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use 3 pure , rest and nutritious food, offer the patient the best chance of recov- ary, This course was deemed best even twenty centuries ago. Celsus, Nedo's physician--the same Nero who fid- dled when Rome burried--who wrote Fmt 52 a san have a comymptsa the thing for him to do is to buy a cow, take his purchase up to the top of a hill, and live on the fruit--that is, the milk. And, of course, the con- sumptive does stand the best chance of recovery under such healthful con- ditions. "Yet many natives of rural districts ~ die of tuberculosis. The reason has puzzled many doctors. I for my part have got some pretty good light on First, there must be careful dis- cally the oply means by which - { disease is conveyed from the sick to the weil. r (must always be held before t tient's- face! when the ci sneezes or spits, for thus is a droplet, or a spraying, or an atomizing pa- of ehiefs, towels, linen, "he boiled by themselves before being "added to the general wash. Whatever A handkerchief or cloth} posal of the sputum, which is_practi- J ool tion avoided. The patient's handker-} - |} and the likemust| | the subject. When I was sixteen I)can be must be burned. The cuspidor | taught echool in the backwoods dis-! trict, and "boarded round," This was for sixteen weeks, and in the sum- "mer time, because the children could not get to school through the winter drifts. 1 recall that the food was very bad. Although a fair farming coun- try and a very good dairy country, 'meats other than bacon were-almost never seen during the summer. Most of the putter, milk, and eggs were| sold in urban markets. What milk 1 got was weak, and I got it mostly with weaker tea. The food was poor- 'ly cooked, indigestible, and for the most part did me np good. That was nearly forty years ago. Of course, so primitive a rural dis- trict is rarely come upon in our day. Even at that time, no doubt, my ex- penience was unusual. Whether there are any such communities to-day I am not sure; yet, if there are, there need be no wonder if tuberculosis is rife in them. There was much dyspepsia among / those rural folk, who should have had the digestion of ostriches. And for) . the relief of it they took what seemed to them a harmless procedure--all sorts of stomach bitters, some brands of which contained as much alcohol as whisky does. Even people who held the drinking of whisky in ab- horrence consumed doses out of bot- tles highly charged with alcohol, . which were labelled "Take a table- spoonful to a wineglass, or more as needed. How. was this different from the whiskey-drinking which all too often lays the foundation of consump- tion? Hard elder does the same thing! Algo, there had been in that region, through several generations, inter- marniages between families living within a few miles of each. other. And, say what we will, such mar- riages result oftentimes--though, let us thankfully observe, not always--in "poor stock," weakened, non-resistant bodies, which all too easily become wood soil for the tuberculosis germ to thrive and multiply in. ~ Such things explain how many of our country folk contract tuber- culosis; why also, many do not get well of this disease, but die of it in the country. We may indeed observe with Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes: God lent His creatures light and air, And water open to the skies; Man locks him in his stifling lair, And wonders why his brother dies. The great piowder of the modern treamtment of tuberculosis, Dr. Breh- mer, who was himself a consumptive, declared that tuberculosis in its early stages is always curable, What may we consider the first or-the early, the incipient stages. of tuberculosis? ' These exist when one. complains of the following symptoms: 1. A cough lasting more than a . month -- except whooping cough, which Jasts six weeks, and oftentimes more. Such a cough nay not, of course, mean tuberculosis, but it ce¥- tainly calls for a thorough medical examination.. No household remedies, no kindly suggestions of one's neigh- {bors, will 'do in such ua case. Hoarseness that has lasted several weeks. 8. Poor appetite, especially in the morning; indigestion--with the "stomach cough, though I know of Jo stomach aliment shat has a Song or a symptom--Iloss we! a strength, paleness and generally run- down which. is so. often Br eat ng . [ ng, H 3 J a coug! rf morning. 5. Night weats, - 6. A streak of blood in the : sign whould not frigh. | must contain some fluid (water will ' suffice) so the sputum may not dry and becomes incorporated with 'thie dust of the atmosphere. And the spittoon must be scalded to destroy all the tubercle bacilli. This is un- pleasant but very necessary reading, and it applies equally to all infec: 'tions from the upper air passages, guch as Pneumonia, whooping cough, grippe and diphtheria. Secondly, there must be rest. There is otherwise no hope for the sufferer's | emaciated body, an organism on the ! verge of bankruptcy. It is a grave error for such a sufferer to go out into the fields and work, as would any farmhand. Rest there must be, especially when there is fever, at least until the patient has recover- ed from the exhaustion which has all too often been the prime predisposi- tion of the disease. For the consump- tion germ fattens on exhausted tis- sues. In any family wherz there is a con- sumptive a clinical thermometer must from the family doctor. got to be absolute if the body temper- ature reaches 100 degrees by the ther- momenter, and the patient must go to bed if the fever has gone beyond this, The rest should if possible be out- doors--at least with open windows. And when the air is cold, warm head- gear is to be worn, or the woollen helmet which comes down over the collar-bone. The footgear must at least be warm and comfortable as the | headgear. The body must always be warmly clothed, and then any amount of cold weather can be endured. Tub- erculosis patients properly-taken care of get well more surely in the winter than in the summer. Sleep is an important part of the rest. Nowhere. else should "nature's soft nurse" be so sedulously wooed. | Insomnia is most exhausting in such | a disease as this, when it is so neces- | sary to build up the strength. Nor has any restorative, any tonic, ever sleep. Insomnia, with fatigue and overexertion, has brought on tuber- culosis in many a case. We try to induce sleep without pills and powd- ers if possible. It may be induced by drinking hot milk after the patient has been tucked in--with hot water bottles at his feet--for the might. The patient should breathe fresh air, and be in the blessed sunshine so long as there is a ray of it. At 'night, no matter how cold, the windows must be open. The colder the air the surer the cure. Patients have done well at a temperature of forty below zero. Drafts are to be avoided by means of a screen or a blanket-draped clothes horse, appropriately placed. Only twice, from day to day, should the patient's windows be closed. A member of the family shuts the win- dow half an hour before dressing time, and opens it again when the # is completed. And at bed- » the same thing is done. Tuhérculosis calls for ple: of nutritious food and al so that all the fuel taken into 2. body can be converted into healthy, germ-resisting tissue, The doctor must decide upon details for indi- vidual cases. But, in general, we try for the most nourishment with the Lleast labor for the digestion. patient should eat roasted or broiled meat (beef, mutton or Sab), Soul, tables and fruits, Cereals of Sugar, good but- y tw Nn a "Bel X water should be drur Use no miedici: n. Out out the patent No one must imagine thatthe the pri and| be bought, and the use of jt learned | The rest has been invented that will compare with! ok. : without the doo-| that he Delay in cost of this wages, which are fixed by { your/land run down, GUNNS LIMITED INTERNATIONAL ~ LESSON MARCH. 9. ---- Lesson X. Joshua, Patriot and Leader --~Joshua 1: 1-9. Golden Text, Joshua 1: 9. "The Lord spake unto Joshua." That which we describe as the call of God, or as the conviction of a duty to be performed, or as a high trust or commission in the service of the nation, is often spoken of in the Old Testament as the voice of God. God does 'not speak in audible tones to the ears of men, but to the inward sense, the hearing of the heart. What is here presented to us is a real and profound experience. The effect of it is to assure Joshua that his appoint- ment to be Moses' successor is harmony with God's will, that God will be with him as He was with Moses, and will give him success in his great undertaking. "Go over this Jordan" The coun- try east of Jordan was already in Is- rael's hdnds (see Num. 21). The peo- ple now looked westward across the deep Jordan valley to the great range of hills extending northward tothe Browning Desks of Lebanon and Her= 'mon. ere lay the real land of 'promise, the land made sacred - to them by the memories of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. But there also lay the chief difficulties which had to be overcome, mountain passes, forti- fied cities and strongholds, and seved al warlike tribes. Joshua is to go for- ward in the confident assurance of vi , for God has promised to give him t land, ~¥ts boundaries are to extend (v, 4) from "the wilderness" of northern Arabia in the east, and from Mount Lebanon, even ag far north as the "river Euphrates" and west to "the great sea," the Mediter- The | ranea n. The promise that ranks first and chiefest in importance is of not fail thee, nor forsake thee." - romises in Gen. 28:15; 41: 10; Jerem. 25 th 41: 10; Jen : 8; Maul of 2 good. of his. part. "Making two blades grow wh Prices Firm for this Season. ordering standard fertilizer in the hope of lower prices only means risk of disappointment in deliveries. season's raw materials, ordered months 280, he cost of living. You cannot afford to let «Shur-Gain" Are welt named--they 'mean a gure gain to your land's fertility---they mean strong, heady growths and easily sold, high priced crops. Its because our expert chemists compound them on the latest knowledge of what Canadian farmers really need--mno frills, no experiments--that they get results. Write to-day for discounts, prices and Booklet. TE EC TEN TAR SS, :- (3 Poured b } be with thee: I will|®® , briskly. "The: j ttle girl down "Oh!" said Edith, "Tl take my doll and her. new dresses and my bx of paints and my mew:-book" She hutried away to find Aunt Mary, and ten minutes later she' started off with Miss Baird for the hospit The little lonesome giz Helen. . She had golden hair and a gwoet face, but her moutk ~drooped, and Edith soon saw hat 7 was to bea hand matter bo amuse her, She. did pot want to paint, and she did not geem to admire the pretty new dress- es of Edith's doll: «1 want to go outdoors," she said. re A a J 5 3 ngmed Edith answered. "Rut I'q rather livé in the big, {| country," Helen went on, "where I can pick all the flowers I want." ! Ydith's eyes brightened.. "I live Blin the country when I am at home," '| she said. "Why didn't you say so before," complained Helen. "I thought you lived in an apartment, as I do. Tell Ime about your home." Edith was willing enough to do Prices are set by and labor Fertilizers | farm, Helen's little face cleared; the A corners of her lips straightened out. "1 wish I could see it alll" she said. "1 wish you could," Edith answered. She thought a long time, . "I 'might show you some pictgres in the Sam 7 i Cod zines that look like things at home. ---- Be vay, with Whom God owl Then all at once she thought of a who shall stand in His holy place will | Plan. : 3 be the man "that hath clean hands "Let's put our farm in your new and a pure heart." | scrapbook." Se Whether in war or peace, the same] - Helen looked bewildered. "I'l show law holds, and will always hold, good "you what I mean," Edith said. --the law of justice, and with it, per-|* Miss Baird gladly brought maga- fpcting Bid slorifyne the sv oh zines, scissors and paste, and Edith mentally one and the same. They 56% to werk while Helen looked on at have their origin and their authority firet. Soon, however, Helen was work- in God. It is of this "everlasting Ing as hard as Edith. On the first law" that Alfred Noyes writes: page vey, Jasted 2 ejay train; y i in, retended, was carry- "The Jaw that 'rules the, stars, our as po So the city, It ye | harder to find a suitable station, but they turned over the leaves until they came to one. The station was put on the next page and labelled Radford, after Edith's home station. Then they found a man in a buggy who looked like Edith's father coming to meet them. It was all great fun. When the time came to come back to Aunt Mary's! Edith had just found a house exactly like her own, and Helen was looking! for a brown-and-white collie and for a bay pony with two white feet. Edith promised faithfully to return the next afternoon. ¥ WEST TORONTO, (ONTARIO, stay, Our compass through the world's wide sea, The one sure light, the one sure way, The one firm base of liberty; The one firm road that men have trod - Through chaos to the throne = of God." arse iy am Until comparatively recently the chicks on the average arm : "must have somebody to play f . "Well, you can when you're well,"|® wide : | ihat. As she told about her father's. When she came again, Helen re- were hatched whenever a hen desired | y ported that she had found many pon-. to sit--sometimes when she stole her "nest, laid her eggs and brought off a ies but none of them had two white! fateh before her owner knew any-| feet. At last they chose a dark pony | thing about it. This always stocked and painted two of his feet. "Then the farm with late-hatchied lhicks they made him more than ever like, which did not do particularly well the tarm pony by painting a white during the hot weather, and which star on his forehead. were overtaken by cold weather while| Edith pasted a small photograph they were yet young and without of her mdther by the gate of the pic- their proper growth and without ture house, "Because she would come their mature plumage. Chicks of this, to the gate to meet us, you know, type could not lay in winter because she ex] A a ~~ they were mot mature enough, and Then they gave a page to each the set-back that cold weather gave] room in the house. After the rooms them prevented their laying™ until| Were completely furnished, they went spring, often until the weather was on to the barn, and from the barn to warmer. Therefore, the owner had the orchard, to the garden, and the to feed them, house them and care, to the barnyard, + for them during cold weather when| It was not easy for Helen to find re high in price, without get-| just the right kind of picture, bub she ak of. Under| always kept on searching patiently until she came to. one that suited Edith. And she laughed and chatted the whole time. : tm The book when one day the doctor told Helen Oe he ind dress if Send ny Furs you have. Yi assured of satisfaction in price treatment. s al * ABBEY FUR COMPANY 310 8t. Paul St. Wi, Montreal, Que. In business for 30 years § Rr? erence: Dank of Hochelage, § Reportsof TwolLeading { Experiment Stations Ohio Experiment Station Covering a period of 13 the average increased picks from soil treated with stall manure and acid phosphate over yard mantire was: Corn, 15.27 bus.; Wheat, 6.18 bus.; Hay, 1,840 bs. Pennsyleania Experiment Station By the addition of acid Jor phate to manure at a cost of $6.95, the gain over untreated manure was $23.74. Similar increases in crop ylelds can be made on your farm. The Soil and Crop Improvement Bureau Do you give your farm horses a square deal? They will labor for you from ten to twelve hours a day, six days in the week, and feel. amply re- paid if given a good meal and plenty of cool, fresh water. : . Perhaps you don't, but many owns ers often consider themselves over worked if they have to throw a har- ness on the team, dump a little man. ure out of the barn window, and hitch up. And to furnish the work horses a bracing feed, give them a good currying, or a bed of straw is extras vagance. It is done for fast-trotting stock and pure-bred horses, why not for the average work horse? ~The horses that do the heavy work about the farm should be conditioned. It is a3 necessary for them as for other stock, and more so. The farm horse has a hearty appetite, a vigor ous digestion, and responds, as does no other animal, to intelligent > To condition horses does that they must be put on af table. Start a regular, busi 'method of feeding, watering, handl ing, and caring for them\ A bushel of corn or oats for one meal and a pint at another time has i di ?, 2's feed much attention. Two pounds of provender daily to' every hundred pounds the horse weighs is a good plan., Always grind the grain t hay is usually dust; was not quite finished | ing.