabbath breaking! Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.\u2014Daniel Web ner. TEN MONTREAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST.IS, 1538 tpm Another Apostle THOUGHTS FOR THINKERS FOR After the death of Judas I=cariot, Peter thought it was necessary to choose some one to take his place, that there might still be twelve apos- ties.Joseph Barsabas was chosen and dedicated, but he is never mentioned again, and we have no means of knowing whether Jesus approved this action of the apostles, or not.It was taken by them before they had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, and may not have been authorized by God.But Jesus afterward ordained two new apostles in His own way, by filling them with the Holy Spirit and sending them out as His special apos- ties (ambassadors) to the gentile world.(See Acts 13:3; 14:14.) One of these was a Levite from the island of Cyprus, who had sold his property and given the money to the apostles for the relief of poor Chris tians.His name was Joseph, but the aposties called bim Barnabas, wbich means, à son of consolation, because he had an extremely sympathetic nature.We can see from the record that Barnabas was a very noble man although his name is scarcely ever mentioned except in connection with that of Paul.It is evident that Bar nabas was a bigger and nobler look- fag man.than Paul because when the people of Lystra thought they were gods, they thought Barnabas must be the chief of the gods, but they rup- posed Paul was only the messenger of the gods, Mercury.(Acts 14:10 17.) And this agrees with the impression we get from 3 Cor.16:10 that Paul was a rather imsignificant man in outword appearance, and not a brilliant orator.And it adds greatly to the evidence of the greatness of Barnabas that in the face of his own superiority in these respects hs was able to recognize the transcendent greatness of Pauli and was willing to act as Paul's assistant, instead of claiming equal prominence and equal leadership.In one case only Barnabas refused to be led by Paul, and that was in a case in which kindness was in conflict with prudenee: John Mark, who was the cousin of Barnabas, (see Cor.4: 10 R.V.) went with them om their first thissionary journey, but deserted them very soon; presumably because he was not willing to face the hardships and dangers to be encountered im the Interior of Asia Minor.Yet when they were\u201d about to start on « second journey through the same region Barnabas wanted to take Mark again.We must assume that Mark had promised to go through with it this time, and his cousin, in the kindness of his heart, wanted to give tie , Young man another chance.But while Paul was not lacking in kindness and would readily forgive any offense against himself.he nevertheiess felt that it would not be safe to trust a man who had proved so unstable in character.Prudence was one of the fundamental elements of Paul's character, and he would not take the risk of a loss of efticiency that might have LOVE'S REWARD Saviour, Thy love divine, Pour in this heart of mine, And make me wholly Thine This very hour.Why do we turn and flee Heeding not the call from thee?\u201cForward to Victory!\" Our cry should be.At last we'll see Thy face, Made perfect by thy grace, Live with Thy chosen race For evermore.J.B.McP.Nova Scotia.Sins of Omission Someone has sald that the worst tragedies of life are not the things which happen, but the things which do not happen.This is gnly another way of saying that the ains of omission are usually much more serious than the sins of commission, and also much more numerous.Perhaps not many of us need a less sensitive conscience about the bad things we do, but certainly many of us need a much more sensitive conscience about the good things we do not do.- A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped om his countenance by the events of his whole life: nay, more, by the hand of Nature, and cannot be readily effaced.Better it is.toward the right conduct of life, to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it; for what promises fair at first may prove 1H, and what seems at first a disadvantage may prove very advantageous.The truth and rapture of man are holy things, mot lightly to be scorned: a care- Jessness of life and beauty marks the glutton, the idier.ané the fool ia their deadly Path across histosy.-~Joha Masefisid.SUNDAY AUGUST 2¢ resulted in case of a second failure on the part of Mark.So Paul and Barnabas separated, and Barnabas, taking Mark with him.sailed once more to his native island on a missionary journey of which we have mo further record.Paul chose Silas and went northward through Cilicia, bis native country.There was another occasion oa which Paul found fauit with Barnabas, but Barsabas does not seem to have disputed Paul's judgment in the matter.Again It was a question between adherence to a definite rule of conduct or trying to kelp others by making concessions.Barnabas had no objection to consorting with gentile Christians, but he did not want to shock the prejudices of Jewish Christians, 80 he acted in one way when the Judaizers were not present and ia a different way when they were present.As he was in fact following Peter's example in the matter he presumably thought he was on safe ground.But Paul saw clearly that the only right thing to do was to adopt a definite line of actiom and stick to it.He himself realized that, as Jesus had said, it was impoteible to keep the new wine of Christianity in the old bottle of Judaism.Christianity sprang from Judaism, and was the logical fulfillment of the hopes inspired by the teachings of Moses and the prophets, yet it was in effect a new religion based upon a new covenant between God and man, and it could not be fettered with the re- .strictions imposed by the laws of Moses which had been drawn much tighter by the traditions received from learned teachers.Paul did not go so far as to say that Jewish Chrirtians must consort with gentile Christians.He left that question to their own consciences.What he asserted was that they must be consistent.They must do one thing or the other, and stick it.And he rebuked Peter openly lor changing his practice to avoid giving offense to the Jews who eame from Jerusalem.The rebuke applied to Barnabas- also, but Paul 1aid the blame on the shoulders of the leader.(See Gal.2:11-19.) It is evident, however, that Paul recognised Barnabas as his fellow apostle to the gentiles; for even after they had been working separately for a number of years on account of their ditagreement Paul associated Barnabas with himself when riveting bis appeal to the Christians in Corinth in a way that showed he still regarded Barnabas as his part ner in the work.(See 1 Cor.9:6.) - Golden Text: He was a good mas, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith, Acts 11:24, Scripture Readings Monday Aug 30-Acts 13:1-12; Tues- day\u2014Acts 9:2¢31; Wednerday \u2014Acts 4:33-87; Thursday\u2014Acts 11:19:30; Friday\u2014Acts 13:44-52; Saturday\u2014 Acts 14:8-18; Sunday\u2014Psalm 96:1- 10.PRAYER We bless Thee, O Lord, for all Thy mani fold benefits towards us.We remember with adoring thankfulness and firm trust that Jesus ever lives.And we pray that, in our measure here and now, we may be partakers of the power of His Resurrection.May it be to us not only the abiding pledge of our victory over death, but a quickening, life-giving power in our spirits by which, united with our rises Lord, we too may die unto sin, and he alive unto God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.Amen, A little girl prayed for one of her relatives In this way, \u2018O, Lord, don't make him any dooder, but just make him nicer.\u2019 It is a prayer that might well be extended to 8 good many other people.It would keep you from many a sin and stir up to many a holy thought and deed if you could learn to find in everything around you, however small or mean, the work of (od\u2019s hand, the likeness of God's countenance, the shadow of Uod's glory.\u2014Charles Kingsley.Friendship is mothing else but entire feliow-feeling as to all things, human and divine, with mutual good-will and affectios.In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straightforward and springs from the heart.\u2014Cicero.There's nothing bright above, below, From flowers that bloom to stars that slow, But in its light my soul can see Some feature of Thy deity.\u2014~Thomas Moore, Until the beginning of 1923, there were but four radio broadcasting stations in Great Britain.These were located at London, Diratsghem, Newcastle, and \u2018 THE TOUCH OF JESUS (By Julia H.Thayer) While so much is being said of human miracles of healing hy the laying oa of hands, let our minds dwell, by contrast, upon the Christ touch of the loag age: And Jesus put forth His hand and touch- od him saying.| will; be thou clean, and immediately his leprosy was cleansed.Matt.8:3.And He toucheg her hand, and the fever loft her; and she rose, and.ministered ua- to them.Matt.8:15 For she said within herself, it 1 may but touch His garment, 1 shall be whole.Matt.9:3L But when the people were put forth, He went in, and took her by the hand, and the mi.id arose.Matt.9:26.Then touched He their eyes, saying, \u201cAo- cording to your talth be it unto you.\u201d Matt.2:39.And besought Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment; and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.Matt.14:36.And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.Matt.17:7.And He laid His hands on them, and departed thence.Matt.19:15, So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their ayes: and immediately their eyes received sight and they followed Him.Matt.30:34.And Jesus, moved with compassion put forth His hand and touched him, and sald unto him, I will; be thou tiean.Mark 1:41.For He healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon Him for to touch Him, as wany had plagues.Mark 3:10.For she said, If I may touch but Hie etothes I! shall be whole.Mark 6:28.And He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, 1 say unto thee, arise.Mark 5:41.And He took him aside from the muitH- tude, and put His fingers in his ears, and He spit and touched his tongue.Mark 7: 38.And He put His hands again upon bis eyes, and made him look up; and he was restored and saw every man clearly.Mark 8:26.But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up, and he arose.Mark 9:37.Now when the sun was setting, all they that hag amy sick with divers diseases brought them unto Him, and He laid His band om every one of them and healed them.Luke 4:40.And He put forth His hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thon clean.And immediately the leprosy departed from him.Luke 6:13.And He canfe and touched the bier; and they that bare him stood still.And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.Luke 7:14, And He put them all out, and took her by the band, and called, saying, Maid arise.Luke 8:54.And they held their peace.And He took him and healed him, and let him go.Luke 14:4.And when He had thus spoken, He spat ou tbe ground, and made clay of the spit tle, ang He ancinted the eyes of the blind man with the clay.John 9:6 Dominion Organizer for Anti-Uniomists The Rev.W.F.McConnell, B.A, now minister of Leamington Preshyterian Church, Chatham Presbytery, has decided to accept the position of Dominion Organizer, w has recently been offered to him by the Presbyterian Church Association, for the continuation of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.Mr.McConnell is an honor graduate of McGill University.His theological course was taken partly in Montreal Presbyterian College, from which he graduated, and Westminster Hall, Vancouver.Before this period of his life he vas interested in Montreal mission work in Nazareth Street Mission as a member of Crescent Street Presbyterian Church, and also in a little mission called Park St.Louis, in the north end of this city.Eventually he became the student missionary of t latter, and during his early student days this mission became Livingstone Presbyterian Church.with a fine new building, which was built in 1911.Mr.McCounell later held appointments in Kensington Presbyterian Church, Crescent Street Church and Outremont Presbyterian Church.In 1914 he was appointed chaplain 10 the Canadian Mounted Rifles and especially ordained in Rosemount Presbyterian Church to the duties of chaplain in the Canadian army overseas, While at Epsom he received honorable mention and was promoted to the rank of major.In 1917 he was transferred to Sea- ford and then to France as senior chaplain to the Canadian Forestry Corps in France.In the Fall of 1919 he was called to Montreal to organize a religious survey ae city, in which all denominations t In April, 1920, Mr.McConnell accepted a unanimous cafl to his present charge.During his stay in Leamington he became conw ner of Religious Education for the Presbytery, and also for the Synod of Hamilton and London, where he has 2 ways been active in young people's woak.THE OLDEST OF MORAVIAN MISSIONS (Manchester Guardian) On Tuesday began the second lap\u2014-about 2,000 miles\u2014 of the yearly journey of the Harmony between England and Labrador.Few boats which go out of the Thames create more interest amongst those who know her than this 333-ton barque, (he intest generation of several boats of the same name which annually forms almost the only link between Europe and elvil ization and Makkovik, Hebrom, Hope dale, Okkak, Killinex, and other trading and \u2018mission stations on the const of Lab rador, where the Moravian missions began their work ia 1768.Every year for 158 yours a vessel called the Harmony has taken them out stores and brought back oll, furs, and fish, the proceeds of the sale of which in Newfoundiand and England largely support both the Esquimaux and the missions, Satior-Merchant\u2014Miasionary Captain Jackson, whose only rivale in navigation among the ice may de among captains sailing from Newfoundiand, fe making his twenty-third trip with his ves sel, which he has refused to forsake for bigger craft.\u201cShe began as a tea clipper in the seven ties,\u201d he told me in an interview I had with him the day before the ship sailed.\u201cThen she went in for nitrate trade.In 1895 she had engines put in ber, and was armored with ° mheart\u2019 for Arctic work up the Yengsi River and the Kara Sea.- * In 1900 she became a converted character and started as the Moravian mission ship.Accidents?Well, you can\u2019t go among the ice each year without having awkward times.Twice in these uncharted seas we've struck » ledge off the const and had to beach her.In 1921 two schooners broke adrift is a snowstorm In St.John's bar- bor and bore down on us, smashing our bridge to bits, but one of the narrowest squeaks was the making of a half-mile wide strait windy tickle between Hope- dale and \u2018Nain in a gale.All the fog and snow seemed to collect ia this gully, and 1 dida\u2019t kmow we were in till I saw the 2,000ft.cliffs towering up above our masts.| shall not try this opening in & wind again!\u201d - Captain Jackson is responsible not only for the ship but for the Moravian trading stations as well.Thess were established to prevent the exploitations of the Esqui maux and the Indians from the interior by unscrupulous traders.Besides taking out necessities of life to these bleak regions this sailor-merchant missionary that is what he is\u2014 is taking this year supplies for the school for the settlers and Esquimaux at Makkovik, including balls and doils, walipaper, church-warden pipes, gramophones, and tartans\u2014the bright colors of ths latter especially appealing to the Indians both for skirts and head.dresrea.| also noticed some pictorial texts in Esquimaux, which were printed in Mase chester.Seal-harpoon heads, procurable \u2018now, Aas for many years past, only in Germany, and further materials to re build Nain, which was destroyed by fire in 1921, also figure op the bills of lading.Coast Ravaged by Epidemics.This year the Harmony is carrying across the Atlantic three passengers.One is an expert photographer, who, in addition to getting what is hoped will prove to be a unique peries of pictures of the Esquimaux and life in Labrador, will also go with Captain Jackson to the goldfields, 20 miles down the coast from Makkovik, to which diggers from Newfoundiagé are hurrying.One will look for pictures, the other will prospect the opportunities for an extension of Moravian mission work te the spot.The Harmony is also taking back, aftee what Is only their second furlough since 1881, two German missionaries, Mr.and Mrs.8.Waldmann, from one of the or iginal Moravian congregations on the\" borders of Bohemia.They were allowed to remain st their work during the war, and well did they repay this trust in them.To their lot fefl the fighting with measles and the influenza epidemic which ravaged the Labrador coast Ix 1918.\u201cAt Okkak,\u201d hol Waldmann told me simply, \u201c211 died, and the few white settlers and ourselves were left with only 66 Esquimaux survivors, and not à man among them.\u201d Too much European food, bo asserts, has among other things undermitied the constitution of the Esquimaux and they are becoming disastrously susceptible to disease.Little is known of the terrible tale of this epidemic.The dogs actually broke in to the houses and began to de vour the bodies.Too much flesh sent them mad and they had to be shot through the windows.Some scores of these dogs were hunted on to the ice, parts of which, get ng adrift, floated 160 miles down the coast, where their dead bodies were found.Romance is almost a tinsel word to apply to the little three-masted vessel I left riding at anchor in Portland Harbor.She and the brave, modest men aboard ber represent far more than any cru sader of old soldiers of the Cross.Hunting after arguments to make good ous side of a question, and wholly re fusiog those which favor the other, is ne far from giving truth its due value that it wholly debases It. à MONTRARAL WITMESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, ALGUST 14, 1988.FALL PLANTSS BULSE Order Buibe Now comprehensive list of satistactery forcing ulbs: All the hyacinths, including the Dutch, 12 you have not already made plans - Italian, Roman and miniature types: tulips your bulb planting do s0 mow, and wend of various types such as the single early, your order in at once for whatever yoa , single, late, double, Rembrandt, May flow- peed.later on you will have to take the ering, Darwiws, parrets and gesmeriana.stock left on hand aad will probably not! All types of narcissus force well, fnclué- be able to make your own choice of vari- ing simgie and double, paper white, poiy- eties.| anthus, jonquils and poet's.Besides the Nothing perhaps gives more pleasure asd | regular forcing lilies, such as \u201cHarrisi, beauty for less work than a.bulb.The! Loigifiorum, Formosum, Crpdsdum and veal work has been dane by the grower Multiflorum,\u201d we now have the Japanese whose skill and labar give to you blossoms ,serts such as \u201cAurstum, Rubrum, Metpo- ail ready stored up, surroumded by plant mene, etc.\u201d Freesias are particularly valu- food so that if moisture, darkness, cool: able for cut {lower purposes, smd lily-of vurroundings and time te develop a root the-valley, of course, is always acceptable.| produces a hard caked surface.xyetem is given the bulb you zre certzim of resuits To be sure, there are good bulbs and poor, the former, of course, costing more than the tuferior grades.Yet, it is poor economy to invest in a lot of cheap buibs under the impreswion that they sre just as good; better buy the best and recoacile your conscience by the thought that some thing worth while never comes for nothing.Ferving Subs.The hardy type of forcing buh is is Bei pS i; i I: Ë E ; ! i F Ba § i Iii | ji! ! re i i i ! : | | i FH i | Là i Ë E i i i i fie : i Tp R & BE $ i E i fi 3 F 5 i 5 {| 5 iy Fit \u2014_\u2014 i ih lilies, anemones, calechortas, | sta, ghadioli, Yorcing iris and oxalis « i eovering.Two exceptions to the above rules are spires and Tily-of-the-valley.The former fs usually potted wp snd stood outdoors to reese, while the latter should be planted fp sand when received and placed outdoors until ?t is well fronen.Then it can be Torced.: \u201cSoil and Temperature Generally speaking, all bulbs require a heap that bas been properly prepared; or lackismy, this, & mixture of three-fourt chopped æod-to one-fourth well rotted manure, with a shoveiful of sand and none of bone mex] added to every twelve of this mixture.By the time the flower shows.the bulbs will have pretty well exhausted the soll, and liquid feeding with manure water can bé resorted to with good results.The hardy forcing type will be found in a night temperature of 50°, and be forced §° either side of that.sbout 60° and freesias can ther §0° or 80°, but 55° will 11 round temperature.it 4e the plants early enough so i i wt gy i TELE ifs, 5 disease, ture, even though it te Inter to increase the asnt: ts from omtsife indo a first brought into the greenhouse of tbe bulbs con be placed unter the benches until counsidersble growth is developed.This iengthemg the AL jit Fi ë i : ! i This is a list of the most popular bulbe that are forced, but thore are many others that are really deserving of attention, such as the beautiful anemone and the \u201cColvelil\u201d {type of giadioiua.Other sorts of giadi- | Clus cam be had in cold sterage bulbs, as can the odd but beautiful ornithogalum, the Spanish and English iris, croces, calo- chortus, ixia, oxalis, alflum and xpareris.Care is necessary when planting bulbs outdoors for.formal effects.Varieties j that flower at the same time must be \u2018used, and it is equally impertant that the bed be properly prepared, ail parts dug to an even depth and the same amount of { fertiliser used to insure a umiform growth.The bulbs must be planted at « uniform ; depth, the best method to parsue being to cut off the upper 6\u201d of an old spade handle and use this to t with, jabbing it dewn to the hilt each time.(To be cestinued) USING POULTRY MANURE propertions which seem to Curnish a manure of the right strength, or, acc à i 31 gallons, of water.A mo kerosane ar vinegar barrel may be from the grocer, Kerosene bar- as good as any.In order to elim- le où, drop a handful of straw into 1, light it and let it burn until or of the barre] is slightly char- will mot only eliminate the oil but the life of the barrel.Have an rug, or something of the kind over the top of the barrel when conflagration is deemed sufficient.Into sack drop the two pecks of man- then either drop the sack to the tom of the barrel or better yet suspend a wire or wooden hoop which may fastened across the mouth of the barrel.the barrel apd let it stand a week.It P needs two barrels to alternate, Draw the water which will be a light brown color and apply it to the vegetables or flowers needing it.It will speed those that need and Mike rich feeding.The mest convenient way for arranging the barrel is to mount it on blocks, bricks, FORTIES Sadr; 23 E.FFE BE Fai ing can.This is à great labor saver and convenience as it is no joke to hang over the sharp edge of a barrel ia order to dip | wp the water when the cask is more than halt empty.In appiyiag the liquid manure it te best to moisten in advance the plants to be fer- | tttned.This makes the liquid manure ; more quickly available and better distrit- .uted through the soll, going directly to the Teots.Liquié peultry mauure may be used upea cucumbers, squashes, and melons with excellent effect.Likewiss upon Asters.Do not feed tomatoes; they will develop an ex- oes of foliage and deficit et fruit.After spreading the dry manure and either sprinkling it into the soil or allowing a rain to fulfil the same mission, the soil should be hoed.If left as it lies, it It \u2018must be nsed very sparingly asd care must be taken aot to spread It teo close to the stom of the plante HONE-UXOWN CANTALOENFPE SEEB Heme-grown casdaloupe send, prepesly selected, has numerous advantages.It ta usually better adapted to local conditions than tant introduced frem other sections, tt gives the grower an opportunity to per- petuste his most desirable strains, and cents considerably loss than imported seed.Proper selection of stock, in this as other home-grown seeds, is the key to satisfactory results.In the first place, melons to be used for seed should not be gathered out of the e4ds and ends remaining at the close of the season after the best of the crop has deen gathered, but should be selected during the emtire harvesting peri- \u201cThey should, first of all, be true to type.Misshapen or overgrown specimens should be discarded.Seedsmem claim that it is better to select melons that are undersized rather than oversized, as they have a tendency to grow a little too large.They should be heavily netted all over, as the netted verieties are considered the best shippers.Since melons with thick flesh is well to select for seed stock cantajoupes that are relatively heavy for their sise.The commercial seedsman or the grower who wishes to breed up an improved strain | should make his selections in the field, { taking Into consideration the vigor and disease resistance of the planis as well as the characteristics of the melons them- uratély, right weakness, to use is .are two pecks of poultry manure.| selves.But this method is usually too expensive, in time, labor and melons, for the i practical grower, and for tm the cuil pile \u2018is perhaps as satisfactory a source of supply as any.of the crop cannot be shipped because it han been picked too ripe, asd these melons go into the cull pile.After the melons have been selected they should be allowed to cure for several weeks.The best way to do this is to spread them out on the ground, where they will be exposed to the sunlight.They will shrivel to some extent, but ia a dry soil they will seldom rot.It bas been determined that by curing a this manner the weight of the ses.and comsequently its cured melons wil weigh twenty-five per cent.more than seed from melons at pick- img time.- - After curing, the cantaloupes are cut in hall and the process of selection is carried still further.Melons having large cavities are discarded, and only those with smmll cavities and thick flesh are kept.Timted flesh is another dewirable characteristic in most of the popular commercial varieties, and the grower who wishes to improve his product will not use the ssed (rem melons that tail to show a oon- siderable piak or salmon tinge.When the melons have passed this final scrutisy the seeds, together with the fiber which supports them, are scraped out with = spoon amd placed in casks or barrels.where they are left until the mass begins te ferment.This requires several days, during which it becomes quite warm.The fermentation breaks down the fibrous sacs to which the seeds are attached.makes them plump, and turns them from straw oslor to a rich lemon yellow.They are then washed in clear water to separate them from the fibre, and spread eat on trays to dry.It is advisadle to place the drying trays in the shade.as very hot sunlight ia spt to cook or dis- cooler the seeds.After drying, the seeds are stored in bags ia a cool dry place, ready for next season's planting.' Japanese Maples.Japanese maples have few rivals for ele.gamce, brillant colering and decorative value where small trees are required.They are suitable for boxes and tubs and in this condition are easily moved about.Give the Japanese maples a sunny position to fully develop their beautiful color ing.Give water freely during spriag and summer, boop the soil loose about the base of the trees and never permit them to be pruned.Cuttings of the Japaneses maples may be made after the leaves drop and these root readily in \u2018an ordinary greenhouse, but root quicker under a glass bell or plunged in a hot bed in the early spring.Grown tn pots fer two or three years they make good specimens for the greembonse.Cut down the dead flowering stems of perennials to within tive or six isches of the ground.A foie crop of grain is expected in Que bec.Grewth is a little backward.Com is impreving and an average crop is expec- ppearance average rrop is looked Sor.Small fruit In most districts plentiful with apples w Metie below average.Pasture is geadrally good.and small cavities are most desirable, ft | Quite often from ten to twenty per cent.| vitality, is greatly fncreased.The seed of | ELEVEN GANDEY SPRAYING AUGUST Spray beans, cucumbers and melous as last month and dust the young silk of sweet corn.Sipray tomatees and potatoss twice if they have aot bovered the ground so much as to make it impracticable to walk between the rows.Celery \u2014 Where attacks of blight have been bad in past seasons, spray with bord eaux mixture.According to locality and season, spray beans and celery with bordeaux mixture.Hardy Cacti.Bubscriber.\u2014No, I have not grown cacti out of doors the year round in Quebec and doubt if you would find it feasible.There are seme specimens which stand cold and are hardy as far north as New England.They are useful in rockeries for edging and other purposes.Opuntia Vulgaris, the common prickly pear, is found growing wid on rocks and sand as far north as southern New England.The joints ate from three to six inches long.Opuntia Rafinesquii, a native of the West and Southwest, is bardy around New York city: the deep greea joints are from four to eight inches long.This is one of the freest flowering vari eties, produciag large yellow biossems.Opuntia Arenaris is another hardy variety, | The spines are loag, white and straw col ored.The hedgehog cactus, Echinocactus Simpsoni, ie à beautiful bardy little cactus which forms a globe about three inches in diameter, bearing pale pink flowers.Ech- inocactus Virdiflorus is ball shaped, covered with red, purple and white spines.They are frequently found in window gardens and conservateries, but mot often are they treated as bardy subjects.There are several other Opuntias that are hardy Phæacantha Major, one of the moet rapid growing, forming large clumps, bearing yellow flowers.O.Camanchica | bears large yellow flowers and showy i fruit.O.Polyantha is the many spined cactus.It is a very ornamental variety j with long white, brown a3d purple or black spines.All these do well in pots, and in the | garden they can be used to best advantage :in producing subdued tropical effects.i It may be that some will prove hardy with you and It yon have scveral plants of one kind it would be interesting to try ome of each of the different varieties im the outdoor garden.; Cacti collecting is likely to become a fad with admirers of this plant.There are endless varieties, including closely re- fated plants, and there are some very im- , teresting collections.It takes skill te : grow a miscellaneoug lot of cacti and make ecery plant flourish as very different conditions of soil, time of resting, etc, are re quired by different varieties.W.I.\u2014Green cuttings of the Hydranges paniculata are easily rcoted.Select the , smaller growths and use only the ends, (culling the foliage about one-third.In- ! sert In sand in à cool, close frame, and choose dull weather for cetting (f possible.Green cuttings struck now will stand the winter if given a little litter.Dormant shoots B inches long may be cut in the fall, stored in the open ground, or in A celd frame, for the winter and set out as early as possible in spring.These cuttings should be mulohed to prevent drying out.Amateur.\u2014Pick off and burn all the leaves affected with the orange rust Spray the rosebushes with bordeaux and give general good care.If the disease persists year after year.make a new bed in a different location witb fresh plants.Cultivating Beans.Pod spot or anthracnose on beans is easily carried on tools or spread from plant to plant if the beans are cultivated or handied when the leaves are wet.This being true, the time to cultivate or pick beans is after they have dried in the morn- | ing, and before they become moist toward evening.Beans ghouid never be cuitivated on rainy days.Anemones in Pots Reader.\u2014Fer pot culture plant six roots of snemone {8 a six inch pot, covering the roots an inch with soil.Keep the pots fa a cosl cellar until late winter or early spring and them place them in a wiadow to flower.They may alse be planted Wm the open ground but should Rave a good covering of leaves or straw.Plant Top Onions.Pant top onions \u2018n August or early September for surly young onions next spring.Leave a few plants to mature and they will produce little omions on the tops ef the stems.and these cam be planted for the fellowing weason's crop of young svices.When first introduced in Englscé in the potato was entvn.as @ Fwertmrat, in sack wine and sugar, Ti. twteLVE \u201cIN-AND-OUTERS\" How often has the remark been made \u201cWhen we have a good crop we get nothing for it.The only time prices are good tu when we haven't anything to sell?\u201d An old market gardener who made a good lv- ing off five acres and retired used to ex- piain bis system of cropping in these words: \u201cWhen tomatoes are cheap one year ! grow tomatoes the next; when tomatoes are dear one year 1 don\u2019t grow them the next.\u201d He was an inand-outer.but his policy was the opposite to the one so naturally followed by the people who complain that the market always beats them.When pork Is selling at twenty- eight ceuta a pound dressed, it looks like a profitable product and there is a great demand for four week old pigs at six doi- Jars each.By the time these are ready for market the price of pork has dropped to about half and.in disgust, the in-and-outer goes out of pig raising only to find that, in ajx mamths pork is again bringing a good price.Of course, the fact that fall litters are harder to raise and mature than spring Hitters is a contributory cause of this ebb and flow in pork production, but it is not the main one.Dairying is perhaps our most stable line of agricuilure, and it is #0 because it does not lend itself to the in-and-out plan.When milk was cheap and feed dear some farmers tried this sys tem but most of them got in again, richer in experience if not in pocket.What then is the lessgn?When, if ever, does it pay to follow the \u201cin-and-out\u201d plan?It can safely be said that it osly pays when you know your market thoroughly and can watch the operations of your fellow producers and when continuity of system is unneceseary, which is to say thet the conditions under which it can be successfully practised are so rare that they are not worth the average man's consideration.The only practical means of approximately adjusting supply to demand is through a very effective continuous appraisal of the world\u2019s markets and producers aud highly organized co-operative commodity market- img associations.Both of these are on their way and he would be a rash prophet .who would say what they may not yet do to stabilize agriculture.But at present the solution of each man\u2019s problem must rest with himself.Let him grow the crops which are best suited to himself, his woil and his marketing facilities and to the growing of them bring all the knowledge that experience and study give him.There will be the lean years as well as the fat, but in the long run the farmet who succeeds is the one who finds his proper line and pursues it steadily in spite of temptations to gamble on future markets, \u2018The man who.grows only a single crop is gambling on the market all the time.It 1s not good policy to carry all your egzs id one basket when so many other people are going to handle the basket.QUALITY PAYS In commenting upon the day's marketing the Drovers\u2019 Journal, Chicago, in its July 13th issue had this to say: \u201cToday's best steers were from South Dakota and sold for eastern shipment at $11.15.The load averaged 1.368 Ibs.© Not many steers were worth more than $10.25, although n few sold.upward to $10.85.Some thin fleshed matured steers of medium grade, averaging 1.000 to 1,100 lbs, bad to go at $7.50 to $8.00, with some 1,300 to 1,350 Ib.cattle of pretty good condition at $8.60.Common and inferior light weight cattle sold downward from $7.00, with some Texas Steers around $6.00 to $8.60.\" The Journal Is using this comparison for it is impartial, there being no re ference made to any particular breed of cattle, merely quality, and after all what is there to the beef making business outside this one word \u201cquality?\u201d It matters little how big or how heavy the steers way be whem they reach the market places of the world, unless quality accompanies the individuals the price tails to mmterial Beautiful Farms Make Enjoyable Homes MONMTHEAL WITNESS AND LATSADIAR HOUMÉSIRAU, AUGUSI 19, 1464 ise.Compare, if you please, dear reader the figures given above.Is it not quite easy to calculate that the man who devotes his time to growing inferior cattle is wasting that time and energy.True it fs that many men engaged in the cattle business for various reasons are so situated as to make it next to impossible for them to take advantage of the privileges and biessinge to be derived from the use of pure bred sires, to say no thing of being unabie to go into the pure bred breeding business.This very condition should bring about a greater deter mination upon the part of those so situated to carefully weigh the facts and advantages to be gcined through growing pure bred cattle.After the decision is made to enter the more profitable field of the pure breds then it is that the various bee! breeds should vie with each other as to which Breed is the best.The particular breed of improved cattle does not enter into the discussion as presented in the clipping from the Drovers\u2019 Journal.The comparison is there in black and white and the lesson should be taken home for consideration and careful investigation.Let us make our cattle better by using more and better pure bred sires\u2014Aberdeen Angus Journal.COMMUNITY MACHINERY In an article under the above heading in the issue of June 13th, the Witness pointed out the advantages which might be gained by community ownership of high-priced farm machinery.Here is the actual experience of a little group of men who have owned their own threshers for four years.It bas already paid for itself.It is not my purpose to try to tell every farmer whether -or not a small threshing outfit would be profitable tor him.I will simply give the experience of one crew in east central Nebraska.In the summer of 1920, a group of five men bought a 28x44 separator of one of the standard makes.It was operated by & 16-30 tractor, owned by one of the crew.The tractor hud a heavy-duty, siow-speed, kerosene burning motor and developed plenty of power to handle the separator, even when the grain was damp.The separator cost $1,630 delivered, making each man's share $310.They built a shed, which cost $139.50, bringing each man's investment up to $337.90.\u2018The mau who owned the tractor, operated it and one of the crew acted as the separator man; the time of both men was counted in the exchange of work just the same as though they were hauling bundles or scooping grain.The remainder of the crew was furnished by other owners, their boys or their hired men, except that there was one man for whom they threshed who was not an owner.There were six racks, each man pitching on his own Toad, two men to unioad the wheat and three for the oats.This worked the bundle haulers too hard and for the last two years eight racks have been used.Thirteen hundred and seventy-five bushels of wheat were threshed in ome day last year and for the whole season an average of 99.4 bushels of wheat per hour actual running time and 167 bushels per hour of oats and barley.The wheat averaged about 25 bushels per acre and the oats not much more; the barley was also poor.All threshing is charged for at the prevailing rate for that season.Half of the gross receipts are paid to the tractor owner for furnishing the power.From the other half ts deducted all the separator expense.\u2018The net proceeds are then divided equal ly among the owners of the separator.Below are given a few figures to show the financial returns to the owners of this separator.There were five owners at first, there are now eight.Receipts For Separator For Three Years Profit Gross Net per 1920 Receipts Profit Owner 6,693 bu.wheat.at 10c.$ 660.30 6,692 bu.cats at bc 334.60 Gross receipts.$1.003.90 Separator share of receipts.$01.98 Separator expense.18.04 Net profit .5488.00 $483.91, divided by tive (number of owners).1981 $,280 bu wheat.at 7e 200002 $ 00 7,283 bu.oats and.bariey at 8$1-2c.Gross receipts.$ 904.50 Separator share of receipts.$452.36 Separator expense.33.23 Net profit .hesaens.$430.03 $430.03, divided by seven (number of OWRETS) 2.220220 0000000 00 - $61.43 1923 2.048 bu.wheat atc.$633.3¢ 7.849 bu.oats and bariey at 31-8c.274,71 Gross receipts.$908.07 Separator share of receipts.$434.08 Separator expense .54.03 Net profit $400.00 $400, divided by eight (number of owners).Net return per owner for sale of two additional shares in separator and shed, sold in 1921 .Net return per owner for sale of one additional share in se- parstor and shed, sold in 1922.Total return per owner for $337.90 invested in separator and shed.$338.54 it will be seen from the above table that each of the original owners has re ceived in dividends and money paid in for new shares, an amount equal to his investment.There has been very little expense for repairs on the separatar up to this time and while the repair bill will be come larger from time to time, this machine should give good service without much expense for a number of seasons yet.The bill for the third year was more than twice that of either of the former years but in It was Included $25 for insurance, an item that was not in before.Of the $94.28 total separator expense for the three years, noi over $30 could be classed as for repairs, the remainder including the one item vf $25 for insurapce.oil, toois, etc.In addition to receiving 100 percent on their investment.the members of this crew have been able to thresh as soon as the grain and weather were suitable, which was not always possible when they were dependent upon the professional thresher.\u2018This is a good record and cat- not be equalled every three years, as the yield of wheat and oats for these three years was higher than the average, although the oats yleld for 1922 was poor.There are several factors that determine the success or failure of such a company-owned outfit.In the first place, It must be owned by a group of men who can work well together.Second, they must have among their pumber, or hire men who can and will properly operate the machinery and keep it in good running order.Lastly, they must buy machinery that ts adapted to their needs and that will do the work successfully.if these conditions are met, there is no reason why the venture should not be a success.\u2014W.A.M., Neb, in Successful Farming.The Breod Sow Usually a sow is most prolific when she is from two to four years of age, and is probably at ber best when about two and a half years.Soon after she reaches maturity she is at her prime.After the sow has reached four or five years her powers begin to wane, and it is not long after that she bacomes unprofitable.Just how long to keep a sow will depend upon the individual.If properly handled two litters of pigs à year can be secured from a sow.It is not best to breed a gilt until she is eight to ten months old.Pigs can be weaned at six weeks of age, but eight weeks is probably better.They should be eating long before they are weaned and well able to secure ail the nourishment they need from other sources than the sow's milk, so they will not be checked in their growth by weaning.Many sows will accept service within a few days after farrowing, but it is not best to breed them until after the pigs are weaned, or in eight or nine weeks.The welfare of the sow and the next litter of pige should be kept in mind, and the sow should have time to æecuperate after raising a bunch of lusty pigs, before undertaking the fob 105.33 25.00 000.78 again, THE ESSENTIALS OF A GOOD ROTATION FOR MANITOBA A good crop rotation must be one that provides for the production of crops that will be profitable to the producer; it must arrange these crops so that their order facliitates the preparation of the land for each of the crops; it must provide opportunity for the cleaning of the land from weeds ang the storage of moisture, and the control, so far as is possible, of ime sects and plant diseasds; ft must provide for the upkeep of the fertility and phy sical condition of the sofl; end provide.feed for live stock.Manitoba is particularly suited to the growing of wheat.Wheat has brought more wealth into the province than all other sources of wealth put together.Signs are multiplying that the exclusive growing of wheat bas been overdone, and that the yields and cost of produce tion are less favorable to the grower than they once were.A change of system seems necessary, but that change should not be an abandonment of wheat growing \u2014rather a rearrangement of farming methods, with wheat growing still remain ing as the central feature.A good rotation should Include a cash crop, one that is well suited to tbe soil and cl mate and readily convarted into cash.For most of Manitobs, it can hardly be gain- sald that the principal cash crop is and must continue to be wheat.In limited areas other crope may be better\u2014perhape oats in some northern districts, rye in some light soil areas, and truck crops ia suburban areas\u2014but.in general, wheat is Manitoba's chief cash crop.The proportion of the land that may be allotted safely to wheat will vary; it should never be more than one-third, and in districts where weeds or light rainfall increase dif ficulties it should be cut down still mor.To make up for reduced ares, compenst tion should be made In improved condi tion.From now wheat might be grown aimost entirely on summer fallow, corm\u2019 land or other summer fallow substituts ok sod land broken the previous summer.Any good rotation for Manitoba must provide an occasional season for storage of moisture and general clean-up.Up te the present the summer fallow has dome this very efficigntiy; and it mus.cone tinue, for many years to come, to fill the function at least partially, and especially to clean up the weediest land.But the summer fallow is a very expensive \u2018method of preparing for wheat.The loss of the use of the land for a whole year constitutes a heavy charge againat the crop.In so far as the substitute crops can be utilized, summer fallow should be supplanted by such crops as corn, pots toes, etc., which will allow allseason cul tivation.The wheat, after suck crops, yields as much as after fallow and le cheaper.To control soll drifting, restore fertile ity and provide feed for more live stock, a good rotation for Manitoba should have a crop of mixed grass and clover.The grass will form a sod composed of fibrous roots which will prevent drifting and im crease the water-holding capacity of the soil.The clover will store up nitrogen, which is the only element of plant food likely to suffer depletion In most of our Manitoba soils.The seeding down of these grasses should be given a fair chance, and to do this it is best to have {it follow after fallow or corn in most dis tricts.Finally, a good rotation should grow some grain feed for the farm stock.Oats and barley are the feed grains of Mani toba, and should not be overiooked in planning à rotation.How these features can best be worked into à rotation will vary considerably with different districts, as some must pay more attention to conservation of mois ture and weed control than others.The local conditions and the type of live stock on each farm will also affect the choice of rotations.Letters to this farm, giving & fuii description of plans and circumstances on any farm in Manitoba will receive re plies tendering advice on choice of rota tions.One typical rotation is given here, as a concrete example of how the ideas presented above may be worked out.First year\u2014Wheat.* Becoad year\u2014Oats or other feed grains.Third year\u2014Fallow ang part corn og other fallow substitutes.Fourth year\u2014Wheat, sown with a mixture of grass and clover.Fifth year\u2014Hay.\u2019 Bixth year\u2014Hay or pesture.Ploughed in July and prepared for wheat\u2014W.O McKilllcan, Superintendent, Taperimental Farm, Brandon, Man.- sun RESTORING OUR AUN-DOWN SOILS Continuous cropping and the removal of crops has depleted many soils of thelr main supply of plant food.These plant food elements must now be added and plant residues must be incorporated fn the soil to restore fertility.All the plant food could be added in a commercial form st one application, but thut would not be profitable or good practice.The fertilisers would not add organic matter and humus, which are important in retaining moisture and providing good ulth.Every time a crop is harvested there le drain on the supply of every plant food element, the amount depending on the kind ot crop and the yleld.Where clover and alfalfa, or any other legume, are grown there may be am increase in the nitrogen content it the soil has been well 1imed and jegume inoculation used.These soil building legumes increase the nitrogen supply but little if all the crop is removed.The wise farmer occasionally turns under a good crop of green legume to keep land well provided with humus.Notwithstanding that the nitrogen sup ply can be maintained by growing alialfa continuously for four to six years bufore ploughing under, as is frequently done on dairy farms, the soll will in time arrive at a state of low crop production.High fertility means an abundance of every ele ment of plant food, plenty of organic matter or humus and a large population of soil micro-organisms.When a crop of alfalfa is harvested large amounts of phosphoric acid and calcium \u2018are removed.Even though the hay is all fed on the farm apd the manure returned, the phosphoric acid and cal cium balance can not be maintained.This phosphoric acid and calcium can not come from the air as the nitrogen does, but comes from the soil ftself.With every crop of clover or alfalfa harvested the supply in the soil is lowered.This should pot discourage their use as soll: bullders, however, because they are important in maintaining the nitrogen sup ply, but phosphates should be spplied-to balance the ration for the plants.Over state tests of acid phosphate com- ducted by the Soils Section of the Michi gan Agricultural College shows that on the light soils the use of 250 pounds of acid phosphate per acre on corn return ed $3.82 per acre more after the price of fertilizer was subtracted, tbam where no phosphate was used.On wheat the difference was $4.83 in favor of acld phosphate.On oats ths difference was $7.60.The yleid of alfalfs was increased twelve per cent.On the heavier solls the return from corn was $5.35; oats $4.13.Where acld phospnaté is used with sodium nitrate on the lighter s0ïl-the increases are even greater.\u201d These values do not include additional costs of application, harvesting, marketing and interest on money invested in the fertitizer.The use of manure is essential\u2014either as animal manure or green manure\u2014bdut it is & mistaken idea to think that manure alone will most economically maintain fertility, Manure is poorly balanced in plant food elements, being particularly iow fn phosphoric acid.Ordinary farm manure contains about 4.6 pounds of phosphoric acid per ton while it contains about ten pounds of nitrogen and ten pounds of potash.When farm manures are used it is very desirable to use about forty to sixty pounds of acid phoaphate with each ton of manure as a reinforcing agent.This will increase the fertilising value of the manure and prevent the loss of ammonia from the manure, due to fermentation.Applications of manure will also increase the humus content of the soll and Improve the physical condition.It causes the sandy soils to be more retentive of thelr moisture supply and it causes a granulating effect upon the heavier types.Green manures are used to increase the organic matter of the soll.When a crop of rye is turned under as a green manure there is no additional supply of plant food added\u20141t is merely worked-over plant food\u2014the rye crop took all of its food from the soil in the first piace.There is & distinct advantage, however, in growing rye or a similar crop to be returned to the soil.In the first place, it adds organ: le matter and It aiso prevents the leaching away of soluble plant food elements.There is a greater advantage, however, in growing a legume as a green manure, for in addition to the above qualifications It actually increases the nitrogen content of the soil by returning to the sofl nitrogen it has taken from the air through the aid of the bacteria on its roots.Applications of potash have net fn general given any increase on ordinary field crope except ou alfalfa and clovers, where overstate tests on sandy soils have given an increased yleld of sixty-five per cent On the heavier types of soil less should be expected of the potash.On muck soils ap Plications of potash respond favorably.legumes can be successfully grown in the rotation and manures are Applied it should not be necessary to apply (high-priced nitrogenous fertilisers to the oropa except oa the light sandy sells z MONTREAL WIING® AND CANADIAN MUMESIÉAI, AUVGUSI 18, 1928.where such applications wiil be profitable: Where rotations are not systematically followed and sufficient manure is not available, applications of sodium nitrate or ammonium sulphate have proven pro fitable.In applying nitrogenous fertills- er to the spring crops a small amount should be applied at time of seeding.It applied on fall seeded crops a sinall amount should be applied at time of seeding and the remainder the next spring.In the case of wheat and rye about twenty pounds of sodium nitrate are used in the All, and eighty pounds in the spring when the plants start their growth\u2014O.B.Price, in The Michigan Farmer.BOTS IN HORSES The Veterinary Director General of the Dominion Department of Agriculture con- ributes am interesting and valuable article on \u201cBots in Horses\u201d to the June number of the Bulletin of Agricultural Statistics.After explaining that rarely is a horse's stomach opened that bots are mot found attached to the mucous membrane, sind that rarely are they revealed in suf- ficlent numbers to cause death, the life history of these parasites Is outlined.The maître parasite, a fly somewhat resembling a house fly on a large scale, deposits eggs upon the hairs of the horse's legs.During the summer time, when horses are at pasture or where the fly can reach them, it is quite common to notice little white dots (the eggs) attached to the long hairs from the knee to the fetlock.These oFgs are attached by a gluey eubstance exuded by the fly containing such adhesive properties that it is almost impossible to scraps them off without removing the buir.In the course of a few days, the length of time depending upon the warmih of the weather, the eggs hatch and a little embryo emerges and crawls up the hair to the skin.Possibly, sometimes theses tiny embryog penetrates the skin through the halr follicles, and others are undoubtedly licked off by the horse in endeavoring to relieve the itchiness of his legs.Thus the embryo bots may reach the mouth and thence the stomach, either by being awullowed with the saliva or by migrating through the tissues.In any case they finally arrive at the stomach and attach themselves to the mucous membrane, \u2018where they remain for several months, gradually increasing in size until they reach maturity, when they drop off and are carried through the body with the remains of the food.Most worm remedies and bot remedies have no effect upon bots, which can aiso survive immersion in poisonous liquide for quite a considerable time.Carbon bisul- phide ie considered the best remedy for removing .bots from the stomach.As it cannot be administered in the way ordinary drenches are given, that is from a bottle, it must be given in a gelatin capsule which will protect the mouth and throat from the irritating effects of the drug.The dose of carbon bisulphide for an adult horse is from two to four drachms (one quarter to halt an ounce).If favorable results are seen in the removal of a number of bots, the treatment should be repeated in two or three days, ag it is seldom that one treatment is sufficient.The preventive measures suggested are: clipping the long hairs from the knee down; coating the legs with some greasy or tarry substance that will repel the flies; washing off the legs with a solution of hot water and carbolic soap, or protecting the lega during fly time by bandages or other means.PREVENTING THE FLY NUISANCE It is the habit of the house-fly to breed and lay its eggs in horse manure.Other forms of filth are used to a less extent, but horse manure is the usual medium The use of acid phosphate, kainit, and some other chemicals will help to pre vent this egg-laying, or will kili the young flies, but these chemicals will never entirely prevent the trouble.A strong solution of borax in water, sprayed over the manure at intervals, or in the stalls, will help further, but in spite of the use of these chemicals thers will ways be more or less of this fly-breeding.In many cases where there is only a small quantity of horse manure it is possible to build a screened house or shed where the manure can safely be kept.Sometimes a room is built in the stable, or a shed is bulit on the outside.This is made fly-tight by covering the windows and the doors with fine wire screens, so that the flies cannot enter or escape.Twice a day the manure mixed with acid phosphate or kainit is carried foto this room or house and lett there, the doors and windows being kept closed.Thus the flies are unable to get to the manure, and there is practical: 17 no breeding, so that the fly supply is practically cut off.In some cases where there is a larger supply of manure it is hauled out and spread on the tields frequently, so as to keep it away from the house and barn.Any plan to lessen the fly nuisance must take into consideration this fact, that the young flies are bred in horse manure.While the nse of chemi cals will help, the removal of the manure as described above is the only sure pre ventive fve this trouble.UDDER TROUBLES ! lt sometimes bappens that a cow will { give thick, streaky milk for one querter.{ The first thing to understand in this cage Is that such diseases of the udder as the one mentioned are caused by germs (streptococci) and that the infection may readily be spread from cow to caw by the milker's hands or cups of the milking machine.The affected cow (herefore should be isolated and kept apart until wholly recovered, should that occur.The milk or normal fluid from the quarter also contains the germs and should therefore be caught in a pail containing a disinfect ing solution, and then be thrown out in a place to which the cows have not access.If the cow is ylelding a good \u201cmess\u201d of milk from the sound quarters it might be best to let a calf nurse, provided they are kept In a separate stable or shed.It you do not care to do that, better dry oft the milk secretion in all of the quarters and thea fit the cow for the butcher.That can be managed by withholding grain, keeping the cow off grass and feeding her hay in & siable and yard.Drop out one milking dally for two or three days, then milk once in three milkings and then once in four.Some cows dry off quicker than others.If, for instance, a cow Is giving 15ibs.of milk a day and one milking is dropped she will give perhaps 12 lbs.next time.Then milk once daily until the milk yleld falls to 10 or 11 lbs.daily and then drop to one milking in three periods.That will dry off your cow.If you do not care to dry off all of the milk and the affected quarter yields pus-like fluid it would be best to amputate a portion of the tip of the teat of that quarter or to slit it open, that free draining may be secured.The interior of the quarter should then be flushed out twice daily with a saturated solution of boric acid used warm.In addition rub into the affected quarter once or twice daily a mixture of equal quantities of camphorated ofl, carbolized oil and compound soap lini ment.We should not advise having the cow bred again as such conditions of the udder usually prove incurable and return worse than ever at a subsequent calving.That applies, of course, to a common cow.-An affected cow that is purebred, registered and very valuable as a great producer of milk may be retained; bred, kept in quarantine and allowed to raise calves, which may, however, have to be fed the milk of a sound cow.It is quite common in heifers freshea- ing for the first time to find only one teat giving milk.Unfortunately it is not uncommon for two quarters on the same side of the udder to be so affected or for the two hind or two fore quarters to fail to develop and yield milk, the deformity being congenital or inborn.Where that is the case the quarters oither fail to receive their due supply of blood or the nerve system upon which their functioning is dependent is deranged.There is no remedy for such a condition and an affected heifer should be titted for the butcher.It is quite unlikely that she would show improvement at a subsequent calving, therefore it would not pay to retain her for dairying.It is much more common for one quarter to prove \u201cblind\u201d or milk: less at a first \u201cfreshening\u201d as the result of subacute Pammits or garget induced by calves sucking one another's teats during the months when they are fed milk from a pail That bad habit should be stopped as soon as it is noticed.It will be less likely to be practiced when calves are fed milk in stanchions and are given some meal to lick just after feeding.It is quite possible for more than one quarter to be affected in the same way.The precocious nursing induces milk to form in the udder and we have known a heifer calf that had not been bred to yield several quarts of milk a day when her teats were being sucked by two steer calves.When the nursing by calves is stopped, the fact that milk is present in the udder being unkncwn to the attendant, the milk curdles, garget of a slight character is Induced, drying up of milk secretion results, morbid matters are left in the udder and garget again, worso than ever, at calving time.As three quarters have failed to develop in the case in question and the teats also are small it is quite likely that the quarters will never function normally.We should therefore advise drying off the secretion in the one normal quarter and fitting the heifer for slaughter.If you do not care to do that then allow a calf to nurse, or go through all of the motions of milking three times dally, massaging the quarters thoroughly each time, and it is barely poesible that some milk may, in time, be secreted.HOW TO START THE CALF Better to underfeed the calf at the start than to overfeed.The common fault of beginners is to give a calf all it wants.It it was possible to feed it every two or three hours, possibly no harm would re sult.After going for eight or twelve hours without food, however, the calf is likely to gorge itself and develop digestive trouble.A calf which weighs fifty pounds at birth requires about eight pounds of milk \u201d THIRTEEN Before you buy any roofing get an estimate on Pedlar\u2019s Steel Shingles This is the roofing 7 that is fire-proof, lightning-proof and weather-proof, ou of that She eathing ne that lasts a i me Mail Us This Coupon The PEDLAR PEOPLE, Limited Dept.W.W.Oshawa, Out Please furnish us with an estimate of the cost of roofing material or siding to adequately cover my house or barn roof, style of buiding 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results.\u2018When it Is impossible to get high quality milk for calf feeding, reduce the quantity of feed.Calves will not suffer so much in development from underfeeding as they will from digestive disorders caused by poor milk.Poles After Bacon Market A new competitor for the English trade fn mild cured bacon has developed in Poland.The bog population of that country has increased over five million head since prewar days.Packers in Warsaw are now specializing in a lean, mild cured product which will compete with Danish and American bacon.ABSORBINE Ta EA spl = aim from a Splint, 160 Bone or Bene Spare, ne ide Bone no bais gone and horse can be used.82.50 bottle at druggists or delivered.Describe your case for special in- eurustions and bores Boek $ A tren W.F.TOUS, loc, 104 Lymocs Bidg., Nontesl, Don. SHADE FOR THE BIRDS (By Willlam Toser, Milner, B.C) Come with me and have a lJeok around on this hot, sweltering day, and observe carefully what you see, and like Captain Cuttle of old, \u201cWhen found make a note on\u201d We will go into the houses first, and perhaps to our great surprise will tind that they are very well patronited, and occupied with a big bunch of ladies vesting in the coolest places they can find.Observe that they chooss the places where there is the best ventilation between the open door and the wire front or beside tbe slot that opens to the yard.They are well divided up, too, not in bunches as im the fall and winter, but singly, to keep as far away as possible, from body contact with their perspiring sisters.Look how they pant, and how they stand with wings half outspread, to get as much of the cooler air circulating around their overheated bodies as possible.Birds Must Have Shade One's first thought is, how foolish to keep in the hot stuffy houses, instead of getting outside into the fresher air, but believe me they know what suits them best, and if you find your birds live mostly indoors, when the obvious thing to do would be to keep outside in a cool place, it is time to go further into the matier, and find the reason-for this seeming unnatura! behavior.The solution for this pussle, nine times out of ten, Is because they find it cooler and more comfortable inside than out.The sun heat will be from 10 to 40 de- trees hotter than the shade, and because your runs are lacking or deficient in shade, your birds will prefer the houses to the yards.There is very little doubt as to the truth of that proposition, and M is just here where you, Mr.Careful Poultryman, will take note, and make changes to alter this state of affairs as quickly as possible.Circumstances govern cases, you will say, and even though you may have no ticed all that has been said hereon, perhaps you may not have found it practic able, for some reason or another, to give the birds as comfortable and shady runs as they are entitled to.Your houses may be located in cleared land, where there is no natural shade whatever, so you argue the birds must just find the coolest place they can, whether inside or outside.There is not much to be said on this aspect of the situation, except ta remark that as the houses are located where they stand, it is assumed they were placed there for some reason which in your opinion pos sessed advantages which outweighed the maiter of summer shade.That is all right as far as it goes, only don't let it end there, and take prompt steps to remove the disadvantages from which yoar birds are suffering.There are several ways of doing so, although this cannot be accomplished straight away, still this serious drawback must be got over, and no better time to begin than right away.Put up Arbors Put up some arbors or shelters as soon as possible.A few stout stakes drivem firmly into the ground and standing 4 or 5 feet above it, connected together at the top with cross pleces making it a sort of open platform, wilt furnish a stand over which you can stretch sheeting.burlap or any other sert of covering material which you may have handy, or failing that you can cut down some cedar boughs and spread them over ihe framework In a fair ly thick leafy carpet, which will afford a very welcome shade from the noontide glare.The birds will soon find this out, and to hasten the process, and as an added attraction, you had better put your water pan and mash hopper there as well.This answers well as a temporary expedient, hut with a very little extra care and trouble, it might be made into not only a shade for (be birds, but a source of extra enjoymest and profit for you and your family.In this way, namely.by planting blackberry or loganberry canes at the ends of these structwres and training thems to form a sort of overhead roof or canopy, in a year er two you will not only have got a splendid shelter for your flock, but you will have some luscious fruit into the bargain, and so trained that you will be able to get at it to pick it with greatest ease whes harvest time comes.Provide Plenty of Water The water gets warm and flat, so fre quent refilling of the dishes is needful, sud your birds will grestly \u2018appreciate amd femelit from this attention.- - MONTREAL WITNESS AND CAN ADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST 15, 1988.Why are so many poultry houses bute | wien a powerful germicide by means of right on the ground instead of being rals- od above it?I have often wondered and have beam unable to find a valid reason.Houses built on the ground will have damp floors In the wet weather, induce vermin, being ideal quarters for rats, sad the floors and beams will scon rot out for want of proper ventilation.With the exception that a very few dollars might be saved by dispensing with bases in their construction, I can ses ne object in build ing flush with the ground instead of say a couple of feet above it.If no other ont- side shelter is to be found.then at least underneath the house will (urmish it, and this applies mot only io summer heat, bat also to fall and winter rains and sudden storms.Plant Berry Canes As additional! summer shade for your flock, few ways are better than to plant a generous clump of raspberry canes in each run.They require but little attention after the initial cost ang trouble of planting have been taken into account.Year by year they flourish and increase.The birds will do most of the gardening and will fertilise the ground liberally, ensuring rich soll and an abundance of well grown fruit.Beyond the usual thinning and pruning you can leave it to the birds to do the rest of the work, and all the time they will give lovely shade from the sun.The financial aspect of the question, in getting you many extra dol lars from the fruit that you do not want for home consumption, is not to be de apised either.Another much recommended pian is to sow your runs in the fall with some grain crop such as wheat, oats or rye.This will make splendid summer shade in the following year while it is growing, and when the birds themselves harvest it as the season progresses, it will add greatiy to their productivity.Adequate ventilation of the houses to keep them dry and sweet in the winter is often overlooked.Have wire doors fitted to all the door openings.Just a skeleton door or frame over which ordinary poultry netting is stretched.The benefit of this arrange ment is that yon cau leave the ordinary doors open during the hot nights, keeping the wire goor closed, and you will be able to sleep in peace, knowing that your flock wili be as safe from midnight prowlers as if the house were closed tight as usudl.\u2014Farm and Home.* RAVAGES OF POULTRY MITES (By Walter T: Scott.) Few keepers of poultry realise the fall extent of the injury done by red-mites.With the warmer weather the -mites flonur- ish and multiply until the poultry build ings become infested with these pests, and the harm is done.The red mite is the most dangerous of the externai parasites that attack fowl, and if allowed to spread unchecked far worse losses might accrue tham breeders imagine.These pararites are most injurious to young chickens and brood beas.Tho persistent loss of young chicks and the failure of hens to bring off good hatches are often due to irritation caused by the unsuspected presence of the red mite.The attacks of hoards of mites weaken and predispose the fowl to mauy mal adies, as well as materially reducing the yield of eggs.Some prominent scientists are convinced that the bite of the mite is venomous ans that even worse disaster might result than merely weakened conditiun brought about by the sucking of the blood.Undoubtedly many cases of diseare and debility occurring in the late spring, summer and autumn are directly attributable to these pests; therefore information that will render essier recognition and extermination should be of imterest at this reason.Many people are unaware of the presence or appearance of the mite.They may not visit their poultry houses at night, and the parasite is nocturnal; it dislikes light.The adult is seldom found om the fowl in the day time, but emerges from the deposits of filth and dirt that have accumulated in the cracks and cravices of the house and fittings and cHmbs to his roosting victim to gorge himsell with blood.in cold weather the mites are practically dormant, and are seldom seen; but the advent of summer will bring them forth in their myriads, and unless vigorous methods are taken to check their activities, in some cases the death of the infestrd fowl will follow, or the whole flock will become generally ansemic and unproductive.The presence of the mite may be read- fly detected by a close examination of the rooets and nest boxes.The praetice of running one's hand along underneath the roosts once a day is advisable, ss some parasites will adhere and can be seem and felt distinctly.Immedisite extermination is vital and steps should be taken at once to rid the building of ali material that will harbor and protect the mites.Fittings should be removed, dirt and ftitk brushed owt with « stitt broom, and the inside of the build ing mod furniture thoroughly saturated 4 spray.pump or brush.Bome of the coal tar by-products used as sprays vary in efficiency when used in economical strength solutions; but where the mites are evident in small batches and only in places, these iasecti- cides may be applied with a brush in their full commercial strength.A five or ten per cent.solution of car bolic actd is very effective, but not without danger as a spray.It can, however, ds recommended it proper precautions are taken.The most economical and effective preparation is & tive to ten per cent.solution of coal ofl and soap suds, which should be applied twice with an interval of two or three days between applications.EGG REGULATIONS.The attention of producers, country dealers, collectors, shippers.wholesalers, commission wen, and retailers Is called to the following egg regulations affecting domestic trading which became effective July 7th last: \u2014 Regulations ¢\u201411.Reguiation 4 \u2014 Every case or container of eggs that is shipped or delivered by persons who receive eggs on consignment or bay eggs for resale shali be marked, labelled or tagged in conspicuons letters on both ends with the name of the class and grade of the eggs contained therein, according to the Canadian Standards, providing that any producer or other person dealing in eggs may delegate his right to candle and grade to the first whole saler or retail dealer to whom the eggs are shipped or delivered, in which case the markinge, labellings, or taggings shail consist of the words \"UNGRADED EGGS FOR SHIPMENT ONLY\u201d and provided that the provisions of this regulation shall not apply to shipments or deliveries direct from producer to consumer.When cartons are packed im cares or other containers, both cases and cartons shall be marked, labelled or tagged as aforesaid.Regulation 5 \u2014 Every case or container of exgs that.ls expored, displayed or offered for sale by any person selling or delivering eggs direct to consumers fn a public piace or manner shall be marked, iabelled, tagged or accompanied in conspicuous letters with the name of the clars and grade of eggs contained therein.Regulation § \u2014 Cases or oontziners of eggs marked with the name ef the class and grade shall be considered to be pro- periy marked when they contain not more than as average of six and one-haït (6 1-2) per cent below grade stated apert from breakage.Complaints to vendors, with respect to eggs below grade, shall be made to the vendor within 34 hours of the receift of such eggs.Alter the expiration of the said 24 hours the liability as to eggs below grade stated shall be upon the person In whose poscession such eggs are found.Regulation 7 \u2014 Every persona who sells, offers or displays eggs for sale as a re tailer shall cause to be displayed in a pro minent place in his place of business a card as may be prescribed setting forth classes and grades of eggs as defined by the Canadian Standards.Regulation 3 \u2014 No persos shall ship eggs or cause eggs to bo shipped or dellvered or displayed for sale in cases or coatain- ers which are marked or labelled or tagged with the name of any class or grade specified in these Regulations unless the quality and weight of the eggs contained therein is equal to or better than such class and grade.Regulation $ \u2014 No person shall bay for sale er resale, or expose, offer for sale, or sell eggs which are uafit for human food.Regulation 16 \u2014 (1) All persons who receive egg on consignment or buy eggs for resale, in making payment for same, rhall apportion the returns on the basis of Canadian standard grades accompanied by a statement om forms as required in schedule \u201cA\u201d to these Regulations, pre- vided that this Reguiation shall not apply where producers market their eggs im lets than fifteen doxen lots in any ome day.(3) À consignes of ungraded eggs transferring the same to another party for candling and grading shall make the transfer within 48 hours from the time the ogxs are delivered to ths consignee.(3) The Minister, or his representative, may require to be notified in the case of a transfer for the purpose of candliag and grading as mentiobed in the next pre ceding subsection, and may prescribe the conditions under which such transfers may be made., Regulation 11 \u2014 Any imspector charged with the enforcement of those regulations may enter any premises or conveyance to make examination of any case of contaia- er of eggs suspected of beilag improperly or falsely marked, in violation of the provisions of these Regulations or to ae certain the manner and extent te which the returns for ezgs have been apper- tioned ia accordance with the Canadien standards as required ia regulation 10 of these regulations.Any desiring fusther information or ia | térpretation of these regulations may ap ply to the office of the Live Stock Commissioner, Ottawa.CORX FOR RANGE PLACES Many farmers take good care of the baby chicks, raise a fair percentags to the point where they can be allowed free range and then proceed (0 forgel about them until fall.At that time the flock Is usually drivea into winter quarters, the cockerels separated and sold, and the pui- lets culled to select the possible winter layers.But surprising to say, very few such pullets contribute very liberally, if at all, to the winter egg basket znd oftem go into as winter moult Instead.This will happen with early hatched chicks as wall as late, Some folks blame the breeding stock, claiming that winter mowlting is hereditary and that the only possible way to avoid the evil ig to select good stock that is free from the so-called taint I discovered the remedy quite by accident.Several years ago I found myselt with an abundance of corm but very little other grain.1 had a Sock of about 208 chicks just out of the brooder and ready to go on range in the orchard and adjoining fields, but I realised the importance of supplying some grain feed in addition to what they could pick up.It was with some misgivings thet I decided to give them the cracked corn.One of my neig! bors declared that | would ruin the pullets while fattening the cockerels, but { hoped their freedom would counteract any evil effects that might be produced ia fowis confined to small pens.Start Corn Feeding In the beginning ! introduced the erack- of corn gradually, scattering it im deep litter iu the colony houses each afternoon.Later, as the weather became more moderate and the youngsters wandered farther and farther in search of bugs and worms, I felt safe in supplying the corn ia hoppers beside the bran, charcoal, grit and oystersheM.I fully expected, of course, to see the birds make gluttons of themselves for a few days but they paid little attention to the corn in the morning and seemed to count om it to fill the vacant space in their crops when they returned in the evening.Upon the approach of fall, when the food supply in the orchard aad fields grew less, the flock returned eariter to the hoppers and cemsumed more corm but I discouraged sorties by mixing ts about aqual parts bran m gs.oC In the latter pr of September 1 decided to separate the vockerels and ship them, as the market was good and 1 wanted them out of the way before I culled the pullets.1 was agreeably sarprised when the returns were received for the commission dealer reported a two-cent preminm because of the excelieut condition of the shipment.And I was due for anosher surprise when the puliets weat into winter quarters with an iasignificant percestage of culls removed.In fact, they were the brightest and plumpest bunch of pullets that I had ever handled up to that time.In winter quarters, of course, I cut down où the corn ration but the birds thrived in a most satisfactory manner and not a single pullet went into winter mouit \u2014G.BR H, Wis.OIL FOR NITES AND LICE For destroying lice and mites i use the refuse oil drained from the craak case of I the tractor.This is dirty stuff, not fit tor other purposes.use a big can of it and with à large, old paisi brush I go over the perches.it this is dome in the early spring, a couple of times during the summer, and again just before winter, yon will not be pestered.All it requires is a little watchfulness and a good application of the oil at the right time.I remove the perches and saturate them thoroughly with the oil; then 1 go over the perch supports \u2014 on top and underneath till they are free from any signs of a pest.These supports | have suspended from the rafters with heavy wires, the back ones being shorter.This makes the roosting arrangement free from contact with any part of the building.In the nest part of the house, the straw is often removed and a good coating of ofl applied to every nook and crevice with the result that there is mo chance for any pests to Hager long.\u2014I.J.M., Ind.Egg Production Deadbled The egg production of average mongrel hens Ia Arkansas was doubled in three years by the mse of males from high-pro- ducing hems.The origina! hens produced sixty-six eggs annually while thelr granddaughters, by males from high-producing hens, averaged 146 eggs with some individuals going as high as 230 eggs à year.Nor was the increased production accomplished at « loss becanse of higher feed costs.The Arkansas station, which has besa comducting the test.found that when Socks averaged 176 ages per hem the cout of production per dosen wag six and one-haM pounds of grain.When the production (alls below 148 eggs per hen, they de not ns à mule pay for thelr keep.However, there are maxy common farm Socks that do not pay because of the way they ate kept and fed.\u2014 \u2019 WHITE XGOS AXD BROWN (By Geo.A.Cosgrove) 1 know of a New York City woman who sent her servant girl to a store for a dosen egss, and because the shells on two of the eggs were not as white as the rest, had the girl take those eggs back to the store and exchange them for white ones.This seems rdiculous, but it is literally true.It is wonderful to note how far we humans are governed by fancy, taste, appearance, looks and custom.If a white- shelled ogg were broken into a saucer, and a brown-shelled egg into another saucer, no human power of microscope or chemical analysis could tell which exg cane from the white shell or the brown one.Yet New York pays a premium for the white-shelled eggs, and Boston for the Brown-shelled omes, imagining that the drown eggs are richer.The Bank of America has published some statistics regarding the egg consumption in New York city that are exceedingly interesting.The average dally consumption is 5,164,800 exes, or something like an egg for each person every day.The yearly consumption is 156,791,869 dosen.The receipts are usually the greatest in April; Jest year 1,159,793 cases of 30 dozen each were received in that month.One interesting fact is that practionlly the whole country contributes to that supply, and the major part does not come from surrounding States, as one would naturally think.The State of 1!linois shipped mors than twice as many cases as New York.LET THE HENS NOULT LATE The late moulters are the profitable hens.If a hen starts mouiting early she is likely to remain in a rundown condition until very late fall, while her sister, that waits until fall to take her vacation, is usually through moulting in time to be a heavy winter producer.If pullets are hatched early and weil grown they will be likely to start laying in the fall in the latter part of September, or perhaps in October, and the next year will escape the early summer moult.The ones that are hatched late or that begin to lay late in the fall are most likely to moult early the following summer.It is not exactly known just what causes the early mouiting, but a rundown condition never fails to produce it.This is one reason why broodiness should always be discouraged.If a hen remains broody for a continued period, she will stay on the nest too much and not get sufficient nourishment.On the other hand i is equally unprofitable to keep the hen shut im a coop to break her desire to set, and not feed her plenty of nourishing feed.HANDLING HOGS Of all the domestic saimals, hogs are andoubtedly the most difficult to handle, especially when individual treatment is required.It is almost necessary to have some mechanical arrangement to do this successfully after a hog reaches 100 pounds or more in weight Very large hogs can best be controlled by the use of the twitch or holder, which may consist of a small rope in which a loop has been made or a piece of small wire looped st the end.The loop is placed over the upper jaws of the animal.For vaccinating large hogs or for cas trating large boars, this method is very eflective, as when this rope or wire is tied to a post or some other solid object the animal will pull back with sufficient force to draw it taut.There are several fnex- pensive mechanical arrangements on the market which work on this same princi.pile.The crate method is more or lesa satisfactory for very large sows and boars.This method consists simply of a very strong, heavy crate in which the animals are placed as if for shipping.With such a crate, large animals can be confined for ringing, castration and similar operations.It is a common practice with some farmers, when handiing large hogs, to throw them on their sides and \u201chog-tie\u201d their feet.The front foot is tied to the hind foot, then the hog Is laid close to a fence or gate.One end of a long timber, such as à pole or a 2x4 is placed under the fence or gate and is then laid across the hog's neck.By bearing down on this lever with sufficient force, the hog is prevented from lifting its head enough to struggle.Two or more men can handle a very large anima! in this way but where a twitch can be used, it is much more satisfactory and much easter.Tn handling bogs that are not too large to be managed by a single individual, one of the best methods la to place them in a small pen where the operator can reach over their backs and catch them by the sers.With a good firm grasp on either ear, the small hog can be set upon®its haunches and then grasped betwgon the knees right back of the bore-shoulder with sufficient force for giving worm reme diss, ringing and similar work.As a general rule, hogs should not be caught by the hind legw, especially If they are any size, as they are quite likely to ee the hip joint or break a leg in gles.1 it 14 necessary to pres MONTREAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST 15, 1028 FARMERS\u2019 WANTS & SALES throw a bog that is of considerable sise, reach over ita back, grasp the front leg _nearest the operator, then draw up with considerable force, at the same time pulling the animal toward the operator to throw it on its side.Then by placing one knos.on the neck, a fairly good sized animal can be held ressonably secure \u2014G.H.C., lows, tn Successful Farming.Harvester Train Dersiled A special harvester train running over the Canadian Pacific main line was de railed near Warren.Ont, about 40 miles east of Sudbury, about six o'ciock Thursday evening.The engine and seven cars left the rails, five of the cars being passenger coaches.There are no fatalities, but seven received serious and 21 minor injuries.The barvester special left Montreal carrying between four hundred and tive hundred excursionists bound for the western wheat fields.immigration to Canada The rapid increase in immigration to Canada during the first three months of the present fiscal year, amounting to 68 per cent.more than for the same period à year ago, is accompanied by indications of a return movement from the United States, according to officials of the Department of Immigration and Colonisation.Reports reaching the department indicate that there has already been a considerable movement of returned Canadians, who in recent months were attracted to the United States by the industrial prosperity then existing in that country.The prospect of a record crop in Canada, with improved industrial conditions, and the northward movement of the wave of prosperity, is already reflect ed in admissions at United States border points.Nearly 6,000 Britons are expected to land in Canada and go west within the next three weeks to help garner a bumper crop of grain.They will come in re sponse to the recent call issued indirect 1y by the Dominion and rendered effective by the shipping companies, who have reduced rates to allow prospective harvesters to travel from England to Winnipeg for $56.50.This reduction remains in force until August the 11th, after which Bo more boats will sall with harvesters.U.F.Wheat Pool is Incorporated Announcement of the incorporation of the United Farmers\u2019 Wheat Pool Ltd, under the Stock Companies Act, appointed to handle the wheat of the farmers within ten days, Was made in Regina at Monday morning's session of the Royal Grain Inquiry Commission by John Maharg, President of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers\u2019 Association.Mr.Maharg said two of the largest banks handling the bulk of the grain banking business in Canada had offered their support to the pool.Sun Yat Sen's Power Waning Students of the military situation in South China have expressed .the be Hef that the regime of Sun Yat Sen, southern constitutionalist leader, is destined to be short lived , Sun's Yunnanese troops have evacuated their positions on the North River and are proceading toward the Bast river sector, it has been learzed.Constitutional ist forces have been defeated at Samshul, on the East river, west of here.Where crops are stored in large quantities ventilators should be open as much as possible to carry off gases and heat coming from a large bulk of any crop.When severe weather occurs, close up the ventilators.Do not store a large volume of any crop while it is warm from the fleld unless you know that you can reduce the heat by proper ventilation.More attention must be paid to this when commercial storage is being done in the fall, and our growers must help when asked to do so.One of the moet striking developments of British opinion at the moment is the sentiment against the liquor smuggling campaign on the part of the British citi.sens against laws of the United States.This British sentiment has demanded in tones the government cannot ignore that this \u201cshameless\u201d campaign shall cease.MACHINERY Autemobi! rastors, ete, have us a dns and put new pistons in t than new.Band for free STEB MOTOR CO.Ham.fiten, Canada.LL E : Want to hear from ewner having Tarm for ASVERTISING RATES\u2014 Under this heading aévertisements will be taserteé without dis (th-order rate of twe cent per 8).BX consecutive insertions will be siz insertions one dollar).Va number ev à addressed ia care of Lhe \u201cWitneas DIÈTRES rirrans Nord per insertion charge i8c.por a for the price ne FOUR (a atm rate fer totter is counted as one werd replies an additional charge of twenty-Ûve cents for Insertion in these columns should be ia Uhe \u2018\u2019Witnass\u201d Office not inter then Friday He ton ta following Weekly Eaition MACHINERY i ores-Power T.H.C.tiona les Gasoline Engine, mounted pn truck, equipp with magneto and JA NE ENEt running condition.BTOCK & HANSEN, Tavistock, Ont.Lie BUPPLIES arts oot Makes and e se Touro proton sr ou We carry the lar, largest \u2018cad moa! compists Hock In Canada of alightly used er new sutomebile equipment We snip C.O.where iu Satisfaction oi or (ull our motte.BHAW'S AUTO BALVAGN PART SUPPLY, 923-831 Dufferin St, Torrents.POULTRY Y CAL 7 5 ROCK& Rok IO pen te.in; Rock hens haa 1 cockerel, year old, 2.00 each White Leghorn pullets, hatched Ist.April, $1.75 each.M.EMERY, Birdsalls, Ont.336.LIVE STOCK Li Ay ranlre Bull, 18 rr dam a dames having creditable R.O.P.Burnside Torrs Mayor.JAS.BORLEY BONS, Ottaws, R.R.No.1, Ont.od led Cattle an uroc Jersey Sale.Write for particulars.RED Al how FARMS, Canonto, Frontenac County, 20 \u2014_\u2014 For Baie\u2014Pure-Bred Scotch Collie Pues, Te | nd shat appeal, $3.00 and $10.00.COLN SSEL, New Dundee, Ont.Oro rer T first time in Cana h coolle females of the famous Dalgliesh working strain; §12 each.A.M.STEWART.Fort Coulon Que.ABBITS mish Glan rom the Outdoor se Strain.$3 each.WILLIAM G.BOYD org HUI : Hope, Ont., Box 68.34 BWINE.a amworths\u20148cotch coliles.y not try Tam- worths?Acknowledged bacon type, prolific, easy feeders: we have for sale at reasonable prices sows for fall farrowing; sows and boars, 4 montha old; also grand bunch of weanlings, 3 weeks; paira not akin; shipped an approval.R_E.MERRIAM, Norwich, Ont.= Berkshires \u2014 ze registered, t type: young sows, due Aug.27, $45.* Young ready for service 130 each.We pay express.JA A WADDELL, General Dellvery, Stratford, On 338.WILD ANIMALS ue foxes.ack a aska Both good.\u2014REID BROS., Bothweil, ont 25 from my nine FARMS FOR BALE aritime VALLEY hal ESTATR AGENCY, Vois ville, Nova Bcotia.acres and new room ingatow, beaut = located, within commuting distance of New York, the worid's greatesi market.Cholce tile lage, suitable for truck, fruit, Pour, cash, balance hid terms.C, B.BARKEI rs N.Set pou Y plants near New will Te\u2019 sold on very favorable terms.$4500 cash required.Unusual rtunity to st Into a profitable business, Pa BARKEL Mlilington, N.J.arm cree\u201413 clear: -room house and outbulldings; 200 frult Treen.Half mile mater frontage.For further particulars apply GRIFFITHS, North Gabriola, B.C.2! Pole Bahr Rogar TT Weems farm, 46 acres In orchard and berries; near Lincotn highway; three miles from Abbotts town; Pa.; will be sold.20 tricks; write for printed details.LOOEE & SONS, York Co., Menges Mills, AN U.8.296.OFF R I 160 acres, A miles from vilisge, 6 acres tillage, good pasture.#00 cords hardwood, 206 cords eoft wood.House, 7 rooms good repair, water at the sink.Barn 4(x50 running water, silo, hay fork, price $2200.$200 down, or will take auto as payment.ALONZO P.RICHARDS, Farmington, Maine.SE acres in Simcoe county, nearby Toronto, formerly farm, no pena \"Lory cheap for $1400.00.No debts.Information: Box C., Veseleyville, North \u2026 U.8 £ 28\u2014T, Por farm.In good farming district six miles west of Dunnville and 1-2 miles from highway.Eight-roomed house; large hip-roofed barn, garage and other buildings: good orchard, suitable for poultry, berries or grain.Fences and buildings in Arst class condition.Apply to W.FARR, Darling Road, Ontario.2% lagara County, ew York\u2014268.Acre farm, Lake Ontario, 1 mile fine lake hore, 3 sets of buildings, ail improvements: 100 acres standard fruit, all eine rea ibitities.Bee SLATTERY REAL Lockport, = Sale\u2014General farm, rm 90% Tuitvation, ony quipped: Guernsey h fruit; crops; near e, churches, high school, Slopes.ete.DRON BROS, McDono NS 39-6, $1000, Takes 3 Cows 2 Horses Fur niture Tools and Crops 100 acres one mile from village, 50 acres till good pasture, Food.apples.Now house rooms.Barn 45x50.basement, hay fork, garage, 25x30; hen house.There is § cows, 3 horses, farming tools, crops.Everything Owner in poor health, must sell.price 31000 down.$200 yearly.ALONZO .RICHARDS, Farmington, Maine.8-4 y PE SALON years experience.Booklet form.Third edition, For Sale-One of the best hay, grain and Price 25 cents.The chapter of MULTI-MA- dalry farms in Northern N.Y.AT cractore TING may be worth thousands of dollars to| Xorked Melde.very ee to barn.00 oy Far ancher.Dr.RANDALL, ane all included; fully \u2018equipped and stocked; r ate a oxes.ONS, plenty water, rene he lion NY.T n .Watervlile, N.8.23\u20146, « ensburg, 4.grec ver Foxes; Ales few crosses.Terms half on dellvery, \u2018balance when they have their pups; would ranch for $100.00 B'k References.FUR FARMS.Box 22, ei | Elin, N.B.be tion For Farmers\u2014We start you in silver fox farming on your own farm, ' giving you the bemefit of our accurate knowledge and successful experience.lose, for we stand behind you.foundation stock.Your chief of 300 first-class liver foxes, 1923 litters.Write for our special guarmntes offer\u2014it means money for you.CANADA FOXES, LIMITED, Sackville, N.B., MISCELLANEOUS DOTE Fed de eee DUR v arms.SHALL RATHWELL, Navan P.O., Ont 203.\u2014\u2014\u2014 2 & We.Clover Haney, $11.00; Amber, $10.40, FOB.Wm.A.HARTLEY, Beamsville, Ont.30-18.\u2014_\u2014 iling\u2014Fal e, Bushel, at Hold fast, Sask.one FROHLICH.sacks.Prepaid.nee A AW Gre hundred different srempe for the names of two coMectors and 2c poni portage.20 Russian stam 10c.\u2014TOLEDO STAMP COMPANY, Toledo, Ohlo.336.{A aba foved | lake, 100 acres nay, situated near = and In good productive shape: choice fruit, well watered, good buildings, hardwood bush.Selling on account of death in family.ply D, STEWART, R.R.2, bo iy te or k ne of the best farms in n Vermont consisting of 1% acres.(n the village of Enosburg Is, e extra house, electric lights, hot and cold wae ter, bath, a good line of farm tools, tractor and milking machine, sugar bush of 900 trees, well equipped, 45 head of cattle, pair of horses, hens, hogs, and calves.There are building lots that will sell for §1.000 per acre, 19 min utes\u2019 walk to stores, churches, high sr-hool, station, two creameries.If interested write or see R.M.HOUSTON, Enosburg Falls, Vers moat.> 32.8.acres, situ of Tyrone, Township r.Simon Metay, tenant).\u2018The soil is a clay loam, well sulted for mixed farming, has good pasturace, nice spring creek about half the length of farm on one mide, also very convenient to church, school, store, telephone and dally mail, also two railways, etc.Might exchange for proe perty near Windsor, or Detroit.For information address W.J.PEARCE, Florist, Pontiac, Mich., U.B.A, or to JAMES TAPE, Box 721, Port Hope, Ont.2-2 S acres good Karden land, well tilled, with cow, horse, six vehlcies.all implements, feed for winter: strawberries, Tanpberries, orchard; $= roomed house; large $1500, half cash.ane MARSHALL YOUNG! Carryingpiace, a half ile went of igs.of Darlington, Ont WA sale; give particulars and lowest price.\u2014 JOHN J.BLACK, Witness Street.Chippewa va Wisconsin.tf.eo ear rm for.\"gale.State cash prices \"tall Particulars, F.BUSH, Minn Mini 31-8.arm Wanted\u2014Iimprove er unimprowv {J with owners only.Qive ticulars and cash prise.EMORY GROSS, North Topeka, Kan- 32\u20144 RO! TY 8.For Bale\u2014Crate and tray factory and feed mill; 11 acres of land, new house, fruit: on State road, near lake.JOHN \u2018BOOROM, owner, STE N.Y.328.Heward\u2014James Frederick, last heard of In New Westminster, B.C., in 1906.Mother enquires, Mra.J.C.HOWARD, Stella, Wnt Sarburaters, er Ton C8.Le Five horse $176.ines, Ly] and all metor beat Send fer 1lsts.For n.Canade.res h bie er si three horse portable engine.Binder \u20ac ne 3325.Free Literaturen.CANADIAN BÔ.(T & ENGINE EXCHANGE.Toronto.28\u20144.For bee \u2014 Ne.6 Beavis Tream Teparaior with power attachment months only, het clase condition $100.08 Eee un ml ne i turn device,\u201d complete \"tour undred aor lare FOR.cer.WILSON 8.FRAUNR Chip- mao, NB re Simmons.Treacendants of Chartes.Bimmo whose wife Charlotte Foster and family À loft Nottingham for Sydney, N.H.W.about 70 cars ago.HANNAH BIMMONS GI18B, Card.won, Albert = enquires.cDena aries B., fast heard n Everett, Mass.Aunt enquires, Misa MARUARET x MeDONALD.Catalone Read, Cape Breton, a profitable a par comes ioaton us ness of your own.property owner needs some of our nine nundeed vrerieties of hardy Red T: Ti dress sné plants.No capital needed.MaNIoR Nunuin and instructions fre.ria , Mout.© saw Modern Home in Right Location\u201480 acres = electric car line between two large cities; handy to churches, schools, ntores, corn face tory; 40 acres in mmnooth, level floids, falp stale of cultivation; good pasture, wood for home use; house, 3 rooms, hardwood floors, electric lights, plaxza: barn, 65x60, banement, hay fork: two horses, {our cown, farming tools, crops.Price and terms very attractive; send for photo and particulars.ALONZO P.RICHARDS.Farmington, Maine.it fre 20h Read of arm acres on from viHage: Hi cho cattle; good hulidings.Write Mrs.H.CUNNINGHAM.Morris, Otsego Co.New York 33-4.BUSINESS CARDS PATENT Core fon Pate BU old establt Tatts I Head office Po Bi Toronte: Ottawa Office, § Street throughout Canséa tree + Your Na Beautifully Written on {weive plain, assor or design cards for 50c.Agents wanted.8 F' KIMBALL, Raymond, Alberta, + ATIO say is the Royal Road te Latin, h, German.Spanish.Thoro mall courses, \u2014 ACADEMIE DeBRISAY, é $e tawa.x A WA nt teacher; term nning Sept.Grindatone, ~My vant Lice ht and a halt months, Friteenth: Apply 7.W.ea > aktay MONTREAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST 1§, 1988, gs SERMONS IN STONES (By Sarah F.Bell.) This small gray stone 1 found upon the beach; The waves have washed its sides And thrown it on the rocky shore, The storms have tossed it to and fro, \u2018And all its edges smoothed; Its sharp rough corners, all Are rounded off; until It les within my hand ; A shapely thing and beautifai.Is this the rcason then, that storms are sent?To make rough edges smooth And take away the corners sharp, And shape our lives through storm and stress?And though we may be tossed on lonely shores ; ; We may find voice to speak His praise, And resting safe within God's hand The marvel is, He finds vs beautiful.\u2014The Congregationalist.THE HOUSE PARTY We had a house party last week\u2014that is, the giris did, writes Mary C.Barnett in \u201cSuccessful Farming.\u201d Maybe you think I mean by house party, a bunch of grown-ups whom you meet at the station with the car and for whom you entertain, and all that, but not so.They came galloping from school on Friday afternoon with Betty and Peggy, the guests, carrying rolled-up bundles, all four little girls in a state of hilarious delight.Betty and her guest.Marjorie, had the spare bedroom by reason of their seniority\u2014going on \u2018leven they are.Piggy and Bess slept in the little girls\u2019 own room among the doll- furniture and dolls and teddy-bears and toys.Bestowing the guests\u2019 baggage, nightie, tooth-brush, clean kerchiefs and extra dress wasn't such a task and presently the four of them were busy at the play-house in the woodshed, clearing up, sweeping, washing dishes, dressing dolls and doing various other housekeeping datics devolving upon them.Billy scented a peck of fun teasing four girls instead of his regular allowance of two, but I persuaded him, with the aid of a dime, that Grandma was pining for his company overnight.Grandma is openly convinced that \u201cBilly is the flower of the flock,\u201d and he and Grandma are perfectly at home in each cther\u2019s company.Betty slipped in while I was getting supper to inquire if I planned putting out the best dishes and went off rejoicmg when I assured her that such was my intention.After supper the children dried the dishes, and made fudge, and popped corn, and giggled.and shrieked, and chattered like a flock of birds.There.was a fot of messing in the newly mopped kitchen, a tot of sugar and butter and flavoring used and some wasted.They cleaned up the kirchen according to contract, but I found a little more to do next morning! The company stayed all day Saturday and tilt bedtime that night, when their father came in the car after them.They made doll clothes, and had a little dinner in the playhouse.and (a rare privilege had for\u2019 a limited time) a fire in the little brick furnace in the rear of the garden where they roasted potatoes.They made a swing in the smokehouse and a ball diamond.Billy, after his return, supervising and assisting and they played ball with much laughing and shout- mg and racing about.Aunt Mindy from across the street came over during the progress of the ball game, to borrow a pattern.She was shocked to death to think I'd allow a \u201cpassel of kids to run me outen house and home.\u201d \u201cOh.I'm not run out,\u201d I laughed.\u201cI like to see them have a good time.\u201d .Aunt Mindy sniffed.\u201cTrouble with you is, Marthy,\u201d she said, \u201cyou're too much of a kid yourself to be any account raisin\u2019 children\u2014a kid in your mind, 1 mean.You're oid enough Le Settle down if ever you aim to.ow w my children was little\u2014\" , I'd heard it before so I sim; let it slip off my mind like water off à duck's According to Aunt Mindy's account her children never got their clothes dirty, they never talked loudly, they never brought home a bunch of kids and \u201crim her outen house an\u2019 home,\u201d and especially did her little girls never get out and play ball, \u201clike a gang of tomboys!\u201d Aunt Mindy isn't even any relation, but I don\u2019t resent her expressing herself as I might if I didn\u2019t know that s was a conscientipus, careful mother and as nearly as I œn learn from others, a stern disciplimarian.I might amplify this sketch indefinitely telling and explaining to you why I permit the children privileges to which Aunt Mindy takes such decided exception but I can illustrate better by telling of a little ingi- dent last summer.The children, ours and half a dozen of the neighbors\u2019, were putting on an amatewr \u2014exccedingly amateur\u2014show in the woodshed and I, passing about my work, Hsten- ed now and then to the conversation.\u201cI'll not be in it!\u201d I heard Betty say, \u201cand you shan't have.it in our shed! \u201cWell\u201d I said, \u201cthere is a fine way for my daughter to treat her gueets.But it developed that one of the children had added something indecent to the play.1 vant Mother to come and see the play, said daughter, \u201cand she can\u2019t if pu have that and I'll not be in it, s0 now Well, the trouble was settled, the young miscreants were shamed out.The phy went on and I saw and applauded and treated cast and audience to cookies and lemonade.; But do you see my point?1t does take a lot of time and work and sometimes a little mroney to, ns you say, \u201cfool with children but by so doing you hind therm to yeu with chains stronger than iron.; You haven't a thing under God's skies more important to do than making your children\u2019s character, and an active interest in their plans and plays helps you to know them and to help them to be what you would have them be.GLOVES AND THEIR CARE Unless good care is taken of gloves they become a really heavy item of expense and the wise woman has all sorts of ways of saving them.For instance, says a writer m the Washington Evening Star, the drawing on and off of gloves three and four times à day causes greater havoc than the actua wear that they get while on the hands.To minimize the strain, gloves should always be \u201ccoaxed\u201d on.A finger twisted when the glove is first put on will remain twisted until the glove is worn out.A hasty jerk or an impatient push between the fingers will often result in an unsightly, unmendabie tear that is not the fault of the kid.When gloves are removed the top should be turned back over the hand to the fingers, then back and fingers should be firmly grasped and the glove gently drawa off.When turned back to normal position the glove should be pulled lengthwise.You can easily cut down the total glave expense one-half by knowing the right kind of gloves to buy and the way to care for them.There are several kinds of gloves to be considered, including the dressed kid, suede, doeskin., chamois, silk, lisle, coston and chamoisette.There is a perspiration-procé white dressed kid glove that is easily cleaned at home without stiffening it.Saturate a handkerchief in gasoline and shake dry; rub this over the soiled gloves, and # they are not too much soiled they will clean as easily as when dipped.Kid retains a disagreeable odor when dipped ine, aad this proces: i mually smi sient ty pro- periy do the work Even à spong.ng with inkewarm water and white soap will clean perspiration-proof white kid gloves.The «0st ¢f the perspiration-proof glove is the same as for ordniary drissed kid.It is of fine clastic quality and wears well Suede gloves for evening wear are soft and pretty.They clean well in the hands of professional cleaners, but because of their light weight they have ro great wearing qualities.White doeskin gloves have taken their place.They arc only slightly heavier in weight, and are beautiful in texture.The doeskin glove is easily washed with ed or lukewarm water and white soap.The rinsing water should Ccontaim soap and be of the same temperature as the washing water.The gloves should be dried slowly and not by artificial heat.Just before they are quite dry they should gently but firmly drawn through the fingers to prevent them from stiffering.If they do stiffen, as sometimes happens, they should be rubbed between the palms of the hands as yon would rub a square of chamois.Chamois gloves arc heavier than doeskin, but less expensive.Their wearing qualities are not as good.Both chamois and chamoisette gloves should be cleaned in cold soapy water, of not warmer than tepid water, The sitk glove is 8 favorite, principally because it is supposed to be less expensive than the kid glove, The initial expense may be less, but its life is not more than half as long as that of the docskia or the chamois glove, and it is mever as modish.Lisle and cotton gloves are usmlly worn as a matter of economy.The chamoisctte glove is a good imitation of the in, has excellent wearing qualities, and is no more cxpensive than ordinary liste or cotton, and is less expensive than silk.When buying long gloves the following suggestions will be helpful: If your arm is plump, see if the glove stresches at the top; if it does, it will be comfortable.Six pairs of gloves are usually cut from one skin; several are cut straight with the |- grain, and these gloves will not stretch; they will fit 8 woman with à small hand and a slender wrist.Those thet ere cut in the te direction may be easily dotected by stretching the ove Have both gloves fied ¢o the hands i 1{man burning his house and being badly A MAGAZINE PAGE FOR HOME WORKERS | iie-e- buttamed or clasped, for if the gloves will « not stretch when fitted around the wrist they wil sear.it is rise fo test the elas ticity of several pairs re you a ani choice.Every woman who has had the task of mending torn gloves knows that the stitches often out very quickly.This difficulty may be obviated by buttonholing around t «due of the tore part be fore drawing the edges pogether.se cotton thread to mend all kinds of gloves, even kid.You can draw cotton thread up closcr, and it does not cut like silk.REMOVING BOTTLE STOPPERS L.L.\u2014Ths stoppers of both vinegar and perfume bottles may be remeved ensily If yon will apply a drop or two of salad ofl just where the stepper joine the neck of.the bottle.Apply the oll with a feather then set the bottle where it will become slightly warmed but not hot.The oil works down between the stopper and the neck and by giving the whole thing a slight tap the stopper will come out.FORMALDEHYDE FOR BEDBUGS Desr Editor\u2014! have seem enquiries fa different papers asking how to get rid of bed bugs.This week | see a case of a burmed himself in his efforts.We got infested with them and they had themselves well dug im before | kmew it.I calcimined all the wp stairs, used boiling water, coal oll, gasoline, and burned sulphur.It kept them in check, but they were not extinct; then | saw somewhere that formaldehyde, or formaline was good.(We use it in the west to treat our grain for smut.) I got two ibs.took a small paint brush and a long, stiff feather and went over all the mattresses, springs, and cracks, toek out dresser drawers and went over the bottom of trunka.I did it im the morning and left the rooms closed till evening and a couple which were nat in constant use were closed for some days.Open the windows and air thoroughly before using.It is a little hard on the eyes and throat, but only for the time being.In three or four weeks I went over them agais, but not so thoroughly, and they are a thing of the past\u2014Reader, Alberts.Be Sure Raw Pruits smd Vegetables Are Clear Fruit and vegetables are a necessary part of the diet during hot weather.Many of these are more appetizing when eaten raw.Berries, apples, radishes, onions and salads are popular and have their value as food.Care should be exercised ia the preparation and serving of green foods, however, as they are subject to much handling between the garden and the table.In many market gardens the gathering of the produce is wtruseed to a class of labor whi is not any toe cleanly; and care seldom is exercised to insure cleanliness.Food \u2018exposed for sale in markets alse is often subject to indiscriminate handling by prospective purchasers.As a protection berries and \u2018foodstuffs «aten raw should be thoroughly washed before served.It is auch better to risk a slight impairment of the flavor than to chance cating unclean foods._ Nightsoil should not be used for fers.lining gardens from which the produce may be cates raw.Water cress should not be gathered from streams poliwted sewage.Many cases are où record where typhoid fever has resulted from failure to hecd these points BEANS IN BRINE B.C.\u2014You do not need a big jar, or tun, $e put up brined beans but cam use your siass-topped jars.The jars with map tops, net screwed on rings, are best for this purpose.To every mime cups of beans, tipped and broken, add eme level cap of sugar and one level cup of sait, Mix well in an enamel, or earthenware, dish or basin and let stand over might, The brine will form without any added water.Next morning, pack the benne in your glass jars, fill to overflowing with the brine am: seal air tight.Wham cooking.drain them; pour boiling water over them, drain, and repeat.They may thea be cooked as i they were fresh deans.FOR MOTHERS Nell Foss Ford, writing in the Mother's Magazine, has four \u201cdon'ts\u201d in her vocabulary, which she wishes to impress upos mothers.Don\u2019t, she says first, consider it neccs- sary to systematically underrate your child.Your adult friends will know yon do not mean it, but the child will not, and probably more characters are weakened by the lack of self-confidence engendered such a process than by the vanity which follows the silly bragging of everfond parents.Don't think that the moment you are alome with yoar boy or girl you must find fault or endeavor to improve the occasion by a little moralizing, no matter in how loving a spirit.This is the hardest don't of all, for no one is so anxious to help a child toward perfection as is the parent, yet it surely leads to an avoidance of the moments alone together, whick should be time of happy confidences.\u2018 Don't correct the child before others Lastly, Laugh often with, but never at, your child.This takes self-denial, but it pays.Make up your mind that whatever others may say, he can depend upon you for « quick, sure mmderstanding, without quibble or joke at his expense.is does not mean that he must not take his share of harmless fun.It is wholesome, and too much sheltering would make him oversensitive; but the mother who lets her child know that she never makes fun of him will be surprised at the confidence with which be relics upom it.ROYAL VICTORIA COLLEGE (Founded and sndomwed by the jute BL.Non.Baron Stretheons and Mowst Segal) For Women a udeutn.frog oud _ Rosity of Ares (BA, BSc BIS, B.Com.} nad in the of Music, dents are Faculty of prs region ftv mgr Sogn Bursaries and Loan Feade.Apply to THE WARDEN for cir A Residential School for » Splendidly situated Boys and Giris .100 fost above sen level [n 200 seven of ground, 30 miles .md, mes y from Sherbrooke.Plenty of fresh air and oubliser sorts.Geod ripe reopens Winona, Sopher 1912 Fighip qualified tenchers of sterling character, Modern 1923.Quaben.equipment.Thoweegh.refut retfanehi d tuition.Primary to McGill matriculation.Depart ea; goa p an ments of instruction inclode Asedemie.Normel Arts.Grong of tn Purbee Schools cmables Stadents to take extra courses te reund eut thelr education, Write sow for iculars of our Superior Tinh clas ONTARIO BUSINESS COLLEGE BELLEVILLE, Owtarie eeping, Accountancy, + Penmanship and other business subjects.Our graduates (50th Year.) Courses in Bookk (DORE LL MOORE, Prineipel.Pabtie voi and Vehool to Tour tal; ics; Juels ; Housvhald Bclesce; Art: tho, Teal 90 wiles Chip\u2014Oousiry osboel, Eyrr Et 108 CREAM AND SHERBETS When ice is easily obtained frosen desserts are not only more tempting but al- 0 more wholesome than heavy puddings and rich pies.The nourishing milk and egg that are difficult to take served simply as cream or cooked egg, skips down easily as a frozen custard; cream, which seemf too rich eaten on pudding or cereal is de- liclous frosen and served with a plain cookie; and fruit juices turned into a water ice, or sherbet, ars more refreshing and taken more slowly than the iced beverages we are tempted to posr down our throats.A rich ice cream is good served after a light dinner, or as the principal dish at supper on a hot evening, a water ioe, or sherbet, balances a richer meal when meat is served.° If ice cream has a smooth and velvety texture it is far more pleasing than is a mass of coarse crystals.This characteristic is also largely influenced by the presence of butterfat, but the method of freesing is quite as important, for.if ice cream is frozen too rapidly the cream will separate and coarse water crystals will result.Or if frozen without motion it will be coarse grained and spiny.During the process of freesing it is essential that enough air be whipped into the mixture to give it a light, smooth and yet velvety consistency.Of course the more butterfat present in the cream the more velvety will be the texture of the resulting ice cream, and the less will de -thé necessity for incorporatiag alr.If the cream is whipped before mizing with the flavoring it may be allowed to freeze without stirring and à very desirable result be obtained.This type of tros- en mixture is generally kmown as mousse.Ripening; if ice cream is allowed to stand for several hours after freesing the flavors become more thoroughly hlended.A small amount of sait will help to bring out and enrich the flavor, but it must be added with care, one-eighth teaspoon per quart is apout right.\u2018The body should be firm, not mushy, nor on the other hand, rubbery.This characteristic is governed in part by the milk solids present.If cream is allowed to age, say twenty-four to forty-eight hours, Leep- ing cool the while, it improves the body of the ice cream produced.Some substances known as filers are used to produce a better body.Evaporated milk used with thin cream is quite effective, and far cheaper than butierfat in sufficient amount to produce a Kke result.Gelatin is frequently used, especially when the ice cream is to be kept for a considerable time.It decidedly aide its keeping quality.Flour, cornstarch and rennet are also often used; these make a pudding-like mixture which give a firm body.As ice cream ls freezing its volume Increases.This is due to the incorporation of air into the mixture and to the expansion due to freezing, and is known as \u201cswell.\u201d The amount of swell is greatest just before the mixture freeses.If the ice creaïm is frosen slowly there is more time for whipping between the time when the cream becomes cool enough to whip and the time \u2018when # freezes Thus, more air will be incorporated and a larger swell obtained.If the freezing fa done too rapidly at first the cream will be liable to churn before it becomes sufficiently cool to whip and swell.Thus it is best to freeze slowly unt the cream is cooled to the whipping point (about 34 deg.Fhr.) then to increase the speed of the dasher, reducing the speed again when it begins to thicken so as to prevent any possible loss of swell, HOME CO MONTREAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST 14, 1988.Surpassing all others in Delicacy and Fragrance.\"SALADA OKING To freese ice cream, a mixture of ice and salt is used.The sait hastens the melting of the ice.When the ice melts it must absorb heat so it obtains this heat wherever possible, and this comes principally from the mixture in the freeser can.Thus the cream-sugar mixtore loses its heat and b omes ice cream.A fine salt works more quickly than does a coarse salt, but it tends to form crusts and prevent the ice from settling about the freezer can.Added to that it is much more expensive than comrse salt, so the latter is generally used.The ice abould be broken fine and, if the freeser is a large one, a little water poursd over ice and salt at the start will basten the freesing.Most directions given for the proportions of ice and salt call tor three parts ice to one of salt.This is necessary for mixtures frosen without stirring, but for the average ice cream, frozen with stirring, much leas salt can be used (say 10 parts boe to one part salt) provided the sait is not put into the freezer until it has been packed three-fourths full of ice.By so doing much less salt settles to the botiom of the freexer.When the freezer is emptied the undissolved salt can be drained, allowed to dry and used another me.Neapolitan ice cream is geueraily made with thin cream or rich milk and six to twelve yolks per quart of liquid.One cup of sugar is aliowed for each quart of liquid and another cup of sugar for each dozen of egx yolks used.This mixture ia cooked exactly Wke a boiled custard, allowed to cool, Savoring added and then frosen.Flain ice cream is made pf thick cream and sugar flavored as desired.For each quart of cream use three-quarters of a cup of sugar.If crushed fruit or fruit juice is used for flavor do mot mix it with the cream before beginning to freeze.Put the cream into the freezer can and turn until it just begins to freeze, then open the can, add the fruit juice, made into a syrup with the sugar, and continue freesing until as stiff as desired.Formula for plain ice cream made with fillers and binders: For one gallon of ice cream, cream two quarts; scalded milk, one quart; filler, three tablespoons flour or one and one-half tablespoons cornstarch or one junket tablet, or three-quarters of 8 tablespoon gelatin; cream, one quart, scalded milk, two quarts, one-quarter cup flour or two tablespoons cornstarch or two junket tablets or one and ome-balf teaspoons gelatin For ome gallon of ice cream use three cups of sugar and any flavoring desired.Pineapple Sherbet\u2014Take a pint of chopped canned pineapple, mix with a pint of water melted with sugar to the taste; soak & tablespoon of gelatine in half a cup of cold water for ten minutes and pour the hot syrup over and stir well; cool, add the unbeaten whites of two eggw, strain and freeze; or, put in the eggs after straining.This makes a clear white sherbet of good flavor.Cherry Sherbet\u2014Remove all the stones from a can of white, red or biack cherries, and press the cherries through a sieve, preserving the juice.Add two cupfuls of thin syrup and the unbeaten whites of two eggs.Freeze and serve in glasses.Mint Sherbet \u2014 Mix the juice.of two oranges and (our lemons with six tablespoonfuls of sugar syrup, using four tablespoonfuls of the mixture over each glassful of shaved_ice.Place some sprigs of mint on top of the ice and fill the glasses with mineral water.Sondae Sherbet is composed of a tablespoonful each of three kinds of ices piled into a sherbet glass and is very attractive.First put im & large tablespoonful of almond ice, then one of lemon sherbet and then a spoonful of strawberry ice.Top with whipped cream and a rose leaf.The ices are made as follows: \u2014 Almond Iee\u20143 cupfuls cream, 3 cupfuls milk, 1 cupful sugar, 1-2 cupfula grated almonds, 2 bitter almonds, grated.Juice of $ oranges.Mix cream, milk and sugar, and freeze; when nearly stift beat in almonds and orange juice, and finish freea- ing.Lemon Sherbet\u20142 cuptuls sugar, 1 cupful lemon juice, 4 cupfuls cold water.Grated peel of two lemons.Mix sugar, water, lemon juice and rind, let stand one hour, strain and freese.Maple Parfait requires three eggs three- quarter cupful .of maple syrup, haif-pint of new milk.Beat the egg yolks until they are very thick.Pour in the bot maple syrup slowly, beating wll the time.Put the mixture into a jar, stand it in boiling water in a stewpan and cook until! the mixture becomies extremely thick.Let it get cold, then fold in the milk, turn into a mould, and freeze.Apple Ice Cream is made from âkb.of apples, 1 lemon, 1-41b.sugar, 1 pint of ess custard, and coloring.TX .A SKALED PACKE\u201d = ONLY UEVENTEEN EVERY LEAF PURE Peel and core the apples, cut fa quarters, add the grated rind of the lemon and the sugar, with a third of a pint of water, and stew to a pulp.Pass the pulp through a sieve and mix with the custard.It & white jee cream is desired add the strained juice of the lemon, or color to à feint green or rose color, according to preference.Freese stiffly, Banana Ice Cream \u2014 1 quart cream, 4 bananas, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 1 cup sugar, 1-4 tesspoon salt.Remove skins and scrape bananas; force through a sieve, add remaining ingredients and freeze.Junket Ice Cream \u2014 4 cups lukewarm milk, 1 cup heavy cream, 1 1-4 cups sugar, 1-8 teaspoon salt, 2 Junket Tablets, 1 tablespoon vanilla, 1 teaspoon almond extract; canned peaches.Mix the first four ingredients, and add the junket tablets dissolved in a tablespoon of cold water.Turn into a mould and let stand in à warm room to set.Add flavoring, freeze in the mould, turn out and garnish with the peaches cut in halves, with half of a blanched almond in the cavity of each.Have the syrup from the peaches boiled down thick, and cooled to pour around the mould.Frosem Rice Pudding \u2014 1-2 cup rice, 2 cups milk, 2 cups cream, 1-2 teaspoon salt, 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla.Wash the rice and boil in water.Beat the eggs, salt and sugar together.Whip the cream; if there is any cream left after whipping add it to the rice and set the whipped part in @ cold place.Stir the rice mixture into the egg and sugar.Put this in a double-boiler and cook, stirring until it thickens.Cool and add the vanilla.Pack in ice and salt.When partly frozen add the whipped cream and finish freezing.Fruit Sherbet \u2014 2 oranges.3 lemons, 3 bananas, 3 cupfuls sugar, 2 cupfuis water, 3 egx whites.Extract the juice from the lemons and oranges.Mash the banana pulp and rub through a sieve.Add the water and sugar and stir until the sugar is thoroughly dissolved.Put in the freezer and when half frozen quickly stir in the stiffly beaten egg whites.Close the can quickly, repack and finish freezing.Caramel Ice Cream\u20141 1-2 quarts cream, 1 pint scalded mikk, 1 1-2 cupfuls sugar, 1 egg.1 tablespirontul flour, 1 1-2 tem- spoonfuls vanilla, Caramelize half of the sugar by gradually heating in a frying pan, stirring constantly.The sugar will melt, turn brown and look like syrup.Do not let it burn.Bet aside to cool slightly.Make a custard by mixing together the flour, the rest of the sugar, the slightly beaten egg and scalded milk.Cook over hot water until thickened, fifteen to twenty minutes.Stir constantly.Add the cara- melizsed sugar to the custard, let mixture get cold, add cream and freeze.Demand Spies\u2019 Umbrellas At the Sante Prison, the home of France's most notorious criminals and political prisoners awaiting trial, there was a stir over what is presumed to have been the carelessness of guards in taking the umbrellas of two Spaniards who were executed during the war for espionage.At the request of the families, the Spanish Consul in Paris recently demanded the rsonal effects of the two spies.In con- ormity with law, their belongings were turned over to the Spanish official, but the families protested that the umbrellas were missing.This was found to be true, but no trace of the missing umbrellas could be ; found.The director of the prison accordingly issued a circular to Wardens saying in part: \u201cTo prevent suspicion falling on the personnel, we request the agent who believed himself able without risk to dispose of the two umbrellas to return them, obe serving the same discretion displaying im taking them.\u201d So far the agent has not responded.A Hole in Glass It is said that a hole may be made in thin glass by pressing upon the glass a disk of wet clay.Make a hole through this clay the size of the hole desired in the glass, being sure that the glass is clean and bare.Now pour mohen lead into the hole and the kad and glass will drop through at once.The quick heating of the glass at one point causes a circular crack to form, the outline of which corresponds to the hole made in the clay.The King's third son, Prince Henry, according to the Daily Mail, met with an accident on Wednesday when trying to master .a stubborn horse at Aldershot and is now in hospital with a broken ankle.Inatead of selling the product as \u201c\u2018seconds,\u201d a hosiery mill in Chattanooga has distributed nearly 3,000 pairs of slightly defective hose among the poor of that city.It is estimated that there are 4,000.000,000 bottles of soft drinks consumed by the American people each year.This does not include drinks made from cere als.HS, 7 \u201cWHEN BING NS: FLY PADS x eight inches, plates (properly See illustration below.quired in another room.Wo ons Fly Pads There is only one This is it\u2014 Darken the room as nmch as possible, close the windows, raise one of the blinds where the sun shines in, about place as many Wilson's Fly Pads as possible on wetted with water but not focded) on the window ledge where the light is strong, N for two or three Bours, then sweep up the flies and burn them.Put the plates away out of the reach of childt¥a until re- The right to use ay to leave the room closed CIONTEEN The Dome Circle.À Page for Boys and Girls SIXTEEN-VEAR-OLDS WIN THEIR SPURS Nairopi.the capital of Kenya Terri tory.East Africa, is now a white man's home: but, says the Editor of the Chil dren's Newspaper, imagine the white settlement vanished and we are back in the Darkest Africa that Livingstone knew.Out beyond Nairobi there still goes on the old-time atruggle between man and beast; and to Nairobi Hospital come the llon-fighters who are wounded in their encounters with the king of beasts.There have juat called at the hospital two Masai lads of sixteen, lads who have been in the war their ancestors have been fighting since ages before history.They were in a battle with a lion.The lion broke into one of the native villages by night, forced its way into a cattle enclosure, and carried off one of the animals.With the earilest peep of day the Masai hunters were up and out in quest of the thief, and tracked him by his footmarks to a patch of higa bush.There he was, with half his victim eaten.The naked hunters had no thing but spears.but with these they drove the lion Into the open.One of the two boys attacked him with his spear but was bowled over and clawed from head to foot.The second sixteen-year-old now plied his weapon and got in a manful blow.But the lion hurl ed him to the ground.aud bit him.Then the elders of the hunting party administered the finishing stroke, and picked up the youngsters.They were in sorry plight, for a fight: fng lion can inflict so many wounds with teeth and claws that bis victim looks as if he had been under a living harrow.In the old days the boys might have died.for a lion's bite is highly poisonous, but civilisation has come within the borders of these sable geutlemen.and they carried their young heroes to the hospital to be Tecalled from dcath's door.The boys will show scars to the end of their days, but will recover their strength.Sixteen seems a very youthful age for a lion hunter, but that is the way in the wilds.Youthful Masais have been grappling with lions for countless ages.The cleverest, bravest.and most agile have lived, and it is the descendants of the best lion-fighters of old times who form the brave Masal tribe of today.They are loyal, faithful, courageous, gallant; and white men admire them immensely.1hey begih their lives as they are meant to continue them, and the boy who wins his spurs In the fight with a beast is forthwith a man among men.Among his \u201cEpisodes in a Life of Adventure,\u201d Mr.Laurence Oliphant tells how he was entertained as the guest of honor at the capital of Montenegro some fifty years ago.The little principality was of course a much more primitive corner of the earth thanait is now\u2014which is saying « good deal.The little cown of Cettinje.which is the capital, did not then have a hotel, pro perly so called.but the rare straager who visited it was accommodated in a kind of lodging-house, in which there were one or two spare bedrooms; or, if they were not actually spare.their occupants turned out, 1 suppose for a consideration, on the ar rival of a guest.The chamber assigned to me had apparently been thus vacated.Its former occupent bad evidently been & man of modest requirements, for the entire furniture consisted of a bed.a huge chest and a chair.[| much wondered at the absence of a table, and the presence of the chest, but the latter was better than nothing.When a boiled chicken was brought to me for my evening repast, spread one of my own towels upon it, to serve as a tablecloth, and squatting uncomfortably on the solitary chalr, proceeded to make the best I could of existing couditions.I was in the act of dissecting an extremely tough wing, when the door suddenly opened.and a stalwart Montenegrin.looking magnificent in his national coe.tume, stalked in.He addressed me with great politeness in his native tongue\u2014at least.I gathered from his manner that lie was polite, for I could not understand a word of what he said.As he was evidently a man of some position.in other words.as he seemed to be a gentleman of Montenegro, | rose and howed with much ceremony, addressing him fiuently in the English language.Upon this.he drew an immense key from his pocket, and pointed to the lack of the cheat, thus giving me to understand that he wished to open it.In order for him to accomplish this, it was necessary for me to remove my dinner, an operation which was speedily performed.As he seemed a frank and engaging kind of person.without any secrets, and as | wag possessed of natural curiosity, 1 laok- ed over his shoulder while he opened his chest, to see what was in it.To my | me, was more (han a hundred pounds,\u2014he MONTREAL WITNESS AND CAN ADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUQUSY 1, 1923.astonishment, it was full to the brim of bags of money.Not only this, but my strange visitor opened one of them, and poured out a handful of gold.When he bad count:d out as much as he waated, \u2014which, as well as my memory serves tied up the bag again, replaced It, locked up the chest, helped me to lay cloth and spread my banquet again, and with a polite final salutation, he vanished.The mystery was not solved, until the next day, when, dining with the prince, I met my visitor of the previous evening.[ them gained the information, through a Russian gentleman present who spoke French, that the chest upon which I had dined contained the entire finances of the principality: and that the Montenegrin who had unlocked it.and who had vacated ; his chamber for me, was lis chancellor of the exchequer.HOW BIRDS SLEEP The sleep of most wild creatures.whether hirds or animals.is light; there is too much dunger round to make sound ! sleep aafe.The authors of \u201cA Game Keeper's Nole-Book.\u201d who made some very interesting observations on sleep ing birds, found out that the perch-roost- ing birde always sleep head to the wind.It a rook alights in the home tree in a high wind, he swings his head into the wind before alighting.So.when wood- pigeons come home before the wind, they | pass over their roosting-tre:s and then | beat up into the wind.- At rest the bird doubles its knees, as) it were, which causes the toes to contract, the weight of the body resting chiefly on the breast and outspread wings\u2014not on the eggs if in a nest.The legs and feet have sinews which work an automatic locking action of the claws, so that, roost ing with knces doubled up, the feet grip the branch unfailingly.Some birds seem always half-awake.Wildfowlers will scratch a match at night : to test the presence or absence of wild duck in a distant creek: if present.an instant quacking will betray them.Pheasants are always vigilant; on the darkest night it is difficult to stalk them, however quietly you move.It you come within « hundred yards of guinea-fowl at night, they will raise an alarm.They excel at talking in their sleep.THE DUCHESS OF YORK AT ROOF HOSPITAL The Duchess of York was present at te Inauguration of a roof ward at a hoe pital for children, and was caught by (be photograplier intensely interested in an explanation being made by a nurse at the bedside of a little \u201cWolf Cub\u201d patient.But some birds, such as wrens, when cuddling in a hole in the thatch, seem to sleep soundly.And while wild pigeoas will fly out at once if a match be struck under their tree.à pigeon-lover in London says that his city birds, roosting on win- dow-ledges, lose their wariness by night.and will hold their own in the face of à candle while à hand is stretched out to touch their necks, Partridges seek a sheltered dry-lying hollow in the fields, and a covey of twenty will huddle on a spot a yard in diameter.The colder the weather the closer they roost; the birds on the edge have their breasts outward.Sometimes.by the way, it is unfortunate for partridges and pheasants tliat the positions of their nests prevent them from (lying to and fro.Having to force their way through tangled undergrowth, a trail js left.for the fox to follow home.\u2018The barn-yard fowl may walk from her nest when in captivity, but whon she has stolen her nest abroad, | saow-sboes and heavy knapsack.she Termes the habit of flying.A TERRIBLE JOURNEY When an Indian loses his way, he never admits the tact.but says, \u201cIndian no lost! indian here! Wigwam lost!\u201d The same rosolute ability never to admit fear or dis couragement often saved the early trappers when less determined men would have perished.In Newhouse's \u201cThe Trapper's Guide,\u201d Is the story of such s teat of courage: After a thirty-seven-mile tramp in the piercing cold, Hutchins, a trapper, arrived at his shanty, only to find that his flint and steel were missing.T0 remain there without a fire meant freesing to death.So he determined.tired as he was and numb with cold, to push om to Folsom's, some oight miles up the river.He thought that If hé could make the trip on the river ice he would have a straight road aud sasier travelling.Ac cordingly, he made his way through the forest to the bunk at a point where he thought the ice wus strong enough to boar him, grasped an alder bush, and slid down on to the frozen surface of the river.But the ice was not so strong as he had thought.and he went through up to his neck in the icy water.By clinging to the alder bush, he™prevented himself from go- Ing completely under.and by dint of some munoeuvring, disengaged himself from his Having got once more to land, he stumbled on in the dark, but before he had gone half a mile, his clothes were {rosen as hard as wood.Still keeping to the bank, he followed the stream for some distance to where the current was not so strong, and tried the ice again.in he went, just as he had done before.Again, chilled to the bone, and weak with hunger and fatigue, he scrambled to the shore, and plodded weariiy along.The walking among the fallen trees and over the rough ground was so hard that, in despair, he turned to the ice yet a third time.Too much fatigued to be careful, he slid down the bank and got out on the river without any thought as to what might happen.e Onco more he sank, and this time he was in à worsc situation than before: for he was so far from the shore that he could not pull himself out.He floundered round in the broken ice and water for some time, but finally managed to reach the bank.In spite of his three drenchings and his heavy frozen garments, he at hast got to Folsom's.And there his courage nearly gave way, for there was not & soul in the place, and not a spark of tire.in his condition, to have rested would have been cer tain death.The nearest house, which be longed to & man named Reed, was fifteen miles away.There was nothing for it but to try to reach it.Sp ie siarted off down the river for Reed's It was now eleven or twelve o'clock at night.He dragged himself along slowly, buoyed up, however, by that pluck and re solution that are part of the trappers character.He struggled on till he could see Reed's house in the distance, high on the top of & hill.When he got to the foot of the hill, he was so weak that he fell.He bad not enough atrength left to walk up (he steep and slippery, slope.Down he went oa his hands and knees, and ingh by inch he dragged himself painfully over the frozen snow to the door of the cottage.Read came out.and was so startled by the haggard, death-like face of the trapper that he could hardly speak.He dragged the frosen wretch into the warm sheiter of the log-buiit home, made a roaring fire, thawed some of the cold out of his guest, and put him to bed under ' > « a pile af furs and blankets, whare he sient without waking till soon the next day, When he got up, he felt as well as usual, although a little stiff.Had Hutchins allowed himself to be come frighteued or disheartened, he would surely have perished.AN EXPERIMENT WITH FLOWERS The juicea of certaln flowers are sensl- tive to light, and when expressed, spread on paper and dried, the paper thus prepared can be used in the same Way as any photographic printing-out paper.This curious printing process-called the anthotype, which means a flower sketch \u2014was devised by Sir John Herschel, who found that not only are the juices of flowers sensitive to the chemical action of light, but that the green coloring matter of plants has the same quality.You can obtain the juices of flowers by bruising in a china bowl or similar receptacle the petals of fresh flowers, adding a little alcohol, and squeesing the pulp through fine muslin.Spread on paper the liquid that you thus obtain.It is ready for use as soon as ft dry.Bear In mind, however, that you must coat the paper dy ar titicial light, and dry it in the dark.To obtala chlorophyll, the green color ing matter of plants, chop the leaves of juicy plants, cover them with warm alco- ho) for ten minutes, and then strain the effusion through muslin.When you expose the paper to the sunlight under a negative, the Action of the light fades.or bleaches, the unprotected parts of the paper.The simple print is not permanent, but you can make a per manent picture in this way: Prepare the paper In the dark room by brushing it over with a ten-per-cent.solution of bichromate of potash, or place the solution in a porcelain tray, and float the paper on the surface of the liquid.Dry the paper in the dark.You can prepare & number of sheets at one time, and store them in à tin box, if you put with them a small piece of calclum chloride, to ab sorb moisture.To the juice of the flowers add a little liquid glue or solution of gum arabic, and apply it to the paper by long sweeping strokes of a flat camel \u2018s-hair brush, drawn first one way of the paper, and then at right angles.Do it by artificial light, and dry the peper in the dark Print under a negative until the image shows distinctly, then immerse the print in te pid water until the whites become clear.The color of a print made in this way does not always correspond with the color of the flower from which it was made.The depth of tone depends on the color of the flower used.Crimson and scarlet blos- soma, like the peony and the morning: glory, give strong tones; the blues, lavenders and purples are more delicate.The experiment is all the more inter esting from the fact that you cannèt foretell just what color the print will be.\u2014 Youth's Compaaion.OUR PUZZLE CORNER Puzzle Sentence Can you read this sentence s0 as to make it sense?\u2018The shadow of virtue goes a good man, him a bad man a cloud of darkness throws.Answer to Last Week's Puxz'e 1.M-imosa., 2, O-range, 8.T-oronto.4.H-tida.5.Eagle, & R-ealiy.Mother.THE FIRST ZOO The first zoological garden in the world of which we have definfte knowledge was founded in China by the first emperor of the Chow dynasty, who reigned about 1100 B.C.The garden bore the quaint name of Intelligence Park.The first collection of animals in England was made at Woodstock, by Henry I.(1068-1136) and included ifons, lynxes, and porcupines.In the reign of Henry Ill.(1207-1272) the Woodstock menagerie was transterred to the Tower of London, where it became quite famous.Persons of high degree were chosen keepers of the Tower tions, while at one time all the sheriffs of London were assessed four pence a day to pay for the keep of the white bear.The first elephant to be seen In England was a gift of Louis IX, ot France.The first z00 of any importance in the United States was the one at Philadelphia.This zoological garden was opened July 1, 1874.But from the early colonial days, there had been very keen interest in rare or unfamiliar animals, As far back as 1716, a \u201cLyon of Barbary\u201d was exhibited in Boston.Twelve years later à lion on a cart, drawn by four oxen, made a tour of all the provinces.In 1733, a large white bear from Greenland, thrilled many and the next year colonial eyes were opened wide over the first sea-Hon exhibited, and in 1789 a pair of camels went the rounds.In ancient Egypt trained monkeys were used to help gather the fruit from trees. Priso Story For Little Folk by Wiily Cairas lived with bis motber and father in a pretty little cottage on the side of a bill, far away in the country.He had no brothers or sisters, but he had several friends among the boys and girls who lived not very far off\u2014some of them in the houses further along the valley down below Willy's house and some of them over the other side of the hill.It was fine, open country where Willy was, and he used to love to watch the shadows of the clouds climbing up the hills he could see from the front gerden, and often he would have tong and happy days in Summer, when he and some of his friends would make up a party and go off exploring in the woods down below or tramp ing over the hill tops with the yellow gorse shining in the bright sun all around them.He used to love, too, the fine days when he and the other children used to gather for their rather long walk to school, when they would have fine games of soldiers, and scouting, and highwaymen, and hide and seek, and \u201ctouch\u201d along the country rond, where they could run and shout and sing as much as they liked without fear of disturbing anything \u2014axcept, perhaps, the rabbits, which went scampering off at their noisy approach.One day his mother and father had to go to the coumty town to arrange some business.They had to start early and were to be away most of the day, and so Willy had to stay at home and take care of the house.They told him to be careful of what he did and not to get into any mischief! and not to go outdile the garden, which was ed from the .road by à rail Yance with a little swing sate in lt.Willy readily promised to do as he was told, for he thought he would be able to have a fine time all by himself for a whole day; so wheb they had gone off and he had waved his good-bye to them as| they went down the hill out of sight, he turned back to the hous: te get out some of his treasures and have a good time.He found his old peg top, which he hadn't had for a long time, and had a good turn with that on the stone pathway in front of the house.Then he had a great fame with Plackie, the eat, who was full of romps and ran after the string fust as if he had been catching a mouse.Then there were the chickens in the conp to watch, with thetr funny ways; and à butterfly to chase, until it flitted over the fence and away; ang the floating of a little boat in the waterbutt, and several other jolly things to do which made him feel what a happy place he was fo.But after a time he seemed to come to an end of things to do.He tried some of them over again, but they were not such fun ss at first, and be began to wobn- der what he should do with the rest of the day before his mother and father came back.He went out to the gate and gased down at the valley and the, flelds oo_the hill beyond, and thought how good it would be to be out there and have a kite to fly or a ball to play with, and he began to be sorry that his mother had told him to keep to the house and garden.At last he found, in bis searchings indoors, his tin whistle, which he bad for gotten, and he drew a stool out into the porch and began to play.He had played a few tunes and was beginning to get almost to the end of those he knew when he noticed that his blackbird in the cage by the door was singing !n a sort of duet with him, and so be played a little more gently so that he could hear the birdie\u2019s song, and it seemed ta him that there were almost words in what he heard.\u201cWilly, Willy,\u201d the blackbird seemed to be singing, \u201cI wish 1 could get out of this cage.The sun is shining and the soft breeze Is blowing.The tree branches are swinging and the green grass is cover: ed with daisies and buttercups, and I am longing to be able to fly high and low, swift and slow, and to see and play with those little brothers and sisters 1 used \u2018to be with before I was brought here.1 am tired of flying from perch to floor and from floor to perch, and I am tired of eating seed every day.You have been kind to me, Willy, and 1 love you, Büt let me out, and I will love you all the more.\u201d There was a good deal that Willy could not make out, but this part seemed plain enough.and Willy thought, \u201cPoor birdie, 1 don't wonder you want-do get out! Here 1 am shut up to the house and garden for only a few hours, and already 1 am tired of it and want to go and see the otber children.It must be dreadful to be shut in that cage.I will let you out at once, birdie.So Willy got up to the cage and opened the door and went away some distance 50 that Birdie should not be scared.| a minute or two, after some cautious peep ings-out to see that there was no danger, | with a hop and a flicker of wings the pretty blackbird was away to the top of a! tall tres Bot far off, where, after a little, Willy heard him trilliag out a song of ak furmees and joy for his liberty.Willy What will mother say, | wonder.| MONTREAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST 18, toes.hu : ners Laura Spencer Porter.came home and asked him how he got on, he showed her thesempiy cage and told her how he had heard the birdie\u2019s mes sage aud what be had done.\u201cWell, Willy, 1 think you did quite right,\u201d said his mother.\u201cIt was your pet and you could do what you liked with it I was never quite happy about your keep ing it caged up here, and I am glad that you learnt to be kind and to give to the blackbird what you llke so much yourself \u2014that is, the freedom it was born to.Now you can go and have a run over the kill, 1t you like \u2014 Messenger for Children.MA MOSQUITO'S ENEMY (By J.Arthur Dunn) Mrs.Bat was a good mother to her children.Nobody could deny that.But, on a certain day ia e.rly spring she scolded them.\u201cJohnnie Bat, I want you and the rest of the children to come here this instant and go to bed,\u201d she sald.\u201cIn the daytime you must steep.For throughout this summer, every night, 1 have work for you to do.\u201d \u201cBut, mother,\u201d broke in little Bat, \u201ccan\u2019t we fly up to the red house, just once more, to see If Walter Wilson won't play with us, with his fishing pole?\u201d \u201cNo, indeed, Sallie,\u201d returned Mrs.Bat.\u201cWalter tries to hit you with the pole, and besides, you can\u2019t see well in the day-time.So coms ahead, all of you, and go to sleep.Tonight, I want you to de wide awake.\u201d So Johnnie Bat, the eldest of the little Bats, led the way, and in company with Sallie and Jimmie and Dinkie fol Jowed his mother's example of sticking the little toes in her wings into the bark of the big tree, which waa their sieeping- porch.And, hanging head downward, they all went to sleep.Ma Mosquito also had a family.It was larger than that of Mrs.Bat.Her children lived in the big raie-barrel just south of the red house.it was here that Mrs.Wilson, a widow, by the most careful economy and hard\u2019 work, kept her own flock clothed and fed and housed.If you haven't met Ma Mosquito you must be told, to her discredit, that she was not a good character.For, on the same day on which Mre.Bat hag put her children to sleep in the big tree, Ma Mos- Quito, from the top of the rain-barrel addressed her flock.\u201cLittle wiggles, pretty soom you'll be learning to fly, and I have something l&- teresting to tell you.I Know where there is a generous supply of malaria.It's ia the little swamp just south of here.Now preity soon I'll be baving work for you.When you get your wings and grow strong enough, we'll go to the swamp to get some of that malaria.And that isn't all.After we've speat several days ia the swamp having a good time bus siag and bumming, we'll return to the big red house and play with the Wiison children.Well give each one of the eight and Mrs.Wilson, too, some of the malaria.it won't hurt us, but it will make them sick.In this way we oan pay them back for the many times they've slapped at your mother when she was trying to get something to eat.But the summer \u2018came and went, and Mrs.Wilson lovingly observed her family in October, and returned thanks because the summer had passed with no malaria In the red house.To her, i seemed al most a miracle, for this is how it happen- od.When Ma Mosquito and her flock began their trip to the swamp one night in the spring Mrs.Bat awakened from her day sleep and nudged her children.\u201cCome, children! We must get our sup pers,\u201d she sald.\u201cI've been watching Ma Mosquito, and tonight she moves her fam- jly.We must get them, every one!\" Then the little Bats and Mother Bat made short work of the Mosquito family.Dodging here and there, they caught and ate, until every Mosquito was gonc.And, during the summer, the Bat family waited for other moequitoes, eagerly devouring them when they had issued forth.80, when there's a Bat in the neighbor hood, it's dangerous for a Mosquito to work at his malaria game.Some Bats think, too, that if Walter Wilson knew how they had saved him and his family from a long sickness, he wouldn't try to kill them with a long pole.But the Bats can\u2019t talk his language.So he doeen\u2019t know.THE BEAM AND THE RAINDROP Said a Beam to à Raindrop: \u201cJust come .down with me, There's a flower on the earth needs us both I can see; its petals are drooping.it hangs ali awry, And If we don\u2019t go there, I'm sure it will dle.\u201d \u201cAgreed,\u201d sald the Raindrop: \u201cand ! will so first, For I'm sure, from its looks, ft is dying of thirst; For it's right that the Sanbeam should follow the rain,\u201d And when I've refreshed it, your turn will be then.So the Raindrop came down to the poor drooping flower, And it gave forth a fragrance that filled all the bower; It moistened ita petals, so ere and so dry, Then beckoned the Sunbeam to come from the sky.And the Sunbeam came down, ob, so warm and red And the flower that was drooping soon lifted its head: And it blessed the bright beam and the small drop of rain That caused it to blossom in beauty again.\u2014Litle Folks.The \u2018Witness\u2019 Pattern Service A POPULAR UNOER GARMENT 4067.Pretty lingerie In ever mo more Attractive when home made, and nt the present time, one has choice of many Auitable materials.As Miuntrated, radium silk and black matin banda are combined, with a fine laitice trimming of black sdk thread.cut in 4 Hizen: Bmal, 34-38; \u2018The Pattern Medium 48-40; Large, 42-44; Extra Large 46- 8 inches bust asure.À Medium sise re- uires 9 8-8 y of 27 tech material.a * Pattern maileï to any address en reseipt felt a little sad, and when his mother of 156 la silver or stampe UP-TO-DATE AND VERY PLEASING 4088.The puff sleeve, and boat collar are new features on this pretty frock.it is hers made up in organdy with filet lace and seit frida.e skirt is mounted on a body lining.\u2018The puff could be omitted.This Pattern in cut in ¢ Sizes: 8, 10, 12, and 14 years.A 12 year æise requires 5 1-4 yards of 32 Inch material Pattern malled to any mddress on receipt of 166 In sliver or stamps.A PRETTY HOUSE DRESS 4064, Figured percale is here shown, with colar of white linens, which is also used for the string girdle.This style Ir alno good for crepe, for gingham and for the new prints and tissues.The skirt may be finished with straight or shaped hem edge.The width at the foot in Z 6-8 yards, with plails extended, The Patern Ia cut in / Sizes: 36, 38, 40.42, 1 48 and 48 Inches bust measure.A inch aixe will require 6 1-8 yards of 32 inch material.Collar of contrasting material requires 1-2 yard.Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 15¢ in silver or stampa.AN APPROPRIATE BATHING SUIT 4063.Plaid gingham and white linene are here portrayed.The design is comfortable and eany to develop.The bloomers may be finished separately.The Pattern la cut in 4 Slsen: 8, 10.12 and 14 years.A 10 year aise requires 3 3.4 yards of Hy inch material.For yolk and eleeve and skirt facing 3-4 yard will be required.Pattern malled to any address on receipt of ibe in silver or stampa JOHN DOUGALL & BON COUPON Publishers, Montreal PATTERN Jan.verse RE WISE MOTHER OWL In a hollow tree om the Dales\u2019 farm Hved a comfortable family of owls.Mr.Dale knew of these owls and would not lst anyone bother them, for they were useful friends and kept the barn free from mice, There were two Dale children\u2014Bess, seven years old, and Nell, who was five, One night after they bad both been put to bed, Bess sat up and nudged ber sister.\u201cOh, Nell,\u201d she sald, \"I've left my doli carriage outside.It's out on the side porch.Get up; we'll go down and get it.\u201d Nell sat up in bed.\u201cIt's dark,\u201d she whispered; \u201cI'd be afraid outside.\u201d \u201cIt's not late,\u201d replied Bess.\u201cMamma and papa are still up and the doors area\u2019t locked.We needn't be afraid to go just s:ound by the side of the house, sad I want to bring the carriage in\u201d Bess slipped out of bed.Thea Neil, who was the littlest and always did as she saw her Sister do, slipped out of bed and foliowed Down the stairs they stole, through the side door and onto the porch without their father or mother hearing them.Then, holding hands tightly, they went down the steps.\u201cWhere is it?\u201d whispered Nell.She was frightened and wanted to get back into the house, but she did mot want Bess to know it.\u201cit must be somewhere around here,\u201d sald Bess.\u201cI'm sure [ left it here,\u201d and then both began to look around.It waa just at this minute that, over in the old tree, the mother owl had fixed the young owls nicely in their nest.Father owl had gone to bring food for them, but maybe he was gone longer than usual, and Mother Owl thought it best to go and help him.Or maybe she looked out and saw Bess and Nell out of the house, and knowing that all children ought to be ia bed\u2014just like her own were\u2014she took a notion to give them a good scare! Amy- way, she came out of the tree, and just as Bess and Nell were stooping down, look ing for t carriage, she flew by them, screeching Might into their ears.My, if you had seen those children! They gave a scream as they went runniag up the steps, which brought both their mother and father to the door.\u201cWhy\u2014Bess.Nell!\u201d their mother cried in surprise.\u201cWhat are you doing out here! Why aren't you in bed?\u201d \u201cWe went out to get the doll carriage,\u201d answered Bess, as they ran into their mother's arms; \u201cbut oh, mamma, we got so frightened!\u201d Mrs.Dale took them upstairs-and made them promise never to go out again after she put them to bed, and when they had promised she stayed with them till they were asleep, Afterward when Mother Owl was feeding the young owis, maybe she told Father Ow] how she had seen the Dale children out and sent them back into the house, If she did, Father Owl certainly told her that it was the wise thing to do\u2014Edith DL Naldrett, in \u201cPresbyterian Banner.\u201d KENNETH'S PARTY Sure enough, the next day when grandfather drove to the village.Kenneth had not only the joy of going along.but al- 0 the joy of bringing home a little rake and hoe all his own, just big enough to use easily.Grandfather gave him a small patch of the garden for his own.He showed him how to plant the seed-corn and how to make the little hills.\u201cIt takes a very long time for corn to grow, doesn\u2019t it, grandfather?\u201d asked Kenneth one day, very soon after.\u201cIt only seems so to you,\u201d said grandfather, \u201cbecause you are in a hurry.Just be patient and see what the sun and rain will do.\u201d One morning when Kenneth went out to look at his garden he found some tiny green shoots just, showing through the brown earth.How proud he wae' ~ It was such fan to watch that corn grow.It crept up to Kenneth's knees, to his waist, to his shoulders, and then the day came when it was above his head.and before summer was over it was taller than grandfather himself.Kenneth felt very big when he shouldered hls hoe and followed grandfather into the garden to hoe the weeds away from his corn.He wished his father could see him then.One day, toward the end of summer, Kenneth gave a party.It was a dinner party.to which grandmother and grandfather.mother and baby sister were invit- But instead of having ice cream and cake, as boys usually have at thelr par ttes.Kenneth had sweet coro-\u2014great ears of, beautiful, yellow sweet corn! It was the corn from Kenneth's own garden.\u201cThis Ig the best sweet comm I ever ate,\u201d said grandmother.\u201cAnd this is the very nicest party | ever had,\u201d said Kenneth, beaming upon his guedts.\u2014 Selected.It ia usually much ensier to forgive one who has injured you than one you have injured.The injury received may hurt, but the offense given poisons the whole asture of the giver. TWENTY Wentworth\u2019s Valet The Story of a Charitable Opinion and How it Tumed Out.By Julien Josephs on, The argument between Wentworth and Grayson finally waxed so warm that the other members of the B\u2014 Club gathered interestediy about them.\u201cI maintain\u201d declared Wentworth emphatically, \u201cthat the majority of men serving time in prison for first offences\u2014who have hither to led respectable lives\u2014would be honest after they got out if given & decent chance.\u201d \u201cAnd | say,\u201d retorted Grayson with equal vigor, \u201cthat in nine out of ten cases they would turn crooked again.\u201d \u201cMake it a bet!\u201d cackled old Gasley.\u201cIf you wish,\u201d assented Wentworth with a smile.\u201cSalts me.\u201d added Grayson carelessly.\u201cDone, then!\u201d croaked Gasley, rubbing his wrinkled hands with delight, while his merry old blue eyes twinkled behind his glasses.He took a sheet of paper out of a drawer, and after scratching away for several minutes held up his hand for silence.\u201cHow does this sound?\u201cIt is hereby agreed that Miles Went.worth will employ an ex-convict in his household for a period of six months.If within this time sald ex-convict shall stesl or otherwise feloniousiy break the law, Miles Wentworth wili pay Thomas Grayson ome thousand dollars.If said ex-convict shall not steal or otherwise feloniously break the law within this period, then John Grayson will pay Miles Wentworth « like amount.\u201d Both disputants looked frankiy surprised at the unexpected conditions of the wager as drawn by the eccentric old clubman, but affixed their signatures after a moment's hesitation.The older men looked comfortably amused.\u201cPop™ Gazley had long been noted for his unique ways of making | others give practical proof of their stated convictions.As for the amount of the wager, Wentworth and Grayson were both rich, and \u201cPop\u201d Gazley had a shrewd suspicion where the money would go.\u201cif | win,\u201d remarked Wentworth casuoal- ly to Grayson.\u201cyou can make the check payable to the Fresh-Air Fund.\u201d \u201cUnfortunately,\u201d returned Grayson with good-natured insistence, \u201cthe only check drawn will be drawn by you.I'm sure that the Children's Hospital will appreciate ft greatly.\u201d The following morning Wentworth sent all the daily papers of the city an advertisement which, had his reputation and standing been less firmly established, would have gained him the quiet attention of the police.For, when a man advertises for a valet and insists upon his being an ex-comvict, the natural inference is that such an employer will bear watching.When Wentworth's advertisement had been running in the papers for more than a week, and not an applicant had appeared.Wentworth felt a little disappointed.The wages offered were excelient.the terms of service liberal; and he had expected a swarm of candidates.He decided that the fault lay with his advertisement; it was pot conspicuous enough.So he wrote out a new one, headed it, \u201cOne Hundred Dollars a Month,\u201d directed that it be printed in a more noticeable locs- tion, and waited with renewed bope.But, when another week as empty of results as the previous one had gone by, it be zan to look to Wentworth as if his experiment might have to be postponed indefinitely for lack of material, But be did not intend to give up easily.There was much more back of the experiment now than a mere wager.Ruth Denison, the girl whom he hoped some day to marry, was an ardent worker among the poor of the city.It was, in fact, she.speaking from her own experiences among these unfortunates, who had implanted in him that faith in the regeneration of the good in a man which he had defended so warmly against his cynical friend Grayson.He had told her about the wager, and she had applauded his attitude in the affair with a aweet enthusiasm that even now thrilled him as he thought of it again.She had looked at him and spoken to him as she had never done before\u2014given him, in fact, the first semblance of encouragement that he might hope.The success of his experiment was a matter that lay very near her heart.Koowing this, and with a deep and genuine enthusiasm of his own awakened in the undertaking, he feit that he simply could not give it up.It was Saturday of the week after, and still there had been no responses to his advertisement.Wentworth had remained in his office all the afternoon.In his advertisement he had directed ail applicants to cal] at his office, and he now wanted to be sure (hat none should call at the eleventh hour and find him gone.By half past four his own business for the day bad been despatched.He sat idly in his comfortable office-chair, gazing dreamily out of the window, thinking\u2014of Ruth.He would ree ber again within a few hours, would be in her sweet, wonderful presence, Another thought, not no pleasant, pressed hotly upon this ome.He wouid have to tell her again that he bad failed to secure & candidate.shaven, well-featured face was set and u» smiling.The man looked like an intelligent artisan of the best type.name is Williamson, Harvey Williamson,\u201d place if it is still open.\u201d hardened one.He seemed plainly hu- Wentworth's rather intent scrutiny.Went- was already straight.sion some six years ago.He must look up the circumstances, by all means.Thea to Williamson, \u201cReport for work to-mor- card.and hurried toward the residence of a knowledge of the business.ant sense of satisfaction at the succeas\u2014 thus far, at least\u2014of his experiment.erything was going beautifully.He had had brought joy to the sweetest girl in a little the bitter lot of a fellow being by dented.previous history was aroused.He deter surrounded the robbery of the Johnston ago.He feit that it would be well worth face was gradually giving way to the softer lines that come when the norma! temperature of the emotions fs restored.tually smiling.dow to air the library.MONTARAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST 15, 1823.A thousand factory whistles, starting up suddenly, startled him out of his reverie.He looked at bis watch, and started to lock up his desk.The key for some reason refused to turn readily, and Wentworth was still twisting and turning at it whea there was a light knock at the door.\u2018Come in,\u201d called Wentworth cheerily, his face brightening with sudden hope.Wentworth's office was a large one, and his desk was at the extreme end of it farthest from the door.He therefore bad a good opportunity to sise up hic caller ws he came rather hesitatingly across the room.He was a man of medium height, with a straight, well-set-up figure, and was neatly dressed in clothes of the cut of six or seven years ago.He was possibly forty years old.His hair, while decidedly gray about the temples, was thick and curly like that of a young man.The smooth He inclined his bead respectfully.\u201cMy he said.\u201cI saw your advertisement in the \u2018Bulletin,\u2019 and wish to apply for the Wentworth regarded Williamson with kindly interest.Certainly this mam did not look like a criminal\u2014at least, not a miliated at the consclousness of his being what he was, and flushed slightly under worth noticed this, and hastened to the business in band.\u201cWhat previous experience have you had?\u2019 he asked.Williamson cleared his throat mervous- ly.and straightened his cravat\u2014which \u201cI was valet to Mr.Johnston Brooker~ for five years*\u2014he peused\u2014\"\u201cuntii\u2014\u201d Wentworth interrupted.\u201cThat's suffi cient,\u201d he said shortly.Then for a mo ment he looked thoughtful.So this was the man who had robbed the Brooker man- row.at this address,\u201d and handed him a Wentworth left the office in high spirits, certain young woman whose identity the reader can possibly guess.He had good news to carry after all By the time Willlameon bad been with his employer two weeks Wentworth was bound to confess that he had never knows & more competent and generally satisfav- tory valet.He went about his work with the unhesitating precision of absolute Always quiet, respectful, unerring, he made no mistakes, forgot nothing.Wentworth felt a pleas Ev.the best valet in all San Francisco.He 1 the world by carrying out her benevolent inspiration.And he had helped to sweeten giving him a chance wheiw (hat is usually Wentworth's interest in Williamson's mined to look into the circumstances that Brooker home some six or seven years the trouble to find out what motive could have been powerful enough to transform this automaton of propriety and self-control into a burglar, powerful enough to make this taithful and devoted servant rob his master.Besides, Wentworth felt a genuine sympathy for the man.Impelled by bis own feelings in the matter as well as by Ruth's oft-repeated re mark that.if the whole truth were known, there would be strong extenuating circumstances for Williamson, Wentworth set out to learn all he could about the man.He was not particularly successful, for the reason that there was little to be learned.All be could learn about Brooker was that he was niggaFdly with his servants.All he could find out about Williamson was that he had borne a good reputation since boyhood, and had passed most of his life in the service of the best families.His reputation up to the time of the robbery of the Brookers had beea above reproach.For this crime he had served a six-year sentence in San Quentin, his term, in fact, having expired only a few days before his appearance at Wentwortb's office, it was now three months since Willlam- son had entered Wentworth\u2019's employ.and by this time he had become as much a fixture of the well-ordered bachelor household as the things of wood and bronze.Toward the beginning of the third month Wentworth had noticed a marked change in Williamson.The set sternness of his Once Wentworth caught Williamson ao- He was opening « vis The clear, warm sunshine of the crisp May morniug stream- od in upon him.and outside ie the perk near by tw&robime were chirping with sheer joy of the morning.And Williams son smiled.But at the souud of Went worth\u2019s step the smile vanished, as If he felt that he had no right to the sunshine and the song of the Birds except in secret.It made Wentworth thoughtful and a little sad.But he himeell was too happy to be loag depressed.He and Ruth were to be married in two weeks.Wentworth happened to have business the day following that took him out of town.As the distance was not great and the day was fine, he went in bis car.He was detained somewhat longer than be had expected, and it was late in the after- Doom before he started for bome.He hoped, however, by driving rapidly to reach home by late evening.He was driving along the level road at a stiff clip when there was a loud report, and ome of the rear tires collapsed.As luck would have it, his chauffeur was having a day off; and Wentworth, when he left home, had neglected to take along an emergency tire, Here he was, stalled, fifteen miles from the nearest garage.There was nothing to do but wait Wentworth thought of telephoning to the garage.But it was a lonely strip of country, and as far as the eye could peer through the dusk not the light of a single farmhouse could be seen.After two hours of waiting a car came driving leisurely along.Wentworth hailed it.This time luck was with him.It was a car from the garage, returning from a country trip.Wentworth's disabled car was left ia charge of ons of the garage men, and Wentworth was driven homeward at top speed.It was nearly midnight when Weatworth rattled the chains of the front gate.Al most at the same moment a light appeared oa the porch and came steadily down the gravelled walk toward him.It was Williamson, calm and precise as usual Wentworth, naturally a very close ob server, thought that he seemed just = shade nervous and just the slightest bit anxious to be done with his work and back to bed again.But them, it was not surprising that a mam who had just Rin- ished a six-year term in prison should be a little ragged as to his nerves.More over, Williamson always retired at tea o'clock, and was probably tired It was late, high time for all mea to be in bed; but Wentworth decided that he was not at all sleepy.He pulled on his slippers, and put on his house-gown.For some minutes he sat in thoughtful silence, Then a sudden thought seemed to strike him.He stepped very quietly over to the little locked sté@el cabinet where he kept certain of his keys.It had just occurred to him that he had forgotten to lock the cabinet that morning before leaving town.He tried the door.Sure emough, it was unlocked.The bunch of keys was inside, exactly as he remembered having left them.But he wanted to be absolutely certain.Bo he counted the keys.There were.six, the correct number.Seized with am odd, unaccountable desire for ab- soluf® assurance that nothing was wrong, he examined the bunch carefully, mentaily checking off each key.His eyes narrow.od suddenly; and he gave a low, involuntary whistle.The key to the inner compartment of the library safe, which he had recently fitted with a modern lock, was missing, and a strange key was in its place! Wentworth studied a moment.Then his face stiffened with suddem cowviction.Williamson intended to rob him tbat night.He remembered now that he had told Williamson that morning that be did not expect to return before the day following.Willlamson, knowing Wentworth to be a man who always did exactly what he intended to do, had evidently counted with certainty on his being absent from home that night.Wentworth dropped om one knee, and put his ear to the wail.Apparently satis fied, he opened a drawer quietly and slip ped an automatic revolver into a pocket of his dressing-gown.Then he tiploed down the hall into the library.The door into the library was closed.He opened it stealthily.The smali night-light that was burfñfng cast a dim, ghostly radiance around the big room.The safe, a little, old-fashioned affair, that had been in the family nearly a hundred years, stood half-hiddea in a corner of the room.Wentworth stepped very quietly behind it, and ran his fingers over the wall until they encountered a raised place about the size of a marble.He pressed hard on this, and a panei slid back noiselessly, leaving am opening in the wall large enough to admit one per 80D comfortably.Wentworth disappeared through this, and the wall closed behind him.It was an old family secret that owed its existence to a romantic streak in Wentworth\u2019s great-grandfather.Went- worth placed himself comfortably in front of the tiny eye-hole, and waited.Ten minutes passed\u2014twenty\u2014thirty.Still not à sound.Then, coming stealthily down the hall\u2014so stealthily that, had it not been for the faint creak of the extrs- ordinarily long flooring timbers of the hell, there would have been no sound whatever\u2014came footfalle bm Weatworth waited In suppressed excitement.The position of his hiding-place made it impossible for him to see who it was that walked so stealthily until that person should enter the library, although the door inta the hall was wide open.The soft footfalls stopped abruptly, and Went.worth judged that the prowler had now reached the library door and was peering in to see whether the room was clear.The next moment a masked man came noiseleanly across the room, stopping in front of the safe, Wentworth barely sup pressed a great sigh of rellef: for it was not Williamson, but a short, heavyset, roughly dressed fellow with a black sitk handkerchief concealing hts face.Went.worth could see his eyes\u2014cruel, beady, shifty little eyes\u2014burning above the black of his mask with alert intensity.The burglar cast a searching glance about the room, then stepped quickly to the door, and listened for a few moments.Ap parently satisfied, he dropped on his knee in front of the little safe.He took from his pocket a short, ugly-looking pistol which he laid on the floor beside him with.la easy reach.Then he began working with the combination, twirling the knob with practised hand and listening with trained ear to the dull' contact of the tumblers.Wentworth was no coward, and he did not for a moment intend to allow his unexpected visitor to walk away with the contents of his safe\u2014several thousend dollars.Not that be cared enongh for the money to risk his safety to save it, for he did not.But the thought that he\u2014 young, strong, and as well armed as the thug\u2014should stand idly by was repugnant to his whole nature.He shifted his automatic to his right hand, ready for instant use.His left moved slowly toward the button that released the panel.There was a rustle of wind in the light curtains at a half-opened window; and the thin stuff, floating out into the room with some force, swept a small vase from a shelf, and sent it to the hard-wood floor with a crash.The burglar sprang to his feet, pistol in hand, and backed swiftly to a window, ready to leap through it at the first suspicious sound.On the other hand, it was clear that unless he was fuily convinced that the noise of the falling vase had aroused some one in the house he was going to resume operations on the safe.\u2018Wentworth could not help admiring the fellow's iron nerve as he once more took his position in front of the safe and again went to work grimly oa the combination.He was evidemtly making better progress now, for Wentworth could hear faintly his little satisfied grunts as he whirled the knob.Wentworth felt that the moment had come for him to burst from bis conceal ment and try conclusions with the robber.He figured that, while the latter's gun was within easy reach, his own wouid be in his hand.And.as he was a quick, sure shot with a pistol, he had no fear as to his own safety.But just at this instant something happened which completely upset his plans.A figure\u2014the figure of Williamsoa\u2014ap- peared sflentiy and as it by magic in the doorway, crept as silently across the room, and then with a savage leap flung himself on the kneeling burglar.Even taken at a disadvantage as he was, the masked one proceeded to give a good account of himself.He was much heavier than Williamson, and much stronger.He struggled tlercely to throw off his antagonist, and for a while it looked as if he would be successful.But Williamson held on like a bulldog.and with & grim tenacity of purpose worked his hold little by little to the other man's throat.A moment later, and he had the burglar at his mercy, half choked to death, While the struggle had been going on, Wentworth had emerged from his hiding- place, and had watched with grim enjoyment, his right hand resting on his auto- mutic, ready to shoot through the pocket at an instant\u2019s notice.Williamson looked up and saw him.His speech was charac: teristic.\u201cIf yon will get a bit of rope out of the stair-closet, sir, we'll tie him up for the police.\u201d Williamson was about his work next morning promptly al~ seven o'clock, as usual.If he was surprised to tind Went.worth sitting at his desk at this un-heard- of hour, he did not show it any more thas when, à few hours before, he had looked up to see his employer step suddenly into AY = ARE bos \u2014 sight out of nethinguess.Wastwerth &id pot appear to notice Williamson, but kept lu MONTREAL WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST 16, 1008.\u201cBut\u2014elf\u2014\"' he stammered.\u201cThere acme mistake.The check is for a thon on writing.hs eyes ftxed on the papers sand dollars!\u201d defore him.Soddenly be lesked wp.\u201cWütiamson,\" pe said shortly.\"Yes, sir,\u201d came the steady, respectful response.\u201cI'm going to be married next week, and 1 want to make you à stile wedding: present.\u201d He handed him a sfip of paper.Williamson glanced at it.came pale, and tbe check slipped from his tingers And finttereé to the floor.He stooped instantly te pick it up, eagerly seising the chance to hide his agitation.Wentworth smiled.\u201cMistake?* he re peated slowly.\u201cI thimk not.You wee, that eye operation on the littie fellow will be a conple of hundred.Them there'll have be at least six months in the cose- him and his mother-and you'll a little left over for a nestegg.So He stood there, his face working alleatly, while à man\u2019s tear\u2014the unashamed ex pression of à sensitive seul\u2014glittered ia the steady gray eyes, them coursed wa checked down his thin cheeks.Aunt Rhonda's Afternoon Off By Nancy It had became à sort of lagead in the rom with 8 \u2018layoff, Lucia continued, her voice Ike a wounded dove\u2019s.\u201cWhy shouldn't you?! We have a campetent cook, a doo tor next door, a telephone, and everything else necessary for keeping us alive.Really, Aunt Rhoda\u2014\" The reproachful voice trailed off petulsmtly.Something else had attracted Lucia\u2019s attention for the time.Miss Rhoda took her way dows town early the next afternoon with a crowded list.She felt vaguely oppresbed, for Alan had broached the topic again at breakfast, and Paul had grown sarcastic.Besides, the weather was warm and there were many things to be seen to It was never possible to order over the telephone vegetables crisp enough for Paul, or fruit that pleased Rosalie.Then Alan's room needed new curtains, and Lettie\u2019s shoes must be half-soled.Miss Rhoda checked off on her fingers tea different errands.She trotted about busily, doubling on her own trail a dozen different times; it was late when she started for the car.The street was so hot that she found her self glancing enviousty toward the sha dowy arcade of a little moving picture place.She mentally measured the dis tance to the shimmering car tracks.\"PT just drop in long enough to get my breath,\u201d she said.She turned aside into the hospitable retreat.The ticket-girl, bored and weary, regarded her latest pat- SYMPTOMS OF ANAEMIA An Inherited Tendency to Anae- \u2018mia May be Overcome.Some people have a tendency te besotne thin-biooded Just as others have as inherited tondemcy to rheumatism, of te ner- Yous disorders.which Byrd Tumer.expressionieas eyes.\u201cCewboys an\u2019 Indians,\u201d she said stolidly when Miss Rhoda asked what the show was about.\u201cWell, 1 declare,\u201d replied Miss Rhoda, her old gray eyes twinkling, \u201ccowboys will suit ms to a dot! Don\u2019t you get tired, doarie, sitting bere so long?The grumpy little ticket-seller relexad into & smile.\u201cOh, pretty tired, thank you.Make the usher show you to a good seat.\u201d The transition from street to theatre was like plunging from a strip of burning beach into a cool, dark cave.Miss Rhoda stumbled a litile betore her pupils accustomed themselves to the gloom.KR was not until she was comfortably seated in a side row, directly under the grateful .whirring of an electric fan, that her vision cleared.The place was quite crowded, she saw, but the next chair was vacant, and E Ziad they didnt a certain crisis.\u2014 An old gentieman in front twitched one shoulder.\u201cSo am I, madam.\u201d he answered.\u201cI would have besn an outrage.\u201d The dim, na place was really delight ful, Miss Rh thought.\u201cLet me see,\u201d she said to hersell, closing her eyes for an iastant, conscience stricken.\u201cI've done all the children's little commissions, I be- mustn\u2019t stay much longer.Alan home one of his school friends Martha will never remember to have move along presently.\u201d The piano and violin swept tune, half ballad, bal?lullaby.sing Alan to sleep to that,\u201d she murmured drowsily.She opemed her eyes with an effort, and it occurred to her vaguely that the cowboys were behaviag in a rather strange manuer.To all appearances they had climbed ten degrees.She pulled her boanet over her chilly ¢orehead and sat up straighter.and signaled wildly to another horseman.\u201cWhat's he doing that again for!\u201d she asked herself.\u201cAnd upon my word,\u201d she added, as a sentence flashed on the film, \u201ce's | saying the same thing again, toe!\u201d She looked around.The crowd had thinned strangely, the music was trickitez away into a monotemess tume.\u2018There! she yawned, \u201cI'll start home right away.What's the nse of waiting to see the rest of the play that keaps repeating itself?Besides, 1 feel wondertully refreshed now.\u201d At the doorway she almost dropped her ginning to twinkle at every corner.The loud bustle ef business was ever, and the streets full of those clearer, more sharply corrected much mere easily in the earlier stages then later.It begins with a tired fending that rest deas mot evercoms, the complexion becomes pale, and breathlems- mess om slight exertism, such as going up steire, is noticed.Dr.Wiliams\u2019 Pink Pills are a home defined noises that mark early twilight in town.The tired ticket-sslior was gone and a long-nossd, sourlooking isdividual had taken her place.\u201cMercy!\u201d Miss Rhoda siaculated.Then the truth came to ber slowly and she gave a rueful little chuckle.\u201cTm like Rip Van Winkle, for all the world,\u201d ahe said alond.Her progress down the square was almost an undiguified scurry.At the commer a hearty volos stopped her, and she losked up to bee Lucia's hus baad, Harry Crame, bringing his automobile to a standstill.He jumped out and opened the door.\u201cWhat où earth are you doing downtown this time o' evening?\u201d he asked, laugh ing at ber dismayed countenance.Miss Rhoda resoived instantly te put a bold face om a rather doubtful matter.\u201cI'm justi out of moving pictures,\u201d she ex- Her nephéw-in-law threw back his head and laughed again.\u201cWell, l'in taking you straight to another movisg picture.They're all fuming at horme\u2014ean*t find you and havea't a motion where yeu are\u201d Miss Rhoda peered at the cleck in a jeweler's window.\u201cWhy, how ever did it got to be after eight?\u201d she said faintly.\u201cThe same way it does every day,\u201d answered Harry Crane.\u201cAust Rbody, I believe you've been asleep!\u201d \u201cI\u2014I reckom you're about right.Harry.\u201d his companion confessed, and forced herself to join in his laughter.\u201cAre they s0 warried?\u201d she asked.Them after a few moments\u2019 reflection she brightened visthly.: \u201cBut, Harry, it's been some time since you saw them, hasn't it?\u201d And I've just thought of something.When 1 came downtown today, 1 brought my best suit and several other things in a suitcase to the cleaper's.Do you know what they're thinking now?Why, that I've gone off on that trip they're always trying to per suade me Into taking, of course!\u201d \u201cH'm .well 1 don\u2019t know,\u201d Harry responded doubtfully.\u201cAnyway, here we are\u201d It slowed down, and Miss Rbods got out with slow diguity.As abe approached, à shadowy group on the porch resolved itself into feur figures and four voices began to speak at once.At the top of the steps Lucia seized her slightly by both shoulders.\u201cWhy, Aunt Rhodal\u201d she cried.Her tone was pleasant but it had ever so slight an edge.\u201cDid you forget that youpg Mr.and Mrs.Bruce were coming to tea?I know I told you.Martha got sulky and everything threatenad to go wrong, so I simply telephoned thems to come another time.\u201d In the gioom Aunt Rheda looked stricken Incredibly, the young \u201cbridal! couple Rhoda, you didn't come with that filagres stuff for my costume.Speaking of costumes, Rosale\u2019s upstairs having a straggie over thet silk siip she hasn't the first idea how to mend.\u201d Paul came running up the steps, two at « time.\u201cOh, she\u2019s here!\u201d he said with relief in his tone.\u201cAwnt Rhoda, where bave vou been?When the eight-twen- ty car came without you I was upset, sure esough.\u201d He looked worried in the dim light, and Migs Rhoda felt a sharp qualm.In spite of the assumed lightness of their they bad bothered a good deal, She sank tate the big chatr.\u201cI didn\u2019t you.\u201d she faltered.\u201cBut exactly why you should have Things had fitted in so : 1 happened to take my clothes down to the clean- naturally that pointed to my having left on the trip you are all so anx- for me to take.Why should you have troubled after you looked in my room and found the clothes gone?\u201d In Miss Rhoda's flutelike old voice there was wot the faintest touch of irouy, only % sort of wintfui bewiiderment.She turned te Lucia.\u201cI don't quite see,\u201d she said.Lucia, who was standing in the direct light trom the hall, for onos im her self- confident young life looked utterly taken .\u201ci\u2014we didn't look in your room,\u201d she said after a pause.An uncomfortable little silence fell.Aunt Ë whistling, into the dark.young in-laws were going to have sense enough to see themselves in their proper light.Alan spoke up suddenly.\u201cSeems to me we've all been a Mttle oft.\u201d Aunt Rhoda's oldest nephew ross siow- iy from his seat on the step.\u201cI reckon you're about right,\" he agreed.\u201cAunt Rhody, we haven't been so dreadfully cut up as we sound\u2014\u2014for, after all, gentlefaced TWENTY -OND dears lfke you are not lkely to come harm ia eur yonceful town this time o truth is that what air was not having hore to do for us!\u201d He turned to the you know that's the truth!\u201d Lettie\u2019's frank face flushed.\u201cIt sounds Mke it,\u201d she acknowledged.\u201cWe'd have gone wild if we'd thought Auntie in any danger; but what we've been ranting about was really our own helplessness.\u201d Lucia std an impulsive arm about Miss Rhoda's shoulders, bending low.\u201cJust a lot of isfamte\u201d she whispered.\u201cAnd I married, and the bizgest baby of all!\u201d \u201cWhat gets me,\u201d observed Paul, as they moved inte the house, \u201cis the way we charge and champ about her needing a change, and thea, when she goos off lew am aftermoom, mot only become perfectly demoralised without her, but even forget that she might have foilowed our sage advice.\u201d Alan shot him a mischievous glance.\u201cDou't.detay for frills,\u201d he quoted.\u201cPick wp aad walk off, bag and baggage.Dis appear!\u201d His brother grinned.\u201cYes, ! said it Don*t rub it in, Bud.\u201d Lettie gave a tomboy lungs and seized her little od aunt.\u201cNow that we've all owned up,\u201d she cried, \u201ctell ws this.Where were yom?\" Miss Rhoda blinked.Lucia had seated her at the supper-table and was serving the tea a little clumsily; Paul had gestty removed ber packages.It was seldom that the children petted her; it was more than seldom that they waited on ber little needs.The shoo was generally on the other foot.\u201cWhere were you?\u201d Lettis demanded again.\u201cWhy, let me see,\u201d Aunt Rhoda hesitated, For à moorgant she had really forgotten.Slowly, laughter flooded ber sweet old face.\u201cAt moving pictures,\u201d she said, \u201cseeing cowboys and Indians.It was the love- lest picture play 1 ever went to.And,\u201d she added, chuckling, \u201cthe longest!\"-\u2014The Classmate.Monarchs In Contrast When poor Marie Antoimette was coming isto Paris to be married to the King she sent word beforshand that all beg gars, cripples, bind, sick, and other us ploasant-looking folk should be cleared off the streets, that there might be nothing to mar the beauty of her bridai procession Peor thing! she was all blossoms, pieasant te the eye of those who were in no need, but disappointing to the poor hungry pee- ple who had bopeq grest things from her coming, and one day they slew her! There was another, a King, who, when He came into a city, attracted to Himself the very people whom Marie banished, and of the increase of His government there shall be no The literary world today mourns the loss of Benjamin Suite, foremost Freach- Canadisn Maguist, historian and journal- Ist, whe died où Monday, in Ottawa, after a lengthy ilinees.Mr.Sulte was in his eighty-second year.Among his works bave been the following volumes in verse; \u201cThe History of Three Rivers,\u201d \u201cThe History of the French Canadians,\u201d \u201cThe Laurentians,\u201d \u201cThe Battle of Chateau- gaay,\u201d \u201cThe Freach Langnage in Cana- ds,\u201d He also translated \u201cGod Save the King\u201d into Freach.Close friends of the late President Harding estimated that his estate prob ably was worth between $700,000 and $800,000.Having amassed a fortune of F some dimensions from the Marlon Star, the newspaper which he owned since 1884, until it was sold recently for $535,000.The P controlling interest held by Mr.Harding, brought him $423,000. FWENTY- TWO PRIVY COUNCIL HEARS B.C.APPEAL (Continued from Page 5) .judged such action justifiable could or r the Railway Commission to go thoroughiy into the whole matter.Mr.Chrysier and Mr.Flintoft held to their objectioù and after some argument it was decided by Premier King that Mr.McGreer should continue, but that the counsel would take cognisance of the objection raised by the counsel for the railways.Mr.Pitblado in Opposition The chief feature of Friday's hearing of the British Columbia railway rates ap peal before the Privy Council was the able tation made by L Pitblado, K.C., \u2018on behalf of the Manitoba Government and Winnipeg board of Trade in opposition.It was very thorough, comprehen- aive and incisive and brought to the front the real issue involved in the case.By reason of lower construction costs and operating charges the prairie prov.faces have lower rates than has British Columbia and Winnipeg, and other prairie eities have built up a very important distributing business.British Columbia contends that it should have mile for mile the same rates as exist in other western provinces, knowing that with her other other advantages, such as exist in the form of cheap water rates, she would cap ture a very large portion of the distribut- tng business.This, as Mr.Pitbiado put 4t, would result in Winnipeg being left high and dry.Mr.Pitblado also pointed out that insofar as {nward rates were concerned, Alberta was affected only to the extent that she imported goods through British Columbia.He also made much of the \u2018act that British Columbia though posscasing certain great advantages over the prairie provinces in trausportation matters, was trying to wopk into a position where she would rid herself of all the disadvantages of her situation, and he contended that this was asking too much.Dealing with the question of lower grain rates to the Pacific coast, Mr.Pitblado pointed out that these would be granted on a mile per mile basis with those on the prairies generally.Grain when it got to Fort William was only half way to the Atlantic, but when it got to Vancouver it was actually at an ocean port.So a rate must be fixed that would do justice to grain moving east es well as west.Attention was also drawn to the fact that owing to the low ocean rates, à Vancouver firm could bring cutlery from Sheffield and lay it down at Calgary at one halt the cost that a Winnipeg firm could, Groceries from England could also be laid down in Calgary via Vancouver at two-thirds the cost vis Winnipeg.Winnipeg's Attitude Isaac Pitblado, K.C., of Winnipeg, representing the Winnipeg Board of Trade and the province of Manitoba, emphasised that his clients had, in the past, always demarded lower freight rates.\u201cWe sympathize with every appeal for decreased tolls, but we oppose the application of the Attorney-General of British Columbia\u2019 he said.[It is not for decreased unwarranted rates.It is for an equall- zation In favor of British Columbia He took the ground that nature favored the coast cities with water transportation.\u2018The inevitable result of ignoring the rail- Way costs in the mountainous, unproductive and sparsely settled districts in British Columbia would be to eventually raise rates in the prairie provinces and else \u2018where.Mr.Pitblado said that the mountain scale of rates was based on the higher operating costs and the lower traffic density.He claimed that over 85 per cent of the tonnage of British Columbia was carried under special rates on which the mountain scale had no bearing.He belleved that the real object of the appeal was to deprive the prairie distributing centres of thelr natural areas of distribution for the benefit of the coast jobbers.Quoting from the Rallway Act, Mr.Pit- blado stated that discrimination could only be charged where circumstances and conditions were the same.A mere dis- SAVE THE CHILDREN Mothers who keep a box of Baby's Own Tablets in the house may feel that the Hves of their little ones are reasonably safe during the hot weather.Stomach troubles, cholera infantum and diarrhoea carry off thousands of Mttie ones every summer, in most cases because the mother does not have a safe medicine at band to give promptly.Baby's Own Tablets relieve these troubles, or if given occasionally to the well child will prevent their coming on.The Tablets are guaranteed by government analyst to be absolutely harmiess even to the newborn babe.They are especially good 1a summer because they regulate the bowels and \u2018keep the stomach sweet and pure.They are eold by medicine dealers or by mail at 26c n dox from The Dr.Williams\u2019 Medicine Co., MONTREAL WITNHES AND CAN ADIAN HOMESTEAN.ALGSIST 16, 1928.Loe parity in rates under different conditions or circumstances did not, he held, consti tute discrimination, much less unjust or undue discrimination.Conditions in the mountains were widely different from those on the prairies, insofar as raliway operation was concerned.The contention that commodity rates were based on mlle- age was characterized as absurd by Mr.Pitblado.The Premier asked Mr.Pitblado whe ther the Rallway Commission had author ity to state whether the rate on a gives article should be a general class rate or a special commodity rate.Mi.Pitblado replied fn the affirmative.\u201cThess commodity rates are a mystery to the man in the street.\u201d pat in Hon.W.8.Fielding, \u201cthere must be a reason for them, but why should the rallways under take to determine whether rice should be milled at Montreal or Vancouver?\u201d \u201cThey do not,\u201d said E.P.Flintoft, counsel tor the C.P.R.\u201cOh, but they do by fixing rates.\u201d re plied Mr.Welding.F.H.Chrysler, counsel for the C.P.R, explained that commodity rates were adopted first to encourage the movement of the products of the soil and so provide traffic for the railways.Mr.Pitblado said that the Government ot Manitoba and the Winnipeg Board of Trade objected to the romoval of the mountain scale of rates because they did not want the distribution system of the prairies upset.This system was based on the existing class rates.Premier Oliver asked if the Gevern- ment of Manitoba took that stand, and Mr.Pitblado repiled that it did.\u201cWhy should the Government of Manitoba be concerned,\u201d asked Hon.W.R.Motherwell, \u201cI couid understand it, if Winnipeg were the Government of Manitoba.\u201d \u201cThe Government of Manitoba is concerned,\u201d replied Mr.Pitblado, \u201cbecause a Wrge section of the people of the pro vince are concerned.It is concerned just as the Government of British Columbia is real object of the Britiah Columbia appit- eation was the development of British Co- lumbis trade at the expense of the manufacturers and jobbers of the prairies.Rates Based on Same Basis aa American Roade Mr.Chrysler, ia his Argument on Mon: day, combatted the view that thers was anything in the conditions under which British Columbia entered the union, evea suggesting that it was to receive apecial consideration in the matter of raliway rates.When the C.P.R.came into existence in Eastern Canada it took the same rates as the Grand charged.In the weat, the C.P.R.its rates, in the early days, not on those charged in Ontario and Quebec, but on the basis of similar charges in the western states.These different rate structures had boen confirmed by decisions of the Ratiway Commission.The rates in existence to day were not such as the railways fixad, but such as had been ordered by the commission, Scale Was Justified tied, for, according to expert evidence submitted by British Columbia, the cost of operating on the mountain section of the C.P.R.was about 50 per cent.greater than that on its prairie section.In reply to the contention that the Canadian National cost of operating was lower, it was pointed out that though its line from vancouver to Edmonton was 128 miles further than the C.P.KR.from Vancouver to Calgary, still its charge was the same.C.A.Hayes, of the Canadian National, had testified that the \u2018fixed charges on the British Columbia lines of the National system was over $ 1-3 times those on the prairie section, while they were nearly 31.3 times greater than those on the Goose Lake division.This justified a scale double that on the prairies, which had existed until last year.Mr.Ruel said that as in making a direc tion to the Rallway Commission on a pre concerned.\u201d He maiptained that the vious appeal the Privy Council had laid FOR LEISURE MOMENTS ] up if he doesna\u2019 tak\u2019 a dislike to ye\u201d Motorist\u2014\" Can you tell me where I'll get board and lodging for the night?\u201d Highland Native\u2014\u201cAye.Keep richt along the road until it's no\u2019 there, them ye'll see à hoose aboot twa miles acrost the bank.If ye can get tit, th\u2019 owner'll put ye \u2014Tit Bits.PLAYING THE GAME In a certain New England village where the Sunday church attendance was small lived a young widow who had taken quite a fancy to the minister.She could see that he also cared for her, but was evidently too shy to say anything.One Sunday evening the congregation was smaller than ususl.After the services the clergyman said to the widow: \u201cDid you like my sermon?\u201d \u201cIt was beautiful,\u201d she replied.\u201cI wish: more people would coms,\u201d he said, She saw her chance.\u201cSo do L\u201d she answered.\u201cWhy, tonight, every time you sald \u2018dearly beloved\u2019 1-\u2014I positively blushed.\u201d \u201cJack says I'm somethiag to adore.\u201d \u201cDoes he mean that you're a belle or à Brockvilia.Ont.Kkaocker ?* ; / ! Considerate of the Bank An English sailor just home from a long crulse entered a bank in Hull and greeted the clerk with: \u201cWhat cheer, matey?How's your business doing, hey?\u201d \u201cNot very brisk at present.\u201d answered the clerk, \u201cbut I hope to see it improve shortly.\u201d \u201cThat's \u2019ard!\u201d said the tar sympathett cally.He fished out a check for £100.\u201cHow'll you have it?\u201d asked tbe clerk.The sailor hesitated a moment, thea leaned over the counter and sald in à hoarse whisper: \u201cWeil, matey, I don't want to be \u2018ard on yor.Gimme ten pun\u2019 now end I'll take the rest a pun a week.\u201d Doctor\u2014Put out your tongue\u2014more than that\u2014all of it.Chila\u2014But, doctor, 1 can't.It's fastened at the other end! The mountain scale of rates was justi |.\u2014 \u2014\u2014 À universal oustom that boncélts everybody.Aids digestion, cleanses the looth, soothes the threat, Mey ie it down that the necessities of the Na tional Ratiways should not be a factor in arriving at a decision, they had not been.greatly interested in such matters.He thought that in appeals of this nature much time was lost.An attempt was being made to tell the Privy Council in a few hours what the Railway Commission had required several years to consider.There was also too much detail.He thought the Council should only interfere oa two points, 1.e, wherein a decision of the commission thers had been an error on principle, or a real constitutional right was involved.He did not think there was a constructional question in this case.The use of the \u201cAlpine Light\u201d in the treatment of tuberoulosis is being tried in the X-ray department of Franklin Square H Baltimore.In several cases, ac- co to Dr.8 C.Bowers, director of the department, the patients have shown remarkable improvement.Ex-Minister Malvy, who was banished from France for five years by the senate in August, 1918, after a trial in which he was acquitted of the charge of (reason but convicted of dereliction of duty, has returned to his home in Souillse.He proposed to begin iurmedately a campaign for election to the Chamber of Deputies.Canadian Farmers Better Off Than Amerk can Farmers are suffering.but not nearly s much as those of the northwestern U.8., 8ir George E.Foster, Canadian senator and former occupant of many impore tant posts in the Dominion Government said in Windsor on Thorsday.\u201cThe sufferings of farmers on both sides of the lime are due to the same causes\u201d Bir George said.\u201cPrices of commodities are dropping rapidly and fhe cost of la bor drops slowly.There is not so much money to buy grain and the other necessities of lite, and in this way the people of both oountries, but particularly those of the US, are beginning to realize the Interdependence of nations.\u201d .\u2014_\u2014 Some days ago « London man, 56 years of age, died of ahock on the operating table at St.Joseph's bospital, London, Ont, where he was being treated by Dr.Percy Banghart for an advanced condition of cancer.For three minutes his heart and lungs ceased to function and to all expert knowledge he was dead.Dr.Banghart injected a strong solution of adrenalin d= rectly énto the man's heart and within few minutes he revived, emerging eves {rom the anasthetic.from the anaesthetic and now the man is taking nourishmient and in a satisfactory condition.Others have been revived with adrenalin in London hospitals, but tn ali previous cases life was prolonged only \u20ac few hours.4 Ke Pills Trading 10 ae was slow in Montreal, but sellers to clesr out ost of their offerings each day.Mest of the run consisted of common, thin cattle, masy of them from \u2018est: Canada.Several lots of steers sold mand.There was also n arg tage common Fa and these soid wly at low few butcher cattile moved alrty qualit was $7.conedered.and the top for four good stesrs bor- ering on 1200 pounds, Other small lots phys od out brought 96.00 to 36.25, and one fot of 1100-pound fairly steers, reared $6.16.Medium steers sold from 36.00 to 96.00 and common $1.60 up.Light weight thin helfers were Dlantiful and ranged from $3.00 to $4.00.Owe lot of cows brought 85.00 and good mostly from $4.00 to $4.78.medium from $3.00 to $3.78 and common from $2.50 up.Cuanners went at $1.00 to $1.50 and Cutters \u2018trem $1.76 to $2.35.Medium bulls brougitt from $3.50 to $4.26 and common bails $2.50 to $3.00.Good cuality calves realised a shade better several smail lots of milk-feds reached $8.00 ar more.Medium quality sucker caives sold from $3430 to $7.76 and a few top qualis ty veal were weighed out at $9.00.lowever, comméa quality grassers and drinkers made up the bulk of the offering and these brough! from $2.00 to $3.50 for the grassers and up to $5.00 the pail-fed lota Hoth grassers and drinkers wers slow sellers.Hog prices hed about steady.Loeal butchers took the light-wel 1 selects and butcher Tots x 10.00 ana $19.Packers bought a few at 10.00 for thisk smooth and 711.09 for pelects.Sows mold from $8.5 to $4.75.Included in the week's receipts was a of light welght hoes, Receipts of sheep and lambs y 2600 head over last week's offering.ang was active and prices held about level.Good lambs wold readily from $11.15 to 312.00, and common lots from $10.00 10 $10.76.A few sales of very common Eastern lambs were mode at 59.00 to 39.60.Shee ranged from 33.60 to 35.00 with a few good yearlings at $5.80.In view of the fact that the offering of lambs has boen very light dur- in, the past tow months there seems to be a \u2018tapoeltlon on the part of buyers to reduce prices oh with any marked increase receipts.ean lecsen the severity ot the cuts by sending omly the good lambs im regularly from now on.thus keeping the re- celpts steady and lessenin the danger over-loading the market Suing October.A steady supply of good lambs rather than a heavy offering of all kinds tater om, will produce the strongest returns.The total offering of cattle in Toronto, was 2000 head lighter that of last week and wall, was from ng of poor aunilty th the disposal was aimeutes to make.Export trade was more sctive and packera were in need of à few good butcher Sarthe.Good to choice handywelght steers sold steady from $6.75 Bh $7.40 por hundred with the best three loads of Rovio going at $1.78: This was ibe top cattle price for the week.Exporters te about twenty loads of heavy steers at qrices from 7.60 to 37.65 per hundred.Plain Western killers sold aa low as $2.60 per hundred with better kinds up to $4.50 and $5.00.Good butcher cows ro t $4.00 to $5.00 with some at $5.28, je was dull throughout the week with he fi Phen of $4.76 paid for a few heavy exporters.Western stere cattle being 8 good buy en prevail prices, con- vauea to sell readily from 76 to $4.60.Few miich cows or epringers of quality were recetved.Calf trade remained steady.Choice veal- ers sold from $9.58 to $10.00, few sales up to $11.00.Medium to calves Drought a 0 to $9.80 per hun with some from Emstern districts going from 15.9 to T4- ».Hog took a st upward tum with = of $5¢ per hu for the week.The market opened steadly at $5.35 fed and watered but by Thursday the packers were Wading 9.60 and taking hey were steady throughout the week within of $11.60 to $12.66 with the majority oing at $12.00.Culls and heavies sold from 00 to $11.00.Light sheep were scarce and prices remained steady from $5.08 to 96.08 with a small iot of choice at $6.50, unchanged in the Trading was practically better classes of butchers in Winnipeg.Good Hehit butcher steers sold well all week and choice butcher she-stock was taken at equally firm prices.fat cows sold strong and tact a shade higher.A large percentage of the receipts were mude up of medium and common stockers and feedars, and with southern and eastern markets and country demand showing no improvement, this class became a drag on the market, medium kinds moving extremely hard at weak prices and grades being practically unsalable, Talling \u20ac down to the lowest quotations of the Shippers are advised against flooding the market with these unfinished Nght grades an much action is causing loss of money to farmers and poor markets.Falr cows and can- hers and cutters were largely In evidence and ¥ith medium cows, were hard best ht weight butcher steers sold from 86.50 and occasionally at $6.60, Most of the ett grades made 14.08 to $4.60.The ma.of the butcher heifers sold da best $8.generally a $1.66.few to 5 3 bat the majority of ee rnd wa t, feeders made 31.68 to WINTRRAL: WITHERS AND GANABIAN HOMESTEAD, AUGUST 1, Hab LIVE STOCK PRICES COMMENTS FON WEEK ENDING AUG 11TH LT 10 93.24.Most of the oxen offered Tre moved from es Common sraung and $1.00 to Top fleshy deborned feed i$ bare.» P y ler stécrs soi rom 14.00 to $4.50.Planer grades fuet à poor Gemand from $1.58 to $3.50.Very little trading occurred in stockers but a few of decent quality were shi to country points from dt 76 to $3.28.Common stockers were hard to sell from $1.50 to $2.00.During mid- ook, « fair number of good calves were marketed and Lhis resuited in brisk trading.the market ciosing easily 50e above the previous gps Top vealers pussed out strengthe: quotations up.Thick smoatha sold at $9.28 and select bacon at $10.17.Very few good lamba were received, the bulk of receipts consisting of feeder sheep, The best lambs brought frem 38.50 to 39.50.common and medium m $4.00 to 16.80, good light mutton sheep from $5.80 to $6.00 and the remainder of heavy kinds.slow sellers, from 33.60 to $4.00.Carte In Prince Albert were Br steers made $4.00 and common $2.58 to Fi Medium heifers and cows aoM from 32.50 to $3.00, and canners at $1.50.Fair stockers and .60.Hogs were stronger, and thick smooths selects making $10.1/ Heavies, shops, and feeders sold at 26, 25 and extra heavies and No.1 sows at 17.26.No.2 sows made 75.25 and goed light ewes $6.00, The Market in Moose Jaw opened vary slow and quiet.Du the last two days trading was active at ces from B0c to 31.00 lower, with medium and common kinds at the short end.Mont of the top sisers made $6.00 and good butchers est to $5.00, Medium made 33.50 to $4.00.Top heifers sold at $5.00 and «cod from 34.00 to 14.50.No choice cows were offered.The best price was $3.75.Medium cows sold mostly from 32.66 to $3.06, can- ners and cutters from T5c to $1.25 and medl- ym oxen from 12.08 to $3.50.Heavy medium changed hands trom $3.00 to $3.50 and lighter kinds from $3.00 to $3.25.Miockers etiam in quati: made 3250 to 33.00.feeder sold at $9.00, £5 te 35.50 and common from se $5.50 and cl Hos opened at ttle receipts were slightly heavier y and there alighily stronger from of undertone to the better races.Intermediate grades were slow.Good quality stock was in fair demand.Choice hbayy and handywelght steers made $5.00 to 35.26, fair to good ¥4.25 to $4.75, medium 33.58 to $4.00 an common around $1.60.Choice heifers made 83.35 to $4.00 and fair to good $3.76 to §3.5.Choice cows sold from 33.25 to $3.50, fair to good from $2.75 to $3.00 and common around $1.00.Canners and cutters made 11.00 to $1.50, good bulls $1.75 to $2.25 and common down to $1.00.M © receipts of calves promoted a steady to strong market.Choice calves made 35.25 to 35.86, $4.00 to 35.00, and common $2.50 to $3.Htockers and about steady under a good demand.Good stockers made $3.00 to $4.25, good feeders $3.- 25 to $4.38 and common down to $2.0.Hog oceinte were light and prices firmer.Thick smooths opened at $7.96, and closed at 18.65.Select made $8.69 and $9.51.Shien re- celpts were light and demand steady.Lambs made 811.00 to $12.26 and ewes $7.25.The et In Edmonton was inclined to be more sstive.Prices were unchanged from inst week's close.There was a fair demand for good butchers and feeders, A few choice steers to) at $5.50.good choice moved er rom $4.00 to $5.00, medium lo good rom $3.00 to $4.00 and common around $2.50.Good to choice helfers made 33.00 to $4.00 and common to medium from $2.00 to 12.50.Geod to choice butcher cows sold from $2.50 to 32,60 and common $1.50 to $2.00.Cunners and cutters made $1.00 to $1.60.Choice bulls sold from 31.50 to 12.60 and common from $1.00 to 31.28.Stockers and feeders moved freely, especially Good to choice feeders changed ds trom $3.60 to 14.00, and medium $2.60.Good to choice stockers made $2.50 to 33.50 and common around $2.00.Vealers were unchanged, choice making 34.50 to $5.00 and common $2.50 to $3.00, e hog market was Inclined te be firmer.Thick smooths sold generally from $9.00 to $9.15, off cars.Selects 10 p.c.better.There was no change in the market for sheep and lambs.Lambs rade $3.00 to $10.00, prariioes $7.00 ta $8.09, and ewes 13.90 to $6.00.British Cattle Market: -\u2014 Glasgow sold 430 Canadian cattle on the Ist inst.Best quality sold mostly at 11 1-2c Hve weight.Heavier sorts made from 16 1-2c to llc.Lean stores ranged from 5 1-3c to 18.A further con- ment of 463 head off the 88.Gracia was on the ith, These changed hands generally from 3 1-2¢ to 10 1-2¢ with some extra choice Winds topping at ii 1-20.Plain and heavy cattle from 9 1-2c to 16, Can- adlan cattle have declined in value by two pounds ten shillings head during the past couple of weeks following the usual course ou trading during August, and the present out- or temporary.lower values.Best teh beef from 13 1-2c to 13c, live weight.One hun and seventy Irish ranged om rom $ 1 Te \u2018a île.Birkenhead offer- per Ib.Chit offal, nd prices were mostly 20¢ Some sales of choice cattle were made at 2lc.London sold 116 Canadian drensed sides from 13c to 1%c per Ib.Trade Is reported slow, owing to warm wenther and the holiday season.British Bacon Market:\u2014Canadian leanest 108s.lean and Prime Loos do lets.Baies 110s.A good demand Is report under small supplies.American 76e to 84a, firm.Irish quotations nominal.Danish 117s to 1i%e.Danish killings are reported ne being somewhat lighter.feeders were FIRST IRISH PARLIAMENT CLOSES The curtain is being nmg down on the first Oireachtas or Parliament of the Irish Free State, and the electors are now plunged in the midst of a bewildering mass of candidates, representing many partics and interests.The first Parliament goes out emid a most consoling chorus of eulogium from the Dublin press.The first references 1e this great event were made at a banque! in the Mansion House by President oe grave on Thursday, who paid tribute to his colleagues, said there might have ten shortcomings in the Parliament, but he had never found a more generous assembly for one in which there was so much tvidenee of genuine criticism and lively effort to do useful, appreciative work for the In no assembly, he added, were grester sacrifices made than in the executive coun- cit of alle Irish Free State.Secretary Resigns George B.Christian, secretary to Warren G.Harding as United States senator and as president, has announced that he had submitted his resignation as executive secretary to President Coolidge.Mr.Christian made his announcement soon after he had returned from the final services for his dead chief.\u201c1 entered public life with Warren G.Harding.and I leave it now that he has heen called away,\u201d the announcement said.!\u201cFor nearly nine years 1 worked beside him and my present sorrow is somewhat assuaged by the feeling of satisfaction at having been permitted to serve a great president, à most humane and considerate chief, and the finest friend it has ever been given a man to have, \u201cIt is my expectation to enter private business just as soon as I may be eble to complete my arrangements therefor,\u201d PLANS TO GIVE COOLIDGE 194 NOMINATION A movement to nominate President Calvin Coolidge as the Republican candidate for President next year is already under way, Senator George H.Moses, of New ampshire, announced on Friday night, following à call on the President.Erator Moses is chairman of the National Senatorial campaign committee.He announced that he would issuc an appeal when be returns to New Hampshire calling on all New England to stand behind Coolidge for a second term.The President has received a score of prominent men at various short meetings, but not one of these resulted in an expression of his views on any of the important domestic and international problems before the United States Government.It is said that Coolidge has not as yet expressed to anyone his views on the international court of justice, and the \u201cirrecon- cilables\u201d are becoming worried.Callers feier to him as a \u201csphinx\"\u2014he listens courteously to anything a visitor may have to say, and then.dismisses the caller without comment on the matter under discussion.The policies which \u201cthe best listener in Washington\u201d is expected to follow are being forecast simply on his previous record in public office.President Coolidge apparently intends to devote his attention chiefly to domestic matters rather than isternational matters.The evidence to date is that he will not make any special effort to force the world court issue on the Senate, and that when his first annual message is laid before the next session of Congress, it will be found to emphasize the need of legislation on domestic questions and to give little emphasis to the world court or participation in the affairs of Europe.It is said in Washington that President Coolidge realizes the world court resolution could not be driven through the Senate without a bitter fight, which would split the Republican party.While he has favored the world court in the past, it does not necessarily follow that he is going to bring great pressure to bear on the Senate to have this government join the court.The opponents of adherence to the court are convinced the President will not bring pressure and that the world court resolution will simply go by the boards.If the President does not make a fight for the word court, and in cffect abandons the proposal, there are many in Washington who believe Secretary Hughes and Secretary Hoover will quit the Cabinet.TRILLIONS AND QUADRILLIONS The New Measures of World Currency We are now getting the figures of paper money of certain countries in \u201ctrillions\u201d of their respective units of.currency.The latest reports quote the German circulation at nearly 32 trillions of marks; Austria over 5 trillion crowns; Poland over 3 trillion Polish marks, while Soviet Russia has long since passed the trillion line, and the latest advices put the total of outstanding Soviet currency at morc than 4 quadrillion paper rubles (4,482,800,000,000,000).But even if we disregard the Soviet paper money which is no longer included in the statements of world currency issued from week to week in the financial reports of Europe, it is interesting to try to comprehend the meaning of the word \u201ctrillion\u201d in which at least three European countries other than Russia regularly and officially state their outstanding paper currency.The latest reports from many put the note circulation at nearty 32 trillion marks (31,- 824,820,868,000), Austria over 5 trillion crowns