Witness and Canadian homestead, 6 avril 1927, mercredi 6 avril 1927

[" WITNESS and - Canadian Homestead JOHN UQALL & SON, PU! HERS, VOL.LXXXIl.Ne.14.MONTREAL, APRIL 6, 1927.82nd Year SUBSCRIPTION RATES INSIDE FIVE CENTS A COPY THE WITNESS is working through ito readers in every provines, and they through it, te o Land & Coo The Week's Outlook The Chinese Ferment I\u201d is bard mot to see the potentiality of war in the sending of another bri tade of English troops to Shanghai.It is hard to see that war with China could be otherwise than fatuitous\u2014the harm infinite, with no advantage to any one.Two different reasons are given for the expedition.Is it punitive, or is it defensive?One statement is that the Shanghai authorities estimate that the present force is not sufficient for the defence of the concessions it it is N- able to be depleted by expeditions elsewhere.The other is that it is entirely due to the conditioms Involved in the Nankiag outrage.The Shanghai demand for more troops is chromic.\u2018The reason alleged, that the garrison is liable to be depleted by calls elsewhere, implies & general state of warfare, if not war.The fear implied has certainly new occa- slon in the fury that has taken hold of the natives,\u201d displaying threateming in- eults and denunciations up to their very barticades.Btili, let the circum stances be reversed, and we bhould our selves probably do some gnashing of teeth,.and should hardly be satisfied with angry words on paper streamers From the speed with which the Nanking legand of wholesale slaughter of Na.tonslists was spresd ever the whole world there is every reason to think that there was a precomcerted deter miastion, to which the local National ist conmand was a party to force a collision at Nanking with everything in train for exaggerating it to the whole Chinese people, making a really serious situation.It is indeed a situation into which it would be folly to plunge in a momputary fit of resentment\u2014one to be shy of, even at the cost of admitting facts and even fauits.Fighting for one\u2019s \u201cface,\u201d when the facts are against one, is ignoble.The Mailed Fist .F the other reasom advanced at head- quartars be corréct, the whole move ment is on a point of honor, and that, with an unrecognised government\u2014a government not yet installed\u2014a govern: ment obviously unable to control its own followers\u2014more afraid of those behind it tham of Britain.After all, is there any very grest honor about that?Britain seems to have had comsiderable dificuity fa inducing the other members of the maritime triumvirate to join in this de- .mand.one of the dificuities being the somewhat absurd one that there is no agreement as to against whom the protest Lies, and to whom to send it.As for apologising: expressions of regret by Na- tionallst leaders are already reported.They are no doubt very sorry for what bes happened, just as much as we are for that deadly barrage.They are willing to accept blame, which we are not.But what is to be done with hundreds of millions worked up to white heat by (slsshoods broadcast from Moscow to New York?Will the malled fist, implying that an apology can only be extorted by terror\u2014in iteelf an ineult\u2014nuke apology any easier?Will it make relations any more amiable?Will the British in the terior be any safer?Will Christianity, or international comity, or commerce, on which Britain's heart is set, be advanced, or retarded for a gemeratioa?The whole thiag looks Hke à diehard victory in the mh cabinet.Mr.Lioyd George, speaking for the ordinary folk, whom he knows pretty well, has so far upheld the governmeat in its defensive policy.Will the country up- bald » terrorising one?Way thrust apps fist into a beehive?\u201c Dangerous Exaggeration L AST week the Witness purposely re frained trom giving details as to the Nanking killings.Reports by excited correspondents must always be accepted with reserve.All over China and wherever the lying voice of Russia could be broadcast, two hundred thousand, Chinese were proclaimed to have been ruthlqasiy slaughtered, setting a third.of mankind in a ruge.The saucy statement of the guilty lucal authorities was that for every foreigner killed a hundred Chinamen had been Blain.To teil the truth was not their purpose.Certainly reserve was wise in this case.When all the lurid stories of wholesale slaughter, rape, and destruction are boiled down to established facts, the following is something like the result.Halt a dozen foreigners were killed, and about twice that\u2019 number wounded in the entire Nanking incident.Almost exactly the same number of Chinese were Xilled or wounded by the protective barrage laid down by the foreign warships.More harm comes of automobile smashes in a day at home.This is not to say that the episode was unimportant.Wars have been fought for less cause before now.The murder of an Archduke was the pretext seized, only thirteen ysars ago, to precipitate a clash which eost ten million lives.But it does show the necessity of retainfng, at all couts.« Bense-eé proportion.Thè event vus serious enough, \u2018as Sir Austen Cham- beriain\u2019s measured statement shows.The Outrages were apparently permitted by the responsible local Cantonese com- randers.There is all the appearance that they were planned and executed system- &tically.I: was not to be expected that the goveraments concerned would allow the event to pass without register \u2018ing a vigorous protest.dinary course of newspaper information that the papers shouid-everywhere bios som with the fatefal word \u201cultimatum.\u201d Any expostulation sent to the Nationalist authorities is a compliment to them in its assumption that they were the government.Chiang, after being convinced of the culpability of his own troops, readily offered what amends might be possible.What is even more important js to remember that to wage war, for such a canse, is to prescribe 8 cure ten thousand times worse than the disease\u2014a cure which would benefit nobody and only abet the Bolshevik revolutionary.A Students\u2019 Revolution VERY important letter from the Rev.Dr.- MeGiiisvray, of Shanghai, 3 Much has happes-i appears in this papered at Shanghai and more at Nanking: since it was written, nearly a month age, but that fa no way affects the ims: into the inwardness of the Chinese rev lution of a vetersa asd close observ of unusual poise and intelligence.revolution is, he says, a students\u2019 move ment.Students in the west can leave statesmanship to their elders; but im awakening China there were no elders in touch with the age.The mission students] were better balanced than those in the government schools, through respect for their teachers.who, of course, never mixed in political matters.But those in the government schools naturally rushed to the extreme of modern ideas, and their outery against foreign intrusion found in human nature an appeal to the peo ple generally.The Soviet idea has, however, taken possession of the Nationalist leaders, who have a craxe for organising every class, and, as with the ste deats, so organised labor will naturally not know where to stop.Dr.McGill vray sees fu this overturning a testing and a strengthening of the native Chris tan chureh, which is nsturally restive at it was In the or! foreign dominance and at the intrusion of western sectarian differences, and which should be encouragad in every step toward self-reliance and ultimately wself- support.\u201cMy Country, Right or Wrong\" HINESE students gathered in New York, knowing nothing of the facts of the Nanking affair, and passed resolutions denouncing the British and Americans for.fring upon the National troops, Secretary Kellogg and Senator Horah to be memorialized as to the matter.The news despatches of the press were denounced and the Nationalist government cabled to expel the correspon: dents from China and to use the \u201ceconomic weapon\u201d against American business there.These young men, the flower of their nation, who are thus giving orders to the old world and the new, will find their proceedings calmly chronicled in the very same columns which reveal iv detail the extreme forbearance with | whlch the vessels of the powers named bore every possible provocation before replying.Not only were the commanders extremely anxious not to come to blows, in view of the enormous pos- albilities of unmanageable rage that might be kindled, but in view of the tm- mediate peril of their countrymen still at the mercy of irresponsibles.If a hundred or two youths, the very pick of their nation, intelligent, and with every opportunity of knowing the facts, were thus abandoned through national passion to silly unreason.what ls to be expected from hundreds of millions who have no information other tham the bliasphem- ous indecencies and malignities which have their ultimate -springs in Moscow?We have here the best and the worst of tbe material out of which these nationalist leaders hope to build their New Jerusalem.Nationalism Adolescent T .is often \u2018sald that if ome would know the mind of the days to come let him seek for it in that of the students of today.Well.we have heard of the young college men of a former day running amuck in the streets of Dublin, seeing how many doorknobs they could break with their blackthorns.We have_heard of students out in Montreal streets, tearing down signs and other things that came within their destructive reach.We are all liable, either fn- dividually or in herds, to go of at half- cock when we are overheated.None of us looks for a continuance of that sort of thing when the boys come to years of discretion.The youth who, for the pure joy otf it, cuts off the light from a solemn assembly, may live to be in the most revered seat in that same hall.Stili one does learn some things with assur ance even from boyish swagger.One is Raton are unanimously on the side of the Nationalist movement.and that are right who have heid from the first that, s0 far as Chiva has a national heart, it is here, and that she bas no other.It is also an unanawerable tribute to western freedom that these lads should be frees to vociferate against the nation to which they have come for instruction and call down wrath upon its extremities.They may yet have a chance to compare this immunity with the sort of treatment they proposs to give in their own country to those they do not like.War Never Pays WHE Mr.Churchill introduces his next budget to the British house he will have to admit a deficit of nearly two hundred million dollars for the past year.It cannot but come as a stagger lng blow to British industry, which must in some way make it good.The causes of the misfortune are evident.Heavy government expenditures were necessary during the longdrawa-out ool etrikb, that these most hopeful of the ancient Even more serious to the national trea sury was the loss of revenue because of the trade stagnation consequent on the strike, leaving the nation the poorer by the total volume of inaction both of production and of commerce.It fu easy now to show how much better off Britain would have been had the government continued the subsidy, had the owners not decreed the general and drastic wage cuts, or had the men accepted those wages before instead of after a long-drawn-out struggle.None of these things was done, for reasons which seemed convincing to those responsible.The government knew that it could not continue the subsidy without continuing the .even then, intolerable burdens on the taxpayers.The owners knew that they could not pay the old wage scale without the subsidy.The miners knew that they could not accept \u2018wage cmts without accepting even more disheartening living standards.They knew that they could not work longer hours without making mining disasters still more frequent, as has happened.So all parties acted as they thought best.All lost.The miners accepted the cut after months of the most cruel type of industrial warfare.The owners bore losses during the months of stoppage which would have made their past and future losses under the old wage scale appear insignificant.The public lost uncountably.The government incurred a really startling deficit War cannot pay.\u201cThe worst agreement is better than the best lawsuit.\u201d Any settlement is better than any strike.Mussolini's system of settling all ineipient wage disputes by le cal and immediate m: t ecisions may be arbitrary, but people askiag whether it is met better to be- arbitrary before suicidal industrial warfare than sorry afterwards, Plainly some other system of coming to terms must be insisted on if nations are not going to commit suicide.Nature's cure would have been the gradual transplantation of labor till the owners found some methods of output more economical than siave ia- bor.But that demanded more intelli gent initiative both national and personal than was found.Turned Tide or Eddy?IBERALS in Britain are described as \u201calmost delirious with joy\u201d at developments in the political situation.Twice within a week they have won by- elections.The first victory was In a normally Liberal constituency.But the second was a gain at .the expense of Labor.and an indirect blow at the government party.Dr.Guest, refusing to cem- sure the Baldwin policy in China, had resigned from the Iabor party.He was re-contesting his seat with government support.The Liberals and Labor had both entered candidates.A certain sroup of labor men did their party deplorable damage and strengthened the Liberals by treating Mr.Lloyd George as dangerous enough to be met with or ganized rowdylsm in bis public meetings.Nothing could have pleased him better.Nothing could have been more effective in stampeding to the Liberal banner that mass of moderate eiectors who, after all, decide all elections.Possibly a more significant development im British politics fs the defection of Mr.Wheatley from labor's froat bench te the ranks of the freeating Ishmael- ites that call themselves Clydesiders.Labor held together splendidly during the long period of unbroken Labor successes.It may be a coincidence that these important defections come with the first reverses or the defections may de sither contributing causes to those te verses, or results of them.The Privy Counei! HY it not been for the alertness of the Prin Minister the Quebec Legislature would have passed a declaration of independence of His Majesty's Privy Coungll, simply for Jack of any one *e TWO oppose a motion to that effect.Though It was not alleged, probably no one doubted that the provoking cause of this proposal to cut the last link, but one, which gives us organic connection with the Pritish fellowship of nations, was due: to resentment at the decision recently given against Quebec, and against Canada as a whole, with regard to certain territory in Labrador.There was evidemce of feeling in the fact thet weither party dared to lift a voice agaimst the motien % repudiate the court.Mr.Gault sald somo words {n a contrary sense, but was immediately expostulated with by a fel lew Couservative, and rose to explain thst be had only spoken his personal view.It was, of course, very wise not to cite the case in hand, as it would have been exceedingly awkward to have had to say what the two dominions would have done to settle that cass without that court.Was Canada, or was Quebec, going to picket six hundred miles of frontier to warn off any hlue-nosed forest ranger who might claim a responsibility for wood or game?It is at least obvious that the existence of such a court is of imestimable value as between sections of the empire.If it did not exist something would have to be done to supply its place.So plainly there is no reason for getting angry on that score.1 Mo Substitute is of the essence of civilization that parties to n dispute accept the fadings of competent courts, thankful te be right, whereas the op posite is the presumption under the primitive law of the strongest.Even arbitration generally means compromise, and compromise almost Necessarily leans te the stremgest or stubbormest.\u2018The :teu- demcy of today is net to abolish tribunals, but to erect them.How to find, as between classes, something better than bouts of stagnatign and starvetion; constautly finding, something worse, fs the anxiety of all well-willing people.The time is comipg when nations will be accounted civilized according as they are osordinsted with their feHow nations un der agreed judicial authority.As for the immediate occasion, therefore, of the demand for the repudiation of imperial fertediction, it is entirely and powerfully om the other side.Constitutional Obstructions HAT is not to say that there is nothing to be said on behalf of the general proposal further to limit the right of appeal.The argument that it is against the dignity of Canada to allow appeals to the foot of the throne depends entirely for its foroe on the attitude of the people toward tik throme.But the labrador award is not the only one that has fretted Censdisms.They had a labor law called the Lemieux Act, which was highly serviceable, which was ac counted a model elsewhere amd of which they were preud.That act was biué- geaned by à decision of the Privy Coan declared Parilamest incompet- it.That, however, was not the most competeæt court to have beeu submitted.It saw mage advance with the of society.H, na in the cases of United Church of Scetland, a legalist decislen by the Privy Coumcl does a manifest wrong, Parliament is there to correct the wroug by lagisiation.Canada has no such recourse.Sir John Macdon- in the court did not impose tliat disability.MK omly exposed the fact that there are things that need national action which parliament cannot do, and further that Canads bas no means of correcting this d'sability except through the Imperial parliament which, in such cases might await the concurrence of the provinces.For the time being provincial jealousies would make such concurrence very difficult.From time to time in the past ap peals from overseas have been limited at the behest of the dominions and col- oles, the chief ressom being the wea peo that expensive process put ito the Rand of the money newer as asniast peo mp6 is hh {pu WITNESS AND CAMABIAN HOMESTRAD, APRIL & WAT.pla who\u201d could mot afford i.Speaking generally matters of small money vaine cannot be appealed.Grest corporations are precluded from holding that expemse as a club over the poor man who wins his case in the home court.From time to time in the past.appeals from ever scas have been limited at the behest of the various overseas peoples.Canada, for mearty half a contery, has denied LNe right of external appeal in crimioal cased which has been called another instance of giving property more rights than the perv son.There have been cases of apparent abuse.such as when a great railway cor puration, ordered to pay damages to a poor mam severely injured by that rail way, won a Privy Council case after sp- pealing three unanimous decisions of courts ardering the payment.Nevertheless it is unlikely that Canada will re quest any curtailment of the right of ay peal in cases involving the British North America Act, the rights of minorities, of language or religion.It is true that Aus tralia hss all but abotished all such ap peals\u2014and thst mo one can accuse Aus tralia of being separatist in sentiment.Bat Australe is not Canada.Casada\u2019s problems ef race, religion and language make the Privy Cenncîl appeal an insti tation es necessary as vaiuable.Busy Diveros mile P the Senste has its way Outario wild have a divorce ocourt\u2014iike the rest of the provimoss, other thas Quebec.Since Confederation the Senate has beea forced to act as the divorce court for Qatari and for the minority in Quebec, divorce beinæ forbiddem to Roman Catholics.A frequent jibe has been that the hearing of divorce proceedings was the only real contribution of that august body te the administration of the country.All the more the Semate would have been only too pleased to be relieved of its odious task.A practical plea for the chamge is that the Sesate finds itself no longer able to handle all the applications with which it is being deluged.This year mo lens than fifty have hed to be pestpouved for sheer want of time to deal with them.In this, Canadas marches behind the white world.In the United States there is wow oné divorce for every sevem marriages.In Britain the immediate effect of thé law forbidding the publication of divoroe court proceedings has boea to Mood the osurts with new applications.Statisties are by no means as bad im Canada as in the Motherland; nor in the Motheriand as in the United States.Nevertheines it is idle to disguise the fact that divorce is increasing at a \u2018rate rapid emough to challenge the attention of all these who regard the family as the foundation of every somnd natfen.Divorce naturally varies ia proportien ss public opinion tol crates it and provides facilities for ft.All the same it may be a question whether increased divorce is am evidence of greater or less semsitiveness with regard to connwhial faithfulness and ftness.The Saphiet Difference OWEVKR necessary it may some times bs, i is always regrettable Torente divine, Dr.Shields, militant \u201cfundamentalist\u201d crusade.He expelled frem his owam congregation those who ceuld met, or would mot.satisfy him as te their orthodoxy\u2014as determined by the writtem doctrines of his church.later the combative pastor carried his fight throughout the denomination, fighting the heresy \u201ceven unto strange cities.\u201d Dr.Shleld\u2019s campaign has centred about his assertion that the theology taught at McMaster University is contrary to tra ditions of the fathers and the written beliefs of the denomimation.There has been a great deal of heat generated over this assertion.Dr.Shields is probably literally right.Yet it would seem that the University is in harmony with the views every one may, and morally every ome is bound to bold to what be beMeves to be truth.This must ta- evitably result in differences.Matters came to a head at the last convention of the denomination.Proceedings were \u2014 - - ; tion of the majority to parliament was one result of this move.One might think that seeing that both sides desire a sep aration.there could be agreement on the mode of it.Unfortunately.that question is inextricably bound up with the disposi.ina- turbulent in the extreme.The Shields] tion of joint property ot the deno group announced its intention of starting the formation, within the denomimsgion, of a \u201cRegular Saptist\u201d associgtion.The path a staunch fundamentalist college, and of | 4ion on \u2018which both sides have a claim.1: would seem, however, that that would have te come to equitable arbitration as in tha ease of the Presbyterian split.Christian Unity By \u201cSenex\u201d Ww NET who find in the furtherance of the Kingdem of Heaven the A one of living, and who see the manifestation of Christian unity a necessary condition of that triumph will naturally return with luterest to any enquiry concerniag ibe signs of its coming.M we find that this quest transcends human guidance we can at least seek to follow the gleam wher ever It may appear.Coageration in Service B BOINNING with the truth necepteé hy all that all are one, we must loek fer È § ; re Fitget FLFQRE Hn i iy TH Jiriied al i ; in partment af the National Cathelie Wel | fare Conference, and the Jews through the Social Justice commission of the Cem tra?Couference of American Rabble.The Investigation was thorough, the report ele- borate and convincink to the press and country, laying the primary biame om the management and a secondary blame on the .obduracy of the labor leaders.It was commission would have been.The religious Bodies took the ground that no dis- astreus were the moral effects of the controversy that they were not free to ignore it.\u2018This is an fflustration of very high service which religion can render in collaboration, but could not render apart but which might be dangerous if undertaken by a single body.It seems capable of unlimited extension.What its right limits are time must define, It seems fairly certatn that in this process the church has started on a thorny read.How far it is with- tn its sphere will be variously judged.\u201cMan, who made me a judge or a divider over you™ In the example quoted we have unity om even broader lines than those of the Christian Church Universal.The Jewish Church is net Christian: but it ia the nest fn which the Christian Church was bern.More Needed B UT while we very heartily hail ail and every intimation fo fact of the communion of saints, we have to acknowledge that the church presents to the world a divided Christ, though it has been dis expected to believe in Him till His peo- We are one.That necessarily means one in à manner visible to the world When it comes to seeking first the Kingdom ef Ged, it necessarily implies to seek first that visible rnity which carries conviction.Complete cosperation and plenary mutæal recaguition may not have soemed pars.monnt in days when to get to l.eaven og- ctpled pretty much the whole horimon oo Christian purpose and experiance.Of course in Heaven all would have to get om.together, but there were a lot of mutually exclusive ways of getting there, But when it comes to seeking first the Kingéem of Heaven on earth, all that is alive is every ~ Church is agreed that plenary cooperation ] and mutual recognition are primary condl- tions.So to agree in theory does mot solve the problem of visible unity.But no one but the Pope of Roms seems ta see a clear way to that.All is experi ment.It is at least a good thing to know what we want.How eager we all are to find ways to express mutual goodwill had jinstration last week in New York when not only discordant Jews but discordant Christians met to dedicate a mew synagogue.Bish- benediction.He declared that as \u201ca com stant symbol of close fellowship\u201d ths \u201cmenorah Hghts' presented io the Cathedral of St.Jobn the Divine by Mr.Ochs, the Jewish publisher, weuld burn con temporameously with those in this synd- æpgue.a.\u201clot us stand together as bretbque - _ agaiest the strange recrmdsscense of | pagan umbellef, the materialism, the down of the ancredness of - the flood that you are My disciples that ye love one another.\u201d The process of coalition in practice between similarly constituted bodies is simple and obvious.But instead of beginning at the big end, as in the cooperation for social service, it has to begin at the small end by the orgasmic coalition of bod- jes which have become so assimilated as to have pofhing left to keep them apart.Diverse bodies in the United States, as similated by proximity and time, and taking note of what has been done in Cana da, are looking longingly and more loviag- ly than of old over their denomingtional tences and wondering whether thay could not do something like it In Cane- da it has come about In detail by a continous process.There had bees a score or no of unions in Canada before the great one of 1925.Esch of the uniting bodies was iteelf à conglomeration.Se it will be with our neighbors.If the a.tinctly wueht that the world casvol be \u201c1% a movement is Lh 1005 ea * \u2019 1 « \u201d slower in the United States, 3 it is probably because of the farger scale pn which it has to operate, and possibly on account of misgivings as to the goal to which it points, which as seen through the fog may take the somewhat appalling form of a dangerously powerful hierarchy.An example of the merger Process at the moment in progress would have astonish- sd our fathers.To them, Universalism was à heresy, denying as it did the eter- * nity of hell, an essential article of faith.the new outlook of the Church toward world redemption turns not so much toward things unseen and heavenly as toward things seen and earthly.Men confess to small knowledge of what is beyond the veil of flesh, and are inclined to be tolerant of different views of the unknown hereafter.He would be bold who should deny that .there are many fo orthodox churches who hope \u201cthat 00d shall fall, atlast,far off, atlast, to sil, and faintly trust the larger hops.\u201d At all events the Orthodox Congregational ists and the Universalists, being also Congregatlonalists, baving forgotten to be dogmatic on that point, find no reason why they should keep apart, and are in process of uniting thefr forces.It is only part of a process which will naturally go on till right Christian relations evolve, To What End?UCH coalitions come out of obvi ous conditions.But to what end do they point?There is apparently a limit to such organic coalition.Its logical ful flment is nothing short of a universal church, governed, to use vivid secular similes, by a Mussolini, by a Soviet, or by a Parliament.The extension of any of those systems to a universality seems to most minds to condemn it.Of the three, what actually does exist in most Pro WITNESS AND CANADIAN testant congregations is the middle one.Whatever be the forms gone through, control is as a matter of fact in the Lands of a self-perpetuating committee of the elder men.It works fairly well in congregations which have any capable lite in the membership.What is distinctly worse is where the local administration is practically fu the hands of 4 central sanhedrin, through such mio- isters a it may send from \u2018time to time.Where the danger comes in is where the people are thus relieved of responsibility by a group who may be saints or may be scheming politicians.They may attain that em!n- ence by divine call or by talent for precedence.The tendency might easily be 40 run the machine from a clerical point of view rather than from that of the best interests of the too passive people.It is obvious that the more alive the people are in the matter the better for the people.The bigger the machine stretch- Ing first to national, then perhaps to international dimensions, the more ft will be practically in the hands of the higher clergy, which would be a reactionary and far from ideal state of things, atrophylng the vitality of the people.Both for church and state that polity is best which makes of every community a self-conscious and free acting unit and of every member a live wire.How to coordinate individual and community liberty and spontaneity with the widest and fullest cooperation is the unsolved problem, which both in state and church is in slow process of elucidation.That is essential to true democracy.We have not sot.true democracy yet either in church or state by a long way.Of that, anon.The one thing needful would seem still to be the keeping of the ever \u201cNew Commandment.\u201d \u201c The Chinese Upheaval By Rev.Donald McGillivray, D.D., Shanghai.Everybody now knows that the greaf Chinese upheaval began with the students, including the students of Mission Schools who, though more or less shel tered in those institutions, were not exempt from the tense atmosphere which began to prevail \u2018They were the firet \u201cenlightened ones,\u201d and, therefore, ought to have been the first in any revolution: ary movement, but they were in fact restrained by feelings of affection for thelr foreign teachers who aiwaye advised caution and moderation.The teacher himself must never take part in politics and he advised Christians also to keep out of them on prudential grounds.On moral grounds also it was advisable to aroid politics because all parties were equally corrupt, and they could not touch pitch without defiling themselves.All of which will have a familiar sound to Canadians.The Mission Schools, therefore, stood for conservatism, so that the Christian students, though rapidly soaking in revolutionary ideas, refrained from revolutionary acts.But the Government students, when they began studying politics, had none of these influences to steady them, and #80 they rushed to put into action the thoughts of a new age, with the natural result that excesses of all kinds were, and are, being committed.These should not terrify us into a general condemnation of their movement.All such movements are accompanied by excesses, but in China we have not had the excesses of the French or the Ruesian Revolution.\u2018When the anti-Christian movement began most of us thought it would soon die down.We had grown accustomed to the rise and fall of various movements in Ching and we reckoned that the Chi nese would soon get tired of it.But such has not been our experience thug far.The anti-Christian movement exhibits a surprisingly long life; doubtless the Rus- slans have taught the Chinese the real technique of anti-Christian movements and they have proved apt learners.But in any case the revolution would have come, and the anti-Christian epirit would from time to time emerge.This time it is organized as it has never been organ- fred before.It should not be forgotten that the Great War was the Great Betrayal of Christianity.We dragged China foto it much against her will, we flooded ber with propaganda, she found us out to be arrant hypocrites.As a nation we were not acting on our professed Christian principles, and millions of us lived four and a half years with a burning desire to kill our brothers.At the time we Were often asked the question, \u201cDoes not the Great War adversely affect your work?\u201d To which we replied, \u201cNot at all.\u201d That was simply because the Implications of the Great War were not yet realised by the -Chinese, for it takes a long time for an idea to permeate the mighty mass of the Chinese people.It le Row nine years since peace was declared and at last China is realising the fact.Pie aftermath was long Ja ogming, but We are now beginning to reap it.When will the baleful harvest end?The opium wars were bad enough for Christianity, but the Great War was infinitely worse.Canadians find it hard to realise why students have had so much influence in China.\u2018The reasons are as follows: first, they have youthful fire and vigor, and have most thoroughly broken the crust of custom.Second, their slogans appeal to the masses, who say nothing but feel deeply.While they are musing the fire burns.Third, in Western lands so many other intelligent people are in control that there is no need for the students to desert their books for patriotic crusades.But in China, if the students do not, who else will?! The merchants have too much at stake to take any risks, but the student has nothing to lose, and hopes to gala everything for his country.Thue far the revolution has not been a proletarian one as in France and Russia, bat, under the influence of students, the iaborers are forming labor unions.In fact the Southern Government has completely covered every branch of human effort with a system of anions.Even the farmer has last of all come under their organising craze, and Farmers\u2019 Unions have been formed amongst the villages in all places where they have authority.We are in fact reminded of The United Farmers in Canada, and of the Labor Unions of the West.Imagine Chinese Labor Unions trying to use all the methods of Western Labor Unions and finding exactly how far they can zo and no farther.Naturally the whole tu- dustrial world stands in terror of them.What of the Chinese Church in the midst of this rioting flood?Does anyone fear for the Ark of God, and fee! like putting out en interfering hand?No, we believe the Church is founded upon a rock, and, though the raine fall and the floods beat upon it, it will not fall.Besides, we have Christ's own promise that the gates of hell will not prevail against her.The old and experienced Christians are asking for more power over their own\u2019 church affairs.That is not revolt, but a sign of lite.The missionaries of good-will have prayed for the time when the Chinese churches would take over more responsibility for the evangeliza.tion of their own people and the teaching of thelr own children in schools.And the time Is now coming, to our great joy.Strange to say, our money is in one way an embarrassment in this matter of devolving responsibility upon the Chinese Church.When the foreign Church gives mogey in aid of the work, it has hitherto left it in control of the foreign missionaries.Hence the power of the purse was great.It was an alien influence, but for long it was tolerated becauss the money wae essential to the work, In all lines the epirit of nationalism seeks to eliminate foreign interference, and the Church le no exception.Help the Church we muit, yes, but do not interfere.Such is the modest request of the seif-reapect- jag Chinese Church, 4he fruit of years of HOMESTEAN, APRIL 6, 1927.self-denying labor on the part of missionaries and such Christians as they speedily gathered around them.Surely Do one can honestly refuse this request.Some, however, feel that there is a diffi: culty, The difficulty is that the home churches hesitate to trust tbe Chinese in money matters.Well, the Chinese will have to live down a great dea! in that respect, but the Chinese Church is growing stronger and purer every day.Our missionaries are rapldly putting on to their shoulders as much responsibility as they are willing to assume, but we ia the home churches must come to trust the Chinese leaders lu our churches, so that we are willing to assist them with money as well as by sending missionaries.Incidentally, our sectarianism.which we have so naively introduced into China, will receive what may prove a faial blow.We may regret it, but, as far as China is concerned, sectarlaniam has never lived « very healthy life.The Chinese regard the minute distinctions of sects and theo.logiaus as burdens which they are not able to bear, even If our ancestors were able to do so.One cf their leaders recently said, \u201cI was brought up as an Anglican, but I have no Interest in thé Anglican Church.\u201d Already the Presbyterians and Congregationalists have formed one Church of Christ in China, and others are knocking for admission.Missionary work has three phases: first, when the mission is everything, that le, the forelzner; eecond, when the mis- slon and the Chinese are co-operating: third, when the Chinese are in the aecen- dant and the missionary is subsidiary.We have arrived at the last stage, and we inust all take heart of grace that our work fe being crowned with such wonderful blessing.The New Hebrew Invasion By Mrs.Ghosn-el-Howie.The ancient city of Acco (Judges 1:81) & Canaanite city of no mean impcrtance at the time of the Hebrew invasion under Joshua, 1425 B.C., has had a wonderful history, a long record of siege, capture, destruction and rebuilding, and like Jerusalem it has survived them all, and today is taking on a pew lease of life.This is owing partly to its position, om a promontory at the north end of the Bay which bears ite name, and which it is in danger of losing to the fast-growing and more modern city of Haifa, on the opposite shore, at tbe base of Mt.Car- mel, and partly to the New Hebrew invasion.The great clamor that was heard at the beginning of the mandate, and the fear that Jewish inroads would deprive the Arab of his lands and rights, etc., is subsiding, in spite of the efforts of a forelgnly eubsidized press to keep up the alarm and to prejudice the native mind against the government.The proof of this ie that native prejudice is being disarmed by a new spirit of cooperation between Jewieh and Arab peoples and it may be remarked here that in proportion as this spirit is cultivated, the mutual prosperity of both peoples wiil be assured.A practical demonstration of this fact les before me.I have been spending the last two weeks in the newly up- springing city of Acre.This consists of a large tract of land to the north of the old city walis.The town plan Is made out and private plots for house and garden are being rapidly bought up and built upon.These new houses are constructed of bricks made of cement and sand, or shale from the sea shore.This new kind of building material fe found in abundance in the neïlghborhcod ot Haifa and Acre.There is a hill of it Just at the entrance of Haifa from the plain known as Jebel el Shiminto (HIIL of Cimento\u2014cement) and & factory on the opposite side of the road converts the raw material into the \u201cartificial portland cement\u201d that is creating the new industry.Within a stone's throw of the cement.made verandah, where ! am writiog these lines, à œeries of sôme 20 sheds for the conversion of these bricks has sprung up within the last few days.Two of them have already been roofed in, and floors of cement laid, and Jows are fling moulds with the mixture, which when pressed down are unmouided and left to dry in the sun.This is a new company financed by Muhammed, and worked by Arab and Jew\u2014mutual cooperation which promises much it per sisted in, These sheds now occupy what ten days ago was waate-land at a right angle to two important roads {nto the country.On the opposite side of the road is a match factory, the \u201cNur\u201d (Light) Company, also a co-operative company, if one may.- judge from the trede-mark.I was shown over it a few days ago by the courteous manager who explained every process from beginning to end in perfect English.Many Jews and Jewessen were engaged in the different departments.A few yards from this factory is another coment prick-yard under construction.THREE Both Haifa and Acre are showing great industrial activity.A branch rafiway line connects Acre with the Palestine system of rallways that connects with Egypt, Arabia, Iraq and Europe.As surely as God pave the land from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates, (Gen.15:18) by covenant to Abrabam and his seed for ever, so surely is it the privilege of this generation to see the fulfilment of that promise.The \u201cTimes of the Gentiles\u201d baving come to an end in 1917, with the expulsion of the Turk and the coming into possession of the land by British-Israel, the first period of the Restoration of the Jews\u2014after the completion of their \u201cseven times\u201d (Lev.26.) term of punishment and exile among the natione\u2014became possible through the Balfour Declaration and was made practicable by the wise goverament of the power mandated by the League of Nations, not only in the interest of the Jews but in that of the native Arab population as well.It may not be acceptable to some whose prejudice against the Jews seems insurmountable, to speak of the new Hebrew invasion.But the fast incoming tide of Jews from all quarters of the globe (Isa.49:12) is without doubt, under the direction of God, the means He 16 taking at this time to restore the chosen race that they may build up the waste places, and through numerous colonies, enrich the land and thus redeem it from the state of desolation into which it had fallen through war, peglect and emigration.All thie belongs to the \u201cDay of His Preparation\u201d (Nahum 2:8) and this new Hebrew invasion is undoubtedly under the direction of the Lord of Hosts, and & peaceful possession is assured to all those who put their trust in Him.(Jer.32:40-44).Thus we see Palestine the \u201cGlory ot all Lands.\u201d entering upon a new era of prosperity, a preparation for the coming of Messiah, who will restore all things, end whose glorious reign will last for ever and ever.(Rev.11:15) MRS.GHOSN-EL-HOWIE, Written from Acre, Palestine.SAINT ELIZABETH Deep Joy the snow on the Thuringian hills, The bitter wind howled loud; Beneath the ice slow crept the silent rills, \u2018Wrapped in their icy shroud.With loaves to feed her poor, a goodly store, Facing the rabid north wind's stinging breath, Passed with her vivid smile from door .to door Dark-syed Elizabeth.Her youtbful lord, returning from the chase, Met her emerging from a ruined shed, Some homeless beggars wretched dwell \u2019 ing-place, And, with mock aternness, said: \u201cWhat precious treasure doth your mantle hold, - Elizabeth.my bride?Gifts for the poor within its ample fold I know fall well you hide.\u201cCome, let me see,\u201d and, in a playful mood, Her cloak aside he drew.No golden alms, no store of dainty food, Assailed the Landgrave's view.But a rich shower of blossoms, passing fair, Sweeter than those which Dante in big dream Saw wave serenely in the tender air By Lethe's cleansing stream.Great blood-red roses, bright as those that glow Against the blase of Heaven's golden dome: Deep.fragrant-hearted lilies, white as snow And pure as wind-blown foam.\u201cWhence come these flowers?\u2019 the startled Landgrave cried.\u201cNo roses blossom mid our winter gloom.\u201d Bread for God's poor, transformed and glorified, Bursts into fadeless bloom.Still doth the memory of the royal saint Haunt ancient Marburg town.The memory of her good deeds, sweet, it n Through time's long night floats down, And still above the green flelds, brigh\u201d with flowers, From night's dark cave withdrawn, The traveller sees her gray cathedral towers Flush in the roseate dawn.\u2014C, F.Lloyd.A vonse may find Mm who a sermon es, Aad turn delight into a sacrifice.George Scenes in Switzerland From the Youth's Christian Companion The natives of Germany and Switser.land are, as a rule, industrious, economic al and courteows, which is indeed very commendable.Some of their customs are tm fact unique but nevertheless more ideal im certain respects than our own.The diet program usually called for five meals each day.The bill of tare ~usist- ed principally of simple, nutrita.food, Bot elaborate either in variety or quantity, with coffee as a beverage.It of course \u2018was not dificult for us to adjust ourselves to the custom cf eating five times a day, but we aimed to be temperate in our eat Visitors who remain for the night ia the homes of friends are politely asked to leave their sboes outside the door of the sleeping apartment as they retire for the might, and when a-rising in the morning their shoes are found just whers they were left in the evening but beautifully polished.The beds are usually single, made to accomedate but one person.After being tacked away in bed, one is completely covered with feathers; a large pillow of Seathers upon which to nestle the head, and a feather tick to lie upon and one to cover the body.Such beds are ceriain- ly sott and downy, but somewhat warm in summer time.The rural young people are taught to be frugal, obedlent to parents, respectful to strangers and older people, and sociable to everybody.When a young man meets a lady, or a person who is oider fn years he usually tips his hat, and addresses such with true courtesy.It would be well if \u201cYoung America\u201d would profit By the example set along this line by the German-speaking youths in Europe.If the reader could actually behold the wonderful landscape scenery of southern Switzerland he or she would say, \u201cThe works of nature are more wonderful than the works of art.\u201d After returning from Langnau to Lucerne, we boarded a train for Alpnachstad, a railway station situated at the base of Mt.Esel.Here we changed and took passage on the cog, or incline, railway leading to the summit of what is known as Pilatus Kulm, or Mt.Pilatus, which is 6,965 feet above sea Jevel, From this elevated point we expected to have a grand bird's-eye.view of the Alps, but as we neared the summit we were enveloped fn a dense fog which obscured from our view the majes tic snow-capped mountain peaks snd the beautiful scenic country surrounding lake Lucerne.We, however, saw and stood beside a pile of snow on the crest of Mt Pliatus that measared twenty feet long.sixteen feet wide and eight feet high, and although it was near midday of July the eleventh, the snow seemed to have but little tendency to melt.On our return trip down the mountainside we soon emerged from the fog, after which we had a fine view of the monntain peaks on the opposite side of the valley which was thousands of feet below us.The beautiful lake Lucerne, and the val.Jey dotted with villages far beneath wus, was a scene not soon to be forgotten.The descent, as well as ascent, was in some places at an angle of forty-eight degrees, with the car tn which we were riding moving along the edgo of deep gorges and precipices all of which caused strange sensations to pervade our entire being.The mountainside covered with many different kinds of trees.shrubs, and flowers.the strange formations of rocks and boulders standing as sentinels along the way; the short tunnels, seven in number.the deep gulleys and caverns: the sparkling water gushing out of the rocks and flowing rapidly down the mountain-side, were all scenes that were greatly appreciated on our part.After arriving at the raïiway station at the base of the noted mount, we returned to Lucerne, and thirty minutes later boarded a small steamer, which was scheduled to set sall a few minutes later for the beautiful city of Fluellen situated at the southern extremity of Fake Lucerne, the view we had of the city took about three hours to make the voyage.It wouid be impossible to describe the grandeur of the scenery along the way.As our vessel left the wharf at Lucerne, the view we had of the city with its walls and towers and background of mountains gradually rising from the shores of the lake presented to us a picture grander than sny artist could produce.The lake is very irregular in shape and at no place more than a mile and a half wide.The lake is hemmed in on every side by high mountains with the most beautiful formations of rocks, and picturesque summer residences on the clits and slopes, with here and there a spow-capped peak overlooking those of Jesser height.The waters of the iake were of & beau- tifu]l blue tinge and very placid.Our boat moved along very smoothly.Even though a number of stops were made at small villages and summer resorts, locat ed on both sides of the lake, our twenty eight mile voyage did not in the least seem sedions, pecause those bifef stops Ti NESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTRAD, APRIL 4 WF.gave us an excellent opportunity to behold the beauties of mature om both sides of the blue tinged waters of lake Lucerne.After spending a few hours in the city of Faellen we a railway train beaded for Rome.We gradually ascended the Alps for an hour or more, wind.Ing around the steep mountain sides; passing through pumerous tsnnels, running along the aide, and crossing deep caverns, also making at least eight loops.At this point it may be well to describe what is meant by making loops.As our train emerged from a tunnel we looked up and saw a small chapel.A few minutes later, we passed close by it and on a level with it.Shortly after in looking down we saw Quite a distance below us.From this point we could see the three tracks, each one a considerable distance above the other.We finally arrived at the entrance of the famous St.Gothard Tunnel which is twenty-eight feet wide, twenty-one fest high and nise and one- fourth mies long.It took us twenty.three minutes to pass through it.From this point the train rapidly descended the Alps in a winding way through numerous minor tunnels, following the course of a rushing, raging stream which coursed its Way down a deep gully on the south side of that majestic mountain.This rush ing stream was fed by numerous little silvery cascades falling from the high and rugged mountain sides.It was a sight beyond description Upon our arrival at Chiasso, situated on the border line between Switæerland and Italy, the Custom House ofSicials examined our luggage, alter which we went on ie Milan, where we changed cass for me.The Muskrat By H.Mortimer Batten, in \u201cRod and Gua.\u201d Though not to be compared with the home of the beaver as an engineering feat, the home of the Canadian muskrat is lagemious enough to merit this animal a high place in the scale of intelligence.Unlike the water vole it would seem that the musquash has sense enough to see beyond the immediate present, and to make certain allowances for such changes as the seasons bring to its environment.In & small pond, not more than twenty yards in width, near to my camp fn Al gonquin, & pair of musquash took up their quarters.It was evident that a family of muskrats had occupied the place for some years previously, for a bank burrow was already constructed.The water had evidently been at a higher level in those days however, for the mouth of the old burrow was only two or three inches below the surface, and consequently would have become frosen up with the first fall frost.Apparently the new occupants were aware of this, for though they made use of the old burrow thelr first task was to construct a new entrance several inches lower down.This done they cemented up the old entrance with sticks and clay plastered together so firmly that I had difficulty in removing it with my fingers.Three times | removed it.but omly to find the hole plastered up again on my next visit.\u2018Thus, baving the entrance of their hole well below the surface, the muskrats are able to pass to and forth umder the ice whea winter comes.They use the bank burrows very little in winter time, however, for late in the summer they set to work and construct domes or lodges, sim- flar to those of the beaver, except that the rats use rushes Instead of sticks.These domes are often of considerable size, standing two feet or more above the surface, Well above the water level the interior of the dome Is hollowed out to make a lving chamber, and in this chamber the family of muskrats spend much of their time during the winter months, evidently finding such a shelter warmer than the bank burrow.Since In the case of the bank burrow the only entrance is below.water, the living rooms being, of course, above water level, it will readily be seen that a ventilating shaft to carry air to the interiorfs necessary.This is done by digging à vertical shaft from the interior of the burrow to the surface of the bank above.I have seen many of these shafts, but it remains a mystery how the rats make them so small.Sometimes they are scarcely large enough to admit the passage of two fingers, thus rendering the rats safe from the surprise attack of mink by way of the ventilating shaft \u2018The air hole in the old burrow in Algonquin before alluded to had long been exposed to the weather, and was large enough to admit a cottontsil.The new tenants repaired it by burying beneath a huge pfie of sticks, laid criss-cross, so as to admit the air and keep out mink and the weather.In the case of the winter lodges It would seem that no ven- tilsting shaft is required, the roof being porous enough to admit suficient alr.Seton points out that In passing under water from the mouth of their bank burrow to their feeding places in the centre of the river or pool, the rats are often compelled to pass through shallow water ner that the formidable little where they would easily be seen by thelr foes.This danger they lessen by dig: ging a canal\u2014deep emough to cover their bodies but opem at the top\u2014along the bad of the shallow stretch to the deep water beyosd.Along this trench they run {a passing to and from the burrow, and as they go their moving paws stir up clouds of mud, which hide them from view, thus answering the same purpose as the fnk fluid of the cnitle-flsh.I have never had the opportunity of observing one of these cuttings, but ! have often noticed that it is impossible to see à musquash after he has dived on account of the mud he stirs up.The entrance of both homes of the muskrats being under water, it would seem that the animals must inevitably become sealed in when the surface of the water becomes frosen over, but in over coming this the musquash gives us what 1 consider the most astounding proof of intelligence.Long before the first frost the rats set to work to construct Soating rafts of rushes, which they amchor to the bed of the poo) in such a manner that the rafts cpn move with the breese.They will aachor a floating chunk of wood, and use it as a sunning place during the warm weather.then when the frost comes these floating platforms help to keep the wuter open, as they are con- stantiy movins, with the breeze, while the rats assist by making good use of them.Thus, far from being prisoners under the ice whem winter comes, the rats are shle to take a peep at the outside world whenever they choose, pop ping up from some une corner and taking stock of the intruder as he passes by.Musquash are often trapped by setting the device under one of theses Geating platforms, where the Ice is open, though the primitive Indians have a rather different way of hunting them.The Indian equips himself with a holiow tube, con- taïning à steel apear.Walking on the ice he approaches the dome silently, thes by swishing the tubs downwards he hurls the spear from inside it, in such a man- weapon penetrates the roof of the lodge, pining the rats as they sleep.So expert are the Indians with this primitive weapon that they can spear a rat as it swims under the Ice, two feet below the surface.School boys hunt muskrats in winter by frightening them from their lodge, then following them from place to place as they swim under the ice, till finally the poor brutes rise to the top exhausted.The musquash is a formidable fighter, and when far from its beloved element becomes so desperate with fear that.ft will face and attack man.In the far worth I found several] musquash domes that had been torm open at the top, but whether by lynx, fisher or wolverine I could not ascertain, nor hawe I! found any reference to the matter elsewhere.MAKING PEOPLE THINK \u201cQuo Usque,\u201d writing In the British Weekly, expresses himself coneerning the present social unrest in this fashion: \u201cIt is no sign of a double dose of original sin if the workers resent low wages, insecurity of tenure and ugly and brutalizing surroundings.As a matter of fact, all parties have been doing their best to stir up unrest.If we wished the workers to remain stupidly docile, we sbould have denied them education and free libraries.Labor today is reading the best books, and there is nothing more disturbing and explosive than ideas.Once start people thinking and you are headed for a social revolution.That is why the mid- die classes, for the most part, refuse to think; it would make a clean sweep of their customs, conventions aad hypocri- sles.Religion is always the sworn foe of low satisfactions.Men like Hugh Price Hughes and Silvester Horne epest their whole lives in stirring up trouble\u2014 making the masses think, awakening them to great ideas, giving them visions of better homes, increasing leisure and a more gemerous, better organized, less competitive social order.\u201d THE FLOWER TRAIN Every day an empty train leaves Venti- migtia, at the Italian frontier, and crawis along the glorious Riviera coast as far as Toulon, stopping at all the statioms.This lethargic progress arouses no anger in the passengers, because the passengers ars flowers.They are cultivated by the Provencaux, Nicois, and Englishmen who ti their gardens under the brilliant Med- fterranean sunshine, and they are destined for thd London market.At Toulon the tempo of their journey changes; their train becomes am express, and they are hurried tbrough tbe night towards the land of cold and mist which they are going to cheer with their fragrance and bright colore.The true paradise of flowers is that broad valley behind Cannes to which all the world's artists and writers would immediately retire if only they bad the means.This valley, which gtretches from the bay between the capes of An- tibes and Esterel to the mountainous re- sion of Grasse, is covercé with a rich red soil om which almost nothiug ie grows except Sowern, THE LEVEL CROSSING DANGER (By Drwis Greer, President Greer College of Automstive & Electrical Trades, Chicage, Li.) The appalling toll of life and property taken by grade crossing accidents has been repdatedly emphasised.How do motor vehicle drivers theme selves figure ia this grade crossing probe lem?What are their responsibilities?\u2018What are their sins of omissions sad commission?How can they help to reduce the crossing casualty list?These are im portant questions for avery man or wo man who holdg a steering whoel.Careful observations made by railway officiels show that ebomt five per cent, of drivers are grossly careless io aps proaching and crossing tracks at grades.This percentage does not seem high until it is applied to the eleven million odd motor-vebicle owners in the mited States.It is somewhat appalling to kmow that 550,000 drivers are discbedient, meg- ligent or reckless.These huge numbers are endangering their own lives, the lives of those ridisg with them and the lives of the railway train passengers and crews.Some of the worst rail spassh-ups are dus to traine colliding with cars or tracks on crossings.The Insurance Department of the Penn.sylvanip Railroad System observed 100,- 060 drivers over a period of four months, with these interesting dedmctions: \u2018Within this period there were $07 cross lag accidents, 408 occurring in broad daylight.Sixty per cent.of the traine involved were running at less than 30 miles per hour, the classes of traine being half passenger, half freight.\u2018There were 120 deaths, 316 injuries.Seven deaths were due to trying to beat the train.Sixteen accidents were due to de fective brakes, seven to drunken drivers sixty-one to stalled engines.Two hun dred and elghty drivers broke through gates.Sixty-three per cent.of the accidents happened on crossings with unobstructed views on either side.These facts have led one cynic to remark, that drivers imvolved in such acel dents, if epared from death, belong to à class incapable of .reformation and it je a waste of effort to try aud infiuence them.How, then, can the wark of making crossings safe be speeded up! The am.swer, broadly speaking, is: by legisiæ tion, education and the slaughter of fools that won't STQP\u2014 LOOK and LISTEN.FOUR THOUSAND MORK SETTLERS Six steamers arrived at Halifax om Friday, Saturday and Sunday carrring a total of 4,133 passengers, of whose all but 102 cabin and 77 third-class tourist passengers fre newcomers to the Dominion.These new settlers include groups of families coming under the 3- 000-family scheme, agricultural workers brought out by the Ontario Goyerament, parties organized in Great Britain and on the Continent of Europe by the colom- ization department of the Canadian Na» tional Railways; and several groups of juveniles, including a party of $1 boys for the Quarrier Home at Brockville.For his bounty, there was no winter in it; an autumn \u2018twas that grew the more by reaping.\u2014Shakespedre.ICARE GRENFELL 'ABRADOR MISSION NORTHERN MESSENGER LAUNCH FUND Previcus contributions actmew- lodged and paid t offiéiei Paid to Cot Fund Welt Wisher, Ont.Total FOR IMMIGRANT BOYS Tund te Implement Subscriptions te send the Witness and Canadian Homestead te 8.A.Immigrant Boys, te help them in the direction of Christian Canadian Citi- Previous contributions acknow- Pony Somieioutions Contributions Total FRIENDLY HOME FOR YOUNG WOMEN AND THEIR BABIES Previous contributions acknow- lodged and pald to official treasurer .ivtirsirinenrninne Further Contributions Less Exchange Frank Mahaffey, Ont.A Friend, Ont.Theo.Faulkner, N.8.Total DAVID CURRIE FUND Fram which renewals are sustained Behalf of old friends of the Witoses wie, through adversity, would very regretfully, have to give It up.Previous contributions aoknow- lodged and Mo.Further Contributions Mrs.KE.J, Miner, Ont.A Friend, Ont.Total For a Fund Previously Clesed Contributions , asecrocce \u2014 WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, APRIL &, 1087.FIVE Lenten Devotional Sermon The Reality Behind the Shadows By Rev.George C.Pidgeon, D.D.\u201c First Moderstor of the United Church of Canada .John 14:1-7.These words are spoken In the shadow of Calvary.The traitor has just left the Table, to the Master's inexpressfole re.Hef.He knows He must soon leave His own, and in these circumstances He gives utterance to these great words: \u2014 \u201cLet not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe alo in Me.\u201d It is the old call to faith «s the only way to the light.It ts easy to believe in God when discussing theoretical problems; but to believe that a God of love and wisdom is in control when wickedness is triumphant and the object of our love lies bleeding before us, is a very different matter.All this io its worst form ts acon to be these disciples\u2019 lot, and, to prepare them for it, He, the victim, calls them to belief in God.If ever there could be justification for refusal to believe, it was when Jesus Christ, the world\u2019s hope, was delivered up to the enemies of humanity.In the thick of it He Himself urged .aith in God, and by those disciples holding it fast the whole world was led into the light.Jesus continues: \u2014\"Believe also in Me.\u201d Delief in Jesus adde the vitalising factor to faith in God.The warm:h of personality, the closemess of communion, the intimacies which the soul craves and the help it needs in life's secre?places, come to us through Christ.Farther, faith in Christ unquestionably brings the power of God into the soals of men.Through Him God created the worlds; through Him He recreates humanity.way, therefore, out of the disciples\u2019 situation was to hold fast their faith in God and their faith in Christ as the revealer of God, Then Jesus took up the question of why He was leaving them, (vs.33).Underlying these himple words there are three great truths.Firet, personal immortality.Jesus assumes that you will be where He is to be.Closing your eyes oa the land of the dying will mean opening them in the land of the living.Personality persists and eo does character.The divine life communicated to men here will never be interrupted; the union with God here consummated can mever be broken; physical dissolution leaves the spirit and its relationships untouched.\u2026 Secoad, this life is to be lived in per- \u2018borisl refstionships.Jesus speaks of a place prepared and the room for ali in His Father's home, but, as with every home, it is not the locality but those in it which Interest us.\u201cIt is not in hea- veu one flads God, but in God one finds heaven.\u201d The place prepared will be new but not atrange we go where we belong and where those who belomg to us will fit into our lives.If all are in Christ, all who believe will surely be together.Third, what we call death is the entry into this fulness of love.Death is admission into His immediate presence.He is there to receive us.In the slang of the street, death is often described as \u201cpassing out\u201d Jesus thinks of it as entering im; not going ont into the strange and dark, but admission Into the warmth and brightness of the love which died to save.\u201cWhere I am there ya shall be also\u201d\u2014in this simple assurance is the key to the gladness of eternity.The bewildered disciples were not res- dy to concede the assumption in Jesus\u2019 words, \u201cWhither 1 go ye knqw and the way ye koow,\u201d so Thomas, the doubter, interjected: \u201clord, we do not know whither you are going and how are we to know the way?This calls out one of the Master's great sayings,\u2014\"I am the way, the truth and the life; no man com- eth unto the Father but by Me\u201d This first word impressed the disciples so deeply that in the period of the Acts Christianity was described as the rell- sion of \u201cThe Way.\u201d Men were lost in the trackless wilderness; in Christ there was opened a way into fellowship with the Eternal.In Christ we flad Him from whom we came and to whom we go\u2014the Source of our being and our Destiny.\u201cThrough Him,\u201d Paul puts It, Jew and Gentile \u201cdoth find access la one Spirit vato the Father.\u201d This fo the experience of the Church: not only does Christ reveal God, but also He brings us into Iiv- ing union with the Father.Students of the New Testameùt have often drawn attention to Christ's unique method of teaching.Socrates questioned hie students, and so aimed to bring to birth the thoughts that were being formed in their minds; Jesus made state- meats which moved men to question Mim.He closed the paragraph which we have been discussing with the statement: \u201cIf you knew Me, you would know my Father too.You know Him now and you have seer Him.\" This was too much for the disciples, and brought out a question which was virtually s chalienge,\u2014\u201cShow us the Father, and that will give us all we need.\u201d The iden behind the request The one | is clear\u2014How can we know God unless He shows Himself to us as He did to Moses?God veils Himself ig mystery; the search of the ages bas been for Him; if men could look upon Him but once their need and question would be met.Will Jesus secure this for them?Jesus replies to Philip who had put the question: \u201cHave I been so long a time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philtp?He that bath seen Me bath seen the Father; how sayest thou, \u2018Show ug tbe Father?Believest thou not that I am fn the Father and the Father in Me?The words that I eay unto you I speak not from Myself; but the Father ablding in me doeth His works.\u201d What does this mean to us mow?We Know God in Christ.À friend once atat- ed it this way,\u2014If Christ does not revea! God, then I do not understand God.- Thie means that God is one to whom the objects of His love are everything, who lives in them as they live ln Him, and who gives Himself to tham to make them like Himself.It is fa such a being that we ate to ablde forever.We find God in Christ still.Personal contact with the ultimate reality is reached through Him.Clearuess, confidence, certainty, and ail that joy in God which finds expression in the Church's praise are attainable through Christ and are open to all.The light that this casts on our future is welcome.When so close to God here, death means just a taller union with One whom we know already and whose grace we have proven os so many fields.HANDS ACROSS THE BORDER (Chicago Tribune.) A bill has been introduced in the Dominion Parliament In Canada to incorporate the North American relations foundation.The foundation is intended to \u201cpromote, msintaln and safeguard amity and friendly relations between the people of Canada, the United States and the British commonwealth of nations generally\u201d and to foster \u201cco-operation in sll matters affecting the moral, social and economical disposition of the people of these countries.\u201d The lst of Incorpor- ators includes wome of the most important figures in Casadian life.The idea is a good one, particularly as the program of the foundation indicates that It will work toward breaking down the tariff barrier between the United States and Canada.The attention of our internationalists who are wasting their thought upon Europe, which does not want their advice, would better be directed to establishing the North American relations foundation on this side of the border.Maintaining good relations with Canada is as mach a tradition of American foreign policy as Is keeping out of European entanglements.The Department of Marine and Flsher- ies has marked a considerable number of Atlantic salmon, by attaching silver tags to their dorsal fins, for the purpose of tracing the movements of these fish.A salmon that was marked and liberated off Burng Point, Port Maitland, Yar- month county, Novs Scotia, on 11th June was killed in the Moisie river, Quebec, in the early part of the next month.It this fish took the most direct route it travelled in the vicinity of 800 miles, but # it followed the larger Imdentations of the shoreline it travelled over 1,200 miles.GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF LIQUOR {To the Editor of the Witness.) Sir\u2014Knowiag very well your attitude of antipathy to government &rog-selling \u2014an attitude which I share to the full, for ft seems to me that in the present state of politicians\u2019 morality, it js playing with fire to put the management of the liguor trade im their bands, and practi cally inevitable that soon the government would be found publicly promoting the debauchery of their people for the sake of raising tax-money without its quantity being noticed.Koowing, then, your poimt of view, I take the liberty.of quoting a few lines from the \u201csweet singer of England,\u201d Wil liam Cowper, whose verse expresses with more force than probably we could attain, a state of affairs which we have experienced to a far greater degree than he: \u201cThe excise is fattened with the rich result Ot all this riot; and ten thousand casks, For ever dribbling out their base contents, Touched by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away.Drink and be mad then; \u2018tis your country bids! Gloriously drunk, obey the important call, Her canse demands the assistance of your throats; Ye all can .swallow, and she asks no more.\u201d PERCY H.WRIGHT.Note.\u2014These lines should be taught in all the schools and Junior Endeavor So- cleties beside the poet's other immortal lines \u201cSlaves cannot live in Eogland.\u201d CHANGEFUL BREEZES (To the Editor of the Witness) S(r,\u2014On the editorial page of the Moutreal Daily Star of March 14th, there appears an article on the Conaervative leadership that is very Interesting read- Ing The writer evidently thioks that the party is in a very bad state, and strongly urges ite friends to rally to ite support and restore it to its old time position.Curiously emough, the entire blame is attributed to bad leadership rather than to many weakness in the party itself.The Star's attitude on this question is rather bewildering.During the Federal Election Compaign of 1926 ite many resd- ors were repeatedly told that the country Was on the very verge of financial ruin caus- od by the reckless rule of tbe Liberal party and that nothing could eave the entire Domfalun from hopeiess bankeupicy but the election of a strong Conservative Government.Apparently the country thought otherwise, as Mr.King was again giver power with a fair majority at his back.Befors the year was out amother editorial appeared in the Star informing the public that in the month immediately following the elections (October) Camads 28 a whole and Montreal fa particular bad enjoyed gne of the most prosperous months in 1 history.Since that time the Star has again and again told its patrons that Canada bas entered on \u20ac remarkable era of expansion in practical- Ix all lines of trade, including building, manufactoring, and trade and commerce generally.For the special benefit of its Quebec rural readers (quoting from American authorities) it told them that in the highly protected Now England States in recent years agricultural production had fallen off by more than fifty per cent.and industrial production had suffered to nearly the same extent.It the Star's estimate of Canada\u2019s Busi Bess is correct, the question looms large: Why is the Star so very anxious to oust the present administration and replace it with a party whose policy has been discredited by the county for practically the whole of the past thirty-five years?The Star claims to be loyal and patriotic and ineists that neither sectional nor personal ambitions must be allowed to impede the country's progress, but in view of the recent utterances it will find it hard to convince the average layman that the other consideration had no place.When the Comservative party started the \u201cblue ruin\u201d cry, they launched a boomerang that is now returning with deadly force, shattering their own ranks.When a man sits down to a well-fiirnisbed table, it le useless to tell him that he is starving.It the Conservative party have nothing better to offer the country than merely to \u201cwin the election.\u201d they had better provide soft cushions for the Opposition benches, and make themselves ss comfortable as possible, as they are likely to occupy them for a long time.FRANKLIN RANKIN.Saskatoon, Mar.24th, 1927, Two thousand and ninety-nine new postage stamps were Issued during the past 12 months, bringiog the world\u2019s total up to 45.378 stagjdard varieties, exclusive of shades, perforations and so on.\u2018Tas tolls coliected by the Pasama Canal last year amounted to £ 4.600,000.In March 506 vessels, with 2,600,000 tons of cargo, passed through.Every oficer and man in the British Navy and Royal Marines may now be ordered to take occasional flights in afr- craft as part of his ordinary duties.There are approximately 150 species of trees iz Canada of which 31 are conifers, or softwoods, and the remainder hardwoods.Of the total number only 23 spe- cles of softwoods and 32 species of hardwoods can be considered as commercial ly important.The conifers form over 80 per cent of the standing timber, and yield 96 per cent.of the lumber ard pulpwood produced.The hardwoods are chiefly used for fuel.but they also furnish considerable lember for flooring, interior finish, furniture, cooperage, tur.nery, and other wood-workiag industries.t i | A Veteran Pudre Muses HIS FATHER'S HAT Usually it is the shoes, not the hat.Election night of 189 I stood om a Street corner in Toronto where could be seen announcements of opposing papers \u2014 News and Star.Hugh John Macdonald, son of Bir John A.Macdonald, had been thrown into the campaign that the prestige of a great name' might count.But this was not to happen according to re terns that night.A cartoon from the Star represented the father's hat in which was the diminutive figure of the son little more than able to see over the side.It was a Lilipütian man in a Erobdignagian hat.Now It does happen outside of cartoons that very able sons are not in true appreciation by reason of their fathers\u2019 greatness.Capable though the younger Macdonald was, and with early advan tages not his father's, it was the measurements of the old man which were be- fure the country.When Sir Charles Hib- bert Tupper made one of his first great speeches, Conservatives were jubilant.He was a chip off the old block, and yet clever though he was and is, it will be the elder Sir Charles whose name will live in history.I am wondering if Austen Chamberlain, Viscount Glad- slone, or Winston Churchill will fully come to their own in the light of illustrious fathers, it Sir John C.Eaton with all his splendid gifts will rank in memory with his father in the commercial world, or if the Honorable Vincent Massey, perhaps away beyond his forbears of two generations in scholastic attain ments, will be given an equal place with them in the history of the great manufacturing industry over which both they and he presided.Three things there are on which I muse, and of a truth I find a fourth\u2014disconnt not & son in the light of a father's great- ness\u2014presume not on a father's name for preferment in life\u2014reach forward to larger progress through advantages not known to the father\u2014maintain in homor the name passed on in the family, line.\u2014 J.P.G.ss PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND Prince Edward leland is distinct from all other provinces of Canada In that practically the whole area is fertile and settled.It boasts the largest number of persons per square mile of any province, 40.6, and about three-fourths of the population are engaged in agriculture.Nearly every farmer owns his own farm.Dalrying and mixed farming are the types of agriculture commonly carried on, but the province has gone largely into the production of registered seed, especially seed potatoes.A large trade in certified seed potatoes has recently developed with the eastern and southern States, owing to the freedom of the Prince Ed- werd Island stock from diseases.The co-operative poultry industry is also an important branch of farming.The island is famous as the home of the silver fox industry and is also the only province of Canada that is wholly a Restricted Area, that is, entirely free from bovine tuberculosis.It has other distinguishing features: its characteristic red soll, ite pastoral and marine scenery, its superb summer climate and the hospitality of its people.The tourist traffic to Prince Edward Island is rapidiy expanding, the many beauties of the 1s- land forming an attraction that is hard to resiat.0 The above is gleaned from a perusal ot an interesting report on \u201cPrince Edward Island: its Resources and Opportunities\u201d issued by the Natural Resources Intelligence Service, Department of the Interior, Ottawa, Canada.Copy of the report may be obtained free on applicg tion to the Director of the Service.THE DOUGLAS FIR The Douglas fir of British Columbia aod the Pacific Coast, often erroneously called \u201cOregon pine,\u201d is the only representative of {ts genus in Canada.It probably yleids more lumber anauslly than any other single species in America.The tree in Canada Is not found: east of the Rocky mountains, the greater part of the lumber being produced in the coast region of British Columbia.This is Canada\u2019s largest tree, and from It larger structural timbers can be produced than from any other tree in America.It is used chiefly for structurel purposes, but on account of its attractive appearance it 1s also used for interior finish.The wood is also Important tn Canada as a material for railway ties and mining timbers.It is neted chiefly for ita strength aod durability, and the large dimensions Is which ft can be obtained.By absorbing its suburbs, the Japan ese city of Osaka has raised its popula tion te 200,000.\u2018 sx WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, APRIL \u20ac 1987.NEWS OF THE WEEK More British Troops for China Satisfaction to be Demanded for Nanking Outrage\u2014Cantonese Prepering Offensive Against Shanghai.The British Government announced où Saturday a decision to send reinforcements to Shangha! consisting of an fnfantry brigade with auxiliary units.The brigade will be composed of one Guards battalion the First Battallon of the Northamptoashire Regiment, the First Battalion of the Queen's Royal Regiment and the Secand Battalion of \u2018the Welsh Regiment.The date of their departure was not announced, but it is understood they will leave as soon as outfitted and transport arranged.An infantry brigade with auxiliaries amounts to about 5,090 men.\u2018The Shang- hal! defence force at present consists of about 17,000.The auxiliary units to be sent include tanks, armored cars and beavy and light artillery.Official messages recelved in London indicate that the situation in China has not improved.The Admiralty received a report that a 10-inch gun bas been mount®d by the Cantonese on Lion Hill, near Nanking.This step is interpreted as a deliberate offensive against the British warships in the river.The report substantiates information that the Cantonese are keeping guns aimed against foreign ships at Nanking.The dispatching of more troops is explained as due to the view of British miil- tary authorities in Shanghai that the de feuce force is barely strong enough for its Present task, and therefore unavailable for use elsewhere.BRITISH DEMAND FOR REPARATION It is stated that the British Government intends to make strong demands for reparation by the Cantonese in connection with the outrages at Nanking, either alome or acting lo conjunction with the otber powers affected, There is & body of opinion in the cabinet im favor of withdrawing all offers of concessions to the Cantonese and taking a strong line generally, but the majority of the Government, led by Premier Baldwin and Sir Austen Chamberlain, hold that a policy of patience and moderation will pay best in the long run.\u201cI do not know what lies before us in the future,\u201d said Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, in a speech, \u201cbut I do say that after the indescribable outrages in- fiteted on us in China we shall demand that the gullty be punished, apologies made and such reparations as possible be offered for the injuries done.\u201cWe desire to put forward our demands in complete harmony with the other powers whose nationals suffered as ours suffered.1 trust the Cantonese Government will do what any civilized nation would do and suffer the demands we sball put forward, \u201cThere must be no denial of responsibility which, by the evidence not only of the British persons, buf of those of other nations, already rests upon the shoulders of the Cantonese army.Neither in China nor anywhere else can British subjects be murdered, robbed or insulted with impunity.\u201d Britain has been carrying on communications with Washington and Tokio com- cerning the Nanking disorders on March 24, continuing its exchanges over the weekend, and there was a bope-in official quarters that within a short time a joint note would be presented to the Cantonese authorities.All Information reaching the Government not only from consular sources but also from Chinese witnesses, It was stated, was contrary to Nationalist declarations that more than 100 Chinese were killed or wounded for every foreign casualty.\u2018The reports recelved by the Government siso declare tbat little property was destroyed by the Anglo-American barrage to ald the escape of foreigners beleaguered on Socony Hill.There were only three Cbi- nese casualties from the bombardment and no property was damaged or houses burm- ed, this information sald.CANADIAN MISSIONARIES WITHDRAW PROM HONAN Following advice from the British Ministry at Pekin, 23 male missionaries, 15 wives of missionaries, 22 children and 33 single women workers of the United Church of Canada, are withdrawing to the coast amd are going (o Tientsin, according to a cable recelved at headquarters of the United Church foreign missions In Toronto.\u201cThis action is taken to mean that the six main stations of the Honan Mission are being completely evacuated of foreign staff,\u201d stated Rev.A.FE.Armstrong, secre tary of the missions, last night.\u201cAll property that tbe Chimese church eannot use will be sealed and entrusted to tha sats care of the local swthofities with GENERAL CHIANG KAILSHEK, Chie?of the victorious Cantonese army.ri whom the missionaries have had relatton- ships for the gast 35 years,\u201d he added, \u201cunlike the boxer troubles this ls not a flight after outrages but a withdrawal as a necessary measure.\u201d MOB FIGHT WITH JAPANESE AT HANKOW Five Japanese civilians and five sallors were carried off by a mob, says a Japanese wireless from Hankow, during the fighting in the Japanese concession there on Sunday, and are still missing.It is believed one of the sallors was killed and thrown in the river.Several Japanese houses in the concession were destroyed and the homes of those living in Chiakow, a suburb, are surrounded by Chinese plckets.WORD \u201cSOCHE\u201d BANNED Applying the spirit of Locarno on their own account, the French police have forbidden the word \u201cBoche\u201d to be used in titles or subtitles of films, lest France's neighbors across the Rhine should be of fended.During the war no one ever found = really satisfactory clue to the derivation of the word \u201cBoche,\u201d which was the French equivalent of the American Army's | \u201cHeinfe\u201d and \u201cSquarehead.\u201d It denoted everything that was outrageous about the Teutonic enemy, his manners, his appearance, his speech and his bebavio-.But now the word has been suppressed.Movie directors who are producimg war films are warned that they must respectfully use the word \u201cAllemand\u201d or \u201cGermany\u201d when referring to the co-signator- ies of the Treaty of Locarno.LIBERALS CAPTURE SOUTHWARK SEAT \u201cTurn of The Tide,* Says Lloyd Georgs Dr.Haden Guest's stand agaimat the Labor party on the Chinese question bas cost him his seat im the British House of Commons._ He was labor member of the House for the North division of Southwark, but he announced his resignation from the party when he found It was opposed to the sending of a defence force to China, when the situation there became acute.This cecessitated a by-election and Dr.Guest submitted himself for re-election as an \u201cindependent constitutionalist.\u201d The Conservative candidate Admiral H.H, Smith, withdrew by arrangement in his favor but the Liberal candidate, EK.A.Strauss, won when the election was held, polling 7,334 votes.George Isaacs, Labor, was second with 6,367 votes, and Dr.Guest third, with 3,215 votes.Lloyd George is reported to be as happy ar in the old campaigning days, and to regard the winning of the hy-election as a definite turn of the tide.PLOT TO KILL HENRY FORD Millennire\u2019s Car Forced From Road Down- 15-foot Embankment A plot to kill Henry Ford, billlon-dol-.lar automobile manufacturer, was uncovered at Detroit on Wednesday by reporters inquiring into an automobile accident in which Mr.Ford suffered a slight concussion of the brain on Sunday, 27th March.Due to the fact that it might be harmful to the million-dollar suit now being tried, the details were for some time withheld.: Ford was returning from his plant to his home in Dearborn when his coupe wad forced from the road down a 15- foot embankment by a heavy touring car.Crawling from his wrecked car in a dazed condition, Mr.Ford dragged him- acif a distance of about 200 yards to the gates of his estate, where the lodge-keep- er assisted him.The owners of the touring car have not been traced.FAMOUS ENGLISH TENOR DEAD Edward Lloyd, credited by the critics with having the purest tenor voice of any singer in the last century, is dead, aged He was à Fellow Choirister with Sir Arthur Sullivan, later to become one of England's most faînous composers, at the Chapel Roysl, Mr.Lioyd retired from the concert piatform about thirty years ago, emerging from retirement only to sing at the coronation of King George.HOME AND COLONIAL TROOPS International Agreement te Limit Number Britain, France, Italy and Belgium, as the world\u2019s principal colonial powers, on Thursday tentatively agreed upon a scheme to limit the number of home and colonial troops to be maintained by them.Crisis Near in Rumania King Ferdinand Believed to be Dying\u2014Prince Carol's Movements The Vienns correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph, London has received & telegram from Belgrade reporting a \u201cserious aggravation\u201d in the condition of King Ferdinand of Rumania.Ferdinand's daughter, Marie Queen of Jugoslavia, left Belgrade at midnight on Friday for Bucharest.Former Prince Carol -of Rumania, who has been living in Neuilly virtually ever since he renounced the Rumanian throne and left his country with Magda Lupes- cu, the daughter of à Jewish merchant of Jassy, completely covered his trail when he slipped away in the early hours of Sunday morning in his big limousine.He was accompanied by a party of friends and it was said his destination was the aerodrome at ILebourget, from where he was to fly to Bucharest or some point near the Rumanian frontier to await developments.The theory was that it would be an easy thing for him to take a plane piloted by a friend and, avoiding the regular air routes, escape observa tion and make his appearance at the psychological moment.- .Fight For Centre Meantime the political parties in Rumania were busy manoeuvring to gain control of the kingdom in the event of the death of Ferdinand.Premier Aver escu, said the Matin's correspondent in the Rumanian capital, in a despatch sent by way of Belgrade, Jugosiavia, was pre paring for a coup d'etat after the may ner of Admiral Horthy, regent of Hungary.He had posted troops at all stra- getic points io check the adherents of former Premier Bratiano and to keep .Carol out of the country.CAROL RETURNS TO NEUILLY Prince Carol of Rumania is remaining at his Neuilly residence just outside Paris awaiting news from friends in Ru- manie concerning bis father King Ferdinand.Oa Monday aftermoon Carol had s long conference with five Rumanians whose names were not revealed but it was known that his old tutor, Professor Nichols Jorgs, and M.Mirces, à young journalist, who has been his secretary and confidant, were not among them.Carol had left his Neuilly villa early Sunday for an unknown destination but according to semi-official sources an accl- dent to the automobile in which he was traveling caused him to abandon the trip.When he returned to Neullly it is said that he found three telegrams from Buch.grest relative to the King's condition, After learning that It was less serious Carol decided to remain here awalting the tura of events.He is described as reassured by the news that his brother- inlaw, King Alexander of Jugo-slavia, was Bot summosed to the bedside po had been erromeously amnounoed.The formula worked out during & meeting of the of Nations Pre paratory Disarmament Commission provided not only for limitation of home and colonial troops, but for limitation of troops stationed in the home country, but intended purely for colonial reinforcement purposes.But, ia event of sudden war, such troops could be used with home troops.BITUMINOUS MINERS OUT The bituminous coal strike broke om Friday at Pittsburgh.About 45,000 miners and more than 200 mines are affected.The local stage for this drama of industrial conflict reaches through four counties\u2014-Allegheny, Washington, West Moreland and Fayette\u2014the haart of the nation's bituminous supply.Miners and operators in the soft coal flelds of the central competitive district, which have been virtually idle since the expiration of the Jacksonville agreement Thursady, are waiting developments to determine the exact extent of the tie-up.Both are silent concerning the situation, The general public will not feel the ef fects of the idleness for some time, oper alors said.In expectation of the tie-up the operators prepared great supplies, which, with the production of the nose union fields, will afford à suficient coal supply for several months.The Third Internationale bas sent a willion rubles as a firet contribution te siriking American miners, atcording to & despatch from Moscow via Copenbagen.DEATH OF SIR C.H.TUPPER Son of a Former Premier of Canada Had Noted Career Hom.8ir Charles Hibbert Tupper, K.C.M.G., K.C., LLB, died at his home at Vanconver on Wednesday hight following an attack of pneumonia which had confined bim to his home for nearly two weeks.Hon.Bir Charles Hibbert Tupper, third, som of Rt.Hon.Sir Charles Tupper, for mer premier of Canada, was born > guat $, 1855, at Amheret, N.S.Hé educated at Windsor Academy, McGill University and Harvard University.He first practised law in Halifax, but since 1887 had heen a resident of Vancouver, where he practised his profession.Sir Charles was sworn a Privy Coun SIR CHARLES HIBBERT TUPPER citlor for Canada and appointed minister of fisheries and marine May 31, 1888.He was first returned to Parliament at the general election in 1882.He was also minister of justice in the Bowsll administration in 1894 and on May 1, 1896, he was named \u2018solicitor-general In thé ads ministration of his father, Sir Charles, Tupper.Bart.He came to Vancouver to reside in 1397 and since then he.had actively practised his profession.A reduction of £450,000 on the 1936 ta.tal is shown in the Air Katimates now before Parliament.The comparative figures are: 1936\u2014 £16,000,000; 1937\u2014 £15,550,000.For this session at least the matter of 4 new workmen's compensation act is disposed of, the Quebec Assembly on, Thursday giving third reading to Hoa, Mr.Gillpeault's bill postpoming the act passed last year from April Let, 1927 to April 1st, 1938.- Live with a singer if you wo.id learn to sing, An attempt will be made to prorogue Parliament at the end of the present week.Work has already been begun on the Speech from the Throne reviewing the logisiative business and on the Government side there is an attempt to finish by Saturday.\u2019 This means dome late night sittings and some rapid work in the committee on railways, canals and telegraph lines where will be determined the fate of the bill to renew the charter of the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Company.» The hearing on the Georgian Bay bill commenced on Tuesday.It is protable that there will be an amendment to the Georgian Bay bill moved, the effect of which would be to strip the bill of power development rights and that such an amendment would be approved by the committee.On Monday after eloquent speeches In its defence by Hon.J.L.Ralston, Hon.P.J.Veniot and Hon.Charles A.Dunning for the Government, and Hon.Hugh Guthrie for the Conservatives, and after lively remarks in criticism of the measure by Alberta Progressives, notably Robert Gardiner and George G.Coote, - WITAUES AND CANAGIAN AUMRSE ISAT, APRIL 6, 1927.\u2018Maritime Freight Rates Bill to Reduce Rates Passes Second Reading in House.the bill to reduce by 20 per cent the freight rates in the Maritime Provinces assed second reading into committee on the measure, and it will be given third teading ac the next sitting.Henri Lavigueur (Liberal, Quebec- Montmorency) expressed the hope that the claims of the city of Quebec for development of that port would receive the same treatment or moral and legal grounds as that now being aceorded to the Maritimes.Replying to a question by Robert Gar- diner (U.F.A-Acadia) Mr.Dunning gave au estimate of the cost of the proposed rate reduction.\u201cMy estimate,\u201d he ssid, \u201cIn respect to the Canadian Natioual, based on 1926 business, is approximately $2, 000,000 My estimate in respect to the Canadian Pacific, based on 1926 business in about one half milllon dollars, between $400,000 and $500,000.\" ; He had no mea of making an estimate in respect to some of the small lines concerned, although the amount would be small.\u201cThe initial cost, based ou 1926 business,\u201d declared Mr.Dunning, \u201cwould be in the neighborhood of two «nd one-half million dollars.\u201d This es timate, he added, was on ac annual basis.CANADA AND IMPERIAL CONFERENCE Debate on th: last Imperial Conference brought in the House on Tuesday of last, week an amendment from Hen.Hugh Guthrie, Conservative leader.The amend ment\u2014which technically was one to a motion for the House to go into supply\u2014de- clared that it was not desirable that the House should be deemed tacitly to have Acquiesced in the recommendations and, declarations of the Conference.It expressed the view that the Conference report on Inter-Imperiaï relations should not be binding upon the Parliament of Canada until approved by a formal resoiu- tion of the House; that until such approv- ul is obtained \u201cthis Government shall not be deemed to.be authorized to take any steps to carry into effect the recommenda tions contained in the report.\u201d Premier King declared that at the Conference Canada made no commitments on defence nor did the British Government make any requests with respect to action by the Dominlons along that line.Henri Bourass ., independent, fn a three Nour speech, decried a colonial spirit which still existed fn this country among people who talked of the liberties of their country but were really afraid of free dom.In pessing he attu.~ked Premier Taschereau of Quebec as one who though he had kept the name of liberal for his party was really \u201cA tory of the tories.SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF CONFED- .BRATION * March 29th was the sixtieth anniversay of the passing by the British Parliament of the British North America Act, binding the nine provinces of the Dominion of Canada into Confederation M was on March 29, 1867, that the B.N.A.was given its final touches at Westminster.It came into operation on July 1 of that year, the day now celebrated annually throughout Canady as Domin- fon Day, and which will see the opening this year of the Jubflee Cslebration of Confederation.QUEBEC ELECTIONS IN JUNE?Provincial elections will be held\u201d be tween the 15th and 20th of June, it was stated by a well informed authority at parliament house Saturday.The informant was emphatic in the statement declaring that the elections would not take place at the end of May, as is the general opinion.RADIO COMMISSION SUSPENDS WORK ON NEW STATIONS Mors than 182 broadcasting stations under construction in the United States must immediately suspend all operations until they have obtained a building permit from the Federal Radio Commis sion, according to interpretations of the Dew law.At the same time 373 stations, which are being planned and upon which oos- struction would begin within the next month, must also obtain a building per mit before actually the work pf construction.\"The report of the Department of Commerce reveals that the Federal Radio Commission will bave 782 stations on its bands which, if permitted to continue operations, must be squeezed into eighty- nine wave lengths.If the waves were divided equally, this.would mean around eight stations on each wave length.Since the breakdown in regulation last July there have been licensed 230 new Giations; fifty stations have changed lo- ention stations have changed power; 111 stations have changed waves; 183 2 stations are under construction; seventy- eight stations are planning to increase their power, while plans are indefinite tor the construction of 373 stations.Of the new stations licensed since last July forty are using 500 watts or more power.Forty4wo of the old stations have also increased their power to 500 watts or more, The eighth district, with headquarters at Chicago, ranks first in new stations with sixty-five, while the Detroit district is second with thirty-five and the New York district third with twenty-six.NEW WORLD'S SPEED RECORD Burning the sands of the famous Day.tona Beach, Florida, Col.H.O.D.Segrave, an Englishman, in a four-ton brillant red Speedster, last week catapulted his way to an official world's speed record for the mile straightaway of 207,84 miles an hour.\u2018The time beat ali existing speed records.The world mile straightaway mark was set by Malcolm Campbell, also an Englishman, at 17332 in à Tun on aWelsh beach last February.AFRICAN DIAMOND DIGGERS STARVING ' Terrible conditions of starvätion and disease at the newly-pegged diamond field at Lichtenburg are described in a Cape Town dispatch to the Dally Mail.Large numbers of people, mostly children, the dispatch says, are dying of en- teric fever and thousands of diggers are starving or existing on meal or corn daily.There is & total lack of sanitation, while water costs almost fifty cents a gallon.Thousands ot diggers are reported lea.ing the field broken in health and spirit.ELDERS IN INDIA VOTE FOR MODERATION The Council of State called the Council of Elders, at Delhi, on \u2018Wednesday, vetoed the proposal of a Swarajist leader Mr.Ramadass from Madras for prohibiting drink in the areas directly under the control of the Government of India and carried an amendment moved by the Government spokesman, to the effect that the policy of the Government should be designed to promote and ensure moderation in the use of alcoholic liquors, by 21 to 14.NO SUNDAY BALL GAMES IN ONTARIO Baseball on Sunday did not appeal to the record attendance of delegates at the eighth annual meeting of the Ontario Baseball Amateur Association on Saturday and the permission asked by the Southern Ontario league (border cities) to allow their players to play on the Sabhath was refused.FOR YOUR RENEWAL JOHN DOUGALL & SON, Publishers WITNESS Bldg, MONTREAL.eserencsescrssiapsesvoracsnsoees 108.Dear Birs,\u2014I am sending herewith $3 to pay for my renswal for a further twelve months from the date on which my last enbscription expires.Pouansncooor00000 MUGTOOE wisi immiassanas as o MON NALIORS LIQUOR AND GOOD LOOKS Striking Statement by Eminent Rochester Surgeon Liquor dissipates a woman's lovelinces, mars her complexion, ruins her figure and checks her charm quicker than gluttony or ruthless time, asserted Dr.Charles Mayo, the eminent Rochester, Minn., sur gcon in an interview at Des Moines, fowa.So far aa medical value is Concerned, physicians could dispense with whiskey, wine and other acoholic beverages sltogether, said Dr.Mayo.- \u201cIt-is, significant that the upright citi- ren who takes his cocktail thinks probi- bition ought to be observed by his chauffeur, his banker, his railroad en.tineer and his stenographer.\u201d Modern medicine has discovered other Ggents more beneficial for patients than liquor, Dr.Mayo said, and every doctor knows what these substitutes are.\u201cIf you observe a doctor is prescribing A great deal o?liquor to his callers, you can be certain that it is not being prescribed as a medicine, but for drinking | ar a beverage.The paison in liquor to- | day should be allowed to remain there.it establishes a selective process by killing off those weak willed fools who must drink at all costs to health and life.Soon these fools will all be weeded out.\u201d MANITOBA REFERENDUM Recommendations that three definite questions be placed on the ballot to be used in the proposed referendum on the sale of beer are made by the special committee of the Manitoba legislature.The questions are: 1\u2014Modification of Existing Law-\u2014 Are you in favor ot a modification of the existing law to provide for an extension of the present facilities for the sale and delivery of beer?2.\u2014Beer by the Glass.\u2014Are you in favor of the sale of beer by the glass under government control and regulation, in licensed premises without a bar?3.\u2014Sale of Brewers.\u2014Are you in favor of continuing the right of the brewers to sell beer direct to permit holders?NORWAY GOES WET The Lagting on \u2018Wednesday passed the bill abolishing prohibition in Norway, pursuant to the vote recorded in the recent referendum.The bill provides for certain restrictions in the sale of liquor, and the new regulations are expected to become effective next month.Towns having a population of 4,000 or less will vote on the sale of liquor in 1928, and will hold referendums on the subject every six years thereafter.Liquor, under the bill, may.not be sold o1 served to minors, and will be available to adults only from 3 o'clock in the afternoon unttl 11 o'clock at night.The sale 1 ot liquor will be prohibited on important holidays and the day before and the day after.Mailing of liquor, except for medical purposes, will be prohibited.As a result of a conference between the Civil Service Commission and a Cabinet sub-committee, an increase of $120 à year to all Government employes, temporary and permanent and in the inside and outside services, was arranged for.If it be necessary to have a commission system of workmen's compensation law, such ag is carried on in Ontario, then the Government will bring fn such legisin- tion it returned to power, was what Prem- fer Taschereau told the Quebec Legislative Assembly on Thursday night.Judge Hugh A.Robson, K.C., prominent in the public life of the west for many years, is the new leader of the Manitoba Liberal party.He was elected to succeed Hon.T, C.Norris.CEVEN Senator Dandursad informed Benator Tanner io the Senate on Friday that Hos.N.W.Rowell, chief counsel ia the customs Inquiry, received $200 per day sal.ory and $30 a day living allowance, R.L.Calder, K.C., assistant counsel, $100 per day and $15 per day living allowance.Mr.Justice J.H.Lamont of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, has been a pointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.Mr.Justice Lamont fllls the additional Judgeship of the Supreme Court of Canada created by recent legislation.Mr.Justice MacKenzie, now judge of the King\u2019s Bench of Saskatchewan has beem appointed judge of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeals to replace Mr.Justice\u2019 Lamont.The general provincial election in the province of Manitoba has been decided on and polling day has tentatively been set for June 27.Mr.Justice Louis Boyer, of the Superior Court.is expected to preside over the Royal Commission which is to probe the Laurier Palace disaster in Montreal and moving picture theatre matters generally all over the province, the Hom.L.A.Taschereau, Premier of Quebec, announced on Saturday.A bill granting the Baptist convention of Ontario and Quebec disciplinary powers was approved by the Private Bille Committee of the House of Commons on Thursday after an extended discussion, during wkich differences in the convention were aired.New York city\u2019s embargo on milk supplied by Montreal firms, established March 14, last, ten days after the typhoid epidemic broke out in the Canadian city, | will be maintained indefinitely, Dr.Louis I.Harris, health commissioner, said on - Thursday._\u2014\u2014 The Legislative Council of Jamaica has approved the new tariff bill ratifying the Canada-West India Trade Agreement.The Governor.however, was requested to ask the Canadian Government to postpone the preference on bananas since Jamaica will not obtain ships for carrying bananas for the next year.Ice cream shipped from Canada featur ed in a banquet in England recently tendered by th: Hon.P.C.Larkin, Canadian High Commissioner in London according to advices received by tbe C.P.R.foreign department.More than 400 British buyers were present at the banquet and the ice cream was in perfect condition when eaten.In accordance with the Dawes agreement, the bank for German industrial obligations on Friday handed 125,000,000 marks to the agent general for reparation payments.The sum represents the first half yearly instalment of interest due, for the third reparation year, on the mortgage on German industry of five billion marks.JINGLING SENSE Let organs delight in subsidies For \u2018tis their nature to; But for independent journalism Such aid would hardly do.If 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NAMO Larssovssoscerariccconsensocou0u0s AAAS EIN LARIAL IAA IIIIII IIe se ster ON-TRIAL SUBSCRIPTIONS ONLY 75cts.subsceibers.If each gets one, the doubling\u2019s done.NOTE PARTICULARLY It renewal subscriptions are seat in with new subscriptions under this offer the renewal must of course be at the $3 rate.Even that Is barely a sustaining for euch a pape cocsusss 198.0 Moscrstasso vacance even sans NEW subscriptions.NEW Subscriber's Name .ooeveensee and Address .scemImest es sveTI I IANS 0 tlicsesesnrnentasasns EIGHT WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, APRIL 6, 1007.WHAT 8 THE ANSWER?(Written after reading am article in the \u2018Witneas on the effect of intoxicants on boys.) We're hunting for boys that our trade be kept going, All the old topers dis, that's why we are sowing The alcohol seed which insures our pos session Of the dollars we want, in endless pro cession.It's net our concern it the boys lose ambition For high neble actions, and go to perdition, So long as they buy lots of beer, rum | and champagee, ' Which yield us great profits, what care, we for their pain?Boys may hunger, and suff'ring, and hardship endure; But that's their lookout; ours, thelr dollars to secure.Let them lie in the gutter, and wallow ke begs.While we spead their money, as they go\u2019 to the dogs.We must have the momey, and we'll take it from boys, Till they can't give us more; then, Hke \u2018worn-out toys, WoT toss them aside, let them rot where they lie: And will hunt for more boys lest our cof fers go dry.\u2014ERNEST O.HARRIS.Seattle Heights, Wash.MONTREAL CITY BLAMED FOR INADEQUATE HEALTH SERVICE The city of Montreal pays 40 cents per eapita for its public health service, as compared with $1.60 paid by the city of Taronto, à fact which fé pointed to by doctors as helping to explain why the outbreak of typhoid was not prevented.! LAUNCHES HEALTH CAMPAIGN gun in a coast-to-cosst picture taken at the House of Commons, Minister of Health; His Excellency the Governor-General; \u201cIn a modert city epidemics of ty- phold can be and should be prevented,\u201d said Dr.A.Grant Fleming, an aathority on bacteriology, in am interview with the Herald.\u201cIt is a question of providing the Public Health Service with an ade quate taff.The milk by-law is only valuable it it is enforced.When the city adopted the law providing for the pasteurization of milk it did act increase the pumber of inspectors in the service of the Health Bureau.The city did not apppint a bacteriologist either.The Hesith Bureau consequently did not pos gess the machinery for properly enforc- Ing the milk reguiation.That is the reason of the epidemic, which might have been nipped at the outset it the city had been maintaining an adequate health staff.With a properly staffed Health Service there is no doubt that typhoid can be stamped ont.We know how it originates and bow it can be controlled.\u2018Montreal is only spending one fourth the amount per capita on its health ser vice that Toronto spends.This city bes the poor reputation of spending less on its health service than any important city on the cobtinent.Compared with the 40 cents per bead of population which Montreal spends, Detroit spends 83 cents, or more than double.Boston spends 36 cepts, Baltimore 70 cents, Cleveland 67 cnis, Chicago 59 cents end New York 56 cents.These are the amounts spent by the cities themselves.The state governments, like our provincial government, maintain health services, but these do not do much work directly in the large cities.Nor \u2018does our provincial health service undertake work directly ia Montreal, except when requested to do so.\u201cThe point that should be emphasized is that the city has not been maintaining\u2019 an adequate health service, and the sooner this condition js corrected the better i will be for the health of the people.\u201d Dr.Fleming has been enrployed since the outbreak of the epidemic by the Health Bureau in an effort to trace and close the \u2018sources of infection.He stated that the Health Bureau was now doing everything possible to control the epl- demic, and he agreed with Dr.Boucher that good progress wae being made in checking the disease.ADVISED To TAKE REST Mohandas K.Gandhi, famous leader of the Indian Nationalists, ie ili from overwork, and his docters have advised knows all over India as \u201cMahatma,\u201d or the verandah of bis seaside bungalow mear Bombay.him to take à complete rest wonder worker, is here seen restisg en * Campaign for health conservation under the shows, left to right: Dr.Gordon Bates; Sir Arthur Currie, of McGill University.QUEBEC LEGISLATURE * PROROGUES The fourth session of the 16th Legislature of the Province of Quebec was prorogued shortly after one o'clock om Fri day afternoon by the Administrater of the Province, Sir Francois Lemieux, Chief Justice of the Superior Court.LIQUOR BILL GIVEN ROYAL ASSENT His Honor Lileutemant-Governor Ross formally signed on Wednesday the Liquor Control Bill of the Ferguson Government, which received third reading in the House on Tuesday last weeb.The measure is accordingly now a part of the province's statutes, but does mot become effective until proclamation.LARGE ILLICIT STILL SKIZEO IN MONTREAL With the seisure of the largest still ever to be oparated fliegally in Montreal, the euthorities believe they bave nipped in the bad the-plane of à group ot moonshiners to flood Montreal with fllteit 1- r D.J.Kearney, especial preventive officer of the revenue department, who has been directing à campaign againet Slkicit distillers for more than a year, effected the veisure single-handed.* Situsted om Notre Dume street, Laval de Montreal, not more than a stone's throw from the ehrine of the Capucin Fathers, the still is housed in a two- storey brick building and bas à capacity of 3,000 gallons per day.It is even larg: or than the huge still seized last December on Mullins street.The still had a column 30 fest high end 30 inches in dlameter with a copper condenser.Inspector Kearney also found sn $80-gallon agitator asd a 1,300-galion container for boiling the mixture.SCOTTISH PAPER BANS ORINK ADVERTISEMENTS The following is from the \u201cJohn o Groat's Journal\u201d; \u201cWick being & No-li- cenceé aren under the Temperance Act, it is the policy of this newspaper to decline liquor advertisements from holders of Me- enses outside the ares.This is done in loyalty to the decision of the majority, and in consistency with the editorial view, that the law existing within the area in which our paper is published should be fairly and fully and constitutionally bosor- od in all respects.\u201d Greater London has 2300 miles of streets, and their upkeep costs about $15,000,800 a year.Ose famous orphan school In South London was closed recently owing to the lack of applications for admission.CROSS WORD PUZZLE, NO.120.Horizontal 1 The end.+ Moves.13 To love intensely.14 Offensiveness, 15 Simple; only.16 Gear.18 Kind of bed.19 Ottawa Athletic Association (ab.) 20 Fashion.23 Three odd letters.23 noun.24 To rest.25 Prefix meaning \u201cthree.\u201d 27 Thoroughfsre (ab.) 28 Unit of electrical resistance (ab.) 30 Industrious insect.32 Girl's name.33 By way off.34 Small child.38 Printers\u2019 measurement (pl.) 38 Marsh.40 Part of verb \u201cto be.\u201d 42 Australian bird.44 A title.45 Egyptian god.46 Girl'a name.48 A flower.49 Part of verb \u201cto be.\u201d 60 Small particle.53 Even (poetic).53 The maoner of walking.54 They cause disease.56 Minister's home.57 A rubber.58 À kind of hunting dog.Vertical 1 Well mown.3 Thoughts.3 Girl's name.4 Anger.8 A direction.7 Toward.$ Advertisements (ab.) ° Disturbance of the Pesce.Key to Cross Word Purzie No.120.10 Bunches.11 Stings.13 A timber.16 A small bed.17 To plunder.29 Energy.- 21 Pe of time.24 Parner 26 To bury.29 A covering, 31 Unit of weight.~ - 35 To conduct.37 Scotch for small.38 A tree.\u201c| 39 Sveedier.41 Mother.43 To employ.44 Japanese coin.48 To lift.47 Girl's name.49 Need.51 Millimetres (ab.) 53 A ticket (backwards) 5 Point of the compass.56 Myself.rete ANSWER TO PUZZLE NO.119.s OjC S R E REE) mimi FED Zio» mol @ | »10 Sim Spirit»! rm] gim{2 Xx Cia Z}»|0 OM x > mit = minic ~lm)mirio T C|z'© nibjmiIMIO TI» BI» Civ >i Z(»{0 xi=-iw - \u2014[»{m[2[ jm) H>REAZ > «13 \u201cIO! QO»! > z ™ ol2 WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, APRIL 6, 1927, | TO CORRESPONDENTS Mirfam F.\u20148ound travels through water at the rate of 4,700 feet à second and through atmosphere at the rate of 1,090 a second.\u2014_\u2014 Harold M.\u2014It takes the air mall 32 end 45 mfuutes to travel from New York to of 2.767 miles.The Average speed is 84 miles an hour.Archie \u201cMac\u201d\u2014 One horsepower is the Power that will Mee 33,000 We.one foot in one minute.Rok.5, Mismesots.\u2014Most submarines Caz Operate 200 feet umder the surface of the sea.M.M.M, Quebec\u2014Newfongdiand, discovered by John Cabot in 1497, and by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 acknowledged by the British, is the oldest col ony im the British Empire.Wee \u201cMae,\u201d Toronto.\u2014A bird can stand on & charged trolley wire and get me shock because it is touching only oùe wire and does not complete the cirkuit, © Rite May\u2014The Amazon is the largest river io the world.The Mississippi rives in Lake Itasca, Mianesota L E.D, Ont\u2014Many thanks for the you forward.We have ta- formed the party asking for it.Mrs.G.T., Sask\u2014I don't think pou will fiad a symdleating agent in either Toronto or Winnipeg.J.T.Cooper writes to say that the reader to wheæs ke sent the words of \u201cZion awake\u201d will ind the music of same | in \u201cGolden Grain\u201d, compiled by Alfred Betrley, Chicago.| We are grateful to Mr.Ephraim Hern, Granton, Ont., for the words of \u201cHow the frais came for Lily,\u201d asked for by À.M.Mrs.Stella R\u2014Kiog Edward visited Canads in 196$ bridge which spans she Bt.Lawrense at Montreal.Mrs.J.F., Alberta.\u2014Have not the faintest idea of the circumstances surrounding the origin of St.Patrick's Day.Perhaps some of our readers can tell you.J.W.G., Ontario.\u2014Views vary toe much as to who j 8.G.J\u2014Youwr question involves a world-wide search and is beyoad our Hm- ited time and space.Milten M.P\u2014TFhe United States army is ome of the few institutions in the werid that operates on a cash basis.All its Wills are paid monthiy.Freddie G\u2014The first known book on Seamanship and nautical terms was pab- Hebed exactly 300 years ago by Captain John Smith, historian of Virginia and hero of the famous Pocahontas story.G.A.H, Nova Seotis.\u2014Letter forward od te you containing information that may help you get thé further knowledga you desire.* WORDS SUPPLIED Reader, British Columbia, asks for the following verses by Thomas Brecken: NOT UNDERSTOOD Not understood! We move along, asun- T, Our paths grow wider as the seasons creep; Along the years we marvel and we won- d er Why life is life.And then, we fall asleep, Not understeod.Not understood! We gather false impressions, And Ing them cioser as the years go Fi virtses often\u2019 seem to us transgressions, And thus men rise and fall, and live and die\u2014 Not undersiood.Not undersisod! Poor souls with stunted vision Oft measure giants by their narrow sauge, Fhe poisoned chañe o?faleebood and derision Are oft impelled \u2018gainst those who would the age, San Franeisco, a distance |.and opened Victoria 1 Not understood! The secret springs of action Which lie beneath the surface and the show Are disregarded; with self-eatisfaction We judge our neighbors, and they go, Not onderstoed.Not understood! How trifles often change as! The thoughtiess sentence or the fancied slight Destroy long years of friendship and estrange us, And on our ssuls there falls a freezing biigh Net understood.Not understood! aching For lack of sympathy! Ah, dsy by day How many cheqriers, lonely hearts are breaking! - ng How many noble spirits pass away\u2014 Not understood.Ob God! That mes would see a little clearer Or Judge loss darohiy where they ean Bot see; Oh God! That men wouid draw a little] nearer To And umderstood.\u2018 Mrs.M.MacL\u2014E G.\u201d THE TWO CROSSING SWEBPERS They did not have a single friend Beneath the widespread sky, Bat to each other they were bound By poverty\u2019s strong tie.Though poor they were, Too proud to beg, too upright for to steal, Ang gladly would they sweep and clean To gain an honest meal.But ead to say, \u2018The only food they often had to eat Was scraps of bread and broken fruit - They picked \u2018wpion the street.It was a bleak and bitter morn_ Just at the close of March, And they had slept the nigh* before Within a market arch.Very huagry, very ool, They wandered down the street.Joe picked an apple from the ground, And sald, \u201cWhy, here's a treat.\u201cIt has teen rather kicked about, But it's a good one still.\u201d And turning to his mate he said, \u201cWhat have you picked up, Bill?\u201d \u201cI have not found « single scrap,\u201d Bffl mournfulty did say.\u201cNow, as you are the youager, Bill, Here, take and bite away.\u201d The poer boy bit a small piece off.\u201cOh, that won't do,\u201d said Jee.\u201cBite bigger, Billy, bigger yet; You're welcome, that you know.\u201d A noble lesson this should teach, Dear children, unto yew\u2014 Do umto others as you would That they should do to you.WORDS WANTED G.E.B., Manitoba wouid like the complete poem which begins as follows: The bravest battle that ever was fonght\u2014 Shall I tell you where and when\u2014 On the maps of the world you will find it not \u2018Twas fought by the mothers of men.Low, deep down, walled up in a woman's heart\u2014 Of a woman who would not yield, But patiently, silently bore her part\u2014 Lo, there je that battle Seid.Mrs.W.J.A, Ootario, asks for a poem eatitled \u201cSeventy Years To-day,\u201d which begine in this wie: Seventy years to-day, my dazling, Seventy years to-day, Our days are three-score years and ten But more have passed away.\\ Mrs.H, W.T., Sask., writes for an old Irigh recitation called \u201cPat and the Rat,\u201d the story of a victim of the D.T.'s, who thinks be bas turned into a rat.She would also like the words of an oid song entitled \u201cThe man who broke the bank at Monts Carlo.\u201d Can any of our resders inform us as te the name of the author of the following lines.The information is asked fer by Mrs F.B.M, Ontarie.She aise wants Not saderstesd te know the title of the poem; 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pick me somethin\u2019 reliable an\u2019 steady.\u201d \u201cBoys won't go to sea no more, Nate: all lookin\u2019 fur jobs With no risk an\u2019 less work.Steam\u2019s\u2014\" \u201cI know.Who's outer work?\u201d Cap'n Hosey grunted.He did not relish such summary treatment of his favorite plaint.He decided to take his own torm of revenge.\u201cYoung Tom Nash's not doin\u2019 more\u2019n usual,\u201d he said; \u201cgo try him.\u201d \u201cHe all right?\" \u201cGood enough fur a fishin\u2019 boat with a cough in its innards an\u2019 a kicker on its tail,\u201d snorted Cap'n Hosey.\u201cIt ye say he's good, he's good erough for me.Where'll I find him?\" \u201cProb\u2019ly to hum.\u201d Capn Nate nodded.He had gotten more than he had hoped for and listened | to far less.than he had expected to.it, Cap'n Hosey recommended any Green; Farborite as enthusiastically as he had Tom Nash.the boy must be far above the average.Cap'n Nate did not care to risk some one\u2019s gettting to this chap before him therefore started up the street under full power.He had to ask directions but once.Yet somehow he did not like the queer smile which appeared on bis informant's face.It old Hosey had turned humorist, there would be unexpected squalls.The frown was deepening as he turned frto a yard on the edge of the village.Flowers were everywhere and.in a protected corner, stood the strangest\u2019 greenhouse he had ever seen.Its frame was unmistakably wreckage from the beach: ft was not more than twenty feet long, and a queer little ell made it look like a whale calf fashioned out of glass.If what lay before him represented young Nash's] mnurcé of income, he felt he had signed vp his new hand already.for there was nothing about the place to show prosperity, yet its neatness appealed strongly.Before he could chart it all, a slender.brown-eyed lad of eighteen came out of the greenhouse.\u201cLooking for flowers, sir?he asked with a difident smile.Cap'n Nate tried not to snort.\u201cCan't say I be.Sorter lookin\u2019 for an A.B, though.Cap'n Folger steered me up here.You Tom Nash?\u201d \u201cYes.\u201d \u201cLookin' fur work?\" \u201cNever dodged any I could see.\u201d was the even retort.\u201cKnow the sea?\u201d WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, APRIL & 1827.souL SERVICE PAGE Corcoran.\u201cGood! Want a hand Reckon you'll do\u201d \u201cGuess you misunderstand.\u201d suggested Tom quietly.\u201cI said 1 knew the sea.1 do, and ! hate 1,\u201d \u201cWhat's that!\u201d The powerful figure atif- ened with wrath.\u201cWhat sorter talks that fur à Green Harbor boy?\u201d \u201cYou halt asked a question: I answered {t in full.I'd rather starve than ship.\u201d \u201cUmph!\u201d Ie glared at the garden and greenhouse.\u201cLooks a-migbty like you'd get your wish.I'm goin\u2019 back an\u2019 tell Cap'n Hosey Folger I'm not to be made a fool of.\u201d \u201cHow about me?\u2019 came the unexpected question.\u201cThink I like to be the town joke?\" Not only the question, but the boy's whole attitude, caught the bluff sailor by surprise.\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d he demanded on the Poliy.\u201cThat growing flowers is just as good work as tending store or fishing answered Tom; \u201cthat any job's good, if you can succeed at it.\u201d \u201cCorrect! But\u201d he added, in a more teiendly tone, \u201care you succeeding?Don't look that way to me.Can\u2019t be much call tor flowers in Green Harbor after the summer folks go.\u201d \u201cWould be it I could grow enough of the right sort.speclally-at Christmas and Easter,\u201d he added.\u201cRussell's making a good living with his greenhouses.\u201d \u201cSorter young to buck a professional, aren\u2019t yg!\u201d \u201cGot to make a start in any business.sir,\u201d stated Tom.\u201cRather work for myself than some one else \u201cDon\u2018t have to work so hard.\u201d The boy's face flushed.He was ued to the taunts of the harbor about his struggle to make what they called \u201cfancy gardening\u201d pay; he had suffered under Cap'n Hosey\u2019s rough wit before ttis; he had listened too often to skippers in need, of extra hands; he had hed his failures to eke out more than a bure existence for his mother and himself thrown in bis face by storekeepers, and he had swallowed it all with the brave gulp of one who fights odds with | set purpose, but this slur seemed to hurt more than all the rest.He wanted to justify himself and his ambitions in the eyes of this man, yet he said nothing; as usual! the words would not come.Cap'n Nate looked at him as he shifted from foot to foot in agonized silence, then wheeled abruptly.\u201cReckon ye won't auit me,\u201d he pronounced.\u201cI like \u2018em with grit enough to take à chance.\u201d The scarlet face went white.Had Tom been of the talkative type he would have tried to defend his barely-successful occupation by attempting to put in words his belief that he had found the line of work which he could best do and which was also of definite service to his fellow : men.And it was because of his belief in himself that men like Cap'n Hosey used him as a butt for their jokes, and men like Cap'n Nate charged him with having no grit.For a moment Tom stood watching the departing figure, torn between the desire to defend himself and a longing to hide trom further insult.Then, slowly, he turned and went again into the centre of all his hopes.It what he was working for was worth anything.it was sufficient that he himself understood.Time and work would justify him better than He picked up the circular letter he had been reading.Vaguely he marveled that the big wholesaler had heard of him.He was too inexperienced to appreciate the huge dragnet of circularization, but not so inexperienced as to overlook the attractiveness of the offered bulbs.For an hour he weighed the possibili- tien suggested.Last year Russell had made big money on his Easter lilies.The blossoming plants had captured Green Harbor's fancy and Tom himself had caught the backwash of would-be buyers.Dut he had had no flowering bulbs of any sort to sell.He had made a little money during the summer.The house needed much, but could he and his mother struggle through the winter with what they already had! | This money might be invested according {te the plan set forth by the wholesaler.| On paper, profit seemed certain.Ready capital, and a little self-denial, appeared ail that were necessary.Last spring those flowering plants had brought joy to many a harbor home.It was ths thing he wanted to do.He could do it next spring, had he the courage to take a chance His jaw was square as he talked \u2018with his mother; his eyes glowed as she stood beside him while he wrote his order.Here, at least, was one who had abiding faith in him.It was at her insistence that he ordered one hundred Easter lily bulbs instead of the twenty-five he had set his heart on.But when they came he saw that mot only was his working capital exhausted, but that the capacity of the little greenhouse would be stralued.The few car- rations, geraniums, and potted begonias must be given space else thers would be no income during the cold months.He worked as he had never worked before to make each little sprout and plant grow te marketable perfection, but Christmas loft the rickety benches almost bare and Le was hard put to gather even a slender working stock.\u201cIt's all right, Tom,\u201d bis mother repeated: \u201cyou've done almost as well as last winter and you have the lilies in reserve.You're going to \u2018succeed.If we only had more money you could build a bigger sreenhouse and succeed as John Russell does.Even now you know more about flowers than he.\u201d \u201cYou think so,\u201d he smiled.\u201cThat helps anyway.\u201d \u201cYou'll prove I'm right when your real: 1y biz chance comes.\u201d : \u201cWish I could hope the way you do,\u201d he sighed.\u201cIt lent hope,\u201d she retorted gently; \u201cit's fafth.The boy who works hard against odds must succeed.And we are better of than moat folks because we (Continued on page 23) Boys! Health Hints Sleep One thing a growing boy wants to be \u201clong on\u201d is sleep, and yet he is most apt to be careless about it.It is during sleep that a boy grows most and catches up.During his waking hours he tears down and burns up more tissue than he builds.Good, sound, and sufficient sleep is essen- tia) to growth, strength and endurance.\u201cA boy should have at least nine or ten 1 hours\u2019 sleep out of every twenty-four.\u201d {If you lose on this amount on one day, make it up on the next.Whenever unusual ly tired or when you feel out of trim stay in bed a few hours more it it ia possible.A boy Ehould wake up each morning feeling like a fighting cock.When he doesn't he ought to get to bed earlier that night.Sleep is a wonderful rcatorative and tonic.Jt helps to store up energy and conserve strength.Bleeping Out of Doors The conditions under which one sleeps x Wrigiey'e New DOUBLE MINT \u2014 Real Peppermint Fldvor\u2014it's se wonderfully one sleeps.Many people are finding it wonderfully helpful and invigorating to j sleep out of doors.Often a back porch can be arranged, or, in summer, à tent can be pitched in the yard.But, by all means, the sleeping room should be well ventilated.Windows should be throws wide open.Avoid drafts if the bed is in such relation to the windows as to cause the wind to blow directly on it, a screen can be used to divert it or a sheet hung up as protection.Good, fresh, cool air is à aplendid tonic.In winter, open wine dows are a splendid preparation for | camping out in summer.Conservation In this chapter much has been said of the active measures which a boy should take in order to become strong and well We should be equally concerned in saving and storing up natural forces we already have.-In the body of every boy who has reached his teens, the Creator of the universe has sown a \u2018very important fluid.This fluid is the most wonderful material in all the physical world.Some parts of it find their way into the blood, and through the blood give tone to the muscles, power to the brain, and strength to the nerves.This fluid ia the sex fluid.it works a wonderful change in him.His chest deepens, his shoulders broaden, his voice changes, his ideals are changed and enlarged.It gives him the capacity for deep feeling, for rich emotion.Pity the boy, therefore, who has wrong ideas of this important function, because they will | lower his ideals of life.These organs actually secrete into the blood material that makes & boy manly, strong and noble, Any habit which à boy has that causes this fluid to be discharged from the body tends to weaken his strength, to make him leas able to resist disease and often unfortunately fastens upon him habits which later in bis life can be broken only with great dificulty.Even several years before this fluid appears in the body auch hebits are harmful to a growing boy.To become strong, therefore.one must be pure in thought and clean in habit | This power which [ have spoken of must + be conserved, because this sex, function \u2018ls so deep and strong that there will ; come a time when temptation to wrong | habits will be very powerful.But re member that to yleld means to sacrifice strength and power and manliness.\u2014 The boy nodded., could his halting tongue.are as important as the length of time Tuxie Boys\u2019 Manual.» * By J.$.Morrison and This Canada Of Ours Naud Morrison Stone, (Copyright) ANNAPOLIS ROYAL - i il A PR ermisn 1LLET GATHERED HARBOLR AND AN ARMY OF ABOUT 1500 SOLDIERS FROM NEW ENGLAND UNDER COL FRANCIS NICHOLSON OF BOSTON, EMBARKED UPON IT.THEY SAILED NORTH AND AGAIN POOR LITTLE PORT ROVAL WS TAKEN IN HONOR OF QUEEN ANNE, IT WAS RENAMED ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, 1710.À KV7Hen THE BOSTON MEN HAD SAILED BACK HOME AND THE FRENCH GARRISON HAD RETURNED TO FRANCE, COLONEL VETCH WITH ABOUT 450 MEN WERE LEFT TO HOLD THE NEWLY-WON POST.1T WAS À VERY HARD WINTER FOR THEM AS THE SETTLERS REFUSE TO ELL SUPPLIES.A PARTY OF 75 MEN SENT TO GET LOGS TO STRENGTHEN THE PORT, WERE WILLED.' FIER THE FOUNDING Of HALIFAX AND STEADY ACCRETION OF ENGLISH AND SCOTCH IMMIGRANTS, IT WAS DECIDED THING MUST BE DONE ABOUT THE ACADIANS WHO WANTED TO KEEP THEIR HOMES, BUT WHO REFUSED TO LIVE AT PEACE WITH THE BRITISH, EVEN AFTER THe en THESE LOVELY VALLEYS OF THE GASP- -ÉREAU AND ANNAPOLIS A 10ST UNHAPPY SITUATION DEVELOPED.THE ACADIANS BUILT FORT BEAUSÉJOUR, AND THERE \u201d WERE RAIDS AND COUNTER-RAIDS - THEY LONGED TO RESTORE FRENCH POWER,\u2019 THE MASSACRE Of ENGLISH SETTLERS AT DARTMOUTH BY INDIANS, TOOK PLA, When this fluid appears in à boy's body,\u2019 IREATIES OF UTRECHT 1713, AND MIX LA AND A GREAT DEAL OF UNREST AND TRIUILE ELLE 1208 WARE SIGNER, \u201c mag \u201c ROSÉR.IN THE HOME GARDEN .The hates of the bent varieties ot eed for the amateur will depend largely ee ibe arden jocation.and the care is bestowed upon the piants, for p06 gréwers can perform womders with That mizit Ng 1 there cre few roses to equal those of e Wichuralana type.They are particu- arly free amd of such vigorous growth that they quickly establish themselves in v rambling over & trellis work noth'ng.is more effect.clusters of rich pink bloems or £reamy-yollow Sowers of Gardenia.Not long age almost evesyene having 8 garden fu wide room eould be found for at least a few roses included the onetime favagite, Crimson Rambler, ia the , list.But we very rarely see Crimson .Rambler nowadays, for, aithougt makiag à glorious show of deep crimson whea in full bloom, the plants quickly became se disfigured - \u2018th mildew after the flowering season that they were unsightly for the remain( sr of the summer.Hs piace has ered with mildew, but lttle, if any, Is noticeable on ft.Then the eolor ef the them mere cagerly sought after for indocr decorations than many others.while the bright, shiny foliage ap.on a plant serves to make it more attraet- ive, even when not in flower.This rose does well even in hot, sandy soils in a favorable season, making new s'oots ten to twelve feet lomg; showing that it ie Bot at all fastidious in the matter of soll provided there is a supply of plant food available.Space should also be found for its white counterpart, White Dorothy, also Excelsa or, as it is often called, the Red ._Anyese who wants 3 rich crimson eMmber will find Excelsa with He bright glisteming and healthy folinge, & great amd decided improvement ever the old Crimsoir Rambler.Fausewinchoen, or Thousand Reauties, is another excellent climber; immense trusses of Meems are a deep Pink color as they first open, but become almost white with age.A few of the singleffowered climbing or pRiar roses are most desirable.Tram.ed over am arch, or, better still, as en isolated specimen eu a tall cedar post, is there anything in the ferai world mere beauiful thew a wel-grewn plant of American Pillar when in full bloom?The large, single flowers are a lovely shade of rich pink.having a lighter centre, ' the color being fied by the contrasting yellow ant'vers.Borne tn huge clusters, which stand out from the slessy and al most evergreen foliage , 8 well.greme specimen is surely a delight to fs owner.Hiawatha le another first-class single.flowersd variety; with brillant seartet flowers, it is alo a vigerous grower.Other good climbing roses are Reine Marie Hewriette, a fine, red-colored full double, of large size; Dr.W.Vaa Fleet rich flesh color: Christine Wright, rose pink; and Aviateur Bleriot, saffron yellow and copper.Bush or dwarf roses for beds or borders will always be the favorite clase, and are therefore planted In greater abundance thas the climbers.Producing the finest specimen blooms, the dwarfs take pride of piace in the affections of the rose enthusiast, and it is hers that care and attention are mest needed to produce perfect flowers, as the climbers.after be ing given a good Bold in well-prepared srolnd, will practically look after themselves, The outstanding t: among dwarf roses are the Tens, Hybrid Tess and Hybrid Perpetusls.The Teas are aH tea.der, and therefore, except in the West, South or other favorable sections, re- Quire memch care and thorough protection to carry them over the winter.Hybrid Teas combining some of the hardiness of the Hybrid Perpetual type are com paratively hardy but in very cold localities the Hybrid Perpetusls are the safest class ta plant Their name, Hybrid Perpetual, would lead the uninitiated to take it for granted that the plamts are perpeta- al bloomers, but they bloom only once in n season.For general use they can be relied upon, as \u2018they are vigorous in growth sod, it carefully prumed each spring, they besr a lbsral harvest of fine Sowers.fleriferous in the extreme, the.Among the \u201cdependadies\u201d of this class Frau Karl Dvuschki leads in the white section, its only fault being that it is not fragrant.The flowers, immense in size, are of finest form and pure snow-@hite.It le à strong grewer, and sweh am ad- ,Yance in Ms coler that ai who want the {vary best ta their gasdem must Include | tide fine rose in their collection.Other :800d wiktitas are Gloire Lyonmmise and Mabe! Morrison.Among the light piaks Baropess Rothechild is still one of the beat.Mra.John Laing is first-class.also Mrs.R.G.Sharman Crawford, while George Arends, the pink Frau Karl Druschki, must not be overlooked.Then there are Clio flesh colon shaded with pink; the ever-popular General Jacque minot\u2014Jack Rose\u2014with its brilliant vel- vety-crimson flowers; Hugh Dickson, bril- last crimsom, a giociows flower and exceedingly fragrant: J.B.Clark, intense scarlet.with a deap crimson shading: Paul Neyron, deep rose pink; aad Ulrich Brunner, with very fragramt, rich, red colored flowers.The Hybrid Tea class contaims quite a large family and includes some of the most populist and finest roses im cultiva- tien; in fact there are now se mmny firat- cles varieties of this type that it is almost impossible te eut them down to a small list There ie more variety of color and more delicate shades in the Hybrid \u2018Teas than those found in the Hybrid Perpetuals while some are almost as hardy, snd they are comtinnous hicomers, taking this characteristic from ene of their parents, the everblooming Teas.The following are all good, cud the collection contains a fine range of colors: Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, with white Sewers shading te yellow, x free bloomer and very fragrant: Amoine Eivoire.yellow with pesch-pink centre; Duchess of Wellington, vith ealfren yuilow: Jeseph HIllL a combination of salmon, goid and copper; Killam- ey, the well kmown sad popular pink, al- ne its white counterpart, White Killarney; Lady Alice Fianley, rich coral rose and pale fleas; Lady Ashtown, light rose, base ot petals yellow; Laurent Carle, velvety carmize rose, intensely tragrant; Los An- goles, which has already been described: Mme.Segond Weber, dep pink changing to salmon; Mrs.A.R.Waddell, coppery red and salmoa.The exquisite Tea Roses are perpetual Meomers and ail have a delicisus and dis- timet {ragrames, but ik is practically im- pessible to winter them ia the open in very cold smd exposed places unless extra precautiens in the master of earthing up sad covering are taken.Where cll- matic conditions will allow, this type should be well represented in the rose garden, and the feHowiag are\u2014for this type\u2014 fairly hardy aud well werth trying: Hugo Roller, lemon yellow amd crimson; Maman Cochet, rich coral pink: White Maman Cochet, pure white; Hardy Kirk, rieh yellow; Lady HiUingdon, apcicot-yel- low, ahkaded orange: Safrano, aprioot-yel- low; William R.Smith.binieh péuk; Souvenir de Plerre Netting, yeKew shaded orange.\u2014_ i TOO MUCH TIDINESS Where beds of dwarf roses are planted in gardens it is ne wacommson sight at this seasea to find every one cut down ts a certain height from the ground.On the seeve of tidimess this may be excusable, but when % is considered that in a mixtare of roses some are weak growers and others robust, it mwst follow in the ordinary course of gardening practice that they require pruning differently: that is to aay, much longer shoots should be left oa the strong and vigorous thas on the weakly-growing sorts.The eperation, when dumstically carried out, camses the less of many early blooms: indeed, in some cases it means that only one crop will be available, whereas, when pruned properly, there is the chance of having a second blooming even on H.P.'s.In the general collection of this popular flower ft seems to be aa advantage to keep beds of each type distinct, as in that case these errotp in pruning meed mot be so noticeable.EVENING FRAGRANCE The nightscented stock is one of the tincommon Sewers of the evening, ag uninteresting during the day as a wisp of bay, but darkness opens the duM-colored flowers and outpours a warm fragrance, sufficiently strong te reach the open win- dews.Mingle this with the mignonette and im a border near plaut the night.scented tobacco (nicotiana).The pearly white Sowers hang their heads éa the sunshine and towards eveaing opes out to food the garden with perfume.i FHNESE AMD CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, APRIL « 1047.The Éseter Daisy R.F\u2014The \u201cEaster Daisy\" you refer to, is a member of the aster family named \u201cTowssendia\u201d after the American hota st Townsend.It is one of the earliest spring flowers of the dry stony regions ia the Rockies and fer seme distance \u2018ast.An Amerlraa writer saps: \u201cThese qusint and charming blossoms have almost no stems.but look up from a cluster of narrow, grayish-green lemves that He flat on the ground.The flowers are sarge, oflen messuring au inch and & Ball or more across, and have white er piakish rays around a small yellow centre.The plant ts well called the Easter daisy, for it is the first of its family to awaken in the springtime and it is a delight to the nature.lover who goes sbread whet snows are scarcely over to find it emfilng up at him from the sunny side of some iarge bowlder or en some gravelly southern Mill siope when ne other flower of spring is yet in wight.\u201d Lilies Fait W., H.E\u2014 Most probably the bulbs bave suffered a check in some way; the soll may have been allowed to get dry or the plants may have been grown in a temperature that has varied widely.They must be kept moist at the root untll the leaves begin to turn yellow; the amount of water is then gradually decreased until the stems are bare.Weekly applica- \u2018 tions of liquid manure would help them.' They ouglt to be placed out of doors for the summer.When alt the leaves have fallen the pots are laid on their sides so that the soil may be Rept dry and the bulbs becoms well ripened.Lilium longi- florum is not commonly grown fn pots a second year.\u2018Fragrant Roses F.B\u2014The following all bear fragrant flowers: Hugh® Dickson.Admiral Ward, Ophelia, General McArthur, Mrs.John Laing, Fisher Holmes.Augustine Guinois- ean, Duchess of Wellington, Louis Van Houlte, Madame Abel Chantenay, Vis countess Folkstone and Prince of Wales.Ink for Zine Labels P, W.\u2014Bichloride of platinum, in an Grafting Daklias N.F.S.:\u2014Dahlias are easiest propagat- ol by the division of the roots The eyes are on the crown to which the tuber is attached, and in dividing it Le necessary to have an eye on each division.Grafting is rather easily performed by cutting the top.off the tuber slanting upward, and the cutting in the opposite direction, and then tying the two together with rafa or any other soft twine.The grafted tuber should then be planted in a pot deep enough te cover the top of the graft, and placed in a frame under shade, and kept moist for a short time.Grafting is sometimes resorted to in the growing of D.im- perialis, which sometimes attains to a height of 18 ft.under glass, the dwarf variety, D.rosea.hd HE WILLIAM | i EWINGS S * Send Today! for Your Our 58th Sead pias dg EZ= tested, goourn- EWING -CO., LIMITED LIL STATIN STREET, MONTREAL ELEVEN ttt IRIS BARGAINS Over 106 named standard verieties of Gere manics and Siberian at 15e esch.31.50 per doswn.25 varieties for 32.75, 108 varieties At $10.00.Many worth up to Soc.Postage le each root extra or by Express collect Also rarer varieties and Kxempferi Pseude- Acorus § to 6 ft.for moist spots, list om application, OR.FRANK E.BENNETT, St.Thomas, Ont.ores MANTIS - PLANTS Reliable garden and bedding pisnts.Send for car descriptive cats) of vegatable plants, including summer and winler cabbage, cauliffower, tomatoes, celery, bedding plants.etc, ete, from smal ints ler the \u201cGarden Lover\u201d or from 5 to 18 thousand fer the truck farm.We contract to grow large pantities of the above for marke: gardens te COVENT GARDEN NURSERIES Trure, Nova Scstia.GROW SUPERIOR GLAPIOLUS And Have Clodusss, in Gordon, House cad loart.Our lst of vartetiés.attrastively priced, will interes: you Wm The King of Summer and Autamn Flowers\u2014 Your cepy for the asking.WILLIAM HARRIS Valleyview Gardens, Rockwood, Ostasie, WRITE FOR OUR Brookdale Wrexham Delphinium catalogue consisting of twenty-five varl- eties.The Wrexham strain fs without doubt the largest towering and most beautiful Delphinfum in the world.Our general nursery.stock is of the highest grade.Landscape work, plans drawn.estimates given.We have openings for agents in sems localities, Brookdale Nurseries, Bowmanviie, Ont.GLADIOLUS Our Garden Coliection 5 buibs each of 20 varieties, named, labeled.100 bulbs for $3.00.DAHLIAS Europe's best-named varieties, not lgbel- ed, 10c each, 1 dozen $1.08, no two alike.Antes Floral Gardens 328 Bloor St.W, Torente, Ont Fired \u2018Trees Semcring Sheuba.| anorries orgresne, es, Bush proie eos Rosen, Perennials.We are growers enly of the best commer.clal varieties of \u201cGiadn.™ yemrs of experience and selection we can offer a col- tection which cannot be excelled for vigoroos heakhy Dloomers.Range of color (Whites, Pizk, Yellow, Red.Purple.etc.) and Success.lon Hissming Dates (from early summer until late fai.) We are offering for sale à Emited number of our baibe wbicb are all No 1 Stock and grown in our grounds therefore are hardy for our elimate.BSulbs will be forwarded - paid ae soon a8 weather cosditiens permit.and reserve your bulbs.We Will Sell - 100 Gladiolus No.! Bulbs for 30.00.58 Gladiolus No.1 Bulbs for $4.25.\u2018The majority ef these bulbs would cost from 10e to 25c each if purchased retail on roots of | THE EVERGREEN FLORAL GARDENS Address: Cooksbire, Que.- THE FARM TRACTOR- From information received Ry the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, from 178 tractor owners fa Eastern Canada and British Columbia, it has been found that 55 per cent of these machines are considered profitable Investments for work on the land.The greatest single advantage of the tractor is that it enables the awn- er to keep his work up to date.Other advantages are reduction of hired help and horses required to operate these farms.Tractor owners were able to take advantage of these reductions when tractors were operated at least 30 to 40 days per year.Tractors were successfully operated under greatly varying conditions, however; farms.high initl cost.high cost of fuel and insufficient epetstoss were given as the chlef reasons for tractor failure.The amalleat number of culfivated acres re commended by these tractor owners on which to purchase a tracter was 100 acres.The cost of tractor operation is made up of two major items, mamely, overhead and direst operating costs.The direct operating cost includes fuel, oil and wages of operator.Overhead includes depre- clation, interest and repairs.The over head charges are prorated against the amount of work the tractor does anmu- ally.Twoplow tractors in the East and RC.were used an average of 55 days per year, with the resuliing low cost of $2.68 per 10-hour day.Three-plow tractors were used ¢8 days per year and had land operation seems inadvisable where [a dally operating cost of $10.22.These fields are too hilly, too stony or too sandy.Such conditions together with costs include the operator's wages at small $3.00 per day.Producing Clean Milk By A.Grant Lochhead, Ph.D., Dominion Agricultural Bacteriologist.(Continued) The point to be emphasised is that nine- ty-nine percent of the contamination of milk is controllable by the producer himself he will take the trouble to understand what are the chief sources of contamination, and is willing to exercise ordinary sanitary measures which anyone handling a food product should be willing to take.Vihile an absolutely germ-tree milk is not possible, a clean milk of low germ content is undoubtedly possible on every dairy farm.While constant care and vigilance must be maintained on all sides if the cleanest milk is to be ohtained, yet the verious sources of contamination are of very different relative importance.Two sources stand out pre-eminently in con- tributihg to contamination.namely, imperfectly cleaned utensils and dirt from the cow.In the first instanee, coatam- ination is the result of infection by bae- teria developing in traces of milk left in uncleaned or improperly cleaned pails, DOUGLAS\u2019 I AN EGYPIIAN CURES COWS OF CAKED BAGS OR UDDERS THREE APBEICATIONS GUARANTEED whe Aber winter idleness hors acu a day'e work the heavy J'TE irsfisi itt ii le Pi & Hi j ; it i if BISSELL STEEL ROLLER STRONGEST AND HEAVIEST THE 9 FT.WIDTH WEIGHS 868 lbs.Write for prices and particulars to Dept.M T.F.BISSELL CO.LTD., Etora Ont.while in the second case it is due to small or large portions of manure and dirt falling directly Into the pail during milking.We should Hke to simplify, if pos aible.the whole question of contamina tion in the mind of the produedr; have him worry less about all other sources of contamination, and bave him think bac- teriologically on these two prime scurces: have him consider the millions of bacteria lurking iu an ubsterilized pafl or contained in the fraction of \u2018an ounce of manure, and have him concentrate his preventive measures on insuring that the pall and the cow are clean.Then, we believe, troubles arising from unclean mitk would be largely solved.Contaminatien Frem The Cow The cow's body is one of the two most striops sources of becterial contamiua tion and at tbe same time the source of visible dirt found in milk.The trouble is caused by particles of man- wre, hairs, dandruff or other dirt dropping directly into the milk-pail during milking, and the extent to which this can be prevented will do directly dependent upon the care taken to insure that the animals are clean at milking time.The chief source of infection is due to particles of manure adhering to the coat of the animal becoming detached during the process of milking.Even a small speck of dried manure contains millions of bicteris and these of the most undesirable types, with a capacity for causing spoilage of a most objectionable kind.Consequently the efforts of the clean-milk producer should be largely directed to reducing tlis infection to a minimum by keeping the body of the cow clean.The flanks and udder should be brushed off every day and care taken to prevent the cows lying on manure or other dirt.Brushing of the cows is best done about half an hour before milking and reinfection of the animal should be prevented by the regular removal of the nianure out of reach of the animal.In this connection the size of the stall Is important.Cows are often filthy because the stall is too long, allowing manure to tall inside, contaminating the litter.On the other hand, if the stall is too short, the animal if lying down becomes dirty by touching filth in the gutter or treading in it.Naturally, then, the state of the animal's body will depend not only on the cure exercised in brushing it, but also on the care taken in the stable to keep manure and filth away from the animal.While it is desirable from other standpoints to remove manure from the stable entirely.yet as far as actual bacterial contamination is concerned the important thing is to keep it from touching the cow.Half a ton of manure in the corner of the barn may be quite harmless yet a fraction of an ounce falling from the cow\u2019s flank into à pail of milk can well spoil the sanitary quality of a day's production, Preventive Measures The cows can be kept clean more readily it the hair om the udder, fanks and tail is kept short by clipping.Much less dirt will then cling to the coat of the animal To produce milk of the highest grade, it fs recommended to wash off the udder and teats of the animal with a damp cloth just before milking, in order to rewove dust, loose hairs, etc.Clear warm water may be used or a weak disinfectant solution such as one-half per cent solution of Lysol or similar germicide.It te Important to dry well, preferably Beautiful Farms Make Enjoyable Homes recommended.Even under good stable there is an ever-present with a second clean cloth, to remove all etcess liquid into the pail.tice of Xee groomed and ot the udder before milking is & factor every milking, which might otherwise drip iranagement .Compared with the prac- danger of accidental contamination from ping the cow's coat well small particles of manure, dust, hairs, tres from dirt, this wiping etc.which are inevitably dislodged at a contamination which of lesser importance.Only when the ani can be markedly reduced by using à 1anl's coat is fort taken in wiping the wider be worth while, use of à covered pail is to be strongly! À p clean wil the additional ef- smalktop pail.The extent to which & pail of this kind will keep out bacteria wil maturally vary greatly depending up In helping to keep the contamination [on the other conditions prevailing es the from the cow's body at a minimum, the following table sbnws.roducer really anxious to Improve Let g phasizes the fact that better 1° Raccount for the farmer who ad- Market Remains Flim With Prices Well Maintained y There is à keeh demand for high-grade \u2018cattle with remaining firm.The stéadiness, of - the \u2018market em- ve stock means a bigger bank ! of breeding and pelectjon\u2014a .reward which thie owner of the scrub |i perd can never hope ta tealire, heres to high standard: + The Royal Bank of Canada Don't Break Your Bac Digging Post Holes.245-249 Christina St, Sarnia, Ontarie PI never dreamed It could be ble,\u201d jotemers when hey try the Saraia rapid way Le Eee or tha .Éret time, No digging\u2014Ne ng Ne sledge\u2014just Sarala Red Top Posts, and our special driver, which we end to you, Drive 200 to 300 Steel Posts in One Day A head of the old .Ba pores Tasting bie yet te Woek early IE sation .Drove Through 8 laches Frost Sire: Delbi, Ont, April 19h, 1926 I 11 pleased with the { pos ound usicsity la divine tBemthrougs 6 a PSE om ae : Yours truly, D.W.Get This Meney-Saving Book\u2014Free Reade our story.Judge fer Zou ve you mos this coupes Today and tT \u2026 >\u201d The Sarnia Fence Co.Limited Pl d eR NT RLY Name Address, \u201cCORRO-CRIMP\u201d ROOFING The Pedlar People Limited, Hesd Office: Oshawa Branches: Heth, Beeb Sneha.Monireel, Ottawa, Torente, Londen, PEDLAR'S IMPROVED is better than Corrugated Iron because : \u2019 Better quality \u2014 made to \u201cCouncil Standard\u201d specifications with eaters heavy gaWaaising.Batter shape\u2014 the side erimpe, twice as deep as ordinary corrugation, ft and are nailed te specis] trinngular shaped woedes batten forming extra strong water and wind-tight males Joint.tat 3 Cheaper to apply, saves res! sheathing yet '« eeste no more.Sand dimensions of your building and we will wets on your roefing requirements.Penuans Penrect Probucrs , Vaneguver .a8 Pa Ninety Acres\u2014Fruit District\u2014British Colum- bla; clear title.CHAPLIN, 109 Park Avenue, Brantford.Ont.sé 3 Acres Improved Land For Sale.8m fruit: comfortable buildings; good water: close to town.Ideal climate.Box 180.Hal- mon Arm, B.C.12-3 Grimeby and District Homes, Fruit, Poultry and market-gardening properties.We have for sale severa! very desirable places.PET- TIT & HASTINGS.Grimsby, Ont.BEAUTIFUL VIRGINIA Home and Farm For Sale, 5 Eges From White Leghorn Hens with trapnest records of 200 to 250 eggs 32.50.W.R._BTEPHENS, Box 324-8, Newmarket, Ont.MISCELLANEOUS frem good t and colored oor ot on Ducks, White Rocks, Black Minor.BART, at: birds.Pekin and Riate \u2018Turkeys, amb Reds.GORDON R.PI Baby Chic Flocks.Whi ke from our own Higi roducing Ite Leghorns $12 per hundred.Rocks and Reds $14, Quantity prices on request, ARROWHEAD HATCHERY, Mont: rose, ich.Best in the West.12-6 Hatoht Eggs\u2014i White Racks, 12.00 por 13.Bronze Turkeys, $5.00 per 13.Incubator, brooder prices free.MEEKS.Mannville, Alta.rem 5 Containing 102 Rocka, SBivete Yomb Waite\u201d Lodporns, Smite be ro can an any reader of thie Prices log.Send for lst.A.DAWSON.Acres located right at town.cliy water, Wyandottes, White Pekin Ducks.Express néwspaper how to get them.Write for par ~~ NES Ad onan DUDLEY WOODWARD, id, Write for circulsr.NICHOL POULTRY ticulars, W.A.HADLEY, Stanstead, Que.3ladioll, Dahilas, Ranuncutus, Peonies, Lilies, |\u201d: 2 > = aking, Elora, Ontario.13-6 48-26 beat varieties, Lists free.SHELDON SEED | Poultry Farme\u2014Several Going Concerns and Egos For Hatching, Light Brahm.TIVE WILD ANIMALS WANTED Box 2364, Montreal.13-6 suitable properties for sale in this district.Winners.\u201d $360\" par Setiine, Wanted Wolverines.Beaver, Moun.Goadiows and Dahlie\u2014Ws grow Sur own and BULLEN, Qualicum \u201cBeach, Vancouver leg , fi asortment of .BC.300 Cone Sel M .i tain Lions cube, Northern Bald Wagles 12%: Gladiolus 50 first prise for $1.100 for $1.50.One Hundred .Acres, Productive, Desirable; Boyinon, Ambersty ng Le LOC | Cub Bear, Black, Brown and Grissly.\u2018Otter.An asortment of Novelties and RuMed Glad: Buffalo sixty \u2018miles.improved road, nent E for Hatohing from Batter Block than er, à few coyote and Badger Pups: snowy 121Us, 30 for $1, 100 for 33.20 Glant Dahlia} cheesefactory, school.Bacrificed.Fine op- wo have ever offored eags from in over 40 Great Grey and\u2019 atner Owis, Wid Geese, for Fe Ua Interested in show Dahlia, send portunity to good fagner, ttle capital years of business.Barred Rocks, Black Mi- Swans, Cranes, Etc.Give full desaription [°F 1st.Z.J.STODDARD, Mi.Holly, N Foy Farmar BX.10 norcas, White Wyandottes, White and Brown and price In first letter.PORTAGE WILD Ban 13-8 ou \u201d.arm, groceries, eed and coal; 10 Leghorns, $3 per 15, $3 for 30, $4 for 50, $7 ANIMAL CO., Portage La Prairie, Manitobi ahlias Grown on Vancouw he Gar- Acres of cultivation, all sorts of fruit and T 100.Single Comb Reds, Sliver Spangled 8.den of Canada.Noveities for 19: such as grapes; fine investment for energetic party; Hamburgs, apanese Silkles, White Rocks, arian anBAana | Edna Ferber, Lyndora, Marmion, Primula 500 feet from station and main road; $11,000, $1 per 15 straight, Order 30 or more we put MISCELLANEOUS ex aa Queen of the Garden Beautiful, etc.terms to suit, Southern climate.B.NETO.Standard sorté such as Black Jack, Amun Ra, Falth, Garibaldi, F, A.Kent, (tlla firay, Jersey's Beacon, Pop Stewart, Robert Treat, Roman Eagle, Trenionian, Alice M.longtel- In ten unrelated exxs marked X from special cockerel mating.BERT MINERS, Oxford Poultry\u201d Yards, Mount Elgin, Ontarlo.\"14-6 NG RELATIV Jamieson\u2014Mrs.James.000 Buys Excellent 175 Acre Oxford Co.farm near Woodstock.Good land, buildings and fences.A real bargaln.For particulars Left Coal Creek three years ago to join her husband in Chi.Egos for Hatching\u2014Barred Mocks, Black Mi- cago.Last heard of two years ago at 532 (low, Alice Whittier, and a host of others apply Box 31.Witness Montreal.12-6 norcas, Mottled Anconas, White Leghorns.East Grand Ave.Chicago.MRS.GEORGE | equally good, are described in detall In our We ee New Yorke acre sock Tock and dair from commercial stack on ranxe.Ten dollars LYONS, Coal Creek.B.C.enquires.10-6 1927 catalog of Gold Meda! Dahlias.Do not farm.32 miles from Buffalo.Gravel lo.ry r 100.IDEAL POULTRY, 304 Royce Ave.oronto, - Dept.2, 14-3 PLYMOUTH ROCKS _ legistered Barred Rocks, Contest Winners, profit makers.Hatching eges and pedigreed reeding atock.W.Æ.B.TAIT, Dorchester.New Brunswick.10-6 ATkTas Exhibition Barred Rocks Light (Fur Jet Mating.) 2 Pens stro: vigorous birds, eggs $4.00 for 15.Half price after May 5.fc.& for $2.64.J.L.ATKIN, Box 974, fall to send for our catalog before placing your dahlia order, as we can save you money.Strong, vigorous tubers only, of healthy Western stock.VALLEYFIELD DAHLIA GARDENS, T.W.Palmer, Proprietor, RM.D, No.4.Victoria.B.C.1 Nu We Stil Have a Full Line of Nursery Stock (or sale such as apple.plum, cherry and pear | treen; also shade and ornamental trees.small fruits, raspberries, strawbe-rles, goseberries McLeod\u2014Jack M., born at Dalkeith, Ontario, Glengarry County, last heard of from Eirose, Sask.Any Information will be gladly re- cetved by his brother, D.D.McLEOP, Dal- keith, Ont.13-2 O'Connel\u2014(Buzx).Last heard from when leavin Madison Bank, for Medicine Hat.Any Faformation will be welcomed by his , ALRX.O'CONNELL, Box $42, Cambellton, N.B.Sloping gently south and east.brel-roofed basement barn.Two houses, other bulldings.Town Improved road.Two miles to town, railroad.One of the best in Erle County.CHARLES J.BAKER, Batavia, N.Y.14-6 je.Good for any kind of fur te for description and price, NEY, Elk Lake.Ont.14-6 ction, Fenced, 32 Acres Cultivate Large gam- \u201cties.\u2018Welland, Ont.12-6 Celumblan Rock Hatching Eggs, Imported exhibition stock, best type and laying que Winners at the Royal and C.N.V.GRANT, Port Hope.Ont.Hatching E; pe from Cholce special pen for 15.From flock $1 for ROBERT BLYTH, R.R.5.Guelph, Ont.1 WYANDOTTES Regal White Wyandotte Book, 104 Pages.The most complete book on White Wyandottes ever published.Full of {lustrations from life.Send Twenty Cents for a copy.Free\u2014% page Catalogue and Mating List.JOHN B.MARTIN, R.8, Port Dover, ont \u2018 Bred-to-Lay White Wyandotte Hatching Eggs from big producing flock.Three dol- iars per fifteen: Five dollars per two net- tings.J.N.YOUNG, Dorchester, Ont.11-6 Pure Bred White Wyandotte Eggs, Martain Strain.One-Fifty per 15.Two-fifty, two settings.MRS.J.D.COWAN, Drumbo, Spt Settings From $1.60.TREY.G.LIVESTOCK BEES italian Bees For Sais 15 10 Frame Sangstroth Hiv No disease.MISS M.G: a soil, Ont.12-4 ian Bees, Colony Houses, Extractor anu other supplies for sale.REV.L.W.HILL.Parkhill, Ont.14-2 GOATS ; oe.Eighteen Month Old Billy $12; Saansn Dees, gpginging $20 up: trio ducks $3, a coon hound, $20.x 520.Ayimer West, Ontario.10._ CATTLE Holsteine-One or à car load.Our Fleldman will show you our cattle.SHEBOYGAN COUNTY HOLSTEIN BREEDERS\u2019 ASSOC ATION, Plymouth, Wisconsin, U.Several Registered Dark Red Shorth and Pemals Calves, from good milking dams.Cheap.MARK HAWLY, Napanee, Ont.13-6 DOG! are Opportunity to Purchase Two ed German Bhepherd Dogs.From hl show stock, elght months old.BER Tavistock, Ont.Splendid White Wyando .A.BAUDER, Csar, Alberta, Crosabred greyhound.wolfhound pups.ents very fast, Can jump any fence.LIGHTFOOT, Parkhill, Qnt.American oxhounds\u2014Femals two years; male eleven months.Splendid specimen.Reasonable.Would trade other breed or standard poultry.44 Bellingham Road, Outremont, Que.HOR! Pure-Bred Clydesdale Fosied 1923.Splendid worker; ce $175.Hhorthorn bulls from good milking cows, price $13.ALLAN MANN.Peterbora, Ont.\u2018Inventors-It's FREE! W.IRWIN HASKETT, 10 Elgin St, Ottawa, Cana send me Fi tion: 7) Newest Leafiets Mas oa.pentes dl (1) \u201cRecord of Invention\u201d on Patents, and (4) \u201cFun Obertowlch\u2014Frank, last heard of trapping in B.C.His sister, MRS.F.WALTZ, Kin- sella, Alta., enquires.14- SEED O.A.C.744 Oats\u2014Firat in standing fis\\d crop Competition, Geade 1.Germinations 100 per cent.$1.25 bushel.O.A.C.No.21 Barley, Grade No.1, Germination 99 per cent.$1.00 bushel.Bags 16c.F.0.B.C.N.R.or C.P.R.THOS SMITH & SONS.Utopla, Ont 11-6 We Offer You Fuil Heavy Grailned Mand.scheuri Standard Barley, O.A.C.72, Leader and Scottish Hero Oa for $1.25 per bush.F.0.B.Meaford, samples sent on applicatio W.W.STEPHEN, Meaford, Ont._ 12 Grimm AHaifa, Very Hardy, $15.30 Sushel Red Clover, $20; Late Red, $21; Afaike, $20.50 Variegated Alfalfa, $13.50; White Sweet Clo- .$8.75.No.1 Government Standard, Strawberry Plants, Stand.PARAL Neos, Timothy No.had UT ing Varietles, ghants right Pricer es .: CI No.2, $5.75.Im- Free delivery.ne or List.N are me.COL Batis- NURSERY CO., Wellington, Ont.12-7 medlate shipment.Cotton pags free.faction guaranteed.A.C.UIR, nt.improved Banner Seed Oats.Absolu Pure, price $1.00 per bus.J.C.KARN.R.No.1, Woodstock, Ont.13-6 O.AC.No.144 Oats, Grade No.1 Germination per cent.TR\" bus, f.o.b.Concord Station, R.PAG] ornhlil, Ont.14-6 Timothy, Ateike Mixture No.1.$13; Timothy No.4, 310; 0c.Will prove\u2019the best I have grown.gs labelled with my guarantee free from all noxious weeds.Freight In Canada east of \\Winnipeg.El Seed Grower, Navan, ont Rl \"SEED BEANS Certified Red Kidney Seed Seans\u2014Produc- tive, disease-resistant strain, of high germination.Circular and sample free.RA HUMPHREY, I N.Y.12-¢ OR LE Tioth Remnants\u2014We are offering a w.re tu! 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dresser, pencil-sharpenasr.cliclip, pen-holder, etc.pockat-knife, letter-opener, pen- Sample fifteen cents.Exclusive territory avallable.SHERBROOKE KPECIALTY BERVICE REG'D, P.O.Box 555, Sherbrooke.Que.13-6 MALE HELP WANTED \u2014 Fireman, Grakemen, Beginners $1 monthly\u2014also clerka\u2014for ratiroads nearest thelr homes\u2014everywhers (which posaltion?).RAILWAY ABBOCIATION, Box 20, Witness Office.Montr 9- 8ITU Young, Hard-Working, wants a position on a poultry farm; ge knowledge of exhibition atock, showing, rear- ilonest, sober and obliz- MR, ANDREW ing and hatching.ing.Excellent references.AUMIT, Brancepeth, Sask, _ PROPERTY FOR SALE ~ , fenced: 26 Irrigated: small .fruit, truck land.Three miles store, P.O, rchool, ete.33,000.terme.PO.Kel +.10-6 rd Rale about $19.000.\u2018Good trade.Hplendid lo- Would accent timber !lmit or saw- Witness Office, Mont- 14-8 Apply Box 32, real.\u201cCHILDREN FOR _AGOPTION - wenty à; Boy Four Months; irl all healthy, bright.we JOCIET old: Good buildings, with horses, Impiement, cows, sheep.$750 down.Balance easy.CH.H.CRAIG.Bion, Alberta, 110 Acres, For Sale, with Milk Route, dairy herd.Complete equipment.Income last year, four thousand.Immediate possession, immediate Income.W.B.STICKLE, Owner, Three Oaks, Mich.34-i Fifteen Acres Good Land with lendid buildings.Suitable for poultry farm.JOHN KEOUGH, Norwich, Ontario, 14-8 A Real Farm, 260 Acres.Excellent Buildings, fine location; Income 33.372 last year; further particularsswrite W.8.PILLSBURY, Water- ville, Maine, U.8.A.1-6 50 Acres\u2014Good Soil, Just 3 Miles from Ottawa.With or without equipment.Apply Box 122, Billings Bridge, Ont.ah4-6 This place is well adapted for mixed farming.Sufficient hay pasture and work land: pasture has good shelter for stock and lake w.ered.Price $15 per acre, $2500 cash, balance half crop at 6 per cent.Would sell one outfit.E.C.BRACHY, P.O.Box 79, Claire Sask.14-3 improved Bection For Sale One Mile From town: good buildings and fenced, sacrifice at $30.00 an acre to close estate.Further pare ticulars from Box ¢8, Hanley, Sask.14-6 POESIE BU ESS OPPORTUNITI Products of Farm, Forest, Fi d Home taken in exchange for flour, sugar, tea, oil clothing.patent medicines, house furnishings, etc.Delivery anywhere.In writing mention this paper.ED, wholesale grocers Halifax, Ca ENTZELLS LIMIT- and outfitters estab- nada.ces, Statements, Clrcu cards, all kinds of print! 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Road to Latin, French, German, Hpanish.Thorough mail courses ACADEMIE DE BRISAY.tawa.5 TEACHERS WANTED demand: DEMY, « M | Four Protestant Teachers Wanted for Thorne schools, Term commencing sept lat.1927.App:lcants must have Que.Elem.diploma, Apply to THEO.BRETZLAFF, Bec'y.-treas., Ladysmith PO, Que 11-6 NURSING Purses Frequently Earn $00 a Week.parsonal correspondence, Cata- br Lei \u201c116 logue No.14 free.ROYAL LLEGE OF LOIENGK, Tasette.&- Cantda 10-18 SIXTREN WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, APRIL 6, 1927.THE EASTER MONTH April is our Raster month.Ris a time of awakening thro out all mature.Winter ice and ssow ve disappeared, or are fast disappearing, under the warmth of the sun that now shines from an everincreasing height and for more than twelve hours out of every twenty.four.Warm, soft breezes have begun to blow, and gentle rains to fall.The air is full of fragrance and of song.Growing things that have slept in their earthly beds all winter are beginning to awaken.In sheltered nooks ferns are sending forth tiny green fronds, while in sunnier spots the wild \u201ccarrot has already spread out its long.feathery leaves.Wind-Sowers are tingeing the hillsides with lavender and dainty epring- beauties lift their deliczte pink blossoms above the dried leaves ia moist and shady places.Gray pussies adorn the willows, and rich tassels of red drepe the maples.Bees are bussing busily about the opening flowers and where sap trickles from wounds in the bark of trees.Butterflies, too, are in the air.The great mourning- cloak, its dark wings edged with light yellow, has awakened from fits winter sleep in some secladed nook, and goes sailing lightly by; while Clifden blues may be seen drinking oft the edge of evn ery trickling stream.Finches are singing in an ecstasy of joy.Bluebirds flit hither and thither on wings that match the sky.Woodpeckers are beating loud tmttoos on the trunks of trees, and the flicker utters his amorous \u201cWick-a, wick-a, wick-a, wick,\u201d as ke makes love to his wife or wooes a desired mate.In the open country the mesadow-lark pours forth his liquid notes from some tall weed or a favorite fence- post; and flocks of red-winged blackbirds are rendering oratorios from the tops of wayside trees.The first robine have arrived, and fresh hird migrante may be expected dally.It is @ time cf joy and gladness, of awakening life and hope and purpose everywhere, It was at such a time as this that Christ, the Saviour, arose from the tomb ia which all the hopes of His followers had been laid away with His lifeless body.The days before bad been filled with gloom, the deepest trusting hearts tad ever known.What did it matter if skies were blue, if flowers did bloom and birds did sing, when the One beloved.the One on whom the common people had centred all their hopes, lay cold in death?But in the night an angel had come.and rolled away the stone from the grave where He lay, and on the first Easter morn He rose in triumph, victor over all the forces of hate and evil, doubt and distress.; \u201cBecause I live, ye shail live also,\u201d He told His disciples.And, again, \u201cI am the resurrection and the life! he that be- liveth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.\u201d This does not mean that we shall never pass through the change called death; but ft does mean that as the worm loses its life as a worm, and for a little time, wrapped in its enshrouding chrysalis or cocoon, lies as if dead, to awaken again to the more joyous life of the butterfly, 20 we who have put our trust in Christ shall awaken beyond the grave to a newer and better life.This, then, is the meaning of Easter and the message of nature ia her glad awakening In the Easter mouth of every year.\u2014Alice B Ellis in The C.E.World.EASTER EGGS The institution of Easter gifts is becoming more popaiar and general every year, and just now the shops are full of pretty novelties for this excellent purpose.It is & good plan to save the best eggshells for several days before, line them with colored cotton-wool, and inscribe the names of the various members of the family on the shells in gold paint or bright-hued jok.Then the small gift Saved Her Baby's Life Because she bad Douglas 'Baby Tablets parer, ons customer feels it saved er baby\u2019s life.\u201cPlease send me One Dolt's worth of your Douglas\u2019 Infant Tableta My baby Is thirteen months old and she had a convulsion a short time ago, ! happen to have some of your Infant Tablets in the house.so used them, and I belleva they saved her Nfs.Please send the Tablets as soon posible as we have two children in She family and I feel safe when I have your fant Tablets on hand.I know they are best madicing to be had for bables.Mrs.arry Perkins, Ite Hall, Ont.\u201d We re- eetve hundreds of simile letters.Koop \u2019 by Tablets mady sll the time.me Et all dealers or mall from Ce, Wananee Sut\u201d tor 16 oonts on request Por bex.Free maples intended for each person may be slipped inside, and the whole tied up with gay ribbon, making a very charming Easter.egg to be placed on the breakfast-table on Easter Sunday.A pair of gloves, handkerchiefs, ailk stockings, or other dainty article of lingerie should find a pretty receptacie in a satin egg, and toys be fitted into cardboard eggs of gay color, while for a piece of jewellery a special velvet egg-shaped case, or a little silver box in the form of an ezg.obtainable from jewellers at this time, is appropriate.Sweets and chocolates, which bulk largely as Easter presents, are in the shape of eggs.or packed inside egaw.Everyone has eggs for breakfast on Easter morning, and the children will be thrilled it the bolied ezgs are colored and put on the table in a large moss basket instead of just plain white eggs in ordinary egg cnps.Cochineal will make the eggs a pale pink.while a atronger applieation is needed for a derker shade.À little anf- tron will color them a brilliant yellow, and a lovely green can de obtained by boiling them in strong spinach water or vegetable green.Coffee will produce a deep.rich brown, and if each fancy colors as mauve or purple are required, little bottles of vegetatle coloring matter can be procured.This is perfectly barm- less, as comfectioners use it for their colored cakes and candles.Another way of amusing the childian is to hide their Easter.eggs abeut the room, or eves over the whole heuse taking care, of course, to keep them well within reach of tiny arms.Be sure each small person's name Is attached securely to his or her particular egg, and thus prolong the game and prevent the chance of quarrels.IL ia « good plan to post pone the egg hunt until after dinner, and then some.at least, of the chocolate egg?may be eaten.ONLY ONE WAY TO EASTER You can only come to Easter through Good Friday.It la so easy to sing Ees- ter hymns, it is so easy to put away eid thoughts, to think that our religion bids us be happy.Easy, yes, but fatal unless you have put away those things whieh bring you death, those sins of pride amd anger and selfishness and sharp words, those unkindnesses that make bone mis erable; ay, and those sins of which it is a shame even to speak \u2014William Holden Hutton.\u201c WEDDING PRESENTS Everyone who receives an invitation to a wedding is supposed to make the bride a present, even when they are not able to attend the ceremony or reception which follows.In these days of short engagements, however, friends of the young couple often dispatch their gifts soon after the announcement of their engagement ap pears in the newspapers, and it is not ! THE WITN A PLEASING STYLE FOR YOUTHFUL FIGURES 5748, Velvet sad creps are here combined.One could use satin and crepe, or taffeta with georgette.The Pattern is cut ia 8 Hives: 16, 18 apd 30 years.An 18 year sise will require 3 yards of 40 inch material togeth- ESS PA considered obligatory to wait until the cards are sent out.Although, of course, it is quite permissible to delay sending presents until the very day before the wedding, it is bardly considerate to the bride.Writing personal notes of thanks to the givers lakes up quite a considerable space of her time, and she is certain to have much to oc cupy har when only 2¢ hours remain tore the ceremony.I you know the bridetobe intimately a little note might accompany your present, but your visiting-card should always he included as well inscribed with some brief expression of good wishes, so that it may be exhibited besids the gift whan placed on show with the rest It is a good plan to tie the card secure- lv to the article in question with a bow of narrow white ribbon.In the unpacking and sorting of many wedding pres ents a loose card is apt to be overlooked or confused with others, and, ultimately, poasibly applied to the wrong one.Any personal mote also enclosed should be quite separate from the reply sent to the wedding invitation.In the ome case it is adéresaed to the bride, and in the other an acceptance or refusal fs directed to the bride's mother.In these days friends of the bridegroom often wish to make him personsi presents, but it should be remembered that wedding gifts ought also to be sent to the bride.In a case like this the present addressed to the bride is first sent to the bridegroom, who forwards it to his fiancée.At one time it was 2 standing joke regarding the absurd number of toast-racks, cruets and salt-cellars a young couple might expect to receive as wedding pres ents, while cheap and useless silver ar ticles were in abundance, Now, however, gifts of a much more practical character are usual \u2018While wealthy relatives make cheques their contributions towards the new establishment, other friends justly com- sider that presents of glass, china-ware, cutlery and furniture of all descriptions .will be more acceptable than mere ornaments, and the bride's girl friends take the opportunity of adding some dainty articles of apparel to her tronsseau.A Good Shampoo Teacher.\u2014The hair should be washed as often as necessary.If the hair is dry and « person is not exposed to any unusual amount of dust, once in two or three weeks is often enough to wash ft If it is oily and flat looking, it shouid be shampooed once a week or once in ten days, as it is absolutely necessary to keep the scalp clean.Use a plain, good soap such as pure white castile or tar soxp.Tincture of green soap is good also, and an excellent shampoo or white or light hair 's made by dissolving a cake of TTERN SERVICE er with 7.8 yard of contrasting material for sieeve inserts, collar and waist portions.The width of the skirt at the lower stige is 1 7-8 yard.Pattern mailed to any address on re ceipt of 16c in silver or stamps.A SMART AND STYLISH FROCK FOR A SCHOOL GIRL 6759.Wool crepe combined with figured silk, or crepe satin using the reversed side for sleeves trimming would be attractive for this design.The Pattern is cut in 4 Sises: & 19, 12 and 14 years.A 10 year sise will require & 1-8 yards of material 40 inches wide together with one yard of contrasting ma terial for sleeves, froat and facing om belt and collar.Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 15e in sfiver or stamps.Publishers, ta couPox Panes send me ; PATTERN Nok } Mü.\u2026000000 DUB.ccammen Amount encens 2.0010=0coummnencces 0 UND Same Adres nersesssetaRsemgOcoc10p2005000001000 00008 covscso 0000000 002000 07007 CU0TS0SC0ND) es on = rr} white castile la one quart of boiling water (shave the soap into the bolltng water) and adding one-fourth of a tear spoontul of borax, or bicarbonate of seda.This should be put into a wide-mouthed bottle or jar, as it forms a jelly when it cools and im diMfäcoit to extract Fill a large basin with water, as hot as yow can stand it, wet the hair thoroughly, be- them rub ihe soap or jelly over the hair and scalp, working it in ciose to the scalp.Rinse the soap off well and repeat the soaping, washing, and rinsing in clean water, which need not be so hot as tbe first.Rinse in several waters or ust the last ome is perfectly ciear.The last rinsing water should be cool but not cold.Dry the hair thoroughly with warm bath towels, in the sunlight, it possible.When the hafr is nearly dry, massage the scalp firmiy and deeply with the tips of the fin- gets of both handa to restore the natural off, moving the scalp im a circular diree- tion.Finish by brushing the scalp well and be swre your brush and comb are kept clean.Ne Tea or Coffee Mother \u2014A Specialist who is also a good all roand doctor says, \u201cChildren wader 18 should not be allowed to bave ten or caffee, because these baverages, wholesome and often benedicial for adults, are too stimulatiag for children.Among the evil effects of ten or coffee on childrem are irritability, peevishness, restless sleep, mightmares, bed.wettiag, underzm- tition (underweight) and ip some is stances probably impaired growth.Disinfecting Anxious.\u2014Scarietina is searlet fever, nothing else.The most efficacioes disinfection is soap and watsr, scrubbing of fioors apd woodwork: boiling of all bedclothes, patients clothing and personal and toilet articles, or buruing what cas- pot be bolled.Then admit fresh air and it possible sunlight freely to room for twenty-four hours, and we'll guarantee it gormless.You can't improve upon elbow grease, soap and water, fresh air and sum light.Ago Horly Q N he $4 ; 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WITNESS AND CANADIAN \u201cAnd Raised Breads Throughout the Christian world it is customary to have hot cross buns for breakfaet on thé Friday before Easter.Sometimes the crosa is outlined in sugar icing on a crisp roll, and sometimes it !s cot in the bum before it is baked.The cross is used on this occasion as symbol- cal of Christ's death.\u2019 The peasants of Brittany give to the hot cross bun a double significance.Its use primarily was to keep \u2018a remembrance Christ's miracle of the feeding of the multitude with the few loaves and fishes.An ancient legend states tbat before He broke the bread He placed upon it the mark of the cross.His followers remembered the occasion after His crucifixion.Superstitious people in Great Britain as well xs in Europe thought that the cross on the bun at this time drove away evil spirits.Bread baked on Friday was supposed to keep the house from getting on fire and to be also valuable in relieving whooping-cough and other diseases.A few crumbs grated in water was also supposed to cure intestinal disturbances.In Oriental lands a different belief was held.Bread should not be baked on Good Friday at all; for all the water so need would change into blood, and the Sating of such bread would be a grievous sin.We have been freed from gross super- atftions, but the cross on the buns may ever be to us a symbol of Christ's loving thought of the hungry multitude and of His euffering on the cross to redeem us.Good Friday Bun: Take 113 Ib.of Sour, 2 ounces each butter and sugar, 3 yolks of eggs, 1 ounce of yeast, a little salt, and about 3-4 pint of milk.Rub the butter inte the Sour; make a little well, and into thie put the sugar and yolks.Dissolve the yeast fu the milk, which should be just warm: then mix the whole, and knead until it does not adhere to the hands.Set it \u2018to rise in a warm place for two hours, then make up into buns, and set to rise agsin.When risen, cross with a knife, brush over with milk, or white of egg, sprinkle with sugar, and bake in a quick oven.If raisins are liked, add them when making up the Une.aids Ther SHCA TRF.NE MC a Hot Cross Bume: Nix with half a cu of brown eugar, quarter of à cup of soft butter and one egg.one teaspoon of grated nutmeg and one teaspoon of cinnamon (or apice as desired.) Add one pint (two caps) of scalded milk or halt milk and haif water, in which a yeast-cake has been dissolved when the liquid has cooled to blood temperature.Mix all well \u2018together and work in two pounds (eight cupfuls) of sifted flour until you have an elastic dough.Then add a cup of cleaned currants and half a cup of chopped citrom peel or half cup currants and half a cup of secedless raisins and continue to knead until the fruit is well mixed in.Set to rise in bowl in warm place.Warm in this case means blood heat.Leave for three and a half hours.Then knead down the dough and let it riee again for half an Hour, then cut into small pleces and let stand on floured board for a few minutes.Flatten and shape lightly and set on well-buttered baking pan to rise for half an hour.Mark a cross on each with the back of a knife; brush over with milk; eprinkle with sugar and bake in a hot oven for a quarter of an hour.Coffee Cake: Set a sponge with a pint YIN p(T r Be Sure You Get Tha Genuine GILLETTS FLAKE LYE RR two-cent eake of of lukewarm milk; a yeast, half a teaspoonful of salt, and halt a pound of flour.Let rise in a warm place for two hours, them stir in half a cupful of softened butter, one cupful of raisins, a quarter of a cupful of finely shredded citron or candied orange peel, one cupful of sugar, and three eggs beaten light.Knead in enough flour to make a dough, gbout a pound; divide the dough Into three even parts and roll out separately, long and thin; then braid together and form a ring fn the pan.Let rise again, very light, and bake a good half hour.Ice with thin sugar icing.Yeast Pikelets: 2 breakfastcupfuls of Sour; a very little salt; 1 egg; 1 cup of warmed milk; 1 dessertspoonful of yeast.Beat the egg and add to it the milk and the yeast.Mix in the flour and salt.Cover and keep in a warm place to rise for an bour or s0.Then make into round cakes, and bake on the griddle or in a hot oven.Serve hot, weli buttered.Cinnamon Rolls: There is an almost endless variety of rolls, etc., that may be made with bread dough.Bread dough, sugar, cinnamon, butter.Roll the dough out until it is about one-half inch thick.Spread with melted butter and aprinkie well with clanamon and sugar, allowing one-quarter teaspoon ciunamon to one- quarter cup sugar.Roll up as for a jelly roll and cut in three-quarter inch slices.Put these in a greased pan, cut side up, let rise and bake.This may be varied by using as a filling currents, raisins, dates, etc.Buns: Make a stiff batter at night using one scant cup of sugar, one cup of milk, three-fourths of a yeast cake dissolved in a cup of lukewarm water, flour, a tablespoon salt.In the morning add two thirds of a cup of shortening, two- thirds cup of milk, one cup of currants, two egss, two teaspoons cinnamon.Meuld and let rise, then make into buns and let rise again ard bake.English Muffins: 11.2 cupfuls milk; 1 tablespoonful sugar: 1-2 teaspoonful salt; 8 copfuls flour; 1.2 yeast-cake: 1 egg.18 teaspoonful soda.Heat the milk till iepid; add sugar and salt and the.yeast cake diesoived in a little warm water.Beat in flour to make a soft batter, from two to three capfuls according to the brand of flour, and let rise till light, about three ours.Stir in the egg well beater and the soda, beat - thoroughly and cook in muffin rings on a griddle.This must be done slowly, about twelve minutes being the right length of time.These are delicious tomsted then split and buttered.\u201c French Rolls: Scald three cups of fresh milk; pour it over two ounces of butter, a teaspoonful of salt and a teaspoonful of eugar.Then add two well-beaten egge, and stir in about one and @ half pounds of flour, more or less, to make rather a stiff batter.Beat full of air bubbles; then cover with a cloth folded several times and set to rise over night In a warm place in winter.In the morning knead the dough lightly with the remaining flour, about two quarts in all, and when it # a eoft, smooth dough shape with your hands into small balls or rolls the gize of your finger as you fancy.Set together in your baking pan, first floured lightly.Cover and let them rise an hour longer, then bake about balf an hour.These rolls are delicious for bresk- fast, luncheon or for tea.Crusty Bune: The \u201ccrustiness\u201d of buns is due not 50 much to the kind of batter used, as to the distance apart the burs are placed when they are put into the pan.In order to handle them well have a pie plate or saucer on hand with melted lard in it.Dip your fingers into this as you shape the buns so that they are quickly and thoroughly greased all over.When putting them into the baking pan they muet be far enough apart so that they will not touch each other at the sides as they rise and expand.Here is « good recipe for plain buns: Two cups of milk scalded and then let rool to a lukewarm temperature, 2 tablespoonfuls each of butter and sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, one yeast cake softened in 14 of « cup of lukewarm water, five to six cups of flour.Add the butter, sugar and salt to the milk and when the mixture is iukewarm, add the yeast and threes cups of flour.Beat well, then cover and let Taise until light.Now cut down the dough and mix enough more flour so that it will be of a kneading consistency.This will require from two and a half to three cups.Let rise again and when double in bulk toss on a floured board and cut in pieces about one half the size of the desired bune.Shape these with the fingers Into smooth balls being careful not to squeese out very much of the gaa from the dough.Honay Raisin Bread: Three cups flour; two tablespoons butter; one-third cup of homey; one compressed yeast cake; three- quarters of à cap of mi'h: one egg white, baal; one cup 21 raising, chopped: two.traspoons of salt.Heald the milk and set aside to cool.When eool, disseive HOMESTEAD, APRIL 6, 1087.Western Coasds Flour Mills Co.Limited, and holds more water or milk.large, light buns and bread are always yours when you use PURITY FLOUR Send 30c in stamps for our 700-recips Purity Flour Cook Book.263 SEVENTEEN Cakes baked with Purity Flour keep fresh for three or four days.Purity is a vigorous, \u201cdry\u201d flour that absorbs Tasty cakes, rich pics, and Tereate, Montreal, Ottawa, Saint Joho.the yeast cake in it.Add a tablespoon of the honey and one and one-half cups of flour.Bent thoroughly and set in a warm place to riee.When light add the remainder of the honey and flour, and the rest of the ingredients.Knead well and let rise till double in bulk.Form in loaf and when light bake in a slow over.Sally Lunn: Than which there is nothing better in the bread line.To make it beat 4 eggs to 2 light froth, add 14 cup melted butter, 1-2 cup sugar, 1 cup sweet milk which has heen scalded and cooled, 1 cup water and 1 cake compressed yeast dissolved in the water.Mix and add flour which has been sifted with 1 teaspoon salt, to make a very stiff batter.Grease a tube cake pan, pour the batter in and allow to set until very light, which will perbaps be about three hours.Bake in moderate oven for 40 minutes, being careful mot to get too brown.Berve bot with a geverous amount of fresh butter.Very Quick Bread: Grate 4 large potatoes, pour over them 1 quart boiling wat- «er and cook until clear, like starch.Add 73 tablespoons salt and 1-2 cup sugar.When cooled to lukewarm add a yeast cake goaked in 1 cup warm water.Let stand in a warm place until light, then remove to a cool place to keep for use.This makes the yeast.To make the bread make à sponge as for other bread of 3 parts warm water, and 1 pist of the yeast, and a little flour.When light stiffen.When light knead down once, let rise again, then make into loaves.When light bake.This bread only re- fees from @ to 8 hours from sta:: to nish.Date Bread: An especially nourishing bread much liked by many people is the following date bread: The required ingredients are one and @ quarter cups of milk, half & cake of compressed yeast softened fa a quarter of a cup of milk, one-half a teaspoonful of salt, a quarter of a cup of molasses, one cup of dates that have been scalded, then dried and the stones removed, two cupe of whole wheat flour and enough white flour to knead.Scald one cup of milk and then let Ît cool until it is lukewarm; add the softened yeast, the salt, the molasses and the dates, which have been chopped a little.\u2018Then stir in the whole wheat flour and set to riee over night.Add white flour to knead, but keep tbe mixture as soft as possible.In the morning mix over, let rise again and bake for an hour.Figs, raisins, prunes or nuts may be eubstituted fn this bread for the dates.Beaten Whole Wheat Bread: 1.2 to 1 yeast cake; 11-2 cups white flour; 21-2 to 3 cups whole wheat flour; 1 1.2 cups boillng water; 2 tb.molasees; 2 tb.shortening; 2 tsp.salt.Put ealt, molasses, and shortening in mixing bowl, add hot water, and cool until lukewarm.Add yeast, softened, and mix with a spoon.Gradually add flour and beat five minutes.Set in a warm place untit light.Beat again for five minutes, divide into loaves, let rise again, and bake.Oatmeal Bread: Two cups oatmeal.two cups boiling water, 1-2 cup molasses, 1-2 teaspoon salt, one tablespoon short ening, one cake compressed yeast dissolved In 1-2 cup lukewarm water.Add boiling water to oats, let stand till cold, add molasses, salt, shortening.yeast and flaur.Let rise till double In bulk, knead thoroughly and shape into loaves.Put into greased tins.let rise till double in bulk again, and bake 45 minutes.Bran Bread with Yeast: 1 cupful milk; 1 cupful water; 1.2 cupful sugar; 2 teaspoonfuls ; 1-4 to 1 yeast-cake; 1-3 cupful werm water; 1 tablespoonful shortening; 1 cupful bran; 5 to 6 cupfuis white bread flour.Put sugar.shortening, and salt in mixing-bow!; pour on the scalded milk, and boiling water: when lukewarm add the yeast-cake soft ened in the lukewarm water.Add ihe bran and flour, stirring until thoroughly mized.Use enough flour to make ft the consistency of white bread dough.Put to raise.When double ite bulk, knead into loaves: let rise again avd bake as wbite bread.Rye Bread: For a good home-made rye bread the following recipe comes to me thoroughly tested: 3 cups milk; 3 tb.shortening; 6 tb.brown eugar; 11-3 tap.salt; 1-4 cake yeaat or 3 tb.potato yeast: 3 cups flour; rye mesl.Scald the milk and add the salt.When lukewarm add the yeast and beat in suficient four to make a thiek better.Cover snd Jet stand over night in a warm place.Add the meited shortening and the butter in the morning.Stir in the remainder of the flour and sufficient rye meal to make a dough etift enough to knead.Knead until the dough becomes smooth, elastic and no longer sticks to the hands or a clean board.Let rise, shape into loaves, let rise again, and bake.Rye Flour Baba: Sift 13-4 cups rye flour into a mixing bowl.Mix 1 cup compressed yeast through 1-4 cup lukewarm water, stir in 1-4 cup wheat flour, then work in as much of the rye flour as is needed to make a dough \u2018that can be kneaded.Knead until smooth; cut halt way thromgh the little bail of dough twice, letting the cuts form a cross on the top.Put the dough in a bowl of lukewarm water.When it rises to the top of the water, and is very light and porous, remove with a skimmer to the flour in the bowl.Add 1-3 cupful and 2 extra tablespoons of shorteming, 1-2 tes- spoon salt, and 2 eggs, and beat until thoroughly blended.Add 2 more eggs.one at a time, beating in the first egg before the second is added.At the last beat very thoroughly and turn into a greased mould tbat holds one quart.When the dough fills the mould to within half an inch of the top, bake about 25 minutes.Baste with any bot, rich sauce made of stewed fruit and fruit juice, until it bas taken up as much ae possible.Berve bot.Raised Apple Biscuit: To 1 cup of scalded milk, add 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 level tablespoon of shortening and 1 teaspoonful of ealt.Stir into this 1.2 yeast cake which has been dissolved in a little tepid water and 1 cup of sifted flour.Allow to rise until spongy, then add I cup of sour apple which has been pared and grated, and 1 cup of flour which has been sifted with 1.2 teaspoon of soda.Let rise until it doubles its bulk (about one hour).Shape into two flat loaves, and let rise until double their size.Bake in a quick oven about 30 minutes.Split and spread with butter while steaming hot.Serve Immediately with sugar and more butter.Ir peanut butter becomes too moisten with a good salad oil.thick Try maple flavor in next chocolate cake you make in piace of vanilla.Have you ever put frosting between graham crackers?Try it next time you make a cake.Children are very fond of these \u201csweet sandwiches\u201d and the teacher says they are almost as good as cake in the lunch box.\u201cLet the Clark Kitchens Help oa CLARK'S oups: The selection of Clark Soups inchudes : Tormato, Ortail, Vegetable, Consomme end Chicken.Ses \u201cCanada Approved on labels of all meat soups.8.22 W.CLARK Limited = MONTREAD FOR WINTER Run GIGHTUEN WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, APRIL \u20ac 1887.} Aunt Madeleine had been ao cross.She eedn\u2019t have been cross as a bear\u2014Dovala caught herselt up with a mental jerk, \u201cProbably I'd have been cross ff I'l been up all night with a teething little baby.\u201d she admitted houestly.\u201cProbably Td have growled! O, hum.! don't see why a baby without any teeth has to have the toothuche\u2014there's lots of funny things ip the world.\u201d There were lots of hard ones, too\u2014to be poor, to wear other people's things cut down, not to have any peannies and not to belong.The hardest ons was not to delshg.\u201cAunt Madeleine needn't have reminded me of that,\u201d sighed Dosia.Theodosia was out on Aunt Madeleine's doorsteps, dolug her stent.It was a very wide .towel\u2014sba wished Aunt Madeleine would buy narrow ones.She wished it was all hemmed; she wished sbe could look up suddenly and see something glittery out on the sidewalk and it would be a silver quarter! The pinks at Mr.Pot- tle's were five cents aplece: you could get five pinks for that eilver quarter\u2014if it would enly glitter! Ard five pinks would make a bouguet\u2014Miss Eleanor had asked for a bouquet.No, \u201ccluster.\u201d she had called it, but what was the difference?\u201cEven two would eluster\u201d murmured Dosia over her towel.But ten-cent pieces were about as hard to get as silver quarters.She had only asked Aunt Maede- Jeine for a ten-cent plece.\u201cYom little ungrateful thing!\u201d Madeleine had snapped.\u201cAfter Pre got you that lovely new Net, and you not my own flesh and \u201cblood, either! No.you can\u2019t have any ten-cent piece.Perbaps you think ten-ceat pieces grow \u2018round oa bushes\" .If they only did! One on that bush and dbne on that, and one on the hydrangea down at the gate! Three ten-cent pieces =\u2014six Pottie pinks! \u201cThere, I'm going to count stitches.I'll hem twenty more and then I'm going in and look at my new hat!\u201d That would be like stopping for refreshments.It wag a beautiful\u2019 new hat with flowers on ft.Dosia sniffed ecstatically, as if she eould smell them out there on the doorsteps.She had never had @ new hat with new ffowere on it bèfore in all her little unbelonging life.Either the hat had been old and the flowers new, or the hat mew and the flowers old\u2014ofteser that way.But she had oftener still worn Aunt Madeleine\u2019s flowers on Aunt Made- deine\u2019s hate.\u201cI'm ged they're rcses.\u201d mused Dosia @t her eleventh stitch; \u201croses are so\u2014so Satintsing! Anyhow, I'm satisfied with m!\"\u201d Roses ate comforting.too.The roses #he could aimost smell on her new hat comforted Dosia and made her nearly forget her troubles.The near presence of Sunday afternoon .wheu she could walk slowly up the aisle and into Mias Eleanor's class, ander that new hat, \u201clled her with delightful antidipations.The other girls would all draw long breaths and Miss Eleanor\u2014O.0, hum.Miss Eleanor would bs thinking ahcut the Easter \u201cbouquéis.\u201d She would have her Jap full of them and she would hold out her little slim, gloved hand to the Girl Under The New Hat and say, in her aweet.low way, \u201cAnd yours.dear?\u201d And the Girl Under the New Hat would not have any! Her thread snapped suddeniy and Doeia Sat ur very straight on the doorsteps, her eyes full of tears.She could not see to fake the twentieth stitch.A flood of desolation seemed to overflow her whole starved little soul.There was no one in the world except herself that didn\u2019t be- Jone.Everybody else belonged! \u201c\u2019ts pretty hard when even your aunt's @ \u2018step\u2019!\u201d grganed Dosia.For Aunt Made- fine was her etepmother's sister.The ehild could never remember an own mother or father, brother or sister\u2014an own anything.An \u2018own\u2019 somebody would have given her ten cents\u2014perhaps =a silver quarter.The next day.after school.Dosia went home past Mr.Pottle's flower store.She étood a long while gazing at the slender «pires of Easter lilies end the masses of carnations that encircled them.The longing to possess some of those beaut)- ful flowers grew more intense as she gazed: it took possession of her and sent her.almost against ber will.into the dim, heavy-scented piace.It gave her courage to speak.\u201cHave you any-any bargains?\u201d trembled again.\u201cEh?\u2014what?\u2014bargains?\u201d in astonishment, \u201cYes\u2014O, I mean any flowers that are marked down.| thought mayde you might bave some\u2014kind of wilted or broken, or something.I'm certain I oonlé pure \u2018em.For Master Sunday, 1 mesa\u2014 she Aunt | FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Dosia\u2019s Easter Roses to tke to the Little Children's Hospital.Miss Eleande sald \u2014 All of the Mr.Potties bad @oue do the other end of the counter to wait on a lady who had come in.The eager little speech had trailed into silence, unheard.Dosia stole away disheartened.She had scarcely kpown what ashe would have done if there had been a \u201cbargain,\u201d but somg way must have opened, she wis sure.Aunt Madeleine would have given her a very few pennies indeed, aspecially as bargains were hobbles that Aunt Mad- elelne rode hotspeèd.A The Children\u2019s Hospital had only been opened a year, but already most of the little white cots were occupied.Dosia had been there once with Miss Eleanor and her class.She remembered with aad distinctness how pale and thin the little faces on the white pillows had looked\u2014 one, she remembered, had been twisted and drawn with pain.She had felt as if ehe were suddenly set down in a world wheré nobody belonged, nobody at all.The rows of little white cots had swayed and blurred in a mist of tears\u2014not because she had been afraid, as she was just now of Mr.Pottle, but because she had been sorry.; \u201cHave\u2014have you any bargains?\u201d she faltered, the color quite gone from her plain little face.The man behind the counter wavered in a sort of dissy mist till he seemed to be a dozen Mr.Pottles.He-\u2014tber\u2014did not appear to see her at ail, (To be continued.) CAPTIVE OWL One Thanksgiving Day, writes Robert Hager to The Tribune, I went for a walk in the country with my father, and I carried my air rifle with me.As we were going through a small grove I saw a tree with a good sized hole in its trunk about six feet from the ground.I raised my rifie and fired into the bole.A head popped out for an instant and then disappeared.My father said: \u201cThat's an owl Put on these leather gloves of mine and reach down into the hole and see if you can get it.\u201d I reached in and brought out a half grown owl.I tried again, thinking there might be another ome.but only found a balf consumed rat.We brought the llt- Ue fellow home and made him a large wooden cage.- The first day be stayed up in a little box in one corner of his cage and did not eat anything that night, though I put a mouse fu his cage.The next night I put another mouse in for him and a déad sparrow I found, and in the morning all that was left was a few feathers.After that he ate all we gave him, took a bath every evening in a emall basin and soon grew so tame that se 8000 as the gas was lighted he would come out of his box and down on to the perches, and when we went near the cage and talked to him he would spread out his wings, rufle up his feathers and dance up and dcwn in a very funny way.We were troubled with mice at ome time, and one night left the door of his cage open, lighted a lantern and turned it down low, s0 we could see into the room through a window between the kitchen and pantry.As soon as he discovered that the door of bis cage was open be flew out and on to the back of a chair.There he sat, almost motionless, so long that we got tired watching and were just going off to bed when he suddenly swooped down on to the floor, and the next minute was at his cage door with a mouse clutched in one of his claws.The next morniog we found two dead mice in bie little box, and we concluded they were the \u201cleftovers\u201d from his feast.One morning we found the litde fellow dead in the bottom of his cage, but as he had not been well or eaten much for some time we were not surprised, ouly very, very sorry.What le it?My first is io spilling and also \u2018n spoil, My second\u2019s in labor and also In tof, My third is in uncle and also Jn sunt, My fourth is in cannot and also ia can't, My fifth je in healthy and aiso Iu hale, My sixth is in pallid and also in pale, My seventh fs in master and also In maid, My eighth is in purchase and also in paid, Ny ninth is in cattle and also in goat, My tenth is in harbour and also fa boat, My eleventh\u2019s in eneesing and aiso in snort, My whole is a prosperous Engiisl port.Anower Te Last Week's Pussle Anagrams; April Fool's Day.OUR NEEDLEWQRK CORNER THE MAVIS JUMPER IN SHELL PATTERN You require four hanks of Syl six and a fine bone hook.Tis Measuremente\u2014Shoulder to foot of jumper, 21 inches; width across, 18 inch- ea; neck to sleeve, 13 inches.The Jumper is worked in two pieces exactly alike, and joined on the shoulders to keep the \u201cshells\u201d the same, back and front Commence with 100 chain.Turn, and work 4 treble in 4th chain from the hook; mise 3 chain, 5 treblo into next, until you have 24 shells in the row.Turn with 2 chain; § treble in the last treble of shell on previous row, and continue till you have the same number of hells (24) in the row.Work 28 more rows of shells, when you have reached the sleeves.Make 24 chain, turn 4 chain, and work 4 treble fn 4th chain from hook; miss 3 chain, 5 tredle fn next, till you have fine protruding shells\u2026 Work across the row.Now, from another ball of the silk, make a length of 20 chain, and join to previous row to correspond with the other sleeve, and break off the sfik Insert the hook in last treble worked, and finish the row by making 5 shells over chain for sleeve.Turn as usual, and make $ more rows of, shells right across (34 in ali), when you have reached the neck opening.Now work 14 shells, and turn until you have worked 8 rows from neck to opening.Fasten off and join slik to the other sleeve at the neck opening, and work 8 rows of 14 shells to match the other sleeve, Make another plece exactly in the same way, and join meatly on the shoulders: sew up the sides, and the sleeves, and then crochet 3 rows of double crochet round the neck and sleeves.For the border round the bottom -of the jumper, work 5 rows of double croobet, 2 rows of 1 treble, 1 cliain; miss 1 double crochet, 1 treble, taking care the second row of trebles is exactly over the first row.Then work five more rows of double.Make a length of chain with double sk, and thread through jumper, at waist line, and finish off the ends with 2 bone rings covered with double crochet in silk.\u2014The Edinburgh Scoteman.SEWING ROOM HINTS A buttonhole in place of a loop of tape is far the best method of suspending a dishcloth or duster on a nail.If worked on both siles of the fabric a strong support will be afforded, which will not tear away in course of time, às is the case when loops are employed.But better attil I tke 8 amall brass curtain ring which is always wide open for the hook.A spool of fine wire is « useful eddition to the button-box.Sets of similar buttons may be strung on short pieces of the wire and the ends of the latter hooked te- gether.To remove a buttoa, it is an easy matter to unfasten the wire and to fasten it again afterward LUNCH SETS It helps to have à variety of lunch sets, which can also be used on the breakfast table, says \u201cThe Rural New Yorker;\u201d they consist of a centrepiece or ruaner, and plate dofiles, It fs surprising how prettily one may make them from inexpensive ma terials, and they not only save more expensive tablecioths, but also to save laundry work.Some that have proved very satisfactory were made of Engiieh print, « fine allover design Of orange and brown, bound with tas-colored bias bind- ] ing.The binding is basted in place, and then stitched on the machine.Amother favorite set is of 1fiac linen, bound with green binding.Gingham sets, a clear block pattern of one color with white, are very pretty when finished with plain hem, over which is worked blanket stitch im black embroidery floss.Contrasting rickrack braid set om with colored stitching is another pretty finish.Some sets have a round centrepiece with round plate doilies, others a long runner with rec tanguler doilles.Sometimes a discarded linen dress that has worn thin in places will give enough material for a pretty lunch set.WHEN DESIGNING DRESSES When designing your dresses ly study your figure.If yo: are fnclined to plumpuess and rather short never wire an overskirt out at the hip.Long, clinging lines play an Jmportant part im making a short, stout woman \u201clook like what she ain\u2019t\u201d Nor should you use a wide sash, because ft will cit the figéré in two and destroy the desired long lines.Instead use a very narrow ribbon and let long ends hang to the bottom of the skirt, or use one of the fashionable bande set on to give the same lines.This given she desired color at the waist without centuating the waistline, The design of the material dete; to a great extent the effect the dress A have on your appearance.A slender person does not have to worry a great deal about this, but the wise stout person gives much thought to this phase.Large plaids or large-figured materials greatly accentuste the size of the person wearing them.Wear striped or small-figured ma terials if you have any desire to appear \u201cwillowy,\u201d but don't let the stripes run round you.It you are already \u201cwillowy,\u201d don't wear stripes up and down.Avoid shiny or very glossy materials and bright colors if you are large.Did you ever ses a lirgo woman in a scarlet satin dreas?|! did once.She stood out against the horizon like a mountain.A dull-finish ° material and subdued colors will do much to decrease size.THE ONLY MEDICINE BABY HAS HAD Is What Thousands of Mothers Say of Baby's Own Tablets Once à mother has used Baby's Own Tablets for her little ones she will ue nothing else.Experience teaches her that they are without an equal for relier.ing baby of any of ihe many m ments which afflict him at one another.The Tablets of benefit\u2014they cannot 2 to our baby girl.In only medicine she has am proud to say that prize at our baby show.months old and weighs 23 mother whose child is in giving Baby's lé will make s mistake Tablets.\u201d Babys Own Tablets are #0! cine dealers or direet ce and E a.À 008 AÂAX 1H1R2U0 8 3 Gress 4.Nave oS em).Me LEB Hida OH 13.Happinep= 18.Priesper WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, APRIL 6, 1087.The Chinese Language\u2014Old and New 7 Farmer 8 Mona HB BB 18.Hortagn 47.\u2018Brightness 228 man KI FF x 23.Tres ih Cha 34 Shes 33 Sheen I, Rat (From the Literary Digest.) To most of us the Chinese may appear to be a very complex and mysterious people.\u2018This ia due to various elements of difference between them and ourselves, amongst others doubtless to roundabout methods of thinking induced by the peculiar structure of their language, peculiar, that is, from our point of view.\u201cAs a spoken language.\u201d says Frederic Poole, writing in the Brisbane Dally Mal, \u201cIt is unique among human medi ums of communication in that it is musical with a purpose.It is not so much the correct prosunciation of a Chinese word that makes the spesker inteliigibie as a proper intonation of that word, for the meaning of a word in Chinese is positively indicated by tke tome in which It is uttered.One word may have as - Many as five different sounds, and these so fine in variance as to be scarcely de tected by an unmusical ear.You ask your native servant to bring your hat\u2014 \u2018mow'\u2014but you use the wrong inflection and hs brings the cat.for \u2018mow\u2019 means eat an well as hat when uttered in amo- ther tone.\u201d Mr.Poole gives = number of illustra tive examples of Chinese characters, ex- plaising their meznings.Thus we learn that the Chinese symbol for \u201cman\u201d consists of two strokes representing the legs of the lord of creation (1).This was formerly à more faithful portrait, © showing the human biped with a head and outstretched arms (2), but has been \u201cabbreviated\u201d for simplicity's sake.Honssty 26.Warez 326.37.Heard The word \u201cgreat\u201d consists of the symbol for \u201cman\u201d with the numeral \u201cons™ writ ten across it (3), \u201cthe Inference being that man was the greatest thing ever created.\u201d By drawing the numeral \u201cone\u201d across the apex of this character the symbol for \u201cheaven\u201d (4) is formed, indicating that the Chinaman acknowledg- os something greater than himself.There is another form for \u201cman\u201d mug iz the snow to cool as they sat by the fire, having finished his partridge and flung its few bones to the ravenous dogs.when he repeated: \u201cShe's got un all ready.\u201d A pause; aad he added: \u201cBat she\u2019s mot cooked un.\u201d \u201cMan proposes but God disposes,\u201d said Wright.\u201cDo He always?\u201d Rob was thinking aloud.\u201cShould we a bin where wo was last night?\u201d \u201cYou think we never should have gone up to Reub'e at such a time, Rob?\u201d \u201cI dunno.I don't like to say that, Sir.You felt you should go, An\u2019 we should allus do what we thinks, what we really thinks we should do, I a\u2019pose.But I's Jus\u2019 's aure we be allus charging God foolishly\u2014as yom was saying yourself t'other Sunday.Seems to me we be aillus gettin\u2019 into trouble, an\u2019 God's allus get- tin' us out.Yet we be allus blaming Him tor puttin\u2019 ug in! But He don't, to my thinking.He don\u2019t ever.He only makes the best 0\u2019 our own bad jobs; an\u2019 He generally gets ys out when we \u2018ave learnt our lesson well.\u201d \u201cGood for you, Rob.That's it, sure.And \u2018perhaps 1 was more pig-beaded than heavenly-minded in insisting on getting up to Reub\u2019s to help old Santa out.Guess the Lord of all good Santas could bave seen the Maguires safely through today easier than He can see us through here.\u201d \u201cNo, Sfr.[I don\u2019t think that.\u2018Tis all one to Him.There is no easy or hard for Him.\u201d \u201cGuess you are right again, Rob.No easy or hard.far as circumstances are concerned.God's trouble, I expect, is only with hard hearts and stubborn wills.He could bave fed Reub's family up the Mare easily as ever He did the widow's out of her barrel.And He can make à way of escape for us from here easily as He did Israel's from Egypt over the Red Sea.So we will trust and mot be afraid.\u201d ; \u201cI's not feared 'bout His way wi\u2019 us.We're I' His hand.I's anxious only \"bout mother.She's alive an\u2019 she\u2019s old.How long will it be, I wonder, 'fore anybody.goes that way?! She has wood \u2018auff to keep warm, thank God; and she has flour \u2018nuff to eat: but she's old, she is, an\u2019 none too strong.\u201d \u201cShe is in God's good hand, too, Rob.\u201d There was a moment's quiet, broken only by the crackling of à log ~ which, burnt through, fell to the heart of tielr firé.Then Wright eang, Rob jolning: \u201c0 God of Bethel, by whose hand Thy people still are fed; Who through this weary pilgrimage Hast all our fathers led: \u201cThrough each perplexing path of life Our wandering footsteps guide; Give us each day our-daily bread, And raiment fit provide.\u201cQO spread Thy covering wings around, Tili all our wanderings cease, And at our Father's loved abode Our souls arrive in peace! \u201cSuch blessings from Thy gracious hand Our humble prayers implore; And Thou shalt be our chosen God, And portion ever more.\u201d As they sang a great peace, a quiet confidence came to them there, desolate as was their island, and scant as their supplies.No great buoyancy, perhaps, was theire; yet did the day pass not unpleasantly as they reconnoitered their position and gathered good supply of driftwood.In the glooming of an early eventide the bread-box was reopened for supper, and the kettle's contents were restewed, another pinch of tes being added, with handfuls of snow for water, Then imagination ran riot as they sat before as fine a fire as ever blazed in stately halle of England.Only the fairy feeling evoked by the fire's warm glow in front was held [n restraint by a chill at their backs which kept them from getting too much out of touch with the reality of their circumstances.\u201cWhat of the dogs, Rob?I wish we had some feed for them.It would hardly do to throw them the remaining partridge, would it, for their Christmas treat?\u201d \u201cIt might be allright.Some of them would be torn to pieces in their fight for ft.That would save us shooting one to The poor brutes had had nothing to eat for two days, They were ravenous.Rob bad noted the effect of the partridge bones.He had just rescued from them, too, the seal-skin traces stowed away in the boat.Even with whip in hand \u2018he had hardly been able to drive them from devouring the leather thongs.The wolf of the wild was awake in them nov.But for the night, at any rate, they were curling up In the snow at safe distance from the fire.Ard Wright, bad as he teit about them, could keep himself from sleep no longer: so, stretching his bag not too far from the blaze, he was soon about a merry Christmas board on The Homelsnd.Rob tended the fire, silent, sometimes sullen, yet always unselfish, brave, big Rob, God's own gift to the misston.In the early morning Wright woke, cold and aching.It seemed im- credible that he had slept the night through.The logs burnt low.Rob was In a bag beside him, soundly sleeping, too.\u201cLet them burn,\u201d was Wright's feel ing, \u201che must have more sleep.\u201d He was just dropping off again when Rob, mechanically, without waking, apparently, rose, tended the fire and would have been bagged and asleep again but that Wright stirred himself to say: \u201cI'll do that, Rob.Lay down, and stay down.You've besa up before.\u201d \u201cOnce or.twice™ \u201cAll night up and down I guess.Seif ish hotind that I am.\u201d Together they piled on more wood, lay down, near dawning though it was, and talked over thefr prospects.There was nothing for it, of course, but waiting the clearing of the slob\u2014or {ts hardening.Their immediate problem was the spinning out of their provisions\u2014and the dogs, How long might two men subsist on one partridge, ten pilot biscuits, less than two ounces of tea, and half as pint of molasses?\u2018There were the dogs, of course.Dog flesh! Would it come to that?In any case one of their dogs must soon be shot to save the rest, \u201cStand still and see tha salvatipn of God,\u201d said Wright, * After & while they arose, replenished the fire, boiled the kettle and divided a biscuit between them.Half a biscuit a meal, three meals a day, would put them through three days, leaving an emer sency ration of a whole biscuit at the end! It was painful to watch the dogs, pañ- fullest of all to hold each his half biscuit back as the dogs watched them.Na- leon brushed by Gyp as he came close up to Wright with pathetic appeal in his eyes.(yp snarled, sprang, and there was à scuffie.Happily Rob had the whip at hand, unfurling it in a flash.But Wright saw such wolfish gleam in the older dog\u2019s eyes as he had never seen before.After breakfast they walked to the highest rise of the island and looked out.Bish, sich everywhere, far as the eye could see.And what a stiimess! Whilst everywhere to the eastward was a rosy sun-rising, accompanied by such vapor as low-lying English meadows send up on some still summer's mornings! The dogs were at their heels snarling and enapping.Wright stooped to pick up a handful of snow, [ripping over a buried stick as he s! , \u201cGyp!\u201d bellowed Rob.\u201cWhat is it?\u201d \u2018 \u201cDidn't you see Gyp, Sir?\" \u201cNo, why?\u201d \u201cWe must shoot, or there'll be treuble.You didn't rise à moment too soon, or the whole team had been upon you.We must shoot, or they will spring.\u201d He handed his gun to Wright, for he himself couldn't do it.He had reared her trom a pup.She had mothered some of the best teams of the bay.No leader could touch her in path-inding or pace- setting, Even Dundonald of the Post, proud of his team as others otherwhere of horse or car, admitted this.Wright remembered her look at breakfast.He fired.What followed was beyond telling.Rob had turned away.It was a sickening sight.In a few minutes the barely cold bones were all that was left of the pride of the bay; the rest of the team were licking their chops or their paws.And soon, by the boat, whare the men brought up, they were settling themseiv es in the snow to sleep.(To be continued.) LIGHTING THE FUNERAL PYAR - (By Melvin Oss) One morning, in company with an Indian evangelist, 1 arrived at the village of Umbards, intending to conduct a meeting.The first thing we heard wgs the noise of a few weird pipes.I inquired of my associate whether or not there might bo & funeral procession, but he thought it to be a wedding instead.It is often hard to distinguish between gladness or sadness in Indian music, especially when it is produced by a few untrained ma hars.We soon were informed that a man had died at midnight, and was to be cremated at that time.leaving pur pictura roll and pong 1 books in a hut, we started off to the edge of the village, whence came the music.Many women were busy carrying water from the well.No water is carried while a corpse is in the village, for fear of de.fllement.Hence the very moment the dead body was removed, the needed sup ply of water was brought in, Women never go to view a burning.They would be wholly out of place there according to long-observed custom.When we arrived, the corpse had been placed upon a pyre of logs, and was being covered over with wood.The relatives and friends who were arranging the pyre were busy with axes and hands.There was considerable noises and commotion, and several loudly voiced their suggestions.Some of the logs were of fair size and length.The pyre was next overlaid with rice straw.The head of the corpse was placed toward the south.The eldest son of the deceased grasped a bundle of sticks, and set them afire.After cireum- sceibing the body of his father three times, be set it afire.The straw flared up into a bilase, and thereupon the som, while standing at the head of the pyre, loudly invoked the blessing of the gods.In a little while he offered some prr- ticles of food and tobacco to his father.Then he brought a small earthen vessel of water.Two of the sons went around the dre, as close as they could because of the intense heat, sprinkling water upon it with mango sprigs.This signifies their offering of water to the deceased.The supply of water being exhausted, the vessel was dashed into pieces upon the ground.A little later another brought some kerosene from the village, which added life to the fire.: The crowd busied themselves in taking up a collection for liquor.They had about nine rupees for this purpose whem we left.They informed us that they would tarry there until tree o-clock.I had often passed by cremation scenes without stopping to view the several parts of the ceremony.The apparent lack of sorrow and respect proved surprising.The passing of huge bundles of cigarettes, or the discussion of the liquor secured, and general commonplace themes, were not considered inappropriate.Let us re member, however, there is not ordinarily a great deal of sorrow manifested ia India when an aged person who cannot work or one who has suffered long, dies.It is customary to have a feast and liguor thirteen days after the cremation, for the entertainment of friends and rek- atives.A few days ago in another vil lage I saw women carrying water to the spot where one of their sisters in caste had been cremated thirteen days previous ly.They poured water out of their ves sels to the deceased.This is esteemed to be an act of great respect.: The Hindu philosophy of trausmigre - tion subjects an individual to 8,400,000 rebirths.This vague theory does not stimulate its devotees-to form any concrete conception of the hereatter.A common saying of the dead is, \u2018He is gone.\u201d Should one achieve unity with the Divine through the endless process, there is no real ase surance in Hindu religion that he will not fall back into à low estate, and therefore be subjected to the process of again being reborn for his restoration.The doctrine of transmigration, or metempsychosis, is hopeless and sad.Will you not pray for more than 200,000,000 NMindus, that they may soon understand the Gospel of Jesus, whom to know fis life eteral?\u2014The Youth's Instructor.UNKNOWN DANGER Honest folk would not feel safe in tale ing a case before r.weak, consclenceless or mercenary judge\u2014even once in a lifetime.But bow .many thousands thoughtlessly support and bring into their homes papers which, bent on money making, think a deal more about catering to the crowd tham they ever do about the truth of things.And courageous cham- plonship for the weitare of the family or the nation, to an extent that will net them any serious loss, is no part of their program.The court direct! touches but few.The press touches and influences every one intimately.Talk it over with y.ur friend.Perhaps he never thought that \u201cLike paper, like people: like paper.\u201d Witness.like people, Tell your friend about the «i NEEDS AND CANADIAN HOMESTRAD, APRIL 6, 1827.LIVE STOCK PRICES COMMENTS FOR WEEK There were 709 cattle, 3706 calves, 4279 bogs and 86 sheep and lambs for sale on the two markets at Mentreal during the past week and in addition 568 were received on through billing for ex port te Great Britain.The cattle market at Montreal wus strong with some high prices paid for very fat cows and choice bulls suitable for the Kosher trade.A few lots of good steers were sold from $1.76 to $8.50 and one lot Drought $5.60.With a heavy run of poor quality calves, prices were lower.A few small lots of just fafrly good calves were sold at $3.00, $8.26.A couple of poor qualfty hogs were sold on Monday at $11.36 asd on one market where -less than 500 hogs were offered, $12.00 was paid for good quality bogs by local butchers.Bows sold from $9.00 to $9.50.Yearling lambs were sold from $10.25 to $11.00, and sheep $4.50 Co $6.50.Spring lambs brought from $5.00 to $11.00 each, ac cording to weight, but the dozen or so offered were too small to sell readily.At Toronto the cattle market strengthened under meagre supplies and recover: ed by 35c.per hundred on all grades of butcher cattle, Exporters purchased only 80 head of heavies and stores during the week and will probably be out of the market next week.The small heavy mess supply was disposed of to killers at steady prices, choice steers selling from $8.00 to $8.40 with others down ward to $750.The calf market held steady on inferior grades aithough the supply was the heaviest for the year to date.Choice vealers, which were scarce, advanced 25c.to 5êc.per hundred, closing from $1250 to $13.50.There was no change in hog prices.The run wis for mal and the decline in Buffalo hogs was not reflected locally.The general mer ket was on a basis of $10.90 off cars for daded hogs and at $11.15 of cars for flat sales.Lamb trade held firm under a heavier supply.A shipment of 400 lambs from Alberta sold at $14.00 per homdred, and there were a few decks of good Bative lambs at the same price.At Winnipeg the run of cattle produe- ed a better class of offerings and a Liberal supply of desirable but cheap steers were ineluded.Demand generally, was fairly broad, steers getting extremely good action and selling fully 280 to 36c above the close of last week.Beef heifers shared Im the activity with strong prices prevailing.\u2018The calf run was ra ther plain, good to choice making $8.00 to $11.00, and plain to medium kinds predominating from $3.50 to $7.00.The hog market was unsettled and prices showed a further downward trend.Thick smoeths opened at $10.00, and closed at $0.75.Select bacon hogs made the 16 per cent premium.The sheep market was barely established, owing to short arrivals.A few decent killing lambs made $11.50.At Prince Albert most of the receipts ENDING APRIL 2 were good to choice and prices consequently were higher at the top.Heavy steers made 96.50, a mumber of choice baby beef $7.58, while plenty of good illing steers moved from $5.50 to $6.00.Good heafers made $5.50 to $6.50.Best butcher cows made $4.50 to $5.00, and fair $3.00 to $4.60.Good bulls made $2.00 to $4.00.Good calves changed bands from $400 to $7.00 and common at $3.00.Hogs were 35c.weaker, closing for thick smooths $9.25, fed and watei- ed.Top selects made $10.48.At.Moose Jaw the market was active and brisk on good quality, amd butcher cows were 2c.stromger.Btores were quiet and scares.Calves were steady.Thick smeoths opensd at $10.00 and cloned 3c.lower.Belects made $10.70\u2014 $11.06.Butcher lambs sold from 39.00 to $10.00.At Calgary receipts were fairly heavy for the time of year, but trade was ex- ceptionaliy active and 26¢c.to G0c.stronger.Most sales were local and Coast packers.Packers bought the bulk of the lamb sGpply from country feed lots.Hogs were unsettled and 10c.lower.Thick smooth hogs opened at $10.85 and closed $10.76.One load made 311.08 off cars.Seleet bacon wodd-at 1he 10 per cent premium and improved thick smooths at 25c.per hundredweight premium.Lamb prices were stronger, urder few- receipts Fat lambs made $11.35 to $11.76, ewes $2.50 and yearlings $9.00 to $10.At Bémenton the caîtie market was decidedly keen and active at stronger prie- es.especially on the better grades of handyweight butchers.Most of the good to cholee steers made $7.25 to $8.00 and plain 36.50 down.A few heifers topped at $750.Calves were unchanged, good from $3.00 to $10.00 amd commen $3.00 to $65.00.Hogs\u201d were weaker at $10.76 for thick smooths.Selects made the 10 per cent premium.There were insuff- ctent sheep to establish a market.British Cattle Market.Glasgow cables the sale of 360 Canadians on Saturday from 8c.to 10c.No Irish were offered.The best Scotch baby beef made 14%e., prime Scotch 13c.to 18l4c.and other grades from 10%c.to 12c., prices per pound live weight, - ,Livprpool cables: the sale of 468 Casla- dian stoves at umchsaged prices.Also 1680 Irish stores and 1308 Irisk fais st unchanged prices.London sold 1300 Canadian dressed sides of good quality from 15:4c.to 18%ec.Demand looked more active.British Bacon Market: Canadian baled baeon 50s.to 88s.(1834c.to 20%c.), c.), (25 %e.to 28%c.), quiet.Danish 92s.to 96s.(Mec.to 20%c.), good de wand, Swedish 88s.to 87s, (171-3c.to TOM are FLORIET ; (Continued from page 10) ean wes our sycoess just ahead.Kaster's the time of hope and faith, snd those Easter lilies sre more than a symbol to \u201cThey're going to be bread and butter,\u201d he owned.\u201cDed't leok at them that way, Tom,\u201d she commanded.\u201cYou've learned a lot from them.That's profit alresdy.And they've given me more joy thas you'll ever know.\u201d \u201cBut I don't like you to get your joy by going without things,\u201d he Tetarted, \u201cThink of us both once in a while, mother: I'm not the only one who counts.I'd like to know how many bulbs Russell has.\u201d - \u201cNever mind him,\u201d she advised.\u201cCompetition wom't hurt you.You've \u2018got to it all through life and yow've got to te conguer it.\u201d \u2018suppose so,\u201d he admitted, \u201cBut it ® we'd both had about our With his optimism \u201cmo time to add to his Yet within the month he had coal in the little greenhquse melted, even though the mow aid not.Tom grudged each shovelful he threw into his heater.His bulbs had become plants now.They had te be kept warm.They were being grown om a schedule SPRING IMPURITIES DUE T0 POO POOR BLOOD A Tonle Modine a Necessity at This Season Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink Pilis are an all-year- round ftouic for the blood and nerves.But they are especially valuable in the Spring when the system is loaded with impurities as a result of the indoor life of the winter months.There is 20 other sesson when the blood Is 30 much In need of purifying aad enriching and every dose of these pills helps to enrich the blood.in the spring one feels weak and tired \u2014Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink Pills give strength.In the spring the appetite is often poor ~Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink Pills develop the appetite, tone the stomach and Tank gration.It o- andi ons in the blood find\u2019 an outlet in disfiguring pimples, erruptions and bolls\u2014Dr.Williams Pink Piüs cleer the ekin because they go to the root of the trouble in the blood.In the apring, anaomisa, rheumatism, indigestion, neuraigia and many.other troubles are most persistent because of poor, weak blood, and it is at this time when all nature takes on new lite that the blood most seriously needs attention.Some people dose themselves with purgatives at this season, but these only further weaken themselves.A purgative merely galieps through the system, emptying the bowels, but does not help the blood.On the other hand, Dr.Willlams' Pink Pills earich the blood which reaches every nerve in the body, bringing new strength 4nd vigor to weak, easily tired men, women and ehiidren.Try Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink Plils this spring\u2014 they will rot disappoint you.You cam get these pills through any medicine dealer or by mail at 59 cents a box from The Dr: Williams\u2019 Medicine pois- Co, Ergckvillg.Out, Lu which would bring them into flower two days hefors Easter.Nothing must interfere with that.Should they be atunted of retarded, they would bloem too late.He dared not aliow himself to think what that would mean.Easter came nearer.Timy buds began te show on Tom's plants.Their numbers proved the bulbs even better tham the wholesaler had promised.Yet this unhop- ocd-for good fortune faited to lift the thickening gloom.The boy had refused to consider the day when the last of his coal should go.But that day, bright, biting and with the \u2018dreafied, driving wind out of the north, came.He went to Burke, the coal dealer, and laid his plight before him frankly, as frankly asked for credit and was as frankly refused.\u201cYou've over-reached yourself, Nash,\u201d Mr.Burke said; \u201cyou've put ail your eggh in the same basket, and Ria sch\u2019s xot a bigger and a better one.He'd \u2018undersell you, even if 1 helped you now, and you couldn't pay up.You ought to have gowe to work long ago: now you've got to.\u201d - He went home slowly.For an hour he moved even the more advanced plants to the sunlit benches.Nature must be made tc offset his own imability to provide.But ke knew that the sun would not be enough.Yet he tried not to think of that, tried to down the dull, aching agony of failure: tried to make himself believe that somewhere behind the black clouds there was dawn.He was placing the last of the lilies In the warmest corner of the cooling house when the door opened.Turning he almost gasped.\u201cWhat do you want?he asked.| John Russeil glanced about with keen eyes.But nothing of what he saw showed on his bearded face.\u201cHeard ye was caught with no coal am\u2019 alot of balb stuff,\u201d he answered indifferently.\u201cThought J might take it off yer Lands, if it was geod for anythin\u2019.After sesin\u2019, though, dont know as I want it.Looks sorter sickly.Got any tulips?\u201d \u201cNo.\u201d \u201cToo bad.Big demand for \u2018em this Easer.Mine all spoke for already.Lilies aren't goin\u2019 to be worth much.\u201d \u201cI didn't get that idea.\u201d \u201cYou're not in touch with the good buyers, an\u2019 them thst bay from you won't pey enough to make profit oa such poor stock's you got.\u201d \u201cIt's good stock,\u201d Tom declared evenly.\u201cWon't be after it's friz,\u201d declared Russell confidently.\u201cWon't be worth saythin\u2019 when Easter's passed.An\u2019 no lily here'll bloom till after Easter, \u2018specially with no proper het.You left \u2018em too Teng in the \u201cI don\u2019t think so.My booké\u2014\" \u201cOh, books! I'm talkin\u2019 bulbs an\u2019 blooms.I raise, not read.See here, Tom, you haven't been over-friendly, but I'm ready to forget an\u2018 prove I'm all right by makin\u2019 a bargain.You help me with the summer folks, \u2014help me get some of their plant orders\u2014an\u2019 I'll take .all these scrub lilies off yer hands now.I'll most probly lose money, but that's not yer worry.What say to seventy-five dollars for the lot?\u201d \u201cThat they're worth about five times that.They're beauties.; \u201cYou'll think so when they're frost slung.Make it eighty.\u201d Tom looked at him narrowly.\u201cIf you want \u2018em\u2019 he declared, \u201cI Deed \u2018em.There's something I don\u2019t understand.\u201d \u201cYou're right, there be!\u201d growled Rus- sil \u201cAm\u2019 that's decent uaderstanding o' friendabip.Let 'em freeze.Maybe that'll tench you a lesson, Heard Cap'n Cofin tiled to help yer am' got turned down Cughter have snowed better myself.What a feller gets for tryin\u2019 to be decent.Hope yor enjey yer Easter.\u201d And be stamped oùt.= (To be continued.) THE HOLY SPIRIT Spirit of God, naught\u2019 but Thy power, Can cleanse onr sinful hearts, Come quickly down and from this hour Bless us and ne'er depart.We need Thee, O Thou living way, To us Thy truth reveal, Come shed abroad Thy heavenly ray, Place on our hearts Thy seal.Oh! gracious Spirit help us prove Thy iwfluence and power, p For \u2018tis in Thee we live and move, Thy very life is ours.- Our fainting hearts do yearn for Thee, Thy healing balm outpour; From Saian\u2019s bondage set us free, Our faith in Thee restore.Oh! 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oats 73 1-3¢, No.8 C.W.at 641-2e, No.1 feed at 631-2c, and No, 2 feed at 59 1-3c per busbel, ex- store.- Cash prices at Winnipeg: Wheat: 1 nor.$1.44; 3 nor.82.38 34: 3 not.$1.30 78; No.4, $1.20 3-4; No.§, 3L061-2; No: 6, 981.3c; feed, T0 14c; track, $Lét 14.Oata: 2 C.W.67 68e; 3 C.W.§3 6-80; extra, 1 feed, 521-8c: 1 feed, 4958c; 2 bu.46 5-8c; rejectad, 48 1-8; track 55 Barley: $ C.W.731-8c; 4 CW.7218¢; rejected, 681-8c; feed, 671-8c; track, 3 T-8¢.Flax: 1 NW.C.$1.8914; 2 CW.$1.06 1.4; 3 CW.$1.683.4; rejected, $1.633-4; track, $1.90 1-4.Rye: 3 EW.99 7-4.COUNTRY PRODUCE An easier feeling developed in the ezz markt last week, and prices were shad.od one cent.per dozen in many instances.The consumptive demand was good, and an active business was done with sales.of fresh extras at 36c to 37c, firsts at 34c to 36c, and seconds at 32c to 83c per dos- en.The trade in storage dressed pouitry was of a satisfactory volume, there being « good demand from both local and outside buyers for supplies for prompt and deferred delivery.and in consequence NITNESE AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, APRIL 6, 1827.MARKETS tbe market was more active with no change in prices to note.There was no further change in the condition of the market for maple product, prices being steady under an fa.creasing demand for aeuppites, and a the offerings were ample to meet all requirements a more active business was done with saleg of maple syrup at $233 per tim of 13 lbs, and at $1.55 to $1.60 per tin of 8 lbs.The demand for maple sugar was also gobé and sales of No.1 grade were made at 20c per tb.The market for honey was without say new phase to note.There were no fer ther developments in the market for potatoes, prices being about steady ai the late decline noted, but the demand for sup plies was somewhat limited, and trade wae quiet with car lots of Quebec wtifte atock selling at $1.10 to $1.15 per bag of 90 Ibs.i» balk, ex-irack.TME DAIRY MARKET The condition of the butter market continues exceedingly strong on account of the fact that spot stock im first hands are not eufficient to meet the dally requirements of the trade and prices scored « further advance with gales of odd small lots of finest creamery butter made as high as 56c per Ib.which is a record price for sometime past, but at the same time other sales were made nt 49c Lo 49 1-2c per ib.The market fcr cheese was reported very quiet, and in the absence of any business passing of importance it was somewhat difficult to quote spot prices.Foreign exchange department, Bank of Montreal, $4.83 1-4 (par value $4.36 2.3).New York funds, 1-32 discount.The Montreal \u201cWithess and Canadian Homestead\u201d is printed and published at No.222 Craig 8.W,, in the City of Montre.} oy John Redpath Dougall and Frederi k Eugene Dougall, both of the A Tower of STRENGTH \u2014\u2014\u2014 LIFE ASSURANCE IN FORCE OVER $1,250,000,000 \u201cProsperous and Progressive\u2019 SUN LIFE: HEAD OFFICE MONTREAL \u201co-dre- Assets $345,000,000 City of \u201cMontroal.Subscription rate 32.00 à ye.OUT TO BREAK ALL RECORDS London Optimist.\"SENDING PICTURES BY WIRELESS Such good progress has been made with the tests of the Telefunken-Karolus-Ste- mens eystem of transmitting writing and pictures in facsimile by wireless that the German authorities concerned expect that the public service between Berlin and Vienna will be opentd very socn, probably before the end of March, says a correspondent.One of the most important features ot the Telefunken-Karolus system is that the pioture or message itself is placed straight on a cylinder for transmission.\u2018There is no need for prelimi: nary reproduction of the original.Transmission is effected by means of points of light, concentrated by a lens through a \u201clight ceil,\u201d kvown as the Telefunken photocell, which converts the impulses of light into electric impulses.At the receiving end Dr.Kareius of Vienna, has contributed the \u201cKaroime cel,\u201d an im provement on the \"Kerr cell\u201d which ac- DOMINION TEXTILE COMPANY, LIMITED NOTICE OF DIVIDEND A Dividend of Ose and Three-Quarter ver cent.(199%) on the Preferred Stock of DOMINION TEXTILE COMPANY, Limited, has been declared for the quar ter ending March 31st, 1927, payable 16th April, to shareholders of record 31st March.By order of the Board, JAS.H.WEBB, Secretary-Treasurer.Montreal, January Séth.1927.NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the Sbareboiders of the Moatrea! & Vermont Junctioa Railway Compeoy will be held at the offes of the Company, at 230 ft.James Street, Most- \u2018real.P.Q.on May iitb, 1927, for the purpose of electing Directors and the transaction of such other business as may be properly brought before the meeting.MARCUS ALEXE.Clerk.complishes the reverse process of transforming the electric impulses into light impulses, which, Coucentrated through a levs, reproduce the image on a film or & piece of photographic printing paper rolled round a slowly revolving cylinder.In the teste carried out between Berlin and Letprig cr Vienna photographs.printed pictures, typeseript, cheques, signatures, newspaper cuttings, printed music.finger-prints, and Chinese script, among other things, have been\u201d transmitted with perfeet clearness.The rate of transmission depends largely on the character of the image.À picture consisting of a few eimple lines on a white ground Cikes less time than « complicated picture or a closely-typed page of script.Theres is a tendency to distortion If complicated images are transmitted too hastily.For satisfactory transmission, an average of shout thirty seconds must be allowed at the present stage of deveicpment.ab though the reduction of the rate te free tiens of 4 second is considered emily a matter of tinve.\u2014The Times.4 STOCKYARDS AND .MOTOR CARN Whenever the name of Chicago is men tioned it is sure to bring up visions of huge packing plants where livestock Wy the thousand is slaughtered daily for the table of a 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