-- ONE QUALIFIED TO ADVISE fe | Wife (reading from newspaper)-- | ned couple," says an advertise. ment, "will adopt healthy girl not | More than three years old," éte. Husband (who walked With baby last night) <I a Parental instinct of this good man and Woman, but I'd like to give them this Parental advice: Don't take on a child until after it has passed the teething period.--London Answers. ---- Subduing a Parent, "Daughter, you have been running around with young Flipson for but you haven't introduced him yer." "Father, you and Augustus couldn't have anything tn common." "I ventured to hope that we had a mutual interest in You, but let him continue to regard me as a stranger, Tm a little behind the times, I fear." -- A Good Test. Maud--I don't know whether ley really loves me or not, Her Brother--What did you give him for a birthday present the other day? to me Maud--A box of cigars. Her Brother--Did he smoke them? Maud--Yes, Her Brother--Th he loves you. ---- They Filed the Bill. Mrs. Newrich -- (returning from tour)--We went very swiftly all the way. Caller--But traveling in a fast auto, how could you get any Idea of the country? Mrs. Newrich--Oh, I bought a lot of picture postal cards every place we stopped at. ------ Still Poor. "I understand you've been trying our luck in Wall street." "Yes," replied Mr. thoughtfully, "How did you come out? "I discovered that changed any since I used to get licked for what othér boys dia in school," ---- Must Inherit It, "There goes a man Paid a fortune for a single postage stamp." "It's a mystery to me." "A mystery? : "Yes--how a person who is capable of doing a thing like that accumulates the money to do it with." en you may be sure Dubwaite, OF COURSE "You say he has hydrophobla" flanpe ™ he was bitten by a mad dog. ---- The Tyre. "A little learning is a dangerous thing." AS proof, pray take the case Of some sweet maid when first she learns To decorate her face. SN t---- * A Poor Rick. "1 don't blame you for turning out 'best sellers' and getting rich at it" sald the author's friend, "but you ought to 'write Something for pos- terity." ' "Can you Imagine me buying a motor car and telling the dealers to charge it te posterity -- { . His Mistake. The burglar reappeared from the "Any money in his clothes?" his pal inquired, Particular. "Your husband is a very particular man, isn't he? "Particular? Why, he's the finniki- est, fussiest mortal that ever lived. It wouldn't surprise me a bie if some day be should have the picture natls many. cured." "Oh, I don't care. I wouldn't want to marry a girl with such a lack of good sense, anyway." ill Man They Avoid. . "I Bate these men who come tn and Start trouble by announcing that they Xpayers." \ : By taking a second wife a man . pays the highest ¢ to the (Brst, by showing that she made him 20 28pDY as a married man that he ~ Wishe§ 10 be 50 a second time. a Times of general calamity and consusion have ever been productive the greatest minds, : weeks, { Char- | my luck hasn't | PHENOMENON OF A FIST "Your honor, man." | "But vou | and | Black eye." | "That's hn {I slapped h he wasn't fecling me on the | I had occasion to | 1 discovered it was battery - 'm a misunderstood are' charged with assault on this person with a ist the point, your honor, im on the back. It seems well and he slapped The very next time use my right hand folded up." Jaw, ere Formalities, | ! te -- ] | "I fear those two m | blows." gaiq "Don't be | er. "There i lars." "Only pol of the coun the floor | 30mebody a liar at least o dmire the | Political campaign he doesn't consider that he's doing his "But they en are coming to the timorous citizen, alarmed." said a bystand. isn't a chanes" are calling each other In this part doesn't call nce during a itical lars, try if a man duty to his party," = ' Brilliant Future, "How about that college graduate who is ambitious to break inté the newspaper game?" "lI have hopes of him," | elty editor, "Yes | "Some of write a stor, replied the these days he's going to y without trylng to use all | the six-syllable words In the diction. | ary, and it will bé a corker."--Bin | mingham Age-Herald, ------------ "Do you believe | eight hours, { eight hours?" | son. i replied the i "What's | some of the hours." | } | | { ! | | i | "Go away and know whether a Obsessed. a man should work play eight hours afd sleep asked the talkative per- don't bother me," fractious citizen, he matter?" "Since I've been trying to learn new dancing steps I don't day has 24 or 48 i | MATTER oO OPINION. Maude--Do you write Frank---The editors Faint heart ne'er | i If { | She can't i "You | Managing a Career, i who has just | great many years," ring cons "A great Sorghum, "Is this b selecting m | tn | "Partly. But even | that I was Faint heart ne'er i Escaped the clu have been in poetry? say not, . She Wanted It, won fair lady, fop much of one. won fair lady, nor tch of one. make publie life a remarked the ade tituent, many," assented Senator eécause you were judicious Policies?" more to the fact discreet in choosing came paign managers." ---------------- atrice Beautiful, star? | | ! | "Mr. Flub, are yon A Surmide, engaged to Be. the famous screen "What does she say about the re- port, me good man?" "Says it is ridiculous." "Then I guess we are not engaged," -------- Viewing the Evidence. "Some say the teachér of the Plunk. ville district wears her skirts too short." "What will be the outcome? "Gonna be a big attendance at the next meeting of the school commits tee. ------ | Quite Ancient, in Fact Enicker-- What do you think of the modern jokes? Bocker--Oh, same as the they are about the old ones Knicker--Yes, and a little older, eh? =--Stevéns Tech. Stone Mill, Mother (severe! Still Stroking | y)--Edith! Dig 1 see young Mr. Sotherlay stroking your bair on the verandah last night? Daughter--It's a mere habit with bim, mothér varsity eigh He used to stroke his t I ---- Deceiving. Madge--You shouldn't have quar | reled with your fiance in public. Marjorie--It ong of my ny head! > ~~ to "A 1" a Tm - AB Jackie--A1 Mother--p should any when I was s'a, has seed.' It twists on weather fs remains fix bach at th Turtle--Tee, hee, whenever 1 "I lke grouch Steppe-gress, which a curious way of forma a coll of wet days, thus way into the creditors, I just i Mis idea. + bu, pe the please ome rT Sd bis acid test Pretty sure to please the rest™ etter Way Round. * other, how old are § don't t of the YOu way tell them that ouly eighteen, -- ws 1 Rus - dry the coil ed in posit CULTURES FOR SILOS| | Helping Out Poor Fodders Turned Into Ensilage, "THE D RT AlL Y BRITISH WHIG. ro -------- FIGHTING THE SEA. What It Costs to Protect Shores o! Britain. Nothing looks much more insig- nificant than one of those piles stuck {in the sands about which children Lactic Acid Cultures Now Applied-- | Good Fodder Requires No Treat. ment--Sealing the Silo--Make a i Compost Hedp of Garden Rubbish. | (Contributed by Ontario Depertment of Agriculture, Toronto) Attempts have beer made to con- trol or direet acid bacteria. Bacillus lactis acidi has long been known to 2 beneficial in silage making, and its product, lactic acid, is found to the extent of one per cent. in well made silage. Experience has demon- strated that the addition of bacillus lactis aeidi in Quantity to the fodder as the silos were being fillea gave good results, particularly so when the fodder material was past the best stage for making high-grade silage, The addition of the bacillus lactis acidi in quantity to the more or less Epoiled fodder provided an active agent to check and override the other bacteria present and thereby control the fermentative process, and bring the silage mass to a fairly uniform condition 'with lactic acid predominant in the silage: Add Lactic Acid Culture.iz, This addition of lactic acid culture | to the fodder at the time of silo fill- | ing is easily accomplished by secur- | ing a small quantity of a pure cul- | ture for lactic acid, Yrom a creamery | as a beginning. The pure culture ob- | tained from the creamery is placed in a three-gallon can of clean skim- milk, This is placed in a warm posi- | tion for three days, it can then be | added to more skimmilk, Increasing the bulk sufficiently to have one. gal- lon for each load of material that | goes Into the silo. This skimmilk | culture carrying a vast number of | bacillus lactic acidi is sprinkled over : the cut fodder as the silo filling | Proceeds. | Good Fodder Requires No Culture | Treatment. | If the corn is in prime condition | for silage making at the time of en- siling, nothing is to be gained by | adding. culture, however its use is | strongly advised if the corn or other | fodder is a bit off in condition due to damage through unseasonable weather, delays, ete.--L. Stevenson, | Bec. Dept, of Agriculture, Toronto. | Sealing the Silo. | Several methods of sealing the silo | after it has been filled have Justified | their use. What is wanted is a heavy | blanket of material on top as near air | tight as possible. A Minnesota writer | says: | Some times weeds or heavy green | grass are run through the cutter as a | finishing layer. Some prefer to jerk | the ears from the last two or three | loads of corn used so no gram ig | lost, and allow the corn itself to make the air-tight layer needed to preserve the silag OW. At any rate, it is & good p ice to tramp tne stage around the edges at intervals of three or four days for about IWO0 weeks. This helps te prevent the settling Away. from the Wall, which often occurs. a Spoiling at the surface may be pre- vented entirely by covering the top of the silage when filling is complet- ¢d with a layer of tar paper eut to fit snugly. around the walls and overlapping between the strips. It this is used, it 1s advisable to weight | it with some green material of some kind or with boards. Most farmers, however, think the use of corn itself with the ears removed and with pro- per tramping is more economical than the use of paper. In filling, the silo the usual re- commendation is to keep the surface higher at the sides than in the center and to do most of the tramping near the wall. The last two feet had best be kept about leva! with the same Amount of tramping in aif parts of the silo. . : eee MAKE A COMPOST HEAP, Save the Garden Rubbish and Make Cheap and Valuable Mantre, Garden waste, decayed vegetables, ®ead wines, weeds, and the organic <ubbish that collects about the place during a busy summer may be clean- ed up and put to work again through the agency of a compost héap. Start the heap by laying down a bed of stable manurg which has not been burned or heated. The size of the plot will vary with the amount of ; tor ordinary uses, feet long by 6 eep it will serve the purpose. Over the manure spread & two-foot layer of refuse and cover { of | coast resort, the sea. | though they vafy in with another layer of manure. This last layér need be only a fi In thickness. Repeat the layers until.all | the waste has been disposed of and then cover the whole with a layer-of earth. it is desired to add to the heap © to time the top layer may d the new material 7. feo £ 5 {ends | play when the tide is out. Yet with- out it and its like, the seaside--as tho holiday maker understands the term ----Wwould soon be non-existent. Such piles form important parts a huge system of groynes which constitute the first line of defence against that tireless enemy of every The waves have snatched whole towns from Britain; are still tearing from it about 1,500 acres every year; aud, if not fought, would 800n convert the esplanades at Brighton and else- where into appalling wastes. Besides breaking the waves, and 80 depriving them of part of their energy, groynes accumulate shingle or hold it after it has been, elsewhere, thus making it against the sea. Usually they trap it as ft drifts | about the coast; but sometimes it is tipped between them to save an ex- | posed stréteh. This was done between aven and Seaford, 71,000 cubie | yards shore. Why not rely for protection upon the seawall? Because no sea wall that man ean construct will. with- stand the assaults parade at Brighton would be ed in a few weeks but for the along the shore In front of it. The damage done by such a structure, if unp caused less by battering than suction. As thé waves recede draw out action is blow. To avert the con Waves' relentless at measures have often instance occurred at Hove about twenty-five years 280. Only a few days after the Sea wall had been made it was in such danger from under-scour that 27,000 cubic yards of gravel was ham and dropped close to the shore. The protection terial afforded allowed time for the making of &roynes, and in this way the wall was saved. Even ja norma simple first line of defence, constst- ing of groynes like t} ing, costs at least $5,000 a mile, ang if more elaborate pro that at Hastings, is necessary, outlay runs from $40,000 to about $60,000 a mile. Still more costly, of shingle being cast upon the by of course, is the second line of defence, thé bill in1{ out to about $50 | the | Scarborough | $500,000 on its | and Blackpool's | some cases working per foot. The whole system sinking of huge sums. has spent more than coast defence works, expenditure op fighti been well over $3.00 involves Dg the sea has tecting the front, while when East Unéerclifft Drive wag opened at Bournemouth, it was stated that the amount spent by the ccrpordation on the sea front during a period of eleven years was $450,000, This work is always going on, be- cause thé attacks of the enemy, intensity, never whole coast, the by resorts be at least half cease. Taking the yearly expenditure fighting the soa must a million sterling. A curfous feature of this expendi- ture is that a 800d deal of it ig dj- feated to "caraering'" shingle. Towns which can afford to spend money look after their groynes with the greatest care, with the result that they trap d otherwise go to ess aflluent nelgh- he coast, "Made Gay Rich, and Rich Gay." Until a year or two ago, not one person in a thousand had ever aeard of the poet, John Gay, though ho is buried in the Poets' Corner of Weat- minster Abbey, and although they must have heard lines he wrote hun- dreds of times. Who, for instanes; has not used the couplet: "How happy I could be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!" or the line: "Men were born to lie, ana women to believe them." Both owed their vogue to "The Beggars' Opera," which was produs- ed 200 years ago by a manager called John Rieh. This satire with wusic then ran for something over "sixty Performances -- ga record for those days--and the wits of the period de- scribed it as the play that "made Gay rich and Rich gay." After being century, loner run than any revival (n the history of the theatre, ei Aladdin's Caves In Somerset. During the holiday season thany thousands of people visit the famous Cheddar Surge, in Somerset, perhaps le finest en of inland scenery in England. oltected | barrier | of the waves. The | the sea ta | rotected, is | the foundations, and this | more deadly than the direct | sequence of the tacks, desperate | been taken. An | brought from Shore- | this quantity of ma- | 1' times the most | tection, such as | the | 0,000. At Cro- | mer there is a special rate for pro- | the | ANGEL HIS FRIEND | How Youth Learned the Secret of Diamond Cutting. | According to® History, the First Stone Was So Treated at Bruges In the Year 1470. With the exception of the few stones cut in Antwerp, all thie rough diamonds of the world are cut In Amsterdam, | There the Qiamond-cutfing business {is carried on in between 70 and 80 estab. lishments, which give employment to 12,000 cutters, that 18, 1a normal times. The first cutting of a diamond was accomplished something lke 450 years | go, says the Kansas City Star. The | ancients knew nothing of the hidden beauty of the stone, called by Seneca, "The sage whose Imipassability noth. ing can conquer." But, even In the | rough, the diamond won the favor of princes, and, véry gradually, experi- ments revealed some of its fires. Until the Fourteeiith century enameled but. tons wére the chief articles of Jewelry. Ii the beginning of that century, | when the price of enamel fell so low as to bring the decorated buttuns within | the reach of all purses, enameling lost | the favor of the fine world, and buttons | of gold and silver, ornamented with | pearis, @Qiamonds and colored stones | took" the place of the enamels. The finest of the stones then known as a diathond--a formless mass the size of a plgeon's egg--was a gem worn on great occasions by the king of Portu- al, ' In the year 1470, when Bruges was a residence city, the court lived a life | of extravagant luxury. Men snd wom- en went about In garments stiff with gold and silvér ornaments, and sewed over with pearls and precious stones. But the stones were uncut and shape- less. Charles, son of the duke of Nor mandy, owned a great diamond, which he amused himself by exhibiting to his "chaperon"; but, as he declared its virtue, he bewailed its shape and its | lack of light, ; | At that time one of the important | Jewel merchants of Bruges was served by a clerk who was a native of Flan. ders--a young man named Louls de | Berquem, wlio was deep In hopeless love of his master's daughter. Young Berquem was on the verge of despalr, | when, one night, as he was hanging up his apron and preparing to #0 home to his attic, he saw his master bending over his bench, groaning at the futility of his labor. When Berquem asked: "Can I do something for you before I £07?" the master sneered : "Yes, bring me a tool that will cut these accursed stones! 1 will give a fortune to the mun that does it." From that hour the boy thought of nothing but to find means of conquer. i Ing the hardness of the diamond. All i day he did the bidding of his master; | all night he sat at a rough bench in his i attic trying to make some impression on a stone stolen from the workroom, One night he fell asleep at his bench, | and dreamed that an angel said to | him: "Iron is the master cutter; steel is fron purified. Take the file, get powder ; take thy steel and powder it, then cut." Berquem awoke. He fixed two dia- monds in a vide, filed lke mad, and | collected the fallen dust. That done he made a set of little wheels and with wheels wéll powdered with the dia- | mond dust set to work to win a for | tune. Some days later he stood before | Bis master, and In his outstretched | palm lay a brilliant whose facets gleamed with light, eel Grant Had No Ear for Music. 'The suffering soul who finds the day | of emancipation from Jazz still in the | offing can sympathize with General | Grant. To his nonmusicnal ear every- | thing in the form of music was mere | | noise; he lived in a jazz world all his own long before jazz was invented. - It Was a frequent remark of his that, he did not know one tune from another, except "Yankee Doodle," "America" and "The Star-Spangled Banner." While President of the United States he was persuaded to attend grand opera in Philadelphia at the academy. Asked later how he enjoyed it he re- plied that he didn't know. He had heard a great deal of holse, and had Seen a large number of musicians, most of them violinists, sawing away upon their instruments. Here he picked up the White House carving knife and fork and began to imitate the actions of a violinist, saying that the noise they made was deafening, unintelligible and confusiug to him. --Kansas City Star. ; \ i Pet Dogs of Berliners, Pet dogs have become so popular among the feminine population of Ber- lin that theater mandgers have been compelled to Install rooms where the dogs may be enecked. Sowe patrons Compiain that none of the thesters has made similar provision for checking babies, and think this is unwarranted discrimination. During the Intermis- gions the | x Ha - |AT THE BASE OF THE TOTEM: POLE. These boys camping in the wilds of northern On rio {«athered about their radio receiving set in the twilight tistened to' concerts hundreds of miles away. -------- i HARVEST IN QUEBEC this morning at the statistical eau, It is stated that Potatoes, WORTH $226,000,000 corn and pumpkins have been ly affected, According to the source of information fodder ns coming very scarce in that region, : : Country's Advances for H Ottawa, Sept. 15.--Total ad on loan by the present and p governments to the Montreal bor Commission for harbor im) ments are now $20,048,000 out tolal of a total of $26,055,000 orized. A further advance of 000 from the available balance been made to cover harbor ment work during January, ary, March, April, May and June this year. eee eat Galt Man for Sherbrooke Y. Sherbrooke, Que., Sept. 15. invitation is to be extended yr board of directors of the local by of the YYM.C.A. to J. J. Lunn, Oni, to succeed Ralph Smith, has gone to ths YMCA & Straticrd, Ont. as physical me -------- re no timorous pessimist (The Yields Great But Prices Much Lower Than Last Year, -- Quebec, Sept, 15~~In an official statement fssued Yesterday, G. B. Marquis, chiet statistican of the prov- ince of Quabes, estimates that Que- bec's 1922 crop will attain a value of $225,000,000, ag compared with $219,000,000 last year. This com- | paratively slight difference, with an increased crop, is due to the fall off In prices of agricultural products |. Which has been going on steddlly eince the beginning of the season. As an example hay is reported as selling at $15 per ton, as compared with $30 last year, The wheat crop Is expeoted to total 2,965,000 bushels, an imcreass of 200,000 over last year; oats, 69,523,000, an increase of 20, 000,000 bushels; hay, 6,337,000 tons, as compared with 4,205,000 for last Year, The decrease in potatoes is re- corded as follows; --1921, 36,000.- 000 bushels; 1922, 32,000,000 bush- els. From the Abitiby regions news of frost, which fs said to hav considerable damage, If there we to prey upon the starve to death, The man whose only thought © caused {for himselr has very little Was received | brains, RED Lake | Gull Rock Lax Fakwasw Lax@) he ' S Ene Seay | {nota ee Wagons R.. ~ - Nar RY, » ee WHERE ONTARIO'S SECOND COBALT Is Red Lake, the region lo which prospectors following reports of a rich strike of silver, which to be "second only in importance to Cobalt," j miles north of Kenora, Ont. ewey, the mining engineer, i important silver field has be LOCATED, are pinion that a new en discovered. The place where dining out is try Ime and make your { Nowls The" "I, Sa me eam Phone you: needs and «= will Yaceive our fmme- i ' Paint, etc., Is very com: { Lemmon & | ns 187 PRINC ESS STRZEY ~~ *