Bags Wanted A. SPEIZMEN In say qaptity---Flour Bags Feed Bags ana absolutely 'clenn Sugar Bags. Positively highest prices Pala. 69 Queen Street AE" Weod's Phosphodine, 3} The Great inglish Ilemedy Tonos and inviporates the wi "Ey stewmn, wakes new Blood in 08, Wures Nervous Debility, Mental and Brain Worry, Despone dency, lLosa of Energy, Palpilation of the Heart, Malling Memory. Price §1 per box, sia or $5. Cue will please, siz will eure, Boid by all druggists or mailed in plain pkg. on receipt of ice. New pamphlet mailed free. THE WOOD Revicing cov TORONTO, OAT, (Formerly Windoor.s | THE DAILY BRITISH sen---- ins ---- Do It Now Send us your hait or felt, mattress to be renovated and recov- ered. Fenther beds and pillows thoroughly wsterflized and made Inte mattresses at modern cont. Call "or phone. @* Kingston Mattress Company 556 Princess street. Phone 602w, Na Sr When a woman tells you she will be'ready in a minute she doesn't tell you which minute. in failure we all seem to get more free advertising than in success. - OVERCOATS $48.00 to $38.00 SUITS $20.00 to $38.00 Large stock of indigo blue serge : n 1 fine worsted suitings. A weight pants, $8.00. 1 wool, extra heavy John Tweddell, Civil and Mili Tailor, rincess St. ge basic tires, of ity. still get the Vi Jeu, or quas™ As'Dunlop*werethe other tires had to be more or less patterned after the original. But no man living can make a "original tire with its wealth of unmatchable fea- tures. Why buy the imitation -- naturally ttem You can the ex- perimental tire? TID Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always | AE TUBER DISEASE DANGER Blackleg Decreases Potato Yield Thousands of Bushels. Raising Pork Is a Profitable Sideline on the Dairy Farm -- Expert Advises On& Brood Sow for Each Tén Cows on Average Farm. (Contributed by Ontario Department of Agriculture, Toronto.) LACKLEG of potatoes is a dis- ease that has been causing heavy losses to potato grow- ers in many districts during the past few years. the name of the disease implies, there 18 a black- ening of the lower parts of stems of the potato plant affected. Accom- panying the discoloration there is a soft rotting condition followed by shrinkage and death, The disease is usually first noticed in the young growing crop when the plants are from four inches to a foot high. In looking over ma field in which the disease is present, it will be seen that the tops of certain plants have lost their bright dark green appearance, having faded to a more or less dirty yellowish or brownish color. These tops will be somewhat limp and drooping, and in some cases where the disease is well advanced will have dropped right over. .If a careful examination of the lower stems of these affected plants is made it will be seen that they are black- ened and soft rotting. This black- ening and soft rotting is more noticeable below the soil than above it. By earefully removing the soil from around an affected plant the blackening and soft-rotting can "fis- ually be traced to the seed tuber. As a rule in such casés the seed tuber will be found to be in a soft-rotting, slimy condition, the soil immediately beneath it being in a wet, puddled condition due to the wetness from the soft-rotted seed tuber. In such cases the disease in the plant has developed from an affected seed tuber and pass- ed up the young growing stems, cans- ing them to discolor and rot and eventually to fall over dead or dying. Sometimes all the stems in a hill will be affected and the whole plant die down, Sometimes, however, only a few of the stema will be affected and the remainder will appear to develop normally. If the season is a dry one a number af tubers may be produced on such plants which nmiay mature and appear alright at harvest, but if the season js a wet one the disdase will spread to the tubers and cause them to rot in a soft, slimy condition before harvest, or if they are har- vested before the rot Is very notice- able in them, they are liable to rot in storage or to carry the disease over to the next séason. It is tubers from such affected plants which are mostly respofisible for carrying the disease over from season to season and spreading it from distriet to district. Such tubders, if used for seed purposes, will give a considerable percentage of black- leg-affected 'plants. Consequently, the greatest care should be taken in the selection of seed tubers. If any indica of rot, either wet or dry, is found on a tuber, or any brown discoloration of the potato tissue when cut into, it should be discarded and not used for seed purposes. Though spraying with. Bordeaux Mixture will help to control fungus diseases, such as late and early blight of potatoes, it is of no use in controlling blackleg. Blackleg is a bacterial disease that gets into the plant either from an affected seed tuber or from the soil. It works from below upward and by the 'time it gets much above the ground it will usually have killed the plant. Con- sequently, spraying the tops of po- tatoes will not prevent the disease. To prevent the disease developing, plant only sound, healthy, well-select- ed seed and do not plant on land that has produced blackleg plants the previous season.--Prof. D. H. Jones, 0. A. College, Guelph. How Many Pigs to a Cow? Pigs and cows work very well to- gether as the hog is one of the moat economical meat producers on the | farm, and, does especially well on dairy by-products--skimmilk, butter- milk and whey. The number of pigs per cow will depend on the kind of dairying the farmer 1s : engaged L support so many pigs per cow will skimmilk and pe the farm dairy, or ¢ y On the average, we recommend one brood sow for each ten COWS supply as mn WHIG, TUESD { | ag es : i HAD * SEVERE COLD, AXD TICKLING SENSATION IN THE THROAT | This trouble is most distressing, | and is caused from a cold that has! isettled in the throat, | How many people have lost a good night's sleep by that nasty, tickling,! irritating sensation in the throat? | The dry, hard cough~keeps you awake, and when you get up in the morning you feel as if you had had no rest at all Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, which is composed of the most sooth ing and healing expectorant herbs and barks, combined with the lung healing virtues of the world-famous Norway pine tree, will give almost in- stant relief in all cases of this na- ture. . Mrs. G. C. Routley, Bright, Ont., writes: --"1 take great pleasure .in writing you of Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup. For several weeks 1 was troubled with a severe Cold, and a tickling in he throat. I tried numerous reme- dies, but found no relief until I used Dr, Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, which I had heard so much about, and on taking one bottle got instant elief. I highly recommend it to hose who need a quick cure." So great has been the success of 'Dr. Wood's" in curing coughs, olds, bronchitis, etc., it is only na- ural that:many imitations have been placed or:the market. The genuine is put upiin a yellow wrapper; three pine trees the trade mark; price 25¢ and 50c. Manufactured only by thé T. Milburn Co., Limited. Toronto; AVOID COUGHS COMMISSION THE SOLDIERS' AID bas been incorporated by the Provinces of Ontario for the purpose of assisting to reinstate discharged officers and men in civil life. EMPLOYMENT. s We cordially invite the: ca-eperation Y, MAY 6, 1919. AFGHANISTAN, Death of Amur Calls Attention to Asiatic Comntry, i The 'reported assassination of Habibullah, amir of Afghanistan, is a reminder that not even that remote and obscure land of Middle Asia es- caped the effects of the world war, | Not that there is any evidence as yet that the monarchs murder was inspired by growing antipathy to autocrats, but the collapse of Russia | left Afghanistan free from an influ- | Sire that often caused her consider- able embarrassment, Habibullah is credited with obsery- ing scrupulously the policy laid down by his father, a noteworthy ruler, that of consulting Britain about matters of foreign poliey, but brooking no interference from the outside in the domestic affairs of his absolute monarchy. Hablbullah's father it was who made travel comparatively safe among the meterogeneous tribes of Afghanistan--tribes which formerly pounced upon each other at the slightest provocation. Frequently they submitted their disputes to arbi- tration and the custom of the loser awarding several of its marriage- able women to the rival tribe was one factor in-eliminating any clear- cut distinctions between the tribal units of the land. To the stranger the Afghan dis- plays a sort of specious and decep- tive Oriental courtesy. In fact a hational proverb is that "The man whe shuts his door to a stranger is no Afghan." But the stranger also would do well to know a saying cur- rent among the Hinddos, "God shicld you from vengeance of the elephant, the cobra and the Afghan." For many strangers have found that, uh- on provocation, to which the Afghan is extremely sensitive, his disposition is vengeful, cruel and crafty! . His desire for pillage; theft and decep- tion also 18 apt to get the best of him, Your Afghan is a swarthy, swag: gering, proud, but withal prepossess- ing sort of man, every inch the war- rior while he keeps his turban on, but giving a faint suggestion of a bewigged jurist of old English days when he removes it to disclose a head shaved from forehead to crown, with ders from the unshaved portions. Occasionally the men are fair, as are most of the women, whose hair in two plaits with colored tassels at of the public in the important work of securing employment for soldiers who have been discharged from military service. VOCATIONAL TRAINING. Classes for the vocational re-educa- ton of soldiers Who have been so dis- abled as to prevent them from reswm- ing thelr former occupations are pro- vided free of cost, and In addition, the support of the soldier and his depead- ants ts provid during the period of retraining and fer one month aftor. Further information as to courses may be obtainéd from W. W. Nichol, Superintendent of Education, 116 Cele lege Street, Toronto. RELIEF FUND. Donations for the assistance of sols dlers' families in temporary distress will be thankfully received and ack- nowledged, and should be made payable to the order of the Commission, Head OMices 118 COLLEGE STREET, TORONTO, Kingston Branch: 239 BAGOT STREET F. H. Godson, Secret Kingston, Branch ." ILLERSWO PowpEers HAVE A WARM PLACE IN THE HEARTS OF MOTHERS FOR THEY HAVE PROVED THAT THEY ARE ONE OF THE MOST EFFICIENT AND BENEFICIAL REMEDIES THAT OAN BE GIVEN TO A CHILD, THEY ARE SWEET AND EASILY TAKEN AND QUICKLY ERADICATE THESE WRETCHED PARASITES FROM .THE SYSTEM. CONTAIN NO NARCOTICS the end, conceivably might call fo niind an Américan musical comedy chorus prepared to sing "School Days," were it not for their flowing Oriental robes. Afghan women, like Turkish wo- men, are kept secluded, but they are copsiderably more adventurous than their Turkish sisters, henée scandal is not infrequent, even in a land where a man may have as many wives curly ringlets falling about his shoul- 3 as he can support. Amir Habibullah, if report of his death be true, left four widows. By Habibullah's father, Abdur Rahman, also were enacted measures of national defence singularly in keeping with occidental seliemes for conscription. He made the boast that he could throw a hundred thousa.d men into action in a week to defend one of his provinces, and said his entire domain could raise & million fighting men to defend her soil. Nor did he stop at the prediction. He worked out a system by which each man in every eight would alternate in taking military instruction. One had to be- very young, or véry de- crepit, to escape the amir's draft, for the services ages were from 16 to 70. 5 Snes . So far as barring private munitions makers Is concerned, Abdur Rahman, long before his death in 1901, might have subscribed to the proposed League of Nations, for he had his own factories at his capital, Kabul. There are sald to have been produced 4 dogen or mere rifles and thou- sands of cartridges a day, and sev- eral'guns a week, But neighboring states never-had- much fear of any pan-Afghan aspir- ations on the part of the Kabul war lord. The arms were mest varied and picturesque, and the cartridges are said to have been execellent save that they seldom fitted many of the rifles. Though he may know not effi Not a paint, but an clastic durable dress | af hs bee ts original & Invented ciency, the Afghan is a "first-class fighting man," as the British learned in the two Afghan wars. It was at the close of the second, in 1879, that Gen. Roberts made his famous march to Kandahar to reinforce Gen. Bur: |. rows, who had been defeated by the Afghans, a feat which was rewarded with the peerage and the title, "Lord Roberts of Kandahar." Persia, Turkestan, Baluchistan and India surround this inland monarchy with an estimated of 245,000 square miles and a ulation, also estimated, of 5,000,000. Afghan his- torians date their people's beginning to King-Saul, and refer to them as Children of Israel, a theory that may have gained popular acceptance be- ,cause of the Afghans' Semitic appear- ance, but it is not generally eredited by ts. Afghan literature is rich in poetry, mostly war epics and love lyrics. All but the moun- tain Kafirs are Mohammedan, ros a8 pivsh 4s 30 works a smok tg Rubber tennis courts have | cd by an onan HE EH re ve f THE OF CANADA NEAD OFFICE TORONTO SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES are now installed at this Branch for the cus tody of valuable papers, etc, affording safety and privacy. Further information supplied EST'D 1873 by the manager, 223 KINGSTON BRANCH, J. F. 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