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Training of Sightless Veterans of the War is Now Going on at St. Dun- stan's Home, Where Men Are Be- ing Taught Various Trades Within the Scope of a Blind 'Man --Stenography Proving a Big Success. HAT shall we do with our blinded soldiers after the war? To merely give them a pension to supply their needs will not suf- fice; it is necessary that. they be taught some occupation, not primar- ily because they will thus become self-supporting, but beeause they will be far happier and more contented if they have occupation to take their minds off their great afietion. In England a noble work is going for- ward at St. Dunstan's Home with the object of training the blind sol- {diers to earn a living. It is under | the direction of Arthur Pearson, the famous publisher, himself a blind man. Mr. Pearson became blind from overwork, just as Joseph Pulit- zer, founder of the New York World, became blind. But he did not become helpless or hopeless. To an interviewer not long ago he said that he doubted if he had ever ex- perienced the joy when he had his sight that he has felt on occasions since when be las overcome some | obstacle. With kis great enc gy and organizing ability Mr. Pearson makes an admirable director of the St. Dun- stan's Home, | Thé object of the home, as men- | tioned, is to give the blinded soldiers {trades. Several are taught, and it is | astonishing the number of trades in | which the lack of sight is no insuper- | able obstacle to efficiency. Type- | writing, for instance, is a blind man's {Job, and Mr. Pearson says that the {typewriter was originally invented to provide the blind with a means of writing. One of the typewriting in- structors at St. Dunstan's can take dictation In Braille shorthand as fast | a8 one wishes to speak, and then will | transcribe it on the typewriter more {accurately and swiftly than many | first-class stenographers with normal jeyes. It used to be said that it re- { quired three years to teach a blind {man a trade, but Mr. Pearson says {that most of them can be trained in {a very few months well enough to be- come self-sustaining. | Another occupation particularly well adapted to the blind is that .of | masseurs. Even masseurs with good | eyesight depend upon their sense of | touch instead of their eyes; and Mr, | Pearson remarks that in Japan it {used to be ille;al for any but the juling to follow this occupation. Mas- |seurs are now in'demand at all the War Office hospitals, and as a result {of the war We may expect a greatly- | Increased demand for the services of {men trained in this business. Car- | pentering is another trade that the blind can learn, and, of course, while highly skilled carpenters can- not be made out of the blind, they can become very fair rough carpen- {ters who can make certain articles of patterns that can be repeated. Shoe repairing is also a blind man's {trade, and several first-class cobblers {have been turned out of the institu- | tion. When the cobbler is trained ne {is helped to a shop, and in the win- dow a card announces that the pro- | prietor is a soldier blinded in the i He does not have to wait long war. | for trade. Poultry farming is being taught to |several men at St. Dunstan's, and | with this trade is enough carpenter- ing to enable the victim to make his {own coops and runs. A sergeant who {left the institution not long ago is | able to distinguish among the various | breeds of poultry by his sense of { touch and he can also truss and | dress fowls quite well enough to make an attractive display on the | poulterer's stand. He mixes the 100d perfectly, selecting it from the | different bags by his sense of touch, {It is said that since blind men move | more deliberately than those who | have all their senses, they ,are less {likely to frighten the fowls, and this is an advantage not to be light- | ly disregarded. Others are being {trained as telephone operators for small exchanges. The indicators are made to scale and the blind learn very quickly 'to distinguish their identity by the sound each makes as it falls. Mr. Pearson says that he believes .| blind men will make excellent divers. He says that they would do better work in muddy waters than others, for, being accustomed to working in the dark, they would find nothing ab- normal in their task. Darkness han- dicaps a sighted man, but light and darkness are the same to the blind. Contrary to. general belief, great delicacy of touch does not follow al- mest automatically upon blindness. It bas to be laboriously acquired in very many cases. Moreover, though the blindness may be equal, some blind men have a far better sense of direction than others. Mr. Pearson mentioned the case of a blinded Canadian officer. He can rise from a chair, turn round several times, and tten throw a cigarette ino a fireplace without error nine times out of ten. Some of the blind have a very keen sense of when they approach an object with which they might collide. Others, again, blun- der like a sighted man in a dark room. Edward Marshall, who visited the St. Dunstan's home, was struck by the fact that there was no despair to be seen on the faces of the blind- | ed heroes. On the contrary, most of them were smiling. They do not grudge the térrible price they have paid for their citizenship, and are looking forward cheerfully and con- fidently to many happy, useful years to come. WHERE THE TROUT Go, The Gamy Fish Seek the Small Brooks in Mid-Summer Time, Economy river is a typical moun- tain stream in northern Nova Scotia. The country is extremely wild with only one settlement, and that at the mouth of the stream where it empties iato the upper waters of the Bay of Fundy. When I first saw it I could £carcely wait to. 'go to it" with rod and line, says a special writer for The Saturday Globe. For eight miles I fished up that river under ideal conditions, and my record was six small trout' I was thoroughly disgusted. I couldn't understand it. The stream was no more than from 30 to 50 feet across; it abounded in deep pools, small falls and many rapids. The month was August. I thought possibly the trouble was with the bait. I had fish worms, grasshop- vers, flies, crickets, and helgamites. None of ther: succeeded. On the way back I came across a small branch, It was a little brook I could leap across in almost any place. turned from the river bank, in my tracks, and cast my line in a little pool where the branch flowed into the river. In a moment I had a half pound trout, This was an experience that proved of value. Many a time since in the latter part of July and through Au- gust I have failed to catch trout in a big stream where the spring fishing would be sure to bring a full basket, but have had the best of success fol- lowing up the small branches that feed the big stream. It ie probable tha: the trout go up these narrow streams ir mid-sum- er decanse they Thousands of gro ingacts thet keop av streams, or only ionaliy fall in, across the be they dc rier between the gras rdere and thov fall In from ove t anv rate the fon. make a oxved fo hig sires vated log the sel? Autcesobi.e Wart Many Xia After soversl years sad coatioversy reciprocity mobile licenses nas been estab! . ween the Province of Ontario ana Stale of New York, and short! with the State of Michigan and pre hably other States as well. The 'vent was wade the occasion of a telebration at Niagara Falls last week when representatives of the Ontario Metor Teague and the New York State Automobile Association fraterpized with municipa! and statesofficials. Hon F. G. Macdiarmid, Minister of 'Puplic Works and Highways in Ontarfo, who has recently taken over the automobile license branch, lives ia Southern Ontario and appreciates the value of tourist trafic through that section. It has been an anomaly for some years to see reciprocity be- tween Quebec and Ontario, but the Ontario license was restricted to Canada when a Quebec license might be seen on the streets of New York or Boston, It is not improbably that 10,000 cars will visit Ontario this year as a result of the new arrangement that has been so successfully negotiated by Mr. Macdiarmid. A touring car is worth $20 a day to the country through which it passes, and this may be increased if there are a large number of passengers. Com- pute that on an average of three to five days stay, and one will readily grasp an idea of what this means to this country for the present, and it is sure to grow in the years to come as highway improvement advances aad the touring advantages of On- tario become better known. . ---------- Pay in Canadian Forces. The rates per diem of regimental pay authorized for the militia on ac- tive service in the Canadian Expedi- tionary Force are as follows: Colonel or Lieut.-Colonel, $56; Major, $4; Captain $3; Lieutenant (qualified or provisional) $2; Paymaster, Quarter- master, $3; Adjutant (in addition to pay of rank) 50c; Brigade, Regimen- tal .of Staff Sergeant-Major, $1.85; Brigade or Regimental Quartermas- ter Sergeant, $1.60; Orderly Room Sergeant, $1.50; Squadron, Battery, Troop, or Company Sergeant-Major, $1.85; Brigade or etc.,, Quartermas- ter Sergt., $1.60; Sergeants, $1.35; Corporals, $1.10; Bombardiers or 2nd Corporals, $1.05; Privates, Gun- ners, Sappers, Drivers, Batmen, $1. In addition to the above, field allow- ance is paid, ranging from 10 cents a day for a private to $1.50 a day for colonel. The Maple Leaf. Records show that the maple leaf was chosen and adopted as the na- tional emblem of Canada long be- fore the anthem 'The Maple Leaf" was written. At the first meeting of the St. Jean Baptiste Society, repre- senting French-Canadians, in Mont- real, in 1834, the decorations were arranged with maple leaves, and two years later it was proposed to adopt the maple leaf as an established em- blem, and the custom achieved wide favor. In 1860, on the occasion of the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales, the maple leal was formally adopted and officially used as the Canadian national emblem, and: was retained as such at Confederation in 1867, Hecipracity ir. Something Like Laundry. For heat and bustle, superbly or- ganized, there is nothing to compare with the Divisional Baths and Laun- dry on the Canadian front in Fland- ers. Amid all the dirt and discom- fort of war life in Flanders think what it must mean for every man to have a bath at least once in eight days. No hand-basin sort of wash either, but a plentiful shower of hot and cold water, % son rns mses 1 } ------------ | What has become of the old fash- { foned woman who used to open a can {of peaches when she had company iat tea? | The husband of & nagging woman may furnish most of her because, But a man never has the same in- terest in life after he loses the prin- cipal he has in the bank. i It is easier to elect a good man to office than it iy to gel him to stay good after he is elected, HOME PRODUCTION. a i British Columbia's Situation Shows | an Urgent Need. Statistics recently published re | veal a regrettable situation regarding | trade relationship = between British | Columbia and the United States During the month of March there, was shipped to British Columbia | from the United States through the | port of Seattle, produce valued at over $3,000,000, while the American city received only about $500,000 worth of goods from British Colum- bia. Of tbe material exported from Canada a very large part is made up of copper for refining, paper, and coal; while the Canadian province receives heavy shipments of agricul- tural produce, which it might grow itself with equal facility. Apples, | beans, butter, cheese, eggs, dried! fruit, meat, wheat and vegetables are | among the articles imported by Brit- | ish, Columbia from the States, and | they are all articiles which that pro- vince should be able to export and not have to import. That something is radically wrong in either the production or the mar-| keting of agricultural produce in the western province is evident, says a writer in The Family Herald. It is with the object of improving these | conditions that the Domestic Food | Products Committee, inaugurated by | the Victoria Board of Trade, is work- | ing. | Mr. A, D. Paterson, . president of | the B. C. Stockbreeders' Association, | speakiag at Victoria, said: | "During the war, it is the duty of | those who remain at home to do everything in their power tc increase the yield of the fields, flocks, and herds. By so doing, those of us who must remain at home can serve our country just as lorally as by serving ir the trenches. Even suppose this n:ight entail loss, we should be will- ing to sacrifice some of our profit when others are geing to the front and secrificing their lives for the rire." he lasi year has been marked by g interest in mixed farm- zh Columbia, This is of some districts 4 Leen looked upon 2 ive fruit lands. x have heen built at Grand , and Salmon Arm, f'ag satisfactory re- clatrict of Kelowna . fourteen 8'los were built dur- ing 181), Along the line of the Grand Trunk cific. much live stock is being in- *y peed, and the foundation is | leing laid for more or less mixed | farming communities. In many of | the newer localities advantage has | been taken of the Dominion and Pro-| vincial schemes for supplying pure- | bred sires. This stimulates an inter- | est far more, asawell as better lve | stock. | The sheep industry has heen par- | ticularly favored during the year just | passed. Mutton and wool have com- manded excellent prices, while the | outlook for the immediate future is promising. Frc 'all parts of the Province there are inquiries for breeding stock, and .it is only the scarcity of such stock that has pre- vented more rapid development. In many districts owners of sheep have suffered considerable loss from the ravages of panthers, coyotes, and especially dogs, and it might be well for this convention to consider the | advisability of asking the Govern-| ment to pass a law requiring that | all dogs be licensed. By this means | a great many useless curs would be | got rid off, { Owing to the high prices for grain! which -prevailed a year ago, the hog industry suffered a set-back. It is prebable that this situation will last | until the war is over, 80 any im-| mediate removal of the industry can hardly be expected. But even ua- der present conditions the hog can be raised quite profitably by those who can provide suitable pasture to | supplement the grain ration. Securing a Patent, in Canada. Applications for patents in Can-| ada should be addressed to the Com- | missioner, of Patents, Ottawa, Ont. The term for the duration of a pa- tent is limited to eighteen years, but | patents are also granted for six to | twelve years, subject to extension for | another twelve or six years, respec- | tively, when the first term has ex-| pired. The fee for a patent for the full term of eighteen years is $60, | for twelve years $40, for six, $20. Any intending applicant for a patent | who has not yet perfected his inven- | tion, and is in fear of being despoiled | of his idea, may file in the Patent Of- | fice a description of his invention so | far, with or without plans, when the | commissioner, on payment of a fee | of $5, causes the document, which is | called a caveat, to be preserved in secrecy; but the secrecy of the docu- ment ceases when the applicant ob- tains a patent for his invention. | Scientists Offer Help. | With the object of offering the ser- vices of the Royal Society of Canada | to the Dominion Government for the | purpose of furthering industrial | scientific research, a strong deputa- | tion of members of that learned body | waited upon Sir George Foster, Min- | ister of Trade and Commerce, recent- | ly and laid the proposals before him: | The suggestion was made that a | central committee or commission be | appointed, on which the Fellows of the society could act in an advisory capacity. -------- Silver. ; The price of silver has risen so! rapidly durin. the last few months | that it is difficult to keep track of | the actual increase in the vaiue of Canadian silver mines which the in- creased selling price has made. In | 1915 Ontario's output was 23,730,- | 839 ounces. The average selling price | was 49,69 cents. Silver is now sell- | ing at about 18 cents higher than the | average for 1915. The increased { profit if the 1915 output had been | sold at this price would be over $4,- 000,000. | -------------------- | Widows are successful in handling | men because they know exaetly what not to do. { When a man gets the right ahnd | of religion ,his horse soon discovers it, FOR PRESERVING Look for the Red Diamond, which is now promi- nently placed on every package of St. Lawrence Sugar. 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