Witness and Canadian homestead, 26 février 1930, mercredi 26 février 1930

[" Sage at \"WITNESS Canadian Homestead JOR DOUGALL à SOK, PUBLISKIRS.o Land & Coo The Week's Outlook \u2018 Semcthing te Think About IR ESME HOWARD said goodbye to America at New York with no lack of noble international sentiment as leaving so many dear friends for \u201c A RRIVING by what was once the marvelously rapid process of the sea route, Dr.Ritchie's study of the disarmament conference reached too late for our last number, but not, thereby, belated, as three more \u2018anxious weeks have brought it little further forward.There has been a ed stil], and the world's most needed statesmen are still at it.It is startling to think that that conference has been already five weeks in session, off and on, and that, as yet, nothing has been achieved, except that Britain has, outside of all bargaining, cut down heroically her own partia- ment- approved naval program and practically scrapped certain costly warships partly built, and in doing so has incurred a considerable displacement of labor, a keea sacrifice, under present conditions, on the part of a non-plussed Labor government.Over- crime upon her record, which, as men see, has largely expiated, when she reveals, in strict accordance with her Versailles treaty rights, a cruiser, the first of ten, so modern and so marvellously equipped as to be probably a match for any battleship henceforth to be permitted.Germany, still smarting over Scapa Flow, the - VOL.LXXXV.Ne.offers a material challenge to France, whieh is still afraid of ber and as a nation lost to anything but material guarantees, In modern newspaper English, we say France in this reveals à lack of idealism.One who looked deeper for reality said \u201call men have not faith.\u201d BCT did any one expect satisfactory results from the problem to which this conference is confined by the terms of its call?As a peace conference, it 1s a simple contradiction in terms.For everybody knows, without being told, that all measuring of weapons looks forward to fighting and to nothing else.These nations all so lovingly assembled in, as naval matters go, their elder sister's house, and, as we believe, so keenly anxious for the confirmation of peace, sit there face to face against each other as prospective foes.Nay, further: each has advisers whose life is dévot- ed to this study of all powers as foes of all other, and who have long been unable to think in any other terms.Behind these, is the scoundrelism, condoned by society, of armament profiteering.Yet we own to having - great hopes from this conference through bringing the powers together with so splendid a common purpose 8s that which lies behind this sword- measuring; for every such conference is an anxious step.towards human bretherhood, and cannot buf beaf fruit.As for the problem that has been set, it must work itself out in the line of reasoning known to school- \u2018boys as the reductio ad abgurdum.But behind this impasse Ls the deep, but inarticulate need of mankind of which the negotiators should be kept conscious by surrounding spiritual pressure, adjuring the assembled nations to do something real.When the German force, moving forward in 1914 by mathematically assured calculation, suddenly broke when within 8 day or two of Paris, English generals were reputed as saying to each other that only a higher Power could have done that.Somebody must have been praying.| Thousands certainly were then invoking that higher Power.Himilarly, thousands are invoking the same Power today to bring about that for which all nations crave, but for which the stage is so badly set.United Empire ORD BEAVERBROOK's \u201cUnited Empire\u201d party claims to be looking up.Funds are pouring in; two hundred and fifty pounds each from two interested knights\u2014Sir James Dunn, & Canadlan-bern banker and stockbroker, and Sir Harry McGowan, Lord Melchett's partner in the chemical industry.They must regard the prospact of it succeeding, or else the mischief it can do as worth that little flourish.There is reported some twenty thousand pounds in all, detail of which is dutifully recounted across the seven seas and the six continents by the reporter who has the task of doing the touting.Like Perkins, relating the number of bables Mr.Samuel Slumkey had kissed, he apparently enters Into the humor of the thing in telling how this flowing stream is being supplied by the shillings of old pensioners, war widows and school-boys whose loyalty is aroused and warmed by the splen-~ did phrase.\u201cUnited Empire\u201d If M ' MONTREAL, FEBRUARY 26, 1820.85th Year.amly did mean empire free trade we should feel for our bottom dollar to pip roll the chariot along.But we too much about our fmperialistic j splitters.\u2018 , .° + AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, if any one, should enlist under this revolt, as his father revolted from Gladstone.For this was Joseph Chamberlain's vision when, as Secretary for the Colonies, he, like Beaver- brook, today, would have been willing to put Great Britain into trade shackles, if, by so doing, he could have pulled the empire better together.Imperial unity has gone through spectacular evolution since Joseph Chamberiain\u2019s day.More disparate in formal relations, the dominions have become more consciously loyal to & common sovereign and to the spiritual bond which the King so appropriately and nobly represents.The movement Sir Austen sees to be splendid but premature, Free trade within the empire, Mr.Baldwin declares, is the Conservative ideal, but impossible at the present time with the dominions minded as they are.There is no that the right to tax British goods even to exclusion.The anti-imperisl imperialists in all the Dominions and, later, the nationalists of India will need to be converted ar outvoted before Britain could even be asked to immolate herself on the altar of maternal affection in order to help privileged tax-takérs to add imperial burdens to their local emoluments.Joseph Chamberlain greeted Lauriers British preference, though Laurier distinctly disclaimed it, as a challenge which Britain should find some way to counter.He did not find it and it has not been found.If Sir Austen, a stronger protectionist than his father, sees no prospect of the domin- fons ceasing to shut out British goods, he may be going too far.But what is far less likely is that Britain will tax her food and raw material for the sake of the dominions.She has made untold sacrifices for them, but that she cannot do.LJ * MR.BALDWIN, himself a protectionist, has shown with vivid clearness that the aadly misnamed Empire Free \u2018Trade campaign must go to pleces on thiss two rocks, Dominion manutac- turers\u2019 unwillingness to admit British goods into competition with their products, and Britain's inability to give rences to the Empire as a whole ut taxing imported food and raw materials.He has, * moreover, plerced their second line of defence, the proposal to try the medicine on the dog, in this case, the Crown Colonies.Shifting thelr ground, not for the first time aince Beaverbrook, like a messenger from another planet swept across the political empyrean heralding his device for ousting the Socialists and, incidentally, deposing Mr.Baldwin from the Conservative leadership, the two noble lords, And- ing the dominions impervious to their blandishments, declared for an early SUBSCRIPTION RATES INGIDS FIVE CENTS 4 COPY.tariff protection in the British market, Here the crusaders have fared no better.The colonies, as Mr.Baldwin points out, have also their own legislative assemblies and impose customs duties for revenue, which, if removed, would plunge them into bank- ruptey.He sald nothing as to the personal motives of the two newspaper barons, in the Canadian peers\u2019 case, 8 hardly concealed desire tc become the next occupant of No.10 Downing Street and in Lord Rothemere's, an unworthy personal rancour against himself.: .A.J.COOK'S comment that the ulterior object of the Beaverbrook campaign is the establishment of a Fascist state, is not at all unjust, it we may judge from the utterances of some of its leading supporters.Sir Charles Higham, a leading motor manufacturer, bewailing the failure of the government to give \u201cadequate protection\u2019 to the motor industry, one of the most prosperous under existing conditions, hints that the coming of a British Mussolini may be nearer tharrmost people imagine and says he knows where the man can be found.As for Lord Rothermere, he has all along declared .that what Britain needs 1s a Mussolini or a Poincaré.Kast And West « A B our Alberta correspondent om farm conditions signs a feminine name, we must be careful as to reciprocating compliments about being hopelessly ignorant.Indeed, when we read about milking cows at thirty-eight below zero, sympathy for the brave and oppressed pioneers of our great, free west, never lacking, becomes acute.The Witness has at all times pleaded their cause as against the way in which the farmers are plundered by forcing them by law to buy what they absolutely need at prices which make eastem people rich while, for the most part, leaving them only the barest living, 80 long as new land was forever opening and the first wealth of the soil was being garnered, and so long as, through the influx of population, the farm lands were rising {n price, even if going down in producing value\u2014ris- ing fast enough to cover losses on annual operations, the east, which had furnished most of the cost of opening up the prairies, excused itself for legislation by which it was collecting the cream of the profits, practically holding the sacrificed ploneers in servitude.The reasonable, but increasing result was a deep hatred of the east all through the west-\u2014very un-Canadian, very un- Christian, but yet, entirely h So we, who are also human, must excuse some bitterness, even If it quarrels with the one champion that the west at all times had in the east, when that champion holds to its principles, even when the west forsakes them.THE Witness always foresaw the \u2018 time whea big municipal, provincial and private expenditures discounting a continued inflow of population and rise in the valuations of property to far above its decreasing production value, would bring about à reaction.It assumed that thos who were unfairly bearing the arden would become strong enough Wo to refuse to stand for the spollation by privileged manufactures.It was Hl-prepared for the day when the farmers would also turn protectionists and add their weight to making theirs the dearest country in the world to live in and to produce in.For that is what the picture drawn by our correspondent gives us of surrounding opinion, which probably ahe fairly represents.When immigration was the life of farm property, and every quarter-section was going up and up, not only to what It was worth as a producer, but to a figure which assumed a continuous further rise, but on which the annual product would not pay interest, all calculations, and, therefore, all hopes, were based on increased population, but when the bottom fell out of that bubble and mortgages took the place of chief interest in men's minds, burdens light-heartedly undertaken became grievous, and, therefore, a grievance.AS to the Mennonites, although they are the occasion of Mrs.Dalton\u2019s letter, they are only a side issue in it.Concerning them, she suspects that we have been suppressing letters condemning them: and printing only letters in their favor.As we are anxious for information about them we have printed all the letters we have received about them.We are even printing this one on that score, though confessedly it adds nothing to our information.If, however, we had to choose, we probably would pre- \u2018fer letters which took the Christian side.We assumed, on reading Mr.McLaren's letter, that this sentiment was the prevailing one in the west, as the weekly Winnipeg Free Press, which keeps Its ear to the ground to know what the farmers want, was doing its best to defend it.Why some farmers feel s0 is evidently because that, being different from themselves, they do not like them.That being insufficient to satisfy even their own minds is supplemented by the queer reason also given by the first writer, namely, that they would add to the production of wheat of which there is already too much\u2014a great deal much more than the country can consume.° ° HE farmers generally will, one would think, take unkindly to being accused of such \u201chopeless 1g- norance.\u201d If our correspondent knows of any farmers who are building on the hope of Canada's some day consuming her own wheat or enough of it to have any effect on the price the farmer shall get for it, she had better advise them to feed their families off their own farms, as that would be a still more self-contained proposition and a sure market.The price the Canadian farmer gets for his wheat depends on, the Liverpool Corn Exchange, and the cost of getting it there.It is as much affected by the Mennonite product, if grown in Ontario or Paraguay, or Manchuria, as if produced on the Prairies.The time has about come anyway, as the farmers are everywhere feeling, when those broad, fertile stretches should cease to depend on a single exportable crop whose flucuations cause prosperity to fluctuate with want, which gradually weakens the land, and which makes the question of when each year's crop shall be shipped too serious a gamble.Indeed, we see in Manitoba what is practically a demand for protection on wheat production at the expense of the country, by asking the federal government to underwrite the crop at a safety price.This is a development of protection which has been rife in the United States for some years.It is, perhaps, natural that our west should soak in the economic atmosphere of the United States, however different the origin and circumstances of a country nursed by the protectionist east in abhorrence of things foreign, particularly of things British.The United States may be within sight of consuming its own i WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, FEBRUARY 36,1980.products, if the narrow life of a hermit nation is its ambition; but, whether desirable or not, that is a goal from which Canada is infinitely far.The distinguishing fact is that while our neighbors glory in their own expansive home estate, Canada's purview is the whole wide world.An Impending Awakening cc world-ground is being prepared, I am persuaded, for a spiritual awakening on a very extensive scale.I do not say this lightly \u2014it is a growing conviction, forced upon me by the facts.\u201d So says Staniey Jones.In his way of hitting instinctively on startling truths and great realities, Dr.Stanley Jones is eminently a seer; and when he says this, people, dulled by the humdrum of religious machinery, look up and listen.Five years ago he sent a flash of unlooked for light round the world under the strange name of \u201cThe Christ of the Indian Road,\" of whose gleam few religious people failed to catch some momentary glimpse.Later came \u201cChrist at the Round Table,\u201d as one scmetimes sees in nature, the gentler repetition of the effuigent bow in the cloud.Against his intentions, the pentecostal aspirations \u2014 let us hope, inspirations \u2014 of many Christians, who recognize in the present year a centenary of the baptism of the Church, have drawn from him a third volume which begins with the above inspiring vision.It was expectancy that resulted in the first pentecost.STANLEY Jones, (h edrops the \u201cDr.\u201d) gives reason for this expectancy, which he is eager to communicate to the Church of today.He put first the modern scientific attitude toward life \u2014\u201cthe frank demand for facts now penetrating all realms, physical, mental, spiritual.\u201d This coordination of God\u2019s diverse self-revelations to man is to be glowingly welcomed, seeing that honesty says that any religious revolt against science is a rebellion against God.The Spirit bestowed on man is \u201cthe Spirit of Truth\u201d\u2014that is, of reality, a word which did not exist when the gospel was translated.In that spirit, there is a trend toward a religion of experience, rather than of accepted dogma.\u201cJesus based himself,\u201d says Matthew Arnold, \u201calways on experience, never on theory.\u201d His followers: \u201cdid not speculate about God; they shared Him.\u201d They had no doubts about heaven.They had it.Mr.Jones, who, a8 a world-wide \u201cround table\u201d investigator, is in a very unusua) position for sucn spiritual observation, sees in the soul of this age a general craving for spiritual reality.In South America, into the vacuum between dogmatic authority, dead, and spiritual experience, not yet born, is rushing every vain cult, ancient and modern.\u201cCaN our Gospel stand up under this search for fact?Not if it is a system dogmatically and arbitrarily imposed on life.It must be something coming out of life, necessary to life, completing life.On the soil of a return to fact the Gospel will come to its own.It is founded on fact\u2014the fact of Christ .I am only afraid that men will not be scientific enough .My creed Is Life; blessed be life the King .Our Gospel is founded on life, and impRris life.\u201d Science, stumbling over the obscuring accretions of centuries, is simply answered by the words of Christ: Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\u2019 If you can only get there, you will find mankind today very hungry for something real.° .° Chief reason of all for expecting a new world, is that religion 1s becoming Christ-centric.\u201cAs long as religion was denominational-centric, God could not trust us with power.It would have run into denominational megalomania; in the east, into Western imperialism.But if to be a Christian is to be Christlike, power is safe in its hands.What was fulfilled at Pentecost was life.\u201cI am come that ye might have life and that ye might have it more abundantly\u2019 \u201cWe are in the throes of a passing from the authority of tradition to the authority of experience, of facts, of truth.This whole tendency sends life to the doors of the Christian Chyrch.There it stands, waiting for some.clear note of certain experience\u201d but finds the church unready.As in the days before Pentecost, the doors were shut for fear of the Jews; 30 the doors are now shut for fear of the facts of sclence.\u201cIf our faith can be broken, the sooner it is broken the better.\u201d There Is no spiritual safety, the writer holds, behind closed doors.He had seen the beautiful harbor of Valpar- also, Vale of Paradise; full of wrecks.He had been told that, with certain storms, the only safe place was the open sea.\u201cSomething big has yet to dawn in the very structure, make up and temper of the life of the Church \u2014Pentecost.\u201cI can see nothing, absolutely nothing, that will get the Church of today out from behind closed doors, except it be one thing -\u2014Pentecost.But the Church has shied at Pentecost; it is afraid of it.I was afraid and went and hid my talent.\u201d LS ° .TBE Church is stopping itself by îts ponderous machinery, ever adding a new wheel, whereas it is power that it needs.It goes on trying to keep the complicated machine going by hand power.An Indian chauffeur, terrified by the precipices of a Himalayan road, got out and prayed to his machine which, however, soon came to a halt because he had not put water in the radiator or petrol in the tank, and the left-over was soon exhausted.There could never have been a Church with Pentecost eliminated.Like the full-grown man in the Malay States fishing all day for minnows in the furrows of the rice fields, the disciples of authority spend their time at Lausanne in the midst of a war-torn world, solemnly sorting out orders, rituals, rites and prestiges.Jalpur, in India was once a fortified city on a hill top.It moved some three miles down into the fertile valley and there flourishes.On the hill top, ragged sentinels, with rusty swords still mount eternal guard before neglected palaces and priests sacrifice goats before deserted altars, Modernism, for its par}, can dissect lite but cannot give it; it discovers processes, but not power; it knows biology, but not life.Would there were room here to show what the writer finds to be the essence of Pentecost, not its exerted phenomena, nor to be sought emotionally, and what are the hindrances, But the whole subject is worked out here.These paragraphs only give an introduction to this arresting book, with the curious name: The Christ of Every Road, by E.Stanley Jones: McClelland & Stewart, Ltd, Toronto.Listed, recommended and sold by the Y.P.Missionary Education Board, 209 Queen Street West, Toronto.$1.50 Seven Lost Civilizations EISAN\u2014Beth Shean\u2014Beth Shan \u2014\u201cHouse of Security,\u201d lies in the Jordan Valley about four miles west of the river and twelve miles south of the Sea of Galilee.It 1s a place of stirring memories.Situated on the old caravan route and an ancient battle ground, it was a place of great strategic importance.A strong fortress, as its name indicates, it bade defiance to Israel for centuries after their conquest of Canaan.\u201cAnd Mannaseh had .Bethshean .and her towns .yet the children of Mannaseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities, but the Canaanite would dwell in that land.\u201d Later on, after the rout of Saul's army and his death on Mount Gilboa, \u201cthe Philistines .found Saul and his three sons fallen in Mount Gilboa, and they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor .and they put his armor in the house of Ashtaroth and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-Shan.And when the inhabitants of Jabesh- Gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul, all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Baul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-Shan, and came to Jabeah, and buried them there, and they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.\u201d In the time of Solomon we find Beth- Bhan and the neighborhood of the Plain of Esdraelon forming one of the twelve commissariat districts which, from month to month, \u201cprovided victual for King Solomon, and for all that came unto King Solomon's table.\u201d Later still, Beth Shan was known to the Greeks as Scythapolls, a name implying that some ear- ler race was still prevalent there.In early ages of the Church, there was & bishop at Beth Shan and at the time of the Crusades, an Archbishop.Beisan is a small place today but there are surprising traces of its ancient greatness.According to some authorities it must have been three miles in circumference, a considerable size for a fortified town.The archaeological expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, under the directorship of Mr.Alan Rowe, has been digging in the mounds which occupy the site of the old city.A cross section of the excavation has revealed no less than seven religious periods and eight historical epochs.Nearest the surface, were two Byzantine churches of the Christian period; under these came a Grecian temple of pre-Christlan days.Below this was a temple of Sete, the First, of Egypt, then one of Amenorphis III; below these, a temple of Ashtoreth, and below this again, a temple of Dagon, the Philistine Fish God.The Hebrews were the only race which ruled there for a while and left no temple.In those days they were given to worshipping \u201con every high hill and under every green tree.\u201d \u201cHabiri\u201d and Philistine BEFORE the year 1000 B.C.the Egyptian Empire in Asia was breaking up.Among the Tel El Amarana tablets there is a pathetic letter from the tributary King of Jerusalem, Ebed-Hepa, to his overlord Pharaoh.\u201cAt the feet of my lord the king, seven times and seven times I prostrate myself\u2014Thou dost not hearken to me\u2014may the king turn his face toward mercenaries.There are no lands left to the king my lord.The Habiri plunder all the countrles of the king .If there be no mercenaries, the countries of the king will be lost.\u201d .The Habirl were, of course, the Hebrews.There was also an invasion of Syro-Egyptian territories from the north, both by sea and land.\u201cThe land force\u2019, says Professor Myres, \u201ccame with its families and property in large wheeled carts; the seamen in great sailing ships, with a fighting-top on the mast head, and the decks crowded with well-armed \u2018heroes\u2019 as their chivalrous enemy calls them.They had clearly coma tc stay; and though the king of Egypt kept them out, by a hard fought battle in South Syria, and a great sea fight, he had still to dispose of the survivors and noncombatants.There were already half- foreign settlements on the Palestine const plain, and to reenforce these with the newcomers would put a warlike population, under obligations to Egypt, in a position to stop any further attack that might come.The chief of these settlers bore the name Pulishta, perhaps akin to the obscure name Pelasgl, borrowed by Greek writers from an anclent pirate people in the Aegean\u201d These were certainly the Philistines, who gave their name to \u201cPalestine\u201d which became the name of all southern Syria, The Philistines are pictured om the wall of an Egyptian temple, as tall mén, wearing either a round cap ar up-standing hair.In Crete, a disc has been found bearing a picture of à man with a similar head dress.Long afterwards the Israelite prophet Amos recognized that Jahveh, the God of Israel, had also led these people across the sea: \u201cHave not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt?And the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?\u201d The National Homeland BUT for centuries, the desert people and the sea-people wrestled for the mastery.The original inhabitants of the land must have been crushed between the upper and nether millstone, those who were left becoming hewers of wood and drawers of water for either of the more vigorous peoples.The Hebrews held the hills, the Philistines, the plains, but there were continual raids and counter-raids.For a long time, the Philistines were the more powerful, even going to the length of disarming Israel.\u201cNow there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said: Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears: But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, FEBRUARY 26, 1930 every mau bis share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his matlock\u201d For a while, under the vigorous leadership of Baul and Jonathan, the tide turned, and Israel, at first largely armed with matlocks, axes, goads and such like tools, inflicted defeat after defeat upon these redoubtable enemies.The death of Saul and the destruction of his army at Mount Gliboa, gave the Philistines once more the contro?of the great northern road across Esdraelon and Jezreel, and cut Israel in two.Then came the brillant - ers of David.This terrible conqueror, in the days of.his out- lawry, had had more or less friendly relations with the Philistines, but these relations were sharply severed when he came into the kingdom.Possession of Jerusalem gave him a valuable base for operations against the district of Beth-Shan.Finally, he \u201csmote the Philistines and subdued them,\u201d even capturing Gath and other Philistine cities, He welded the southern and northern Hebrew tribes into a nation, and left an Empire to his splendid and luxurious successor.Excavations at Beth-Shan are continuing, and other finds may be expected, illustrating the history of the many and diverse peoples who hyve sought a \u201cNationa! Homeland\u201d in this strip of Southern Syria which we know as Palestine, the Land of the Philistines.The brilliant period of David and Solomon, whose dominion was from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates, supervened when the Egyptian power was waning and before that of the kings of the East had gathered strength.That brief period before they were the sport of rival powers was fondly looked back to as the golden age of Israel, which was some day to return, The Naval Conference By Dr.D.L.Ritchie.HE eyes of Great.Britain, of the Dominions, and, surely, of the civilised world are fastened on 8t.James's Palace, London, where, day after day, meet the representatives of the five naval powers of the world, discussing the possibilities of decreasing armaments and so of relieving the groaning nations from the burdens of war in the days of peace; it is also hoped to do something to minimise the risks of war ond.give proof that treaties, pacts and bonds of peace are not a sham and a pretence\u2014mere scraps of paper, \u2014but realities in which beat the aspirations and wills of all right- thinking men and nations War cannot end war; but such conferences may take a long step towards that consummation, so devoutly wished and demanded by everything that can be called sane, Now, after a fortnight of conferring, it cannot be said that much pro- tress has been made.Ramsay MacDonald, Britain\u2019s Prime Minister, idealist, and statesman, patiently pursues his course, and holds tenaciously to his hope of something great to be accomplished.He refuses to be discouraged, holds the conference to its task, and gives proof that Britain is ready to go earnestly to the long desired goal.But the difficulties are, apparently, many.The chief of them is, that the conference, many professions notwithstanding, has met still with the war-mind, and not with the mind resolved on lasting peace.Some apparently do not believe in the possibility of it.And so the climate is one of bargaining and haggling, of fear and touchiness in regard to national prestige and power.The talk is of parity and parallel power, of numbers, types, and variety of armaments.The United States must have parity with Great Britain, and Japan, her estimated proportion in regard to both.Italy must have parity with , France, and both of them strive for seapower in comparison with Britain.Mayhap the chief difficulties are with Italy and France; the former has dreams of Empire and Caesardom; the latter refuses to believe that there is security in treatles, pacts and assurances.She wants real security guaranteed by force.She is the militaristic realist, and cannot put her trust in the great idealism of a world governed by reason instead of arms.She still fears Germany, and has ringed her round with a clutch of steel through the Little Entente.She is uneasy about Italy, and evidently not sure of Britain, and so clings to the submarine as one of her chief weapons, as she asserts, of defence.And so fear delays decisions, suspicion hinders progress, and prestige var Desetd the touchy and suspicious pra too, although not sharing in the conference, having now no navy, at least of any size, has created a stir in naval computations.By the Treaty of Versailles she can build six cruisers of ten thousand tons each.She is just compieting her first, into which she has put s0 much scientific knowledge and technical skill that that cruiser is said to be as powerful for purposes of war as any of the great battleships.Ten such would, of course, make her again one of the great naval powers of the world, one of her ambitions tat led to the Great War in 1914.That news has startled the naval nations into dreams of possibility and fear, But the fact is surely also one more proof of the madness of competition in armaments.A new cruiser of 10,000 tons not only makes obsolete all other cruisers, but also monster battle ships of thirty and forty thousand tons; if not now, where and when is this madness of turning all aclence and inventive skill to fashioning instruments of destruction to end?LI I AND, of course, there are other forces at work.The statesmen are here, but so are also the naval experts of the nations, and it is not easy for them to think of their occupations gone.Navy Leagues are also watchful and busy, ready to make a political issue of any too ready bargaining for a large decrease.Some of the Dom!nions beyond the seas are also putting in thelr claims for protection.The devilish forces are also at work\u2014all such as make great gain out of war and preparations for war.The world cannot soon forget the sinister and dastardly part played by Bhearer, the paid agent of American armament firms, in bringing to naught the last conference; and not one of them is in prison yet.In the midst of so many clamant forces, how hard ft is for the voice of reason and the claims of peace to be heard, But let us rejoice, the voice of the women of the world\u2014the mothers and wives and lovers of the men who are sent to the shambles of war, is also here; and they are speaking as only women .can on such an issue, They are praying, pleading, and working for the success of the Conference.They are demanding it; they have a right to demand it.May they, speaking in the name of the women of civilised nations, not plead in vain.And in a sense the churches are here, but they are strangely timid, and fear to be urgent.In the name of the expediences of patriotism they leave it to the statesmen, and the statesmen are in the hands of the experts, and professional prejudice whispers to them, and the confederate fires of evil are busily at work, and 80 the devils of war get their way.When are the churches going to take their marching orders from the Prince of Peace whom they profess to obey?When the churches are as eager and whole-heartedly and effectively at work as are the forces that make for war, the lasting peace of the world will be secured.It may have to be secured, to thelr abiding disgrace, in spite of thelr calculating and timid expediences.It is surely thelr duty to tell this conference that it dare not break up until it has done much to undo the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed go free from the horrors and insane arbitrament of war and the dally mad preparation for it.are signs that something is to be accomplished.The United States has spoken.Battleships those floating fortresses, those monster \u2018engines of destruction costing millions of pounds to build and millions more to keep afloat\u2014will become a thing of the past.And yet what will it avall if nations follow Germany and build ten thousand ton cruisers more destructive than they?Surely the time has come for the nations to agree to only the force necessary to defend from pirates their several coasts and to keep clean and safe the great paths of the sea.Nothing short of that should be the aim of this conference.Does not the latest bullding feat of Germany demand it?Plainly, to do otherwise, is to continue in the way that leads inevitably to the destruction of civilisation.Naval forces to police the seas of the world, and give security to all voyagers are enough; nothing more is required.May it be the glory of this conference even yet to take à long step in that\u2014the (nly sane policy for civilised, to say nothing of professedly Christian, nations.In short, this conference must not be permitted to fall.Points From Letters I do not think M.Richey Tuttle, in his letter of January 15, meant it to do s0, yet his phrase \u201cthe way God treated His own Son,\u201d rather hurts the reader sensitive to sacred values.\u201cI and my father are one,\u201d testified that Son.Are we not to infer from this that it was God Himself taking mortal form in the nature of Christ?And who thus Himself suffered in Christ?The ground about the sub- ject of the Trinity is holy, mystical, and beyond our comprehension.We must \u201cloose the shoes from our feet\u201d and tread reverently.BARNABAS, The \u201cProtest\u201d against this religious persecution is inspired mostly by those who bow down to the Great God Gold.The wire-pullers of the opposition to Russia today are certainly not guided by Christian principles.Of this the writer is sure.The Soviet Union, controlling as It does, territories in which unknown natural resources exist, is a direct menace to the present system (the\u2019 rule of the few).Therefore the Bolsheviks must be crushed! So say the worshippers of this god\u2014Gold.80 they work through the press, and the press through the legislatures, to achieve their object.So far the USSR.has had the best of the argument.The Allles pro-war expeditions miserably collapsed.The London Daily Mall's campaign against Russian Oll Petrol (R.OP.) eventually \u201cwent west\u201d; for instead of decreasing the sales, it increased them.While the Baldwin Government's absurd action in cutting off diplomatic relations has been impaired by the present administration.After ten years of economic battling with the rest of the world, Russia still wounded maybe, but far from dead.They are slowly building a great national economic structure, building on American credit.If al the tales of the suffering and starvation of the peasants were true, then Ford, Morgan and other capitalists would not trust Russia so much.News from this country (ike China) must be accepted with a grain of salt.GRITH.I was quietly going over this point (the attitude of the press toward drink), with & man connected with one of the largest wet dailies in the land.He admitted that his paper overestimated, rather, gave undue prominence to crime; that the fiction made vice a virtue and virtue a vice; that many of the cartoons were unfit forchildren to see; thatthe editorials discussed public problems involving moral factors with no direct reference to the spiritual force necessary for their right solution.He justified all this on the ground that clean paper is a financial impoasibllity.An editor who is afraid of the poorhouse if he prints a clean sheet would not see clearly the difference between à drunkard\u2019s hovel and a sober home.Drink deadens the moral and spiritual sensibilities of any man who buys or sells it or who votes for it.Horace Greeley sald that it was to be deplored that drink should be sold anywhere, but for the state to sell it is a in akin to that of Eve or Judas Yet the wet dallies seem to see no difference between a nation enforcing a dry law and a nation licensing drink, and do all in their power to make law enforcement difficult.O.ROBERTS.ICARE GRENFELL LABRADOR MISSION NORTHERN MESSENGER LAUNCH FUND super Contributions from Oci 1, >» Onrt Lahrtess, Ou! 8124.21 10 » 136.54 120.00 nadiss Cliisenship.FRIENDLY ® noms FOR YOUNG WOMEN © THEIR BABIES Previous contrition acknowledged and paid to Official Treasurer frem January 1, 1830 $35.9 Purther 317.20 20 10.80 \u2018Total Purther Contributions $33.99 ne Tal Le 0.10 DAVID CURRIE FUND Prom which renowuls are suvlaineé on debail of vid friends of (be Wilness, who, through ae versity, would Shderwive.very regreifully, te give it up.acknow! see pact sure Letters FARMING IN THE WEST (To the Editor of the Witness) 8ir,\u2014I see in your paper that you cannot print all letters that are sent to you, but I notice that those printed this week all take the side of the Witness.Did you mean that all opposing opinions would be denied space, or were there no letiers on the side of Mr.McLaren, who has certainly voiced the feeling of the majority of the Western people.The proof of this lies in the fact that the Western Provincial Governmerts, representing Western people, are all opposed to this proposed heavy Mennonite immigration.Why then, need the East worry itself?If the Eastern Provinces want to act the part of good Samaritan and take in these ¢ stitute foreigners, we have no objection\u2014it 1s not our business, and we claim it no business of the East to try to force responsibilities on us against our will Is it fair to rescue these people from their destitution by making destitute many who are already in this country and not far from destitution right now?It seems too much like shifting trouble from the foreigners to the Canadians.C.L.Price places the farmer in the same class as manufacturers, plumbers, etc.who would likewise grumble at more of their profession being allowed in to compete with them, but C.L.Price must remember that other industries were protected against their numbers being over-enlarged, as for years, only farmers and domestics were allowed into the country.This over-balanced the population of Canada, giving too many produ-ers of food and not enough consimers.Personally I know little of Mennonites and they may be all that is desirable as neighbors, but I understand that their leader vut West, in a Mennonite paper, made a statement something to the effect that when they, (the Mennonites), came into the country, they would soon shake the foundations of the Co-operative Government of Saskatchewan.If this statement was made, It would seem as though the Mennonites were not quite such a peaceable crowd as some would like us to think My point, though, is not just seainst the Mennonites, but against all farm immigration, until the time comes when the farmers who nave toiled here for years, and many become poorer than when they came in, can get a decent living.The Witness seems to be hopelessly ignorant of actual conditions out West.Its attitude towards the Dairy Council is a sure proof of this.I have been a Free Trader ever since I understood about such things, but I believe in Free Trade for all industries or protection for all.At present the farmer gets the rotten end of every deal.He has to buy in heavily protected markets but when he has anything to sell the keenest kind of eompetition is legalized against him.You quote the poor lumber-jack who works out in the winter.If he eats two pounds of butter a week, and this is more than each member can be allowed In the average farm home, it means an additional cost per week of 6 cents per man, with the 3 gent duty replaced.What a big slice out of a man\u2019s pocket, If he is getting a regular wage, in order that the farmer may get a little profit on his hard work, and don't forget the lumber- Jack is not the only one who works out in the cold.We were milking cows 8 few weeks ago, watering and feeding them when the temperature hung for days around 38 degrees be- - low zero, and we have no woods to shelter us.This is hard work and unpleasant in cold weather.but hitherto farmers who were willing to do it could make sure of meeting their grocery bills with the proceeds from their cream.Now there is no money in dairying considering the work and expense.If Canada would be willing to pay a fair price for it, there would be no dearth of butter, but when so much is imported, the proposition is not sufficiently attractive.The lumber camps can well afford to pay the extra 3 cents per 1b.of butter for the prices they charge for lumber are high enough to well cover It, so high, in fact, that most farmers in this dis.WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, FEBRUARY 34, 1500.trict have not, after nearly twenty years of hard work been able to put up & decent house.Sometimes a beautiful farm residence is slown in the papers, but if a bird's eye view could be taken of the surrounding country it would look like a palace surrounded by cabins, as a very large number of farm homes are mierely glorified shacks.As one man sald when shown a picture of city slums, for which aid wes being solicited, \u201cWhy, they're living In better houses than we are.\u201d The 1928 crop was a bumper.The railways did well on it and all Canada in fact, except the men who grew it.Some barely paid expenses, lowered the mortgage a little, some managed to send for a few luxuries, known in the city as necessities, such a8 an easy chair, maybe for an aged member of the family, a treat eyed in many successive catalogs, but only made possible by a bumper crop.Those who had just started farming and had not therefore got ao deep in the hole, invested in the cheapest car listed on the instalment plan.They said goodbye to the dollars which constitufèd the tirst payment and if 1930 crop is anything like 1929, they will probably say goodbye to the car, ere long.\u2019 So the tale of woe goes on and if the Witness sent out ar unprejudiced inspector to the West, he would find I have not exaggerated anything.This state of things has come about because farm lands have been settled 100 quickly, because farm products are the only ones Government grades, and the only ones not protected, when all others are, and because the public, if the Witness is representative of it, is not willing to pay a fair price for its food, too anxious to get something for nothing.There is something wrong when a farmer cannot afford to eat as much farm produce as the man he sells it to, and during the last few years the syrup jug has appeared far too often on many a farm table and the butter dish not enough.Then why bring in more farmers to make our conditions worse.Charity begins at home and lately many of us out here are getting fed-up with this cry of Christian tolerance, when it would appear that the ohly people who are to be tolerated are the foreigners, whilst an intolerant spirit is all that is meted out to those already here.Esther, Alberta.LUCY M.DALTON ZECHARIAH (To the Editor of the Witness.) Sir \u2014Under the heading \u201cZechar- lah's Writings\u201d Mr.Westell, whose name I mentioned in the letter you published on January lst, suggests that my \u2018view\u2019 18 responsible for my conclusion that chapter 14 refers to the second coming of Christ, and states that the writer was thinking of times nearer his day, le.times thay have passed (prior to the present).It might be interesting to some readers if he were able to point to any date or clrcumstance In or under which the prophecy contained in verses 4, B, 9 and 10, have been fulfilled; or that beginning at verse 16 to 19, and again, verse 20.It M inexplicable to me how anyone, believing the Bible to be God's inspired word, can read either into it or out of it, honestly, any other than what it actually pre that is, the actual establishment of the Kingdom of Christ in Jerusalem, which fact must needs be preceded by the manifested coming to earth of the glorified Lord, verse 4.As to Dr.G.Adam Bmith's repute as a Spirlt-filled man, are not such men at times susceptible to doubt and perplexity?As to the incompatibility of the spirit evident in the earlier chapters of Zecharlah, with that of the later chapters, may that alleged contrast be covered by the antithetic pronouncement of the 3nd commandment, Ex.20:5-6, and as it refers to Zechariah as the gentle lover of peace being incapable of revelling in the blood of the heathen, may I humbly quote from 2nd Peter 1:19: \u201cWe have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in à dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.\u201cKnowing this first, that no pro- \\ phecy of the Scripture 1s°of any private interpretation.\u201cFor the prophecy came not in old - time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.\u201d For the sake of any who sincerely desire to know the mind and will of God as I trust I do, I humbly ask favor of space for this, and regretting the prominence of my name in what may seem a presumptuous contention, desire $0 leave to other and abler contenders for the faith the privilege of confounding the achol- arly skeptics of the day.My experl- ence of nearly 50 years of the saving grace of God, prompts me to say, with Paul, \u201cNot that I have attained, but I press toward the mark, etc.\u201d; and to watch for the Lord from heaven.W.A.GALLIFORD.(To the Editor of the Witness) Sir, In a recént number of the Witness W.Westell makes some remarks on the Book of Zechariah which I think, are open to some criticism.He seems to advise the reading of the comments of Dr.G.Adam Smith, whom he calls a \u201cSpirit-filled man\u201d, But when a writer professes to discover two writers of this book because of a difference in matter and style of writing\u2014(I think it is a mistake)\u2014 it can be explained in this way.eg.When & writer (say in a letter) deals with two different subjects, there is likely to be a change in his style of writing in that one letter\u2014so with the books of Zechariah, Isalah, and others.To deal thus with any book of the Bible is apt to shake the faith of some in the truth of the revealed Word\u2014and I don't think any \u201cman of the Spirit\u201d would care to do that.Mr.Westell appears to be troubled about the horses in this book\u2014that can be explained thus: In chapter VI.it seems as if the various horses are sent forth for correction and judgment.(I am, for the sake of brevity, merely giving the references \u2014look them up.) In chapter XII, as they ure used by the enemies of the Lord to thwart His purposes they are \u201csmitten\u201d as part of the punishment meted out to those enemies.In chapter XIV.because of the devout thankfulness for the mighty deliverance of Israel by the Lord Himself (Obadiah 17) leading His forces to crush Ant{-Christ and his forces and to set up His millennial Kingdom\u2014this deliverance ls also foretold in Jude 17 (Verse) and Rev.XIX.IT., et seq.Then holiness is gratefully rendered to Him manifested and established on the throne of His Father David Ps.II.6, Luke I:32.Our blessed and glorious Redeemer reigning gloriously.JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS, and bo everything is consecrated to His Ser- vice\u2014\u201cHoliness to the Lord shall be upon the bells of the horses and every pot and pan in Jerusalem\u201d signifying that all life, public and private, shall be lovingly devoted to His servicerLet me say just here\u2014the peaceable nature of this millennial reign is given in Isaiah XI and XII.Micah IV.with Isaiah II.1-5.There is much talk and desire that the League of Nations may bring about universal peace.That cannot, and will not come by man's effort.Universal peace can only be established and maintained, by the Prince of Peace, when He comes.Mr.Westell questions whether the second coming is found in Zech.XIV.\u2014Well the answer is\u2014it is full of it as the acme of the scheme\u2014the crowning point of the whole matter\u2014the very object for which Christ will come again \u2014Look at Zech.II.10.Let us see how this comes about.In Matt.XXIV: 3, the disciples asked Jesus three questions which He answered In the order they were asked, though many careful students of prophecy consider them not quite in chronological order, which would be ans: 2, 1, 3.(Pember, in his \u201cGreat prophecies\u2019 suggests the division of the olivet discourse thus: (1) 9-38, (2.) 36-28, 30.(3.) 25-31, which seems to me to be the most common sense division.) But note how the blessed Lord answers the questions: first, notice, he gives à caution in verse 4 to 8; describing the run of events of this present period, and when He begins to answer the question He says (verse 9)\u2014\"Then, etc.\u201d ie, the time you are enquiring about; this answer extends to verse 35.It is well to notice how He finishes this introduce tory caution: \u201cthese are the beginning of sorrows.\u201d Then, etc, \u201cthese things\u201d the disciples asked about are found in Matt.XXIII, 35-39, in fact this whole chapter from verse 13 may be included in this denunciation and threatening.But before we go further, let me say that Matt.XXIV.should be read with Mark XIII.apd Lpke XXI, They are records of the same discourse, differing somewhat apparently (but it 1s much like what three men would do if asked to give an account of a discourse or some startling event some facts recorded by one, would be omitted by the other two, while all three would record some of the circumstances or expressions.This is evident by comparing the four gospels.\u2018This answer describes the trouble coming on the Jews when settled in their own land (we are looking forward for that, expecting it in accorda ance with statements in Holy Serip= ture).This answer is really an ex pansion of Daniel IX: 26 27 which has a fuller expansion in Rev.VI to XIX, these having their counterpart in many places in Holy Writ.This is evidently In the future as stated In Rev.I 9, IV.1, (our~ Lord's own words.) This period ends in fearful convul slons of nature and in the midst of it all, while the people In Jerusalem are terrified by the siege conducted by Anti-Christ\u2014when Christ appears (Luke XXI.26, 27, 28) for their de- * liverance.It is here that Zech.XIV.fits in.In fact the whole book, with the exception of a few short passages, 15 occupied with the description of this glorious period, the MILLENNIUM, especially chapter XIV.Now I want to say we are not reading our ideas Into it in order to get ideas out of it, but simply using the plain, unvarnished words of Holy Scripture in order to get at God's plan as revealed to us in His Holy Word.Let us \u201cread, mark, learn and inwardly digest.\u201d It is then that Matt.XXIIT, 39 finds its fulfilment\u2014wonderful to relate that the last the Jews saw of Jesus was when hanging on the Cross.There are many most interesting details which can be filled and fitted in, but owing to time and space we can't stop to examine.This could be nicely done in Bible class work.It is at this juncture that we have the answer to question 3.(Matt.XXV, 31 et seq.) Preceding all this we have the answer to question 3.\u201cWhat shall be the sign of Thy coming\u201d paronsta (presence), the answer begins at velse 36 and extends to Matt.XXV, 30.The parable of the talents describing the commission and conduct of the church or Christianity ll the Lord comes.The parable of the ten virgins\u2014having a parallel in versss 40 and 41 (Matt.24) and shows the necessity of watching and waiting in preparedness.He gives the reasom of the necessity of referring to Noah's time\u2014and it is interesting to notice the difference between the two words \u201ctaken\u201d (from two different Greek words,) re Noah's time it is eren, intimating judgment; \u2018re Christ's coming it 1s paralambanetal\u2014intimating honor (caught up alongside of).Our Lord uses this same word in John XIV.3, \u201creceive you unto myself.\u201d This has its parallel in \u201c1 Thess.IV, 18, where the faithful are caught up,\u201d to be out of the way when the Great Tribulation comes, as St.Luke reports our Lord as saying.\u201cWatch\u2014 .\u201d Luke XXI.36.We have types of this in the Old Testament, eg.\u201cEnoch walked with God, and God took him\u201d (before the flood came) \u201cNoah walked with God\u201d and escaped the Flood in the Ark as the result of his faith.Lot escaped from Sodom, before the fire, as a relative of faithful Abraham-\"Lot vexed his soul at Sodom\u2019s wickedness.\u201d He was a \u201cpreacher of righteousness.\u201d To summarise\u2014Our Blessed Lord calls upon us to show our loyalty ~ full co-operation It is impossible to regard the apherés of home and school as abco- lutely distinct.The'r contributions to tire education of the child react on one another and finally merge into one.We cannot say with conviction that certain traits in the child may be traced to the home and others to the school, nor can either institution lay at the door of the other the blame for the unsuccessful issue, sometimes, of the educational process.Again, it is à mistake too commonly made to assume that the home and the school are hostile camps.They are too often regarded in this light and children are thus given the impression that they will have the support of their parents if they challenge school authority.Nothing is really farther from the truth.Home and school face exactly the same problem, the preparation of the child for the best life within his reach, and they face it together from the same angle and moved by the same deep interest.No institutions are really more closely related than home and school.A third misconception has relation to the teacher.It is safe to say that there are few characters who get publicity more effectively and with so little expense as school teachers.They form the principal figures on the stage of a world of little people who have not yet learned the fine art of hiding their feelings or the use of any of those guarded forms of speech by which their elders suggest rather than express their opinions.Further the teacher is often seen by youthful eyes in the lurid light of a spoll-sport, a kind of \u201cdeus ex machina\u201d with an uncanny gift of! arriving on the scene of some wonderful enterprise or adventure just when least desired.The healthy child is not à student by choice but by reason of the demands of civilized life, and the teacher Je the person who has the supremely difficult task of making a natural rebel into a respectable and worthy citizen.I want you to realise that the teacher's position is not that of the good falry who, by à wave of her wand, brings out of nowhere all that the child desires.His task ie quite the reveræ of this if he is a good teacher.It is really the very difficult duty, notonly of making the child do what he naturally bas no taste for, in surroundings which compel restraint when he lesat desires it, but of making him Jove that task so deeply that he forgets all the inroads on his liberly which it demands.I HAVE stressed the difficulty of the teacher's task because it is not always realized by the home.Children are apt to criticize their teachers to their parents when in the difficult process of fitting them for life there has been a little friction and for a time even a shower of sparks.But I would remind you that it is impos~ aible to fashion & Damaacus blade without long grinding and many sparks.If the child's criticism is heeded and sympathy expressed with it, a mere incident may assume large proportions and cast a shadow over the relations of home and school.If, on the other hand the child is quietly reminded that in the wonderful process of training to which it is being subjected by thase who really care for it, a little friction is inevitable and that one of the greatest things which an education can do for those who have to face a world in which blows are more frequent than honeyed words, is to teach that self-control which can take buffeting as part of the game of life, then the parent has done no small service to the child and the teacher.The teacher's task is far from an easy one.There is an idea that teachers are a class of community who perform a kind of menial duty and that If this duty is not performed in just the way that interested parties desire, even though it may be the best way, they may be made the butt of unkindly criticism or even sharp rebuke.This is hardly fair and should cease when the magnitude of the teacher's task is realized, and also the fact that all good teachers\u2014 and they are many\u2014gladly assume their strenuous and exacting work because they honestly believe that they are rendering a lasting service to their day and generation.Coming to the more positive aspects of our subject I am going to venture to suggest a few ways in which cooperation between home and school may be definitely furthered.Naturally I shall deal with the problem from the viewpoint of the school.First, it might be well for the home to realize that the teacher is interested in the child not only as a subject but as a person.The mistake is often made of thinking that the teacher is only a means whereby the child is furnished with an equipment of knowledge which may be of service in the strenuous days of after life.But education, which is the teacher's interest, is a much greater and more far-reaching thing than that.\u201cEducation,\u201d said John Ruskin, \u201cis leading human souls to what is best and making what is best of them.\u201d The teacher ls concerned with the discovery of the best method of fitting his charges for life and this leads to à deep personal interest in the puplls.Each one becomes a living, individual and personal problem, to be studied sympathetically in order that right ways of approach may be discovered, and hidden, unsuspected gifts called into exercise.But when this attitude, with ita accompanying action, has been maintained for years with classes of 30 to 40 children, it should be realized that the consclen- tious teacher becomes an expert in the knowledge >f children, able ofttimes to deal wisely with young people who have proved baffling and perplexing problems to their parents.Further, from intimate knowledge the teacher may also become aware of strong natural inclinations which the parent has not observed.Also, strange as { may seem, 8 child will sometimes confide to a sympathetic teacher matters which it will not mention at home and which may have a very vital bearing on Hs life.MY purpose in mentioning this is to suggest that parents may find the teacher able to afford great assistance in helping them aolve the all-important problems of child IHe and youth.The teacher is a specialist in children and as capable of offering wise counsel in regard to them as any specialist in the matters of his particular sphere.Further, in the mutual confidence thus engendered by facing a commoa problem, teacher and parent will de drawn together to the mutual advantage of all concerned.This is one very prac- tained after the regular school hours not as punishment but because a seM-aacrificing teacher is attempting to give a pupil who has fallen behind the class standard an opportunity, through individual assistance, to attain that standard.tb) Support the school in the matter of home-study.It is a mistake to think that a reasonable amount of private and individual study on the part of a pupll is an evil thing.The assigned work has been carefully planned and any serious difficulties explained.The child's powers of thought and memory are developed by such study.Initiative is also often stimulated.Encourage the child to read books in which matters related to the school work are presented.This will deepen interest in the subject.(c) See that the child studies the requisite time in fitting surroundings but do not give him special help.He does not need it if he has been reasonably attentive while in school.(d) Create an environment of interest in the home.While not allowing the child to become à nuisance by always talking about school, show some interest in the things which loom Jarge in his world.(e) Encourage children when good work is done.Much more will be gained by encouragement than by compulsion, 3 (f) Arrange the home routine in suci à way that the child will reach the achool punctually and in an unhurried frame of mind.I WONDER if you realize what a difficult and at times perplexing problem school discipline is.The one thing that mitigates it somewhat is the knowledge that the subjects of the treatment are those who in the end will feel the deepest gratitude for it.But the Scriptural statement is eminently true that while \u201cno chastisement for the present seemeth joyous but grievous, yet afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of right- eousneas to those who are exercised thereby.\u201d As teachers we ask parents not to grow impatient when we have to use many and diverse means to keep wandering feet in the paths which lead to the gonl of efficiency for life's service.There is a fine passage in a book by Major John Hay Beith, better known simply as Ian Hay, who was himself for years a master at Fettes College.\u201cThe achoolinaster realizes early in his career that he is not a universally popular person.If he keeps his boys in order and compels them to work, they dislike him heartily; if he allows them to do as they please, they desplee him; M he is cheerful and jocose in his demeanor they btonsider him a \u2018funny ass\u2019; if he 18 austere and academic, they call him a \u2018gloomy swine\u2019; i he endeavors by strong measures to call sinners to repentance, he is said to have done 80 from personal spite; and if he shows kindness to the few righteous persons whom he may encounter in his form, he is accused of favoritism.But ag he grows older comes that continuous calm which marks his elder colleagues, for he knows now that Jinks Minor and Muggins Ter- tius who sit In the back row, with lowering brows and grinding teeth, chafing under his tyranny and preaching sedition at intervals, will one day come and ait In his arm- chalr, with thelr feet on his mantelpiece, bearded or aun-browned or distinguished, and will convey to him, if not in words, at any rate by their may help the by giving close attention to child's physical condition.We realise now that there is a very inte suspect a physical cause.Often a little medical attention at the right wise prove à serious handicap throughout life.Parents will act wisely if they observe their growing children carefully and keep In reasonably close touch with the doctor and dentist during these important years.Life will make great demands of our children and it behooves us to give them every chance.At this point I am golng to mention à matter on which I feei very keenly.We are living today in a very artificial and unnatural environment.To use à metaphor borrowed from the typical twentieth century means of locomotion, life has been \u201cspeeded up\u201d and we are all running on high gear.I am not going to venture 10 prophesy the end of the process, although I fear, if we persist, that it will be the usual one which follows reckless driving.In the end nature will come to her own and we are likely to find our social order in the ditch or on the junk-heap.But I am dealing with children, who are the only hope of the future.May I plead with you to shield them as far as you can from the artificialities of Hfe, and not to allow them, at an early age, to become the victims of the speeding-up process?Keep them children as long as you can.You recall those words of Wordsworth in his great ode; with \u201ctrailing clouds of glory do we come From God who is our home.Heaven lies about us in our in- gancy.\u201d Let us not be in too great haste to scatter those clouds or erase the memory of that glorious time which we ourselves have left #0 far behind that we sometimes doubt our own of it.It will also be well for us at times to take our children into our confidence regarding the end of the whole educational process.We know what this is, but they do not.The school is their world and there is à danger that they may make the mistake of viewing education as an end in itself.On the contrary it is simply a means whereby the soul \u201cgets aoberness, righteousness and wisdom,\u201d to use the language of Plato.We will do our children a great service !f we occas- jonally take a few moments to explain to them why certain studies have long been known as the \u201chumanities\u201d and what is the value in terms of life of those subjects which seem to have been devised only to torment those who have to deil with them.(Continued on page 15) The Publishing Game The publishers of The Witness, World Wide and Nerthern Messenger have turned work into absorbing play.Each of the papers opens doors for new adventures.The larger the adventure the great- or its dividend In life for the publishers, who in these adventures find the very luxury of living.Having ample Independent means they draw no more revenue from these publieations than the ardent golf member does from his golf club, nor do they speak of \u201csacrifice\u201d when, figuratively speaking, they \u201cput more gas into the tank\u201d for a greater \u201cjoy ride.\u201d Let Team-Play be the Order of the Day.Those who like these publications will not only support them with their annual subscriptions but will introduce them to others and thus fully share with us the satisfaction of \u201cthe game!\u201d \\ ~ ITH the chapter recording the parable of the Sower (Matt.13: 1-9) there is discernible a marked change in the teaching methods of Jesus.Going forth beside the Bea of Galilee, he entered Simon's fishing boat and putting a little off from shore sat there in the boat and ¢e~~%+ the multitudes gathered on the shore.No longer did Jesus speak as he had spoken tothe multitudes on the Mount of Beatitudes.Then he had spoken directly eoncerning the nature of the kingdom he had come to establish and the qualifications necessary for citizenship therein.Now he spoke in parables without any comments whatever on the spiritual significance of the stories he thus used The change was so marked that it was noted by his disciples and as we shall see they inquired as to the cause of it.The Parable of the Sower was a simple tale dealing with facts known to all his hearers.Perhaps as Jesus spoke the words, a farmer may have been within sight sowing his grain on the level plains of Gennesaret.He told about how some of the seed which the former sowed fell on the path- Way running through the field.Being entirely exposed this seed was quickly eaten by the birds and never even found lodgment in the soil.Some of the seed fell on rocky places, that is on land with a layer of rock not far beneath the surface of the soil.Having no depth of earth above, the seed in this shallow-ground soil sprang up very quickly, but when the days grew warm and the moisture disappeared from the top layer of the soil, the young plants withered and died.They had no deepness of rootage.Some of the seed fell on ground pre-occupied by thorns.Wheat and thorns sprang Up together, but the thorns being of vigorous and weedy growth crowded out the wheat until it perished, or at least falled to come to fruitage.But a part of the seed did fall into £ soll and springing up brought forth a harvest of varying degrees of abundance; some yielded a hundredfold harvest, some sixty, some thirty.Why Jesus Used Parables IT was after the multitudes had gone that the disciples came to Jesus saying, \u201cWhy speakest thou to them in parables?\u201d The answer of Jesus has sometimes been misunderstood.We can hardly believe that Jesus used parables to merely hide his meaning from those In the multitude who had taken a position of opposition to him.It 1s quite true that he was now speaking to a mixed audience.Some to whom he spoke were open-minded and alncere seekers after truth.Some had already developed such an attitude of prejudice toward Jesus that Eur Corner for the Shut-Ins By Rev.A.W.Hone HYMN Light of the world, faint was our weary feet With wandering far; But Thou didst come our lonely souls to greet, O Morning Star; And Thou didst bid us lift our gaze on high, To see the glory of the glowing sky.PRAYER \u201cO God, Thou who dwellest in the light that no man can approach unto, lighten our darkness we pray Thee this day.Turn upon our hearts the searchlight of Thy Word, that there may be revealed to us all that may be contrary to Thy will.Help us to be more diligent in the study of Thy Holy Beriptures, that they may become a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our path.May each passing day find us more fixed in our resolve to become Christiike in word and deed.\u2014Amen.SCRIPTURE 2 Tim.1.WITNESS AND CANADIAN The Parable of the Sower By Walter Albion Squires, D.D.they were sure to reject anything he tried to teach them.Facing this situation, Jesus decided to speak to the multitudes in parables.If we consider the circumstances we shall see that his action was one of highest wisdom.The eager seekers after truth, the fair-minded individuals in the throng would ponder on his words and try to discover their hidden meaning.Some would come seek\\1g further light in a private interview as the disciples did.The people whose minds were darkened by prejudice, however, would not take pains to uncover the truths Jesus was suggesting.Through prejudice they had stopped their ears and closed their eyes.To labor diligently in an effort to make truth plain to them was a futile task.In fact, the situation was such that Jesus could not make the truth plain to these critics without at the same time making plain his claims to Messianic power and wisdom and to do that was to alienate these people all the more from him and from the truths he would teach them.The best that Jesus could do, therefore was to teach in parables trusting that those who had ears to hear would hear, and that in the course of time, his gracious personality would at last disarm his crities and open their hearts to the light of truth.The Parable Explained Jesus was keenly alive to the situation which he was facing.He was evidently deeply touched with sadness because of the fact that many of those high in authority and of reputed wisdom were rejecting him and his teaching, but he was likewise moved with joyful gratitude because some of the less-prejudiced common people were coming to have confidence in him as Teacher and Guide.\u201cBlessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears for they hear;\u201d said He to His disciples when they came to ask an explanation of the Parable of the Sower.Possibly he realized that even these disciples of his had only a faint appreciation of the opportunity they were enjoying, for he told them that many prophets and righteous men had longed to see the things they were seeing and had not seen them, had longed to hear the things they were hearing and had not heard them.° Then in aimple words Jesus explained to them the Parable of the Sower.The seed which fell on the ha- wayside represented what haopens in the case of people who neither understand the gospel message nor care vo do so; the utterly indifferent people.The evil one is quick to snatch away such seed from the hearts of the indifferent and ungodly.The seed on MEDITATION 2 Tim.1: 10.\u201cJesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought lite and immortality to light through the gospel.\u201cSome time ago we saw the picture of Edison, and underneath it were the words: \u201cThe man who abolished night\u201d These words are true in that, while night still exists, the invention of the electric lamp has made it possible to overcome night's disabilities.Paul ascribed to Jesus the abolition of death in somewhat the same way.For the Christian, Jesus has removed from death the darkness and the fear.Untll Jesus came, amidst the gloom of death, life and immortality were but dimly seen.Now we may turn the searchlight of the gospel of Jesus Christ upon the night of death, and life and immortality are plainly brought to view.How wonderfully Jesus has lighted the shadowy places for us! HYMN Come to our poor nature's night With Thy blessed inward light, Holy Ghost the Infinite, : Comforter divine.HOMESTEAD, FEBRUARY 26, 1938.the shallow rocky ground represented the volatile folks who receive the gospel message with \u2018enthusiasm, but who soon fall away from their profes- slons of loyaity and devotion.The seed among the thorns is a picture of the pre-occupled people who are too busy to attend to that which ix most vital importance to themselves and all they hold dear.The thorns which choke their spirits are the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches.The seed on the good ground represents those who on hearing the word of truth accept it and hold it fast, thus bringing forth a spiritual harvest, some a hundred fold, some sixty, soe thirty.THE MUTUAL RELATIONS OF HOME AND SCHOOL (Continued from page 14) The average child will view his school studies very differently if he even dimly perceives their value.What story could equal the tale well told by a father to his son of how much study which he found rather dreary and forbidding in his childhood, has proved the very warp on the loom of his life?Children are capable of understanding and appreciating much faare than we often give them credit or.INALLY, but by no means least important, is the place of the home in the sphere of social education, We are trying to emphasize this in the achool, and the home can materially help in developing In the child the right social outlook.This is an aspect of education which is given no place in the official curriculum.Yet unless the child is trained ao that he may adequately assume the social obligations of his day and generation, he may find himself in a world which will offer little scope for the use of the other things which have entered into his education.May I be a little more explicit?Our social environment today is highly complicated and has in it many elements with dangerous ex- ploalve poasstbilities.Occasionally something happens which reveals the seething unrest and dissatisfaction with things as they are, the depths of poverty and the anany impulses to crime which move in the hearts of men.Into this troubled world our children are going.On their shoulders must rest its heavy weight.Education ought to fit them not only to bear that burden but in some measure to lighten it.If so, # ls manifest that the feeling of social responsibility must be developed in the child during school years, when the char- acter-is forming.If it is not a strong influence in the child's life by the time that achool-days are over, education has fallen far short of its goal.In this matter home and school should co-operate.By example as well as by precept we should stress the fundamental importance of truthfulness, moral integrity and honesty; loyalty to our flag, our law and governmental institutions; a recognition of the eternal fact that \u2018righteousness exalteth a nation while sin is a reproach to any people.\u201d Further we cannot emphasize too early the co-operative nature of society.Our children should early reai- ize that much of the world's evil is due to the negative answer to the age-old question, \u201cAm I my brother's keeper?\u201d We must send them out of our schools and homes to, meet their fellows in the spirit of service, not ignorant of human need, sensitive to the suffering and want of those less happily placed than themselves, and ready to help\u2014not hinder\u2014that already too slow movement of the race toward the better time \u201cWhen all men's good will be Each man's rule and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light acroas the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sun, Through all the circle of the golden year.\u201d In the cultivation of this social outlook which is infinitely important for \u201cthe future, home and school must labor side by side.OUR THOUGHTS An artist had à vision of the Christ.He resolved to paint the Christ as he saw Him illumined and glorified in the viston.He thought long, long thoughts of that experience, and that One Face, but somehow he could not bring himself to the point of starting what he had hoped to be his greatest work.On his death-bed he confided to those near him the disap- potntment of his life\u2014his failure to undertake and accomplish the reproduction and artistic re-creation of his vision.Afterwards it dawned upon his friends that he had, after all, fulfilled his purpase, for in his own face and in his own life they had seen the image of the Christ.What he failed to execute in art, he achieved in life.So great is the transforming power of thought! A CHINESE PAGODA Pagoda is a word of Persian origin, and was originally applied to Hindu Temples, as also to monumental edifices of à peculiar order of architecture.In China, at Pekin, is one of massive masonry, and another, a superb tower of bricks coated with porcelain enamel.In Japan, they are of wood painted red, and are from five to nine stories high.The Word of Life As thy days, so shall thy strength be.\u2014Deut.33: 25.When they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye; for it 1s not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost \u2014Mark 13: 11.Take no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.\u2014Matt.6: 34.The God of Lsarel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people.Blessed be God.\u2014Ps.88: 35.He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he in- creaseth strength.\u2014Is.40: 29.My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness.Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me, Therefore I take pleasure in infirmt- ties, in reproaches, In necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then am I strang.\u20142 Cor.12: 9, 10.I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me \u2014 Phil.4: 13.O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength \u2014Jude 5: 21.CHURCH DRAMAS \u2018\u2019Btrictiy Business\u201d (Ladles\u2019 Ald): \u201cCo to Next Neighber\u201d: \"Nothing to Do\u2019; \u201cWhat Doth Ib Profit\u201d: \u2018Money and Mud\u201d (one-act); \u2018The Trial Supreme\u201d (Easter).Sent on approval for five cents.Circuler Îree.J.R.PETERS, B.A.Warwlek, - - - Nothernlligsenger Founded by the late John Dougall in 1864 A GREAT CANADIAN PAPER For 65 years and by hundreds of thousands of nice people the Messenger has been the favorite of old and young for Sunday reading.Now.with its 24 pages a week It assumes the proportions of a magazine, with lots of room for stories, illustrations, feature articles of popular interest, S.& Lesson, children\u2019s department, young people's department and older folks\u2019 interests.IL is a family paper, a Sunday School paper, à missionary paper, a temperance paper ail in one.Interdenominationa) in Its sympathles it Is free to serve all Christians, The Messenger carries to hundreds of thousands, its inspirations, its comforts and its challenges to Christian faith and life.In scores of thousands of homex all over Canada, and in regions beyond.its weekly visita are eagerly welcomed.PRINTED ON GOOD PAPER Single Subscription 80e \u2014 8.8.Clubs 60s Six Months\u2019 Trial Single or in Clube 96 cts.arrangements must bs made Ontarle.(Bpecial delivery to addressés In greater Montreal) John Dougell & Son, Publishers, Montreal for WIENEES AND CANADIAN HOMESTRAD, FEBRUARY 26, 1990.A DEPARTMENT FOR HOME MAKERS Green, Purple and Gold Problems of Shopping.ONESTLY now, which do you think is most difficult, to find what you want when you don't know just what you want\u2014or to find what you want when you Know exactly what you want?.It is sale-time, as every woman knows.My friend Florence, as usual, has been on the outlook for bargains, the fact that they are a few shillings or even a few pence below the usual price being ever considered a sufficient excuse for acquiring things for which we have no immediate need.However, in her case the need was urgent.The nights are chilly at present the frost stealing like a strange, unwanted visitor into the seclusion of our bedrooms.Of its presence we are made only too well awdre when a chilly feeling compels us to open our eyes in the dreary night watches.What could then be more practicable than to acquire an eiderdown quilt at the sales?And what could be easier?You see them In every other window, flaunting down upon you their satiny or silken beauties, mostly in alluring shades of rose or gold.Only Flor- ence\u2014you know her preconceived notions, from which she refuses to depart except under direct necessity?\u2014 had made up her mind to have a green one.And, to complicate the problem still further, it was to de sprayed about with Michaelmas dais- jes and golden chrysanthemums.You see there was some kind of color acheme with which it had to be fitted in\u2014a purple and gold floral freize, with green represented, perhaps, only in the leaves\u2014anyhow, it must have come in Somewhere.Fior- ence\u2019s ideas, however, are vague only to those who refuse to be sufficiently interested.Other people might have chosen the rose quilt and had the room repapered to match; that way is not Florence's.80, armed with resolution, she went to the shops.And everybody was very nice, though they didn\u2019t just see eye to eye with her about the green quilt and the daisies.From their point of view a pink quilt or a gold one would have done better, seeing that their shops were filled with these.It was in vain that Florence mentioned that bugbear of the hour, color schemes.Immediately they were flouted at.\u201cMost people,\u201d they told her, \u201cstart with some ides of having a color scheme in their rooms, but it isn't long before they have to depart from it.\u201d (Alas for all the articles on artistic furnishing that fill our magaszines!).However, Florence saw fit to resemble him who never turned his back but marched straight forward-to that quilt of her desire.They showed her one of green satin with a centre of golden flowers, and \u2014yes\u2014the man pointed out that there was pink in it; if you peered closely enough and long enough you might deacry its half-hearted attempt to put in an appearance.But that green was, in Florence's perhaps perverted view, too closely related to blue.So they showed her another that was of a luxurious grassy greenness, with a black border that raised it to the status of dignity, and she looked at it rather longingly.It was green enough.Would it do?Then, like a child remembering her dalsy chains, she turned from its allure.\u2018They showed her one in which pink predominated, but in which hellotrope and yellow were also sufficientiy well represented.From it, too, she turned aside.Wasn't it too pink, and hadn't she long been convinced that green was better suited than pink to the demands of her complexion?Only, of course, the young man might not have understood this, so she refrained from explanation.At one unfortunate moment siie caught sight of the ideal quilt in aat- een, but, no, the shopman could not, with one masterly sweep of his wand, transform it Into the richer material; and this quilt, albeit that its colors and Its purple flowers were bright and glowing, looked somewhat like a dressed-up country wench in the prea- ence of sophisticated ladles of the court.The man\u2014sorely tried, like many other shap assistante\u2014directed her attention to the quilts in artificial silk, in self colors, or in artistic combinations of two colors.But these either too much greenness or too little.So, at last, in desperation, he told her that she could have one made up in two colors to suit her color scheme.He presented her with à book of patterns, and I can well imagine her, perched on the top of à flight of steps, trying the effect of these against the floral frieze.But a quilt in the hand being worth more than one in the bush\u2014in other words, Florence, being anxious to see the article already completed before she named it as hers\u2014she sallied forth to another shop.And here, despite the exquisite samples that she had already examined, she was told that noody used satin quilts nowadays, and that they would wear through in six months\u2019 time.Meanwhile there was displayed for her admiration 4 bewildering array of artificial silks in all manner of delicate and fascinating colorings.And there was one that would almost have done\u2014green and purple and gold, only the dowers were printed on 2 palé grey ground, and that does soil so easily, aousn't 1?However, although the prices were attractive, Florence left, saylng that ahe would probably call again; and the man, having heard that tale before, looked after her, perfectly certain that she wouldn't! And then, one day, when she was looking round quite casually she came upon it, the perfect quilt\u2014at least, almost perfect.It was green, not too much 50 or too little so, but just a suf- ficlent greenneas.True, its Michaelmas daisies had turned into rhododendrons and its chrysanthemums had shrunk to the size of buttercups, but after all, it was a quilt that Florence was wanting, not an autumn flower pot.And, congratulating herself on the reward that comes {o her who perseveres, she drdered it to be sent home, after the shopman' had told her that satin quilts were fashionable nowadays and that nobody wanted those of artificial silk.On A Spring eoat will bring forth the exclamation \u201cIt's a honey\u201d for mere reasons than one.It lines up with the new mode with detailed precision, and\u2014ié is fashioned of honey-beige suede cloth, Bands of black galyak are used te suit the most fastidieus taste.They trim the neckline and the sleeves above the wrist in the latest approved manner.In the narrow ruffied banding of fur en the skirt there is even an indieation of the pepium that all new medels are considering impertant.It is belted and buttened so cleveely at the waist that it gives the appearance of a dress, which gives a deuble reason for enthusiasm.that statement he may congratulate himaseM! .a * It was Cousin Martha who sald the last word.It ran something like this: \u201cI can't understand why you are always wasting your energy on [little things while you might be doing something worth while.There are the oranges walting for the marmalade, while you go round hunting after color schemes and such rubbish, Qreen or magenta\u2014it will keep you warm -all the same!\u201d Florence thinks that Cousin Martha has something in common with the shopman.\u2014Weekly Scotsman.Wire screens covered with cheesecloth are excellent for pantries and storerooms with windows near the ground, for shey keep out dust, Teaching Generosity By Marion Brownfield.OME children do not have to be taught to be generous.They are as impartial in giving as sunshine itself! But many children are, If not actually stingy, inclined to be selfish.In a family where there are several children, it will often be noticed that either generosity or stinginess is a marked trait in each child.; The \u2018\u2019only\u201d chiid is often little to blame If he grows up selfish, for he hasn't the opportunity for sharing that one of several children in a family has, and his parents often unconsciously encourage him to be selfish.But unfortunately, adults may also teach children, blessed with brothers and sisters, to be selfish, both by example and by speech.The \u201cholding- on\u201d habit is easy to learn.It grows.and it is hard to break! The mother who hoards, unnecessarily, in her household, the father whose garage is a junk pile from which he won't spare a scrap or the aunt who can't bear to plex a flower in her garden because \u201cthey look so much prettier growing,\u201d all teach qhildren to be the opposite of generous.(CONTRAST, with these, the mother who encourages Johnnie to collect newspapers In his own home and neighborhood to salvage for charity or, better still, the parents who from the child's babyhood by suggestion and example made him eager to share his seat, his playthings, his candy, with brother or sister or even the forlorn little child of the laundress playing at the back door.\u201cNot what ye give, but what ye share.\u201d Children are like putty at the beginning, and those first impulses, educated in the right way, may become the cornerstone of generdsity.When a little girl sees Mother share her \u201ccompany\u201d dessert with a neighbor, remember those at Christmas who can't \u201cexchange gifts,\u201d lend maguzines and books, and give willingly to various benevolences instead of spending all her spare change on trifies for herself, the child learns the real joy of generosity.The spiritual foeant need to be voiced.It will be elt.But how carefully must the opposite teaching be avoided.The mother who says, \u201cGo and borrow tha! maea- size back from Mrs.Brown.She's had it all day; that's long enough! I want it myself this evening,\u201d is unaware, doubtiess, that she 1s grafting an unlovely bit from her own character onto her child's! By this act she is likely to impede even the child's material success in life.As unselfishness is a fundamental of generasity it can be impressed aa children that sharing does not always refer to material things.They can easily understand that to share a friend, to chow others a pleasant walk or a beautiful sunset is often a most delightful kind of generosity.It is worth while to help them to cult'vate it.\u2014From an article issued by the National Kindergarten Asasocia- tion, 8 West 40th Street, New York.Play Equipment for Baby ROM the time that à child begins to walk he needs every possible opportunity to practise balancing and Also to exercise his leg and arm muscles.Climbing, and before that, walking up \u2018inclines, aids this development.The child who has experimented long enough to determine for himself what he can safely accomplish, rarely overestimates his abil- ties, says a contributor to \u201cSuccessful Farming.\u201d Playing with much older children or being exposed to an anxious adult audience will sometimes temp! him to \u201cshow off\u201d to his later sorrow.To a child it seems worth taking a big risk to obtain adult attention.Often two old table leaves can be found around the house, or perhaps at grandmother's.If these are fastened together by means of ordinary screen door hooks and a 2x4 placed.under these joined ends, a gentle incline is ready for the toddler to play on.- 2244 placed upon each other \u2018e a Ut higher Incline.Either ts enjoyed by the 23-year-old as a fine hill for toy trains and autos to ascend and descend many times.If these 2x4's are wrapped with brown paper which is securely fastened with glue-paper strips they will look better, will not scar the floors, and will not be the source of splinters for small fingers, An added feature of this equipment is that it can be folded up and put away In corner after the children are through playing.- If another 2 x 4 Ls placed under the other end of the board, the child has a fine bridge for boats to go under and trains and autos to go over.With both ends placed securely upon two straight chairs, a child will get an added thrill.At this point the uneasy mother had better busy herself elsewhere or son may be tempted to overstep his abilities if he Is conscious of excited \u201cOh's\u201d and \u201cAh\u2019s\u201d or Cross Warnings.Two packing boxes which are large enough for a child to climb in and out of are splendid additions to the outdoor playground.One or two 1x10 or 14 planks add much to the play possibilities.Such a plank may serve as bridge or house roof or innumerable other things, created by a small child's imagination.A smaller plank may be placed so that one end resting upon the aide of the sandbox makes an out-of-door incline.The lifting of even heavy boards Is not likely to harm the child unless the boards are too long.Such equipment has two splendid qualities.It is reasonable in price and has many play possibilities for the imaginative and Ingenious child or children.It is surprising how long such equipment will serve to entertain them.A thread of yarn that has started to pull out from the carpet should never be pulled all the way out but should be cut the same length as the rest of the nap with a pair of scissors.If the thread is long stick mu wool needle down through the carpet close to it and threading In the yarn puil it back in place. ol es Around the corner I have a friend, In this great city that has no end; Yot days go by and weeks rush on, before I know it a year is gone, never see my old friend's face; e is à swift and terrible race.ows I HT Ex EF di fre 3 6 gélE E fr I Ë Ï w,\u201d I say, \u201cI will call on Jim, Just to show that I am thinking of him.\u201d But tomorrow comes\u2014and tomorrow goes; And the distance between us grows and grows.Around the corner!-yet miles away.Ha, 3 Wlegram, sir.\u201d \u201cJim died to- And that's what we get\u2014and deserve in the end\u2014 Around the corner, a vanished friend.\u2014Charles Hanson Towne.HOME COMPETITIONS \u20ac all know how interesting a con- is even for grown-ups.But did you ever try holding a contest at home, a work contest?Just try it and you will be surprised how many things ean be accomplished in a few days.spring there seemed to be so done\u2014 little things con- housecleaning, gardening, 4 Our Pattern Service presence 04 nd geescsccacincans sessiancs sa nanas Fleccemcacn-son\u2014ancaadee) @752.Girls\u2019 Dress.Cut in 4 Sizes: 4, 6, 8 and 10 years.A 6 year sise requires 3 3-8 yards of 35 inci.es material without the plaiting which will require 5-8 yard additional material, cut in crosswise strips 1 1-2 inch \u2018wide\u2014and best finished with a picot edge.For sash and shoulder bow 3 1-4 yards of ribbon will be required.Price 15e.6740.Ladies\u2019 Dress.Cut in § Slaes: 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches ust measure.A 3 inch size requires 4 7-8 yards of 30 inch material.To face revers with contrasting material requires 1-2 yard 18 inches wide cut crosswise.To underface the flounce requires 1 1-3 yard of 39 inch mater- fal.Price 15c.Send 20c in miver or stamps for our Up-to-Date Spring and Summer 1830 Book of Fashicns.20MIN DOUGALL & 80% Tiare.Msetreal PATTERN voué me Psat\u2019 NOE) Mo.crcercnrse BOB.c00 7.00 Mono .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.AMSress coccccre monsesarecanonseussocsuesrc0e PPROV, vencuocse BLE J.euvscoumes Per Mame and Chttéres ve age ply in Team #0000 nese se cant WITNESS AND CANADIAN SOMESTEAD, FEBRUARY 24, 1900.\u2018> 4 was wondering, writes à eorres- of \u201cThe Country Gentleman,\u201d uld ever get them all done, when an idea occurred to me.I made t of different odd jobs to be tacked it up in a conspic- in the kitchen.I explained the family that the contest would until Saturday night and that one doing the greatest number of would receive the prise.The regular work was not to be neglected, but these could be done at any convenient time, and when one wis done, the doer was to draw a line through and then.write his name after it.- # \u2018The children fairly flew around to help, and there was no quarreling Ë to hear about the prize.In this case the prise was $1.00 and & trip to the movies.Everyone was satisfied, but all were wanting to know when we could hold another contest.We have had others since, some lasting only for the day and others longer, the prize always being according to the amount of work done.All the contests have been enjoyed im- mensly.WASH YOUR HAT LINING You wouldn't put an soiled underwear after a bath.would you?Then why wear a dirty hat lining after a shampoo?It is an easy matter to remove the lining of a hat, wash it in soap and water and sew it back into place again.Many fastidious women always keep an extra hat lining on hand for just that purpose.Persons who suffer from dandruff should be y careful to keep the lining of their hats frée from the oils and particles of dust absorbed from the hair so as to discourage the breeding of the germs that cause this unpieasant condition.If you want to keep a new or freshly washed hat lining from becoming soiled, tack a strip of inch wide bandage gauze inside the brim of the hat and replace it frequently with a fresh strip.KEEP THE MEDICINE TRAY CLEAN A nelghbor who has In the house a confirmed Invalid has worked out a neat and sanitary method of keeping the bedside table.She puts medicines, silver, napkin, water glass, water and medicine glasses under a big round glass cheese cover, such as one sees in \" the \u2018grocery.Also, the alarm clock Is under the glass, so that the sick one may know the time and yet not be annoyed by the ticking.This cover keeps out dust and germs from the medicines and is a wise idea.Of course it can be used for temporary liness, just as well as for the shut-in who must be abed constantly.\u2014Trans- cript.CONTROL DAYLIGHT BY SHADES Too much daylight is as trying on the eyes as the glare of artificial lights.Not only for beauty and restfulness in à room but for actual and practical use daylight should be local ized.Rather it should be controlied and directed by shades to secure the most light where light is needed and to exclude the glare and shine of light coming from above the eyes.Moat people crave barren glaring windows, then wonder why, after an hour of reading in a room flooded with white light, thelr eyes are heavy and their nerves irritated.One of the bitterest mistakes of modern builders is the use of a strong inverted light against the ceiling which attracts the eye upward.The gase is \u201cpulled\u201d up when naturally it should rest upon and be attracted on the eye level or below, as in the case of reading.This pulling results unconsciously in a feeling of instability and finally In nervousness and irritability.Daylight pouring through full length windows has the same ultimate effect.The half-drawn shade is physically as well as artistically to be desired.Eliminating the glare and producisg a soft mellow light is one of the greatest merits of tinted cambric cloth.DAINTY NIGRTLIGRTS Although many modern children are brought up s0 free from childish fears that they drop off to sleep happily in total darkness, it is wise, for the child\u2019s own sake, to give a little one with a nervous t some comforting glimmer of light in the night nursery (writes P, H.E.in the Daily Chronicle).The new nightlights are electric ones, of course, Wee globes in all colors are now obtainable, with simple fitments and flex wiring which can be attached to any wall plug.Some are modelled and colored to represent birds, animals, amusing figures, frults and flower-buds.There are also delightful figures \u201cmade of opaque china, which conceal the battery, etc, of an electric torch, for the same purpose.A wise old brown owl and a cross-lezged China- man are two in this class of nightlight.The mother with\u2019 ideas and clever fingers would probably manufacture some pretty shade with a special appeal to a small child.Cinderella's fairy godmother, with a spreading transparent skirt to cover the little globe; a cardboard \u201cWendy House,\u201d with red windows; or a small ship with shining portholes and gay sails, are a fow suggestions.One of the bes: remedies for burns la equal parts of linseed ofl and lime water applied with a soft \u201cah and then covered with a soft cloth to keep out the air.It is well to keep a boi- tle of this solution on hand for emer- gencles.Just try usine a long-handled shoe buttoner to pull pans forward in the hot oven.You will find this way of protecting the hands more convenient! than anything else you have ever If you will sorinkle a handful of coarse salt on the bottom of the garbage can after it is emptied this winter, it will prevent the garbage from freezing to the bottom.When the can is emptied no one will bang it to pieces trying to empty it.and the life of the can will be prolonged.By taking a minute longer and making the starch in the morning when the teakettle is boiling, the starch could be covered immediately with a close-fitting lid and be as smooth as if just off the stove.To make woolen blankets softer and hold their shape, hang them on a line drinping wet insead of wringing them Sewing Room Hints Don't imagine that because we are threatened with petticoats, flounced petticoats, we are to be welghed down with the old bunchy kind.With dresses that fit closely over the hips and flare below all undies must be carefully cut and of soft materials.Princess chemises, and slips cut to the waist-line in the back if they are worn with low decolletage are mage in the manner of an overall bul are many of them half lace and as dainty as possible.Petticoats must be set on a long yoke and are lace practically their whole length.Panties have flat yokes and then flares or they have no yokes but button down the side, or they are cut circular but all undies are cut much more protectively than they have been, one fashion expert from Paris is quoted as saying \u201cYou may stand on your head with perfect propriety so far as your undérwear goes.\u201d But all must follow the molded line.Women are buying black stockings again, but of so filmy a sort that the effect is not yet that of the solid looking black stocking of the days of long skirts and petticoat frills.The pinky stocking, I am told, is \u201cdead\u201d to the rich and elegant woman, but will contioue to prevail because the darker shades have a tendency to turn pink in the cheaper makes when washed, and not every person can afford new ones every time.When making cretonne curtains for your home, atiich a piece of wide white brald over the shirrling of the heading, and on the wrong side.Through this run the rod.It will last longer than rings.Problems of Homemakers Film on Furniture Dear Madam, \u2014My kitohen has no door and as a result every time I make fried cakes or French fried potatoes, the grease goes into the rest of the house and films the furniture.What should I use to polish the furniture (natural finish) to remove this fim and keep the polish?Mrs.B.The very first thing I would do would be fo make a curtain for that doorway, if a light door is not Teas- ible.A washable curtain of pretty cretonne or material to match the curtains in the living room lined, perhaps with gingham or something to match on the kitchen side as well, could be hung s> a8 to look well and shut out most of the smoke.If I could not manage that, I would make a curtain of flour sacks or close cotton with a couple or three rings on it and put up some hooks or nalls to hook the rings on so that the cartain would hang close and flat.I surely would do that for if the grease films the wood of your furniture it must soil ceiling and upholstering as well.To freshen the polish rub well with & mixture of lime water, raw linseed oil and turpentine in equal quantities.The first two are first well shaken till thoroughly incorporated.The mixture Is then thinned with turpentine.Apply rather liberally to the article with a pad of wadding; rub well to clean away any dirt or film, then wipe off with 2 rag.Make a pad of cheesecloth or soft rag, folding it up firmly till it presents a face free from creases.Sprinkle this with methylated spirits and press well in until the surface is fairly moist (not wet).With this give the article a good polishing; apply lightly at first and exert a little pressure as the spirit evaporates.Filling Worm Holes in Wood Dear Madam.\u2014Can you tell ms what would be best to use for filling some wormholes in a piece of old furniture I want to polish?\u2014L.D.B.Mix finely crushed whiting to a paste with linseed ofl, adding Venetian red or brown umber or Vandyke brown to get color of wood.Just before using pour in a little French poi- ish or spirits varnish and mix well; this hardens the mass.Grease On Rug Dear Madam,\u2014Kindly give directions for cleaning grease off a rug.A quantity was spilt on my dining room rug and I am afraid of spoiling it 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Sender's Dear TWENTY-FOUR was filled with a mingled apprehen- alon and awe.A student of history, ashe was familiar with the records of all the great revolutions in the world.In what way would the English revolution differ?she sometimes asked herself.Would it ever come, or would all the unrest born of war and abnormal conditions gradually settle down and oecome only & memory?There was no*hing tn the world Mary Free- land desired less than to withdraw herself from the wage-earning ranks.Hez position as a school teacher had given her à certain standing among wage earners, and she had never been afraid to talk as intelligently as she knew how about labor problems.Reflecting that soon she would be éut off, not only from Mardocks but from all her pleasant associations and interests in Basingfold, she fe!t inwardiy more and more rebellious.By the time she came In sight of the queer huddied roofs of Coppetts Mill down by the river bank, she had very nearly decided that she would stick to her post at Mardocks, and go home to Gorham Lacy at the week-ends.She had a grandmother in Basingfold.a dear grandmother, the most understanding creature in the whole range of Mary's acquaintance, and she could live the five working days at her house.The mere idea of it quickened her pulses, but when she saw her father's house in front of her she was conscious of a deep tenderness\u2014a vivid reluctance to leave it.Mary was one who attached herself very readily to places, to whom familiar things quickly became dear and necessary.It was the one conservative streak in her which helped to sympathize up to a point with Mrs.Manning's passion for Mardocks, also the meek willingness of the Mar- docks cottagers to put up with any indignity or injustice rather than leave their homes.It was Mary's mother who was malnly responisble for the impending change.Left to himself Robert Free- land would have lived and died content at Coppetts Mill.He was @ quiet steady plodder, a very conscient- jous, good man who had become rich through no fault of his own, to use a trite phrase.Like many quiet men he was under petticoat rule up to a point.There are undoubtedly a large number of men who are forced into social positions.which they would not voluntarily seek, because their home influences are too strong for them.{To Be Continued.) 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in the Witness.The subscription to start with the first instalment of the New Story, February 26th.Name and Address (If more than one subscription is éent in, at the 35c.rate, or at the rate of four for à dollar, ALL the names and addresses should be written on a separate plece of paper, and at the bottom the sender should write hls own name with the word (Sender) immediately after or below it.WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, FEBRUARY 26, 1956.SERFS No LONGER \u201cKINSMEN\"\u2014\u2014 A Tale of Stirring Days in Old Ontario by Percival J.Cooney (Al rights reserved) \u201cSerts Ne Lenger\u201d \u2018OW, don\u2019t be worryin\u2019, Collen,\u201d sald Murty McConigad to Flore McIntyre.\u201cI have big hopes maself of that paper the surveyor is carryin\u2019 to Kingston.I belave \u2018tis genuine.\u201d The two were atanding in the moon- cast shadow of the newly erected Mc- Intyre home.Generous and umani- mous had been the response of the clansmen to the call for a \u201cRaisin Bee.\u201d For the last three days the clearing had echoed with the sound of the axe and the adze, the tattoo of hammers, and the s\u2018eady song of the cross-cut saw.That afternonn had seen the building completed and the McIntyres duly installed in their new home.From the open door behind Murty end Flora flaated the rhythm of Charbonneau's fiddle and tbe thunder of pounding feet.The success of the \u201cRaisin\u2019 Bee\u201d was being celetirabed by a dance.The girl made no reply to the Irishiman's cheerful assurance.She stood gazing pensively at the mist- robed, moonlit woods, her face troubled and anxious.From Peter ahe had learned the story of the recovery of the document and from Murty himself the incidents following Craig's return.A doaen of the clansmen at the smith's hurried summons had gathered at the smithy and listened to the reading of the paper.Though opinions were divided as to is value, all had agreed that no Flora had looked forward eagerly to Craig's return from the river trip, end now the thought that he had e and gone without the alightest recognition of her existe § mined, in spite of paying him had been to Barclay Craig like a blow in the face.The girl's lips parted; she seemed about to speak; then hesitated.\u201cWhat is it, Flora?\u201d asked Marty.\u201cDid\u2014did\u2014Mr.Craig\u2014say\u2014when\u2014 he would be back?\u201d Mentally she gave thanks for the kindly night that hid her reddening brow.McGonigal blew several smoke rings.His answer was very deliberate.\u201cNo, sure and he didn't\u2014not AR I raymember.The bye isn't overburdened with riches, and he has his own way to make.I dunno now is there any rayson why he should come back.\u201d Her glance fell before his smiling scrutiny.The music had ceased and the voice of Alec Stewart called: \u201cGet your partners for the next dance.\u201d A dozen young men, wiping their perspiring brows with their coat- sleeves, swarmed out the door.One of them claimed Flora as his promised partner.Again the song of the vic- lin mingled with the patter of feet and the voice of the \u201ccaller off.\" On the stoop in front of the house the row of elderly men were discussing Craig's mission and the problematical value of the document.\u201cTuts, lads,\u201d remarked James Mc- Kay, \u201cthe laird's too aly an suld fox to be taken so easy.Dinna pin yer faith to that bit of paper.Legal papers be like the Scriptures, capable 0\u2019 various interpretations.There will no be much o\u2019 it left when the lawyers at the capital get through ex- plalnin\u2019 M away.\u201d A low murmur of assent followed McKay's sarcasm.\u201c1 saw Magistrate McVicar himsel\u2019 in the village the day,\u201d sald Donald McNaughten, \u201cand the mon tellt me that MacTavish brought paper to his court showing beyond 2 doubt that the land and house o' Mcintyre belonged to the Laird.McViear says he could no do otherwise than issue the writ o' ejectment.Noo, if -the grant is no the Lairds, how the De'il could that be?\u201d \u201cBeats all,\u201d sighed McFarlane.\u201cIt looks as if we hae been toilin' aS3 sweatin\u2019 outsal's for three days to make a gift 0° à fine four-room house to the Laird.\u201d A slim youthful figure came striding up the moonlit\u2019 path from the roadway.It was Malcolm McPherson, & newspaper in his hand.\u201cA post has arrived, just noo,\u201d he announced, \u201cand it\u2019s no good news it brings.\u201d \u201cCome in the house, Laddie,\u201d suggested his father.\u201cThe folk will be wanting to heer.\u201d At their entrance the dancing alow- ed down, Murty waved his hand te Narcisse and the Frenchman laid his violin aside.All stood listening attentively as Malcolm, bending close to the candle light on the table, read from a copy of the Kingston Whig, already a week old, a short news item stating that information had been received from York that the jury in the case of the Laird of McNab against the Daily Examiner had found for the plaintiff.The article concluded: \u201cWhile our Informant was not able to learn the amount of damages, it is generally believed that the verdict will be for the full amount of the £10,000 asked by the Laird of Mc- For some moments the room held a depressing silence.\u201cNoo think of that,\u201d sighed McKay, \u201cand in the piece Rincks writ about the grent there was no one word o\u2019 lie.\u201d Duncan Cameron, cane in hand and his head still bandaged, appeared in the doorway.\u201c1 was o'er at McPherson's crackin\u2019 wi\u2019 Peter and Ellen,\u201d he explained, \u201cand when I saw Malcolm hurryin\u2019 from the village wi\u2019 a paper in his hand, I kenned 'twould mean a bit news.\u201cI dinna doubt it, folk\u201d he said sadly, as he laid down the copy of the Whig.\u201cI am beginning to think that paper has given Mr.Craig and Peter naught but a wild-goose chase.1 hae a wee bit news masel,\u201d he added.\u201cHae ye noted the big Englishman,\u201d he asked, \u201chim wi' the unco\u2019 red face and the city clothes?He's been stoppin\u2019 at Kennell.\u201d \u201cAye,\u201d assented a voice.\u201cHe's been about the mills and the dam wi\u2019 Mc- Tavish and the Chief.\u201d \u201cWeel,\u201d continued Cameron, \u201cin the village the day I came up wi\u2019 the auld warlock MacTavish, and the man would no let me pass wi'out tell in\u2019 me this.\u2018Tell them fools,\u2019 ses he, \u2018they that be makin' a new house for John Mohr Mcintyre, that they be losin\u2019 their time.The Lalrd has sellt the grant to Mr.Middieton and wi'ln a month yell all be put off.\u201d The silence that followed was broken by the cutting voice of James Mc- Farlane: \u201cYour tidings, Duncan, calls to my mind a passage o' the Scripture, the time Elijah spoke wi\u2019 the prophets o\u2019 Baal: \u2018Your God must be on a journey, or peradventurs, he sleepeth.\u201d McFarlane was a bit of an agnostic and there was amusement in dry smile with which he noted their horrified fachs.For a time silence held.McIntyre's land belonged to the Laird.Then the hopes held out by the positive wording of the document were deceptive, Even Duncan Cameron himself now admitted as much.If Mclntyré could be so served, 30 might they all, And the courageous editor, who had very building in which they sat, its white puncheon floors and well- chinked walls, that, too, was the Laird\u2019s Donald MoNaughton rose to his feet with a heavy sigh.\u201cMen, I'm thinkin\u2019 he has to sy.Ye nund Barr, the man who two months sgone was amongst us, speirin\u2019' for settlers for his new lands by the Bonnechere.I ken the land weel, tis good land, I hae been o'er it masel two years agone.\u201d \u201cAye, Donald,\u201d assented James Mc- Kay, \u201cye're Tight.But we should no be interferin\u2019 wi\u2019 the young folks\u2019 fun, Come over to my house and we'ull crack a bit aboût it.\u201d As the last of the older men stepped out the door, the music struck up and the dance swung on.Fer, bring the future what it might, the bound ing pulse and joyous surge of youth was theirs.But among the swaying figures was no Flora Mcintyre.8he had stepped out the rear dbor and was standing beneath the star-filled sky, her fists clenched, her eyes aching with the tears that would not come.The utter hopelessness in the words and manner of the elder clansmen had filled her with despair.Bvea Murty McGoulgal had left the scene of festivity to join in the council Was this to be the end?After all the months of worry, of alternating hopes and fears, must this new home be abandoned?Must she and hess, as well as all the clansmen, face onee more the.long years of struggle with the wilderness?.And the fonder, sweeter hope 20 long interwoven with her anxietlez, the single golden strand that had intertwined itself with her sorrows, that too was fading.And it was hes own flery, untamed temper, her hasty, bitter tongue that had sent Barclay Craig from her, perhaps forever.With a rush the tears came to her eyes.About her was the night, but in the girl's soul, as she sobbed alone her head Dent on the top rail of the log fence, was the blacker night of foreboding fears and unavailing remorse.Two hundred yards away a horses man was plodding along the cross road.As he turned the corner and suddenly drew rein he uttered an ex~ clamation of bewilderment.\u201cAm 1 bewitched?\u201d muttered John Mohr Mcintyre, as he rubbed his eyes.Where once had stood his house and barns was only empty space.A short distance away loomed a strange and unfamiliar structure from whose open door and windows, blasing with yellow light, came th» throb of musle, the rush of feet, and the ripple of laughter.Could he have missed his road.Im- possible\u2014there was the familiar line of the tree tops, clear cut against the stars; there the home of his neighbor, James McKay.\u2018The goad fell with a sudden alash and the tired steed bounded forward.McIntyre threw himself off and strode to the Mght-filled doorway.\u201cWhat\u2014what means this?\u2014Where's my lass and my wife?\u2014 and my house?\u2014What house\" \u201cYour goed wife 1s asleep in yom room, John Mohr,\u201d intecrupted Stews art, who was wringing his hand \u201cFlora 1s fine.She's somewhere about This house is your own.\"Tls a free gift from the people 0\u2019 the grant.The Laird burnt the other one.We've stood by ye, man, as ye hae stood by ur \u201cBurnt my houses \u2014 the Laird\" gasped McIntyre incredulously.Flora stepped in the door behind him and with a little cry of welcome drew his face down to hers.Mrs.Mc- Intyre, at the sound of the famillar voice, emerged from her room and greeted him in her quiet way.\u201cMonsieur McIntyre have him some news?\u201d enquired Narcisse.\u201cDe editor man, de papaire say he'es got him de worse of it.\u201d .\u201cAye, he did that.\u201d A sudden smi lightened McIntyre's face.Somehow he did not have the air of a bearer of ovil tidings.\u201cHold a bit!\" exclaimed Stewart.He turned to a barefooted lad at his elbow.\u201cBobbie, take yersel wi\u2019 all haste o'er to McKay's and tell them John Mohr's back from York wi news \u201d The older men came crowding into the room.- : \u201cAyes,\u201d aald McIntyré, In response to several simultaneous questions.\u201cThe jury found agin Mm.\u201d \u201cHow much were the damages?\u201d asked McNaughten.For & moment McIntyre made no answer, there was a glint of fun in his eyes, as they swept the eager faces.\u201cHincks,\u201d he sald, with a chucklé, wull hae to pay the Laird\u201d again he paused his eyes twinkling, \u201cthe enormous sum of one pound six for the lom of his character.\u201d \u201c\u2018Twas one of Bond Head's auld Judges\u2014Jonas Jones by name, that tried the case.He charged heavily agin the editor.If \u2018twas no for that, \u2018twould hee gone the other way.\u201d \u201cThere was no word in Kingston when ye passed through o\u2019 Commissioner Allen's report?\u201d queried McFar- lane, when the laughter had subsided.McIntyre ran the fingers of one hand through his bushy hair, the other resting on his knee was trembling slightly.- Slowiy he rose to his feet.\u201cKinsmen and Brothers,\u201d his voice rang out with startling clearness.\u201cWe hae won.Mr.Allen's report uphalds us at every point, and condemns the Chief's management o\u2019 the grant.It has been accepted and approved Ly the government.\u201d \u201cHow about that paper?\u201d cried Cameron.\u201cNoo, ye cools, was auld Duncan daft?\u201d \u201cYour paper teilt the truth, Dun- ean,\u201d went on McIntyre.\u201cThe McNab was never the owner o' the grant in fee simple.He was naught but an agent.Only the lands about Kennell are his own.The grant has been taken from him and I dinna doubt he kens about it himsal by this time.The special messenger wi' the copy o' the Order-in-Council left York two days \u201cClansmen o' McNab,\u201d the voice caught, then rose exuitantiy, \u201cwe be serfs no longer.\u201d .Called from a council where they had been discussing the question of leaving the grant forever, the tidings of their complete and overwhelming victory left them speechless.Silent and still they sat, their wide eyes on McIntyre.Through the door eame the rumbling chorus of frogs and the lonely hoot of an owl.The chirping of a cricket close at hand seemed magnified a thousand times.A delirious, triumphant whoop filled the room.\u201cWo-0-w!\"\u201d Murty McGonlgal sprang to the middie of the floor, leaped straight up in the air, and rought his heavy boots together with a resounding whack.\u201cCheer,\u201d he yelled.\u201cCheer, ye wooden faces.Yell, ye stoten-bottles.vent\" He jumped on a chair and swung his hands aloft.\u201cHip-hip-hooray!\u201d Over the dark woods and moonlit meadows rolled the volleying cheers.\u201cNow,\u201d ordered Murty, \u201cwan for John Mohr Mcintyre.\u201d \u201cHip-hip-hooray1\" \u201cAnd for Duncan Cameron, the man that stole the paper.\u201d \u201cRip-hip-hooray!\u201d \u201cAnd now wan\u2014a good wan for the bye that took the petition to the gov- ernor\u2014Barclay Craig.\u201d The shout that went up shook the rafters.\u201cBy Garrah, John Mol,\u201d said Mur- ty, when the cheering had ceased, \u201ctig a celebration, we must be havin\u2019.Let's send out the flery cross, for a pienlc In the commons by Inch Bhui.When will it betther be?\u201d \u201cCommisaloner Allen wull be here,\u201d the smiling McIntyre, \u201cthe day after tomorrow.We'll hae it WITNESS AND CANADIAN TWENTY-FIVE then and he wull tell us all about it.\u201d \u201cWe'll start out the cross in the mornin\u2019.\u201cTis no Scotchman I am but be Garrah, (t's measilf will be carryin\u2019 it the last lap from me shop to the plenic grounds.\u201d The guests had departed; Mrs.Mc- Intyre had refired.John Mohr Mc- Intyre, walking about the room, was HOMESTEAD, FEBRUARY 26, curiously examining the Interior of his new home.His daughter sat at the table, her head leaning on her hand.As she related the details of the destruction of the buildings and the narrow escape of the McNab children, McIntyre's face hardened.+ (To be Continued) Keeper °\u2014 The of the Vineyard By Alice McKay \u2014*® Author of The Mustard Seed, Broken Ships, Red Letters, Etc.The girl was working at the table where his medicine stood.Cameron could near the click of a spoon against glass, and knew that she was mixing the next dose.He tried to quiet his beating heart as she approached thé bed and he breathed deeply feigning sleep.Barbara stood beside him in silence; then he felt her soft touch upon his hair.He did not stir and soon her breath fanned his cheek where she had bent over him.Then he thrilled; a.mad, sweet flood of joy that was akin to pain, for Barbara had touched his with lips that were like velvet fire.She went away hurriedly, but Cam- crop opening glad eyes stopped her \u20ac \u201cOh Babs!\u2019 he called.With her face aflame the girl tura- ed, not towards him but to the ta» A fear that he might not have been asleep after all seized her.Bhe waited, dawdling with the glass until her trembling hands would behave.\u201cYes?\u201d she made answer, finally.\u201cI thought you were asleep and did not want to disturb you.\u201d \u201c1 see.\u201d he said, searching her face as she approached the bed, glass in hand.\u201cI was asleep.Just woke up.Must I take more medicine?\u201d \u201cIm afraid so\u2014a little more.\u201d Then she lifted his head\u2014he did not tell her that he could do it him- selt\u2014and held the glass to his lips.He drank the mixture lelsurely watching the sweet face that was bent s0 near his own.Barbara kept her eyes averted and was glad when the last drop was drained.Smiling to himself Cameron watched her go from the room.She seemed very anxious to go, and knowing why, he was satisfied.\u201cA fresh, new page.\u201d he muttered to: himself, closing his eyes contentedly.Thea again, drowsily; \u201cA \u2014 fresh \u2014 new \u2014 page.\u201d - Epilegue Frankincense and Myrrh Indian Summer came at last into Bradore.It floated in a winsome thing of golden days and soft caressing western breezes.Like a messenger of love it came, wooing one more handful of mellow days from out the train of waning Autumn.The Bras d'Or Lake responded right gallantly to the appeal and spread it's beauteous expanse in scintillating rapture to the cloudless vault of Heaven.In fitting ornamental array of scarlet foliage it's gem-like islands rested lightly on the silver water from which their mirrored doubles smiled back, or trembled as a truant breeze fled by on eager wings.The circling hills beneath the searching sun were all a fiame of varied Autumn hues.A remnant of summer were those gladsome hours.Alaa Cameron stood alone on the border-line of Forest Hill and looked at all the beauty before him with his soul in hls eyes.He was a goodly aight to behold in this the blush of fair, young manhood.He had come through trying days; had stood the teat; had braved the heights, and now was about to come into his own.A aurge of thankfulness to God awept through his being for all the glories \u2018of this vineyard that streiched to right and left before him.A goodly - heritage, though Alan, just far enough from wordly civilisation to be safe.Down the road a car came swiftly on it's way.Alan frowned, for it seemed to be a discord In the sanctity of the hour and he wighed that it had not appeared just then.He watched the machine impatiently until tt stopped beside the Jericho House.It was Wilsons\u2019 car he knew and that day they were leaving Bradore.Tom Vane was going, too, as fiancee to Doris Wilson.They were going away out to that other world where men are money-mad, and where greed and pleasure\u2014seeking drowned the real object of their creation; but they carried with them a new vision found in the splendor of Bradore.Cameron looked again upon the panorama before him, feasting his eyes upon it's loveliness; for we!l he knew that his great love for Bradore must from that hour take à second place in his heart.The primitive within him called in aching silence for his mate; and now he was about to to to her in whose eyes the light of answering love was shining during those days of promise.So now Cameron held love-tryst with all his vineyard; with Jimsy Austin who had called him \u201cMy Alan\u201d and with stolid Injun Andy who had given full testimony of that \u2018greater love\u2019 which for the loved one gives life itself.With clenched hands he stood with face upraised to the mysterious space above.His feet were upon the soft earth, but his thoughts away beyond the hills; beyond the clouds, in communion with those invisible things among which man's thought may not often wander.As minutes sped he stood thus, his face illumined as though by an inner light.With a sigh he broke the apell and strode down to the Jericho House.Charity Hall was nearing completion again and from it's second story Dave Kyne waved his hammer cheerily to Cameron as he passed.Dave was writing his first sentences on the freah, clean page in letters of gold.When Cameron entered the yard Wilson was s\u2018rapping some of his luggage on the running board -of his car.A small group had gathered to bid them farewell.Vane was to go back with them in the car, as Santa had consented to keep her station in the Jericho House.It was a tearful Doris who clunz to Barbara and Lois in parting.She had made life-long friends and true here in the sun-kissed loveliness of Bra- dore.\u201cBe ready for us next year,\u201d said Wilson.\u2018Then, the car rolled away with a soft hum of it's engine.Doris leaned out and waved a white hand to Dave Kyne, who answered with a flourish of his hammer; then back again to his task with renewed ardor.- The little group dispersed, wandering off in palrs or singly as suited each until Barbara and Alan stood alone in the Jericho Garden.Barbara turned without speaking and entered the library with Alan by her side.The girl went to a shelf where some books were tumbled about and with trembling hands she tried to put them in order.A shaft of sunlight entering through the high window fell across her where ahe stond; turning her hair into a gleaming mass of burnished bronze.The man stood watching her while in his heart the first and real passion of a good man's love for the one woman called for utterance with an insistence that would not be restrained.Cameron came to the girl's side and waited.When she could stand the tension no longer Barbara turned to face him.Her eyes that were like submerged amber fell before the light in the blue ones bent upon her.\u201cBarbara!\u201d Alan was speaking in the tender accents that she loved.\u201cHaven't I waited \u2014 suffered \u2014iong enough Little comrade?You and I; we will be keepers of the Vineyard.\u201d He bent his head close to hers knowing that his time of waiting was to be brief.With a glorious flash of love-filled eyes she came to him, burying her face in the dear protection of his shoulder.\u201cTogether, dear,\u201d he breathed in a voice that vibrated with gladness.\u201cWe will keep the gates, so that no unclean thing shall ever again dare to enter into Bradore.\u201d With his scarred hand he lifted her face and bent his proud head for the nectar of her lips which through all the happy years ahead was to be his alone.And as they wandered lost upon the heights of love the sun rode, smiling, above the western hills, and evening fell across Bradore.Gentle, be- nedictive breezes perfumed as though with myrrh and frankincense.blew softly kissing the little mound beneath which Jimsy Austin lay, and touching the woodland groves where Injun Andy loved to roam.They encircled Julian Austin as hand in hand with Lois Cameron he wandered toward the cemetery, and whispered about the eaves of the Jericho House where Alan Cameron who had not failed to keep the faith, had come by prayer, and pain, into his own at last, \u2014 The End \u2014 CHOOSING YOUR RADIO HAT to look for when endeavoring to pick out the type and make of radio broadcast receiver that would give the best results in your home is pointed out by J.A.Dowie, an official of the National Radio Institute, He lays down the following schedule of things to look for, one by one, as a guide to the chooser in actual demonstration.The first thing to look for is \u201cselectivity\"\u2014the ability of a set to receive signals from a broadcast station of a certain wavelength or frequency to the exclusion of other stations broad-' casting on practically the same wavelength or frequency.Second, \u201ctone quality\"\u2014the fidelity or naturalness of musical reproduction obtained by a recelving set, based on comparing the likeness of reproduction with the music originally rendered by instruments and artists at the broadcast station.Third \u201cvolume\u201d \u2014the loudness of reproduction obtainable without sacrifice of quality.Fourth, \u201csensitivity\u201d\u2014the ability to receive and reproduce signals from distant broadcast stations.Fifth, \u201cappearance\u201d\u2019\u2014the oufward design and finish of the receiver and its fitness to lend itself harmoniously to the surroundings in which it will be used.And last, \u201cease of tuning\u201d\u2014the ease with which different broadcast stations may be tuned in as determined by the number of controls which must be manipulated in actual operation.By seeking these qualities, one by one, and the method of determining thelr existence in a receiving set under demonstration, one may qualify as a good buyer of receiving seis.\u2014New York Herald Tribune.18 A COMMON AIULMERT When UNLESS CHECRER iN TIME MAY LEAD TO A SERA) OUS CONDITION.BIMILARLY COUGH Of OLD MAY A LOP AND Ri IRE SUS REATMENT Boon > 2 m =} À > az œ tm > + = D.> 4 oxmM © 3 , = c = © 2 5 = & 2 : S a 3 32 I! =.> e bi » 3: Y BE AVOIDED.69 RELIABLE REMED 18 FOUND IN D8 THOMAS\u2019 ECLECTRIC Oo REQUESTED POEMS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Witness wishes Lo thank the following for pieces sent: \u201cThree Gates\u201d, Mrs.A.C.Faulkner, Sask., Mrs.W.J.King, N.B, Mra.D.A.Cowan, Ont, K.C.Murray, N.B., \u201cThree Bugs\u201d Ruth Hall, Ont., Mildred MacLeod, P.EB.I, Adrene Baker, Ont, Clara Robinson, Ont.; \u201cDrifting With the Tide,\u201d A.H.Nobes, Ont.; \u201cI Motored to Bolton.\u201d Florence Curling, Ont.; \u201cColumbus,\u201d Paul L.Hanna, Fla, C.EB Benson, Ont.; \u201cTwo Little Girls in Blue,\u201d Mrs.N.A.Morrison, Ont.; \u201cThe Four Marys,\u201d I.A.Eaton, Minn.; \u201cCan I sleep In Your Barn Tonight, Mister,\u201d Viola Cox, N.8.; \u201cEach in His Own Tongue,\u201d Mrs.H.M.Jones, N.8., Mrs.Eddy Tupper, N.8, M.Jean McRae, Ont, Jean 8.Rankin, Ont.; \u201cLove's Old Sweet Bong,\u201d Marlon Krizzell, P.E.1; \u201cFace on the Bar Room Floor,\u201d Jean S.Rankin, Ont, Mrs.WE.Allan, Ont., Mrs.L.Higgins, N.8; \u201cThe End of the Road,\u201d K.D., Ont.; \u201cSally Ann's Experience,\u201d Mrs.Edith Ratcliffe, Ont, \u201cFarmer John,\u201d Elma Ayer, N.B, Mrs.Chas.Byers, Ont, Margaret Oliver, Ont.; \u201cOpportunity,\u201d A.Lewthwaite, B.C.; \u201cWhite Caps,\u201d \u201cOne Hoss Shay,\u201d and other selections, Mrs.W.E.Allan, Ont.; \u201cGay Cabalero,\u201d Viola Cox, N.8.; \u201cSir John Moore,\u201d \u201cJacques Cartier,\u201d \u201cHarry Dunn,\u201d \u201cYoung Munroe,\u201d B.A.Mac- Lennan, N.8; \u201cEnvy,\u201d \u201cLittle Willie's Hearing,\u201d \u201cA Besetting Sin.\u201d \u201cObjections Replied To,\u201d \u2018Mills of God,\u201d \u201cA Long Wait,\u201d Jean 8.Rankin, Ont.(Supplied by Mrs.J.D.Beach, Que.) THE INVENTOR'S WIFE It's easy to talk of the patience of Job! Humph! Job had nothin\u2019 to try him: Ef he's been married to 'Bijah Brawn, folks wouldn't have dared come nigh him, Trials indeed! Now, I'll tell you what \u2014\u2014 If you want to be sick of your lite, Jest come and change places with me a spell, for I'm an inventor's wife.And sich inventions! I'm never sure, when I take up my coffee-pot, That 'Bijah hain\u2019t been improvin\u2019 it, and it mayn't go off like a shot.Why, didn\u2019t he make a cradle once, that would keep itself a-rockin\u2019; And didn't it pitch the baby out, and wasn't his head bruised shockin\u2018?And there was his \u2018Patent Peeler,\u2019 too, a wonderful thing, I'll say; But it had one fault\u2014it never stopped \u2018till the apple was peeled away.As for locks and clocks, and mowin* machines, and reapers and all sech trash, Why.'Bijah\u2019's invented heaps of \u2019em, but they don't bring in no cash.Law! that don't worry him\u2014not at all, he's the aggravatinest man-\u2014 He'll sit in the little workshop there, and whistle and think and plan Inventin\u2019 a jew's harp to go by steam, or a new-fangled powder-horn, While the children's goin\u2019 barefoot to school, and the weeds is chokin\u2019 our corn.When I've been forced to chop the wood, and tend to the farm beside, And look at 'Bijah a-settin\u2019 there, I've jest dropped down and cried We lost the hull of our turnip crop, while he was inventin' a gun, But I counted it one of my mercles when it busted before 't was done.So he turned it into a \u2018burglar ajarm,\u2019 It ought to give thieves a fright\u2014 \"Twould scare an honest man out of his wits, if he sot it off at night Sometimes 1 wonder if 'Bljah's crazy, he does such curious things, Hev I told you about his bedstead yet?\u2014'twas full of wheels and springs.It bed a key to wind it up and a clock face at the head: All you did was to turn them hands, and at any hour you said That bed gol up and shook itself, and bounced you on the floor, And then shet up, just like a box, 80 you couldn't sleep any more.QUESTIONS and AN SWERS | WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, FEBRUARY 36, 1930.Well, Bah he fixed it all complete, and sot it at half-past five, But he hadn't more\u2019n got into It, when \u2014dear me, sakes alive! Them wheels began to whize and whirr! I heer'd a fearful snap! And there was that bedstead with Byah Inside, shet up just like a Tap.I screamed, of course, but it was no use, and I worked that hull long night, Tryin\u2019 to open the pesky thing\u2014at last I got in a fright.I couldn't hear his voice inside, and I thought he might be dyin'\u2014 80 I took a crowbar and smashed it In, there was 'Bijah peacefully lyin.Inventin\u2019 a way to get out again.That was all very well to say, But I don't believe he'd hev found it out, If Td left him in all day.Now, sence I've told you my story, do you wonder I'm tired of life?Or think it strange, I sometimes wish 1 wasn't an inventor's wile?\u2014Mrs.E.P.Corbett.( Sent by Mrs.N.A.Morrison, Ont.) SOME DAY I'LL WANDER BACK AGAIN Some day, I'll wander back again, to where the old home stands Beneath the old tree down the lane afar in other lands; Its humble cot will shelter me from every care and pain, And life be sweet as sweet can be when I am home sgain.f Chorus: I'll wander back, yes back again Where childhood\u2019s home may be, For memory, in sweet refrain, Still sings its praise to me.Some day, Ill wander back again to scenes 80 dear to me, Where life's sweet Infancies refrain beside a mother's knee; To live once more the golden hour of joyous merry play, No thorns, but only acented flowers, there in life\u2019s merry way.Some day, I'll wander back again to hearts so kind and true, Whose gentle faces still remain in memory's cherished view; No more my wayward feet shall roam life\u2019s troubled pathway o'er, But in the life and love of home, I'll rest me evermore.(Sent by G.A.Eaten, Minn.) THE FOUR MARIES Last nicht there were four Marles, This nicht there'll be but three: There was Mary Beaton, an\u2019 Mary Seaton, An\u2019 Mary Carmichael, an\u2019 me.Oh, little did my mither-think When first she cradled me, That I would dee, sae far frae hame, Or hang, on a gallows tree.They'll He a napkin round my c'en, An\u2019 they'll no\u2019 let me see to dec.An\u2019 they'll ne'er let on to me Father and Mither Bui I am awa\u2019 o'er the sea.I wish I could lie in our ain kirkyard, A \u2018neath the old yew tree, Where we pu\u2019d the gowans, an\u2019 thread the rowans, My brothers, my sisters, an\u2019 me.But little care I for a nameless grave If Tve hope for eternity; So I'll pray that the faith of the desin\u2019 May be granted through grace unto me.| \u2018The four Maries is founded on the old ballad entitled \u201cMary Hamilton,\u201d which has been edited with variations by 8ir Walter Scott in his Border Minstrelsy, by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe in his Ballad Book, and by Dr.McKay in his \u201cLegendary and Romantic Ballads of Scotland,\u201d and others.It undoubtedly refers to the period of Queen Mary, and to her Malds of Honour, known familiarly as the four Maries, who were surnamed respectively, Beaton, Seaton, Carmichael and Hamilton.The subject of the ballad is the tragic fate of the last named of these, and the verses are supposed to be chanted dy her on the morning of her execution.Whether authentic or not it dificult to decide, but an incldent in connection wth the Queen's Court, mentioned hy Knox in his History of the Reformation, seems to give warrant to it.\u2014Q.A.Eaton.(Sent by Mre.N.A.Merrigen, Out.) TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE An old man gased on a photograph in a locket he wore for years, His nephew then asked him the reason that picture had caused him tears: \u201cCome, listen,\u201d he sald, \u201cAnd I']l tell you, lad, a story that's strange but true, Your father and I at the school one day, met two little girls in blue.Chorus: Two little girls in blue, lad, two little girls in blue; They were sisters, we were brothers and learned to love the two; And one little girl in blue, lad, who won your father's heart, Became yout mother, I married the other, but we have drifted apart.That picture is one of those girls,\u201d he said, \u201cand to me she was once à wife; I tho't her unfaithful, we quarreled, my lad, and parted that night for life.My fancy of jealousy wronged a heart, a heart that was good and true, For two better girls never lived than they, those two little girls in blue.(Sent by Mrs.A.C.Faulkner, Sask) THREE GATES \u201cIf you are tempted to reveal A tale some one to you has told About another, make it pass Before do speak, three gates of go \u201cThree narrow gates; First, \u2018Is it true?Then \u2018Is it needful?In your mind Give tru 1 answer.And the next Is last and narrowest\u2014'Is it kind?\u201cAnd if to reaeh your lips at last It passes through these gateways three, Then you may tell the tale, nor fear What the result of speech may be.\u201d (Sent in by Mrs.W.E Allan, Ont.) WHITE CAPS Once I got into a boat, puch à pretty, pretty boat, Just as the day was dawning; And I took a little oar, and pushed away from shore, So very, very early in the morning.\\ Chorus: And every little wave had its nightcap on, Its night-cap, white-cap, night-cap on, And every little wave had its nightcap on, So very, very early in the morning.In thelr waves 80 cool and deep All the fishes were asleep, Save when the ripples gave them warning; Bald the minnow to the skate We must certainly be late, Tho\u2019 I thought \u2018twas very early la the morning.Then the lobster, darkly green, Appeared upon the scene, Pearly drops his claws adorning; Quoth he, may I be boiled, I I'll have my slumber spolled 80 very, very early in the morning.Said the sturgeon to the ee], Just imagine how I feel! Pray excuse me for yawning; People ought to let us know When a-sailing they would go Bo very, very early in the morning.Just then, up jumped the sun, And the fishes every one For their laziness were mourning; But I stayed to hear no more, For my boat had reached the shore Bo very, very early in the morning.Chorus for last verse: And every little wave took its nightcap off, Its night-cap, white-cap, night-cap off, And every little wave took its nightcap off, Bo very, very eerly in the morning.(Bent hy Mrs.H.M.Jones, N.8.) EACH IN ITS OWN TONGUR A fire-mist and a planet, \u2014 A crystal and a oell\u2014 A jelly-fish and a saurian, And the caves where cave-men dwell; Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.A hase on the far horizon, The infinite, tender sky, The ripe rich tint of cornfields, And the wild geese sailing high,\u2014 And all over upland and lowland \u2018The charm of the goldenrod,\u2014 Some of us call it Autumn,.And others cali it God Like tides on a crescent sea-beach, When the moon is new and thin, Into our hearts high yearnings Come welling and surging in,\u2014 Come from the mystic ocean, Whose rim no foot has trod,\u2014 Some of us call it longing, And others call it God.A picket frozen on duty\u2014 A mother starved for her brood, \u2014 Socrates drinking the hemlock, And Jesus on the rood; And millions who, humble and nameless, The straight, hard pathway plod,\u2014 Some call It Consecration, And others call it God.\u2014William Herbert Carruth.WORDS WANTED A G.MLean, N.5\u2014A poem begin- \u201cPray tell me what's à Puseyite (?) \u201cTis paxzling to describe This Eccleslatic Jesuit Of a curious hybrid tribe.\u201d A Reader, Sask \u201cSpringtime in the Rockies,\u201d \u201cUtah Trail\u201d \u201cA High Silk Hat and a Gold Topped Walking Cane.\u201d Mrs, Alice Lett, Alta\u2014The words of two hymns: (1) \u201cO! Won't You be à Christian While You're Young,\u201d and (2) \u201cA Long Time I Wandered in Darkness and Sin.\u201d Howard Montgomery, Ont\u2014\"The True Lovers Discussion,\u201d and \u201cI'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover.\u201d K.D, Ont\u2014Words of the songs: \u201cHer Bright Smile Haunts Me Stil,\u201d and \u201cThe Rose of All Thy Praising is not the Rose for Me.\u201d Mary Patton, Man\u2014\u201cThe Picture From Life's Other Side,\u201d \u201cThe Wondrous Warning,\u201d and \u201cPainting the Clouds With Sunshine.\u201d Annie E.Kear, B.B.C\u2014~The words of an old recitation: \u201cOur Minister's Sermon.\u201d beginning: \u201cOur minister says, last night, says he, etc.\u201d Mrs.Eddy Tupper, N.S.\u2014A poem on the taking of Quebec: \u201cNightfall on the St.Lawrence, With the silvery moon and stars, And te rippling waves of the river, ete.\u201d W.HE.Nebes, Ont\u2014\u201cDowh on Misery Farm,\u201d \u201cMy Old Missouri Home,\u201d \u201cWhere the Sunset Turns the Ocean Blue to Gold.\u201d E.M 8, Ont\u2014Who is the author and what are the words of the songt \u201cLand of Hope and Glory, Mother of the free, etc.\u201d?Viola Cox, N.8\u2014\"Johnnie Southere land, and \u201cCharlie Brooks and Nellg Datre.\u201d Mildred H.MacLood, Ont\u2014\u201cThe Home Over There\u201d \u201cDreaming of you, old pal, tonight, and wishing that you were here.\u201d Sunday School acholars and workers will be interested in.the announcement on page 9. SWENTY-SEVEN WITNESS AND CANADIAN NOMRSTEAD, FEBRUARY 26, 1936, FOR LEISURE MOMENTS | ) | mr \u20ac Two men sat opposite to one another in a train.One pulled out à pad and began to sketch the other.The victim, gratified by this attention, said: \u201cYou are an artist, then, air?\u201d .\u201cNo,\u201d replied the other.\u201cI'm a designer of door knockers.\u201d At your death you create debt .Death, in many instances, creates a new debt, immediately payadle\u2014succession duties.Itis inescapable, inexorable.Wise men now provide a special policy so that the event which creates the debt shall automatically extinguieh it The cost is thes defrayed out of income instead of out of capital., ° A life assurance policy is the only means by which succession duties can be discounted.Write for particulars of this plan to - v x 10 2 Foreman (superintending the erectjon of bungalow): \u201cO boys, ; SUN L ! URANCE atop à minute.We'll \u2018ave to start all over again.I've been Conmany 'ANADA reading this \u2019ere plan sideways.\u201d \u2014London Opinion.HEAD OFMCE MONTREAL } \u201cDid that crate of chickens reach you safely?\u201d asked the farmer.» \u201cWell, yes,\u201d replied the customer, 7 \u201cbut you didn\u2019t pack \u2018em properly, and after searching the neighborhood I only found twelve.\u201d \u201cUmph, you did all right; I only sent eight.\u201d - The Week\u2019s Cross Word Puzzle 7 10 12 \\7 El] 25 > 55 29 1 5D cman ee HORIZONTAL 42\u2014To put on.18.\u20148lang: narcotics.1\u2014Beashors.43 \u2014Condition.16\u2014Rot high.6\u2014Dams.45.\u2014To pinch.19.\u2014To desert.11\u2014A shrub.46 \u2014Withh.21.\u2014Model for clothes.12-\u2014Addressed devoutiy.471 \u2014Benefactors.23.\u2014 Wheelloas land vee 14\u2014Part of \u201cto be\u201d.4e \u2014Profix: down.hicles.15 \u2014Booner.17 \u2014Thus.18-\u2014Man's name.20\u2014Lying fat on iace.21 \u2014Chart.22\u2014Pen points.2\u2014To be indebted.25\u2014Woman of high social postition.26\u2014One who climbe « ladder.28 \u2014Rocks.20 \u2014Modern.81\u2014À high priest In the Book of Samuel.$2\u2014One who makes an offer.35\u2014More submissive.s0-\u2014Greex Cupld.20-\u2014Btar aviator.41 \u2014Podder storage place 50.\u2014Household management.52.\u2014PFlowed forth.54.\u2014Poetic: sorrow.86.\u2014Pitchars.VERTICAL 1.\u2014Pertaining to the Welsh.2~Conjunsotion.3.\u2014Consumed.4.\u2014To strike with open hand.8\u2014Eztreme fright.6\u2014Backbones.T\u2014Woody plant.8\u2014Organ of head.9.\u2014Possessive pronoun.10\u2014Word that opened AU Babe's cave.11\u2014Chiet conduit-pipes.25.\u2014Apportions rpering- 1y.27.\u2014Pemale sheep.29.\u2014QGolfer's mound.32-\u2014To obacure.33.\u2014Pressed.34.\u2014Ostcher of rodents.35 \u2014Hole In friese between beam ends, (arch) 36.\u2014Omits in pronoune- ing.$7.\u2014Lassoed.40 \u2014 Vehicle.43\u2014Food prepared from palm.44 \u2014Postic for enough.47 \u2014Crony.48.\u2014 To take court action.81.\u2014Opposite of yes.53.\u2014Railroad (abbr.This pumle took fourteen minutes to solve.Ses how long it will take you 10 solve it.(Copyright 1927 by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) HORIZONTAL 1\u2014Tiger.e\u2014Thews.11\u2014Atoned.i8\u2014Primal, Answers to Last Week's Pusiles 36.Serf 38.\u2014Alr.30\u2014Bests sm.\u201cat.43.\u20148peller 43.~-Be.That wool stock I bought must have have been the real thing\u2019 ny?Didn't it drop during the \u201cCertainly.If ran true to form and shrunk on the first wash.\u201d Roadside Gypsy\u2014I am a seer.I can see far ahead.Motorist\u2014Do you sce any parking space\u2014\u2014?Teacher-Willle, where's Toronto?Willie-Right between Davenport and Pittsburgh.Teacher-Where did you get that answer?Willle\u2014On our radio set.The Captain-I hear you arrested Buffalo Mike and then let him go.The Patrolman-That's not so.I had the wrong man.He showed me conclusively that he wasn't from Buffalo.He'd just come from Troy.Mrs.Blank used to take great interest in visiting hospitals and asylums.During her visit to one of the latter, a certein old man aroused her special compassion.She asked him.\u201cHow long have you been here?\u201d \u201cTwelve years,\u201d was his reply.After asking a few more questions she passed on.Turning to her guide, she noticed a smile on his face.On asking the reason, she heard, to her consiernation, that the old man was no less than the medical superintendent.In great haste, she rushed back to make her \u201cI am so sorry, doctor,\u201d she said.\u201cThis has taught me a lesson.I'll never judge by appearances again.\u201d A bishop interviewed a vicar, and requested that he would abandon the use of incense, to which the vicar attached importance.\u201cYou see, my lord,\u201d he said, \u201cI have the cure of ten thousand souls to minister to.\u201d \u201cQuite 80,\u201d rejoined the bishop, \u201cbut you don't need to cure them with smoke, like so many kippers.\u201d Nurse (announcing the happy event): \u201cIt\u2019s & little boy, professor.\u201d Profeasor (absorbed in siudy:) \u201cAsk him what he wants.\u201d A man asked an acior friend, who was an excruciatingly bad writer, for a free pass for the stalls.The actor wrote out a slip, not one word of which was decipherable.The friend showed the pass to an acquaintance, who said If it looked like anything on earth it looked lke a doctor's prescriplion.This suggested a plece of fun.The two took the paper to a chemist and asked him to make it up.Without a moment's hesitation the chemist took down a number of bottles, poured out some of the contents, put it into a bottle, wrote a label saying \u201cTwo teaspoonfuls after meals,\u201d and charged a dollar.Old Lady (digging bus conductor in ribs with umbrella): \u201cIs that the Bank of England, my good man?\u201d Conductor: \u201cNo, ma'am, it\u2019s me.\u201d Paddy had ambitions as a sprinter, but luck was never with him, and he invariably finished last.One day there came a change, and Paddy came in first.\u201cBegorra, boys,\u201d he panted while recovering his wind, \u201cI'm first at last; I was always behind before.\u201d A soldier asked for exemption from church parade on the ground that he was an agnostic.The sergeant-major assumed an ex- of innocent Interest.\u201cDon't you believe in the Ten Commandments?\u201d he asked, mildly.\u201cNot one, sir,\u201d was the reply.\u201cNot the rule about keeping the Sabbath?\u201d \u201cNo, air.\u201d The sergeant-major smiled and said: \u201cAh, well, you're the very man I've been looking for to scrub out the canteen.\u201d Newly Promoted Police Sergeant: \u201cWe don't get these stripes for hanging about street corners, you know.\u201d Old Offender: \u201cNo, you'd look like a zebra by now if you did.\u201d Friend: \u201cIf you spend so much time at golf you won't have anything laid aside for a rainy day.\u201d Golf Fiend: \u201cWon't I?My desk is loaded up with work that I've put aside for a rainy day.\u201d He: \u201cI went to a palmist last week to have my character read.\u201d She: \u201cYes, what did he say,\u201d He: \u201cHe didn't say anything.He Jooked at my hand, coughed a bit, and then gave me my money back.\u201d Two men were sealed in a crowded tramcar.One noticed that the other had his eyes closed.\u201cSay, Bill aln't you well?\u201d he sakl.\u201cI'm all right,\u201d replied Bil, \u201cbut I do 'ate to see ladies standin'!\" An Irishman and an American were discussing their acting.The American had told one or two tall stories, when he finally capped them with the following: \u201cOf course,\u201d he sald, \u201cthe first time I appeared on the stage I was presented with enough flowers to stock a shop.\u201d \u201cThat's nothing,\u201d said Pat, not to be outdone, \u201cthe very first time I appeared on the stage I wes presented with a house.\u201d \u201cA house,\u201d laughed the American, \u201cwhy man, that's impossible.\u201d \u201cNay, nay,\u201d returned Pat.\u201cI's true enough, begorra, \u2018twas a brick at a time.\u201d Wife: \u201cYou don't seem to take any interest in anything I do now, George.\u201d Husband: \u201cHow can you aay such a thing?Why, I lay awake all last night wondering what on earth you put in the pudding you made yesterday.\u201d WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, FEMRUAEY 98, 1938.FARM GARDEN AND HO Beautiful Farms Make Enjoyable Homes E The Farmer Drives to Market By W.G.Kaiser.E'VE ail heard the old story W about the farmer who kept à patch of road under water most of the time s0 that he could gêt jobs hauling stranded motorists out of the mudhole with his team.The story may be true, for ali I k-ow, because there are plenty of country roads that seem to stay muddy most of the time in spite of the season.Right now; with spring about to make its appearance\u2014according to the calendar\u2014the road problem in farming communities is more or less of a hot subject.Where the community has good paved roads, agitation is for more paving, and in communities which don't have paved toads agitation is for the rapid repair of whatever roads there may be or for the replacement of these roads with permanent pavement.8pring seems to sprout arguments as well as plants.More roads are needed wherever traffic demands warrant, and here we come to somewhat of a problem.Which roads shall we improve first and which shall we improve later?That question 1s somewhat Involved, but it ail goes back to finance management and engineering.Countics often wonder why their roads don't seem to get better when large sums of money are expended for this item each year.Many times the fault is due to the fact that the county makes the mistake of trying to spread out its road funds all over the highways in the county at one time.The result is that there is nothing left at the end of the year to show for the expenditure, and next year the county spends some more money doing the the same old thing all over again.The older provincial governments have seen the error in this procedure, atd as a result now improve and pave only such sections of road as may be fully completéd in a reasonably short space of time.Then, as more money is avallable, more road is paved and eventually a complete permanent system is developed.According to I H.MacDonald, Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads in the United States, nearly half of the 3,000-odd counties there are trying to build roads without any ea- gineering direction whatever, and with none but the mest primitive road building equipment! Is it any wonder then, that some counties aren't getting much for their road money?IN order to obtain the greatest lasting value for road money expended, some roads should be permanently improved first, then later the improvements should extend and finally the whole system be worked in.This developes some old thought about an id catch phrase that has come to be somewhat of a stuffed shirt\u2014the farm-to-market road.Farm-to- market roads should be improved but what is a farm-to-market road?Obviously, it is a road that takes the farmer from his farm to the market in the city.If the market is large.the road is heavily traveled\u2014it is a main highway, it must be such a road because the farmer's markets, both for sellicg and buying, are in the citles.It is no more than fair to assume that those roads which bear the heaviest traffic must be the first to receive improvement in the farm-to-mar- ket system.The system of federal grants contemplated trunk highways first, but ine provinces, now federal aid is withdrawn, are gradually bringing an expanding system of consiruc- tion into belng\u2014first the major highways, where traffic conditions demand road permanence; then the secondary systems; last the district roads where traffic Is lighter.As district roads are gradually taken Into the provincial systems, these roads, which have required the largest expenditure, wij no longer burden the amall communities, and this unit will be able to expend a larger sum per mile on the remaining mijeage and so effect a more lasting improvement.In regard to the farm-to-market problem, Mr.MacDonald, chief of the United States public roads bureau, recently stated that the future of these \u201cInarket\u201d roads has never been brighter.\u201cBut in order that the results of future expenditures on those which remain under the control of county acd local authorities may be as effective as possible, it is desirable that there be a marked improvement in the organization and equipment of the local governing bodies,\u201d he states.\u201cParticularly it is desirable that all local road work be carried on under engineering supervision.There may still linger in the micds of some people the feelaig that roads can be built without technical direction.There was a time not so long ago when that opinion was entertained by many people.But I hope by this time that the demonstration of the effectiveness of such coatro! which has been made in the improvement of the Federal Aid and State highway systems has convinced mast of these doubters.\u201d Many progressive counties, convinced of the wisdom of this policy of road improveme:.®, have gone ahead with road programs to the great benefit of every farming community iy the country, There are several ways of improving .the more imporiant county roads and one of these, which can be accomplished with an eye to future improvement, is to pave the roads with nine foot concrete which later may be widened as traffic requires and as money is available; Western Canada may have difficulty in doing this as yet, because of enormous con- ditlons and comparatively sparse settlement.Depending on the locality, average prices for a nine foot concrete road, complete with ditching and grading, will range from about $12,000 to $15,000 pet mile.Such an improvement is per- manezt and its upkeep is so low that a slightly higher original cost is more than offset in a few years as compared with a total period cost for other types of country roadway.In addition to this, there is the fact that car costs for travelling over smooth concrete country roads are less than the cost of travelling over other road types, according to studies completed by the Bureau of Business Research of the State University of Iowa.The report of this study states that the saving for concrete is 38 cents per mile over ordinary dirt roads when cars travel at 25 to 35 miles an hour; 2.7 cents per mile saving for concrete as compared with best dirt roads, and 2.5 cents per mile saving as compared with gravel roads.Improvement of country roads with concrete should be done by an orderly process, extending the work finally in a logical and economical way to include all the roads which merit improvement.In time, conditions may indicate that another nine foot strip should be consiructed on the grade alongside the first strip or, as in the case in Vermilion County, Il, the original stretch may be right on the centre of the grade and future widening can be in the form of concrete strips on both sides.At ail events, once the concrete 1s in place the farm-to-market is up out of the mud, and the motor vehicle with which the modern farmer transporis his produce and purchases is given a chance to funclion as the manufacturer intended that it should.Furthermore, with the right kind of engineering supervision the job does- n't have to be done over again, and with the release from excessive maintenance expenses the county has money to increase its permanent road system further.Then, two, there iz the additional fact that every aingle farming community in the nation has prospered where high type paved roads have come to take the place of the muddy ruts of yesteryear.Wouldn't Saskatchewan farmers be delighted if there were any near prospect of such an ideal system being put into effect?Roads would be one of that province's biggest problems because of its lack of sultable material for construction.Milk Production Costs HE Dominion Experimental Farm at Nappan, Nova Scotia, writes 8.A.Hilton, has been keeping records on the feed cost of milk production for each week since 1924.In this way it has been possible to obtain data on the cost at different seasons of the year and under different feeding conditiors.The feasibility of winter dairying is a problem for each individual to solve, as it is governed by many factors, too numerous to be dealt with in a short article such as this.Data collected at this Farm show that the profit over feed cost at the present time is greater during the pasture season than it was a few years ago.This is due chiefly to the stabl- lizing of prices of butter and butterfat.For example, in 1924 the spread batween summer and winter prices received Ly this farm for butter-fat was 12 cents, while the average yesr- ly price was 374 \\nts.In 1929 the spread was 6 cents and the average price received was 42.75 cents.The spread has, therefore, been reduced by halt and the price increased by 5.35 cents per pound in six years.\u2018The six-year average feed costs per 100 pounds of milk as recorded from the Guernsey herd for the differen: seasons of the year are as follows.\u2014 Stabling period, (November to May inclusive), $1.84; pasture period, (June to October Inclusive), $1.30.The aver- \u201câge per cent fat was 5.3 making the cost per pound butterfat 34.7 cents and 24.5 cents for each period respectively.The average returns per pound for the stablihg period were 41.4 cents and for the pasture period 38.3 cents, leaving a profit over feed cast of 6.7 cents and 13.8 cents respectively.In 1929 the cost for the stabling period was $1.87 per 100 pounds of milk and 36 cents per pound butterfat.The returns were 43.7 cents per pound butterfat, leaving a profit of 7.1 cents.During the pasture period, the cost of milk was 97 cents and of butlerfat 18.7 cents.The price received was 41.4 cents, leaving a profit over feed cost of 22.7 cents.This indicates the value of good pasturage In reducing the feed cost of milk production and enabling the dairyman to realize a profit over and above his labor, overhead and feed charges.The three factors that will have the greatest influence in reducing the feed cost of milk production to a minimum are:- First: The development of high producing herds, which is possible only through the use of purebred sires from high producing ancestry.Second: A pasture improvement program, properly conducted, that will ensure a plentiful supply of succulent feed throughout the entire pasture period, the opportune perlod for cheap production due to low cost of feeds.Third: The production of a greater amount of suitable home grown rough- ages and grains in Eastern Canada to reduce the feed account and lower the cost of milk production during the winter months.Dr.C.P.Marker, dairy commissioner for Alberta, in addressing the Saskatchewan Dairy Conference recently, said that Saskatchewan is doing its share to meet the Canadlan demand for Canadian creamery products having increased Its output in the year 1929 by 33 per cent.He added that the industry is also rising in Alberta where the year's gain in creamery output was 11 1-3 per cent, while that of cheese was 38 per cent.New Red-Poll Record MERRY Bunshine regains milk production Championship and now heads the 1f8t for highest Butter-fat producer in the Dominion of Canada for Measrs.Gowans Bros.Bestwick, B.C., this cow, number 3275\u2014bred and owned by Gowans Bros.finishing her 385 day record as a ten-year old beat all former Red-Poll records.The Canadian record for highest milk production for the breed: was gained by \u201cMerry Sunshine\u201d about three years ago with à production of 13,517 Iba.of milk and 567 lbs.of fat and since then there has been keen rivalry between different Red-Polls in Canada.About two years ago the honor was wrested from Merry Sunshine by Rosedale Mary\u20145279\u2014owned by Mes- ars.Mulr Bros.Barnhart Vale, also in the Kamloops district, who pre- duced 14,638 1bs.of milk and 658 Iba of fat.The ink was scaroely dry on this record when it was beaten by Doro- thy\u20143257\u2014an eleven year old cow, owned by C.E.Lewis thén of Kelowna, now of Chilliwack, B.C JDorothy\u2019s pro~ duction which was made entirely on twice-a day milking was 15,207 lbs.of milk and 673 1bs.of fat held good until the present time.Merry Sunshine's latest record has beaten it by 175 lbs.of milk and 8 Ibs.of fat.The corrected figures being 15,472 lbs.of milk and 683 lhs.of fat.Merry Sunshine\u2019s records were made under ordinary farm conditions on a ranch at an altitude well over 3,000 feet.Despite the fact that the weather is somewhat severe in the winter, Merry Sunshine is outside all the time, a tribute to the hardiness of the breed.Besides Merry Sunshine carried a calf six months before she finished and is due to freshen early Merry Sunshine\u2019s latest record also gained for the second highest long distance record for the Breed in Canada, the third highest on the Amesi- can Continent and according to information now in the hands of the secretary a World's Record.Her Long Distance record for five lactations being:- 58,469 lbs.milk, and 2545 lbs.fat, à yearly average of 11,693 4-5 lbs.milk, and 509 ius.fat.Merry Sunshine\u2019s yearly average for milk is the second highest for Canada and her yearly average Butter-fat record is the highest of any cow in Can- ads in two, three, four, five and six lactations.Her long distance record is exceeded only vy une wonderful performing cow Pear (American) and Mr.H.RB Waby's grand old cow Princess Rose\u2014 3276.; \u2018The growth of the Boy's Colt Competition of the Manitoba Winter Fair - gives indication that the affair will soon rank with the boys and girls fat calf competition as a leading feature of the exhibition.On account of the rapid strides made the Federal Department of Agriculture announces that an extra $400 will be added to the $500 already in effect for prises.One of the largest terminal grAin elevators in the world has recently been put into operation at Vancouver by the Alberta t Pool.It has a capacity of 5,150, bushels and is Known às Vancouver Pool Elevator No.1 An additional $1,000,000 for the assistance of agriculture in the Province of Quebec has been announced bv the Provincial Department of Agriculture, This amount is over and above the $2,675,500 contained in the estimates recently brought down by Hon.A, R.McMaster, provincial treasurer.The records of the Forestry Department indicate that the cut of poles and piles from the British Columbia forests during 1929 totalled 30453480 lineal feet or an increase of 8,000,000 feet over the 1928 output.Story lovers will be interested in the sanouncement on page 7. - Acid Soils, Fine Lawns VV =DLESS lawns can be grown by \u201cpickling\u201d the soll with acid fertilizers, experts of the New York Botanical Garden report.Some of the best grasses for lawns, they say, thrive on soil acid enough to prevent the growth of the hardiest weed.By using only such fertilisers as ammonium sulphate, superphosphate and muriate of potash, the ground can be \u201cpickled\u201d into a condition favorable to gress and deadly to weeds.\u201cBy properly manipulating the acidity of the soll It is possible to do some surprising things,\u201d Dr.Forman T.McLean, supervisor of public education at the garden, explains.\u201cIf the soll is too acid; It poisons plants by releasing alum from the clay In the soil.Clay 1s made of aluminum, which is useful as long as it remains in clay or in the metallic form we are famil- far with in kitchenware, but when it dissolves with acid as aluminum salts it is a dangerous poison to both plants and animals.\u201cIn the soil its effects can be counteracted by adding lime or phosphates.Lime is most commonly used but !t is quite possible to use too much of it.If we lime the soil until it is too sweet we get Into another diffi- eulty, because the sweet 20fl not only ties up the harmful aluminum, but also the small amounts of iron and manganese which are necessary to plants.\u201cSome of our best grasses, though, thrive in an acid soil.They can withstand an acid condition in which wopds cannot grow.Even bluegrass will withstand more acidity than moat weeds.By using only acid fer- timers we can feed the grass well and at the same time \u201cpickle\u201d the soil, making it so acid that weeds tannot grow.Sweet Soil For Many Plants \u201cOn the other hand, some of our garden vegetables and plants like a sweet soll, and accordingly are benefited by such sweetening fertilizers as nitrate of soda, bone meal, lime and stable manure.Roses, beets, lettuce, spinach and Japanese cherries are included in this group.\u201d Dr.McLean warns that caution is essential in the use of the concentrated chemical fertilizers sold today.Over-feeding with concen-, trated food, he says, is as fatal to plants as it 1s to children.\u201cPlants are growing things like young children and, like children, they are constantly hungry, except when they are asleep, but the plants\u2019 sleep is not every night.It is a resting period of weeks or months.\u201cLikewise, just as we can give children too much concentrated food in eandy, cakes and sweets, s0 we easily ean overfeed our plants if we use concentrated chemical fertilizers as freely as the older type of manures.Most of the older kinds of fertilizers, such as manure, bone meal and dried blood, contain rather small amounts of the fertilizing elements.\u201cNitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are needed in such large amounts by plants that they have eome to be considered the only important elements in fertilizers.Most states require that all fertillzers sold must have their analysis in these three items stated on the packages.Nitrogen 1s stated as a percentage of ammonia, phosphorus as a percentage of phosphoric acid or phosphorous pentoxide and potassium as potash, potassium oxide.\u201cThe average chemical fertilizer eontains about 4 to 6 per cent.of ammonia, 10 to 12 per cent.of phosphoric acid and 4 to 8 per cent.of potash.This material may be used at the rate of one ton to the acre or one pound to 1,000 square feet.This is a moderate application such as farmers use.\u201cOn the average garden three to five times this much may be aatis- factorily employed; that is, a pound to possibly 200 square feet.For pot Plants a level teaspoonful to a six- foch pot, either mixed In with the soll or stirred in around the plant not closer than an inch away from Its stem, is a good, Mberal application.Feetilise fer Results \u201cIt 8 important that gardeners know the characteristics of their fertilisers.Nitrate of soda, superphosphate and sulphate of phosphate produce Immediate effects.Organic manures, dried blood, bone meal and WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, FEBRUARY 26, 1934 wood ashes work more slowly, and their effect upon plants continues for longer periods.Nitrogen and äm- monia stimulate rapid growth and make abundant dark green follage.Phosphorus increases firwer and seed production, while potash fac!li- tates the storage of food and has a tendency to make plants stiffer and stronger.\u201c ite the importance of chemicals that plants get from the soll, the most important food materials still come from the air and water.Water constitutes more than nine-tenths of most piants, and carbon oxide absorbed from the air enters into more than 25 per cent.of the remaining dry tissue.\u201cPlants need air around thé roots as well as around their leaves.It le wise-to use loose soil through which the alr can pass readily and regulate the water, so that the soll can become partly dry and aerated between wat- erings.\u201d PRIZES FOR NUTS The Northern Nut Growers Association is offering prizes totalling over $500 for the best nuts of several kinds sent in for competition in the contest vor being conducted by the associa- Details with regard to the contest may be had from Dr.W.C.Deming, Contest Manager, 31 Owens Btreet, Hartford, Connecticut.GARDEN NOTES Examine the bases of unprotected trunks when the snow leaves, for damage by mice.Any serious damage should Be repaired at once by bridge-grafting.Fruit trees may be pruned at any time now, when the weather suits the operator.It is one of the operations that may be done early and finished before the rush of spring work starts: If fruits and vegetables show signs of withering in storage you may know that the air is too dry.Eprinkle water on the floor and walls at frequent intervals.Kee the air moist.It is a good plan to secure at this season & bag or so of one of the quickly available nitrogenous fertilizers, like Nitrate of Soda or Sulphate of Ammonia, to keep on hand during the growing season to stimulate backward plants.The best time to use it on woody plants and apple trees is just as growth is starting in Spring.The annual meeting of the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers will be held In Regina on Wednesday, March 20th, it is officially reported.This date follows the annual meeting of the Canadian Sheep Breeders\u2019 Association in the same city.ANSWERS to Garden Questions Growing Cacti From Seed Dear 8ir:\u2014Please inform me if there 1s any difficulty in growing cacti from seeds.I have tried two or three times without success.Could you inform me where I could get reliable seeds of these interesting plants\u2014Cacti?The seeds of cacti are usually fertile and when planted under proper conditions, a large percentage of them will produce mature plants.The best soil for growing cactl from seed has proved to be a thoroughly decomposed sod, mixed with at least its own volume of sand.After these ingredients have been carefully mixed, they are run through a sieve of about quarter-inch mesh, which removes any large particles and all superfluous root fibres, making a Joose soil which drains readily.It is not necessary that the soll be rich in humus, and manured soils should always be avoided because of thelr undue tendency to hold moisture.They are also a medium for producing germs of decay.An open drainable soll is the chief requisite for cultivating cacti.For germinating the seeds an ordinary 4-inch pot Is very convenlent.New pots are preferable, but old pots may be used If thoroughly sterilized.Porous pots are soon covered with green algae when left in a moist place for any considerable time.This growth will spread over the surface of the soll in a close blanket which precludes the free access of air and seriously retards the drainage of superfluous water.These algae will, in time, grow over the little seedlings, smothering them.It 1s wise, therefore, to bake or burr old pots before using them.Enlarge the hole in the pots which Is, as a rule, too small and easly clogged, amd fill the pot to a quarter of its depth with broken pots.On these, the prepared soil should be placed and pressed or shaken together firmly, but not packed hard.Level the surface soil with a round, flat- faced tamper of a diameter to barely fill the pot, tamping the soil down lightly, not packing it, but making a smooth, level surface.This surface should be about half an inch below the top of the pot.Over it the seeds are evenly distributed and then covered with a very thin layer of the soil, upon which is spread a layer of fine gravel to the depth of quarter of an inch.This layer of gravel is important in many ways.As the pots are later watered with a fine spray, it prevents the surface of the soil from washing and consequently keeps the seeds from being disarranged.It also promotes the free passage of moist air through the spaces between the bits of gravel, which, together with the shading by the gravel, prevents the surface of the soil from becoming dry and baked.It also checks the growth of algae.As the seedlings grow they easily force their way through the gravel to the sunlight.For the first few months they are only small, globular, balloon-shaped, or cylindrical bodies, composed of very thin-walled cells filled to turgidity with water.They are so tender and delicate, they readily \u201cdamp-off\u201d if subjected to a sudden change from high to low temperature, but the death rate of seedlings from this cause has been almost wholly checked by the use of gravel over the soil.By the time they have grown large enough to project beyond the gravel they have become hardler and more robust in structure, Again the gravel layer is of great value in that It keeps the surface of the soil moist.If this surface is allowed to dry out to the depth of one- eighth of an Inch the exceedingly fine and delicate roots which spread out near the surface will be destroyed and the seedlings damaged or killed.In most Instances the diminutive plant has not enough food stored up in its body \u2018to keep it alive until another set of seedling roots can be formed, and It starves.For watering, a vessel should be used which gives a fine, gentle spray, in order to avoid the danger of washing the seeds from their position or injuring the young plants.Watering should be done at least once a day.The temperature of the propagating house or frame should be kept as uniform as possible and should not vary much from 70 deg.F.The proper time for transplanting differs for different genera and species, but they should usually be left in the germination pot until the plant shows at least three or four clusters of spines, except the priekly pear which can usually be moved as soon as the seed leaves have expanded.By that time the tissues will have become considerably hardened and a very good root system formed.The taller growing species, such as Cereus and Opuntia will be the first ones ready for transplanting.Mammillaria and kindred genera and plants of similar growth the last.The seedlings should be transplanted into a flat, small enough to be easlly handled and provided with drainage openings in the bottom.It should be filled with the same ma- TWENTY-NINR terial and soil as the germination pot and leveled in the same way.The rows should be about an inch apart and the seedlings an inch apart in the rows.After the seedlings are all in, a thin layer of fine, clean gravel should be placed all over the soil and close up around all the plants.The flats should then be set perfect~ ly level so the soil will not shift when watgred.With the exception of Opuntia, cactus plants are mostly of slow growth and may remain in the flat for several months before being potted.When the plants begin to crowd each other, or the roots to intermingle, pot them up following the same method, but coarse soll may be used to advantage.It is not advisable to begin with pots smaller than two and a half inches, as they dry out too rapidly.Any reliable seedsman will give you seed.As to why the seed falled, it may be you will find the reason In the warnings given in the above directions which are taken from a new bulletin on the subject just issued by the Horticultural Departe ment of the United States.Porch Boxes Dear Sir:\u2014Would you kind - - +- gest some filling you would 7 pretty for porch boxes?I have .d scarlet geraniums until I'm tired of them and would like a changea.cs.How would one of these combinations do?Giant Wandering Jew alternated with green and white vinca for trailing vines in front; then several fuchsias with very dark foliage plants behind; or, trailing asparagus ferns in front with low growing blue lobelia and pink geraniums.Or petu- nlas, shades of purple, or Rosy Morn NIES Lee BEST THAT EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN AND FARM CATALOGUE TO INTENDING PURCHASERS WY RENNIE C© uve TORONTO ALSO AT MONTREAL VANCOUVER GRIGNON ELIXIR Marvelous drug used in all cases of animal ail- meni.joss of mppelite, cud, fever, weakness, Inflammation, colics, Jiggers.yellow water, blood- poison.etc.Here is « Certificate amongæ thousend received.The Grignon Elixir is ihe best drug I had the opportunity to use for my sick horses and cows.Signed: Abel Caillet, Verwood, Bask.Price: $1.00 by mall at our own expenses.DR.GRIGNON VETERINARY DRUG STORER Mont Laurier, Que., formerly from St.Adels, Que.CEE FARM HELP BRITISH BOYS Weekly Parties During Early Spring APPLY NOW \u2014 THe Secretary, The Salvation Army Immigration\u2014 208 Dundas Street, Woodstock, Ont, 480 Jarvis Street, Toronto.Ont.114 Beckwith Street, 8miths Palls, Ont.1125 University Street, Montreal.Que.EU THEO.FAVRE & SON Established 1849, TOMKINS COVE, N.FT.DEALERS RAW FURS, GINSENG GOLDLY SEAL ROOT Dressers\u2014Fars Made Up Price List Mailed om Requesi BISSELL HORSE-DRAWN DISK HARROWS Have always been noted for Light Draft and Great Cipacity.Heat Treated Disk Plates are now used on all BISSELL DISK HARROWS.They retain their cutting edges and last much Jenger than untreated plates.Made in 12, 14 and 16-Piate Widths\" Both In-Throa and Out-Throw Styles.BISSELL PRICES are FAVORABLE.GET OUR LOWER PRICKS ON ROL ERS, PACKERS AND STONE BOATS.They CUT, TURN and PULVERIZE in all kinds of veil.where others only SCRAPE THE .s URFACE.That's amether Write to Dept.\u201cN° > teaser fer buying the BISRELL T.E.BISSELL COMPANY, LTD., ELORA, Ontario THIRTY POULTRY TOPICS WITNESS AND CANADIAR HOMESTEAD, FEBRUARY 36, 1900.More Poultry Notes By R.G.Kirby.esting instrument for the poultryman to own.Hang it just about the level of the birds\u2019 heads and protect it from pecking if possible.Watch the temperature of the house both on cold, windy, winter days and on scorching hot summer days.It may help to teach you why hens become uncomfortable and egg production goes down.It may lead to a more careful operation of the poultry house ventilation and result in the purchase of insulation and pas- sibly the construction of a straw loft.An oll can is useful poultry equipment.Try using it on the door hinges and the padlocks.It will help to keep the locks from freezing up during ice storms and damp weather and will take the squeaks out of the hingest and the door handles.ordering the spring nursery stock and garden seed, don't forget that the summer poultry conditions can be improved if proper shade is provided both for the layers and the growing stock.Plum trees grow rapidly and soon make considerable shade near poultry buildings.Apple trees are slower to develop but may produce a crop of considerable market value and also provide high limbs which make fine roosts during the summer for the pulets on range.If you have a fenced acreage near a poultry range, it can be used to grow asparagus or corn and Russian sunflowers.When the asparagus plants are small the hens must be excluded.During the harvest they must be fenced away from the patch.Later the thick fern-like plants grow high and provide a dense shade.Ralse the fence and the poultry will range among the high asparagus plants and keep down the grass and add considerable fertility near the roots.Corn and sunflowers can be used as a range for young poultry when the plants are only aix or eight inches high.The piants will grow much faster than the chicks can peck them down and soon a dense shade is provided.This helps the pullets to keep comfortable on hot windy days The cultivation brings up bugs and worms and turns under at least some of the poultry manure.The corn and sunflower seed thi: can be produced on such a rang: are useful in the poultry ration.FOLLOW: RS of the radio are sometimes surprised to find the poultry industry is receiving more attention on the air.A good practical chick talk may appear from some distant station.The ideas advanced help to keep a man thinking even though they cannot all be used on his own farm.The radio weather reports are of real value in following storms and regulating the ventilation of the houses.Poultrymen who had plenty of mash and grain on hand during the big December blizzard saved a lot of werry and some hard drives through the drifts.The poultry busineas [s very confining and men who act as butler and valet to a thousand hens or more must take most of their pleasure near home.They certainly deserve a good radio.When you can rest in your work clothes and listen to the same EX ER TR LYS poll songs And music that the millionaires in city mansions are enjoying, it does much to make the poultry business enjoyable and the necessity of being at home mast of the time leas irksome.Poultrymen away from power lines can now buy discarded battery sets from city homes for almost nothing.It seems that those who are on power lines can now obtain more radio value for their money than ever before.From experience, I believe dt is a real business asset on the poultry farm and worth many times its cost.\u2014Michigan Farmer.The Situation TEE flush of fresh egg production in Canada is, apparently, still just around the corner.Egg dealers in the majority of consuming centres have been expecting heavier local re- celpts for some time past but outside of the Atlantic and Pacific Coast Provinces, the increase has, thus far, falled to materialize.The Maritime Provinces particularly New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, experienced rather heavy egg production some few weeks ago.Prices were lowered and the demand picked up to an extent where it was taking care of all receipts and for a time the Maritime markets were also short of supplies.This condition still prevails In part but production in the Maritimes appears again to be increasing.British Columbia, which has been experiencing extremely severe weather for that Province, now reports springlike conditions prevailing and production is commencing to show a corresponding Increase, The carlot shipments of eggs from British Columbia to the East are still quite light, only four cars being shipped out 1ast week.It may be expected, however, that this volume will be increasing steadily from now on.It is unlikely that the Coast region of British Columbia will experience a turn of cold weather at this season.The hatching season is well under way in British Columbla and while the coming month will probably see a still greater quantity of eggs diverted from mar- Ket channels the first heavy effects of this movement have already been felt.Outside of British Columbia and the Maritime-Provinces fresh egg production is at a very low ebb.Edmonton is the only Prairie centre of importance to report an increase In local receipts during the week and even at that point the increase was only minor in nature and local supplies were not sufficient to take care of requirements.At present prices it Is estimated that Edmonton requires approximately one car of eggs per week.Receipts during last week were only 204 cases.Other Prairie markets are depending on United States shipments for supplies or else are getting along with insufficient eggs to take care of the demand.Country points throughout Saskatchewan are receiving hardly enough eggs for their own local use, only North Battleford reports a slight surplus for shipment to outside points.\u2018The present conditions of shortage over the Prairies may be attributed in à large measure to the return to cold weather.This came just at the time when it was thought that mlld conditions would prevail and that an increase in fresh production would result.In Ontario there are yet no signs of a substantial Increase in local production.Road conditions in the Western part of the Province appear to be bad.This is holding up deliveries and_ production on the whole is also short.Ottawa, which a short while back was receiving ample local supplies, has now had to turn to the United States.Toronto is bringing in United Btates eggs very heavily and United States prices are the chief governing factor on that market.A considerable volume of Ontario receipts are reaching Toronto of course but they are far from sufficlent to take care of the needs of that City.Montreal Ls in practically the same condition as Toronto.An oocasional car of British Columbia's is arriving at © both points but the bulk of requirements is being filled by imported supplies.Montreal does not report any increase in local receipts but Quebec City 1s experiencing an unusually heavy production for this season of the year.Importations of eggs have been extremely heavy during the present year.Figures of the Egg Inspection Bervice for the month of January have been compiled and show that over 20,000 cases were admitted into Canada by the Egg Inspection Service during the month.Allowing 400 cases to a car this would mean that practically 50 cars were imported.The volume can, perhaps, be well appreciated by comparison with 1929 when total importations for the entire year were slightly under 24,000 cases.The volume of imports during the month of February appears to have been at least equal, thus far, to January.At the close of the first national poultry show in Montreal, on February 8th, George Bouchard, M.P., president of the exhibition, declared that it has been succeasful far beyond what the promoters anticipated, and that, with the experience gained, next year's exhibition should be yet more successful.\u201cApart from the increase in grain exports through the Port of Saint John during January, over December, which amounted to 23,820 tons, there has been a notable increase in export of general cargo durimg the same per- lod,\u201d said J.M.Woodman, general superintendent of the Canadian Pac- itic Railway for the New Brunswick district.\u201cIn December, 1929, the company handled 39,511 tons of general cargo for export through West Saint John and in January 42,412, or an increase of 2,901,\u201d he said.World Poultry Congress The General Public The World Poultry Congress to held at the Crystal Palace in July open to the world at large; it is reserved for the delegates and bers who have.a part to play and a role assigned to them.The ge public will be able to see the display revealing the world's poi (and small livestock) industry In its many branches, on paying the price of admission to the Crystal Palace; they will not take, and will not be expected to take an interest In the official proceedings of the Congress, the reading of papers, the subsequent debates.But they will undoubtedly respond to a special programme of entertainment to which the Admiralty, the War Office, and the Alr Force have been invited to contribute, and there will be special concerts and {l- Juminations, all of which will serve to make the days and nights between July 22nd and July 30th pleasantly memorable.8 HH 58 Membership Application forms for membership of the World Poultry Congreas to be held at the Crystal Palace from July 22nd to July 30th are now available.Those who write from Great Britain and Northern Ireland can apply direct to the Ministry of Agriculture, London, 8.W.1.Citizens of the Irish Free State have their own National Committee In Dublin.The classification covering those who attend the Congress is of the simplest kind.Visitors will be either representative delegates or private members Delegates are representatives of properly constituted bodies; local government boards, teaching or research institutes, educational or poultry associations and commercial organizations.All the other members of Congress attend in private capacity.Membership, official or private, costs two guineas and brings many privileges and much entertainment in its train.Delegates and members may participate in all activities, attend lectures, receive a copy of all Congress papers, a portfolio, a badge and a copy of the final Report of Congress proceedings.Moreover, they will have free admission to the Crystal Palace, where a remarkable series of entertalnments is being arranged, and they will be the guests of the Government, the Lord Mayor of London and the Poultry Industry in turn.Wives and relatives may accompany delegates and members on payment of a fee of one guines per person, and will be invited to the Congress entertainments.Associate Members It is recognised by those responsible for the conduct of the Congreas that there are many people who, although gress, desire to be assoclated with it, They may live too far from Lo they may have too their time or resources, and yet interest in the work, and it sceks to help, may be deep long-standing.For these there is Associate Membership.It costs one guinea and Associates will receive copies of Congress literature papers, together with the Report and Proceedings issued afier the Congress, Ë Bands as Insect Traps PBANDAaxs on apple trees are not neceasarily a sign that they are suffering from injuries.The chances are that the orchardist has bandaged the trees to set a trap for an old enemy, the codling moth, an insect which causes $20,000,000 lom to the codling moth was generally before arsenical sprays were developed, and is still used as a supplementary control measure.bands commonly used it is necessary to send men through the orchard at intervals to destroy the larvae éol- lected in the bands.In an effort to eliminate this job, specialists of the department have been experimenting with bands treated with various chemicals which will kill the larvae.They report that a combination of beta-naphthol and lubricating oil gives satisfactory results and causes no apparent injury to the trees.- Further experiments will bs necessary before the department can state conclusively that no injury to the tree will result from the use of thess treated bands.For this reason it is recommended that all tests with such bands be made on a small scale and only on trees of fuil-bearing capacity.In a test comparing various mater- lals for bands it was found that those made of paper burlap were equal of superior to those of 3-ply cloth burlap, the kind commonly used in commercial orchards.The paper-burlap band is much less expensive than the one made of burlap, which means a substantial saving to fruit growess, Heavy roofing paper and light crepe paper were the least effective mater- las tried.Deutzis gracills, a small, hardy shrub that has been stored away in a cool place for forcing, may now be brought into a cool greenhouse and slowly started.Low temperature must be obtained for a month, 35 degrees Fahrenheit at night and 45 degrees during the day.At the end of a month move them to warmer quarters.They can stand a warm house, but they are better off if not forced too hard.They Proved To Be The Very Thing Needed Of Dodd's Says Nova Scotia Lad: Kidney Pi Burette Island, NS, Feb.25 (Special) Every year, thousands of grateful peoples publicly testify to Dodd's Kidney Pills They have used them and found be a good kidney remedy.of this place is one of them.\u201cI bad an awful pain across which I was kidneys.\u2018They do one thing, but they that one thing well. Good Vegetables T° get the highest quality in any vegetable, it must be grown early.Where there is a check during any time of growth, toughness and stringiness will usually result.Crisp, tender vegetables are those that are grown quickly, given plenty of fertilizer, continuous cultivation and water, if pas- alble, during dry spelis.There are, of course, scores of different varieties, although seedsmen are narrowing these down, and are pushing only those which years of experience have showy themaseives most suitable to the Canadian climate.In the case of the earlier vegetables, particularly, which mature long before the end of the growing season, it is advisable to secure two or three varieties of the same sort.Get an early, medium and of days.In those districts where Fall frosts are liable to come early, select the very earliest varieties.To help the new gardener, the following list of approved vegetables is offered: As- paragus\u2014Mary Washington, satisfactory from the standpoint of disease resistance and a good cropper; Beans \u2014Pencil Pod Black War\u2014Round Pod Kidney Wax, Stringless Green ,Pod with Kentucky wonder Waz and £en- tueky Green Pod as pole sorts; Beets \u2014Farly Wonder, Flat Egyptian Early and Detroit Dark Red, later; Cabbage \u2014Golden Acre, as a round-héaded first early, followed by Copenhagen Market and Enkhuizen Glory as mid- season with short stem Danish Ball- head for winter stotage; Cauliflower \u2014Snowball and Earliest Dwarf Erfurt; Carrots \u2014 Chantenay and Danvers; Corn\u2014of the early varieties Golden Sunshine, Pickaninny, Early Mayflower, Early Market and Golden Bantam are recommended, with Stowells Evergreen for later use; Cucumbers\u2014 Improved White Spine and Davis Perfect; Celery\u2014for first early Golden Plume or Wonderful, and white Plume, \u2014for second early, Paris Golden Yellow œ Easy Blanching, \u2014 for winter keeping Gian, Pascal Ur Winter Queen; Lettuce\u2014Grand Rapids is one of the most popular leat varieties with New York and Non-Pareil where a head sort is wanted; Muskmelons\u2014 Improved Montreal and Ertra Early Knight are good varieties, as well as Golden Champlain, Miller\u2019s Cream or Osage; Onlons\u2014Yellow Globe Dan- vers, Red Wethersfield, Prize Taker Yellow Globe and Prize Taker Red Globe; Peas\u2014Thomas Laxton, Laxton- ian, Gradus, Little Marvel, Laxton Progress and, of course, American wonder; Parsnips \u2014 Hollow Crown; Radish \u2014 Scarlet Turnip White Tip, French Breakfast and Scarlet Globe; Spinach \u2014 Bioomsdale and King of Denmark; Swiss Chard\u2014Lucullus, the leafy part of this vegetable is used a8 a spinach while the fleshy stem may be cooked as asparagus and is de- Mcious served with cream sauce; To- matoes\u2014Earliana, John Baer, Bonny Best, Chalk's Early Jewel, Livingstone\u2019s Globe.Grand Rapids and Sunrise are two of the best forcing sorts.INFECT PEST SURVEY COMPLETE and accurate record of insect pests in Canada is being built up by the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa under the direction of the Dominion Entomologist.This survey of Insect pests was placed on a systematic basis in 1922 and has resulted in the bringing together of thousands of records dealing with a large number of species of injurious Insects.The Minister of Agriculture in his report for the fiscal year ending with March, 1929, shows that records of more than 3,000 species of economic importance were on file at Ottawa, and these are being increased.The survey, it is pointed out, has as its principal object the establishment of a complete and accurate record of the distribution, prevalence, food plants, ete, and natural enemies of the insect species o1 economic importance in Canada.As the Entomological Branch gathers information from this division of its work its current observations are issued in monthly reviews during the growing season to entomn- logists throughout Canada.In a general paper indicating the progress in economics entomology in North America, presented during the recent meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held at WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, FEBRUARY 26, 1930.Des \u201cnireg, Iowa, thé Dominion Entomologist made the following statement regarding insect pest surveys: \u201cMuch n= reas has been made in assembling data regarding insect pests since the establishment of Insect Pest Burveys in the United States, in 1921, and in Canada.in 1922.The monthly summaries of insect conditions published in both countries have undoubtedly served à very useful purpose.Dr.Hyslop of Washington has said, \u201cThe data obtained as a result of insect pest surveys should be of far reaching value in connection with entomological forecasting.\u201d That grand old mediaeval gardener Gerard wrote of flowers: \u201c , , , the recreation of the minde which is taken thereby cannot but be very good and honest; for they admonish and stir up a man to that which is camille and honest, for flowers through their beautie, variety of color and exquisite forme, do bring to à liberall and gentlemanly minde the resemblance of honestie comeli- neass, and all kindes of vertues.\u201d Apple exports from Nova Scotia to Europe for the present season to date passed the million barrel mark on February 10th, for the first time in five years, when the figure stood at 1,042,478 barrels, as compared with 645,000 barrels for the entire previous season, The Nova Scotia Sheep Breeders Association has been formed with Ran- old Chisholm as president and Barry Baker as secretary-treasurer, the former being from Antigonish and the lafter from River Hebert.Addressing the annual meeting of the Nova Scotia Farmers, Dr.J.M.Trueman, superintendent of agricultural associations, said that 184 societies had reported during 1929 with a membership gain of 283, MINARD'S LINIMENT ATENTS A LIST OF \u201cWANTED INVENTIONS AND FULL INFORMATION WiLL, BE SENT ON REQUEST The LAMSY Go.O3F TAWA oi OTTAWA, OUT Public Notice is given that Ruth Lyford Smith, of the City and District of Montreal, married woman, will apply to the Parliament of Canada, at the present Session thereof, for a Bill of Divorce from her husband, Norman H.Smith, ot the City and District of Montreal, Automobile Salesman, on the grounds of Adultery and Deser tion.Dated at Montreal, In the Province of Quebec; this Twenty-first day of February, 1930.WELLS & LYNCH, Solicitors for the Applicant.NOTICE\" OF APPLICATION FOR DIVORCE Netles 13 hereby given that Janet Mla Pettt- grow, of the Town of Lakeside, District of Mooi- real, in the Province of Quebec, wife of Cam- ston À ta Thomson presently realding st ne Choire In ihe Province of Quebec, said Digtriot of Montreal, will apply tp the Parlls- mans of Canada, at the next session thereof, for a Bil of Diverce from her husbend, Cameren Augwits Thomson, Clerk, of Pointe Claire, as aforesaid on the grounds of adultery snd deser- ated at Montreal, in the Prevines of Quebec, this seventsenth day of Deovmber, 1990, FARMERS\u2019 BUSINESS BRIEFS ADVERTISING 8 oash-with-order rale of ihres centa per tien).SIX censecstive insartions will be given for the price insertions $1.58).A number or single letter is osunted as one word.When replies sédressed \"\u201d , an in care of the \u2018Witness MATRA Under this heading advertisements will be inserted without display at per insertion (minimum charges 460 per inser- FOUR (minimum rate for six are to be additions] charge of twenty-five oscts is made.Copy for insertion In thess columns should be In the \u201cWitness\u201d Office not later than Priday morsing te secure proper clausification in following Weekly Edition, POULTRY BABY CHICKS C.White Leghorns, Our Docks are bred for of bird and production of egxs.Al have and blood tested amd headed with a Rocks, 20 cents: Leghorns 18 cents each: Rooks 18 cents; Leghorns 18 cents each.over, $2.00 per hundred less.?cent.live arrival pur cent.with order, balance C.0.D.CH/CE HATCHERY, Fergus, Ont.-te-Fay by Chicks\u2014While Leghorns, Ba 5, {rom large eggs.Government regis- R.OP.Pedigreed.Breeders culled.Rocks 2c; Yeghorna 18¢ until May 10.Express paid, 180 per cent.alive.Order from this ad.PRINCE EDWARD POULTRY FARM, Consecon, Ont 0-8 Switzers Blood-Tested Baby Chicks.Barred Rocks March, 30c; April 19c.Barron strain 8.C.White Hd et M wood Road, Toronto, Ontario.\u20ac TURKEYS Fure-Bred Mammoth Bronze Toms, $5.00; ions, $4.00, from 40-pound stock.MRS.W.8.LOT- TIN.\u2019 Neepaws, Man, 4-4 LIVESTOCK .\u201cDR.MOFFATT'S REMEDY FOR HEAVES\" gives quick relief and lasting cure.The guar- sntee with every treatment makes it certain you get satisfaction or your money buck.OCom- plete treatment, five dollars wilh order of C.O.D.LABORATORIES, 867 King West, Tor- FOXES .Niue sad filver Foxes, AN Registered Insured delivery and sixty days thersafier.Peed, supplies st cest.Ilustrated booklet.Agents wanted.Bank references 25 years.CLEARY EROS., Best tie, Wash.3-0 HORGES 000 75 Head Percharsa, Belgian, Clydesdale, Can- sdian, Standard-bred snd Hackney Stallions and Mares.Prices rensonable, suitable terms of pey- ment ARNOLDWOED P, ren- = arret 7 MINE juper-Alnsken Strain, Very High Quality.Mink-ratalog most profitable industry: wonderful possibilities.Write today for particulars, HER- CULRAN PUR PARMS, Porest Lake, Minn, 6-6 LIVESTOCK RABRITS For Sale\u2014Outdeer Raised, Healthy, Prolific Srmines.White, Plemish, Silver Black Pox, Rabbits.Gusrantesd live, healthy delivery.Chrome tenned soft, pliable Chinchilla rabbit IRTHLANDS ite.Sample pelt $1.38.NOI FOR 2 FAKING\u2019 02.\" Rhintiander, Wikoonsto.5.8 FARMS FOR SALE Goad Fertlie Purm\u2014Sions Rend: Milk Route: close to school.Plax seed, $3.50 bushel.EDWARD WAINES, Dunnville, R.R.2 Ont.4-4 180 Acres Tem Miles From Ottawa.All Impreve- ments.on a highway.Well located.Apply H.W.ORR, 1479 Dean 8t.Brooklyn, New New York.8-8 Village Farm, 117 Acres, Elesiris Lights, 1 Bleek schools and church 2 blocks, 2 milk stations, 4730.RE.Y.STONE.owner, 1300 State Bt, » NY.Also 5@-cow farm.7-4 165 Acre Farm For Sale\u2014Besulifully Sileated on the 8: Lawrence river in Morrisburg Town lighting and waterworks.Also near Collegiate Institute.GEORGE H.MERKLEY, Morrisburg, Ont.9.Steck Ranch Fer Sale, 490 Acres.Apply X.R.BOBB, Boda Creek, B.C.6 Fer Quick Sale: Rensonabie Frice, A1 Mali See- ton, 3 miles from town, Cultivated: good buildings; best stock and creamery implements.Purchaser can take everything on reasonable cash payment.Apply to Box 5, Russel, Man.3 Fox Farm Fer Sale \u2014 Containing 68 Breeding pens and 13 smaller pens, no foxes.Six roomed \u2018bunpsliow, n, basement garage.On the shore of the beautiful Nicolas Lake, An [dei place for fishing and shooting.Good climate for raising foxes.Por partieulsrs end price write W.CROMPTON, QUILCHENA, B.C.9-2 \u2018vegetables, berries, and flowers.prices: easy terms.Hlustrated descriptive folder on request.EDWIN G.HART, INC., 724 Ven Muys Building, Los Angales, 2-6 Froo0 Bass 75 Acres: 8566 Down.Situatod On C.N.R.eleven miles to Smith's Palls, thirty to Ottaws.Oonvenient to church, school, station, atore: telephone installed.Good buildings.Snap on request.Winters 30 cattle, 30 sheep, HAROLD SIMPSON, Bentth's Falls, R.5.Farms For Bale\u2014i-5 or 3.1 Sec, Equipped or unequipped, 1 or 2 miles from town on trens- Canada amo highway; .fenesd, buildings, good well, good town, school, churchef: no better mixed farm district in Seskatchewan; sacrifice price: terms easy, Write for full particulars.J.L.LAMONT, Whitewood, Sask.9-2 e River Farm Lands Fer Sale.Writs L.A, Pairview, Alberts.9-6 FARMS WANTED \u2014_\u2014 Wanted\u2014Te Near From Owner Having Good farm for sale, Cash price; particulars.JOHN BLACK, Chippews Palls, nsin, 2-12 MISCELLANEOUS FOR BALR Five Thousand Facis Absut Canada.1920 Edition.Quick seller.Send 35 cents for copy or $1.08 for 3, and terms.588 Huron street, Torento.5-6 CHURCH PLAYS \u201cMs.Anne?*\u2014New, Modern, Grest Demand: everyones delighted.(Only three mea.) *Wanted\u2014A Wife\"-\u2014Special favorite: ask to see #®.\u201cAunt Susan's Visit'\u2014New edition: very bu- morous and wholesome.\u201cThe Joggsville Convention,\u201d \u201cThe Mohawk Ladies\u2019 Aid\u201d\u201410 mirth- rovoking, elevating plays.Pree e viroular went.Apply CLARA WELL ANDERSON, 255 Mackay St, Ottawa.7-6 BULES AND PLANTS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS rés, 15e Per Seleo 10-inch latest poy 17, a W Phonograpb-\u2014Beaatiful, High-Class., Up-to-date, large, floor cabinet style; perfect condition: sweet, clear tone: attractive piece fumiture.Cost $158; Price $30, nil complete with 38 good records.Crated, packed, shipped on receipt of Money Order WAREHOUSE, ot RANK BULMERS STORAGE Robert &., Toronto, Ont.Guaranteed as advertised.Sweet Pea, Flawer, Vegelable Seeds.Our Bargain collections will interest you.Ask for cata- 3 MICHAUD COMPANY, Qrowers, New Westminster, Britlab Columbia Agents wanted.A In Becd\u2014Choice, Old English, Masaive pe EE five to six feet ; at