Witness and Canadian homestead, 23 janvier 1929, mercredi 23 janvier 1929

[" » \"WITNESS and Canadian Homestead chancelleries of Christendom thendom.Moat of the powers have had informal dealings with the Vatican Palace in which the Y ita passage with an impres- B sive majority through the Senate of the United States, that graveyard of 80 many famous measures and treaties, the Kellogg Pact has surmounted its greatest ob- _stacle, for ita ratification by the legislatures of the remaining signatory nations is certain.Until almost the last moment-\u2014certainiy up to the time that Mr.Borah, in charge of the measure in the Senate, agreed to the insertion into the Foreign Relations Committee's report gn the pact, of a qualifying clause containing the committee\u2019s interpretation of the treaty as protecting the Monroe Doctrine, and the right of the Uniled States to self- defence and denying obligation to punish a treaty violator, the issue was in doubt.This careful pruning of every concrete obligation was only to save the Senate's face as the treaty was already amply surrounded with reservations which made it no more than a counsel of perfection, à confession of faith\u2014but &8 such not without high value; for the world is ruled by ideas after all.In its purely spirit- usl character it is the precise opposite of the proposal of Soviet Russia that all nations should forthwith disarm.What was gained for mankind and what gave the whole thing deep interest to all the other signatories was the fact that broadly speaking, it placed the United States w.mong the nations of the world and at one with them in their loftiest aspiration and hope.Unfortunately, the long delays oc- castoned by the almost interminable wranglings over words and clauses, in the: Senate have combined with the reservations and limitations imposed by the British and French governments to rob the treaty of much of its mora! significance to mankind.VOL.LXXXIV, Ne.6 The Kellogg Pact js not a magic formula to usher in the thousand years of Peace.It does not forbid all war, for while renouncing \u201cwar as an Instrument of national policy\u201d, the nations concerned retain the right of waging war in self-defence.But the treaty does not define \u201cdefensive\u201d war.Every angry nation is left to define that for itself.Who can recall a war of modern times in which ail the belligerents did not protest themselves as being \u2018merely engaged in defending themselves from wanton attack or obvious threat?Nor indeed, ls the treaty explicit as to what constitutes aggressive warfare, the interpretation of the various clauses being left to the contracting parties.Thus the United States may continue to interfere in the domesiic affairs of Latin America, without being accused of a breach of the treaty.Fruit oF Muck Tribulation TILL, the.Kellogg Pact while primarily a statement of an ideal rather than an instrumentfar the outlawty of war, is a historic declaration of high import, as being the first example of unanimity of deciared purpose toward peace by the great nations, and a solemn condemnation beforehand of aggressive war.To use Sir Austen Chamberlain's phrase, it will make attack mare perilons Jar the Years of tribulation have mate at much fruit It may be assumed that the United States will exert pressure with the other powers against violation of the treaty.While the interpretative declaration of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee amounts to an.insistence that the United States shall not be called on to administer sanctions, it is difficult to sce how with any pretence of reason that power could insist.on tradiag with a signatory violating a treaty which has emanated from the brain of its own Secretary of State.Thus the treaty appears {0 portend better relations between Britain and the United Btales dy eliminating à possible source of friction in the event of the British Fleet being called upon under Article 18 of the Covenant of the League of Nations to blockade the coasts of a nation defying the League and thus also violating the Kellogg Treaty, and shutting out commercial intercourse between United States and the offender, a possibltity clearly fraught with danger since the day when the United States definitively refused to enter the League.Confidence in this happy outcome will not be enhanced, however, by the reading of the cynical comments of so many of the Senators who voted for ratifiea- tion, nor by the grimly ironical fact that, following the elaborate\u2019 ceremony at which \u2018 President Coolidge formally appended his signature to the emasculated treaty, the Senate proceeded to consider the Adminls- tratlon\u2019s other contribution to world peace\u2014the demand for fifteen additional cruisers for the United States Navy, or In frank language of some ou'spoken Senators a navy able in case of need to face that of Great Britain.A Bepeless Appeal GS \u201cen or any: tion of the ac vation Army deposing the MONTREAL, JANUARY 13, 1888.Mth Year.that he was no longer capable of giving the Army the leadership it required, could be conceived of than that he should seek to prevent the election of a successor by attacking q'he validity of the legalised constitution which he accepted on taking control of the Army during teen years at its head.emperor of Germany who is ing as God's appointed voice fo over Germany, General Booth of the kind who in age cannot conceive any different conditions from those in which he grew up and in - which he has lived till now.Fifty- five to eight was amid many tears, tional convention of the deposition of the Gene possible that Genefal Booth see \u2018the omen in the fact that of the eight votes in his favor were those of women members of his own family present as holding high commanding positions by his appointment, while the seven-eighths of the council who passed the vote were all veterans with imposing records of service.Surely it La patent that the Army desires te make the change, and that no power of earth can make members of a voluntary organization like the Salvation Army submit to & \u2019 rejected and \u2018impracticéhle despot.By seeking an injunction against the High Council Genera! Booth bas vie- lated one of his father's basic rules, which forbids resort to law against 3 fellow Salvationlst.Worse still it is à violation of the pledge given, we know not by what authority from the General, by his dsughter, Commissioner Catherine Booth, who repeatedly assured the Council that no legal proceedings were contemplated.The result of the appeal to law can only be a weakening of the General's moral authority, as is shown by the alienation from hig support of three of the four unrelated members of the council who voted for his continuance In office.There is no need to assume evil Intent on the part of General Booth when his mentality and physical condition are taken into account, but his latest move has robbed him enormously of the reverence in which he would have been held to the end of his daya Rebbery of the St.Lawrence HICAQO, we are told, professes to believe that the declsion of the United States Bupreme Gourt on what has become known as the water steal from the Great Lakes is a vindication of her policy.She is only whistling to keep up courage, as it is the reverse.The verdict of the Court; which was unanimous, was that while Chicago had legal authority to divert 4,167 cubic feet of water per second from Lake Mich- fgan, the enlargement of this flow to more \u2018han twice that amount was a defiance of the Federal Government which, through the Secretary for War and the Chief Engineer, refused a permit for increased diversion as far back as 1907.Chicago is ordered to lassen the intake.Unfortunately no time limit is set, although a falrly broad hint was cnnveyed to the effect that the city might be called upon to erect expensive \u201clants to deal with sewage disposal.Probably the fight will be carried to the Congress.The SUBSCRIPTION RATES INSIDE FIVE CENTS A OOFY.between the wilful States that were t0 mandates irom Washing- court.had not before it the of Canada, which is not 20 ponaibility for the low- lake levels which has TUE un : inland seas is laid at the door Canada by Chicago's apologists, ho however fall to present a convincing case.Canadian diversion for canal purposes is almost negligible, as all water taken from the lakes and connecting streams is eventually returned to the same system, while that taken by Chicago finds its way to the Gulf of Mexico by the Missis- sippl.Diversion of water from an international stream is a matter for international consideration and Canada will have to be satisfied before the matter is settled.Fortunately Canada\u2019s interests are identical with those of all the Great Lakes states, other than Illinois; there is therefore not much possibility of the controversy developing into an internation- Pf A New \u2018for Canada and the rest of the British Empire will open in Bridgetown, Barbadoes, next Saturday.On that day official representatives of the various British possessions in the West Indies and Caribbean region will gather to discuss some of their common problems The feasibility of having a common currency and postage, customs uniformity and free trade between the islands will be considered; also co-operation in civil aviation, cable and news services, education, agricultural research and trade representatives in Canada and England.The Honorable Cecil E A Rawle, of Dominica, commenting on the aspirations of the conference gives as his view that \u201cWithout co-opera- tion the Caribbean colonies cannot, as isolated unite, hope to command any degree of weight or influence with the council of the Empire or any important British or foreign market.The instinct of self-preservation should induce the colonies to seek salvation »in combination.\u201d Canada has served as the model on which the other dominions were formed, and now 1% seems that she is looked to serve as mentor for the West Indian colonies.\u201cWe want Canada as à foster mother,\u201d Mr.Rawle said.\u201cWe want ber to be our protector and guide\u2014we want to be in economic unity with her, and we want her aid In developing these islands.\u201d While it is not expected that this conference will result in federation of the West Indian colonies, yet it is a move in that direction.Such a federation is the dream of more than one prominent West Indian.Apart from other benefits it ls declared that one central government would greatly reduce the cost of ad- minisfration.Climate, products and inhabitants are so similar that the problems of the various colonies are alike and might very well be solved by unity of action.Canada\u2019s Interest HE development of the West TY css to à matter at moment to this country since Canada and these British possessions are by nature\u2019 WITNESS AND CANADIAN ROMESTEAD, JANUARY 23, 1988.may be a possibility.Recently there has been improved steamship service and the various col- meetings banks which have been appearing Iately in the columns of the press.Without exception bank executives express satisfaction and thankfulness for the rising tide of prosperity that the Dominion is enjoying, Bir Herbert Hol, President of the Royal Bank of Canada, goes so far as to give It as his opinion that there Is no more prosperous country in the world than Canada.Buch optimism, coming from such a reliable source, is a pleasant change from the blue ruin cries that have 30 long been emanating from certain dissatisfied circles.Our natural resources are being developed at a rapid rate \u2014new areas are being opened up to cultivation, water power is being utilized on an increasingly large scale to develop electrical energy, and new mining areas are being exploited.Increased development of natural resources, of course, reacts favorably on almost all other lines of activity, and not the least on transportation.In this connection it is gratifying to find the executives of both the Royal Bank and the Bank af Toronto commenting on the strong financial position of the publiely owned systems, a development of which capital was so afraid.\u201cSpeaking generally, the publicly owned corporations have never been In 8 nore sound or liquid position,\u201d sald Mr.C.B.Neil, general manager of the Royal Bank, while Mr.W.G.Gooderham, President of the Bank of Toronto, declared that \u201cane of the most satisfactory features of the year 1s the substantial improvement in railway earnings, both gross and net.The National System may now be said to be out of the woods the country called forth comment from Mr.Gooderham, but naturally, - he was chiefly concerneé with the-#5- faence on his own firm.It had deen said that the amaller banks would find competition against the thres larger ones more difficult, but the Bank of Toronto has no apprebension on that score, What 2 more to the point, however, and this point was not mentioned, is the well grounded apprè- henalen of the genoral publie.Whatever the amalgamating banks may gain in efficiency, they are almost certain to lose in public apiritedness.While this tendency to merging seems Inevitable the centralisation of public finance in the hands of à few large concerna, and, as is apparently hep- pening, in the hands of a few individuals, can never aerve, one would think, the beat interests of the community.Though the banks may mak moro money it does not follow thet community will I poriends at events Increasing public control, But it Mr.Gooderham's attitude towards amalgamations Le too lenient, little faut will be found with his criticism of the multiplicity of branches.It is by no means uncom- .mon to ind in & town of five hundred inhabitants, at least three branch banks, where two would meet the demands of competition.In the cities branch banks are becoming as frequent as chain stores.Adverse Tides COORDING to reports from A \u2018Washington, 31,483 Canadians have, during the five months ending November 30, entered the United States with a view to making their home there.Of that number 5,501 entered during the month of November.Against that there was à small return tide in favor of Canada of 1073, of which 168 returned in November.Commenting on this a correspondent of the Montreal Gazette attributes the heavy adverse tide to the attractions of the betler economic conditions, and these to the high tariff with which that country surrounds itself, In referring to the tariffs in this connection he has po doubt hit on ane of the causes of this Canadian leakage but sees it the wrong way about.There 13 probably a propor- tionaile yearly migration from Scotland to England without any question of tariff; but fit is certain that if Scotland were to tax her people in order to confine them to hume products the migration would be greatly increased.He ignores the fact that among forty-eight States there is the greatest free trade competitive market in the world.He also overlooks the fact that, in spite of a vigarous proclamation of its delinquencies, the United States is on the whole a dry country with which wet countries compete at an inereasing disadvantage.It is said that Mr.Hoover will favor a public enquiry Into the results of ten years of prohibition.It is probable that he has a pretiy shrewd ides as to what it was that elected him and what the vengiat would again be; based as it would se largely on the experience of the chiefs of industry.the stock market in the hope of making a fortune over night.who abould bave had enough experience with the unpredictable fluctos- tions of their own commodities to ment securities and caused a fall in prices.This is not good for business, as its tendency is to bold up projects involving long term finane- The monthly letters of the Royal Bank, the Bank of Montreal, and gther financial firms have been strong in ibelr condemnation of the insane specuistive excesses of recent months, and it ie time that the people as & whole realised that if the run- sway is not controlied soon, personal disasters are certain and serious general economic troubles must inevitably follow.Russia in his sublime, but premature, venture, in which, \u2018grounds of crime, but who were all for Turkey, made an attempt to raise India against Britain, en adventure in which he was 2 worsted as to make him of quite & different mind There had already been s similar imaginative story about Colonel Lawrence, that romantic mahdi of Central Arabia, now known 2s Private Shaw of the British air service, who hap- to have been the instigator of the revoit.Dear to the Prussian mind is some story of Intrigue, and like Shakespearean drama, it has its stage not in detective work in the hunting fn the high game where nations are supposed to aeck each other's harm.On the basis of this rumor, but not to give it any sanction, Lawrence was linmediately withdrawn from that region.It certainly would have been a poor triumph of diplomacy, as the next thing we heard was that the chieftain of Amanullah had the brother hope- Jeasly shut up In his citadel at Cabul.Why should he who scared away & igning monarch, and who practical- already had the power, not seat on the throne, and with all the Mullah\u2019s egging him on abolish all this foreign nonsense, this contempt for the prophet and the customs of religion?What more natural than that these asemi-barbarians should attribute all this transmogrification to the British ambassador, who had certainly been, as his duly was, on the friendliest terms with the king?This is ai all events a different story from the legend of Berlin and, in as far as it attributes intrigue to Sir Francis Humphrys, ls just as false, It is, however, a very dangerous notion.In 1842 Sir W.Macnaghten was foully slain by the then ruler and of the contingent which backed him only one man reached the British lines.Again fifty years ago 8ir Louis Cava- gnarl and all his staff and military guard were massacred after just such friendly dealings with Britain by just such a revolution.Serious indeed! as there Is no way of punishing such wholesale murder or of terrorizing the miscreants in their mountain 'fastnesses.The Speech Of Tars - UTIFUL loyalty to the happy past has been the effort of the Irish Free State to reestablish the Irish tongue.To the Celt the golden age always glinoeers before the dawn of s contrasted and It would be sad We have just been toid how an annual prise founded at Queen's University for proficiency in Oaeclic hes for four years had no claimants, although \u201cwill it pay?\u201d as ils success could only slate a diminlhing following from.prosperous loter- course with mankind.Indeed, i# 18 from the hills and glens where the Erase moat survives that just now emi- inspirational piety; and not preserved in the heart of the people who prefer the tradition of Tara and Brien Boru.But the Irish language accomplished and deserves.splendid reward as a feat of pathetic and lofty patriotism unblemished by lesser motive, unless it \u2018be jealousy of a conquering tongue.\u201c Mercie Salvage \u2018 K have always deplored the WW ise of the dodo, the great auk and other forms of divine workmanship that have vanished from earth before the destrucilve approach of semi-civilised man.We ahould be sorry to hear of the disappearance of Bunyan's prison at Bedford or matiy another memento of departed worth, But how infinitely more must we lament the countless languages, in which human beings have talked and sung, which are visibly vanishing before our own.Greatly do we value, 42 only for this, thé aplendid service of th\u201d Bible Society in embalming all living languages in lis transiations of the Bible, though its much higher aim 1s to bring the existing tribes of earth into touch with the Kingdom of God.Like other Celtic dialects, the revived Irish speech has been thus embalmed in a translation of the Biblg unless the work just issued be superseded.Irish acholara will no doubt, like those of other people, have to accept that as & standard.A vast service hideed 1s being rendered humanity by putting an official record probably the most .complete and best preserved of a grept family of languages that have more or less left their mark on all Buropean clvilisations-surviving still in four forms counting Cornish and Manx, in Great Britain, also In the Gallic of France, the Walloon of Bel- glum and leaving its traces upon the speech and character of the Welsh, as the Germans cali their Italian neighbors of what the Romans knew as Cis Alpine Goul.They were of © the early peoples of Galicia, now part of Poland; of Wallachia in Rumania; of the ancient Galatia in Asia Minor, evangelised by Bt.Paul.Indeed the New Testament was anos proscribed In Turkey by censors who found in 1t that passage \u201cO foolish Galatians\u201d, for even Constantinople 1d a suburb called Galata.We must leave the result of the heroic effort to reinstate the ancient tongue as & state language to time.It is In prac- WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 23, 1600.g Coroner's inquest into the deaths by.suicide of two London brothers, doctors who, finding themseives without means after prolonged studies of the causes and cure of cancer took their lives to avoid the destitution which confronted them.While the whole world stands to benefit from the medical researches of doctors and aclent- fui record, were it known, of superior souls, caught by some vision of unspeakable service to mankind, who perish by the way, broken, unhonored and unknown.For one who succeeds are a hundred who pursue the quest and perish; not 30 often poet sings, on the Alpine top mid snow and ice, as floundering like the fog of poverty.It is not of society, s0 worshipful of success, whether in arms or in pesce- those who succeed tn commerce and industry, that those devoted to its bepefit should so perish.It simply has no means of discovering or helping them.J has for a good while been the custom in Germany to make such research a function of government, and to support comfortably at least, corps of workers in it.How far the selection has met such cases of spontaneous combustion in the various lines of discovery cannot easily be known.How far those who make real contribution to knowledge lose their Individuality, we do not know.Those same countries have in addition their full share of self-appointed inventors, explorers and discoverers.Other governments including our own are now eagerly treading the same path.But still there are countless explorers perishing between the task of making a living, for which they are, by reason of preoccupation, ill qualified, and that of seeking to nerve men with some exploit of Invention in which, given the free mind they might, of, unfortunately might not, be of untold serv- joe to mankind.Who has pot known those who with thelr wagon hitched to a star, have perished in the bog of poverty or flickered out through the anaemia of sleepless enthusiasm.Is there no way to meet at least the elementary needs of men and women whose seal for the physical wellbeing of humanity often precludes their securing the rewards that fall to suc- ces pursued on selfish lines\u2014no voluntary fund to which in heartier ap- might be made?The two Lon- firab of these is about due, and will other, originating, it is sald, with the Methodists, is certainly the foverun- ner of some still greater fraternization, which is probably rapidly approaching.The ways of Methodists and Presbyterians were somewhat contrasted In the fruitful days of the early circuit riders.But between two bodies looking to the same end the process of assimilation is ineylt- able.In what form that process will eventuate, whether, as in Canada, it will include the Congregationalists, all in one organisation, ar whether, as others, afraid of clerical domine- tion, are planning, it will result in somé yet unsucesssful form of mutual recognition that will preclude rivalry, remains to be worked out.But «ll are beginning to feel that some form of acknowledged Christian unity is an imperative duty and an easential of success.Aa Infant State - ORTH DAKOTA is jealous of Miinois.It envies that great state its Chicago with the ineffable Bill, its beer rackets, its gunmen with their baser allies, the venal * judge and the crook lawyer and the multiplicity of freak organizations that mark the polyglot civilisation amid the skyscrapers that cluster around the southern extremity of Lake Michigan.Such kaleidoscopic variety is of course beyond the lesser state; but at least it can measure up to the other in practical patriotism.So North Dakota, calmly taking a leaf out of the statute book of Chicago, proceeds to legislate the English language out of existence, replacing it so far as North Dakots is concerned by _\u201cthe American language\u201d.Nor is that all Dakota goes one step further than Illinois by providing that history a8 {aught in its schools will be treated from the American and not from what it chooses to term the \u201cEnglish viewpoint\u201d; that is to aay the ears of the sons and daughters of the patriots must not be offended by the truth when it 1s unpalatable.This decision is come to by people whase ancestors for many generations have never heard anything but the \u201cAmerican viewpoint.\u201d Even modern peoples have their mythologies.North Dakota has been looked on as an Intelligent State.Surely there are among is legislators, men of sufficient common sense to see the folly of endeavoring by legislative decres to deny an obv- ern State is to be judged by some others we know, a rather debased and badly abused form of the noble tongue of Chaucer and Shakespeare, Letters GENRALOGY OF JESUS (To the Rditor of the Witness) Sir:\u2014Like my old friend, George Elder, I have often wondered how as I oould find nothing to show that Jesus was descended from King David, Ë à i | : EEE SE a born of ro: Matthew and Luke, I the ancestral line from Joseph and Mary the mother of Jesus.Yet third chapter of Luke gives à new entirely different list of names, making it evident that Luke's genealogy ls not that of Joseph as given in Matthew.This must be noted carefully: ë E 8 + § ë BER does not say \u201cson,\u201d Schofield says it is \u201crightly supplied by the transiators\u201d because in accord with Jewish usage.Luke's genealogy therefore is that of Mary, whose father was descended from David, while Matthew's is that of Joseph, the reputed father of Jesus, the Messiah to the Jews, while ta Luke He appears as the \u201cSoh of and \u201cto all people,\u201d so Luke the genealogy from Adam the Er ih Note however that Je ly the \u201cRoyal line\u201d from Joseph, as stated by Matthew.Luke though the line of descen from David it is not the royal because in it Jesus is descend David through Nathan, truly son but not in the royal line list follows a line quite distinct f: royal line Mary being a descendant of through her father Hell but, woman, her name according to J custom could not appear in the alogy, males alone forming the Joseph's name is used instead Mary's he being her husband.was his father-in-law, so he is son of Hell, thus completing the Therefore Joseph, being by fleah in-law of Hell, was in actual fact son of Jacob as related in Ma \u2018The necessity of two genealogies pears in order to trace the lineage our Lord and Saviour Jesus Chrigt\u2014 one the royal and legal, the other the natural and literal.These two appear, the legal and royal, in Matthew the \u201cGospel of law and kingship,\u201d other in Luke the Gospel of the natural and literal of humanity.That able scholar ead 2; ologetie for the Word of God, Sexton, says sceptics made much for a time of Heremiah's \u201cContradiction fhat a descendant of i in et § i 1 Ë e gE ike ghEke Ë R$ F \u2018 Jeconiah could not come to the throne of David,\u201d yet we find that while Joseph was of this line and while Joseph's genealogy furnishes the royal line tor Jesus, his son-before-the-law, yet strictly speaking Jesus was not Joseph's descendant therefore was not of the seed of Jeconial}.Had Jesus in reality been the son of Joseph he could not have come to the throne, but He is Mary's son and through Nathan comes to the throne legally, because she married Joseph.as in the pre-war days, the general decrease being at east 1% In.\u2014It has been stated that there over 40 miles of greenhouses in around Worthing, England.\u2014A meat van \u201cdelivered.$135.000 worth of gold and silver at the bank of England, London, a shart time ago.are and 1 CARE NORTHERN MESSENGER.LAUNCH FUND GRENFELL LABRADOR MISSION ~ Treasurer from Oct.4 Paid to Oot Pund 120.08 Puarther Contributions LU Mary Maïinughton, Out.100 Tomi $310.08 WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 28, 1828.m.) ous mettre Tili in business, church s tt rs Tvery oom might he: - Le ° \u2018 i \u20ac These lines with more liks them : have often been In mind during the post decade an more and it is en- POETELENGE AND PRAYER couraging to (To the Editor of The Witness) @ir:\u2014The Surgeon-General of the United States indicates that the pres- ond influenss epidemic will be aimilar to that of 1018-19.In the United States alone approximately $50,000 deaths were directly attributable to that epidemic.It is estimated that it accounted for ten million deaths throughout the world.\u201cHe doth not willingly afiiet.\u201d Why then does He s0 visit us?.\u201che inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness when Thy judgments are abroad In the earth.\u201d He deals with mankind to turn us from an to Himself.From Genesis to Revelation this is made clear.Would it not therefore be well to to Himself, and that He will check the pestilence that is sweeping over us.basing out prayers on the promise of Jesus Christ, \u201cIf two of you shall _ - REVISING THE CALENDAR \" CTo the Editor of The Witness) -Btr:\u2014Slomé one a short time present calendar is tbe month of September?By its derivation he should bp.right In saying \u201c7th\u201d.But no! he is wrong, and we have to admit that our language does not say what It Saplity the calendar of the main objects for not discardmames com- ce them with num- as is frets in cities?knows exactly G.Y.DONALDSON.January 14th.Hééaftss UE BEd F 2 i ï È \u20ac i a THE TOBACCO HARIT (To the Editer of the Witness) Sir:\u2014I am conaclous of the fact that I am only an atom ih the great mass of humanity, yet my heart has your paper on questions which should deeply concern us all, as that of Peace, Prohibition and other moral issues.We have it on good authority that \u201cRighteousness exalteth a nation, and sin is a reproach to any people.\u201d It makes us feel ashamed of our country when worthy causes have taken a backward step, ye! we art led to question whether we have rested too easy at home or \u201cminding our own business\u201d as we perhaps thought and let the enemy have his way.A story of an old Scotc} woman who had the pleasant habit of finding something good to say about everyone, comes to mipd.A younger woman talking to her about someone she was very much \u2018tried with, and she made her usual kindly comment, burst.on with the exclamation, \u201cI do believe you'd find something good to say about the devil himself\u201d The old woman replied, \u201cWell, he is very industrious.\u201d \u201cBlessed are the peace-makers\u201d Would the birds might sing it, And the merry mountain.streams, Over pebbles ring it! Would the music-laden bresse, O'er the land might bear it see how much this doctrine has taken hold of people almost throughout the world: we still long for a more deep and general appreciation of its importance to our highest welfare I would not take up too much space but the smoking habit seems to increase and we have always felt that® it was a demoralizing habit and now Ontario is growing tobacco! \u201cShall we fold our hands and acquiesce?Oh shame!™ Oh.ves! let us \u201cbe strong\u201d in our convictions of what is right and what is wrong! \u201cSo nigh le grandeur to our dust, So is God to man, eo When tv whispers low, \u201cThou must!\u201d The youth replies, \u201cI can\u201d (Emerson) Now, a little story of how a man who felt that he must give up smoking tobacco and how he came to do it.We have it first hand from his own lips.He had learned to smoke when quite young; it was conseidered not seriously harmful by those with whom he lived but, after arriving at mature years he began to feel that it was not right for him to indulge in the practice\u2014especially as he was making the profession of a Christian\u2014 a follower of Christ-so he decided he would quit it.This he found to be a severe teat of his faith in the necessity of it, and finally gave up trying thinking that It was {mmssible to do it, and consnling himself with the Idea that God does not renulre more of us than He gives strength to perform.Still, fn his inner self, he fell uneasy.Then one day he made up his mind to go and talk over the matter with a friend whom he highly esssem- ed-\u2014h prominent minister.After stat- îng his case, and making some attempt, to justify himself in the habit, the friend remarked that he could think of only one place in the Biblé that might seem to justify amoking.Of course he was interested to know what it said.The minister quietly re- pled.\u201cHe that is filthy, let him be stil\u201d The man felt the re: buke keenly, while appreciating Dig friend\u2019s deep interest in his giritoal welfare, and he concluded the sto: with the emphatic sentende\u2014-\"Wel I had to quit\u201d \u2014SUBSCRIBER.\u2014When Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837 there were 1800 bays under 18 years of age awaiting transportation from England for petty crimes.\u2014There will be 20 altérs in the new - Abbey church of the Bénedictine, Order at Woolhanmpton, Berks, England, when it is completed.The entrch will be known as Douai Abbey.\u2014In Great Britain an acre of good fishing will yleld more food in 8 week than an acre of the best land willl yield in à year.LIFES COMMON TRINGS The things of every day are all so sweet.The morning meadows wet with w, The ance of daisies in the moon, the ue, Of far-off hills whers twilight shadows lie, The night with all its tender mystery of sound And silence, and God's starry sky! Ob, life\u2014ths whole life\u2014is far too fleet, | The things of every day are ail so sweet: .The common things of life are all so dear: The waking in the warm half-gloom To find again the old familiar room, The scents and sights and sounds that never tire, The homely work, the plans, the lilt of baby\u2019s laugh.\u2018The crackle of tly open fire; The waiting, then the footsteps coming near, The opening door, the hand-clasp and the kiss\u2014 Ts Haven noi, after ail, the Now and ere, The common things of life are all so dear?\u201cDLT.When you \u201cturn on\u201d the electric switch.+ power is used up.When you introduce an influence to another.power is multiplied by two.+ If you think that the Witness is the Greatest Valunteer Cooperat ve Adventure in an all round Every day, Every | way Christian sort of a Newspaper Just Say so\u2014to Your Friends The Witness the only national paper published.The Witness is not paper and ink and presses and publishers nor is it a soda-water counter nor a vaudeville, \u2014without territorial suppert \u2014without erganisational support and yet thout an atom of seifish .terest.The Witness à \u2018Its publishers having independ: ent means draw from its Wiper neither salaries, dividends, even interest on their million dal lor tavestment tn t.The Witness \u2018Phe Witness a co-eperative adventure with its 1 w Pet prirent Publishers, Staff, Readers.with its mistakes, and all its distance from the ideal * is in the van of progress ' toward the ideal journalism.\u2026 \u201cWho Won the Late who will win the present fight a For a Better World?Just NOW 1 tre main opportunity for the Readers P tp give practical eviderice of their Interest in this thelr Great Adventure 80 will they be, in effect as in name, \u2018run ers in.the services: which the Witness 1s offering its country.Who publishes the Witness so truly as they who, besides sending their cwn subacription, add to its support and increase ité influence by introducing it to new homes?To make this as as possible the publishers offer the following \u2018 In the triple partnership the subscribers are the main factor, for obviously without circulation a paper would be nothing.By the same token the greater the number of subacriders the greater is a paper's influence; and the greater is the subscribers share ln the partnership.The Regular Renewal Suhgription to the Witness 1s $2.But ° One Renewal both for $2 One New Subscription ith the cubes party P1.each Foreign pastage $2.additional per subscription.John\u2019 Dougall & Son and PERSONAL \u2018 January.1920 Witases Bldg, Montreal.CO-OPERATION .COUPON Dear Friends: We.are qlad to have been abls to introduce at last one new home to the Witness on the HALF PRICE offer.To begin AT ONCE and I! am inclosing $ for the subscriptions herewith. EADERS of thé Witness will remember that the Woman's Christian Temperance Unlon had undertaken to carry on a nation wide temperance education .competition for Sunday School achel- ars through the Northern Messenger.The campaign has assumed large proportions, A series of twelve illustrated and very interesting lesson articles have during the past three months been carried by the Messenger into over 106,000 homes, through the cooperation of over 3,000 Sunday Schools including ali Christian denominations \u201cThe ladies of the W.CT.U.all over \u2018Canada personally interviewed Sunday School superintendents and secured their cooperation.Or; fifteen hundred Sunday Schools wers not regularly distributing the Messenger were induced to take ii for the period of the course, thus more WITMESE AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 23, 1999.A Splendid Adventure on Behalf of the Rising Generation : than doubling its normal eirculation for the period, the pubishers supplying it at less than 2-3 of the actual cost as part of the contribution tp this great adventure.The competition has excited, great interest and ita influence will be far reaching.But the adventurs has been exacting and costly to the W.C.T.U.and to the publishers.Introducing the great plan, raising the money including nearly a thousand dollars for prizes alone, preparing senior and jemior examination papers in such a way as to cover the main arguments for total abstinence-\u2014theng are only part of the story.As these lessohs have btn tera in 108,000 families and as in some families there are several young people of seventeen and undet who are eligible to compete far the prizes, a very large number of examination papers will be written snd must be marked and rated for prises, and Mon- or or Pazs Certificates.However this part of the work is being decentralised so that it may be done with the utmost expedition.No one will know how tremendously, even to the straining point, many members of the W.C.T.U.have worked.But as this Educational Campaign has largely\u201d and of necessity centred in \u2018our.office we know something of thelr devoted work.Yet this is just one of the many adventures of the W.CT.U.Its service and its worth to Canada is immensurable.The fight against liquor is almost primarily a womdn\u2019s fight, for she rightly regards liquor as the enemy, a potential enemy of her home and of the rising generation.Every one who is opposed to alcoholic beverages and to the liquor trafic is thankful that the W.CT U.1s so much alive.Let's Surprise Them! Leaving it to George\u2014or to Georg- ina\u2014is just about the éhortest cut to losing interest in life\u2014the real life.Yet how many are doing it.I personally think that it is through want of thought rather than want of heart.I cannot supply the heart, but here goes for the thought.We all know something of the evil that is wrought through alcoholic beverages.And we all believe that there must be some way to put a atop to the manufacture and sale of such poisons.And we ali hope that the societies specially organised for that purpose are doing all that be done tb educate people as to the evil of alcoholic beverages, and also as to the ctment and enforcement \u2018ét'Iaws to hd the evil; : How many of us having got that far are content to rest In the hope that George, or Georgina, will in some wonderful way.\u201cdo the job\u201d.That's too undemocratic for me.My idea is that George and Georgina are going to get too much of the fun, not to mention too much of the glory, by such a program.If I can lead\u2014can \u201cstart something\u201d\u2014the 2est and exhliaration is mine.if I ean't lead I want to do more than hang on\u2014I want to push.If I can't be the bow of the ship of progress mayhap I can be the little rudder, or perhaps I can be the engine, or the steam, or the coal.\u201cIf Ym good, let me be good for some- '\u2014=a8 the saying is.That's the way to live! Applying the Moral What am I driving at?Just this: The W.C.T.U.is one of Canada\u2019s mont rplendid organizations.\u201d Nobly inspired, It has a great purpose and program, and needs the help and influence of every lady who ahares their purpose.In ne small degree the influence of the organization om public opinion and on politicians is in proportion to the number of their enlisted membership.Therefore, let every woman who would like to have her heel on the head of the snake send in her name for mr\u201chership.Besides the voor æ2ominal fee, eom- monly, I belleve, 50 cents or a dollar (and In the latter case inoluding subscription to the White Riobon Tidings) each member must subscribe to the following pledge: I hereby solemnly promise, God helping me, to abstain from all distilled, fermented, and malt lignors, fmcluding beer, wine, and clder, as a beverage, and te employ all proper means to discourage the use of and traffic in the same.The National and Provincial Unions are very enger to start new branches wherever there La an opportunity.But it 1s slow work unless they can find in advance some one in the place who is Interested in the matter.Be- aides the scnior organization thers is the L.T L.(Loyal Temperance Legion)\u2019 for the children and more recently\u2019 the \u201cY\" work for the boys and girls of the interesting and strategic \u2018teen age.This \u201cY\u201d work Is a sprightly and most promising.affair full of enthusiasm and enterprise.Starters\u201d are needed.will volunteer for membership or work?A Sad Accident A eho have over ey the privilege of meeting Mrs.Gordon Wright, President of the Canadian Woman's + Christian Témperance Union, and all who have realized something of the tremendous adventure of that organization in organizing the Sunday Schools for this Scientific Temperance Competition, \u2018will Be sorry to learn that Mrs.Wright has had a serious fail, sustaining a broken arm and other injuries.P ul as her injuries are, she continues to give her time, thought and leadership to this Dominion-wide Education competition.Let us Keep it a Secret \u201cA merry heart doeth good like a medicine.\u201d Bo said King Bolomon, the wise.And it is absolutely trus.If merriness in the hearts of others produces merriness in the heart of the éiterer, the cure is more rapid.- And who would not like to help in the rapid recovery of this great national leader of the temperance: movement and of other Christian adventures! Within the power of our well purposed readers, what could they do that would be more likely to bring joy to the heart of the President of the W.CT.U.than to have from every province.A Shewer\u2014ef Memberships It would surely gladden the heart.of the President if the membership of each Province could be doubled.Doubled?\u2014Why Net?I do not know what the present membership Le, but I am quite sure it would be far more than doubled if only a quarter of the better purposed of Canadian womanhood could be reached.That Le the difficulty.But it is one that In easily overcome, for it only needs that the better purposed let the W.C.T.U.know where, they are.And the best way to do that is to sign the little letter herewith and mail it either direct to Mrs.Gordon Wright, President Canadian W.C.T.U.London 8., Ont, or to the writer and proposer of this big plan.If sent to me, the letters will be held till February 17th, and then forwarded, with a suitable address, by Special Messenger to the President on February 17th \u2014the day that the W.C.T.U.annually observes as Patriotfe Membership Dap.Te Our Lady Readers Remember that the WC.TU.is a woman's organization, a Christian organization, a temperance organization \u2014a union of Christian women, adventuring for temperance.To be a member of it is to show the side you are on, and to add the weight of your name and influence to the success of the unicn\u2019s adventures.\u2018They need you, and do you not need them?Glad Surprise ut if only a few should respond there oui be a sad disappointment.I am sure that those who sign the following.letter wili hear in due course ftom the President personally, and later from the officers of their own provincial union and nearest Branch.- \u2018May I take this opportunity of saying how greatly we have enjoyed working with the officers and teachers of the Sunday Schools and the officers and members of the W.C.T.U.in this nation-wide Temperance adventure.to In fellowship of service, - 1 am, yours faithfully, Froderiok E.Dougall.\u2018Evangelizing ing Japan In all the years of its history in this land, Christianity has never faced so great and challenging sn opportunity as It does today, writes Dr.Wm.Ax- ling, Chairman of the National Christian Council of Japan, in a recent New Year communication from Tokyo describing the present nation-wide evangelistic campaign.This cam- palgn, he goes on to say, has extended into all sections of the Japanese Empire.During November, Kagawa, \u201cthe incomparable,\u201d invaded the Hokkaide and spent almost a month in six of its principal cities.All told he held 58 meetings.27,264 people attended these meetings and 1,412 took a stand as \u201cdeciders.\u201d The meeting places were constantly crowded and again and again hundreds had to be turned away because there was not even standing room for them.From the Hokkaldo Mr.Kagawa went to the cities of Kanazawa, Takaoka and Toyama.In these cities 19 meetings were held, attended by 5673 people.In the public meetings 284 and in a Christian Girls\u2019 School 206 manifested a purpose to.become Christians.During December Mr.Kagawa pressed the battle of evangeliam in the far flung Manchurian field working in the centres having a large Jape: nese population.- Other speakers have carried on campaigns in many of the large cities.The Tokyo campaign was centred around Enthronement Week.Two of the largest meetings were each at- \"tended by over 1000 people.The Kyoto campaign was alse launched during the Enthronement Exercises.Taking advantage of the Exposition which is being held there the Christian forces of that city are carrying on continuous daily preaching services near the Exposition grounds Campaigns have also been held in.Osaks, Yokohama, and.twelve other large cities.Everywhere the meetings are char acterized by a large attendance and » profound interest.The high tides of material civilization which during recent years have swept across the na- .flon have left the soul of Japan starved and oppressed by an overwhelming sense of loss.The Japa« nese heart is hungry.The minds of the masses are restless.On every hand there is a new turning of the people to some form of religion.The inroads of communism and the spread of false and fanatical faiths have shocked the government and the thoughtful leaders intb a great awakening.They have sbandomed their erstwhile no-religion attitude and are making frantic appeals to religion organizations to come to the rescue.In the present Nation- Wide Campaign the Department of Education is sending work to prefec- tural and cily officials urging them to co-operate in these local evangelistic campaigns by opening the schools to our speakers and also by encouraging teachers and students to attend the public meetings.Mrs.Gordon Wright, .National President Dear Madam President, in intoxicating liquors.complete recovery, Address state tt below: Canadian Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1 would like \u2018to foin the W.C.T.U.thus identi/ying mg- .self with those who are srrayed against the use of end Fraise .Ÿ With affectionate esteem and praying for your early and.I am yours very sincerely, Ifa member or officer in any other organisation please Fw: .February, 1929.Please rush se as te arrive before February 13th.addressing them Co Mr.F.BE.Dougall, the Witness, Montreal. WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOIK8TEAD.JAH: ARY :5 ' TE, aN CANADIAN AFFAIRS NEWS OF THE WEEK WORLD EVENTS Third Afghan King Amanullah\u2018s Saccesssr Depesed by Rebel, Whe Assumes Crewn King Inayatullah, In whose favor Amanullah abdicated a few days ago, surrendered at 10 o'clock on Jan.17 in the Kabul Citadel to a res force of the rebel \u201cBacha who was proclaimed Fabibaïiah Khan and thus became Afghanistan's third monarch in a week.Bacha Sakao, leader of the Af- rebels, who is reported un- after King Amanullalr's abortive ai- tempt to provoke a revolt in India.Otherwise this son of a peasant was unknown In Afghan polities till the Shinwari rising.which brought him into prominence.He was then, according to Afghan officials, the leader of the bandits in the moun- north of Kabul.In December he part the Afghan rebellion, are scouted in well-informed quarters in London.\u2018The rumors are regarded as too absurd to require serious contradiction.Officials pointed out the British desire now, as always, was to see Afghanistan peaceful, united and independent, and those responsible for the rumors failed to suggest what possible advantage could accrue to British policy from a state of dis- who had to bear the brunt of the difficulties and dangers ensuing from the present rebellion, officials declared, the recent rescues by British aeroplanes of foreign women from Kabul, for which foreign governments had thanked Great Britain, making this fact quite plain.Pleads for Unity General Smuts Appeals to South Afriean Government te Avoié Native Question Carrying his campaign into Transvaal, General Jan C.Smuts, Opposition Leader in the South African Par- Mament, delivered an eloquent speech at Ermelo on Jan.17.He made a powerful plea for African unity, by which, he was careful to point out, he meant a \u201cBritish Confederation of African States.\u201d He appealed to the Government not to make the native question a bone of contention in the coming general election.If a solution could not be found at present, he was in favor of leaving the matter to be dealt with after the election.Recent speeches of Premier Hert- 20g have brought the native question to the forefront, and it is believed in some quarters that the Government intends to make it one of the leading issues.The blacks now out number the whites four to one, and as their cultural standards are gradually rising, some scheme of parliamentary representation for them is becoming Imperative.Premier Hertsog has proposed special parliamentary representation for natives, local Native Councils, and segregation in land ownership.Mr.Smuts is opposed to disturbing the natives with politics.The Harbor Board's new elevator, the first grain elevator to be erected - = === a CANADIAN DOGS FOR BYRD'S ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION Here are the fifteen huskies purchased by Commander Byrd by wireless from P.Hardy of Vancouver, whe keeps a kennel of well-trained sled dogs on Grouse Meantain, 49008 feet abeve the sea level.These dogs were sent te New Zealand ea board RMS.Niagara after Byrd had wireiessed that the animals he took originally had suffered by the long slow voyage through the tropics.Lieutenant Alan Innes-Taylor, centre, former R.C.M.P.officer, whe mushed many a mile in the Yukon while with the police ferce, went seuth in charge of the degs.Federation Mooted Streag Opinion Grewing in West King Improving His Majesty the King continues to Indies Toward Unien with Canada make progress in his recovery from pleurisy.Bulletins are no longer be- daily.A federation of the West Indies is ing issued the dream of more than one in those Islands.There is to be a conference in Barbadoes beginning next Batur- day, which may have important consequences for the West Indies.The people of the islands have not cooperated, and the feeling grows that they must get together.Apart from other benefits it is declared one central government would greatly reduce the general cost of administration.Union with Canada is being freely discussed, in fact, one sometimes hears the opinion that federation of the islands cannot be accomplished without the help of Canada.When one asks why there is so considerable a sale of American goods in the islands, the answer is frankly, that there is not as much confidence in Canadian shippers as there should be: and that while American commercial travellers are plentiful there nought and that they are paying considerable attention to the market these islands.He sald further thal British houses have, in rcoent sent out rore travellers to their interests.- said that an expert declared after ta- vestigation that no finer grapefruit could be produced anywhere, and that the Laland coulé produce 2e less than one case per year.expert from ica had vestige.ed and asserted that no finer bananas could be produced anywhere.The sugar cane also flourishes, though not cultivated to any extent, as well as limes, oranges, cocoa and coffee.The administrator declared that there le need of central packing houses to grade and pack fruit, and of money for development.Hon.Theodore A.Burrows, 71, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba, died in hospital at Winnipeg on Jan.18.Death oecurred shortly before midnight.Mr.Burrows was operated on for appendicitis, and his recovery had been anticipated.A blood clot on the heart was the immediate causs of death, his physicians announced.Boseat, Northants, England, with a population of 1100, has 230 residents named Drage.Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, The Prince of Walez will appear at his first public dinner since his return from Africa on February 18.This will be a Government banquet at Mansion House, the occasion being the opening of the British Industries Fair.Mr.Baldwin will glso attend that dinner.GOOD TRADE BALANCE Canada\u2019s favorable trade balance for 1928 stands at $161,812,281.This compares with $151,064,074 for 1927, $275,507,557 for 1938 and $392,906,447 for 1085.The balance is calculated by subtracting the value of imports from the value of exports for the year, as compiled by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.Domestic exports for the twelve months {otalled $1,349,751,403, an increase of $131,000,000 over 1927.Imports amounted to $1,222.317,618, and were $135,000,000 heavier.Exports of foreign origin frere valued at\u201d $24- 378,740, and were 34,000,000 greater.BOLIVIA GHEKS ARBITRATION The League of Nations was notified by Bolivia on Jan.16 that it to submit to the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague the substance of its entire dispute with Paraguay over the Grand Chaco reglon.8ir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the league, has cahled the suggestion to Paraguay.Also at the request of Aristide Briand, acting president of the council of the league, he has sent the vian com- munieation to ail countries.While the league has interpreted the Bolivian propossi as referring to the Permanent Court of International Justice, it admits that the South American Government may have had In mind the old Hague arbitral court of justice which meets only when a case 4 submitted to it.> Recommends Union Commission Finds that Closer Ce- operation Among British African States Desirable .Important recommendations are contained in a lengthy report on the desirability of Federation or closer union between the British dependen- cles in Eastern and Central Africa, issued by a commission, which investigated the matter.The commisg- were Right Hon.Sir Hilton Yi Reginald Mart, 8ir George Schi and J.H Oldham.While the Tinding of the commis- ston is that the time iz not ripe for any drastic or sudden change, the commission believes there should be more effective co-operation between the territories on- many matters of common concern, especially the native question, and the relations of the gorernments te Immigrant communi- To attain the desired co-operation, the commission recommends the appointment of a high commissioner for the three northern territories of Kenya, Oganda, and Tanganyika.should have executive powers and also settle disputes and differences represent pal in the Kenya Legisis- tive Council by Europeans, nominated by them, it is advised.A majority of the commission re- A rabbit became lodged in the main water supply pipe at Cottingley in Yorkshire, England, causing the village to be without water for a whole day. Ratify Peace Pact After Long Debate Famous Treaty the overwhelming vole.Mumblings and some hisses from the galleries greated the reading by the Benste Clerk of ths name of Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wisconsin, as the only ans recorded in the negative.A vote was made possible when Hé PS BH TER a i 3 Ed 31 5 & Ë + Jun i Ë leaders that he would appoint an impertial commission of to begin a thorough survey of prohibition enforcement conditions after he takes office.He informed Senators Bdge, wet, New Jersey, and Jones, dry, Washington, his plan is for investigation not only into enforcement of prohibition and the \u201cgrave abuses\u201d which be under Secretary of Bate for External Affairs, The nce will deal with the it is the balance of the channels-that the conference will ssek to allocate.\u2018Wish Freer Sale - Terento La5or Men Ask Ontarie Government fer Dour by the Bale of beer by the glass was requested by representatives of labor organizations affillated with the International Trade Union movement who waited on the Ontario Government last week to submit their annual pre-sussion brief of suggested legislation.The delegates congratulated the Governmeut on its deciston to bring old age pensions into effect in the province, and presented a wide range of recommendations by the labor movement from time to ë k F i | EE al Tai \"8 Ë Ë R 2st ie i Ë H company possesses, 0 far as the Quebec Legis- Inture can concede it, but with the spproval of the Dominion Government necessary 80 far as relates to ton adequate protection of naviga- barley 29,317,- ¥i4 (23,172,023), oats 15,100,517 (8,034,- T86), rye 13402450 (34,828,994), corn 382,233 (140,503), buckwent 24,121 (28- 456) and peas 8,177 (34,016) .~Over 8 quarter of a ton of broken glass has been picked up on the beach at Bkegness, England.| 8 It is currentiy reportdd that the United Gypsum Company has taken over the mines and plant at Cheti- camp, NS.A staff of 250 men are mineral tion of 1928, in terms of will be in the history of the output of manufactured goods in Manitoba this year at $150.282,000, as with $132,000,000 1927.The agricultural wealth produced in 1927 was placed at $147,000,008, i The Saskatchewan Liquor Board in the year ending March Slat, 1928, showed a profit of $2,443,800.Doctors who have been attending Marshal Ferdinand Foch, in a carefully worded statement given to patient was practloslly out of immediate danger from the heart attack and kidney trouble which laid him low a week ago.The statement came fram Doctors Davienere, Heitz-Boyer and Degennes, and sid: \u201cThe im- proventent in the Marshal's health continues.The patient was psrmitted to sit up in an armchair today.Hs felt no fatigue after this experience.Mis feod assimilation is excellent, and the acute crisis from which he has been suffering is ended.\u201d An amendment to the Canada Grain Gaining Strength General Bramwell Booth has gain- ad physical strength in the last ten days which will aid him in prosecution of the fight which he seems determined to continue for retention of control of the Salvation Army.The Army signed by two physicians, stating that the General has steadily improved in health.All possibility of selecting a new General this week disappeared when the Chanesry Oourt granted an adjournment until Friday to permit the defendants to prepare their cas.While the injunction was directed against the High Council, only Chief Officer Higgins and the seven com- \u2018missioners who signed the call for the the grounds on which the endact commissioners will contest the Injunction will be that Bramwell Booth for sixteen years has been forming corporations and acquiring property under trusteeship powers accorded -him by the very charter of ver the command in 1913 he of acceptance which embqdied the provisions of the original deed poll of 1878 and its later the deed poll of 1904.It deed which is attacked application for the injunction.ÆK was helieved that the deed of acceptance would be produced in the injunction.Foster, for four years Cansda, will likely resign year.At a meeting in Ottawa on of the society's central exe- on the duties of office as energetically as might be desired,\u201d he will probably submit his formal » resignation at the annual conference of the organization to be held in the capital early in March.Sir George Perley and Bensator N.A.Belcourt expressed to President Foster informally, deep appreciation of the members of the executive of his\u2019 distinguished and untiring services on behalf of the society.Yon.James A.Robb, Minister of - The board is now fully constituted with Mr.Robb as chairman and Dr.J.D.MacLean, former Premier of British Columbia, & Farm Loan Commissioner.Dr.MacLean is a permanent officer, while Messrs.Drury and Leman will be available when their services are required.Mr.Robb will call an organization meeting immediately.The Farm Loan Board will administer the act which provides for long term credits to Canadian farmers.It was approved by Parliament at its last session.Canada leads the world in aerial marveying.The photographing in five peus of 200,000 square- miles of therto inaccessible country, which, nevertheless, is richly endowed with natural resources, has created a world-record, and is equivalent te sight flights completely around the world with a photograph taken of every foot of the way.\u2018The Saskatchewan Egg and Poultry Pool with a membership of 18,000, made up largely of farmers\u2019 wives, handled 70 per cent of the eggs marketed in the province in 1977, and the League of Nations WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, FANT ANT 28, 1628.CONSERVATIVE LEANER AND HIS SISTER Hon.R.B.Bennett, K.C., leader of the Conservative Party In Canady, is here seen with his sister Miss Mildred Bennett.The photograph was taken en the steph of the Empreèss Hotel, Vie- teria, B.C.about 80 pc.of the eggs expsried.volume of business handled by 1927 amounted to $721,329.fat production from Ben.H.Thomp- mon of Boharm, Sask.by the Baskat- chewan Government is announced by Hon.Ç.Hamilton, Minister of Agricul- tare.Arrangements have been made, However, to board the cow at Braeburn, pr NI IRE Tye dm COTE FRE D FACE the Boherm farm, six miles from Moose Jaw.Canary's four-year-old record is 26.396 pound of milk contain ing 1,078.7¢ pounds of bulier-fat in 303 days.Forty delegates attended the thes gays\u2019 sassion at Saskatoon of the psiern Canads Soclely of Agronomy.was decided to canvass for a larger membership of qualified parsons\u2014that is.people who take a sort of middle place between the practical farmer and the theoretical scientist.Gold fish are descended from the common cag, and originated in China.Æ Li © res am me «eee Change Freight Rates Railways Agree to Lower Rates in Transport of Fertiliser Railway officials of the CPR.and CNR, meeting with a joint delega~ tion of farmers and business men at 8t.Johp, NB, on Jan.17, agreed to recommend to the Canadian Freight Traffic Association for approval: First\u2014That the percentage of nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia which cau be carried in a car with fertiliser at the fertilizer rate be increased from 38 to 50 per cent.Becond\u2014That the amount of tank- age which can be carried at carload rates be reduced from 30 to 20 tons.It Is anticipated that both these recommendations will be approved and put into operation without delay.Although 28 per cent of nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia could be carried in a car with common fer- tittzer, if designated far agricultural purposes, the rates on either of these chemicals imported alone for agricultural purposes were much higher.Maritime farmers, who Import more than 25 per cent of these che- mieals in proportion to the amount of common fertiliser that they bring in, contend that it should be ahip- ped to them at a flat fertiliser rate.They appeared, however, to be fairly well satisfied with the compro- That the minimum of a carload of tankage be reduced was asked because shippers of this material\u2014re- fuse from packing plants ised as manure\u2014found it impossible to dispose of more than 20 tons as most stations, wheress they were dbiged to ship 30 tons to ol > much cheaper carload rates.November's exports of passenger automobiles were valued at $2,188,428, as compared with $2,880,062 in October and $1,686501 in November, 1087.Freight autos exported showed a value of $1,451,958 as compared with $i.081,148 in October and $577,731 \u2018Im November, 1837, - sn RRIFAINS WONDER UNDERGROUND STATION My switching @ an olectrie light the Mayer of Westminster.London, set in motion fer the public the new stètien at tien.has depth of British Capital the mest modern and the largest underground siation in the werid.This Piscadilly Circus, which Is 8 marvel of engineering and architectural construc taken almost four years to finish, and it has cest more than $3,000,000.Descending te a move than two hundred feel, this vast underground station can handle approximately 142,000 pamsengers a day.Above is an architect's drawing showing the various workings of the new station.This shows the several different levels on which the undersremnd tuhen ava nonsiraniad, « WITNESS AND CANABIAN MOMESTEAD, JANVARY 28, 1090.President Gil Supports Prohibition Though His Term is Short, He Hopes to do Much for Temperance.Education.The cause of Prohibition, says the Christian Bcience Monitor, has found & real champion in Mexico in president Emilio Portes Gi, and judging from his views on the subject 1029 should swe more done to combate alcoholism in that nation than has ever been hoped for, While it can hardly be expected that during his short term of 14 months Portes Gil will be able to enact a dry law in a country that has always been strongly wet, It ls evident that the small group of tireless prohibition workers In Mexico who have labored against great odds may expect during the coming year to have a sympathetic friend and strong backer in the Provisional Preifdent.In answer tr à question of à corres- porde t, Portes Gil declared no new 8 for saloons or places where strong drink is served had been lssued fn Mexico City since he assumed the reins of Government on Dec.1.He added that no such licenses would be authorised by him during his administration, Portes Gil would like to ae Mexico 90 dry overnight hut he feels that an attempt would be both \u201cIneffective and a failure.\u201d Such action the President explained would be neither existing circumstances.His plan is t%.gradually educate the people of Mexico to direct their attention to better and higher things.Az a first step In this direction, Fortes Gil sald he 1s already making a study of what method can best be adopted to combat the Lquor habit in Mexico.That he will do stage sufficient attraction to draw patrons away from the saloons.Portes Gll will not limit his fight against aloohol to thé capital.He declared that recommendations, uld state Governors do to discourage drinking, pointed with evident pride to his native State of Tamaulipas, where prohibition made its first gains during his term as Governor.While Tamaulipas is not dry as a whole it ls 20 in {ts rural districts and in many cities, while in others there are restrictive laws.Pertes Gi says this 19 mot enough, but is à beginning in the sight direction.FOR DRUNKARDS ue ire the Establish- meat p Mental Heepital for Incorrigible Drunkarde Betabiishment of a special Government institution for the trestment of ble drunkards i3 ane \u2018of the ment is at present engaged in studying f ing upon a report by Dr.C.8.Roy, medical superintepdent of St, Michel Arctiange Hospital for the Insane, to Hon.Athanase David, Provincial Secretery.Dr.Roy does not believe the place for them is in an insane asylum, though they are at times nocepted there, but, states Dr.Roy, too often happens that they leave finatitution before they are cured, hospital having no authority terdicted e court f a family council.ollowing Dr.Roy remarks: \u201cWe have often to refuse admission, in spite of the urgent requests of relatives, to a class of persons who, while not insane, suffer none the less from a disorder of the will, which renders them neapable of their baleful in \u20ac resisting \u201cIncorrigible drunkards are the despair and a dishonor to their while ruining their own health.Clearly, for more than one reason.they eannol be piaced in an hospital for the insane.\u201cOne of my predecessors, Dr.Val- lee, in an annual report as superintendent of this liospital, regret al not having a law to offi- elally place such habitual drunkards in special establishments, 4.\u201cWe alait for treatment I wy sanatorium a certain number of drunkards and morphine fiends.As Dr.Vallee justly remarked; Thess establishments cannot.undertake really eff treatment, because sahsence of places them at the mercy of their patients, who come and go at will.\u201cAs generally admitted, an essential condition of cure is the sequestration of the pallent for à sufficient £5: ii time.Isolation with draws him from physical temptations which, when free, the drunkard meets at every step, and sheiters him from male- volend factors which are not a less serious hindrance to his cure.\u201d Dr.Roy adds: \u201cI sobmit for your consideration the request already made by the late regretted Dr.Vallee At present we cannot keep and treat a toxicomaniac against his will, un- leas he is interdicted and mention is made in the proceedings for interdiction that the patient be kept for a fixed period in a special establish ment.These proceedings are costly and tend to seriously compromise the future of the unfortunate.\u201cWe think that by a special law there would be an advantage in having the internment ordered by a magistrate upoh.the application of & relative or friend, accompanied by certificates from two doctors.\u201d Control Ineffeetive Church Paper peinte te \u2018Canada\u2019s Experiénse to Prove that Liquer is Uncentreliable It Le 30 easy for men to deceive themselves, Perhaps the most universal weakness of mankind is that process by which it commits itself to spoofing and positions called \u201ckidding.\u201d The human mind is always \u201ckidding fteelf\u201d into believing things it wants to believe.For instance, how long has humanity dealt with the U- quor traffic?To what extent has it found that business uncontrollable?Is it not true that the consumption of liguor has always been commensurate with the ease by which it can be obtained?On the other hand, is it not true that the consumption of liquor has not been reduced by the most strenuous efforts of control?Now, verily, It is true that some men of more than average intelligence continue to \u201ckid\u201d themselves inio believing that we can control the liquor traffic.This is not true; it is a deception; it is a hallucination; it comes to be an obsession.The liquor traffic has never been controlled.It has been retarded, it has been checkmated, it has been restricted, but it has broken every law that has ever been passed for its control.Meanwhile some of our citizens contfnus in their efforts to wake us bellevs that Canada is controlling her liquor traffic, because i is under government supervision; i is a mild \u201cpussy cat,\u201d purring, dom and perfectly under control.How deceived these people sre! They would decelve us.Why?Because they are against national prohibition.Many of them do not want the opportunity to obtain liquor removed, since they have a desire for it.We have been giving careful observation to reports coming from Canada.Not alone have we depended upon the word of investigators visiting there from this country, but we NEW LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF QUEBEC TAKES OFFICE .\u2018 Lientenant-Geverner of the Provinee, The new Lieutenant-Geverner is a veteran of de Lineman Geveroar of the Provins, Tue nou Lentenaat- Gore oath en és .Provincial and Deminien Parliaments.We frequently read and hear the expression, \u201cYou cannot make men good by law,\u201d uttered with the plain purpose of ibition of the liquor treffic.No intelligent advocate of the moral progression \u201cof the human race claims that we can ê most ardent champion of the prohibition of the liquor traffic belleve or claim that prohibitory laws themselves will make the oountry dry oe individuals sober.Yet, 18 à sense in which la: good.Not \u201cmake\u201d in force, but in the sense i viet & ¥ Ë | able to society.Intoxicating liquer is an enemy of the individual and its traffic a rapidly increasing menace to the state.Therefore, the state the right, and {t is its duty, to hibit it, to outlaw it.By so doing, the state no longer sanctions ® or derives any income from it, thus tearing from its repulsive reality of respectability.The state to be à partner in a business that is so prolifically productive of misery, poverty, failure, degradation and crime.Every law is viclated\u2014na- to the extent that they legally pronounce what is per se, morally wrong.Not to prohibit a recognized evil is to sanction it\u2014consent to it if only by silence.How much worse to li.least can point out the way and make it easier to do right and more difficult and profitiens wrong\u2014W.G, Procter, in The anapolis News.METHYL ALCONOL IN.TOBACCO SMOKE \u2018The average consumption of tobacco in the United States is above six pounds per person, per year.Bililons of cigars and cigarettes are smoked every year.Heretofore, most of the attack on tobacco has been because of nicotine, and it has been pointed out that a clgarette smoker who inhales regularly for an hour might eb- sorb as much as 36 milligrams of nt- | cotine, an amount sufficient to cause 1llness.Now, Dr.C.Neuberg and Marta Kobel of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Biochemistry in Berlin find that tobacco is a source of methyl or wood alcohol.This drug is detectable in measurable amounts in tobacco smoke.The European investigators noted that not more than one tenth of the alcohol entering the body with the smoke was exhaled again in the air.Most of it seems to remain dissolved in the fluids of the body.According to calculations, a smoker who smokes 10 cigars of average size dally burns up 70 grams of tobacco and would inhale about 43 milligrams of wood alcohol.The smoking of 20 cigarettes, containing 20 grams of tobacco, will lead to the Inhalation of 40 milligrams of wood aloohol.Such a dose la not polsonous, but if the drug tends to be cumulated in the body, excessive smoking may do harm through tais factor \u2014Sclentifle Amers No man ever proves his religion dy persecuting another for his. WIESNEES AND CARABIAR ROMESTRAD, JANUARY 28, 1006.FOR LEISURE MOMENTS Padget\u2014Why did you pick the gre-.cer %0 play the bas drum im yeur hand?Gadget\u2014Because he's an homeat fellow and gives full weight to every Vick\u2014You say you dent mow what Jove 1a?Resinal\u2014 Why, ef course I do.It's tie 10th word in a telegram.Judge\u2014Prisoner you are condemned te hard labor for life.Prisoner\u2014Will you please permit me to ait down for five minutes before I begin?Dentist\u2014Td better put a crown ob for you.- Politician\u2014Never! I'm à republisan.Pier werid is full of contradie- tions.Tish\u2014No, i$ lant, either.\u201ccopy\u201d handed in by reporter.*You say there were 4,000 eyes fized en the speaker at the moet.Why 4,900 bers?\u201cWell,\u201d the reporter, & should have said 5,000 only I noticed Kusband-y dear, you promised to ehey me.Do you do it?Wite\u2014Darling, you promised me your worldly goods.Do I get them?Gumbo\u2014Hefty Mullican called me a lar, and, big a be is I knocked him sprawling in the street.Mudd What, with your bare fists?Gumbo\u2014Naw, with my auto.Clara\u2014You say Jack cruelly received by the young widow.Did she lead him on to believe that she loved him and then throw him aver?Malie\u2014Meavens, nol She led him te that she didm\u2019t:-care a rap for then, when he carelessly poopos- J, accepted him on the spot.\u201d at Student\u2014Ia Batcaks going to hall tonight?2nd Ditto\u2014He kn't sure.He's got to go to \u201cthree balls\u201d firet and ses if he can get the use of his dress suit.a 6 f Ë ment soundly scientific and movingly Christian\u2014a combination of virtues that will give this volume a place The Week\u2019s Cross Word Puzzle HORIZONTAL.3\u2014What is the given name of the womans whe wrote \u201cHe Knew Lincoln\u201d?4\u2014Whe, besides Gooding, is the senator from ldabe?&\u2014What je the given mame of the inventer of the cotten ia?nie wrote \u201cThe Cream of the Jest\u201d?Fall of the Roman ea?13\u2014Betore.ore queer.16\u2014Vehicle.19\u2014A \u201cfortified seagort of Ttaly.o .21\u2014Scak 22\u2014Land measure.25\u2014Bound by an eath.27\u2014Sleepy.- 28\u2014Monster.20\u2014Whe is the heroine of \"Neil's play \u201cStrange Interlude\u201d?20\u2014One who suffers loss.Recline.47\u2014Whe wrote \u201cThe Legend of Steep?Hollow\u201d?48\u2014XKind of duck (pl) 49\u2014 Suffix: te.50-\u2014Head af collge (pl) $1\u2014Censume.VERTICAL.1\u2014Frozen water.2\u2014Whe eppocod William Jonnings Bryan at the Scope trial?$\u2014What was the nichname of Lincala?Stain.More ancient.puty.-\u2014Ren $\u2014Flowing back of the tide.0\u2014In what French museum bs the \u201cMonn Lisa\u201d?18\u2014 These in office.18\u2014Rthel Barrymore is the nisce of what famous seter?: 17\u2014Supply the last name of this famous American pear.ta the 8 Vent tate 19\u2014Sacreé song.20\u2014Not tight.23\u2014Whe wrete \u201cThe Red Radge of Courage!\u201d 24\u2014Paradises.26\u2014Mistake.27\u2014Contractien fer \u201cwntii.\u201d 81\u2014Thoss whe «il.32\u2014Chief, 34\u2014What city in New York is tha seat of the State refermatery?36\u2014Projecting ridge.savant Derek fore .TRAE ea a tients?do-_Fermina) of the arm.41-\u2014Whe is Geddes cf Djs- aft 43\u2014Hail ané dignity \u20148isphen Lebon, the last survive withal » beauty of diction and of foundly appealing.The chapters en sex which include a penetrating examination of the monogamy in history are specially valuable.The Canadian railways showed an increase of 14,872 loaded cars in the first half of December, as compared with the similar period 1927.This works out at about 10.3 per cent.The year's record, it is said, will show figures far beyond anything in the style at tines puo- of the army of Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian Liberator, has disd at #7.\u2014A plano with walnut cam, was sald for 3s at a Weybridge (England) auction.\u2014Fn Berlin's newest store there is a dining room for dogs, whom the waiters attend with bowls of food and drink.- year ended March 31 last.- Mr.Robot: \u201cThat's the cud ofit; cock will have ts go.These uneatable.fried momkaywremches ase absslwiely \u2014Bmith's Weekly, Sidney.10 Tei \u201c3 37 st « 8.Lx ROMEATEAD, JANUARY 23, 1928.LICENCE TO MARRY \u201cOld Friend,\u201d Altz\u2014What Is the minimum legal age at which a or girl a, marry wilh parents\u2019 in Caa- Whit is the minimum legal exe at which a boy of gir] may marry withomt parents\u2019 consent in Canada?Ans\u2014The statutory provisions respert.Ing the issue of licences to vary according to the Province.In a licence is obtained upon oath one of the persons showing the age of each to be 31 years cr mors, or in lieu thereof consent of guardian of nilmars.Licence will not issue to persops under 16 years of age.To the first question the answer lis, accordingly, 18 and te the second 31-\u2014is the Province of Albesté GRENFELL MISSION \u201cInquirer,\u201d N.B.\u20141 would like the address of the hesdquarters of the Grenfell Mission, Labrador\u2014where one wuulé write who is interested \u2018n offering her services under that Mission.Is there any philanthropic organisation carrying on medical work In the Peace River Dis- thot or out-lying sectidos of the Nerth Ang~Write to Miss Warne, Secretary, The Grenfell ical Mission, 221 Gil- mour St, Ottawa and about the North West districts we should advise your writing to The Canadian Red Cross Se- ciety, Civic Building, Edmonton, Alta, or The Victorian Order of Nurses, addressing Col.A.Z.r, C-MG, Sacy- Treas, Jackson Bldg, Ottawa, STORIES BY ALICE MeKAY R.Baird, Seok\u2014! would Mke te knew 1£ the two stories we had in the \u201cWR- ness\u201d this year, \u201cBroken Ships\u201d and \u201cThe Mustard Seed\u201d are Ww be bad In book form yet Ans\u2014Nao, theses stories have not yot been published in book form.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Our thanks to the following fer the verson sent in: \u201cOh dear, ob dear, I shall never learn to spell\u201d Miss Naney Hute! NB.end \u201cA subserider of 30\u201d Memory) The at Gerry's Rock\u201d (\"Young » Buw- Subacriber, N.\u201cMy Uarden* M.\u201cHow much for Baby,\u201d Mrs.W.H.Pryor, Sask.: \u201cThe Station Masters Story,s # k x P ; Mrs, Fleet, NS: \u201cHearing Things at Night.\u201d R.R.Foster: \u201cCasey Jones.\u201d Jean 8.Rankin, Omt.: Mother,\u201d Miss ¥lora Pender, Ont, and Miss C.McCallum, N.S.: \u201cGet Out and Get Under the Moon,\u201d Dorothy Noble Ont.a (Seat in by Mies H.Uptigrovs, Ont) TYING THE LEAVES Playmates were they, girl and lad, She's home today, lad feels sad, Doctor who calls whispers low\u2014 \u201cWhen the last Autumn leaves fall, then she must go.\u201d Lad with a tear, ciimhs a tree, *T'll Weep her here,\u201d murmurs be Big man in blue.kternly cries \u201cWhat are you doing thers?\u201d Lad replies: \u2018Tam tying the leaves so they won't come down, 80 the wind zut blow them away, For the Dest gir}, in the wide, wide wor\u2019 Is lying so ill toda.Her young life must ge when the last loaves fall T'm fixing them fast, so theyll stay.Pm tying the leaves, 20 they wop't come down\u2014 So Nallie won't go away.\u201d Sad mother grieves, day by day, Watching the leaves, hears bof may \u201cYou mustn't cry.for yeu ses, I have fastened the leaves fast upon the Doctot -brings\u2019 joy, one glad day, Motheg tells boy, \u201cNoit will stay.\u201d Lad at girl's side cries for \u201cThat's what [ said one day in \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 trea\u201d (Gent in by Caroline Burton, Que.) THE JAM AT GERRY'S ROCK : Come alt of you bold rhanty boym And list while 1 relate Concerning a young shanty bey And his untimely fata Concerning a young river man So manly true and beave\u2014 \u201cTwas on the Jam at Gerry's Reck He met & water7 grave It was on Sunday morning, As you will quickly hear, Our togs were piled up mountaias high, We could nor kesp them clear: Our foreman said: \u201cTurn out.drave boya.With hearts devoid of fear; We'll break the Sam on Gerry's Reck, And for Egunstown we'll steer!\u201d QUESTIONS and ANSWERS WITNESS AND CANADIAN Now, seme of them wers willing, Wails others they were not, For te work on jams on Sunday They did not think we ought: But aix of our Canadien boys Did voluntaer to go, Ang break the Jum on Gerry's Rook, Ith the foreman Jack Monroe.They Bad not rolled oft many logs jen they beard hig clear volos my, \u201cTd have you, boys be on your guard, For the jam will soon give away.\u201d These words were scarcely spokes, an the mass did break and go, And it carried off those six brave youths And thelr foreman Jack Monroe.When the rest of our brave shanty boys The sad news came to hear In search of their dead comrades Te the river they did steer; flopes of the mangisd bodies A floating down dis go.While crushed and bleeding near the Was that of young Monroe.They took him from his watery grave * Brushed back his raven hair, \u2019 There was one fair girl among them Whose sad cries-rent the alr Theres was one fair form among thems A maid from Saginaw town \u2018Whose moans and cries rose to the skies For her true lover who'd gope down.Fair Clars was a noble girl, The river-man's true friend 8be, with her widowed mother.dar Lived at the rivers bend The wages of ber own true friend \u2018The \u201cboss™ to her did pay And the shanty boys for her mada up A generous purse next day.They buried him with sorrow desy \u2018Twas on the first of May \u201cCome all of you bold shanty boys And for your comrads pray!\u201d Engraved upon a hemilook tree That by the grave did grow Was the name and date of the md md ate Of the shanty boy Monroe Fair Clara dié not long survive HMer.beart broke with her grief And scarcely two menths afterward Death came to her relief.And when the time was passsd away And she was called to go, * Her inst request was granted ta Be laid by young Monrce.2 Come, all of you bold shanty boys ! would have you cali and ses Thoss green mounds dy the river side rovers there laid low the handeome Clara Verneu her true lover Jack Monroe, a {Sent in by R.R.Foster) .MEARING THINGS AT NIGHT When all is still at sleep time \u2019 À you are tucked in bed, th the light turned out around you And the covers o'er é\u2014 Thors is something, ! just \u2018Worse than any kind of fright\u2014 It's the feeling that you surely get Wheñ you're hearing lhings st aight.It makes your eyes grow bigger, It makes the shivers start, And it sort of makes a quiver Areund the region of your heart.It makes you quite immovable\u2014 This awful kind of fright: This feeling that you surely get When you're hearing things at night.So, if you get to bed at night And ses things movin\u2019 around, And sometimes see them standing up Or sometimes sitting down You may have a wobbly feeling, But it never brings the fright That à feller's bound to surely get, When he\u2019s bearing things at night, (Sent In by Mrs.W.MH: Pryor, Sask) HOW MUCH FOR BABY?What am ! offered for Baby?Dainty, dimpled and sweet From the woft curle over his ferehead To the beautiful rosy feet.Frem the tips of the even pink fingers To the lght of the clear brown eye\u2014 What am ! offered for Baby?Who'll bey, who'll buy, who'll buy?What am I offered for Baby?A shopful of sweets?Ah, no! That's too much beneath His value, Who is tbe sweetest of all below.The naughty, beautiful darling\u2014 One kiss from ble rosy mdnth 1e better than all the dainties Of North, Bast, West or South, What am I offered for Bab}?A pile of gold! Ah, dear! Your gold is too hard and heavy To purchase my brightness hare.\u2018Would the treasure of all the mountains, Far in the wonderful lands, Be worth the clinging and et Of these dear, little, En aE nen Se what am I offered for Baby?A rope of dlamonds! Nay.It your brilltunts ware larger and brighter That star is the Milky Way.191$ 1923 1928 amp $18,578,500.1918 1923 1928 1918 1923 1928 \u2014\u2014eue $26,748,2%8.1918 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014= $344,060.1923 1028.Head Office; - An Evidence of Public Confidence Now Insurance Issued \u2014\u2014\u2014= $53,383,071.SA $87,322,612.\u2018 Insurance in Fores nen §108,572,783, \u2014\u2014 $46,716,731.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Asests y 7,273,368.SS $87,495,370.Dividends to Policyholdars cat $687,300.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 $1 954, 133.TRE \u2018 MANUFACTURERS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY WRITE FOR COMPLETE COPY OP ANNUAL AEPORT $453,323,912.\u2018TORONTO, CANADA i 5 3 £2 jet dE E ST gf 1378 FEY :Ë ji 1 (Gent in by Miss C.MoCatiom, 8) \u201cBREAK THE NEWS TO MOTHER\u201d While the shot and shell were screaming; Upon the battlefleld The boys in blue were fighting Their noble flag to shield.Came a cry from their brave Captain \u201cLook boys! the flag is down,\u201d \u201cWho'll volunteer to save it from disgrace\u201d \u201cI will\" a young voice shouted, \u201cI'll bring it back or die\u201d Then sprang into the thickest of the Ye Saved tha flag but gave his young life; All for hla country\u2019s sake They brought him back and softly beard © him way, .= Cherus: Just break the news to mother, She knows bow dear [ love her, And tel] her not to walt for me For I'm not coming heme; Just say there is no other Can take the place of Mother: Then kiss fer dear sweet lips tertine And break the news to her.From afar a noted general had witnessed this brave \u201cWho saved our flag?Speak up lads; \u201cTwas noble, brave od!\u201d \u201cThere he lies, sir.\u201d mid the ceptain \u201cHe's sinking very fast\u201d + Thep slowly turned away to hide s tear.The general In a moment, Knelt down beside the boy: Thea gave a ory that touched all hearts that day \u201cIt's my son, pay brave, young bete: 1 thought you safe at home\u201d \u201cForgive me, father, for 1 ran away.\u201d : WORDS WANTED Madge L.Brader, P.K.|\u2014Pleags publish the songs \u201cDew-dew-dowy a \u201cSweet Bunch of Daisies\" and the Man In .\u201c à regular fœnture, is à cleer and complate cemmentary on vorid and natieg- al affairs.Also à réguler weekiy department fa the laterest of Prohibitien and Secial Reforma, Besides its splendid Mews Peatures It has Special Departments, edited by experts, of Interest te oll members of the family, and to all walks of fife.Ita Market and Btock Raporis are fair snd trustworthy.Ita splendid Bhert and Serie! fes, Home Department, Yeung Peeple's Dogs: ment-ecover à wide range sf human Interest Its Queries aod Answers an all subjects, inelinde Ing Agriculture, Veterinary, Poultry, ete, îts Parm and Garden Departments sre g zed for their practise! and timely himis ai Ths Partnership Polley of Publientien ' \u2018The Witness 13 (ruly \u201cThe Pesple's Tort Rach render 1s recognised as respcogiite fer exteusion of the Witness cirowlation in his environment.92 per annum.ON TRIAL te subseribers, 83 soneunssd from time Lu time, POSTAGE Outside of Montreal and Suburde, ne posta 1s fer Canada, Ne British Isles.Br.W.Indies, or Mexice.EXTRA POSTAGE PER YEAR: To the Slaies and Jo Monireal and suburbe BM waira: Le other foreign eeuntries $3.00 extra In the cree of Witness snd Werld Wide 8 Montreal nédresses, L! prepsid st full rales, publishers assume this postage.but net on duced rate, club or trial offers SENDING MONEY Me sudacripiion msy he paid dy eheque unl ihe cheque bas written clearig across ft werds \u2018Payshis at Fer Montreel\u201d Money ders or postal notes Ars the dest way to monsy.Only »mall smounis may be sent slempe and (ben eùly in the 1.3.and 30 dp seminstions.MMamps of larger denominatiquts Sanast be sosepted.Address all communications regarding seo tiena to Jehm Dougsll & Bon, and not Le editer or individuals by name.This avoids ath noying delays.The Business rane ng specially organised lo Hive prompl care ©.ron lerzees.JONN DEUGALI A KOY.Poblishors, \u201cWitness\u201d Bldg.Mealrsal Is It Money , | You Want?/ Without stepping outside of your own door or changing your present plans in any way, you can earn Hundreds of Dollars a year in your WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 23, 1929.spare time.No selling or canvassing.You Need Never Be Without Money Never to be without money sounds almost too to be true doesn\u2019t it: Yet nothing could be more true.Picture this \u2018acene for yourself \u2014 you are seated at-a table in your own home with- an - Auto\u2019 # Knitter before you; A wonderful hand * operated knitting machine that knits wool socks by simply turning a handle.When & few dozen or more pairs are ready they are sent to me by parcel post.By return mail X send you a Money-Order paying for the work, and in addition, a new lot of yarn.This new yarn costs you nothing and it is replaced just as often as work is.sent in.From this you can see that as.long as the machine is operated \u2014 pay cheques will come.That is why I say\u2014 you need never be without money.Previous Experience Is : Not Necessary .No previous experience js necessary; no ial talent or ability is required, nor it matter where you live.If would like to turn your spare bours into actual dollars, I can show you how.\u201cI searched in vain for some way to make extra money at home,\u201d writes Mrs.A.Lempky who lives in a small Qntario town.Then someone told her about Auto Knitting, and she began the work in her spare time.And she continues in her letter to me: \u201cWe have realized our far off dream of buying a little home of our own.\u201d Mrs.Lempky is but one of a great many.Ilundreds of Thousands of Dollars have been earned by- Auto Knitter workers in Canada.or There Is Na Canvassing You are pexhaps familiar with the ordinary ways offered for earning spare-time money, and perhaps you have tried them and found them unsatisfactory.The most .Hundreds of Thousands of pairs a year.-Aute Knitting is a tested, established way of turing spare time into needed dollars.Think how pleased Mrs.Wesley Hearn of Saskatchewan must be that she took up this work some years ago.Here is part of an interesting letter from her; \u201cI am the fnother of five children and do not get much time to knit, but I have made as much as $45.00 a month besides doing my own work.\u201d .Simply Send Your Name Some folks hesitate about sending in their * name thinking it will obligate them to buy something.Well here is a time when it won't.When you send your name, I will mail you a beautiful booklet giving you complete information\u2014How to\u2019get started and what you can earn.I want you to know of the pleasant and profitable place I have for you as one of my workers.I want you to know of the substantial TITAN gmounts that even a small part of your spare time will earn for you.Clip and.mail the coupon below right pow while are interested.You will be delighted \u2018with what I send.| t 791 Money A (Dé.A -vex XX, WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTRAR, JANUARY pREeSY SYEAAY SQa%8 4NS3,034 DUAL RE 44 LE Li ; fau ve bah a HER TER 1,51; laits de MR THI in DARSS IFR ap ETE 2031 fend ë Hi i md BEF SH si 3 ÿ* spi : J | big ann ln Eh ili Lu, SIT IPRE HER TAN a | g & â 5 à [ EE od] dik à tang 4 0rd HL SAREE TH H SPIRE Shi, il jpn ih % | en | I i hl nr didn pital df) 21) od iti inl alain i i geht 5 A wl O13 ii iain HE jth HS ali ii EN 3 be Henikatiahk fal Ea gle = pu ith i Sampahint fod uni D pin Banh Pt < digi aie] unit goal bpp hal : isp ids RE te Paie Yi A LE ithing BEEpEefa esl i i Easitdnannli®y HH Si 28 fq us 3 1 2 5 i : 237 4833503 SEN3SER #574 33380 C4 pce na À pi mE î TE g sa à sig à tan HE it Hi its Be.ie fl lial | ih il | i: aia |] i ii si in Hi aie LE nplib a pli Hi ÿ 8 Fass TH PEUR ee FE si Hi ee nm ee as idiots and loafers.So far, so good, for Freddie.But unfortunately the Alcalde had other cherished dislikes One of them was for foreigners; and another was for young\u201c men about Freddie's age.In addition.the Al- calde detested feast days, civil guards, newspapers, firearms, and interruptions or Innovations Thus he was well equipped to deal acidly with about any case that might be brought before him.The Alcalde, like a good many other dyspeptice, was à great reader of philosophy.He wes such an ardent philosopher that he became greatly incensed when any inoident broke in upon his studious reflections.The sudden appearance of a vengeful mob, erying violently for the punishment of Freddie Fenimore, made the old gentleman furious.\u201cOut! Out of my hous!\u201d he cried, a8 the crowd swarmed in.\u201cOfficers, drive that fiithy mob oulside.What do you want of me?You have broken tn upon my reflections and upon a holiday, too! Who is this young man?What are these ladles doing here?\u201d Then, recognizing Dona Fer- - mnandes, whom he well knew, for her * husband was one of the Aloaide\u2019s few intimates, he rose and bowed politely.Dona, what means all this?How are you concerned with this rabble?\u201d That part of the rabble which had succeeded in getting ato the Alcalde\u2019s recœption room refused to be put out again, nor did they decome less noisy.\u201cHe has killed our bull\u2014\" \u201cShut up, will you?Have you no manners, when this noble lady wishes to speak to me?\u2014Respected lady, de you know this young man?What is the trouble?\u201d The lady told the story colorfully, shedding copious tears as she describ- od the narrow escape of herself and danghter from the bull.\u201cBesides, Senor Ruig,\" she added, \u201cthis excellent young man did me a good turn just the other day, alse, proving himself a good gentleman, of refinement.\u201d And she recounted the affalr on the train, coming from Barcelona.\u201cCan he spedk our language, Dona Fernandez?\u201d \u201cNo, not a word.\u201d , \u201cAsk him who he was carrying a revolver.1t is forbidden.\" \u201cHe did not know that, He wes in a strange country.\u201d \u201cNotwithstanding your interest in the young man, I shall have to fine him twenty pesetas for that offence, and the weapon shall be confiscated.\u201d \u201cHe will pay it! 1 will pay & for him, gladly.\u201d \u201cSo far, ao good,\u201d said the Alcalde methodically, making à note of the transaction.\u201cYor part, I wish he had killed all the in Aranjues and Andalucia.It is detestable business, this bullfighting.Do you hap- to know I forbade it this year?ell, I gave way to the popular clamor.Fools must have their folly.Siempre se ha practicado aei/ 1 am glad the bull is dead.\u201cHe wounded one man severely,\u201d sid the Dons.\u201cHa! not enough! Well, I shall not punish the young man for killing the bull.Neither shall I praise hin, except that, it you say your life and that WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 13, 1900.of the senorita were in peril, he served you a good turn.You are sure he saved you?\u201cOh, 1 am certain, Don Felipe.\u201d \"Well, then, he did well.But un.nandes.\u201cIt will all be weil, now,\u201d she aM to Freddis in English.\u201cMy friend Hilario!\u201d ssid ths Al- calde placidly, holding out his hand, by Alice Prescott Smith : Chapter XXXV Recompense thmediately\u2014business that got over.I would have gone once, but feared the imsue.I needed all there was of me to bring to her, and must pay some part y debt to my cheated body.Lang- as His word, and I! was © ~ B greeted me in English, her face work- between joy at seeing me, and disapproval -that I had not come before.She said her mistress was inside.I went with breath tightened.Mor- tense had heard voices, and came to- R fingers.\u2018Hortense, forgive,\u2019 I bungled.1 didn\u2019t mean to say it that way.But you looked ill\u2019 Still no words.\u2018You have besh very fil; I cried \u2018You have been back weeks,\u2019 she whispered.\u2018And never came.\u2019 - I was In the measles camp, Hor- She shuddered.\u2018You should have let me help.You might have died there.\u2019 \u201cTut!\u2019 I cried.\u2018T did not.\u2019 I took her hand to lead her to à chair; but the too much for mg.dear, my very i H E â \u2018Mean what?Don't go.Don't.\u201d \u201cThe way you treated me\u2014that last t* \u2018That last night?I had work to do \u2014{o see Langlade\u2019 \u2018You need not have been unkind! Unkind?Why, we're quarreling.Yet when I was kind\u2014the night on the river\u2014' I strode back.\u201cToo many words.Hortense Le Claire, I love you.And if you will marry me\u2014' \u2018Don\u2019t,\u2019 she interrupted.\u2018You forget.\u2019 Y bent to her hand again.'If I've said it too quickly and rudely\u2014Oh, \u2018Hush! You were married in my eyes Hortense.I always fait it 20.Though !t would not have mattered in the laast if you'd not been.\u2019 \u2018But there is more.Your wife's as- ter\u2014the law\u2014' I led her to à chair.Man's Hortense.I have no respect for it.It does not hold in France.I cannot lve with you in England.That L an in- vonvenience\u2014nothing more.There are other lands\u2019 I sat at her feet.\u2018Don\u2019 answer me.Wait, wait.\u2019 .And s0 We sat a moment.A breeze blew in, ruffling the papers.The air was sweet; wild columbine.laid my hands on hers.\u2018Hortense,\u2019 I said more slowly, \u2018I've been a blundering fool.\u201d You're not prepared.But perhaps in time\u2014IU have a chance.I care for you 80 terribly, my dear.She touched my hair.\u2018You're thin\u2019 I pressed her hand for answer.\u2018Tm well \u2014fust tired.Hortense, Langlade has given me liberty\u2014that, and more, So I can stay here for a time.Per- haps\u2014well, when I sit this way close to you, I feel some courage.If I could teach you to care, you might\u2014' And then she laughed.It came as & discord, so that I turned sharply.\u2018Blind man!\u2019 she wavered.I jumped to catch her.I held her in she was but worn with anx- for me, I let my vanity believe it at last she was ready to talk; to question.\u2018Why have you stayed away from me, John?\u2018Another time,\u2019 I parried.\u2018No just now.\u2019 - \u2018But there's so much to say.\u2019 \u2018And so much #me,\u2019 I taunted.\u2018All the years ahead! Married folk.seem to have so little to talk about.Let's not begin by being prodigal, Hortense,\u2019 But her eyes were not ready for laughter.\u201cThere\u2019s something you're hiding.Why, John?\u2019 1 drew her closer.I put our future to the test.\"Hortense, it's a story I can\u2019t tell.It's not mine.It's kept me from you these days.It silenced me the night on the river.But it's not mine to tell.Can you let it go by without questions?\u2019 \u2018You ask this seriously?\u2019 \u201cVery, Hortense She looked at me fully and sweetly.\u2018Yes.The matter is buried.\u2019 \u2018You'll never question again\u2014never through the years.\u201d \u2018John, Fm no ghoud! But the mat- ter\u2014-is ended?| \u2018Absolutely.\u2019 She put her hand in mine.\u2018Don\u2019t frown.I'll never ask.\u2019 But she did ask of what I meant to long to make her ses my altered standard.She feared I was doing It for her.\u2018And I'll not take you at that price,\u2019 she told me, and would bave drawn away.\u2018You cannot understand it, or be- eve?\u2019 I cried at inst.\u2018Is it ao foreign to your heart?- She leaned to kiss me.\u2018It speaks my heart, John, speaks it clearly.The cared so much for you.I kissed her Uf turn; but, for that one moment, more 88 & partner than à lover.A partner at last! 1 was dissy with gratitude to life.And then we fell to grave talk; of Nicholas, of Amalou, of my boy.stand before Langlade HEAD OF ROYAL AIR FORCE Sir John Maltiand Salmend, Air Marshal, has been appointed Chief \u2018Marshal of the British Royal Air Force in suceession to Bir Hugh Trenchard, who resigned last month.- CONTROL FAILS AGAIN A news item in the Montreal Star, says that:\u2014George Richard, a resident of St.Sauveur, was finéé $1,060 yesterday when found guilty of 11- legally transporting liswor.In default of payment of the fine and costs, a three month prison term was the alternative.The lguor was confiscated.It is the part of wisdom to look ahead.While this is true in its general application it is absolutely vital to the farmer.In breeding, in crop rotation fallowing and in many other ways the farmer must look years ahead.What is in your mind in cone nection with farm repairs and improvements next fall?Now's the time to think of it.Perhaps when you see - the richest chemicals of the manure leaching away and making a quagmire of your barnyard you will decide to have a cement pit before next winter.Or perhaps it's & new stable .floor, or à cistern for the cellar or à new silo or any one of a thousand other things.In this issue some of our advertisers are offering free books on matters you should be considering.It the book and youll be , with your impsovement next fall.Novémber's output of autos numbered 11,769, this being a reduction of 37 per cent, as compared with the previous month, but virtually a doubling of the figure for November 1927, which was 6,167 cars.For the eleven months ending November 30th the output was 282,957 cars with a sales value of $146,- 562561 (fo.b.plant), an increase of 33 per cent in number and 27 per cent in valoe over 1927.and you fel a deaf, you have Csterrh, Mew iu ibe tims to treat that Catlarvh.Don't neglect it another day, \u2014 Write at once and lot us send you helpful ABVICE Wome FREE Treatment.TH WITNESS AND CANADIAN HE Mhz TS A0.FAX.C7 it FARM GARDE The Pioneer Has to Dig Out the Farm = N = Beautiful Farms Make Enjoyable Homes The Sessen\u2019s Worst Snow Storm Finds the Woodpile Covered, and the Roads Almost Impassable.By George Kingsley Reed, J.P.ESTERDAY, January the ninth was à fine day, clear but cold.Thinging that it would stay that way for & while.I went to the bush and cut a few birch logs for fSrewood, intending to skid them over to the house this- morning where we have a skidwaygto roll our winter wood on.Last night, chores done, supper over, I drew my armchair close up to the box stove and toasted my shins.In a few minutes there was à promising pioneer on each arm.One sald, \u201cPlease Dad, tell us about that boy who called \u2018Wolf! Wolf!\u2019 when there was no Wolf, then laughed when the men came.\u201d Complying with their request, and making it as dramatic as possible, di!viag home the moral, I soon noticed that they had began: to \u201csag\u201d, yes \u201csunk down in sleep\u201d.Somebody noticeé them, and remon-\" strated with me for letting them go to sleep with their clothes on.For such occasions as these I have to save, or invent, a pointed answer.This time I sald: \u201cThat's =i right \u2018mother\u2019, I used to do the same thing myself, years ago.I suppose they take after me.\u201d Being relieved of my charges, I dosed, mused, thought about à multitude of things.Then, as if a magic hand had \u201cstruck\u201d celestial chords, I heard music in the three tops.The wind going over the top, (we are in a hollow here).They the storm \u201cbroke\u201d, snow beat upon the windows, the wind to- creased in velocity, as it \u201csang\u201d in the tree tops, sweet fragments of the songs we low.* .EVIDENTLY we were in for a bad night.Making sure that the stock was comfortable, and that the li fellows were all tucked in, I told Him who rides upon the storm all that I - ought to tell; then slipped into à nice \u201ccumforbubble\u201d bed.There 1 lay listening to the music of that celestial.choir.Ab! music, congealed hearts, \u201cthaw\u201d in thy min- by the I rested, sure and safe from all glarm.I don\u2019t even remember the light being put out, or wood being pus on the fire.On waking up at my first instalment, the storm was still raging, reminding me that the logs I had and the trail, would be all snowed uf.But shucks! says 1, what of it, and rolled back in again, This morning, when I \u201ckicked\u201d open the door, the snow was good and deep.I ploughed my way over to the got what milk I could, (they are away down now), fed, watered, did the reat of the odd jobs; and went back in to stir the porridge, and help \u201cmother\u201d flip the flap jacks.Then for the big push.hooked onto the snowplow, (a great convenience around the farmy ploughed all the roads around the buildings, out the Avenue té the main road, them: to the bush, as close to the logs as I could get.Taking the plough back near tg thins te leas certain «+ pig pen, I starte& to Wrestle those logs.A lady know.used tell us about some person she not being able to be might when hufried my soul, it is taking out logs when the snow ls three or four feet Jeep.Frequently my gbod intentions go to pieces.I want to interrupt myself here.to quote 8 little verse, because, somebody may be \u201cstepping on me.\u201d - \u2018For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.\u2014Ecclosiastes,, 7:20.° .WAS telling somebody what provocation there had been all morn- Harnessing up the horse, T° ing.Then, looking me full In the face, she said, \u201cyes, but you know Qeorge, it's better than slugging away for somebody else, the way you used to\u201d Realizing the truth of what she said, I ate my dinner, took the shave] and started to \u201cdig out the farm.\u201d In fact that is what is seemed like, there was 20 much of it.\u2018The places near the doorways where the plough could ror get, down at the creek where Nellie refused to go, at the head log of thie home alldway, and last of all, but not least, around flie haystack, When this stack was bullt, I thonght wa were putting plenty of poles > der it to keep the hay from dra moisture from the ground and to keep thé \u201chang over\u201d from [reeging or being bugied under Whe 8 wv.\u2018There is such a depth of nu lis winter that what is left of this slack is ig regular hole.The only thing to do was to dig & trench around it, cut At with the hayknife, apd put one-half in thy bern.It was like pitthing out ol a hale.Hew rite! that's just what It was.When bay wes all (all I could get) off ; poles, KR was about four feet lo the snow surface level.Encugh snow has been shovelled today to satjxfy me for sème time.To- motrow ! must hook onio the plough again, touch up the rough spots, and levzi off tbe ridges so that \u201cJack Prost\u201d will freeze it, making it firm and hard.The same thing applles to fe.Where we falind y, must try to fix it up tomorrow.Touch ay.those \u201crough spots\u201d that jar the other fellow.Level off thase \u201cridges\u201d befote they \u201cfreene\u201d an become set.a straight, make jijht the highway\u2019 It is evening yaw.The strife ls o'er, the beitle The clouds are herded home; pe has crowned the day.- pr \u2018Muskrdt Ranching FREQUENT indication is given of pre- + gress being made in in the Industry of muskrat ranching in all parts of the Dominion, particularly in the Western provinces, which posseag 30 many locations snd such large .acreages suited to the pursti.The sucessful comclugion of the ne- gotistions under way at the present time, lodking to the transfer of their natural resources to the Prairie Provinces by the Federal Government, will unquestionably be the signal for a great boom in tre agbivity, whisl has Lad Province of Alberts has received Applications for leases from intending muskrat farmers and there are hundreds filed with the authorities in \u2018The Province of Manfioba has, la sdditian, certain lands of its own: suited to muskrat farmaiilg Which \u2018be bought outright for from $4.06 $7.00 per acre upon easy terms of payment, or i of made postions.them: Maps have been prepared by the pro yingial degartpenngh nad then\u201d Tas rhe 8 anticipating the building up of an Industry of some propertions, particu- lasly inv the so-called swamp lands of the eastern section, where, according to the secretary of the Eastern Manitoba Development Board, many Uait- ed States Interests have been investigating with a view to elaborate establishinent.According to regulations drawn up in Alberta, leases are ordinarily not 10 exceed 649 acres, though a reais area be lepsed if considered rea- Sonable, having regard lo the pur- \u201cpass fer which the lease has been asked.The yearly rental for such lands is to be 25 cents per acre of is Manitoba and Saskatchewan.~ land, water or marsh, payable yvarly in advance for three years, after which the rent will be $1.00 per acre annually.The cost of rentals are an- nouneed as the same In Baskatchewan and this provinoe is already atirsct- ing influential interests to the industry: One recent establishment was the Moose Mountain Fur Ranch near Kisbey, which secured 8,000 acres of mershland and introduced several pairs of muskrats from Maryland to be used for breeding purposes.Notice of other large establishments fn various parts of the country by important incorporated interests is per- fodically given.The National Pur Farms recently located about 200 miles north of Toronto on 6, acres of! marshland which Is being stocked with muskrats.A yet larger establishment is that of the Big Creek M t Parms near Fort Rowan, Ontario, where there are miles and miles of marshiend useless for cultivation and attracting attention from thelr suitability for muskrat rearing.The facm consists of 2,200 acres, with 14 milles of wire fencing, and it is estimated there are from 25.000 to 30,000 Yats on the ranch.It is hoped to pelt 100.000 rats each spring in addition to the sale of breeding rs, while the careasses will be marketed fresh and canned.The largest.muskrat ranah in the Dominion, cofsisting of 11,008 acres, located somé 40 miles from Quesnel in British Columbia, is making steady progress.There are several large establishments in the Columbia Valley area of the same province, which has enormous stretches guited to the activity, and which is destined to be a great centre for the industry.a wd capital- Fostersd by Inteligont à the of the musk- ing industry in Clmds looms apprehension as to à pa supply.foremost authorities definitely may st frar.The prodaction of muskrat pels in Can- ads from the wilds, ever being en- crosshed upon by advancing settlement, hag deen steadily falling oft for time, while the demands for m in the manufacturing industry steadily increasing as the acope of utilisation of the pelt of this hitherto insignificantly regarded Hitle rodent widens.The United States Biological Survey estimated that last year the quiet manner.world demand for muskrat exceeded the supply by 15,000,000 pelts.It is stated that sixty per cent.of fur coats are made from muskrats and market- \u2018ed under various names.The musk- at shortage has for some time been reflected In the rising prices for peltry.Muskrat ranching appeals to the man of small capital from the economy of establishment and the rapidity of getting under way.The natural of these animals ander pro- ; material.Our Jew.will interest, The Shoei Trangh & 190 Jervis Biveet AND HOME tection, proper conditions of food, water, stc., is amasing.There are from three to five litters à year with an average of from six to ten, and the increase of a pair may be as high as 1,300 per oent.in à year.One ln- stance is cited of a ranoh which was stocked with 800 muskrats and in eighteen months was estimaied to have 60,000, or in other words, 75 animals for every one placed on the place a year and 8 half before.A Mani- toby pen ralsing experiment produced\u201d from one pair of muskrats a total of 138 animals.It is estimated thal an acre of well supplied marah will sus- taln from 50 to 75 rats and thelr progeny.The best assurance of the future of muskrat ranching in Canada is the moral support given it by various i ernments.Not only have these @@- erted their best endeavor to secure control of ail sultable lands within their confines but have early drawn up regulations, prepared maps, and issued literature for the guidance of those embarking upon the industry.rm \u201c ROOFING Haul Heme Bend us the size of your rool and we will make you a very interesting offer.\u201cHIGH-JOINT\u201dR Heudesme eppeerence, tisrough weuther- : tightness, great rigidity, econceny \u2014thove fl are features of a form ow new of Roofing to NEW! 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The Metallic R ce, Limited A Bog Gpavin or Thersughpin Sut you can clean them of comptly with and you work the horse same time.Does net biteter of remove the hair.8250 per bottle, delivered.Will tell you more if you write THEO.FAVRE & SON ' stabfished 1840.T INR COVE.N.T.RAW PCRS.GINSENG GULDEN BEAL ROOT Drensers\u2014TFure Made TH Price List Mailed ou Request mew rich, west berry isa res) vor; ase only ce much sugar as nary for high erade preserves.Growe np to 84 in, around, Hundreds of bervies from a: plant.ue your namenod Ti voof calé 14 trio sac cu two strong asd plants at planting time Paper Muiched Berries Better pci se.nia a T7 wwount of 89, and pager.atrawberry sa veu te pet big agri Ua es - LL WITNRSS AND CANAIMAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 23, 180.TWENTY.-NINR Though the United States has made at the point you wish to make the of potash should be added to every A vel bank or a stone or progress in the activity and certain corner or Hight Angle.Luy off eight 108 powngs of chicken or pigeon in One garden 1 know tie gravel anis Buropoan countries become in feet from this stake on the desired mature.-: ; , } ; i j along stone terrace often produee France, Germany, Finland snd other Une and plant a second stake.Plant : \u2019 fine gelf-sown Fist when the care- countries having received foundation à third stake at the peint where it « fully prepared -be falls.They Mock from Canada, the probability i8 wu be aix feet from the first and ten Walitewers .stem to enjoy the hard packed, lime- that the industry will attain ita great feet from the second stake.This will filled soll they find In such places and deb development In the Dominion, give you a perfectly square corner.Dear fir'\u2014I would like very much grow sturdy and stecky and able to whore all conditions are such as to Use a plumb line to set all three pasta to grow walifiowers and have tried stand the winter.contribute to the greatest numbers of exactly perpendicular, then aight several times pianting them in sum- The single are le and the fineat pelts \u2014 Agricultural and across the tops 10 extend the lines as Mier for the next aonsoh bat they - hardier than bles.They ° Industrial Progreas In Canada (CPR.) far ng desired.never thrive, They dwindle and rot sa à rule sown in August for bloom - Animal manures vary considerably AL the root and never come through the following sesson but there 1s now .with the feed of the animals and ihe the winter.A few hints would an annual variety which it is claimed Gassing Wire Worms handling of ibe manure a0 that it ia much sppreclated~D, T.will bloom in five months from seed.impossible = give rp go al sounds 4 though Jou had sown These may be Jown in the house in oliowing, however, couns- walifio seeds February or March for bloom WT re very Du.ed as fair averages .soll or soll in which cabbage, cault- summer.ticularly bad In new gardens which + Phosphoric flower or some others of the grassicas \u2014\u2014 # may have been In grams or weeds for some years.They are aiso bad in borders which are set round lawns and in gafdens having grass walks.In New Zealand as in Canada gardeners have been troubled by these peats.There it has been found that the worms are ;2.rly att:actei by baits such as germinating wheat.and this is sown la the spring béfore the permanent crops are put in, in row, about three feet apart.The wo} should be broken down and cultivated in the usual way, for the finer the aoû the more effective the treatment.In about à fortnight or three weeks, according to the temperature of the soil, the wheat wili germinate, and as together gr from twa to toe Joes Ce = \u20ac 4 i deep, or Tay sowd In drills alông- side the.bait, about the same depth.The best time of tréat- t 1s said to be in the spring ar aftumn, when there is little \u20ac @téréct the worms, and the wheat ¥ ers sponsoring tha Empire-wide Research Bureau, the Dominion ill stgnd to benefit materially by such an organisation.The Bureau will give ial study to soil science, animal ni@rition, animal health, animal gene Agédultural parisitology, plänt genetics \u2018and fruit production.: ehatrinan Dir Robdérf Grelg, Who is ehailrman of the Scottish Board of Agriculture, and was a recent visitor to C yada; The finest show herd and the only shipment of its kind ever sent ou of .Canada, is now on its way to Aus- téalla.Twenty-seven animals, the pick of James D.McGregor's famous Glen- carnock stock farms, near Brendon, were safely placed in Canadian Pacific Rallway cars and started on their long jaunt to New South Wales.No effort was spared by Narth America\u2019s leading Aberdeen Angus Breeder ta make the herd outstanding in quality.Three bulls and 24 cows made up the shipment.Twenty of the animals will be used for the foundation berd of the animal husbandry department in New South Wales, : \"ANSWERS to Garden Questions Making a Sqrare Corner\u2014Value of Manures Dear Sir:\u2014Could you give us a sim- Ne method of laying out a perfectly square corer when making the corners of = garden fence and setting out à block of fruit trees.Also the value of the different natural ferti]- imers and what should be added io: poultry droppings.\u2014C.H.The riosb simple method I find .given is to use three stakes, Set one % RED GOLD Swix EERE EI deg dates = Planta Zune vtt seinieg \u2014 cond IVe, er br, 0 08 plows, rine Suz os FREE PLANTS NICOTINE SULPHATE Horse Manure .0.58 &38 045 _ is always danger of clubroot.While Cow \u201c04 025 0.85 aliflowers will grow in almost any Several of our readers have asked Sheep ° \u2026 06 035 100 ordinary soll they resent an acid soll us where they can get Nicotime Sui- Pig \u201c« 0 010 060 and are never, 30 good as on lime.phate, which was recommended a few Chicken * .1.50 1.50 15 stone.Heavy manuring makes the weeks ago for delousing hens.It can For best results 12 to 15 pounds of plants too gross.Sow the seed in a be obtained from seed houses.It is acid phosphate and 18 to 20 pounds bed prepared by thorough digging and of kanit, or 4 to 5 pounds of muriate working in of SEINE | uty.Mimg@rof ad\u201d.\"0 handled in Montreal by Wm.Ewing & Co, 412 McGill Street, Montreal.lime, nubble and K hundred pages of money-sa - facts are yours for the asking, for \u201cWhat thé Farmer can with Coocrete\u201d, aver 200, .bigger profits.It tells bow to baild concrete stable .floors oundations, barn a; .\u2018proaches, manure pits, silos, \u2018 covers and many other permanent,