Y = £ &» ] HO 7,%/ of their roost will make them mor 9 J comfortable in severe weather. / Do not forget that a variety of grain THE OBSERVER & STARK. DRYDEN, ONTARIO. POULTRY. Tf the hens or males freeze their, combs and wattles apply carbolic salve or vaseline. Dampness in the poultry house can be overcome only by sufficient ventil- ation. The warmth of the house has little to do with the gathering of moisture. Hang a head of cabbage just high enough so that the fowls can reach it by jumping for it. That "will give them. exercise and the best of green food "at the same time. Keeping the drink dishes clean and therefore free from disease germs will .often prevent sickness in the tock. More corn may be fed from now sn until the end of winter, for the heat of the bedy must be maintained o the fowls cannot lay well. During very cold nights put the male birds in boxes or barrels, cover. ed over with one thickness of buria; to keep their combs from freezing. The litter Jf chatf, etc., which ac: euniulates in the stable should be pi in the hen house. The hens wil serateh it over and obtain seeds ang ieces of clover that will de then of ~pod. J a ghe fowls are confined to fh 9 - cannot obtain small niece ol to TaeTve gift and 'the > furnished ®{fker the prepa bold by poultry" houses 0. gravel. 1a] heat in the poultry hous dom satisfactory. When th 11s have on their winter plumag ey gan resist considerable cold i 1ey have fresh air to breathe an an opportunity to exercise Juring th day. A cloth curtain hanging in fron is necessary for egg production. Filth is a ¢gpeat producer of disease therefore keep the hen house clean and the flock provided with dry scratching material. Do not close the "windows of the poultry house until the weather gets cold. "If the rain or snow blows in put cloth filled frames in the window places. hi If you have a*flock of mixed breeds buy a. vigerous,\ full breasted, deep bodied, pure brad male and improve the quality: of thi flock. Do. not dee ot- of useless old Sell them and yo 10° bre mullets, and fich will lay when eggs are high iff Drive. a aa Mapeswpatmen fie fowld obtain neat food by! capturing buief, worms ind Insects. In winter thi meat fiod Fuss be furnished by [feeding taple Sehaps, commerce ele) ; cut fresh bone, cial bebe sevaps ad tn Where Abraham, Fished; Mrs. Victoria de Bunsen. in "The Soul of a Turk," relates a leo:nd con- cerning Abraham which will be new to many readers. She Janrukd of it while at Edessa, the traditional Ur of the Chaldees. She was shown there a large oblong tank of water so filled with fishes resting just below the sur-} face of the water that their fins and backs seemed almost wedged together so as to form 'an almostisolid layer of silvery life." ? "The guardian of the mosque throws some meal into the water and the fish jump high to catch it, a great living pyramid, of which those who | jump the highest form the pinnacle. | The tradition is that Abraham, as a child, fished in the tank. Hence the fish were considered sacred. No single one has ever been caught or killed to this day. Indeed, death would overtake the man who trans- gressed this law." "Hullo, Binks!" said Wobbles, "I hear you've been in the chicken busi- ness." "Yep," said Binks. i Je anything out of it,' asked J 53 said Binks. "Ten thousand | sand dollaks in the 19sity, or perhaps a little repulsion, platform near the door of 'the car. The youno/ man's feelings seeined to THE INCOMING HORDE. Queer People Finding Homes In the | Big Cities. "Canada for the Canadians' may | be an excellent slogan for political meetings, but perhaps "Canadians for: Canada' should prove an even better | rallying cry, 'whether we take it as a sermon in a nutshell on true patriot | ism. and altruism, or apply it to the! consideration of the mighty stream of immigrants pouring in at our gates. In these multitudes from east and west and south we are unquestion- ably getting population for our vast empty acres, but are we getting, at least potentially, "Canadians for Can- ada"? In our dealings with the new- comers are we taking pains to en- sure that ultimately they shall be "Canadians for Canadd," and not a ers incoherent mob of alien peo- ples? Everywhere throughoat the Domin- ion, alike in east and west, this is the insistent problem of our time. The big cities are face to face with the problem. They are fast becoming cosmopolitan--cities of little "foreign quarters," where immigrants of one race can cling together and retain for years their peculiar speech and customs, not at all to the advantage of the community as a whole. We of the English tongue feel mild cur- when we are jostled in streets and cars by people whose rapid speech is to our ears unmeaning, and, as a rule, we escape quickly from contact with them and leave them to struggle on as they can, making or marring this new country as may chance. Unless our attention has been call- ed specially to the foreigners, it is not' easy to realize what multitudes of them have recently settled in our midst. Jews and Italians in Toronto, for instance, may be counted by thou- sands, and the group from the Baikan Peninsula (Turks, Roumanians, Serv- tans, Bulgarians and Macedonians) numbers over fifteen hundred souls. They are chiefly of the peasant class, working as laborers, though amongst them have come a few tradesmen and a few students, who are attending various schools and colleges. The great majority are illiterate, and have been brought up in a religious and political atmosphere 'very different from our own. It is, therefore, no easy matter to bridge the dividing gulf between them and us, and at times these immigrants must suffer grievously from the effects on our ignorances and their own. . Some of the small houzes on East ern avenue are crowded with' Mace- donians, -who work with pick and shovel {ill the frost forces them to be idle. Not all become destitute, but they <¥ve miserably. As{ many as sept tyy herd together in [one small house, sieping in rows onlmattresses picked upiipvem the dump,' cooking in the little yards on ru.e fireplaces built of loose bricks, tearing out the woodwork of the old house: when in desperate straits for fuel, but general- ly behaving themselves with due re- vard to law and order as represent- ed in the person «of a sympathetic and benevolently-disposed police offi- cer on the beat, who listens patiently to their efforts at English and is at pains to pick up something of their: tongue. Occasionally, when one of them is in luck's way, they get in a barrel of lager beer and try to forget their troubles in a carousal. At such times the whim may seize them to turn out from the suffocating, over- crowded houses into the clear, starlit night, and then, hand in hand, they will circle round like children in some strange dance of their far-dis- tant native land, breaking the still- ness with weird songs and the thump- ing of their heavy boots on the old wooden sidewalks. But two years ago the situation grew desperate. Help- less from their inability to communi- cate with those about them, wark for them was not to be had, in a season when at the best there is little de- mand for unskilled labor, and at length the authorities deported a large number of them. Will the engagement be breken? The question is being asked by those who witnessed the incident. It was at the Bonaventure Station, Montreal. © The young man had car- ried the young lady's. grip to her sec- tion in the Pullman, and had deposit- ed beside it a suspicious looking box. Then he stood talking on the station The couple apparently had much that they-owished to say, but little that oh mi ni they could utten.. : ; "All aboardf." cried the conductor. avercome hidm. "He turned away as he held of Nis hand. Then the girl tit- ind he' turned to see that he ot. hers, but the itching palm colored porter. Have You! Tried It? pore work forathe dostors. A con- reports from Prince Edward Ist 5. of a mew. camited 'product. rarebit." «A canner has! dis- hat by a combination ofr the the liver of lobsters: he can safable product. © The itnix- dascriberts "Lobster: rare. 3 d of the meaty Taver he roe, to which ae firs a] sop F " (Rudyard 'Kipling, in October Ameri- can Magazine.) "If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; ; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you. make allowances for doubting, too: ; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied lies, Or being hated don't give away to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; : But their about don't "If you can dream--and not make dreams your master: If you can think--and thoughts your aim; If you can meet with disaster And treat those Two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; not make "It you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch- and-toss, And lose, and start again at yoy be- ginnings never breathe your loss; Ii vou can force your heart and nerve "and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, : And so hold on when there is nothing in you : Except the will which says to them: 'Hold on? And a word about "If vou can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If 2ll men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of dist- ance run, Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, ; And--which is: more--you'll - be a : man, my son!" Dr. Miner Lee Bates, President: of Hiram College, enlivened, in a recent address at Hiram, Ohio, a knotty ety- mological problem with a story. "We must not dodge our' problem i as tthe boyidid," said Dr. Bates. | UA feacker; vou! see; was having # great deal of difficulty in making clear | to a boy the meaning of the word 're- cuperate.' " 'Now', said the teacher, 'your fa- ther is a ' ard worker, isn't he?' "" "Yes, sir, he is," said the boy. " 'And when he gets home at night he's dead tired, is he not?' *Yes, sir, he is.' " "Then, pursued the teacher, 'since it's night, and he's dead tired, and work's over, what does he do? " <Ah,. said the boy, "that's what mother wants to know." "'--Washing- ton Star. . The Ways of a Woman They had been quarreling and al- though hubby was willing to take the | blame all upon himself and smooth | matters over peaceably, she still snippy and indifferent. "Come over here, Jessie, you curious to know what 1 package?" "Oh, not very; I can s strain," she replied bellige "Well, it's something for == Jove best in all the world,' coaxingly, trying to win, a "Oh, is that so," she si suppose, then, it's those f you said you needed."'--Li The subject of conversati the last two sportsmen left .in 'the smoking-room aft day's shooting _ was the scent of dogs. "Mine is 1 0rve™ went motor o fap pL # : I g, Ia pointer, a't hough chair ! himself out. of hie colar / me tWo Yifhurs afterwar think peeps SHETRAT 88 €s he a 7 think vou ought to No Buffalo News. = a Not -- ) "Little boy, don't you } 'in great danger on that |! "How sir EE "Well, you micht brealfs ret wet, end even if you hrough your. pareats wa dl punish. vou sbrely ou went on the pond: "You ain't co guesses reak through an' got) aero at home an' get »athy an' good things Boston Herald: A tramp called at h Sleman and said: "Ive walked many ir, 'because people 'tolls yas very:kind to noor (& "Oh, they said soe, 1 Yes. girs flops ooh And] are you i wave fi ie Yat ein cx Thang ian that cadin { uoh «te i Dolifornie | 78 deal in | ~ triumph and | ] | Letter-Perfect. The class of performer who serves as a supernumerary, or "super," in a | great dramatic representation is not | likely to be over-educated. So long, however, as he knows when and how ito "come on' he may serve his pur- | pose. Prompter, to Jeader of supers at 'dress rehearsal of stirring Roman drama, "Right Against Might"'--Now, are you all right with the cue? Leader--I am so, sir. When the man in the sheet (toga) hollers "Katy Field" we get ready, and when he sings out "Rum and crackers--" Prompter, frantically -- "Caitiff. vield" -- "Rome and Gracchus," i stupid ! | Leader--Jesso, sir; when he says | that we are to go for the chap in the brass weskit. HE Sorry He SpoXe. He was an American visitor, and as i he sauntered into a barber's shop he i freely criticized British methods of | work and business. | "You don't specialize," he said. | "You should stick to one branch of a thing and master it completely." The barber said nothing, but lather- | ed his face very liberally and then sat | down to read. | "Well, why don't you shave me?" | queried the American after five min- | utes. | "We only lather here," was the re- | sponse; "you must go into the next street, for a shave." Japan to Raise Sheep. Dr. Toda Tanamura, dean of animal industry to the University of Tokio, | said that the Javanese government {has secured, stocks of sheep in this | country for experimentation. "Herds of goats and sheep have been sent from the United States to Japan," said the doctor, "for the use of the Japanese government in de- veloping Stock-raising. We raise a few sheep in Japan, but no goats, and Our purpose now is to get into the in- dustry to a large extent, providing it proves profitable and feasibl: in our climate. "'-- Washington Herald. "Do you want a knife for Christmas very much, Tommie?" "I want it so iuch, mother, that I'm even willing to write a note of thanks for it."'--Life. 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