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arora to of the ut hom Warm. place on a Foniprisingly short time sbére will be dozens of sprouts. There are two ways of planting the | sprouts, and both have the stanch: est supporters. One is to cut a sprout about four inches long just below a leaf joint at an acute angle, stick the cutting, "or sprout, into sharp sand; well watered until it is rooted and then plant in a pot of rich earth, and never let it get too dry. The other is to cut a piece of the tuber, allowing it to have only one sprout, and plant it in a pot. of half rich earth, half sand. - While the second method is a lit- hts Sr be had. vi tho fist meth. |. 5 unng window, th rere, of bart, faced with | e_breecl jay and 4 the, keep | tle: the easier, better success may | | in the fireroom; | utes had passed, he i in Pota toes Tibor Streets of Berlin in Government Trams. 3 iL ee England's of food is food blockade . upply of Germany, there has been a remarkable allowed to go to waste. By this: picture shows three street ags of potatoes. 'the way to a municipal food depot in Berlin. ben 0 'clock on a black night i in January Rufe Clemens sculled his' de 5 punt out toward the Sim, yellow ding 1 that Glencoe ® Jay. n he mide ojst Hoven han what over Sou t least was left of it, ne Rufe was the engineer on the Glencoe, and was the only man bunked aboard. That ni ht he had taken supper ashore wil h his oou- ain, Jerry 8 who had until mom Bim So stay | i he goid, "but 1 is be getting 'aboard the dredge. I ve got to have stearn up extra early to-morrow mort: It was a rough trip out, and. Rute elt relieved whem he at last got aboard her, Fifty feet to leeward another aft, with a two- Voiey xX TR Sasori alley Fo except for peered rred riding light. Her Jet 5 'had gone to bed. ~ Rufe made his punt fast, and hastened to get into his snug bunk 'e many min- a sound sleep. Sime in ths night ho dram: yd in an earthquake on the coast of Peru. Pretty soon the uakings began to seem so Shas Rafe awoke, The first he became aware of was & | the continuous whistling Whoo 00-001 | wl What was that? B ! Je 4 ; every bome 1d | whole dredge shivered jalth| in Rufe' body, felt the tremor.. He Ey > now fully awake the screeching whi brick | himself desperately gis He arms outstretched, and jamming hia © whole body hard' st the tot- tering pile, Srowd it. back with 'his hands, his yb and his 'chest. The bricks resisted. He|t could hold them where they were-- for a time; but he could not push them back into place. The boat heaved. One of the wihio | deadly cyinders rolled against the ea neer's foot, He looked down, saw that there were three sticks now. He did not know what to do. If he took his hands from the wall for a single second the bricks might tumble. Would he have time to pick up the sticks and get away safely?! He decided that the risk was too great. Where had that third stick come from? He twisted his head round. Across the floor an open dynamite box lay on its side, and behind it was another box. It was customary to keep two or three cases of dyna- mite in the boiler room, so th the Seplasive might be warm enough to use in cold weather. Rufe saw what had happened. The upper box had been opened, and its cover laid loosely back upon it. tJarred forward by successive bumps, it had tipped off and spilled its contents. Even as Rufe looked, dother stick rolled out. That made our of the deadly sticks rolling at his feet, Jeane two cradiiee; the first ry Jinderb the Glencoe's bump- red Bun but. the second om { Fon eb on Soman ared her aril . 'The epuds--two forty-foot sticks of bard pine, twelve inches square, | with heavy iron caps on their ends | ts and ---ran up'end Shrough wells in : The Glentos had drifted rv, and. was: bumping the oo ent to Le the. oats put out Lend each to pieces?' And why waste Whistle porsechiny ol Oo Bie ouiht to d nyway, some one ou o something. R w: "his chance, and a second before the boate crashed together on a high sea, he leaped _ the Valley Forge and darted into the: boiler room, {ihe oat, | Bos . [ them, one b y one, 6s im) oe for be en on ro ge stilts "| they. held oe h immovable in one" os 8 ee -the drills could work acourately. Evidently, at the glose of the day's work, the spuds had been hoisted only a little way off the ledge; and now, in the * | dead-low tide and the heavy sea, did the were Srothitting w with a terrifle j Jour at dropped into the fr trough of the waves. Rufe understood everything now. ly | When she Sioncos iad bagun to u m ng tons inst V oe only a ow feeb from namite in the hold, histle cord to he. bik ko the w CR the v ne open, in onder to alarm the tug, the y had Abaidoned the boat. Ths stioks of dynamite had no doubt got loose aftef the men had gove. A cascade of s against the house. door slammed blast struck Rufe's neck. As he pitted his strength against the top- bricks, all sorts gi schemes the situation ran ; but he dismigsed possible, He could nob dispose of the pile by throwing Duck ok after brick from the did not dare to take hig his hands from their present ray sloshed unlatchedi en, and a cold through his . | breath. ding bruised and hurt | to procure, and as ie: ftthat 1 is vo ma I only they could know the need of haste! ' dant Was not another-whistle blending with that of the Valley Forge? He strained 'his ears. Again came the sound, louder, . Yes; here was the Damo: last. Gritting his teeth, he summoned every ounce of hi strength in an effort to hold the biel back until the men from the could reach him. "Quick! Quick | Surely they must be near enough now to hear him. He hated hoarsely, 'Help! Help! elp 1"? Too late! The pile would fall be- fore help could come. Its weight was bending him backward. His rolls on the floor. With his feet he tried to push them gently back out of the way; but he could not do it. Out .on the dredge he heard voices. Now he wished that he had Jet the bricks drop at first; then he would not have made others share his death, He tried to warn them : '"Keep off! Keep off I' But he could not make them hear. His strength was almost gone. Ten seconds more, ' perhaps not so many! He looked down again. For the moment the four sticks of dynamite lay close together in an area small enough to be covered. by his body. The next bump might disarrange them. In a flash Rufe saw hie chance Tearing his nde from the wall, and Sowing them up to protect his head, he dropped on his knees and arched his over the dyna- mite, Down came the bricks in a rumbling avalanche. Rufe held his The showering bricks him eruelly, Luckily they did not have far to full, or they would have knocked him senseless. He lay thére, half stunned and pinned down, but thankful that bis body , had kept them from exploding the dynamite. amooleés towed the Glencoe ; and with the rising tide the spu of 'the Valley Forge soon stopped pounding on the ledge. Then the crew came back on hoard, and to their amazement found Rufe in the boiler room. He was too much exhausted at the time to make any explanation; but they did not need any when they lifted him from 'the wreckage saw what lay under him.---Youth's Com- panion. away : iii People of Other Lands. What a strange and interesting thing nationality is! We see a per son n the streets, and say--' 'That man is a Frenchman' ¥ am sure of its look: at the way he gesticu- lates.' "Aa a Frenchman is known by his gesticulations, and an Eng- lishman by his look'of unconcern with everything that is going on around him, eo in some way or an- other every nationality can be dis- cerned. Very few of us ever pause to think how a nation gets its char- acteristics, A great deal depends upon the climate and geographical sitvation of a country. The people of the sunny south are of necessity more light-hearted and' pleasure loving than their serious brothers and sisterg of the north, In Bouth- ern Europe, for instance, men and women need not work hard in order to live--the necessaries of life, bread, vegetables furelt a 2 to. es Sguon -- don't bother Their uk to-ray, the poorer -- es. In no country' nthe. world are the people 80 earnest over "their | t D ans business as in North America; this is because life is harder here, com- v| petition is great, the climate has o | great extremes, the oities are a. One is apt to make fun of another, to accuse tof | being unartistic, having no sense of humor; being unpractical, lazy, too ambitious, and so on, but this is - | really because she does not under- the stand the conditions of the other |of the | nation, Would you he ambitious if hing you needed for your found near at una tor eyes fell again on the oiled-paper|. Le gt i To is not. Sam, 17: 154. Text, Rom, '8. 81. ors 38. And Saul clad David with his apparel--A military to which a sword was attached. ut his ar- surely would not have undaubt- mor on the boy. Davi pedly rattled around in the unusual unwieldy corselet and helmet. This was due rather to his inexper- ience than to his size. ; 89, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them -- David knew nothing about warriors', gar- ments, particularly the equipment of a king. For the moment his boy- ish pride was quickened as the kin put his weapons in his hand. Bul only for the moment. He knew, that he could not fight thus weight- ed down and handicapped. put them off with the So xcuse to Saul that he had nob ved, or tried, such a coat and elmet and sword. 40. Took his staff in his hand Not to fight with, but because he always carried it with him. Even if he did not lay it aside when he was ready to use his sling, it would be no impediment, but rather a help to him. The weight in one hand would balance the weight in the other, Five smooth stones out of the brook--He was sure of himself, but he intended to take no chances.: He would not risk the battle on one throw or two or three. The brook near the scene of battle was full of smooth and rounded pebbles, the very kind David had used many: times, doubtless, in his sling. His sling--The shepherds of Syria were all used to the sling. a left-handed men were e: 2xperia Judg. 20. 16 we read: mong al this people there were seven hun- dred chosen men left-handed; every one could sling stones at x hair's-breadth, and not miss." 41. And the man that bare the shield went before him--Goliati was so heavily equipped that he' could not carry all his implements of the battle. 42. He disdained him--See Prov. 16. 18: 'Pride goeth before des- truction, and a haughty spirit be- fore a fall' 43. Am 1 a dog --The dog even in Palestine is ill esteemed, birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of the field--The anger of Goliath seemed to drive him to the use' of poetry. Professor Kirkpat- rick calls attention to Hector's de- fiance of Ajax in Homer's "Iliad,"" 13. 831. Thy flesh Shall glut the dogs and carrion' birds of Troy. Jehovah of hosts--A childlike fuith' such as could be the Suspiration ol' the Shepherd Psalm. ; 46. That there is a God in Tsrael. --A God who is worthy of Israel' (see 1 Kings 18. 88). .. « 47, That Jehovah saveth not with, sword and spear--This was a con-' viction of the Israelites (see 1 Sam.: 2. 1-10; 14, 6; Psa. 44. 6, 7; Hos. 1,7; Zech. 4. 8). It is the experi- ence of all who trust God. (Seas: éspecially 1 Cor. 1. 27, 28). 48. Ran toward the army--Thad' is, toward the battle line of thei Philistines. David did. not wait: for the giant to approach him. The suddenness, as well as the swiftness, of David's movements must have taken Goliath at a great disadvantage. 50. Smote the Philistine and slew' him--David must have struck some exposed part of Goliath's head, 51, And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled--In verses 4 and 23 the word used is "champion" in our sense; here "champion" means "mighty man."' The strongest man the Philistine's -had. As soon as: hae was dead hope left the Philistines and they fled -- Wire Fencing and Trees, : fences, it is necessary to at © She dete diraoily to the Giese? hid ET ¢ g that the come hhrine and imbedded bet the wood. Not only i is the bree, thereby ruined or injured but, "fur. ulated ; all these things ther, it is impossible to remove the fencing without cutting either the wire or the tree. A better way, protecting both the Be ddinion in vr TL as large as Saul. Otherwise Saul 44, 1 will give thy flesh unto the = 45, T come to thee in the name ot. Occasionally, in running wird v Le to trees. In doing i Po by DE ot 0 use staples to tree: and the fence, is first to nal 2 to the tree 4. plrip of wood abot fom inches wide and one inch a Jength to suit the height of the fence o wire fence can then be' re with the tree growth, Sh Not the Same, acti po er bardon me, sir, but is | there another artist in this builds ye There. & however, a man on the fourth pain teks to this strip and will not in-,