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the blood. Bandages are of dif-, be: clean. A hot iron will do ft of the limb to be bound up. To spline: may be made from a person with a broken leg until the him tothe doctor, but take the |- 5 on the hands, instruments and disinficted. Boiling water is the | : Dear Jim-- 8 DOS JEEOS | : Letters from a Self Made Farmer to His Son Port Perry, Ontario, February 14, 1912 To James Tompkins, ' Toronto, Ont. 4 1 like telling stories, the real kind that are going on around us all the time. Perhaps some day I'll be able to tell you a yam that'll set you wishing you was back on the farm. I'm not trying to hide the fact that I'd be mighty glad to have you back sgsin putting some of your brain and energy into improving this farm, | 80 I'm going to tell yon another true story. ? A while ago Will Parrot, of Columbus, went over to. Coates'es . sale and bonght a Clydesdale filly at $190.00. People round there be was crazy, and made no bones abopt saviog so. They were sorry for Will in that * "told-you-s0'* way. Some people ¥ are always tearfully chuckling over the foolishness of their ueigh- tthe may do by biting bis tongue. Place. . t. : 3 es Miog they dre limp'as 'death: pei with fresh air, dashing' » A metic and. sea that they. get. enough to; decision of character are both necessary; Where it lot the victiny tun. Smother the fice ont 'with or any other cloth for' that, matter, Don't be Gs PROVIXCIAL ASYLUM Special to The Globe. y; Feb, 18-Theannaunce: pers that the Ontario | :bors. They don't never make no mistakes because they ain't 'got time. There aln's Bobody so proud of being free spoken as the fellow shiat's always saying mean things. ; Wilt: Parrott sold" the. colt' shortly "after to John Bright ae Myrtle Station for $260.00, 'That made the wise ones stare, for 't know-the: value of horse i flesh. He does, tco, for he sold the animal In a short time for $400.00. : Later It was sold-for $800.00 and finally brought $1,200 "on the market. es . There's several things to learn from that story, and one is thas it's dodbtral if Will: Parrot could have gov that $1,200 price for the filly even if he bad sold her t0 the man who finally bought the animal. 'Aman has to Ret his pame up to get the real big prices. It takes Years to do this, but it pays. © Not years of good luck, but of hard work. ; I was telling you in that last letter about youngsters pever hawing any money to spend so that they can learn the velue of a dellar. A-friend of mine put it in' Pretty good 'shape the other | day. He said, "Jet the kid take his bumps. If someone beats him out of a dollar' when money's scarce, be won't forget it." He won't buy stock in every fool thing that offers if be gets Til eye teeth cut when he's « boy, and '500. is valued as high as I valne $50 now. 4 ; 2 You did a bit of buying and selling before you left the fare, and if you ever come back I'll 8ce to it that You do a lot more. «I'm not going 10 hold onto my money ill 1 die $0. Light thas It hurts my bands, and I'm not 80ing to dump tho whole business you and leaveyou to figure out. the thing alone without any. Moek(dge telling his boy once thé Ne needs's worry ad be his all righ after the old man WAS gone, cts bat boy to b along for years without pay and encourage him by heing sick once in a whi He's bealthy is Mockridge, . AST t.does the boy know about what cows cost, 7 REN hos ~